HISTORY OF EARLY CHICAGO
MODERN CHICAGO AND ITS SETTLEMENT
EARLY CHICAGO, AND THE NORTHWEST BY ALBERT D. HAGER
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HENRY WHIPPLE, real estate dealer, Chicago, is a native of Ohio. He joined the Rock River Conference in 1852 and was appointed to Medina Circuit for two years, where his first wife, Miss Charlotte P. Grant, died. leaving one son-John A. Whipple. now a minister at Tampico. Thence in 1854 he was sent to Freeport, and in 1857 to Chicago, continuing in the ministry until October 5, 1863, when, on account of ill-health he received a certificate of location at his own request, and went into the real estate business, under the firm name of Whipple & True, since 1871 continuing the business alone. He has resided in Evanston since the fall of 1869. His present wife was Miss Mattie E. Fisher, of Freeport, Ill. They have one child,--Lillian A.