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Clinton Township Public Library Historical Index
Since 1916 one of the duties of the librarian has been to keep a historical scrapbook of news items of important events which have occurred in the village and township. This and other historical items have been indexed in the following table. Use the "edit -> find" option on the page to locate family names or events. The first column will give you the box, folder and page number information you need to request copies from the library. To make requests write to the Clinton township Public Library, Archival Project, 110 South Elm Street, Waterman, IL 60556, or email CTPLibrary@mchsi.com. The library staff will fill your request as time permits.
1878-1879 Scrapbooks
1891-1892 Free Press Scrapbooks
1892-1894 Scrapbooks
1893-1911 Scrapbooks
1902-1904
Congdon-Waterman Illinois Yearbooks
1905-1907 Congdon-Waterman Illinois
Yearbooks
1915-1916 Scrapbooks
1916-1919 Scrapbooks
1920-1922 Scrapbooks
1923-1925
Scrapbooks
1928-1929 Scrapbooks
1929-1931
Scrapbooks
1931-1935
Scrapbooks
1935-1938
Scrapbooks
1938-1943
Scrapbooks
1943-Current
Scrapbooks
Miscellaneous Records
| Location | Description |
| 001 001 000 | 15 x 15 Wooden Seth Thomas Wall Clock, given in memory of Carrie Fuller. |
| 002 000 000 | Wooden box with library stamps (newspaper stamps) |
| 003 000 000 | Picture frame with five photos donated by the Domestic Science Club - photos not identified. OVERSIZED on bottom shelf. |
| 004 000 000 | Waterman Year Books 1902 - 1905 (Three sets 1902 - 1907) Compiled by George Edward Congdon (individual years 1902 - 1905); Chronology, history, biographies, directories of business and clubs |
| 004 1902 001 | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book - Price Twenty-Five Cents including photo of G.E. Congdon, title page, Waterman Illinois Year Book 1902 compiled by George Edward Congdon, printed by the Sac Sun, Sac City ,IA., preface, information exact and complete, sent letters to people, biographies, relied on local papers, deficient in directories, prominent people were neglectful or indifferent, useful record, errata, Table of Contents, Chronology, Biography, Directory, Misc., photo page Rev. Isaiah Villars, D.D., (seeb page 5), page 1. Waterman Year Book, Chronology, January 1. Pres. bus. mtg. 4. baby, Wiltberger, son, 6. installation of officers, Waterman Camp, M.W.A., 9. John Stern died, 10. Mrs. Catherine Woods Darnell, died, Plano, 11. baby, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin (Dora Burmester),daughter, Maud Elnora, 14. baby, Mr. and Mrs. Daisy (Woodruff) Starry, girl, 15. Byron W. King, impersonator, U.P. Church, 23. marriage, Ephraim Jackson Wood and Mary Halloway, 29. Mrs. James W. McAllister, died, marriage, Charles Tompkins Jr. and Gertrude Ames, 31. baby, Willard W. and Elizabeth (Cross) Spencer, boy, Ralph Vernon, marriage, Ed Leifheit and Rosa Leifheit. February 2. G.W. Rollins, died, Chicago, 3. baby, Mr. and Mrs. Will Reingardt, boy, 4. marriage, Fred Bend, of Paw Paw and Grace Merritt, at Aurora, |
| 004 1902 002 | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book including marriage, Walter O. Wiltberger, Hinckley and Harriet I. Cook, Wisconsin, married in Rockford, 5. marriage, Roy Earle Greenfield and Lydia Marie Lawrence, at Sandwich, 7. Village school, basket social, old fashioned spelling match, receipts $70., 11. Mrs. E.W. Hicks, died, Toulon, IL, 12. Mrs. Emmet G. Deming, died, 13. Christian Endeavor, old-fashioned oyster supper. Masonic Hall, 19. Mrs. Della Yeasrnhaw, died, Walnut Grove, California, 21. marriage, Eddie Gustavus Stram and Jesie Bull, Union, Oregon, 23. baby, Orvis and Emma (Potter) Stryker, girl, Harriet Martha, 28. Michael Muller, suicide, cutting throat and shooting himself, S.M. Henderson, occupied new house, B. Street March 3. John Grandamdam died, 5. baby, John J. and Lotta M. (Greene) Murray, girl, Gladys M., 10. Byron W. King, impersonator, Meth. Epis. Ch., Mertie Kirkpatrick died, 11. marriage, Roy Eberly and Lizzie Leifheit, Hinckley, baby, Arthur and Amelia (Bossong) Burgin, boy, baby, Mr. and Mrs. Olson, girl, 12. Thomas Graham died, Conway Springs, Kansas, 13. Carom Club closed second season, banquet, Masonic Hall, Joseph Lugo, occupied new house, C Street, began in Nov., marriage, John Grandamdam died, 5. baby, John J. and Lotta M. (Greene) Murray, girl, Gladys M., 10. Byron W. King, impersonator, Meth. Epis. Ch., Mertie Kirkpatrick died, 11. marriage, Roy Eberly and Lizzie Leifheit, Hinckley, baby, Arthur and Amelia (Bossong) Burgin, boy, baby, Mr. and Mrs. Olson, girl, 12. Thomas Graham died, Conway Springs, Kansas, 13. Carom Club closed second season, banquet, Masonic Hall, Joseph Lugo, occupied new house, C Street, began in Nov., |
| 004 1902 003 | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book including March 15. Republican caucus, nominate town officers, 17. Prof. Henry Flinders, died, Chinook, Montana, 20. Twenty-fourth annual meeting, Ladies-Aid Society, Meth. Epis. Ch., church parlors, marriage, Al Hall and Alice Davenport, 21. Mrs. C.M. Stram, died, Shabbona, 23. Mrs. Peter McClellan died, born Isabel Beveridge, Oct. 5, 1830, 25. baby, Ward and Mary G. (Reid) McAllister, boy, Ralph Graham, 26. marriage, Walter A. Drake and Minnie M. Sarbaugh, DeKalb, baby, John and Mollie (Eigle) Hines, girl, Elsie Mildred, 29. Mrs. Fannie Hinds's barn, burned to ground, 31. Henry B. Darnell, died, Plano, April, 1. Annual town meeting, proposition to build new town hall, defeated 51 to 41, Frank S. Greeley, began new farm residence, 32 x50 feet, furnace heat, piped for water and gas, W.J. Randles, began new farm residence, 34 x38 feet, cost $2500., 2. marriage, Howard McCleery and Ethel Carothers, Stronghurst, IL, at Stronghurst, baby, Charles and Frances (Wilson) Crowell, boy, 4. golden wedding, John D. and Elizabeth (Sinclair) McDiarmid, Big Rock, 5. Republican caucus, elect delegates, county convention |
| 004 1902 004 | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book including 7. Mrs. William Potter, died, Winfield, Kansas, 8. A.J.C. Fearon, opened restaurant, E. Dean bldg., 10. marriage, Frank Johnson and Sadie Graham, at bride's parents, near Aurora, 15. Railroad tower, Northwestern crossing, put in operation, Villag election, 124 votes cast, for license, 53, against, 69, 18. Mrs. Celestia Pritchard died, Hahneman Hospital, Chic., 29. Mrs. Jane Barker died, May, 7. Henry Wollenweber, brother of Mrs. H.W. Leifheit, died, Los Angeles, Calif., baby, Rev. M.G. and Maude (Stram) Bentley, Linn Grove, IA, boy, 13. marriage, Dr. Johnson Low, Shabbona, and Orpha M. Hunt, Nashua, IA, at Nashua, 20. Mrs Arthur Burgen died, 21. Ralph Vernon Spencer died, born Jan. 31, 22. DeKalb County Prohibition convention, Sycamore, Howard McCleery,Waterman, nominated for county clerk, baby, Nels and Sarah (Olson) Johnson, boy, Martin Chris, Post Office at Franks, discontinued, 25. Mr. and Mrs. A.P. Mennis, celebrate 25th anniversary, Early, IA, 27. marriage, George Wood and Nellie Keller, Nekoosa, WI, at Waterman, 30. Memorial Day, address at Johnson's Grove Cemetery, Rev. W.H. Tibbles, Rochelle, |
