In April of 1860, the J.R. Grant Leather & Saddlery Hardware store at 145 Main St. in Galena, Illinois, welcomed…
Prologue On Saturday, September 27, 1856, Colonel Roswell B. Mason, engineer-in-chief for the Illinois Central Railroad Company, notified the railroad’s…
The years immediately after the end of the American Civil War in 1865, U.S. President Andrew Johnson and the Republican…
On Sunday, October 9, 1966 U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York, younger brother of the late President John…