"This scene of destruction shows the wreckage of the home in which Mrs. Aletha Rowland, mother of nine children, was fatally injured in the tornado which struck east central Illinois Monday." The News-Gazette, March 17, 1942.
H. M. Russell owned a horse-bus (omnibus) company with John Gere that people used to travel from Urbana to West Urbana before the Urbana Railroad Line was installed.
This portrait of the Fred Turner was presented to the University of Illinois in 1968, the year of his retirement, by students who worked in his office while attending the university. It was painted by Fred Conway of Washington University in St.…