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The company was also awarded the American Moving & Storage Association's first Independent Mover of the Year Award, for 2007. [18] Springfield has been a campaign stop for Republican election candidates. [19] Interstate hosted a rally held by John McCain, Republican presidential nominee and his running mate, Sarah Palin in 2008. [20]
The 71st became the first P-38 unit in combat. Capt John D. Eiland was credited with the squadron's first-ever combat kill after downing a German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 on 4 December 1942. The pilots were continuously at the forefront of the air battles.
The Illinois Watch Company was founded on December 23, 1870, in Springfield, Illinois, by John C. Adams, John Whitfield Bunn (1831–1920), and various additional financiers. Twenty years later, Jacob Bunn Jr., (1864–1926) took over and ran the company until his death in 1926.
The following year, he became a member of the League of Gileadites, an African-American self-defense group organized in part by John Brown. [1] In 1853, he moved to Springfield, Illinois, where he worked at a hotel across from the office of then-attorney Abraham Lincoln. Thomas returned to Massachusetts in 1855, after the Illinois hotel closed ...
M Rumley Co., LaPorte, Indiana – later merged with the Advance Thresher Co. to create Advance-Rumely Thresher Co. Russell & Company (Steam Tractor), Massillon, Ohio (1848-1962) ~Ryan & McDonald, Waterloo, New York; Sawyer-Massey & Co. Ltd., Hamilton, Ontario, Canada after merger with Harris to form Massey-Harris later became Massey Ferguson
St. John's Mercy Hospital Building; St. Paul Block; South Avenue Commercial Historic District; South–McDaniel–Patton Commercial Historic District; Springfield Furniture Company; Springfield Grocer Company Warehouse; Springfield National Cemetery; Springfield Public Square Historic District; Springfield Seed Co. Office and Warehouse
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Other important residents included Andrew Black, a dry-goods merchant who built Black's Opera House [5] (353 S. Fountain), William D. Bayley, owner of the William Bayley Co. [6] (521 S. Fountain), James Johnson Jr., [7] leading attorney and mayor in 1895 (563 S. Fountain), Hector Urquhart, [8] owner and president of the Springfield Baking Co ...