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“1860 United States Federal Census.” Ancestry.com. FamilySearch, n.d. Accessed February 6, 2020. https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/7667/4213713_00021. “Aboard the --John Hossack House.” National Parks Service. U.S. Department of the Interior, n.d. Accessed February 8, 2020. https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/il2.htm. “The Abolitionists.” Chicago Tribune, January 10, 1874. Adams, Carl M. “For the People,” 1999. Allensworth, Ben C. History of Tazewell County. Pekin,, IL: Tazewell County Genealogical Society, 1986. Babcock, Rufus. Memoir of John Mason Peck. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illininois University Press, 1965. Bateman, Newton, Paul Selby, and Rufus Blanchard. History of Du Page County, Illinois. Chicago, IL: O.L. Baskin, 1882. Beadle, Melissa. “Mission Institute, Quincy, Illinois – Affiliated Names.” Melissa's World. Last modified 2017. Accessed February 6, 2020. https://www.beadles.org/mcdonough-county-illinois-history/abolitionism- in-mcdonough-county-illinois/mission-institute-quincy-illinois-affiliated-names/. Beasley, Nancy M. The Underground Railroad in DeKalb County, Illinois. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2013. Beecher, Edward. Narrative of Riots of Alton: in Connection with the Death of Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy. New York, NY: Haskell House Publishers LTD, 1970. “Being a Boy in Old Rockford: The Underground Railway.” THe Rockford Star, February 19, 1911. Bordewich, Fergus. Bound for Canaan: the Epic Story of the Underground Railro. HarperCollins e-books, 2009. Bradsby, H. C., ed. History of Bureau Vounty, Illinois. Chicago, IL: World Publishing Company, 1885. Bray, Hiawatha, and Jean Moore. DuPage at 150 and Those Who Shaped Our World. Wheaton, IL: DuPage County Sesquicentennial Steering Committee, 1989. Calarco, Tom, and Cynthia Vogel. Places of the Underground Railroad: a Geographical Guide. Santa Barbara, CA, CA: Greenwood, 2011. Campbell, Thomas. Fighting Slavery in Chicago: Abolitionists, the Law of Slavery, and Lincoln. Ampersand, Inc., 2009. Candela, Neta. “Church Saw Beginning of Slavery's End.” The Telegraph. Alton, IL, September 2, 1992. Carter, Julia Wolcott. “The Underground Railroad.” Literacy Club. Speech presented at the Literacy Club, September 1905. Cha-Jua, Sundiata Keita. America's First Black Town: Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830-1915. University of Illinois Press, 2002. “Charles Wilson (1830-Unknown) - Find A Grave...” Find A Grave. Accessed February 6, 2020. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141907476/charles-wilson.

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“Charlie Fisher, a Fugitive Slave, Escape.” CONTENTdm. Accessed February 8, 2020. https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/siebert/id/12725. Charlotte King. “New Philadelphia on the Route to Freedom.” New Philadelphia on the Route to Freedom. New Philadelphia Association, 2012. Christensen, Erwin. “An American Primitive Portrait Group.” The Magizine Antiques, June 1957. Collins, James H. “James H. Collins Letter to George W. Clark, Nov. 7, 1846.” CONTENTdm. Accessed February 8, 2020. https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/siebert/id/10707. Davis, Oneka. “The Underground Railroad in Southern Illinois.” The Underground Railroad in Southern Illinois. Harrisburg, IL: USDA Forest Service, 2008. Davy, Harriet Wilson. From Oxen to Jets; a History of DeKalb County, 1835-1963. Dixon, IL: DeKalb County Board of Supervisors, 1963. Delsoin, Theresa, and Christopher Davis. Desloge. From ETC.: an Amazing Conversation between the Descendant of Slave Owner and Slave: a Chance at Healing and Reconciliation. Theresa Delsoin and Christopher D. Desloge, 2011. Department of Transportation. The McKinley Bridge Signage. The McKinley Bridge Signage. Springfield, IL: State of Illinois, 2007. Dunn, William Edwin. Letter to To his son Charles Wyckoff Dunn. “The Underground Railroad By William Edwin Dunn.” Bureau County: Bureau County, 0AD. Dunphy, John J. Abolitionism and the Civil War in Southwestern Illinois. History Press, 2011. “DuPage County Agents.” Western Citizen. Chicago, August 5, 1842. Durbin, Sue. “Uncle Charley Tanner.” Illinois Magazine, 1983. Dyer, Frederick H., and Susan Tortorelli. “History of the 29th US Colored Infantry.” Essay. In A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Compiled and Arranged from Official Records of the Federal and Confederate Armies, Reports of the Adjutant Generals of the Several States, the Army Registers, and Other Reliable Documents and Sources. Des Moines, IA: The Dyer Publishing Company, 1908. As transcribed from the website https://civilwar.illinoisgenweb.org/dyers/029Cinf.html “Ellen Wilson Buckner Anderson (1843-1941) - Find...” Find A Grave. Accessed February 6, 2020. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141902807/ellen-anderson. Foy, Charles, and Michael Bradley. “The African American Community in Brushy Fork, Illinois, 1818-1861.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1998-) 112, no. 2 (2019): 129. Frazier, Harriet C. Runaway and Freed Missouri Slaves and Those Who Helped Them, 1763-1865. Jefferson, NC: Mcfarland & Company, Inc., 2010. Gandy, Mary. Guide My Feet, Hold My Hand. The Press-News Journal, 1987. Gardner Museum of Architecture and Design. “Chronology of Events at Mission Institute #4.” Chronology of Events at Mission Institute #4. Quincy, IL: Gardner Museum of Architecture and Design, 1994.

