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Pfeiffenberger, Lucas, 472, 634
Phelps, A. E., 341
Phinney. Charles, 309, 482
Physicians (see Medical practice and practitioners)
Piasau bird-Prof. John Russell's version (illustra- tion). 187; another version of the legend, 188; ancient mark for arrow and bullets, 189; how legend is perpetuated, 189
Picker, Ben, 614 Pickett, Abraham, 204
"Pictured rocks," 12
Pierce, Daniel, 95
Pierce, (Mrs.) James, 605
Pierron, 605
Pierron, August, 605
Pierron, J., 605
Pierron Mercantile Company, 606
Pierson, Stephen, 471
Pike, Frank, 600
Pike, Zebulon M., 16, 352, 354, 607
Pilz, Paul, 747
Pinckard, Nathaniel. 137, 336, 610, 612
Pinckard, Thomas S., 610
Pinckard, William G., 341, 468, 470, 610 Pin Oak, 176
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Pin Oak township-Pioneer citizens, 594; notable set-
tlement of colored people, 595; general items, 596; the Coles plantation, 596 Pioneer M. E. Church of Edwardsville, 338 Piper, C. W., 592
Piper, N., 461 Pizzini, August, 979 Pizzini, Dominick, 977
"Ploughboy," 162
Plassmann, Gustave, 1114
Platt, Henry, 288 Pleasant Ridge Baptist church, 345
Poag, Harry, 487
Pogue, Joseph, 375, 623
Pogue, (Mrs.) Joseph, 296
Pogue, Robert, 141
Political and judicial representatives-On state boards and commissions, 87; congressional repre- sentation, 88; presidential electors, 88; members of supreme court, 89
Political and legislative-First county election, 75; in the general assembly (1818-1912), 76; Judge John Y. Sawyer, 78; Cyrus Edwards, 78; Lincoln and Gillespie, 79; veteran of legislature, 82; other prominent members, 82; "Sons of their fathers," 84; Madison county legislators, Lincoln's con- temporaries, 85
Politics-Early, 146; Whigs and Democrats align, 227; political conditions in Illinois, 228; popular presidential votes, 1820-1908, 228; liquor question (1885). 230; political summary, 230; temperance in Madison county, 233; the great Lincoln-Douglas debate, 234; semi-centennial celebration, 237; re- version to early political type, 238 Pomeroy, Elizabeth, 524 Pontiac, 3 Pontiac's conspiracy, 3 Pope, Nathaniel, 311. 330
Porter, Rudolph, 615
Portraits-Ninian Edwards, 32; Edward Coles, 42; Elijah P. Lovejoy, 61; Owen Lovejoy, 69; James Semple and Lyman Trumbull, 86; Hooper Warren, 100; Thomas Lippincott, 131; Willard Cutting Flagg, 133; Gershom Flagg, 135; Ouatoga, chief of Illini, 188; Dr. J. L. R. Wadsworth and W. T. Norton, 247; Jean Baptiste Defontaine, 548 Posey, Alex, 265 Posey, Jubilee, 595 Post, William, 471
Powell, Alexander C., 945 Powell, Alexander Mouro, 406 Powell, Maury D., 432, 1066 Powell, Winfield S., 1027 Prairie City, 592 Prairietown, 571 Presbyterian church of Rattan's Prairie (Moro), 337 "Presbyterian Reporter," 106 President Mill and Elevator, 612
Press (see newspapers) Preuitt, E. K., 571, 760 Preuitt, Solomon, 175, 264, 453, 472, 509, 570 Preuitt, Martin, 174 Prickett, Abraham, 89, 163, 442, 453, 454, 499 Prickett, David, 419, 454, 502 Prickett, Edward I., 446 Prickett, (Mrs.) E. M., 295 Prickett, George W., 454 Prickett, Isaac, 312, 456, 470
Prickett, J. A., 505
Prickett, John A., 163, 395, 396, 455, 457, 625
