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Howard, Charles. 164, 471, 479, 590
Howard, John, 598
Howard. Joseph, 175
Howland, Henry R., 248
Hoxsey, Alexander, 312
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Hoxscy, Archibald, 312 Hoxsey, James, 312, 1070 Hoxscy, James R., 759 Hoxsey, Mary I., 1072 Hoxsey, Nellie, 461
Hoxsey, William, 175, 459 Hoyt Metal Company, 581 Hrubetz, Albert, 1150
Hubbell, Louis B., 273, 288
Huber, Martin, 1001
Huber, Samuel J., 1093 Hudson, John T., 104, 341, 471
Huegy, Moritz, 534, 544
Huetto, Charles, 799
Hug, Christ J., 994 Huggins, Jonathan, 166
Hughes, Samuel T., 272, 273, 488
Hull, E. S., 165, 166, 518
Humbert, Frederick, 165, 384
Hunter, Charles W., 318, 368. 468, 470, 609
Hunter's Tavern and the Illini Hotel, Alton (illus- trations), 469
Hunterstown Baptist mission, 341
Huppert, Jacob, 612
Hurlbut, T. B., 73, 105, 340, 480, 611
Hurlbut, Wilberforce L., 617
Hurlbut, W. L., 272
Huser, Abraham, 601
Huskinson, William, 685
Hutchins, 256 Hutchins, James D., 1180
Hydraulic Press Brick Company of St. Louis, 368
Ihne, A. J., 664 Iles, Elijah, 442 Illini (Illinois), 2, 3 Illini Hotel, 479 "Illinois Beobachter," 107 Illinois Central Railroad, 98
"Illinois Corrector," 103 Illinois Corrugated Paper Company, 483 Illinois country, 21
Illinois Glass Company, 370, 482
"Illinois Intelligencer," 102 Illinois Mutual Fire Insurance Company, 476 "Illinois Republican," 102, 103 Illinois State Medical Society, 374 Illinois Stoker Company, .483
"Illinois Temperance Herald," 105 Illinois Terminal Railroad, 96
Illinois & Missouri Bridge and Belt Company, 291 Illinois & St. Louis Railroad, 95 Immaculate Conception church, Edwardsville, 501 Indian creek, 570
Indian mounds (Chouteau), 487
Indians-Successors of Mound Builders, 1; The Illi- ni, or Illinois, 2; Pontiac's conspiracy, 3; Ponti- ac's death avenged, 3; the Iroquois descend on the Illini, 4; twilight of French occupancy, 4 "Insuranceville," 476 "Intelligencer," 106 Irish, Benjamin, 391 Irish, Tyler J., 394, 458, 574 Irwin, John G., 295, 423, 454 Isenberg, G. W., 464 Isaaes, Thomas W., 871 Ittner, Theodore, 990
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Jackson, Albert M., 125, 633 Jackson, Andrew, 585 Jackson, William, 166 Jacob, T. N., 293 Jageman, William, 838 James, Abraham, 570 James, Isaac, 570 James, Jacob, 570 James, John, 389 James, Martin, 570 James, William M., 483
Jameson, M., 341 Jansen, Edward C., 1163 Jarvis, 175
Jarvis, Benjamin W., 109, 496, 552, 1064 Jarvis, John, 338, 552, 553, 556, 557 Jarvis, W. W., 1126
Jarvis township-Physical features, 552; John Jar- vis and other early settlers, 552; first sehools and churches, 555; city of Troy, 556
Jaschke, Anthony M., 874
Jefferson barracks, 17 Jeffress, A. W., 1048
Jeffress, J. W., 566
Jinkinson, John B., 515
Jinkinson, Richard, 514
Job, Jacob, 574
Job, Mary E., 667
Job, Moses, 487
Job, Zephaniah B., 363, 574, 577, 608, 679
Joesting, Frederick C., 669
Joesting, Fred W .. 471
Joesting, G. A., 450, 451
Joliet, Louis, 12, 467
Johann, Charles H. F., 946
Johannigmeir, August, 1132
Johanntoscttel, Anna, 788
Johnson, Andrew, 476 Johnson, Bluford, 393
Johnson, Frank O., 1195
Johnson, Isom, 1106
