2 20 3449 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/d524d66c392ec3143af5e3e8e43e2947.jpg af7f4ad38e0a8e89ccdc1536ddc4bc4a 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 Schools 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. 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 <strong>Sugar Grove Normal and Industrial School</strong> Description An account of the resource <strong>School located at 163 Main Street</strong> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <strong>1921</strong> Main Street School https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/f50db70d3293f602d77d92e35a731a68.pdf 49c2a3564e82f83a95f48862a4cc5419 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 School Yearbooks Text/Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document 1948 Year Book Photo 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 Year Book from Sugar Grove High School, 1948 Subject The topic of the resource School Year Book Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1948 Description An account of the resource 1948 SENIORS Mary Ann Potter Grace Nelson Mary Baumez Cathryn Berkes Edith Allen Grace Dugan Ralph Scott Earl Maier, Jr. JUNIORS Charles Bolster Roberta Hall Irene Musso Roy Wolf SOPHOMORES Richard Yearton Mary L. Maier Dick Evans Sue Wolf Robert L. Dildine Juanita Sims Donna Bohn Betty Kensel Bernice Robson Barbara Kearns Elaine Arnold FRESHMAN Melvin Nelson Jean Ann Johnson Mary L. Berkes Roger Wolf Josephine Yearton George Klomhuas Sugar Grove Historical Society Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Tim Wilson 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 Year Book 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 Year Book 1948 IL Sugar Grove Year Book https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/770373a987d695d28fec7e3b40b49868.pdf 67a47fef0410fbd2797cb5756913ba3e 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 Books Text/Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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 "Genealogy of the Bliss family in America, from about the year 1550 – 1880" by John Homer Bliss, 1881 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 1, 1881 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource John Homer Bliss Description An account of the resource Click on the first image to open a PDF file with excerpts from the book “Genealogy of the Bliss family in America, from about the year 1550 – 1880” by John Homer Bliss, January 1, 1881. 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Title A name given to the resource A Genuine Vermonter: Peleg Young Bliss Subject The topic of the resource Bliss, Peleg Young Description An account of the resource “We have recently had the pleasure of a visit by a remarkable man, an native of Vermont, who has resided for many years at Sugar Grove, Illinois. Peleg Y. Bliss was one of ‘God’s poor,’ but by industry, temperance, integrity, wit and wisdom, he has become wealthy; and, what is best, he is a father to other poor boys of the present generation. At nine years of age he visited an aunt at Montpeller, the wife of the late Dr. Sylvester Day of the United States Army. He was then indentured to the late John Howes of Moretown, and after an unfortunate experience for a short time, he ran away, and turned up at Strafford, where he was very lucky in gaining the favor of the late Hon. Jedediah H. Harris, under whose patronage he got into business that has been for himself and for the heirs of Mr. Harris remarkably prosperous. With no education but that of the Vermont district school to being with, Mr. Bliss had made himself a good writer, and has contributed much to the press in New York city and Chicago, and always for useful purposes. He claims to be the originator of the policy, recently adopted by the United States government, of granting prairie lands to settlers who plant trees and thus stock that portion of the country with timber. Among his contributions to the Chicago press is a very touching tale entitled ‘John Leniel’s Revenge.’ It is a story of a boy who was adopted and educated by Bliss, and enlisting in the Union army was the first of his company to fall by disease. We hardly know who to honor most, the patriotic boy or his foster father. It is not a remarkable thing for natives of Vermont to have an affectionate remembrance of their native state, but Mr. Bliss has a remarkable way of remembering not only Vermont but her children. In a book he obtains a sentence of some sort and the signature of every Vermonter he meets, and on the walls of a room prepared or the purpose in his house, he puts these memorials of the children of his native state. We cannot help honoring Mr. Bliss as a worthy ‘Green Mountain boy.’ “ Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84023200/1879-09-17/ed-1/seq-2/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available “Vermont Watchman and State Journal”, Montpelier, Vermont, Volume 74-3805, No. 49, September 17, 1879. