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CHAPTER XLI
MUSIC IN MADISON COUNTY
EARLY MUSICAL CENTERS-MONTICELLO SEMINARY-ALTON MUSICIANS-BANDS AND SO- CIETIES-SCHOOLS OF MUSIC-OTHER BANDS, ORGANISTS, ETC .- MUSIC IN HIGHLAND. 313
CHAPTER XLII
PUBLIC MONUMENTS IN THE COUNTY
LOVEJOY MONUMENT MOVEMENT-DESCRIPTION OF MONUMENT-THE WOOD RIVER MONU- MENT-CONFEDERATE MONUMENT AT ALTON-MEMORIAL TO UNION SOLDIERS-THE LOUIS ARRINGTON MONUMENT. 318
CHAPTER XLIII
TO ALTON'S EARLY CREDIT
HER OLD-TIME CHARTER-ITS DONATIONS OF LOTS FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE GOSPEL AND OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 325
CHAPTER XLIV
PROGRESS OF EDUCATION
ALTON'S EARLY PRIVATE SCHOOLS-PUBLIC SCHOOLS-ORGANIZED PUBLIC SYSTEM-AL- TON'S LATER PUBLIC SCHOOLS-BOARD OF EDUCATION. 329
CHAPTER XLV
PIONEER CHURCHES OF THE COUNTY
FIRST CAMP MEETING-FIRST PROTESTANT MINISTER-PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES-UPPER AL- TON METHODISTS-PIONEER M. E. CHURCH OF EDWARDSVILLE-ALTON CHURCHES-WANDA -ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL OF ALTON-ALTON GERMAN EVANGELICAL-CHURCH OF THE RE- DEEMER-THE A. M. E. AND UNION BAPTIST - GERMAN METHODISTS - PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES-EARLY BAPTIST CHURCHES IN COUNTY - UNITARIAN CHURCH OF ALTON - CHURCH OF CHRIST (CHRISTIAN )-PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCHES-CUMBERLAND PRES- BYTERIAN CHURCHES-LIBERTY PRAIRIE AND OMPHGHENT-THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN MADISON COUNTY-NUMBER OF CHURCHES IN COUNTY. 336
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CHAPTER XLVI
A LOOK BACKWARD
GEN. Z. M. PIKE'S NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH IN MADISON COUNTY-SOME NOTED EX- PLORERS-GERSHOM FLAGG'S PIONEER LETTERS-THE OLD CABIN-NOT A SUCCESSFUL POL- ITICIAN-REMINISCENCES OF GAIUS PADDOCK FAMILY-MADISON COUNTY'S PIONEER SUR- 352 VEYOR.
CHAPTER XLVII
MURDER OF JACOB BARTH
STORY OF THE CRIME-MOB ATTEMPTS LYNCHING - DISPERSED BY SHERIFF - CRIMINALS TRIED AND PUNISHED-DECLINE OF RESPECT FOR LAW-ORIGIN OF MADISON GUARDS. 362
CHAPTER XLVIII
RESOURCES AND MANUFACTURES
UTILIZATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES-MINING AND MANUFACTURE OF CLAY-STONE IN- DUSTRIES-BASIS OF INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION-VARIED INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM, 366
CHAPTER XLIX
MEDICAL PRACTICE AND PRACTITIONERS
PAST AND PRESENT FACILITIES-THEY SIMPLY "CALLED THE DOCTOR"-PROGRESS OF MEDI- CAL EDUCATION-MEDICAL SOCIETIES-FIRST ACT FOR MEDICAL REGULATION-LATEST REG- ULATING ACT-THE COUNTY'S FIRST PHYSICIAN-EDWARDSVILLE'S FIRST DOCTOR-FIRST PHYSICIAN IN EASTERN MADISON-PIONEER MUSICIAN-A SOUTHERN POLITICIAN-PROMI- NENT IN THE CIVIL WAR-A "THOMSONIAN" CERTIFICATE-M. D. AND D. D .- OF IN- TERNATIONAL FAME-TOO SYMPATHETIC FOR A DOCTOR-TWO "OLD FAMILY DOCTORS"- IN PRACTICE FORTY-ONE YEARS-DR. JOSEPH POGUE-HIGH-GRADE SWISS PHYSICIANS- DR. CHARLES DAVIS-PIONEER IN PUBLIC EDUCATION-THE FATHER OF NEW DOUGLAS. 371
CHAPTER L
BENCH AND BAR OF MADISON COUNTY
THE CIRCUIT BENCH-FORMER LAWYERS WHO PRACTICED AT THIS BAR-PRESENT PRACTI- TIONERS-ALTON COURTS.
