1956-1957 Cookbook, Sugar Grove Elementary School
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"Personal Recipes sponsored by the Sugar Grove Parent Teachers Association 1956-1957
“Sin-Qua-Sip: A History of Sugar Grove Township, Kane County, Illinois” by Patsy Mighell Paxton [Excerpts]
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Copies of this book are available from the Sugar Grove Historical Society. Online ordering and shipping is available on our website https://www.sugargrovehistory.org/ and through the Bliss House Store at https://www.wacots.org/sghistory/store.html The Sugar Grove Historical Society is located at: 259 Main Street Sugar Grove Illinois 60554. Mail can be sent to: PO Box 102 Sugar Grove Illinois 60554. Email us at: SugarGroveHistory@att.net
Patsy Mighell Paxton and Sugar Grove Historical Society
"The History and Lore of The Kaneville CEMETERY".
History of Kaneville and Kaneville Cemetery including an index of those interred and plat of the grounds. Copies are available from the Kaneville Township Historical Society, 630-557-2854 and at Hill's Country Store the "Purple Store" at the corner of Harter Road and Main Street, Kaneville.
The Kaneville Township Historical Society
Kaneville Township Historical Society, PO Box 7, Kaneville, IL 60144, 630-557-2854. On Facebook @KTHistoricalSociety. [kanevillehistoricalsociety@gmail.com
"Prairie Farmer's Reliable Directory of Farmers and Breeders", Kane County, Illinois.
Information about and for Kane County, Illinois farmers.
Informational articles, farm interest advertisements and index of Kane County farmers cataloging acreage, disposition of farm, spouse' maiden name and other information.
2009-168 (Accession Number, See page 3 of document.)
Owens Family: Bible belonged to Grace Owen when she was at Alta School in Highland Park, Illinois. 1850.
Donated by Hazel Helgeson, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Owen's Family: Bible with Family Tree Lineage
Inscriptions inside the Owen’s Family Bible were written by Grace Owen’s mother. Evan Owens Remsen January 6th, 1850 Mighty one! Whom non can comprehend, and none explore, who fillest existence with thyself alone, embracing all, supporting all, and ruling all…being whom we call God. BIRTHS Ida Owens, Married November 9, 1886 to Charles N. Phelps of Remsen, Oneida, County, New York. James Owens, Born May 28, 1831 Charles Owens, Born June 8, 1833 John H. Owens, Born July 8, 1835 Betsey Jane Owens, Born August 19, 1837 Martha Owens, Born October 26, 1840 Mary Ann Owens, Born January 2, 1843 Hannah Maria Owens, Born September 27, 1845 Evan Owens, Jr., Born May 6, 1848 B. Smith Owens, Born September 27, 1850 Ida Owens, Born March 5, 1868 Adeline Phelps, Born October 27, 1889 Hannah M. Hellium, Born September 27, 1845 DEATHS Evan Owens, Died April 5, 1884 age 84 years and one month John H. Owens, Died April 20, 1909 B. Smith Owens, Died February 2, 1910 Evan Owens, Died 1930 in Aurora, Illinois John H. Owens, Died August 27, 1841, age 82 years Jane Owens, Died September 25, 1841, age 82 years Hannah Owens, Died October 2, 1850, age 42 years Owen Owens, Died February 1, 1854 John Owens, Died June 21, 1862, 69 years James E. Owens, Died January 28, 1870, 38 years Mary Ann Dodge, Died February 12, 1874, age 31 years Hannah M. Hellium, Died March 30, 1879 OBITUARY OF EVAN OWENS 2/27/1800 – 4/5/1884 Mr. Evan Owens, who died at his residence at Fairchilds, in this town, on Saturday last [April 5, 1884], was born in Carnarvonshire, Wales, February 27, 1800, ad moved to this country [USA] in 1801, first settling at Lower Dublin, Philadelphia, and in 1813 at Remsen, New York, where since that time, Mr. Owens has resided. In 1829 he married Honorah, daughter of Bohan Smith, by whom he had nine children, six of whom are living. Mrs. Owens died about thirty years ago, and Mr. Owens was again married, to Catherine, daughter of D.W. Pritchard, who survives him and by who he had one daughter. Mr. Owens led a life of activity and usefulness, both in business and politics. He was a farmer, and endeavored to keep up with the times in agricultural improvement, and