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource September 17, 1879 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/b8eb652f54fb9a4b0c5b8dc3553775a7.pdf 457a237e7dc167b9c0ef72f1e2fe0cb5 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 Documents Text/Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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 1845 Laws of Illinois - Peleg Bliss, Commissioner Description An account of the resource "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." Bliss Family History https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/9ee98c33ad0f17943557e54607f991e7.png ed038ab28e74761461ac6543bca92ec6 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 Documents 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. 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 Coat of Arms Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Genealogy of the Bliss family in America, from about the year 1550 – 1880 by John Homer Bliss, January 1, 1881, pages 14-15. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 1, 1881 Description An account of the resource “Coats of Arms were long regarded as ‘indispensable appendages of gentlemen,’ but on the decline of feudal system, about 1688, and the rise of the Reformation, they were treated in a measure as idle trappings of aristocracy, and lost the prestige originally attributed to them. In America they soon came to be regarded as ‘relics of former family vanity;’ and the staunch old Puritans would not allow themselves to tolerate even a thought that could remind them of the vain-glorious display and pomp of their persecutors in England; and so their children and descendants born in America grew up in ignorance of the heraldic standing of their ancestors in the mother country. “In Edmondson’s Heraldry, and also in Vol. II of ‘Encyclopedia Heralidica,’ by William Berry, of London, England, we find the following description of the Coat of Arms of the Bliss family: “ ‘ Gules, a bend vaire, between two fleurs-de-lis, or.’ “ “ As to the construction of this shield, it appears that gules (red) is a royal color, as Gerard Leigh says, ‘it hath long been used by emperors and kings for an apparel of majesty, and of judges in their judgment seats.’ Spelman observes that the color red was honored by the Romans as it had been before by the Trojans, for they painted their gods with vermillion, and clothed their generals who triumphed, with garments of that hue. This color denotes martial prowess, boldness, hardihood, valor and magnanimity; it is considered the noblest of all colors, and in Heraldry is assimilated to the planet Mars in the heavens, to the ruby among stones, and among flowers to the rose. “The origin of vair (or vaire) is from the fur of a beast called varus, [MACKENZIE, p. 23] whose back is a blue-gray, its belly being white, and therefore heralds have expressed it white and blue in colors; and when the head and feet of the animal are taken away, the skin resembles in figure a little cup or bell. The skins are used alternately blue and white, and in ancient times were much in vogue for lining the robes and mantles of senators, consuls, kings and emperors, and thereupon were termed ‘doublings.’ The first use of them in Heraldry is said to be from LE SEGNEUR DE COUCIES, fighting in Hungary, and seeing his army fly, pulled out the doubling or lining of his cloak, which was of those colors, and hung it up as an ensign; whereupon the soldiers knowing his courage and confiding in it, returned to battle and overcame their enemy. – [COLOMB., p. 58.] The fleur-de-lis has been from the first bearing the charge of a regal escutcheon originally borne by the French kings, and was until late in the nineteenth century the insignia of royalty in France. The lily, which of all flowers is most esteemed by the French, has been of old and still is represented by a rudely drawn fleur-de-lis. As before stated, it was the heraldic device or emblem of the royal family of France, and was so borne form the time of Clovis until the accession of Louis Phillippe; -- and whether this badge came to our family by royal descent or by royal favor, we are unable to judge. “In English Heraldry different marks of cadency were used to indicate the various branches or cadets of one family; - the oldest son, during the life of his father, bore a ‘label;’ the second son a crescent; the third a mullet; the fourth a martlet; the fifth an annulet; and the sixth a fleur-de-lis. Thus it would appear that the original grant of arms to a Bliss, by whoever given, (if in England,) was to a sixth son. Some writers have fancied that a significant symbol might be drawn from the fleur-de-lis as to the flowers of literature which younger sons were led to cultivate in the schools to fit them for the church, the senate, and the bar; but Newton thinks the adaptation was originally intended to be only personal, and accident in arms, exhibiting the degree of consanguinity of the bearer to the living head of the family. “Or, (gold) – ‘Such is the worthiness of this color that non ought to bear the same in arms but emperors and kings, and such as be of the blood royal; and as this metal exceedeth all others in value, purity and fineness, so ought the bearer endeavor to surpass all others in prowess and virtue.’ – GUILLIM." “The significance and appropriateness of the crest will be fully understood after a perusal of the Traditional History of the family. “The motto, ‘SEMPER SURSUM,’ translated, means, ‘ever upward,’ and signifies that the bearer should always endeavor to excel in his undertakings, aiming at goodness rather than greatness, in every deed or motive.” Bliss Family History https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/8998123346cdbfb7148f1e494a8b266b.pdf f7b6c0123b796f58197013ab60c69694 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 Newspapers Hyperlink A link to another site or source. 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 Sale of Bliss Wood Farm to Strafford Woods Developer: 1986 Description An account of the resource "Meeting Development Halfway" is an article in the newspaper in 1986 about the sale of Bliss Wood Farm, which was homesteaded by Peleg Young Bliss in 1844, to develop Strafford Woods residential area. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Wes Smith Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1986-05-27-8602070867-story.html">https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1986-05-27-8602070867-story.html</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Chicago Tribune Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 27, 1986 Bliss Family History https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/01dbd0efcd9e00a1cd95f77a8e7717fa.jpg 589e576a9d342ae4c43df3407c473877 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/ef57bc46e0c0999b8791bdcf76aa9b55.jpg 7b56a2e679b5e923cc4fcd4d717e551d https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/abc1bbdba10653b49df086173e2054e5.jpg ea4d16b885ccd90624db18719b3582af https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/9635118c8c4ca303db079507c4b4caf1.jpg c4b41622d8086e3747cf6d87860e8693 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/253a57fb934903ab18881d84d355241b.png 26b36a4b4f79a6552c7a9d2d6d59f8fc https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/39089e28d1a49e4f96b3370c8262f4c1.png d1f174eaecf65624bafbab415cff8b48 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 Historic Commercial 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 Golden Acres Restaurant and Hotel Description An account of the resource The Gold Acres Restaurant and Motel was located on the southwest corner of Harter Road and Illinois Route 47. It was built by [?]. Workers and managers have been Dolly Johnson, Nina Bradley, and Jim Best. Later known as Candy's Golden Acres, the restaurant served customers for many years before being demolished sometime between 2010-2017. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lisa, Wozniak Subject The topic of the resource Historical Commercial Johnson 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 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Photos by Maplecrisp at Fliker.com from March 2008 Historical Commercial IL Motel Restaurant Sugar Grove https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/49e3651781502bede9b1599c63a9fa72.png 0c3d5f007c2dcc958e3f63ac11b088b5 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/e1c80b511d5a4ab641b20ac1facf5986.jpg c4b41622d8086e3747cf6d87860e8693 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 Historic Commercial 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 Restaurant on Route 30 by Air Classics Museum, Sugar Grove, IL Description An account of the resource The restaurant on Route 30 in Sugar Grove by the Air Classics Museum has changed hands and names a number of times. The Countryside Restaurant on Route 30 was built by Laura (Mrs. Roy Solfisburg) Mushrush in the 1950s. Workers at times were Donna Breyne, Dolly Johnson, Gladys Munson, Edna Doony, Mary Elaine Clever Morel, Pefik Ashiku (owners of it and the Dreamspinner Motel at the same location) in the 1980s. There was a gas station on their site run by Michael Hanson, Albert Ward, Jerry [?], Mike Dugan in 1974. 