412
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CHAPTER LI
BANKING AND FINANCE
EARLY FINANCIAL VENTURES OF ILLINOIS TERRITORY-STATE BANK AND BRANCHES-LOSS TO THE STATE FOR A DECADE-ANOTHER STATE BANK-BUILDING UP OF ALTON-CONSTI- TUTIONAL PROHIBITION AGAINST STATE BANKING-PRESENT BANKING LAW-DEVELOPMENT OF BANKING IN COUNTY-BANKING IN ALTON BY EDWARD P. WADE. 440
CHAPTER LII OFFICIAL CENTENNIAL ROSTER
MILITARY COMMISSIONS-CIVIL APPOINTMENTS-CIRCUIT CLERKS-COUNTY JUDGES-COUNTY CLERKS-SHERIFFS-TREASURERS-CORONERS-STATE'S ATTORNEYS-SCHOOL SUPERINTEND- ENTS-SURVEYORS-RECORDERS-PROBATE JUDGES - PROBATE CLERKS - COUNTY COMMIS- SIONERS-COUNTY COURTS-COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AGAIN-SUPERVISORS. 452
CHAPTER LIII ALHAMBRA TOWNSHIP
EARLY SETTLERS FROM THE SOUTH-ALHAMBRA VILLAGE LAID OUT-BUSINESS AND BANKING -GRAIN AND PRODUCE CENTER-KAUFMANN. 459
CHAPTER LIV ALTON TOWNSHIP
THE FIRST ALTON SETTLEMENT-RUFUS EASTON AND OTHER FOUNDERS-UPPER ALTON LAID OUT (1816)-RALLIED FROM BLOW OF LOVEJOY RIOT-TOWN CHARTERED (1821)- ALTON'S MAYORS FROM 1837 TO 1912-AFTER THE WAR OF 1832-THE FLOOD OF 1844- DANIEL WEBSTER VISITED ALTON-MEXICAN WAR-CHOLERA IN 1849-TWO PRESIDENTS VISITED ALTON-LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATE-OLDEST FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY IN ILLI- NOIS-THE CIVIL WAR-PIONEER MASONS AND ODD FELLOWS-PUBLIC UTILITIES-OLD- TIME CITIZENS AND BUSINESS MEN-INDUSTRIAL NOTES OF TODAY. 467
CHAPTER LV CHOUTEAU TOWNSHIP
NATURAL FEATURES-EARLY SETTLEMENT-EARLY LAND CLAIMS ENTERED-PIONEER HARDSHIPS, PLEASURES AND DANGERS-EDUCATION AND RELIGION-FIRST MILL AND STORE -INDIAN MOUNDS-OLD SALEM CEMETERY-THE OLD GILLHAM ESTATE-MADISON VIL- LAGES-OLD SALEM AND MITCHELL-THE DRIVEN WELL-COUNTY BOARD REPRESENTATION -PROTECTION FROM FLOODS.
484
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COLLINSVILLE TOWNSHIP
FIRST SETTLERS IN THE COUNTY-PROSPEROUS AND HISTORIC - UNIONVILLE, NOW COLLINS- VILLE-THE COLLINS BROTHERS-THE CORPORATION - COAL AND INDUSTRIES - SCHOOLS AND NEWSPAPERS. 491
CHAPTER LVII
EDWARDSVILLE TOWNSHIP
EARLY SETTLEMENTS-TOWN LAID OUT-FAMOUS RESIDENTS-JUDICIARY AND CIVIL GOV- ERNMENT-CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS-SOCIAL AND FRATERNAL-THE POSTOFFICE-FIRST NEWSPAPER-EARLY MILLS-TRANSPORTATION-WATER PROBLEM SOLVED-EDWARDSVILLE AS A CITY-COURT HOUSES-INDUSTRIES-AS A RESIDENTIAL CITY. 497
CHAPTER LVIII
FORT RUSSELL TOWNSHIP
STATISTICAL VIEW - RAILROADS - PRODUCTS, TOWNS AND POSTOFFICES-SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES-EARLY SETTLERS-TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION. 507
CHAPTER LIX
FOSTERBURG TOWNSHIP
FIRST SETTLERS-TOWNSHIP'S FOSTER FATHER-FOSTERBURG VILLAGE-CHANGES IN POPULA- TION-BUILDERS OF THE TOWNSHIP.
