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Citizens' State Bank of Alhambra, 462
Citizens' State and Trust Bank of Edwardsville, 447 Civil war-Enlistments from Madison county, 269;
Alton a great military camp, 269; supplies trans- ferred from St. Louis, 270; gallant Madison county military men, 271; war times at home, 275; Tories and Loyalists at home, 277; typical expe- rience of a private soldier, 278; a Madison county soldier's experience in southern prisons, 280; a local war time tragedy, 285; the Grand Army of the Republic, 288; soldiers of the Rev- olution and of 1812, 289 Clark, George Rogers, 17, 18, 20, 24
Clark, Vaitsh, 486 Clarke, J. C., 256
Clarke, Thomas C., 965
Clawson, B. B., 1181
Clayton, Samuel, 1150
Clifford, Andrew, 480
Climatic comparisons, 58
Cline, W. T., 341
Clover Leaf (see Toledo, St. Louis & Western)
Coal mining industry-First discoveries of coal in Illinois, 199; first Illinois railroad, 199; first mines in Madison county, 200; progress of the industry, 201; working and safe-guarding the mines, 202; some coal mining statistics (1870- 1911), 202
Coal Branch mines, 200, 618
Cole, G. M., 423
Cole Milling Company, 546
Coles, Edward, 41, 42 (portrait), 43, 52, 56, 87, 103, 139, 163, 208, 442, 594, 595, 596
Coles administration-Coles, a knightly figure, 43; early opposed to slavery, 43; Madison's private secretary, 44; Jefferson also an Abolitionist, 44; Coles frees his slaves, 45; "Irrepressible conflict" in Illinois, 46; Coles' "campaign of education," 48; sued for freeing slaves, 50; leaves Illinois for- ever, 51; Anti-Slavery work reviewed, 51; Madi- son county's special part, 53; decided by central and southern Illinois, 55
Coles plantation, 596 Colledge, W. A., 125
"College Review," 111
Collet, Daniel W., 608
Collet, Jolin W., 608
Collins, D. D., 495
Collins, Frederick, 493
Collins, James, 267
Collins, Michael, 493 Collins, (Mrs.) Pauline, 323
Collins, William, 493, 494
Collins, William A., 997
Collins, William B., 493, 494, 495
Collins, (Augustus) & Company, 494
Collins brothers, 367, 493
Collinsville, 57, 109, 176, 493
"Collinsville Advertiser," 109, 496
"Collinsville Argus," 109
"Collinsville Liberal Democrat," 109
Collinsville Presbyterian church, 337, 344, 494
"Collinsville Semi-Weekly Herald," 496
Collinsville township-First Settlers in the county, 491; prosperous and historic, 491; Unionville, now Collinsville, 493; the Collins Brothers, 493; the corporation, 495; coal and industries, 495; schools and newspapers, 495 "Collinsville Weekly Herald," 109
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Columbia (Troy), 557 "Commercial Gazette," 105
Commonwealth Steel Company, 581 Commit, John, 589 Confederate monument at Alton, 322 Congressional townships, 25
Connole, Henry, 1201 Connor, Eplıraim, 491 Conrad, William, 660
Consolidated Coal Company of St. Louis, 200
Conway, Joseph, 79, 204, 454, 455
Cook, Cyrus L., 296, 424, 454
Cook, Daniel P., 35, 49, 413, 499
Cook, Henry, 453
Cook, John, 269, 493
Cook, Lemuel A., 579, 905
Cook, William, 1171
Cooper, John, 480 Cooper, J. T., 455
Cooper, Joseph, 571 Copeland, James T., 243
Copley, Milton E., 645
Coppinger, John B., 457, 781
