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Jesse Eggman

Remembering Jonathan Tharp’s cabin

The seed from which Pekin grew was the log cabin that pioneer settler Jonathan...

Before Pekin: Arrival of the pioneers in the 1820s

Before the formal platting and surveying of the little pioneer settlement that would be...

Jacob Tharp’s memoir of Pekin’s founding

By Jared Olar Library assistant The founding of Pekin was due to the influx...

Bates recalls Pekin’s ‘Early Times’

By Jared Olar Library assistant This week we return to Pekin’s pioneer historian William...

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