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January 2020

Anti-German Hysteria During WWI

January 23, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Bureau County Genealogical Society, 629 S Main St
Princeton, IL 61356 United States

Heinz-Dietrich Suppan will be the speaker for the January 23, 2020 meeting at the Bureau County Genealogical Society.  The meeting will be at 7:00 pm at 629 S. Main St., Princeton. Suppan teaches German and history at Marquette High School in Ottawa and serves as an adjunct instructor at Illinois Valley Community College.  He will give a presentation entitled “Anti-German Hysteria During WWI.”  Many Germans had come over in a migration wave in the late 19th century.  In the German tradition they built…

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February 2020

Lovejoy Homestead Presentation

February 27, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Bureau County Genealogical Society, 629 S Main St
Princeton, IL 61356 United States

Pam Lange will provide a presentation on the Lovejoy Homestead. Pam studied American history in college and wrote a master’s thesis on Owen Lovejoy.  She worked at the Bureau County Historical Society for twenty-five years, with the position of Executive Director from 2001 to 2016.  She has been a member of the Lovejoy Homestead Board of Trustees for twenty-seven years. Her program will focus on the Lovejoy Homestead in Princeton, a former station on the Underground Railroad and now a…

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August 2020

A Tale of Two Marys

August 27, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Pamela Haughawout will present a virtual program through Zoom entitled "A Tale of Two Marys." The Illinois Valley is justifiably proud of the leaders it has produced, however, we seldom mention the importance of the female leaders of the area. The presentation will be in honor of the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment (Women’s Suffrage) to the U. S. Constitution and will include information on two influential women from the Illinois Valley who made significant contributions…

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