| PREFACE |
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PAGE |
| CHAPTER I. - |
Topography
- The drainage of the Lakes and the Mississippi, and the
Indian and French names by which they were severally
called. |
10 |
| CHAPTER II. - |
Drainage of the Illinois
and Wabash
- Their tributary streams
- The portages connecting the drainage to the Atlantic
with that of the Gulf |
17 |
| CHAPTER III. - |
The ancient Maumee Valley
- Geological features
- Formerly Lakes Michigan and Superior drained into the
Illinois, and Lakes Huron and Erie into the Wabash
- The portage of the Wabash and the Kankakee |
21 |
| CHAPTER IV. - |
The rainfall -
- It has increased, although the rivers seem to have
diminished, since the settlement of the Northwest
- Cultivation of the soil tends to equalize rainfall,
and prevent the recurrence of drouths and floods |
26 |
| CHAPTER V. - |
Origin of the prairies
- Their former extent
- Gradual encroachment of the forest
- Prairie fires
- Aboriginal names of the prairies, and the Indians who
lived exclusively upon them |
29 |
| CHAPTER VI. - |
Early French discoveries
- Jaques Cartier ascends the St. Lawrence in 1535
- Samuel Champlain founds Quebec in 1608
- In 1642 Montreal is established
- Influence of Quebec and Montreal upon the Northwest
continues until subsequent to the war of 1812
- Early explorations of the French missionaries along
the shore of Lake Superior
- They first learn of the Mississippi
- Father Marquette desires to explore it
- The French government determine on it exploration
- Theories as to whether the Mississippi emptied into
the Sea of California, the Gulf of Mexico, or the
Atlantic
- Joliet and Marquette selected to solve
the problem
- Spanish discoveries of the lower Mississippi in 1525 |
37 |
| CHAPTER VII. - |
Joliet and Marquette's
Voyage
- They leave Mackinaw May 17, 1673
- They proceed, by way of Green Bay and the Wisconsin,
as far as the mouth of the Arkansas
- Return by way of Illinois and Chicago Creek
- Father Marquette's Journal, descriptive of the
journey and the country through which they traveled.
- BIOGRAPHICAL Sketches of Marquette and
Joliet |
43 |
| CHAPTER VIII. - |
La Salle's
Voyage
- Biographical sketch of La Salle
- His concessions and titles of nobility
- Preparations for his explorations
- Sketch of Father Hennepin and the merit of his
writings
- La Salle reaches the Niagara River in December,
1678, builds the ship Griffin and proceeds up
Lake Erie, and reaches Mackinaw in August, 1679. |
54 |
| CHAPTER IX. - |
La Salle's
Voyage continued
- Mackinaw the headquarters of the Indian trade
- The Griffin starts back to Niagara River with a
cargo of furs, and is lost upon the lake
- La Salle resumes his voyage in birch canoes,
south along the west shore of Lake Michigan, and around
its southern extremity to the mouth of the St. Joseph,
where he erects Fort Miamis |
63 |
| CHAPTER X. - |
The several
rivers called the Miamis
- La Salle's route down the Illinois
- The Des Plaines
- The Illinois
- "Fort Crecoeur"
- La Salle goes back to Canada
- Destruction of his forts by deserters
- His return to Fort Miamis, and the successful
prosecution of his exploration to the mouth of the
Mississippi
- The whole valley of the great river taken
possession of in the name of the King of France |
72 |
| CHAPTER XI. - |
Death of La
Salle, in attempting to establish a colony near the
mouth of the Mississippi
- Chicago Creek
- The origin of the name
- Fort St. Louis built by Tonti at Starved Rock
- La Salle assassinated and his colony destroyed
- Joutel, with other survivors, return by way of
the Illinois
- Second attempt of France, under Mons. Iberville,
in 1699, to establish settlements on the Gulf
- Cession of all Louisiana to M. Crozat
- Crozat's deed from the King
- The Western Company
- Law's scheme of inflation and its consequences
- New Orleans founded in 1718
- Fort Chartes erected, and its appearance |
87 |
| CHAPTER XII. - |
Surrender of
Louisiana to the French Crown in 1731
- Early routes by way of the Kankakee, Chicago
Creek, the Ohio, the Maumee and Wabash described
- The Maumee and Wabash, and the number and origin of
their several names
- Indian villages |
96 |
| CHAPTER XIII. - |
Aboriginal
inhabitants
- The several Illinois tribes.
