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From: Tom Lundeen <>
Subject: Re: [ILKNOX-L] Re: 734 N. Academy St., Galesburg
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:57:45 -0600
In-Reply-To: <MFMBM025NLnlyg35sQt0000321f@mfmbm025.myfamilycorp.local>


on 1/22/05 11:43 AM, at wrote:

> Thanks so much for your response. The link isn't working but I'll try to find
> one for assessors office. This address is listed as place of death of my
> ggrandfather who was not a resident of Knox county so I'm just curious as to
> why he was there.

While I grew up in Galesburg, it was certainly long after 1917! That address
would be just north of Losey Street (no more than a block or so), and, to
the best of my recollection, was a residential neighborhood. While it's not
likely that it was a hospital, it's not impossible.

That's an area of large homes, and since someone found through the
assessor's office that there is a house at 732 North Academy, it's likely
that 734 was an upstairs apartment in that building. Houses in Galesburg
were not numbered sequentially -- my grandparents lived at 765, and their
next door neighbors were at 743 and 777. When they subdivided their large
house, the upstairs apartment there became 767. There are several other
examples of that around Galesburg.

That's not a fact -- it just my (somewhat) informed guess, and worth exactly
what you paid for it! 8-)

Tom Lundeen

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