Mrs. Jean Moore, editorial writer, columnist and author, has spent most of her journalistic career in DuPage County writing about local government and politics. She is the author of several books, including the recent From Tower to Tower, the first book-length history of the Wheaton community published on the one hundredth anniversary of the Gary Wheaton Bank. She is a member of service, civic, historical and professional associations. She is a past president of the DuPage County Press Association and a founding member of the Suburban Press Club of Chicago. The history of DuPage County, its early settlers, communities, railroads and its county and local governments, have for years been subjects on which Mrs. Moore’s research has centered.
Richard Crabb is the author of three books dealing with great American developments, The Hybrid-Com Makers, Empire on the Platte (an account of life on the Chisholm Trail) and Birth of a Giant (the men who gave America the motorcar). A native of Indiana with upbringing in the historic Mormon County of Western Illinois, he earned a degree in history at Western Illinois University. He lives in Wheaton where he is an editor and columnist for The Daily Journal. He is soon to complete a book, Radio’s Beautiful Day, an account of the first five decades of broadcasting in the United States based on the career of Everett G. Mitchell.
Copyright 1981 DuPage Heritage Gallery Wheaton, Illinois 60187Photographer:
Other photographs:
Wheaton College Archives, DuPage County Archives,
Everett Mitchell Collection, Cantigny Collection, Billy Graham Association, and Turner
School at West Chicago
Artwork:
Harlan Scheffler, Glen Ellyn
Dwight Wallace, Wheaton
Manuscript preparation and review:
Marlene Bennett and Alma Jilek