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, Its 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