Prickett, William R., 83, 89, 311, 446, 621
Prickett (J. A.) & Sons, 446
Prickett, (William R.) & Co., 446
Priest, Henry C., 699 Priest, (Mrs.) H. C., 341
Priest, Lucia I., 699
Primas, Joseph M., 657
Primas, Rudolph F., 972
Primas, William, 657
"Protestant Monitor," 106
Providence Baptist church, 345
Pruitt, Jacob, 608
Pruitt, Solomon, 468
Pruitt, William, 452
Public improvements-Bridges over the Mississippi, 291; Cahokia diversion canal, 291; origin and progress of the enterprise, 292; straightening a river channel, 293; Silver creek drainage district, 293
Public Library at Edwardsville (illustration), 504 Public monuments in the county-Lovejoy monu- ment movement, 318; description of monument, 320; the Wood river monument, 321; Confeder- ate monument at Alton, 322; memorial to Union soldiers, 323; the Louis Arrington monument, 323; Centennial monument, 324
Public school building, Highland (illustration), 538 Pugh, J. H., 49 Purviance, William F., 553
Quade, Frederick W., 787 "Qui Vive," 111 Quick, D. A., 585
Rabb, William, 367, 454
Raber, Frank C., 1010 Railroads, 96, 200
Ramsay, George, 526
Ramsay, James A., 526
Ramsay, Norris W., 525
Ramsey, William S., 996
Randall, Adelia, 315
Randall, Josiah, 27 Randle, George D., 502 Randle, Greenberry, 555
Randle, Irvin B., 422
Randle, John N., 295, 502
Randle, Josias, 142, 336, 367, 453, 455, 499
Randle, Peter Wilkins, 298, 384
Randle, Richard, 338
Rapp, Joseph, 735
Rath, Conrad, 489, 711 Rath, Henry, 1135 Rattan, Sarah, 608
Rattan. Thomas, 176, 607
Rattan's Prairie, 607 Ray, D. G., 120
Ray, Thomas, 587 Read, Daniel, 119 Reagen. Reason, 321, 608
Redford, William, 1094 Reece, Morgan E., 589
Reed, O. S. & Company, 107
Reed, (Mrs.) R. S., 493
Reid, Henry W., 123
Reid, William H., 310
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Reinemann, George, 920 Renault, Philip, 46, 207 Renfro, Jesse, 554 Republic House, 534
Residences of Lyman Trumbull, Cyrus Edwards and D. J. Baker, Sr., Alton (illustrations), 477
Reynolds, James, 601, 602
Reynolds, John, 34, 81, 95, 163, 177, 199, 413, 499
Reynolds, Joseph, 177
Reynolds, Joseph S., 176
Reynolds, Robert, Sr., 163
Rice, Sylvester Stuart, 402
Richards, Benjamin H., 725
Richards Brick Company, 506
Richardson, D. A., 329
Richardson, L. A., 567
Richmond, I. J., 480
Richmond, Volney P., 508
Ricks, Lewis, 587
Ridgely, 571
Ridgely, Nicholas H., 95
Ridgely Christian church, 346, 571
Riedel, C. F. W., 111
Rieger, Joseph, 536
Riehl, Anna, 257 Riehl, E. A., 166
Riehl, Edwin H., 166, 168, 809
Riehl, Frank C., 190, 257
Riggin, Harry, 557
Riggin, Ignatius, 553
Riggin, James, 557
Riggs, John D. S., 120
Riley, Calvin, 517
Riley, Frank, 349
Rilliet, Constant, 542
Rinderer, J. D., 605
Riniker, Henry, 455, 542
Rinkel, John M., 805
Ritter, Herman, 425
River floods, 219 Roach, Daniel, 523
Roach, Francis, 523
Robbins, S. W., 456
Roberts, John G., 579
Roberts, William J., 1155
Robertson, Robert H., 860
Robinson, Benaiah, 89, 360, 456, 530
Robinson, Henry, 576 Robinson, Henry C., 1005
Robinson, James, 454
Robinson, John, 331, 456
Robinson, John S., 272
Robinson, Joseph G., 273, 288, 365, 455 Robinson, William S., 510 Rock, C. F., 503 Rock Spring park, 483 "Rock Spring Seminary," 223
