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1877 History of LaSalle
1877 Past & Present
1882 The City of La Salle, Illinois
1886 History of La Salle County
1900 Biographical and Genealogical Record of LaSalle County
The extractions from this book have been added to our Biographies section.
1900 Biographical and Genealogical Record of LaSalle and Grundy Counties
1901 Wiggins' Directory
1917 Prairie Farmer's Directory
1925 St. Hyacinth 50th Anniversary
1932 Stories of Pioneer Days in LaSalle County
1935 History of Peru
1940 St. Ansgarius Lutheran Church
1940 Stories from Illinois History
Just One Name After Another
In 1868, proud Illinois parents of a ten pound boy at Ottawa placed an advertisement in a local newspaper in search of a good name for the lad. Fellow residents may have been too busy during the period of reconstruction following the Civil War to give much time to the problem, for none of the suggestions seems to have been satisfactory. A history book gave the answer. After studying it a while, the parents sent a news item to the same paper, announcing that the little fellow's surnames would be Grant Sherman Sheridan Rosencranz Hooker Burnside Fremont Stanton Lincoln Schuyler Colfax Pusey. [page 72]
1950 St. Hyacinth 75th Anniversary
1952 City of La Salle Centennial
St. Hyacinth 50th and 75th Anniversary books, miscellaneous pages, batch 1 and batch 2