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Marion’s Prominent Citizens A to C

Colp, Leonard A. 1881-1968

Posted on by August 6, 2013

Leon Colp 1881 1968Leonard “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 →

Aikman’s Starting a Marion Life in the 1840’s

Posted on by November 15, 2013

The following article was taken from a 1978 article written by Homer Butler and published in the Marion Daily Republican as follows. Additional notes were added for clarification.

Mrs. Ed Queen recently brought by some notebooks and documents handed down in her family and gave me an opportunity to learn at first hand something about the way of life the people who lived in the Marion area 125 years ago and more. Continue reading →