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Source:
History of
Logan County, Illinois
Together with Sketches of its Cities, villages and Towns,
Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political
History, Portraits of Prominent Persons, and
Biographies of Representative Citizens.
--
Also A Condensed
History of Illinois
Embodying Accounts of Prehistoric Races, Indian Wars, and a
Brief Review of its Civil and Political History
- ILLUSTRATED -
Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co.
1886

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HISTORY OF ILLINOIS
FORMER OCCUPANTS 17-20
 - Mound Builders
 - Galena Mounds
 - Large Cities		  
INDIANS 21-30
 - An Original Race
 - Origin of Name
 - Illinois Confederacy
 - Starved Rock
 - Sacs and Foxes
 - Manners and Customs
 - Single Handed Combat with Indians		  
EARLY DISCOVERIES 31-43
 - Nicholas Perrot
 - Joliet and Marquette
 - La Salle's Explorations
 - Great Battle of the Illinois
 - Frenchmen Driven Away
 - Inhuman Butchery
 - Tonti Safe at Green Bay
 - La Salle's Return
 - La Salle's Assassination		  
FRENCH OCCUPATION 44-47
 - First Settlements
 - The Mississippi Company
 - The People Taxed
 - Arrival of John Law
 - Visions of Wealth
 - The Bubble Burst		  
ENGLISH RULE 47-54
 - Claimed by the English
 - General Clark's Exploits
 - He Takes Kaskaskia
 - Vincennes Captured
 - The Hair-buyer General
 - Advantageous Services of Clark		  
ILLINOIS AND NORTHWESTERN TERRITORY 55-59
 - County of Illinois
 - Ceded in 1784
 - Ordinance of 1787
 - Sympathy with Slavery
 - St. Clair, Governor of Northwestern Territory
 - Illinois Territory		  
WAR OF 1812 59-74
 - The Outbreak
 - Massacre at Fort Dearborn
 - Slaughter of Prisoners
 - Kinzie Family Saved
 - Expedition Against the Indians
 - An Indian Killed
 - Town Burned
 - Peoria Burned
 - Expedition up the Mississippi
 - A Desperate Fight		  
ILLINOIS AS A STATE 74-83
 - Organization
 - Boundary Changed
 - First Constitution
 - Derivation of the Name Illinois
 - State Bank
 - Lafayette's Visit
 - Early Governors
 - Grammar and Cook Contrasted		  
INDIAN TROUBLES 83-95
 - Wennebago War
 - John Reynolds Elected Governor
 - Black Hawk War
 - Stillman's Run
 - Assault on Apple River Fort
 - Rock River Expedition
 - The Battle of Bad Axe
 - Incidents of the Battle
 - Black Hawk Captured
 - Sketch of Black Hawk
 - Black Hawk Set at Liberty
 - Death and Burial		  
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HISTORY OF ILLINOIS
INDIAN TROUBLES 83-95
 - Wennebago War
 - John Reynolds Elected Governor
 - Black Hawk War
 - stillman's Run
 - Assault on Apple River Fort
 - Rock River Expedition
 - The Battle of Bad Axe
 - Incidents of the Battle
 - Black Hawk Captured
 - Sketch of Black Hawk
 - Black Hawk Set at Liberty
 - Death and Burial		  
FROM 1834 TO 1842 95-102
 - Internal Improvements
 - Stupendous System of Improvement Inaugurated
 - Illinois and Michigan Canal
 - Panic Repudiation Advocated
 - Martyr for Liberty
 - Carlin Elected Governor		  
PRAIRIE PIRATES 102-104
 - Organized Bands
 - Ogle County the Favorite Field
