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    • Best, Bruce and Emma

    • Best, Bruce and Emma
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    • Bruce Best, born December 3, 1876, and his sister Emma, born in 1873, were the children of Dr. John Ellison Best, who was born in McHenry county, Illinois, and his wife Celestia Taylor. Emma died at age sixteen. Bruce went to Rush Medical College...
    • Arlington Heights People and Places
    • Best, Bruce T.

    • Best, Bruce T.

    • Physicians

    • Bruce Taylor Best was born on December 3, 1876, to Celestia and John Ellison Best. His sister, Emma, who was born in 1873, died in her sixteenth year. His mother, Celestia, died in 1895 and his father then married Nellie Noyes in 1896. Dr. Bruce...
    • Arlington Heights People and Places
    • Recreation Park Field House

    • Recreation Park Field House

    • Park buildings; Park facilities; Miner Street (Arlington Heights, Ill.)

    • Created as a WPA (Works Progress Administration) project in the 1930s, this building at 500 East Miner Street has served the community in many capacities. It has hosted summer reading programs for the library, served as a temporary house of...
    • Arlington Heights People and Places
    • Nike Base Headquarters

    • Nike Base Headquarters

    • Nike rocket; Air defenses; Radar defense networks; Antiaircraft missiles

    • In 1942, the Navy requested 360 acres at the corner of Central and Wilke Roads in Arlington Heights, Illinois, for an auxiliary air training field. An airplane hanger and housing for up to 150 men began in 1943 and, in May 1945, this air base...
    • Arlington Heights People and Places
    • Recreation Park

    • Recreation Park

    • Park buildings; Park facilities; Miner Street (Arlington Heights, Ill.)

    • In August 1934, the Village of Arlington Heights began to think about constructing a municipal swimming pool for the community. Walter Krause Sr. donated 13.59 acres of land for a park and pool (500 East Miner Street today). But, by September 1935,...
    • Arlington Heights People and Places
    • Klehm Nursery Workers

    • Klehm Nursery Workers

    • Harvesting; Nurseries; Nursery growers; Steam tractors

    • In this photo some of the Klehm Nursery workers are in the field with mule-drawn wagons and a steam tractor. This item is part of the collection of the Arlington Heights Historical Society (http://www.ahmuseum.org).
    • Arlington Heights People and Places
    • Davis, Clarence

    • Davis, Clarence

    • Families

    • Pictured is Clarence Davis who was a patient visitor at Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights. He was a cancer survivor and because of that decided to help other cancer victims. He became the first male volunteer at the hospital...
    • Arlington Heights People and Places
    • Militzer, Theodore

    • Militzer, Theodore

    • Families

    • Theodore Militzer, grandson of a minister and son of a teacher, lived nearly his entire life in Arlington Heights. He was a piano teacher, a professor of harmony and composition, a civic minded negotiator, a painter of portraits of the old music...
    • Arlington Heights People and Places
    • Evergreen Avenue, 711 North

    • Evergreen Avenue, 711 North

    • Dwellings; Evergreen Avenue (Arlington Heights, Ill.)

    • This home was built around 1918, most likely by Charles Lips for his family (Mary - wife, Howard C. - son). They occupied the home until at least the early 1940s. Charles worked for Marshall Field and Company as a merchandise inspector of carpets...
    • Arlington Heights People and Places
    • Shepherd, Herman C.

    • Shepherd, Herman C.

    • World War, 1914-1918; Railroad employees

    • This photo of Herman Shepherd was taken while he was serving during World War I. He trained in the Field Hospital Company 841 at Camp Grant in Rockford, Illinois. He served in the Replacement & Draft American force in France. He was born February...
    • Arlington Heights People and Places
    • Heller, Lewis L. and Lois

    • Heller, Lewis L. and Lois

    • Farmers; Farm corporations; Lumber trade; Lumbering

    • This photo of Lewis and Lois Heller was taken in the 1920s. Lewis was born in Maretta, Ohio on March 27, 1888, and attended Ohio State University. When he graduated, he worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Ohio. When he came to...
    • Arlington Heights People and Places
    • Sieburg, Walter F.

    • Sieburg, Walter F.

    • Soldiers; World War, 1914-1918;

    • Walter F. Sieburg was born in Arlington Heights, Illinois on January 6, 1891 to Fred and Mary Sieburg. On October 19, 1921, he married Laura Meyer. The Sieburgs had three children: Roger, Dorothy and Stanley. During World War I he served in D...
    • Arlington Heights People and Places

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