512
CHAPTER LX
GODFREY TOWNSHIP
RESOURCES AND INDUSTRIES-CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS-PUBLIC MEN AND PROMINENT CITI- ZENS-REMINISCENCES OF G. F. LONG-RECOLLECTIONS OF REV. DR. SCARRITT - SOME NOTES OF THE SCARRITT FAMILY-TRANSPORTATION-CHANGES IN POPULATION-A GREAT INDUSTRY. 516
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CHAPTER LXI
HAMEL TOWNSHIP
THE ORIGINAL PIONEERS-ALSO CAME BEFORE 1820-IN THE TWENTIES-EARLY CENSUS -CENTENARIAN-TOWNSHIP IN 1853-A SCREAMING TORNADO-THE JUDY FAMILY- CARPENTER-PROPERTY VALUATION. 522
CHAPTER LXII
HELVETIA TOWNSHIP
THE PIONEERS-ANIMALS, BIRDS AND INDIANS-SETTLEMENTS IN WESTERN SECTIONS-SEB- ASTOPOL-ST. MORGAN-PROMINENT FARMERS. 525
CHAPTER LXIII
HISTORY OF HIGHLAND
EARLY SETTLEMENT OF HIGHLAND-FOUNDATION OF THE TOWN-INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND GENERAL GROWTH-FIRST GENERAL ELECTION-POSTOFFICE ESTABLISHED-GERMAN AND SWISS IMMIGRANTS-HIGHLAND IN 1841-ENTERPRISES OF THE PAST-HIGHLAND MILITIA-SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES-THE PUBLIC SCHOOL-PROMINENT MEN-SOCIETIES AND LODGES-INCORPORATED AS A VILLAGE-ORGANIZE AS A CITY-PRESIDENTS AND MAYORS OF HIGHLAND-INDUSTRIES-BANKS-STORES AND HOTELS-A CITY IN A PARK. 529
CHAPTER LXIV JARVIS TOWNSHIP
PHYSICAL FEATURES-JOHN JARVIS AND OTHER EARLY SETTLERS - FIRST SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES-CITY OF TROY. 552
CHAPTER LXV
LEEF TOWNSHIP
FIRST SETTLER AND LAND OWNER-OTHER EARLY SETTLERS-JACOB LEU, OR LEEF-OTHER GERMAN SETTLERS-DIAMOND MINERAL SPRINGS. 561
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CHAPTER LXVI
MARINE TOWNSHIP
PIONEER SETTLERS-THE DECADE 1820-1830-THE FOUNDER OF MARINE-FEW DESCEND- ANTS LEFT-PATRIOTISM-MARINE VILLAGE-A MIDNIGHT TRAGEDY-CHURCHES. 563
CHAPTER LXVII
MORO TOWNSHIP
FIRST SETTLER-THE PALMERS AND OTHERS-NATURAL FEATURES AND TOWNS-CHURCHES AND SCHOOL HOUSES-STATISTICS AND GOVERNMENT. 569
CHAPTER LXVIII
NAMEOKI AND VENICE TOWNSHIPS
FLOODS IN NAMEOKI TOWNSHIP-FAMOUS PREHISTORIC MOUNDS-FIRST AMERICAN SETTLERS -MEANING OF NAMEOKI-VENICE TOWNSHIP-VENICE VILLAGE-THE VILLAGE OF MADI- SON-GRANITE CITY (PITTSBURGH OF THE WEST). 572
CHAPTER LXIX
NEW DOUGLAS TOWNSHIP
THE PIONEERS-THE TORNADO OF 1876-NEW DOUGLAS VILLAGE-OLD SETTLERS' ASSOCIA- TION-A STOCK RAISING AND DAIRYING COUNTRY-NOTED NATIVES. 583
CHAPTER LXX
OLIVE TOWNSHIP
SOME OF THE EARLY SETTLERS-MINING DEVELOPMENT-LIVINGSTON-WILLIAMSON. 587
CHAPTER LXXI
OMPH-GHENT TOWNSHIP
FIRST EVENTS AND SETTLERS-WORDEN VILLAGE-COAL MINING INTERESTS-PRAIRIE CITY- GENERAL TOWNSHIP MATTERS. 590
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CONTENTS CHAPTER LXXII PIN OAK TOWNSHIP.
PIONEER CITIZENS-NOTABLE SETTLEMENT OF FREED SLAVES-GENERAL ITEMS. 594
CHAPTER LXXIII
ST. JACOB TOWNSHIP.
FIRST SETTLERS-FIRST BIRTH WITHIN THE FORT-DR. GERKE, PIONEER GERMAN-THE TOWN OF ST. JACOB-AS A VILLAGE. 597
CHAPTER LXXIV SALINE TOWNSHIP
FIRST TRACES OF SETTLEMENT-THE MCALLILY FAMILY-MILITARY AND POLITICAL CHAR- ACTER-JAMES REYNOLDS-NEW SWITZERLAND-INDUSTRIES-EDUCATIONAL AND POLITICAL -TOWN OF SALINE (GRANTFORK P. O.)-PIERRON. 601
CHAPTER LXXV
WOOD RIVER TOWNSHIP
FIRST SETTLERS-WOOD RIVER MASSACRE MONUMENT-FIRST SCHOOLS-UPPER ALTON- LITERARY, RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL-INDUSTRIES AND BUSINESS-BETHALTO-EAST AL- TON-WOOD RIVER AND BENBOW CITY-THE ASSASSINATION OF HON. D. B. GILLHAM 607
ADDENDUM
MINING VILLAGES NOT OTHERWISE MENTIONED. 618
INDEX
Abendroth, Julius, 1190 Abbott, Jeremiah, 49, 103 Abbott, Levi A., 897 Abbott, William J., 794 Adams, Emil, 273
Adams, John, 157, 455, 502
Adams (John), Journal-John Adams, 157; down the Ohio to Illinois, 157; building the Edwardsville mill, 158; prepares for the clothing business, 159; manufactures castor oil, 159; fails to make beet sugar, 160; business and piety, 160 Adams, O. M., 471, 472 Adams, (Mrs.) W. R., 276 Adler, Leonard W., 1050 Advanced School, Alton, 331 "Advocate," 104
African Methodist church, Alton, 343
Agriculture-First improved farm, 161; from 1818 to 1836, 162; early advances in agriculture, 163; County Agricultural Association, 163; fourth an- nual state fair, 164; agricultural progress, 167; acrcage and crops, 168; dairy and live-stock in- terests, 168; population distinctively German, 170 Ahrens, Christian, 909 Ahrens, Louis, 1167 Albro, S. A., 612
Alden, Emily G., 257 Aldous, James H., 726 Aldrich, Anson, 524 . Aldrich, Robert, 522, 523, 524
Alhambra, 175 Alhambra school house (illustration), 463
Alhambra township-Early settlers from the south, 459; Alhambra village laid out, 461; business and banking, 462; grain and produce center, 464; Kaufmann, 464 Alhambra village, 461
Allen, Abram, 585 Allen, George C., 564, 577 Allen, George Townsend, 84, 388, 564, 565 Allen, Rowland P., 175, 564, 565, 577 Allison, Jesse, 562
Allison, Thomas, 562 Allouez, 9 Alsop, Robert, 584
Alton, Menton, 132, 134, 177; a spectator of 1837, 192; some business men and farmers of 1822, 194; her old-time charter, 325; early private schools, 329; public schools, 330; organized pub- lic system, 331; later public schools, 332; board of education, 334
Alton Artillery Company, 288
Alton & St. Louis Railroad, 96
Alton & Sangamon Railroad, 96, 449, 473
Alton & Terre Haute Railroad, 473
Alton Bank, 449
Alton Banking & Trust Company, 451 "Alton Banner," 108
Alton Boxboard and Paper Company, 483, 615
Alton Brick Company, 483, 521
Alton Building and Savings Institution, 449 Alton City Court, 412
Alton City Guards, 288
Alton City Hall (illustration), 236, 466
Alton College of Illinois, 119
Alton Conservatory of Music, 315 Alton colored school, 331
"Alton Courier," 104, 473 "Alton Daily Courier," 107
"Alton Daily Republican," 108 "Alton Daily Sentinel-Democrat, 108
"Alton Daily Telegraph," 108
"Alton Daily Times," 108, 109
"Alton Democrat," 108
Alton's first brick house, 470
Alton's first lawyer, 471
Alton's first railroad, 473
Alton German Evangelical church, 342
Alton, Granite & St. Louis Railroad, 99 Alton high school, 334
Alton Horticultural Society, 165
Alton, Jacksonville & Peoria Railroad, 99
Alton Jaeger Guards, 288
"Alton Journal," 109
Alton Manufacturing Company, 367
Alton Marine & Fire Insurance Co., 449 "Alton Monitor," 106
"Alton Morning News," 108 Alton Mutual & Savings Bank, 449
Alton Mutual Insurance and Savings Company, 310
Alton National Bank, 309, 310, 444, 450, 451
"Alton National Democrat," 107
Alton Naval Reserves, 290
"Alton Observer," 105, 473 Alton postmasters, 480 Alton postoffice, 479 Alton postoffice (illustration) 481
Alton Printing Company, 105
Alton, St. Louis' rival, 92 Alton Savings Bank, 450
Alton school case-Colored children refused admit-
tance to lower grades of public schools, 301; mandates of Supreme Court ignored, 302
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Alton Seminary, 119
"Alton Spectator," 104, 472 Alton State Bank, 448 "Alton Telegraplı," 472 "Alton Telegraph and Democratie Review," 105
"Alton Telegraph and Madison County Record," 105 Alton township-The first Alton settlement, 468;
Rufus Easton and other founders, 468; Upper Alton laid out (1816), 468; town chartered (1812), 470; Alton's mayors from 1837 to 1912, 471; after the war of 1832, 472; rallied from blow of Lovejoy riot, 473; flood of 1844, 474; Daniel Webster visited Alton, 475; Mexican war, 475; cholera in 1849, 475; two presidents visited Al- ton, 476; Lincoln-Douglas debate, 476; oldest fire insurance company in Illinois, 476; The Civil war, 478; pioncer Masons and Odd Fellows, 479; pub- lic utilities, 479; old-time citizens and business men, 481; industrial notes of today, 482 "Alton Trials," 69, 70, 72
Alton Volunteer Guards, 266 "Altone," 93, 414
Ambrosius, Conrad A., 926
Ambuehl, Edward N., 1077
Ambuehl, John, 562, 1142
Ambuehl, Nicholas, 562
"American," 104
American Coal Washer Company, 483 American (Know Nothing) party, 233
American occupation-Patrick Henry, first Illinois governor, 19; British-Indian attack on St. Louis, 20; government of the northwest territory, 21; territory of Indiana, 21; county of Madison (1812), 21; rivers as civilizing agents, 23; French and Anglo-Saxon colonists, 23; about land sur- veys, 25
American pioneers in county, 172
American Steel Foundries Company, 581
Ammann, J. Fred, 829
Ammann, Joseph, 311
Ammann, Joseph C., 542, 544, 547
Anderson, Gilmore, 597
Anderson, James G., 597
Anderson, John P., 1070
Angevine, Jonathan, 104
Angier, A. W., 109 Anson, Augustus, 493 Antenen, Alexander, 890
Anthony, John, 575 Anti-slavery in Illinois, 46, 47, 51, 52, 208 Anti-slavery in Madison county, 53, 207 Appel, Louis, 544
Appel, Louis J., 545
Archaeology of the county-The Cahokia distriet, 245; Monks' Mound, 247; Sugar Loaf Mound, 247; The Temple of the Sun, 248; probably antedated the buffalo, 249; from agriculturists to nomads, 250; the Trappists, 251 Area of the county, 25 Arkabauer, John M., 588
Armbruster, A. Charles, 951 Armstrong, John Maclay, 409
Armstrong, William D., 313, 315, 640 Arnold, Aaron, 502 Arrington, Louis, 323
Arrington (Louis) Monument, 323 Arrington, William P., 700 Arthur, Hiram, 453
Ash, Jared P., 273 Ash, William M., 746 Ashley, Chester, 417
Assassination of Hon. D. B. Gillham, 616
Atkins, Amos, 489
Atkins, Henry, 1125
Atkins, John, 575
Atwater, Caleb, 470
Atwater, Joshua, 501, 574
Atwood, Moses G., 329, 331, 332, 476
Aufderheide, Fred W., 1201
Austin, Garritson R., 392
Austin, Ira E., 701
Authors (Sec literature)
Aylward, D. E., 589
Aylward, P. J., 589
Aylward (D. E.) & Company, 589
Badgley, David, 161, 344
Baer, C., 539
Baer, (Rudolplı) & Sons, 600
Bailey, Alvin, 341
Bailey, H. J., 456
Bailey, James, 940
Bailey, Samuel G., 74, 418, 471
Bailhache, John, 104, 113
Baker, David J., 88, 418, 967
Baker, David J., Jr., 89
Baker Family, 967
Baker, Henry S., 83, 89, 98, 421, 435, 439, 967
