People Featured in the Book

• Adelmann, Frederick W. (1887-1957) abstractor, trolley rider, composer of "Maroon and White" song
• Alday (Aldag), Adam (1831-1894) German immigrant, entrepreneur, land developer
• Allen, Minnie Stephens (1859-1933) musician, philanthropist, founder of Moline Woman's Club
• Arnold, Louisa Runge (1879-1970) partner in car dealership, New York Store employee
• Atkinson, Charles (1808-1887) founder and promoter of Moline, chose the name "Moline"
• Atkinson, Sarah M. Savage (1843-1907) philanthropist, supporter of church and women's groups
• Barnard, Herman A. (1826-1906) inventor, industrialist, book collector, alderman, bank director
• Bell, William (1843-1912) Civil War veteran, railroad engineer and fireman
• Bennett, William C. (1836-1916) boat captain, businessman, alderman, mayor, school board member
• Browning, John T. (1828-1910) lawyer, city attorney, donated land for Browning Field
• Buchanan, William P. (1837-1910) farm laborer, disabled in Civil War veteran, salesman
• Cady, Merton Yale (1840-1900) architect, builder of safes, livestock breeder, First Congregational Church leader
• Carlson, George E. (1872-1942) postmaster, insurance salesman, first 33rd Degree Mason in Moline
• Channon, Lena Leoti Gates (1881-1935) first woman telephone operator in the Tri-Cities
• Christison, Elizabeth S. Brown (1842-1910) Scottish immigrant, grocery store owner
• Cornwall, Hazel (1881-1897) Stewartville resident, died of consumption as a teenager
• Deere, John (1804-1886) inventive plow manufacturer, mayor, civic leader
• Deere, Mary Little Dickinson (1841-1913) founded Moline D. A. R., national D. A. R. Vice President General
• Desaulniers, Frances B. (1889-1918) Red Cross nurse, 1918 influenza victim
• Dickens, Francis Jeffrey (1844-1886) third son of Charles Dickens, early member of Royal Canadian Mounted Police
• Dimock, Maria Hubbard (1820-1921) centenarian, laid cornerstone of the First Congregational Church in 1917
• Dow, Ann Marion Chamberlin (1828-1916) educator, mentor, temperance and women's suffrage advocate
• Dunn, Maria McBurney (1833-1918) English immigrant, hardware store owner
• Ed, Gustaf (1850-1914) Swedish immigrant, contractor, early user of reinforced concrete
• Edwards, Caroline Fleming (1827-1885) Congregational Church member, wife and mother of six children
• Edwards, Maria Waterman (1836-1895) Pioneer, farmer, land developer, businesswoman
• Efflandt, Johannes Heinrich (Henry) (1855-1919) German immigrant, butcher, bank director
• Ellison, Lula May (1892-1913) young tornado victim
• Entrikin, Julia Alathea Chamberlin (1842-1906) music teacher, fire insurance business owner
• Entrikin, Walter J. (1846-1908) lawyer, city attorney, Riverside Cemetery secretary
• First, Lena Holtzman (1846-1923) German immigrant, wife and mother of ten children
• Fjelinder, Anders A. (1840-1908) Swedish immigrant, tailor
• Fryxell, John (1854-1941) Swedish immigrant, builder and installer of pipe organs
• Giles, Warren Crandall (1896-1979) baseball manager, National League President, member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame
• Good, John W. (1852-1910) agricultural machinery executive, died in Bombay
• Gordon, Daniel (1822-1916) teacher, surveyor of Riverside Cemetery, first city clerk
• Gottshe, Adolph (1831-1904) German immigrant, harness maker
• Gould, Abbie Walker (1841-1907) poet, women's suffrage and women's rights supporter
• Gould, Hannah Marcy Dimock (1824-1900) first woman elected to Moline school board, founding member of First Baptist Church
• Gould, John Maxfield (1822-1912) industrialist, lumber baron, hospital advocate, judge
• Gould, Marcia Louise Towndrow (1859-1936) organizer of King's Daughters Union, 1893 Columbian Exposition Board of Lady Managers
• Heald, Daphne Churchill (1838-1921) teacher, women's rights and temperance leader
• Healy, Emily Ormsbee (1822-1874) pioneer wife and mother
• Healy, Josiah (1819-1893) farmer, sold land to Riverside Cemetery
• Hillhouse, Mary Keyes (1855-1929) high school principal, mentor, charter member of Kings Daughters
• Hitchcock, Allen Backus (1814-1873) strident abolitionist, controversial minister of Congregational Church
• Hubbard, Rufus Henry (1789-1880) Civil War veteran, lumber company employee, band organizer
• Huntoon, Jonathan (1815-1892) pioneer, flour mill operator, cemetery board member
• Huntoon, Mary Stephens (1853-1928) community activist, first president of Moline Woman's Club
• Jenney, William Le Baron (1832-1907) landscape architect for Riverside Cemetery, "father of the American skyscraper"
• Josephson, Carl Ivar (1870-1939) jewelry store owner, horologist, commercial developer of 5th Avenue
• Josephson, Emma Rundquist (1869-1942) active in First Congregational Church and King's Daughters
