Marion, Illinois was first served with electricity only 10 years after Thomas Edison started the first central electrical generating station in New York City, when the Marion Street Light and Street Railway Company was chartered on June 15, 1891 in Marion, Illinois. Continue reading
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Amelia Earhart Putnam, the world’s most celebrated aviatrix, then and now, arrived in Marion on March 22, 1935, to be the guest of honor at the annual Public Relations Dinner of the Marion Business and Professional Women’s Club. Continue reading
Judge W.O. Potter Slays Family, October 25, 1926
“The above title screamed across the entire front page of Monday’s paper. With so many individuals lost from such a prominent family practically all of the front and back pages (seven columns of print to each page) were devoted to the details of the this tragic event. Continue reading
Otis W. Williams was born September 16, 1870 at Mt. Erie in Wayne County, Illinois. At the age of thirteen, he moved with his parents J.C. and Katherine (Atterbury) Williams to Marion. In 1891 he went to Creal Springs and in 1892 was married to Miss Anna Jones, then a teacher in the Creal Springs schools. Continue reading