| 004 1902 005 | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book including June very heavy rainstorms, heavy wind loss, trains delayed, lightning destroyed former residence of James McCleery, used as tool house, Sarah J. McAllister died, 6. Second severe storm, 8. Baccalaureate address, Rev. Villars, D.D., Meth, Epis. Ch., 10. Dr. G.M. Macklin died, 12. Seventh annual commencement Waterman High School, 13. Second annual alumni banquet, baby, Henry and Matilda (Legner) Wilson, girl, died, June 14, 15. baby H. Eugene and Nora (Greene) Smith, Cairo, IL, girl, Gertrude Mary, 19. marriage, George Crowell and Carrie Grass, Aurora, July 1 marriage, Rev. Samuel Robinson and Evangeline Traer Marshall, Cresco, IA, piano and song recital, Misses Mary E. and Isaline Clark Dickson, 8. baby, Rae L. and Bertha (McGeoch) Beveridge, girl, Mary Evalyn, 10. baby, Paul E. N. and Maud (Webb) Greeley, boy, Paul Webb, W.J. Randles, occupies new house, 12. baby, Mr. and Mrs. George Challend, Shabbona, boy, 14. Barn on H.L. Fuller farm, occupied by D.J. Minnich, struck by lightning and burned, 16. Mrs. Mary Cain died at her home near Sandwich, born Carew, Ireland, Feb. 17, 1805 |
| 004 1902 006 | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book including July 17 Second annual meeting, Ladies Aid Society, Pres. Ch., with Mrs. Pritchard, 23. Hiram Kirkpatrick, 75th birthday, 26. Lafayette Carson, lightning killed 17 head cattle, 2 cows, 15 steers, value, $540, insurance $312. 31; 31. Edith Colton Smith died, David Hipple raised new barn, 46 x 90 ft., 26 foot posts, August 1. Mason D. Wesson died, Aurora, 3. Dean family reunion, Hinckley, 65th anniversary of William and Lucinda (Emery) Colton, Waterman, train derailed at Northwestern crossing, 5. Eighth Temperance picnic, Norton's Grove, Shabbona, 9. baby, George and Linda (Merritt) Keene, boy, Ivan Burnett, 12. Millicent Cutting Wentzel, died, Sugar Grove, 14. New school house being erected, Greentown; 26. baby, Mr. and Mrs, Louis Olson, boy; ?? date, Charles Durant died, Avon, WI |
| 004 1902 007 | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book including September 1. Waterman School opened, 3. Marriage, Royal L. Davis and Anna E. Deming, Sandwich, Twenty-sixth annual Old Settler's Picnic, Norton's Grove, address by Charles Pierce Burton, Aurora, old officers reelected, 4. Robert Watson, hauling lumber, large new barn, marriage, Herbert Raymond, Bucks and Bessie Sims, Aurora, 12. David and Wealthy (Davis) Hoagland, celebrated 50th anniv., 14, Annual Clinto Twp. Sunday School convention, Chas. A. Blanchard, Wheaton College, spoke, 17. new barn, 50 x 106 feet, H.L. Fuller farm, 22. Emma C. Challand, oldest daughter of Joseph and Harriet Challand, died, Topeka, Kansas, 24. baby, George H. and Belle (Wheeler) Leifheit, Aurora, boy, Wilber, 26. baby, Robert J. and Jeanette (Kirkpatrick) McAllister, boy, Easton Leslie, 27. F.P. Robinson, opened new store, Masonic building, 29. Mrs. Maggie Watson, wife of R.F. Watson, died, ??date, Railroad route, (Chicago to Rock Island) surveyed about 5 miles south of Waterman October 1. Wilber, infant son (born Sept. 24) of George H. and Belle (Wheeler) Leifheit died, Aurora; W.E. Dean, commenced work on eight room residence, north A Street, to cost $4,000. |
| 004 1902 008 | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book including October cont. 2. Baby, James and Elizabeth (Corgan) Lynch, girl, Helen, Epworth League sociable, David Minnich's new barn, Wilhelmina Specht Boekenhauer (Mrs. Charles) died, 3. Special agent examined route, recommended establishment of rural free delivery north of town, 7. marriage, Walter S. Parker, Newark, and Charlotte E. Paxton 7-14. Sixty-third annual session, Rock River Conference, Austin Church, Chicago, Rev. Fred Baldwin, assined to Waterman, Rev. Isaiah Villars, D.D., Lockport, 14. Laura Lyman Rose, died, Pasadena, CA., Mrs. Frank Challand (son of Joseph) died, Topeka. KA, 15. William C. Whitford, commenced house on A Street, Mary Walker died, Sandwich, 18. Waterman Woman's Relief Club, organized, 28. Special meetings, Baptist Ch., Rev. Dent, 30. A.J. Kirkpatrick, building new barn, 31. baby, Herman and Emma (Leifheit) Von Ohlen, girl, Edna M., Whitcomb Martin, aged 5, only son of Vere Martin, died, Davenport, IA, November 3. Mrs. Betsy Cole,died, 4. General Election, vote of Clinton Twp. Republican 117, Democratic 23, Prohibition 12; 7. baby, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bend, girl, |
| 004 1902 008b | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book including full page portrait, Charles Pierce Buron, gave Old Settlers' Picnic address |
| 004 1902 009 | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book including November cont. 8. Family gathering, James McCleery home, 34 people, 4 generations, Sarah Williamson Graham, mother of Mrs. McCleery, born June 10, 1813; Jesse Blaine Peck, born Oct. 21, 1900, son of Beecher Peck, died, Aurora, 12. Willis A. Rowley, commenced house on C. Street, 20. Christian Endeavor, basket sociable, 21. baby, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Tallman, girl, 26. marriage, John J. O'Connor and Catharine McCormick, Rev. and Mrs. J.L. Hartsook, surprise party for sixth anniv., purse of money, marriage, Frank A. Rollins and Harriet S. Potter, marriage license, Fred E. Downey and Lillian V. Kern of Chic. 27. Elbert Dean, hauling stone, new house, B. Street, Union Thanksgiving service, Meth. Episcopal Ch., sermnon by Rev. J.L. Hartsook, Pres. Ch., 46 memers of Greeley Family, celebrated Thanksgiving, Frank S. Greeley's home, 29. Thomas McEachron died, December 2. William Beveridge, Sandwich, died in Chicago, 4. chicken supper, Meth. Ch. Earl Drake string quartette, (first number on lecture course,) 5. Alfred Bradbury died, Milon R. Harris concert, Pres. Ch. |
| 004 1902 010 | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book including December cont. 10-11. Pres. Ladies, bazaar, Masonic Hall, 14. baby, Fred and Ella (Sawyer) Allen, girl, Marjorie Rose, Rev. C.H. Storms preached his last sermon at Baptist Ch., 16. Marriage, Erwin B. Carroll, Oxford Junction, IA, and Laura E. Stern, Waterman 17. marriage, Charles B. Broughton, DeKalb and Della Leifheit, married at Great Northern Hotel, Chicago, 18. Dr. Hindley lectures, "Will it take?", second number of lecture course, Annual meeting Ladies' Aid Society, Pres. Ch., Annual meeting of the Ladies' Missionary Society, Pres. Ch., 20. baby, William and Mary (Porter) Brownlie, Paw Paw, girl, Annie Richmond, 21. baby, Ernest and Louise (Rathe) Leifheit, boy, Clarence, 25. marriage license, Chicago issue, Harold C. Hall, DeKalb and Stella M. Lovell; marriage, Dr. Walter Livermore and Nettie Pogue, Oswego, 26. Christian Endeavor bus. mtg., 28. Rev. J.L. Hartsook, Pres. Ch., farewell sermon, 31. marriage, T.O. Talla and Pansy Pearl Allen, Winfield, KA, Dates unknown: marriage, ?? Colgrove and Mabel (Scofield) Colgrove, baby, Luther W. and Mabel S. Fraser, girl Pioneer, IA, baby, ?? and Mabel (Scofield) Colgrove, girl |
