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Barbara Flanders, Ruth Kreighbaum, Nancy Perschnick, and Jeanette Hartman sung on stage during a production at the Sugar Grove Community House. Many performers were associated with the Farm Bureau.

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"Sugar Grove Boy Honored at College"

Ben McCannon, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. B.G. McCannon, a graduate of Sugar Grove high school,, has been initiated by the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity at Iowa State college at…

Peley Young Bliss 1806-1888
married in 1842
Helen Louise Mather 1822-1914
had children
Janette Bliss 1844-1887 and Jedediah Harris 1849-1929

Jedediah Harris 1849-1929
married in 1889
Grace Ellen Carter 1869-1941
had Children
James Harris…

James Harris Bliss was the last member of the Bliss Family to be born in the Big Bliss House located on the corner of Bliss and Merrill Roads in Sugar Grove.

In 1891, Harry (as he was called in a newspaper article) moved the Bliss House across the road to build the 17-room house that now sits on the northwest corer of Bliss and Merrill Roads in Sugar Grove, Illinois.

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…

Duesenberg Motors Company was an American manufacturer of racing cars and high-end luxury automobiles (sometimes referred to as "Duesy"). It was founded by brothers August and Frederick Duesenberg in 1913 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where they built…