Source:
History
of
Alexander, Union and Pulaski Counties,
Illinois
Vol. 2.
Edited by William Henry Perrin
- Illustrated -
Chicago:
O. L. Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers,
183 Lake Street
1883

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ALEXANDER CO., UNION CO., PULASKI CO.

PART I. CAIRO.
CHAPTER I. - City of Cairo		11
	- The First Steamboat on Western Waters  - Great Earthquake of 1811  - First Settlement of Cairo  - Holbrook's Schemes  - A Mushroom City and the Bubble Bursted  - Early Navigation of Western Rivers  - Capt. Henry M. Shreve, etc., etc.
CHAPTER II. - Crush of the Cairo City and Cairo Company in 1841		31
	- The Exodus of the People  - Pastimes and Social Life of Those Who Remain  - Judge Gilbert  - How a Riot was Suppressed  - Bryan Shannessy  - Gradual Growth of the Town Again  - The Record Brought Down to 1853, etc.
CHAPTER III. - Cairo Platted		47
	- First Sale of Lots  - The Foundation of the City Laid  - Beginning of Work on the Central Railroad  - S. Staats Taylor  - City Government Organized and Who Were Its Officers  - Increased of Population  - The War  - Soldiers in Cairo  - Battle of Belmont  - Waif of the Battle-field  - "Old Rube"  - Killing of Spencer  - Overflow of '58  - Wash Graham and Gen. Grant  - A Few More Practical Jokes, etc., etc.
CHAPTER IV. - Decidedly a Cairo Chapter		67
	- Cairo and Its Different Bodies, Politic and Corporate  - Cairo City and Bank of Cairo  - Cairo and Canal Company  - Cairo City Property  - Trustees of the Cairo Trust Property  - The Illinois Exporting Company  - D. B. Holbrook  - Justin Butterfield  - Recapitulation, etc., etc.
CHAPTER V. - The Levees		90
	- How the Territorial Legislature by Law Placed the Natural Town Site Above Overflows  - First Efforts at Constructing Levees  - Engineer's Reports on the Same  - Estimated Height and Costs  - The Floods  - The City Overflowed  - Great Disaster, the Cause and Its Effects  - The Levees are Reconstructed and They Defy the Greaatest Waters Ever Known.
CHAPTER VI. - The Press		126
	- Its Power as the Great Civilizer of the Age  - Cairo's First Editorial Ventures  - Birth and Death of Newspapers Innumerable  - The Bohemians  - Who They Were and What They Did  - "Bull Run" Russell  - Harrell, Willett, Faxon and Others  - Some of the "Intelligent Compositors"  - Quantum Suthelt
CHAPTER VII. - Societies: Literary, Social and Benevolent		156
	- The Ideal League  - Lyceum  - Masonic Fraternity  - Casino  - Other Societies, etc.
CHAPTER VIII. - Cairo		160
	- Her Condition in 1861-1878-1883  - The Ebb and Flow of Business and Population  - War and the Panic Which Followed  - Steamboats  - Mark Twain  - Pilots  - Some Steamboat Disasters  - And a Joke or Two by Way of Illustration, etc.
CHAPTER IX. - The Church History		176
	- St. Patrick's  - German Lutheran  - Presbyterian  - Baptist  - Methodist and Other Denominations  - The Different Pastors  - Their Flocks Temples, the City Schools, etc. etc.
CHAPTER X. - Railroads		196
	- The Illinois Central  - Cairo Short Line  - The Iron Mountain  - Cairo & St. Louis  - The Wabash  - Mobile & Ohio  - Texas & St. Louis  - The Great Jackson Route  = Rpads Being Built, etc., etc.
CHAPTER XI. - Conclusion		217
	- The Future of the City Considered  - Her Present Status and Growth  - Present City Officials, etc.
PART II. UNION COUNTY.
CHAPTER I. - Introduction - Started 8/18/2024		225
	- Geology  - Importance of Educating the People on This Subject  - The Limestone District of Illinois  - Economical Geology of Union, Alexander and Pulaski Counties  - Medical Springs, Building Material, Soil, etc.  - Wonderful Wealth of Nature's Bounties  - Topography and Climate of this Region, etc.
CHAPTER II. - Prehistoric Races		244
	- The Mound-Builders  - Fire Worshipers  - Relics of these Unknown People  - Mounds, Workshops and Battle-Grounds in Union, Alexander and Pulaski Counties  - Visits of Noxious Insects  - History Thereof, etc.
CHAPTER III. - THE DARING DISCOVERIES and SETTLEMENTS by the FRENCH		252
	- The Catholic Missionaries  - Discovery of the Mississippi River  - Some Corrections in History  - A World's Wonderful Drama of Nearly Three Hundred Years' Duration, etc.
