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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Now I have another path to pursue.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Ronda<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
or-roots-admin@sosinet.sos.state.or.us
[mailto:or-roots-admin@sosinet.sos.state.or.us] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Sue Steward<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, August 03, 2006
3:16 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [or-roots] need help
reading census</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:City w:st="on"><font size=3 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Franklin</span></font></st1:City><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'> was from <st1:State w:st="on">Illinois</st1:State>,
his father was from <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Germany</st1:place></st1:country-region>.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Now that Pat has transcribed and suggested the possibility
that it is "gas" plants, I can see that as a real possibility.
I found some information on the internet to indicate that they did have gas
plants in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chicago</st1:place></st1:City>
during that time frame.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Good luck in finding that crack in your brick wall!</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Sue</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<h1><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Locations
of Gas Plants and Other Coal-tar Sites in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region><br>
► THE STATE OF <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">ILLINOIS <br>
Introduction</st1:place></st1:State>: <br>
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Manufactured
gas developed here due largely to plentiful coal within the State and a
well-developed eastern-look rail connection to the East. Gas companies began to
form in the late 1850s and again, after the war, in the 1860s. Locally-owned
companies were the rule until the <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chicago</st1:place></st1:City>
influence was felt, first by dozens of short-line railways and interurbans, an
outgrowth of the “traction” business. Traction companies flourished in <st1:State
w:st="on">Illinois</st1:State>, as the invention of <st1:State w:st="on">Illinois</st1:State>
financiers, growing out of the new <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Chicago</st1:City></st1:place>
industrialism and commerce of the 1870s. Many towns soon had local traction
systems of streetcars and the capitalists followed the supreme example of
Samuel Insull and his North American Company of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Chicago</st1:place></st1:City>. Holding companies looked toward gas
light and electricity as a means of concentrating their street railway
investments. From 1898 to 1907, Insull consolidated 13 separate manufactured
gas companies into Peoples. By 1900 the local gas companies were under
acquisition by the traction companies, mainly operating under <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Chicago</st1:place></st1:City> holding companies. <br>
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From 1915 to
1925, the manufactured gas business had shifted almost entirely, in rural <st1:State
w:st="on">Illinois</st1:State>, to ownership from <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Chicago</st1:place></st1:City>. <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Chicago</st1:place></st1:City> holding companies were interested in
uniformity of manufacture and sales and began to weave distribution networks
consistent with developments in gas pipeline integrity by which adjacent towns
could be served from old gas plants suitably modified and modernized to provide
carburetted water gas under enough distribution pressure to reach adjacent
towns. New gas holders, in the range of 3,000,000 to 2.000,000,000 cf were the
means of storage and the increased distribution pressure. Some <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Illinois</st1:place></st1:State> gas plants
therefore were closed in the 1920s, nearly a quarter century before reliable
natural gas supplies were uniformly available. Peoples Gas Light & Coke
Company turned toward selling commercial and industrial heat in 1919, to
protect against the inroads of electric lighting, and had captured a huge market
by 1929.<br>
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While <st1:City
w:st="on">Chicago</st1:City> financiers struggled for territory in <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Illinois</st1:place></st1:State>, natural gas
producers were targeting the State for big-time conversion. In 1925, some
11,700 natural gas customers were to be found in the State (Espy, 1935). Most
of the arriving gas was controlled by Insull’s North American Light & Power
Company, as shared with the United Light & Railways Company and the Lone
Star Gas Company, delivering the gas to Joliet, for distribution via other
pipelines, to greater Chicago. By 1934, 139 towns in <st1:State w:st="on">Illinois</st1:State>,
<st1:State w:st="on">Iowa</st1:State> and <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Minnesota</st1:place></st1:State> had so converted. </span></font><o:p></o:p></b></h1>
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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>From:</span></font></b></strong><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <a
href="mailto:Kith-n-Kin@cox.net" title="Kith-n-Kin@cox.net">Kith-n-Kin</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>To:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <a
href="mailto:or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us"
title="or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us">or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us</a> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Thursday, August
03, 2006 1:53 PM<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> RE: [or-roots]
need help reading census<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>This is what I get:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Crocker, James R Head m w 64 m1 28 VT CT
Can.English General Agent [Gas.] Plants<br>
Agnes T wife f w 52 m1 28 4/3 MA MA MA none<br>
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sidney</st1:place></st1:City> son m w
25 s IL VT MA Mech Engineer Mfg Concrete<br>
Horace son m w 18 s IL VT MA None<br>
DeBurs <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Franklin</st1:place></st1:City>
son-in-law m w 28 m1 0 IL Ger/German PA Chemical Engineer Mfg. Evaporation<br>
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Florence</st1:place></st1:City>
daughter f w 23 m1 0 IL VT MA None</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>So, James' mother was born in "English
Canada" -- as I recall, that's <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Nova
Scotia</st1:place></st1:State> and neighboring provinces.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>The "Ger German" means <st1:City
w:st="on">Franklin</st1:City> is from <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Germany</st1:place></st1:country-region> and his native tongue is
German. You will note, however, that he does speak English.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Horace is not working.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Pat (in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Tucson</st1:place></st1:City>)</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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