Baker, Jas. W., 267, 268, 475
Baldwin, Amos, 342
Baldwin, Theron, 123, 344, 516
Ballard, Washington C., 500
Ballinger, Mary J., 712
Ballinger, William, 712
Balsiger, John, 542
Baltes, Peter J., 128, 349
Bandelier, A. E., 534, 539, 542
Bandelier, Adolph F., 256, 540
Bandy, James, 1186
Bandy, J. M., 434
Banking and finance (see also financiers and capi- talists),-Financing navigation scheme, 441; State bank and branches, 441; loss to the state for a decade, 442; another state bank, 443; building up of Alton, 443; constitution prohibits state . banking, 444; present banking law, 444; develop- ment of banking in county, 444; Banking in Ed- wardsville, 446; Leclairc, a profit sharing commu- nity, 447; banking in Alton, 448
Bank of Edwardsville, 446
Bank of Livingston, 589
Bank of Marine, 567
Banks, John, 1085
Banner Clay. Works, 506
Baptist church of Troy, 344
Barber, James, 388
Barber, John, Sr., 347
Barber, John, Jr., 347
Bardill, John, 605
Bardill, Josias G., 84, 544, 549, 1014
Bardin, W. T., 545
Bardsley, Edmund C., 941
Bargaetzi, Simon, 601 Bargetze, Simon, 1089
Barnett, Edward, 594, 741
Barnett, Joseph A., 454, 594, 1116
Barnett, K. T., 595 Barnett, Thomas, 594 Barnsback, George, 312 Barnsback, H. C., 106 Barnsback, Julius A., 559 Barnsback, J., 455 Barnsback, J. J., 163 Barnsback, Roy S., 834 Barr, A. C., 647 Barraclough, George, 505 Barry, A. S., 166 Barry, (Mrs.) A. S., 298 Barth, George F., 618 Barth, Jacob, 362 Bartlett, Joseph, 176, 455, 594
Bassett, Hector, G., 790 Battle of Bad Axe, 265 Bauer, W. H., 105 Bayle, Hugh E., 455, 456 Beaird, Joseph A., 442 Beall, A. M., 483, 615
Beall, Charles L., 483, 616 Beall, Edmond, 83, 84, 472, 616, 852
Beall, E. H., 483, 616
Beall, J. W., 335, 483, 615 Beall (Bros.) Company, 483, 615 Beck, Anton, 605 Beck, Paul, 594 Beck, Theodore, 1123 Becker, John, 495 Becker, William C., 1027 Belk, Thomas W. L., 880
Belleville, 325 Benbow, Amos E., 891 Benbow, A. E., 608, 615 Benbow City, 615
Bench and bar of Madison county-The Circuit bench, 413; former lawyers who practiced at this bar, 416; present practitioners, 426; Alton courts, 438 Bender, Edward J., 721 Bender, Gustave, 1167 Benedict, Florence, 296 Benen's fort, 608 Benson, Mary E. (Gary), 256
Benton, Thomas H., 150 Bernays, Carl Ludwig, 539 Bernays, F. B., 540 Bernays, F. Jacob, 395, 539 Bernays, George, 395, 539 Bernhardt, Fred, 955 Bernhardt, Henry, 989 Bernhardt, John, 1054 Bernhardt, Peter, 836 Berry, Ben D., 455 Berry, M. E., 591 Best, James, 590 Beste, Herman P., 1049 Bethalto, 508, 612 Bethalto Cornet Band, 315 Bethalto Custom and Merchants Mill, 613 Bethel Methodist church, 338, 500 Bethlehem United Baptist church, 345 Bettmann, August C., 641 Betz, A. F., 458 Bickelhaupt, Emma, 296 Biel, W. J., 581 "Big Four Cut-Off," 588
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Billed, George, 455
Billings, Henry W., 81, 89, 311, 418, 438, 471 Binney, Harry, 968 Binney, Robert W., 857 Birbeck, Morris, 49, 565
Birds, 185 Birge, William, 346 Bischoff, Christian, 1113 Bishop, D. M., 226, 456 Bissell, William H., 88 Black, H. L., 451, 483
Black, William, 1161
Black Hawk war-Causes for, 263; General Henry, the hero, 265; other commissioned officers, 265; Alton's part in it, 472 Blackwell, David, 49
Blair, Henry, 595
Blair, John L., 334
Blakeman, Curtis, 49, 54, 82, 162, 163, 494, 564, 577
Blakeman, Curtis, Jr., 566
Blattner, John 540
Blattner, J. Rudolph, 533, 534
Blattner, Louis, 547
Blase, William, 664
Blinn, 614 Bliss, W. F., 359
Bloemker, Ernest, 831