Johnson, James, 91
Johnson, James L., 827
Johnson, John, 362
Johnson, Thomas, 562, 605 Johnson, Thomas, Jr., 603 Jones, Alexander W., 420
Jones, A. D., 188, 189 Jones, Benjamin J. Sr., 1075
Jones, Bennett, 522 Jones, David, 455, 935 Jones, Edward W., 584 Jones, Franklin, 585 Jones, Martin, 456, 585
Jones, Obadiah, 33 Jones, William, 27, 76, 175, 344, 453, 455, 502, 508, 584, 587, 609
Jones, William H., 424
Jones, William W., 388
Judd, John B., 111, 579, 822
Judy, Jacob, 174, 368
Judy Samuel, 27, 76, 161, 164, 173, 452, 454, 491, 497, 502 Judy, Thomas, 153, 174, 523, 524, 594 Juncker, Henry Damien, 128, 349 Justices of the peace (territorial) 29
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Kabel, Herman, 636 Kaemper, William L., 928 Kaenders, Peter, 918 Kaeser, Albert F., 1018 Kaeser, Fritz, 545, 1010 Kahle, A. J., 832 Kahle, Louis H., 1115 Kalbfleisch, George, 446. 456, 881 Kalbfleisch, John G., 1137 Kamm, Robert, 544 Kapp, Joseph, 1039 Kaseberg, John, 576 Kaseberg, Minnie, 526, 926 Kaufman, Albert, 929 Kaufman, Augusta, 904 Kaufman, Gustav, 904 Kaufman, John W., 613 Kaufmann, 464 Kauffman, Jacob, 613 Kauffman, John, 613 Kauffman Milling Company, 613 Keating, Edward, 83, 345, 417, 471 Keelc, R. C., 345 Keiser Brothers, 591 Keirsey, E. D., 513 Keley, Henry, 523, 524 Kell, James, 404, 592 Kell, William, 590 Kell, W. F., 592 Keller, John, 458 Kellenberger, A. J., 335 Kellenberger, George S., 331 Kellenberger, Lewis, 471 Keller, John, 458 Kelley, George, 454 Kelly, Abner, 558 Kelly, Oliver L., 523 Kelsey, James E., 867 Kendriek, A. A., 120, 617 Kennedy, George, 452 Kennedy, George W., 579 Kennedy, L. T., 584 Kennedy, T. H., 455 Kent, Loren, 272 Keown, Andrew, 461 Kerens-Donnawald Company, 591 Kern, Anna, 296 Kerr, Daniel, 83, 418 Kerr, Mathew, 576 Keshner, Joseph F., 447, 631 Kinder, Calvin, 576 Kinder, Thomas W., 1195 Kinder, T. W., 456, 458, 576 King, James T., 278, 280, 709 King, John, 471 Kinne & Pabst, 547 Kinne, Charles, 532, 544, 549 Kinne, Edward, 532 Kinne, Frederick, 532 Kinne, Louis, 311 Kinne, Louis E., 542, 547, 549 Kinne (C.) & Company, 549 Kinney, William, 442 Kinzer, Alfred L., 781 Kirkpatrick, Marshall E., 579 Kirkpatrick, Thomas, 27, 90, 176, 454, 497, 499, 574 Kirsch, Martin, 1085 Kiser, Charles R., 579, 908
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Klaus, Herman, 848 Klein, N. O., 458 Kleipeter, Edward, 314 Klemm, Gottlieb, 844 Knaekstedt, Christian, 806 Knebel, Leopold, 605 Kneedler, Christopher D., 931
Kneedler, R. Guy, 429, 931
Knoche, Charles H., 739
Knoebel, John B., 404
Knowles, George H., 456
Koeh, Adolph G., 1037
Koeh, August F., 851
Koeh, Charles, 316 Koch, Fritz, 544
Koeh, Gus, 544 Koeh, J. W., 613
Koeh, Louis, 458, 1000
Koehlor Milling Company, 503
Koehne, W. H., 290
Koeneke, Charles, 343
Koeneke, William, 344
Koenig, George, 537
Koepfli, Caspar, 383, 389, 532, 603
Koepfli, Joseph, 165, 533, 537, 542, 604 Koepfli, Solomon, 89, 165, 312, 533, 537, 538, 542, 604
Koerner, Gustavus, 87, 415
Kohl, Fred, 581, 1205
Kolb, Louis, 1079
Koontz, A. F., 111
Kording, Fred W., 716
Kraft, Anton J., 562, 763
Kraft, Fred T., 455
Kraft, Louis H., 1021
Kraus, Ernst, 536
Krenzer, Ferdinand, 547, 996
Krepps, J. A., 110
