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TAHS New Entries for January 2005

April 8, 2005

JANURARY 2005 ENTRIES 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 
 
John Abbey (Whiteside County) 
Asa Abbott (Whiteside County) 
George Adair (Whiteside County) 
Charles F. Adams (Whiteside County) 
George B. Adams (Whiteside County) 
Robert Adams (Whiteside County) 
William Aitken (Whiteside County) 
John F. McNaughton (Whiteside County) 
George Seyller (Whiteside County) 
Edward H. Nevitt (Whiteside County) 
William Thompson (Thomson or Tompson)(Whiteside County) 
Alfred W. Fenton (Whiteside County) 
Wiliam Huffman (Whiteside County) 
Robert M. Carr (Whiteside County) 
Benjamin Burgess, Jr. (Whiteside County) 
Noble F. Eddy (Whiteside County) 
Lorenzo Eddy (Whiteside County) 
Cornelius Bachellor (Whiteside County) 
Jonas H. Baer (Whiteside County) 
 
 
 
PHOTOS 
 
Dow: Oscar, Arthur, Lucy, Maude, Chancy, Duane, Son of 
Duane, Dow boy (Dow Family Photo Album) - Submitted by 
Connie Essig  
Merchants Receipts (People/Places/Things) - submitted by 
Connie Essig 
McKenzie Store (People/Places/Things) - submitted by Connie 
Essig 
Bureau Co. Schools (new album) with list of Teachers' names 
(Photo Album Index/Bureau Co.) - Submitted by Bob Johnson 
1872 "Rules for Teachers" linked from Bureau Co. Schools 
Photo Album - Preface, submitted by Bob Johnson 
Old Telephone Office, Thomas, IL(Photo Album/Thomas,IL, 
Also in HOGEBOOM Family Album) - submitted by Bob Johnson 
New Photo Album - Tampico High School Year Books (Photo 
Albums) 
1973 Tampico High School Class pictures (Photo Albums-THS 
Year Books) 
John Gudgell home ca 1923 (Photo Album/Thomas, IL) - 
submitted by Vivian Gudgell 
Ronald Reagan in Tampico 1976 (Photo Albums/Reagan Photo 
Gallery) 
1974 Tampico High School Class Pictures (Photo Albums/THS 
Year Books 
Tampico Methodist Church (Photo Albums/People, Places & 
Things)- submitted by Connie Essig 
Stained Glass Window of Methodist Church (Photo 
Albums/People,Places & Things) - submitted by Connie Essig 
Gillette's Dry Goods Store (Photo Albums/People, Places & 
Things) - submitted by Connie Essig 
Johnson Family Photo Album (Photo Albums/Index to Family 
Albums) 
Lester E. Johnson (Photo Albums/Johnson Families), 
submitted by Bob Johnson 
Johnson Kids (Johnson Family Album), submitted by Bob 
Johnson 
Presidential Order of Merit to Lillie Johnson (Johnson 
Family photo album), submitted by Bob Johnson 
Johnson School 1913 w/names of students (Bureau Co. 
Schools), submitted by Bob Johnson 
Various Certificates to Lillie Johnson - too many to list 
(Johnson Family Photo Album), submitted by Bob Johnson 
Reagan in Tampico and various news articles (Reagan Photo 
Gallery - rows 9-11), submitted by Bob Johnson 
Helen Nicely (Photo Albums/People), submitted by Bob 
Johnson 
Paul Nicely with "Moon Reagan" in Tampico (Photo 
Albums/People), submitted by Bob Johnson 
West Family Photo Album (Photo Albums/Index to Family 
Albums) 
Birth & Death Records of West Family from the Family Bible 
(West Family Album), submitted by Connie Essig 
1891 store receipt from N.J. Hogeboom & Son to O. McKenzie 
(McKenzie Photo Album and Hogeboom Photo Album), submitted 
by Connie Essig 
1948 Financial Statement for Tampico Nat'l Bank (Photo 
Album Index/People-Places-Things), submitted by Bob Johnson 
1894 2-page, hand-written request to build Meeting House in 
Yorktown (Yorktown Photo Album), submitted by Connie Essig 
1811-1840 hand-written historical notes (Bureau County 
Photo Album), submitted by Connie Essig 
Hand-written historical chronology of Bureau Co. (Bureau 