| 004 1902 011 | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book including ERRATA ET ADDENDA 1901- Also found in correct date area: Feb. 21, marriage, Eddie Gustavus Stram and Jessie Bull, Union, OR, June 15, baby, H. Eugene and Nora (Greene) Smith, Cairo, IL, girl, Gertrude Mary, Dec. 14, baby, Fred and Ella (Sawyer) Allen, girl, Marjorie Rose |
| 004 1902 012 | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book including BIOGRAPHIES, W.G. Beveridge, Alfred, Bradbury, moved to Wateraman 1872, village just beginning, engaged in mercantile business, 13 years as postmaster, sold business interest to F.E. Royston, |
| 004 1902 013 | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book including BIOGRAPHIES, Mrs. B.A. Cole, husband died in 1864Somonauk R.R. accident, Mrs. Eli Darnell, Henry B. Darnell, twin, taught school in 1898, Patten Dist. |
| 004 1902 014 | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book including BIOGRAPHIES, Henry B. Darnell cont., Mrs. Emmett G. Deming, nee Alice Angeline Green |
| 004 1902 015 | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book including BIOGRAPHIES, Mrs. Emmett G. Deming cont., Thomas Graham |
| 004 1902 016 | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book including BIOGRAPHIES, Mertie E. Kirkpatrick, attended and taught at Waterman Dist. Schools, "Her Christian life was pure and sweet," died after 3 years of consumption, Dr. G. M. Macklin (George McIntyre), b. New York, 1877, taught school, entered Paw Paw Academy, studied medicine under Dr. Fish, Rush Medical 1871 grad., practiced in Waterman for 29 years, described as "thorough, conscientious, unostentatious, "never lost a mother," died, of Bright's Disease (kidney disease, "dropsy," married Eliza Hamilton (1869), married Emma Kirkpatrick (1881), dau. of Smiley and Anna (Hipple) Kirkpatrick, served as wife, nurse, surgical ass't, 4 children, Charles George (with Eliza), Mary Edith, (taught school in Waterman), Rob't Kirkpatrick, 1885 student, Ella Hard (1887) |
| 004 1902 016b | Portrait Page, Dr. G. M. Macklin |
| 004 1902 017 | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book including BIOGRAPHIES, Dr. G. M. Macklin, cont. |
| 004 1902 018 | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book including BIOGRAPHIES, Dr. G. M. Macklin, cont., Mrs. J. W. McAllister, (Mary Ann Graham), celebrated 50th anniverary, last of 12 children, had 8 ch., Ward, Helen, Robert J. Margaret, Russell, Mary Belle, Sarah, Wm. John, died of consumption (TB), Thomas McEachron |
| 004 1902 019 | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book including BIOGRAPHIES, Thomas McEachron, cont., Mrs. William Potter, (Harriet Baxter) |
| 004 1902 020 | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book including BIOGRAPHIES,Mrs. William Potter, cont., Mrs. R. M. Pritchard (Celestia Elmer), sister of Phebe Whitford, Johnson's Grove Baptist Ch., m. Reuben Mason Pritchard, prominent family, husband was first Waterman supervisor, son followed as civic leader, held local, county, state offices, wrote historical letters to Waterman Leader, store houses of info, Johnson Grove Cem., organized and hosted Old Settlers' Picnic, 1883 sold Waterman farm, moved to Neb., ch. Ida Marie (1856), Reuben (1857), Manfred (1860), Charles (1864), Stella (1870 |
| 004 1902 021 | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book including BIOGRAPHIES,Mrs. R. M. Pritchard cont., G. W. Rollins |
| 004 1902 022 | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book including BIOGRAPHIES, G. W. Rollins cont., Mrs. H. M. Rose, Mrs. C. E. Smith, John Stern, |
| 004 1902 023 | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book including BIOGRAPHIES, John Stern, cont., Mrs. C. M. Stram, |
| 004 1902 024 | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book including BIOGRAPHIES, Mrs. C. M. Stram, cont., Mary Walker, M. D. Wesson, |
| 004 1902 025 | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book including BIOGRAPHIES, M. D. Wesson cont., Mrs. William Yearnshaw. See also pages 34-35 for biography of Mrs. E.W. Hicks, nee Ella M. Young, |
| 004 1902 026 | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book including DIRECTORY: Baptist Church, pastor, Raymond Pierson, Clerk, Carrie P. Congdon, Treasurer, Irene Whitford, Trustees, G.G. Congdon, Alexander Henderson, Drew Swift, Riley Hampton Sunday School, Superintndent, Adelaide Greenwood, Sec. And Treas., Carrie P. Congdon, Librarian, Bessie Robinson, Assistant Librarian, Mabel Swift, Organist, Mildred Myers, B.Y.P.U., President, Carrie P. Congdon, Vice Pres. Marvin Simpson, Sec., Bessie Robinson, Treas., John Congdon, Organist, Irene Whitford, Workers' Society, President, Adelaide Greenwood, Sec., Irene Whitford, Treas., Alexander Henderson, Methodist Episcopal Church,Pastor, Fred Baldwin, Trustees, Frank Greeley, President; Adelbert Fuller, Sec. And Treas., Official Board: Rev. Baldwin, pres., David Hipple, sec., S.M. Henderson, treasurer, Class leaders, Amos L. McCaskey, Roy Wakefield, |
| 004 1902 027 | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book including Sunday School, Supt. David Hipple, Asst. supt., Frank Thorpe, Sec. and Treas., Lee Darling, Librarian, Robert Fuller, Organist, Mabel Hipple, Chorister, Elmer Hipple, Woman's Foreign Missionary Soc., Pres., Mrs. H.L. Fuller, V.P., Mrs. F. L. Baldwin, Sec., Mrs. R.R. Brown, Corr. Sec., Mrs. S.M. Henderson, Treas., Mrs. Martha Lamb, Ladies Aid Society, Pres., Mrs. S. M. Henderson, V.P., Mrs. H. A. Lamb, Sec., Mrs. J.J.A. Zeller, Treas., Miss Carrie Fuller, Eporth League, Pres. Frank Thorpe, First V.P., Harriet Brainerd, 2nd V.P., Rose Greeley, 3rd V.P., Roy Wakefield, 4th V.P., Anna Watson, Sec., Dolly Greene, Treas., Clarence Greeley, Organist, Mabel Hipple, Presbyterian Church Pastor, pastorless, Session, J.S. Kirkpatrick, B. Harnish, John Smiley, Treas., W.S. Andrews, |
| 004 1902 028 | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book including Presbyterian trustees, William Richmond, A.C. Kauffman, William Nelson, Sunday School Supt. W.M. McFarlane, Asst. Supt., John Weber, Sec. And Treas., Mollie Gunderson, Christian Endeavor Pres. Anna Beiler, V.P., Sarah McFarlane, Sec., Cora Harnish, Treas., Augusta Johnson, Lib., Mabel Kirkpatrick, Corresponding Sec., Mrs. J.S. Kirkpatrick, Ladies' Missionary Society, Pres., Mrs. M.W. McFarlane, Sec./Treas., Mrs. J.S. Kirkpatrick, Ladies' Aid Society, Pres. Mrs. L. Baldry, Sec., Mrs. M. Whitford, Treas., Mrs. Will Nelson, United Presbyterian Church Pastor, A.J. Hastings, Members of session, W.D. McCleery, T.H. Robinson, W.C. Ferguson, F.P. Richey, Ward McAllister, George Howison, Trustees, C.H. White, Treas., James Graham, W.R. McCleery. Sunday School Supt., Howard McCleery, Asst. Supt., Mae Beveridge, Sec./Treas., Nettie Cole |
