Lemont Weekly Observer from Lemont, Illinois • 11

LEMONT OBSERVER SOUVENIR EDITION. lie has been twic3 elected to the ber of the police department of the vil BOARD OF EDUCATION. of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St Fau railroad. He remained In the shops un lage of Lemont. Ten years ago Mr.

board of education and is the only representative from Hastings. til 1883, when he went on the road as Mr.Linnehan is a progressive and Laughlin came to Lemont and opened the meat market now owned and operated by Mr. James Hennebry which he sold to the present owner. He was then employed by the Singer ft Talcott Stone locomotive engineer for the same company. In 1887 he gave up railroading entirely, returned to Lemont and Excellent Work of the Varloui Baudi In Building- Up the Public School System of Lemont.

opened up a hardware business of which he is now proprietor. Mr. Friedley was practically the Co, until its business was absorbed by the Western Stone with whom he continued until he was appointed to the police force. which he retained until the close of 1890. In 1891 he was tendered the position of superintendent for the Western Stone Co.

at Lockport, which he accepted and retained until the close of "92. In the spring of 1803 he began the business of general contractor and superintendent and shortly afterward secured the contract for the erection of the new village hall, which now stands as one of the structures of Lemont, which promises to stand for generations to come. Mr. Talty will still continue in the business of contractor and superintendent B. F.

Welch. GROWTH OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS. founder of Keepotow Lodge, Knights of Pythias in which, since its organization, he has held various positions, and of which he is now prelate. In April 1893 he was elected to mem 8. B.

Brier, President. bership on the board of education which office he still holds. rB. BRIER la one of the promi- He has been for two years and is now i nent men of Lemont connected a member of the board of education. Mr.

Laughlin Btill mourns the death with the greatest stone quai rying of his wife which occurred at their resi Mr. Friedley's store is located on Industry of the United States. A native dence, corner Porter and Maxwell streets last April. Besides her husband she Canal, by many incorrectly called Lawrence street, and is complete and first-class throughout The stock contains mSI of the old residents, a if I member of the board of edu- the leading makes and highest endorsed of heating and -cooking stoves and ranges of every description, table and cation and a highly citizen of Lemont is Mr. B.

F. Welch, who came here as a practitioner of. veterinary surgery pocket cutlery, carpenters and builders hardware and in fact a stock lacking in no department the full quota of hardware supplies. Mr. Friedley also does tin and galvanized iron work of all something more than twenty-eight years ago.

For over thirty years Mr. Welch has been a practical D. V. 8. in the state of Illinois kinds and is one of Lemont's leading and most substantial business men.

WILLIAM LIHHEHAH. and is a man thoroughly versed in loyal American citizen in the truest Pnhlic Schools. sense and Is an enthusiastic advocate the mysteries of diseases as tested in the race equine. II is life has been devoted to the diseases of which horsekind is heir and their symptoms are to him as an IP of the public school system. The school at Hastings has always Vry HE people, of Lemont have al- I ways been wide-awake to the necessity and value of good public schools and the disposition of the general public has been well represented by the various boards of education, to been, under his supervision, conducted on a high plane of excellence and has accomplished some remarkably good open book.

He is also an expert in every phase of practical surgery pertaining to his profession 'ft I work. and is exceptionally competent He was married February 87th, 1876, and well fitted to perfoim surgi to Miss Eliza Lane, of Taunton, Mass. cal operations of every descrip Besides himself and wife, his family tion. consists of four boys and one girl. Mr.

Welch was born in Ashtabula 8. B. BRIER. H. J.

J.AUGIILIN. Joseph FrellohowakL Co. Ohio, in 1835. In 1837 his parents came by lake to the then little city of sTOSEFH FKELICIIOWSKI was which immediate charge of affairs educational have been entrusted. It Is about fifty years since the first public school in this vicinity was established midway between what is known as the old Luther farm and the present village of Lemont It was a small school and a small beginning of the educational advantages that have since been developed, but the germinating seed there planted was destined to develop into an educational plant that would grow and flourish in a great community of people, where thousands of children might pluck its left to mourn ber loss four children aged respectively four, ten, thirteen of Germany, he was born on the 7th day of December, A.

D. 1888. Mr. Brier has been variously connected with the MHMlt AM -1 tllltPW I kl born in Nakel, Germany on Oct 6th 1866. He is one of Lemont's model and fifteen years.

Chicago and from there to Lockport, HL, by wagon. Days were consumed in making a journey which can now be business men whose parents While with the stone companies he young came here twenty- accompli sh ed five years ago. His In a few hours. family was one of Mr. Welch the first of Folisi nationality to set UMIICB VI UDiuuuH ftvi vavavo sv vuii vj years.

In 1868 he began as topi boy for the Singer ft Talcott Stone Co, About the year 1870 he accepted the position of engineer for the Boyer ft Corneau Stone which position he retained until he was tendered the position of foreman for the same company four years later which he accepted and occupied until 1878. At this time he took the position of foreman for the Excelsior Stone Co, in which he remained nourishing and invigorating fruit, to the incomparable benefit of mankind for generation after generation yet to was married in 1864 to Miss Caroline Stevens, of Xaper-ville, 111. Of this marriage nine children tle in Lemont For years he was a trusted employe in the store of II. S. Norton.

