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LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
977.373 B32c
I . H. S.
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COUNTIES
Cumberland, Jasper and Richland, OF
ILLINOIS.
HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL.
ILLUSTRATED.
CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. 1884.
OTTAWAY PRINTING COMPANY, 54 and 56 Franklin Street, Chicago,
977.375 B32C
Illinois Hist ENein
3
PREFACE.
T! "HIS volume goes forth to our patrons the result of months of arduous, unremitting and conscientious labor. None so well know as those who have been associated with us the almost insurmountable difficulties to be met with in the preparation of a work of this character. Since the inaug- uration of the enterprise a large force has been employed in gathering material. During this time most of the citizens of three counties have been called upon to contribute from their recollections, carefully preserved let- ters, seraps of manuscript. printed fragments, memoranda, etc. Public records and semi-official documents have been searched, the newspaper files of the county have been overhauled, and former citizens, now living out of the counties, have been corresponded with, for the verification of the information by a conference with many. In gathering from these numerous sources, both for the historical and biographical departments. the conflicting statements. the discrepancies and the fallible and incom- plete nature of public documents, were almost appalling to our historians and biographers, who were expected to weave therefrom with some degree of accuracy, in panoramic review, a record of events. Members of the same families disagree as to the spelling of the family name, contradict each other's statements as to the dates of birthi, of settlement in the coun- ties, nativity, and other matters of fact. In this entangled condition, we have given preference to the preponderance of authority, and while we acknowledge the existence of errors and our inability to furnish a perfect history, we claim to have come up to the standard of our promises, and given as accurate a work as the nature of the surroundings would permit. The facts incorporated in the biographical sketches have in most cases been secured from the persons whom they represent, hence the publishers disclaim any responsibility as to their general tenor. Whatever may be the verdict of those who do not and will not comprehend the difficulties to be met with, we feel assured that all just and thoughtful people will appre- ciate our efforts, and recognize the importance of the undertaking and the great public benefit that has been accomplished in preserving the val- uable historical matters of the counties, and biographies of many of their citizens, that perhaps would otherwise have passed into oblivion. To those who have given us their support and encouragement we acknowledge our gratitude, and can assure them that as years go by the book will grow in value as a repository not only of pleasing reading matter, but of treasured information of the past that will become an enduring monument.
THE PUBLISHERS.
APRIL, 1884. B5475
CONTENTS.
PART I.
HISTORY OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY.
PAGE.
PAGI.
American Settlements
59
Early Explorations 220
Black Hawk and the Black Ilawk War 73
English Explorations and Settlements 34
Discovery of the Ohio River.
32
Geographical Position ... 19
Division of the Northwest Territory 65
Tecumseh and the War of 1812
ILLUSTRATIONS.
PAGE.
PAGE.
Black Hawk, Sac Chieftain
74
Niagara Falls 92
Buffalo Hunt.
26
Perry's Monument 91
High Bridge.
33
Pioneer Dwelling 60
Indians attacking Frontiersmen
55
Pontiac, Ottawa Chieftain 42
Indians attacking a Stockade
71
Present Site of Lake St. Bridge, Chicago, 1883 58
Lake Binff.
62
Source of the Mississippi.
La Salle Landing on the Shores of Green Bay
Tecumseh, Shawanoe Chieftain.
Month of the Mississippi ..
31
Trapping.
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AND ITS AMENDMENTS
PART II.
HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
PAGE.
PAGE.
ORGANIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT. 91
104
Surveyors. County ..
148
Churches
170
Swamp Lands. 104
Clerks, Circuit.
146
Topography.
Clerks, County ..
147
Commissioners, County
142
County's Name, Origin of the.
9€
WAR RECORD. 176
Cavalry, Fifth 199
Infantry, Twenty-First.
181
Infantry, Fifty-Ninth 18-4
Infantry, Sixty-First. 196
Infantry, Sixty-Second. 199
Industries and Experiences of Settlers
110
Judges, County
147
Jurors, First.
