Bill L. Bainbridge was born July 8, 1922, in Marion, to Lawrence and Lottie Mae (Eyre) Bainbridge. Having been born into a family of merchants, Bill was a WWII veteran who spent his life in the family jewelry business and was the great-grand-son of J.B. Bainbridge, an early pioneering Marion merchant. Continue reading
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Leonard “Leon” Allen Colp was born on a farm in Eight Mile Prairie near Carterville, on January 18, 1881, the son of John H. Colp and Isadora North. His father was a farmer and later a prominent miller.
Educated in the country schools and Carterville grade schools, he passed into the Northern Indiana Normal University at Valparaiso, Indiana, where he prepared himself for the University of Illinois which he entered later and was graduated from in 1904 with the degree of LL.B (Bachelor of Laws Degree). Continue reading
The first Official Record pertaining to the public schools of Williamson County dates from the year A.D. 1840 when William F. Tanner, school commissioner of the new county of Williamson, receipted Scion H. Mitchell, then school commissioner of Franklin County, for Williamson County’s share of the school funds. Continue reading
The old settlers met in Marion on Saturday, July 10, 1880 at 2 o’clock p.m. and organized a second time by appointing Dr. Bundy chairman and Dr. Lodge secretary. On motion of Rev. A.T. Benson and seconded by R.T. Pulley, it was resolved “That all persons a resident of Williamson County prior to 1860 and fifty years of age or older, be invited to meet each other at the Fair Grounds near Marion on Thursday, August 12, 1880 and have an old fashioned barbeque and talk over old times.” Continue reading
According to a Pioneer Sons of Williamson County application handout issued just prior to the 1939 Williamson County Centennial this group was formed on August 15, 1939. Continue reading