By industrious and faithful work and economical management Mr. Frel- come. Ti founders of that school built better than they knew. They laid the corner stone of a foundation for an educational superstructure that is to go on building until the copes tone of high perfection; shall have beta laid to cap ight years and then became Am Dir. Supt for the Western Stone Co.

He remained in this position until about wnsssjivsznniivwfiiij i VK'-'V have been born five of whom three girls aged respect-ivWy eigMsev-enleen and 19 yeilrs, and two bdys aged six and fourteen are living. Mary, the oldest girl is engaged in the Western Union telegraph office of Chicago, while Miss Hattie, the next in age, is a valued attache of this office, and a contributor to the work oftbis special edition of the Observer. The other children, a girl became a practical and thorough-going business man but accumulated sufficient means to enable him to venture on the mercantile sea in his own bark, which he has steered right into the great port of business success. Mr.Frel-ichowski was elected township collector for the town of Lemont in 1898, in which office he served one term. In the spring of 1893 he was elected a member of the board of education, which offlcs he still holds.

Mr. Frelichows-ki was married in 1887 and has since been blessed by JOSEPH 7RELICH0WSKL and two boys, are still at home A. TALTT. with father and mother. As a mem ber of the board of education Mr.

Welch is the birth of three an efficient and honored incum children. T. F. Friedley. bent of one of the most important of two years ago when he was made Dir.

Supt. for the same company which position he still occupies. In May 1883 his parents came to America where they settled at Turner Junction and remained two years. From tntre they moved to the town of Lemont in 1853 but did not become residents of the Tillage of Lemont until 1872. On March 7th 1871, Mr.

Brier was joined in wedlock to Miss Catherine Wier, of Lockport, III, and immediately thereafter the young couple settled down to the calm enjoyments of married life in the village of Lemont where he lias made his home ever since. Six children have been born of this marriage, TP VRTITItT.Ti'.Vtuunrutt.in. fices in the gift of the people an office I. tj L.flT 'j any ueen a resiueui ui ijcuiuul iur LElfQNT HIGH SCHOOL. was employed in the capacity of planer until two years ago when he was given charge of the night force in the planing department of the works of the Western Stone Co.

As an officer he is efficient and capable, as a citizen he is respected and loved by all who know him. twenty years. He was born in Naperville, 111., March 6, 1866, and came William Llnneluui. LIN EUAN the structure of a great educational edifice reared to the honor and memory of all earnest advocates of the public free school system. Previous to the erection of the present commodious structure, which was built of Athens marble at a large cost In 1869 and was first occupied in 1870, Mr.

noraoe M. Singer, one of Lemont's large hearted, public spirited and philanthropic gentlemen who war thoroughly imbued with the idea of the value of education, had erected the building on Illinois street now occupied by the German Evangelical Lutheran parochial school, for private school purposes, but on completion of the public school building, Mr. Singer's school was abandoned and the building turned over to the Lutheran congregation by whom it was for a long time used as a place of worsnip. The high school is located in a commanding situation at the top of the hill at the head of Stephen street and overlooks not only the business section of Lemont but a vast stretch of fertile, beautiful country. In this main building are four teachers besides Superintendent Kaston.

There are two branches known respectively as the Hastings and the Brackin schools, each of which is presided over by one teacher. At Hasting school there is quite a library, free to pupils, which was founded by the efforts of one of the teachers, John Welch. A new impetus has been added to the work of the public schools since Tivifaaanr T. 11 Puatnn loaf full two boys and four girls the eldest of was Ad brn In Glinvelle, county Cork whom is now 20 years of age. Mr.

Brier is a man of strong intellectual characteristics and is a man calculated for success in any walk of life. He served one year from 1873 to 1876 as village clerk and was elected last April to the position of president of the board of education, which he still occupies. C. A. Tatty.

Ireland, January 14th, 1843. lie came to America in September, 1866 and remained awhile, first in New York and then in New Jersey. Inline spring of 1867 he went to Salem, Massachusetts, where he remained three years. In 1870 he left Salem and came to Lemont with the intention of making this his permanent residence and he has resided here ever since. Mr.

Linnehan's first employment here was in the stone sawing mill operated by Edwin Walker on what is now quarry No. 1 of the Western Stone company's works, where he had charge of a gang of saws. He remained with Mr. Walker until tho Western Stone Co. purchased the quarry when he was employed by them and has been so employed ever, since.

He is mechanical engineer and general repairer ir i the tali has been a member of the board of educa- tion for eight consecutive years, B. F. WELCH. Born and raised here, he has practically a resident of Lemont his entire life time and was for years identified with the interests of the stone industry of this place. In 1885 he accepted the and it is confidently expected by the that has to do with the educational interests of a large and rapidly growing community.

T. F. FUIEDLET. position of superintendent for the Kim with his parents to Lemont in 1874. In professor that even greater improvements will be added to the system next year.

Besides the public schools four parochial schools are supported by the various churches of Lemont, all of which are well attended. ball ft Cobb Stone Co. at Blue Island where he remained one year. The next year he took the position of foreman H. J.

iMghlln. J. LAUGHLIN is a member of the board of education of the town of Lemont and also a mem- mill at quarry No. 1, and is a ti anted ISh ne moveu wim nis parenuio jNtra-jyn, Wisconsin, where, as a young man, nle went to work in the machine shops and valuable man. for the Corneau Stone Co.

of Lrmont,.