Rockford, Rock Island & St. Louis Railroad, 96 Rockwell, Augustus B., 888
Rockwell, Dennis, 143 Rodgers, Andrew F., 268, 272, 475, 653
Rodgers, Ebenezer, 345, 483, 611, 626
Rodgers, Edward, 340, 341. 343, 483, 736 Roedger, Herman, Jr., 1078 Rogers, A. F., 82 Rohland, C. B., 775 Rolland, (Mrs.) C. B., 315, 774 Roman, Walter, 1151
Root, Augustine K., 869
Rosebery, Oscar J., 1149 Rosenberg, J., 579, 835
Roseberry, W. J., 456 Rosevear, Edwin, 916 Ross, David, 202 Roth, Florence, 1077
Roth, George, 542, 544, 1076
Rudey, Daniel, 562
Ruegger, Adolph, 456, 542
Ruegger, George, 455, 542
Ruegger, Theodore, 403
Ruggles, James, 105
Ruhr, Louis J., 992
Rush, John, 546 Russell, John, 4, 187
Russell, William, 472, 507
Rutherford, Friend S., 272, 364, 420
Rutledge, Elmer E., 456
Rutledge, J. E., 588
Rutledge, Walton, 200, 456, 704
Rutz, Gallus, 403, 542
Ryan, James, 349
Ryder, Nelson L., 433
Ryder, Simeon, 308, 339, 474, 680
Ryhiner, Frederick, 386, 534, 539, 546
Ryhiner, (F.) & Company, 534
Ryrie, Daniel D., 310
Ryrie, John A., 310
Ryrie, William, 329
St. Andrew's church, Edwardsville, 347
St. Boniface's German Catholic church, 501
St. David's Benevolent Choral Society, 316 St. Jacob, 175, 599
St. Jacob township-First settlers, 597; birth within the fort, 597; Dr. Gerke, pioneer German, 598; the town of St. Jacob, 599; as a village, 599
St. Jacob Turnverein, 600 St. John's M. E. church, 338, 500
St. Joseph's Hospital, 550
"St. Louis," 93, 472
St. Louis, Jacksonville & Chicago Railroad, 96 St. Louis, Springfield & Peoria Railroad, 99
St. Louis Smelting & Refining Company, 495
St. Louis Terminal Association, 291
St. Louis, Troy & Eastern Railroad, 98, 201
St. Louis, Vandalia & Terre Haute Railroad, 96 St. Mary's, 607
St. Mary's Irish Catholic church, 501 St. Morgan, 527
St. Patrick's church, Alton, 348 St. Phillips, 46 Salem (Wanda) cemetery, 487, 488 Saline, 175, 604
Saline township-First traces of settlement, 601; the McAllily family, 602; military and political character, 602; James Reynolds, 602; New Switzerland, 603; industries, 604; educational and political, 604; Town of Saline (Grantfork P. O.), 605; Pierron, 605 Salu (Alton), 480, 609 Sandbach, Edward, 591
Sander, Frederick W., 864 Sanders, H. M., 456 Sargent, B. F. (Mrs.). 216 Sauer, Thomas W., 1117 Sauvage, William M., 764
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Sawyer, Benjamin, 785 Sawyer, John Y., 78, 104, 162, 419, 454, 456 Sawyer, Seth T., 74, 104, 364, 421, 785 Scantland, Lewis, 558 Scarritt, Isaac, 309, 331, 332, 333, 519, 521 Scarritt, Jotham A., 341, 517, 519 Scarritt, Nathan, 177, 516, 520 Scarritt, Nathan, Jr., 521 Scarritt, Russell, 521 Schaefer, John, 599 Scharf, N., 200 Scheibal, Joseph, 663 Scheurer, Frederick, 1079 Scheurer, William, 567 Schiele, Louis, 599 Schiettinger, Charles, 544 Schlafly, August, 450 Schlafly, L. A., 98 Schlechte, Willhelmina, 732 Schliepsich, William, 591 Schmeltzer, David, 597 Schmeltzer, Virginia, 597 Schmidt, Andrew C., 1083 Schmidt, Anton, 1028 Schmidt, Charles G., 1084 Schmidt, Frederick J., 1033 Schobs, Carl, 345 Schoeck, William D., 1059 Schoeffler, J. W., 335 Schofield, J. M., 273
