by IlGenWeb SC | Jan 23, 2016 | Schools
1860-1882 Including a biographical directory of the faculty for the year 1882. Submitted by Sheryl CLASS OF 1860. 1. Sarah M. (Dunn) Strickler taught in the Peoria high school one year, in the Bloomington high school one year, and in a private school in Peoria two...
by IlGenWeb SC | Jan 23, 2016 | Presbyterian
A. T. Norton. St. Louis: W. S. Bryan, 1879. Submitted by Sheryl Chapter 2 MISSIONARIES AND CHURCHES FROM THE BEGINNING TO 1820 The first white explorers of the Illinois country were the Canadian French in 1673. Between that time and 1686 they had established several...
by IlGenWeb SC | Jan 23, 2016 | 20th Century Biographies
Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. Vol. I-X. Rossiter Johnson, editor. Boston MA: The Biographical Society. 1904. RANSOM, Thomas Edward Greenfield, soldier, was born in Norwich, Vt., Nov. 29, 1834; son of Col. Truman Bishop (q.v.) and...
by IlGenWeb SC | Jan 22, 2016 | 20th Century Biographies
Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. Vol. I-X. Rossiter Johnson, editor. Boston MA: The Biographical Society. 1904. McARTHUR, John, soldier, was born in Erskine, Scotland, Nov. 17, 1826; son of John and Isabella (Neilson) McArthur. He...
by IlGenWeb SC | Jan 22, 2016 | 20th Century Biographies
Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. Vol. I-X. Rossiter Johnson, editor. Boston MA: The Biographical Society. 1904. GARLAND, Hamlin, author, was born in West Salem, Wis., Sept. 14, 1860; son of Richard Hayes and Charlotte Isabelle...
by IlGenWeb SC | Jan 22, 2016 | 20th Century Biographies
Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. Vol. I-X. Rossiter Johnson, editor. Boston MA: The Biographical Society. 1904. Davis, Charles Wilder, soldier, was born in Concord, Mass., Oct. 11, 1833. He was educated in the public school, became a...
by IlGenWeb SC | Jan 22, 2016 | 20th Century Biographies
Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. Vol. I-X. Rossiter Johnson, editor. Boston MA: The Biographical Society. 1904. ADAMS, George Everett, representative, was born at Keene, N.H., in June, 1840; son of Benjamin F. and Louisa (Redington)...
by IlGenWeb SC | Jan 22, 2016 | References
The cities, townships and places on this page were taken from a variety of sources listed below and combined together to create this gazetteer of locations within Illinois. 1 – US 1895 Atlas. 2 – USGS Geographic Names Information Systems. 3 – A...
by IlGenWeb SC | Jul 11, 2015 | 1915 Biographies
EARLYILLE, a city and railway junction in La Salle County, 52 miles northeast of Princeton, at the intersecting point of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the Chicago & Northwestern Railroads. It is in the center of an agricultural and stock-raising...
by IlGenWeb SC | Jul 11, 2015 | 1915 Biographies
DALE, Michael G., lawyer, was born in Lancaster, Pa., spent his childhood and youth in the public schools of his native city, except one year in West Chester Academy, when he entered Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg, graduating there in 1835. He then began the study...
