Author: (WHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS)
Title: I Remember When...
Description: N.p. Whiteside County Genealogists', 1976. Hardcover. 4to. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and rules. x, 150pp, (9pp). Map. Fine. First edition, tight and pristine, of this collection of reminiscences about life in this northwest Illinois rural county. Asa M. Abbott (1820-89) was a pioneering farmer of Whiteside County whose home was a well-documented Underground Railroad site; his grandson was Louis A. Abbott (1891-1982) -- and his wife, Eunice M. Abbott (1898-1989), authored a local newspaper column and penned the first two reminiscences in this book. She inscribes the top of the front flyleaf to her husband in black fineline: "To Louie from Eunice -- Dec. 25 -- 1976." Laid in are several local newspaper articles about her. .
Keywords: Illinois & Midwest
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Title: I Remember When...
Description: N.p. Whiteside County Genealogists', 1976. Hardcover. 4to. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and rules. x, 150pp, (9pp). Map. Fine. First edition, tight and pristine, of this collection of reminiscences about life in this northwest Illinois rural county. Asa M. Abbott (1820-89) was a pioneering farmer of Whiteside County whose home was a well-documented Underground Railroad site; his grandson was Louis A. Abbott (1891-1982) -- and his wife, Eunice M. Abbott (1898-1989), authored a local newspaper column and penned the first two reminiscences in this book. She inscribes the top of the front flyleaf to her husband in black fineline: "To Louie from Eunice -- Dec. 25 -- 1976." Laid in are several local newspaper articles about her. .
Keywords: Illinois & Midwest
Price: US$ 55.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 46823
- Book number: 46823
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