“Springfield’s Donner Family: Trials of the Pioneer Trail, 1846” will be the topic of the Sangamon County Historical Society’s program scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday at University of Illinois Springfield Brookens Library.
Don Springer will be the speaker. His great-great-great-great-grandfather, George Donner, led the wagon train in which nearly half the party perished after becoming trapped in a blizzard in the Sierra Nevadas.
Audience members will get an opportunity to see some of the Donner materials housed in the library’s archives and special collections department.
The event was featured in a April 15, 2010, article in the State Journal-Register.
Download a PDF of the article:
20100415-SJR-Donner-family-subject-of-program.pdf
