"Genealogy of the Bliss family in America, from about the year 1550 – 1880" by John Homer Bliss, 1881
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"Past and Present of Kane County, Illinois" 1878 (Part 4 of 4)
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"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 1 of 4)
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"Past and Present of Kane County, Illinois" 1878 (Part 2 of 4)
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"Past and Present of Kane County, Illinois" 1878 (Part 3 of 4)
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"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.)
"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.
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Kaneville Township Historical Society, PO Box 7, Kaneville, IL 60144, 630-557-2854. On Facebook @KTHistoricalSociety. [kanevillehistoricalsociety@gmail.com
“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
1/4 Sugar Grove History. Source: “History of Kane County, Ill.” By R. Waite Joslyn, L.L.M., and Frank W. Joslyn, 1908 [Part 1 of 4: Pages 1-300]
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 Mighell, from Rutland County, Vermont, who afterward moved to Aurora; also Peleg Young Bliss (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 office 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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1956-1957 Cookbook, Sugar Grove Elementary School
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"Personal Recipes sponsored by the Sugar Grove Parent Teachers Association 1956-1957
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]
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.
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]
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]
Book: "Frank H. Hall and His Braille Writer: A Souvenir Publication of the Frank Hall Diamond Jubilee, June 8, 1968" by Walter B. Hendrickson, Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.
“It was clear, cold, and quiet on the morning of January 5, 1893, when a man of medium height and vigorous physique, bright-eyed and bespectacled, his face adorned with a soup-strainer moustache and a small goatee, jumped lightly from the Chicago and Alton train that pulled into Jacksonville, Illinois, from Chicago, and hurried forward to supervise the unloading of a large wooden box onto a wagon. He climbed up beside the driver, and the horses hauled the rattling vehicle a couple of hundred yards eastward across the railroad tracks and pulled into the rear of the main building of the Illinois Institution for the Education of the Blind. The box was unpacked and the contents set up in the office of the man, who now had his greatcoat off and appeared in a high stiff collar, black tie and black frock coat. This man was Frank Haven Hall, superintendent of the institution.” “Out of the box came a machine that operated some- what like a typewriter. It had six keys, much like those of a piano, and a single oval spacing key between two groups of three keys. Each key controlled a punch that made one of the dots in a braille cell. At the back of the machine and attached to it in a vertical position - where, in a type- writer, the paper would be inserted - was a metal frame about 15 inches square. The machine was mounted on a waist-high pedestal, and extending downward was a single foot pedal. By pressing the keys, and stepping on the foot pedal, the dots of the braille letters were impressed on a thin brass sheet held in the upright frame. The resulting embossed plate was put into a hand press, a dampened piece of paper was placed over the plate, pressure was applied, and the braille characters were transferred to the paper. Thousands of copies could be made -- no fuss, no muss, no type, no hot lead. Frank Hall, whose brainchild 1 this machine was, put a plate in the carriage and tapped out four lines of the first verse of the hymn, ‘Blest be the Tie that Binds.’ “ Source: "Frank H. Hall and His Braille Writer: A Souvenir Publication of the Frank Hall Diamond Jubilee, June 8, 1968" by Walter B. Hendrickson, Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.
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Book: "Frank H. Hall: Success through Service, 1841 - 1911"
“For fifty years Frank H. Hall helped the youth of our land to solve arithmetical problems. For fifty years, he helped the teachers to solve pedagogical problems. For fifty years he helped everyone with who he associated to solve humanitarian problems. And now, after so many active years of service, he has gone to solve the Great Mystery – the problem of the centuries.” … “In the realm of books, blind people were shut out from modern literature of all kinds (except as it might be read to them) because of the vast amount of time and labor required to make even on little book. Here was another obstacle in his path which he made up his mind must be overcome. He studied the three principal kinds of raised print used by the blind the world over, - decided which system was the simplest and most easily adaptable,-- and then began putting his inventive genius to work upon a machine that would be to the blind what the type-writer is to the seeing,--even more than this.” “The result was soon forth-coming and startled the world in its simplicity and complete success. From the type-writer it was but a step to the stereotype-maker and map-machine: and the making of books for the blind was revolutionized. This was accompanied by no blare of trumpets. The invention was wrought out during time for which the State of Illinois was paying him to teach the blind. No other compensation seemed to him due from any source. He laughed at the idea of taking out a patent on the machines. Yes, it might make him rich,- but rich at whose cost? At the cost of the blind, chiefly, the great majority of whom hadn't a hundredth part as much worldly wealth as he had. No, this invention was not for his benefit; it was for the benefit of the blind,--to help them in their search for success through service. What would be added to the cost of the machines as royalty was thus ‘knocked off,’ and so simple was the construction of the Braille- writer that the manufacturers (at the inventor's solicitation that they make the price as reasonable as possible) offered it to the public for thirteen dollars, allowing the inventor to make a special price of ten dollars to his own pupils--those in the state of Illinois.” “In 1893, when, at the World's Columbian Exposition, Helen Keller was introduced by her teacher to Frank Hall, she made the perfunctory response, "How do you do, Mr. Hall?" Her teacher said to her, "This is the Mr. Hall who made your Braille-writer"-- and instantly Helen Keller's arms were around his neck and her lips kissed his cheek. This in itself more than paid him for the invention of the Braille machines -- and he could never tell of this little incident without tears in his eyes.” Source: "Frank H. Hall: Success through Service, 1841 - 1911"
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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: "New Normal Fourth Reader", The Werner Educational Series
Book: "Practical Arithmetic" by Frank H. Hall. Copyright 1907.
One of the copies of the book belonged to Percy Booth, Sugar Grove High School.
Book: "Practical Arithmetic" by Frank H. Hall, Oral and Written, by Frank H. Hall. Copyright 1907.
Book: "Schoolhouse in the Woods" by Rebecca Caudill
Copyright 1949 by The John C. Winston Company First Printing, September 1949 Second Printing, November 1950, Third Printing 1951