At 12:00 AM 5/16/00 EDT, "Gloria (Landwer) Scott" <GScott113@aol.com> wrote: >Would anyone know where or how I could get my hands on a copy of the last >"History of DuPage County" book that was done by Rufus Blanchard? I know >there was one done in 1882, but that's not the one I'm looking for. The >later book - I'm told it was published in 1910 or 1911 - has more detailed >bios that I really need to take a look at. > >Our library (downstate) has searched high & low for a copy that I can get >thru interlibrary loan. No dice. The best they can find is a microfilm of >the index of the names in the book. That won't do me any good, >unfortunately. I really need the book itself.... I just did quite a bit of looking for this later edition. I doubt that it exists. For one thing, Rufus Blanchard died in 1904. From looking through three very significant catalogs, it appears that the 1882 edition is the only one which exists, and that the index is to this 1882 edition. There was a collection of Illinois county histories published in 1913. There is a chapter on DuPage Co., but it doesn't appear to me that Blanchard wrote it. What is the nature of your evidence that an edition published well after Blanchard's death exists? Rollie