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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Franklin was from Illinois, his father was from
Germany.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=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
Chicago during that time frame.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Good luck in finding that crack in your brick
wall!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Sue</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
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<H1><FONT size=3>Locations of Gas Plants and Other Coal-tar Sites in the
U.S.<BR>► THE STATE OF ILLINOIS <BR>Introduction:
<BR><BR>
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 Chicago influence was felt,
first by dozens of short-line railways and interurbans, an outgrowth of the
“traction” business. Traction companies flourished in Illinois, as the invention
of Illinois financiers, growing out of the new Chicago 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 Chicago. 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 Chicago holding companies.
<BR><BR> From
1915 to 1925, the manufactured gas business had shifted almost entirely, in
rural Illinois, to ownership from Chicago. Chicago 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 Illinois 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><BR>
While Chicago financiers struggled for territory in Illinois, 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 Illinois, Iowa and
Minnesota had so converted. </FONT></H1></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><STRONG>From:</STRONG> <A
title=Kith-n-Kin@cox.net href="mailto:Kith-n-Kin@cox.net">Kith-n-Kin</A></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us
href="mailto:or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us">or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, August 03, 2006 1:53
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: [or-roots] need help reading
census</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=189074520-03082006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>This
is what I get:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=189074520-03082006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=189074520-03082006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>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>Sidney 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 Franklin son-in-law m w 28 m1 0 IL Ger/German PA Chemical
Engineer Mfg. Evaporation<BR>Florence daughter f w 23 m1 0 IL VT MA
None</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=189074520-03082006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=189074520-03082006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>So,
James' mother was born in "English Canada" -- as I recall, that's Nova Scotia
and neighboring provinces.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=189074520-03082006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>The
"Ger German" means Franklin is from Germany and his native tongue is German.
You will note, however, that he does speak English.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=189074520-03082006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Horace is not working.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=189074520-03082006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=189074520-03082006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Pat
(in Tucson)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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