Booth Family: Junior Booth
subject: Booth Family
description: Junior Booth, June 1928
creator: Vienna H.
source: Sugar Grove Historical Society
date: June 1928
rights: Sugar Grove Historical Society
format: Photo
type: Photo Collection

Booth Family: Norman J. Booth
subject: Booth Family
description: Norman J. Booth, age one year and two months. Judd Booth's son.
creator: Vienna H.
source: Sugar Grove Historical Society
rights: Sugar Grove Historical Society
format: Photo
type: Photo Collection

Booth Family: Florence Taff Booth, 2nd wife of George M. Booth, March 1931
subject: Booth Family
description: Florence Taff Booth, 2nd wife of George M. Booth, March 1931
creator: Vienna H.
source: Sugar Grove Historical Society
date: March 1931
rights: Sugar Grove Historical Society
format: Photo
type: Photo Collection

Booth Family: Junior Booth
subject: Booth Family
description: Junior Booth, March 1931
creator: Vienna H.
source: Sugar Grove Historical Society
date: March 1931
rights: Sugar Grove Historical Society
format: Photo
type: Photo Collection

Booth Family: Ethel Booth
subject: Booth Family
description: Ethel Booth
creator: Vienna H.
source: Sugar Grove Historical Society
rights: Sugar Grove Historical Society
format: Photo
type: Photo Collection

Booth Family: Captain Booth and the Colonel, Junior Booth, October 1944
subject: Booth Family
creator: Vienna
source: Sugar Grove Historical Society
date: October 1944
rights: Sugar Grove Historical Society
format: Photo
type: Photo Collection

Bliss Family: James Harris Bliss, 25 years old. Circa 1915.
subject: Bliss Family
description: James Harris Bliss was the last member of the Bliss Family to be born in the Big Bliss House located on the corner of Bliss and Merrill Roads in Sugar Grove.
creator: Vienna H.
source: Sugar Grove Historical Society
date: 1915
contributor: Richard Johnson
rights: Sugar Grove Historical Society
format: Photo
type: Photo Collection
identifier: 2002-5b, b (Accession Number)

Bliss Family: Jedediah (Jeddie) Harris Bliss, 16 years old. Circa 1865.
subject: Bliss Family
description: In 1891, Harry (as he was called in a newspaper article) moved the Bliss House across the road to build the 17-room house that now sits on the northwest corer of Bliss and Merrill Roads in Sugar Grove, Illinois.
creator: Vienna H.
source: Sugar Grove Historical Society
contributor: Richard Johnson
rights: Sugar Grove Historical Society
format: Photo
type: Photo Collection
identifier: 2002-5B, d (Accession Number)

Bliss Family: Helen Louise Mather Bliss (Mrs. P.Y. Bliss), 30 years old and Jedediah Harris Bliss, 3 years old. Circa 1852 or 1853.
subject: Bliss Family
creator: Vienna H.
source: Sugar Grove Historical Society
date: Ca. 1852 -1853
contributor: Richard Johnson
rights: Sugar Grove Historical Society
format: Photo
type: Photo Collection
identifier: 2002-5b, a (Accession Number)

