Source: ROCKFORD MORNING STAR – August 3, 1941 – page 17
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Smokestack Demolition Blast debris kills man Barnes plant, cars damaged
Source: Morning Star Wednesday, July 9th, 1975 pg. 1
Rockford Mitten Company, founded in 1879
Source: Swanson, Don. Rockford (Images of America). Charleston, S.C. : Arcadia, c2012. Page 19.
Warren Otis Eddy – Prominent Farmer on North Main Street
Source: Register-Republic, Monday, December 11, 1933, page 8.
Rockford Inventor: Clifford N. Johnson in Various Newspaper Articles
Rockford Inventor: Clifford N. Johnson’s Patents
Rockford Inventor: Clifford N. Johnson with Johnson Pen Company
Source: Haugen, Doug. “The Johnson Pen Company.” The Pennant, Fall 2021, p. 28-35.
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Article is posted with the author, Doug Haugen’s, permission on October 28, 2022 via email.
Schleicher Printing, 426-428 E. State Street, fire, January 25, 1987; building later demolished
Source: Rockford Labor News, January 30, 1987
Corlett Road name changed to Blackhawk Road, circa 1960
Source: Rockford Morning Star, Dec. 11, 1960
St. James Catholic Church fire, February 12, 1958
Source: Rockford Morning Star, February 13, 1958