• Karstens, Christine Nave (1844-1928) German immigrant, son donated land for Karstens Park
• Keator, Jerman (1822-1904) lumber baron, hotel owner, bank director, civic leader
• Klattenhoff, Anna M. (1865-1937) co-proprietor of dry goods store
• Knox, Luther C. (1874-1959) undertaker, bull terrier breeder
• Landee, Frank A. (1852-1917) communications pioneer, inventor, state senator, Moline Furniture Company executive, grocer
• Lind, Peter E. (1844-1938) Civil War veteran, inventor, long time employee of Deere & Company
• Lobdell, Charles W. (1834-1906) shopkeeper, president of first gas company
• Lovejoy, George A. (1858-1919) butcher, city council member
• Mangold, Emma Wixon (1867-1940) wife of well-known photographer and orchestra leader
• Manley, Elizabeth Smith (1836-1885) Irish immigrant, boarding house proprietor
• McBurney, Helen Daxon Hynes (1832-1880) Irish immigrant, composer and singer
• McGlynn, Paterson S. (1850-1934) newspaper reporter, editor and owner of the Dispatch
• Mead, William (178?-1854) War of 1812 veteran, member of prominent Pennsylvania family
• Meese, William A. (1856-1920) attorney, historian, Rock Island County Historical Society founder
• Meyer, Dr. Robert C. J. (1865-1934) physician, advocate for the insane, coroner, horticultural experimenter
• Miller, Dr. Jane H. Spencer (1831-1912) homeopathic physician, first woman doctor in Moline
• Nave, Christina (1802-1883) German immigrant, cook for workers on Arsenal Island
• Nelson, Rosa Lenora (1894-1909) teenager who died in work-related accident
• Nourse, Alonzo (1822-1858) fanning mill owner, entrepreneur, real estate developer
• Nourse, William A. (1820-1901) fanning mill owner, merchant, Moline's first nursery garden owner
• Olsson, Olof , Rev. D. D. (1841-1900) clergyman, professor, Augustana College's third president
• Oppenheimer, Adolph "Oppie" (1866-1935) German immigrant, Moline's first physical education teacher, photographer
• Osborn, Margaret Proudfoot (1832-1881) English immigrant, milliner
• Peal, Oscar (1849-1899) saloonkeeper, hotel owner, alderman
• Peek, Burton Francis (1872-1960) lawyer, Deere & Company President, avid golfer
• Pingree, George Ely (1838-1920) Civil War hero, traveling salesman
• Plambeck, Amanda (1861-1956) long time seamstress
• Reed, Helen Davenport Whipple (1813-1882), Sanitary Commission member, G. A. R. honoree for organizing aid to soldiers during the Civil War
• Reese, Charles (1832-1902) Civil War veteran, G. A. R. supporter, hotel owner
• Ritchie, Ann (? - 1901) former slave, respected community member
• Sale, Dr. Joseph Hector (1838-1897) Civil War musician, general practice physician
• Sears, David Benton (1804-1884) pioneer, waterpower expert, gristmill builder/owner, land developer
• Sheley, Margaret Giles (1848-1939) member of G.A.R. Auxiliary, Stewartville resident
• Silvis, Richard Shippen (1837-1918) pioneer, coalmine owner, town of Silvis named for him
• Sloan, Dr. Chester Collin (1877-1937) obstetrician, amateur pilot and aviation pioneer
• Stephens, Ada E. (1865-1947) arts supporter, anonymous philanthropist, Stephens Square donor
• Stewart, Mary Eleanora Herr (1832-1920) temperance and women's suffrage advocate
• Swan, Robert Kerr (1825-1878) factory co-owner and salesman, Moline Plow Company President
• Swander, Alexander F. (1814-1880) early settler, law officer and sheriff
• Toellner, Adolph (1841- 1889) German immigrant, landscape architect, Riverside Cemetery Sexton
• Velie, Annie Flowerree (1866-1961) socialite, world traveler
• Velie, James A. (1844-1872) merchant, tuberculosis victim
• Velie, Willard Lamb (1866-1928) inventor and manufacturer of carriages, automobiles and airplanes
• Vinton, Minnie Kroeger (1877-1940) long-time Domestic Arts Teacher
• Wells, Jane H. Thompson (1831-1904) local policeman's wife
• Wells, Mattie T. (1869-1881) identical twin, school girl, scarlet fever victim
• Wharton, Theodore Finley (1870-1943) Deere & Company executive, Field House campaign leader
• Wheelock, Alice (1873-1968) teacher, long-time grade school principal
• Wheelock, Daniel (1822-1893) pioneer, farmer, baker, first Moline mayor
• Wheelock, Stillman (1816-1892) pioneer, paper company owner, breeder and racer of horses, bank president, library building donor
• Wigers, Jacob S. (1867-1918) rower, police officer, sheriff murdered in the line of duty
• Wilson, James Wesley (1828-1907) carpenter, millwright, beekeeper
• Wilson, Mary Britannia (1871-1968) Grant School's first kindergarten teacher, piano teacher
• Wittick, Barbara Petrie (1824-1885) German immigrant, grief stricken mother and wife
• Wittick, George Benjamin (1845-1903) Civil War veteran, early American West photographer
• Wixon, Hattie (Birdie) (1873-1879) child who died of spinal meningitis
• Wood, Rebecca Sears (1815-1888) pioneer family member