| 004 1902 029 | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book including Young Peoples' Christian Union Pres. John Thompson, V.P., Isabelle Robinson, Sec., Sam McConaghie, Treas., Bryce Ferguson, Clinton Township Sunday School Assoc. Pres., Carrie Fuller, Sec./Treas., Carrie P. Congdon, Supt. of Home Class Dept., Annie Beiler, Woman's Christian Temperance Union (reorganized April 15, 1901) Officers: Pres. Mrs. Susie Fuller, 1st V.P., Mrs. Emma Macklin, 2nd V.P., Mrs. Smith Fuller, 3rd V.P., Mrs. H.M. Swift, Rec. Sec., Mrs. Emma Giles, Corr. Sec., Mrs. Emma Macklin, Treas., Mrs. Alonzo Satterlee, Supt. of Lit., Mrs. Ellen Seeley, Supt. of Flower Mission, Mrs, George Greeley. Waterman Alumni Assoc. (organ, May 16, 1901) Officers: Pres., Mary Macklin, V.P., Bertha Tallman |
| 004 1902 030 | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book including DIRECTORY: cont.. Waterman Alumni Assoc. officers, Sec. Harry Stryker, Treasurer, Carrie Colton, Class of 1902, Robert Kirkpatrick, Elizabeth Robinson, Grace L. Colton, Arch Owen, WATERMAN WOMAN'S CLUB (Organized Oct. 18, 1902.) Pres., Miss Carrie Fuller, V.P., Miss Harriet Brainard, Sec., Mrs. Emma K. Macklin, Treas., Mrs. J.J.A. Zeller, T. S. TERRY POST NO. 463 G.A.R. Shabbona, IL, (Organized June 14, 1884) Officers: (Installed June 14, 1884) Commander, H.A. York, Sen. V. Commander, J.A. McCormick, Jun. V. Commander, John Mullins, Surgeon, S.D. Wesson, Chaplain, D.H. Hoagland, Quartermaster, H.W. Young, Adjutant, T.B. Lucas, O.D., A.L. Wells, O.G. A.C. Kauffman, Delegate to State Encampment, Thomas McCormick, WATERMAN CAMP NO. 1572 M.W.A. (Organized Jan. 7, 1892, with ten members.) |
| 004 1902 031 | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book Directory including Officers, Venerable consul, John W. Porter, Worthy Advisor, Frank D. Olmstead, Banker, W.W. Scott, Clerk, Glenn Bradbury, Physician, P.E.N. Greeley, Escort, Fred Beiler, Watchman, Herman Beiler, Sentry, Robert Tenney, EASTERN STAR Worthy Matron, Mrs. Georgia Bradbury, Worthy Patron, H.A. Schermerhorn, Assoc. Matron, Mrs. May Whitford, Conductress, Mrs. Ardie Dean, Assoc. Conductress, Mrs. Maude Louthan, Treas., Will Whitford, Sec., A.J. Heeg, Warder, E.W. Price, Sentinel, Glenn Bradbury, Organist, Miss Jessie Leifheit, Adah, Mrs. Lulu Price, Ruth, Miss Pearl Rowley, Esther, Miss Irene Whitford, Martha, Miss Eda Heeg, Electa, Ida Rowley, TOWN OF CLINTON Supervisor, W.J. Randles, Town Clerk, R.G. Ferguson, Assessor, Fred A. Brown, Collector, A.J.C. Fearon, Comm. of Highways, A.C. Baie, William Reid, Theodore Johnson, Justice of the Peace, G.G. Congdon, Isaac Potter, |
| 004 1902 032 | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book Directory including Constables, N,F. Davenport, T.H. Hinds, Trustees of Schools, T.H. Robinson, H.A. Lamb, VILLAGE OF WATERMAN Trustees, J.S. Kirkpatrick, pres., William Richmond, F.A. Brown, H.J.F. Kirchhefer, A.U. Fuller, H. Roberts, Roy Wakefield, Clerk, A.J.C. Fearon, Police Magistrate, W.M. McFarlane, Committees, Finance, Fuller. Wakefield, Richmond, Streets and Alleys, Roberts, Fuller, Kirchefer, Building, Roberts, Brown, Wakefield, Village Treasurer, R.R. Brown, Member of Board of Health, Dr. P.E.N. Greeley, DEKALB COUNTY OLD SETTLERS' ASSOC. (Twenty-seventh annual picnic will be held Wed. Sept. 2, 1903. Present constitution adopted Sept. 4, 1901) Officers, Pres. Isaac Potter, Waterman, Sec./Treas., S.M. Henderson, Waterman, Historian, G.E. Congdon, Waterman, WATERMAN SCHOOL Principal, George Wallace, Intermediate, Harriet Brainerd, Primary, Mary Macklin, Directors, W.M. McFarlane (1900), R.R. Brown (1901), William Richmond (1902) |
| 004 1902 033 | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book Directory including MISCELLANEOUS Old People of Waterman and Vicinity William Colton, Oct. 14, 1811, Sarah Williamson Graham, June 10, 1813 (Victor), Ephraim Jackson Wood, April 1, 1815, Patrick Griffin, Mar. 17, 1816, John Walker, Apr. 5, 1818, (Sandwich), Lucinda Emery Colton, Aug 16, 1818, (Mr. and Mrs. Colton were married in Dryden, Tompkins Co., New York, August 3, 1837, and are therefore in their sixty-sixth year of wedded life.) Harriet Shonts Swift, Nov. 16, 1819, William H. Keene, Mar. 4, 1820 (Victor), James Baremore, Mar. 17, 1820, Samuel Morton Swift, Mar. 27, 1820, George W. Place, Apr. 23, 1820, Emeline Atkins Giles, Sept. 29, 1821, Ezra Morgan Ames, June 5, 1822, Henry Challand, Feb. 3, 1823, D.B. Stryker, Apr. 30, 1823, Elizabeth Such Bradbury, Oct. 16, 1823, Fannie Richardson Hinds, Mar. 14, 1824, Smiley Kirkpatrick, Mar. 31, 1825, John D. McDiarmid, Oct. 23, 1825, Martha Davis, Dec. 25, 1825, Nancy Warner Brown, Mar. 10, 1826 (Aurora), Timothy Holden Hinds, June 18, 1826, David Hoagland, Dec. 15, 1826, Wealthy Davis Hoagland, Feb. 24, 1827, Enoch P. Rowley, Apr. 18, 1827, Smith Mercer, May 12, 1827, Hiram Kirkpatrick, July 23, 1827, Morris P. Brown, July 25, 1827 (Aurora) |
| 004 1902 034 | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book Directory including Miscellaneous, Births and Deaths for Year Deaths in DeKalb Co. are reported as 324 and listed by town, Waterman having 9. Births were 581. There is an isolated history, omitted from the proper place by mistake, for Mrs. E. W. Hicks. She was born as Ella M. Young in Plainfield, IL., attended Northwestern U., then Plainfield, now Naperville, post graduate work in music, district school teacher and teacher of music, 6 yrs., married Edmund Warne Hicks, of Cornwall, Eng., ordained Baptist minister, settled in Newark, coming to Waterman in Dec. 1879, |
| 004 1902 035 | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book Directory including the end of Mr. Congdon's personal history on Ella M. (Young) Hicks. It was omitted, by mistake from the correct place with the other histories. |
| 004 1902 036 | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book Directory including Mr. Congdon's advertisement. This is a plea for information from citizens, family trees, fact sheets, stories, etc. |
| 004 1902 037 | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book Directory including Mr. Congdon's advertisement. This is a plea for information from citizens, family trees, fact sheets, stories, etc. Also this quote from the Jan. 10, 1900 Sycamore True Republican, "Mr. Congdon is probably better posted than any other person on the history of DeKalb county and the genealogy of the people of the county." |
| 004 1902 038 | 1902 Congdon Waterman Year Book Directory including Mr. Congdon's ancestor chart. He has 450 ancestors in the first fifteen generations and one line goes back thirty-nine generations. This page displays his pie chart covering 1869, his birth year, back to 1711. |
| 004 1903 001 | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book - Price Twenty-Cents+B389 including Frontispiece, portrait photo of James Mc Cleery and his signature. |
| 004 1903 002 | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including Title Page, Waterman Illinois Year Book 1903, Second Annual Volume. Compiled by George Edward Congdon, Printed by The Sac Sun, Sac City, Iowa. |