Schools (see Education) Schott, Albert H., 1017 Schott, Bertha E., 1200 Schott, Charles, 410 Schott, Darwin, 1101 Schott, Engene, 544, 546 Schott, Martin J., 311, 545, 1199 Schreiber, L. A., 462, 549 Schreifels, Leonard, 755 Schroeder, Christ F., 902 Schroeppel, Adam, 1179 Schroeppel, G. H. R., 954 Schroeppel, Martin, 947 Schrumpf, Ben. H., 1060 Schrumpf, Fred, 985 Schrumpf, Peter, 1091 Schulte, H., 462 Schwaab, Philip, 942 Schwartz, Angela, 129 Schwarz, John, 752 Schwarz, W. C., 315
Schweppe, Harry M., 731 Schwerzer, Herman, 273 Scott, F. W., 111 Scott, J. W., 576 Searcy, George W., 598 Sebastian, W. P., 432 Sedgwick, Henry F., 417 Seely, Walter J., 134, 608 Seger, C. H., 451 Segar, John W., 1112 Seitz, J. G., 480, 971 Selleck, Charles G., 340 Selb. Theodor, 576, 892 Semple, Daniel, 553 Semple, James, 82, 86 (portrait), 87, 88, 89, 264, 415, 530, 533, 566, 1157 Setchanoff, Victor S., 1124
Seward, Benjamin J., 143, 499 Seward, William H., 476 Seybold, Robert, 175, 553 Seybt, Charles H., 540, 546, 1198
Shaffer, George D., 794 Shaffer, William H., 802
Sharp, George W., 362 Sharp, Robert, 362 Shepard, L. F., 462 Shepard, Mark, 564
Sherwood, Adiel, 119 Shields, James, 83, 209, 211, 415
Shinn, John, 526, 564
Short, Green W., 512
Shurtleff, Benjamin, 119, 390
Shurtleff College, 117, 118 (views), 223, 329, 475 Shurtleff Conservatory of Music, 315
Siegrist. Fred, 544, 1020
Silver, Zephaniah, 614, 782 Silver creek, 552
Silver Creek church of Christ (Christian), 346
Silver creek drainage district, 293 Silver Cornet Band, 314
Silver Ridge, 614
Simon, Henry A., 1126
Simms, Oliver C .. 981
Simpson, James E., 1007
Simpson, Jesse L., 433, 717
Sims, J. Morgan, 1128
Sinclear, Robert, 150
Sippy, Abraham, 575
Sippy, B. F., 226
Six Mile House, 574
Skeen, Charles C., 577
Skillman, Charles, 387
Slater, Elijah, 137
Slavery and slave holders-Indentured slaves, 207; slave holders in Madison county in 1814, 208; value of slaves and horses in 1820, 208
Sloo, Thomas C., Jr .. 36
Sloo & Company, 449
Sloss, Joseph H., 365, 419
Sloss, William L., 418
Smart, Laban. 554
Smiley, N., 534
Smith, Christian P., 672
Smith, Charles W., 458, 489, 1176
Smith, Daniel D., 149
Smith, David, 472. 480
Smith, Eunice C., 1032
Smith, George, 82, 480
Smith, George Alton, 83, 84
Smith, Henry P. S., 671
Smith, James, 337, 480
Smith, James Perd, 570
Smith, John Gustavus, 404 Smith, J. M. S., 393 Smith, Robert, 83, 88, 299, 899 Smith, Theophilus W., 54, 103, 121, 212, 414, 442, 443, 566 Smith, Utten, 330
Smith, William Eliot, 451, 478, 482, 1032
Smith, William H., 898 Smith, William H. C., 648 Smith. William M. P., 432, 505, 1175
Snedeker. Isaac D., 166 Snyder, John, 669 Snyder, William H., 364, 415
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Sohn, Fred, 599 Soldiers of the Revolutionary war, 289 Soldiers of the War of 1812, 289 Soma, Louis, 659 Sone, Manning & Company, 307 - Sonntag, J. F. William, 921 Southard, Lemuel, 268 Southard, Lemuel, Sr., 488 Southard, L. M., 484, 489
Souther, Timothy, 480 "Souvereign People," 105 Sparks, David Rhodes, 82 Sparks, David R., 683 Sparks, D. R., 268, 475 Sparks, H. B., 483
Sparks (C. F.) Machine Company, 483 Sparks Milling Company, 368, 482 Spaulding, Don Alonzo, 456, 517, 524
