History Of Bureau County, Illinois IL, Princeton, Etc, Bradsby, 1885, SCARCE
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History of Bureau County, Illinois IL, Princeton, etc, Bradsby, 1885, SCARCE! History of Bureau County, Illinois
Bradsby, 1885 Description TITLE History of Bureau County, Illinois AUTHOR Edited by H. C. Bradsby PUBLISHER
AND
COPYRIGHT This is an original period book, published in 1885 by World Publishing Co. ...SIZE and ATTRIBUTES Hardcover book measuring 8" x 10" , 710 pages. Decorative marbled endpapers. Marble page block. Leather spine and tips, and covers have beveled edges. Tissue guards on illustration pages.
CONDITION Acceptable. Spine has deterioration. and some separation along front joint bottom edge. Front inside endpaper and title page have separated from the body of the book. Smudges and stains to some of the pages. Many of the illustrations pages have stains/foxing. %0D%0A COMMENTS %0D%0A %0D%0A A SCARCE original period county history book.
The county seat of Bureau County in Princeton. Other towns in Bureau county that are discussed in this book are Ohio, Lamoille, Indiantown, Macon, Arlington, Malden, Bureau, Mineral, Wyanet, De Pue, Neponset, Milo. Also many biographical sketches.
CHAPTER I. Introduction to the Subject Generally, The State's Present Growth, The Anglo-Americans, Cavaliers and Puritans People Suffer Only for their Ignorance, Lawmakers Generally Considered, Meddlers in Social Organizations, Climate, Soil, Race, Epoch, and the Bent of the Public Mind, the Great Workers of Events, History Considers Men's Errors Mostly Because These Predominate, The Measure of People's Morality is the Knowledge They Possess, The Present is Completing the Past and the Past Explaining the Present, etc., etc.
CHAPTER II. Why History Interests Us What is History? Laws of Development The Soil and its Wonders, Importance of Teaching it to All Needs of Our People, The Coming Public Schools, Learned Ignorance Should Stop Now, Early Illiteracy and Modern Demoralization Compared, Who Are the Real Immortals, True Philosophy and Kindly Thought, Teaching Error a Crime, How to Educate, An Agricultural People Should Have an Agricultural Education, Instances Given, Education the Most Practical Thing in the World, Geological History, its Immensity and Importance, The Rocks, Soil, Age, Climate Great, Factors in Making History, Geology of Bureau County Coal Measures The Wonderful Stories of the Prairies, etc...
CHAPTER III. The Wonders of Prehistoric People, Remains of Great Cities, The Indians and yet Older People Who Were Here, Winnebago War, Capture and Death of Red Bird, Black Hawk War First Bloodless Campaign in 1831, Black Hawk Enters into a Treaty, Starved Rock, the First Settlement in Illinois Joliet and Marquette LaSalle's Colony and Fort St. Louis, Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Discovery and Possession of the Country First White Settlement in the West Made in 1682, at Starved Rock, Capts. Willis Hawes, and Stewart's Companies and the Men from Bureau County, in the Black Hawk War, etc., etc
CHAPTER IV. The Genealogy of the County, New France Canada Louisiana Northwestern Territory St. Clair County Madison, Clark, Bond, Crawford, Pike, Fulton, Peoria, Putnam and Finally Bureau County, The Several and Final Treaties, The Chain of Title to the Territory Title to the Land, etc., etc
CHAPTER V. The Grand March of Empire, The Marvels in the Sweep of Population Across our Continent, The Work of One Hundred Years, The Legislative Act, Creating Bureau County, etc., etc.
CHAPTER VI. The Order in which the People Came- First the Explorer, then the Trafficker, then the Trap- per and Hunter, and then the Settler, Their Curious Habits and Customs, The Children of the Solitudes, What They Encountered, Hog and Hominy, The Shirttail Age Houses and Furniture, Suffering for Bread, Anecdotes Some of the Experiences of Pioneer Children, To Your Guns!, Experiences of a Boy at His First Hotel, He Hears a Gong, Supposes the House Busted, Board Two Dollars and a Half a Day, and He Eats Bread and Water, Witches, Wizards, and the Horrors of Superstition, How People Forted, Weddings, Dances, and the One-Eyed Fiddler Bottle Race How People Dressed Salute Your Bride Going to Housekeeping, etc., etc.