Coppinger, J. E., 288
Coppinger, John W., 83, 425, 471
Corbett. James T., 483, 722
Corey, A. W., 115
Corn Products Refining Company, 581
Coulter, Archibald, 601
County boards of commissioners, 27
County commissioners, 28
County courts, 27, 28
County government-About land surveys, 25; terri- torial county officers appointed, 26; officers elected under the state, 27; county courts, 28; county commissioners, 28; boards of supervis- ors, 28; some territorial appointments, 29 County superintendents of schools, 226
Court of common pleas, 27
Court House and City Hall, Edwardsville (illustra- tions), 498
Cousley, J. A., 105, 116, 334
Cousley, P. B., 335 Cousley, W. P., 273 Coventry, George, 367, 499
Coventry, Sarah, 296, 297
Cowles, Alfred, 70, 71, 72, 73, 149, 419 Cox, Anthony, 91 Cox, Isaac, 455, 609 Cox. M. C., 486
Coyle, Patrick, 577
Craig, E. L., 346
Craig, George A., 827
Craig, Thomas E., 34
Crane, William P., 886
Crawford, Alexander W., 946
Crawford, R. W., 455 Crawford, S. G. B., 612 Crawford, "Uncle Bobby," 596 Crego, George, 330 "Crisis," 103
Crocker, Herbert C., 505 Crossman Family, 115
Crossman, George W., 432
Crossman, R. B., 107 Crossman, S. V., 106, 107
Crossman, Thomas M., 502, 624 Crossman, William R., 502
Crouch, Augustus Burr, 399
Crowe, George F., 455
Crownover, Garrett, 542
Crume, Daniel, 468, 610
Culp, Herbert L., 728
Culp, J. S., 168, 609, 674
Culp, S. H., 979
Cumberland Presbyterian church, Alton, 347
Cumberland Presbyterian church of Liberty Prairie, 509 Cummings, Thomas, 574 Cutter, George W., 820
Dablon, Claude, 9
Daech, William, 454
Daenzer, Antone, 640
Daiber, J. G., 828
Dairy Interests, 168, 169
Dake, O. C., 456
Dale, M. G., 422, 454, 457
Dale, (Mrs.) M. M., 295, 296
Darrow, James L., 495
Darrow, Joseph L., 346, 384
Dauderman, H. W., 464
Daudermann, Daniel, 916
Daudermann, H. D., 846
Daudermann, John A., 948
Daudermann, John J., 722
Davidson, George, 608
Davidson, Thomas, 608
Davis, Cary H. H., 273
Davis, Charles, 405
Davis, Ella, 166
Davis, George T. M., 74, 105, 267, 417, 471, 670
Davis, H., 329
Davis, Hannah, 570
Davis James, 166
Davis, Levi, 87, 213, 264, 439, 1030
Davis, Levi, Sr., 422
Davis (Sam.) Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, 323
Day, Eugene, 612
Day, M. H., 340
DeBlois, Austen K., 120, 255
DeCamp Coal & Mining Company, 588, 591
Deck, Harry E., 586, 770
Deck, Jacob, 512
Decosterd, Jules, 1067
Dee, Ed., 600
Defontaine. Jean Baptiste, 547, (portrait) 548
Defontaine's wind mill, 547
DeForest, Edgar E., 1018
Deibert, Jacob, 1089
Deibert, John, 635
Deibert, Louis, 647
Deimling, John F., 1016
Delaplain, Joshua, 456
Delicate. Jesse G., 840
Dempster, Robert, 922
Deneen, Charles S., 87, 499, 500, 517
Deneen. William S., 500
Detharding, G. A., 342 Dewey, George H., 399
Dewey, John S., 394, 552
D'Wolf, William F., 83, 418, 517 Diamond, John, 268 Diamond Mineral Springs, 562, 605 Dickinson, Katharine V., 662
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Dickman, J. F., 1122 Dickmann. William, 84, 677 Dickson, George, 456, 815 Dickson. Mark, 480 Dietz, William, 675 Dillon, John D., 514 Dimmock, Charles W., 455 Dimmock, Thomas, 115, 318, 320 Dinkmeier, Johann H., 772 Dinzler, Frances R., 956 Dinzler, John, 956 Dixon, J. E., 589 Dobbins, Robert, 982 Doerper, Ernst, 817 Dolbee, Florence, 299 Dolbee, Shadrach R., 104, 774 Dolbee, S. R., 104
