“Perhaps some of you do not own a foot of ground. Remember then, that this is your park, it belongs to you,” said John Klock, a local newspaper publisher, when he gave the land to the city of Benton Harbor in 1917 in honor of his daughter.
Chicago Reader
May 22, 08
http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/theseparts08/bentonharbor/