140
Muterial Resources
102
Minor Divisions.
130
VILLAGES OF THE COUNTY 201
Bradbury
223
Origin of the County
91
Centerville
Diona. 223
Press and Politics 167
136
Hazel Dell
Public Buildings
151
Janesville
Jewett. 211
School Superintendents. 118
Jolmustown
210
Secret Organizations.
175
Neoga
219
Sheriffs, County 146
Rainsburg.
Toledo. 219
Social Development. 148
10-1
Woodbury 210
Stock Raising, etc
110
Early Settlers
109
Fair Association
99
Geology
Horticulture, etc. 104
Infantry, Ninety-Seventh 187
Infantry, One Hundred and Twenty-Third 188
Infantry, One Hundred and Thirty-Fifth 192
Officials, County
1.42
Political Organization
123
Greenup. 2201
Court, County
142
Courts, First
140
Supervisors, Board of 149
Agriculture, etc.
Treasurers, County 142
Railroads
Schools. 173
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CONTENTS
HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY .- Continued.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCILES.
PAGE.
PAGE.
Cottonwood Township.
299
Sumpter Township.
Crooked Creek Township
284
Toledo City.
Greenup Township.
218
Union Township.
346
Neoga Township ..
322
Woodbury Township
363
Spring Point Township
365
PORTRAITS.
PAGE.
PAGE.
Albin, George W
125
Neal, David.
143
Green, David B
161
Voris, Franklin D.
197
Ilanker, Charles
215
Votaw, Mahlon.
107
Mouohon. Gershom
179
PART III.
HISTORY OF JASPER COUNTY.
PAGE.
PAGE.
ORGANIZATION AND CONDITION 367
Travel, Early.
431
Agriculture
378
JASPER COUNTY IN THE WAR
459
Fair Association
381
Cavalry, Fifth
.474
Geology
373
Infantry, Eighth
400
Material Resources
Infantry, Eleventh
463
Name, Origin of.
369
Infantry, Twenty-First 465
Settlement, Early
382
Infantry, Thirty-Eighth
468
Swamp Lands.
378
Infantry, Forty-Sixth
Infantry, One Hundred and Thirtieth
Acts of County Commissioners
394
Attorneys, State's ..
426
Charities, County
418
Advance 491
Bogota
191
Boos Station
491
Brockville
48%
Court House ....
.113
Buena Vista 487
Centerville 482
488
Officials, Connty.
422
Embarrassville
489
Public Buildings
413
Falmouth
491
School Commissioners
26
Franklin
458
Sheriffs, County.
425
Grandville
487 48%
Haysville.
489
Townships ..
125
Hunt City
490
Voting Precincts
127
Latona
491
Benevolent Societies
155
List
191
Bridges
434
Mount Sidney
4.88
Ferries ..
434
Newton.
47%
Moder of Life, Early
Plaintield
481
Press and Politics.
4444
Pleasant Hill
488
Railroads 136
Point Pleasant.
480
Roads, Early 131
Queenstown
48%
Schools, The
451
Rose Hill
189
School Statistics
.155
Saint Marie 481
Settlers, Early
427
West Liberty 488
Societies, Benevolent
155
Wheeler
-191
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
PAGE.
PAGE.
Crooked Creek Townshlp
527
Saint Marie Township.
576
Fox Township.
Smallwood Township.
561
Grandville Township
552
South Muddy Township 574
Grove Township ....
365
Wade Township .. 490
Newton Village.
492
Willow Hill Township
510
North Muddy Township
571
PORTRAITS.
PAGE.
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PAGE.
Caldwell, A. Gallatin
11
Picquet, JJoseph
443
Topography. 371
Infantry, One Hundred and Forty-Third
Infantry, One Hundred and Fifty-Fifth .. 473
VILLAGE GROWTH. ...
Circuit Clerks ..
425
Coroners.