Kreuter. John H., 899
Kriege, William C., 847
Kriger, John, 667
Krite, Julius A., 978
Kroeger, A. E., 587 Krome, William H., 83, 426, 446, 454, 643 Krome, (Mrs.) W. H. (nee Gillham), 485 Krum, J. M., 329
Krum, John M., 104, 417, 454, 471, 472
Kruse, Edward C., 1096 Kuethe, William, 571
Kuhn, Jacob, 455 Kuhn, John, 272
Kuhn, John H., 243, 273, 288
Kuhnen, Louis O., 997
Kuhnen & Siegrist Hardware Company, 549 Kunnemann, Christian H., 457, 636
Kunz, Louis, 344
Kurz, Chas. T., 110, 536, 970
Kyle, Albert H., 992
Ladies' Loyal League of Alton, 276 "Ladies' Pearl," 107 Laird, (Mrs.) J. P., 299 Lamb, John, 591 Lamb, J. G., 480 La Mothe, W. P., 92, 474
Lampe, Charles P., 503 Land owners, first in the county, 171 Landolt, Fred, 876
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Landolt, Joseph, 744 Landolt, J. F., 866 Lane, Gilbert H., 665 Lane, John, 483 Lane, J. S., 471
Lange, C. W. F., 749 Lange, Theodore W., 1154 Langworthy, Augustus, 137, 379, 480, 610 Lanhan, Hartley, 455
Lanterman, Daniel A., 456
Lanterman, Edward A., 756
Lanterman, William H., 851
Larcom, Lucy, 254, 517
Lathy, Henry Kent, 391, 605
Latowsky, Oscar, 875 LaTrappe monks, 199 Latzer, Louis, 311, 458, 545, 1060
Laubinger, John, 533
Laughton, George R., 483
Lawnin, L. D., 811
Lawyers (see Bench and Bar)
Lea, Henry, 166
Lea, James H., 449
Leath, J. T., 214
Lebegue, John, 1105
Lebegue, Julius, 1104
Leclaire, 447
Leder, Jacob, 1035
Leder, John, 1034
LeDuc, Francis, 1162
LeDuc, Louis, 1090
LeDuc, Peter C., 1204
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Lee, John E., 576, 906
Lee, (Mrs.) M. I., 276 Leech, Charles S., 734
Leef, 175, 562
Leef, (Leu), Jacob, 562
Leef, Jacob A., 689
Leef, Jacob B., 462
Leef, J. D., 464
Leef, John S., 458, 884
Leef township-First settlers and land owners, 561; other early settlers, 562; Jacob Leu, or Leef, 562; other German settlers, 562; Diamond min- eral springs, 562 Leggett, Abraham, 141
Lehmer, James D., 613
Lehne, T. Fred, 792
Lejoy, Pierre, 497
LeMasters, Morgan, 429, 579
Lemen, Edward C., 409
Lemen, James, 119, 344
Lemen, Joseph, 344, 345
Leroy, Hippolyte, 1067
Leu, John, 544, 1026 Leu, John A., 957
Leuscher, Adolph, 730
Leuscher, Frederick, 729
Leverett, Cyrus W., 426, 439
Leverett, John, 741
Leverett, Warren, 739
Leverett, Washington, 119 Levis, Charles, 482
Levis, Edward, 482, 1207
Levis, George M., 98, 451, 482 Levis, J. M., 482 Levis, R. H., 482 Levora, John M., 865
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Lewis, F. L., 343
Lewis and Clark expedition, 354 Lexow, Charles, 705
Leyden, T. F., 932 Leyhe, Henry, 94, 474, 818
Leyhe, William, 94, 474
Liberty Prairie Cumberland Presbyterian church, 348 Libraries of the county-Edwardsville Library in 1819, 294; Edwardsville Public Library Associa- tion, 295; the Hayner Memorial Library, 297; other libraries, 299
Liche, Henry, 589
Lieb, Daniel, 264
Liebler, George, 1008
Limacher, P., 536
Lime, 369
Lincoln, Abraham, 11, 80, 83, 85, 209
Lincoln, William S., 70, 74, 420
Lincoln-Douglas debate, 234, 476
Lincoln Hotel and Alton House (illustration), 235 Lincoln school, Alton, 332
"Lincoln-Shields duel," 209
Lindendale park, 542, 551
Linder, Usher F., 419
Lindley, John, 175, 597
Lindley, Samuel, 564
