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Table of Contents The Years Before ................................................................................................................................ 1 Farnily hat.hground in Calhoun ('m~nt? - Family hotel and othcr husinesses - Life in (lalhoun County and on the rivers - F;
Carl Wittmond SESSION I, TAPE 1, SIDE I Q: Where were you born sir? A: Brussels. Right here in this building. Q: And when were you born? A: In 1905, February the 24th. Q: What was your father's name? A: Charles H. Wittmond. Q: Was he also born here in Brusse\s? A: Yes. Q: How long had the Wittmond family been in the Brussels area? A: Around 153 years. Q: One hundred and fifty-three from now? A: Yes. Q: So that would be in the 1840's ... A: The 1840's then or . . . Q: ... then or 1830's. A: . . . something like that yes. Q: Where did the3 came from before that? A: Germany and Lithuania. Q: Do you recalI hearing anything about when they came to the United States? Carl Wittmond Memoir -- Archives/Special Collections, University of Illinois at Springfield
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Page 7: orrrniilnity in central Illinois. A
Page 11 and 12: A: Yes. Q: Okay. And then your fath
Page 13 and 14: County that had a spur on this side
Page 15 and 16: A: It's peculiar how you always rem
Page 17 and 18: Q: I see. (chuckles) A: Out of the
Page 19 and 20: A: . . . and he took care of you. A
Page 21 and 22: A: Oh yes. You'd have a showboat he
Page 23 and 24: A: Yes it really happened. This thi
Page 25 and 26: my motber had to scrape around here
Page 27 and 28: that's how narrow people are you kn
Page 29 and 30: you know. It wasn't too prosperous.
Page 31 and 32: A: Well, I guess it was. I guess 1
Page 33 and 34: to stay all night to go to a show a
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Q. (chuckles) We11 this kind of gav
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Q: You sa) you were going to school
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A: Sunir. yes, oh yes. I've got sev
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Q: LVell hou did he po about gettin
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A: Oh yes sure, they used to dl, a
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ha\.? to come hc,ll:r to t'3t or so
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Anii the Eagles anif the Elks, I ha
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half of the peul,lr never elen knrw
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A: Well, in the first place, they'd
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Monday morning from Brussels. And m
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an argunirnt Iatrr UII a1111 the12
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Q: I I a n e llad you known Paul Po
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.4: Yes, somehody got hurt and Q: .
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him. Down there - see. Blackie uras
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Nuniber two, the secretary of state
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kind of a mystery place anyway, no
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anything you'd want if you'd want i
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Q: Kind of cleaned it up then. A: B
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Q: Yes that \+-as later A: I can't
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A: Probably was I think, yes. I did
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Maybe a lot of them was in. Like Bi
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other people would go see until the
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- "Oh." he said, "he makes eighty f
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.A: Oh, in his ofice, many a time.
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district. Powell said, "YIIu'~ h~tt
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.A: Oh atlout - yes, hr shall have
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thrsrr. ant1 Iru) them. And I don't
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;mil the key Dcrnocrats. the) xverc
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you ran't beat." I said, "Some day
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:I: Yes I ren~ernher that. :I: I pr
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.A: Yes. they was \.otiny and vice
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Q: What was your position on that?
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Q Did she usually do it at your des
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a lot of the cunstituents don't un~
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A: Yes I remember him Q: \Ye11 let'
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11: 011 I never did get excited ove
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'1: Oh 1 probahl) thought there wer
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to hlock it if he wanted to. So man
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it would he alright or whatever the
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Q: Yes. A somrthing. fle might have
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Q: Well let's see, he lived in Edwa
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Q: Oh, I see. A: Ht. thought that 1
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in the Granite City area - he was t
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:I: Oh yes, oh yes Q: What other ro
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So I put the bill in anyway to get
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A: . . . get credit for it, see, if
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A: I ctin't rrcall anymore \\.hat i
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A: hutuhahn, over in . . . Q: Germa
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Q: Well. Do you recall any particul
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I'd voted for the bill. That would
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Q: Let's see, the Zion [Illinois Be
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:\: Ile nrust not have run ;my more
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A: Wide open sparrs, that's right.
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Q: I'd like to ask first today abwt
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.A: Yes 1 can rt,call something of
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Q: Oh. He wanted the department you
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kno~r-. (;- I could have got on but
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who knrn. sonrething ahuut agrirult
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.A: \Vr ~ntrrtainzd several - one t
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town. And a lot of people was compl
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:I: Oh, n-c went a few other places
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.A: Not at that timc but they promo
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some of then1 - hut their unions ar
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sonielhing happened. I think I had
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Index .Ahl.nhani Lincoln Hl~tcal. 1
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Hinan, Martin, 79 IIitler, Adolph,
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