 - Burning of Ogle County Court-House
 - Campbell Killed
 - The Murderers Shot		  
MORMON WAR. 104-118
 - "Latter Day Saints"
 - The Founder of Mormonism
 - Attempt to Arrest Joe Smith
 - Origin of Polygamy
 - Joe Smith as a Tyrant
 - Military Forces Assembling
 - Smith Arrested
 - Joe Smith and His Brother Killed
 - Consternation at Quincy
 - Various Depredations
 - Incendiarism
 - Making Preparations to Leave
 - The Battle of Nauvoo
 - Maltreatment of New Citizens
 - The Mormons Reach Salt Lake		  
MEXICAN WAR 118-124
 - Battle of Buena Vista
 - Bravery of the Second Illinois
 - Saddest Event of the Battle
 - Victory for our Army
 - Honored Names of this War		  
THE WAR FOR THE UNION 125-141
 - Feeling at the South
 - Abraham Lincoln Did Not Seek the Presidency
 - States Seceding
 - The Fall of Sumter
 - Call for Troops Promptly Answered
 - A Vast Army Raised in Eleven Days
 - A General Summary
 - Capture of the St. Louis Arsenal
 - Liberality as Well as Patriotism
 - Sherman's March to the Sea
 - Character of Abraham Lincoln
 - The War Ended
 - The Union Restored
 - Schedule of Illinois Volunteers		  
OFFICIAL 141-154
 - Governors of Illinois
 - Lieutenant Governors
 - Superintendents of Public Instruction
 - Treasurers
 - Secretaries of State
 - Auditors
 - State Senators
 - Representatives in Congress		  

HISTORY OF LOGAN COUNTY
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CHAPTER I. - INTRODUCTORY 155-159
 - Changes of Fifty Years
 - Life in the Crowded East
 - Courage of the Pioneers
 - Their Labors and Rewards
 - A Pen Picture		  
CHAPTER II. - SCIENTIFIC 160-180
 - Situation
 - Boundaries
 - Topography and Geology
 - Streams
 - Econimic Geology
 - Coal-Building Material
 - The Prairies
 - Timber		  
CHAPTER III. - FIRST SETTLEMENT AND EARLY HISTORY 181-215
 - Names and Doings of the First Comers
 - The Deep Snow and the Sudden Change
 - Claims and First Improvements
 - Mirage and Traveling at Night
 - Prairie Fires		  
CHAPTER IV. - CIVIL HISTORY 216-229
 - Formation of Logan County
 - First Election
 - Election Precincts
 - Township Organization
 - Official Record
 - County Seats
 - Postville, Mt. Pulaski and Lincoln
 - Public Buildings		  
CHAPTER V. - OLD SETTLERS ASSOCIATION 230-256
 - Organization
 - Summary of Proceedings and Abstracts of Speeches
     Made by the Pioneers at the Anual Reunions		  
CHAPTER VI. - POLITICAL 259-272
 - Logan County, first Whig, then Republican, and
     latterly Democratic
 - Cursory View of Elections
 - Abstract of Election Returns with Majorities and Pluralities		  
CHAPTER VII. - THE CIVIL WAR 273-287
 - The First Gun
 - Springing to Arms
 - Patriotism in the County
 - First Companies from Logan
 - County action
 - Attitude of the Press
 - Sketches of Regiments to which the County Largely Contributed
 - Soldiers' Monument		  
CHAPTER VIII. - THE PRESS 288-296
 - Improvements in Journalism and Increases in its Power
 - Early Papers in Logan County
 - Papers at Lincoln, Atlanta and Mt. Pulaski
 - Journals Now Published
 - Sketches of the Editors		  
CHAPTER IX. - LOGAN COUNTY BAR. 297-320
 - Lawyers of the Past
