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From: "Tim Bryant" <>
Subject: RE: [ILLASALLE] Streator
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 13:23:32 -0600
In-Reply-To: <001101c3fe2a$2b014190$dd00a8c0@userlp2amij5t4>


Listers:

Can someone check me on the Union/Streator connection? On the census I
checked, Union was in Livingston County. Streator, of course, is right at
the southern edge of LaSalle County, and South Streator is in Livingston
County. However, the town's name may have been Unionville rather than Union.

Maybe Union and Unionville had the same relationship as Streator and South
Streator. If so, Jan, there might be some credence to your family story. You
might could use a history of South Streator!

Tim


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Subject: Re: [ILLASALLE] Streator


Thanks, that is my John Penny and Catharine (Westfall) Penny. I did not
know that Streator was previously called Union.
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From: "Tim Bryant" <>
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Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 5:21 AM
Subject: RE: [ILLASALLE] Streator


> Jan,
>
> There is "Biography in Black," by Paula Angle. Here's one reference (looks
> like a foreign one):
>
> http://www.popula.com/sh/no_30/22399.htm
>
> But you could probably arrange to borrow one through interlibary loan from
> the Streator library (depending on where you are).
>
> In the 1870 census, there is a John Penny, farmer age 52, and wife
> Catherine, 41 living in Union, which was Streator's first name. John was
> from Kentucky, and Catherine was from Ohio. Streator was incorporated as a
> city in 1868, and it may have been called Union at the time.
>
> Tim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:]
> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 1:59 AM
> To:
> Subject: [ILLASALLE] Streator
>
>
> Is there a history available for the town of Streator? One of our family
> legends says the town was begun on an ancestors homestead. The ancestor
was
> John Penny but I haven't found any history for the town itself, just the
> county.
>
> Thanks,
> Jan Buker
>
>
>
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