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Bibliography

Bateman, Newton and Selby, Paul ( eds.) Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of DuPage County. 2 vols. Munsell Publishing Co., Chicago, 1882.

Blanchard, Rufus. History of DuPage County, Illinois. O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.

DuPage County Historical Society Portfolio. No. One-Four, 1956-1959.

DuPage Historical Review. 3 vols.

1950 Titles

"An Eventful Year (Relating to 1850)." p.22.

"Another DuPage Book: Hinsdale." (short) p. 2.

"Beginning of a DuPage Institution. The Winfield Sanitarium." p. 55.

"Century-old Naperville Doings." p. 19.

"Concerning Local History." p. 43.

"The County Seat Tug-of-War." p. 49.

"Downers Grove in its Infancy." p. 9.

"DuPage Bibliography Cumulative for 1949." p. 16.

"DuPage Commentary." pp. 48, 56.

"The DuPage County Court House in Retrospect" p. 17.

"The DuPage County Historical Society News." (short) p. 19.

"DuPage's Dateless Lincoln Legends." p. 7.

"DuPage's Lost Name Bearer." p. 12.

"Early Times Around About Glen Ellyn" (short) p. 7.

"Echoes of the Mexican War." p. 41.

"Editorial contributions solicited." (short) p. 5.

"Has DuPage's Historical Theme Run Its Course?" p. 8.

"’Michigan': A Proposed and Rejected County Name." p. 8.

"More Light on Proposed `Michigan County'." p. 10.

"Our Salutatory." p. 1.

"Page of Post Office History, A."

"Cloverdale Post Office Discontinued" p. 6.

"Medinah Post Office Changes Hands." p. 6.

"’Prairie Farmer' Editor Chronicles An 1854 DuPage Visit." p. 4.

"Some Editorial Observations." (short) p. 15.

"Some Facts About Illinois County `Histories'." p. 3.

"Wayne Township (Commemorative Edition)." p. 25.

"The Warren Women on a Pioneer Trek." p. 23.

"Your Home Town in Review - "

  "Elmhurst." pp. 20, 44.

  "Wheaton." p. 51.

1951 Titles

"’A Light Shining on a Hill' (Naperville Academy)." September 1.

"An 1847 Letter Revives Pioneer Times." September 8.

"Century-old Map Defines DuPage County."September 11.

"DuPage Commentary." March 4, June 11, Dec. 11.

"DuPage County Historical Society-News and Notices." All issues 12.

"A DuPage Pioneer's Name Perpetuated Elsewhere." March 9.

"DuPage's `Little Black Book' (1857 History)." December 8.

"Historical Matters Are Important." December 9.

"John Warne, the Big Woods Pioneer." June 4.

"Lombard: `The Lilac Town' in Review." March 5.

"Oft-Chronicled Pioneer Beginning," December

"Old Graue Mill to be Historical Exhibit." March 3.

"Old Landmarks Tell a Story." March 11.

"Our County Historical Society." by H. A. Berens. March 1,

"Pioneer Reminiscences (John Warne's)." June 1.

"So Close and Now So Far Away." September 5.

"Some Projected Railroads Through DuPage County." June 8.

"Warrenville Pioneered for Higher Learning." December 4.

"Your Home Town in Review - "

  "Downers Grove." June 6.

  "Itasca." September 6.

  "Lombard." March 5.

  "Wood Dale." December 6.

1952 Titles

"Bloomingdale Pioneers Pen Their Story." p.19.

"Carl Sandburg's 75th Birthday." p. 46.

"Caroline Martin Mitchell Historical Museum." p. 22.

"DuPage Commentary." pp. 16, 35, 49.

"DuPage County Historical Society - News and Notices." pp. 12, 24, 36, 50.

"Ebenezer Duncklee." by Mrs. Mabel Lester Goreham. p. 42.

"Extracts From a Pioneer's Journal." p. 40.

"Genealogical Section." Edited by Laura K. Thomas. p. 21, 33, 47.

"Granddaughter's Recollections of Judge Cody." p. 27.

"Hobson Mill Site Rededication." p. 25.

"Joy Morton A Man of Affairs." p. 2.

"The Last of Bonaparte." p. 6.

"The Lost Records of DuPage County." p. 37.

"Mason Brayman, Lincoln's Friend, Once a Warrenville Resident," p. 39.

"The Morton Arboretum: A Brief History." p. 4.

"Morton Commemorative Arbor Day." p. 1.

"’Review' Publications For Sale." p. 48.

"Stacy's Tavern." by Dorothy I. Vandercook. p. 13.

"Subject: Bailey Hobson." p. 26.

"Three Volume Index of `Review' Contents." p. 51.

"Yackley's Recollections as Told to Joy Morton."p. 8.

"Your Home Town in Review - "

  "Naperville." p. 17.

  "Villa Park." p. 44.

1874 Atlas & History of DuPage County, Illinois. Republished by the DuPage Historical Society, 1974.

Knoblauch, Marion (ed.) DuPage County Guide, A Descriptive and Historical Guide. DuPage Title Company, Wheaton, 1951.

