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235:. We do not know how or when they met. There is only a shadowy legend that Mack was sick with fever and that Hononegah nursed him back to health. During his stay at Grand Detour, Mack's relations with the villagers were not good. It is said that he became an advisor to the village chief and that the residents were jealous of Mack's supposed influence over him. They also were resentful of Mack, because he had not married one of their women. According to Carr's history previously sited, Mack refused to sell liquor and firearms to them. There are several stories about Mack escaping death with Hononegah's help. One time she warned him that the villagers were coming to kill him, and it took Mack an entire day to finally outrun them. On another occasion Hononegah hid Mack in a barrel. The third story preserved by Edson Carr relates that Mack was returning to the village from Chicago when Hononegah met Mack in the woods to warn him not to return to the village. It is believed that Mack did not marry Hononegah for love, but to express his gratitude to her for saving his life on so many occasions. In February 1829 Mack purchased Lasallier's cabin, and it is probable that at this time Mack had formalized his relationship with Hononegah. It is believed that they had a child that died at birth sometime in 1829. Their eldest surviving child Rosa was born November 14, 1830. Sometime in 1829 Stephen Mack, Jr. and Hononegah Mack fled Grand Detour for good. 27: 360:. He was incompetent, and when he died March 25, 1844, he left Stephen Mack with substantial debt and much useless merchandise. Mack abandoned trading and merchandise altogether and bought a dairy farm west of Rockton which was managed by the Stocker family (his second daughter Mary married Charles Stocker). As time passed and interest in his settlement dwindled, Mack bought up all the remaining available lots, and at the time of his death, all of the land which comprises the present Macktown Forest Preserve was owned by him. 349:. Despite this setback, Mack saw to it that a classroom was set up in the second story of a house. He insisted that the settlement's girls be allowed to attend as well as the boys, and the classroom was even open to the Winnebago children. In spite of the care he took to see that his own children were educated, it is recorded by Edson Carr that one of his daughters was too wild and often walked out on classes, and it is said that Mack eventually gave up on educating her. 397: 151:
in procuring for them the best educational opportunities. Stephen Mack, Sr. was the first English-speaking merchant in Detroit. He entered into a partnership which was known as Mack & Conant which remained in business until 1821 when it was bought out by its chief competitor The American Fur Company. In 1812 he became a trustee of the village of Detroit and later he was the founder of the city of
289:. Mack believed that the Rock River was navigable upstream for an additional 150 miles while the Pecatonica was navigable for 100 miles, and his site was ideal as a center for trade and commerce. The Talcott's returned to the East to get their families, and when they returned the following autumn, Mack had moved to the site of his new community, now located in the present day 252:'s braves raided his cabin searching for his supply of gunpowder (which Mack succeeded to hide). On May 9, 1832, Mack was run out of his cabin, and he and Hononegah fled to Chicago. Edson Carr relates a romance in which Mack met Black Hawk, and after the villagers advised Mack that they could not protect him, Mack took refuge on 320:
Illinois, formerly located where the public boat landing is presently. The bridge replaced a ferry he had started in 1837. Mack had offered Talcott a partnership in his settlement, but there was disagreement on the terms and words were exchanged. There was a falling out between the two men, and the breach was never healed.
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Talcott was interested in energy. He settled on the north side of the river within the present village of Rockton. He bought most of the area and divided it into lots. On June 2, 1838 he sold his first lot. Earlier, the Talcott's began digging a millrace, and in the Fall of 1839, their gristmill was
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The senior Mack valued education, and knowing that there was little opportunity in such a remote frontier village, he had his family remain in Vermont. The younger Mack would later pursue for himself a level of education uncommon for his time, and when he had children of his own, he was very active
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Despite his bad relations with the Talcotts, Mack seemed to realize that the area's future was with Talcott's settlement. In 1846 by an act of the legislature, the town was officially named Rockton, a name suggested by one of the Talcott's, and in 1849 Mack was made a Justice of the Peace and the
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In May 1964 the executive committee for the forest preserve decided that Rockton's founding father should be buried next to the Mack home and announced that they were moving their remains back to Macktown. There was a storm of protest by the descendants of the people who had moved the remains in
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With this money Mack built himself a fine two-story frame house with a cellar, which later became the residence for the forest preserve caretaker and is now a museum. He also used the money to make other improvements. Sometime during 1842/43 Mack built the first bridge across the Rock River in
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On November 1, 1837 a treaty with the Winnebago's was signed in Washington. Mack presented a claim for $ 6,400.00 in merchandise. It was prorated by the commission and Mack received $ 2,329.50. He also received an additional $ 5,000.00 on behalf of his five children (supporting the belief that
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was donated to the village by one of the Talcott's, and Mack refused to have his own family members buried there. Mack, Hononegah and one of their sons were buried in a cemetery which is near the present golf course club house and is marked by a boulder with a memorial plaque.