- Of the name Illinois, and its origin
- The Kaskaskias, Cahokias, Tamaroas, Peorias adn
Metchigamis, subdivisions of the Illinois Confederacy
- First mentioned by the Jesuit missionaries in 1655
- Their habits and morals
- Their country and villages
- Their wars with the Iroquois and other tribes
- The tradition concerning the Iroquis River
- Their decline and removal westward of the Missouri |
105 |
| CHAPTER XIV - |
The Miamis
- The Miami, Piankeshaw and Wea bands
- They are kindred to the Illinois, originally from the
west of the Mississippi
- Their superiority and their military disposition
- Their subdivisions and various names
- Their trade and difficulties with the French and the
English
- Their migrations
- They are upon the Maumee and Wabash
- Their Villages
- From their position between the French and English
they suffer at the hands of both
- They defeat the Iroquois
- They trade with the English, and incur the anger of
the French
- Their bravery
- Their decline
- Destructive effects of intemperance
- Cession of their lands in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio
- Their removal westward and present condition |
119 |
| CHAPTER XV - |
The
Pottawatomies
- They and the Ottawas and Ojibbeways one people
- Originally from the north and east of Lake Huron
- Their migrations by way of Mackinaw to the country
west of Lake Michigan, and thence south and eastward
- Their games
- Origin of the name Pottawatomie
- Allies of the French
- Occupy a portion of the country of the Miamis along
the Wabash
- Their villages
- At peace with the United States after the war of 1812
- Cede their lands
- Their exodus from the Wabash, the Kankakee and Wabash
- Their condition in Kansas
- Their progress toward civilization |
137 |
| CHAPTER XVI - |
The
Kickapoos and Mascoutins reside about Saginaw Bay in
1612; on Fox River, Wisconsin, in 1670
- Their reception of the Catholic fathers
- Not inclined to their teachings
- They kill one missionary and retain another in
captivity
- On the Maumee in 1712
- In southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois
- Migrate to the Wabash
- Derivation of the name Mascoutin
- Dwellers of the prairie
- Identity of the Kickapoos with the Mascoutins
- Their destruction at the siege of Detroit
- They were always enemies of the French, English and
Americans
- Nearly destroy the Illinois and Piankeshaws, and
occupy their country
- Join Tecumseh in a body
- They, with the Winnebagoes, attack Fort Harrison
- Pa-koi-shee-can's account of the engagement
- Ka-en-ne-kuck becomes a religious teacher
- The wild bands make trouble on the Texas border
- Their country between the Illinois and Wabash
- Their resemblance to the Sac and Fox Indians |
|
| CHAPTER XVII - |
The Shawnees
and Delawares
- Originally east of the Alleghany Mountains
- Are subdued and driven out by the Iroquois
- Marquette finds the Shawnees on the Tennessee in 1673
- At one time in Florida
- In 1744 they are in Ohio
- They war on the American settlements
- Their villages on the Big and Little Miamis, the St.
