Robert Bike
Licensed Massage
Therapy #5473
Eugene, Oregon
EFT-CC, EFT-ADV
Teaching Reiki Master
Life Coach
541-465-9486
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Biblical
Aromatherapy
by Robert Bike 
The Bible mentions about 232 plants by name, or closely enough to figure out what plant is meant. Of these, 24 are aromatic plants; that is, parts of the plants can be pressed or distilled to get an essential oil. Essential oils are the lifeblood of plants and have tremendous healing capabilities. The
healing power of plants is the basis for modern medicines. Originally
published in manuscript form in 1999, To order
Biblical Aromatherapy in paperback, List price $24.99; introductory offer $19.99 To order the pdf version and download to your computer or phone, The electronic version is only $2.99! |
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Remarkable
Stories,
Remarkable
events have happened in Freeport and Stephenson County, Illinois,
and remarkable people have lived there. These are stories gathered
about people and events from 1835 through World War II. |
Publicity!
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Olga
Carlile, columnist for the Freeport (Illinois) Journal Standard,
featured this website in her column on January 19, 2007. |
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Harriet
Gustason, another columnist for the Freeport Journal Standard,
has featured this website twice. Click to see pdf of articles:
June 29, 2012 November 3, 2012 |
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"My
Life Purpose is to inspire my friends |
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All text and photos Copyright 2002 - present Robert L. Bike, except for photos and direct quotes from the Polaris and other sources, uncopyrighted material in the public domain.
This site is organized in three parts:
- Robert Bike, LMT LLC. This is my massage practice, healing services, and life coaching.
- Freeport and Stephenson County, Illinois. My hobby is writing about my hometown and the interesting people who have lived there from time to time. There are also lots of photos of Freeport, Freeport High School, and various Stephenson County sites and people. There are more than 350 web pages on this website about Stephenson County people, locations, and history linked below.
- Family
photos & genealogical info.
Robert Bike LMT LLC
Biblical
Aromatherapy
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The
Graduation Classes of
Freeport High School, Freeport, Illinois
People and Events from Each Year
| 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
Bolded
years have more information.
Unbolded years have less or no information.
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All sales go to help support this website.
Remarkable
Stories, Volume 1 Remarkable
events have happened in Freeport and Stephenson County, Illinois,
and remarkable people have lived there. These are stories gathered
about people and events from 1835 through World War II. |
Just passin' thru Freeport, Illinois
Dead & buried in Freeport, Illinois
The Autobiography of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak (Black Hawk)
Freeport
in 1880
The Tilden History of Stephenson County
Part One - Geographical
Part
Two - Early Freeport
Part
Three - Freeport
Part
Four - Townships
Part
Five - Biographies
Part
Six - Illustrations
Freeport
in 1910
The Fulwider History of Stephenson County
Part One - Early History
Part
Two - Migration to Stephenson County
Part
Three - Townships & Towns
Part
Four - Freeport
I
graduated from Freeport (Illinois) High School.
I'm a Pretzel!
My 40th reunion in August 2006
My 45th reunion in August 2011
The Polaris
Think
you know a lot
about Freeport?
Take the
Freeport Quiz!
Held
August 19-21, 2011, at the Stephenson County Fairgrounds.
Billed as Freeport's own Woodstock,
only a few hundred attended Freeport's CornStock!
External link to the history of the Freeport High School orchestra.
Remarkable
Stories, Volume 1 by Robert Bike Only $11.99 paperback; only $0.99 ebook. |
Family & Genealogical Info & Photos
Wienand
Family Photos from my grandmother's photo
album.
All photos taken between 1914 & 1943.
More to come later.
Memorials
Relatives'
Gravesites
Annetta Bike, Charles
Bike, Hazel Bike, John
M. Bike, Lillian Amina
Bike, Lloyd Bike, Mary
Bike, Mary Jane Bike, Medora
Bike, Ralph Bike, Raymond
Bike, William Peter Bike,
Pauline Ilgen, Pearl Bike Ilgen, William Ilgen,
Anna B Stearns, Anna Finkbeiner Stearns, Arthur Stearns, Lester Stearns, Louella Stearns, Robert Stearns,
Inez Wagner, John J Wagner, John R Wagner,
Charlie C Wienand, Henry C Wienand, Henry R Wienand, Lena Wienand, Rose Wienand, Simon Wienand
Other
Gravesites
Jane Addams,
Eunice Daniels, LeRoy Daniels,
Biblical
Aromatherapy by Robert Bike Only $19.99 paperback; only $2.99 ebook. |
Major Site Changes - 2013
May 9: Added page about juice feasting, an amazing process that has transformed my health.
May 1: Reorganized & updated blog page.
April 12: Updated Out of My Mind from tweets.
April 9: Added Google Search boxes to this page and index page.
April 5: Added "In Memoriam" info to Class of 1966.
April 2-4: Added Polaris pages of seniors to Class of 1966.
March 30: Added photos of Dale Koertner, David Krueger, Stephen Osran, Franklin Picking, and Tom Weaver to the Vietnam War Honor Roll.
