DOES THIS BOOK MAKE ANY REFERENCE TO THOSE THAT CAME (AND DIED) IN THE CHERRY MINE DISASTER AT CHERRY, ILL ? DICK CORRIGAN ORLAND PARK, IL ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------ Content-Type: text/plain ILLASALL-D Digest Volume 05 : Issue 17 Today's Topics: #1 Re: [ILLASALLE] Book: Biography in [bluejay201@mchsi.com] #2 Re: Book: Biography in Black [Cltiv8tr@aol.com] #3 Re: [ILLASALLE] Book: Biography in ["Glenda Argo" <sh4739_e@mindspring] #4 RE: [ILLASALLE] Re: Book: Biograph ["Tim Bryant" <tpbryant9@yahoo.com>] #5 Re: [ILLASALLE] Book: Biography in [Twila yednock <twila2@sbcglobal.ne] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from ILLASALL-D, send a message to ILLASALL-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. ______________________________ X-Message: #1 Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 13:03:38 +0000 From: bluejay201@mchsi.com To: ILLASALL-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <012320051303.21128.3d2b@mchsi.com> Subject: Re: [ILLASALLE] Book: Biography in Black Col. Plumb went to England to get money and miners. The English mine owners lost too many men, so they asked their gov. to put a stop to it. Then agents were employed to encourage miners from eastern Europe to come. Many of these families came in the late 1870's, Bartko, Merks, Pearchard(Perhach?), Urich, Fellow, Martin, Cheveny, Harcharik, Super, Masley. Most of the Polish people seem to come at or after the turn of the century. Don't know when the Italians came, probably after 1900, not many of them work/stayed in the mines in Streator. Migration routes are interesting. Most of the information I have comes from obituaries or funeral home records. The words "spent a year in New York, then came to Streator", later obituaries have "came directly to Streator in 189?" Some funeral home books had the question, "how long a resident of U.S./or state." If everything is OK, I will be at the museum this afternoon, going to miss the Eagles at the Rock. We have a couple of the annual coal mining reports, what year did John Kerestes die? Long time ago, I asked the Streator library if they could get the books on an interlibrary loan, but no luck. They could not find the books. There HAS to be copies of the books somewhere. I checked the state library in Springfield, maybe I should try the U of I? I have several John Kerestes John Kerestes, jr 1873 - 1944 married to Anna Bakalar, who had a son named John John Kerestes, sr, 1843 - 1927 married to Anna Botko? John Kerestes married to Pauline Plesko, had a dau. Barbara 1927 - 1928 John Kerestes, abt 1913 - 1948, married to Viola (maiden name unknown) John Kerestes, prob. above John's father, married to Anna Kochis Joanie -- Streatorland Historical Society 306 South Vermillion Street Streator, Illinois 61364 Monday - Friday 9:30 - 2:30 Sunday 1 - 4 p.m. ______________________________ X-Message: #2 Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 11:10:40 EST From: Cltiv8tr@aol.com To: ILLASALL-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <24.690c088b.2f252680@aol.com> Subject: Re: Book: Biography in Black Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Would you mind checking your copy of the book for the HOOTON or MASKER or MASEKER surnames? They lived in Streator from the early 1880s to just before 1900. Thank you, Shelly in California ______________________________ X-Message: #3 Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 14:04:33 -0600 From: "Glenda Argo" <sh4739_e@mindspring.com> To: ILLASALL-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <001d01c50186$c2cbd1b0$e73af504@glenda5ht5v6li> Subject: Re: [ILLASALLE] Book: Biography in Black Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Joanie, I see there is a copy of the book at this location. It will be #11 on the page. Maybe someone might be interested. I found this through Google. http://www.tomfolio.com/bookssub.asp?subid=2211 Glenda Argo ----- Original Message ----- From: <bluejay201@mchsi.com> To: <ILLASALL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 7:03 AM Subject: Re: [ILLASALLE] Book: Biography in Black > Col. Plumb went to England to get money and miners. The English mine owners > lost too many men, so they asked their gov. to put a stop to it. Then agents > were employed to encourage miners from eastern Europe to come. Many of these > families came in the late 1870's, Bartko, Merks, Pearchard(Perhach?), Urich, > Fellow, Martin, Cheveny, Harcharik, Super, Masley. Most of the Polish people > seem to come at or after the turn of the century. Don't know when the Italians > came, probably after 1900, not many of them work/stayed in the mines in > Streator. > Migration routes are interesting. Most of the information I have comes from > obituaries or funeral home records. The words "spent a year in New York, then > came to Streator", later obituaries have "came directly to Streator in 189?" > Some funeral home books had the question, "how long a resident of U.S./or > state." > > If everything is OK, I will be at the museum this afternoon, going to miss the > Eagles at the Rock. We have a couple of the annual coal mining reports, what > year did John Kerestes die? > Long time ago, I asked the Streator library if they could get the books on > an interlibrary loan, but no luck. They could not find the books. There HAS to > be copies of the books somewhere. I checked the state library in Springfield, > maybe I should try the U of I? > > I have several John Kerestes > John Kerestes, jr 1873 - 1944 married to Anna Bakalar, who had a son named John > John Kerestes, sr, 1843 - 1927 married to Anna Botko? > John Kerestes married to Pauline Plesko, had a dau. Barbara 1927 - 1928 > John Kerestes, abt 1913 - 1948, married to Viola (maiden name unknown) > John Kerestes, prob. above John's father, married to Anna Kochis > > Joanie > > > -- > Streatorland Historical Society > 306 South Vermillion Street > Streator, Illinois 61364 > Monday - Friday 