Link, Lena, 743
Link, Michael S., 743
Lippincott, Thomas, 35, 41, 49, 52, 102, 103, 105, 130, 131 (portrait), 150, 339, 340, 564, 607
Litchfield & Madison railroad, 98, 201
Literature and authors-Lucy Larcom, 254; "From Timber to Town," 255; county historical works, 256; Dr. J. C. Clarke, 256; other Madison county authors, 257
Little, Josiah, 267, 472, 475
Live stock interests, 169
Livesey, R. F., 585
Livingston, 201, 588
Livingston, David G., 588, 793
Livingston, John, 588
Livingston, Robert, 589
Livingston, Robert W., 586, 893
Lockhart, Bird, 453, 456
Lockhart, Daniel, 177
Lockwood, Samuel D., 49, 87, 89, 147, 414
Loew, M. A., 612
Lofton, John G., 27, 454, 499, 574
Lofton, Joseph G., 455
Logan, James B., 115, 255, 347
Logan, John A., 232
Logan, William C., 348
Lohmann, August C., 1002 Long lake, 484, 572
Long, B. F., 166, 167, 271, 383, 476, 518
Long, Enoch, 137, 271, 340, 518
Long, George Frank, 271, 518, 618
Long, George W., 271, 517,. 518
Long, H. C., 271 Long, Joseph F., 458, 585, 586
Long, Mathias, 819 Long, Peter, 587
Long, Preble, 271, 518
Long, Stephen H., 271, 354, 518
Long, Thomas J., 821
Long, Thomas M., 456
Look, Horace, 494, 495
Loomis, Hubbel, 119, 329, 475, 611, 708
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Loomis, Sophia, 329 Lorenz, Frank, 530, 602, 986 Lorenz, Edward, 530, 602 Lory, Henry, 544 Lotus Quartet, 316
Lovejoy, Elijah Parislı-105, 114, 340, 473, Killing of, 60; consequences to Alton, 60; in St. Louis, 61; rise of bitter feeling at Alton, 61; Lovejoy defends himself, 62; story of riot and death, 64; The de- fenders of the press, 69; "Alton Trials," 69, 70; Alfred Cowles, 73 Lovejoy, Elijah P., (illustration), 61 Lovejoy's Alton home and printing office (illustra- tions), 65
Lovejoy's death (pro-slavery riot at Alton), illus- tration, 67
Lovejoy monument, Alton (illustration), 319
Lovejoy, Owen (illustration), 69 Lover's Leap, 12, 190 Lover's Leap at Alton (illustration), 190 Lowe, Warren W., 616 Lower Alton (Alton), 480
Lowry, Robert L., 226, 456, 1029 Lowry, John, 464 Luckey, W. T., 520 Ludwig, Adolph, 896 Ludwig, Joseph, 811 Lueders, Fred G., 1133
Lueker Family, The, 683
Lueker, Fred C., 793
Lueker, F. W., 683 Lufkin, Stephen, 348 Lumaghi, Louis, 495 Lumaghi, L. F., 458 Lumaghi, Octavius, 391, 495 Lusk, Charles Marion, 391
Lusk, John T., 175, 294, 312, 455
Lynch, Clay H., 425
Lynch, C. H., 505 Lynch, William J., 886 Lynch, W. J., 111 Lynn, J. A., 428, 439
Mabbs, William E., 1075 McAdams, Clark, 116, 245, 248
McAdams, William, 257 McAdow, Samuel, 347 McAllily, (Samuel) family, 602 McAllily, William C., 600 McAllister, Thomas, 588 McCambridge, F., 458 McCasland, Charles D., 914 McClernand, John A., 212 McClure, Samuel R., 730 McCorkle, Jessie, 296 McCormick, George M., 82, 456 McCormick, Wilbur L., 1072 McCray, Calvin, 554, 557 McCray, Horatio, 554, 557 McCray-Dewey Academy, 559 (illustration)
McCrea, H. T., 512, 513 McCullom, Malcom, 216 McDonald, William C., 838 McDow, Robert, 575 McFee, T. P., 576 McGaughey, J. T., 591-2 McGee, James, 577 McGinnis, J. C., 439
McGinnis, John F., 427 McGregory, S. E., 456 McGriffe, James G., 456 McInerney, James J., 108, 115 Mack, Reuben, 380