CHAPTER IV. - FOLLOWING the FOOTSTEPS of the FIRST PIONEERS		264
	- Following the Footsteps of the First Pioneers  - Who They Were  - How They Came  - Where They Stopped  - From 1795 to 1810  - Cordeling  - Bear Fight  - Fist Schools, Preachers, and the Kind of People they WEre  - John Grammer, the Father of Illinois State-Craft, etc.
CHAPTER V. - SETTLERS in UNION, ALEXANDER and PULASKI		275
	- Lean Venison and Fat Bear  - Primitive Furniture  - A Pioneer Boy Sees a Plastered House  - How People Forted  - Their Dress and Amusements  - Witchcraft, Wizzards, etc.  - No Law nor Church  - Sports, etc.  - Gov. Dougherty  - Philip Shaver and the Cache Massacre  - Families in the Order they Came, etc. etc.
CHAPTER VI. - ORGANIZATION of UNIONCOUNTY		285
	- Act of Legislature Forming It  - The County Seal  - Commissioner's Court  - Abner Field  - A List of Families  - Census from 1820 to 1880  - Dr. Brooks  - The Flod of 1844  - Willard Family  - Col. Henry L. Webb  - Railroads  - Schools  - Moralizing, etc. etc.
CHAPTER VII - THE BENCH AND BAR		301
	- Gov. Reynolds  - Early Courts  - First Term and Officers  - Daniel P. Cook  - Census of 1815  - County Officers to Date  - Abner and Alexander P. Field  - Winsted Davie  - Young and Mcroberts  - Visiting the Resident Lawyers  - Grand Juries Punched  - Hunsacker's Letter  - War Between Jonesboro and Anna  - County Vote, etc., etc.
CHAPTER VIII - THE PRESS		318
	- Finley and Evans, and the First Newspaper  - "Union County Democrat"  - John Grear  - The "Record," "Herald," and Other Publications  - How the Telegraph Produced Drought  - Dr. S. S. Conden  - Present Publishers and Their Able Papers, etc.
CHAPTER IX. - MILITARY HISTORY - Started 8/19/2024		323
	- "Wars and Rumors of Wars"  - And Some of the Genuine Article  - Revolutionary Soldiers  - Mexican War  - Our Late Civil Strife  - Union County's Honorable Part In It  - The One Hundred and Ninth Regiment  - Its Vindicaiton in History
CHAPTER X. - AGRICULTURE		334
	- Similarity of Union County to the Blue Grass Region of Kentucky  - Adaptabilty to Stock-Raising  - Fair Associations  - Horticulture  - Its Rise, Wonderful Progress and Present Condition  - Varieties of Fruit and Their Culture  - The Fruit Garden of the West  - Vegetables  - Shipments  - Statistics, etc.
CHAPTER XI. - JONESBORO PRECINCT		352
	- Topography and Physical Features  - Coming of the Whites  - Pioneer Hardships  - Early Industries  - Roads, Bridges, Taverns, etc.  - Religioius and Educational  - State of Society  - Progress and Improvements, etc.
CHAPTER XII. - CITY OF JONESBORO		357
	- Selected and Surveyed as the County Seat  - Its Healthy Location  - Early Citizens  - Some who Remained and Some who Went Away  - First Sale of Lots  - Growth of the Town  - Merchants and Business Men  - Town Incorporated  - Schools and Churches  - Secret Societies, etc.
CHAPTER XIII. - ANNA PRECINCT		363
	- General Description and Topography  - Early Settlement  - The Cold Year  - Organization of Precinct  - Incident of the Telegraph  - Schools and Churches  - Bee-Keeping, Dairying, etc.  - Crop Statistics  - A Hail-Storm, etc.
CHAPTER XIV. - CITY OF ANNA		371
	- The Laying-out of a Town  - Its Name  - Early Growth and Progress  - Incorporated  - Fires  - Notable Events  - Societies, Schools and Churches  - Manufacturers  - Organized as a City  - Hospital for the Insane  - City Finances
CHAPTER XV. - SOUTH PASS, or COBDEN PRECINCT		392
	- Its Topographical and Physical Features  - Early Settlement of White People  - Where They Came From and a Record of Their Work  - Growth and Development of the Precinct  - Richard Cobden  - The Village: What it Was, What It Is, and What I Will Be  - Schools, Churches, etc., etc.
