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Charles O. Pfeil
Charles Oscar Pfeil (9 April 1871 – 2 December 1927) was an American architect and golfer, primarily based in Memphis, Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee (USA), during the first third of the twentieth century. He formed the prominent Memphis architectural firm Pfeil and Awsumb with his colleague George Awsumb between 1919 and his death. Life and architectural career Pfeil was of German descent, and born in Jacksonville, Illinois, in April 1871 on a farm, one of eleven children. He attended high school in Jacksonville and then Brown's College in Jacksonville until 1888, before enrolling in the agricultural program at Kansas State University, Kansas State Mechanical College. He was not enthused by farming, and in 1891 transferred to the University of Illinois's College of Architecture, graduating in 1893."Charles O. Pfeil Dies." ''New York Times'' (3 December 1927). In subsequent years Pfeil worked for various architectural firms in Peoria, Illinois, Peoria, Chicago, and St. Louis befor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacksonville, Illinois
Jacksonville is a city in Morgan County, Illinois, Morgan County, Illinois, United States. The population was 19,446 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Morgan County. It is home to Illinois College, Illinois School for the Deaf, and the Illinois School for the Visually Impaired. Jacksonville is the principal city of the Jacksonville Jacksonville, Illinois micropolitan area, Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Morgan and Scott County, Illinois, Scott counties. History Jacksonville was established by European Americans on a 160-acre tract of land in the center of Morgan County in 1825, two years after the county was founded. The founders of Jacksonville, Illinois were settlers from New England. These people were "Yankee" settlers, that is to say they were descended from the English American, English Puritans who settled New England in the 1600s. They were part of a wave of New England farmers who headed west into what was then the wilds of the Northwest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
