Kappa, Illinois

Its Early Families and History

First Published in 1978

by the Woodford County Historical Society

Now published in 1999 as a digital book on the World Wide Web with funding by

Heartland Bank & Trust Company

Copyright 1999

Most of the work for assembly of this digital version of this book was done by Joel Dudley and Derek Campbell, and supervised by Allen Drake, all of El Paso, Illinois.

If you want, this link takes you away from the "Kappa, It’s Early Families and History" to the El Paso, Illinois, History Webpage.

The following is a table of contents that links to each page of the album.
 
 

Cover Book Cover

Page 1 – Introduction

Page 2 – (Intentionally left blank)

Page 3 – Table of Contents

Page 4 – (Intentionally left blank)

Page 5 – First Settlers

Page 6 – Post Office

Page 7 – Main Street 1886 and Lallmann and Drake Elevator (photos)

Page 8 – Schools

Page 9 – Teachers and the First Store

Page 10 – More Stores

Page 11 – Kappa Depot and Lallmann Store (photos)

Page 12 – Kappa Businessmen

Page 13 – More Businessmen and Physicians

Page 14 – Church

Page 15 – Kappa Cemetery and Village Board

Page 16 – Old Mill and Winter of Deep Snow

Page 17 – Kappa Cemetery (photos)

Page 18 – Winter of Deep Snow (cont.) and Changing Counties

Page 19 – Murder and Personal Histories: The Dixons

Page 20 – Dixon and Pearson

Page 21 – Hibbs Bros., Amrine, Van Scyoc, and Bigger

Page 22 – Messer and Hart

Page 23 – Main Street 1977 and Erskine Family (photos)

Page 24 – Coon, Sloan, and Cox

Page 25 – C. Jones Sr., C. Jones, N. Jones, and W. Jones

Page 26 – Lewis

Page 27 – Kappa Jail (photos)

Page 28 – Willis, SParks, Yerion Sr., Yerion, the Pattons, Grants, and C. Horn

Page 29 – J. Horn, Reed, Pearl, Montgomery, Taylor, Trotter, and H. Cook

Page 30 – Col. Cook

Page 31 – Cook, Potter, Harrison, Niergarth, and Jaynes

Page 32 – Corbitt, C. Schafer, P. Schafer, Waggoner, and Painter

Page 33 – Filmore Witt and Pastime Park (photos)

Page 34 – Hall, Decker & Radcliffs, North, Carroll, Ore, and Barsby

Page 35 – Starkey, Stone, and Hall

Page 36 – Drake, Porter, Lallmann, and German Families

Page 37 – Pfleuger, Steigelmeiere, and Kappa's War Record

Page 38 – Thomas Corbley

Page 39 – Mackinaw Bridge (photo)

Page 40 – Manning Sr., O'Hara, Huguet, Davis, Crowe Sr., French, and Motherway

Page 41 – Paul, Boyd, Kenny, Schaffer, Davidson, and Hurley

Page 42 – Hannon, Bigger, Hall, Pearson, Witt, Grant, Montgomery, McGrath, and Bowman

Page 43 – I.C.R.R. Bridge and School House (photos)

Page 44 – Davitt, Bateman, Hogan, Welch, Harper, Dixon, Glimpse, Doran, and Olcott

Page 45 – Tucker, Frank, Lallmann, Porter Bros., Witt, Brown, Shoemaker, Stahl, Crowe,
                Erskine Bros., and Bridges

Page 46 – Greiner, Stephens, Trotter, Crawford, and Others

Page 47 – Kappa Church (photo)

Page 48 – Eugene Stone

Page 49 – Kappa History (from The El Paso Story)

Page 50 – Kappa (cont.)

Page 51 – Kappa History (from The Woodford County History)

Page 52 – Kappa (cont.)

Page 53 – Kappa (cont.)

Page 54 – Bibliography