| 004 1903 003 | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1904, by George Edward Congdon, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. |
| 004 1903 004 | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including"To The Pioneers of the West," 'Would God that we, their children, were as they!Great-souled, brave-hearted and of dauntless will; Ready to dare, responsive to the still, Compelling voice that called the night and day From that far West where sleeping Greatness layBiding her time. Would God we knew the thrill That exquisitely tormented them, until They stood up strong and resolute to obey. God, make us like them, worthy of them; shake Our souls with great desires; our dull eyes set On some high star whose splendid light will wake Us from our dreams, and guide us from this fenOf selfish ease won by our fathers' sweat. Oh lift us up-the West has need of Men!-Mrs. Ella Higginson |
| 004 1903 005 | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including Preface. "In the preparation of this, the second Year Book, as in the preparation of the first, I have exercised great care to have everything exact and complete. A large number of letters was sent out, not only to residents of the town, but to former residents and their descendants. Two things I would like to make emphatic. One is that I mean every word contained in the letter. I want your news no matter how long you have been absent from Clinton township, and even if you never lived there, providing your parents or grandparents lived there. The other is that news should be sent in punctually, better when it happens, but if delayed, sent not later than the tenth of January. The few mistakes that occur in the present book are almost wholly due to the fact that matter was received after the book had gone to press. Several new features have been added to this volume and we send it forth a worthy successor to the first Year Book. G. E. Congdon |
| 004 1903 006 | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including "Illustrations" James McCleery, (Frontispiece,) Sherman A. Hall, 16; Rev. R. G. Pierson, 16; Isaac Woods, 24; William Doig McCleery, 32; Sylvanus Eaton Shepardson, 36; Class of '86, Sugar Grove, 40; Autographs, 44; Commencement Program, '86, Sugar Grove, 48; Mary Frances B438, letter, 49; Bill Old Settlers' Picnic, 1893, 56; Letter from British Museum, 57. |
| 004 1903 007 | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including Table of Contents; Preface, 5; Table of Contents, 7; Chronology, 9; Biography, 24; Directory, 45; |
| 004 1903 008 | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including Table of Contents cont., Miscellaneous, 54; Advertisement, 60. |
| 004 1903 008b | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including illustration, portrait, Sherman A. Hall |
| 004 1903 009 | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including Waterman Year Book, Chronology, January,3, baby, Peter and Edith (Mitchell) Huter, girl, Arlene Elizabeth, 5, Waterman Camp, 1572, M.W.A., installation of officers, 7. Old soldiers campfire, at J. S. Kirkpatrick, W.S. Andrews honor, 11. birth, boy, to George M. and Minnie (Gronewold) Wakefield, 13. Surprise party, Lee Breeding home, moving to IN, 14. marriage, Lyman Fraser & Nellie Cross, Sandwich, by Rev. Davies, 15. William C. Whitford, completed and occupied new house, corner of A and Third Sts., 16. marriage, Sherman Troeger & Jennie Baie, residence of bride's father, William Baie, MO, 21. marriage, Guy F. Lamoreux & Linnie May Seeley, at home of Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Porter, IA, by Rev. Shideler, 22. public sale, J. W. Smith, concert, U.P. Church, Wagner Quartette, Monmouth, death, Reuben Challand, Sr., Shabbona, death, John Darnell, Plano, 25. death, C. Herbert Orr, MI, death, Mrs. William Henderson, |
| 004 1903 011 | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including 19. marriage, Wallace H. L'Hommedieu & Cornelia Graham, Rev. Hastings, IN, marriage, Henry Diedrich, Elva & Minnie Ilseman, Squaw Grove, parsonage, Rev. Schroeder, 20. Shadow social, home of John Mercer, proceeds $11.00, 23. Mrs. Kate Low's residence, totally destroyed by fire, West Division Carrom Club, met home of Hiram Kirkpatrick, in honor of A. R. Merriman & family moving to IN, 24. Dr. Joseph Berry, editor of Epworth Herald, lectured "What a tramp saw in Ireland," third in series, public sale by John Beck, 26. marriages, Frank Thorpe & Hilda Johnson and Fred Boekenhauer & Augusta Johnson, residence of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Lamb, Rev. Baldwin, 27. Christian Endeavor,social, Pres. parsonage, $42.00 March 1. death, Mrs. Enoch Darnell, Kingston, 2. Arion Concert Company, fourth lecture, death, Mrs. Richard Rowley, Iowa, 4. marriage, George A. Ames & Prudence N. Hawbaker, Shabbona, 5. marriage, Paul B. Howland & Amanda B., dau. of Robert J. Mercer, Chic., Rev. Perry of Englewood Bapt. Ch. 7. Rev. Floyd C. Allen, wife arrived in Waterman, |
| 004 1903 012 | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including March cont. 9. death, James H. Winn, (Maud Rogers), 10. John J. Dean, granted license, registered pharmacist, birth, girl, Mervin H. and Alice (Gibbons) Kirkpatrick, NB, Julia Belle, 11. death, Mrs. Frank Tyler, Plano, G.A.R. campfire, home of J.R. Griffith, 12. death, Miss Alice Tyler, birth, boy, to Charles Stram, 13. birth, son, to X. Lambley, ?, birth, to George Rose, Pasadena, Calif. 14. Republican (Union) caucus, nominate town officers, 17. birth, son, to J.R. Cole, 18. marriage, Marvin E. Simpson & E. Mary Nelson, Rev. Pierson, fifth and last lectre, comedian and impersonator, Nat Franco, 19. Women's Missionary Society, annual meeting and election, U.P. Ch., Waterman Leader's completes 25th year of publication, 24. death, Roy Graham, son of Prof. Russell Graham, Monmouth, 25. marriage, Evan Conard & Nettie A., dau. of Jacob Lease, Ida Grove, IA, 26. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Thorpe, surprised by young people, book case, 27. birth, girl, Wilson and Fannie (McCleery) Graham, Maud G., ? marriage, William Starry & Emma Wood, DeKalb, |
| 004 1903 013 | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including April 1. W. E. Dean occupied new house, North A street, G.A.R. campfire, home of Comrade A.U. Fuller, Elbert P. Dean began new home on B. St. 2. Death, Mrs. Nancy W. Brown, 5. Death, S. B. Halleck, Aurora, death, William Watson, 7. annual town meeting, 181 votes, 8. birth, girl, Elzie Ray and Margaret (McAllister) Mitchell, IA, 10. Waterman school entertainment given, 12. death, Mrs. E. N. Whitney, Aurora, 13. death, Jennie McClellan, Sandwich, 16. marriage, Adolph Wollenweber & Anna, dau. of Henry Challand, Rev. G. Schroeder, death, Mrs. Mary Nelson Thompson, 18. birth, boy, Dr. A. W. and Mary (Maxwell) Beveridge, Wilson, 19. Afton township Sunday School convention, 20. Waterman Woman's Club, closed year with banquet, 21. village election, no license victory, votes cast, 116, for 54, against 62, 25. birth, boy, Rev. John Lucian and Annabel Clyde Hartsook, Macomb, IL, John Clyde, ??, H. J. F. Kirchhefer, sold harness shop to H. H. Homan, Freeport, ??, death Mrs. Margaret Cone Henderson, IA, 29. death, William Doig McCleery, Victor, |