Speckmann, Louis, 737
Spencer, Benjamin, 146, 610 Speiring Quartette, 314 Spies, Jacob, 566 Spies, L. A., 169
Spilman, C. H., 1120 Spilman, James Fisher, 392
Spindler, John J., 1025 Springer, Chas. E., 272
Springer, Charles F., 89, 420
Springer, Edward C., 427, ,699
Springer, John, 509
Springer, Thomas O., 454
Springer, Thomas W., 454
Springer Family, The, 691
Squiers, Michael, 494 Squire, Amos, 574
Squire, Henry C., 805
Squire, James, 226, 456
Squire, Joseph, 576
Staats, L. N., 456
Stadtmann, Rudolph, 110
Stahl, C. E., 571
Stahl, Cyrus S., S84
Stahl, Hiram. E., 570
Stallings, Thomas, 983
Stamps, Charles F., 576
Standard Milling Company, 368 Standard Oil Refinery, 483 Standard-Tilton Milling Company, 482
Stanton, Lizzie, 330
"Star of the West," 102, 103 Stark, Solon, 385 Starkey, Joel U., 612
Starr, Harry E., 723
Starr, Henry, 417 Starr, James E., 166
Starr, Jesse W., 503
Starr, William E., 454
State & Trust Bank. Highland, 547
State Bank of Alton, 307 State Bank of St. Jacob. 600
State Bank of Shawneetown, 448 State Bank of Agriculture, 167 State factory inspection service, 370
State Horticultural Society, 166 State Penitentiary-Established, 240; the lease sys- tem. 240; Penitentiary moved to Joliet, 241; as a military prison, 241; commanders, 242; now a children's playground, 244
Steck, Joseph B., 691 Steindell Trio, 314 Stelzel, Charles F., 451, 581, 733 Stephenson, Benjamin, 88, 89, 139, 499
Stevens, Benjamin Franklin, 408
Stevenson, Benjamin, 453
Stiritz, Louis, 516 Stocker, Fred, 546, 993
Stocker Artificial Stone and Gravel Company, 546
Stokes, James B., 270, 478
Stolze, John, 446
Stone, James S., 309 Stone, Manning & Co., 443, 449 Stoneware Pipe Company, 613 Stout, Richard, 613 Stowell, O. S., 450
Strackeljahn, Herman H., 1109
Strasen, Dan M., 1189
Streeper, Calloway N., 456, 717 Street, James, 587
Streif, Peter, 1021 Streuber, Joseph P., 431, 457, 542, 713
Strong, Henry L., 392
Strong, Newton D., 83, 420
Stuart, Alexander, 33
Stubbins, W. W., 110 Studebaker, Roger B., 579, 918
"Sucker," 106 "Sucker Life Boat," 107 Sugar Creek Presbyterian church, 337
Sugar Loaf Mound. 492 Sugar Loaf U. S. Station, Collinsville (illustration), 492 Suhre, Herman E. F., 654
Suhre, William, K., 464, 646
Suhre, William, 843
Sullivan, M. R., 431
Suppiger, A. A., 226, 456, 532, 542
Suppiger, Bernard, 1081
Suppiger, Bertha. 1098
Suppiger, Caroline P .. 1004
Suppiger, David. 533, 1097
Suppiger, Edward, 1098
Suppiger, Eliza G., 1082
Suppiger, Fred B., 543, 544
Suppiger, Godfred M., 1004
Suppiger, John. 533, 544, 604
Suppiger, Joseph, 529, 530, 531, 533, 535, 537, 538, 539, 546. 603
Suppiger. Melchior. 533
Sutter, John A., 807
Sutter, Otto, 402
Sweeney, N. D., 456
Sweeney, W. P., 600
Sweetser, William M., 862
Swett, David, 176, 590
Swett, Mary, 590
Sybert, John, 1041
Tabor, Solomon, 462 Talleur, August, 566, 1097 Talmadge, Frank, 346 Tansey, R. P., 201 Taphorn, Gerhard, 731
Tasey, R. P., 576
Tatum, Mary. 590 Taylor, Zachary, 34 Tegtmeyer, Fred H., 1185
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"Telegraph," 104, 473 "Temperance Banner," 108 "Temperance Watchman," 108 Territorial county officers, 26 Terry, Charles W., 435, 447, 649 Tessler, Samuel, 1020 Tetheringtou, John, 456 Theodoroff, Christopher, 724 Thener, J. H., 1014