Mary's, the Au Glaize, Maumee and Wabash
- The Delawares
- Made women of by the Iroquois
- Their country on White River, Indiana, and eastward
defined
- Become friendly to the United States after Wayne's
victory at Maumee Rapids, in 1794
- They, with the Shawnees, sent west of the Mississippi
- They furnish soldiers in the war for the Union
- Adopting ways of the white people |
170 |
| CHAPTER XVIII - |
The Indians
- Their implements, utensils, fortifications,
mounds, manners and customs |
180 |
| CHAPTER XIX - |
Stone
implements used by the Indians before they came in
contact with the Europeans
- Illustrations of various kinds of stone
implements, and suggestions as to their probable uses |
195 |
| CHAPTER XX - |
The war of
the fur trade
- Former abundance of wild animals and water-fowl in
the Northwest
- the buffalo; their range, their numbers, and final
disappearance
- Value of the fur trade; its importance to Canada
- The coureurs di bois; their food and
peculiarities
- Goods for Indian trace
- The distant parts to which the fur trade was carried,
and the manner in which it was conducted
- Competition between French and English for control of
the fur trade
- It results in broils
- French traders killed on the Vermilion
- The French and Indians attack Fort Pickawillany
- War |
208 |
| CHAPTER XXI - |
The war for
the empire
- English claims to the Northwest
- Deeds from the Iroquois to a large part of the country
- Military expeditions of Major Grant,
Mons. Aubry and M. de Ligneris
- Aubry attempts to retake Fort Du Quesne
- His expedition up the Wabash
- Goes to the relief of Fort Niagara
- Is defeated by Sir William Johnson
- The fall of Quebec and Montreal
- Surrender of the Northwest to Great Britain
- The territory west of the Mississippi ceded to Spain. |
224 |
| CHAPTER XXII - |
Pontiac's
war to recover the country from the English
- The siege of Detroit
- The fall of Mackinaw, Saint Joseph, Miamis and
Ouiatanon
- Relief of Detroit
- Pontiac's confederacy falls to pieces
- Croghan sent west to recover possession of the
country from the Indians
- Is captured and carried to Fort Ouiatanon
- The county turned over to the English
- Pontiac's death |
234 |
| CHAPTER XIII - |
Gen. Clark's
conquest of the "Illinois"
- The Revolutionary war
- Indian depredations upon the settlements of Kentucky
- The savages are supplied with arms and ammunition from
the English posts at Detroit, Vincennes and Kaskaskia
- Gen. Clark applies to Gov. Henry, of
Virginia, for aid in an enterprise to capture Kaskaskia
and Vincennes
- Sketch of Gen. Clark
- His manuscript memoir of his march to the Illinois
- He captures Kaskaskia
- The surrender of Vincennes
- He treats with the Indians, who agree to quit their
war fare on the Big Knife
- Gov. Hamilton, of Detroit, re-captures
Vincennes
- Clark's march to Vincennes
- He re-takes Vincennes, and makes the English forces
prisoners of war
- Capt. Helm surprises a convoy of English boats
at the mouth of the Vermilion River
- Organization of the northwest territory into Illinois
county of Virginia
- Clark holds the Northwest until the conclusion of the
revolutionary war. For this reason only it became
a part of the United States |
245 |
| CHAPTER XXIV - |
Illinois
county established
- The northwest territory
- The ordinance of 1787
- A bill of rights
- Free-school system
- Provisions for states
- Old boundaries between Canada and Louisiana
- Indian wars
- The Indian country on the Wabash and Maumee ravaged
- England refuses to surrender military posts within the
northwest territory
- The first treaty between the United States and the
Wabash tribes, at Vincennes, in1792
- The great white wampum belt of peace, with medal
suspended, delivered by Gen. Putman
- The medal, and where afterward found
- The British medal
- St. Clair's defeat
- Futile efforts to obtain peace
- Wayne marches from Greenville to the Maumee and
gains a great victory over the confederate tribes
- Treaty of Greenville
- Wayne's death |
260 |
| CHAPTER XXV - |
The northwest territory
divided
- Wm. H. Harrison appointed governor of the
Indiana territory
- Its subdivision into counties
- BIOGRAPHICAL sketch of Gov. Harrison
- Tecumseh and his brother, the Prophet.
- They organize a scheme to drive the white settlers
beyond the Ohio
- Illinois Territory formed -
- Its subdivision into the counties of Randolph and St.
Clair
- Development of Tecumseh's plans.
- The Tippecanoe campaign
- Line of Harrison's march
- Official account of the battle
- Incidents
- War of 1812
- A large part of the Northwest in the hands of the
English and Indians
- Fall of Fort Dearborn
- Siege of Forts Wayne and Harrison
- Gen. Taylor's report of the attack on Fort
Harrison
- The naval engagement on Lake Erie
- The battle of the Thames
- Tecumseh had "fought it out" with Gen.