succeeded in accumulating considerable wealth. In politics he was a Whig while that party existed, when he became a Democrat. He had held nearly every office in the gift of the town, having been Constable, Collector, Poormaster, Assessor, Justice, Supervisor and Superintendent of Schools, making in all between forth and fifty years in service of the town. In 1830 Mr. Owens was nominated for Member of Assembly,, and though he was defeated, he polled five hundred votes more than anyone else on his ticket. He was a man who possessed the entire confidence of all who knew him. He led a life of strictest integrity, faithfully performing his duty in every position and under all circumstances, and by these qualities he acquired and retained popularity and the esteem of his townsmen to such and extent as seldom falls to the lot of anyone. Mr. Owens held liberal Christian views of religion and believed that life of moral rectitude was conduce to one of happiness. For a number of years his sight has been poor, and his health had gradually failed until it terminated in his death on Saturday. The funeral services were held at the residence yesterday where many friends and relatives were gathered, whence his remains were taken to Fairchild Cemetery.
TV Week Magazine, Chicago Tribune: January 19-5, 1963
Wilton Cake & Food Decorating Year Book: 1973
Sugar Grove's Historic Role in the Kane County Anti-Slavery Association and Underground Railroad
"Elgin: An American History" by E. C. Alft "The Illinois tracks of the "Liberty Line" started at such river towns in Chester, Alton, and Quincy and led toward Chicago...The nearest main line ran from Princeton through Sugar Grove, Aurora and Hinsdale to the lake terminus."
Excerpts from: "Elgin: An American History" by E. C. Alft Published online by ElginHistory.com Copyright 2000 - All Rights Reserved Chapter II. The Dividing Line ... 1. Anti-Slavery The slavery question was argued in Elgin from the earliest days of the settlement. Abolition sentiments were not popular at first, and an Elgin Free Discussion meeting in 1840, during a series of abolition meetings, resolved that "when any person who does not break the law proposes peaceably to express his views in this community by lecturing on any subject, we feel bound to protect him in his constitutional rights"2 The chairman of the meeting was Dr. Joseph Tefft, and the secretary, James T. Gifford. One morning William G. Hubbard, a storekeeper, found on his veranda a full-sized coffin, placed there during the night. A note pinned to it warned that if he did not stop talking so much against slavery he would need the coffin. Hubbard used it for kindling and kept on talking. Despite the desire of many to let the effort to elect the Liberty Party's local candidates in the Elgin subject rest, a growing number joined Hubbard and took a stand precinct. It resulted in one of the first Liberty Party victories at against what they considered the injustice of slavery. Their opposition became part of their religious beliefs, and it soon shaped their political attitudes as well. The Liberty Party had been organized in upstate New York in 1840. Not all Liberty men agreed on the particulars of a program, but they generally rejected the argument that slavery was recognized by the Constitution, and they opposed its further extension. One of the members of the new party in Elgin was James T. Gifford, who was appointed to its state central committee at a Chicago convention in 1842. There were only 32 Liberty votes cast in Kane County in the gubernatorial election of that year, less than three percent of the total. Six of these votes were in the Elgin precinct. In the Congressional election four years later, the Kane County vote for the Liberty candidate swelled to 533 about twenty-nine percent of the total. The third party was gathering momentum. The Kane County Anti-Slavery Society furthered the movement. Among the Elgin members were Dr. Anson Root, R. W. Padelford, the Rev. N. C. Clark of the Congregational Church, and William G. Hubbard. In 1844 a new pastor for the Baptist Church, the Rev. Adoniram Judson Joslyn, arrived