426
Courts and Crime
419
Jail, The ..
415
Judge, County
4:26
Constantinople.
Supervisors, County
423
Harrisburg
Surveyors, County
400
Ilidalgo
490
Treasurers, Connty
400
Langdon
489
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT.
Church, The
449
New Liberty
-1:26
POLITICAL ORGANIZATION 393
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CONTENTS.
PART IV.
HISTORY OF RICHLAND COUNTY.
PAGE.
PAGE.
ORGANIZATION AND GENERAL DESCRIPTION .. 585
Schools, The. 658
Agriculture ..
595
Secret Organizations
667
Agricultural Societies
600
Sheriffs, County 6-10
Agricultural Statistics.
601
Social Development.
641
Geology
589
Superintendent of Schools, County 640
Surveyors, County 640
639
Personal Property.
601
Pioneers. The.
606
Real Estate Statistics
602
Cavalry, Sixth ..
696
Settlement. Early
604
Infantry, Eighth
685
Social Customs, Early
614
Infantry, Sixtieth
~03
Topography. 588
Infantry. Sixty-Third.
POLITICAL ORGANIZATION G18
Infantry, Ninety-Eighth
Churches, The
660
Infantry, One Hundred and Thirtieth 704
Clerks, Circuit
689
Clerks, County
639
Commissioners. County
638
Infantry, One Hundred and Fifty-Fifth 695
Courts and Crimes
63.1
VILLAGE GROWTH 708
Judges, County
640
Claremont. 721
Minor Divisions
619
Dundas
Officials, County
638
Fairview
Press, The
657
Glenwood.
723
Press and Politics
656
Noble .. 718
Public Buildings
626
Railroads
645
Wakefield
Roads, Early
641
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
PAGE.
PAGE.
Bonpas Township
819
Madison Township
812
Claremont Township
800
Noble Township.
294
Decker Township
808
Olney City and Township. ~24
Denver Township
833
Preston Township.
820
German Township
824
PORTRAITS.
PAGE.
Beck, W. F
681
Spring, Arch
653
Elliott, William
603
St. John, M. M.
635
HIall, H. M.
691
Studer, Henry
Kuster, John
619
Wolf, John 595
Landensberger, F
719
Wright, II. J. B
209
Radcliff, Thomas
699
VIEW.
PAGE.
Residence of I. C. Sands
671
Material Resources 593
Origin of the County
585
Treasurers, County
THE WAR RECORD. 683
Cavalry, Fifth.
705
Infantry. One Hundred and Thirty-Sixth 695
Infantry, One Ilundred and Fifty-Fourth 705
Parkersburg
PAGE.
ON
THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY.
GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION.
When the Northwestern Territory was ceded to the United States by Virginia in 1784, it embraced only the territory lying between the Ohio and the Mississippi Rivers, and north to the northern limits of the United States. It coincided with the area now embraced in the States of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and that portion of Minnesota lying on the east side of the Mississippi River. The United States itself at that period extended no farther west than the Mississippi River ; but by the purchase of Louisiana in 1803, the western boundary of the United States was extended to the Rocky Mountains and the Northern Pacific Ocean. The new territory thus added to the National domain, and subsequently opened to settlement, has been called the "New Northwest," in contradistinction from the old "Northwestern Territory."
In comparison with the old Northwest this is a territory of vast magnitude. It includes an area of 1,887,850 square miles ; being greater in extent than the united areas of all the Middle and Southern States, including Texas. Out of this magnificent territory have been erected eleven sovereign States and eight Territories, with an aggregate popula- tion, at the present time, of 13,000,000 inhabitants, or nearly one third of the entire population of the United States.
Its lakes are fresh-water seas, and the larger rivers of the continent flow for a thousand miles through its rich alluvial valleys and far- stretching prairies, more acres of which are arable and productive of the highest percentage of the cereals than of any other area of like extent on the globe.
