Marshall reported what he termed "A series of the most detestable and diabolical outrages that have ever been perpetrated in Illinois," occurred when Klan sympathizers attacked a Republican parade in Ottawa. 15, 1868, Kendall County Record editor J.R. While it started in the South, the contagion didn't stay there. The masked vigilantes used murder and threats of murder against Reconstruction officials and black and white Republicans.
The idea quickly spread throughout the old Confederacy during Reconstruction as fear of equal rights for the region’s former slaves escalated. Nathan Bedford Forrest as the group's first leader. The name probably came from kuklos, Greek for circle, suggesting a band of brothers. and formed what they called the Ku Klux Klan. 24, 1865, to intimidate freed slaves and local Republican officials, a group of disgruntled Confederate veterans met in Pulaski, Tenn. The Klan here in Kendall County? Yes, as it turns out, they were indeed here and active, too.
Shoger off-handedly recalled the arrest led to a Ku Klux Klan cross burning on Schickler’s front lawn. A former merchant, farmer, real estate dealer and developer, and dairy owner, Schickler also, at times, kept a saloon and was even, in March 1923, arrested for bootlegging. Once, when discussing Oswego area history, the subject of John Schickler came up. A lifelong resident, he was a wealth of information on Kendall County history. Editor's note: this Roger Matile "Reflections" column was published previously in the Oswego Ledger and Record Newspapers.īack in 1976 when we were gearing up to celebrate the nation’s Bicentennial, a group of us worked closely with Kendall County Board Chairman Howard Shoger.
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