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LEGISLATIVE APPORTIONMENTS. - Apportion- inents of Senators and Representatives in the General Assembly have been less uniform than those fixing representation in Congress, as they have been subject to changes in the State Constitutions and State laws at irregular inter- vals. Until the adoption of the Constitution of 1870, Senatorial and Representative Districts were, as a rule, separate aud distinct from each other, and, owing to irregular increase In popu- lation In different portions of the State and lack of uniformlty in number of members and ratio of representation, frequent changes were made by special legislation between various census periods. Between 1821 and 1841 five different legislative apportionments were made, and in the
absence of convenient records, it would be diffi- cult to trace the connection of Sangamon County with various districts. By the adoption of the Constitution of 1848, Sangamon became a part of the Twelfth Senatorial Distrlet with Mason and Menard Countles entitled to one Senator ; in 1854 Sangamon and Morgan constituted the Fif- teenth District, and in 1861, with Logan and Tazewell it constituted the Eleventh District. During the same period (1848-61) the Repre- sentatlve Districts were as follows: Under two apportlonments (1848 and 1854) the county constituted the Twenty-sixth District entitled to two Representatives, but in 1861, Sangamon and Logan were united as the Twentieth Dis- trict with two members.
The Constitution of 1870 introduced a radical change, making the Senatorial and Representa- tive Districts identical as to territory and fixing the number of Districts within the State at fifty- one, each entitled to one Senator and three Rep- resentatives-making a total for the State of 51 Senators and 153 Representatives. Under this arrangement Sangamon County has stood by successive apportionments as follows : 1872-82, constituted the Thirty-fifth District; 18S2-1901, as the Thirty-ninth District, and 1901-12, with Logan County constituting the Forty-fifth Dis- trict.
MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, as they have served in different sessions of that body from Sangamon County since the date of county organization in 1821, have been as follows :
Third General Assembly-Representative, James Sims.
Fourth General Assembly-Senator. Stephen Stillman ; Representative, William S. Hamilton.
Fifth General Assembly-Senator, Elijah Iles ; Representatives, Job Fletcher, Mordecai Mobley, Jonathan H. Pugh.
Sixth General Assembly-Senator, Elijah Iles ; Representatives, Peter Cartwright, William F. Elkin, Jonathan H. Pugh.
Seventh General Assembly .- Senator, Elijah Iles; Representatives, John Dawson, Jonathan H. Pugh, Edmund D. Taylor.
Eighth General Assembly .- Senators George Forquer and Elijah Iles ; Representatives. Peter Cartwright, Achilles Morris, John T. Stuart, Ed- mund D. Taylor
Ninth General Assembly .- Two Senators, Job Fletcher (vlce E. D. Taylor, resigned), and Archer G. Herndon (vice Forquer, resigned) ;
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Representatives, William Carpenter, John Daw- son, Abraham Lincoln, John T. Stuart.
Tenth General Assembly .- Senators, Job Fletcher, Archer G. Herndon; Representatives, John Dawson, Ninian W. Edwards, William F. Elkin, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew McCormack, Danlcl Stone (resigned and succeeded by Thomas J. Nance), Robert L. Wilson.
Eleventh General Assembly .- Senators, Job Fletcher, Archer G. Herndon; Representatives, Edward D. Baker (vlce N. W. Edwards), John Calhoun, John Dawson, NInian W. Edwards, William F. Eikin, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Mc- Cormack.
Twelfth General Assembly .- Senators, Edward D. Baker, Archer G. Ilerndon ; Representatives, James M. Bradford, James N. Brown, John Darnielle, Josiah Francis, Abraham Lincoln.
Thirteenth General Assembly .- Senators, Ed- ward D. Baker, Reuben Harrison; Representa- tives, James N. Brown, Wiillam Caldwell, Will- iam Hickman, Stephen T. Logan.
Fourteenth General Assembly .- Senator, Nin- ian W. Edwards; Representatives, Job Fletcher, William D. Herndon, Stephen T. Logan, Joseph Smith.
Fifteenth General Assembly .- Senator, Nin- ian W. Edwards; Representatives, James N. Brown, Rezin H. Constant, Stephen T. Logan, Benjamin West.
