GENEALOGY MEETING - OCTOBER 2009
Owen Muelder, director for the
Galesburg Colony Underground Railroad Freedom Center at Knox
College, is the guest speaker for the Peoria County
Genealogical Society on November 12, 2009.
Owen Muelder taught history at
the high school level for many years. He
left teaching to work at Knox College serving in admissions,
running the Knox College Annual fund, and then was tapped in
2004 to be the director of the center.
He is well versed in the history of the Underground Railroad
in Western Illinois and has written a book entitled “The
Underground Railroad in Western Illinois.”
In 2007 he attended the Frederick Douglass
International Underground Railroad Conference in Rochester,
N.Y., a forum for the 30 biggest Underground Railroad
historians in the world. Join us for an
exciting evening and discover the Underground Railroad of
Illinois.
The Peoria County
Genealogical Society general meeting will be held on
Thursday, November 12, 2009 at the Lakeview Branch of the
Peoria Public Library, 1137 W. Lake Ave. , in the south
meeting room. Meeting begins at 7 pm .
There is ample parking at the library, and the
library is handicapped accessible.