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Mabel and Friends Sitting on the Tracks at the Wabash Train Yard

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Photograph of Mabel Grubbs, Lucille Wisher, Pauline Snyder, Grace Albritz, Mid Nicolson Wilcox and one unknown woman sitting on the train tracks at the Wabash Train Yard.

Tags: friends, Grace Albritz, Lucille Wisher, Mabel Grubbs, Mabel Grubbs Roberts, Mid Nicolson Wilcox, Pauline Snyder, Roberts Family Collection, train tracks, train yard, unknown woman, Wabash Railroad

Mabel and Friends at Wabash Train Yard

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Photograph of Mabel with her friends at the Wabash Railroad train yard.

Tags: friends, Mabel Grubbs, Mabel Grubbs Roberts, Roberts Family Collection, train yard, unknown women, Wabash Railroad

Looking Out the Wabash Caboose Window

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Photograph of Mabel Grubbs and two girls looking out of a Wabash Railroad caboose window at the train yard.

Tags: caboose window, friends, Mabel Grubbs, Mabel Grubbs Roberts, Roberts Family Collection, train yard, unknown women, Wabash Railroad

Ladies in the Wabash Train Yard

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Photograph of Mabel Grubbs and several female friends sitting on a concrete wall in the Wabash train yard.

Tags: Mabel Grubbs, Mabel Grubbs Roberts, Roberts Family Collection, train yard, unknown women, Wabash Railroad

John Zeller

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Photograph of John Zeller; (died 4/11/1932). He came to Decatur about 1860 and started driving oxen used by the Wabash in switching cars. Later he took a job in a meat packing plant that was located about where the Catholic Cemetery (Calvary)now is…

Tags: biography, butcher, Calvary Cemetery, Decatur IL., Herald and Review, John Zeller, Landscape Gardener, Meat Packing Plant, Photo File: Biography, St. James Catholic Church, Wabash Railroad

John Day's Oral History

This is the oral history of John Day. He was interviewed by Betty Turnell on November 29, 1977. The interview includes his time in an English orphanage, growing up in Canada, and his work with the Wabash Railroad.

Tags: "The Cannon Ball", 1977, automobile factory, bass drum, Betty Turnell, Bluebird, Canada, Canadian National Railroad, Cannon Ball, cement company, Charlie Cunningham, Decatur IL, Douglas Air Craft, Dr. Barnardo's Homes, farm work, farming, Feltwell England, Foreman, freemason, Grand Truck Railroad, Holmes Foundry, homestead farm, Imperial Oil Refinery, Infants' School, Inglewood Ontario, interview, John Day, London England, Marysville MI, Mason, Montreal Quebec, Music, National Guard, Norfolk County, November 1977, oral history, orphanage, paint shop, painter, painting, passenger trains, personnel, physical abuse, pigiron, Poetry, Port Huron MI, recording, retirement, round house, Sarnia Ontario, Steam Engines, tannery, The Great Lakes Navigation, Toronto Ontario, travelling, Tunbridge Wells England, visit to England, Wabash Railroad, Wills-St. Clair car, World War II

J.C. Hostetler's Oral History

This is the oral history of J.C. Hostetler. He was interviewed by Betty Turnell on February 20, 1985. The interview includes his family history, childhood, and career in insurance and banking.

Tags: 1985, 250 W. Prairie Ave., 4F, Albany Medical College, Bank Moritorium, Baseball, Bedford IN, Betty Turnell, bond salesman, Brigadier General Albert Decatur Kniskern, business courses, changes in banking, Chicago IL, Chief Surgeon, childhood, Cincinnati OH, city planning commission, Decatur IL, draft, estate work, Everett Mueller, family history, February 1985, Football, Great Depression, Halsey-Stuart and Company, Henry W. Waggoner, interview, J.C. Hostetler, John Hancock Life, Joseph C. Hostetler, law school, Liberal Arts College, Mayor, Middle States School of Banking, Millikin National Bank, Millikin University, Minnie I. Waggoner, Miss S.E. Kenney, modern banking, Monaham foreclosures, Mueller Company, National Life of Vermont, neighborhood, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, Northwestern University, oral history, Prudential Insurance Company of America, Quartermaser General's Packing House Division, recording, Robert B. Hostetler, suppurating ear, Susan May Newland, Union College, University of Illinois, University of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin, Wabash Railroad, William B. Hostetler, World War I, WWI, Zone 7 Supply Depot Quartermaster Corps

Tags: #8.003, 12/31/1928, 1928, collection, Consumers Ice Plant, Decatur IL, Dunham St. Bellevue Place, Dunham's Addition, E.B. Durfee's 1st Addition, E.B. Durfee's 2nd Addition, E.B. Durfee's 3rd Addition, Fairview Addition, Fairview Ave., Fairview Place, H.A. Wood's West Park Addition of out lots, ICRR, Illinois Central Railroad, Illinois Terminal Company, Illinois Traction Inc., ISHRAB-2017-25-117, ISHRAB-2017-25-118, ITS, ITS freight building, map, Maps, McClelland Ave., Mercer St., Millikin Campus, Monroe St., Office of Chief Engineer, Park Place, Polar Ice Co. Plant, railroad, Railroad Map Collection, Railroad St., record of changes made, S.K. Thompson's 2nd Addition, S.K. Thompson's Addition, station map, Tracks, University Ave., University Heights, Valuation Division, Van Dyke St., W. Cerro Gordo St., W. Eldorado St., W. Green St., W. King St., W. North St., Wabash, Wabash Railroad, Wabash Railway, Wabash RR

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