The story of StreatorBeing an account of the growth of its institutions civic, social and industrial, with special reference to its manufacturing and business interests; together with an outline of its early history and life sketches of some of its leading citizens . Louis .Nater, City Treasurer. Fred H. Renz, City Engineer. store, on the site of the i)resent Ilumb |[ village was scattered along the blulT of theriver and was called Hard Scrabble from tliedifficulty of clind)ing the hill from the riverford. .\ little later the village was calledUnionville; but in 1866 came Col. Ralph Pl
The story of StreatorBeing an account of the growth of its institutions civic, social and industrial, with special reference to its manufacturing and business interests; together with an outline of its early history and life sketches of some of its leading citizens . Louis .Nater, City Treasurer. Fred H. Renz, City Engineer. store, on the site of the i)resent Ilumb |[ village was scattered along the blulT of theriver and was called Hard Scrabble from tliedifficulty of clind)ing the hill from the riverford. .\ little later the village was calledUnionville; but in 1866 came Col. Ralph Plumband with him came the Vennillion Coal Com-pany with its president. Hr. W. L. Streator,from whom the town got the name it now bears. The Coming: of Col. Plumb. With the coming of Col. Plumb a new erawas begun. The coal industry was rapidly de-veloped, railroads were built, and the popula- til July ;>, 1882, when Streator became a cityunder the general laws of the state. Its popu-lation was about 6,0t)(). The first officers of theIity under the general laws of the statewere: Colonel Ralph Plumb, president, JohnE. Williams, clerk; John T. Kuhns, treasurer;J. T. Murdock. attorney; Joseph Mosher, su-perintendent of sti-eets; Henry Smith, marshal;B. A. llatte
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