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Directory of the City of Chicago Illinois for 1843 

CHICAGO DIRECTORY -- 1843.
City, County, State, and U. S. Officers, 
Schools, Churches, Societies, Statistics, Etc.

City Officers:
AUGUSTUS GARRETT, Mayor

Common Council for 1843:

  ALDERMEN

1st Ward-Cyrenius Beers, Hugh Thompson Dickey.  4th Ward-John Murphy,  Wm. S. Warner,
2d Ward Jason McCord, Charles Sauter.  5th Ward-Samuel Greer, John Cruver.
3d Ward-Charles Taylor, Azel Peek. 6th Ward-George W. Dole, Joseph Marback.

  
Officers of the Corporation:

James M. Lowe, Clerk. 

Walter S. Gurnee, Treasurer. 

Henry Brown, Attorney.

Orson Smith, Health Officer, Collector, Marshal, Street Commissioner.

Asa F. Bradley, Surveyor. 

William H. Brown, School Agent.

Shubael D. Childs, Sealer of Weights and Measures

Board of Health -- Aug. Garrett, Prest.
  Jeremiah Price, 
  Walter L. Newberry, 
  William Jones

Police Constables--Henry Rhines, 
  Hugh K. Henry,  
  Wm. Wesencraft

Inspector of Beef and Pork -   Archibald Clybourn.

Chicago Democrat, Official Paper.

 
Courts and Officers of Cook County:
COUNTY-COMMISSIONERS' COURT:
S. M. Salisbury,
Jason McCord,
Francis Cornwell Sherman,
George Davis, Clerk.
TERMS- 1st Mondays of March, June, September, and December.

  
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE:

Frederick A. Howe,
Louis C. Kercheval,
Henry L. Rucker,
Valentine Armand Boyer.

  
PROBATE COURT: 
Mahlon Dickerson Ogden, Justice.

  
SUPREME COURT: 
William Wilson, Chief Justice.

Associate Justices:

Samuel D. Lockwood,  John Dean Caton
Thomas C. Brown,  Richard M. Young,
Walter Bennett Scates,  James Shields,
Samuel H. Treat, Jesse Burgess Thomas, (jr.)
J. Young Scammon, Reporter Ebenezer Peck, Clerk.

  
CIRCUIT COURT:
Richard M. Young, Judge.

Samuel Hoard, Clerk, Mark Skinner, Master in Chancery.
TERMS-4th Monday of March; 3d Monday of Aug.; 1st Monday of Nov.
  
County Officers
Samuel J. Lowe, Sheriff. Asa Foster Bradley, Surveyor.
Wm. H. Davis, Deputy Sheriffs.  Geo. Manierre, 
  School Commissioner.
Henry Rhines, Parker M. Cole, Poor Master.
Edward Murphy, Coroner. Seth Otis, Poor-House Keeper.
Wm. Bradshaw Egan, Recorder. Alfred W. Davisson, Physician. 
Anton Getzler, Assessor & Treasurer. Archibald Clybourn, Inspector.

  
CONSTABLES:

Henry Cunningham,  Jeremiah H. Sullivan,
George Brady,  Daniel B. Heartt.

  
State Officers:
Thomas Ford, Governor.

John Moore, Lieutenant-Governor. Milton Carpenter, Treasurer. 
Thompson Campbell,
   Sec'y of State.
Jas. Allen McDougall,
    Att'y-General.
Wm. Lee D, Ewing, Auditor. James Curtiss, District-Attorney.

  
Notaries' Public

John Benjamin Franklin Russell,  Alonzo Huntington,
Norman Buel Judd, Henry Brown.

  
United-States Officers

John McLean, Circuit-Judge. 
Nathaniel Pope, District-Judge. 
Justin Butterfield, District-Attorney. 
William Prentiss, Marshal. 
James F. Owings, Clerk.
John Harris Kinzie, Register Land-Office. 
George L. Ward, Receiver of Land-Office.
John Wentworth, Member of Congress, 4th Congressional District:
William Stuart, Postmaster.
John McClellan, Superintendent Public Works.
Seth Johnson, Deputy-Collector and Inspector of Port. 
Charles L. Schlatter, Agent Chicago Harbor. 
Silas Meacham, Light-house Keeper.

Source:  Directory of the City of Chicago Illinois for 1843, Compiled By Robert Fergus, Printer, A Resident of Chicago since July 1, 1839.  Chicago:  Fergus Printing Company, N. W. Cor. Illinois St. and Dearborn Ave.  1896.
  


 

 

Chicago City Directory 1843 

Introduction
City County, State and U.S. Officers
Religious Societies and Assoc - 1
Religious Societies and Assoc - 2
Business Directory 1
Business Directory 2
Business Directory 3
Business Directory 4
Business Directory 5
Business Directory 6
Business Directory 7
Business Directory 8
Abell - Ayres
Baer - Bond
Bond - Byrnes
Cady - Clark
Clark - Cutter
Daggitt - Dyer
Eachus - Express, Chicago
Fairbanks - Fussey
Gaffney - Gurnoe
Haas - Heacock
Heacock  - Hyde
Illinois  - Irvin
Jackson - Judson
Kane  - Kroger
Labinbridge - Lytle
McAuley - Marsh
Marsh - Myrick
Nauberger  - Norton
O'Brien - Outhet
Packard - Quick
Raber - Ryerson
Sallsbury - Simpson
Sinclair - Swinson

Tague  - Tyler

Underhill - Vincent
Waddington - Wurts
Yard - Ziegler

Deaths

Adams - Bross

Bross - Curtis
Daggy - Fuller
Furman - Hugunin
Hugunin - Latrobe
Launder - Medill
Medill - Rexford
Reynolds - Spring
Sproat - Warren
Warren - Yates
 
 

 


  

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