Lady at A.B. McConnell House

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Lady at A.B. McConnell House

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The house is believed to be the A.B. McConnell House at the corner of Jefferson and South Street in Woodstock Illinois.

This print was made from glass negatives donated to the Woodstock Public Library. The photograph was taken at the Abraham (or Abram) Bodine McConnell House at the corner of Jefferson and South Street in Woodstock Illinois. A.B. McConnell was a son of one of the very first European settlers in McHenry County, William Alexander McConnell. A.B. was born in a log cabin in Richmond Illinois in 1839. He married Harriet Susan Potter in 1861 and had five children. The house was finished in 1894, the McConnells moved in November 1894. AB McConnell unexpectedly died three months later on February 15, 1894.

Citation

“Lady at A.B. McConnell House,” Woodstock Public Library Archives, accessed May 15, 2024, https://woodstockpubliclibraryarchives.omeka.net/items/show/590.

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