Ulysses S. Grant was not quite 40 in April 1861 when Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, beginning the Civil War. Grant, a West Point graduate and Mexican American War veteran,
The idea to raise regiments of short-term service troops was first voiced by Ohio’s governor William Dennison Jr. who was a Whig and Republican. Dennison was soon backed by four
A slim ledger in the library of the Historical Society records a time when the people of the Quincy came together- businesses, citizens and government united to protect our city
The Aug. 23, 1925, Quincy Daily Herald announced the launch of a statewide campaign by Illinois Gove. Len Small for the control and extermination of the pasture weed, White Snakeroot.
Born on Sept. 14, 1856, in Edinburgh, Ind., John Mooney Lewis would become a nationwide casket seller. John was raised in Indiana and remained there until his early 20s. According
Within every old building there are stories entrapped, begging for release. The laughter of children, long since gone to their graves, remains absorbed within the plastered walls.
Floyd “Feathers” Hedges, a cigar-smoking octogenarian, stood in front of the storefronts at 1227-1231 Market Street, parts of which his family business had occupied since the era of the Second
Small town stories certainly have a way of taking on a life of their own. Take for instance, a story which surfaced in 1883 when a building owned since 1867
Nobody ever considered that Democrat Col. William Henry Hatch would be unseated by the electorate of Missouri’s First Congressional District in early November 1894.