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Final Exam

Our Town, 18 May 2000

     As the school year winds to a close, did you think you’d escape final exams?

     To test your knowledge of O’Fallon history, here are some brain teasers about people from O’Fallon. I’m merciful, however. The answers are at the end.

       1. What O’Fallon resident was kidnapped by Indians in 1786 and later ransomed by an uncle?

       2. Who was the first elected mayor of O’Fallon?

       3. O’Fallon native Bernie Fuchs designed the 32 cent Folk Musician stamps issued by the Postal Service in 1998. What other stamps has he designed?

       4. Who were O’Fallon’s first mail carriers when door to door delivery first began in 1925?

       5. Emily “Ma” Rush, who with her husband Stephen operated a confectionery at 126 E. State, was the aunt of what famous actor and later politician?

       6. Actor and O’Fallon native William Holden and wife Brenda Marshall were best man and matron of honor at whose 1952 wedding?

       7. What 1974 OTHS graduate joined the New England Patriots as a NFL first round draft pick in 1978?

       8. What grandson of a professor of anatomy owned and operated a flour mill in O’Fallon (est. 1861) and Collinsville (est. 1883)?

       9. What New Jersey native born in 1852 was a run-away who grew up to build stoves in O’Fallon?

     10. When O’Fallon’s first public library opened on the second floor of the First National Bank building in 1930, who was the librarian? Who checked out the first book?









     ANSWERS:

       1. Drusilla Andrews Mace.

       2. John Seddon.

       3. 8 cent Emily Dickinson stamp in 1971 and 1 cent Dorothea Dix stamp in 1983.

       4. Julius Schalter, Jr. and Wilbur Scott.

       5. President Ronald Reagan.

       6. Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis.

       7. Bob Cryder.

       8. Charles A. Tiedemann.

       9. William G. Willard.

     10. Jeanette Reiss, William H. Bassett.


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