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INTRODUCTION |
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PREHISTORIC DAYS |
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- The Flora
- The Fauna
- First Permanent Settlement
- First Land Entry
- First Mill
- First Blacksmith in the County |
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| II. - |
ORGANIZATION - NAME -
COUNTY BUILDINGS |
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- Locating of County Seat
- Report of Commissioners Locating County Seat
- First Meeting of County Commissioners' Court
- First Meeting of Board of Supervisors and Township organization
- A Call for the Board of Supervisors to Meet and Organize
- Name
- First Court House
- Third Court House
- Report of Building Committee
- First Goal
- Gaol Number Two
- Gaol Number Three
- The Present Gaol
- Report of Grand Jury
- Resolution to Build a New Jail
- Report of Building Committee
- Poor Farm |
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| III. - |
GEOGRAPHICAL
SITUATION - SIZE - TOPOGRAPHY - DRAINAGE - PRIMEVAL CONDITIONS, ETC. |
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- County Capital
- Drainage System
- Townships
- Soil |
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| IV. - |
STATE ROADS - BRIDGES
- STAGES - POLITICAL PRAIRIES AND LEADERS |
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- Political Parties and Leaders |
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| V. - |
MANNERS AND CUSTOMS
OF THE PIONEERS - THEIR HARDSHIPS, HOMES, Etc. |
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| VI. - |
WINNOWED GLEANINGS
FROM OFFICIAL RECORDS |
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- The First Marriage License Now
on Record
- Marriage License No. 100
- Parental Consent
- Marriage Certificates
- Receipts for License Money
- Recent For Fine
- Petition for Change of Fourth Election District
- Oath of William Wilson
- Petition of Barnet Bone
- Petition for Election Precinct
- Petition for Review of Road
- Certificate and Oath Relative to Entering Land
- Promissory Note
- Order and Receipt
- Affidavit
- Estray Notice
- Extract From Judgment
- Extract From Appraisement Bill of William Chandler
- Report Concerning Poor House
- The First Venire of Grand Jurors
- First Petit Jurors
- Election Districts
- Estray Pen
- First License Granted for Keeping of a Grocery
- Ferry Boat
- The First Deed
- The First Will - 1831
- Assessments of Shelby County
- Assessed Valuation of Lands in Townships of Shelby County - 1899
- A Murder Case
- A Case of Flogging
- Naturalization Paper
- First Divorce
- Legislators From This District
- Senators
- Representatives
- County Commissioners
- Probate Justices of the Peace
- County Judges
- Masters in Chancery
- Clerks of the County Court
- Clerks of Circuit Court
- Sheriffs
- Coroners
- County Treasurers
- County Surveyors
- State and County Attorneys
- Circuit Judges |
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| VII. - |
REMINISCENCES by
Attorney George B. Rhoads |
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FORTY YEARS'
EXPERIENCE AS A MISSIONARY IN SHELBY COUNTY
Including Reminiscences of the Drink Evil Fifty Years Ago, Local
Troubles in the Civil War, Temperance Reform Crusade, and the
Struggle to Establish Lithia Springs Chautauqua.
A Personal History by Jasper L. Douthit |
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- Where I Have Been for Sixty-Six
Years
- Family and Forefathers
- Some Church Statistics, Etc., of the Mission
- How and When I Became Unitarian
- With the Methodist Church at School
- "Liberty, Union, Charity, Temperance and Righteousness"
- A Vow of Total Abstinence
- Collecting Taxes - Slavery - "The Itch for Disputation."
- The Knights of the Golden Circle - Partisan Prejudice
- Taking the Enrollment
- The Unitarian Position and Name
- The Difference Between Unitarian and Trinitarian Congregationalists
- Banner of the National Conference
- Object of "The American Unitarian Association."
- "Unitarian" Stumbling-Blocks
- Representative Unitarians
- The Beginning at Log Church
- With the Local Press, Etc.
