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William Kenney Whitfield
Photograph of William Kenney Whitfield; (died 1/19/1940). Former Macon County Circuit Judge and one of the founders of the former Standard Life Insurance Co. He came to Decatur in 1911 from Sullivan, where he was sate's attorney for Moultrie County…
Thomas Hutchinson Wells
Photograph of Thomas Hutchinson Wells; (died 7/13/1925). He was an employee of the Wabash Railroad for over 40 years. He entered the employment of the Wabash in 1884, being sent to Peru, Ind. where for three years he was foreman of the planing mill.…
Mrs. A. M. Wells (Mary R.)
Photograph of Mrs. A. M. Wells (Mary R.). Died 6/18/1954. Wife of Rev. A. M. Wells who died in 1950. He was for 50 years in the Methodist ministry in Central Illinois. During the last 19 years of his ministry he was executive secretary of the…
Robert Weigand
Photograph of Robert W. Weigand; "(born 2/12/1855; died 4/30/1936). Robert was born in Calhoun County, came to Decatur 56 years ago where he worked as a miller. He never married, he was a member of the Congregational church and the Knights of…
Jacob A. "Jake" Weigand
Photograph of Jacob A. "Jake" Weigand. Died 4/3/1947. He was formerly active in Republican politics in Decatur and was named town clerk in 1921. He also served as an assessor. He was employed as a machine foreman in the old Decatur Furniture factory.…
Albert G. Webber, Jr.
Photograph of Albert G. Webber, Jr. Prominent Decatur lawyer; started his practice in 1919 in Decatur in his Father's office.
Albert G. Webber
Photograph of Albert G. Webber; (died 5/2/1947); came to Decatur from Germany about 1863; admitted to practice law in 1879; retired in 1942, his 64th year as an attorney; charter member of the First English Lutheran Church and a member of the Masons.…
Robert F. Watt
Photograph of Robert F. Watt, Vice President of Parke & Son, Inc. of Decatur. When the firm was re-organized in 1947, merging the Parke Warehouses and Parke & Son Co. into the Parke & Sons Inc., he was made vice president of the company. He joined…
Boy and Girl With Boat by Wasson Studio
Photograph of "Boy and Girl Holding Boat" by Charles L. Wasson, Wasson Studios.
Photo of Boys Choir by Charles L. Wasson, International Stereograph Co.
Photograph of eight young boys titled "Boy Choir" by Charles L. Wasson, International Stereograph Co. of Decatur, IL.