{"id":41,"date":"2018-12-22T04:03:36","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T04:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/porterfieldjunction.net\/blog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2018-12-22T04:07:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T04:07:55","slug":"wolfgram-and-knop-family-residence-impacted-by-the-great-chicago-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/porterfieldjunction.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/22\/wolfgram-and-knop-family-residence-impacted-by-the-great-chicago-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolfgram and Knop family residence impacted by the Great Chicago Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text\" style=\"grid-template-columns:49% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"673\" src=\"http:\/\/porterfieldjunction.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Chicago-fire-burnt-district-and-Wolfgram-residence-1024x673.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40\" srcset=\"http:\/\/porterfieldjunction.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Chicago-fire-burnt-district-and-Wolfgram-residence-1024x673.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/porterfieldjunction.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Chicago-fire-burnt-district-and-Wolfgram-residence-300x197.jpg 300w, http:\/\/porterfieldjunction.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Chicago-fire-burnt-district-and-Wolfgram-residence-768x504.jpg 768w, http:\/\/porterfieldjunction.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Chicago-fire-burnt-district-and-Wolfgram-residence.jpg 1209w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"> According to an 1871 City Directory for Chicago, William Wolfgram and  his family lived at 199 W. Taylor, in Chicago&#8217;s 9th Ward.  Besides  William and his wife Albertina Knop, this would have included their  daughter Anna born in 1869.  <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p> Other records indicate that Heinrich Knoop,  a cabinetmaker, also lived at the same address.  He may have been  related to Albertina. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Great Chicago Fire started early on the evening of 8 October \n1871. Later that evening the fire reached the block where the families \nof William Wolfgram and Heinrich Knoop lived at 199 W. Taylor. At least a\n part of their block was burned, but it is not known if their residence \nwas damaged by the fire. According to the 1872 city directory, the \nfamily had moved to 239 W Taylor by that time. Both families were living\n at different new addresses by the time of the 1880 census.  By 1886, \nWilliam Wolfgram had moved his family to Wisconsin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1909, 199 W Taylor became 716 W Taylor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On this map, the burnt district is the bold (not faded) section of \nthe map.  Along the left edge of the highlighted part, about half-way \ndown the slanted portion, the burnt district crosses W Taylor.  It \nappears that about one-half of this block burned.  Even if their \nresidence was not actually burned, it was very close to the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an 1871 City Directory for Chicago, William Wolfgram and his family lived at 199 W. Taylor, in Chicago&#8217;s 9th Ward. Besides William and his wife Albertina Knop, this&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/porterfieldjunction.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/22\/wolfgram-and-knop-family-residence-impacted-by-the-great-chicago-fire\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/porterfieldjunction.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/porterfieldjunction.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/porterfieldjunction.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/porterfieldjunction.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/porterfieldjunction.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/porterfieldjunction.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"http:\/\/porterfieldjunction.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/porterfieldjunction.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/porterfieldjunction.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/porterfieldjunction.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/porterfieldjunction.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}