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Gazetteer of Madison County. Alton, IL: James T. Hair, 1866. “George Henry Buckner (1892-1965) - Find A Grave...” Find A Grave. Accessed February 6, 2020. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67122733/george-henry-buckner. “George L. Burroughs Letter to Wilbur Siebert, Jan. 6, 1896.” CONTENTdm. Accessed February 8, 2020. https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/siebert/id/9307. George, Lee R. Slavery North of St. Louis. Lewis County Historical Society, n.d. Gregg, Thomas. History of Hancock County, Illinois: Together with an Outline History of the State, and a Digest of State Laws. Chicago, IL: Chas. C. Chapman, 1880. Haneley, Richard. Letter to Mrs. Robert (Alyce) Mertz. “Peck Paternal Geneology.” Boston, Massachusetts: Boston Public Library, January 23, 1952. Hayman, Susan C. “David Nelson: Frontier Evangelist and Abolitionist,” 1989. History of Ogle County. Chicago, IL: H. F. Kett & Co., 1878. History of Tazewell County, Illinois: Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil Military and Political History, Potraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chicago, IL: Chas. C. Chapman & Co., 1879. The History of Will County, Illinois: Containing a History of the County ... a Directory of Its Real Estate Owners: Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men: General and Local Statistics ... History of Illinois ... History of the Northwest. Chicago: Wm. Le Baron, Jr. & Co., 1878. Hodges, Carl G, and Helene H Levene. Illinois Negro Historymakers. Chicago, IL: Illinois Emancipation Centennial Commission, 1964. “House and Sign Painting.” Western Citizen. Chicago, August 31, 1843. Howard, Robert P. Illinois: A History of the Prairie State. Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1972. “Illinois Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rolls.” Illinois Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rolls. https://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/databases/datcivil.html. This website is transcribed from the original Muster and Descriptive Rolls (RS 301.020) compiled by the Illinois Adjutant General's Office and is published by the Illinois State Archives. Each soldier listed in this document has been searched for by their known last name. “An Illinois Martyrdom” (1938). Jeanne, Humphreys. Mary Brown Davis, Journalist, Feminist, and Social Reformer. Rep. Mary Brown Davis, Journalist, Feminist, and Social Reformer. Galesburg, IL, 1939. Jervis, Rick. “Uncovering Illinois Link to Slaves' Liberty Road.” Chicago Tribune, n.d. “John Cross.” Wheaton History A to Z. Accessed February 8, 2020. http://a2z.my.wheaton.edu/illinois- institute/john-cross. “John Mason Peck.” Southern Baptist Historical Library & Archives - John M. Peck. Last modified 2016. Accessed February 8, 2020. http://www.sbhla.org/bio_peck.htm.

