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IMPORTANT AND INTERESTING EVENTS of 1899
A Retrospection of the Year Eighteen Hundred Ninety-Nine—A Reminder of Things Which You May Wish to Remember But Many of Which May Have Been Already Passing From Your Recollection.
Compiled and arranged for The True Republican by G. E. Congdon, President of the DeKalb County Historical Society.
JANUARY
10. M. W. A. county convention held in Sycamore.
14. Judge Stephen B. Stinson died at Sandwich, aged 73.
22. Gen. Frederick W. Partridge died at Sycamore, aged 74.
29. Booker T. Washington lectures at DeKalb.
FEBRUARY
1–2. DeKalb County Farmers’ Institute at Sycamore.
8. Col. Geo. W. Bain lectures at Shabbona.
12. Capt. M. V. Allen died at Aurora, aged 66.
27. February term of circuit court begins.
MARCH
13. Meeting of board of supervisors.
17. Rev. Stephen Crane died at Sycamore.
17. Final steps in Somonauk division case.
27. Eli Perkins lectures at Shabbona.
APRIL
19. W. C. T. U. county institute at DeKalb.
19. Maj. Gen. W. R. Shafter lectures at DeKalb.
26. Odd Fellows of Sandwich celebrate the 80th anniversary of that order.
26. Meeting of board of supervisors.
27. County grants franchise to Lake Geneva, Sycamore and Southern Electric Road.
27–28. Countess Schimmelmann lectures at DeKalb.
MAY
28. Floyd Ewing, of DeKalb, killed by lightning.
31. A. D. Welch kills Samuel Corwin at Malta.
JUNE
1. Free mail delivery established at DeKalb.
5. June term of circuit court begins.
8–9. Annual convention DeKalb County W. C. T. U. at Afton Center.
12. Meeting of board of supervisors.
JULY
21. First annual Woodman picnic at Hinckley.
AUGUST
7–12. Annual teachers’ institute at DeKalb.
29. DeKalb County camp fire and reunion of the 105th Illinois Volunteers at Sandwich.
30. Farmers’ picnic at Sycamore.
SEPTEMBER
2. All the prisoners escape from the county jail.
6. Old settlers’ picnic at Pritchard’s Grove.
12. Northern Illinois State Normal School opens.
12–14. Meeting of board of supervisors.
12–15. Sandwich Fair.
14–15. DeKalb County S. S. Association met at M. E. Church, Fairdale.
16. Picnic of old settlers of Northern DeKalb County at Kingston.
17. Finnish church dedicated at DeKalb.
21–23. “Three Crimson Days” street fair at DeKalb.
22. Northern Illinois State Normal School dedicated.
27–29. Annual convention of W. C. T. U. Eighth Congressional District at Sycamore.
OCTOBER
22. Baptist church at Sycamore dedicated; cost $9,000.
23. October term of circuit court begins.
26. John B. Gordon lectures at Sycamore: “The Last Days of the Confederacy.”
27–28. Northern Illinois Teachers’ Association meets at DeKalb.
31–Nov. 5. Fox and Rock River District quarterly conference of the Free Methodist Church held at Sycamore.
NOVEMBER
7. DeKalb post office robbed.
22. Ralph Emerson Wirt and Sally Ethel Ellwood married at Sycamore.
—. Northern Illinois appears, published by the students of the DeKalb Normal School.
DECEMBER
5. William Hawley Smith lectures at Sycamore: “What to Read and How to Read It.”
11. December term of county court begins.
11. Meeting of board of supervisors.
16. Teachers’ meeting at Sycamore.
19. DeKalb County Association of Private Bankers organized at DeKalb.
31. Methodist church at Hinckley dedicated.
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Source
True Republican (Sycamore, Illinois), January 24, 1900.
“County Chronology: Important and Interesting Events and Dates on Which They Occurred. A Retrospection of the Year Eighteen Hundred Ninety Nine.”
Compiled and arranged for The True Republican by G. E. Congdon, President of the DeKalb County Historical Society.