| 004 1903 014 | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including April cont. 29. Marriage, John E. Grandadam & Elizabeth F. George, Somonauk, Rev. Meyer, 30. C. E. Social, William Nelson home, Harold W. Greeley, graduated Northwestern Univ. Dental School, May 1. Birth, boy, Ralph George, to George N. & Ada (Wright) Whitford, Shabbona, death, Mrs. George N. Whitford, 3. Rev. Dunlap, became pastor, Pres. Ch., 8. Epworth League, amouronthologosphorous sociable, Masonic Hall, 11. Pres. Ch., lecture, Rev. A. R. Bikenbach, Sandwich, ?? Roberts, J. D. occupied new house, corner of B and Fifth Sts., 13. birth, girl, Albert and Carrie (Leifheit) Dannewitz 14. birth, boy, Albert Kutzner, 15. birth, girl, William H. and Phebe M. (Reid) Sarbaugh, Wasco, IL, Mabel B. 17. Leifheit reunion, Clinton House, Waterman, 18. baby, girl, Stewart and Mary (Graham) Dobbin, KA, Blanche M., 20. death, Mary Frances Shepardson, 21. Reception, Rev. George Dunlap and family, home of William Nelson, address by Rev. Baldwin, 23. death, James McCleery, birth, girl, Henry George and Mary (Livingston) Dobbin, KN, Marjorie Marie, |
| 004 1903 015 | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including May cont. part of page 14, May 23, birth, girl, Henry George and Mary (Livingston) Dobbin, KN, Marjorie Marie, ??. H. J. F. Kirchhefer, opened harness business, Kirkland, 27. Marriage, Dr. William S., son of Rev. H. R. Hicks, and Neva D. Prouty, Princeville, IL, 28. Baptist ladies, strawberries and cream, F. P. Robinson residence, 30. Decoration Day Johnson's Grove, address by Rev. Baldwin, ??. Kitt Morenus, graduated, Lake View, IA, H. S. June 1. Judicial election, 2. Harry Edmund Giles, principal, Kenton, OH, H. S., marriage, George L. Downey & Mary J. Houlihan (28-23). 3. installation, Rev. George Dunlap, Pres. Ch., marriage, George Harper, Rollo, & Maud Coleman, Sandwich, 5. marriage, Ralph Steele Shepardson & Jessie Younge Fox, Salem, IL, 7. Township Sunday School Convention, Meth. Ch., 17. marriage, John Wright Dean & Edyth Maud Weaver, Hinckley, Rev. Ewing, 18. Public School Closed, no commencement, Guy R. Matteson only graduate, 23. ordination, Rev. C. H. Storms, Cedar Springs, MI |
| 004 1903 016 | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including June, cont. 24. Marriage, Dr. W. J. Pollock, Chicago, & Mittie Van Voorhis, Kirkland, at Kirkland, Rev. E. D. Hull, Belvidere, graduation, Harry Edmund Giles, B. A., Oberlin College, 26. C. E. Society, business meeting, Pres. Ch., John S. Kirkpatrick's residence, 29. birth, girl, Willard W. and Elizabeth (Cross) Spencer, Jessie Mildred. July 1. Free rural mail delivery commenced, Route 2, 24 1/2 miles, 65 families on the route, J. R. Griffith, carrier, death, Smith Mercer, Sandwich, Rev. F. A. Case, now pastor at First Baptist, Concil Bluffs, IA, ??. baby, girl, Emil Grandadam, ?? baby, boy, George Marshall, ??. baby, boy, Mike Rissman, 4. death, Daniel Darnell, Plano, 7. birth, girl, J. W. Swanson, Shabbona, 9. death, Ezekiel Noble, Afton, ??, death, Ruth, dau. Dr. J. F. Stevens, NE, ??. death, Mrs. Hastings, mother of Rev. A. G. Hastings, OH, 15. death, Mrs. A. F. Hauser, Friend, Neb., 22. death, Sylvanus Eaton Shepardson, 23. Woodmen Picnic, Hinckley, 27. birth, Walter A. & Minnie M. (Sarbaugh) Drake, Helen Hazel, 28. death, Grace C. Smith, marriage, Charles L. Carlson & Nina Stram, |
| 004 1903 016b | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including illustration, portrait, Rev. Raymond Griffith Pierson |
| 004 1903 017 | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including August 1. 78th birthday surprise, Oscar F. Matteson, 3. 66th anniversary, William and Lucinda (Emery) Colton, Waterman, gathering of children and grandchildren, lecture, U. P. Ch., J. Knox Montgomery, N. Car., "Philosophy of Happiness" 5. death, Patrick Griffin, Shabbona Grove, ??. birth, twin girls, Walter S. and Charlotte E. (Paxton) Parker 8. death, Nora Martin, 10. George Hall, building house, A and 4th Sts., first auto in Clinton Twp., Dr. Murphy, purchased a car, 13. Temperance Picnic, 9th annual, 13. marriage, John Solon Congdon & Ellen Avery Kellog, Wheaton, Rev J. W. Fifield, 15. Elbert P. Dean, occupied new house, B. Street, $3,500; 33 x43; eight rooms, 16. Resignation, Rev A. G. Hastings, U. P. Ch., 17. death, Carrie Armstrong, Chicago, 20. birth, boy, John Carson, 24. birth, girl, Henry and Lily (Wade) Bergholte, DeKalb, Lauretta Eliszabeth, 25. marriage, W. R. Branson, S. African miner & Kuhne Beveridge, American sculptor, granddaughter of Gov. John L. Beveridge, Trouville, 27. death, Mrs. Fred Legner, death, William Price, Sugar Grove, 28. marriage, Daniel Judd Shepardson & Mabel Edith Stern, Chicago, |
| 004 1903 018 | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including August cont. 29. Murder, John Van Fleet, shot and killed wife, September 1. store addition, Miss Mary Macklin, residence addition, Charles Tompkins, 2. 27th annual Old Settlers' Picnic, Norton's Grove, near Shabbona, reunion, One Hundred and Fifth Regiment, Illinois Volunteers, Wheaton, IL, birth, girl, Arthur and Alpha (Fuller) Bean, Edna Gertrude, 5. Union Sunday School Picnic, ??. death, dau. of Wm. R. McCleery, 9. barn struck by lightning, R. A. York, Sandwich, 16. death, Warren Miller, 18. death, Mrs. Mary J. Griffith, J. R. Griffith's stepmother, 69 yrs., Bloomington, 19. death, Henry Garbelman's son, 22. Ladies' Aid Society, Meth. Ch., sociable, Dr. P. E. N. Greeley's home, 23. G.A.R. campfire, A. C. Kauffman home, 26. Farewell reception, Rev. A. G. Hastings, church lecture room, U. P. Church, 27. Rev. A. G. Hastings, farewell sermon, U. P. Church, declared pulpit vacant, October 4. golden wedding anniv., Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Reed, Sandwich, |
| 004 1903 019 | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including October cont. 4. German Evangelical Church, installed and dedicated, pipe organ, $1,700, 900 stops, 8000 pounds, organ recital, Prof. S. C. A. Kaeppel, Addison, 5. Young people's lecture, Schiller Male Quartette, Chicago, 6. death, Isaac Woods, Rock River Conf., Aurora, Rev. Fred Baldwin returned to Waterman, 10. birth, girl, #William R. and Maud (Lattin) Low, Crookston, MN, Margaret, 12. birth, boy, Bert and Katherine (Ullrich) Challand, Shabbona, Harold U., 17. Thompson Jubilee Singers, Masonic Hall, 20. golden wedding anniv., Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Phillips, wedding, Edward F. Neidig & Nina, dau. of Edward P. Orr, Hinsdale, Rev. M. N. Preston, 22. marriage, August Specht & Martha Abel, Rev. G. Schroeder, 25. death, Mrs. Eliza M. Dobbin, Viola, Kan., 27. birth, boy, Luther W. and Mabel S. (Fraser) Taylor, Gilmore City, IA, died the same day, 30. meeting at Waterman to advocat removal of courthouse to DeKalb, speakers, Rev. Mr. Wilson, State's Att'y A. G. Kennedy, Hon. I. L. Ellwood, 31. graduation, Jessie May (Parks) Crawford, member of William Eckles family, trained nurse, Christ's Hosp., Topeka, Kan., |
