Walnut Case Top Shelf Treasurer’s District Account Book. Township No. 29. Range No. 5. County of Livingston This account book has a record of school officers, teachers employed, teacher’s orders presented and endorsed, apportionment of school funds, and a record of treasurer’s accounts with Districts 1 through 16. Multiple copies, copyright years are as follows: 1883, 1896. A District School Record. Copyright 1861. From the book: Embracing a record of the proceedings of the school meetings and board of directors; a register of the election of directors and terms of office; a cash book with printed head; a record of rules and regulations for the government of schools; a register of teachers employed; and a summary of the record of teachers’ report of attendance. designed to establish a uniform system of keeping the records of the clerks of the board of directors, and intended to be used in connection with Adams’ School Register. Illinois School Register: Adams Union Series, Improved Edition, List No. 23. Multiple copies, copyright years are as follows: 1898, 1906. Teacher’s Daily Register, List No. 2, Red Line Series of Registers, Records, and Blanks, District and Township Forms. Multiple copies, beginning years of record are as follows: 1891, 1913. Teacher’s Daily Register, No. 9, Red Line Series. Copyright 1887. Daily Register and Annual Record. District 57, County of Livingston. Township 28, Range 4. 1937. Welch’s System of Classification, Gradation, and Close Supervision. School and Township Records. From the book: Showing the standing and advancement of each pupil, where each class began and left off work each term, the daily programme – in short, the general organization of the school – to each succeeding teacher, and bringing the work of each school and each pupil under the personal supervision of the county superintendent and enforcing the uniform, systematic pursuance of the course of study. Multiple copies, copyright years are as follows*: 1884 (1890-1895); 1884 (1891-1902); 1895 (1902-1908); 1908 (1907-1913); 1913 (1913-1917); 1908 (1916-1921) * Dates in parentheses indicate years of recordkeeping. 1 Welch’s System Combining Attendance, Classification, Gradation and Close Supervision. Multiple Copies, copyright years are as follows*: 1915 (1920-1926); 1915 (1926-1932); 1930 (1931-1937) *Dates in parentheses indicate years of recordkeeping High School Completion Certificate for Atthea Litchfield, June 09, 1899. Program for dedication of Soldiers & Sailors’ Monument at Livingston Co. Courthouse. June 03, 1903. (in manila envelope) Photocopy of Livingston County Twp. Maps, List of Twp. Sections, and District names for Livingston County (in Copiers Folder – documents folded and fragile) Livingston County Board of Supervisors Record and Miscellaneous Notes. February 1899. Livingston County Centennial Celebration – Souvenir Program (1837-1937). Celebration took place from July 25 to July 28, 1937. Price of program = 10 cents Pontiac News Review, July 22, 1937, v. 4, #12. (in manila envelope) The Rail Ways to Civilization by L.A. Downs, President of the Illinois Central System. May issue, 1931. Contents of Time Capsule. October 1987. (in envelope) The Daily Leader, Thursday, July 30, 1987, No. 269. “Artists create sesquicentennial mural.” Laura Bridgman folder. Includes complete, photocopied text of the book, Laura Bridgman, by Maude Howe Elliot and Frances Howe Hall. Various notes and at least one newspaper article are included. Military Leadership – October 1983. United States Army. Command and General Staff College. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 314 pages.* Eulogy for Lieutenant Colonel Boyd M. Harris, delivered by LTC Herbert J Lloyd, 17 October 1983 at the First United Methodist Church in Pontiac, Illinois.* Memorial Address for Lieutenant Colonel Boyd M. Harris, given by Colonel J.D. Beasley III, October 21, 1983 at Main Post Chapel, Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas* *These three documents are in one manila envelope. Photograph of St. James Hospital, ca. 1890. Photo by Heath. Pontiac Ever Ready School Club, mid-twentieth century newspaper clippings. 