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Source:
Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois
Edited by Newton Bateman, LL.D. & Paul Selby, A.M.
and History of
Coles County
Edited by Charles Edward Wilson
Illustrated
Chicago: Munsell Publishing Company, Publishers
1906
CONTENTS:
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| CHAPTER I. -
PRIMITIVE CONDITIONS |
617-622 |
- The County
Before Settlement
- Physical Features and Characteristics
- Geology
- Water Courses
- Flora
- Indigenous Plants and Fruits
- Some Historic Groves
- The Prairie Soil and Its Products
- Wild Animals, Birds and Other Game
- Reptiles and Insects
- A Pioneer's Recreation and a Backwoods Twilight Scene
- Climate and Early Diseases
- Changes Produced by Cultivation and Drainage |
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| CHAPTER II. - IN
TRANSITION |
622-635 |
- The Native
Red Men
- Marquette's First Meeting with "The Illini"
- Indian Tribes Who Occupied the Illinois Country
- Treaties and Land Purchases
- Indian Migration
- First White Settles
- Immigrants from Kentucky Most Numerous
- Methods of Transportation
- Construction of a Pioneer Log Cabin
- Home-made Furnishings
- Domestic Habits and Pioneer Household and Farming Implements
- Home, Civil Religious and Social Life
- The Early Camp Meeting
- Social Amusements
- School Days
- Letters of I. H. Johnston
- Some Reminiscences of Early Schools and Their Pupils
- A Pioneer Wedding
- Game and Bee Hunting |
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| CHAPTER III. -
EARLY SETTLEMENTS |
635-644 |
- Land System
and Government Surveys
- Names and Location of Early Settlers
- Date of Arrival and Whence They Came
- The Parker Family Came in 1824
- Other Early Comers
- The Bates, Doty, Burr, Dudley and Other Families Arrive in 1825-26
- Quotations from "Peck's Gazetteer" Regarding Early Settlements
- The Wabash Point, Goose Nest Prairie, Dry Grove, Indian Creek, Dudley,
Muddy Point, Ashmore, Cutler, Dead Man's Grove,
Hickory Creek, Embarras and Whitley Settlements
- Dr. John Carrico First Representative of Coles
County in the General Assembly. |
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| CHAPTER IV. -
THE COUNTY IN DEVELOPMENT |
644-654 |
- Prominent
Pioneers and Early Preachers
- The Parkers, Hutton and Hanson Families
- Drs. Apperson and Allison
- Coming of the Lincoln Family
- Other Notable Historic Characters
- Orland B. Ficklin, Usher F. Linder and Col. Thomas A. Marshall
- Early Postoffices, Postmasters and Stage lines.
- First Schools and Some of their Treachers.
- Early Industries and Manufacturing
- Primitive Methods in Manufacture of Breadstuffs
- Saw and Grist Mills
- Agriculture
- The Broom-Corn Industry
- Fruit-Growing and Stock Breeding. |
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| CHAPTER V. -
MATERIAL |
655-663 |
- Early Roads
and Road Making
- The "Great National Pike"
- Cumberland County Takes its Name from That Great Thoroughfare
- Other Local Enterprises |
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- Advent of
the Electric Trolley Line
- Charleston & Mattoon Inter-Urban
- Telegraph Lines of Drainage Districts
- Agricultural Fairs
- First Road Legislation
- A General and Terre Haute & Alton Lines |
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| CHAPTER VI. -
IMPORTANT EVENTS |
663-674 |
- Notable
Political Campaigns
- Early Abolitionists
- Lincoln and Douglas Campaigns of 1858 and 1860
- Some First Things
- Early Births, Marriages and Deaths
- First Mufder
- A Lynching
- Tragic Story of the Charleston Riot of 1864
- A Fake Duel
