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History of Jefferson County, Illinois, 1909 http://stores.ebay.com/Ancestry-Found http://stores.ebay.com/Ancestry-Found LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN 977.3793 W15h I.H . S . http://stores.ebay.com/Ancestry-Found LlNOlb mmm JOHN A. WALL. WALL'S HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY ILLINOIS By JOHN A. WALL ILLUSTRATED B. F. BOWEN (& COMPANY, PUBLISHERS INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA 1909 VV \ ^ H PUBLISHERS' PREFACE All life and achievement is evolution; present wisdom comes from past experience, and present commercial prosperity has come only from past exertion and suffering. The deeds and motives of the men that have gene before have been instrumental in shaping the destinies of later communities and states. The development of a new country was at once a task and a privilege. It required great courage, sacrifice and privation. Compare the present conditions of the residents of Jefferson county, Illinois, with what they were one hundred years ago. From a trackless wilderness and virgin prairie it has come to be a center of prosperity and civilization, with millions of wealth, systems of intersecting railways, grand educa- tional institutions, marvelous industries and immense agricultural productions. Can any thinking person be insensible to the fascina- tion of the study which discloses the incentives, hopes, aspirations and efforts of the early pioneers who so strongly laid the foundation upon which has been reared the magnificent prosperity of later days? To perpetuate the story of these people and to trace and record the social, political and industrial progress of the community from its first inception is the function of the local historian. A sincere pur- pose to preserve facts and personal memoirs that are deserving of preservation, and which unite the present to the past is the motive for the present publication. The work has been in the hands of able writers, who have, after much patient study and research, produced here the most complete biographical memoirs of Jeffer- son county, Illinois, ever offered to the public. A specially valu- able and interesting department is that one devoted to the sketches of representative citizens of this county whose records deserve per- petuation because of their worth, effort and accomplishment. The publishers desire to extend their thanks to these gentlemen who have so faithfully labored to this end. Thanks are also due to the citizens of Jefferson county for the uniform kindness with v/hich they have regarded this undertaking, and for their many services rendered in the gaining of necessary information. In placing "Wall's History of Jefferson County, Illinois," be- fore the citizens, the publishers can conscientiously claim that they have carried out the plan as outlined in the prospectus. Every biographical sketch in the work has been submitted to the party in- terested, for correction, and therefore any error of fact, if there be any, is solely due to the person for whom the sketch was prepared. Confident that our efforts to please will fully meet the approbation of the public, we are. Respectfully, The Publishers. — EDITOR'S STATEMENT Having been a citizen of Jefferson County and Mount Vernon since the Presidential campaign of 1840, when WiUiam Henry Harrison was elected, and having accepted a request of Messrs. B. F. Bowen and Company, to edit a plain, succinct History Qi Jef- ferson County, I naturally desired to make it as complete as possible and have taken pains to arrive at the facts and give the pioneers of the county the praise due them by a gratefulposterity. We have also tried to give proper credit to those who have from time to time dur- ing the century, striven to keep the moral trend of the county upward. The history of a county is best told in the lives of its people. It is safe to say that the life of every good citizen is a lesson that should not be lost to those who follow. The good man who pur- sues the even tenor of his way, not seeking the applause of men always seeking to do the right thing at the right time and in the right way is the man who deserves a place in our history and we have carefully sought these characters that we might place their names m our Jefferson County History. "They have done what they could." It has been our desire to make this volume a prized treasure to this and succeeding generations because of the facts contained in it, and in view of this, we have gratefully accepted the aid given by many old timers, from their recollections of the "long ago." We have drawn liberally from the writing of our old-time friend. Dr. Adam C. Johnson, the old Jefferson county historian, without which this history would be incomplete. History cannot be changed and the only change we have made is to state the facts in our own simple way. Kindly thanking one and all for the assistance rendered, we can but breathe a fervent prayer that we may all meet in the grand reunion in the sweet beyond, where we may meet those noble spirits gone before and talk over "Old Times." away back in old Jefferson. "With malice toward none, but with charity for all," we herewith present the reader with the result of our labors in trying to bring the main features of Jefferson county history down to the present date. John A. Wall. INDEX. HISTORICAL A Dream 309 Dodds Township 194 Agricultural Societies 223 Dry Summers 297 Albright, J 112 Anderson, Stinson H 58 Early Settlers 53 Appellate Court 103 Educational Statistics 141 A Word to the Boys of Today.. 