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Columnist Dean Karau brings Eliza Agnes Castle Sloan to life starcourier.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from starcourier.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Columnist Dean Karau traces Kewanee – In the Beginning . . . DEAN KARAU What was Kewanee like in its first year? Let’s take a look. But first, for a frame of reference, let’s revisit Wethersfield prior to the founding of Kewanee. Wethersfield’s growth was stunted by the Financial Panic of 1837, which lasted through much of the 1840s. By the early 1850s, Wethersfield had only a dozen or so businesses operating in the village. It’s population hovered around 400, but most lived on farms outside of the village. What later became Kewanee Township had another 400 or so similarly living on farms. It was a typical agricultural economy with folks having to travel to Peoria, Lacon, or Chicago for their wares. ....
Kewanee's downtown House of Prayer church gets a makeover in former Furniture Country building starcourier.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from starcourier.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Columnist Dean Karau revisits Republican Party s 1856 mass convention in Kewanee Star Courier The Founding Fathers distrusted political parties. Nevertheless, political divisions arose and political parties soon developed. First there were Federalists (strong central government) versus Jeffersonian Republicans (limited government). Then the former dissolved and the latter became Democratic-Republicans but evolved into the Democratic Party of Andrew Jackson, essentially today’s Democrats. Jackson’s opponents soon formed the Whig Party. In the 1850s, slavery and its expansion into new territories and states led to the formation of a new party comprised of Whigs, disgruntled northern Democrats, and others. The first meeting of what became the new Republican Party was in Ripon, Wisconsin, in the spring of 1854. Two months later in Jackson, Michigan, Republicans selected their first statewide candidates. The party held it’s first national organizing convention in ....
Columnist Dean Karau researches Kewanee's 1856 Republican Party mass convention starcourier.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from starcourier.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.