Author: Charles Chauncey Wells
Charles Chauncey Wells is a great3 nephew of North End Bricklayer Charles Wells, the 4th Mayor of Boston 1832/33, who build 89 of the tombs at Copp's Hill. Wells holds a B.A. in journalism from Michigan State University, worked as an editor with The Chicago Tribune, and spent 20 years in mergers and acquisitions of TV, radio and newspaper businesses. He lives in Oak Park, Illinois, and is president of Chauncey Park Press and Wells Printing Company, Chicago area printers/puslishers. He is  former president and now registar of Fort Dearborn-Chicago Chapter, sons of the American Revolution; captain of the Illinois Society of Mayflower Descendants and a member of the Illinois/Michigan Societies of the War of 1812.

Photographer/editor: Suzanne Austin Wells
Suzanne Austin Wells, the book's photographer/editor,  is a 28-year Chicago Public Schools special education teacher descended from Irish Potato Famine immigrants. She holds both B.A. and Master's degrees, with a minor in history, from Dominican University, River Forest, IL. She is a member of the Society of Mayflower Descendants and the Daughters of the American Revolution.
 

Charles Chauncey Wells
Suzanne Austin Wells