CONTRIBUTORS TO CHAPTER 1

Baldwin, Carl R.; author and newsman

Belleville News Democrat

Biographies and Portraits of St. Clair County

Directory of City of East St. Louis (1893)

Hadzor (Gabelman), Maxine; Jacksonville, Florida

Illinois State Gazetteer; Felix Klippen

Metro-East journal

Molla, John E.; coal dealer and editor of this Book.

O'Brien, Thomas; retired East St. Louis Police captain

Pantheon Books of New York

Publishers' Choice

Rauch, Robert; retired

St. Clair Title Company; Belleville

St. Louis Post Dispatch

Walsh, Francis; Retired Iron Worker and City Fireman

Wegener, Wilbur R.