Full Text of HR0245 102nd General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, In the late 1870s, after Ford County had been | 3 | | plotted, the county wide school system was established with 90 | 4 | | one room school houses; one of these schools was initially | 5 | | known as number four in the southwest quarter of section | 6 | | seventeen of Sullivant Township; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, In 1885, the acreage school on which number four | 8 | | was located was purchased by John Mottes Miner; after the | 9 | | original school burned down, he donated his land, and a new | 10 | | school was built, which was then referred to as the Miner Grade | 11 | | School; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, John Miner was raised in Ohio and as a young boy | 13 | | had befriended his neighbor Michael L. Sullivant; in 1854, | 14 | | Michael Sullivant expanded his cattle and land empire into | 15 | | Illinois and brought John Miner with him; and | 16 | | WHEREAS, John Miner was named as brigadier or foreman, | 17 | | known today as farm manager; he led over 600 farm hands for | 18 | | many successful years until several years of bad crops ended | 19 | | the farm's prosperity in 1877; and | 20 | | WHEREAS, In the mid to late 1850s, John Miner would | 21 | | carriage Abraham Lincoln to the different county seats in |
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| 1 | | central Illinois and was one of the last people to shake the | 2 | | president elect's hand as he boarded the train to Springfield | 3 | | and then Washington D.C. to be our 16th president of the United | 4 | | States; and | 5 | | WHEREAS, In 1922, with the passing of John Miner, his | 6 | | daughter Julia inherited the now 80 acres that contained the | 7 | | Miner Grade School house; after that, the Miner Grade School | 8 | | and the land it occupied would then be known as schoolhouse 80; | 9 | | and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, In the late 1940s, the Ford County school | 11 | | consolidation occurred, which included the closing of all of | 12 | | the one room schoolhouses, including the Miner Grade School; | 13 | | and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, The Miner Grade School had served as a school and | 15 | | as a social and meeting house for the local area for around 60 | 16 | | years; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, After sitting empty for a few years, the Miner | 18 | | Grade School was purchased by the Guthrie Grain Elevator and | 19 | | was moved two miles into Guthrie to its new home as a | 20 | | repurposed office for the grain elevator; and
| 21 | | WHEREAS, The Miner Grade School was used as the grain |
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| 1 | | elevator's office for the next 35 years until a new office and | 2 | | shop were built; although the story of this specific school | 3 | | ends, its legacy and historical significance to Ford County | 4 | | continues; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Thomas C. Dueringer, the great-grandson of John | 6 | | Mottes Miner, is responsible for compiling significant | 7 | | research about the Miner Grade School and local history; | 8 | | therefore, be it
| 9 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 10 | | HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 11 | | we recognize the long and incredible history of the Miner | 12 | | Grade School in Ford County; and be it further
| 13 | | RESOLVED, That we commend the impressive research | 14 | | completed by Thomas C. Dueringer concerning the Miner Grade | 15 | | School leading to its historical marker; and be it further
| 16 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 17 | | presented to the Ford County Historical Society and to Thomas | 18 | | C. Dueringer as a symbol of our esteem and respect.
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