Sixteenth General Assembly .- Senator, John T. Stuart ; Representatives, Ninlan W. Edwards, John W. Smith.
Seventeenth General Assembly .- Senator, John T. Stuart; Representatives, Ninian W. Ed- wards, Preston Breckenridge, James C. Conk- ling (vice Edwards, resigned).
Eighteenth General Assembly .- Senator, James M. Ruggles (of Mason County) ; Representatives, Pascal P. Enos, James N. Brown.
Nineteenth General Assembly .- Senator, Jo- seph Morton (of Morgan County) ; Representa- tives, Stephen T. Logan, Jonathan M. Danicl (vice Lincoln, who declined election).
Twentieth General Assembly .- Senator, Cyrus W. VanDeren; Representatives, James J. Me- gredy, Shelby M. Cullom.
Twenty-first General Assembly .- Senator, C. W. VanDeren ; Representatives, James W. Bar- rett. Danlel Short.
Twenty-second General Assembly .- Senator, William Jayne; Representatives, Shelby M. Cul- lom, Norman M. Broadwell.
Twenty-third General Assembly .- Senator, Colby Knapp (of Logan County) ; Representa- tives, Ambrose M. Miller (of Logan County), and Charles A. Keyes (of Sangamon) .
Ticenty-fourth General Assembly .- Senator, John B. Cohrs (of Tazewell) ; Representatives, Ambrose M. Miller (Logan), and James W. Pat- ton (Sangamon).
Twenty-fifth General Assembly .- Senator, John B. Cohrs (Tazewell) ; Representatives, James C. Conkling (Sangamon), Willls McGal- liard (Logan).
Ticenty-sixth General Assembly .- Senators, Aaron B. Nicholson (Logan) ; Representatives, John Cook (Sangamon), Silas Beason (Logan).
Twenty-seventh General Assembly .- Senators, Aaron B. Nicholson, Alex Starne (vice Nichol- son) ; Representatives, Charles H. H. Rice, Will- iam M. Springer, Ninlan R. Taylor.
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Twenty-cighth General Assembly .- Senator, Alexander Starne; Representatives, Alfred Oren- dorff, Milton Hay, Shelby M. Cnllom.
Taventy-ninth General Assembly .- Senator, William E. Shntt; Representatives, Joseph L. Wilcox, Fred Gehring, Shelby M. Cullom.
Thirtieth General Assembly .- Senator, Will- iam E. Shutt; Representatives, John Fontch, John Mayo Palmer, Dewitt W. Smith.
Thirty-first General Assembly .- Senator, Will- iam E. Shutt; Representatives, Willlam L. Gross, John C. Snigg, Carter Tracy.
Thirty-second General Assembly .- Senator, William E. Shutt; Representatives, A. N. J. Crook, D. W. Smith, James M. Gariand.
Thirty-third General Assembly .- Senator, Lloyd F. Hamilton ; Representatives, David T. Littler, Benjamin F. Caldwell, George W. Mur- ray.
Thirty-fourth General Assembly .- Senator, Lloyd F. Hamilton ; Representatives, B. F. Cald- well, Charles A. Keyes, Charles Kern.
Thirty-fifth General Assembly .- Senator Will- lam E. Shutt; Representatives, Albert L. Con- verse, Wiley E. Jones, David T. Littler (re- signed).
Thirty-sixth General Assembly .- Senator, Will- lam E. Shntt; Representatives, Andrew J. Lester, Wiley E. Jones, Albert L. Converse.
Thirty-screnth General Assembly .- Senator, Benjamin F. Caldwell ; Representatives, Edward L. Merritt, Frank H. Jones, John S. Lyman.
Thirty-eighth General Assembly .- Senator, Benjamin F. Caldwell ; Representatives, Edward
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L. Merritt, Langley St. A. Whitley, H. Clay Wilson.
Thirty-ninth General Assembly .- Senator, Da- vid T. Littler ; Representatives, Charies E. Selby, Edward L. Merritt, William J. Butler.
Fortieth General Assembly .- Senator, David T. Littier ; Representatives, Charies E. Selby, Abner G. Murray, George L. Harnsberger.
' Forty-first General Assembly .- Senator, George W. Funderburk; Harry A. Kumier, John A. Vin- cent, S. P. V. Arnoid.