CHAPTER VII. The Name of Bureau County, How it Came, The First Five Families Who They Were, Bulbona, John Dixon, Charles S. Boyd, Henry Thomas, Sketches and Anecdotes of Early Settlers, Death and Burial of John Dixon, Gurdon S. Hubbard Who Was the First Postmaster, Oldest Living Settlers, Abram Stratton His Remarkable Trip in 1829, Sketch of Him, The Brighams, The County's Total First Tax, Remarkable Career of John H. Boyd, The Three Broth- ers-in-Law, The First Death in the County, Daniel Smith, His Widow and Family
CHAPTER VIII Records Made by Old Settlers On All Disputed Questions They are the Best Authority, Old Settlers Society First Agitation of the Subject Historical Importance of Speeches, Poems, Addresses, Remarks, Anecdotes and Pictures, Address of E. S. Phelps, First Old Settlers' Meeting Who Participated, Their Records of Early Settlers, and When They Came, Poem by John H. Bryant, Doctor Bill, "Officers of the Society Killing of Phillips Milo Kendall's Address, Warren's History of Putnam County, E. Strong Phelps John M. Gay, Munson and Miss Hall, First Burial and First Birth, Caleb Cook, Aquilla Triplett, A Long List of the Early Settlers and Their Descendants Arthur Bryant's Poem Michael Kitterman, Sketch of Thirteen Dogs and the Assessor More Anecdotes, Rev. Martin and His Dog "Penny" , The Perkinses George Hinsdale, C. G. Corss And a Great Many Others
CHAPTER IX. Lone Tree Putnam County Organized, Capt. Haws John M. Gay Elected Commissioner, Dr. N. Chamberlain School Superintendent in 1831, Bureau Precinct Its First Nineteen Voters, Their Names and Whom They Voted For, A Democratic Majority at the First Election, Bureau Men on the Jury in 1831, Daniel M. Gay and Daniel Dimmick Elected Justices, Gurdon S. Hubbard's Account of Burbonnais Peoria and Galena Road, Dave Jones First Steamboat on the Illinois River, First Grist and Saw Mill, "Dad Joe" Smith, a Sketch Young Dad Joe's Ride Alex Boyd's Ride, People Flee the Country, Shabbona
CHAPTER X. End of the Indian Troubles Commencement of Permanent Settlements and Improvements, Election of 1834, Bryant and Brigham Elected for Bureau Precinct, Estimated Number of People Here Then, Browne's Company of Rangers, Hampshire Colony, William O. Chamberlain, Its Original Inventor, E. H. Phelp's Account of the Colony and Their Coming and the History Thereof, Names and an Account of the Colonists and Their Friends CHAPTER XI "Curt " Williams, the Man of Many Marks, Smiley Shepherd, The Deep Snow of 1831 John, Job, Timothy, Brown and David Searle, Greenbury Hall Lewis Cobb, The Cholera in 1832, Scott's Army and Its Suffering From the Plague, First Steamboats Arrive in Chicago, 1832 Politicians In the Black Hawk War, "I Surrender, Mr. Indian " Sketches of Many Early Set- tlers, Henry F. Miller, M. Studyvin, David Chase, James Coddington, Enoch Lumry, James Garvin, E. Piper, James Wilson Jacob Galer, John Leeper, John Baggs Wiswalls, Tripletts Halls, How Negro Creek Got Its Name
CHAPTER XII. Immke's Group Picture of Early Settlers of Great Value Now, But of Greater Value in the Future Appeal to the County Authorities, The First Families, the Real Knickerbockers, A Chapter That Will Long Grow in Value
CHAPTER XIII. John H. Bryant - The Farmer Poet, A Sketch of His Life and Works, His Name Identified with Every Important Movement in the County Since He Came Here
CHAPTER XIV. Something About a Great Many People of the County, When Different Places Were Settled and by Whom, First Government Land Surveys, The Denhams Moseleys, J. V. Thompson, Judge R. T. Templeton, Rev. E. Scudder, High and Doughnuts to Market to Sell a Pig, Walnut and Ohio Townships
CHAPTER XV. The Churches of the County, Their Present Pastors and Condition, The Growth of Church Institutions, In God We Trust, A Well Written Chapter by H. Leeper, of Princeton