Blood, Charles E., 495 Bluff Line Station at Alton (flood of 1903) (illus- tration), 220
Boals, Manuel H., 613, 715
Boards of supervisors, 28
Boernstein, Heinrick, 396, 539
Boeschenstein, Charles, 106, 110, 115, 296, 440, 446, 497, 502, 638 Bode, W. A., 109
Bodine, J. E., 537 Bohm, Emma S., 783
Bohm, William H., 782
Boilvin, Nicholas, 452
Bond, Shadrach, 448
Bonner, Stith O., 456, 788
Boone, Levi D., 381
Boosinger, Jesse, 1091
Borough, Joseph, 89
Bosshard, Heinrich, 540
Bostwick, John H., 611
Bostwick, (Mrs.) John, 611
Bouse, Joseph, 973 Bowers, Joseph, 379
Bowman, Edward M., 651
Bowman Family, 678
Bowman, Horatio B., 678
Bowman, H. J., 614
Boynton, William P., 431, 439, 943
Brackett, James Lord, 385 Bradley, Joshua, 119
Bradsbury, James, 224
Bradshaw, Fielding, 207
Bradshaw, William P., 424
Braley, Philander, 495
Brammel, (Mrs.) Alice, 981
Brammell, J. A., 576
Brandes, August, 912 Brandes, Louis, 1068 Branding, Henry, 1182 Brandt, Ernst, 703 Braner, Fred W., 1007
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Brard, Frances, 295 Bratvogel, Gottlieb, 1140 Braznell, Daniel, 686 Breath, Abraham, 566, 567 Breath, Adams, 104
Breath, Edward, 104, 105, 472 Breath, James, 564 Breckinridge, William L., 271 Breese, Sidney, 414
Brenholt, John J., 83, 301, 302, 427, 439, 471, 567, 663
Brensing, Henry, 957 Bridges, William, 553 Briggs, William, 602 Bringhurst, John, 285 Bringhurst, R. P., 318
Brisbois, Michel, 452 Britselı, Charles, 605
Broekmann, John, 1105
Brooks, Roswell, 568
Brooks, S. S., 103, 105
Brookside (Troy), 560
Brown, Ansel L., 107, 115, 502, 596, 610
Brown, C. C., 515 Brown, David E., 166 Brown, Edward, 455
Brown, Erastus, 380, 610
Brown, Frances S., 816
Brown, George T., 87, 89, 107, 113, 216, 471, 472 Brown, James R., 106
Brown, John, 255
Brown, Joseph, 232, 309, 471, 472, 474, 476
Brown, J. W., 115
Brown, Michael, 225
Brown, Nathaniel, 610 Brown, Oliver, 610 Brown, R. J., 456 Brown, Shad, 610
Brown, William T., 163, 454, 455, 457 Browne, J. S., 166 Bruckner, Theophilus, 395
Brueggemann, Henry, 471, 472, 480 Bruene, Henry, 1139 Bruiding, Josephine, 127, 129
Bruner, Jaeob C., 241, 456, 480
Bruner, John A., 92, 474
Brunnworth, F. W., 836
Buchanan, J. S., 104 Buehta, M. M., 595
Buehter, John, 534, 544 Buek Inn, 618
Buekley, Leland Hamilton, 435 Bueknell, S. E., 464
Buekmaster Guards, 288
Buekmaster, John, 480
Buekmaster, Julia, 480
Buekmaster, Nathaniel, 82, 241, 265, 455, 480
Buckmaster, Samuel A., 79, 81, 89, 241, 270, 471, 478 Buchlmann, F. J., 600 Buenger, Louis, 1102 Buente, E. H., 1013 Buhrman, J. H., 465, 894 Building stone, 369 Bullock, J. Russell, 417 Bunn, E. W., 585
Burbank, Sydney, 242
Burke, E. A., 455 Burley, David, 591
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Burley, William, 591
Burnett, Frank W., 421
Burnett, George B., 106, 422
Burns, James J., 505
Burrough, Joseph, 454
Burroughs, Benjamin R., 416
Burroughs, Dent E., 702
Burroughs, George D., 434, 877
Burroughs, John C., 168, 510
Burroughs, Mallory L., 434, 818
Burroughs, William G., 434
Burton, Charles H., 430
Burton, John, 567
Butler, Aaron, 480
Butler, William, 209, 211
Cabaret island (French Tavern), 575 Cable flour mill, 566
Cadwell, George, 27, 53, 82, 181, 374, 378, 453, 454, 574, 575
Cahokia, 4
Cahokia creek, 292, 507
Cahokia diversion eanal, 291, 489
Cahokia mound, 492, 572
Caldwell, C. A., 98, 309, 449, 450, 471, 667
Calhoun county, 5
Calla Lily farm, 169
Cameron, John G., 419
Camp, John, 109, 458, 586
Campbell, Cornelius, 576, 577
Campbell, Edward E., 109, 437, 439
