Kinzie, Juliette A. M.

Born: 1806-09-11 Middletown, Connecticut

Died: 1870-09-15 Chicago, Illinois

Flourished: Chicago, Illinois

Alternate name: Magill

Born Juliette Augusta Magill, Juliette A. M. Kinzie was a historian and author. She published three books: Walter Ogleby, Wau-Bun: The Early Day in the Northwest, and Mark Logan. Wau-Bun, a Ho-Chunk word for dawn or early day, relates her personal experiences and those of her extended family when Chicago was still part of Indian country. She married John H. Kinzie, a U.S. Indian agent in Wisconsin, in 1840. They settled in Chicago and had four children. Kinzie died in 1870 due to a druggist's mistake in compounding a prescription. Her granddaughter, Juliette Gordon Low, founded the Girl Scouts of America.

Connecticut, U.S., Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) (Lehi, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2006); The Chicago Tribune (IL), 16 September 1870, 4:5; Rutland Weekly Herald (VT), 10 November 1870, 5:4; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Ward 9, Chicago, Cook County, IL, 425; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Ward 9, Chicago, Cook County, IL, 19; Ann Durkin Keating, The World of Juliette Kinzie: Chicago before the Fire (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2019), vii-viii; Gravestone, Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL.