Past and present of the city of Quincy and Adams County, Illinois, Part 1

Author: Collins, William H. (William Hertzog), 1831-1910; Perry, Cicero F., 1855- [from old catalog] joint author; Tillson, John, 1825-1892. History of the city of Quincy, Illinois. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1905
Publisher: Chicago, S. J. Clarke Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1228

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BY HON. WILLIAM HY COLLINS AND MR. CICERO F. PERRY

Including the late Colonel John Tillson's History of Quincy, together with Biographical Sketches of Many of its Leading and Prominent Citizens and Illustrious Dead.

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CHICAGO: THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING CO. 1905

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PREFACE

WALAN many respects Adams county is without a peer among the one hundred and two coun- I ties comprising the great state of Illinois. Its history has repeatedly been written, but notwithstanding. the publishers of this volume thought the time was ripe for the publica- tion of still another one, and the success attending their venture justifies them in their coneluision. The work is along a little different line from any that have preceded it, and it will be found a veritable portrait gallery of the best people of the county, and as such will be doubly appreciated by all.

The history of the city of Quiney was written by Gen. John Tillson, but revised and cor- reeted by Ilon. William HI. Collins, while the history of the county has been written by William 11. Collins and Cieero F. Perry, men whose qualifications for the work will be acknowledged by everyone. The biographical sketches are of special interests, our corps of writers having gone to the people, the men and women who have, by their enterprise and industry, brought this county to a rank second to none among those comprising this great and noble state, and from their lips have the story of their life struggles. No more interesting or instructive matter could be pre- sented to an intelligent publie. In this volume will be found a record of many whose lives are worthy the imitation of coming generations. It tells how some, commeneing life in poverty, by industry and economy have accumulated wealth. It tells how others, with limited advantages for securing an education, have become learned men and women, with an influence extending throughout the length and breadth of the land. It tells of men who have risen from the lower walks of life to eminence as statesmen, and whose names have become famous. It tells of those in every walk in life who have striven to succeed, and records how that success has usually crowned their efforts. It tells also of many, very many, who, not seeking the applause of the world, have pursned the "even tenor of their way." content to have it said of them, as Christ said of the woman performing a deed of mercy-"They have done what they could." It tells how many. in the pride and strength of young manhood. left the plow and the anvil. the lawyer's office and the counting-room, left every trade and profession. and at their country's eall went forth valiantly "to do or die," and how through their efforts the Union was restored and peace once more reigned in the land. In the life of every man and of every woman is a lesson that should not be lost upon those who follow after.

Coming generations will appreciate this volume and preserve it as a sacred treasure. from the fact that it contains so much that would never find its way into public records and which would otherwise be inaccessible. Great care has been taken in the compilation of the work and every opportunity possible given to those represented to insure correctness in what has been writ- ten : and the publishers flatter themselves that they give to their readers a work with few errors of consequence. In addition to biographical sketches, portraits of a number of representative citizens are given.

The faces of some, and biographical sketches of many, will be missed in this volume. For this the publishers are not to blame. Not having a proper conception of the work, some refused to give the information necessary to compile a sketch, while others were indifferent. Occasionally some member of the family would oppose the enterprise, and on account of such opposition the support of the interested one would be withheld. In a few instances men never could be found, though repeated calls were made at their residence or place of business.

June, 1905.

THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING CO.

HISTORY OF QUINCY

By GEN. JOHN TILLSON

CHAPTER I.

"ILLINOIS COUNTRY." CONTESTS FOR ITS POS- SESSION. EARLY POLITICAL HISTORY. AN OUTLINE SKETCH OF ITS HISTORICAL SET- TING, MAY PROPERLY INTRODUCE A HISTORY OF THE "GEM CITY."

What was known as the "Illinois Country" for the ninety years which intervened between the early French discoveries and the surrender of the region to the English, in 1763. was bounded by the Mississippi on the west, by the river Illinois on the north, by the Ouabache (Wabash) and Miamis on the east, and the Ohio on the south. The Aet of Congress defining the boundaries of the State, ineluded all the terri- tory west of the Illinois to the Mississippi, and north to what is now the Wisconsin line. Thus the site of the present city of Quincy was in- eluded in the State of Illinois.

The French explorers were the first to visit the "Illinois Country" and for nearly a cen- tury, they held undisputed possession. Spain held a claim to the whole region, but it was feeble, and she was kept too busy elsewhere, to make it good, and in 1763, she relinquished it. The country at this time, passed under the au- thority of the British crown. England held it for fifteen years. In 1778. General George Rogers Clark, in command of a small, but gal- lant army, took possession of it for the colony of Virginia. At the close of the war of the Rev- olution. England, by treaty, surrendered for- ever her claims to supremacy.

Virginia had already in 1780, ceded to the Confederate colonies all her acquired rights as conquerer; and made the deed of cession, and relinquishment by the celebrated ordinance of 1787. During the preceding nine years, a sort of quasi sovereignty, partially recognized and less enforced, had been asserted by Virginia. The entire country north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi had been, in October 1778.

formed into the "County of Illinois," and Col. John Todd was appointed "Lieutenant Com- mandant." Ile was invested with a blended military and eivil authority, which he exer- cised, nominally, until his death at the noted Blue Liek battle in 1782. After him a French- man, Timothy Montlrun by name, appears to have been vested with whatever of authority was exercised in Virginia.

In 1787. Congress assuming control of the country, embracing what is now the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wiscon- sin, entitled it the "North-west Territory" and elected General Arthur St. Clair its Governor. In 1790, Governor St. Clair declared all that country lying between the Wabash, Ohio and Mississippi rivers and an east and west line about on the parallel of the present site of Bloomington, Illinois. the County of St. Clair, Cahokia being the county seat. Five years later, in 1795, all south of the present eounty of St. Clair was set off and ealled Randolph county. These two counties constituted all of Illinois as organized, until 1812.

In 1800 (May 9th) Congress divided the North-west Territory. All west of what is now the State of Ohio, was declared the territory of Indiana. The population at the beginning of this century, of what now constitutes four great states, was estimated at 4875 whites: 135 negro slaves, and about 100,000 Indians. William H. Harrison (afterwards President of the United States) was appointed Governor, and Vincennes was selected as the territorial capital. Gov- ernor Harrison's administration was vigorous and successful. During his first five years, he concluded ten treaties with the various Indian tribes, extinguishing their title and securing the cession of their lands to the United States. By the treaty of November 3rd, 1804. made with the Sauks and Foxes he received from them the surrender of all the land between the

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Illinois and Mississippi rivers (embracing the "Military Tract") to which this tribe laid elaim and the greater portion of which they held in possession. On the 3rd of February. 1809, Congress formed the territory of Illinois in- eluding what is now the states of Illinois and Wisconsin. This was the first Federal reeog- nition of the name Illinois, although following the action of the Virginia colony in 1778, the term "Illinois" had been in popular use, gen- erally applied to all the northwestern country. The word "llinois" is a French perversion of the name claimed by the Indian tribe, which at the time of the French advent, controlled the principal portion of what now forms the state. Afterward, overborne and crowded sonthward by superior numbers, it passed out of existence. The various remnants to the last retained their original name, "Leni." or "Illini," as the French prononneed it. It is the general Algon- min term for "superior men."

The population of the new territory in 1809, was estimated to be about 9,000 whites and somewhat less than 50,000 Indians.

An imperfect rensus taken in 1810, returned 11,501 whites. 168 slaves, and 613 "'mixed" ex- «Insive of Indians.

Kaskaskia became the capital of the infant territory. Settlements were sparse. They lay along the Mississippi from about Kaskaskia to near the month of the Missouri: up the Kas- kaskia or Okaw river for a short distance; skirting the Ohio river and running up the Wabash beyond Vincennes, by far the larger portion of the inhabitants, being of French birth of extraction.

Beyond the lines above named, the Indians held almost undisputed control. Ninian Ed- wards was appointed territorial Governor, an office which he retained. by successive re-ap- pointments, until the territory became a state. Ile was a gifted, brilliant, imposing man, far superior to most of his publie associates, and while his positive nature created for him al- most constant political confliets, his position, high character, and admitted ability, kept him until the day of his death, more than any other, the representative man of Illinois.

The first delegate to Congress was Shadrach Bond, a popular man of fair native ability. He. in 1814, was succeeded by Benjamin Stephen- son. Nathaniel Pope ( Territorial Secretary ) succeeded Stephenson in 1816.

Pope was afterwards made United States District Judge. He held the office until his death, in 1850.

Randolph and St. Clair were the two original counties, but in 1812 Johnson, Gallatin and Madison were formed. The latter comprehend-

ing all the northern portion of the State. Sub- sequently other counties were formed in the southern part of the territory until 1818. the number amounted to fifteen. Congress on the 18th of April, 1818, acceding to the applica- tion made by the territorial legislature in the preceding winter, passed a bill admitting Illi- nois into the Union as a State. The constitu- tional convention representing the fifteen coun- ties, met at Kaskaskia in July of the same year and completed the constitution on the 26th of August, 1818. It was not submitted to the peo- ple but went into effect immediately.

At the first State election September, 1818, Shadrach Bond was chosen Governor and Pierre Menard, Lieutenant Governor, without opposition.

CHAPTER II.

FIRST WHITE MEN TO SEE THE SITE OF THE FU- TURE CITY. EXPLORATION OF JOLIET AND MARQUETTE. FIRST INHABITANTS. ITS EAR- LIEST COMMERCE. TOPOGRAPHICAL.

In the month of May, 1673, Louis Joliet and Jaques Marquette, with five voyageurs in two canoes, started from St. Ignace in Lake Michi- gan on a tour of exploration. They passed through Green Bay and up the Fox Rivers; then through Winnebago bake, thence west- ward, crossing a portage into the Wisconsin river. They journeyed down the Wisconsin, and on the 17th day of hine found themselves upon the waters of a great river. To this, they gave the name Rio de la Conception. The Indian name was, according to some etymologists, "Meach Chasseepe.' Its signification was "gatherer of all waters" or "great river." Some of the early French explorers gave it the name of "Colbert" in honor of their prime min- ister. The Indian name of Mississippi has hap- pily survived.

Spanish explorers had seen the river in its lower waters, and De Soto had been buried in its bosom, but those Frenchmen were the first to see it in the higher latitudes.

It was a thrilling moment to these bold ad- venturers, when, emerging from the month of the Wisconsin, their canoes floated upon the broad bosom of the swift flowing river. It then Howed clear and pure. The plow and spade of civilization had not broken up the sloping sur- fare of its vast water-sheds to pulverize the soil and transform it into a muddy torrent with every serious rain-fall. Rootlets and leaves of the forest and the grasses of plain and

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prairie, eanght, filtered and tempered the flow of its contributing streams. No eity polluted it with sewage. Innumerable schools of fish swam in its waters and bred, by countless mil- lions, in its quiet sloughs and bays. Its banks were lined with virgin forests of elm, sycamore, walnut, cottonwood, oak and pecan. They had never echoed to the stroke of the pioneer axe or the craek of his rifle. Prairie bottom-lands alternated with woodland and stretched away on either side to the distant bluffs. Islands abounded, as now, roofed with a tangle of vines and fringed with drooping willows. Sharply defined against a stretch of forest green oc- casionally was seen some tall. dead tree, bleached by the storms of many years, lifting up its leafless branches, gracefully festooned with the green and scarlet of the trumpet-vine. The white and blue heron waded the swamps. The eagle and the haleyon darting from the high over-hanging boughs with a splash, broke the mirrored surface of the river. Flocks of pelieans covered the low-lying sandbars, look- ing at a distance like banks of snow left by the retreating winter. Herds of buffalo sought the river to slake their thirst and grazed upon the grasses of the adjacent bottoms. Deer with lifted heads and wild eyes gazed for a moment upon the voyageurs and vanished into the thickets. Flocks of geese, swan and ducks were without number, and upon alarm rose into the air with a beating of wings, which sounded like the roll of thunder.

Those explorers traded with the Indians for supplies of maize and venison, while they often used the dry breast of the wild turkey, broiled upon coals, as a substitute for bread.

Following the How of the great river. they sought that which was the prime incentive for all the daring and enterprise of the age, viz: a western water route to the East Indies. Mar- quette's journal tells us that in thirty days. (July 17th), he reached the month of the Arkansas, about fourteen hundred miles below where he entered the Mississippi: that during this time he made a halt of six days, in the earlier part of his voyage : that during the first four days he jurneyed 180 miles. This shows his average daily travel to have been, not far from fifty miles per day.

While no special mention or deseription is made in his journal that would apply to this locality as it does to Alton, Rock Island and other points, yet on the rough chart which he has left. there is drawn high land at just the place on the river where our bluffs appear. Taking all these facts together, his total aver- age distance travelled per day, time consumed

and halts made, he probably reached the site of the present city about the 1st of July, 1673.

We can imagine these explorers landing upon the bank of the river, which now is the wharf of Quiney. As their two canoes neared the shore, the Indian dogs greeted them with their noisy and wolfish yelps, while the brown men. women and children rushed forward to see for the first time in their lives, the "pale face." Undoubtedly, Marquette asked them about the bay. It would have appeared to him as a tributary river, Some Indian making a rude drawing in the sand with a stiek, would answer his inquiries about the geographical features of the country, its forests, lakes, sloughs and tributary streams.

At this time they all abounded in fur-bearing animals. Mink, musk-rat, otter, raccoon, wolf. fox and beaver were numerons. The Indians began to learn that they could exchange the products of the trap and the chase. for the ealicoes, hatchets and trinkets which men from the North offered them in trade. This was the first rude beginning of commercial transactions associated with the site of the future city.

