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What a wonderful look at life in the mid-west in the 1800’s. This Historical CD contains stories of the local townships of Lee County, Illinois and its people.
This is a scanned copy on CD of the original Book published in 1881.
History of Lee County, Illinois
TOGETHER WITH
BIOGRAPHICAL MATTER, STATISTICS, ETC.
GATHERED FROM INTERVIEWS WITH OLD SETTLERS, COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND OTHER RECORDS, AND EXTRACTS FROM FILES OF PAPERS, PAMPHLETS, AND SUCH OTHER SOURCES AS HAVE BEEN AVAILABLE.
Chicago: H.H. Hill and Company Publishers.
1881
870 pages on 1 CD An essential resource for Genealogists Actual images of every page, in Adobe Acrobat Reader .PDF format. Works with any computer, and is easy to use and read. Some scans are imperfect. This book on CD is SEARCHABLE *
Index Discovery and Early History Topography of Lee County Rivers and Navigation Natural History To a Waterfowl Geological Formations Early History The Black Hawk War The Black Hawk Canoes After the Black Hawk War Organization of Lee County Township Organization Progress and Development Internal Improvements Navigation County Buildings Religious Progress Crime City of Dixon City Organization Dixon Papers Dixon Schools Dixon Hotels Bridges City Churches Other Societies Fire Department Disasters Manufacturing Interests Founder of Dixon Lee County Volunteers Patriotism at Home Dixon Township Town Officers of Dixon Township Old Settlers' Record of Dixon and Vicinity Dixon Volunteers Biographical Nathan Moorhouse William W. Bethea, James Goble Mahlon P. Burket, John Courtwright Isaac Means, Walter Little Lorenzo Wood James C. Mead Theron Cumins Sherwood Dixon Jonathan N. Hills, James B. Charters John D. Crabtree Samuel C. Eells, Wm. H. Van Epps William Barge, Jason C. Ayres John V. Thomas Eugene Pinckney, Henry P. Becker Abalino C. Bardwell A. C. Warner, George Steel Isaac S. Boardman Joseph Utley, John V. Eustace Lester D. Pitcher Daniel B. McKenney, John Dysart Frank W. Little, Elias Bovey Obadiah Downing Henry T. Noble Josiah P. Dana. B. F. Shaw John Dement W. W. Heaton, Luke Hitchcock William Uhl David Welty C W. Latimer, T. P. Hodnett G. W. J. Brown, W. H. Godfrey Oliver Everett W McL. Wadsworth, J. B. Pomeroy 0. F. Ayres, M. Dornan, J. G. Fleck W. W. Waters, 0. B. Blackman J. A. Hawley W. W. Wynn, C. F. Emerson C. A. Davis, Horace Preston Jacob Brubaker S. K. Upham, Nicholas Plein Samuel Shaw, Henry D. Dement Thomas McCune, J. B. Brooks Ezra Emmert D. B. Ayres, E. C. Smith C. A. Todd, Josiah Fry Charles Dement C. A. Dement, John Coffey Wm. Plein Geo. G. Rosbrook Sublette Township Early Settlements Township Organization Masonic Churches and Schools War Record Biographical Jonathan Peterson Charlotte (F.) Baird Wm. Dexter Alpheus H. Clink Alpheus Crawford, E. M. Lewis N. F. Swartwout, A. L. Swartwout C. H. Ingalls "Sherman L. Hatch Joel Cook W. W. Ireland, E. W. Patten A. L. Wilder Mrs. Harriet L. Gardner Frank Thompson, Prescott Bartlett Edward Fessenden Warren Clarke, J. D. Tourtillott Newton Stanard S. F. Baird, C. D. Hubbard James Black, C. M. Miller O. A. Wood. J. C. Spielman Jacob Kichert C. Biester, J. H. Schwoub F. Oberhelman Elijah Austin, S. D. Reniff T. S. Angler Philip Fauble Amboy Township Squatters' Association Organization Public Improvements Schools Religious Binghamton Rocky Ford and Shelburn Illinois Central Railroad Buildings Fires Education Churches Organizations Temperance Journalism in Amboy Biographical Joseph B. Appleton Samuel E. Appleton Elisha Manning, Charles A. Wilcox Alfred H. Egan, John B. Felker Lyman C. Wheat Calvin D. Vaughn, Henry E. Badger Chester Badger F. R. Butcher, John C. Church The Little Family, E. R. Travers W. H. Badger Isaac Edwards R. H. Mellen, Lemuel Bourne E. E. Chase J. B. Graves, D. W. Slauter C. M. Butler, W. B. Stuart A. W. Spafard E. A. Wilcox, John Gunning W. H. McGraw, I. S. Smith H. T. Ford Charles Tait, C. H. Marstou H. S. Wyman, C. C. Stone William B. Andrus Simon Badger 0. A. Comstock, A. J. Poland Philip Flack, G. H. McFatrich C. W. Bell, G. W. Freeman J. E. Lewis C. W. Deming, J. Slauter, F. J. Merrow J. H. Long B. Smith, G. F. Morgan A. E. Merwine, R. W. Rosier M. Egan, B. B. Howard E. S. Reynolds, H. Chapin, F. F. Northway John Trude H. A. Millard, A. H. Wooster A. B. Searles Carolinei;A. Bartlett D. S. Clark, W. N. Fasoldt M. Maus W. H. Hale J. M. Blocher 0. Spangler J . H. Preston George Ryon Lewis Clapp W. E. Ives, C. D. Dixon John Hook C. M. Robbins, Jacob Luce Jason Chamberlain C. F. Bridgman S. W. Holmes, G. D. Baird N. Burnham, 0. M. Clark F. H. Chapin, H. C. Shaw B.Treadwell.W. I. Fish, D. C. Badger D. Petticrew, W. H. Dresser Carl Hegert Lee Center Township Village of Lee Center Churches Robberies, Casualties Biographical C. F. Ingalls L. B. Rix, E. Morey, J. Derr, M. Crombie T. Nicholson, 0. M. Lewis, S. TrovT bridge, L. Corapton, C. Wellman L. C. Sawyer, W. Salsbury, E. Woodbridge V. Bliss J. Wedlock, W. D. Clink, J. W. Winbolt, E. Whitney, J. A. Hodges S. Shaw, J. W. D. Blake, C. E. Loomis Brooklyn Township Villages War Record Biographical J. P. Johnston D.Miller, H. H. Miller, S. P. Fairchilds A. V. Chriatiance, A. Gilmore, 0. P. Johnston B. F. Holdren, J. F. Clapp J. W. Dorn, J. P. Anglemier, S. W. Carnahan, T. D. Yocum S. Argraves, M. M. Avery A. J. Carnahan, L. Compton, H. Carnahan, D. Holdren Nelson Township Biographical A. Coggswell, W. Groover, W. Covert, C. F. Hubbard, S. Stone L. F. Long, A. Hubbard Elijah Walker Harmon Township Biographical S. Ackert, G. W. Hill J. T. Swan, T. Sutton, A. C. Welch, W. E. Mechem, L. HuUinger W.H.Allen A. Berlin, A. B. Smith, J. Hetler Bradford Township Biographical W.S.Frost, Ira Brewer L. T. Wellman Williamson, P. Runyan Eisenberg, L. Baldwin Catherine E. Aschenbrenner R. Gross, 0. Reinhart Albrecht, E. W. Pomeroy South Dixon Township Schools Literary and Debating Societies Eldena Village |