CHAPTER XVI. The Anti-monopoly Movement, its Ori- gin, John H. Bryant's Connection Therewith and Also Senator L. D. Whiting, Birth of the Republican Party, Judge Lawrence Defeated and Judge Craig Elected Supreme Judge, The Great Contest of the People Against Corporations and Monopolies, Effect Through- out the Whole Country, How Bureau Has Led in Many of These Great Movements, The Xlllth Article of Our Constitution, How it Came About, The Laws and the Courts' Decisions Founded Thereon, Illinois the Birth- place of Nearly Every Political Revolution, Some Corrections in Current History, Much Information and Many Important Facts That Will be New to Most Readers
CHAPTER XVII. The Hennepin Canal, History of the Illinois and Michigan Canal, Its Extension to the Mississippi River, Its Paramount Importance, Cheap Transportation, the Great Want of the Mississippi Valley, Some Curious Legislation And a Few Statutory Pyrotecnics
CHAPTER XVIII. Horticulture, Arthur Bryant, the Pioneer in This Line Here, Forestry About Fruits Generally, and Shade and Ornamental Trees Sketch of Arthur Bryant
CHAPTER XIX. Gold and Silver Mines, Curious Superstitions About Them, "Way-Bills, " Leading to Fabulous Fortunes, How Ignorance Dupes Itself, Tenacity of Ignorant Beliefs, Ancient Fools Perished in the Hunt for the Fountain of Youth, More Modern Ones Also Pursue Their Foolish Dreams of Wealth, Counterfeiters in Their Caves
CHAPTER XX. Debating Societies, Some Immortal Specimens, Old-Time Church Severity, How These Things are Modified and Bettered, Forefathers' Day in Prince- ton and Addresses, Discussion About it in the Press, The Puritans Attacked and Ably Defended, The Writers Tartly Review History
CHAPTER XXI. Drainage Swamp Lands, Illinois Drainage Laws, The Long Fight to Make Them Effective, How L. D. Whiting Successfully Fights out the Long Battle for the Right, The Great Benefits His Ac-tion Will Confer on the Entire State
CHAPTER XXII. Bureau County Created, 1837 Election, Bureau Triumphs and Jollifies, "Shut the Door! ", The First Highway, Part of the Old Indian Trail Yet Preserved, First County Officials and Their Acts, List of County Officers Complete, Brought Down to the Adoption of Township Organization, The Civil History of the County, With Sketches of Some of the Prominent Actors
CHAPTER XXIII. Civil History Continued, Laws, Public and Special, Referring to the County of Bureau and its Towns, A Complete Index and Reference to the Same
CHAPTER XXIV. Township Organization, Adopted Board of Supervisors Meet, John H. Bryant First Chair- man, List of Supervisors, George McMannis Second Chairman. Premium for Wolf Scalps. John M. Grimes First Attorney for the Board. Terwilleger Overseer of the Poor. R.T. Templeton County Judge. List of Town- ship and County Officers to 1857, The Anti-Duelling Oath Required, Jacob T. Thompson's Report as County Treasurer, County Officers, Supervisors, and Other Officers, J. T. Thompson O. L. Bearss Sketches
CHAPTER XXV. Continuation of County Officers, Complete List to Date, Marriages First One J. H. Olds and Louisa C. Bryant, Powers Exercised by the County Court, Public, Civil and Private Affairs Generally, These Old Law-Makers Regulate the Price of Whisky and Eating and Sleeping and Horse Feed
CHAPTER XXVI. Courts Lawyers Judges, and Those Who Held These Offices, Legal Doings, Lawyers Who Rode the Circuit Visiting and Local Lawyers, Simon Kinney First Attorney to Locate in the County, Cyrus Bryant the First Circuit Clerk, Sketch of Him, Fuge Songs, Judge Martin Ballou the Second Lawyer to Lo- cate in the County, Now the Oldest Member Hon. Charles L. Kelsey, How Judge Fraser Lost a Federal Judgeship, Bureau County Electors Representatives and State Senators, Congressmen
CHAPTER XXVII. The Press, First Paper the Bureau Advocate, The Three Political Parties Run the Same Paper, A Novel Idea, The Princetonian Post Herald, Yeoman Democrat, Republican Tribune, Patriot News, Motor Tidings, Press Register Independent Call, Home Guard Times, Who Managed Them, Present Papers, List of Editors and Publishers, Present Papers and Proprietors
CHAPTER XXVIII. Agricultural Society, It Commencement and Who Started It, List of Offices, A Successful Institution, Its Great Value to the People, Land in the County, Agricultural Interests, Value and Tax of the Same Farms and Much Other Information
