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Ottawa, LaSalle County, Illinois, USA



 


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Wikipedia 2016:

Ottawa is a city located at the confluence of the navigable Illinois River and Fox River in LaSalle County, Illinois, United States. The Illinois River is a conduit for river barges and connects Lake Michigan at Chicago, to the Mississippi River, and North America's 25,000 mile river system. The population estimate was 18,562 as of 2013. It is the county seat of LaSalle County and it is part of the Ottawa-Peru, IL Micropolitan Statistical Area.

History:

Ottawa was the site of the first of the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858. During the Ottawa debate Stephen A. Douglas, leader of the Democratic Party, openly accused Abraham Lincoln of forming a secret bipartisan group of Congressmen to bring about the abolition of slavery.

The John Hossack House was a "station" on the Underground Railroad, and Ottawa was a major stop because of its rail, road, and river transportation. Citizens in the city were active within the abolitionist movement. Ottawa was the site of a famous 1859 extrication of a runaway slave named Jim Gray from a courthouse by prominent civic leaders of the time. Three of the civic leaders, John Hossack, Dr. Joseph Stout and James Stout, later stood trial in Chicago for violating the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.

Ottawa was also important in the development of the Illinois and Michigan Canal, which terminates in LaSalle, Illinois, 12 miles to the west.

On February 8, 1910, William Dickson Boyce, then a resident of Ottawa, incorporated the Boy Scouts of America. Five years later, also in Ottawa, Boyce incorporated the Lone Scouts of America. Boyce is buried in Ottawa Avenue Cemetery. The Ottawa Scouting Museum, on Canal Street, opened to the public on December 6, 1997. The museum features the history of Boy Scouting, Girl Scouting and Camp Fire.

In 1922, the Radium Dial Company (RDC) moved from Peru, Illinois to a former high school building in Ottawa. The company employed hundreds of young women who painted watch dials using a paint called "Luna" for watch maker Westclox. RDC went out of business in 1936, two years after the company's president, Joseph Kelly Sr., left to start a competing company, Luminous Processes Inc., a few blocks away.

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Tod

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   Nachname, Taufnamen    Tod    Personen-Kennung 
1 Bower, Silas  1874Ottawa, LaSalle County, Illinois, USA I238604
2 Brandner, Konrad August  28 Nov 1928Ottawa, LaSalle County, Illinois, USA I158747
3 Genzlinger, Anna Catharina  10 Sep 1957Ottawa, LaSalle County, Illinois, USA I125838
4 Hess, Wilhelmina  25 Jul 1921Ottawa, LaSalle County, Illinois, USA I158749
5 Morsch, Elizabeth Marie  14 Jun 1880Ottawa, LaSalle County, Illinois, USA I158748

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   Familie    Eheschließung    Familien-Kennung 
1 Morsch / Graven  10 Mai 1852Ottawa, LaSalle County, Illinois, USA F87669