Co. Photo Album), submitted by Connie Essig 
1901 THS Athletic Team (Photo Album/Class Pictures 2), 
submitted by Connie Essig 
Aerial view of Yorktown, Fairfield Twp, Bureau Co. in 1955 
(Yorktown Photo Album), submitted by Bob Johnson 
Amish Church (People/Places/Things), submitted by Bob 
Johnson 
Amish Church Property (People/Places/Things), submitted by 
Bob Johnson 
Center Grade School, Tampico (Schools & Class Pictures), 
submitted by Bob Johnson 
Fairfield Evangelical Lutheran church - Tampico 
(People/Places/Things), submitted by Bob Johnson 
Lutheran Church-Yorktown (Yorktown Photo Album), submitted 
by Bob Johnson 
Grade School - Yorktown (Yorktown Photo Album), submitted 
by Bob Johnson 
Burden School Dist 40 (Schools/Class Pictures), submitted 
by Bob Johnson 
School Dist 45-Tampico (Schools/Class Pictures), submitted 
by Bob Johnson 
Fairfield Cemetery (Bureau Co. Photo Album), submitted by 
Bob Johnson 
Thomas Grade School (Thomas Photo Album), submitted by Bob 
Johnson 
Area Farms & Buildings - includes surnames Aagesen, 
Anderson, Berge. Towns included: Tampico, Yorktown & 
Thomas, IL (People/Places/Things), submitted by Bob Johnson 
Area Farms in Tampico - Berge/Blackert/Brandau 
(People/Places/Things), submitted by Bob Johnson 
Area Farms in Tampico - Brown/Buckley/Bunker/Burden/Buren 
(People/Places/Things), submitted by Bob Johnson 
Lovina Booth/Mrs. Horace Booth (Booth Family Album)  
Tampico Buildings - new photo album 
(Index:People/Places/Things) 
Certificate appointing Washington Thomas Postmaster - 1889 
(Photo Album/Thomas, IL) 
McKenzie land sale for HY&T right-of-way 1914 (HY&T Photo 
Album) 
Howlett Bros. Hardware/Furniture Store and Henny Buggy Co. 
(Photo Albums: Index: People/Places/Things - Tampico 
Buildings) 
Added names to A.W. Bastian 1909 reception 
(People/Places/Things) 
Fred Cain (Cain Family Album) 
Haney Cain (Cain Family Album) 
Group Photo - with names (Photo Album/People) 
Added names to Church of Christ Sunday School Class picture 
(Ronald Reagan Photo Gallery) 
Added a "MYSTERY PHOTOS" album. If you can identify any of 
the them, please contact Denise McLoughlin at the TAHS 
(Main Menu/Photo Albums) 
Shaheen's Grocery Store 1940 (Index: 
People/Places/Things-Tampico Buildings) 
Main Street, Tampico 1915 (Photo Album/Tampico Buildings) 
Tampico Sports - new photo album (Index: 
People/Places/Things - Tampico Sports) 
Tampico Basketball Team 1924-25 (Tampico Sports Album) 
1876 Ledger from the Yorktown General Store (Index: Bureau 
County Photo Albums), on loan from Connie Essig  
Added names to photo of R. Reagan's 4th Grade Class (Reagan 
Photo Gallery) 
Mystery photo from V. Gudgell re: Mr. Latham. Can you 
identify? (Mystery Photo Album), submitted by Vivian 
Gudgell 
Tampico High School - Class of 1938 (Index to Schools & 
Class Photos/Class Photos 2), submitted by Vivian Gudgell 
Besse Yarde "Pancake Days"(Tampico Buildings), submitted by 
Connie Essig 
Tampico Hardware and Tavern next door (Tampico Buildings), 
submitted by Connie Essig 
Tampico Hardware and Theatre next door (Tampico Buildings), 
submitted by Connie Essig 
Tampico Hardware - Pancake Days (Tampico Buildings), 
submitted by Connie Essig 
Tampico 5th Grade Class, 1955 (Index to School.Class 
Pictures - Class pictures 2), submitted by Richard Hinton 
New Photo Album - Hansen Family (Family Photo Album) 
1954 class photo - Reeves School (School Photo Albums/Class 
pictures 2), submitted by Connie Essig 
Bud's Lunch Cafe (Tampico Buildings), submitted by Connie 
Essig 
Maude Sly (Photo Album/People) 
News article on Lovina Booth includes bio (Booth Family 
Album) 
OBITS 
 
