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Strevell was an active member of the Illinois Senate. His most significant legislative achievement in 1871 was to have the Illinois Boys Reformatory School built in Pontiac. The Boys Reformatory eventually became the current Pontiac Correctional Center. In 1879, the Strevell family moved from Pontiac to Miles City, Montana.
Strevell had the size of the home doubled to provide enough room for his new family. In January of 1860, Abraham Lincoln delivered a lecture at the Pontiac Presbyterian Church. After the lecture, Mr. Lincoln was a guest at the home of Jason Strevell until his train took him back to Bloomington.
The house is named for the owner that acquired it in 1899, Henry C. Jones. Jones was in the newspaper business but later founded and served as president of Pontiac Light, Heat and Power Company. Jones lived in the home until his death in 1921. After his death the home passed through members of the Jones family and it was damaged by fire in 1975.
The North cell house at Pontiac Correctional Center. An attack on correctional officers two weeks before in the North house was a harbinger for what was to take place on July 22, 1978.
People born in, from, or otherwise associated with Pontiac, Illinois Pages in category "People from Pontiac, Illinois" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
The Illinois Department of Corrections Pontiac Correctional Center is located in Pontiac. [40] Pontiac housed the male death row until 2003. Prior to the January 11, 2003 commutation of all death row sentences, male death row inmates were housed in Pontiac, Menard , and Tamms correctional centers. [ 41 ]
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