Forty-second General Assembly .- Senator, George W. Funderburk; Representatives, Sam- uel H. Jones, J. A. Wheeler, Redick M. Ridgely. Forty-third General Assembly .- Senator, Thomas Rees ; Representatives, John A. Wheeler, Abner G. Murray, William S. Lurton (Morgan). Forty-fourth General Assembly .- Senator, Thomas Rees; Representatives, Frank J. Heini (Morgan), Charies Fetzer, William S. Lurton (Morgan).
Forty-fifth General Assembly .- Senator, Logan Hay ; Representatives, Frank J. Heini (Morgan), Charies McBride, Charies Schermerhorn.
Forty-sixth General Assembly .- Senator, Lo- gan Hay; Representatives, Thomas E. Lyon, Harry W. Wiison, Benjamin F. Morris.
Forty-seventh General Assembly .- Senator, Logan Hay; Representatives, Thomas E. Lyon, James P. Morris, James M. Bell.
SOME PERSONAL MENTION .- The list of early members of the General Assembly includes many who bore an important part in the early history of Illinois and other States. One of these was William S. Hamilton, who served as the second Representative in the General Assembly from Sangamon County (1824-26), a son of Alexan- der Hamilton, one of the founders of the Ameri- can Republic, a close friend and adviser of George Washington and Secretary of the Treas- ury during Washington's administratlon. Wiii- lam S. Hamilton later became a prominent citi- zen of Wisconsin Territory, engaged in iead- mlning in the southwestern part of the State, served in the Wisconsin Territoriai Legislature, but removed to Cailfornia In 1849, where he died a year later, and where a monument was, some years later, erected to his memory.
Elijah Iies, the second and (for several years) State Senator, was Springfield's first merchant, a soldier in the Winnebago and Biack Hawk Wars, and a pubilc-spirited citizen of Spring-
field, who ieft a deep impress upon the history of both the city aud Sangamon County.
George Forquer, early lawyer and haif-brother of Gov. Thomas Ford, served as Secretary of State and Attorney General, and in each branch of the General Assembly from Sangamon County. In view of the number of official positions which he occupied, he was recognized as one of the able men of hls time.
Jonathan H. Pugh, the second lawyer to io- cate in Springfield, was recognized as a man of brilliant parts and in the ten years of his resi- dence in Sangamon County (1823-33) served four terms in the General Assembly and was once a candidate for Congress in opposition to Joseph Duncan. His career was ent short by his death in 1833.
Sangamon County has had few more promi- nent citizens than Peter Cartwright, who, as a pioneer citizen and Methodlst minister, won a wide reputation. Aithough he served two terms as Representative iu early General Assemblies. and was once a candidate for Congress (as the unsuccessful opponent of Abraham Lincoln in 1846), he devoted his life to his profession as a zealous itinerant of the Methodist denomination.
Of those who have served Sangamon County in both branches of the General Assembly, none have ieft a more lasting impression on iocai and State history than the famous "Long Nine" who, in the session of 1837, secured the removai of the State Capitai from Vandalia to Spring- fieid. This body was made up of Job Fietcher and Archer G. Herndon, Senators, and John Dawson, Ninian W. Edwards, Wiillam F. Elkin, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew McCormack, Dan Stone and Robert L. Wilson, Representatives- aii citizens of Sangamon County, and constituting the largest number of Representatives in the two Houses that ever attended the same session from this county except that of two years later (the Eleventh General Assembly) which was composed of the same number.
Of those who came Into public iife about the same time or soon after, none won higher dis- tinction than Coi. E. D. Baker, whose career has aiready been referred to quite fuiiy in connec- tion with the list of Iiiinois Congressmen; Coi. John T. Stuart, a leading lawyer, Congressman and member of both branches of the Legisia- ture; and Stephen T. Logan, lawyer, jurist, for five terms Representative in the General As- sembiy, Member of the Constitutionai Convention
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of 1847, delegate to repeated National Conven- tions, including that of 1860 in Chicago, by which Abraham Lincoln was nominated for his first term as President, and member of the Peace Conference called at Washington in Feb- ruary, 1861. Judge Logan is conceded to have been one of the ablest lawyers connected with the Illinois State Bar, as well as member of the General Assembly, and it is worthy of men- tion in this connection that two of his sons-in- iaw (Miiton Hay and Stephen T. Littler) served with distinction in the same body, while his grandson and namesake (Hon. Logan Hay) is present Senator (1911) from the same county.