Mckay, Stanley A., 120 McKee, John, 139
McKee, Samuel P., 389
McKendree, William, 336
McKenney, S. D., 342
Mackinaw, Harry J., 455, 759
Mckinley high school, Granite City (illustration), 580
Mckinney, A. R., 334
Mckinney, Bunyan Hursey, 408, 584
Mckinney, George A., 754
McKinney, Guy L., 882
McKittrick, James, 587
McKittrick, Samuel W., 431
McKittrick, William, 458, 587
McLin, David, 347 McMahan, Robert, 553
McManis, Charles N., 340
McManus, Jonathan, 590
McMasters, S. Y., 119, 255, 342
McMichael, James B., 461
McMichaels, Joseph B., 455
McMillen, George A., 334
McMillen, Ray, 614
McMullen, James, 585
McNulty, George F., 425, 456
McPike, Henry G., 166, 237, 471
McQuillan, Augustin P., 939
McRoberts, Samuel, 414
Madison county-Boundaries (1812), 7; carliest forts, missions and stations, 8; soldiers of the cross, 8; an illustrious trimuvirate, 9; the "Frightful (cas- tleated) rocks," 11; the great French discoverers, 12; in 1812, 21; in 1912, 23; organized, 75; a century ago (Reynolds), 177; population 1820- 1910, 196; analysis by decades, 196; industrial growth in western Madison, 197; population by townships (1890-1910), 197; racial types, 198
Madison county in 1912 (map). 23 "Madison County Advertiser," 106 Madison County Agricultural Association, 163 "Madison County Anzeiger," 107 "Madison County Botc," 107, 109, 110 Madison Coal Corporation, 618
"Madison County Courier." 106
"Madison County Enquirer," 106 "Madison County Gazetteer," 481 "Madison County Gazettcer and Directory," 256
Madison County Poor Farm, Edwardsville (illustra- tion), 504 "Madison County Record." 106
Madison County State Bank, 446
"Madison County Sentinel," 108 Madison County Teachers' Association, 226 Madison Guards, 288, 365 "Madison Republic," 111
"Madison Tribune," 111 Madison village, 577 Magoffin, Ebenezer, 242 Maher, Edward L., 839 Maier, Carl, 536, 1011 Main avenue to Lindendale Park (illustration), 541 Main street, Alhambra (illustration), 460
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Malan, John P., 1205 Maney, Lucy, 129 Manning, William, 368
Manufacturers-Utilization of natural resources, 366; mining and manufacturing of clay, 368; stone in- dustries, 368; varied industrial system, 369; sta- tistics, 370
Maps-Madison county boundaries, 1812, 22; Madi- son county in 1912, 23 Marcoot, Maurice, 991 Marine, 58, 175
Marine Christian church, 346
"Marine Gazette," 109
Marine Presbyterian church, 337, 344
"Marine Telegram," 109, 567
Marine township-Pioncer settlers, 563; the decade, 1820-1830, 564; the founder of Marine, 565; few descendants left, 565; patriotism, 565; Marine village, 566; midnight tragedy, 567; churches, 568 Marks, J. E., 826
Marogna, Joseph V., 536
Marquette, Jacques, 9, 12, 467
Marquette and Jolict (illustration), 6
Marsh, E., 309, 449, 450
Marsh, H. A., 480
Marsh, Joseph V. E., 429, 439
Marshall, H. J., 493
Marti, Julius, 984
Martin, William, 70, 83, 89, 417, 438, 471, 517
Martin, William H., 402, 952
Martin, (Mrs.) W. W., 299
Maryville, 618 Mason, A. P., 517
Mason, Hail, 140, 455, 516
Mason, James, 138
Mason, Paris, 523
Mather, Thomas, 49, 295, 443
Mathews, Sarah, 563
Mathews, (Mrs.) H. S., 276
Matter, M., 549 Matthews, James M., 1074 Maul, John, 200
