Day in history for January 14, 2002

1852 -- 150 years ago

The 125,000 Methodists along the Mississippi ask for a bishop and for a paper and book room in Chicago or St. Louis.

1877 -- 125 years ago

Phillip Schultz, a Davenport boy, was run over by a beef wagon. The driver did not stop but drove away laughing. He was caught and, if the boy dies, he will be charged with manslaughter.

1902 -- 100 years ago

John Howard Bryant, last survivor of the brothers of Poet William Cullen Bryant, living at Princeton, Ill., died in his home there at 94. John Bryant had been a delegate to the Republican convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln.

1927 -- 75 years ago

Rock Island bought land from E.H. Guyer to enlarge Lincoln Park.

1952 -- 50 years ago

Efforts by the Davenport junior chamber of commerce to sound out the possibility of the city's adoption of daylight saving time cooled with an announcement by City Attorney C.E. Wittenmeyer that Davenport has no authority to authorize it. Under existing Iowa law, no municipality has the authority to adopt another time system.

1977 -- 25 years ago

The possibility of transforming empty buildings at the East Moline State Hospital into a new Rock Island County jail was publicly proposed by Sheriff Joe Schneider. The sheriff told the county board's administration committee that the cost of remodeling is bound to be less than the cost of building a new jail. The current county jail is nearly 60 years old.

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