Thomas, James D., 30
Thomas, Jesse B., 33, 35, 88, 204. 233, 413, 499 Thomas, Jesse B., Jr., 87, 89, 417, 454 Thomas, William B., 316, 762
Thomas Band, 315 Thompson, Geo. M., 107 Thompson, John W., 633 Thompson, Samuel H., 338, 555 Thompson, William H., 1088 Thomson, Samuel, 390
Thornton, James P., 241, 436, 439 Thorp, David, 532 Thorp, Emily S., 537 Thorp, H. M., 542
Thrailkill, Joseph S., 714 Threadgill, Jesse M., 887 Thurnan, Otto, 1057
Tibbetts, M. D., 954 Tillson, John, Jr., 443 Tino, Louis, 1068 Tilton, H. C., 120 "Tiskilwa," 91 Tobias Brothers, 613 Todd, John, 19, 379 Toledo. St. Louis & Western Railroad ("Clover Leaf"), 96 Tolman, D., 516 Tomlinson, D. G., 614 Tonsor, Henry O., 655 Tontz, C., 462 Tontz. Jones, 458, 542, 604 Tornado of June, 1860, 218 Torrence, Gilian, 296 Townsend, William, 453 Township high school, Collinsville (illustration), 496 Township organization, 25 Toy. Wm. H., 110 Trabue, Aaron, 345
Transportation-Forest trails, 90; first roads, bridges and ferries, 90; steamboat navigation, 91; the Eagle Packet Company, 94; revival of the river trade. 95; early and late railroad building, 95; electric railroads, 99 Trares, Henry, 447, 850 Trauernicht, A., 585 Trauernicht, A. J., 585 Trautner, Nicholas. 1197 Travis, Arthur, 563 Travous, C. N., 425 Treadway, R. M., 104, 472 Trembley, L., 527 Trenchery, Emil, 314 Trenchery, Wilhelmina, 314 Trible, John, 272, 364, 420 Tribout, Adolph P., 1069 Tri-City Bank, 579 "Tri-City Labor Herald," 111 "Tri-City Progress," 111
Troeckler, Frank, 452, 489, 726
Troecklin, Fred, 578 Trolliet, Alfred, 824 Trow, John F., 72 Troy City, 556
Troy City public school (illustration), 558
"Troy Call," 109 "Troy Record," 109 "Troy Weekly Bulletin," 109 Trumbull, Lyman, 83, 86 (portrait), 88, 89, 418 "Truth Seeker," 106 Tucker, Ben W., 273, 288
Tuffli, Charles F., 456, 542 Tuffli, Peter, 533 Tulley, Frederick E., 841
Tunnell, (Mrs.) Frank, 596
Turkey Foot, 37 Tuxhorn, Albert G., 681
Tuxhorn, Charles F., 860
Tuxhorn, Edith M., 682
Twelfth Street Presbyterian church of Alton, 347
Twing, M. W., 341
Twiss, Eben, 564
Uelsmann, William, 668 "Uncle Remus Park," 244, 472 Underwood, William H., 415
Union Baptist (Colored), Alton, 343
Union Guards, 288
Union Stockyards, 577 Unionville (see Collinsville) Unitarian Church of Alton, 345 United States Radiator Corporation, 506
Upper Alton, 132, 136, 137, 468, 480, 609
Upper Alton Methodist church, 338
Upper Alton Presbyterian church, 340 Urban, A., 531
Ursuline Academy of the Holy Family, 127, 223 Utiger, Robert D., 464 Utiger, Sulvan, 531 Uzzell, Charles A., 579, 829
Uzzell, J. U., 223, 226, 322, 456, 626
Valier, Charles, 566, 600 Valier-Spies Milling Company, 566, 600 Vaughn, Ernest, 1015 Vaugniaux, Louis, 544
Venice, 177, 576
Venice city hall and public school (illustrations), 573 Venice elevator, 576
Venice township-Venice village, 576; the Village of Madison, 577; Granite City ("Pittsburg of the West"), 579
