Source: Rockford Register Star, Aug. 15, 2021.
Knights of Columbus
Veterans Who Have Passed–William A. Johnson, DDS
Source: Rockford Register Star, August 29, 2021.
Veterans Who Have Passed–Richard L. Seivert
Source: Rockford Register Star, May 26, 2021.
Veterans Who Have Passed–Norbert Miller
Source: Rockford Register Star, April 19, 2021.
Leonard H. Schmauss Succumbs to Heart Attack Obituary June 5, 1930
Source: Rockford Daily Republic June 5th, 1930 pg. 1
Shelter Care Ministries, Lending a Helping Hand for 35 years
Northwest Quarterly, Winter 2020
Lincoln School, later Franklin School (1926), 405 N. Court Street, opened 1892, closed 1971, demolished 1976
Sources: Photo: Photo Gravere Views, 1893; Map: Sanborn Atlas, 1913-1928 [Note that North Street is later Park Ave.]; Article: “Lincoln School Third Hospital,” Rockford Daily Register-Gazette, October 11, 1918, p.5. In October, 1918, it was one of three emergency hospitals during the Spanish flu pandemic, along with the Boys’ Club and the Knights of Columbus building on N. Main St. Lincoln was renamed Benjamin Franklin School in 1926, when Abraham Lincoln Middle School was built on Charles Street.
Spanish Flu October 11, 1918
Ryan G. Monette
Rockford Chamber of Commerce, November 2019, Paul Anthony Arco
Veterans Who Have Passed–John J. Rosauer
Source: Rockford Register Star, Jan. 15, 2020.