CHAPTER XXIX. Hon. Owen Lovejoy, The Martyrdom of His Brother Elijah P. Lovejoy, An Event in Ameri- can History, Owen Lovejoy's Mission in Life, His Death in the Hour of the Triumph of his Political Principles
CHAPTER XXX. The Rebellion, Bureau County and its Important Part Therein, The News of the Firing Upon Fort Sumter, A Detailed Account of the Companies, Officers, Regiments and Squads Killed and Dead, Battles, Politicians, Knights of the Golden Circle, Wo- men's Aid Societies, War Meetings Bounties, Speeches, Enlisting
CHAPTER XXXI. Schools Reflections on the Subject Generally, Suggestions and History of Schools, Learned Ignorance, Classical Education, Investigation Invited, Progress of the Schools, The Present Number and Efficiency, The Princeton High School Teachers
CHAPTER XXXII. Stock Graded and Thoroughbreds, Growth of this Industry, Who First Experimented in This Line Cattle, Horses
CHAPTER XXXIII. Political Matters Generally, Census of the County, Douglas and Stewart's Congressional Race, The Size of the Original District Post Offices and Postmasters, The County's Vote, Great Wolf Hunt, Roads, Relics, H. L. Kinney
CHAPTER XXXIV. Odds and Ends, Retrospective, Paths, Indian Trains and Railroads, Blessings Received and Anticipated, Farmers and Their Future Education, The Buffalo and the Indian, Natural Engineers and Places for Great Cities, Douglas, Breese and the Idea of the Illinois Central Railroad
CHAPTER XXXV. City of Princeton, Whence its Name First Survey, First Election, Who Voted, Officials, Improvements, Growth, Beauties, Societies, Business
CHAPTER XXXVI. Townships, Villages and Towns in the County, Additional Information in Regard to Each Township, The Settlers, Prominent Men, etc., etc All Dancing Eye Books are packed with care to help assure their safe arrival. Thank you for looking.
Bradsby, 1885 Description TITLE History of Bureau County, Illinois AUTHOR Edited by H. C. Bradsby PUBLISHER
AND
COPYRIGHT This is an original period book, published in 1885 by World Publishing Co. ...SIZE and ATTRIBUTES Hardcover book measuring 8" x 10" , 710 pages. Decorative marbled endpapers. Marble page block. Leather spine and tips, and covers have beveled edges. Tissue guards on illustration pages.
CONDITION Acceptable. Spine has deterioration. and some separation along front joint bottom edge. Front inside endpaper and title page have separated from the body of the book. Smudges and stains to some of the pages. Many of the illustrations pages have stains/foxing. %0D%0A COMMENTS %0D%0A %0D%0A A SCARCE original period county history book.
The county seat of Bureau County in Princeton. Other towns in Bureau county that are discussed in this book are Ohio, Lamoille, Indiantown, Macon, Arlington, Malden, Bureau, Mineral, Wyanet, De Pue, Neponset, Milo. Also many biographical sketches.
CHAPTER I. Introduction to the Subject Generally, The State's Present Growth, The Anglo-Americans, Cavaliers and Puritans People Suffer Only for their Ignorance, Lawmakers Generally Considered, Meddlers in Social Organizations, Climate, Soil, Race, Epoch, and the Bent of the Public Mind, the Great Workers of Events, History Considers Men's Errors Mostly Because These Predominate, The Measure of People's Morality is the Knowledge They Possess, The Present is Completing the Past and the Past Explaining the Present, etc., etc.
CHAPTER II. Why History Interests Us What is History? Laws of Development The Soil and its Wonders, Importance of Teaching it to All Needs of Our People, The Coming Public Schools, Learned Ignorance Should Stop Now, Early Illiteracy and Modern Demoralization Compared, Who Are the Real Immortals, True Philosophy and Kindly Thought, Teaching Error a Crime, How to Educate, An Agricultural People Should Have an Agricultural Education, Instances Given, Education the Most Practical Thing in the World, Geological History, its Immensity and Importance, The Rocks, Soil, Age, Climate Great, Factors in Making History, Geology of Bureau County Coal Measures The Wonderful Stories of the Prairies, etc...