Bliss Family: Peleg Young Bliss, 46 years old, and daughter Janette, 8 years old. Circa 1852 or 1853.
subject: Bliss Family
description: Peleg Young Bliss (P.Y. Bliss) Peleg Young Bliss was one of the earliest settlers and businessmen in Sugar Grove. He was born in 1806 in Vermont and passed away in Sugar Grove in 1888 at the age of 82. As a young boy growing up at the age of nine, he was indentured to a man in Moretown, Vermont. After an unfortunate experience, he ran away and found himself in Strafford, Vermont. The Honorable Judge Jedediah H. Harris took him under his wing, cared for him as a foster father, and helped him learn to be a prosperous businessman. P. Y. Bliss became a good writer and authored a policy adopted by the United States government that would grant lands to settlers who planted trees for timber. (Source: “A Genuine Vermonter”, Vermont Watchman and State Journal, Montpelier, Vermont, Volume 74-3805, No. 49, September 17, 1879.) In 1837, P.Y. Bliss settled in Sugar Grove. “On the 22d day of November, 1838, a man popularly known as "Boss" Read, who still lives in Blackberry, erected for P. Y. Bliss a frame house, which is still occupied by its original owner, on its original site. In the Spring of 1839, the Methodists held their quarterly meeting in one of its rooms, before it was quite completed; but religious exercises had been introduced into the township some time previous, the first sermon having been delivered by the devout and conscientious 'Father' Clarke." (Source: “Past and Present of Kane County, Illinois. 1878” at page 415.) Mr. Bliss stated that, “in riding from his residence, in the following year [1838], direct to Geneva, he passed not a house, furrow nor fence of any kind, and that the old Court House at the county seat was the first building which appeared to his view.” (Source: “Past and Present of Kane County, Illinois. 1878” at page 413.) “That simple statement attests to the remoteness of the area at that time, and may have sown the seed for the need of a general mercantile in the township.” (Source: “Sin-Qua-Sip: A History of Sugar Grove Township, Kane Count…
creator: Vienna H.
source: Sugar Grove Historical Society
date: 1852 or 1853
contributor: Richard Johnson
rights: Sugar Grove Historical Society
format: Photo
type: Sugar Grove Historical Society
identifier: 2002-5b, c (Accession Number)

Bliss Family Genealogy: Family Tree
subject: Bliss Genealogy
description: Peley Young Bliss 1806-1888 married in 1842 Helen Louise Mather 1822-1914 had children Janette Bliss 1844-1887 and Jedediah Harris 1849-1929 Jedediah Harris 1849-1929 married in 1889 Grace Ellen Carter 1869-1941 had Children James Harris 1890-1953, Ellen Janette Harris 1891-1963, Catherine Hellen Harris 1895- , Carter Avery Harris 1896-1913 James Harris 1890-1953 married Ethel Vinette Taylor 1890-1970 had child Patricia Taylor 1922-1980. Patricia Taylor married John Austin Sizer 1922-1991 had children Diana Bliss Sizer 1944- and John Austin Sizer 1947- John Austin Sizer married 1968 Karen Gail Baumgardner 1948- had children Shay D. Sizer 1972- Shay D. Sizer 1972- married Bruce Edmund Mason had children Abigail Bliss Mason 1999- and Avery Bruce Mason 2001-
creator: Vienna H.
source: Sugar Grove Historical Society
contributor: Richard Johnson
rights: Sugar Grove Historical Society
format: Photo
type: Photo Collection

Leigh Sauer
creator: Kaitlin
date: 1946

S. W. Township
subject: S. W. Township
description: Postcard photo: Stanley Graham Mighell, 3 months
creator: Ocker
date: No date
identifier: Accession Number 2001-3b

S. W. Township
subject: S. W. Township
description: Postcard photo: Elizabeth ary Mighell, 15 months
creator: Ocker
date: No date
identifier: Accession Number 2001-3b. f

S. E. Township
subject: S. E. Township
description: Jim & Joy with friend (No further information)
creator: Ocker
date: May 31, 1997

S. E. Township
subject: S. E. Township
description: Jim & Joy (No further information)
creator: Ocker
date: May 31, 1997

S. E. Township
subject: S. E. Township
description: Jim & Joy (No further information)
creator: Ocker
date: May 31, 1997

S. E. Township
subject: S. E. Township
description: Jim & Joy (No further information)
creator: Ocker
date: May 31, 1997

S. E. Township
subject: S. E. Township
description: Jim & Joy (No further information)
creator: Ocker
date: May 31, 1997

Vern W. Graham, Postmaster Appointment Certificate
subject: Signed by President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield
creator: Kaitlin
date: September 1960