Canedy, Harry A., 1013
Canel, John B. E., 454
Canisius, Theodore, 397
Cannole, A., 111
Cantine (Tuentine), 574
Cardinal, J. Baptiste, 468
Cardinal, John Marie, 452
Carlin, Thomas, 34, 442
Carloek, Abram, 175
Carmi, 325
Carnegie Library at Shurtleff College, 299
Carey, W. M., 614
Carlin, Thomas, 137, 499
Carlin, W. E., 166
Carpenter, James, 605
Carpenter, Nathan, 574
Carr, George W., 557
Carr, H. M., 334 Carroll, Michael, 348
Carroll, Thomas J., 1178
Carter, Henry T., 570
Cartledge, Riehard, 200
Cartwright, Peter, 337
Cary, Joseph W., 842
Case, C. D., 109 Casey, S. K., 241
Cassens, Dietrich, 658 Cassens, Theodorc, 659 Cassidy, J. W., 111, 579, 582
Castle, L. M., 120
Castleated (pietured) rocks, 11
Castor oil pioneer, 159
Casualties in the county-Tornado of June, 1860, 218; tornado and cyelone of the seventies, 219; destructive wind storm of 1896, 219; great river floods, 219; earthquake shocks, 222; explosion of powder magazine, 222
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Caswell, H. C., 456 Caswell, Josiah, 560 Catholic church in Madison county, 348. "Catholic progress in Madison," 349 Catlin, George, 352, 353, 607
Caton, John, 415
Cauger, Frank M., 901
Centennial county roster-Military commissions, 452; civil appointments, 453; circuit clerks, 454; county judges, 454; county clerks, 455; sheriffs, 455; treasurers, 455; coroners, 456; state's attor- neys, 456; school superintendents, 456; survey- ors, 456; recorders, 457; probate judge, 457; pro- bate clerks, 457; county commissioners, 457 Centennial monument, 324
Chambers, J. B., 448
Chandler, Martin, 514
Chandler, Ransom, 513
Chandler, S. B., 95
Chapin, W. A., 272 Chapman, Joseph, 389, 455, 480, 505 Chavers, Alfred, 213, 217
Cherry Street Baptist church, Alton, 341
Chicago & Alton Railroad, 96
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad, 98, 201
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, 96
Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis Railroad, 98
"Chicago Western Citizen," 106
Chickering, John W., 74, 418 Chief of the Illini, 188 Childs, George M., 913
Chilton, Augustus, 597
Chilton, Cyrus, 597 Chilton, Thomas, 597, 601
Chilton, William, 597
Chippewa, 607
Chipron, Emile, 1002
Cholera in Alton (1849), 475 Chouteau, 176
Chouteau island, 484
Chouteau township-Early settlement, 485; early land claims entered, 485; pioneer hardships, pleasures and dangers, 485; education and reli- gion, 486; first mill and store, 487; Indian mounds, 487; Old Salem cemetery, 487; the old Gillham estate, 488; Madison villages, 488; Old Salem and Mitchell, 488; the driven well, 489; county board representation, 489
Christ church, Collinsville, 346 "Christian News," 108
Church of Christ, Monticello, 344
Church of the Redeemer (Congregational), 343 Churches of the county-Early, 144; First camp meeting, 336; first Protestant minister, 337; Presbyterian churches, 337; Upper Alton Metho- dists, 338; Troy, 338; Alton churches, 339; Wanda, 342; St. Paul's Episcopal of Alton, 342; Alton German Evangelical, 342; Church of the Redeemer, 343; the A. M. E. and Union Baptist, 343; German Methodists, 343; Presbyterian churches, 344; Unitarian church of Alton, 345; Church of Christ (Christian), 346; Marine, 346; Protestant Episcopal churches, 346; Cumberland Presbyterian church, 347; Liberty Prairie and Omph Ghent, 348; number of churches in county, 349
Churchill, George, 49, 54, 82, 102, 163, 181, 553, 558 Citizens National Bank, 450
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