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Johnson, Mildred, Theresa Delsoin, Stuart Symington, and Anne W. Symington. Malindy's Freedom: the Story of a Slave Family. Missouri Historical Society Press, 2005. King, John R.. Letter to Wilbur Siebert. “John R. King's Letter Tio Wilbur Siebert.” Ohiohistory.org. Ohio History Connection, February 3, 1896. Accessed March 3, 2020. https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/siebert/id/13330. Kirkland, Henry. Letter to Elias Kirkland. “My Dear Friend and Brother Kirkland.” Clinton, NY: Hamilton College, September 15, 1838. Knepp, Gary L. Freedom's Struggle: a Response to Slavery from the Ohio Borderlands. Little Miami Pub. Co., 2008. Kolk, Nancy. “Underground Railroad in Whiteside County.” Fulton Journal (May 17, 1917). Accessed 2010. www.geneologytrails.com/ill/whiteside/underground.html. “Landmark of Civil War Era Dumped into Rock River.” Rockford Register Star. Rockford, IL, July 6, 1961. LaRoche, Cheryl Janifer. Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: the Geography of Resistance. University of Illinois Press, 2014. Leeser-Freeman, Colette, ed. Sheldon Peck Footsteps of His Life: Noted Folk Artist 1797 - 1868. Lombard, IL, IL: Lombard Historical Society, 2019. Love, Charles. “Historical Society GetsOld Painting.” Aurora Beacon News, April 3, 1913. Maas, David E. Marching to the Drumbeat of Abolitionism: Wheaton College in the Civil War. Wheaton, IL: Wheaton College, 2010. “Malinda Wilson (1820-1873) - Find A Grave...” Find A Grave. Accessed February 6, 2020. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141907271/malinda-wilson. Malquist, Andrea, ed. “African Americans in the Civil War, Champaign-Urbana.” LocalWiki. Last modified 2014. https://localwiki.org/cu/African_Americans_in_the_Civil_War. Original source: Robert H. Behrens, From Salt Fork to Chickamauga: Champaign County Soldiers in the Civil War Urbana Free Library (June 1988) This website is licensed under CC BY 4.0 McClellan, Larry. The Underground Railroad in the Calumet Region. Thorn Creek Press, 2019. Meszaros, Jessica. “Life on the Hill.” West Newsmagazine. St. Louis, MO, January 9, 2019. “Mildred Johnson (1916-2008) - Find A Grave...” Find A Grave. Accessed February 6, 2020. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37295789/mildred-johnson. Morgans, James Patrick. The Underground Railroad on the Western Frontier: Escapes from Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa and the Territories of Kansas, Nebraska and the Indian Nations, 1840-1865. McFarland & Company, Inc., 2019. Moses, John. Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of the Representative Men of the United States: Illinois Volume. Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1896. Muelder, Hermann R. Fighters for Freedom. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1959. Muelder, Owen W. The Underground Railroad in Western Illinois. Mcfarland & Company, Inc., 2008.

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Muelder, Owen W. Theodore Dwight Weld and the American Anti-Slavery Society. McFarland & Co., 2011. National, Archives. “Civil War Soldiers - Union - Colored Troops 26th-30th Infantry.” Fold3. Last modified 2010. Accessed March 12, 2020. https://www.fold3.com/image/268/265391932. Page 17. Green, Charles. Carded Records Showing Military Service of Soldiers Who Fought in Volunteer Organizations During the , compiled 1890 - 1912, documenting the period 1861 - 1866 NARA Catalog ID 300398 “Nelson Buckner (1843-Unknown) - Find A Grave...” Find A Grave. Accessed February 6, 2020. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/119518993/nelson-buckner. Olaf, Jared. “Samuel Woodrow.” From the History Room. Last modified 2015. Accessed February 9, 2020. https://fromthehistoryroom.wordpress.com/tag/samuel-woodrow/. “Page 4 Civil War ‘Widows' Pensions.’” Fold3. Family Search, 2008. Last modified 2008. Accessed February 6, 2020. http://www.fold3.com/image/269847710. “Palmyra News from the Past.” The Palmyra Spectator, April 14, 1941. The Past & Present of LaSalle County, Illinois. Chicago, IL: H. F. Kett and Co., 1877. “Past and Present of Central Illinois Towns, Oekin.” The Pentagraph. Bloomington, IL, January 27, 1922. Peck, Frank H. “The Memoirs of Frank Peck.” Ms. The Memoirs of Frank Peck. Lombard, IL, 1929. Pekin Public Library. “A Thwarted Kidnapping: Shipman and Mose.” Pekin Daily Times, September 21, 2013. Pekin Public Library. “More Information about Shipman Mose.” Pekin Daily Times, January 4, 2014. Pekinhistory. “Jacob Tharp's Memoir of Pekin's Founding.” From the History Room. Last modified April 13, 2018. Accessed July 19, 2019. https://fromthehistoryroom.wordpress.com/2018/04/13/jacob-tharps- memoir-of-pekins-founding/. Pirtle, Carol. Escape Betwixt Two Suns: a True Tale of the Underground Railroad in Illinois. Southern Illinois University Press, 2000. Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois: Containing ... Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County ... Governors of Illinois, and of the Presidents of the United States. Also Containing a History of the County from Its Earliest Settlement up to the Present Time. Chicago, IL: Chapman Bros., 1885. “Quantrill and the Morgan Walker Tragedy.” CONTENTdm. Accessed February 8, 2020. https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/siebert/id/12686. “Receipts for the Citizen from July 24 to Aug 11.” Western Citizen. Chicago, August 11, 1846. Reynolds, John. “Chapter VII. The Religion and Morals of Illinois.” Essay. In The Pioneer History of Illinois, Containing the Discovery, in 1673, and the History of the Country to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Eighteen, When the State Government Was Organized, 253–271. Belleville, IL: N A. Randall, 1852. Rogina, Matthew. “This Historic House Is Coming Home.” Chicago Tribune. Chicago, May 6, 2006.