Dominant Ninth Choral Society, 315, 774 Donk Brothers Company, 201
Dooling. Thomas P., 226, 456 Dornseif, Louis, 591 Dorr, Charles E., 777
Dorr, H. R., 591 Dorris, Charles H., 496, 950 Dorsey, 571 Dorsey, Benjamin L., 312 Dorsey, E. M., 775 Dorsey, Harvey E., 878 Dorsey, L. L., 592
Dorsey, Nimrod, 312
Dorsey, W. B., 507 Douglas, Paul R., 795 Drummond, James T., 310, 471, 472 Drummond. John N., 310, 666 Drummond, (Mrs.) John N., 323
Dubach, Ferd .. 544 Duffey, William H., 889 Duggan, D. F., 847 Dugger, Wesley, 531 Duncan. George D., 483 Duncan, H. M., 526 Dunean, James, 98. 483, 724
Duncan, Joseph, 175. 448, 499, 525, 604 Dunean Brothers foundry and machine shop, 483 Dunford, Thomas, 201 Dunnagan, Abner, 487 Dunnagan, Sarah M .. 487
Dunnegan, Isaiah, 176, 487, 509 Dunnegan, James E., 427, 438, 439, 660 Durer, Bernard, 505 Dusenbury, Absolom Townsend, 408
Dustmann, H. Fred, 741 Dustmann, John E., 699 Dustmann, Louis W., 742
Eagle hotel, 532, 534 Eagle Packet Company, 94
Early-Day Tragedies-Hanging of Eliphalet Green, 148; Winchester-Smith murder trial, 149; Were the widow's wrongs righted? 150; the under- ground railroad, 151; a three days' penitentiary horror. 152; the ghastly Wann disaster, 153 Early, William P., 430, 454, 585 East Alton. 613 East End Bank, 549 East End Mercantile Company, 549 East St. Louis & Suburban Railroad, 99 East St. Louis Drainage district, 572
East Side Flood Protection system, 292 East Side Levee and Sanitary district, 490 Easton, Rufus, 177, 312, 468 Eaton, George D., 125 Eaton, Henry A., 768 Eaton, Henry B., 412, 438, 780
Eaton, Henry K., 454, 457, 524
Eaton, Nathaniel J., 868
Eaton, William P., 224, 456, 524, 779 Eberhardt, Henry W., 109, 939
Eberman, Joseph, 557 Edgar, W. S., 390
Education-First state school law, 223; pioneer pub- lic (pay) schools, 224; system and statistics of the present, 225; county superintendents (1870- 1910), 226; Madison County Teachers' Associa- tion, 226
Edwards administrations-Governor Edwards and Illinois territory, 31; Mounted Rangers organ- ized, 33; war against British and Indians, 33; Governor Edwards and Madison county, 35; In- dian massacres in Madison, 37; the Wood river tragedy, 38; barbarity of rangers, 40 Edwards, B. F., 119, 344, 381, 480, 501
Edwards, Charles F., 1052
Edwards, Cyrus, 78, 89, 105, 480, 611, 707
Edwards, John, 579
Edwards, Julia, 139
Edwards, Nelson G., 84, 420
Edwards, Ninian, 31, 32, (portrait), 88, 306, 416, 442, 452, 499, 507, 609
Edwardsville, 57, 138, 176, 325
Edwardsville Baptist church, 501
Edwardsville Belt line, 99
Edwardsville Concert Band, 315
"Edwardsville Democrat." 107, 502
Edwardsville Electric Light and Power Company, 503 Edwardsville First Presbyterian church, 500
Edwardsville high school (illustration), 501
"Edwardsville Intelligencer," 110, 502
Edwardsville Methodist church, 500
Edwardsville Milling Company, 503
Edwardsville Post No. 461, Grand Army of the Re- public, 502 "Edwardsville Republican," 107, 502 "Edwardsville Spectator," 101, 102, 502 "Edwardsville Times," 107
