Source: Rockford Register Star, Sept. 19, 2020.
Rockford College
Veterans Who Have Passed–James J. Mays
Source: Rockford Register Star, July 5, 2020.
Veterans Who Have Passed: Joan Marie (Ralston) Duchon
Source: Rockford Register Star, Feb. 2, 2020.
Harriet Elizabeth Emerson Hinchliff, by Ellen Emmet Rand, 1925
Source: small-scale reproduction, Rockford Public Library
College Student, 18, Helped Sabotage Nazis In Norway
Source: Rockford Morning Star, October 31, 1945
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
On the Waterfront, color promotional brochure/card – 2011
Source: Promotional card/flyer produced through On The Waterfront Inc
Eldridge H. E. Gilbert, 1967 and “Gilberts Visit Africa, Mideast” 1969
Sources: Eldridge H. E. Gilbert, Rockford Morning Star 4/20-21/1967
“Gilberts visit Africa, Mideast” Rockford Morning Star 1/11/1969
Frances “Fran” (Dodaro) Castrogiovanni – 2013 obituary
Source: Rockford Register Star 9/8/2013