Wrap up your Christmas list with gifts from the Logan County Genealogical & Historical Society

 

[December 16, 2020] 

Christmas gift items are available by appointment at the Logan County Genealogical & Historical Society, 114 N. Chicago St., Lincoln.

Items available include a pillow featuring the Logan County Courthouse, copies of the Lincoln Evening Courier 1953 Centennial Edition, the 1982 Logan County History, books authored by Paul Beaver and Paul Gleason,
the Spanish Influenza Epidemic, & Days Gone By, the Logan County One Room School book.

Among other items are a framed Abraham Lincoln bust silhouette, Abraham Lincoln place mats, Heritage of Lincoln, IL board game, golden Christmas ornaments of local historical significance, and collectible plates of local businesses, churches, towns, and groups.

Books include:

William Scully and Abraham Lincoln in Logan County
by Paul Beaver,

The Logan County Pictorial History by Beaver and Paul Gleason,

and Lincoln, IL, A Chronology
by Beaver and Gleason;

Generosity
by Bill Donath,

The Town Abraham Lincoln Warned
by Leigh Henson,

the Lincoln Siltennial book,

This Is My Story, Logan County Veterans, Vol. 2;

Be Careful Crossing the Hard Road
by Bill Detmers,

Glimpses of Lincoln
by Jan Schumaker,

and Brian Cook, An Illinois Legend.

Among ornaments are historical views ofthe Logan County courthouse, the Lincoln Public Library, Lincoln City Hall,
the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital,
Lincoln College University Hall, the Earl C. Hargrove Chapel at Lincoln Christian College & Seminary, the Arcade building,
the Lincoln Woman's Club building,
and the Middletown Knapp, Chesnut, Becker building (in silver).

Area towns are represented by the following books: Twelve Momentous Years in the Other Atlanta; Elkhart, Life Is Like A Box of Chocolates and the Sesquicentennial book; Hartsburg Quasiqui and Centennial books; Latham 125th Anniversary; Mt. Pulaski, 150th and 125 Anniversaries and Cemetery Book; and Mason City, 125th Anniversary book.

Copies of the Prairie Farmer Reliable Directory of Breeders & Farmers for Logan County, 1917; and the 1860 census are available.

The following plates are for sale: Sheer's Auto Supply, Logan County Courthouse, Abraham Lincoln Centennial; Logan County Fair, 50th Anniversary; Zion Lutheran Church; Mt. Pulaski Siltennial, two sizes; First United Methodist Church; Easton Centennial; Emden Centennial; St. Peter's Lutheran Church; Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital; and the Mt. Pulaski Methodist Church.

Assorted high school and college yearbooks, dating from 1914, are available as are Lincoln City directories dating from 1979. Several cookbooks are on the sale listing.

Tickets for the raffle of an Abraham Lincoln Christening Lincoln afghan are also being offered.

Appointments to view or purchase these items may be made by calling 732-3200 and leaving a message. The Society remains closed, and is open only by appointment for purchases, membership renewals, research, or donations due to the Corona virus pandemic.

[DIANE OSBORN]