Friday Finds – The Cook County Poor Farm

Louis Rock Rochon, my great-grandfather, was a rolling stone.(Pun intended.)  He was born in 1848 in Quebec. When he was 17, his father died; then Louis immigrated to Illinois in 1867. He was still single and living in as a boarder in Chicago in 1880, but moved back to Canada the next year to live … Continue reading Friday Finds – The Cook County Poor Farm