Referring more fuliy to the record of Milton Hay, it is safe to say that no one ever served his constituency more efficiently and unselfishly than he, both in the General Assembly and the Con- stitutional Convention of which he was a iead- ing member in 1869-70. For years a ciose ad- viser of successive occupants of the executive chair, he rendered the State most valuable serv- ice, without ever having his name mixed up, even by suspicion, with anything in the shape of modern "graft."
In connection with agriculturai interests no member ever rendered more valuable service than Hon. James N. Brown, for four years a Representative in the General Assembly for San- gamon County, and a leading factor in the founding of the Illinois State Agricultural So- ciety, which he served for two terms as its first President.
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS. - Sangamon County has been represented in successive State Constitutionai Conventions since that of 1818, as follows :
Convention of 1847 .- John Dawson, James H. Matheny, Ninlan W. Edwards, Stephen T. Logan.
Convention of 1862 .- Benjamin S. Edwards, James D. Smith.
Convention of 1869-70 .- Miiton Hay, Samuel C. Parks (of Logan County).
DIPLOMATISTS .- In the field of diplomacy no representative has ever served the Nation more ably and efficiently than the iate Col. John Hay, for many years Secretary of Legation for the United States at varlous European Courts, and for nearly seven years (1898-1905) Secretary of State under the administrations of Presidents Mckinley and Roosevelt.
Robert T. Lincoln, son of President Lincoln, served as Secretary of War for one term by appointment of President Garfieid, and as Am-
bassador to Great Britain under President Har- rison.
Edward L. Baker, for many years editor of the "Illinois State Journai," at Springfield, aiso served with special success for nearly twenty-five years as United States Consul at Buenos Ayres, South America.
MILITARY DEPARTMENT .- It is impossible in this connection to present anything like a com- plete roster of citizens of Sangamon County, who, in various officiai positions, won distinction during the various wars in which citizens of the county participated. For this the reader is re- ferred to the chapter on "Indlan and Mexican Wars" and "Civil and Spanish-American Wars." The following is a list of those who have served as Adjutant-Generai in connection with the State Government : ' Moses K. Anderson (1839-57) ; Thomas S. Mather (1858-61), became Colonei of the Second Artillery, and retired with the rank of Brigadier General ; Hubert Dilger (1869-73) ; Edward L. Higgins (1873-75) ; Jasper N. Reece (1891-93) ; Alfred Orendorff (1893-96) ; Jasper N. Reece (1897-1902).
Gen. Isham N. Haymie, who served as a Brig- adier General during the latter years of the Civil War, was appointed Adjutant General as a citizen of Alexander County in 1865, and it devolved upon him to issue the first edition of the Adjutant General's report for the war period. He then became practically a citizen of Sanga- mon County and there died in 1868.
CHAPTER XVI.
BENCH AND BAR.
JUDICIAL POWERS UNDER CONSTITUTION OF 1818- FIRST SUPREME COURT-ELECTION OF SUPREME AND CIRCUIT JUDGES BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY -FIRST CIRCUIT COURT IN SANGAMON COUNTY- SUBSEQUENT CHANGES-ABOLITION OF CIRCUIT JUDGE SYSTEM-SUPREME JUDGES ASSUME JURIS- DICTION-CREATION OF THIE FIFTH CIRCUIT- LATER CHANGES IN CIRCUITS OF WHICH SANGA- MON COUNTY FORMED A PART- JUDICIARY REVO- LUTION OF 1841-JUSTICES MADE ELECTIVE BY POPULAR VOTE UNDER CONSTITUTION OF 1847-
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OCCUPANTS OF THE CIRCUIT BENCH IN SANGA- MON COUNTY AT DIFFERENT PERIODS-PROBATE AND COUNTY COURTS-BAR OF SANGAMON COUNTY -SKETCHES OF PROMINENT MEMBERS-NOTED LAWYERS FROM OTHER COUNTIES WHO HAVE PRACTICED IN SANGAMON COUNTY- ROSTER OF THE SANGAMON COUNTY BAR, 1910.