CHAPTER XVI. - DONGOLA PRECINCT		492
	- Surface, Timber, Water-Courses, Products, etc.  - Settlement  - Pioneer Trials and Industries  - Schools and Churches  - Mills  - Dongola Village:  Its Growth and Development  - Leavenworth  - What He Did for the Town, etc.
CHAPTER XVII. - RIDGE or ALTO PASS PRECINCT		410
	- Surface Features, Boundaries, and Timber Grown  - Occupation of the Whites  - Pioneer Trials  - Industries, Improvents, etc.  - The Knob  - Churches and Schools  - Villages, etc., etc.
CHAPTER XVIII. - RICH PRECINCT		414
	- Description, Boundaries and Surface Features  - Settlement of the Whites  - Where They Came From and Where They Located  - Lick Creek Post Office  - Schools and Churches  - Caves, Sulphur Springs, etc.
CHAPTER XIX. - STOKES PRECINCT		419
	- Topography and Boundaries  - Coming of the Pioneers  - Their Trials and Tribulations  - Mills and Other Improvements  - Mount Pleasant laid out as a Village  - Churches, Schools, etc., etc.
CHAPTER XX. - SARATOGA PRECINCT		425
	- Its Formation and Description  - Topography, Physical Features, etc.  - Early Settlement  - The Wild Man of the Woods  - Mills  - Saratoga Village  - Sulphur Springs  - An Incident  - Roads and Bridges  - Schools, Churches, etc., etc.
CHAPTER XXI. - MILL CREEK PRECINCT		431
	- Its Natural Characteristics and Resources  - One of the Earliest Settlements in the County  - Pioneer Improvements  - Schools and Churches  - Villages, etc.
CHAPTER XXII. - MEISENHEIMER PRECINCT		433
	- Its Surface Features, Timber, Streams and Boundaries  - Settlement of the Whites  - Early Struggles of the Pioneers  - Schools and Schoolhouses  - Religious  - Mills, Roads, etc., etc.
CHAPTER XXIII. - PRESTON AND UNION PRECINCTS		435
	- Their Geographical and Topographical Features  - Early Pioneers  - Where They Came From, and How They Lived  - The Aldridges and Other "First Families"  - Swamps, Bullfrogs and Mosquitoes  - Schools, Churches, etc.
PART III ALEXANDER COUNTY See Alexander County, Illinois
CHAPTER I. - FIRST SETTLEMENT of the COUNTY		443
	- The Way the People Lived  - Growth and Progress  - Geology and Soils  - The Mound-Builders  - Trinity  - America  - Col. Rector, Webb and others  - Wilkinsonville  - Caledonia  - Unity  - Many Interesting Evens  - Etc., etc., etc.
CHAPTER II. - The Act Creating the County		454
	- How it was Named  - Some Interesting Extracts from Dr. Alexander's Letters  - The Prominent People  - Col. John S. Hacker  - Official Doings of the Courts  - County Officers in Succession  - Different Removals of the County Seat  - Preacher Wofford  - etc. etc.
CHAPTER III. - CENSUS OF ALEXANDER COUNTY CONSIDERED		466
	- The Kind of People They Were  - How They Improved the Country  - Who Built the Mills  - Dogs Versus Sheep  - Periods of Comparative immigration  - Acts of the Legislature Effecting the County, etc., etc.
CHAPTER IV. - WAR RECORD		472
	- Black Hawk War  - Some Account of it, and Capt. Webb's Company  - Roster of the Company  - War with Mexico  - Our Late Civil War  - Politics  - Representatives and Other Officials  - John Q. Harmon  - State Senators, etc.  - Some Slanders Upon the People Repelled, etc., etc.
CHAPTER V. - BENCH and BAR of ALEXANDER COUNTY		479
	- State Judiciary and Early Laws Concerning It.  - Judicial Courts  - How Formed  - First Justices of the Supreme Court  - Who Came and Practiced Law  - Judges Mulkey, Baker, I. N. Haynie, Allen, Green, Wall, Yocum, Linegar and Lansden  - Local Lawyers
CHAPTER VI. - The PRECINCTS of ALEXANDER COUNTY		491
	- Topography and Boundaries  - Their Early Settlement  - Dangers and Hardships of the Pioneers  - Villages  - Schools and Churches  - Modern Improvements, etc.
ALEXANDER COUNTY BIOGRAPHIES
PART IV. PULASKI COUNTY. See Pulaski County, Illinois
CHAPTER I. - Geology, Meteorology, Topography, Timber, Water, Soil, etc.		503
	- Great Fertility of the Land  - Its Agricultural and Horticultural Advantages  - What Farmers are Learning  - Address of Parker Earle, etc.
