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Aaron K. Vandever and one Sam Cotterell started a paper called the Irving Times at Irving Illinois on or about 1893.

The Free Press-Gazette found its origin in the consolidation of the Free Press and the Gazette. The Gazette was established in 1871 by...

Seated from the left: Betty Watkins, Ellen Fulkerson, Rilla Gage, Lou Rademacher, Stella Zimmer, Jo Vandever and Agnes Strauber. Standing...

The Harvel Illinois Bank building. The first bank in the county to fail during the great depression. Our great grandfather Lester...