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Title A name given to the resource Sugar Grove United Methodist Church Windows Description An account of the resource Stained Glass Windows, Sugar Grove United Methodist Church, 176 S Main St, Sugar Grove, IL 60554 Art Stained Glass Windows Sugar Grove United Methodist Church https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/fa4c21521cf5ea9db573ea2bde134139.jpg deb1c9ff2f1f7facd6dc7d00797a244d https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/dc0fffa3d29a00c76c5c5be935ea57bd.jpg fb8cd091f17cbfec995a22ffd9876cf2 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/d5a2d1c9517b1705cdff366cf7018bdc.jpg 3a06b7cb3655ed8d6daf34b43a21f32b https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/2dc96622e6150c2fc737e8472008d3e0.jpg 6285d27f0e02f5fec9a1fa6026443a2e https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/d1ea2cd32fd1a496bc300ab824377b47.jpg a5535cbba326d474c223f8bf48e3bea1 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/38474d5a2ebb6f5a84e64757eacdac3b.jpg 4f68c46ade4efc8e8d149798c162f4e9 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/2f0f9abf493fd526e7406ff482b80c3a.jpg 66d83c5fcbe53bb11c77ebefc2a26e9c https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/cd904f6943758a59aa334d47b3041159.jpg 924a78d66734f747654ae34992829d2d https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/5e44af590336a0f940f68c6c437d607e.jpg 32618df42b3c8c9781c9137f3f97065e https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/306b915583f41ec94d671336603dbd8c.jpg e07558d46a2d5a3572ce4d428fc374b1 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/ca2eccf63084b770b14c82492e1288e7.jpg 9a2c7165765078ecbebd8f78cb156030 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Sugar Grove United Methodist Church Bell Description An account of the resource Bell, Sugar Grove United Methodist Church, 176 S Main St, Sugar Grove, IL 60554 Cast by Meneely Bell Foundary, Troy, New York 1856 Sugar Grove United Methodist Church https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/2a7e6cd83420a5bd1eeb0c54b0a90fe5.jpg 0979fc739cca5bcc346e1de0b582ff6b https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/86133e3de5da2377d959f7601ff96e50.jpg 7fc2a4dd8041302f9c2814d157d7826f https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/e9414bffb1be6a507e0943bcf7dc5bd1.jpg 4e6f7a7631124109a46e9098ba338b88 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/20d399de8c5b26106218efa0b0ddee1c.jpg c6eac566d3ce2d69cddca4b7c2d5f3cf https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/61e373b251d7189063f48e0bdaddfb06.jpg 4b8d85a3b49bbafaa073b7152a9eaa64 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/6ec4a2d4058858b1ac2ccae7f86bcec7.jpg eb4322f35b7d3b3730150d6b8d33a2a9 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/b4b8f3845a3e524196c5cf05538eaa81.jpg e5483eb2377e194460639b142df2498a https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/af69f006451fe5dfa045f53f095581be.jpg f94a6290a53d351e4827604e9c70ed7c https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/d62ff4f14b7d090616f881465ddf5207.jpg 77982148a7139ea43a68fb103a5abef7 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/81f0c76d7eecd481550e54a8d8402953.jpg 11bdd68a0b13dfefd4d657f616a6cd57 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/0ef16d829a4edf1278b6969b4ece93b7.jpg 0096d9d359ab9354e1514dd343e75661 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/167ca6499e61c306a8332e35d98ff745.jpg 985964fdf804f40004a9a0162d5e37bd https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/e60d4a087b2b1c14d77362377ce685c5.jpg 6f4f1287076802f35c312fb0c2612482 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/2dc7c39affeffae08f55619622947276.jpg 5aae1471f29336a39f6a585b7ae2ad0e https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/6935628df7c02532f4a83a5b66b5dd99.jpg b29eea1ed2f07db1d144c59d9151d6bd https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/94fbdabbcc9261c8baa03786d4fcc508.jpg 5223c04a851aef8288b8b5bf7857e08c https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/a23276b921de1784b1600cdec7781dde.jpg da604e1b32442d310b9fae090126620c https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/1d251c0862de33312c0987ad5872f766.jpg 497ad9d20a3f7246334f9c55aba43f76 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/c8deee9b36b8e7992d66d0f5837b8929.jpg debc1d345d64e990c32abc36c42c07e1 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/42f4fb3d8d7bee3d2375a1ae50e100b5.jpg 1b8b4a9f34ed0f378ac9dddcb4f29443 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 House Move Physical Object An inanimate, three-dimensional object or substance. Note that digital representations of, or surrogates for, these objects should use Moving Image, Still Image, Text or one of the other types. 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 House Spring 1997 Subject The topic of the resource Photos of the Bliss House dating from February-April 1997. Description An account of the resource Photos of the Bliss House dating from February-April 1997. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February-April, 1997 1997 Bliss House Bliss Road Pre-Move Preparation https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/a82759ddf0922c618ab16062727256c0.jpg 319a70eef8d37e7f6f5bbee48ef89c08 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/8d5fb6045e7f3e9c2740ca1a61638cf7.jpg 52e8e4bbfeb7c78d89953888e687fc72 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 House Move Physical Object An inanimate, three-dimensional object or substance. Note that digital representations of, or surrogates for, these objects should use Moving Image, Still Image, Text or one of the other types. 