Tag Archives: ancestry
Molly Bunsen
Molly Bunsen - President of the Ladies Union of Belleville in 1851 and a member of the Committee on Teachers of the Belleville School Association in 1850. Molly shared the Bunsen family interest in education and reform. Share and Enjoy Facebook Twitter Delicious Digg Google Buzz StumbleUpon Add to favorites Email RSS
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Carrie Bahrenberg
Carrie Bahrenberg (1861-1929) Received national recognition for her social activism. Her activities in the Women’s Relief Corp and the women’s suffrage movement made her a close friend of Jane Addams, the famous Chicago suffragette. Bahrenberg was elected a Univ. of Illinois trustee in 1900. She served 12 years. In 1915, she was elected national president of the WRC and in 1919 Chairman of the Civic League which replace the Equal Suffrage Assoc. of Illinois. Share and Enjoy Facebook Twitter Delicious Digg [...]
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Henry Dietrich
Henry Dietrich was born at Belleville in 1872 and at the age of 13 he was on his own. His father was a coal miner from Germany. Henry’s working career began with a printing apprenticeship to Hans Schwarz, Editor of the Arbeiter-Zeitung. Schwarz, a spirited and vigorous editor of the German language newspaper was continually involved in the controversial labor issues of the time and active in the Illinois Association of German-American Press. Dietrich, also a labor activist was elected President [...]
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William H Stuart
William H. Stuart, a marble dealer and stone cutter, sold drugs as a sideline. He emigrated from Pennsylvania in 1816. His brother, Edward R. Stuart, was a partner in the publishing of the News-Democrat in 1859. They were significant land owners in south Belleville, and in 1864, Washington Public School was built on 14 of their lots. In 1819, their father, Alphonzo, was killed in the infamous Stuart-Bennett duel — the only pistol duel fought in the history of the [...]
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Richard Stanley
The Stanley family traveled from New York to PA, SC, NC and finally to Illinois. John and Elizabeth purchased land at Ogles Station in the west end of Belleville. By 1824, Brother Stanley was hosting Methodist church sessions, and Stanley women had married into the Ogle and Phillips pioneer families. Richard Stanley served in the Civil War, learned the nailing trade and returned to Ogle Station to open a nail mill. As many farmers did, he mined coal for fuel. [...]