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“Samuel Anderson Wilson Burch (1840-1915) - Find A...” Find A Grave. Accessed February 6, 2020. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141907618/samuel-anderson-burch. “Samuel Burch Death Certificate.” St. Louis, MO: Missouri State Board of Health Bureau of Vital Statistics Certificat of Death, 1915. Saunders, Delores T. Illinois Liberty Lines: the History of the Underground Railroad. Place of publication not identified: publisher not identified, 1982. “Scout Camp Spot Rocky Fork Is Historic Spot.” Alton Evening Telegraph, May 28, 1921. “Sheldon Peck, Portrait, Panorama and Sign Painter.” Alton Weekly, Telegraph. Alton, IL, November 18, 1858. Siebert, Wilbur Henry. The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom ; with an Introduction by Albert Bushnell Hart. Macmillan Co., 1898. “Sign In.” Ancestry. Missouri Death Records, 2008. Last modified 2008. Accessed February 6, 2020. http://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1172/vrmmo1833_c10371-0369. Simpson, Burney. “Anti-Slavery Link May Save Old House.” Chicago Tribune. Chicago, April 4, 2007. Smith, Seraphina Gardner, ed. Recollections of the Pioneers of Lee County: Dixon, IL: Dixon Public Library, 1990. Smothers, Michael. “Tazewell's Underground History.” Pekin Daily Times. Pekin Daily Times, March 5, 2011. Last modified March 5, 2011. Accessed July 7, 2019. https://www.pekintimes.com/article/20110305/NEWS/303059991. Soike, Lowell J. Necessary Courage: Iowa's Underground Railway in the Struggle against Slavery. University of Iowa Press, 2013. Stevens, George W. Catalogue of Mission Institute. Dansville, NY: George Stevens, 1841. Still, William, and Ian Frederick. Finseth. The Underground Railroad: Authentic Narratives and First-Hand Accounts. Dover Publications, 2007. “Tazewell County Photo of the Month.” Tazewell County Photo of the Month - January 2001. Last modified January 2001. Accessed February 9, 2020. https://www.tcghs.org/photo0101.htm. “The Thrilling Narrative of Dr. John Doy, of Kansas; or, Slavery as It Is, Inside and Out.” CONTENTdm. Accessed February 8, 2020. https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/siebert/id/12903. Turner, Glennette Tilley. The Underground Railroad in DuPage County, Illinois. Newman Educational Publishers, 1986. Turner, Glennette Tilley. The Underground Railroad in Illinois. Newman Educational Pub., 2001. “Underground Railroad Black Law.” CONTENTdm. Accessed February 8, 2020. https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/siebert/id/14134. Urch, Glori J. Contributors to the Cause. Crystal Lake, IL: Underground Railroad Museum and Ethnic Emporim, 2000. Wilson, Art. “One of Jacksonville's Early Settlers Helped Free Slaves.” The Journal Courier. Jacksonville, IL, February 1, 2004.