CHAPTER III. The Wonders of Prehistoric People, Remains of Great Cities, The Indians and yet Older People Who Were Here, Winnebago War, Capture and Death of Red Bird, Black Hawk War First Bloodless Campaign in 1831, Black Hawk Enters into a Treaty, Starved Rock, the First Settlement in Illinois Joliet and Marquette LaSalle's Colony and Fort St. Louis, Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Discovery and Possession of the Country First White Settlement in the West Made in 1682, at Starved Rock, Capts. Willis Hawes, and Stewart's Companies and the Men from Bureau County, in the Black Hawk War, etc., etc
CHAPTER IV. The Genealogy of the County, New France Canada Louisiana Northwestern Territory St. Clair County Madison, Clark, Bond, Crawford, Pike, Fulton, Peoria, Putnam and Finally Bureau County, The Several and Final Treaties, The Chain of Title to the Territory Title to the Land, etc., etc
CHAPTER V. The Grand March of Empire, The Marvels in the Sweep of Population Across our Continent, The Work of One Hundred Years, The Legislative Act, Creating Bureau County, etc., etc.
CHAPTER VI. The Order in which the People Came- First the Explorer, then the Trafficker, then the Trap- per and Hunter, and then the Settler, Their Curious Habits and Customs, The Children of the Solitudes, What They Encountered, Hog and Hominy, The Shirttail Age Houses and Furniture, Suffering for Bread, Anecdotes Some of the Experiences of Pioneer Children, To Your Guns!, Experiences of a Boy at His First Hotel, He Hears a Gong, Supposes the House Busted, Board Two Dollars and a Half a Day, and He Eats Bread and Water, Witches, Wizards, and the Horrors of Superstition, How People Forted, Weddings, Dances, and the One-Eyed Fiddler Bottle Race How People Dressed Salute Your Bride Going to Housekeeping, etc., etc.
CHAPTER VII. The Name of Bureau County, How it Came, The First Five Families Who They Were, Bulbona, John Dixon, Charles S. Boyd, Henry Thomas, Sketches and Anecdotes of Early Settlers, Death and Burial of John Dixon, Gurdon S. Hubbard Who Was the First Postmaster, Oldest Living Settlers, Abram Stratton His Remarkable Trip in 1829, Sketch of Him, The Brighams, The County's Total First Tax, Remarkable Career of John H. Boyd, The Three Broth- ers-in-Law, The First Death in the County, Daniel Smith, His Widow and Family
CHAPTER VIII Records Made by Old Settlers On All Disputed Questions They are the Best Authority, Old Settlers Society First Agitation of the Subject Historical Importance of Speeches, Poems, Addresses, Remarks, Anecdotes and Pictures, Address of E. S. Phelps, First Old Settlers' Meeting Who Participated, Their Records of Early Settlers, and When They Came, Poem by John H. Bryant, Doctor Bill, "Officers of the Society Killing of Phillips Milo Kendall's Address, Warren's History of Putnam County, E. Strong Phelps John M. Gay, Munson and Miss Hall, First Burial and First Birth, Caleb Cook, Aquilla Triplett, A Long List of the Early Settlers and Their Descendants Arthur Bryant's Poem Michael Kitterman, Sketch of Thirteen Dogs and the Assessor More Anecdotes, Rev. Martin and His Dog "Penny" , The Perkinses George Hinsdale, C. G. Corss And a Great Many Others
CHAPTER IX. Lone Tree Putnam County Organized, Capt. Haws John M. Gay Elected Commissioner, Dr. N. Chamberlain School Superintendent in 1831, Bureau Precinct Its First Nineteen Voters, Their Names and Whom They Voted For, A Democratic Majority at the First Election, Bureau Men on the Jury in 1831, Daniel M. Gay and Daniel Dimmick Elected Justices, Gurdon S. Hubbard's Account of Burbonnais Peoria and Galena Road, Dave Jones First Steamboat on the Illinois River, First Grist and Saw Mill, "Dad Joe" Smith, a Sketch Young Dad Joe's Ride Alex Boyd's Ride, People Flee the Country, Shabbona