 - Courts
 - State's Attorneys
 - General Remarks
 - Anecdotes of Lincoln
 - Present Bar
 - Personal Mention		  
CHAPTER X. - THE MEDICAL PROFESSION. 321-336
 - Preliminary Remarks
 - Physicians of the Past
 - Physicians of the Present
 - Biographical		  
CHAPTER XI. - EDUCATIONAL 337-363
 - Importance of Free Schools
 - Early Schools
 - How Built
 - Progress in Methods
 - General Remarks
 - First School in Logan County
 - Schools of the Present
 - Statistics and General Information
 - Teachers' Institutes
 - Lincoln University		  
CHAPTER XII. - AGRICULTURAL 364-387
 - Logan and Agricultural County
 - Advantages Afforded to Stock-Raisers
 - Corn the Chief Crop
 - Other Products
 - Statistics
 - Landlordism
 - Agricultural Society
 - First Fair
 - Subsequent Fairs
 - Atlanta Fairs
 - Old Settler's Cabin		  
CHAPTER XIII. - RAILROADS 388-397
 - Powerful Agency in Developing a New Country
 - Histories of the Roads Crossing this County
 - Chicago & Alton - Peoria, Decatur & Evansville
 - Champaign & Havana
 - Illinois Midland
 - Illinois Central		  
CHAPTER XIV. - DARK DEEDS 498-413
 - Murder at Middletown
 - Suicide and Attempted Wife-Murder
 - Mysterious Murder in 1870
 - A Farmer Clubbed to Death
 - Murder Near Cornland
 - Suicide in a Park
 - Killing of Harry Talbott
 - Suicide at Lincoln
 - Attempted Murder and Successful Suicide
 - The Clare-Connors Murder
 - A Fatal Blast
 - Suicide of Ben Frank
 - Shot Himself
 - A Medical Student's End
 - Triple Murder
 - A Prominent farmer Suicides
 - The Carpenter Case		  
CHAPTER XV. - STATISTICAL 414-416
 - Valuation and Taxation of Property in 1865, 1875 and 1885
 - Population of the County by the Different Federal Censuses		  
CHAPTER XVI. - CITY OF LINCOLN 417-528
 - Early History
 - Progress
 - Municipal History
 - List of City Officers, 1865-'85
 - Coal Mines
 - Banks
 - Press
 - Educational
 - Religious
 - Library
 - Asylum for Feeble-Minded
 - Lodges, etc.
 - BIOGRAPHICAL		  
CHAPTER XVII. - AETNA TOWNSHIP 529-546
 - Geographical Description
 - List of Township Officials, 1867--85
 - Statistics
 - Political
 - Chestnut
 - Methodist Episcopal Church
 - BIOGRAPHICAL 		 
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CHAPTER XVIII. - ATLANTA TOWNSHIP 547-597
 - Geography
 - Township Officers, 1867-'85
 - Statistics
 - Political
 - Atlanta City
 - Early History
 - Schools and Churches
 - Lodges and Other Organizations
 - Press
 - Professional Man
 - BIOGRAPHICAL 		 
CHAPTER XIX. - BROADWELL TOWNSHIP 598-624
 - Geographical Description
 - Official List, 1867-'83
 - Statistics
 - Political
 - Broadwell Village
 - Growth
 - Business Men of Today
 - Lodge and Churches
 - Incorporation
 - BIOGRAPHICAL		  
CHAPTER XX. - CHESTER TOWNSHIP 625-644
 - Geographical Description
 - List of Township Officers, 1867-1885, Inclusive
 - Statistics
 - Political
 - Churches
 - BIOGRAPHICAL		  
CHAPTER XXI. - CORWIN TOWNSHP 645-600
 - Geography
 - List of Township Officers
 - Statistics
 - Political
 - Middletown
 - Early History
 - Business
 - Odd Fellows Order
 - Churches
 - BIOGRAPHICAL		  
