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Report of the Commissioners

…plat recorded July 10, 1835. This recorded plat bears the certificate of Joseph Conway, clerk to the county commissioners. The town comprised within its modest limits twenty blocks in addition to the one set aside for a public square upon which the county buildings were to be erected and upon which the handsome modern court house now stands. The lots were most generous, as befitted a time when land was cheap. They measured eighty feet front and had a depth of one hundred and fifty feet. Colonel George Davenport, John W. Spencer and John Vanatta, the county commissioners, entered the…

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Rock Island – Davenport Ferry

…stock to his cousin, Captain Marcus L. Henderson, who had been in charge of the ferry as general manager since 1896. Captain Henderson is the president and manager, with H. E. Casteel secretary and treasurer. In 1891 the “Augusta” was put in service. In 1902 she was rebuilt, re-christened the “T. J. Robinson,” electric lighted and re-furnished. In 1904, entirely without public demand, the “Davenport” was built at Rock Island by Kahlke Brothers, and put in commission. She is also of modern design. City of Rock Island Source: Historic Rock Island County, pub. Kramer & Company, Rock Island, Illinois, 1908…

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Rock Island Post Office

…August Huesing, 1888-1889; Howard Wells, 1889-1893; J. W. Potter, 1893-1897; T. H. Thomas, 1897-1906; Hugh A. J. McDonald, 1906. As one of the best indications of the manner in which the city has grown, the receipts of the post office at different periods during the past twenty-three years are given: 1884 $15,441.84 1885 18.829.63 1889 23,560.38 1892 29,749.63 1896 30,721.84 1897 34,495.95 1898 43,205.80 1899 57,440.11 1900 $69,250.91 1901 77,881.96 1902 75,429.97 1903 74,108.17 1904 78,660.29 1905 87,983.22 1906 88,375.64 1907 96,734.67 The free delivery system was inaugurated in 1888 with five carriers. The money order department does an unusually…

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Fraternal Order Of Eagles

One of our most interesting societies is that of the Eagles. The Far West has the distinction of the origin of The Fraternal Order of Eagles. Its principles of liberty, truth, justice and equality, appeal to the most conservative people of the country. The benefits to the member are: a physician to himself and family free of charge, one dollar a day sick benefit for sixteen weeks, and one hundred dollars in case of death. Rock. Island Aeria, No. 956, Fraternal Order of Eagles, was instituted January 15, 1905, at the Rock Island Turner Hall. Its charter list was composed…

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George W Adams

Biography of George W. Adams

…we are not here merely to “kill time” he aimed to fill his life with useful deeds. It may truly be said of him that he was one of those. “Who comprehend their trust and to the same Keep faithful with a singleness of aim; And therefore do not stoop or lie in wait For wealth or honor or for worldly state; Whom they must follow, on whose had must fall. Like showers of manna, if they come at all.” The parental history of Mr. Adams is fully given in the biographical sketch of his brother Giles M., elsewhere in…

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