in Elgin. The preceding year he had served as secretary of the DuPage County Anti-Slavery Society. Fiery, aggressive and outspoken in his opposition to slavery, Joslyn's energies were not confined to the pulpit. The Western Christian, which he helped edit, advocated repeal of the Illinois black laws which restricted the rights of free Negroes. A Liberty convention at Aurora in October 1846 moved "that we recommend to hungry, destitute, naked and plundered emigrants to tarry through the winter, or longer, if they choose, in Kane County, being assured that it is as safe and secure an asylum as Canada itself."3 The abolitionist Owen Lovejoy, brother of the martyred Elijah, was a principal speaker at an Anti-Slavery Convention held in Elgin in February 1847. "If the people of Elgin can withstand what he has said," wrote Caroline Gifford to her father, "and still cling to their parties, I cannot think what they are made of. I do not see how they can help being good Anti-Slavery people - I mean real strong Liberty party folks. We had a fugitive here only 30 days from slavery who gave his narrative which was very interesting."4 This meeting resolved to make a special effort to elect the Liberty party's local candidates in the Elgin precinct. It resulted in one of the first Liberty party victories at the polls in Illinois. In August 1848, A. J. Joslyn was a delegate to the national convention in Buffalo, New York, where the Liberty men broadened their program beyond the anti-slavery issue and adopted the new title of Free Soil party. That fall their candidate for president, Martin Van Buren, captured Kane County with 1,220 votes to 855 for the Whig and 783 for the Democrat. In Elgin the vote was Free Soil, 222; Democratic, 147; and Whig, 140. Not all of the Van Buren vote could be considered anti-slavery, since the numerous emigrants from "York State" may have been voting for one of their own. On the other hand, Free Soil votes were not a true indication of the anti-slavery sentiment in northern Illinois, since there were many opponents of the institution who continued to vote Whig or Democratic. The year of the Free Soil plurality in Kane County marked the zenith of its political fortunes. The Illinois Whigs now also declared themselves against the extension of slavery and recovered many of the moderates among the Free Soilers. In 1852 Kane County returned to its traditional Democratic allegiance, and the Free Soil party lost almost half the votes it had won four years before. "We were all in favor of the underground railway to Canada," recalled Harriet Gifford.5 The extent of local participation which may have accompanied this sympathy is not definitely known. Since those who harbored a fugitive slave were subject to criminal penalties, little evidence remains of Underground Railroad operations in Elgin. The Illinois tracks of the "Liberty Line" started at such river towns in Chester, Alton, and Quincy and led toward Chicago. Elgin was too far north of the more direct routes into Chicago from the south to have served as a major station. The nearest main line ran from Princeton through Sugar Grove, Aurora and Hinsdale to the lake terminus. SOURCE: http://www.elginhistory.com/eaah/eaah-ch02.htm
"Past and Present of Kane County, Illinois" 1878: Excerpts about Sugar Grove.
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"Past and Present of Kane County, Illinois" 1878 (Part 4 of 4)
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Book: "If you lived in Colonial Times" by Ann McGovern.
Pictures by Brinton Turkle. Copyright 1964, 6th Printing February 1971, Scholastic Book Services, a division of Scholastic Magazines, Inc.
Book: "Schoolhouse in the Woods" by Rebecca Caudill
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4/4 Sugar Grove History. Source: “History of Kane County, Ill.” By R. Waite Joslyn, L.L.M., and Frank W. Joslyn, 1908 [Part 4 of 4: Pages 900-911]
Source: “History of Kane County, Ill.” By R. Waite Joslyn, L.L.M., and Frank W. Joslyn, Ex-State’s Attorney of Kane County, Volume I, Illustrated with Portraits and Views, Chicago, The Pioneer Publishing Co., 1908.
