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Language: English
Published by Elmhurst Historical Commission, 1968
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Add to baskethardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Elmhurst Historical Commission, 1968. Hardcover, x, 194 pages. First edition. Very good in good+ dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gold illustration of tree on front and gold lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight.…Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a 1/2" tear to the paper over the bottom edge of the back cover and a few other smaller nicks and tears and light creasing to edges. light overall scuffing and soiling to jacket as well. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Not Ex-library. Black and white illustrations. [From back cover] In one hundred and fifty years, Illinois has grown from a handful of counties and communities in the southern part of the state with a population of less than 40,000 persons, to become the fourth largest member of the Union, with one hundred and two counties, more than two thousand communities, and a population of more than ten million persons. Here is the story of one of those communities, Elmhurst in DuPage County, as told by a beloved resident whose life had spanned almost three-quarters of the life of his city at the time of his death. With love, charm, wit, and scrupulous attention to fact and detail, he prepared the material for this delightful volume, whose fifteen chapters cover a wide variety of subjects and personalities - from the Potawatomi and their legends that preceded the white settler, to Carl Sandburg, who in Elmhurst created his whimsical Rootabaga stories and began the writing of his magnificent biography of Abraham Lincoln. You will meet the Glos family, which included a veteran of Napoleon's wars; George P. A. Healy, whose portraits of Lincoln grace some of the finest galleries of the nation; Edward Bonney, chief vigilante in the apprehension of a notorious gang of bandits; and Thomas Barbour Bryan, southern born, who built Chicago's leading auditorium and once purchased the original manuscript of the Emancipation Proclamation. To those who love American institutions and cherish the American dream, this volume will echo a statement of Carl Sandburg, who often would praise someone by remarking, "He is among those I call the 'Lovers of the Republic.'".
