Register Star, November 22, 1988.
Jr.
Obituary
Source: Rockford Register Star, June 6, 2019.
Kunz, William – 1971
Source: Rockford Register-Republic July 6, 1971
Rockford Public Library – Union Contract
Rockford Public Library
Board approves contract, 2011
Source: Rockford Register Star, 01/04/2011
Emerson and Co. – fire, 1889
owners of all water power property north of Union Furniture Co., 1889
Source: “Star’s First Extra Told of Costly Blaze; Waterpower Tragedy Caused Death of Ralph Emerson”
Rockford Morning Star 3/20/1938, also in Rockfordiana – Accidents (1) file, p. 1
“Major catastrophes have been few and far between in Rockford history during the last 50 years, and yet those that have occurred loom large in the minds of persons affected by them.”
“The first date is historically interesting in the Morning Star annals because the catastrophe on Aug. 25, 1889, caused the publishers to get out the first Morning Star “Extra.” A total of 1,900 copies were sold, one newsboy selling over 400 and another 227.
The event that prompted The Star owners to publish its first extra edition was the destructive fire which wiped out the Union Furniture company plant on the waterpower and caused the death of Ralph Emerson, Jr., son of one of Rockford’s most prominent families.”
[several paragraphs later]
” A son of Ralph Emerson, of the firm Emerson and Co., owners of all the water power property north of the burning building, ….”
Arnold, Harold J., Jr
Born Aug. 18, 1932, in Rockford, son of Harold J., Sr. and E. Virginia (Nelson) Arnold.
Graduate of Rockford West High School class of 1950.
Served in U.S. Navy/Korean War.
Mason
Died June 29, 2014, in his home.
Olson Funeral and Cremation Services; Masonic Service in the funeral home.
Source: Rockford Register Star July 1, 2014
Hines, Reverend George Harrison, Jr.
1 photograph
born in Jackson, Mississippi
dedicated himself to urging members of the Black community to vote
pastor, Providence Missionary Baptist Church, 1966
founded Church of the Eleventh Hour Saints in 1972
served on boards and was advisor to others (listed in article)
Source: Chromelight II magazine, January – March 2014, p 30
Ralph Emerson, Jr.
Ralph Emerson, Jr.
Residence, 411 North Church Street
Source: 1880 Rockford City Directory
Jennings, Alfred, Jr.
Born November 8, 1924 in Washburn, WI, to Alfred James and Helen I. (Thurston) Jennings.
Served during WWII in China, Burma, India Theater with the U.S. Army Air Corps.
Died May 22, 2014, in Rockford.
Honquest Family Funeral Homes with Crematory; burial in Cedar Bluff Cemetery.
Source: Rockford Register Star May 28, 2014
Elizabeth Beckon
Elizabeth Beckon
Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Burdette Beckon, missionaries in Taiwan
She is engaged to Donald D. Denton, Jr., son of the senior Dentons, 519 Renrose Avenue
Both are Sophomores at Trinity College, Deerfield
He is a 1966 graduate of Harlem High School, and served in Vietnam in the Marine Corps
Elizabeth was born in Japan and lived there until 1968
She graduated from a Des Moines, Iowa high school
Source: Rockford Morning Star, 06/14/1970