This section holds information on a small number of influential local people. We do not intend to imply that these people were the most important in Mount Prospect’s history, that we are endorsing the products, services, or views of these people, or that this list is a complete listing of people that have been important in Mount Prospect. We also do not intend to imply that we support or agree with the views expressed in the transcripts of the oral histories displayed on this site.
A – G
Bessie Barnes (Oral History)
Frank Biermann (Oral History)
Meta Bitner
Vitor Bitner (Oral History)
Alice Boyland (Oral History)
Edwin Busse (Oral History)
Freidrich and Johanna Busse
George Busse
George L Busse (Oral History)
Henry Busse
Louis Busse
William Busse
Paul Carlstedt
Evie Carlstedt
Dan Congreve
Arthur and Nancy Dallia (Oral History)
August Deeke
Selma Meier Deeke
Stanton Deming (Oral History)
Salvatore DiMucci
Anton Dvylis
Ezra Eggelston
Bertha Ehard
Robert Eppley
Newell Esmond
Robert Bruce Ferguson (Oral History)
Gertrude Francek
James B. French (Oral History)
Edith Freund
Dietrich and Lena Freidrichs
Carolina Garlisch
George Gattas
Henry Graef
H – L
Edwin Haberkamp
Martin Hasz
Richard Hauff
Dolores Haugh (Oral History)
Samuel Hess (Oral History)
Lawrence and Christine Hodges (Oral History)
Norbert Huecker (Oral History)
Mary Jo Hutchings (Oral History)
Dr. V.J. Jacey
E. H. Janssen, D. D. S.
Roger and Beatrice Johnston (Oral History)
Al Juhnke (Oral History)
Jack Keefer (Oral History)
William Kirchhoff
Dr. Louise Koester
Ethel Kolerus
Hilda Laird (Oral History)
Theodore Lams
Rev. Robert Loftus
Christian Linnemann
Willhelm Linnemann
Axel Lonnquist
Florence Luckner
M – X
Earl Meeske (Oral History)
Fred Meeske Sr.
Paul Meeske
Edna Meier (Oral History)
Louis Meier
Edna Mensching (Oral History)
Henry G. Meyer
Herman Meyn
John Meyn
John C. Moehling
John P. Moehling
Emil Moellenkamp (Oral History)
Meta Moellenkamp (Oral History)
Rev. James Birr Muckle
J.E.A. Mueller
Caroline (Lena) Mueller
William Mulso
Idyl Nippper
Father Thomas O’Brian
Maurice Pendelton
Stanley Pierce
John Pohlman (Oral History)
Owen Rooney
Clarence O. Schlaver
Irma Schlemmer (Oral History)
Evelyn Schubeck (Oral History)
Samuel “Sammy” Skobel
George A. Stephen
Edwin I. Stevens
Alice Teichert (Oral History)
Robert Teichert
Roger Touhy
Herbert Van Driel
George Whittenberg
Adolph Wille (Oral History)
Edwin C. Wille
William Wille
Dr. Alfred Wolfarth