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 House 1990 Subject The topic of the resource Bliss House Description An account of the resource Photos of the Bliss House from 1990. 1990 Bliss House Bliss Road https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/b835ed0f47341d24eff58c38778158c7.jpg 13eab9c7dc2e5e1abb17fded1c9a91f4 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 House Move Physical Object An inanimate, three-dimensional object or substance. Note that digital representations of, or surrogates for, these objects should use Moving Image, Still Image, Text or one of the other types. 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 House Unknown Dates Subject The topic of the resource Bliss House Description An account of the resource Photos of the Bliss House with an unknown date, Bliss House Bliss Road https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/545b94ddd931811acc289df001b4af99.jpg 5b9d419548fc28859dccb66be8295eb0 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/e53a822a96e2979e88f881fe007eda4c.jpg 684d2c164ed24c3caae8d85b9055b301 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/00d35c77aad3d552d7837284ee577403.jpg 030cbd92b8df45c363bf8291163ba33f 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 House Move Physical Object An inanimate, three-dimensional object or substance. Note that digital representations of, or surrogates for, these objects should use Moving Image, Still Image, Text or one of the other types. 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 House 1996 Subject The topic of the resource Bliss House Description An account of the resource Photos from the Bliss House in 1996. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Logan 1996 Bliss House Bliss Road https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/ff5a852714ab244d1ed85968b93b7371.jpg c1ce471dba730961c24981debd4a2aa5 https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/3089f23ed0c36e36f18a4cce4db34994.jpg 3e07f09674031ae09cef73c48acfb2f0 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: 1852 Subject The topic of the resource Peleg Young Bliss Description An account of the resource Peleg Young Bliss ( P.Y. Bliss ) at age 46 in 1852 or 1853. Photo cropped from portrait with daughter Janette Bliss. 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. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Logan Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1852 or 1853 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 Bliss Family History Bliss House Peleg Young Bliss https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/c6431b464689b7237f2a18577631b27c.jpg 5cbede9c72cad2dc6f4f724dc622d7be https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/4ac997ea86c0ce0fea27b8134d0e9be7.jpg 44997a44cf2f1fddade1e95753da7339 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 Printed Printed item, Flyer, Book,Etc. 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: Historical Account from 1878 Description An account of the resource TRANSCRIPTION Bliss, P.Y. Farming and stock, Sec. 10, Sugar Grove; P.O. Aurora; 191 acres, valued at $60 per acre, and 262 acres in Kaneville Tp.; Rep.; was born in Strafford, Vermont, April 8, 1806. He married Miss Helen Mather, February 5, 1842; she was born in New York, July 9, 1822; they have two children; he lived in Vermont until he was eighteen, when he went to Boston; he came to Kane County in 1837, and settled on his present place in 1838, and engaged in the general merchandise business, and was assessed highest of any merchant in the county; he continued in business six years, when he bought 1,000 sheep and went into the stock business; he is one of the early settlers, and a much esteemed citizen. Source: "Past and Present Kane County, Illinois" 1878, page 655. Harvey Densmore and Cyrus Calkins are also mentioned on this page. 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Note that digital representations of, or surrogates for, these objects should use Moving Image, Still Image, Text or one of the other types. 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 House ca.1970's Subject The topic of the resource Bliss House Description An account of the resource Photos of the Bliss House from 2006. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Logan Bliss House Bliss Road https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/5b88b5fd0f80612993d8481cde600194.jpeg 9763c92c2ac408cb5778069e03823d8c https://museum.sugargrovehistory.org/files/original/44509b0f9c8e93c7b77b7b99e3d087d5.jpg e0345f30a119b6c3cba396940a9b2bab 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 Transportation Landscape Photos of landscape. 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 Sugar Grove Railroad Depot and Postmaster inside Depot Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ocker Description An account of the resource Ralph Hartman, Postmaster inside Sugar Grove Train Depot Building People Train