9:30 - 2:30 > Sunday 1 - 4 p.m. > > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx > > ______________________________ X-Message: #4 Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:52:53 -0600 From: "Tim Bryant" <tpbryant9@yahoo.com> To: ILLASALL-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <AHEGKJEMGKPEMDEPFADCOEKECGAA.tpbryant9@yahoo.com> Subject: RE: [ILLASALLE] Re: Book: Biography in Black Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Shelly, I see none of these names in the index. Best wishes, Tim -----Original Message----- From: Cltiv8tr@aol.com [mailto:Cltiv8tr@aol.com] Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 10:11 AM To: ILLASALL-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [ILLASALLE] Re: Book: Biography in Black Would you mind checking your copy of the book for the HOOTON or MASKER or MASEKER surnames? They lived in Streator from the early 1880s to just before 1900. Thank you, Shelly in California ============================== Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx ______________________________ X-Message: #5 Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 22:10:41 -0800 (PST) From: Twila yednock <twila2@sbcglobal.net> To: ILLASALL-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20050124061041.51731.qmail@web80109.mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [ILLASALLE] Book: Biography in Black Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii The first John, m. Anna Bakalar is Tim's maternal grandfather. I don't have my genaealogy here, and can't go back further from memory. (They all had the same names!) Twila --- bluejay201@mchsi.com wrote: > Col. Plumb went to England to get money and > miners. The English mine owners > lost too many men, so they asked their gov. to put a > stop to it. Then agents > were employed to encourage miners from eastern > Europe to come. Many of these > families came in the late 1870's, Bartko, Merks, > Pearchard(Perhach?), Urich, > Fellow, Martin, Cheveny, Harcharik, Super, Masley. > Most of the Polish people > seem to come at or after the turn of the century. > Don't know when the Italians > came, probably after 1900, not many of them > work/stayed in the mines in > Streator. > Migration routes are interesting. Most of the > information I have comes from > obituaries or funeral home records. The words "spent > a year in New York, then > came to Streator", later obituaries have "came > directly to Streator in 189?" > Some funeral home books had the question, "how long > a resident of U.S./or > state." > > If everything is OK, I will be at the museum this > afternoon, going to miss the > Eagles at the Rock. We have a couple of the annual > coal mining reports, what > year did John Kerestes die? > Long time ago, I asked the Streator library if > they could get the books on > an interlibrary loan, but no luck. They could not > find the books. There HAS to > be copies of the books somewhere. I checked the > state library in Springfield, > maybe I should try the U of I? > > I have several John Kerestes > John Kerestes, jr 1873 - 1944 married to Anna > Bakalar, who had a son named John > John Kerestes, sr, 1843 - 1927 married to Anna > Botko? > John Kerestes married to Pauline Plesko, had a dau. > Barbara 1927 - 1928 > John Kerestes, abt 1913 - 1948, married to Viola > (maiden name unknown) > John Kerestes, prob. above John's father, married to > Anna Kochis > > Joanie > > > -- > Streatorland Historical Society > 306 South Vermillion Street > Streator, Illinois 61364 > Monday - Friday 9:30 - 2:30 > Sunday 1 - 4 p.m. > > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death > Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx > >

Hi, Dick: As Joanie has mentioned, despite its title, the book is not concentrated on coal or coal mines or coal miners. "Biography in Black" is simply a reference to the single or main enterprise on which Streator was founded. One chapter in the book, "1860-1979: Coal and the Colonel," is devoted specifically to mines in and near Streator. "Biography in Black" is a very good history of Streator from prior to 1829 to about 1945, and you can supplement the early information with publications like "The History of LaSalle County," available through HeritageQuest if you have access to that through, for example, a library, or especially a good university library or through inter-library loan, where you might be able to get your hands on an actual hardbound copy. The Cherry Mine Disaster is covered on various websites (I posted the URL for one recently) and in books specifically written about it. There are two books listed on Amazon.com, both titled "Trapped: The 1909 Cherry Mine Disaster," and you can get copies of either one for cheap. I watched a special about it on PBS that was really good. Someone else recently inquired about other mines in LaSalle County. I picked up just such a book in Streator a few months ago called "Black Diamond Mines." You can get a synopsis of it at http://www.ivcc.edu/ivleader/Fall2001/Sept13-2001/Arts&Entertainment/Bluemer .htm. I personally didn't find it particularly well written or informative, but I might give it another shot if I can find it in all the clutter. (Now watch--I'll find that book and start reading it again and won't want to part with it because others want it.) Hope I haven't been overbearing, Dick. If I can help you locate any specifics, let me know. My main instrument of research is Google, but I'm blessed here in Urbana with a really good university library and free access to HeritageQuest through the local library. Best to you, Tim -----Original Message----- From: RCorri8411@aol.com [mailto:RCorri8411@aol.com] Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 3:35 PM To: ILLASALL-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [ILLASALLE] BIOGRAPHY IN BLACK DOES THIS BOOK MAKE ANY REFERENCE TO THOSE THAT CAME (AND DIED) IN THE CHERRY MINE DISASTER AT CHERRY, ILL ? DICK CORRIGAN ORLAND PARK, IL