Hi, Does anyone know where Brown Business College was located in Knox County and what was the time frame that it was in business. Thanks for any help that might be given Gail Genniebones@aol.com

You can see a picture and information on Brown Business College on the Knox County website at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilknox/postcards/schools.htm pat :@) Hi, Does anyone know where Brown Business College was located in Knox County and what was the time frame that it was in business. Thanks for any help that might be given Gail Genniebones@aol.com

----- Original Message ----- From: <Genniebones@aol.com> ] Brown Business College : Hi, : Does anyone know where Brown Business College was located in Knox County : and what was the time frame that it was in business. The building is still in downtown Galesburg, corner of S. Cherry and E. Simmons Here is a picture. http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilknox/postcards/schools.htm My grandmother went there I believe.. Here is what the page says about it. "Galesburg, Ills., Brown's Business College, Commercial Block" postcard from circa 1908. [Postcard and text contributed by Bob Miller.] Taken from Portrait and Biographical Album of Knox County, Biographical Publishing Company, Chicago, 1886, page 1021. "Western Business College. Something over twenty years ago this College was established by H. E. Hayes and J. B. Marsh. It was first located in the upper story of the Colton Block. It changed hands several times, when, in 1873, J. M. Martin became the proprietor and removed the institution to the third floor of the Allen Black, corner of Prairie and Simmons streets, where it is still located. Ill health compelled Mr. Martin to retire from the arduous labors of the College, and, March 17, 1883, M. H. Barringer became the proprietor and still holds this position. A through system of bookkeeping is taught at this college, under the practical and business-like principles. Naturally accompanying this course are arithmetic, penmanship and commercial law. There are taught here also telegraphy and short-hand. Mr. Barringer has improved the system of teaching bookkeeping very much. The business transactions that enter into the course of instruction are not imaginary, but real deals. The department of correspondence is also of the same character, and is extended to numbers of other colleges in Chicago, New York and elsewhere. Under Mr. Barringer's management, this college has become a very popular place to secure a business education. The average attendance during the past season was 125. M. H. Barringer, Principal; Jennie E. Benedict and Winona Edgerton, Assistants; George W. Thompson, Lecturer of Commercial Law."

I don't know the exact years that Brown's Business College operated, but my father went there in 1910, and I went there in 1940, and it operated for some years after that. And I believe that John Cox was the president for both of us. - Marna - ----- Original Message ----- From: <Genniebones@aol.com> To: <ILKNOX-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 5:27 PM Subject: [ILKNOX-L] Brown Business College > Hi, > Does anyone know where Brown Business College was located in Knox County > and what was the time frame that it was in business. > Thanks for any help that might be given > Gail > Genniebones@aol.com > >