(By Hon. James A. Connolly.)
Under the constitution of 1818, the judicial powers of the State were "vested in one Su- preme Court and such inferior courts as the Gen- erai Assembly sbaii, from time to time, ordain and establish." Tbe Supreme Court was to hold its sessions at the seat of government, and to consist of a Chief Justice and three Asso- ciate Justices, chosen by joint vote of both branches of the General Assembly, this arrange- ment to remain in force until after the session of the General Assembly for the year 1824, when that body was empowered to increase the number of Justices, the members of both the Supreme and the inferior courts being eiective in the same manner. Under this arrangement the State was divided into four Grand Divisions or Districts, each being under the jurisdiction of one Justice of the Supreme Court, and by an act approved February 11, 1821, Sangamon County, with St. Clair, Madison, Greene, Pike and Montgomery Counties, constituted the First Judicial Circuit. The first term of the Sangamon Circuit Court was held May 7th following, at the house of John Kelly, on the present site of Springfield, besides Jolın Reynolds as presiding Justice, there being present Charles R. Matheny, Clerk ; Jobn Taylor, Sheriff ; and Henry Starr, Prosecuting Attorney, pro tem.
The first suit was that of Samuel Irwin es. Roland Shepherd, for trespass, but it was dis- missed at cost of plaintiff. Three indictments were returned by the Grand Jury, two for assanlt and battery and one for rlot, bnt trials were postponed to the next term of court, and this ended the business.
By act of the Legislature, approved February 17, 1823, Montgomery County was detached from the original circuit and Morgan and Fulton Counties added, by furtber changes made December 29, 1824, the circuit becoming Sanga- mon, Pike, Fulton, Morgan, Greene and Mont- gomery Counties. At this time tbe State was divided into five circuits, and a Circuit Judge ap- pointed for each, Jobn York Sawyer being as- signed as presiding Judge to the First Circuit.
Au incident in connection with Sawyer's official iife, related in Palmer's History of the "Benchi and Bar of Illinois," was the whipping (under the law then in force) of a man convicted of petty iarceny, while the attorney for the alleged criminal was absent from the court room to ob- tain some authorities to support his claim for a new trial. On the return of the lawyer, tire Judge listened to the appeai for a new trial until the convicted party informed his attoruey that he had already received one punishment and did not wish to undergo another.
Under the provisions of an act, approved January 12, 1827, the Circuit Judges were iegis- lated out of office, tbe Justices of the Supreme Court then assuming jurisdiction of the circuit courts. The First Circuit then embraced the counties of Peoria, Fulton, Scbnyier, Adams, Pike, Calhoun, Greene, Morgan and Sangamon, with Justice Samuel D. Lockwood, of the Supreme Conrt, as presiding Justice for the circnit. An- otber change came in 1829, when by act of January 8th of that year, the territory north- west of the Illinois River was organized as tbe Fifth Judicial Circult, with Richard M. Yonng as Circuit Judge, the other circuits being still presided over by Justices of the Supreme Court. Under this arrangement Sangamon County still formed a part of the First Circuit, the other counties embraced in the circuit being Pike, Cal- houn, Greene, Macoupin, Morgan, Macon and Tazewell, McLean being added thereto two years later. No further changes were made until 1835, when by a general reorganization Pike County was detached. At the same time (by act of January 7, 1835) the system of Circnit Judges was re-established, the State being then divided into six circults, the First Circuit being other- wise unchanged. Stepien T. Logan, of Spring- field, became the first Circuit Judge under this arrangement, being elected by joint vote of the Legislature in 1835. Two years later he re- signed and was succeeded by William Brown, of Jacksonville, who held office only fonr months, being commissioned March 20tb, and resigning July 20, 1837. His successor was Jesse Burgess Thomas, Jr., who resigned in 1839, being theu sncceeded by William Thomas, wbo was com- missioned February 25th of that year.