"Looking Back" Series. Suburban Trib (In chronological order)

ArticleDateAuthor
History of the Name "DuPage"2/17/1981Louise Spanke
Plank Roads2/14/1981Louise Spanke
Joseph Naper3/3/1981Pat Miller
Railroads3/10/1981Alice Purnell
Windmills3/17/1981Amy Crisler
Fredenhagens/Lambe's3/24/1981Amy Crisler
James Breasted3/31/1981Marjorie Wyman
Bailey Hobson4/7/1981Mattie Choice
Sheldon Peck4/14/1981Pat Wallace
Colonel Warren4/21/1981Leone Schmidt
Churchville School4/28/1981Martha Jones
Hiram Leonard's Journal (Warrenville)5/5/1981Bernice Smith
Lake Ellyn5/12/1981Amy Crisler
Underground Railroad5/19/1981Glenette Turner
Warrenville Seminary5/16/1981Leone Schmidt
Thomas Hill6/2/1981Lois Sicher
Bonaparte Area6/9/1981Richard Thompson
Gypsies in DuPage6/16/1981Alice Purnell
Change in DuPage County Boundaries6/23/1981Marjorie Peters
Downers Grove Canon in 1860s6/30/1981Pauline Wandschneider
Charles Heisin - Villa Park7/7/1981Irene Martin
Anning Ransom- Carol Stream area7/14/1981Jean Moore
Israel Blodgett7/21/1981Pauline Wandschneider
Itasca Post Office7/28/1981Joyce Usher
Carl Sandburg8/4/1981Margaret Pruter
German Catholics in Gretna Area8/11/1981Jean Moore
Westchester Park Subdivision in Oakbrook8/18/1981Etta Chapet
Glen Ellyn High School8/25/1981Susan Molin 
Elijah McKinney's Fanning Mill and DuPage Tannery9/1/1981Leone Schmidt
Early DuPage Teachers9/8/1981Alice Purnell 
How Hinsdale Got Its Name9/15/1981John Poynton 
Cross County Club9/22/1981Carol Ortman 
Franzen Millstones9/29/1981Martha Jones
Charles Gary and Gary's Mill10/2/1981Don Rayno
Effect of Chicago Fire on Danby10/6/1981Amy Crisler 
Jack Travers Montgomery, actor and his daughter Peggy Jean, actress10/9/1981Irene Martin 
Benjamin Franklin Taylor, literary editor of Chicago Daily Journal10/13/1981Leone Schmidt
West Branch of DuPage River (Naperville)10/16/1981Don Rayno
Elfring's Store in Bensenville10/20/1981Martha Jones
Stagecoaches and Drivers10/17/1981Margaret Pruter
Geil's Funeral Home in Bensenville11/6/1981Martha Jones
Daniel Benjamin Family11/3/1981Alice Purnell
DuPage County Courthouse History11/10/1981Barbara Henk 
Old Water Tower on York Road, Mammouth Springs11/13/1981Nancy Wilson
Effect of Chicago on Elmhurst Residents11/24/1981Amy Crisler
Elmhurst Harness Shop (Strauschild)11/27/1981Nancy Wilson
John Wesley Powell12/1/1981Bernice Smith
Big Woods Church12/4/1981Amy Crisler
Murder of Clarence Curtis, Gravel Pit Owner12/8/1981Virginia Spears
Fred Grote, Horses12/11/1981Genevieve Ackerman
Pfaff School, Woodridge12/15/1981Genevieve Doletowske
DuPage County Fair, 186312/22/1981Bernice Smith
Senn House, Bensenville, Dr. Bartels12/25/1981Martha Jones
Interscholastic Sports12/29/1981Robert Pruter
Dr. Elijah Smith1/5/1982Joyce Usher
Churchill Log Cabin1/1/1982Dorothy Vandercook
Gary and U. S. Steel1/8/1982Jean Moore
Out On The Farm Radio Show1/12/1982Jean Moore
Pioneer Buildings in Glen Ellyn Area1/19/1982Alice Purnell
Occult in DuPage  Early 1900's1/26/1982Bernice Smith
Zion Lutheran Church2/2/1982Martha Jones
Adam Glos Weather Journal2/5/1982Dorothy Vandercook
DuPage Residents Killed in Iroquois Fire2/7/1982Elma Hadley
Pleasant Hill Cemetery2/16/1982Alice Purnell
Potowatomi Indians2/23/1982Don Rayno
Itasca and Railroad3/2/1982Joyce Usher
1918 Blizzard3/2/1982Nancy Studt
Home Bureau3/23/1982Alice Purnell

 

Maas, David E. and Weber, Charles W. (eds.) DuPage Discovery, 1776-1976, A Bicentennial View. DuPage County Bicentennial Commission, 1976.

Moore, Jean and Crabb, Richard. Young People's Story of DuPage County. DuPage Heritage Gallery, Wheaton, 1981.

Portrait & Biographical Record of DuPage & Cook Counties, Illinois. Lake City Publishing Co., Chicago, 1894.

Richmond, C. W. (comp.) History of DuPage County, Illinois.