CHAPTER X. End of the Indian Troubles Commencement of Permanent Settlements and Improvements, Election of 1834, Bryant and Brigham Elected for Bureau Precinct, Estimated Number of People Here Then, Browne's Company of Rangers, Hampshire Colony, William O. Chamberlain, Its Original Inventor, E. H. Phelp's Account of the Colony and Their Coming and the History Thereof, Names and an Account of the Colonists and Their Friends CHAPTER XI "Curt " Williams, the Man of Many Marks, Smiley Shepherd, The Deep Snow of 1831 John, Job, Timothy, Brown and David Searle, Greenbury Hall Lewis Cobb, The Cholera in 1832, Scott's Army and Its Suffering From the Plague, First Steamboats Arrive in Chicago, 1832 Politicians In the Black Hawk War, "I Surrender, Mr. Indian " Sketches of Many Early Set- tlers, Henry F. Miller, M. Studyvin, David Chase, James Coddington, Enoch Lumry, James Garvin, E. Piper, James Wilson Jacob Galer, John Leeper, John Baggs Wiswalls, Tripletts Halls, How Negro Creek Got Its Name
CHAPTER XII. Immke's Group Picture of Early Settlers of Great Value Now, But of Greater Value in the Future Appeal to the County Authorities, The First Families, the Real Knickerbockers, A Chapter That Will Long Grow in Value
CHAPTER XIII. John H. Bryant - The Farmer Poet, A Sketch of His Life and Works, His Name Identified with Every Important Movement in the County Since He Came Here
CHAPTER XIV. Something About a Great Many People of the County, When Different Places Were Settled and by Whom, First Government Land Surveys, The Denhams Moseleys, J. V. Thompson, Judge R. T. Templeton, Rev. E. Scudder, High and Doughnuts to Market to Sell a Pig, Walnut and Ohio Townships
CHAPTER XV. The Churches of the County, Their Present Pastors and Condition, The Growth of Church Institutions, In God We Trust, A Well Written Chapter by H. Leeper, of Princeton
CHAPTER XVI. The Anti-monopoly Movement, its Ori- gin, John H. Bryant's Connection Therewith and Also Senator L. D. Whiting, Birth of the Republican Party, Judge Lawrence Defeated and Judge Craig Elected Supreme Judge, The Great Contest of the People Against Corporations and Monopolies, Effect Through- out the Whole Country, How Bureau Has Led in Many of These Great Movements, The Xlllth Article of Our Constitution, How it Came About, The Laws and the Courts' Decisions Founded Thereon, Illinois the Birth- place of Nearly Every Political Revolution, Some Corrections in Current History, Much Information and Many Important Facts That Will be New to Most Readers
CHAPTER XVII. The Hennepin Canal, History of the Illinois and Michigan Canal, Its Extension to the Mississippi River, Its Paramount Importance, Cheap Transportation, the Great Want of the Mississippi Valley, Some Curious Legislation And a Few Statutory Pyrotecnics
CHAPTER XVIII. Horticulture, Arthur Bryant, the Pioneer in This Line Here, Forestry About Fruits Generally, and Shade and Ornamental Trees Sketch of Arthur Bryant
CHAPTER XIX. Gold and Silver Mines, Curious Superstitions About Them, "Way-Bills, " Leading to Fabulous Fortunes, How Ignorance Dupes Itself, Tenacity of Ignorant Beliefs, Ancient Fools Perished in the Hunt for the Fountain of Youth, More Modern Ones Also Pursue Their Foolish Dreams of Wealth, Counterfeiters in Their Caves
CHAPTER XX. Debating Societies, Some Immortal Specimens, Old-Time Church Severity, How These Things are Modified and Bettered, Forefathers' Day in Prince- ton and Addresses, Discussion About it in the Press, The Puritans Attacked and Ably Defended, The Writers Tartly Review History
CHAPTER XXI. Drainage Swamp Lands, Illinois Drainage Laws, The Long Fight to Make Them Effective, How L. D. Whiting Successfully Fights out the Long Battle for the Right, The Great Benefits His Ac-tion Will Confer on the Entire State
CHAPTER XXII. Bureau County Created, 1837 Election, Bureau Triumphs and Jollifies, "Shut the Door! ", The First Highway, Part of the Old Indian Trail Yet Preserved, First County Officials and Their Acts, List of County Officers Complete, Brought Down to the Adoption of Township Organization, The Civil History of the County, With Sketches of Some of the Prominent Actors