Maxey, Bennet, 480, 611
Maxfield, J. B., 290
May, Charles, 1099
May, Otto, 1187
May, William F., 1202
May, William L., 141, 367
Meacham, Joseph, 609
Mead, Dugusta W., 1045
Mcad Family, The, 1045
Mechanicsburg, (Troy), 560
Medical practice and practitioners-Past and present facilities, 371; they simply "called the doctor," 372; progress of medical education, 372; medical societies, 374; first act for medical regulation, 375; latest regulating act, 377; the county's first phy- sician, 378; Edwardsville's first doctor, 379; first physician in eastern Madison, 383; pioneer musi- cian, 385; a southern politician, 387; prominent in the Civil war, 388; a "Thomsonian" certificate, 389; M. D. and D. D., 391; of international fame, 396; too sympathetic for a doctor, 397; two "old family doctors," 399; in practice forty-one years, 401; Dr. Joseph Pogue, 402; high-grade Swiss physician, 403; pioneer in public education, 406 Meeker, Orren, 347 Meese, William A., 204
Megowen, L., 166 Meier, Fred, 1055 Meinecke, Henry, 995
Meiners, William, 1015
Melling, P. J., 244, 618
Menard, Pierre, 441, 448 Mendelssohn Club, 314
Menz, John, 549 Menz, J. B., 549
Merrill, Peter, 480
Merrill & Son, 612
Merriman, E. H., 209
Merriwether, E. B., 439
Merwin, Edgar G., 959 Messenger, John, 511, 522
Messerli, Charles, 970
Messerli, William, 977
Metcalf, Andrew W., 83, 421, 682
Metcalf, Lyne S., 471
Metcalfe, Richard Lee, 393
Methodist hill, 531
Methodist Hill French Evangelical church, 537
Methodist hill school house, 535, 537
Metz, August, 1053
Metzler, Joseph D., 821
Mewes, William F., 1061
Mewes & Schrumpf, 605
Mexican war-Illinois troops, 266; organized at Al- ton, 267; last Mexican war survivors, 268; Alton's part in it, 475
Meyer, Adolph, 545, 953
Meyer, Caspar, 546
Meyer, Deidrich, 1073
Meyer, Henry, 115
Meyer (H.) & Company, 108
Meyer, Louis, 1038
Mcyer & Guye, 613
Michael, William R., 988
Miller, Andrew, 143, 455
Miller, John A., 513, 514, 612
Miller, Louis, 987
Miller, (Mrs.) Mary, 595
Miller, Samuel A., 348
Miller, Samuel L., 479
Miller, Valentine, 1054
Miller, William, 264
Millett, Thomas, 1015
Milnor, George S., 483
Mills, B. H., 115
Mills, Ruth, 315 Milton, 134, 136, 608 Mississippi river and Alton and St. Louis trade, 91 Mississippi river bridges, 291
Mississippi river steamers, 95
"Missouri and Illinois Temperance Herald and Wash- ingtonian," 105
Missouri Car and Foundry Company, 577
"Missouri Cumberland Presbyterian," 107
Mitchell, John J., 96, 299, 310, 312, 576
Mitchell, (Mrs.) J. J., 298
Mitchell, William H., 310, 312, 450
Mojonnier, Auguste, 547
Mollet, Nicholas, 861
"Monitor," 109
Monks of La Trappe, 251, 572
Monk's Mound, 572
Montgomery, A. Reid, 571 Montgomery, A. R., 873
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Montgomery, Elinor K., 688 Montgomery, James, 570 , Montgomery, John, 19 Montgomery, Nelson, 688 Montgomery, Phoebe E., 688
Montgomery, William, 84, 312, 571, 608 Montgomery Guards, 288 Monticello Female Seminary, 121
Monticello Seminary, 121, 122 (view), 223, 299, 475 Moore, Abel, 38, 321, 367, 608, 609
Moore, Brooks, 455 Moore, Daniel G., 453, 456
Moore, Edmund, 382
Moore, Frank, 38, 272, 321 Moore, Franklin, 321, 609 Moore, Franklin B., 271 Moore, George, 367, 608 Moore, Harriet, 321
