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GALESBURG
, a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Knox county, See also:Illinois, U.S.A., in the N.W. See also:part of the See also:state, 163 m
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S.W. of See also:Chicago
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Pop
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(189o) 15,264; (190o) 18,607; of whom 3602 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (See also:census, 1910) 22,089
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It is served by the See also:Atchison, See also:Topeka & See also:Santa Fe, and the Chicago, See also:Burlington & See also:Quincy See also:railways
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Knox See also:College (non-sectarian and coeducational), which was chartered here in 1837 as the " Knox See also:Manual Labor College " (the See also:present name was adopted in 1857), was opened in 1841, and had in 1907-1908, 31 instructors and 628 students; of whom more than See also:half were in the Conservatory of See also:Music, a See also:department of the college, and 79 were in the See also:Academy
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Lombard College (coeducational; Universalist), which was chartered as the " Illinois Liberal See also:Institute " in 1851, was known as Lombard University (in See also:honour of See also:Benjamin Lombard, a benefactor) from 1855 to 1899; it includes a College of Liberal Arts, the See also:Ryder Divinity School (1881), and departments of music and domestic See also:science, and in 1907—1908 had 18 instructors and 11.7 students
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Here also are Corpus Christi College (See also:Roman See also:Catholic), St See also:Joseph's Academy (Roman Catholic) and See also:
Galesburg was named in honour of the Rev
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See also:George See also:Washington See also:Gale (1789-1862), a prominent Presbyterian preacher, who in 1827–1834 had founded the See also:Oneida Manual Labor Institute at Whitestown, Oneida county, New See also:York
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Desiring to establish a college in the See also:Mississippi Valley to See also:supply " an evangelical and able See also:ministry " to " spread the See also:Gospel throughout the See also:world," and also wishing to counteract the See also:influence of See also:pro-See also:slavery men in Illinois, he interested a number of See also:people in the project, formed a society for colonization, and in 1836 led the first settlers to Galesburg, the " See also:Mesopotamia in the See also:West." Knox College was founded to fulfil his educational purpose
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Galesburg was an important " station " of the Underground Railroad, one of the conditions of membership in the " Presbyterian See also: |
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My Great, Great, Great Grandmother was a teacher at Lombard University. Her name was Mary Ann Norris until she married my G G G Grandfather, a Dr. Hazzard, who's terminally ill wife had died. Ms. Norris met him at a boarding house she stayed at and he owned.She then became Mary Ann Hazzard.I would like to know how to get information on her through university records as I am trying to find out about my family. rimatthews@netscape.com is my e-mail address. Thank you, Rita
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