March 29: Added scans of 25 Polaris covers from 1913 to 1947. Complete now from 1904 to 2006!
March 20-28: Worked on all 170 pages of FHS graduating classes, giving a consistent look, font, font size and full navigation between pages. Whew!
March 25: Uploaded photo of my great-great-grandfather, Daniel Wagner. Until this week, I'd never seen a photo of him. My thanks to Robin Pardus of the McConnell Area Historical Society for the photo. Also checked entire site for fonts and font sizes for easier reading for us old folks.
March 24: Added Brian Patton to Iraq War Honor Roll. Thanks to Sam Veer for letting me know about him.
March 22: Worked on the 2300 external links, quite a few to sites that no longer exist. Corrected a few dozen. There are now 406 HTML pages on this site, plus numerous .pdf pages.
March 16: Checked all 15,970 links on this site, and fixed more than 600 problem links. As of now, everything works; or at least the internal links do. Added links from this page to each war's honor roll. Added David Goldy to list of WWII Honor Roll. From a different source, I had him listed as David Golby, and could not find any info on him. Goldy is the correct spelling, per a relative, Karen Fyock. Added pages for graduating classes of 2015-2019, though no info on them yet.
March 15: Separated two of the largest pages on the site, making both into three pages, making both much easier to read and load: the book about Edmund Heller's trip to China in 1916, Camps and Trails in China; and General John Schofield's book, Forty-six Years in the Army.
March 14: Cleaned up code in <head> code of every page of site. Made & posted consistent sidebars on about a third of the pages on this site.
March 13: Disabled right click to try to keep people from using images from my site without asking, and without giving me credit. While many of the images on my site are in the public domain, most are copyrighted. And even the ones in the public domain, I've spent considerable time researching, scanning and posting without charge to the public. This is meant to be an informational site. If you want to use an image, contact me. Give me a good reason why you want to use my image, and I'll get you a higher quality scan than what appears on this site. Okay, off my soapbox now.
March 1 - now: Major project of Stephenson County's Civil War participants and Civil War Honor Roll. Ongoing project, probably for the next couple of months.
March 1: Split, updated and added links to the Fulwider 1910 History of Stephenson County, in four parts: Part One - Early History, Part Two - Migration to Stephenson County, Part Three - Townships and Towns, and Part Four - Freeport. I also reproduced the last two newspaper articles written about this site, from June 29, 2012 & November 3, 2012.
February 27: Added the 1880 Tilden History of Stephenson County, Part 6 - Illustrations, complete with links from Part 5 - Biographies.
February 25: Added the 1880 Tilden History of Stephenson County, Part 3 - Freeport, Part 4 - Townships, and Part 5 - Biographies.
February 22: Added the second part of the 1880 Tilden History of Stephenson County - Early Freeport.
February 21: Added some names to Freeport Famous; added info about some other people on the same page or on their biographical pages.
February 19: Updated blog with this year's tweets.
February 18: Updated Freeport's population statistics to include recent census data. Added the first part of the 1880 Tilden History of Stephenson County - Geographical.
February 16: Added the autobiography of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak (Black Hawk), who lived and roamed Stephenson County for decades before the white man came.
February 15: Put the 278,000 word Fulwider 1910 History of Stephenson County on a single page! (To be edited & completed later.) [Webmaster's note: on a single page it was unwieldly and difficult to work with, so it was split into four parts.]
February 11: Added first part of the Fulwider 1910 History of Stephenson County.
February 10: Added more info about the founding of Freeport High School, early teachers, administrators & students from 1910 History of Stephenson County. Established April 12, 1850 as the date of the founding of FHS.
January 6: Updated tweets from @vegansuccess. Added alias to blog. Added faculty to Class of 1965.
Major Site Changes - 2012
December 5: Updated tweets from @vegansuccess. Added Trust to blog page, Out of My Mind.
August 9: Added Relmon Morin, author and photographer, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes
June 28: Added Mark Hollis competing in the Pole Vault, Maggie Infeld competing in the 1500 meters, and her sister Emily Infeld competing in the 5000 meters in the 2012 Olympic Trials held in Eugene.
June 26: Added photo of Vietnam War memorial in Springfield of Richard Otte, photo courtesy of Jeff Chlupsa.
June 25: Added Richard Credicott to the Freeport Famous page.
May 10: Added Tom Weaver and Dwight Kehler to the Vietnam Honor Roll. Added Arnold Glasow to Dead and Buried in Freeport.
April 27: Updated FJHS principals list and link to the Freeport Community Public School Fund (www.fcpsf.org) on the reunions page, both data courtesy of Jeanne Jeffrey Mordick.
April 17: Added the names of all 3000+ Stephenson County Civil War veterans.
April 3: Added the names of the Spanish-American War Honor Roll from Stephenson County.
April 2: Added the names of the 700+ Civil War Honor Roll from Stephenson County.
March 28: Added scans of diploma and commencement for FHS Class of 1962 and Freeport Community College 1964.