Moore, Isaac, 611 Moore, John E., 272 Moore, J. Milton, 511 Moore, Marquis D. L., 1135 Moore, William, 608 Morfoot, Thomas, 709 Morgan, E. M., 527, 542 Morgan, Jas. N., 243, 272 Morgan, John, 316 Morgan, William H., 457, 889 Moro, 176, 570, 571
Moro township-First settler, 569; natural features and towns, 570; churches and school houses, 571; statistics and government, 571
Morris, D. C., Fitz, 115
Morris, William, 610 Morrison, Guy, 312 Morrison, William, 526 Morriss, Alexander W., 1193
Morriss, Robert C., 1087 Morse, Samuel G., 499 Mother Ursula, 128 Mt. Olive and Staunton Coal Company, 588, 589 Mount Olive Baptist church, 345
Mudge, D. H., 431 Mudge, Solomon H., 603 Mueller, Jacob, 1080 Mueller, John, 937 Mueller, Joseph, 535 Munday, B. C., 613 Munday, C. B., 567, 614 Munday, J. G., 614 Munson, B. B., 313
Murder of Jacob Barth-Story of the crime, 362; mob attempts lynching, 362; mob dispersed by sheriff, 363; criminals tried and punished, 363; decline of respect for law, 365; origin of Madison Guards, 365 Murdock, Francis B., 74, 419 Murphy, Daniel J., 581, 823 Murphy, Mary H., 874 Murphy, William A., 314 Murphy, W. H., 108, 109 Murray, C. A., 455 Murray, John, 163
Music in Madison County-Early musical centers, 313; Monticello Seminary, 314; Alton musicians, 314; bands and societies, 314; schools of music, 315; other bands, organists, etc., 315; music in Highland, 316
Musuard, Rene, 9 Mutchmore, T. A., 570 Myers, George S., 310
Nagel, John, 1081 Nameoki, 176, 574 Nameoki township-Floods, 572; famous prehistoric mounds, 572; first American settlers, 572; mean- ing of Nameoki, 574
"Naroden Glas," 111 Nash, Charles O., 809
National American Sharpshooter's Society, 542
National Enameling and Stamping Company, 579, 581 National Road, 559
National Roofing Materials Company, 506
Neff, Alvin A., 719 Neidringhaus, F. G., 579
Neidringhaus, G. W., 581
Neidringhaus Memorial church, 581
Neidringhaus, William F., 579
Nelson, N. O., 447, 448, 810
Nelson (N. O.) Manufacturing Company, 506
Netzhammer, William, Jr., 819
Neubauer, Fred J., 1160
"Neue Blatt" (Das), 110 Neuhaus, Henry, 748
Neumeyer, William, 644 Neustadt, Anton, 109, 423 New Diggings, 200
New Douglas, 175
New Douglas township-The pioneers, 583; the tor- nado of 1876, 583; New Douglas village, 584; a stock raising and dairying country, 585; noted natives, 585; Madison County Old Settlers As- sociation, 584
New Douglas village, 584
"New Douglas World," 109 New Hope Baptist church, 345 New Switzerland, 603 New Switzerland House, 533
Newhaus, Phillip H., 771
Newby, E. W. B., 267
Newman, James, 330, 331 Newman, Joseph, 91, 509 Newport, 576
Newsham, Thomas J., 273
Newspapers-Drawbacks to pioneer journalism, 101; Hooper Warren, 102; difference with Governor Coles, 103; first agricultural paper, 103; "Specta- tor" overlooks Lovejoy tragedy, 104; "Alton Tele- graph," 104; "Edwardsville Intelligencer," 106; "Edwardsville Republican," 106; "Edwardsville Democrat," 107; The "Alton Banner," 108; "Al- ton Journal," 109; "Collinsville Herald," 109; "Troy Call," 109; "Highland Union." 110; "High- land Journal," 110; Hooper Warren again, 111; Lawson A. Parks, 112; Hon. Jolin Bailhache, 113; Hon. George T. Brown, 113; Rev. John M. Peck, 114; other Madison county editors, 115; veteran journalists, 115
