The Class of 1906

Geneva Helen Baltzer, married Mr. Kennison, Freeport.

Mary Baldwin, teacher, Freeport.

Floyd or Lloyd E. Best, Northwestern University Medicine, Class of 1911, Freeport.

Florence Bricker, bookkeeper, Freeport.

Gladys Brine,

S. Lillian Brubaker, teacher, Freeport.

Kenneth Burrell, Illinois Wesleyan Law, Freeport.

Mary S. Capp, stenographer, Freeport.

Dora Ethel Chappell, teacher, Freeport.

Clarence W. Chapman,

Lawrence Chapman,

Leslie D. Clark, Armour Institute Class of 1910 Chicago, Freeport.

Fred A. Dietrich, bookkeeper, Winnipeg, Canada.

Edna E. Ditzler, stenographer, Freeport.

Mary E. Dreyer, teacher, Freeport.

John E. Erwin, Nebraska.

Elsie Figley,

Brownie Fitch,

Elta Flachtemeier, bookkeeper, Freeport.

Elsie Figeley, dressmaker, Freeport.

Alice Mae Frye, bookkeeper, Freeport.

Ulysses S. Goddard, Freeport Business College.

David B. Graham, banker, Laurel, Nebraska.

George Green,

Harry Hanke, reporter, Standard, Freeport.

Harvey Hartman, Welch & Hartman, Freeport.

Elva M. Hill, Freeport.

Kathryn Hill, Freeport.

Ruth Hill, Wells College Class of 1910, Freeport.

Irving Hoefer, civil engineer, Missoula, Montana.

Nellie Holland, Lake Forest College Class of 1910, Freeport.

Jennie Jones, stenographer, Freeport.

Margaret Kathryn Jones, bookkeeper, Freeport.

Nellie Jones,

Sue Kunz,

Louis Leonard Lebkicker, Freeport.

Helen Littwinski, teacher, Freeport.

Edward Luebbing, clerk, Walton Nephews, Freeport.

Warren Madden, U of I Class of 1911, Freeport.

Harry McCulloch, Principal of Milford High School, Milford, Illinois.

Don Meisenbach, El paso & Southwestern RR, El Paso, Texas.

Edna Murphy, U of Chicago Class of 1911.

Boyd W. Nestlerode.

Walter Nolting, Emmert Drug Store, Freeport.

Archie Putnam, Illinois Central office, Freeport.

Michael Rigney, farming, Scioto Mills.

S. Rigney,

Irene J. Schillinger, bookkeeper, Freeport.

Hilda Marie Schilling,

George Schmelzle, Schmelzle & Sons, Freeport.

George Schoefel,

Walter Schulte, U of W Class of 1910, Freeport.

Wilmer Sechrist, Guyer & Calkins Co., Freeport.

Edith Swingley, Freeport.

Alma Vaupel, Freeport.

Daniel Voss, Moline Plow Co., Freeport.

Karl F. Wagner, U of W Class of 1910, Freeport.

Frances Emmerson Watson, State Superintendent's Office, Tacoma, Washington.

Fred H. Young, Elecrtic Light & Power Co., Freeport.

Fred R. Young, Elecrtic Light & Power Co., Freeport.

Harry Zanoni, First National Bank of Freeport.

Gladys Ziegler.

The October 1905 issue of the Polaris. Scan courtesy of Bob Jones, from his mother's collection. Hilda Marie Schilling, after graduating from FHS in 1906,
attended the Art Institute of Chicago. She married Wyatt J. Jones, and they had four children. Bob Jones, their youngest child, scanned his mother's Polarises.

The January 1906 issue of the Polaris.

The February 1906 issue of the Polaris.

The March 1906 issue of the Polaris.

There are more scans from Bob Jones on the 1904 page. My scans of the June 1905 issue is on the 1905 page.

World War I Veterans from the Class of 1906

Ulysses S. Goddard, Heavy Artillery, France.

Sergeant David B. Graham, Infantry.

George T. Green, Tenty Officers' Training Camp, Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Michigan.

Harry Hanke, Quartermaster's Department, Jacksonville, Florida.

Lieutenant Walter A. Nolting, Hospital Corps, Camp McArthur, Waco, Texas.

Fred Russel Young, Infantry. 132nd L.F.A., 123rd H.F.A., 317th Infantry.

From a card postmarked in 1906, looking east on Stephenson Street. At left is the City Hall, on the right is the old YMCA. A block down on the left is the tall Civil War Memorial.

This card, also postmarked 1906, shows Stephenson Street from another block plus west, also looking east. On the left is Grace Episcopal Church. Here, the artist seems to have painted over the trolley tracks.

This 1906 card shows the original Lincoln-Douglas debate site. Now a park, when I was growing up in Freeport the site was a parking lot. In this photo, residences were built on the original debate site.

The Stephenson County Court House in an unusual view. Most cards show the Court House as viewed from the southwest and feature the Soldiers' Monument. This view is from the northeast, showing N. Van Buren Avenue on the left and W. Exchange Street on the right.

The First ME Church in 1906.

The Carnegie Public Library in Freeport as shown on a 1906 card.

Here’s another interesting character from Freeport’s past who would have been in this graduating class, but I couldn't find a record of.

Charles Symens (1888-1960) was a veteran of World War One.

In the 1920s and early 1930s he advertised himself variously as a “magnetic healer,” and a “mental and spiritual healer not pertaining to spiritualism.” He claimed “Pains stopped and health restored by laying on hands.”

In the 1930s the State of Illinois charged five Stephenson County residents with violations of the medical practices act, alleging that they engaged in practice without obtaining a license.

O. C. Kisor, J. F. Homan, Harold Armstrong and Marie J. Raders were listed as chiropractors while Symens was listed as “Rev. Charles Symens, practical psychologist.” I don’t know the outcome of the cases.

Charles Symens was survived by two sons, Charles Jr. who played football for Freeport High School in the late 1940s and later earned a degree as an industrial psychologist, and James, who served in the Air Force.