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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1912
Page
14
Sunday visits and family arrivals mark a busy week in Cambridge. Births, illness updates, and a frost impacts pipes as residents adjust to cold. School heating problems, bank officer changes, and community gatherings unfold with civic notices and social events across Cambridge and nearby towns.
Eri Westerlund a long time Swedish Lutheran parishioner born June 16 1836 in Ha sala Parish Hell singland Gefleborgs Lan Sweden died at 75 after a brief illness at his Osco home He arrived in America in 1849 with his family enduring a 11 week sea voyage to New York and later settlement in Andover He was married to Christina Anderson in 1858 the couple farming in Andover then Osco He leaves a large family including six children 59 grandchildren and one great grandchild He was a pillar of the church and active in Esbjorn Rev Esbjorns congregation and in various town and church offices The service was conducted by Rev Letterdahl and interment in Lutheran cemetery in Christianity He is remembered as a devout husband father and community member
C J Wike, a famed Colchester farmer and once a California gold miner who helped locate a mine later sold for $170,000, plans to abandon tarps and return west. He used his share to buy real estate but now prefers farming, according to the Times Record.
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