Niagara, 614 Nicholas, Louis, 9 Nickerl, Frank, 936 Niedringhaus, George W., 801 Niedringhaus, Ralph E., 917 Niedringhaus, William F., 800 Niedringhaus, William H., 771 Niemann, G. A., 1200
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Niles, Franklin, 420 Nixon, Utten S., 812 Noonan, Michael F., 1140 Noonan, Margaret M., 1141 Norcum, A. J., 613
Norris, Orrin G., 654
North, Alton, 618
Northwest territory, 21, 25, 47, 207
Norton, Augustus T., 106, 115, 213, 341, 1164 Norton, Wilbur T., 89, 105, 108, 115, 480, 596, 1207
O'Bannon, Richard, 571 Ochs, Nicholas, 855 Ockerson, J. A., 293
O'Connor, Ephraim J., 161, 172, 497
O'Connell, John A., 1086
Ogle, William, 455
Oglesby, Richard J., 232
Ohm, August, 787
Oldest fire insurance company in Illinois, 476 Old Madison, 488
Old wind mill at Highland, built by Jean Baptiste Defontaine (illustration), 548
Olin, Franklin W., 613, 1149
Olive, 175
Olive, Abel, 587
Olive, George W., 587
Olive, James, 457, 587
Olive, Joel H., 587 Olive, L. A., 585
Olive, William, 401, 587
Olive township-Some of the early settlers, 587; mining development, 588; Livingston, 588; Wil- liamson, 589 Olney, George W., 87 Omph Ghent, 176
Omph-Ghent township-First events and settlers, 590; Worden village, 591; coal mining interests, 591; Prairie City, 592; general township mat- ters, 592 O'Neil, B. J., 436, 439 Opel, John F., 524
O'Reilly, Charles A., 900 Osborn, George H., 1017
Osborn, James, 685
Oswald, F .. 456, 464
Oswald, Fridolin J., 813
Otwell, William, 494 Ouatoga (portrait). 188 "Our Faith," 108 "Our Times," 107 Overbeck. F. W., 296 Owen, Riley P .. 438 Owens, Z. B., 509, 511, 687
Pabst, Selmar, 311, 540, 547 Paddock, Gaius, 140, 510 Paddock's Creek, 508 Paddock's Grove, 508 Padon, John, 560 Pagan, August J., 1006 Palmer, Elihu J., 151, 345, 569
Palmer, John M., 87, 302, 499, 569, 1128 Palmer, Louis D., 569 Palmer, W. S., 569 Paris, James, 140 Paris, Jules, 905 Parker, George, 313
Parker, John B., 566
Parkinson, Alfred J., 598 Parkinson, Daniel B., 598
Parks, Lawson A., 104, 105, 111, 472
Parsons, Edward C., 907 Parsons, Lewis B., 271, 419
Patterson, Andrew C., 994 Paul, William H., 989
Paust, George, 706 Pearce, Edward, 591
Pearce, Francis Marion, 405, 464
Pearce, Hugh A., 561
Pearce, James, 175, 461, 561
Pearce, James B., 461, 464
Pearce, Joseph B., 561, 964
Pearce, Mathias B., 808
Pearce, W. W., 461, 462, 464
Pearson, John M., 82, 166, 168, 299
Pearson, John M., 517
Pearson, (Mrs.) John M., 276
Peek, John Mason, 114, 117, 144, 223, 254, 306, 340, 341, 470
"Peck's Gazetteer" (1834), 57
Peers, James N., 496
Peers, Joshua S., 495
Penning, George, 823
People's Bank, 614
"People's Miscellany and Illinois Herald," 105 Pepper, Gabriel, 934
Perley, (Mrs.) A. A., 295
Perley, (Mrs.) T. E., 255
Perley, (Mrs.) R. G., 299
Perrin, Thomas H .. 115, 334, 480
Perry, Gideon B., 391
Perry, Herman C., 1169
Peter, Simon, 336
Peters, 618
Peters, Herman C., 1022
Peterson, Cyrus A., 245
Petit, John H., 105
Pettingill, D. A .. 489
Pfeiffenberger, L., 471
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