THE KLEINMANS 



By Rollin B. Organ 



We hear of many a trophy won, 



By flood and field with rod and gun, 



—Flagg. 



(sfX WAY back in the spring of 1844, a young Penn- 

 ^^\ sylvania Dutchman, John Kleinman, with more 

 ambition than money, crossed the Calumet 

 Eiver at '^Chittenden's bridge,^' a few miles south of 

 South Cliicago, and found himself traveling north along 

 one of the very worst roads that it was ever his misfor- 

 tune to follow; his team was almost exhausted, as well 

 as his patience. His little family, consisting of a wife 

 and three small boys, the eldest John J., the next Abra- 

 ham S., and Henry, the baby, all under five years of 

 age, were huddled together under the white cover of the 

 old-fashioned emigrant wagon. All were tired out with 

 their long journey from the Keystone State. They went 



