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- Tags: family life
Mr. & Mrs. John K. Wells' Oral History
Tags: 3I League, Awards, Baseball, Bavaria, Betty Turnell, Bishop Quail, Boys Club, Building Committee, business major, Campfire Girls, Chartered Life Underwriter, Chautauqua, childhood, Christmas trees, church activities, church board, Classes, clients, CLU, committees, concession stands, dancing lessons, Decatur Baseball, Decatur High School, Decatur IL, Delovan IL, Denver CO, District Superintendent, Eloise Neece, Entertainment, Equitable Life Insurance Society, family life, First United Methodist Church, France, fundraising, future of Decatur, general insurance, German family, German fest, Germany, golf, Grace Methodist Church, Greyville IL, Hightide Dr., history/political science minor, Hudson River Dateline, insurance sales, interview, lay leader, Lebanon IL, life insurance, Louise Wells, Marion Plussen, marriage class, McKinley College, Methodist Church, Methodist Episcopal Church, Methodist Minister, Millikin University, Minister, Mr. & Mrs. John K. Wells, national committees, office manager, oral history, Peoria IL, preachers, Programs, Providence RI, R.C. Sayre, recording, retirement, Sanitary District Board, Secretary of Preachers' Aid, subdivision, sunday school, Superintendent of Junior Classes, Superintendent of Primary classes, superintendent of schools, talks, Television, tent meeting, Travel, trusts, United Methodist Church, Wilmington DE, YMCA
Mr. and Mrs. William Bankson's Oral History
Tags: 1986, 4-H, Bethany IL, Betty Turnell, big hook, Boy Scouts, childhood, choir, clothing donation, Decatur IL, Decatur Roundhouse, diesel locomotives, electric welding trade, family life, First United Methodist Church, Forsyth IL, grease cup filler, Great Depression, handyman, Hubert Bankson, interview, labor gang, machinist, machinist's helper, March 1986, Marilyn Bankson, Mexico, mission, Mr. and Mrs. William Bankson, Mrs. William Bankson, Music, North Dakota, oral history, passenger trains, recording, steam crane, Steam Locomotives, train wrecks, Trains, travelling, Wabash Railroad, William Bankson, wrecker, wrecking crew
Mrs. Marie G. Baker's Oral History
Tags: 1977, 4-year scholarship, A.H. Mills, A.M.E. Church, African Methodist Church, Betty Turnell, brother, C.L. Livingston, childhood, College Street Chapel, Decatur High School, Decatur IL, discrimination, Dr. Ellis, Edward Jacobs, family life, First Methodist Church, First Presbyterian Church, housing discrimination, Howard Shaw, Howard University, Huron Place, injunction, interview, James Millikin University, job discrimination, John Reagan, Lake Decatur, Lincoln School, March 1977, Marie G. Baker, Marietta Street School, Mary White Ollington, Mrs. Buster, Mrs. Eugenia Bacon, Murfield Storey, N. Union St., NAACP, National Civil Rights Law, national meetings, Niagara movement, oral history, Pennsylvania line, Physician's and Surgeon's College, Pugh School, race discrimination, Railway Postal Service, recording, Rev. E.M. Antrim, San Tucker, Singleton's Restaurant, Springfield Race Riots, swimming beach, swimming pools, truck garden, Warren Hardy, William English Walling
Mrs. O.L. Myers' Oral History
Tags: "Poor Man's Picnic", 1981, advertising department, August 1981, Betty Turnell, Bookkeeper, caretaker's cottage, Central Junior High School, changes to Decatur, Circus, Corn Carnivals, Decatur High School, Decatur IL, Fairview Park, family life, Grand Ave., Great Eastern Tea and Coffee Company, Hartford House, Herkimer St., interview, James Millikin Homestead, Leader Iron Works, Mrs. O.L. Myers, Oakland School, Ofel Etchison, oral history, Polish picnic, Pugh School, Pugh St., Pugh Street School, recording, Red Cross hospital, Spanish flu, Stephen Decatur High School, Streetcars, summer streetcars, the Elms, Wabash Credit Union, Wabash Railroad, wooden paving blocks
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League of Women Voters - Board Minutes - January 1949
This is the historical account of the League of Women Voters in Macon County