Ekberg, Carl J.

Natalia Maree Belting earned her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1940 and taught history there from 1941 to 1985. She wrote more than twenty works for children, including "Pierre of Kaskaskia" and "In Enemy Hands," as well as the weekly column "Illinois Past" for the "Champaign News-Gazette" and other central Illinois newspapers.
Carl J. Ekberg is an Illinois State University professor emeritus of history and the author of "French Roots in the Illinois Country" and "Francois Valle and His World: Upper Louisiana Before Lewis and Clark,"