This volume includes two sections: Fergus' Directory of the City of Chicago 1839 and Biographical Sketches of Some of the Early Settlers of the City of Chicago. The Directory includes city and county officers, churches, public buildings, hotels, a list of sheriffs of Cook County and mayors of the city since it was organized; together with a Poll-list of the First City Election (Tuesday, May 2, 1837) and a list of purchasers of lots in the Fort Dearborn Addition with the number of lots and the price paid in 1839. The biographical sketches cover: William H. Brown, Benjamin W. Raymond, J. Young Scammon, Charles Walker and Thomas Church. | Fergus' Directory of the City of Chicago 1839 along with Biographical Sketches of Some of the Early Settlers of the City of Chicago by Robert Fergus