Ancestry/Genealogy

Worshipful Company of Farriers (historian)? https://www.wcf.org.uk/
https://www.heartlandhorseshoeing.com/blog/ (?)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/chicago-built-back-from-the-great-fire-in-just-two-years-now-150-years-later-the-city-finds-itself-at-another-crossroads/ar-AAORsZe


[snip] All of that would very nearly go up in smoke on Oct. 8, 1871.

The Chicago Fire started at about 9 p.m. on Sunday, in or near the barn behind Catherine O’Leary’s small wooden cottage at what was then 137 DeKoven St. It spread quickly on strong southwest winds through the densely packed neighborhood of Irish immigrants, overwhelming a late-responding fire department and engulfing wide swaths of the city in a relentless inferno.

It burned for two days, destroying 17,450 buildings, scorching more than three square miles and displacing 100,000 people — nearly a third of Chicago’s population — before it ran out of real estate and was finally extinguished by rain. About 300 people died in the Great Chicago Fire, which caused $200 million in property damage — billions in current dollars — reducing the city’s downtown and much of the North Side to ashes. [snip]