The LaSalle County Genealogy Guild – 115 W. Glover St.—Ottawa, IL 61350—Tel. (815) 433-5261 May/June 2017 GUILD HOURS Mondays & Saturdays MAY MEETING—Saturday 20 May 2017 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Meetings—3rd Saturday of Month The topic of our presentation this month will be “Genealogy of Reddick At 1:00 p.m. Mansion” presented by LORRAINE MCCALLISTER. Lorraine first 115 W. Glover St., Ottawa arrived in Ottawa with her parents LuVerne and Joanne McCallister, after her 815 433-5261 father was transferred to the area by Libby Owens-Ford. Her father died in 2011, but her mother still lives on Fort Street, where Lorraine grew up. She INTERNET CORNER was in the first graduation class of Shepherd Junior High School. Lorraine The LSCGG’s Home Page address is: graduated from OTHS and went on to Illinois State University and earned a Lscgg.org teaching degree. Her first job at Prophetstown-Lyndon-Tampico School dis- LSCGG’s e-mail address: trict where she started in 1978 and ended up spending her career teaching
[email protected] language arts. She is a Reddick Mansion Association volunteer. She has spent many If you are a member and have not given hours researching the mansion’s name sake first owner, William Reddick us your e-mail address, please do so who was merchant politician and public official. at the above address. OFFICERS JUNE MEETING—SATURDAY, 17 JUNE 2017 President: Jenan Jobst (815) 433-2919 DR. DAVID MANIGOLD will be our speaker this month. His Vice President: Margaret Clemens presentation will be on the “Daniels Cemetery,” Rutland Township, (815) 434-6342 LaSalle County, Illinois.