Edwardsville township-Early settlements, 497; town laid out, 497; famous residents, 499; judi- ciary and civil government, 499; churches and schools, 500; social and fraternal, 502; the post- office. 502; first newspaper, 502; early mills, 502; transportation, 503; water problem solved, 503; Edwardsville as a city, 503; court houses, 505; industries, 505; as a residential city, 506 Edwardsville Water Company, 503 Eeck, John F., 432, 877 Eggen, Jacob, 532, 533, 534, 535, 543, 544
Eilert, Henry C., 813 Eisele, Fred A .. 456, 750
Elble, John, 458, 698
Eliot, W. G .. 345 Ellet, John S., 521 Elliott. Grant L., 1012 Ellis, G. Curtis. 834 Ellis, John M., 295 Ellison, Charles M., 565, 1144
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Ellison, Elijah, 533, 565 Ellison, Jacob, 565 Emerald Band, 314 Emery, George, 335 Emerson, William S., 345, 382
English occupation (1765-77)-Fort Belle Fontaine, 16; from French to British rule, 17; Clark's his- toric campaign, 17; from British to American rule, 18
English, Robert Breckinridge, 436, 439
English, R. W., 210, 480
Enloe, Asahel, 454, 456
Enlow, Ben S., 241
Enos, Charles Rowley, 410
Equitable Powder Company, 608, 613 Erickson, Martina C., 123
"Erzaeliler (Der)" 110
Espenschicd, Karl, 962
Espenschicd, Sophie, 833
Essenpreis, Philip M., 1062
Estabrook, John, 510
Evans, Joseph F., 390
Everett, Relief V., 329
Everett, William W., 952
Evergum, William, 614 Ewan, J. E., 610
Ewing, John, 265
Fahnestock, E. K., 488
Fahnestock, J. K., 488
Fahnestock, J. T., 455
Fahnestock, LcRoy, 488
Fairbanks, Crawford, 615 Faires, Charles L., 1168
Faircs, John, 1169
Fairview Christian church, 346
Famous Cahokia or Monks' Mound 246
(illustration),
Ferber, Silas W., 471
Farley, Charles A., 345
Farley, R. E., 322
Farmer's Elevator Company, 613
Farrell, Patrick, 784
Farrell Family, 784 Farrimond, Joseph, 1026
Farrimond, Joseph, Jr., 589
Farris, James, 459 Faulkner, Harry, 434, 776
Faulstich, Joseph C., 458, 472, 660 Fauna, 184
Federal Lead Works, 483, 615 Fekete, Alexander, 403
Felder, Abraham, 404, 540, 543
Ferguson, Charles J., 614
Ferguson, Edward C., 863
Ferguson, Elijah, 563 Ferguson, F. H., 335
Ferguson, Harry H., 98, 850
Ferguson, Isaac, 163, 175, 452, 453, 509, 563, 597 Ferguson, John L., 563
Ferguson, Joseph, 597
Ferguson, Robert, 471
Ferguson, Rodney, 267 Ferguson, William J., 850
Feutz, Edward, 542, 549, 983 Fields, Lewis, 758 Fiegenbaum, Edward W., 344, 371, 537, 708 Fiegenbaum, J. H., 344
Fiegenbaum, Mrs. (nee Miss Julia Gillespie), 296 Fiegenbaum, William, 343, 537 Fillmore, Millard, 476
Financiers and capitalists (see also Banking and Finance)-Early capitalists of the county, 305; business effect of Lovejoy murder, 306; attempt to corner lead market, 306; Alton National Bank, 309; richest per capita town, 311; Helvetia Milk Condensing Company, 311; Granite City, 311; opulent land owners, 312
Finke, Adolph, 334
First Alton Presbyterian church, 339
First Anti-Slavery society in Illinois, 611
First Baptist church of Alton, 341
First Baptist church of Edwardsville, 344
First Baptist church of Upper Alton, 340
First carload of coal, over the Chicago & Alton, 201 First county election, 75
