This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Local Social Notes and River Bridge Bill Activity
The piece records community visits and errands across towns including Fulton Kewanee Orion and Geneseo plus a tell of a Rock River bridge authorization by Congress aided by Prince and Hopkins with President’s signature. It also includes a long obituary and life story of Beiza Ann Cone highlighting settlement work and church founding in Geneseo with notes on her faithfulness and family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sanday
Pimy
Cee Fitch
Mooday
Fulton
Bis Ness
Jacobson
Bishop Hill
Jere
Wraeg Mamie
Mable Talbot
Sunes
Kepple
Goal Valley
Poesday
Rock Island
Charles MoIlenry
Kewanee
Arthur
Damily
Fred—Hendrickson
Medo
Mirs. Witter
Ed. Whitman
Willow Springs
J. Worthington God
McClung
Oklahoma
Geo. H. McClung
Whlis & Sersduste
Congress
Senate
Rock River” Traction Company
Rock River
Cleveland Ferry
Township-Is-Norths
Henry
Illinois
Gsbaneeeree
Bystheee Secatee Slastical Council
Cone
Ellen
E. A.hill
Tmcuis
Ous Wes S
H.T. Miller
J. M. “Alien
Br.Allen
Ani
Charles -Elishi
Hor
Geneseo