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Kessler served as a member of the state Assembly for 24 years between 1961 and 2019, stepping away to serve as a judge in the 1970s and 1980s.
The oldest town in Audubon County, Exira was founded in 1857. The town was named for Exira Eckman, daughter of Judge John Eckman from Ohio, who agreed to purchase a lot of property in the town if the town was named for his daughter. [3] The main industries in and around Exira are agriculture and agribusiness. Exira has a school, completed in 1959.
The county purchased the property in 1890, and built the Renaissance Revival style home as a care facility. The facility stood empty for several years when it was designated as a preservation project to observe the United States Bicentennial. The park is named after Nathaniel Hamlin, one of the first settlers in Audubon County. [2]
Mill Grove is a historic house and estate on Pawlings Road in Audubon, Pennsylvania.Built in the 1760s, it is notable as the first home in America of painter and naturalist John James Audubon (1785-1851), for whom the community is named.
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Sangamon County officials have reached a $10 million settlement agreement with the family of Sonya Massey, who was shot and killed in her home by a sheriff's deputy last year ...
Through a descendant’s lens, I wanted to talk with Martin Luther King III, the eldest son of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King, about the convergence of Inauguration Day falling on ...
Grinnell was born on September 20, 1849, in Brooklyn, New York, the son of George Blake and Helen Lansing Grinnell.The family moved when he was seven to Audubon Park, the section of Washington Heights in Manhattan which was developed from the estate after noted ornithologist John James Audubon's death in 1851. [2]
A secret tunnel discovered last week on the U.S.-Mexico border will be sealed by Mexican authorities, an army official in Ciudad Juarez said Saturday. The tunnel, discovered on Jan. 10, connects ...