Biography
Juliette Magill was born in Middletown, Connecticut, she was well educated attending a boarding school in New Haven, Connecticut, and was tutored in Latin and other languages by her uncle Alexander Wolcott. She also studied at Emma Willard's school in Troy, New York. Alexander Wolcott introduced Juliette to John H. Kinzie, son of Indian trader John Kinzie. They married in 1830 and moved to Fort Winnebago, Wisconsin, where her husband was an Indian agent. The house they resided in during this time, now known as the Old Indian Agency House, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
In 1834 they moved to Chicago, between 1833 and 1846 the couple had 7 children, 6 of which survived to adultood. The Kinzie family was involved in Chicago's civic and social development throughout the nineteenth century. They were active in the Episcopal church and founded the Chicago Historical Society (now the Chicago History Museum). Kinze died in Amagansett, New York, Long Island, in 1870.
Her granddaughter and namesake Juliette Gordon Low attained fame for founding Girl Scouting in America in 1912.
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