Excerpts: At Sugar Grove the first log cabin was raised in 1836, with nails, sawed boards and shingle roof; a tavern was built in 1836; a post office established in 1840. The first "store" was opened in 1839 by P. Y. Bliss, who built a frame house in 1838. The store was long one of the largest in Kane county and drew the trade from many miles distant. ... Sugar Grove was settled by parties who came in May, 1834, and found an Indian encampment near the Grove. They were James, Isaac C. and Parmeno Isbell, James Carman, a Mr. Bishop and Asa ]McDole. All but McDole were from Wood county, Ohio. William O. Tanner arrived in 1835 and staked a claim on the northeast comer of the township. Rodney McDole and Theophilus Wilson came in 1836; John Harkinson about 1835; Joseph Ingham in the fall of that year. C. H. Snow was an early settler from New Hampshire. S. S. Ingham came from Oneida county, New York, in 1839. In 1836 came Silas Reynolds, from Sullivan county. New York; Silas Gardner, Samuel Cogswell, Joseph Bishop, Samuel Taylor, Silas Leonard, Isaac Gates, N. H. Palmer and Lorin Inman ; Jonathan Gardner, James Judd, H. B. Densmore, Ira H. Fitch came in 1837, as did Ezekiel Alighell, from Rutland county, Vermont, who afterward moved to Aurora ; also P. Y. Bliss, Reuben Johnson, J. H. Fitch, Captain Jones and the Austin family. The first death was a child of James Carman, in 1835. Asa McDole died in 1839. The first marriage was that of Dr. N. H. Palmer and ^Miranda Isbell in 1835. The first birth was that of Charlotte Isbell, August 19, 1835. Robert Atkinson opened a tavern on the old Chicago and Dixon road in 1836. A post ofiice was established in 1840 at the home of Thomas Slater, first postmaster. The first frame house was that of P. Y. Bliss, built by "Boss Read" in 1838. Religious service was held there by "Father" Clark before it was completed. Mr. Bliss opened a store in the building June 1, 1839, and for years drew trade from as far north as Dundee. The first public library was organized in 1843 by a number of farmers. The books were first kept in S. G. Paull's house, on section 16, and was known as the Farmers' Library. In 1851 it contained two hundred and sixty-four books and it is believed was the first of its kind in the county. The early trustees were Nathaniel Austin, E. D. Terrv, J. L. Adams. Luke Nichols and William Tanner. The first brick house in the township was built by Silas Reynolds, in 1846. ... Among the pioneer dairymen in this county were D. E. ^^'ood. of Elgin; ]\Iartin Switzer and L. C. Ward, of St. Charles; Rodney McDole and Joseph Ingham and J. B. Paull of Sugar Grove, and H, L. Ford, of Batavia, These were all in the business as early as 1865-66. Mr. McDole managing a private dairy, and others erecting factories for the manufacture of cheese. ... Among the noted stock breeders and dealers of the county were Dr. W. A. Pratt and the Manns, of Elgin; M. W. Dunham and N. S. Carlisle, of St. Charles (the latter's farms lying in Hampshire); Frank H. Hall, of Sugar Grove: George E. Brown & Co.. George Leigh & Co., Blair Bros. & Curry, and Hiram Norris, of Aurora; and Hon. John Stewart, of Campton. besides numerous others engaged in stock raising to a considerable extent in various parts of the county. … Alfred Churchill, school commissioner of Kane county in 1846, wrote as follows to the Prairie Messenger, published at St. Charles: "Generally, I would say that the schools are in a bad state, with some few exceptions, at the head of which is placed Sugar Grove precinct; one school in Pigeon Woods; one or two in the northeast corner of section 32, range 7. These exceptions I do not make on account of the high character of the schools, but on account of the determination of the inhabitants to do the best they can. The first physician in Sugar Grove has already been mentioned. Dr. Nelson H. Norris, a very successful practitioner, was graduated from Dartmouth Medical College, Hanover, New Hampshire, in October, 1867.
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3/4 Sugar Grove History. Source: “History of Kane County, Ill.” By R. Waite Joslyn, L.L.M., and Frank W. Joslyn, 1908 [Part 3 of 4: Pages 603-900]
2/4 Sugar Grove History. Source: “History of Kane County, Ill.” By R. Waite Joslyn, L.L.M., and Frank W. Joslyn, 1908 [Part 2 of 4: Pages 302-601]