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Title A name given to the resource Booth Family: Captain Booth and the Colonel, Junior Booth, October 1944 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource October 1944 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Vienna Subject The topic of the resource Booth Family Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Sugar Grove Historical Society Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photo Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Sugar Grove Historical Society Type The nature or genre of the resource Photo Collection https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/2816c673d95857588697bef759ebe83d.jpg 61f560de8e1868f8428bfbcf77b30256 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/c3b5143e73fedde6f4e644283032ee1c.jpg a66a41b6bbfdd570e5d70c38a2eabdc9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource People Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Booth Family Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Vienna https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/ec9b7743c772f42c026a2005902394a3.jpg d6371a91d4582b8be07b82eb8fbffe8b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource People Photo Collection Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Peleg Young Bliss and Daughter Janette: 1852 or 1853 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Vienna H. Description An account of the resource 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 County, Illinois” by Patsy Mighell Paxton at page 83.) “On the 1st of June, 1839, Mr. Bliss filled the new building with such goods as are demanded by the country trade, and opened the first mercantile establishment in the township. Its trade extended over a territory reaching from Dundee to Yorkville, and from the borders of Kane County on the east to Johnson's and Shabbona Groves, DeKalb County, on the west. No other store in Kane County ever drew such a wide range of custom, and, according to Mr. Bliss, the annual sales exceeded those of any other in the county by thousands of dollars.” (Source: “Past and Present of Kane County, Illinois. 1878” at page 415.) “In a clipping from an Aurora newspaper of long ago, one sentence stands out from the remainder of an article about Sugar Grove. Although no documentation can be made, the few lines of print add greatly to the history of the Bliss House: ‘When Abraham Lincoln was riding the circuit as an active member of the Illinois bar, he frequently stopped at the Bliss store when driving between Geneva, county seat of Kane, and Ottawa, county seat of LaSalle.’” (Source: “Sin-Qua-Sip: A History of Sugar Grove Township, Kane County, Illinois” by Patsy Mighell Paxton at page 83.) In 1842, P.Y. Bliss married Helen Louis Mather, and they had two children: Janette Bliss (1844 – 1887) and Jedediah Harris Bliss (1849 – 1929), named after the Honorable Jedediah H. Harris who helped P.Y. Bliss as a young boy. In 1843, P.Y. Bliss was one of the signers of the Constitution for the Sugar Grove Farmers Institute. (Source: “Sin-Qua-Sip: A History of Sugar Grove Township, Kane County, Illinois” by Patsy Mighell Paxton at page 80.) In 1845, P.Y. Bliss was appointed by the Illinois General Assembly as a commissioner to locate a State road crossing the Fox River, and the designed meeting place was Bliss’s store in Sugar Grove. The State road today is known as Illinois Route 34, and has become a very busy and major route through Kane, DuPage, and Cook Counties.  According the “Laws of the State of Illinois passed by the Fourteenth General Assembly at Their Regular Session. 1845,” the Act stated: “In force, January 21, 1845. An Act to locate a State road from Little Rock in Kane County, to the steam mill bridge on the Des Plaines River in Cook County.  “Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, that Peleg Y. Bliss of Kane County, Hiram E. Leonard and Edward Eldridge of DuPage County, be, and the same are hereby appointed commissioners, to view, survey, mark and locate a State road from Little Rock, Kane County, crossing Fox River near Snider’s mill in said county, and terminate at the steam mill bridge on the Des Plaines River in Cook County. “Section 2. The said commissioners, or a majority of them shall meet at Bliss’s store in Sugar Grove, Kane County, on the first Monday in April or within four months thereafter, and after being duly sworn before some justice of the peace faithfully to discharge their duties according to the provisions of this act, shall proceed to view, mark, survey and locate said road on the nearest and most eligible ground from point to point, having due regard to private property and public convenience, and shall make return to the county commissioners’ courts of the several counties through which the same shall pass, which return shall be entered of record and filed in the office of the county commissioners’ courts, and said road shall be a public and State road and kept in repair as other State roads are. “Section 3. The said commissioners, surveyor and assistants shall receive such compensation for their services as the county commissioners’ courts of the several counties through which said road shall pass, shall deem right and proper. Approved, January 21, 1845.” “Laws of the State of Illinois passed by the Fourteenth General Assembly at Their Regular Session. 