. The Chicago massacre of 1812 : with illustrations and historical documents. ^ Theheroic death of John Harris Kinzie, second, will be notedin the Appendix D, which is devoted to the Kinziefamily. Of the Whistlers, some of the name have beenconstantly in the military service, and when the twofamilies joined by the marriage of Robert Kinzie andGvventhlean Whistler the racial tendency continued. General Garland Whistler, son of Colonel WilliamWhistler, was a graduate of West Point, and a soldier inthe war for the Union. He is now on the retired son, Major Garland Whistler, also a gradua
. The Chicago massacre of 1812 : with illustrations and historical documents. ^ Theheroic death of John Harris Kinzie, second, will be notedin the Appendix D, which is devoted to the Kinziefamily. Of the Whistlers, some of the name have beenconstantly in the military service, and when the twofamilies joined by the marriage of Robert Kinzie andGvventhlean Whistler the racial tendency continued. General Garland Whistler, son of Colonel WilliamWhistler, was a graduate of West Point, and a soldier inthe war for the Union. He is now on the retired son, Major Garland Whistler, also a graduate, wasin the late war and is still in the service. Major DavidHunter Kinzie, son of Robert (uniting the two families),left West Point for active service in the Union war. Heis now at the Presidio, California. Captain John Kinzie,another son of Robert, is stationed at Omaha, APPKNDIX I). THK KINZIIC at a point evenfurlhcr back in the dim pastthan the huihlin^ of Iointe(Ic Saiblescahiii. wctakeupthe narrative of the lives ofits hitest ownersJohnKin/ie was horn in Oncl>ccabout 1763. son of John McKen-zie, or McKin/.ie, a Scotihnuin,who married Mrs. Habbnrton. awidow, with one dau-hter.* anddied when his son John was veryV young. Mrs. McKenzie made a% third marriasre, with one WilliamForsyth, who had served underGeneral Wolfe in the taking ofOuebec. William Forsyth, withwife, children and stepchildren,lived many years in New York,and later in thev lived in New York, John after-ward John Kiiuie. was sent, with two Porsyth half-broth-ers to school in Williamsburuh, just across the hastriver- a ne-ro servant, or slave, goin- every Saturdayniohtto bring the three boys home. One SUurday therewas no Johnnie to be found-the embryo frontiersmanhad run awav He got on board a sloop bound for Alban>am Si n with some one who helped him on to Ouebecwl ere
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