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    Vertical file containing articles about Trier, Germany History. Includes multiple newspaper clippings with articles and images in them.

    Vertical file containing articles about various Wilmette Community Fairs.

    Vertical file containing various articles about Wilmette Historical Commission activities and actions.

appeared in Wilmette Life, 9 May 1935, p. 31. Date of Event: 6 May 1885     Caption : Mr. and Mrs. Frank Alles of 1636 Lake avenue, Wilmette, both pioneers of the north shore, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Monday, May 6. Following services at St. Joseph's church

appeared in Wilmette Life, 1 Oct 1936, p. 56. Date of Event: 26 Sep 1936     Eberhard Lechler, 80, 230 Maple avenue, Wilmette, passed away last Saturday afternoon, at his home. Funeral services we held on Tuesday afternoon at the Scott Funeral chapel, Wilmette. He is survived

appeared in Wilmette Life, 28 Sep 1939, p. 24. Date of Event: 28 Sep 1939     Dennis S. Kloepfer, 953 Spruce street, Winnetka, has the honor of being the longest, continuous resident of New Trier township. He was born on May 18, 1852, on a farm contained in Section 29, just so

appeared in Wilmette Life, 28 Sep 1939, p. 24. Date of Event: 28 Sep 1939     Magdalene Schildgen Seizer, 633 Park avenue, Wilmette, is second in length of continuous residence of New Trier citizens. She was born on December 3, 1853, in the home of her parents on Ridge road, W

appeared in Wilmette Life, 28 Sep 1939, p. 25. Date of Event: 28 Sep 1939     Photograph on p.24

appeared in Wilmette Life, 28 Sep 1939, p. 25. Date of Event: 28 Sep 1939     In a log house which stood at what is now the north entrance to Indian Hill Club, Frank Alles, whose present home is at 1636 Lake avenue, Wilmette, was born on August 5, 1861. his father had come to

appeared in Wilmette Life, 28 Sep 1939, p. 24, 25. Date of Event: 28 Sep 1939     Phillip Hoffmann, 512 Ridge road, Wilmette, was born in 1863, in the old Hoffmann homestead, which still stands at 204 Ridge road, only a few blocks from his present home. Early in life Mr. Hoffmann

appeared in Wilmette Life, 28 Sep 1939, p. 24, 25. Date of Event: 28 Sep 1939     Henry Hartmann, 537 Illinois road, Wilmette, is another native New Trier resident whose memory runs back to the early days when the North Shore was virgin forest, and neighbors few and far between. H

appeared in Wilmette Life, 28 Sep 1939, p. 25. Date of Event: 28 Sep 1939     Peter Blaslus, 385 Birch street, Winnetka, was born June 22, 1867, his parents at that time living on Willow road, just cast of the railroad. On November 10, 1897, he was married to Mary Berry, a nat

appeared in Wilmette Life, 28 Sep 1939, p. 25. Date of Event: 28 Sep 1939     Photograph p.24

appeared in Wilmette Life, 30 Mar 1939, p. 21. Date of Event: 24 Mar 1939     Caption: The flag on the Village hall lawn was at half staff early this week in tribute to the memory of Ernest White, 78, of 410 Park avenue, superintendent of streets for 32 years, until his retire

appeared in Wilmette Life, 21 Feb 1935, p. 37. Date of Event: 19 Feb 1935     Edward Carpenter Hildreth, 2006 Beachwood avenue, died Tuesday in his home of pneumonia. He was 38 years of age. Funeral services will take place in the chapel of Graceland cemetery at 1 o'clock toda

appeared in Wilmette Life, 31 Aug 1939, p. 46. Date of Event: 28 Aug 1939     Mr. and Mrs. Andrew W. Paulson, 1155 Chatfieldroad, left Monday for a visit to their old home, Rebbelberga, Angelholm, Southern Sweden, or Skona, as that part of the country is known. Since coming to

appeared in Wilmette Life, 25 Nov 1937, p. 64. Date of Event: 21 Nov 1892     The 45th anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Anton Schneider, 3025 Glenview road, observed Sunday, Nov. 21, was the occasion of a delightful surprise staged by their eight children, five daug

appeared in Wilmette Life, 13 Feb 1936, p. 24. Date of Event: 9 Feb 1936     Henry Justin Smith, 220 Hazel avenue, Glencoe, managing editor of the Chicago Daily News and one of the foremost authorities on the history of Chicago, died of pneumonia Sunday afternoon at 5:30 o'cl

appeared in Wilmette Life, 17 Aug 1939, p. 5. Date of Event: 22 Aug 1939     Will Celebrate 100th Birthday August 22 at Family Gathering Mrs. Elizabeth Hartshorne, 152 Glenwood avenue, Glencoe, will celebrate her 100th birthday Tuesday, August 22 [1939], with her six children

appeared in Wilmette Life, 17 Aug 1939, p. 22. Date of Event: 13 Aug 1939     [Caption] Passes Century Mark Mrs. Aura Lathrop Fouts, 530 Greenleaf avenue, is shown as she was pictured on her one hundredth birthday. Last week Mrs. Fouts celebrated her one-hundred-first annivers