First Methodist church of Alton, 340
First Methodist church in Illinois, 500
First National Bank, 444, 446
First National Bank, Alton, 310, 450
First National Bank of Granite City, 581
First National Bank of Highland, 547
First National Bank of Madison, 578
First public (free) school in the state, 224
First settled farm in Alton township, 172 First temperance movement in Madison county, 146 First Trust & Savings Bank, Alton, 451
Fisher, Harry M., 452
Fisher, Judson, 345
Fisher, Waldo, 334
Fitch, George Whitefield. 395
Fitch, John, 107, 115, 418
FitzMorris, D. C., 116
Flagg, Artemas, 355
Flagg, Edmund, 610
Flagg Family, Gershom, 765
Flagg. Gershom, 135, (portrait) 164, 312, 355, 358, 510, 765
Flagg, Norman G., 84, 85, 168, 224, 569, 768
Flagg. Willard. C., 56, 82, 84, 130, 133, (portrait) 162, 165, 168, 256
Flagg homestead, 766
Fleming, R. K., 103
Fletcher, E. F., 267
Fletcher, William, 933
Flick, C. H., 613
Flood of 1844, 474
Flora-Trees and plants, 183; plant growth, 183
Floss, Joseph, 314, 315
Flynn, James E., 822
Flynn, Peter, 609
Fobes, Philna, 123
Foederer, John A., 1062
Ford, Ben, 111
Ford, Charles F., 852
Ford. Thomas, 87, 307, 414, 417, 442, 444, 449, 499 - Forman, J. G., 345
Former residence of W. Pearce, Alhambra (built 1858), (illustration), 460
Forquer, George, 49 Fort Belle Fontaine, 16
Fortmann, J. H., 536
Fort Russell, 176, 502
Fort Russell township-Statistical view, 507; rail- roads, 508; products-towns-postoffices, 508;
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schools and churches, 508; early settlers, 509; township organizations, 510 Foster, 176 Foster, Alonzo, 513, 583 Foster, David, 347 Foster, George E., 613 Foster, J. W., 585 Foster, Lemuel, 106 Foster, Oliver, 512, 513, 583 Fosterburg, 583
Fosterburg township-First settlers, 512; town- ship's foster father, 512; Fosterburg village, 513; Civil war records, 513; changes in population, 514; builders of the township, 514 Fouke, Philip B., 364 Franck, Joseph, 1118
Francy, William T. Jr., 751 "Free Lance," 108
"Freie Presse," 108 French, Lefferd, 563 French settlement, 527 Fresen, E. A., 447 Frey, Emil, 539 Frit, Jefferson, 524 Frit, John, 524 Fricker, Elizabeth, 1093 Fricker, Rudolph, 1092 Frohardt, Louis P., 581, 960 Fruit, John A., 1192 Fruit, Thomas E., 425 Funderburk, Daniel, 175 Funderburk, David, 583
Fugitive Slave case at Alton-Mulatto girl left in Alton, 213; seized after marriage, 213; released for $1,200, 214; illustrates workings of slave law, 215; over fifty per cent to "slave catcher," 215; an eye-witness of the trial, 216; judge resigns in disgust, 217; the principals' after life, 217
Garcsche, F. A., 949 Gaertner, Edward C. H., 712 Gager, John H., 334 Gambrill, Alexander H., 421, 438 Garesche, F. A., 577 Gaskill, David, 557 Gaskill, Sylvanus, 594 Gates, Joseplı, 382 Gates, William C., 798 Gauen, A. Carl, 1042 Gay, Anna, 329 Geers, Cyrus A., 433 Geers, M. Lester, 433 Geers, William L., 1056 Gehrig, J., 464 Gehrs, O. H., 567 Geiger, William, 601 Geismann, John, 998 General assemblies, 76 General Phil. Sheridan Camp, No. 50, Sons of Vet- erans, 502 "General Pike," 101 General Washington hotel, Edwardsville, 500 Georgieff, Mathew, 111 Gerbig, Louis, 1154 Gerding, Edward G., 950 Gerke, Henry C., 598, 754
