Antoine Ouilmette, 1790-1841

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  • Currey Gives Facts About Ouilmette
    J. Seymour Currey, Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 1 Jan 1915, p. 3     ...
    J. Seymour Currey, Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 1 Jan 1915, p. 3   ...
  • Log Home of Wilmette's First Settler
    Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 9 Oct 1913, p. 3     Drawing of a log cabin reputedly belong to Wilmette's first settler. No story associated with the image. ...
    Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 9 Oct 1913, p. 3   Drawing of a log cabin reputedly belong to Wilmette's first settler. No ...
  • Artist's conception of Archange Ouilmette 1764-1840
        Photograph of painting was published in a book by Herbert B. Mulford, Frontiers of Old Wilmette, Wilmette Public Library: Wilmette, Illinois, 1953, p.24...
      Photograph of painting was published in a book by Herbert B. Mulford, ...
  • 'To stand on my ancestors' land, it's pretty goosebumpy'
    Luc, Karie, Wilmette Life, 10 Nov 2022, p. 10     A plaque was dedicated to the Ouilmette family to close Wilmette's Sesquicentennial year. Descendants of the Ouilmette family conducted a Four Directions ceremony for the ancestors.
    Luc, Karie, Wilmette Life, 10 Nov 2022, p. 10   A plaque was dedicated to the Ouilmette family to close Wilmette's Sesquicentennial ...
  • Artist's conception of the marriage of Antoine and Archange Ouilmette
        Painting by Mary Martin Engel depicting the wedding of Antoine and Archange Ouilmette in 1820.
      Painting by Mary Martin Engel depicting the wedding of Antoine and Archange ...
  • The Growth of Wilmette: Changes in the lake front
        Map of Wilmette, Illinois, showing changes that have occurred in the historical shore line of Lake Michigan to 1949. Also records former and present names of streets, and locations of old structures.
      Map of Wilmette, Illinois, showing changes that have occurred in the historical ...
  • The Growth of Wilmette: Lake Chicago's Changes That Developed the Wilmette Area
        How "Lake Chicago" was filled in to form the shore line of Lake MIchigan. Shows the several stages wherein, due to the prevailing North East South West lake current, the spoil from the wave action on the North Shore Bluffs was gradually deposited to the South, making Chicago's land...
      How "Lake Chicago" was filled in to form the shore line of ...
  • Wilmette's past as seen by early village settler
    Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 21 Apr 1916, 5, 6, column 4     Mrs. Byron C. Stolp reads most complete record before Old Town Folks' meeting on April 7 a.k.a. Old Settlers of Ouilmette
    Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 21 Apr 1916, 5, 6, column 4   Mrs. Byron C. Stolp reads most complete record before Old Town Folks' ...
  • Commemorative plaque for Antoine Ouilmette
        In commemoration of Antoine Ouilmette, first white settler, who in 1829 built his log cabin near this site. To his wife Archange of the Pottawatomie tribe the Federal Government granted a tract of the reservation acquired by treaty in that year. From Antoine Ouilmette the village takes it's name. The ...
      In commemoration of Antoine Ouilmette, first white settler, who in 1829 built ...
  • The Growth of Wilmette: map of Ouilmette’s reservation and its subdivisions, 1829-1842
        Survey of 1280 acres of land two sections; Now Elmwood Ave.; Now Central St., Evanston; 1. 50 A[cres] sold to Harmon; 2. 200 A[cres] sold to Tuttle, Holland and Tuttle; 3. reserved for Joe Ouilmette; 4. 160 A[cres] sold to J. E. Stebbin; 5. 640 A[cres] sold to Horton Hubbard ...
      Survey of 1280 acres of land two sections; Now Elmwood Ave.; Now ...
  • The First Chapter of a Short Historical Sketch of the Village of Wilmette
    Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 10 Sep 1914, p. 1     French Canadian fur trader, Antoine Ouilmette, built the first home here in 1826.
    Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 10 Sep 1914, p. 1   French Canadian fur trader, Antoine Ouilmette, built the first home here in ...
  • Artist's conception of Ouilmette family homestead
        Black & white photograph of a painting of Ouilmette family homestead on the shores of Lake Michigan in Illinois about 1820.
      Black & white photograph of a painting of Ouilmette family homestead on ...
  • Affidavit by Alexander McDaniel, Wilmette, Illinois, July 5, 1871
        Statement by Alexander McDaniel concerning the family of Antoine and Archange Ouilmette in Wilmette, Illinois, and the disposition of land reserved for Archange Ouilmette by her heirs. The original document is now held by Wilmette Historical Museum as part of their Alexander McDaniel archival collection.
      Statement by Alexander McDaniel concerning the family of Antoine and Archange Ouilmette ...
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Antoine Ouilmette, 1790-1841


Early settler in Wilmette, Illinois. The name of the village is an Anglicization of his name