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———, ed. “Page 1 - Civil War Soldiers - Union - Colored Troops 26th-30th Infantry.” Fold3. Last modified 2010. Accessed March 12, 2020. https://www.fold3.com/image/268/265391841. Page 1. Green, Charles (age 22) Carded Records Showing Military Service of Soldiers Who Fought in Volunteer Organizations During the American Civil War, compiled 1890 - 1912, documenting the period 1861 - 1866 NARA Catalog ID 300398 ———. “Blacks an Intergral Part of City's Past.” The Journal Courier. Jacksonville, IL, February 22, 1995. ———. “Civil War Soldiers - Union - Colored Troops 26th-30th Infantry.” Fold3. Last modified 2010. Accessed March 12, 2020. https://www.fold3.com/image/268/265391841. Page 1. Green, Charles Carded Records Showing Military Service of Soldiers Who Fought in Volunteer Organizations During the American Civil War, compiled 1890 - 1912, documenting the period 1861 - 1866 NARA Catalog ID 300398 ———. “Page 1 Civil War Soldiers - Union - Colored Troops 26th-30th Infantry.” Fold3. Last modified 2010. Accessed March 12, 2020. https://www.fold3.com/image/268/265355266. Pages 1-32. Allen, Charles. Age 18 Carded Records Showing Military Service of Soldiers Who Fought in Volunteer Organizations During the American Civil War, compiled 1890 - 1912, documenting the period 1861 - 1866 NARA Catalog ID 300398 ———. “Page 1 Civil War Soldiers - Union - Colored Troops 26th-30th Infantry.” Fold3. Last modified 2010. Accessed March 12, 2020. https://www.fold3.com/image/268/265391841. Page 1-28. Green, Charles. Age 29 Carded Records Showing Military Service of Soldiers Who Fought in Volunteer Organizations During the American Civil War, compiled 1890 - 1912, documenting the period 1861 - 1866 NARA Catalog ID 300398 ———. “Page 1 Civil War Soldiers - Union - Colored Troops 26th-30th Infantry.” Fold3. Last modified 2010. Accessed March 12, 2020. https://www.fold3.com/image/268/265397318. Page 1. Morey, Charles. See Murry, Charles. Carded Records Showing Military Service of Soldiers Who Fought in Volunteer Organizations During the American Civil War, compiled 1890 - 1912, documenting the period 1861 - 1866 NARA Catalog ID 300398 ———. “Page 1 Civil War Soldiers - Union - Colored Troops 26th-30th Infantry.” Fold3. Last modified 2010. Accessed March 12, 2020. https://www.fold3.com/image/268/265397865. Page 1-23. Murry, Charles. Age 18. Carded Records Showing Military Service of Soldiers Who Fought in Volunteer Organizations During the American Civil War, compiled 1890 - 1912, documenting the period 1861 - 1866 NARA Catalog ID 300398 ———. “Page 1 Civil War Soldiers - Union - Colored Troops 26th-30th Infantry.” Fold3. Last modified 2010. Accessed March 12, 2020. https://www.fold3.com/image/268/265414657.

