The following post was extracted from a Marion Living magazine article published in December 2005 in which Mayor Robert Butler was strolling around the public square with Bernard Paul and reminiscing about how the square used to be and what businesses were located where. Continue reading
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December of this year brought a change to Illinois law requiring that all births and deaths be duly recorded on public record. Before this date, it was not technically required to register the events.
See also, 1877, News Clippings, January thru June Continue reading
1877, News Clippings, January thru June
See also, 1877, News Clippings, July thru December
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4 Jan – The Governor denied pardon for Sam Music. MM
We learn from W.M. Wilhelms that scarlet fever is raging in Vienna. John Hartly lost 3 children last week (only ones he had.) KM
8 or 10 years ago a man and wife in company with a young woman made an appearance in Spring settlement, a few miles west of this place … stopped at residence of Mr. Stanfield and remained for some time … went to DuQuoin where the young woman gave birth to a child…the couple returned to the settlement with the child and made arrangements with a man named “Check” Overturf to keep it until called for Continue reading
McNett Photo Studio of Marion, Illinois is a business that does not appear to have been around very long. The owner James Gardiner McNett was born in Lincoln, Nebraska on February 5, 1893. When the 1910 census was taken he was 17 years old and still living with his family in Nebraska.
An Iowa state census located him in Osage, Iowa in 1915, but by the time he registered for the WWI draft in 1917, he and his mother were living here in Marion, Illinois and he was listed as a self-employed photographer. He was 23 and living at 104 N. Vicksburg St. Continue reading
Part two of 1876 News Cippings, See also, 1876 News Clippings, January thru June
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6 Jul – Jack Walker of Metropolis killed Ed Neimeyer during a quarrel by stabbing, Monday of last week. EP
Capt. Wherry, an explorer of Pulaski County is making some interesting discoveries In that county…has found several skeletons of a race of people that were not more than 4 feet 5 inches tall. EP Continue reading