Lorenzo Dow Hartwell Jr. was born May 6, 1843, in Williamson County, Illinois, and reared on the paternal farm five miles northeast of Marion, Illinois. He was the eighth in order of birth and the seventh boy in a family of twelve children born to Lorenzo Dow Hartwell Sr. and Sicily Hodge. Lorenzo Sr. emigrated from Virginia with his family in 1839. Continue reading
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“It all started in Marion for one actress who was nominated for a Tony Award earlier this year.
Judith Ivey had never been in a play before she moved to Marion in the 11th grade and auditioned for a role in Marion High School’s production of “The Man Who Came to Dinner.”
That sparked a successful career in theatre for Ivey, a 1970 graduate of MHS. Continue reading
Leroy A. Goddard was born in Marion, Illinois, June 22 1854, the son of James T. and Winifred (Spiller) Goddard. His grandparents from Virginia settled in 1832 near where Marion was afterwards located. Mr. Goddard’s father opened a general store in Bainbridge, near Marion, in 1841, and later moved to Marion and erected a three story brick building where the Marion State and Savings bank was located. Continue reading
Among the citizens of this county who have had much to do with the community’s development from a civic as well as an educational point of view is A. C. Hentz of Marion. Continue reading
Verner Hicks was born in Woodlawn, Illinois on September 21, 1887 to Elizabeth (Trout) Hicks. Verner’s father died while he was at an early age, forcing Verner and his widowed mother “Lizzie” to seek the support and shelter of her brother James Trout, a farmer, living in Shiloh, Illinois which is where they were found in the 1900 census. Continue reading