Harrison
- The north recovered by Gen. Harrison
- The old boundaries restored
- Peace concluded
- Advance of population
- Conclusion |
278 |
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COUNTY HISTORY *
|
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History of
Danville Township - not
started |
305 |
| |
BIOGRAPHICAL
- updated 12/15/2018 |
367 |
| |
History of
Georgetown Township -
started 2/17/2015 |
497 |
| |
BIOGRAPHICAL
- updated 12/15/2018 |
526 |
| |
History of
Elwood Township -
started 2/17/2015 |
560 |
| |
BIOGRAPHICAL |
592 |
| |
History of
Catlin Township -
started 2/17/2015 |
609 |
| |
BIOGRAPHICAL |
628 |
| |
History of
Ross Township -
FINISHED 2/17/2015 |
651 |
| |
BIOGRAPHICAL |
670 |
| |
History of
Grant Township - not
started |
701 |
| |
BIOGRAPHICAL
- updated 12/15/2018 |
719 |
| |
History of
Carroll Township - not
started |
761 |
| |
BIOGRAPHICAL |
784 |
| |
History of
Middle Fork Township -
not started |
792 |
| |
BIOGRAPHICAL |
814 |
| |
History of
Oakwood Township -
started 2/17/2015 |
834 |
| |
BIOGRAPHICAL |
857 |
* ERRATA. - On account of a want of space, in
consequence of more matter than the publishers had
provided for, the County History is duplicated in pages
with the first-seventy-two pages of Township History.
On page 620, line 27, instead of Dan, read H.
W. |
|
| |
History of Blount Township
- not started |
874 |
| |
BIOGRAPHICAL
- finished 12/15/2018 |
894 |
| |
History of Pilot Township
- not started |
904 |
| |
BIOGRAPHICAL |
914 |
| |
History of Newell Township
- not started |
926 |
| |
BIOGRAPHICAL |
950 |
| |
History of Vance Township
- not started |
969 |
| |
BIOGRAPHICAL |
983 |
| |
History of Butler Township
- not started |
1000 |
| |
BIOGRAPHICAL |
1024 |
| |
History of Sidell Township
- not started |
1024 |
| |
BIOGRAPHICAL - finished
12/15/2018 |
1034 |
| |
BUSINESS DIRECTORY |
1035 |
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
|
| |
Map
Illustrating French and Indian War |
Frontispiece |
| |
Indian
Implements |
197-207 |
| |
Buffalo |
209 |
| |
Gen. George
Rogers Clarke |
245 |
| |
Washington
Medal |
270 |
| |
British Medal |
273 |
| |
Gen. W. H.
Harrison |
289 |
| |
The Prophet |
282 |
| |
Fort Harrison
in 1812 |
288 |
| |
Plan of Battle
of Tippecanoe |
291 |
| |
Map of
Vermilion County |
305 |
| |
Joseph Barron |
305 |
| |
City Mills,
Danville |
311 |
| |
Amber Mills,
Danville |
315 |
| |
High School |
329 |
| |
County Court
House |
330 |
| |
Ellsworth Coal
Shaft |
337 |
| |
Coffeen &
Pollock's Store |
352 |
| |
Lincoln Opera
House |
379 |
| |
Danville
Planing Mill |
444 |
| |
Whitehill's
Carriage Shops |
466 |
| |
Hoopeston
Public School |
715 |
| |
McFerron's
Bank Building |
718 |
| |
Clark's Hall |
745 |
| |
Pioneer Cabin |
876 |
|
LIST OF PORTRAITS
|
| Anderson, L. W. |
737 |
| Coffeen, H. A. |
497 |
| Daniel, A. C. |
337 |
| Dickson, David |
785 |
| Geddings, William |
673 |
|
| Harmon, O. F. |
417 |
| Harrison, William C. |
865 |
| Kyger, Johnm |
545 |
| Jones, George Wheeler |
497 |
| Leverich, J. G. |
817 |
|
| Leverich, R. T. |
384 |
| Moore, William I. |
129 |
| Peters, J. |
977 |
| Pollock, Alexander |
625 |
| Tincher, John L. |
376 |
| Sheets, William |
513 |
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