Minerva Miller Lyon, submitted by Sandi Hartnell (OBITS) 
Sigrid Marie Pierson Memorial Card (Obits), submitted by 
Bob Johnson 
Mrs. Iva M. Schmitt Memorial Card (Obits), submitted by 
Connie Essig 
Mr. John W. Schmitt, Sr. Memorial Card (Obits), submitted 
by Connie Essig 
Mildred Thome (Obits) 
Jane Fluck (Obits) 
Wesley Verhuist (Obits) 
Gwendolyn Peterson (Obits) 
Ambrose A. Shere (Obits), submitted by Les Niemi 
ILLINOIS SOLDIER'S & SAILOR'S HOME AT QUINCY 
 
Samuel F. Brady (Military) 
Edmund E Page (Military) 
HENRY COUNTY (Henry Co. info will be moved to IL 
Trails-Henry Co. in near future) 
 
Henry County OBITS (Henry County) 
Clara E. Nichols 1892 (Henry Co. OBITS), submitted by P. 
Higgins 
Sophia Samuelson Miller Nichols (Henry Co. OBITS), 
submitted by Phyllis Higgins 
Mrs. Mary Nichols (Henry Co. OBITS), submitted by Phyllis 
Higgins 
Henry County Photo Album (Henry County) 
1877 Henry Co. Plat map showing Edgar Nichols Farm (Henry 
Co. Photo Album), submitted by Phyllis Higgins 
Gravesite of Samuel Nichols (Henry Co. Photo Album), 
submitted by Phyllis Higgins 
Gravesite of Edgar Nichols (Henry Co. Photo Album), 
submitted by Phyllis Higgins 
Gravesite of Deacon James Miller (Henry Co. Photo Album), 
submitted by Phyllis Higgins 
Gravesite of Abigail Nichols (Henry Co. Photo Album), 
submitted by Phyllis Higgins 
Petition for the estate of Samuel Nichols (Henry Co. Photo 
Album), submitted by Phyllis Higgins 
 
FAMILY HISTORIES 
 
McKenzie Family Report (Main Menu/Family Histories, also 
linked from McKenzie Family Photo Album) Submitted by 
Connie Essig 
Descendants of Geo. Forward, Jr. (Main Menu/Family 
Histories), submitted by Laura Balluff 
David Slye - in pdf. (Main Menu/Family Histories), 
submitted by Mike Russell 
MISCELLANEOUS 
 
1914 Deer Grove Merchants Directory (History & 
Biography/Index to Directories) 
"Country School Days 1905-1915" written by Lillie M. 
Johnson (Bureau County) 
"An Ott Story..." - I added this off-site link to the 
Phillip Ott Biography. This article has to do with the 
father of Phillip Ott.(Biographies/Phillip Ott/Related 
Links) - submitted by Becky Arnold Jones. 
Fairfield Twp, Bureau County Landowners (Bureau County & 
Maps/Atlases), submitted by Les Niemi 
Added correction to Tampico Memorial Cemetery List, 
submitted by Deb Peterson 
PROJECTS - A page listing the current projects of the TAHS 
Family History Library/Research Center. Can you or someone 
you know help us? A quick reference tab is located at top 
of each page.

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