For the last twenty years the increase of population in the North- west has been about as three to one in any other portion of the United States.
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EARLY EXPLORATIONS.
In the year 1541, DeSoto first saw the Great West in the New World. He, however, penetrated no farther north than the 35th parallel of latitude. The expedition resulted in his death and that of more than half his army, the remainder of whom found their way to Cuba, thence to Spain, in a famished and demoralized condition. DeSoto founded no settlements, produced no results, and left no traces, unless it were that he awakened the hostility of the red man against the white man, and disheartened such as might desire to follow up the career of discovery for better purposes. The French nation were eager and ready to seize upon any news from this extensive domain, and were the first to profit by DeSoto's defeat. Yet it was more than a century before any adventurer took advantage of these discoveries.
In 1616, four years before the pilgrims " moored their bark on the wild New England shore," Le Caron, a French Franciscan, had pene- trated through the Iroquois and Wyandots (Hurons) to the streams which run into Lake Huron ; and in 1634, two Jesuit missionaries founded the first mission among the lake tribes. It was just one hundred years from the discovery of the Mississippi by DeSoto (1541) until the Canadian envoys met the savage nations of the Northwest at the Falls of St. Mary, below the outlet of Lake Superior. This visit led to no permanent result ; yet it was not until 1659 that any of the adventurous fur traders attempted to spend a Winter in the frozen wilds about the great lakes, nor was it until 1660 that a station was established upon their borders by Mesnard, who perished in the woods a few months after. In 1665, Claude Allouez built the earliest lasting habitation of the white man among the Indians of the Northwest. In 1668, Claude Dablon and James Marquette founded the mission of Sault Ste. Marie at the Falls of St. Mary, and two years afterward, Nicholas Perrot, as agent for M. Talon, Governor Gen- eral of Canada, explored Lake Illinois (Michigan) as far south as the present City of Chicago, and invited the Indian nations to meet him at a grand council at Sault Ste. Marie the following Spring, where they were taken under the protection of the king, and formal possession was taken of the Northwest. This same year Marquette established a mission at Point St. Ignatius, where was founded the old town of Michillimackinac.
During M. Talon's explorations and Marquette's residence at St. Ignatius, they learned of a great river away to the west, and fancied -as all others did then-that upon its fertile banks whole tribes of God's children resided, to whom the sound of the Gospel had never come. Filled with a wish to go and preach to them, and in compliance with a
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request of M. Talon, who earnestly desired to extend the domain of his king, and to ascertain whether the river flowed into the Gulf of Mexico or the Pacific Ocean, Marquette with Joliet, as commander of the expe- dition, prepared for the undertaking.
On the 13th of May, 1673, the explorers, accompanied by five assist- ant French Canadians, set out from Mackinaw on their daring voyage of discovery. The Indians, who gathered to witness their departure, were astonished at the boldness of the undertaking, and endeavored to dissuade them from their purpose by representing the tribes on the Mississippi as exceedingly savage and cruel, and the river itself as full of all sorts of frightful monsters ready to swallow them and their canoes together. But, nothing daunted by these terrific descriptions, Marquette told them he was willing not only to encounter all the perils of the unknown region they were about to explore, but to lay down his life in a cause in which the salvation of souls was involved ; and having prayed together they separated. Coasting along the northern shore of Lake Michigan, the adventurers entered Green Bay, and passed thence up the Fox River and Lake Winnebago to a village of the Miamis and Kickapoos. Here Mar- quette was delighted to find a beautiful cross planted in the middle of the town ornamented with white skins, red girdles and bows and arrows, which these good people had offered to the Great Manitou, or God, to thank him for the pity he had bestowed on them during the Winter in giving them an abundant " chase." This was the farthest outpost to which Dablon and Allouez had extended their missionary labors the year previous. Here Marquette drank mineral waters and was instructed in the secret of a root which cures the bite of the venomous rattlesnake. He assembled the chiefs and old men of the village, and, pointing to Joliet, said : " My friend is an envoy of France, to discover