Source: Great People, Great Stories, Life In Your County and Beyond, Fall 2019
Philanthropy
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 4 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: 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: Rockford Register Star January 3, 1997
Brian Anderson – 1954 – 2017
Source: Rockford Register Star 6/22/2017