- Remarkable Phenomena
- The Deep Snow, the Falling Stars and a Sudden Freeze
- A Sham Wedding that Proved a Reality
- Old Settlers' Association
- Financial Panics
- Epidemics
- War History
- Coles County Soldiers in the Black Hawk and Mexican Wars
- Military Organizations and Prominent Soldiers Engaged in Civil War
- Coles County Soldiers in Spanish-American War. |
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| CHAPTER VII. -
POLITICAL AND STATISTICAL |
674-685 |
- Coles
County Created
- Receives its Name from Governor Edward Coles
- Earlier and Later County Organizations
- County Dimensions
- County Seat Established at Charleston
- First County Commissioners
- Township Organization Adopted in 1869
- List of County Officers
- Members of General Assembly from Coles County
- Citizens of Coles County Who have Served as Representatives in Congress,
and as Members of Constitutional Conventions
- Circuit Judges
- Other Public Officials
- Vote at Presidential Elections from 1852 to 1904
- Congressional and Legislative Apportionments
- Judicial Districts
- Village Organizations
- Postoffices and Date of Establishment, with First Postmasters
- Population and School Statistics
- County Indebtedness |
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| CHAPTER VIII. -
TOWNSHIP HISTORY |
685-753 |
- Location,
Area and Boundaries of Individual Townships
- Local Characteristics as to Streams, Soil, etc.
- Early Settlers and First Events
- Primitive Conditions and Reminiscences of Pioneer Life
- Cities and Villages
- Schools and Churches
- Libraries
- Social and Secret Organizations
- Early State Roads and Modes of Transportation
- The Coming of the Railroad
- Electric Lighting, Telegraph and Telephone Lines.
- The Coming of the Railroad
- Electric Lighting, Telegraph and Telephone Lines
- Manufactures and Other Industries
- Mercantile and Banking Enterprises
- Building and Loan Associations
- Newspapers
- Public Officers |
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| CHAPTER IX -
BIOGRAPHICAL |
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PORTRAITS and ILLUSTRATIONS
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Page |
| Adams, William E. |
755 |
| Adkins, William R. |
756 |
| Ames, Newton C. |
757 |
| Baker, George W. |
761 |
| Champion, Edward D. |
770 |
| Clark, Horace S. |
772 |
| Cofer, Thomas Noble |
774 |
| Coles County Court
House (built in 1835) |
Preceding 617 |
| Coles County Court
House (Built in 1898-1900) |
Preceding 617 |
| Craig, James Wesley |
778 |
| Davis, Green B. |
781 |
| Davis, Riley |
782 |
| DeVore, James A. |
783 |
| Dice, Jacob |
784 |
| Digby, C. C. |
786 |
| Dornblaser, Joseph
F. |
787 |
| Dunn, Frank K. |
789 |
| Faris, Charles H. |
794 |
| Faris, Charles H.,
Mrs. |
794 |
| Ferguson, Thomas |
796 |
| Ferguson, Thomas,
Mrs. |
796 |
| Jeffris, Ralph |
813 |
| Jenkins, William F. |
814 |
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| Johnston, Isaiah H. |
816 |
| Jones, William D. |
818 |
| Lehman, Lewis L. |
824 |
| Linder, Elisha |
825 |
| Linder, Isaac V. |
825 |
| Mauzy, John H. |
830 |
| McCrory, William E. |
832 |
| Montgomery, J. T. |
839 |
| Moore, John |
840 |
| Neal, Henry A. |
845 |
| Newby, Elijah |
846 |
| Patterson, Thomas |
851 |
| Patton, W. R. |
852 |
| Rudy, Charles E. |
846 |
| Patton, W. R. |
852 |
| Rudy, Charles E. |
860 |
| Rutherford, Hiram |
861 |
| Sawyer, John |
862 |
| Steigman, George |
866 |
| Township Map of
Coles County |
Preceding 617 |
| Voigt, John F., Jr. |
875 |
| Wilson, Charles
Edward |
879 |
| Wilson, John A. |
881 |
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