During the latter year (by an act approved February 25) the State was divided into nine circuits, Sangamon County constituting a part of the Eighth, the other countles being McLean. Macon, Tazeweli, Menard, Logan, Dane (now
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Christian) and Livingston. Stephen T. Logan was again chosen Circuit Judge, being commis- sioned February, 1839, but hoiding office oniy three months when he resigned and, on May 27th, was succeeded by Samuei HI. Treat, who con- tinned iu office untii February 15, 1841, when he was promoted to Justice of the Supreme Court, the office of Circuit Judge having then (by act of February 11, 1841) been abolished This step resuited from the attitude of the partisan ma- jority in the State Legisiature in opposition to two decisions of the Supreme Court (then con- sisting of a Chief Justice and three Associate Justices). One of these decisions denied the right of the Governor to appoint, without ap- nroval of the Senate, a man to the office of Secretary of State, when the incumbent intended to be onsted had been appointed under the Con- stitution without definiug its tenure, there being no direct charge questioning his good behavior. The other decision was a denial of the right of aliens-a large majority of whom were pro- fessed Democrats-to vote under the State iaw without naturalization. This led to the passage of an act providing for the election (by joint vote of the . General Assembly) of five additional Justices of the Supreme Court, that body then assuming charge of the circuit courts. The addi- tional Judges selected under this act were Thomas Ford, Sidney Breese, Walter B. Scates, Samuel II. Treat, and Stephen A. Douglas-all Democrats and all of them, with the exception of Donglas, then occupying seats on the circuit bencli. Thomas Ford (one of the appointees and afterwards Governor), in his "History of Il- linois," mildly speaks of this act as "a confessedly violent and somewhat revolutionary measure, which could never have succeeded except in times of great party excitement."
Under this "revolutionary" act the Justices of the Supreme Court again assumed jurisdiction of the circuit courts, Judge Treat, who was then a resident of Springfield, presiding over the courts of Sangamon County. This continued untii 1848, when, by the adoption of the Constitution of that year, Circuit Judges were eiective by popular vote, each for a term of six years, but not eli- gible to election "to any other office of public trust or profit in this State or the United States. during the term for which they are (were) elected, nor for one year thereafter." By the same Constitution the State was also divided into nine Judicial Circuits, Sangamon County again being assigned to the Eightil Circuit, in
which there was no change. David Davis, of Bioomington, a close friend of Abraham Lincoln, was eiected as the first Judge under this organ- ization, retaining this position by successive re- elections until November, 1862, wheu he resigued to accept a seat on the Supreme Beuch of the United States, to which he was appointed by Mr. Lincoln.
In 1853 the Eighth Circuit Court was composed of Sangamon, Logan, McLean, Woodford, Taze- weil, DeWitt, Champaign and Vermilion Coun- ties. On February 11, 1857, another change was made, Sangamon County then becoming a part of the Eighteenth Circuit, with the counties of Macoupin, Montgomery and Christian, McLean County having thus been eliminated from the cir- cnit embracing Sangamon County, the connection of Judge David Davis with the Circuit Courts of the latter ceased, the position of presiding Justice being then occupied by Edward Y. Rice, of Mont- gomery County, who remained in office by re- election until August 20, 1870, when he resigned. In April, 1869, however, Sangamon, with Macou- pin County, constituted the Thirtieth Circuit, Benjamin S. Edwards, of Springfield, becoming the presiding Justice of the new circuit for fif- teen months, when he resigned, being succeeded by John A. McClernand, who filled out the un- expired term of Edwards, serving from July 12, 1870, to June, 1873.
By act of March 28. 1873, the State was divided into twenty-six circuits, with the connties of Sangamon, Macoupin, Shelby, Christian, Fayette and Montgomery constituting the Nineteenth Cir- cuit, and Charies S. Zane, of Springfield, was elected the first Judge of the new circnit. An- other change came in 1877, when the State was divided into thirteen circuits with three Judges in each, thus reducing the circuits to one-half the original number by consolidating portions of ad- jacent circuits, and increasing the whole number of Justices to thirty-nine. Under this arrange- ment Sangamon County became a part of the Fifth Circuit, the other counties being Christian, Macoupin, Shelby and Moutgomery. Horatio M. Vandeveer, of Tayiorviile, who was then a Judge of the Twentieth Circuit embracing Christian, thus became a Judge of the new circuit, while William R. Welch, of Carlinville, was elected during the same year (1877) as the third Judge. Judge Vandeveer retired at the ciose of his teru, being then succeeded by Jesse J. Philips, of Hiiisboro, who served until 1893, when he became an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, his
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