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Click on the first image to open a PDF file with excerpts from the book “Genealogy of the Bliss family in America, from about the year 1550 – 1880” by John Homer Bliss, January 1, 1881.

“For fifty years Frank H. Hall helped the youth of our land to solve arithmetical problems. For fifty years, he helped the teachers to solve pedagogical problems. For fifty years he helped everyone with who he associated to solve humanitarian…

“It was clear, cold, and quiet on the morning of January 5, 1893, when a man of medium height and vigorous physique, bright-eyed and bespectacled, his face adorned with a soup-strainer moustache and a small goatee, jumped lightly from the Chicago and…

“I cannot remember all of the buildings in town but my memory is sufficiently definite so that I can give the reader a fairly good picture of the village as it was at that time. “

“First there was the depot built beside one of the highways of the…

Book: "Practical Arithmetic" by Frank H. Hall, Oral and Written, by Frank H. Hall. Copyright 1907.

"The Werner Educational Series"

The Werner Arithmetic, Oral and Written Book III, by Frank H. Hall. Copyright 1898 and 1908.

"The Werner Education Series"
The Werner Arithmetic, Book I, Oral and Written, For Third and Fourth Grades by Frank H. Hall.
Copyright 1896.

"An Independent Number Book for Beginners Designed to Precede Any Series of Arithmetics"

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At Sugar Grove the first log cabin was raised in 1836, with nails, sawed boards and shingle roof; a tavern was built in 1836; a post office established in 1840. The first "store" was opened in 1839 by P. Y. Bliss, who built a frame…

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At Sugar Grove the first log cabin was raised in 1836, with nails, sawed boards and shingle roof; a tavern was built in 1836; a post office established in 1840. The first "store" was opened in 1839 by P. Y. Bliss, who built a frame house…

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At Sugar Grove the first log cabin was raised in 1836, with nails, sawed boards and shingle roof; a tavern was built in 1836; a post office established in 1840. The first "store" was opened in 1839 by P. Y. Bliss, who built a frame house…

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At Sugar Grove the first log cabin was raised in 1836, with nails, sawed boards and shingle roof; a tavern was built in 1836; a post office established in 1840. The first "store" was opened in 1839 by P. Y. Bliss, who built a frame house…

Copyright 1949 by The John C. Winston Company
First Printing, September 1949
Second Printing, November 1950,
Third Printing 1951

Pictures by Brinton Turkle. Copyright 1964, 6th Printing February 1971, Scholastic Book Services, a division of Scholastic Magazines, Inc.

Book: "Past and Present of Kane County, Illinois" 1878 (Part 1 of 4)

This is a reproduction of a library book that was digitized by Google as part of an ongoing effort to preserve the information in books and make it universally accessible. Google…

Book: "Past and Present of Kane County, Illinois" 1878 (Part 2 of 4)

This is a reproduction of a library book that was digitized by Google as part of an ongoing effort to preserve the information in books and make it universally accessible. Google…