“Isaac Newton Atwood was born in Williamson County, Tennessee, April 8th, 1821, and was therefore 83 years old last April. He was married September 28, 1842, to Miss Hannah Hunt, daughter of Abel Hunt, in Tennessee. His wife was a native of Smith County, Tennessee, where she was born September 17, 1817. She will, therefore, be 87 years old next September, and is at present the oldest living person in Williamson County (in 1904). Continue reading
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H.E. Lane and Brother Transfer and Feed Company located at 604 N. Monroe Street in Marion, Illinois started in a small way in August, 1902. Continue reading
Marion Steam Marble Works was inaugurated on September, 1903, several minor establishments being absorbed and a corporation formed with $10,000 capital.
They began work in 1904 and had under contract and in preparation about $5,000 worth of work to be delivered in the spring of 1904. They employed about five hands steadily at that time. Continue reading
The New Process Laundry does not appear to be a long lived business. Very little has been found on the business other than it appears to have functioned right at the turn of the century and was still functional during the writing of the 1905 Souvenir History book when information was gathered together in 1904. Continue reading
Board of Education 1904
The 1904 Board of Education shown from left to right is as follows: Top row—Ed Spiller, Edward E. Denison, W. G. Cochran, Dr. A.M. Edwards. Second row—James M. Burkhart, George H. Goodall and William J. Aikman. Continue reading