Richmond, C. W. and Vallette, H. F. A History of the County of DuPage Illinois. Scripps, Bross & Spears, Chicago, 1857. (Republished, The Naperville Heritage Society, 1974.)

Thompson, Richard A. Around the Arboretum. DuPage Historical Society, 1981.

20th Century Atlas of DuPage County, Illinois. Middle-West Publishing Co., Chicago, 1904.

White, Marian A. Book of the Western Suburbs J. Harrison White, Chicago, 1912.

Audio-Visual

Bicentennial Focus: Women of DuPage, Wheaton-Glen Ellyn Branch American Association of University Women, 1975.

Level One "Women of Yesterday" – taped interviews.

  June Wanless

  Elizabeth Huested

  Mrs. George Goodrich

  Lillian Budd

Level Two "Women of Today" - taped interviews.

  Mae Watts

  Katherine K. Moore

Level Three "A Future for All - Images ...

  Women of Today" - slide/script.

The Evidence Around Us. The Daily Journal and Gary Wheaton Bank, slide/cassette on Central DuPage, 1974.

Have You Ever Met a Building? DuPage Historical Museum, slides/tape on county architecture.

Thompson, Richard A., DuPage Discovery, An Historical Survey, DuPage Historical Museum, slides/tape, 1982.

 

CHAPTER ONE

Bibliography

Claus, Marilyn. "In Search of an Erratic Erratic" Illinois Magazine, January-February 1984,

The DuPage Conservationist, published by the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County, Glen Ellyn, provides the most systematic treatment of the natural history of this vicinity. Issues, according to publication chronology, include:

a) "The Natural History of DuPage County." Wayne Lampa.

     Part I, ‘Nature's Part' Autumn/Winter, 1973.

     Part II, `Man Steps In' Spring, 1974.

     Part III, `What's Left for the Future?' Summer, 1974.

b) "A Glimpse of Prehistory." Wayne Lampa. Fall, 1977.

c) "A Find of Mammoth Proportions." Gail Legner Wetta. Fall, 1977.

d) "Glacial Stew." Jim Walser. Spring, 1980. e) "Just Do-in Our Thing." Wayne Lampa 1980-81.

 

Audio-Visual

"What Has Happened to Our County?", Forest Preserve District of DuPage County, slides.

 

CHAPTER TWO

 

Beggs, Stephen R Pages from the Early History of the West and Northwest. Methodist Book Concern, Cincinnati, 1868.

Blodgett, Henry. "Autobiography." Unpublished, 1906.

Early, Ann. 1971 Salvage Excavations. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, 1971.

Gates, Standford. "Archaeological Survey of the DuPage River Drainage." Illinois Archaeological Survey. Bulletin No. 3, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1961.

Hatch, Luther A. The Indian Chief Shabona. Author published, 1915.

Hoglund, Kenneth G. The Excavations at Du-33: A Preliminary Report. Forest Preserve District of DuPage County, Glen Ellyn, 1978.

Kutter, Elizabeth. "DuPage Presbyterian Celebrates 150 Years." The Naperville Sun, June 17, 1983.

Lee, George R. "The Beaubiens of Chicago". Culver-Stockton College, Canton, Mo., 1973.

Peters, Marjorie Herlache. DuPage County, Illinois, Churches and Their Records, 1833-1920. Lombard Suburban Genealogical Society, 1981.

Quaife, M. M. Chicago's Highways Old & New. D. F. Keller & Co., Chicago, 1923.

Robb, Ruth Flesher. 1840 DuPage County, Ill. Federal Census. Author published, 131 West North Ave., Lombard, 1978.

Santeford, Lawrence Gene. "Prehistoric Populations of DuPage County." DuPage Conservationist, Forest Preserve District of DuPage County, Spring, 1979.

Santeford, Lawrence Gene. "Prehistoric Populations Archaic Indians" DuPage County, Autumn, 1979.

Schmidt, Royal J. "The Potawatomie Indians of DuPage County." DuPage County Historical Society, Wheaton, 1974.

 

CHAPTER THREE

"Clues Link Historic Home to Underground Railroad" West Chicago Press, November 5, 1981.

Dieter, Raymond A Dieter Family Tree. Author published, Glen Ellyn, 1981.

Robb, Ruth Flesher. 1850 DuPage County, Ill.,Federal Census. Author published, Lombard, 1983.

Robb, Ruth Flesher. 1860 DuPage County, Ill., Federal Census. Author published, Lombard, 1983.

Schmidt, Royal J. Bugles in a Dream, DuPage County in the Civil War. DuPage Historical Society, 1962.

Turner, Glennette Tilley. "The Underground Railroad in Dupage County, Illinois". Newman Educational Publishers, Wheaton, 1978.

Zion Lutheran' Parish, 1838-1963, Anniversary booklet.

 

CHAPTER FOUR

Andrews, Wayne. Battle for Chicago. Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1946.

Feely, Ralph. From Camelot to Metropolis. (Ontarioville - Hanover Park.) 1916.

Fegelman, Andrew. " Progress' Scores Another Casualty in Old Food Mart." Chicago Tribun