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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The history of Ogle County, Illinois, containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, etc., a biographical directory of its citizens, war recor

The history of Ogle County, Illinois, containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, etc., a biographical directory of its citizens, war recor

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General ReferenceGeneral Military HistoryGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 9353701325
ISBN13: 9789353701321
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: May 15 2000
Pages: 850
Weight: 2.70
Height: 1.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
On the prairie, a county becomes a nation in miniature. Names. Places. Lives. Remembered here. This sweeping chronicle of Ogle County, Illinois gathers the everyday facts that time tries to erase: how towns took shape, how roads and rivers guided settlement, and how communities learned to endure. Created as a county history reference in the grand tradition of 19th century Illinois commemorative volumes, it blends narrative history with an illustrated local history of cities, towns and rural districts. A substantial biographical directory collection records citizens, families and founders, invaluable for Ogle County genealogy and wider family history research. The war record traces Illinois Civil War volunteers from the county, while pioneer settler portraits and notices of prominent men give faces to the names. Alongside general and local statistics, readers will find historic county atlas maps, a map of Ogle County, and contextual sections on the History of Illinois and Midwest frontier history that place local events within the wider Northwest story. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. It includes the US Constitution and miscellaneous matter, revealing a community voice before modern recordkeeping smoothed details away fully. For genealogists and historians, it is a dependable quarry of detail; for casual readers, a vivid doorway into Ogle County Illinois as it once was; and for classic-book collectors, an enduring artefact of American local memory.

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