CHAPTER II. - ORGANIZATION of the COUNTY		510
	- The Facts That Led to the Same  - Act of the Legislature  - Establishment of the Courts  - The First Officers  - Removal of the Seat of Justice  - The Census  - Precinct Organization  - Lawyers  - Schools, Churches, etc. etc., etc.
CHAPTER III. - ABOUT EARLY LEADING CITIZENS		521
	- George Cloud, H. M. Smith, Capt. Riddle, Justus Post  - Pulaski in War  - Black Hawk, Mexican and the Late Civil War  - History of the Men Who Took Part  - A. C. Bartleson, Price, Atherton  - Mr. Clemson's Farm, etc., etc.
CHAPTER IV. - AGRICULTURE		526
	- Early Mode of Farming in Pulaski County  - Incidents  - Stock-Raising  - Present Improvements  - Horticulture  - First Attempts at Fruit-Growing  - Apples  - Tree Peddlers  - Strawberries  - Peaches  - Grapes and Wife  - Other Fruits, Vegetables, etc. etc.
CHAPTER V. - MOUND CITY		535
	- Early History of the Place  - The Indian Massacre  - Joseph Tibbs and Some of the  - Early Citizens of "The Mounds"  - Gen. Rawlings  - First Male of Lots  - The Emporium Company  - How It Flourished and Then Played Out  - The Marine Ways  - Government, Hospital  - The National Cemetery, etc.
CHAPTER VI. - MOUND CITY		553
	- Decline and Death of the Emporium Company  - Overflow of the Ohio in 1856  - Flood of 1862, 1867, 1882 and 1883  - Leveeing in City  - Bonds for the Payment of the Same  - A Few Murders, With a Taste of Lynch Law, etc.
CHAPTER VII - MOUND CITY		561
	- It Becomes the County Seat  - County Officials  - Judge Mansfield  - Lawyers  - F. M. Rawlings and Others  - Jo Tibbs Again  - The Press  - "National Emporium"  - Other Papers  - First Physicians of the City  - Schools  - Teachers and Their Salaries, etc., etc.
CHAPTER VIII. - MOUND CITY		570
	- Its Church History  - Catholic Church  - The Methodists, etc.  - Colored Churches  - Fires and the Losses which Resulted  - Manufactories  - Secret and Benevolent Societies  - Something of the Mercantile Businesses  - Population of the City  - Its Officers and Government, etc.
CHATER IX. - ELECTION PRECINCTS ASIDE FROM MOUND CITY		580
	- Boundaries, Topographical Features, etc.  - Advent of the White People and their Settlements  - How they Lived  - Progress of Churches and Schools  - Growth and Development of the County
PART VI BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
CAIRO
CAIRO - EXTRA		56
UNION COUNTY		57
- Anna Precinct		57
- Jonesboro Precinct		92
- Cobden Precinct		118
- Alto Pass Precinct		153
- Dongola Precinct		170
- Meisenheimer Precinct		182
- Stokes Precinct		190
- Saratoga Precinct		197
- Rich Precinct		204
- Union Precinct		209
- Preston Precinct		211
- Mill Creek Precinct		212
- Anna and Jonesboro - Extra		214
ALEXANDER COUNTY - See Alexander County, Ohio
- Elco Precinct		218
- Thebes Precinct		228
- East Cape Giradeau Precinct		235
- Unity Precinct		239
- Clear Creek Precinct		243
- Santa Fe Precinct		247
- Beech Ridge Precinct		249
- Lake Millikin Precinct		250
PULASKI COUNTY - See Pulaski County, Ohio
- Mound City Precinct		251
- Villa Ridge Precinct		282
- Grand Chain Precinct		298
- Ohio Precinct		311
- Wegaug Precinct		319
- Ullin Precinct		326
- Pulaski Precinct		331
- Burkville Precinct		334
PORTRAITS
Arter, D. 133 Casey, N. R. 547 Casper, P. H. 241 Clemson, J. Y. 97 Davie, Winstead 223 Endicott, G. W. 529 Finch, E. H. 151 Gaunt, J. W. 259 Grear, John 349 Hambleton, W. L. 565 Hess, John 187 Hight, W. A. 511 Hileman, Jacob 331 Hoffner, C. 43 Hughes, M. L. 277 Leavenworth, E. 61 Mason, B. F. 295 Meyer, G. F. 205 Miller, Caleb 313 Morris, James S. 439 Parmly, John 457 Ross, B. F. 403 Safford, A. B. 25 Sanborn, J. H. 385 Searsdale, F. E. 169 Spencer, H. H. 115 Stokes, M. 421 Toler, J. M. 79 Wardner, H. 367 Weaver, John 475 Williams, A. G. 493

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