Source: Alexandria Herald -
Virginia
Dated: Apr. 14, 1823
The New York Commercial Advertiser of the 1wth inst.
contains the particulars of a most disgraceful scene at
Edwardsville, teh capitol of Illionis. Nicnolas
Hansen was returned to the legislators from Pike
County. Jno. Shaw contested his election -
but the house decided against Shaw. A
resolution was offered for calling a convention with the
view of amending the constitution, so as to admit the
introduction of slaves into the state. Hansen
voted against this resolution - The house then turned
H. out, and took Shaw in, who voted for the
resolution, and it was accordingly passed.
The two houses having adjourned for the day, the whole
place was in an uproar. At night, after most of
the citizens had retired to rest, the cry of fire was
reiterated throughout the town; and the first spectacle
which presented itself was the burning of the effigy of
Hansen, surrounded by a mob. Among other
disgraceful acts, the mob, who, it is said, were even
joined by several members of the legislature, marched
through the town with drums, fiddles, bugles, tin horns,
cow bells, frying pans &c. groaning in front of the
dwelling of one of the members who voted in the
negative, and repeatedly crying out "Convention or
death." Such a noise and fuss, the writer says,
was scarcely ever heard. |
Source: Edwardsville
Spectator - Illinois
Dated: September 8, 1826
Leonard Ross, Esq., has been re-appointed
Postmaster of Atlas, Pike County, Illinois, and has been
elected sheriff of said county by an unanimous vote. |
Source: Hew Hampshire
Patriot - New Hampshire
Dated: July 29, 1847
A Mr. Pepper, from Boston, on a visit to his
sister in Pike county, Illinois while out hunting a few
days since, was assaulted and robbed of $2700 by a white
man, painted black. He was very badly cut with a
knife, by his assailant, and when about to get the
advantage of the villain, a whistle called another to
his aid. He remained in a senseless condition for
24 hours, when he was enabled to reach his sister's
house. The villain fled. It is thought
Mr. P. will recover. |
Source: Missouri Courier -
Missouri
Dated: Sep. 15, 1853
Pike county, Illinois, it seems, is "some" in the
vegetable line. Rev. Jesse Ellege, living
near Barry, ahs lately sent to the editor of the
Pittsfield Union a tomato weighing three pounds
and fifteen ounces. Can't somebody on this side of
the river find a larger one? |
Source: Philadelphia
Inquirer - Pennsylvania
Dated: Mar. 11, 1861
A HISTORY - JOHN GEORGE NICOLAI, the Private
Secretary of President LINCOLN, is a German, and
was born in 1832, in the village of Essingen, in the
Palatinate. In 1837 he came to this country with
his parents, who settled in Cincinnati. In 1842,
his mother having died, his father removed to Pike
county, Illinois, where young NICOLAI was apprenticed to
the printing business. He subsequently published a
paper at the county seat, Pittsville called the Pike
County Advertiser from which he was called to a position
in the State Treasurer's office, where he took an active
part in ferreting out Governor MATTESON's
delinquencies. |
Source: Lowell Daily
Citizen and News - Massachusetts
Dated: Apr. 22, 1873
An unusual accident occurred at Pleasant Hill
township, Pike county, Illinois, a few days ago.
John Riley was threshing wheat on the farm of
Henry Brisco, with a ten-horse machine. The
ground being soft, a large quantity of straw had been
thrown on the track to make solid walking for the
horses. A journal in the machine became so hot as
to set the straw on fire and the flames spread so
rapidly that in a few minutes the machine, a large
quantity of grain and several ricks were consumed.
Five horses were burned to death. One man had most
of his clothing burned off, but was not fatally injured. |
Source: Inter Ocean -
Illinois
Dated: Jul. 2, 1892
CAPTAIN SAMUEL D. HARLEY
MONTICELLO, Ill., Jul. 1 - Special Telegram-
Captain Samuel D. Harley, one of the oldest
historical characters in Pike County and Central
Illinois, died at his home in Cerro Gordo, aged 88
years. He came to Illinois in 1837 from Ohio.
He cut down the first tree that was ever felled on the
site of Columbus, Ohio, and from the stump the town lots
were sold. He hauled wheat to Chicago in a wagon
drawn by oxen. |
Source: Oregonian - Oregon
Dated: Mar. 23, 1907
Death of Indian War Veteran.
Mitchel Ingram, a pioneer and Oregon Indian war
veteran, died at Eagle Creek, March 17, 1907. He
was born in Pike County, Illinois, January 28, 1835, and
came to Iowa with his parents when an infant.
There they lived until 1852, when the family came to
Oregon with an ox team. In 1855 Mitchel Ingram
enlisted as a private in the Oregon Volunteers to fight
Indians. He was at the battle of Walla Walla,
where so many volunteers lost their lives, and served
for some time on the frontier of the state during the
Indian uprising.
Mr. Ingram leaves six children, Frank, James
W., and Joseph Ingram, Mrs. George
Rogers, Mrs. J. H. Kelly and Mrs. H. N. Holton. |
Source: Kansas City Star -
Missouri
Dated: June 19, 1919
ILLINOIS TORNADO KILLED ONE.
Grain Was Destroyed and Some Stock Died in Pike County
Storm.
QUINCY, ILL. June 19 - A tornado swept Pike County late
Wednesday afternoon. D. L. Harley, aged 50
years, and his team were killed while at work in a field
near Eldera. A barn with two horses and filled
with grain, belonging to Andy Brown, near Barry,
was struck by lightning, the horses being killed and the
contents destroyed. All grains in the path of the
storm, which began at New Canton and swept westward,
were leveled. |
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