Source: Rockford Register Star, April 5, 2020
Philanthropy
Passing the Baton: Gordon Eggers, Jr. retires
Source: Great People, Great Stories, Life In Your County and Beyond, Fall 2019
The Fish-Abled Foundation, A Community for People of All Abilities
Source: Northwest Quarterly, Spring-Summer 2019
Emerson, Mary
Mary Emerson, daughter of Ralph Emerson, married Edward P. Lathrop; her biography, “Mary Emerson Lathrop, 1863 – 1952”  Dewey Dec. R B L 353 is shelved in the Local History collection; includes a picture of Mary and of her husband, and lists her financial gifts and bequests,
page 4Â states that she gave large bequests to Rockford College and to Rockford Memorial Hospital
page 20 lists bequests to Wellesley College
page 27 states the bequests to Rockford College exceeded $500,000.
The five daughters of Ralph Emerson donated land and money to Mendelssohn Club.
“College Given 5-Acre Wooded River Tract” – 1947 article
Source:Â Rockford Morning Star 5/4/1947 p. 1
J.L. Clark donates 2,900 commemorative Rockford Peaches tins – May 23, 2018
Source: The Rock River Times May 23, 2018 vol. 25 no. 32
Catholic grade school merger planned 5/18/1973
Source:  Rockford Morning Star   5/18/1973     Rockfordiana Parochial School Catholic 2
Catholics seek to ease burden of school costs 1/18/1973
Source: Rockford Morning Star 1/19/1973   Rockfordiana Parochial Schools Catholic 2
Rolf A. Thienemann, Jr. – 2017 obituary
Source: Rockford Register Star, Sept. 4, 2017
“Philanthropist Aldeen was ‘a great man’ ” – 1997 obituary + article
Source:Â Rockford Register Star January 3, 1997
