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Peleg Young Bliss (P.Y. Bliss)

Peleg Young Bliss was one of the earliest settlers and businessmen in Sugar Grove. He was born in 1806 in Vermont and passed away in Sugar Grove in 1888 at the age of 82.

As a young boy growing up at the age of…

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Oil Painting Portrait hanging in Bliss House Museum

Peleg Young Bliss (P.Y. Bliss)

Peleg Young Bliss was one of the earliest settlers and businessmen in Sugar Grove. He was born in 1806 in Vermont and passed away in Sugar Grove in 1888 at the…

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Peleg Young Bliss ( P.Y. Bliss ) at age 46 in 1852 or 1853. Photo cropped from portrait with daughter Janette Bliss.

Peleg Young Bliss (P.Y. Bliss)

Peleg Young Bliss was one of the earliest settlers and businessmen in Sugar Grove. He was born…

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Bliss, P.Y.

Farming and stock, Sec. 10, Sugar Grove; P.O. Aurora; 191 acres, valued at $60 per acre, and 262 acres in Kaneville Tp.; Rep.; was born in Strafford, Vermont, April 8, 1806. He married Miss Helen Mather, February 5,…

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Handwritten Note:

Two fine looking gentlemen!! Still think I'll get a letter off. 1933. Phil Judd (5th son of Thomas Judd) and Andy Judd (6th son of Thomas Judd).

As a companion note reads,

Children of "Uncle Tom" Thomas Judd and Electa…

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Uncle Phil Judd's house. Brick house on Prairie Street (Judd Farm) about one mile west of Illinois Route 47. 1910-1911.

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Minni E. Judd Booth

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A picture of Camp Life at fort Sam Houston Texas

Some from A . 3rd Reg.

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Plaque commemorating the Serviceman of Korean War and Vietnam War from Sugar Grove Township,. Presented by Sugar Grove American Legion Post 1271. The plaque is displayed inside Sugar Grove Community Building.

ENGRAVING READS:

Men of Sugar…

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Sign mounted on flag pole reads:

U.S. SERVICE LIST
SUGAR GROVE TOWNSHIP

(Names are not fully discernible from photograph.)

George Alexander
Lyle Bolster
August B (?)
Neal Calkins
Rodney Calkins
Forrest Clever
Edwin Dugan
Frances…

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Photo cropped from The Ember 1921

available in the "School Yearbooks" Collection and at the following link
https://www.wacots.org/sghistory/z/admin/items/show/3646

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Ralph Harkison reads the Declaration of Independence during the 170th Anniversary of the first 4th of July Celebration in Kane County, Bliss Woods in 1834.

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