Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz

Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz

Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz

There were two people who discovered the Olney Albino Gray Squirrel at about the same time, but in different places. William Yates Stroup caught Albinos near his farmhouse four miles southeast of Olney. George W. Ridgeley captured Albinos on his farm six miles southeast of Sumner, IL. In 1902, both brought their squirrels to Olney and they were displayed in the window of Jasper Banks Saloon on Main Street. Later they were brought to a woods near Douglas and Silver Streets, and so populates the City of Olney.

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