Kinzie, John
founder of Chicago, was born in 1763, in Quebec, Canada. In 1804 he established a trading post on the site of the present city of Chicago, where he was the first white settler, and he subsequently founded others on Rock, Illinois, and Kankakee rivers. He died Jan. 6, 1828, in Chicago, Ill.
KINZIE, MRS. JULIETTE AUGUSTA [MAGILL], author, was born in 1806, in Connecticut. She was a novelist of Chicago, and the author of Wau-bun, or the Early Day in the Northwest; Walter Ogilby; and Mark Logan.