Views-Discoverers of Madison county (Marquette and Joliet), 6; house where first anti-slavery so- ciety was organized, Alton, 62; Lovejoy's home and printing office, 65; pro-slavery riot and death of Lovejoy, 67; Shurtleff college buildings, 118; Upper Alton Carnegie library, 120; Monti- cello Seminary, 122; Western Military Academy, 124; the Judy residence, 174; the Piasau bird. 187; Lover's Leap at Alton, 190; Bluff Line station at Alton (flood of 1903), 220; 1846 Whig ticket (facsimile), 231; Lincoln Hotel and Alton House, 235; Alton City Hall, 236; Cahokia, or Monk's Mound, 246; Hayner Memorial Library, Alton, 297; Alton's first brick house, 310; Lovejoy monument, 319; Wood River monument, 321;
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Confederate monument, Alton, 322; Main street and former residence of W. W. Pearce, Alham- bra, 460; Alhambra school house, 463; City Hall, Alton, 466; Hunters' Tavern and the Illini Hotel, Alton, 468; view of square from steamboat land- ing, Alton, 474; Edwards homestead and resi- dences of Lyman Trumbull and D. J. Baker, Sr., 477; Alton Young Men's Christian Association building, 478; postoffice, Alton, 481; Sugarloaf U. S. station, Collinsville, 492; township high school, Collinsville, 496; court house and city hall, Edwardsville, 498; old Wabash Hotel, 500; Edwardsville high school, 501; old Wabash Hotel (another view), Prickett-Eberhardt house, home of James Mason and office of Hooper Warren, Edwardsville, between pages 502 and 503; Ed- wardsville public library and Madison County Poor Farm, 504; Highland mill (1837), 531; pub- lic school building, Highland, 538; main avenue to Lindendale park, Highland, 541; old Defon- taine wind mill, Highland, 548; St. Joseph's Hos- pital, Highland, 550; Main street, Troy, 556; Market street, Troy, 557; Troy City public school, 558; McCray-Dewey Academy, Troy. 559; public school, Marine, 566; Venice city hall and public school, 573; high school, Madison, 578; Granite City postoffice and Mckinley high school, 580; Worden school house, 591; Wood River pub- lic school, 614.
Vineyard, William, 554
Vogt, Frederick C., 798 "Voice of Illinois," 105
Voigt, John, 830
Volz, Joseph, 872
Vorwald, Frank, 903
"Vorwarts," 107
Vulliet, Francis, 537
Vulliet, Louis, 537
Vulliet, Mary, 537
Wabash hotel, Edwardsville, 500
Wabash system, 96
Wade, E. P., 309, 318, 320, 448, 470
Wade, Samuel, 309, 470, 471, 472, 482, 1166
Wadsworth, Dr. J. L. R. and W. T. Norton (illustra- tion), 247
Wadsworth, James La Rue, 406, 495, 1145
Wainwright, D. V., 329
Waggoner, B. G., 430
Wagner, Francis M., 562
Walker, George, 95
Walker, Jacob W., 454
Walker, James, 517
Walker, Robert E., 721
Wall, George W., 415
Wall, Hampton, 591, 592
Wall, Thomas, 523 Wall, William P., 591
Wallace, John, 134, 608 Wallace, Mary, 295
Walter, Benedict, 314
Walter, Bernard, 129
Walter, Louis E., 83
Wanda Methodist church, 342
Wanda (Old Salem), 488
Wann disaster, 153 Ward, Pleasant, 1029 Warnock, John, 413
Warnock, Wilbur M., 426, 631
Warnock, W. W., 1043
Warren, Henry, 273
Warren Hooper, pioneer editor, 49; portrait 100, 102, 111, 502 Warwick, John, 175, 563
Washburne, E. B., 48, 53, 80
Waters, William L., 744
Watson, Henry, 1031
Watson, Janet J., 1031
Watson, Roe Duke, 437, 439
Watts, Amos, 416
