Word: dearborn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicagoans, Father Dearborn is as familiar as Uncle Sam. In newspaper cartoons he is a corn-fed bumpkin in a plug hat and jack boots, wearing a spade beard. Who originated the symbol of Chicago is a mystery. John T. McCutcheon, dean of Chicago cartoonists, remembers him as far back as 1895, denies parentage. Many a Chicagoan was surprised and pleased last week to learn that Father Dearborn was not only a cartoon but a real though long-buried hero, who wore a cocked hat and a peruke and the uniform of the Continental Army. He was never in Chicago...
Credit for the correction belonged to Hermon Dunlap Smith, who had written a biography of Henry Dearborn (1751-1829). Biography and Dearborn's own war diary were being distributed last week to members of Chicago's bibliophilic Caxton Club (Revolutionary War Journals of Henry Dearborn, on sale at some bookstores...