Full Text of HR1086 097th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives are pleased to congratulate the citizens of | 4 | | Princeville as they celebrate the town's 175th anniversary; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Princeville incorporated in Peoria County in | 6 | | 1874; Princeville was officially organized decades earlier on | 7 | | June 22, 1837 by William C. Stevens, Benjamin Clark, and Jesse | 8 | | M. McCutchen in an area previously known as Prince's Grove | 9 | | after Daniel Prince, said to be the first European to live | 10 | | among the Native Americans in the area; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Princeville has a proud military history dating | 12 | | back to the Lucky 13 who served in Company K in the 86th | 13 | | Illinois during the Civil War; Technician 4th Grade Robert E. | 14 | | Ward was awarded a Distinguished Service Cross for | 15 | | extraordinary heroism during World War II for administering | 16 | | first aid and evacuating 15 other soldiers while under enemy | 17 | | fire despite a fractured arm; Captain Lowell Fred Pierce served | 18 | | in Vietnam with honor and was awarded a purple heart, silver | 19 | | star, and 2 bronze stars; Mr. Finch Stowell survived Pearl | 20 | | Harbor and worked for the Department of Defense for 31 years; | 21 | | and | 22 | | WHEREAS, In addition, the Princeville American Legion, |
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| 1 | | Post #248 was established March 11, 1935 and the Veterans of | 2 | | Foreign Wars, Gold Star Post #1255 was chartered July 17, 1952; | 3 | | and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, Princeville also has a tradition of voluntary | 5 | | service with the Princeville Fire Company No. 1, formed in | 6 | | February, 1889, which evolved into the Akron-Princeville Fire | 7 | | Protection District in 1945; the Akron-Princeville Ambulance | 8 | | Service has operated with volunteers since March 1980; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Princeville was once a factory town with a long | 10 | | tradition of making lawn sprinklers at L.R. Nelson, spreaders | 11 | | for L.L. Larson and then canning at the Princeville Canning | 12 | | Company, later associated with Joan of Arc, Pillsbury, and now | 13 | | Seneca Foods and is one of the nation's largest producers of | 14 | | canned pumpkin; and | 15 | | WHEREAS, Princeville is the "Peony Capitol of the World" | 16 | | because, in 1937, Mr. Ed Auten introduced over 300 varieties of | 17 | | peonies and received a gold medal from the American Peony | 18 | | Society in 1950; and | 19 | | WHEREAS, Princeville has a long tradition of excellence in | 20 | | education from the days of the one room schoolhouse to the | 21 | | enriched opportunities of the Princeville Academy, which | 22 | | opened prior to the Civil War and then re-opened in 1887, which |
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| 1 | | was followed by the building of a new school in 1908, the | 2 | | construction of the present high school in 1951, and the | 3 | | construction of the present grade school in 1964; one of the | 4 | | finest gymnasiums of its time was built at the old school in | 5 | | 1927 and became host to the longest running Boys' Basketball | 6 | | Holiday Tournament in the State of Illinois; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Princeville will now have 3 parks, including | 8 | | Stevens Square, which was originally platted by founder William | 9 | | Stevens in 1837; Cutter's Grove, named for Dr. Charles Cutter, | 10 | | who deeded his family home to Princeville, and which is now the | 11 | | Lillie M. Evans Memorial Library and once served as a station | 12 | | on the Underground Railroad; and Troutman Park, which was | 13 | | purchased by a resident, Dean Troutman, and named in memory of | 14 | | his late wife, Dorothy (Peggy) Troutman, and which will open in | 15 | | concert with the 175th anniversary; therefore, be it
| 16 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 17 | | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 18 | | we congratulate the citizens of Princeville as they celebrate | 19 | | the 175th anniversary of their community on June 22, 2012 and | 20 | | wish them the best in the future; and be it further
| 21 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 22 | | presented to Sid Stahl, Village President, as a symbol of our | 23 | | esteem.
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