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Page 1-23. Young, Charles A. Age 19. Carded Records Showing Military Service of Soldiers Who Fought in Volunteer Organizations During the American Civil War, compiled 1890 - 1912, documenting the period 1861 - 1866 NARA Catalog ID 300398 ———. “Page 10 Civil War Soldiers - Union - Colored Troops 26th-30th Infantry.” Fold3. Last modified 2010. Accessed March 12, 2020. https://www.fold3.com/image/268/265466015. Page 1-10. Lee, Charles. Age 18 Carded Records Showing Military Service of Soldiers Who Fought in Volunteer Organizations During the American Civil War, compiled 1890 - 1912, documenting the period 1861 - 1866 NARA Catalog ID 300398 ———. “Page 15 Civil War Soldiers - Union - Colored Troops 26th-30th Infantry.” Fold3. Last modified 2010. Accessed March 12, 2020. https://www.fold3.com/image/268/265397879. Page 15. Statement signed by T. Jeff Brown, Recruiting Officer, regarding Charles Murry and Catherine Inskeep and the issue of slavery. ———. “Page 21 Civil War Soldiers - Union - Colored Troops 26th-30th Infantry.” Fold3. Last modified 2010. Accessed March 12, 2020. https://www.fold3.com/image/268/265355408. Page 21-23. Affidavit from John W. Ayres regarding Charles Allen as his property. ———. “Page 21 Civil War Soldiers - Union - Colored Troops 26th-30th Infantry.” Fold3. Last modified 2010. Accessed March 12, 2020. https://www.fold3.com/image/268/265397885. Page 21. Claim for Compensation for Enlisted Slave made by Catherine Inskeep of Marion County, Missouri ———. “Page 22 Civil War Soldiers - Union - Colored Troops 26th-30th Infantry.” Fold3. Last modified 2010. Accessed March 12, 2020. https://www.fold3.com/image/268/265397886. Page 22-23. Murry, Charles. Affidavit of ownership signed by Catherine Innskeep. In the affidavit, she writes that Charles Murry was a slave and property of the late Francis Brown, her father. Upon Brown's death in 1859, Charles Murry was assigned to Catherine as part of her inheritance. ———. “Page 31 Civil War Soldiers - Union - Colored Troops 26th-30th Infantry.” Fold3. Last modified 2010. Accessed March 12, 2020. https://www.fold3.com/image/268/265355466. Page 31-31. Allen, Charles. Power of Attorney from John W. Ayres of Ralls County, Missouri appointing Isaac C. Dodge of St. Louis Missouri as his representative seeking compensation for the use of his slave Charles Allen. ———. “Page 31 Civil War Soldiers - Union - Colored Troops 26th-30th Infantry.” Fold3. Last modified 2010. Accessed March 12, 2020. https://www.fold3.com/image/268/265355466. Page 31-32. Power of Attorney from John W. Ayres to Isaac C. Dodge of St. Louis, Missouri

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 List of Books Not Related to Travel:

Bordewich, Fergus. Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad. HarperCollins e-books, 2009. Campbell, Thomas. Fighting Slavery in Chicago: Abolitionists, the Law of Slavery, and Lincoln. Ampersand, Inc., 2009. Cha-Jua, Sundiata Keita. America's First Black Town: Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830-1915. University of Illinois Press, 2002. Dunphy, John J. Abolitionism and the Civil War in Southwestern Illinois. History Press, 2011. Durbin, Sue. “Uncle Charley Tanner.” Illinois Magazine, 1983. Foy, Charles, and Michael Bradley. “The African American Community in Brushy Fork, Illinois, 1818-1861.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1998-) 112, no. 2 (2019): 129. Howard, Robert P. Illinois: A History of the Prairie State. Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1972. Knepp, Gary L. Freedom's Struggle: A Response to Slavery from the Ohio Borderlands. Little Miami Pub. Co., 2008. LaRoche, Cheryl Janifer. Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: The Geography of Resistance. University of Illinois Press, 2014. Maas, David E. Marching to the Drumbeat of Abolitionism: Wheaton College in the Civil War. Wheaton, IL: Wheaton College, 2010. McClellan, Larry. The Underground Railroad in the Calumet Region. Thorn Creek Press, 2019. Morgans, James Patrick. The Underground Railroad on the Western Frontier: Escapes from Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa and the Territories of Kansas, Nebraska and the Indian Nations, 1840-1865. McFarland & Company, Inc., 2019. Pirtle, Carol. Escape Betwixt Two Suns: A True Tale of the Underground Railroad in Illinois. Southern Illinois University Press, 2000. Bateman, Newton and Paul Selby. Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of DuPage County. Chicago: Munsell Publishing Company, 1905. Budd, Lillian. Footsteps on the Tall Grass Prairie. Lombard, IL: Lombard Historical Society, 1976. Dorothy I. Vandercook and Blythe Kaiser. Glen Ellyn’s Story and Her Neighbors in DuPage. Glen Ellyn, IL: Dorothy I. Vandercook, 1976. Harmon, Ada Douglas. The Story of An Old Town - Glen Ellyn. Glen Ellyn, IL: Anan Harmon Chapter D.A.R., 1928. Robinson, Jim. “The Old House in the Woods: The Story of 411 S. Main Street” Addison, IL: Woods Edge Publications, 2008. Turner, Glenette Tilley. The UGRR in Illinois. Glen Ellyn, IL: Newman Educational Publishing, 2001. Turner, Glenette Tilley. “In the Crucible of War: DuPage County and the Civil War”, DuPage Discovery. Wheaton, IL: 1987, 107-118.

