Early twentieth-century records indicated that Frank Vanderlinden was a Chicago policeman. Apparently in the 1880s he worked for the Hyde Park, Illinois, fire department as indicated in this partial clipping from a local newspaper.
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Date: Saturday, May 1, 1886Paper: Hyde Park Herald (Chicago, IL) --obtained on Genealogybank.com |
The article also indicates that the drivers of the hook and ladder companies received a pay raise of $5 per month, from $55 to $65.
If your relative was a public employee, there may be some mention of him in a local newspaper--if only to indicate that he had been hired at a regular meeting.