| 004 1903 020 | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including November 4. Marriage, Timothy Lawrence O'Brien & Hannah Marshall, St. Mary's, DeKalb, birth, boy, Lafayette and Emma (Kauffman) Carson, George Verne, birth, boy, Joseph and Mary (Driscoll) Eakles, Garold, 7. birth, girl, Elbert P. and Ardelia (Whitford) Dean, Jessie Pearl, 10. Election, county seat move to DeKalb, Clinton votes, for removal, 240 and against 4, ??. birth, boy, Gottfried and Wilhelmina (Fees) Schmid, ??. birth, Henry W. and Daisy (Woodruff) Starry, ?? death, Mrs. Charles Schermerhorn, 13. death, Mrs. A. H. Phillips, 14. birth, girl, Bruce and Mary Agnes (Dobbin) Miller, Viola, Kan., Margaret Lucile, 15. Pogue Bros. Lumber Co., completed new office, 17. Earlville Hotel, burned, Fred Schrader, opertor, birth, girl, D. Breeding, 18. death, John Swanson, Shabbona, death, Isaac McGill Kirkpatrick, Monmouth, 22. silver wedding, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Johnson, 26. Union Thanksgiving Services, Baptist Ch., sermon, Rev. George Dunlap, marriage, L. L. French, Greenville, OH, & Lida C. Roberts, Rev. J. L. Hartsook, Macomb, IL, |
| 004 1903 021 | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including November Cont. 26. Greeley Family reunion, C. F. Allen home, 49 present, marriage, William Behrens & Amanda Freundt, Rev. G. Schroeder, 28. Death, Sherman Hall, DeKalb, 30. Lecture, second, Rev. L. B. Wickersham, Des Moines, IA, "Day Dreams" December 6. birth, girl, Charles Henderson, Shabbona, 7. Waterman Camp, No. 1572, M.W.A., election of officers, 10. Pres. Ch. bazaar, dinner, $101.36, net $93.06, 11. birth, boy, Ernest O. Gibbons, birth, girl, Lawrence Duffy, 12. resignation, W. J. Randles, Special Court House Bldg. Comm. of Bd. of Sup., 15. birth, boy Charles and Frances (Wilson) Crowell, 16. marriages, Joe Bergen & Mabel Wiltse, Ernest Wiltse & Julia Pihl, DeKalb, 17. Waterman Lodge 728, A. F. & A. M., death, William Wilson, killed by cars, Aurora, 18. Auction sale, stock and machinery, J. W. Owens, 19. death, Mrs. Theodora Kopfer, 20. Praise meeting, roll call, Pres. Ch., 21. death, Eugene V. Farley, 22. birth, boy, Frank Breeding, |
| 004 1903 022 | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including December cont. 22. Epworth League and friends, farewell reception, for Rev. Floyd C. Allen and wife, 23. Marriage, Herman Burmester & Mamie Starry, Hinckley, Rev. W. M. Ewing, 24. Marriage, Joseph Falk & Rosella Swanson, Waterman, death, Mrs. Elizabeth Quilhot Miller, Christmas Eve Services, 3 churches, 25. death, William M. Dobbin, Chicago, 29. Rev. Floyd Allen and wife, starting for S. America, via New Orleans, 31. public sale, R. B. Howison and son, stock and farm equipment, "End of Year Party," Miss Jessie Leifheit entertained, ??. marriage, Jennie Armstrong, ??. death, E. E. Mitchell, Viola, Kan., death, Mrs. Preston Broughton. Errata Et Addenda 1902 January 15, 1902-birth, girl, Frank and Celia (Colton) Pennington, Edith Lucinda. Feb. 20, 1902-marriage, Albert M. McCleery & Mary E. Henry, Goldfield, Iowa. March 9, 1902-birth, boy, Charles and Charity Agnes (Dobbin) Stinson, Viola, Kan. Charles Willis. June 13, 1902-birth, girl, Henry Benjamin & Anna Matilda (Legner) Wilson, Ilene, died the same day. Oct. 8-marriage, William H. Graver and Susie F. Low, Crookston, Minn. |
| 004 1903 023 | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including October 17, 1902-birth, girl, Roy E. and Lydia (Lawrence) Greenfield, Sandwich, Helen E. October 27, 1902-birth, girl, Robert & Margaret Pearl (Dobbin) Livingston, Colorado City, Colo., Mary Elizabeth. October 31, 1902-birth, girl, James S. and Ella May (Colton) Knights, Myra Lurena, Dec. 31, marriage, Bruce Miller & Mary Agnes Dobbin, Viola, Kan. |
| 004 1903 024 | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including BIOGRAPHY Carrie Armstrong b. 1868, motherless at 3, lived with grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas White, U. P. Church, d. 1903, Mrs. Nancy W. Brown, born 1826 in Canada, married Russell R. Brown, 1850, he came to DeKalb Co. in 1846 with parents, entered quarter section land, distressing death, driving spirited horses, frightened, ran, throwing him and breaking his back, died 10 days later, July 3, 1864, left good property, Mrs. Brown continued to run with sons, 1888 she moved to farm near Waterman, |
| 004 1903 024b | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including illustration page, portrait photo, Isaac Woods+B465 |
| 004 1903 025 | 1903 C+B529ongdon Waterman Year Book including BIOGRAPHY of Mrs. Nancy Brown, came to Waterman to ive with son Fred, then Aurora, with dau. Mrs. A. G. Case, died there, 1903, children, 1. Fred b. 1851, m. Minnie May Kirkpatrick, 2. Ralph R. b. 1853, m. Margaret Beveridge, 3. Grace, b. 1855, married Avery G. Case, Aurora, 4. Sarah b. 1860, d. 1862, 5. C+B541ullen Grant b. 1864, m. Minnie Westcott, Colo., Reuben Challand b. England, blacksmith trade, 1851 USA, Shabbona Grove, purchased farm, Aurora, back to Shabbona, Daniel Darnell |
| 004 1903 026 | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including BIOGRAPHY Daniel Darnell continued, b. 1833, in a fort, Big Sandy Creek, Marshall Co., IL, lived in Little Rock Twp. since age 2, d. 1903, Plano, IL, enlisted in Civil War, 1861, stationed at the front most of the time, hard service, stricken with disease, hospitalized, Mrs. Enoch Darnell, Cynthia A. Woods, dau. of David and Catherine (Campbel) Woods, b. 1823, Kendall Co., 2 sons born in Afton Twp., cont. on p. 27 |
| 004 1903 027 | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including BIOGRAPHYMrs. Enoch Darnell, Cont., John Darnell, b. 1831, son of John and Leah (Jones) Darnell, settled in Bristol, left because of hostile Indians, then Little Rock Twp. on the homestead long owned by John Sr. and John Jr., never married, sister, Mrs. Martha Elliot kept house for him, through thrift and intelligence he accumulated a large fortune, d. Plano, 1903. Mrs. David M. Dobbin (Eliza M. Stott), b. N.Y., 1817, Dau. of John and Elizabeth (Hall) Stott, m. 1852 in Squaw Grove Twp., David M. Dobbin, his third wife, ch. born 1853, 1857,1859, Eliza d. 1903, Kan. |
| 004 1903 028 | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including BIOGRAPHY of Mrs. David M. Dobbin, second wife died in Squaw Grove Twp. William M. Dobbin, b, 1829. d. 1903, one of a family of seven sons and six daughters, Clinton Twp. 1866-67, never married |
