A much respected citizen and an old settler of the village, is Mr. Frederick Hintze. In the early days he assisted largely in raising up and leveling the ground so that today we can walk on a fine street, little thinking that less than forty years ago it was possible to shoot ducks which inhabited the slough which was a part of his property then and still owned by him on Elgin Street near Franklin. Mr. Hintze often shot snipe in his yard, and brought down mallard ducks, shooting from his window.

Frederick Hintze was born in Germany in 1835 where he learned the trade of miller and millwright. He came to Harlem in 1856 and was employed on the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad for three years, and for eighteen years worked at the carpenter's trade in the village. In 1887 he built a building at Des Plaines Avenue and Randolph Street and conducted a saloon there for many years. He was elected as one of the first village trustees in 1884.

Even in his seventies Mr. Hintze remained active.

He married in 1866 to Miss Wilhelmina Voss who died in 1899 whom he greatly missed. They chad one son, Mr. Otto F. Hintze of the village.