1845,” at pages 218-219. As noted above, the State road that P.Y. Bliss helped to survey and locate is now known as Illinois State Route 34, and has become a very busy and major route through Kane, DuPage, and Cook Counties. Mr. Bliss’s house and store was later relocated from its corner on Bliss Road and Merrill Road to Main Street in Sugar Grove in 1997 to become the Bliss House Museum and home of the Sugar Grove Historical Society. Subject The topic of the resource Bliss Family Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1852-53 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Sugar Grove Historical Society Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photo Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Sugar Grove Historical Society Type The nature or genre of the resource Photo https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/926857407b8a6585da7037503c3d172b.jpg 511f749af108bace94956ee82557b989 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/e66b55c812d8034d741d487c88bcc4c1.jpg 83c7be7db856ceeb6e73f3dfaba3541d https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/235ec9985628099c8acb7ca2e6bb1ef8.jpg ac0c8d2a5eb51b181a4f88cd238c3981 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource People Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Oil Painting at Bliss House Museum Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Peleg Young Bliss, Oil Painting Portrait in Bliss House Museum Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Vienna H. Description An account of the resource Oil Painting Portrait hanging in Bliss House Museum 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 County, Illinois” by Patsy Mighell Paxton at page 83.) “On the 1st of June, 1839, Mr. Bliss filled the new building with such goods as are demanded by the country trade, and opened the first mercantile establishment in the township. Its trade extended over a territory reaching from Dundee to Yorkville, and from the borders of Kane County on the east to Johnson's and Shabbona Groves, DeKalb County, on the west. No other store in Kane County ever drew such a wide range of custom, and, according to Mr. Bliss, the annual sales exceeded those of any other in the county by thousands of dollars.” (Source: “Past and Present of Kane County, Illinois. 1878” at page 415.) “In a clipping from an Aurora newspaper of long ago, one sentence stands out from the remainder of an article about Sugar Grove. Although no documentation can be made, the few lines of print add greatly to the history of the Bliss House: ‘When Abraham Lincoln was riding the circuit as an active member of the Illinois bar, he frequently stopped at the Bliss store when driving between Geneva, county seat of Kane, and Ottawa, county seat of LaSalle.’” (Source: “Sin-Qua-Sip: A History of Sugar Grove Township, Kane County, Illinois” by Patsy Mighell Paxton at page 83.) In 1842, P.Y. Bliss married Helen Louis Mather, and they had two children: Janette Bliss (1844 – 1887) and Jedediah Harris Bliss (1849 – 1929), named after the Honorable Jedediah H. Harris who helped P.Y. Bliss as a young boy. In 1843, P.Y. Bliss was one of the signers of the Constitution for the Sugar Grove Farmers Institute. (Source: “Sin-Qua-Sip: A History of Sugar Grove Township, Kane County, Illinois” by Patsy Mighell Paxton at page 80.) In 1845, P.Y. Bliss was appointed by the Illinois General Assembly as a commissioner to locate a State road crossing the Fox River, and the designed meeting place was Bliss’s store in Sugar Grove. The State road today is known as Illinois Route 34, and has become a very busy and major route through Kane, DuPage, and Cook Counties.  According the “Laws of the State of Illinois passed by the Fourteenth General Assembly at Their Regular Session. 1845,” the Act stated: “In force, January 21, 1845. An Act to locate a State road from Little Rock in Kane County, to the steam mill bridge on the Des Plaines River in Cook County.  “Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, that Peleg Y. Bliss of Kane County, Hiram E. Leonard and Edward Eldridge of DuPage County, be, and the same are hereby appointed commissioners, to view, survey, mark and locate a State road from Little Rock, Kane County, crossing Fox River near Snider’s mill in said county, and terminate at the steam mill bridge on the Des Plaines River in Cook County. “Section 2. The said commissioners, or a majority of them shall meet at Bliss’s store in Sugar Grove, Kane County, on the first Monday in April or within four months thereafter, and after being duly sworn before some justice of the peace faithfully to discharge their duties according to the provisions of this act, shall proceed to view, mark, survey and locate said road on the nearest and most eligible ground from point to point, having due regard to private property and public convenience, and shall make return to the county commissioners’ courts of the several counties through which the same shall pass, which return shall be entered of record and filed in the office of the county commissioners’ courts, and said road shall be a public and State road and kept in repair as other State roads are. “Section 3. The said commissioners, surveyor and assistants shall receive such compensation for their services as the county commissioners’ courts of the several counties through which said road shall pass, shall deem right and proper. Approved, January 21, 1845.” “Laws of the State of Illinois passed by the Fourteenth General Assembly at Their Regular Session. 1845,” at pages 218-219. As noted above, the State road that P.Y. Bliss helped to survey and locate is now known as Illinois State Route 34, and has become a very busy and major route through Kane, DuPage, and Cook Counties. Mr. Bliss’s house and store was later relocated from its corner on Bliss Road and Merrill Road to Main Street in Sugar Grove in 1997 to become the Bliss House Museum and home of the Sugar Grove Historical Society. 