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Molly Crusen Bishop: The West Bluff Water Tower Disaster
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- Published on Tuesday, 18 July 2017 15:59
- Written by Molly Crusen Bishop
The West Bluff Water Tower Disaster
By Charles Needham and Molly Crusen Bishop
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of stories from Molly Crusen Bishop that will be based on the essays about the West Bluff by her grandfather, Charles Needham.
Charles Needham was born to Patrick...
Molly Crusen Bishop: My grandpa witnessed history
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- Published on Saturday, 03 June 2017 17:56
- Written by Molly Crusen Bishop
There were two guys named Charles living on Barker Avenue on Peoria’s West Bluff in the 1890s. One was Charles Duryea, the father of the American automotive industry, and the other m was my grandfather, Charles Needham.
A look back to Dec. 30 of the past
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- Published on Friday, 30 December 2016 14:13
- Written by PRNewswire
As a year draws to a close, it is common to reflect on the passage of time. How history will judge...
Molly Crusen Bishop: From County Kilkenny, Ireland to Peoria
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- Published on Friday, 10 February 2017 16:59
- Written by Molly Crusen Bishop
Below is the Peoria Star Monday May 7th, 1923 obituary for my Great Aunt Maggie
Mrs. Margaret Nolan Caffyn
Molly Crusen Bishop: Pioneers and Log Cabins
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- Published on Thursday, 22 December 2016 14:41
- Written by Molly Crusen Bishop
The census of 1810 said the Illinois territory had a population of around 12,000 people. At the time Illinois was an undeveloped land with the indigenous people and a few French and other immigrant settlers.
Illinois had a very harsh climate with limited resources and supplies for folks relocating...
Molly Crusen Bishop: Griffith Dickison, true pioneer
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- Published on Friday, 13 January 2017 15:19
- Written by Molly Crusen Bishop
Griffith Dickison was one of Peoria area’s earliest settlers. He was born to farmers in Indiana on Nov. 27, 1811. His education was the real world and real life, and whatever minimal schooling was available...
Molly Crusen Bishop: Holidays with the Greenhuts
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- Published on Friday, 02 December 2016 15:34
- Written by Molly Crusen Bishop
“It can be said of Mr. Greenhut, more than any other one man that he has made Peoria commercially, for he has been connected with practically every business movement and enterprise of importance here.”
The above is a direct quote from the book History of...
Who was R. G. LeTourneau?
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- Published on Monday, 09 January 2017 17:20
- Written by Norm Kelly
All of us remember our first jobs and the thrill of earning our own money. I bet you also hold in your fond memory your first ‘real job.’ Mine was 1950 when I went to work for the R.G. LeTourneau Company right here in Peoria, Illinois.
John Wilkes Booth letter to be auctioned
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- Published on Thursday, 17 November 2016 15:35
- Written by PRNewswire
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