Kyle, Robert
Robert Kyle was an early settler in Rogers Park.
His daughter married Harlow W. Phelps.
Robert Kyle was born in England and worked as a farmer.
Robert Kyle served as Street Commissioner on the Rogers Park Village Board, 1888.
History of Cook County, Illinois; The Earliest Period to the Present Time; Complete in One Volume, 1884, Page 463.
Biographical Sketches of Rogers Park
Robert Kyle, farmer, P.O. Rogers Park, was born in Liverpool, England, Saturday, December 27, 1823, although his parents, William Kyle and Alice Kyle, were residents of St. John, New Brunswick. His boyhood days were spent in St. John, New Brunswick.
In 1836, his parents came to the United States and settled in Buffalo, New York where they resided up to 1869. when they moved to Evanston Township. His father died in 1880, his mother is still (1884) living.
At the age of 14 (1837) Robert Kyle commenced sailing on the Great Lakes from Buffalo, New York to Chicago, which he followed up to 1873, having in that time passed through the different grades up to master of a vessel before he was 19 (1842).
He has resided in Evanston Township since 1847 (24), and since abandoning a sailor's life, has engaged in gardening.
He has been school director for five years.
He was married to Ann Marshall, nee: Ann Marshall, of Arnold, England, Wednesday, February 3, 1847, whose father died in Albany, New York, of cholera in 1832, and her mother, Sarah Marshall, settled in Evanston, Illinois in 1843.
They have four children:
Emma I. Kyle. now Mrs. H.W. Phelps, of Rogers Park.
Alice Kyle (now Mrs. William Maxwell of Rogers Park.
