Burton Wheeler A Product Of Our Section And Its Ties
The essay traces Burton Wheeler from a poor bookseller to a U.S. Senator with this region’s influence. It links his rise to local neighbors and friends including Mrs. Emily White of Albany IL, Cal Feezer, Herb Rawlins, Governor Len Small, and Frank Lowden, noting long informal ties and shared political history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeler
Burton Wheeler
Whiteside
Carroll
Rock Island
Albany
White
Emily
Emily White
Burton K. Wheeler
Frank O. Lowden
Herb Rawlins
Len Small
Cal Feezer
Tom Hanson
Small
Mt. Carroll
Morrison
Frank Lowden
Village Echo and Thomson Broadax Advert Page
The fragment notes the publication details of The Village Echo and Thomson Broadax with staff roles and postal information. It mentions a draftee punished for saluting and a captain insisting on mutual salutes, and a line about plastic fly screens being tested for corrosion resistance.
Francis Murphy Named Illinois Labor Director
Francis B Murphy appointed state director of labor by Gov Dwight H Green on Sept 29 1941 He was born Oct 1 1900 in Springfield and is son of a coal miner and coal mine operator He attended Notre Dame Lincoln College of Law Northwestern University and served as secretary of the state department of mines and minerals from 1922 for seven years Also mentions a New Hampshire herb distribution project by University of New Hampshire and the WPA to test market herbs.
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Francis B. Murphy
Dwight H. Green
Patrick Murphy
Springfield
Lincoln
Ill
State Senate
Notre Dame University
Lincoln College of Law
Northwestern University
The
State Department of Mines and Minerals
New Hampshire
University of New Hampshire
WPA
Europe
Carroll County 80 Year Club members long lived residents
Obituary style notice highlights O H Imel born 1861 in Pennsylvania and long time Carroll county resident with early life moves including Nebraska and Chadwick. Also notes Norman Leavens born 1860 and other local ages and survivors among Chadwick Thomson Milledgeville and nearby towns. Ends with a humorous card line about a new maid.
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Norman Leavens
Thomson Norman Leavens
York Township
Carroll County
Ilinois
Dimetrius
Melissa Potter Leavens
Sandridge School
Margaret Roggendorf
John Roggendorf
Sandridge
Ada
Jackson Davis
Orion
Frank
Norman
Luther
Also Mentioned on This Page
Sharpe
Mr. Wheeler
Argo
Ideal
Thomson
Fair Haven
Chadwick
Medill McCormick
Fred Kenyon
John von Ereck
Will Bailey
Kansas
Baileys
Governor Bailey
Cal Feezler
Governor Small
Irwin
Mirror Democrat
Yates
Cal
Court of St. James
London
Thomson Review
Village Echo
Thomson Broadax
Pew
Saunders
H. G
Kenneth Whitney
Illinois
Savanna
J. H. Potts & Son Jewelers and Optometrists
Main Ave
Clinton
Robert F. Wernle
Hadwick
W. L. Derrer
Young Men's
Clothier
Frank Bradulski
Ave
Hans P. Greison
Greison
MT. Carroll Black
Francis Murphy
New Illinois Labor
O. H. Imel
Pennsylvania
Anna Shibley
Gottlieb Loeffler
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Nebraska
Adolph Doden
Frank Schreiner
Imel
Charles
Blaine
Clyde
Howard
Edna
Leavens
Mr. Leavens
Mary Jane McGinty
Alice Lewis
Emma Hohnadel
Daniel Curley
Carbaugh
L. D. Tague
Col
Ed Hinds
John Neary
Frank Anderson
Rebecca Holland
Robert Barrett
James Haley
James St. Ores
Alice Bailey
Ida Frederick
Harry Elly
J. L. Deets
Milledgeville
Lucinda Sucher
George Haag
Mary Wilson
John Schade
George Mort
Ida Anderson
Thomson Sid Malloy
Tmel
O. W. Hackett
Cleveland
Jennie Clark
May Alden
May Alden’s Cafe
St.—Clinton
Behan & Helfert
Sabula Lowa
van Allen
van Allen’s
Credit Dept
G. W. Meyer
Rhodes Bros
Purina
M. C. Crouse
Patek Paints
Clinton Gas & Appliance CO
GAS Service
S. Second St
Iowa
Voss Washers
Magic Chef
D. L. Plummer
Robert Turney
Baptist Ladies’ Guild of
Farrow
Chester
Cash Turney & Plummer
Glenn Teeter
R. Mest
Farmers’ State Bank
Walnut, Illinois
Bhee
Foster Black
Fred Wolf
W.F. Black Farms
Walnut, Ill
Pfister
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