- Organizing Unitarian Congregations
- Robert Collyer's Story of the Prairie"
- At The Old Court House
- Elder John Ellis and Jacob Smith
- Loudest Call To Preach - Salary or No Salary
- The Blue Ribbon Crusade
- Perilous War Against The Treating Custom
- Unitarian Friends In Need - Chancellor Eliot's Encouragement
- Saintly Unitarian Friends and Co-Workers
- Brotherly Kindness of Local Pastors
- What Our Best Words Is Here For
- The Struggle At Lithia Springs Begins
- A Court Trial Beside The Springs
- To Reform The Fourth of July
- Hallowed Grounds
- Tried and True Allies in The Heat of the Battle
- Lithia Chautauqua as it Has Grown to Be
- Hopeful Outlook |
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| IX. - |
A SKETCH OF THE BAR
OF SHELBY COUNTY By the Honorable George D. Chafee |
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| Ames, Truman E., Hon. |
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| Barbee, Milton |
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| Baum, Wm., Mr. |
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| Cannon, Joseph G. |
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| Chafee, George D., Hon. |
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| Chew, Morris R. |
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| Chew, William |
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| Chew, William Headen |
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| Craig, William H. |
105 |
| Dove, T. F. |
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| Eddy, Richard T. |
106 |
| Evey, Ed. |
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| Gregory, Daniel |
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| Grider, Jas. K. P., Mr. |
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| Hall, Anthony T. |
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| Hamlin, Howland J. |
103 |
| Headen, Walter C., Hon. |
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| Henry, Wm. J. |
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| Hess, W. W., Hon. |
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| Kelley, William C. |
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| Lloyd, J. Wm. |
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| Moulton, Samuel W., Judge |
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| Mouser, H. S. |
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| Ragan, William H. |
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| Reed, Wm. H. |
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| Rhodes, George Bancroft |
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| Richardson, Eben A. |
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| Richardson, Wm. A., Hon. |
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| Stephenson, L. B. |
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| Thornton, Anthony, Hon. |
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| Torrence, C. K., Hon. |
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| Torrence, Thornton |
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| Townsend, William |
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| Wallace, W. O. |
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| Wendling, Geo. R. |
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| Wilson, Benjamin F. |
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| X. - |
THE PRESS OF SHELBY
COUNTY FOR SIXTY YEARS By Honorable George R. Graybill. |
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- The Okaw
- The Prairie Flower
- The Shelbyville Banner
- The Shelby County Leader
- The Central Illinois Times
- The Okaw Patriot
- The Central Illinois Times
- The Shelby Freeman
- The Shelby County Union
- The Daily Union
- Shelby County Independent
- The Shelbyville Democrat
- The Church and Home
- Our Best Words
- The People's Paper
- Simple Truth
- The Windsor Sentinel
- The Dollar Sentinel
- The Windsor Gazette
- The Windsor Advocate
- The Stewardson Enterprise
- The Greenback Herald
- The True Democrat
- The Tower Hill Breeze
- The Commercial
- The Apiary
- The Sigel Advocate
- The Cowden Herald
- The Cowden Enterprise
- The Cowden Herald
- The Reflector
- The Moweaqua Register
- The Mail
- The Call
- The Call-Mail
- The Shelby County Republican
- The Shelby County Citizen
- The Moweaqua Republican
- The Findlay Enterprise
- The Herald |
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| XI. - |
THE SCHOOLS |
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- The Early Schools
- Shelby Seminary |
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| XII. - |
SHELBY COUNTY IN WAR |
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- Shelby's Part in the Great War
for the Union
- Seventh Infantry
- Ninth Infantry
- The Eleventh Infantry
- Company "B" of the Fourteenth Infantry
- Thirty-Second Infantry
- The Thirty-Fifth Infantry
- Forty-First Regiment
- Fifty-Fourth Infantry
- Regimental Officers
- Company Officers
- One Hundred and Sixteenth
- One Hundred and Seventeenth
- One Hundred and Twenty-Third
- One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth
- Mounted Troops
- The Seventh Cavalry
- Tenth Cavalry
- One Hundred Day Men
- The One Hundred and Forty-Third Infantry
- The Spanish American War
- The Grand Army of the Republic
- First Officers Cyrus Hall Post
- Samuel Akin Post
- J. R. Tilley Post No. 304, Tower Hill, Ill.
- David James Post of Findlay
- J. V. Clements Post, Moweaqua
- John Huffer Post, Stewardson
- Woman's Relief Corps
- Moweaqua Woman's Relief Corps.
- Sons of Veterans |
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RAILROADS - BUSINESS
ENTERPRISES - INSTITUTION |
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- Railroads
- Coal
- PHOTOS: 1. View of Shelbyville From Bluff Southeast of Big Four Depot.
2. Showing C. & E. I. Bridge Over Kaskaskia
- Gold
- Gas and Oil
- The Star Mills
- Hat Factory
- Handle Factory
- Broom Factory
- Institutions
- Banks
- Shelbyville Children's Home
- Photo of: The Middlesworth Home, Shelbyville |
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| XVI. - |
ECCLESIASTICAL WORK
IN SHELBY COUNTY |
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- The Presbyterian
- Shelbyville Church
- West Okaw Church
- Tower Hill
- Moweaqua
- Bethany
- St. Paul's Reformed
- The Church of Christ
- Shelby County
- Shelbyville
- Ash Grove
- Sand Creek
- Windsor
- Antioch
- Bethany
- Welborn Creek
- New Liberty
- Union or "Dug-Out."
- Rocky Branch
- Zion
- Oak Grove
- Mode
- Prairie Bird
- Tower Hill
- Moweaqua
- Cowden
- Stewardson
- Fancher
- Holliday
- Herrick
- African Methodist Church
- Methodist Episcopal
- Free Methodist
- Cowden
- Tower Hill
- Shelbyville
- The Baptist
- Shelbyville |
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES |
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APPENDIX -
Shelby County in War with the Addition of "A Country Doctor on the
Firing Line" and "An Incident of Chickamauga." By Elgin H. Martin |
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- A Country Doctor on the Firing
Line
- An Incident of Chickamauga |
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