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The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, often abbreviated to Putnam Competition, is an annual mathematics competition for undergraduate college students enrolled at institutions of higher learning in the United States and Canada (regardless of the students' nationalities). It awards a scholarship and cash prizes ranging from $250 to ...
UTC−5 ( CDT) Congressional districts. 14th, 16th. Website. www .co .putnam .il .us. Putnam County is the least extensive county in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 census, it had a population of 5,637. [1] The county seat is Hennepin. [2] The county was formed in 1825 out of Fulton County and named after Israel Putnam, [3 ...
The Galena and Chicago Union Railroad (G&CU) was the first railroad constructed out of Chicago, intended to provide a shipping route between Chicago and the lead mines near Galena, Illinois. The railroad company was chartered on January 16, 1836, [1] but financial difficulties delayed construction until 1848. [2]
American Indian Center. The American Indian Center (AIC) of Chicago is the oldest urban American Indian center in the United States. [1] It provides social services, youth and senior programs, cultural learning, and meeting opportunities for Native American peoples. For many years, it was located Uptown and is now in the Albany Park, Chicago ...
Alice Putnam. Alice H. Putnam (1841 – January 19, 1919 [1]) was an educator who opened the first private kindergarten in Chicago in 1874, [2] and was described as "the pioneer of the Kindergarten" in that city. [1]
In 1921, the Museum moved from its original location in Jackson Park to its present site on Chicago Park District property near downtown Chicago. By the late 1930s the Field Museum had emerged as one of the three premier museums in the United States, the other two being the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and the National ...
1968 - George Rogers Clark, frontier fighter (Putnam) 1970 - The San Francisco earthquake and fire (Putnam) 1971 - Jedediah Smith on the far frontier (Putnam) Honors and awards. 1966 - Nominee for the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award with Kirsti (Ribsy by Beverly Cleary won) References
Putnam exhibited her work at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. Putnam never married and she died in 1912 in Chocorua, New Hampshire. Diaries. Sarah Gooll Putnam kept a consistent collection of diaries beginning at age nine (November 26, 1860).