[email protected] wrote: > This item recently appeared in the Montgomery County News, Thursday, > September 14, 2000, and I thought might be of interest to you listers. > > Stories of Former Local Businesses Needed For Litchfield History Book > > With the deadline for family histories in the Litchfield Sesquicentennial > Book having passed, the committee has now turned its attention to collecting > the histories of local businesses no longer in existence. > Stories of former businesses will be accepted without cost and may include a > picture and text up to 500 words. Deadline for their submission will be the > end of the year. The stories will be accepted from family members. > Also being solicited are memories of local businesses from anyone in the > community, according to Mrs. David A. Jackson, co-chairman on the project > with Al Lopinot. > The stories may be addressed to Litchfield History Book Committee, P.O. Box > 43, Litchfield, IL 62056. > Also being accepted now are orders for the book which wil be available in the > summer of 2002. Oders for the book may be placed with a $20 deposit to > reserve a copy of the pre-publication price of $54.95 plus $3.43 state sales > tax. > > ==== ILMONTGO Mailing List ==== > Search this list's archived messages! > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ In response to the item about the history of Litchfield businesses---I am in Chicago where the library I use has a copy of the Montgomery County 1913 Farmers' and Breeders' Directory. This guide provides information on whether the farmer/breeder is tenant or landowner, if tenant who owns the land, what breeds of what animal they produce, and what make of car they drive, if any. The book also carries ads for local businesses. If anybody wants a lookup, drop me a line. Nora

Hi Edward, I would appreciate it very much if you could check the 1913 directory for the following persons Farmers/breeders: (might actually have been in Macoupin Co.) Sam Hall any Huber any Burnell any Watts Litchfield businesses: Sam Hall - a hotel or bording house any Watts any Burnell The Huber, Burnell and Watts families have been in the area since the 1860's but they moved back and forth between the Litchfield and Girard areas but it's worth a shot. Thank you. Kim Kendall Tempe, AZ Edward Tocus wrote: > In response to the item about the history of Litchfield businesses---I am in > Chicago where the library I use has a copy of the Montgomery County 1913 Farmers' > and Breeders' Directory. This guide provides information on whether the > farmer/breeder is tenant or landowner, if tenant who owns the land, what breeds > of what animal they produce, and what make of car they drive, if any. The book > also carries ads for local businesses. If anybody wants a lookup, drop me a > line. Nora >