Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 15, 1877
    By the “Senator,” which arrived on Sunday, Mr. Wolcott of this city brought two young black eagles for Woodward’s Gardens. He says that this species of eagle is rare almost to extinction. They were secured by him on a very elevated portion of the Sespe range of mountains, about 70 miles north from Santa Barbara, […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, November 18, 1909
Charles Ballard Local Barber Said to Have Had Tussie With Bird Emperor. Admits He Was Beaten. Shot American Eagle He Says, and Then Tried to Capture Wounded King of Air But Met with Such resistance that Bird Got Away and Even Ballard Cannot Tell Exactly How he Did it. Â Â Â Â Charles Ballard, while out hunting […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, October 16, 1903
Son of Mrs. A. W. Schwane Kills Bird with Shotgun. Â Â Â Â After an attempt to beat off a bald eagle with an umbrella, Mrs. A. W. Schwane of 2544 Forty-first avenue, Chicago, fainted away and was rescued by her 15-year-old son, who killed the bird with a single discharge from a double-barreled shotgun. Mrs. Schwane […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 3, 1878
The many rumors of the death of this bird are contradicted this week by the Wisconsin State Journal. It says; ‘It has not surprised us, that the Democrat of this city should endeavor to create the impression that the eagle “Old Abe,” the veteran of the 8th Wisconsin Regiment, was dead! This has been a […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, May 20, 1898
The Patriotic Bird that Saw Hard Service During the Civil War. Â Â Â Â It is unlikely that there will be any mascot during the war with Spain who will gain a popularity as great as that enjoyed by “Old Abe,” the war eagle, says a Chicago paper. No more famous bird ever lived. Everybody has heard […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, February 8, 1895
“I saw an eagle killed last summer in rather a strange way,” said Fred J. Hancock, of Harrisburg. One afternoon while out hunting, I noticed an immense eagle flying directly overhead bearing in its talons a burden that apparently worried it. I noticed that the bird began to show signs of weakness, but was somewhat […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, December 1, 1921
    Once a young eagle was observed having a great game. It had found a stack of peat, and, lifting the sod in its claws, it flew up to a great height. It then dropped the sod and swooped down upon it at a terrific pace, catching it in its claws again. And so the […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, September 9, 1898
Peculiar American Fighting Cock Mystifies the Spaniards. Â Â Â Â Back in the ’40s a little story went the rounds of the newspapers. It was the story of the American eagle and the Spanish cock. An American ship visited one of the ports of Spain, and while lying at anchor in the harbor the officers went ashore […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, March 13, 1906
    The golden eagle sometimes captures ptarmigan almost it seems for the mere pleasure of doing so, and then has a little game with its luckless prey. Soaring to a great height it drops the ptarmigan from its talons and soars away as if paying no attention to its then, suddenly swooping earthwards with terrific […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, April 17, 1907
Then Resumes His Flight With a Stolen Lamb.  Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois, on 04/17/1907.    Frederick Hollenbach, a farmer living on the Schoharie Ridge, near Saegersville, was feeding the gray squirrels in his woodland when an eagle flew past that had in its talons one of his lambs. The big bird had […]