Source: Rockford Register Star, February 26, 2021
Wisconsin
Veterans Who Have Passed–Alvin Johnson
Source: Rockford Register Star, Mar. 15, 2020.
Veterans Who Have Passed: Glenn Lavern Hodgson
Source: Rockford Register Star, Oct. 23, 2019.
Winnebago County History
History 1600’s – first was part of Virginia
History 1700’s – French were first European settlers in county. French explorer, Robert de La Salle, rename country Louisiana
History 1763 – Treaty of Paris 1763 gave land East of Mississippi River to Great Britain
History 1778 – Colonel George Rogers Clark attacked military posts in Kaskaski, Cahokia and Vincennes. The territory reorganized into Illinois.
History 1783 – The Treaty of Paris 1783 gave Illinois to Great Britain
History 1787 – History 1787 Congressional Ordinance – Ohio River to Mississippi be 3 – 5 States
History 1800 Act of Congress in 1800, Northwest Territory would equal Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin
History 1809 – was organized the territory of Illinois and Kaskaskia became seat of Illinois government
History 1812 – Illinois was advanced to the second grade of territorial government
History 1818 – admitted to Union as a State named for Winnebago Indians, but were not prominent in Indian history
Source: Past and Present of the City of Rockford and Winnebago County 977.33 C471p
Winnebago means “fish eaters”
Source: Sinnissippi Saga 977.33 M31
first settler of European decent : Stephen Mack
Source: Past and Present of the City of Rockford and Winnebago County 977.33 C471p
first settler of East Rockford: Daniel Shaw Haight
Source: Past and Present of the City of Rockford and Winnebago County 977.33 C471p
Illinois State Legislature provided for organization of Winnebago County on January 16, 1836, formed from JoDaviess & LaSalle Counties originally included all of Boone County and part of Stephenson County. On March 4,1837 Illinois State Legislature provided creation of Boone & Stephenson Counties
Source: The pioneers of Winnebago and Boone Counties, Illinois, who came before 1841 R 929.377331 R883p
wanted to secede to Wisconsin between 1818 and 1845
Source: Nuggets of History Summer 1987
Lightning Beats Flyers 102-98
Bergman, Mudi
Miss Mudi Bergman of Beloit, is engaged to Pvt. Paul John Klumb, Jr. pf. Wauwatosa, WI.
Source: Rockford Morning Star 9/9/1944
New Glarus, Wisconsin
“America’s Little Switzerland” by Karla Nagy
14 color photographs
pp 146 – 151
Source: Northwest Quarterly magazine, Spring 2014, Vol. 11, No. 3
Carole Sue Saam
13
Brodhead, Wisconsin
Died: Saturday, June 6, 1970 in St. Clare Hospital, Monroe, Wisconsin
Source: Rockford Morning Star 6/9/1970