Title in Caroline Armington’s etching record book: Rue de Couture à Bonneval

Year: 1924

Number: 332

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States: 2

Title on Print: Rue de Couture à Bonneval

Initials or Signature and Date in Plate: C. Armington 1924 l.l.

Planned Edition: 100

Total Number of Impressions: 103

Number in Pencil: 11/100

Signature in Pencil: Caroline Armington

Dedication:

Caroline Armington’s etching record book contains the following notes for this print:

1st state

2nd

No 11 to 29 inc.

One sent to Mr. W. L. Shellabarger as wedding present, not numbered

21 not numbered

Price in Caroline Armington’s etching record book: none.

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William L.Shellabarger Jr. was born 26 March 1894 in Decatur, Macon County, Illinois, USA, a son of William L. Shellabager (1866–1920) and Irene R. Thatcher Shellabarger (1865–1931).

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He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1916. Mr. Shellabarger was the first Decatur man to go to France with the American Ambulance Corps during World War I. He served in the corps in 1917 and 1918 and in the Army until 1920.

His business career began in Decatur in 1913 as a partner in the W.L. Shellabarger Co automobile dealership. From 1924 to 1928 he was secretary of Shellabarger Mills in Salina, Kansas, a wheat flour manufacturing. Mr. Shellabarger then returned to Decatur and served as president of Shellabarger Grain Processing Co, 1929 to 1937 when the family interests were sold to Spencer Kellogg Co. He served that firm as its Decatur plant manager until 1941. In 1941 and 1942 he was assistant to the president of the Commodity Credit Corp. in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Shellabarger then became president of Shellabarger Mill, a post he held until 1950. In that year he was an organizer, president and principal stockholder of WTVP, Decatur first television station which later became WAND. He retired from business in 1956. In 1960 he was elected as a director of downtown Decatur development, Inc. which was formed to help the city in purchasing parking sites. He also was director of Decatur Industrial Finance Corp.,which was to promote industry in the City.

Mr. Shellabarger served nine consecutive terms on the Decatur and Macon county hospital board from which he retired in 1960. He also served on the hospitals Graduate Directors Council. Mr. Shellabarger also was a director of the Decatur Club, Country Club of Decatur and Millers Mutual insurance Association of Alton. He was treasurer of the National Soybean Processing Association and a member of St. Johns Episcopal church and Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.

He married Maud Dunlap (1894–1972), on June 13, 1924, in Decatur.

 

He died 13 April 1974 (aged 80) in  Decatur, Macon County, Illinois, USA . 

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