From the Historic Elgin site.
433 Division Street
This is the home that Harley Wayne's son built in Elgin.
SIGNIFICANCE
Harley Wayne (born April 30, 1823) married Ellen Dietz (born February 24, 1823) in Marengo, Illinois, on April 30, 1848. They had two children, a daughter named Ida who died just before her third birthday and a son, Charles, who was born in Union, Illinois.
When Charles was six years old, his father was killed at the Battle of Shiloh at Pittsburg Landing in Tennessee, on April 6, 1862. Harley Wayne was captain of Company D. of the 15th Illinois Volunteer Infantry.
After her husband's death, Ellen continued living in Union, Illinois, until her son Charles completed his education at the University of Chicago in 1880, where he was president of his class. Charles entered the law office of A.B. Coon, a prominent Illinois attorney practicing in Marengo. and by 1882, Charles had passed the state bar examination.
By 1883, Charles, along with his mother, Ellen, moved to Elgin where he bought a house at 433 Division Street from William H. Bullard, a builder in Elgin.
Continued on December 1, 2021.
--Old Secesh
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