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2019
Programs
NOV MEETING:
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John and Gail Guzzardo are pictured
during John's "Our Italian Heritage"
presentation at the annual meeting of
the Logan County Genealogical &
Historical Society at the Blue Dog Inn.
LINCOLN - Longtime Lincoln restaurant
owner and former mayor John Guzzardo
presented "Our Italian Heritage" at the
annual meeting of the Logan County
Genealogical and Historical Society on
Monday.
Guzzardo's
father, Dominic (Doc) Guzzardo was born
in Italy and moved to Lincoln from
LaGrange in 1947
and brought Willow Farms Dairy to
Lincoln. The dairy was located in the
basement of the long time Guzzardo
Family home at 812 Clinton St. It later
became known as Fullerton Dairy. In 1957
Doc and his wife Rose opened a pizza
business in the rear of the Arcade,
which gradually expanded into the
present day facility and serves hundreds
of diners weekly. His son Nick is the
third generation family member to
operate the business.
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OCT MEETING:
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Nancy Gehlbach of Lincoln spoke on Chautauqua
Summers and Saturday Nights in Logan County during the
6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 21, meeting of the Logan County
Genealogical & Historical Society. Gehlbach,
a researcher and writer for the Our Times publication, displayed a map of the Chautauqua Grounds.
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New Herald News: Chautauqua
Summers and Saturday Nights revisited at the
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LDN:
25 Sept., 2019
Donath restoring newly found 19th century Lincoln
newspaper collection
Bill Donath
presented an update program on projects he has been
working on, primarily, the Shew Collection. This donated
collection consists of Lincoln Herald newspapers
covering the period, 1873-1895 and print jobs done by
the Lincoln Herald covering the period, 1897-1901. The
collection was donated by the Shew family after they
closed MKS Jewelry in 2017. They found the collection in
a closed off storage area in the attic. Since then, Bill
has been working on preserving the collection and
preparing it for digitizing. He will be completing the
second year of working on the collection in November.
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The
original condition of the Shew
Collection of The Lincoln Herald when it
first came to LCGHS. Bill Donath is
transforming this jumble into a well
cataloged and usable research tool. |
Some of the tools of the trade for the
preservationist include protective
gloves, simple pink erasures, breathing
protection, and a gentle vacuum. |
Before cleaning
on the left and after a partial cleaning on the right,
the paper went from not being legible to easy to read.
This is the February 12, 1880 edition of The Lincoln
Herald. “Happy Birthday, Mr. Lincoln,” said Bill Donath. |
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JULY MEETING: |
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Abraham Lincoln was not an, "Aw Shucks kind of
guy” according to Ron Keller, who
spoke about his book, "Lincoln in
the Illinois Legislature” this week
to members and guests of the Logan
County Genealogical & Historical
Society. Keller said Lincoln,
who served in the Illinois
Legislature from 1834-1846, had
developed political ambitions during
a time when the population of
Illinois was rapidly expanding and
Illinois was becoming known as the
Capital of the Midwest.
As a native, Lincoln utilized the
political power of Sangamon County
and in 1839 had the state capital
moved from Vandalia to Springfield.
At that time he was the leader of
the "Long Nine,” with all members of
the group being six foot or over in
height.
Accomplishments during Lincoln’s tenure included
forging the separation of Logan
County from Sangamon County,
creation of the
Illinois-Michigan canal, and
opposing the separation of
Chicago from the State of
Illinois. Lincoln also supported
teacher certification and was
the only member of the
legislature in 1837 who was
listed in favor of protesting
against slavery. During
the Panic of 1837 Keller said
Lincoln advocated the
continuation of internal
improvements and became known
for building opportunities for
the common man, stating,
"Lincoln never forgot the
people.”
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New Herald News - Keller
LCGHS Talk
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 Ron Keller will be
presenting, "Lincoln in
the Illinois
Legislature," at 6 p.m.
Monday, July 15, at the
Logan County
Genealogical &
Historical Society, 114
N. Chicago St.
"Lincoln in the Illinois
Legislature," is the
title of Keller's most
recent book, which
follows Abraham Lincoln
through his days in
state government.
Keller is an associate
professor of history and
political science at
Lincoln College, serves
as a Lincoln city
alderman, and is
managing director of the
Abraham Lincoln Center
for Character
Development at the
college. In
addition he is a past
director of the Lincoln
Heritage Museum at
Lincoln College.
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JUNE MEETING:
Lawyer Abraham Lincoln Circuit
Markers ...
Chuck McCue talking about the DAR
monuments on the 1850's Illinois 8th
Judicial Circuit.