2 Livingston County, Illinois Yearbook: 1979-1980, 1983-1984, 1985-1986, 1987-1988, 1989-1990, 1991-1992, 1993-1994, 1995-1996, 1997-1998 (3 copies). Compiled by Arnold E. Natzke, County Clerk. Livingston County, Illinois Yearbook: 1999-2000 (2 copies), 2001-2002. Compiled by Judith K. McGlasson, Livingston County Clerk & Recorder. Livingston County, Illinois Yearbook: 2007-2008. Compiled by Kristy A. Masching, Livingston County Clerk & Recorder. George Ryan Library Dedication: Nov. 12, 1996. Audiotape. The Index, Illinois State University. Yearbooks: 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939. Life of Abraham Lincoln. Clifton M. Nichols. New York: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1896. From the book: “Being a Biography of His Life from His Birth to His Assassination; also a Record of His Ancestors, and a Collection of Anecdotes Attributed to Lincoln.” Warranty Deed – Statutory Form – Benjamin S. Brown & Emma S. Brown (his wife) to Ann M. Davison & Sarah M. Sullivant. Document is in clear plastic cover. From Document: Filed March 23, 1889 at 8:00 A.M. & Recorded in Book 96 of Deeds on page 138. Abstract of Title for All of Section 18, Township 25. From Woodrow & Fursman’s Real Estate, Loan & Abstract Office, Pontiac, Illinois, 1881. Document is in clear plastic cover. Articles of Agreement for Warranties Deed, Ann M. Davison & Sarah M. Sullivant to James Hayes. November 20, 1890. Document is in clear plastic folder. Articles of Agreement for Warranty Deed, Mrs. Fanny Sullivant to Michael Quinn. December 12, 1890. Document is in clear plastic folder. 3 Walnut Case Second Shelf Pontiac Township High School Yearbook, 1922-23, Pontiac, Illinois. WALNUT CASE GENEALOGY REFERENCE REF 371.8976 PON 1922-1923 Pontio. This is the Pontiac High School Year Book. Editions in collection include the following years: 1923, 1924*, 1926-1940, 1942, 1943-1945**, 1946-1982, 1984-1991, 1993, 1995-1999, 2002. WALNUT CASE GENEALOGY REFERENCE REF 371.8976 PON {YEAR} *1924 edition entitled: The Wigwam **Years 1943-1945 thin paperback books entitled: Senior Class Booklet, Pontiac Township High School. Winston Churchill College – The Inaugural Year (1967). This is a yearbook for the college that includes a brief overview of how the college began. WALNUT CASE GENEALOGY REFERENCE REF 372 INA *MISSING ONE COPY OF THIS BOOK The 1944 Syllabus. Flanagan High School’s Yearbook. WALNUT CASE GENEALOGY REFERENCE REF 371.897 FLA Pontiac Township High School Alumni Directory. Editions in collection: 1999 & 2003. WALNUT CASE GENEALOGY REFERENCE REF 977.3611025 PON 4 Walnut Case Third Shelf A Complete History of Illinois from 1673 to 1873. Alexander Davidson and Bernard Stuvé. Copyright 1876. From book: Embracing the physical features of the country; its early explorations; aboriginal inhabitants; French and English occupation; conquest by Virginia; territorial condition and the subsequent civil, military and political events of the state. WALNUT CASE GENEALOGY REFERENCE 977.3 DAV History of Illinois from 1778 to 1833 and Life and Times of Ninian Edwards. Ninian W. Edwards (son). Copyright 1870. Ninian Edwards was a governor of Illinois. WALNUT CASE GENEALOGY REFERENCE REF 977.3 EDW Bond County, Illinois History. Cornelia H. Davis, President – Bond County Historical Society, General Chairman for the Bond County History. Copyright 1979. WALNUT CASE GENEALOGY REFERENCE REF 977.3873 HIS The Farmer’s Review Illustrated Farm Directory with Supplemental Breeders’ and Business Directories Including State and Historical Sketches and Sectional County Maps for McLean and Livingston Counties, Illinois. Copyright 1917. WALNUT CASE GENEALOGY REFERENCE 977.361 FAR 1917 5 Prairie Farmer’s Reliable Directory of Farmers and Breeders – Livingston County. Copyright 1917. WALNUT CASE GENEALOGY REFERENCE 977.361 PRA History of Iroquois County Together with Historic Notes on the Northwest. H.W. Beckwith. Copyright 1880. From book: Gleaned from early authors, old maps and manuscripts, private and official correspondence, and other authentic, though, for the most part, out-of-the- way sources. Author was of the Danville Bar and Corresponding Member of the Historical Societies of Wisconsin and Chicago. With maps and illustrations. WALNUT CASE GENEALOGY REFERENCE REF 977.364 BEC History of McLean County, Illinois, Illustrated: Vol. I. Jacob L. Hasbrouck. Copyright 1924. WALNUT CASE GENEALOGY REFERENCE History of McLean County, Illinois, Illustrated: Vol. II. Jacob L. Hasbrouck. Copyright 1924. WALNUT CASE GENEALOGY REFERENCE The Illustrated History of McLean County. Don Munson. Edited by Martin A. Wyckoff and Greg Koos. Copyright 1982. WALNUT CASE GENEALOGY REFERENCE q977.359 ILL Livingston County, Illinois Official Farm Plat Book and Directory. County Plat and Directory Co., Inc., Madison, Wis. (publisher). 1963. WALNUT CASE GENEALOGY REFERENCE 912.361 LIV 1963 *MISSING ONE COPY OF THIS BOOK 6 Atlas and Plat Book: Livingston County, Illinois. Rockford Map Publishers, Inc. 1973. WALNUT CASE GENEALOGY REFERENCE 912.361 LAN 1973 Atlas and Plat Book: Livingston County, Illinois. Rockford Map Publishers, Inc. 1973. WALNUT CASE GENEALOGY REFERENCE 912.361 LAN 1973 c.2 Land Atlas & Plat Book: Livingston County, Illinois. Rockford Map Publishers, Inc. 1980, 1983, 1986 (2 copies), 1990 (2 copies), 1994, 1997, 2000, 2004. WALNUT CASE GENEALOGY REFERENCE 912.361 LAN {Year} The Biographical Record of Livingston County, Illinois. Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company. 1900.