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The Kansas Township display at the 1970 Heritage Exposition featured an area highlighting domestic work. The lady at the left using the loom is Mrs. L.C. Kimble, and the lady at the spinning wheel to the far right is Mrs. J. Simpson. The others in the photo are unidentified.

The newly formed Edgar County Historical Society of 1969 reinstated a prior organization that formed in the 1920s. One of the first acts of the newly activated historical society was a 1970 … more

By ROGER STANLEY rogerstanley769@yahoo.com | 5/27/20

The Barnett Hotel as it looked when Lincoln stayed there. The building still stands on the top of the hill in Grandview and is a private home. The people are identified as Dan Whitcher, Shelby Green and Mary Ellen Redmon Green, and the photo was taken when the house was known as the Redmon-Green home.

Important byways of old Edgar County

Many of the first major roads and villages of Edgar County in its founding years are different than what we see today. As settlers needed roads in the 1830s to get to Paris and other important … more

By Roger Stanley rogerstanley769@yahoo.com | 2/17/20

This period illustration shows the packed galleries of the U.S. Senate during the 1868 impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson. He was the first president impeached by the House of Representatives, but the Senate did not convict him.

The impeachment of Andrew Johnson

The impeachment process is possible because the framers of the Constitution understood a president guilty of misconduct needed to be removed by the legislative branches. George Mason and James … more

By Roger Stanley rogerstanley769@yahoo.com | 1/28/20

An image of Paris from the early 1900s shows the location of Dr. E.E. Jones’s dentist office on the southeast corner of the square. He occupied space on the second story of the building from 1889 until his 1949 retirement. The caption under the photo indicates other interesting details in the image.

Early dentist left his mark

Elmer E. Jones was born on a farm near Monticello, Oct. 27, 1863. His parents were Triplett Lochardt Jones and Nancy Lee Savage Jones, who was a first cousin of Robert E. Lee. He eventually went … more

By ROGER STANLEY rogerstanley769@yahoo.com | 1/13/20

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