The 1910 U.S. Census provides information that Christopher (Chris) and his wife were living in the Village of Winfield Illinois. He is a ‘retired farmer”. The 1904 Atlas of DuPage County shows the main downtown lots and sections of Winfield Illinois.

Winfield was originally plated as the town of Fredericksburg. Its is named Winfield after the military leader General Winfield Scott. Scott was a leader in the Black Hawk War of the early 1830s.

The Daleidens home was in lots 3 and 4 just to the north and near the St. John the Baptist Catholic Church. The map also shows that Christopher owned 10.6 acres of land along the creek that ran through the Village and toward the West Branch of the DuPage River. The 10.6 acres per an oral history with my Grandfather Francis “Frank” J. (Joseph) Schlick was a hayfield. This was along the street now known as Beecher Street. On Christophers propertyon Beecher Street was located the Winfield Cooperative Creamery a major business in the Village. I will do a blog post on that business in the future.

The railroad that runs through the middle part of the Village is what is now (2022) know as the Metra Union Pacific Railroad west line that terminates at Chicago to the east and Elburn to the west.