Hi everyone, I have the autograph book that belonged to my great-grandmother, Alice Lillian RAY. Alice was born at Plainfield on 3 Sep 1859, and died at Rensselear, Jasper County, Indiana in 1944. The autograph book was given to her as a Christmas present on 25 December 1878. The book is brown, approx. 4 x 7 inches, and contains signatures dating into the early 1880's. In 1879, Alice attended North Western College at Plainfield. This institution was the predecessor of North Central College, now located at Naperville. The book contains several autographs of students at N.W.C., plus various family members and friends. I thought that by chance, the book might be beneficial to members of this list, in that it could possibly contain autographs of some of their ancestors. So, I decided to post the names, dates, and towns of the individuals who signed the book. I won't guarantee that I got the spellings absolutely correct, because the old script handwriting is difficult to read in some cases. If the spelling is questionable, I have put (sp?) to the right of the entry. Hopefully, this data might be of interest to some Will County researchers. A. W. Sindlinger Dec. 29, 1878 Naperville, IL R. W. Tyler Feb. 8, 1880 Henry C. Smith Feb. 14, 1879 North Western College Ida L. Murray Feb. 12, 1879 Naperville, IL Nellie J. Stratton Mar. 13, 1880 Plainfield, IL Ida Lotz Sep. 9, 1879 Lockport, IL Mrs. Mary J. Barthoff (or Bartholf)(sp?) Jun. 15, 1879 Plainfield Laura Steward Jan. 2, 1879 Sublette Eva M. Bannister (or Barrish)(sp?) Feb. 23, 1879 Edward Lewis Mar. 16, 1884 Chicago, IL Hale Bannister Feb. 23, 1879 Jessie E.(sp?) Murray Feb. 12, 1879 Naperville Chris Whitley Aug. 31, 1879 Fannie Campbell Jan 23, 1879 Naperville and also N.W.C. May S. Bucks Jan 20, 1879 Plainfield and also N.W.C. L.H.T.(initials only) (This is Lansing Howard Tyler, my great-grandfather; Lansing and Alice were not yet married at the time of his signing) Maggie (no last name) Jan 1, 1879 Estella Allen Jun 26, 1884 Plainfield T. W. Heichner(sp?) 1879 N.W.C. Lettie M. Ray Jun 24, 1880 New York City Gertrude M. Rote(sp?) Jan 6, 1879 Cass, IL and N.W.C. Carrie Huggins Jan 6, 1879 Cass, IL Mary Goss Ida D. Havens Jan 6, 1879 Cass, IL and N.W.C. Orra M. George Jun 15, 1882 Crescent City, IL Jno.(junior) Wills Jan 7, 1879 Plainfield and N.W.C. Mary Ella Musselman(sp?) Naperville and N.W.C. Jane Crampton(sp?) Jan 9, 1879 N.W.C. H. C. Halderman(sp?) Mar 4, 1879 Galion, OH and N.W.C. Edward Ebbs Feb 5, 1879 Vida Tyler Apr 15, 1881 Joliet, IL Lizzie F. Baker Jan 10, 1879 Lemont(sp?), PA and N.W.C S. S. Tyler Apr 10, 1881 Joliet Linnie M. Struther(sp?) Feb 20, 1879 N.W.C. Bob (no last name) Aug 31, 1879 N.W.C. Estella Gibb May 14, 1879 Sheridan Allie George Dec 16, 1879 Crescent City, IL Minnie Wright Barber Mar 22, 1879 (has notation: "Died in spring of 1900") Florance Keene Feb 4, 1880 D. C. Sindlinger Jan 18, 1879 Naperville and N.W.C. Kittie D. Bush (or Rush)(sp?) Feb 9, 1880 Joliet G. S.(sp?) Bartholf Apr 9, 1879 Plainfield Laura Greenwood Plainfield S. H. Sherwood Feb 25, 1879 Shabbona, IL Lettie J. Smiley Mar 2, 1880 Plainfield W. I. Suiter Mar 3, 1879 Lock Haven, PA and N.W.C. Edwin F. Steffen Jan 21, 1879 Blue Earth City, MN Celia M. Goss Feb 18, 1886 H. H. Rassweiler Feb 26, 1879 N.W.C.(a teacher) C. W. Deeming Jul 9, 1879 Bessie H. Hodges Feb 6, 1879 Naperville and Sublette, IL Mrs. L. C. Sindlinger Emma Dreisbach Feb 13, 1879 Circleville, OH Minnie E. Smiley Mar 1, 1880 Plainfield (has notation: "Killed by the cars, 1909) (first initial indistinguishable) Nellie Good Feb 26, 1879 Mable V. Swalm Feb 22, 1886 Clara Deeming Aug 26, 1879 C. E. King Feb 15, 1879 Naperville and N.W.C. R. Whitley, Sr. A. E. Tyler Carrie Dahlem Feb 27, 1879 Naperville and N.W.C. Etta Simmons Jan 24, 1884 Will J. Bartholf May 10, 1879 Plainfield J. S.(sp?) Reinhard Mar 3, 1879 Fleetwood, PA and N.W.C Laura Tyler Apr 18, 1881 Wheatland, IL Lizzie Schreiner Milledgeville, IL Ann L. Tyler Feb 16, 1886 Plainfield Hattie (or Mattie) Good Mar 4, 1879 Naperville and N.W.C. Carrie E. Tyler Apr 18, 1881 Allie Ashley Mar 15, 1879 Plainfield A. H. Tyler Apr 17, 1881 Wheatland Belle Brewster Feb 20, 1879 Wellsboro, Tioga Co., PA and N.W.C. Ruth Whitley Aug 25, 1879 Lockport, IL Adda M. Hutton Sep 28, 1879 Lockport, IL Mrs. Florence Dickson Isabel McCreery(sp?) Apr 5, 1879 Fannie S.(or L.) Stratton Mar 18, 1880 Plainfield Carrie Ashley Mar 16, 1879 Plainfield Jessie L. Smiley Mar 2, 1880 Plainfield Walter Hopkins Sep 5, 1879 Lockport, IL and N.W.C. Kittie Kinsella Aug 23, 1883 Wilmington, IL Leoti(sp?) C. Dexter Sublette, IL Alfred J. McCreiry(sp?) Apr 1st (no year) Plainfield Dave Tyler Fort Worth, TX Researching the TYLER and RAY families in Wheatland Twp., Will County.