These early inhabitants of the locality dis- appeared. and left as memorials of their ex- istence, the mounds upon the bluffs and a few stone hatchets and Hint arrow-heads.

In 1805, Gen. Zebulon Pike was sent by the War Department to explore the Mississippi from St. Louis to the Falls of St. Anthony. Ile started from St. Louis on Friday, August 9th. 1805. with a Sergeant, three corporals and seventeen privates in a keel boat seventy-five feet long. lle was provisioned for four months. As he passed up the river, he considered the ad- vantages of various points for the location of Forts. The bluff, on which the city of Warsaw was afterwards built. being near the month of the Des Moines river, and nearer to the Indian country. was selected as being a better strategie point for military purposes than the site of the future city of Quincy. There Fort Edwards was built.

In 1813. a military expedition consisting of two battalions of mounted rangers, started from old Fort Edwards, lying east of the present city of Alton, and passing through what is now Cal- houn County, came northward along the river to the site of Quincy. Here they struck the Indian village and destroyed it. The small trading with the French was broken up.

This cruel attack was, in part. in retaliation for some injuries some of the frontier pioneers had suffered. The Indians were driven north- ward. some of them escaping into Iowa to seek revenge afterward, under the leadership of the chieftain Black-hawk. The site of the future

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eity again became a wilderness. The only human being to break upon its solitude was an occasional trapper or hunter, landing from his canoe and camping for a night.

Little can one who today looks upon the broad and beautiful area on which our bustling eity stands, realize the contrast of the present scene, with the wild solitude that revives in the retrospection of nearly a century. One may indeed imagine the aspeet of the locality, were the buildings all removed. the streets aban- doned and all tokens of life taken away. But permanent changes have been effected: land- scape lines are now gone ; physical features for- ever effaced, which, only a few survivors ever sa.w.

Years ago, as the first white settler saw it, before axe or plough had desecrated nature's sanctity, the eity was marked by alternations of timber and prairie : timber in the ravines, along the streams, covering also the erest and river face of the bluffs; and prairie generally on the level land and the ridges which separated the ravines. The timber was usually heavy except near the heads of the "draws," where it became gradually lighter or altogether disappeared. The prairie was luxuriant, not with the long swamp grass of the bottom lands, nor of the prairies in southern Illinois, but with a grass abont breast high and very thick. It did not, as many imagine reach to the river, or even to the verge of the bluffs. Along the river bank from what is now known as Broadway to Dela- ware, there stood a scattering growth of trees. while south of the latter point. the rank. luxuriant. almost impenetrable vegetation, com- mon to our bottom lands, prevailed. The strip of land below the bluffs, and along the river was then nmch narrower than at present : the hills having been out and blasted away. From Broadway sonth to Delaware the rock cropped out continuously and was always visible at an average stage of water. For keel and steam- boats. the usual landing place was then and long after between Vermont and Broadway: probably selected. because the trees here were convenient to tie to, and the river platean was broader : also because they were more sheltered from the wind. It was easy to get into the river again from there. as at that time, the point of the "island" lay much higher up than at present ; in faet the main river channel ran directly over, where, is now the highest growth of willows on the "Tow Head."

The present area of the city, was about equally divided between timber and prairie. the latter slightly predominating. The prairie from the east threw out four long arms, or feelers, as if striving to reach the river: one of these.

extended as far as Eighth street in what is now known as Berrian's Addition; a second about the same distance on State Street; a third creeping into the heart of the city and narrow- ing down, pushed diagonally across the public square, nearly to Third Street, and the fourth, broke in abont Chestnut and Twelfth, thence "with many a winding bout," almost lost at times, reached nearly to Sunset Ilill. East of Eighteenth Street all was prairie save a short thieket spur which ran eastward a few blocks from the Alstyne quarter near Chestnut, and a small grove of young trees at what is now Iligh- land Park, which has greatly increased in size.

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Past and present of the city of Quincy and Adams County, Illinois, Part 1

Author: Collins, William H. (William Hertzog), 1831-1910; Perry, Cicero F., 1855- [from old catalog] joint author; Tillson, John, 1825-1892. History of the city of Quincy, Illinois. [from old catalog] Publication date: 1905 Publisher: Chicago, S. J. Clarke Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 1228

Author: Collins, William H. (William Hertzog), 1831-1910; Perry, Cicero F., 1855- [from old catalog] joint author; Tillson, John, 1825-1892. History of the city of Quincy, Illinois. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1905
Publisher: Chicago, S. J. Clarke Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1228