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Caroline Mark Home. / 42.10083°N 89.97472°W / 42.10083; -89.97472. The Caroline Mark Home is a historic retirement home located at 222 East Lincoln Street in Mount Carroll, Illinois. The home was built in 1906 through an endowment made in Caroline Mark's estate. Mark, who died in 1900, and her husband James were longtime Mount Carroll ...
Green Mount Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Established on March 15, 1838, and dedicated on July 13, 1839, it is noted for the large number of historical figures interred in its grounds as well as many prominent Baltimore-area families. It retained the name Green Mount when the land was purchased ...
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ( / ˈlʌtwɪdʒ ˈdɒdʒsən / LUT-wij DOJ-sən; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician and photographer. His most notable works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871).
Studied law and had his newspaper career in Chicago. Jessica Abel (1969–living), comic book writer and artist. Born and educated in Illinois. Gertrude Abercrombie (1909–77), surrealist painter. Lived most of her life in Chicago and known for her association with the city. Max Abramovitz (1908–2004), architect. Born and college-educated in ...
Ron W. Miller (1933–2019), businessman, football player, son-in-law of Walt Disney; Robert Andrews Millikan (1868–1953), physicist and Nobel Prize winner; Vincente Minnelli (1903–1986), director; Tom Mix (1880–1940), actor; Kid Mohler (1870–1961), baseball player and coach; Orville Mohler (1909–1949), football and baseball player
The Burial is a 2023 American legal drama film directed by Maggie Betts and written by Betts and Doug Wright.It is loosely based on the true story of lawyer Willie E. Gary and his client Jeremiah Joseph O'Keefe's lawsuit against the Loewen funeral company, as documented in the 1999 New Yorker article of the same name by Jonathan Harr.
Mount Carroll Historic District. Market Street in downtown Mount Carroll. / 42.09194°N 89.98028°W / 42.09194; -89.98028. The Mount Carroll Historic District is a designated historic district in the Carroll County, Illinois town of Mount Carroll, which is the county seat. The district is listed on the National Register of Historic ...
Floyd Allen (July 5, 1856 – March 28, 1913) was an American landowner and patriarch of the Allen clan of Carroll County, Virginia.He was convicted and executed for murder in 1913 after a sensational courthouse shootout the previous year that left a judge, prosecutor, sheriff, and two others dead, although the validity of the conviction has been a source of debate within Carroll County for ...