CHAPTER XXII. - EAST LINCOLN TOWNSHP 661-674
  - Geography
 - List of Officials, 1867-'85
 - Statistics
 - Political
 - Lawndale
 - BIOGRAPHICAL		  
CHAPTER XXIII. - ELKHART TOWNSHIP 675-690
 - Geographical Description
 - Township Officers, 1867-'85
 - Statistics
 - Political
 - Elkhart Village
 - Business
 - Incorporation
 - Organizations
 - BIOGRAPHICAL		  
CHAPTER XXIV. - EMINENCE TOWNSHIP 691-717
 - Geographical Description
 - Township Officers Since Organization of the Township
 - Statistics
 - Political
 - Christian Church
 - BIOGRAPHICAL		  
CHAPTER XXV. - HURLBUT TOWNSHIP 718-722
 - Location and Boundaries
 - Officials, 1867-'85
 - Statistics
 - Political
 - Latham
 - BIOGRAPHCAL		  
CHAPTER XXVI. - LAENNA TOWNSHIP 723-739
 - Description
 - List of Township Officials, 1867-'86
 - Statistics
 - Political
 - Latham
 - BIOGRAPHICAL		  
CHAPTER XXVII - LAKE FORK TOWNSHIP 740-745
 - Location
 - Township Officers, 1867-'85
 - Statistics
 - Political
 - BIOGRAPHICAL		  
CHAPTER XXVIII - MT. PULASKI TOWNSHIP 746-820
 - Geographical
 - Official List
 - Statistics
 - Political
 - Mt. Pulaski Village
 - Early History
 - Incorporation
 - County Seat
 - Miscellaneous Matters
 - Schools
 - Churches
 - Miscellaneous Organizations
 - BIOGRAPHICAL		  
CHAPTER XXIX. - ORAN TOWNSHIP 821-843
 - Geography
 - Township Officers
 - Statistics
 - Political
 - Beason
 - Business
 - Churches
 - BIOGRAPHICAL		  
CHAPTER XXX - ORVIL TOWNSHIP 844-855
 - Location
 - List of Township Officers, 1867-85
 - Statistics
 - Political
 - Hartsburg
 - Emden
 - BIOGRAPHICAL		  
CHAPTER XXXI. - PRAIRIE CREEK TOWNSHIP 856-865
 - Description
 - List of Township Officers,  1867-85
 - Statistical
 - Political
 - San Jose
 - BIOGRAPHICAL		  
CHAPTER XXXII. - SHERIDAN TOWNSHIP 866-884
 - Location
 - Official List
 - Statistics
 - Political
 - New Holland
 - Business
 - Lodge
 - Churches
 - BIOGRAPHICAL		  
CHAPTER XXXIII. - WEST LINCOLN TOWNSHIP 885-909
 - Location and Boundaries
 - Township Officers
 - Statistics
 - Political
 - BIOGRAPHICAL		  

ILLUSTRATIONS
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Armstrong, Andrew 532
Asylum for Feeble Minded 111
Barnes, A. C. 564
Baumann, Jacob 762
Baumann, Mina, Mrs. 763
Beidler, S. L. 764
Britt, W. S. 696
Buckles, John 775
Capps, Jabez 748
Carlock, M. P. 698
Carlock, N. E., Mrs. 699
Combs, Jonathan 782
Combs, Anne, Mrs. 783
Donnan, William 536
Donson, J. H. 828
Dolen?, Sorell 785
Downing, Robert 453
Ewing, C. C. 667
Ewing, Elizabeth, Mrs. 668
First Court-House 555
Fish, Wm. B. 328?
Grant, U. S. 37
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Harness, Elias 576
Harness, M. J., Mrs. 577
Hieronymus, J. P. 708
Hieronymus, S. E., Mrs. 708
Hoblit, J. E. 579
Huston, James 744
Judy, D. H. 707
Knapp, Colbey, Hon. 489
Latham, R. B., Hon. 491
Lincoln, Abraham 25
Lincoln Monument 137
Meister, George 798
Nicholson, A. B., Hon. 670
Oglesby, R. J. 49
Old Fort Dearborn 61
Old Kinzie House 65
Rice, Henry 712
Sims, David 734
Stroud, Smith 714
Templeton, R. H. ?
Turley, R. E. 8??
Watt, W. F. 716
Watt, S. A., Mrs. 717

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