Rounds, H.E.
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History of Cook County, Illinois; The Earliest Period to the Present Time; Complete in One Volume, 1884, Page 463.
Biographical Sketches of Rogers Park
H.E. Rounds was born in Enosburg. Vermont, Saturday, September 29, 1838. His parents, Lester Rounds and Aurilla Rounds, came west in 1840 and settled in Southport, Wisconsin (now Kenosha, Wisconsin), where his father taught school. He was one of the original "Fourierites" who founded the village of Cereseo, Wisconsin adjoining Ripon, Wisconsin. He now lives at Eureka, Wisconsin, engaged in mercantile business.
Mrs. Rounds died April 15, 1882. H.E. Rounds came to Chicago in the spring of 1851. He learned the printer's trade with S.P. Rounds, and was, for some time, employed as his foreman. In 1860 he went to Pike's Peak in charge of a mining outfit, and remained there three years, eighteen mouths of the time mining, and for eighteen months he was connected with the Rocky Mountain News at Denver, Colorado having a one-fourth interest in that newspaper. In 1863, having returned to Eureka, Wisconsin, he engaged in the mercantile business with his father.
He also served four months in the 41st Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry during the late American Civil War. He published for one year the Eureka Journal, and in company with Heram Merley (now deceased) started the Oshkosh Journal, at Oshkosh. Wisconsin, and carried on the same for five years, and having sold out the paper to the Oshkosh Northwestern.
He returned in 1873 to Chicago.and since that time has been connected with the business of S.P. Rounds and Rounds Type & Press Company.
He has resided in Rogers Park since 1874; was school director and also Trustee of the village.
H.E. Rounds married Hattie N. Rounds, nee: Hattie N. Parker, in Racine, Wisconsin, Thursday, September 26, 1867.
They have three children:
Chicago Blue Book
Mr. & Mrs. H.E. Rounds were listed in the 1894 Chicago Blue Book, page 773. This issue does not list the address of anyone living in Rogers Park.
Rogers Park News
Rogers Park News was first published by H.E. Rounds in 1871.
