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About Juliette Augusta Kinzie
Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie, née Juliette Augusta Magill, (born September 11, 1806, Middletown, Connecticut, U.S.—died September 15, 1870, Amagansett, New York), American pioneer and writer, remembered for her accounts of the indigenous peoples and settlers of early Chicago and the Midwest.
The house in which the Kinzie family lived in what is now Portage, Wisconsin, as discussed in Wau-bun, is now known as the Old Indian Agency House. The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Wisconsin, who own the house, restored and refurbished it in 1932 as their centennial project. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1972.
From https://www.agencyhouse.org/john-and-juliette
” During her lifetime, Juliette raised seven children and left a remarkable eyewitness narrative about life at the Indian Agency—a work which is still reprinted and widely read today. An interesting side note is that one of the Kinzies' granddaughters—Juliette Gordon Low—would one day go on to found the Girl Scouts of America. ”
Biography
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Juliette-Augusta-Magill-Kinzie
Juliette Magill was educated at home, in a New Haven, Connecticut, boarding school, and briefly at Emma Willard’s Troy (New York) Female Seminary. In 1830 she married John H. Kinzie, son of Chicago pioneer John Kinzie and himself an Indian agent at Fort Winnebago (now in Wisconsin but then still part of Michigan Territory). They lived at Fort Winnebago until 1834, when they moved to Chicago. In that newly incorporated town Juliette Kinzie quickly became a social and cultural leader.
In 1844 she published anonymously a Narrative of the Massacre at Chicago, an account of the 1812 Fort Dearborn massacre that she compiled from Kinzie family records and reminiscences. Her version of the event soon became the standard and accepted one. It was amplified and included in her major written work, Wau-bun: The “Early Days” in the North-west (1856), which combined travel accounts and personal experiences of her early years at Fort Winnebago, including the Black Hawk War of 1832, with Native American legends, further early history of Chicago, and particularly the story of John Kinzie. The book, a valuable if imperfectly reliable picture of the period, was a considerable success in its day and has continued to be reprinted. It was largely responsible for fixing the reputation of John Kinzie as a founding father of Chicago. In 1869 Juliette Kinzie published Walter Ogilby, a novel. Mark Logan, the Bourgeois, also a novel, appeared posthumously in 1887. She died in 1870 as the result of a pharmacist’s error.
Family
https://www.dunscombe.info/p14.htm#i553
- Father: Arthur William Magill b. August 3, 1783, d. 1855
- Mother: Frances Wolcott b. August 9, 1786, d. after 1835
- Husband: John Harris Kinzie b. July 7, 1803, d. June 21, 1865 - son of John Kinzie and Eleanor Lytle, married on August 9, 1830 at Fishkill, Dutchess County, New York, United States. Children
- Eleanor Lytle Kinzie+3 b. June 18, 1835, d. February 22, 1917
- John Kinzie+3 b. October 21, 1838, d. June 18, 1862
- Wolcott Kinzie3 b. 1839, d. 1845
- Arthur Magill Kinzie+3 b. March 24, 1839, d. May 10, 1902
- Julian Kinzie3 b. 1844, d. circa 1890
- Frank Kinzie3 b. 1844, d. 1850
- George Kinzie3 b. 1845, d. circa 1900
References
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliette_Augusta_Magill_Kinzie
- http://www.kathecrowleyconn.com/kinzie
- https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/news-wires-white-papers-and-books...
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51807041/juliette-augusta-kinzie
- http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/410079.html The predominant popular understanding of the 1812 Fort Dearborn conflict has been formed by Juliette Magill Kinzie's Wau-Bun: The Early Day in the Northwest, first published in 1856. Wau-Bun recounted Kinzie's experiences in Chicago from 1833 as well as Kinzie family stories heard from her mother-in-law. In the early 20th century historian Milo M. Quaife found Kinzie's account unreliable in its account of Fort Dearborn, as it relied on family stories that exaggerated the role of some participants and was unfairly biased against others. Over time Quaife came to realize that despite his findings, the literary appeal of Kinzie's book was likely to retain its power over the popular imagination of Chicagoans.
- http://www.stacycordery.com/juliette-gordon-low/juliette-lows-north... “ Eleanor and John Kinzie had four children who lived to adulthood, including John Harris Kinzie. John Harris married Juliette Augusta Magill (1806-1870), the daughter of Frances Wolcott and Connecticut banker Arthur Magill. Eleanor may have studied with the famous educator and woman’s rights advocate, Emma Willard. It was through her uncle, Alexander Wolcott, who was the Indian agent in Chicago, that she met John Harris Kinzie. The two married in 1830 and he took up his job as Indian sub-agent in the Michigan territory. Clearly appreciating both worlds, Juliette accompanied him cheerfully, but took with her a piano, her Boston furniture, complete china table settings, and ball gowns. They began a rough life on the edge of civilization as she knew it. You can visit their home in Portage, Wisconsin. In 1834 the Kinzies moved to Chicago. They raised six children, including Eleanor, Daisy’s redoubtable mother. ... “
- https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/jean-lalime-john-kinzie-chica... “ Whatever more serious historians suspected about the Kinzies' fairy tales—Kirkland called the description of Van Voorhis's death "fanciful (hysterical?)" in a footnote in the 1892 book The Story of Chicago, while Quaife's Chicago and the Old Northwest, 1673-1835 suggested that comparing Juliette Kinzie's writing to fact "is to dispel all confidence in its reliability and in the candor of its author"—the stories were for decades the only version of events available to the public. They were the source taught in schools, cited in lectures, and immortalized in statues on the Michigan Avenue Bridge. ... The winners didn't write the history books. The books—including Narrative, Wau-bun, and Nellie Kinzie Gordon's 1910 John Kinzie, the Father of Chicago: A Sketch and her 1912 republication of Helm's version of August 15—were how the Kinzies made themselves the winners.”
- https://www.dunscombe.info/p14.htm#i553 cites
- [S131] Frank Farnsworth Starr, Frank Farnsworth Starr papers, Middlesex County Historical Society, Middletown, Ct.
- [S382] Find A Grave, online www.findagrave.com.
- [S264] Unknown author, World Family Tree # 5738.
- [S415] A.T. Andreas, History of Chicago from the earliest period to the present time, Vol. I., pg. 97-99.
- Source: 1860 United States Federal Census MyHeritage.com [online database], MyHeritage Ltd. https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10127/1860-united-st... Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Eighth Census of the United States, 1860, Population Schedule. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration microfilm publication M593, 1,761 rolls. https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10127-2777690/juliett-a-... Juliett A Kinzie in household of John H Kinzie. Year: 1860; State: Illinois; County: Cook; Township: The 9th Ward City Of Chicago; NARA Publication: M653; Sheet: 191; Page: 195 Citation: Juliett A Kinzie Birth: Circa 1807 - Connecticut, United States Residence: 1860 - The 9th Ward City Of Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA, Husband (implied): John H Kinzie, Children (implied): John H Kinzie, Arthur M Kinzie, George H Kinzie
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Juliette Augusta Kinzie's Timeline
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September 11, 1806
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Middletown, Middlesex County , Connecticut, United States
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July 12, 1833
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June 18, 1835
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Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States
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March 24, 1840
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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February 7, 1843
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Chicago IL
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October 22, 1846
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Chicago, Cook Co., IL
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September 15, 1870
Age 64
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Amagansett, Suffolk County, New York, United States
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