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First YMCA Basketball Team 1907-1908

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Negative of the first YMCA basketball team (1907-1908). The photo was taken by Studio International, and published by Decatur Daily Review.

Frank N. Goodman

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Photograph of Frank N. Goodman (d. 9/24/1952). He was the operato of the Parlor Market at 103 W. Main St. for 30 years, and retired in 1936. In 1932 he was elected president of the Decatur Credit Rating Bureau, and was reelected for another term. …

George Chandler Kinsman

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Photograph of George Chandler Kinsman (d. 9/18/1938). He was the former superintendent of the Wabash telegraph system. He left Decatur in 1912, after working 44 years for the Wabash Railroad, and moved to California. His second wife was Abbie…

George I. Fulk

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Photograph of George I. Fulk, formerly of Bethany, IL. Fulk was a lawyer by trade, but also the Macon County Chairman of the 1951 Crusade for Freedom, a delegate to the international peace conference at the Hague in 1907 under President Theodore…

George W. Bright

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Photograph of George W. Bright (d. 4/7/1917), the oldest Mason in Decatur at the time of his death. He was the last charter member of Beaumanoir Commandery, No. 9, Knights Templar. He was an assistant cashier at the National Bank of Decatur for 20…

Gus A. Ahrens and Nicholas Bommersbach

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Photograph of Gus A. Ahrens and Nicholas Bommersbach shaking hands. Ahrens owned the "Ye Auto Shot" at 1103 E. Cantrell. He was killed during a holdup at that store on July 14, 1920. Bommersbach was Decatur's first and oldest florist, and owned…

Hamilton E. Adams

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Photograph of Hamilton E. Adams, taken by Vandeventer Studios of Decatur IL, and published in the Decatur Daily Review on January 4, 1928. Adams was a retired farmer from Piatt County, and lived at 252 E. Condit St. in Decatur. He was a member of…

Hendrian Monoplane

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Negative of a photograph of two men with the Hendrian monoplane on August 6, 1911.

Henry D. and Emma Dunham

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Photograph of Henry D. (d. 5/5/1934) and Emma Dunham (d. 4/28/1937). Henry D. was the oldest living Wabash veteran at the time of his death, and helped build the tracks in 1853. He was the brother of Amos Dunham, for whom Dunham Post 141 of the…

Henry Hollmann

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Photograph of Henry Hollmann, former vice-president and factory superintendent of the Muhlenbruch Glove Co. in Decatur. Hollmann was the brother-in-law of Otto Muhlenbruch. He came to Decatur from Ohio with the company in February 1907. The…