Gerke, William H., 567, 598, 734 Gerling, Henry A., 1163 German Baptist church of Fosterburg, 345
German Maennerchor, 315 German Methodist church of Edwardsville, 500 German M. E. church of Alton, 344 Germans in Madison county, 258
Gerry, Reuben, 66 Gershom, Norman, 164 Gibraltar, 607 Gibson, John B., 510 Gieszelmann, Julius, 1108 Giffings, Salmon, 494
Giger (Geiger), John, 597
Gilbert, Charles, 588 Gilbert, Harry, 587
Gilead Methodist church, 555
Gilham, William, 576
Gill, William, 456
Gillespie, David, 421, 454, 457 Gillespie, Joseph, 53, 54, 79, 80, 81, 163, 179, 264, 415, 454, 501, 622 Gillespie, May, 296 Gillespie, Matthews, 455
Gillespie, Theresa, 129
Gillham, Daniel B., 82, 167, 616
Gillham, Edward L., 696
Gillham Family, The, 694
Gillham, Isaac, 574 Gillham, Isom, 453, 455
Gillham, James, 174, 485, 488 Gillham, John, 176
Gillham, J. F., 430, 456, 568, 697
Gillham, L. O., 489
Gillham, Ryderus C., 342, 694
Gillham, Ryderus C. Jr., 697
Gillham, S. B., 458
Gillham, Samuel P., 180, 485
Gillham, Willard L., 616 Gillham, William, 264, 453, 454
Gilman, B. I., 449, 517
Gilman, W. S., 69, 71, 74, 309, 449, 470, 473
Gindler, Henry, 1051 Gippert, Heury A., 1194
Gisler Jonathan, 837 Glaff, Willard C., 166 Glass, Elliot Breese, 428
Glass, F. B., 456 Glen Carbon Railroad, 200, 618 Glock, Adolph, 540, 1036
Godfrey, 177
Godfrey, Benjamin, 96, 121, 308, 342, 448, 449, 473, 475, 516
Godfrey and Griggs, 449
Godfrey, Gilman & Company, 307, 443, 449 Godfrey township-Resources and industries, 516; churches and schools, 516; public men and prom- inent citizens, 517; reminiscences of G. F. Long, 518; recollections of Rev. Dr. Scarritt, 519; some notes of the Scarritt family, 520; transporta- tion, 521; changes in population, 521; a great in- dustry, 521
Goff, Peter, 266, 268 Gonterman, Caleb B., 1118 Gonterman, Jacob, 557 Gonterman, Laura A., 1120 Gonterman, Thomas E., 1120 Good, Thomas, 338, 500
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Goodger, Arthur, 342 Gordon, Charles George, 451 Gornet, John W., 1006 Gossrau, Reinhold, 314, 315, 737 Goulding, Charles L., 714 Grand Army of the Republie posts, 289 Granite City, 311, 579 "Granite City Daily Record," 111 Granite City Hospital, 582
Granite City National Bank, 581
Granite City postoffice (illustratiou), 580 "Granite City Press and Herald," 111 Granite City Steel Works, 579, 581 Granite City Trust and Savings Bank, 581 Grassy lake, 484
Gratian, Joseph, 314 Gratian, William J., 314
Graves, F. W., 340 Gray, John, 461 Grayson, William H., 938 Greathouse, Isaae, 241
Green Castle, 462
Green Castle Methodist church, 462 Green, Eliphalet, 148 Greenwood, 618
Greenwood, Edwin P., 446, 923 Gregg, Jacob, 552, 556 Gregg, John, 556
Gregg, Herman, 556
Gregg, Titus, 554, 556
Griffin, Isaac, 453
Griggs, Stephen, 448, 449, 471
Groeteka, Henry L., 651
Grosenheider, John H., 791
Gross, Emil L., 859
Gruaz, Timothy, 527, 542
Gruen, Edward, 797
Guelich, E., 334, 400
Gueltig, Chas. E., 431, 505
Gueltig, Fred, 819 Guernsey, W. E., 330
Guggenbuehler, John, 535, 544, 545 Gwynn, Osear J., 910
Haagen, Emil C., 436 Haagen, Louis, 334
