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Byron Laflin Smith, 1853-1914: a Biographical Sketch
This is a short or th¨mbnail sketch of the life of B. L. Smith, founder of the Northern Trust Company, and a one-time trustee of Lake Forest Unversity, 1896-1902. It provides reerences to several online and printed sources for more information.
William Henry Humiston Scrapbook, Lake Forest University Class of 1891
Historical images of Lake Forest University and its surrounding from ca. 1887-1897 make up this collection of photographic prints. William Henry Humiston after his graduation went on or continued to be a chruch organist in the Chicago area, studied…
William Bross--a biographical memoir and transcriptions of his diary (1875-1888) and of his correspondence with Mark Hopkins, Williams College, 1850s
This pdf document is of the carbon copy of a tpescript, apparently prepared by presidential assistant La Tourette Stockwell in the late 1930s for Dr. Herbert McC. Moore, president of Lake Forest College. It may have bee nthe basis for a biography…
Lake Forest College Student Organizations Reference File Folder-Level Listings, coverage through 1990s
This reference file was prepared in the late 1990s mostly from College yearbooks to support the writing of the College's history, published in 2000, 30 Miles North... by Franz Schulze et al. The listing has been prepared in June 2013.
Arthur D. Dubin (ASTP '47) Railroad Photograph Collection: slides, group "D" (annotated by hand, Aarthur H. Miller from ADD's comments)
From 1999 to 2011 Arthur D. Dubin (1923-2011), who attended Lake Forest College in 1943 as part of his wartime service, donated thousands of photographic and related images to Special Collections, Lake Forest College library. In one of his early…
Levi W. Yaggy/W. O. Lindley/W. Mitchell House, 901 East Rosemary Road, Lake Forest, IL
The original architect for 901 E. Rosemary Rd. is Lawrence Gustav Hallberg (1844-1915).
A resource mentioning the architect is a Chicago Tribune notice, Nov. 11, 1888, of work on the 901 E. Rosemary Rd. house’s beginning for Levi Yaggy, a Chicago…