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From companion photo:

Effie Johnson and her brother lived west of the Old West’s Hotel. Neither Effie or her brother ever married. Her brother was a brakeman for the CB&Q Railroad (Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad).

Photograph taken on the steps of the Sugar Grove Methodist Church.

Unknown girl on tintype

Two unknown ladies

Richard Johnson, School Boy, Sugar Grove, IL

Will A Johnson Sr, Sugar Grove, Illinois, was a collector of appaloosa mules. Said to be the only six appaloosa mule hitch in the world at that time.

Frantz Family
Clare Groff Frantz Jr., Clare Groff Frantz Sr., and Thomas Frantz

Photo taken from Book: "Sugar Grove and the Class of 1886". https://www.wacots.org/sghistory/z/admin/items/show/29

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Kahl and Lorraine Kinney sit in their driveway at the intersection of Main Street and Cross Street in Sugar Grove and wave to everyone in town as they drive or walk by. The town of Sugar Grove loves them. They have two sons, David…

Photo of Mildred Hartman was cropped from Hartman Family photo, which is filed separately.

Maggie M Booth Judd
BIRTH 17 Mar 1873
DEATH 10 Apr 1962 (aged 89)
BURIAL
Jericho Cemetery
Sugar Grove, Kane County, Illinois, USA

Source: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47454170/maggie-m-judd

Ashael T. Judd
BIRTH 21 Mar 1844
Lake George, Warren County, New York, USA
DEATH 24 Jun 1915 (aged 71)
BURIAL
Sugar Grove Cemetery
Sugar Grove, Kane County, Illinois, USA

124TH. ILLINOIS INFANTRY

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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,…

Harvey B. Densmore,

Sec. 14, Sugar Grove Township; farmer; P. O. Aurora; Rep.; S.G. Christian Union; he was born in Hartford, Vermont, September 15, 1815; he married Miss Kate S. Densmore; she was born March 25, 1817 in New York, and was married…

Cyrus Calkins,

Farmer, Sections 29, 30, 31, 32; P.O. Jericho, and is present Postmaster; has 163 acres valued at $50 per acre; Rep; Ind; born in Steuben County, New York, January 14, 1815; lived in New York until 1853, then came to Kane County and…