new coun- tries, and I am an ambassador from God to enlighten them with the truths of the Gospel." Two Miami guides were here furnished to conduct them to the Wisconsin River, and they set out from the Indian village on the 10th of June, amidst a great crowd of natives who had assembled to witness their departure into a region where no white man had ever yet ventured. The guides, having conducted them across the portage, returned. The explorers launched their canoes upon the Wisconsin, which they descended to the Mississippi and proceeded down its unknown waters. What emotions must have swelled their breasts as they struck out into the broadening current and became conscious that they were now upon the bosom of the Father of Waters. The mystery was about to be lifted from the long-sought river. The scenery in that locality is beautiful, and on that delightful seventeenth of June must have been clad in all its primeval loveliness as it had been adorned by the hand of
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Nature. Drifting rapidly, it is said that the bold bluffs on either hand "reminded them of the castled shores of their own beautiful rivers of France." By-and-by, as they drifted along, great herds of buffalo appeared on the banks. On going to the heads of the valley they could see a country of the greatest beauty and fertility, apparently destitute of inhab- itants yet presenting the appearance of extensive manors, under the fas- tidious cultivation of lordly proprietors.
SOURCE OF THE MISSISSIPPI.
On June 25, they went ashore and found some fresh traces of men upon the sand, and a path which led to the prairie. The men remained in the boat, and Marquette and Joliet followed the path till they discovered a village on the banks of a river, and two other villages on a hill, within a half league of the first, inhabited by Indians. They were received most hospitably by these natives, who had never before seen a white person. After remaining a few days they re-embarked and descended the river to about latitude 33°, where they found a village of the Arkansas, and being satisfied that the river flowed into the Gulf of Mexico, turned their course
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up the river, and ascending the stream to the mouth of the Illinois, rowed up that stream to its source, and procured guides from that point to the lakes. "Nowhere on this journey," says Marquette, " did we see such grounds, meadows, woods, stags, buffaloes, decr, wildcats, bustards, swans, ducks, parroquets, and even beavers, as on the Illinois River." The party, without loss or injury, reached Green Bay in September, and reported their discovery-one of the most important of the age, but of which no record was preserved save Marquette's, Joliet losing his by the upsetting of his canoe on his way to Quebec. Afterward Marquette returned to the Illinois Indians by their request, and ministered to them until 1675. On the 18th of May, in that year, as he was passing the mouth of a stream-going with his boatmen up Lake Michigan-he asked to land at its mouth and celebrate Mass. Leaving his men with the canoe, he retired a short distance and began his devotions. As much time passed and he did not return, his men went in search of him, and found him upon his knees, dead. He had peacefully passed away while at prayer. He was buried at this spot. Charlevoix, who visited the place fifty years after, found the waters had retreated from the grave, leaving the beloved missionary to repose in peace. The river has since been called Marquette.
While Marquette and his companions were pursuing their labors in the West, two men, differing widely from him and cach other, were pre- paring to follow in his footsteps and perfect the discoveries so well begun by him. These were Robert de La Salle and Louis Hennepin.
After La Salle's return from the discovery of the Ohio River (see the narrative elsewhere), he established himself again among the French trading posts in Canada. Here he mused long upon the pet project of those ages-a short way to China and the East, and was busily planning an expedition up the great lakes, and so across the continent to the Pacific, when Marquette returned from the Mississippi. At once the vigorous mind of LaSalle received from his and his companions' stories the idea that by fol- lowing the Great River northward, or by turning up some of the numerous western tributaries, the object could easily be gained. He applied to Frontenac, Governor General of Canada, and laid before him the plan, dim but gigantic. Frontenac entered warmly into his plans, and saw that LaSalle's idea to connect the great lakes by a chain of forts with the Gulf of Mexico would bind the country so wonderfully together, give un- measured power to France, and glory to himself, under whose adminis- tration he earnestly hoped all would be realized.
