Source: Rockford Register Star, Aug. 19, 2020.
Financial
Harlem-Roscoe Fire Department Volunteer Passes–Owen Sprague
Source: Rockford Register Star, July 16, 2020.
Rockford Cuts Catch-Basin Cleaning Costs by Using The AUTO-EDUCTOR
Source: The American City, 1924?, in Local History
Veterans Who Have Passed
DiBenedetto & Associates, LTD
Source: Northwest Quarterly, Spring-Summer 2019
Benning Group, LLC, Certified Public Accountants
Source: Northwest Quarterly, Spring-Summer 2019
Honoring the Women of Baseball
Source: Rockford Register Star, Alex Gary, July 10, 2019.
Pledges will make possible a new museum to honor the women of baseball, announces IWBC.
“State IOUs threaten nonprofit senior care” – Jan. 2013
Source: Rockford Register Star 1/28/2013
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.
“State’s IOUs pinch ambulance services” – 2013, Recession/Recovery
Source: Rockford Register Star 1/21/2013 by Dean Olsen