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Soike, Lowell J. Necessary Courage: Iowa's Underground Railway in the Struggle against Slavery. University of Iowa Press, 2013. Siebert, Wilbur Henry. The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom ; with an Introduction by Albert Bushnell Hart. Macmillan Co., 1898. Still, William, and Ian Frederick. Finseth. The Underground Railroad: Authentic Narratives and First-Hand Accounts. Dover Publications, 2007. Bent, Charles. History of Whiteside County, Illinois, from its first Settlement to the present time, L.P. Allen Printing: Clinton, Iowa, 1877. Newberry Library Call #F89692. Blanchard, Rufus. History of DuPage County. O.L. Baskin: Chicago, IL, 1882. Davis, William W., History of Whiteside County, Illinois from its earliest settlement to 1908, Pioneer Publishing Co.: Chicago, 1908. Newberry Library Call #F89692 .22 “UGRR in Whiteside County”, Article from the Fulton Journal, May 25, 1917. See: www.genealogytrails.com/ill/whiteside/underground.html. Warner & Beers, Atlas of Whiteside County and the State of Illinois, Chicago, Union Lith & Printing Co, 1872 Newberry Library Call #G 10896 .956 Beasley, Nancy M. The Underground Railroad in DeKalb County, Illinois. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2013.

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 List of Online Resources:

“Charlie Fisher, a Fugitive Slave, Escape.” CONTENTdm. Accessed February 8, 2020. https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/siebert/id/12725. “1860 United States Federal Census.” Ancestry.com. FamilySearch, n.d. Accessed February 6, 2020. https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/7667/4213713_00021. “Aboard the Underground Railroad--John Hossack House.” National Parks Service. U.S. Department of the Interior, n.d. Accessed February 8, 2020. https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/il2.htm Collins, James H. “James H. Collins Letter to George W. Clark, Nov. 7, 1846.” CONTENTdm. Accessed February 8, 2020. https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/siebert/id/10707. “George L. Burroughs Letter to Wilbur Siebert, Jan. 6, 1896.” CONTENTdm. Accessed February 8, 2020. https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/siebert/id/9307. “John Cross.” Wheaton History A to Z. Accessed February 8, 2020. http://a2z.my.wheaton.edu/illinois- institute/john-cross. “John Mason Peck.” Southern Baptist Historical Library & Archives - John M. Peck. Last modified 2016. Accessed February 8, 2020. http://www.sbhla.org/bio_peck.htm. Olaf, Jared. “Samuel Woodrow.” From the History Room. Last modified 2015. Accessed February 9, 2020. https://fromthehistoryroom.wordpress.com/tag/samuel-woodrow/. “Page 4 Civil War ‘Widows' Pensions.’” Fold3. Family Search, 2008. Last modified 2008. Accessed February 6, 2020. http://www.fold3.com/image/269847710. “Quantrill and the Morgan Walker Tragedy.” CONTENTdm. Accessed February 8, 2020. https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/siebert/id/12686. “Samuel Burch Death Certificate.” St. Louis, MO: Missouri State Board of Health Bureau of Vital Statistics Certificate of Death, 1915. 1840 U.S. Census, DuPage County, Illinois. 1850 U.S. Census, DuPage County, Illinois. 1860 U.S. Census, DuPage County, Illinois. 1850 U.S. Census, Peoria County, Illinois. Illinois Marriage Database, Doc #177, Whiteside Co, IL Marriage Record of John S. Peck and Mary A. Drake, Cert #177, dated November 4, 1858, Whiteside County Illinois. Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Database, John S. Peck, Whiteside County, Sec 11-22-5, Vol 714, pg 131). Ancestry. Missouri Death Records, 2008. Last modified 2008. Accessed February 6, 2020. http://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1172/vrmmo1833_c10371-0369. “Tazewell County Photo of the Month.” Tazewell County Photo of the Month - January 2001. Last modified January 2001. Accessed February 9, 2020. https://www.tcghs.org/photo0101.htm.

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“The Thrilling Narrative of Dr. John Doy, of Kansas; or, Slavery as It Is, Inside and Out.” CONTENTdm. Accessed February 8, 2020. https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/siebert/id/12903. “Underground Railroad Black Law.” CONTENTdm. Accessed February 8, 2020. https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/siebert/id/14134. Year: 1850; Census Place: Pittsfield, Pike, Illinois; Roll: M432_124; Page: 135A; Image: 399 Source Information Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C. The UGRR Documented, the Recollections of Ivory Colcord, Jr. Letter of April, 1916 See: www.svonline.net/~srfhs/story11.html. “The Abolitionists,” Chicago Tribune, January 10, 1874, pp. 1-3.