Weatherford, William, 264
Weaver, John, 226, 456 Webb, James, 517
Weber, Jacob, 534
Weber, John G., 1152
Webster, B. F., 517
Webster, Daniel, 232, 475
Webster, William, 514
Webster, Zenas, 176, 569, 571
Weder, Andrew, 879 Weder, August, 1095
Wedig, John, 1150
Wedig, J. Harrison, 973
"Weekly Telephone," 110
Weeks, J. H., 480
Weidman, Peter Schermerhorn, 401
Weidmer, John, 613
Weigler, George H., 482
Weiman, Mary, 128, 129
Weindel, J., 605
Weinheimer, Henry, 542
Weiss, Charles, 110
Weir, John H., 386
Weitkemp, Henry, 1170
Welsh, George W., 566
Wendler, George, 1153
Wentz, George, 1096
Wentz, Leo, 567 Wescoat, Wilmer, 166
West, Emanuel J., 55, 454
West, E. M., 89, 338, 446, 455, 456, 627
West, John, 725
West, Thomas S., 461
West, William, 725 West & Prickett, 311, 446
West Brothers, The, 725
Western Cartridge Company, 608, 613
"Western Cumberland Presbyterian," 108
Western Hotel, 576
Western Military Academy, 124 (view), 125, 224, 611, 634
"Western Pioneer and Baptist Standard Bearer," 105
"Western Ploughboy," 104
"Western Weekly Mirror," 105
Westwood, John, Jr., 589
Wetzel, Adolph, 883
Wetzel, H. D., 808
Weylır, William, 576
Wharf, H. T., 464 Wheeler, D. T., 449
Wheeler, (Mrs.) Piety F. H., 871
Wheeler, Sanford B., 1184
Wheeler. William E., 455, 456, 869
White, Horace, 238
White Hussar Band, 314
White & Merritt, 557
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Whitelaw, A. K., 751 Whiteside, Jacob, 27, 454, 491 Whiteside, Joel, 174 Whiteside, John, 174 Whiteside, John B., 209 Whiteside, Robert, 574 Whiteside, Samuel, 174, 264, 453, 502 Whiteside, William, 452
Whiteside, William B., 150, 264, 452, 455
Whitney, James W., 417, 610 Whitney, Royal J., 750 Whitten, George E., 831 Whittlesey, M. K., 343
Whyers, Richard, 200 Wick, John F., 546 Wick, Louis J., 546 Wick Pipe Organ Company, 546 Wickliffe, Joseph H., 456
Widicus, Daniel, 1047 WVidicus, Jacob W., 1162
Wiegand, Joseph, 544 Wiemers, George F., 730
Wieneke, Anton, 1172 Wieneke, Henry, 1172 Wiggins, W. C., 500 Wiggins, Samuel, 442, 443, 564 "Wiggins loan," 442 Wildi, John, 311, 533, 547, 1023 Wildi, Louisa S., 1024 Wilhelm, John, 1082 Wilkinson, G. E., 335 Willard, Samuel, 396
Willi, Edward C., 1058 Williams, David, 200 Williams, Hezekialı, 398 Williams, Irby, 609, 688
Williams, I. S., 330 Williams, Joel, 168
Williams, Joel M., 688
Williams, J. R., 94 Williams Brothers, The, 688
Williamson, 201, 589 Williamson, Daniel G., 428
Williamson, John, 589 Williamson, Mathew, 589
Williamson, Thomas, 433, 592, 718
Willimann, J., 316 Willimann, J. H., 316, 544 Willis, John H., 111 Willman, John, 1183 Wilson, A. M., 347 Wilson, James, 456 Wilson, Joseph, 455 Wilson, Thomas R., 456 Wilson, William, 429, 439
Winchester, Palemon H., 149, 264, 420 Wing, Henry L., 394 Winter, J. H., 1111 Winter, William E., 290 Wirth, Julius, 410 WVise, Charles P., 423 Wisc, Lea & Mitchell, 449
Wiseman, Nellie (Burroughs), 507 Wolf, Adolphus P., 446, 629 Wolf, Herman E., 883 Wolf, William, 1103 Wolf, William L., 1044
Wood, N. N., 119 Wood River Baptist church, 344
Wood River massacre, 609
Wood River monument, 321 Wood River public school (illustration), 614
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