LaSalle now repaired to France, laid his plans before the King, who warmly approved of them, and made him a Chevalier. He also received from all the noblemen the warmest wishes for his success. The Chev-
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alier returned to Canada, and busily entered upon his work. He at once rebuilt Fort Frontenac and constructed the first ship to sail on these fresh-water seas. On the 7th of August, 1679, having been joined by Hennepin, he began his voyage in the Griffin up Lake Erie. He passed over this lake, through the straits beyond, up Lake St. Clair and into Huron. In this lake they encountered heavy storms. They were some time at Michillimackinac, where LaSalle founded a fort, and passed on to Green Bay, the " Baie des Puans" of the French, where he found a large quantity of furs collected for him. He loaded the Griffin with these, and placing her under the care of a pilot and fourteen sailors,
LA SALLE LANDING ON THE SHORE OF GREEN BAY.
started her on her return voyage. The vessel was never afterward heard of. He remained about these parts until early in the Winter, when, hear- ing nothing from the Griffin, he collected all the men-thirty working men and three monks-and started again upon his great undertaking.
By a short portage they passed to the Illinois or Kankakee, called by the Indians, "Theakeke," wolf, because of the tribes of Indians called by that name, commonly known as the Mahingans, dwelling there. The French pronounced it Kiakiki, which became corrupted to Kankakee. "Falling down the said river by casy journeys, the better to observe the country," about the last of December they reached a village of the Illi- nois Indians, containing some five hundred cabins, but at that moment
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THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY.
no inhabitants. The Seur de LaSalle being in want of some breadstuffs, took advantage of the absence of the Indians to help himself to a suffi- ciency of maize, large quantities of which he found concealed in holes under the wigwams. This village was situated near the present village of Utica in LaSalle County, Illinois. The corn being securely stored, the voyagers again betook themselves to the stream, and toward evening, on the 4th day of January, 1680, they came into a lake which must have been the lake of Peoria. This was called by the Indians Pim-i-te-wi, that is, a place where there are many fat beasts. Here the natives were met with in large numbers, but they were gentle and kind, and having spent some time with them, LaSalle determined to erect another fort in that place, for he had heard rumors that some of the adjoining tribes were trying to disturb the good feeling which existed, and some of his men were disposed to complain, owing to the hardships and perils of the travel. He called this fort " Crevecœur " (broken-heart), a name expressive of the very natural sorrow and anxiety which the pretty certain loss of his ship, Griffin, and his consequent impoverishment, the danger of hostility on the part of the Indians, and of mutiny among his own men, might well cause him. His fears were not entirely groundless. At one time poison was placed in his food, but fortunately was discovered.
While building this fort, the Winter wore away, the prairies began to look green, and LaSalle, despairing of any reinforcements, concluded to return to Canada, raise new means and new men, and embark anew in the enterprise. For this purpose he made Hennepin the leader of a party to explore the head waters of the Mississippi, and he set out on his jour- ney. This journey was accomplished with the aid of a few persons, and was successfully made, though over an almost unknown route, and in a bad season of the year. He safely reached Canada, and set out again for the object of his search.
Hennepin and his party left Fort Crevecœur on the last of February, 1680. When LaSalle reached this place on his return expedition, he found the fort entirely deserted, and he was obliged to return again to Canada. He embarked the third time, and succeeded. Seven days after leaving the fort, Hennepin reached the Mississippi, and paddling up the icy stream as best he could, reached no higher than the Wisconsin River by the 11th of April. Here he and his followers were taken prisoners by a band of Northern Indians, who treated them with great kindness. Hen- nepin's comrades were Anthony Auguel and Michael Ako. On this voy- age they found several beautiful lakes, and " saw some charming prairies." Their captors were the Isaute or Sauteurs, Chippewas, a tribe of the Sioux nation, who took them up the river until about the first of May, when they reached some falls, which Hennepin christened Falls of St. Anthony
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