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first township treasurer of the school funds. On September 14, 1840 Mack was married to Hononegah by a Justice of the Peace. Since he was not legally married to her, he was concerned that his children might not inherit his estate, so he secured a legal marriage to that ends.
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fully operational. At the time it was the only operation of its kind, and farmers traveled many miles to have their crops processed. A hotel was built for their lodging, and the settlement to the north of the river quickly expanded supplanting Mack's Pecatonic settlement.
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By a treaty signed in Chicago by the Pottawatomie's on September 28, 1833, Mack received $ 600.00 on behalf of his three daughters (supporting the belief that Hononegah was part Pottawatomie). After the war Mack returned to his cabin to resume his trading operations.
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On May 24, 1832 Mack enlisted in Captain John S.C. Hogan's company of militia with the rank of 1st Sergeant. Mack's company was too small to be an effectual military organization, and the only noteworthy event was when the company discovered the aftermath of the
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In 1880 the Mack estate was owned by Sylvester Smith. The cemetery was in such poor condition that Smith announced that he intended to plow the site under, and if anyone had family buried there, they had better move them soon. The Macks were moved to
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Mack was a clerk at his arrival in 1820, and on October 20, 1823 he received his first licence as a trader followed by licences on September 6, 1824 and October 5, 1826. Evidence suggests that Mack spent his winters at Grand Detour and then lived in
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but was forced to drop out after a minor illness he failed to properly attend to which became a major one (he did not attend Dartmouth as has often been claimed). It is believed that he joined his father and other family members in Detroit in 1819.
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during the summer. It is known that he voted occasionally and served as a clerk in elections there from 1828 to 1830. On September 29, 1830 he bought two lots in Chicago in the block bound by Randolph, Market, Washington and Water Streets.
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Hononegah died of fever September 8, 1847 leaving Mack with the responsibility of raising their eight surviving children. On February 4, 1848 Mack married Isabella Daniels of Harrison in order to provide a caregiver for his children.
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directors in building a seminary in his settlement. He even was willing to donate 20 acres (81,000 m) of his own land for the site. Probably Mack's motive was to provide a facility for the education of his own daughters.
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They went up the river into present day Winnebago County and built a cabin in a Winnebago village at the present site of Hononegah Forest Preserve. Mack's sojourn there was peaceful until the outbreak of the
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and his son Thomas visited Mack, and at this time Mack announced his intentions to found a new community on the south bluff overlooking the confluence of the Rock and Pecatonica Rivers which he would name
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where fifteen whites were slain. By about the second week of June, army regulars from Michigan began arriving in Illinois to continue the war, and by mid-June Mack's company of militia was dissolved.
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In 1850 Winnebago County was formally divided into townships. In an election held April 2, 1850 Mack ran for the position of the first Township Supervisor of Rockton and was narrowly defeated by
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on August 1, 1829. Subsequently the daughter died young making Joseph the legal heir and owner of the section, and on January 17, 1838 Thiebeau sold the land to
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1880. The forest preserve waited until the dead of night of July 23, 1965 when they exhumed their remains and reburied them near Mack's home.
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At that point it is said that he joined a government expedition around the Great Lakes which purpose has not been determined.
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The Old Settlers Remembered, A History of Phillips Cemetery, Macktown, Friends and Neighbors of Stephen Mack and Hononegah
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who bought the rights for a section of land for his daughter under the terms of a treaty signed at
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Early Lee County, Being Some Chapters in History of the Early Days in Lee County, Illinois
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But the directors decided to put the seminary in Rockford, and this became the basis for
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and then traveled south into Illinois. At a Winnebago village at the present site of
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The French Trappers and Traders, Friends of Stephen Mack and Residents of Pecatonic
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in Ogle County. There he met a trader named Lasallier (perhaps his full name was
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The Pioneers of Winnebago and Boone Counties, Illinois Who Came Before 1841
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At an unknown date, Mack had formed a business partnership with his cousin
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about Illinois and possible opportunities there, so Mack traveled to the
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from August 30, 1813 to August 24, 1816, He then attended a college in
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Stephen Mack and the Early Settlement of Macktown and Rockton
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History of the Forest Preserves of Winnebago County, Illinois
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The land that Mack was residing on was originally claimed by
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Grave of Stephen Mack Jr. Buried at Macktown forest preserve
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While residing at Grand Detour, Stephen Mack met his wife
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