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Title A name given to the resource Bliss Family Genealogy: Family Tree Description An account of the resource 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 An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Vienna H. Subject The topic of the resource Bliss Genealogy Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Sugar Grove Historical Society Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photo Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Sugar Grove Historical Society Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Richard Johnson Type The nature or genre of the resource Photo Collection https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/778790bad6b9e8dcbb291fa54a59b385.jpg 3e07f09674031ae09cef73c48acfb2f0 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/fe66470b8707607d7e4e135b5ba2e8d0.jpg d1ac8315d25df7000fc3c7314248d973 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/5a87be3626a07fb3bad533884c6b9c29.jpg 60ebf8e09e53d52e56d0f72b3dd70075 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource People Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bliss Family: Peleg Young Bliss, 46 years old, and daughter Janette, 8 years old. Circa 1852 or 1853. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Vienna H. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2002-5b, c (Accession Number) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1852 or 1853 Description An account of the resource 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 County, Illinois” by Patsy Mighell Paxton at page 83.) “On the 1st of June, 1839, Mr. Bliss filled the new building with such goods as are demanded by the country trade, and opened the first mercantile establishment in the township. Its trade extended over a territory reaching from Dundee to Yorkville, and from the borders of Kane County on the east to Johnson's and Shabbona Groves, DeKalb County, on the west. No other store in Kane County ever drew such a wide range of custom, and, according to Mr. Bliss, the annual sales exceeded those of any other in the county by thousands of dollars.” (Source: “Past and Present of Kane County, Illinois. 1878” at page 415.) “In a clipping from an Aurora newspaper of long ago, one sentence stands out from the remainder of an article about Sugar Grove. Although no documentation can be made, the few lines of print add greatly to the history of the Bliss House: ‘When Abraham Lincoln was riding the circuit as an active member of the Illinois bar, he frequently stopped at the Bliss store when driving between Geneva, county seat of Kane, and Ottawa, county seat of LaSalle.’” (Source: “Sin-Qua-Sip: A History of Sugar Grove Township, Kane County, Illinois” by Patsy Mighell Paxton at page 83.) In 1842, P.Y. Bliss married Helen Louis Mather, and they had two children: Janette Bliss (1844 – 1887) and Jedediah Harris Bliss (1849 – 1929), named after the Honorable Jedediah H. Harris who helped P.Y. Bliss as a young boy. In 1843, P.Y. Bliss was one of the signers of the Constitution for the Sugar Grove Farmers Institute. (Source: “Sin-Qua-Sip: A History of Sugar Grove Township, Kane County, Illinois” by Patsy Mighell Paxton at page 80.) In 1845, P.Y. Bliss was appointed by the Illinois General Assembly as a commissioner to locate a State road crossing the Fox River, and the designed meeting place was Bliss’s store in Sugar Grove. The State road today is known as Illinois Route 34, and has become a very busy and major route through Kane, DuPage, and Cook Counties.  According the “Laws of the State of Illinois passed by the Fourteenth General Assembly at Their Regular Session. 1845,” the Act stated: “In force, January 21, 1845. An Act to locate a State road from Little Rock in Kane County, to the steam mill bridge on the Des Plaines River in Cook County.  “Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, that Peleg Y. Bliss of Kane County, Hiram E. Leonard and Edward Eldridge of DuPage County, be, and the same are hereby appointed commissioners, to view, survey, mark and locate a State road from Little Rock, Kane County, crossing Fox River near Snider’s mill in said county, and terminate at the steam mill bridge on the Des Plaines River in Cook County. “Section 2. The said commissioners, or a majority of them shall meet at Bliss’s store in Sugar Grove, Kane County, on the first Monday in April or within four months thereafter, and after being duly sworn before some justice of the peace faithfully to discharge their duties according to the provisions of this act, shall proceed to view, mark, survey and locate said road on the nearest and most eligible ground from point to point, having due regard to private property and public convenience, and shall make return to the county commissioners’ courts of the several counties through which the same shall pass, which return shall be entered of record and filed in the office of the county commissioners’ courts, and said road shall be a public and State road and kept in repair as other State roads are. “Section 3. The said commissioners, surveyor and assistants shall receive such compensation for their services as the county commissioners’ courts of the several counties through which said road shall pass, shall deem right and proper. Approved, January 21, 1845.” “Laws of the State of Illinois passed by the Fourteenth General Assembly at Their Regular Session. 1845,” at pages 218-219. As noted above, the State road that P.Y. Bliss helped to survey and locate is now known as Illinois State Route 34, and has become a very busy and major route through Kane, DuPage, and Cook Counties. Mr. Bliss’s house and store was later relocated from its corner on Bliss Road and Merrill Road to Main Street in Sugar Grove in 1997 to become the Bliss House Museum and home of the Sugar Grove Historical Society. Subject The topic of the resource Bliss Family Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Sugar Grove Historical Society Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photo Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Sugar Grove Historical Society Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Richard Johnson Type The nature or genre of the resource Sugar Grove Historical Society