The Dearlove farm was located at the southwest and southeast corner Glenview Road and Milwaukee Avenue. Glenview residents today know the Dearlove name best by driving along Dearlove Road which runs diagonal from Milwaukee and Glenview Road to Central just east of the freight tracks – near Beck Lake.
The Dearlove family originated in Yorkshire England and immigrated to the United States sometime in the mid 1830s. They journeyed across the Atlantic Ocean then traveled down the Erie Canal after which they sailed on the Great Lakes finally disembarking in what is now Chicago.
Their stay in Chicago was a short one. Soon afterward, the Dearloves made their way northwest and eventually settled in an area populated with fellow pioneers of British descent.
Early pioneers purchased land that was originally occupied by the Potawatomie tribe; which included the Chippewa and Ottawa tribes. Settlers paid the federal government $1.25 per acre as a result of the 1833 Treaty of Chicago. The Potawatomie were transferred to the Kansas Territory.
By 1840 stagecoaches travelled along Milwaukee Avenue from Chicago to Wheeling. Pony express riders also rode the Indian trails and dropped mail just south of Glenview Road possibly on Dearlove property.
Richard Dearlove and Hannah Matterson settled down and built a frame farmhouse for their large family: Mary (1813-1879), Peter (1816-1852), Thomas (1821-1839), George (1822-1907), Hannah (1825-1885), Joseph (1826-1857). Richard Dearlove died 15 August 1850 followed by Hannah on 1 April 1855. The Dearlove children thrived and produced many descendants of Richard and Hannah. Many of the Dearlove graves can be found in The Northfield Oakwood Cemetery, Milwaukee Ave., Northbrook, Illinois.
For more information on the Richard and Hannah (Matterson) Dearlove family, please visit the Glenview Library’s Genealogy and Local History Room.
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