323 Egyptian Torchlight 166 Eightieth Regiment 127 Baker, John 116 Elk Prairie Township 192 Bald Hill Township '. 1S8 Exponent, The 168 Banks and Banking 253 Bar, The 103 Farthing, Robert M 116 Barretts, The 233 Farrington Township 196 Barrett, Joshua P 2SV Fairs, County 223 Baugh Family 87 Fergerson, J. E 232 Beecher, Judge Edwin 107 Field Township 193 Benevolent Orders 160 First Balloon in Jefferson County. 208 Bigotry vs. Fanaticism 32V First Public Buildings 33 Blair, William C 114 Formation of Jefferson County .. 24,, Black Hawk War 113 Formative Period 17 Blissville Township 187 Fortieth Regiment 123 Building Materials 44 Forty-fourth Regiment 123 Forty-ninth Illinois 125 Cahokias 20 Carpenter, Robert 115 G. A. R., The 227 Casey Family 79 Geology 41 Casey, Lewis F 108 Gibson, Sam 232 Casey, Judge T. S 106 Government Experiment Station.. 325 Casey, Zadok 55 Government of Jefferson County.. 184 Casner Township 186 Grand Prairie Township 185 Child Lost 289 Grants to the Railroad 97 Church History 143 Great Droughts 297 Civil War 121 Green, A. M 109 Clark, Col. George Rogers 21 Green, William H., Sr 108 Clifford, Rev. Zenas 287 Green, William H 113 Closing Scene 332 Coal 42 Happenings From Way-Back 284 County Officers 48 Harriss, C. W 114 County Seat, Selection of 31 Havnes, George M Ill Courts 103 Hicks, Col 112 Crews, Seth P 109 Hill, John H 286 Cyclone, The 219 Historical Incident 213 . .... INDEX Historical Items ^'^0 Oldest Settlers 230 Hobbs, Thomas H 232 Old Settlers' Associations 225 Horticultural Societies 223 One on General Anderson 285 One Hundred Tenth Regiment.. 128 Identity or Personality 32G Optimistic 330 mini ly Ore, George L 116 Illinois Admitted to the Union . 24 Organization of Jefferson County. 47 Illinois Chronologically 25 Improvements 35 Pace Family SS Irrigation 325 Pace Family Reunion 226 Pace, James M 111 Jefferson County 41 Pace, William T 113 Jefferson Democrat 169 Patton, C. H 110 Johnson Family 83 Pavey, Gen. C. W. 228 Johnston, Edward N 69 Peavler, Eugene 114 6') Johnston. Noah Pendleton Township . 198 Joy, Rev. Epliriam . 286 Physicians 201 Pierce, Jarvis 233 Kaskaskia, Old 20 Piercy, Norman A. 116 Keller, C. A. 109 Pioneer School 132 Politics 172 Last o£ the Mohicans 309 Pollock, James L. ... 115 Later Dates 276 Pollock, James M. 110 Leonard. George B 110 Pollock, W. C 110 Living Too Fast 324 Postofflces 240 Location Jefferson County 41 Practical Abolition . 288 Love and the Law 267 Preston, Finney 112 Press, The 163 McAtee, Edward 23t) Progressive Farmer . 170 McClellan Township 192 Public Buildings 34 Maxeys. The •• . 82 Medical Fraternity 201 Railroads 95 Merchants 237 Reunions 223 Mexican War 120 Roads, First 91 Military History 118 Roll of Honor 300 Mineral Resources 4^; Roll of Honor Especial 302 Morrison, Bob 112 Rome Township 189 More About Old Settlers 77 Runaway Slaves 288 Morn, Noon and Night 333 Moore's Prairie Township 199 Sacred Holidays 257 Moss, Norman H 116 Satterfield, Judge J. R. 231 Moss, Ransom 231 Satterfield, E. V 112 Mound Builders 17 Scates, Walter B 104 Mount Vernon 33-37-62-70 Schools in the County 134 Mount Vernon's Guardian 166 Schools of the Present Day 132 Mount Vernon's Great Cyclone . 215 Schools in Town 135 Mount Vernon of Today 314 Schools in Mount Vernon 132 Mount Vernon Township 194 Schul, Conrad 115 Mount Vernon 240 Seat of Justice, The Permanent.. 64 Myths Exploded 263 Second Court House 73 Shiloh Township 190 Nelson, Richard S 109 Sixtieth Regiment 126 News, The 167 Smith, Kirby 115 Nuggets Picked Up by the Way- Social Converse 257 side 284 Soil, Products, etc 45 Soldiers' Reunions 228 Old Folks' Reunion 225 Spanish-American War 130 INDEX Spring Garden Township 195 Virginia Ceded to the United Stratton, S. T 232 States IS Supreme Court lUS Wall, John A 335 " War of 1812 Tanner, Tazewell B 105 118 War for the Union 121 Telegraph and Telephone 246 Warrens, The 233 Temperance Work in Mount Ver- Watson Family 85 non 154 Watson, Albert 113 Watson, Asa Thatcher, John R 286 296 Watson, Joel F 113 The New Year 264 Water 43 Then and Now 314 Webber Township 197 ToUe, James B 236 Webb, A.
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