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If walls could talk, think of the stories the walls of the Bliss House could tell! The white frame structure with the brick filled walls stands on its new foundation south of the tracks on Main Street in Sugar Grove, filled with records and memoirs…

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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,…

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…

"Meeting Development Halfway" is an article in the newspaper in 1986 about the sale of Bliss Wood Farm, which was homesteaded by Peleg Young Bliss in 1844, to develop Strafford Woods residential area.

“Coats of Arms were long regarded as ‘indispensable appendages of gentlemen,’ but on the decline of feudal system, about 1688, and the rise of the Reformation, they were treated in a measure as idle trappings of aristocracy, and lost the prestige…

"An Act to locate a State road from Little rock in Kane County, to the steam mill bridge on the Des Plaines river in Cook county."

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.