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This black and white version of the second edition contains all the contents as the color version. It has the added information for our Wisconsin ancestors plus a short biography written by Evelyn telling of her early life. Included are letters written by Grandfather Louis Andrew Belden during military service in the War of 1898. The 2013 first edition was published to provide a record of the collection of Belden family pictures and studio p...

A packet of letters sent to son on the farm from family during World War 1. Especially touching to learn about his mother's life during a war when her oldest son was away in the trenches of France. And then learn about her son's hospital stay as a result of a gas attack by the enemy. At the same time, her mother, was stricken to bed and slowly dying. During this time the influenza epidemic was affecting family and friends. Often her husba...

This second edition has a collection of family pictures plus the history of ancestors who originated in Scotland and Ireland and came to the Argyle and Roscoe communities of Northern Illinois, USA.Includes maps, documents, artifacts, portraits and snapshots.

This second edition contains all the pictures of the first edition with added information for our Wisconsin ancestors plus a short biography written by Evelyn telling of her early life. Also added are letters written by Louis Belden during military service in 1898.The 2013 first edition was published to provide a record of the collection of Belden family pictures and studio portraits with identification where possible. The collection belonged ...

Abraham Lincoln was practicing law in Springfield, Illinois when asked to help in the defense of a reaper patent suit brought by Cyrus Hall McCormick of Chicago.The biography of Ralph Emerson in this book has information about the involvement of Mr Lincoln in defense of the patent suit and contains other details of the many ventures of Ralph.Ralph Emerson was an industrial owner and manager in the Rockford Illinois Water Power area located at ...

This book contains some historical information about the reaper industry in Rockford, Illinois during the second half of the nineteenth century.It contains some biographical information about the innovators and industrialists involved. Several pictures of their patents, 1851-1869, are included.This is the result of some family history research I was doing when I discovered that my grandfather, Louis Andrew Belden, had been employed in Rockford...