| 004 1903 029 | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including BIOGRAPHY continuing for William M. Dobbin. Eugene V. Farley, son of Isaac P. and Eunice Belinda Farley and brother of Dr. William K. Farley, d. 1903, age 49, leaving dau. Mrs. Robert Halcott, and deceased dau. Hattie Florette Farley, d. 1901. Sherman A. Hall, b. 1829, son Sherman A. Hall m. Betsey Hutchins, d. in Clinton Twp. 1863, owned 160 A. in Clinton Twp., sold out, bought 160 A. in DeKalb Twp., Sec. 13, died 1903, Ala. |
| 004 1903 030 | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including BIOGRAPHY continuing for Sherman A. Hall, m. 1859, Percis dau. of Asa and Adeline (Woodruff) Lyon, Ch. 1 Harold E. b 1860, m. Stella Lovell, Ch. 2 Asahel S. b 1866 d. 1871 Ch. 3 unnamed b. and d. Aug. 19, 1874 Mrs.William Henderson, Carrie Lillie b. DeKalb Co. 1849, d. 1903, one of three dau. of Allen and Jane (Kerr) Lillie, parents died when they were young, Carrie stayed near Waterman, m. 1882, William Holmes Henderson, Meth., one sister, Mrs. Jacob Stone, Malta, James McCleery son of James and Jane (Thompson) McCleery, from the east, to Canada, to Ohio, to Somonauk Twp., to Victor Twp., Jane Thompson died 1859, father moved to Iowa, remarried, d. 1892, nine children of the first marriage, John, James, Mary A., Margaret, Elizabeth, William D., Hugh, Robert, Jane C., James was b. Canada |
| 004 1903 031 | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including BIOGRAPHY continuing for James McCleery mother died, father remarried, child 1, James (18350, age 7 parents moved to Ohio, remained on father's farm, assisted and attended common school until 22, set out on his own, 1851 came to DeKalb Co., 1855 possessed 120 acres in Victor Twp., traded it for 187 acres in Clinton Twp., moved on that farm until death, U.P. Church, 1883 Board of Sup., 1884 reelected, until 1895, 1889 appt. to DeKalb Co. Bd., of Review, responsible and trying position, impaired health, d. 1903 at the family supper table, m. 1858, Margaret, Dau. of Robert and Sarah (Williamson) Graham, Ch. 1. Sarah Jane, b. 1858, m. Nathan Orcutt |
| 004 1903 032 | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including BIOGRAPHY continuing for James McCleery, Ch. 1, b. 1858, d.1896, Sarah Jane m. Nathan Orcutt Graham; Ch. 2, b. 1860, d. 1860 John; Ch. 3, b. 1861, d. 1865, Andrew; Ch. 4, b. 1864, d. 1865 Margaret; Ch. 5, b. 1866, Mary, m. A. M. Maxwell, 1885, living in Squaw Grove, Ch. 6., b. 1868, Fannie Elizabeth, m. Wilson Graham, 1890, living in Victor Twp., Ch, 7, b. 1870, Adeline Isabelle, m. T. R. Beveridge, 1896, living Eagle Grove, IA, Ch. 8, b. 1873, William Russell, m. Nellie M. Robinson, 1895, living in Clinton Twp.; Ch. 9, b. 1876, still at home; Raymond; Ch. 10 b. 1878, Jennett, still at home. William Doig McCleery, b. Ohio, 1848, son of James and Jane (Thompson) McCleery, 1851, family moves to Ill., purchases farm ever since his home, religious, ordained 1883, installed as U.P. Ch., Somonauk, as elder, served until death, m. 1870 Mary Jeanette, dau. of Andrew and Margaret Ann (McGeoch) Randles, d. 1881, he remarried, 1882, Janette Elizabeth, b. 1858, dau. of John and Sarah Isabella (McGeoch) Maxwell, health failed, lived out west, |
| 004 1903 032b | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including illustration page, portrait photo,William Doig McCleery |
| 004 1903 033 | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including BIOGRAPHY continuing for William Doig McCleery, d. 1903, at his Victor Twp. home, (Ch. 1), b. 1871, d. 1872, Andrew J.; (Ch. 2), b. 1873, Howard, m. Ethel Carothers, resided near Waterman; (Ch. 3), b. 1875, Albert, m. Mary E. Henry, live Eagle Grove, IA; (Ch. 4), b. 1877, d. 1878, Clarence; (Ch. 5), b. 1878, d. 1880, Ralph; (Ch. 6), b. 1883, d. 1884, Ruth; (Ch. 7), b. 1884, Harry R.; (Ch. 8), b. 1888, Archie; (Ch. 9), b. 1890 John Maxwell; (Ch. 10), b. 1892, Fannie E.; Smith Mercer, b. 827, Penn., m. 1850,Margaret Thornberg, visited Ill. 1856, bought 80 acres on which he long lived, wife died 1888, he died, Sandwich, 1903, U.P. Ch., office of elder; school director 14 years, Clinton Twp. assessor; collector 2 yrs; |
| 004 1903 034 | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including BIOGRAPHY continuing for Smith Mercer commissioner of hwys. 6 yrs.; Ch. 1, unnamed dau. 2 da. old, 1851, Ch. 2. dau., unnamed, 2mo., 1853; Ch. 3. 1854, son Robert James, b. Penn. 1854; Ch. 4. 1856, Joseph; Ch. 5 b. 1882 Clinton Twp., Elisha Thomas, Ch. 6 1860, Clinton Twp. John Andrew, m. Alice Fisher,1891, lived on home farm, Ch. 7 Alwin L. b. 1861, Ch. 8 William Foffett, b. 1863; Ch. 9 Samuel Wallace, b. 1865 d. 1867, Waterman; Ch. 10 Ida Belle, b. 1868; Ch. 11 Jennie, b. 1870, m. James E. Landen, Waukegan, IL Mrs. John Merritt (Betsey E. Simpson) b.1830, N.Y. d. 1896, m. 1850 Ira Chamberlain d. 1857, Ch. 1 Clara, died at 2 or 3; Kate, b. ????, m. 1880, A. E. Henning; 2nd m. for Betsey, 1865, to John Merritt b.1828, son of Joseph and Esther (Dean) Merritt, (his first m. Rhoda Fay) |
| 004 1903 035 | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including BIOGRAPHY continuing for Mrs. John Merritt (Betsey E. Simpson) second m., Ch. 1, d. 1869, age 1 yr., 3 mo., Ch. 2, b. 1870 at Waterman, Emma C., M. Alvin Woodbury, Shabbona, Warren Miller b. 1843 in Penn., son of Asa and Mary Ann Miller, Ill. in 1845, married, 1868 Florence C. Matteson, eldest dau. of Oscar F. and Marion A. (Hall) Matteson, moved to Iowa, returned to IL 1873, Shabbona Grove, d. 9-16-1903, Ch. 1 Asa O., Ch., 2 Mary A., Ch. 3, Lorenzo E., Ch. 4 Genevieve, Ch. 5 Cora B., Ch. 6 Belinda E., Ch. 7 Laura E. C. Herbert Orr b. 1880, Waterman, IL, son of Edward P. and Emma (Taylor) Orr, 1894 family moved to Downer's Grove and then Hinsdale, completed grammar and HS grad. with highest honors, 1901 Univ. Mich, engineering, rapid progress, promise of success, 1903 died heart failure, Mrs. A. H. Phillips (Caroline Owen) b. 1828, |
| 004 1903 036 | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including BIOGRAPHY continuing for Mrs.A. H, Phillips b. 1828 in Canada, d. 1903 at dau.'s Iowa home, m. 1853 Albert Phillips in N.Y., Illinois in 1858, Clinton Twp. farm, moved to Waterman 1875, among oldes members of Meth., Mrs. R. P. Rowley (Mary Ann Finckle) b. 1827 N.Y., dau. of Nicholas Finckle, m. 1. Jacob Pitcher, Ch. 1. Sarah E. (Mrs. Cummings), m. 2. Richard P. Rowley Sylvanus Eaton Shepardson family springs from Salem, Mass. blacksmith, Charlestown, 1632, d. Malden, July 26, 1644, M. Joanna d. 1661, son Daniel, bap. 1639, m. 1668, d. 1691, his son, John bap. 1671, m. Elizabeth Fuller, their son, Daniel, b. 1700, d. 1770, m. 1. Hannah Richardson, d. 1726, m. 2 |
| 004 1903 036b | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including illustration page, portrait photo,Sylvanus Eaton Shepardson |
| 004 1903 037 | 1903 Congdon Waterman Year Book including BIOGRAPHY continuing for |
| 004 1903 037 | Sylvanus Eaton Shepardson Family m. 2 1728 Mary Washburn, at least five children listed for Attleboro, moved to Ver., party of 11 family members migrated from Gerry Chautauqua Co. N.Y. to Ill., by wagon, locating near Ross Grove, Paw Paw Twp., Wm. Shep |