Haek, Charles, 878 Haekethal, Charles II., 982
Haekethal, Christian, 1148
Hadley, (Mrs.) M. J., 295
Hadley, Mary W., 629 Hadley, Wilbur C., 456, 1173
Hadley, William E., 416, 632
Hadley, W. F. L., 82, 88, 424, 446, 628
Ilagnauer, Robert, 454, 542
Hagnauer & Knoebel Hardware Company, 549 Haight, E. A., 332 Haight, Robert A., 331, 335, 584, 631 Hair, J. T., 256 Haley, W. D., 299, 345 Hall, Jennie V., 825
Hall, Joseph, 200
Hall, Junius, 74, 420
Hall, William, 618, 825
Hall, W. H., 505
Halleck, H. W., 242
Halliburton, Westley W., 677 Halter, Robert, 400
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Hamel, 176
Hamel township-The original pioneers, 522; also eame before 1820, 522; iu the twenties, 523; early eensus, 523; a centenarian, 523; township in 1853, 523; a sereaming tornado, 524; the Judy family, 524; Carpenter, 524; property valuation, 524 Hamilton, George, 348 Hammer, Edward, 532 Hammer, Julius, 316
Hampton (Moro), 570 Handshey, Fred., 590
Hanlon, William W., 738 Hanniberry, Patrick, 176 Hapgood, Charles H., 483
Hapgood, Norman, 256
Hapgood Plow Company, 483
Happy, Cyrus, 89, 424
Hardin, John J., 210 Hardy, I. E., 243, 396
Harford, H. L., 324
Harmonie Singing Society, 543 Harmonie Maennerchor, 316 Harnisch, Joseph, 544 Harnsberger, C. E., 998 Harnsberger, Ephraim, 461
Harris, John B., 432, 825
Harris, Rollin P., 742 Harrison, William Henry, 21 Harshaw, William, 488 Hart, Benjamin K., 471, 777 Hart, Harrison E., 272, 288 Hartnett, Maurice, 592
Hartmann, Christopher A., 940
Hartmann, Louis J., 747
Haskell, Abraham S., 407
Haskell, Harriet Newell, 123
Haskell, Jolın A., 297
Haskell, William A., 153, 189, 404
Ilaskell, W. A., 757
Ilastings, Charles H., 976
Hastings, Grace A., 816 Hastings, J. Barnard, 1043
Hateh, John, 480 Hauck, Frederick, 1063
Hauskins, F. M., 900
Hautelmann, Christina W., 1156
Hautelmann Family, 1156
Hawley, (Mrs.) A. T., 299
Hawley, George E., 94
Hawley House, 468 Hayden, George D., 843
Hayden, William, 331, 470, 482
Hayden, William H., 475
Hayner, (Mrs.) Jennie, 297
Hayner, (Jennie D.) Library Association, 298
Hayner, John E., 297, 450, 655
Hayner Memorial Library, 297
Hays, G. W., 599 Healey, Joseph, 588 Hearne, Frank P., 803
Heath, William, 610, 612 Hebenstreit, Joseph, 588
Hebenstreit, T. G., 588
Hediger, John P., 1065
Heepke, Henry, 706 Heiens, William, 702 Heim, Louis C., 109, 567, 1100
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Heinemann, Katarina R., 1110 Helmbacher Forge & Rolling Mill Company, 577 Helmkamp, G. F., 856 Helmkamp, Herman H., 863 Helvetia, 175
Helvetia Milk Condensing Company, 168, 311, 544 Helvetia township-The pioneers, 525; animals, birds and Indians, 526; settlements in western sections, 526; Sebastopol, 527; St. Morgan, 527; prominent farmers, 527 Hendershott, David, 554, 557 Henderson, William, 285 Hendrickson, Thomas, 242
Henke, Friedrich. 524, 789
Henry, Charles L., 976
Henry, H. Simon, 455, 630
Henry, James D., 264, 265, 499, 502
Henry, Patrick, 19
Henson, M., 226, 579, 581
Henson, Mark M., 456 Henze, August W., 1143 Herb, Charles A., 82, 318, 471
Herman, Bertha, 927
Herman, Henry, 534, 1003
Herriek, William B., 374 Herrin, Bertha K., 895
