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- appeared in Wilmette Life, 18 Sep 1847, Supplement, p. 92. Date of Event: 18 Sep 1947 President of Gross Point for 13 years and a member of its first village board, Maternus Schaefer also filled the offices of village collector and school director for a quarter of a century. Mr. Schaefer was a farmer, owning 35 acres of land on section 33 of New Trier township, ...appeared in Wilmette Life, 18 Sep 1847, Supplement, p. 92. Date of Event: 18 Sep 1947 President of Gross Point for 13 years and a member of its ...
- Vertical file containing newspaper articles about the Chicago Fire of 1871, including an original newspaper article from October 18, 1871 from the Chicago Evening Journal that describes the losses that the fire caused.Vertical file containing newspaper articles about the Chicago Fire of 1871, including ...
- Evanston Press, 4 Jan 1890, p. 7 ...Evanston Press, 4 Jan 1890, p. 7 ...
- Evanston Press, 4 Jan 1890, p. 7 ...Evanston Press, 4 Jan 1890, p. 7 ...
- appeared in Evanston Press, 4 Jan 1890, p. 7 Deep sadness reigns in the home of one of our colored families. Within a month, Mr. Benjamin Presley has had taken from him his two little children and his wife, leaving him all alone in the world. Last Saturday, his wife, aged thirty-six years and eleven months, died from consumption. ...appeared in Evanston Press, 4 Jan 1890, p. 7 Deep sadness reigns in the home of one of our colored families. ...
- appeared in Evanston Press, 4 Jan 1890, p. 7. Date of Event: 3 Jan 1890 Early yesterday morning, Elsie McDowell, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Heman [sic] Powers, passed away after a lingering illness. Little Elsie had just finished her first year on earth, when she was taken away. The funeral took place this morning at eleven o'clock. The services were ...appeared in Evanston Press, 4 Jan 1890, p. 7. Date of Event: 3 Jan 1890 Early yesterday morning, Elsie McDowell, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ...
- appeared in Evanston Press, 4 Jan 1890, p. 11 Volume 2, Number 1, full number 53appeared in Evanston Press, 4 Jan 1890, p. 11 Volume 2, Number 1, full number 53
- Evanston Press, 18 Jan 1890, p. 2 ...Evanston Press, 18 Jan 1890, p. 2 ...
- Evanston Press, 18 Jan 1890, p. 2 ...Evanston Press, 18 Jan 1890, p. 2 ...
- appeared in Evanston Press, 18 Jan 1890, p. 2. Date of Event: 12 Jan 1890 Miss Caroline Parker, whose long and painful sickness has excited the sympathy of her friends in Evanston, pased quietly away Sunday morning, Jan. 12, at the age of fifty-four. She was a native of the state of New York, one of the younger members of a family of eleven children. ...appeared in Evanston Press, 18 Jan 1890, p. 2. Date of Event: 12 Jan 1890 Miss Caroline Parker, whose long and painful sickness has excited the sympathy ...
- appeared in Evanston Press, 18 Jan 1890, p. 1. Date of Event: 7 Jan 1890 In Memoriam Carrie M. Seelye, Memorial sermon preached at the Baptist Church Sunday Morning, Jan. 12, by the Pastor, Rev. H. A. Delano Miss Carrie M. Seelye, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Issac H. Seelye, formerly of Evanston and now of Eau Claire, Wis. [Wisconsin], departed this mortal ...appeared in Evanston Press, 18 Jan 1890, p. 1. Date of Event: 7 Jan 1890 In Memoriam Carrie M. Seelye, Memorial sermon preached at the Baptist Church ...
- appeared in Evanston Press, 18 Jan 1890, p. 2 The new year has brought to our town a sad event in the death of one of the most popular young ladies in the neighborhood. After many months of suffering the death angel has taken a loved one from the heart of a family. Ida Amanda Bowman died of consumption ...appeared in Evanston Press, 18 Jan 1890, p. 2 The new year has brought to our town a sad event in ...
- appeared in Evanston Press, 18 Jan 1890, p. 2. Date of Event: 11 Jan 1890 Mrs. Mary Howlett, mother of Mrs. Allen Vane, died at her daughter's residence on Forest avenue, Saturday evening, January 11, 1890, after a lingering illness, having nearly completed her eighty-sixth year. She was born in Camden, Maine, April 30, 1804. Married to Rev. James Howeltt, in Boston, ...appeared in Evanston Press, 18 Jan 1890, p. 2. Date of Event: 11 Jan 1890 Mrs. Mary Howlett, mother of Mrs. Allen Vane, died at her daughter's ...
- appeared in Evanston Press, 27 Dec 1890, p. 4. Date of Event: 26 Dec 1890 Milton C. Springer, a well-known and highly honored citizen of Wilmette passed away at 3:15 o'clock yesterday morning at his home on West Railroad avenue in that village. The cause of his death was paralysis, with which he was suddenly stricken down Thursday evening; for the past four weeks he ...appeared in Evanston Press, 27 Dec 1890, p. 4. Date of Event: 26 Dec 1890 Milton C. Springer, a well-known and highly honored citizen of Wilmette passed ...
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