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 List of Resources Available at the LHS Archives:

Charlotte King. “New Philadelphia on the Route to Freedom.” New Philadelphia on the Route to Freedom. New Philadelphia Association, 2012. Davy, Harriet Wilson. From Oxen to Jets; a History of DeKalb County, 1835-1963. Dixon, IL: DeKalb County Board of Supervisors, 1963. “DuPage County Agents.” Western Citizen. Chicago, August 5, 1842. Haneley, Richard. Letter to Mrs. Robert (Alyce) Mertz. “Peck Paternal Genealogy.” Boston, Massachusetts: Boston Public Library, January 23, 1952. The History of Will County, Illinois: Containing a History of the County ... a Directory of Its Real Estate Owners: Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men: General and Local Statistics ... History of Illinois ... History of the Northwest. Chicago: Wm. Le Baron, Jr. & Co., 1878. Hodges, Carl G, and Helene H Levene. Illinois Negro History makers. Chicago, IL: Illinois Emancipation Centennial Commission, 1964. “House and Sign Painting.” Western Citizen. Chicago, August 31, 1843. Jervis, Rick. “Uncovering Illinois Link to Slaves' Liberty Road.” Chicago Tribune, n.d. “Palmyra News from the Past.” The Palmyra Spectator, April 14, 1941 The Past & Present of LaSalle County, Illinois. Chicago, IL: H. F. Kett and Co., 1877. Peck, Frank H. “The Memoirs of Frank Peck.” Ms. The Memoirs of Frank Peck. Lombard, IL, 1929. Western Citizen, Chicago, IL: July 26, 1842, August 5, 1842, August 31, 1843, Feb. 1, 1844, May 6, 1846, May 11, 1847, January 18, 1848, April 4, 1848. April 18, 1848, June 27, 1848, July 13, 1848, Aug. 1, 1848, Oct. 24, 1848, March 16, 1852, April 27, 1852, Oct. 5, 1853, Oct. 3, 1859 Aurora Beacon News, Aurora, IL: March 19, 1966 Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, IL: June 30, 1855, Sept. 25, 1858, April 4, 1887, September 20, 1935 Chicago Daily Democratic Press, Chicago, IL: Sept. 20, 1853. Lombard Spectator, Lombard, IL: September 3rd, 1931, September 19, 1935 New York Times, New York: Aug. 11, 1856. Western Christian, Elgin, IL: November 13, 1845 Abbot, Edward. Union Grove, Illinois. Personal interview by Rita M. Schneider. Dunning, Mildred. The Story of Lombard. 1955. Lombard Historical Society, Lombard, IL. Goodenough, Orville. Morrison, Illinois. Personal interview by Rita M. Schneider Angel, Jeanne Schultz. Friends of the Oppressed: An Investigation of the Kane County Anti-Slavery Society. Thesis published by Illinois State University, Normal, IL, 2005. “Scout Camp Spot Rocky Fork Is Historic Spot.” Alton Evening Telegraph, May 28, 1921. “Sheldon Peck, Portrait, Panorama and Sign Painter.” Alton Weekly, Telegraph. Alton, IL, November 18, 1858.

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Smith, Seraphina Gardner, ed. Recollections of the Pioneers of Lee County: Dixon, IL: Dixon Public Library, 1990. Urch, Glori J. Contributors to the Cause. Crystal Lake, IL: Underground Railroad Museum and Ethnic Emporium, 2000. Blodgett Jr. Israel P. Reminiscences of an Old Settler, Downers Grove Historical Society, Downers Grove, IL. Eaton, J.M. letter to unknown person, May 18, 1917, Hazelhurst, IL. www.genealogytrails.com/ill/whiteside/underground.html.

Filer, Lydia to Polly Filer, December 1852, Feb. 4, 1852. Copies of the Filer Letters at the Lombard Historical Society, Lombard, IL. Hiram Leonard Diaries, 1843- 1878. Warrenville Historical Society, Warrenville, IL. McCroskey, Sophronia. Stolp Genealogy, Oct. 1, 1943, Aurora Historical Society, Aurora, IL.

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