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1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of |
3 | | Representatives are pleased to congratulate the Village of |
4 | | Ramsey on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of its |
5 | | founding; and |
6 | | WHEREAS, The Village of Ramsey received its name from an |
7 | | early settler named William Ramsey, who
settled on what now is |
8 | | known as Ramsey Creek; surveyed as a town in 1857, it started |
9 | | growing when
the family of Valentine Brazil built their log |
10 | | cabin; the town was incorporated May 4, 1864 and reincorporated
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11 | | in 1877; Abraham Lincoln was known to ride through the |
12 | | Monclovia area near Ramsey on
his way to the State capital in |
13 | | Vandalia; and
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14 | | WHEREAS, As Ramsey grew, so did its businesses and railroad |
15 | | traffic; the I.C. Railroad was completed on
January 1, 1855 and |
16 | | made Ramsey a local trading and shipping point for nearby |
17 | | townships and the biggest
"railroad tie depot" on the line; as |
18 | | Ramsey grew its businesses became many; it had an Apple
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19 | | Evaporator Co. (supported by many nearby orchards), a hand-made |
20 | | farm wagon factory, a brick plant, a
creamery, and a beaver-hat |
21 | | factory to name a few; as of 1878, Ramsey's citizens could |
22 | | support 6 dry
goods and grocery stores, a drug store, a |
23 | | hardware store, 2 saloons, a boot shop, a hotel, a harness
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1 | | factory, and Ramsey was the 2nd largest town in Fayette County; |
2 | | Ramsey had its own newspaper in the
1880s named "The Ramsey |
3 | | Democrat"; the "Ramsey News-Journal" had its beginnings in |
4 | | 1911, was
purchased in 1912 by Julius Mueller, and remained |
5 | | within the family for 100 years; and
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6 | | WHEREAS, Ramsey was the first town in the State of Illinois |
7 | | to see women vote when on July 10, 1891
Athilla Stoddard voted |
8 | | publicly; she was 83 years old and had seen her husband and 7
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9 | | children pass on before her; and
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10 | | WHEREAS, Today, Ramsey citizens enjoy a State park, a golf |
11 | | course, a bank, a post office, 2 restaurants,
3 grocery stores, |
12 | | and a newspaper; the population exceeds 1000, and grows to over |
13 | | 5000 one day-a-year due to the Lions Club Auction; Ramsey can |
14 | | claim as its citizens such notable people as Glenn
Hobbie |
15 | | (baseball player), H.L. Hunt (oil tycoon, who inspired the TV |
16 | | series "Dallas"), and Tex Williams (a
country music singer/song |
17 | | writer and actor); therefore, be it
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18 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
19 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |
20 | | we celebrate the 150th year of Ramsey's incorporation and its |
21 | | contribution to the State of Illinois; and be it further
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22 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be |