OCT Meeting

DARRELL WIBBEN is shown with his Dulcimer and Psalter collection at the Logan County Genealogical & Historical Society's Oct. 17th meeting. Wibben, who appears at New Salem, played songs from the 1500's and the Abraham Lincoln era including "Precious Lord," and "Amazing Grace." He also displayed arrowheads, including 9,000  and 10,000 year old spears found in the Union area. (LCGHS Photo)  

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The program is about The Logan County War History Committee Collection discovered at the Lincoln Public Library while Bill Donath was doing research for his book, Generosity. The collection consists of six books of information from the period of WW I.  Three of the books contain legal size pages containing information about the draft, war relief organizations and soldiers.  The other three books are large album size. One contains letters from soldiers and has 171 pages. One has photographs of nearly 400 soldiers. The third is a scrapbook that contains newspaper articles that follow local events from the early draft registration process in 1917 to the Homecoming in August 1919.  Bill made a digital copy of the collection that may be accessed both at the library and at LCGHS. Part of Bill's presentation this evening will be to show the audience how to navigate through the digital collection to find much more information which was not possible to include in his book.

AUG Meeting- The Logan County Genealogical & Historical Society August meeting will be Monday, August 21st, 2017 at 6:00 p.m. at the Society Center, 114 N. Chicago Street, Lincoln.  Sylvia Klockkenga will be giving the program telling the story of Marian Spears being abducted by an American Indian Tribe in the 1700's.  A short meeting and refreshments will follow.