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WILMETTE LIFEW ilmettes 75th Anniversary 1872-1947Antoinedenee in and around Chicago. He Ouilmette Calledhad the contract to pilot the lakeboats up the Chicago river with cat-tle, of which I am told he had 100Friendly,yoke. Progressive ManHad Many FriendsLetter"He was known as a kind, whole- of 1905 Tells ofDaughtersouled, generous man of remark-s Recollections;able energy and perseverance,Wifewho made friends with everybody, Quarter IndianA Quarter-Indianboth Indians and whites, and he inturn was universally liked and re-ThMost Wilmette citizense following letter in part waswrittespected. He was very methodical innknow that the village takes in 1905 to Frank R. Grover,his habits and ways of doing busi-vice-president of the Evanston His-its name from the one-timeness, and noted everything down ontorical society, by I. J. Martell,Indian owners of the landpaper, and prior to his death hegrandson of Antoine and ArchangeOuilmetteon which the original villageleft a trunk full of papers which.he prized as being valuable. . . .""was platted.. . . My mother (Mrs. SophieMartell, daughter of the Ouilmettes)But Antoine Ouilmette.is visiting me here (Kansas City,Mo.,whose name was anglicized) and from her I get the in-F. L. Joy Was Civicformationfor ease in spelling and pro- you desire . . ."She is now the only one of thenunciation when the villageeight children of Antoine and Arch-was incorporated 75 yearsLeader 40 Yearsange Ouilmette living, and is stillhalago, was no Indian. He wase and hearty with good memoryThree times president of the Vil-and understanding, and she remem-a French-Canadian trapper,lage of Wilmette, Frank L. Joy wasHIGH SCHOOL DEAN Georgebers many things of importance re-trader, river pilot, stock-one of the civic leaders of the com-garding the old times.grower, and farmer, whomunitAndrew Harper was dean ofy for over 40 years."Her father, Antoine Ouilmette,boys at New Trier Townshipwawas one of the early citizenss a Frenchman, who came toBorn in New York City in 1845,your city (Chicago) in its earliestof Chicago.MrHigh school from 1918 to 1927,. Joy was a veteran of the Civildays from Canada.warwhen he resigned and went to. He moved to Chicago in 1873MorHis wife, Archange, whoeandArizona, where he co-founded to Wilmette three years later. French Than Indianreceived the land as a mem-At first in the wholesale grocerythe Southern Arizona School for"Her mother, Archange Ouilmette,waber of the Pottawattomiebusiness, he was later associatedBoys at Tucson.s more French than Indian, ashewith an insurance firm.rtribe, was only quarter-In- father was also a Frenchmanby the name of Francois Chevallier,dian. Her father was Fran-He was village trustee from 1880and her mother was half Frenchcois Chevallier, a French-to 1887, village president from 1883He came to New Trier in 1906,and Indian.man, and her mother was ofto 1886 (in those days the villagefive years after the school opened,"From all I can learn and whatpresidents were chosen by the boardto teach mathematics, and shortlyImixed white and Indian have always heard, Antoine Ouil-mettof trustees), and again from 1889became head of the mathematicse was a progressive, energeticparentage.matodepartment, a position which he 1890 and 1891 to 1892. He wasn of good business ability forvillageheld until he was made dean. He treasurer from 1893 to 1896.those times, he accumulated con-Fordied July 7, 1939, in Honolulu, where 15 years he was a member ofsiderable property. He had a storeliving in Chicago. He also made oc-1he was vacationing. He was a bro-the board of education.in Chicago, and also a fine lot ofcasional business trips to Milwaukeether of J. Robb Harper, superin-.horses, cattle, sheep, and hogs. Heand Canada. He furnished the Fort"He. served the First Congrega-tendent of Wilmette schools for 34also had a farm at Racine, Wis.,with beef and pork and also cord-tional church in many capacities.years. His widow lives in Evans-which he frequently visited whilewood, in the later days of his resi-Mr. Joy died in 1917.ton.John Welter Fbrist615 Ridge RoadPhones Wilmette 891-892