March 26: Added info about the Class of 1924's Richard Credicott short stories, now included in a new book, "If She Only Had a Machine Gun."
February 23: Uploaded family photos from December 1947 showing my Uncle Bob's casket being returned from Europe to his final resting place in Oakland Cemetery. He was a WWII war hero.
January 22: Fred
Kluth helped with name spelling and added a few names to the Class of
1957.
January 4: Melissa Zeuger asked for scans of her great-grandmother who graduated in 1931 and a sister who graduated in 1928, and I added the scans to the respective pages. Mike Meade wrote with information about the nurses who went bowling in 1948, and I added the info.
Major Site Changes - 2011
December 8: Added scans (courtesy of Tom Cook) and names to Class of 1956.
October 29: Added first 11 photos to Wagner family (my father's mother's family). Photos courtesy of my second cousin, Lynann Mains.
September 27: Added Roger Stearns, Class of 1960, played football for Northern Illinois University and Washington Redskins.
September 20-27: Added reunion photos from Jeanne Jeffrey Mordick, Andy & Laura Jaeger Fraser, Gerry Minear, and a photo & video I took.
September 19: Created a page for the Class of 1966 45th reunion, and began adding photos.
September 16: Added over half of the senior classes of 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991. Added Polaris covers to 1987, 1986, 1984, 1980, 1978, 1977, 1976, 1969 & 1967.
September 15: Added most of the senior classes of 2006, 2007, 2011 & 2012. Added a class photo from about 1900 showing Union School. Added most of the senior class from 2008 along with both the front and back covers. Added the cover of the 2004 Polaris, the 100th issue of the Polaris Annual, and the covers to the 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, & 1989 Polarises, and both the front and back covers from 1988.
September 14: Added the senior classes of 1962 and 1963. Added the cover and most of the names to 2009, and most of the names of 2010.
September 13: Added most of the senior class to 1957, and added many names to 1958, probably completing the class. Added cover and names to 1960.
September 12: Added most of senior class & cover to 1955 and 1956. Several pages illegible. Help needed here. Anyone have the 1955 or 1956 Polaris & can help with some names?
September 10: Added the entire senior class to 1944; cover & seniors to 1954.
September 9: Added some seniors to 1924.
September 8: Added seniors to 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909 1922. Added covers & seniors to 1911, 1921, 1923.
September 7: Added the names of the graduating seniors for 1879, 1880, 1888, 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895. Added the covers and several names to the Classes of 1907, 1908, 1909. Added updates to graduates from 1863 to 1909.
September 6: Added the names of the graduating seniors for 1877, 1878.
September 1: Added the names of the graduating seniors for 1863, 1864, 1865, 1866, 1867, 1868, 1869, 1870, 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899.
August 8: Added reunion page for all classes.
July 28: Added senior class names, Class of 1928.
July 24: Added photo & etching from Vietnam War Honor Roll to Richard Otte, courtesy of Jeff Chlupsa.
July 20: Added photo of Ruth Countryman to Class of 1916.
July 19: Added photos of Aquin HS Class of 1930, photos courtesy of Susan Servatius Schlosser.
May 28: Page counters installed on various pages to check traffic. This site averages 60,000 hits per month, peaking once at over 96,000 hits.
April 24: Uploaded most recent research on Stephenson County war Honor Roll, including stories & photos from WWI, WWII, Korea.
April 21: Added names of WWII Honor Roll. Added rest of Korean War Honor Roll.
April 20: Reorganized war memorials. Added Burton Wagner to Korean War Honor Roll.
April 19: Added Arthur Hodapp to Korean War Honor Roll. Added Free Your Mind In Freeport.
April 3: Added Commencement of Freeport College of Commerce to 1896.
April 2: Added photos, info about Henry Brau to 1914.
February 22: Added Navy test pilot Eric Buus video to 1989.
February 13: Added a few dozen names to the Class of 1956.
February 11: Added class scans (from Fred Kluth) & class list to 1958.
February 3: Added a couple of classmate links to 1959.
February 2: Wrote about the Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858.
January 30: Frederick Douglass visit to Freeport in 1854 (info from Steve Cole).
January 29: Blog update on Discrimination.
January 28: 1872 Putnam photos, 1957 cover (scan by Fred Kluth, Class of 1959), various 1957 scans, 1958 cover (scan by Fred Kluth, Class of 1959), various 1958 scans, 1875 Budget Printing.
January 27: Added newspaper clippings from 1858, photo of Freeport's first mayor to 1855, envelope postmarked 1859, Taylor envelope postmarked 1860, Brewster House 1862 Scrip, 1863 coins, 1864 Carey tract, 1870 Guiteau checks.
January 26: Scans by Fred Kluth of Seniors of Class of 1959 added. Updated class chart on sitemap. Added photos of Tutty Baker & family to 1850. Added envelope to 1857.
January 24: Added scattered names from Classes of 1943 through 2010.
January 23: Class of 1959 names added per Fred Kluth. Most of Class of 1976 added; need help with rest.