Day in history for July 14, 2002

1852 -- 150 years ago

The new cannon which was christened and fired at the Fourth of July program in courthouse square was cast at the Webber And Co. Foundry in this town.

1877 -- 125 years ago

There were 75 guests at the Harper House today. A large number of them were traveling men who went as much as 50 miles out of their way to reach the Harper for Sunday.

1902 -- 100 years ago

A Davenport man who had deserted from the Army in California escaped from the guard house at Rock Island Arsenal today.

1927 -- 75 years ago

Mayor Chester C. Thompson will appoint a Rock Island committee on reception plans in connection with the coming of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh.

1952 -- 50 years ago

The first step toward a move to construct a new high school in Moline was taken by the board of education. The board instructed Superintendent of Schools Alex Jardine to work out a ``skeleton plan'' for the formation of a large public advisory committee.

1977 -- 25 years ago

A 74-year-old Sumner, Ill., man is marching into the past to find a phantom Civil War regiment. Claude Julian is determined to write a book about his grandfather, Amos Julian, who left Cambridge to join the 112th Illinois Regiment to fight under General Grant. Julian, who has clear memories of his colorful grandfather up until the time he died at the end of World War I when Julian was 16, needs a scarce history of the 112th to complete his research.

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