Herrin, Edward M., 895
Herrin, John, 598 Hess, Charles P., 673 Hess, Henrietta F. C., 1191
Hessin, William, 104 Hewitt, Franklin, 480 Higham, John, 611
Higham, Mary M., 611
Higher education-Shurtleff College, 117; Monticel- lo Seminary, 121; Western Military Academy, 125; Ursuline Academy of the Holy Family. 127 Highland-Early settlement. 529; foundation of the town, 530; industrial development and general growth, 532; first general election, 532; post- offiee established, 532; German and Swiss immi- grants, 532; Highland in 1841, 533; enterprises of the past, 534; Highland militia. 535; schools and churelies, 535; the public school, 537; prom- inent men, 538; soeietics and lodges, 542; incor- porated as a village, 543; organize as a eity, 543; presidents and mayors of Highland. 544; industries, 544; banks, 547; stores and hotels, 549; institutions, 550; a city in a park, 550 Highland Altenheim, 550 Highland Bank, 547 "Higliland Bote (Der)", 110
Highland Brewery, 311 Highland Brewing Company, 545 Highland City flouring mills, 534 "Highland Citizen." 110 Highland Embroidery Works, 546 Highland French and
Englislı Congregational
church, 537
Highland German Catholic (St. Paul's) church, 536 Highland German Methodist church, 536
Highland German Methodist Episcopal church, 343 Highland German Protestant Congregation, 536 "Highland Herald," 106, 110 Highland House, 534 "Highland Journal," 110 "Highland Leader," 110 Highland Library Association, 542
Highland Madison county fair, 550 Highland Milling Company, 546 Highland Store Company, 549 Highland Turnverein, 543 "Highland Union," 110 Highland woolen mills, 534 Hildebrand, Jesse, 242
Hiles, Perry H., 433 Hilker, Edward W., 963 Hill, Edward G., 429
Hill, Frederick Trevor, 236
Hill, G. W., 94, 474 Hilliard, George A., 166
. Hillskotter, Jolin E., 428, 455, 728 Hinch, William, 175, 459
Hinde, John, 111 Hirsch, Joseph A., 845
Hitc, B. R., 456, 458 Hitz, Adolph, 462, 464. 1188
Hoehuli, John, 600, 1048
1 Hodge, Alexander, 513, 514
Hoefli, Anthony, 527 Hoelin, Leonard, 1148
Hoelseher, Herman G., 925
Hoelter, Henry, 972
Hoerner, John S., 110, 115, 258, 316, 529, 561, 601, 1009 Hoffman, B. E., 107, 452, 455, 542
Hoffmann, C. G., 1073
Hoffmeister, Fred, 482
Hogan, John, 338, 341
Holden, Charles, 1041
Holden, Chas., Jr., 480
Holden, Edward J., 1040
Hollister, Edward, 299, 339, 471, 472
Hollister, (Mrs.) E., 299
Holtmann, George, 1195
Holtmann, Otto, 1182
Holzweg, Gus, 947
Homn, John, 865 Hope, Alexander W., 427, 438, 471, 472
Hope, Thomas M., 387, 471, 472
Hopkins, Mary B., 708
Hopkins, William H., 142
Horine, William H., 503
Horn, Matthew J., 290
Horseshoe lake, 572 Horticultural, 166
Horticulture-Planters of first orchards, 164; de- cline of horticulture, 155; Alton Horticultural So- eiety, 165; Hon. W. C. Flagg, 165; organization of State Horticultural Society, 166
Horton, William S., 804
Hosto, Ernst H., 802
Hosto, William, 803
Hotel Madison, 479
Hotz, George, 455
Hotz, Henry P., 446, 505
Hotz, Joseph, 455
House, J. B., 314
House where first Anti-Slavery society was organ- ized, Alton (illustration), 62
Howard, Abraham, 175, 597
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