CHAPTER XXIII. Civil History Continued, Laws, Public and Special, Referring to the County of Bureau and its Towns, A Complete Index and Reference to the Same
CHAPTER XXIV. Township Organization, Adopted Board of Supervisors Meet, John H. Bryant First Chair- man, List of Supervisors, George McMannis Second Chairman. Premium for Wolf Scalps. John M. Grimes First Attorney for the Board. Terwilleger Overseer of the Poor. R.T. Templeton County Judge. List of Town- ship and County Officers to 1857, The Anti-Duelling Oath Required, Jacob T. Thompson's Report as County Treasurer, County Officers, Supervisors, and Other Officers, J. T. Thompson O. L. Bearss Sketches
CHAPTER XXV. Continuation of County Officers, Complete List to Date, Marriages First One J. H. Olds and Louisa C. Bryant, Powers Exercised by the County Court, Public, Civil and Private Affairs Generally, These Old Law-Makers Regulate the Price of Whisky and Eating and Sleeping and Horse Feed
CHAPTER XXVI. Courts Lawyers Judges, and Those Who Held These Offices, Legal Doings, Lawyers Who Rode the Circuit Visiting and Local Lawyers, Simon Kinney First Attorney to Locate in the County, Cyrus Bryant the First Circuit Clerk, Sketch of Him, Fuge Songs, Judge Martin Ballou the Second Lawyer to Lo- cate in the County, Now the Oldest Member Hon. Charles L. Kelsey, How Judge Fraser Lost a Federal Judgeship, Bureau County Electors Representatives and State Senators, Congressmen
CHAPTER XXVII. The Press, First Paper the Bureau Advocate, The Three Political Parties Run the Same Paper, A Novel Idea, The Princetonian Post Herald, Yeoman Democrat, Republican Tribune, Patriot News, Motor Tidings, Press Register Independent Call, Home Guard Times, Who Managed Them, Present Papers, List of Editors and Publishers, Present Papers and Proprietors
CHAPTER XXVIII. Agricultural Society, It Commencement and Who Started It, List of Offices, A Successful Institution, Its Great Value to the People, Land in the County, Agricultural Interests, Value and Tax of the Same Farms and Much Other Information
CHAPTER XXIX. Hon. Owen Lovejoy, The Martyrdom of His Brother Elijah P. Lovejoy, An Event in Ameri- can History, Owen Lovejoy's Mission in Life, His Death in the Hour of the Triumph of his Political Principles
CHAPTER XXX. The Rebellion, Bureau County and its Important Part Therein, The News of the Firing Upon Fort Sumter, A Detailed Account of the Companies, Officers, Regiments and Squads Killed and Dead, Battles, Politicians, Knights of the Golden Circle, Wo- men's Aid Societies, War Meetings Bounties, Speeches, Enlisting
CHAPTER XXXI. Schools Reflections on the Subject Generally, Suggestions and History of Schools, Learned Ignorance, Classical Education, Investigation Invited, Progress of the Schools, The Present Number and Efficiency, The Princeton High School Teachers
CHAPTER XXXII. Stock Graded and Thoroughbreds, Growth of this Industry, Who First Experimented in This Line Cattle, Horses
CHAPTER XXXIII. Political Matters Generally, Census of the County, Douglas and Stewart's Congressional Race, The Size of the Original District Post Offices and Postmasters, The County's Vote, Great Wolf Hunt, Roads, Relics, H. L. Kinney
CHAPTER XXXIV. Odds and Ends, Retrospective, Paths, Indian Trains and Railroads, Blessings Received and Anticipated, Farmers and Their Future Education, The Buffalo and the Indian, Natural Engineers and Places for Great Cities, Douglas, Breese and the Idea of the Illinois Central Railroad
CHAPTER XXXV. City of Princeton, Whence its Name First Survey, First Election, Who Voted, Officials, Improvements, Growth, Beauties, Societies, Business
CHAPTER XXXVI. Townships, Villages and Towns in the County, Additional Information in Regard to Each Township, The Settlers, Prominent Men, etc., etc All Dancing Eye Books are packed with care to help assure their safe arrival. Thank you for looking.
