CONTENT SHEET: Doctor. Interview: Parents and grandparents -- Globe Theatre -- Schooling -- Depression and farm foreclosures -- Childhood friends and chores -- World War II in the Navy -- Wife and children -- Doctors in Monticello -- Changes in...
CONTENT SHEET: Monticello Ice Plant. Interview: Parents -- Miller Ice Plant and delivering ice -- Monticello Locker & Dairy Plant -- Doctors -- Toys to needy families -- Telephone and party lines -- Monticello Grain Company -- Allen F. Moore --...
CONTENT SHEET: Banker. Interview: World War II and the news reels at the movies -- Monticello Society of 400 -- First State Bank -- Policemen in Monticello -- Being mayor of Monticello -- American Legion Firecracker Festival -- Western Days --...
CONTENT SHEET: High school teacher; Piatt County Assistant Superintendent of Schools; Country Companies Insurance Agent. Interview: Parkland College beginnings -- Parkland College -- Monticello city council alderman -- Climbing Grand Tetons in...
CONTENT SHEET: School administrator. Interview: Childhood and parents -- Growing up on a dairy farm -- Schooling -- World War I -- Superintendent of Monticello City schools -- Monticello schools -- Rotary Club -- World War II fuel allotment board...
CONTENT SHEET: Funeral director. Parents and childhood -- Transfer House (Interurban depot) in Decatur -- Schooling -- Memories ofWorld War I -- Worked at Decatur review newspaper -- Worked at Staley Factory in Decatur -- Embalming school --...
CONTENT SHEET: Petroleum station. Interview: Childhood and parents -- Schooling -- Cheese factory history -- Shell Oil Company service station -- Deep Rock Service Station -- Piatt County Selective Service Board -- Old Piatt County Nursing Home...
CONTENT SHEET: Teacher. Interview: Parents -- Honselman Cabin -- Schooling -- Teacher's Institute in Normal -- Teaching school -- Depression -- Quarantine and scarlet fever -- Teaching Sunday school at Willow Branch Church -- Working as a florist...
CONTENT SHEET: Employee at Allerton House. Interview: Parents and growing up on a farm in Cerro Gordo, Illinois -- Schooling -- Chauffeur for Adolph Mueller of Decatur -- Depression -- World War II service -- Allerton Estate gardner -- Changes in...
CONTENT SHEET: Nurse. Interview: Parents -- Nursing school -- World War I memories -- Depression -- County health nurse -- Quarntine for scarlet fever -- Monticello school nurse -- Meeting husband and University of Michigan memories -- Pearl...
CONTENT SHEET: Postal worker; Famer. Interview: Parents and childhood -- Growing up on a farm -- Haneline school house and Piatt school house -- World War I overseas -- Dog fighting in World War I -- Water wagon sprinkling the dirt streets of...
CONTENT SHEET: School teacher. Childhood and parents -- Teaching in Monticello -- Courtship and marriage -- Edie's law practice -- Interurban -- Depression and banks closing -- Old Opera House/Community Building -- Clubs and organizations -- First...
CONTENT SHEET: Grain business/First National Bank. Parents -- W.L. Finson Grain Elevator -- Schooling -- Depression -- Interurban and the trains -- World War II -- National Bank of Monticello -- Businesses in Monticello -- Band concerts on the...
CONTENT SHEET: Part owner, Tylac Company in Monticello. Interview: Parents and childhood in Germany -- Coming to the United States -- Working in Decatur, Illinois -- Trains -- Becoming a United States citizen -- Tylac Company -- World War II --...
CONTENT SHEET: Librarian. Interview: Childhood and parents -- Schooling -- Typhoid fever -- Depression -- Started at Allerton Library in 1957 -- Survey of community needs -- Summer Reading Program -- Remodeling the library -- Major weeding --...
CONTENT SHEET: Organist for silent pictures and vaudeville; Part owner Tylac Company in Monticello. Interview: Parents and grandparents -- Teaching piano music -- Living in Atwood -- Met husband -- Life in Decatur after marriage -- Music classes...
CONTENT SHEET: Lawer; Title Company. Interview: Parents and grandparents -- Family home located on Monticello Square -- Monticello's first grocery -- Old Methodist Church -- Grandfather coming to Piatt County -- Presbyterian Church in Monticello...
CONTENT SHEET: Standard Oil salesman. Interview: Parents -- Life on farm as a child -- World War I -- Prohibition -- Depression -- Wabash Railroad -- Pearl Harbor -- Working for Standard Oil as an agent
CONTENT SHEET. Farmer; Interview: Parents and growing up on a farm -- Slabtown -- Globe Theatre in Monticello -- Cigar Factory in Monticello -- Businesses on the Monticello Square -- Junkyard -- Route 10 coming through Monticello in 1924 --...