McCue
presented a program on the Lincoln
Circuit markers in Logan County
during the 6:30 p.m. Monday, June
17, meeting of the Logan County
Genealogical & Historical Society,
114 N. Chicago St. in Lincoln.
Granite stones bearing the words,
"Abraham Lincoln Traveled This Way
As He Rode the Circuit," were placed
at each courthouse where Abraham
Lincoln practiced law, including
those at Postville and in Mt.
Pulaski.
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http://newherald.news/marking-the-th-judicial-circuit-p9977-103.htm
Lincoln Daily
News Article
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Editor's notes:
In 1848, David B. Campbell was
elected Prosecuting Attorney for the
8th Judicial Circuit and retained
this post until his death in 1855.
[Stringer, p 325] The shifting of
the county seat to Mount Pulaski and
the election of Davis and Campbell
“really marked the beginning of a
distinctive Logan County residential
bar. Prior to that, Logan County had
been one of the legal ‘stakes of
Zion’, Zion, in this case, meaning
Springfield.” The first group of
Logan County Lawyers were: Lionel P.
Lacey, Samuel C. Parks and William
H. Young, all three of whom settled
for a time in the county seat town
of Mount Pulaski, and later moved
with the court to the town of
Lincoln. [Stringer, p. 323]
Through his successful law practice,
Lincoln had accumulated a little
more money, so he set up a onehorse
buggy, a “sorry and shabby looking
affair, which he generally used when
the weather promised bad and this he
frequently rode from Springfield
into Postville and Mount Pulaski. It
was on this famous Eighth Circuit,
of which Logan was a part, that
Lincoln shone as a nisi prius
lawyer, cracked his jokes, told his
stories, fraternized with the
people, entered into their joys and
sorrows, and laid the foundations of
his future greatness.” [Stringer, p.
215]
Throughout most of these years, the
Illinois 8th Judicial Circuit
required traveling approximately 450
miles by horseback or horse and
buggy through fourteen counties
[reduced to eight counties in 1853
and further reduced to five counties
in 1857], including Mount Pulaski,
the Logan County Seat from the
spring of 1848 through the fall of
1855. The circuit was nearly 140
miles north by south and 110 miles
east by west, nearly one-fifth of
the entire area of the state.
[1850’s Illinois 8th Judicial
Circuit]
For a more complete researched
article,
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Mount Pulaski & the Lincoln
Court in Mount Pulaski 1836 – 1855
MAY
MEETING: Cheryl
Baker of Emden on her Postcard
Collection
Logan County Genealogical and
Historical Society hears how
postcards show us our history ... "“Postcards
are a unique way to study history,”
Baker said. Postcards not only
contain messages, but the cards
themselves tell a story."
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APR MEETING:
Bill Donath - The Spanish Influenza
Epidemic in Logan Co., Illinois -
1st Report ...
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http://newherald.news/lcghs-meeting-apr-donath-to-present-spanish-influenza-epidemic-p9198-103.htm
"Bring out yer dead!" Donath
presents on 1918 Spanish Flu
Edidemic ... T.A. Bergin, Sat.,
Apr. 20, 2019 |
As reports of measles outbreaks
spread across the country in
2019, Lincoln researcher Bill
Donath brought the local horrors
of a century-old epidemic to
life in his presentation on the
Spanish flu, which killed over
600 people in Logan County, over
600,000 nationwide, and 50 to
100 million worldwide from 1918
to 1920, at the April meeting of
the Logan County Genealogical &
Historical Society.
"It was like a switch flipped
on, then off,” Donath said of
the epidemic; the first local
case was documented Oct. 5, 1918
and the last in April 1920. He
spent hours researching
newspaper and other archives and
reviewing death certificates at
the Logan County Courthouse,
which he said gave him an odd,
nauseas feeling at times. "This
was an extremely difficult
research. I had to walk away
multiple times.” The origin of
what has come to be known as the
Spanish flu is still debated,
but it is thought to have been a
mutation of Type A/N1H1
influenza spread from pigs in
Kansas to birds to humans, then
carried around the world by
soldiers as World War I wound
down.
2nd Report
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Pat Freeze - Can you find your
genealogy in your church? |
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FEB MEETING:
Ann
Mosley - Abraham Lincoln & the
Founding Fathers -
Anne Moseley, Director of
the Lincoln Heritage Museum,
is pictured during her
presentation of "Lincoln and
our Founding Fathers" to
members and guests of the
Logan County Genealogical &
Historical Society on Monday
evening. According to
Moseley, Abraham Lincoln's
favorite founding fathers
were Thomas Paine, Thomas
Jefferson, and George
Washington. Lincoln gained
insights from Paine's
skepticism and humor,
Jefferson's way with words
and writing style, and
Washington as a freedom
fighter. Lincoln often
referred to the Bible, the
Declaration of Independence
and the Constitution.
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