This will likely do it until I get find the key to get to the rest of the papers. I wrote them again and have called once to CT. I did some searches for particular names while waiting and this is all I can come up with for now. So - I won't bother you for a few days! Valley News (CA), Friday, 12 Mar 1965. "Jim Gorin, who just returned from a Mexican vacation cut short by a death in his family, leaves soon for the midwest to meet Mrs. Gorin. They plan to visit relatives on both sides of the family before returning home." [This is Jim the Mountain Climber! I wonder who they visited in the midwest???] Oakland (CA) Tribune, Sunday, 8 Oct 1961, p S-13. "Scholar Tea Tops Week... Mothers from the Bay Area to be honored include Mesdames Eric Anderson, Kenneth Briggs, Albin Cebull, Arthur Draper, Victor Gorin, Raymond Hansen, Paul Moses, Louis Musso, Clarendce Parham, John Ryan, Frank Speth and B. T. Wilson" {This would be Jim's brother, above]. The Daily Review, Decatur IL, Wednesday, 27 Sept 1911, p. 4. "For Monument Unveiling. Decatur People Go to Plainfield to Do Honor to Methodist Pioneer. Mrs. W. C. Armstrong, Miss Eleanor Armstrong and J. P. Gorin have gone to Plainfield, Ill to attend the unveiling of the Jesse Walker monument. The ___ took place at [blank] o'clock this afternoon. Bishop John W. Hamilton presiding. The exercises are a part of the program of the Rock River Conference of the Methodist Church which is now in session in Joliet. Rev. W. M Ewing of the Methodist Church south made an address. Pioneer Missionary Mr. Walker was one of the pioneer misisonaries to the west and played an important part in the early history of the church. He was the stepfather of the late Mrs. Jerome R. Gorin, the mother of Mrs. Armstrong and J. P. Gorin. Mr. Walker lived from 1766 to 1835. He went to Red River Tenn in 1802 and while there gave a license to Peter Cartwright to exhort. Later he made a missionary tour of Illinois. He was assisted a few weeks by Presiding Elder McKendrie and was then left alone in the state. The first year he reported 216/218 members. Afterwards he went to Missouri where he laid the foundation of Methodism. He established a flourishing church and school in St. Louis and in two yars the church was sufficiently strong to entertain the conference. Walker was the first Methodist minister in what is now the Rock River Conference. It is probably that the first sermon in Chicago was preached by him. He made his headquarers in Chicago when that city consisted of only two or three houses and a trading post. Walker's body was buried in Walker's Grove south of Plainfield. The Rock River conference when in session in Plainfield in 1860 marched in a body to the grove, disinterred the body and brought to Plainfield where it was buried in that cemetery." [His wife is buried in Decatur IL in the large Gorin plot. I wrote last year a lenghth article about his work and of his wife's memories among the Indians in Chicago.] Take care - I'm through now! Sandi Col. Sandi Gorin - Publishing: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/ GORIN worldconnect website: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~sgorin