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October, 1812. Shadrach Bond, then a resident of St. Clair County, was elected the first Delegate to Congress from Illinois. Pierre Menard was chosen from Randolph County member of the Legislative Council, and George Fisher of the House of Representatives. The Legislature convened at Kaskaskia on the twenty-fifth of November, 1812.
In April, 1818, a bill providing for the admission of Illinois into the Union as a sovereign State was passed by Congress. A Convention to frame a Constitution assembled at Kaskaskia in the following July. The first election under the Constitution was held in September, 1818, and Shadrach Bond was elected Governor, and Pierre Menard, Lieutenant Governor. Illinois was now declared by Congress admitted to the Union as on equal footing in all respeets with the original States. The Legislature again met at Kaskaskia in January, 1819. This was the last session ever held at Kaskaskia. Vandalia, the same year, was selected as Capital of the State. It was stipulated that Vanda- lia was to be the Capital for twenty years. At the end of that period it was changed to Springfield. Below we give list of governors and chief officers of Illinois.
Illinois was constituted a separate Territory by act of Con- gress, February 3d, 1809.
OFFICERS OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS.
STATE
SOVEREIGNTY
FROM 1809,
TO 1878.
UNION
IONAL
NAT
ILLINOIS TERRITORY.
NAME OF OFFICER. OFFICE. OR INAUGURATION.
Nathaniel Pope,.
Secretary of the Territory, .... March 7, 1809.
Ninian Edwards,
Governor,
April 24, 1809.
H. H. Maxwell,.
1816.
Daniel P. Cook כי
Auditor Public Accounts, 66 January 13, 1816.
Joseph Phillips, .Secretary,
December 17, '16.
Robert Blackwell, Auditor Public Accounts,. April 5, 1817.
Elijah C. Berry
August 29, 1817.
John Thomas, Treasurer,. 1818.
STATE OF ILLINOIS.
Shadrach Bond, Governor, October 6, 1818.
Pierre Menard,
Lieut-Governor,
6, 1818.
Elias K. Kane,.
Secretary of State,. 6, 1818.
Elijah C. Berry,. Anditor Public Accounts, 1818.
1818.
Robert K. Mclaughlin, ... August 2, 1819.
Edward Coles,
Governor,
December, 1822.
Adolphus F. Hubbard, .Lieut. Governor,
1822.
Samuel D. Lockwood,. .Secretary of State, 18, 1822.
Abner Field, Treasurer, Jannary 14, 1823.
David Blackwell, ..
.Secretary of State, April 2, 1823.
Morris Birbeck
October 15, 1824.
George Forquer,
Jannary 15, 1825.
Ninian Edwards,. Governor,
December, 1826.
William Kinney Lient-Governor,
1826.
James Hall, .Treasurer, Febr'y. 12, 1827.
Alexander P. Field,.
.Secretary of State, January 23, 1829.
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John Thomas, Treasurer,
DATE OF COMMISSION
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HISTORY OF MACON COUNTY, ILLINOIS.
John Reynolds, Governor, December 9, 1830.
Zadoek Cascy, Lient-Governor, 9, 1830.
Jolın Dement, Treasurer,
February 5, 1831.
Newton Bateman, ... .Super't. Public Instruction ....... January 10, 1865.
George W. Smith,. Treasurer,
January, 1867.
Jolın M. Palmer,
Governor, Jannary 11, 1869.
Jolın Dougherty, Licut-Governor, 11, 1869.
Edward Rummell,.
.. Sceretary of State ...
Charles E. Lippincott.
.. Auditor Public Accounts,.
11, 1869.
Erastus N. Bates .Treasurer,
= 11, 1869.
Newton Bateman,. .Super't. Public Instruction, ..... January, 1871.
Erastus N. Bates, Treasurer,
Nov. 8, 1870.
Richard J. Oglesby, Governor, .January 13, 1873.
Jolın L. Beveridge,. Lieut Governor, 13, 1873.
1841.
George H. Harlow,
.Secretary of State,
13, 1873.
Edward Rutz,
Treasurer,
13, 1873.
John L. Beveridge,
Governor,
= 23, 1873.
John Early,
Lieut-Governor,
23, 1873.
S. M. Cullom
Governor,
8,1877.
Andrew Shuman,
Lieut-Governor,
8,1877.
George H. Harlow Secretary of State,.
8, 1877.
Edward Rutz,.
Treasurer,
8, 1877.
T. B. Ncedles,
Auditor Public Accounts, 8,1877.
S. M. Etter,
Super't. Public Instruction, ..
8, 1877.
J. P. Slade, ..
J. C. Smith,. Treasurer, 8,1879.
Believing that it will be interesting to the younger readers of our work, we subjoin the following list of Presidents of the United States :
PRESIDENTS UNDER THE CONSTITUTION. TERM OF SERVICE.
George Washington Virginia, 1789 to 1797, eight years.
12, 1857.
John Adams.
Massachusetts, .... 1797 to 1801, four years.
Thomas Jefferson. Virginia,. .1801 to 1809, eight years.
James Madison Virginia . .. 1809 to 1817, eight years.
James Monroe .. Virginia, .. .1817 to 1825, eight years.
John Quincy Adams Massachusetts, .... 1825 to 1829, four years.
Andrew Jackson
Tennessee, .... .1829 to 1837, eight years.
Martin Van Buren New York, 1837 to 1841, four years.
Ohio, ...... .1841, one month.
John Tyler. . Virginia, .. .1841 to 1845, four years. James K. Polk.
Tennessee .. .1845 to 1849, four years.
Zachary Taylor Louisiana, 1849 to 1850, one year.
Franklin Pierce New Hampshire,. 1853 to 1857, four years.
12, 1863. James Buchanan. Pennsylvania, ..... 1857 to 1861, four years.
Abraham Lincoln, (murdered) .. Illinois. ...... ... 1861 to 1865, 4 yrs. 1 mo.
16, 1865.
Andrew Johnson
.. Tennessee, ........ .1865 to 1869, four years.
Ulysses S. Grant .. Illinois,. .1869 to 1877, eight years.
Sharon Tyndale, Secretary of State, 16, 1865.
Orlin II. Miner, Auditor Public Accounts,. Dec. 12, 1864.
James H. Beveridge, ... .. Treasurer, January 9, 1865.
Charles Gregory, ..
.Treasurer,
December 5, 1836.
Jolın D. Whiteside,.
Marelı 4, 1837.
Thomas Carlin, ....
Governor,
December, 1838.
Stinson II. Anderson, ... Lieut-Governor,
66
1838.
Stephen A. Douglas, ....... .Secretary of State, ..
Nov. 30, 1840.
Lyman Trumbull, March 1, 1841.
Milton Carpenter, .. Treasurer,
James Shields, .... . Auditor Public Accounts.
Thomas Ford, Governor, December 8, 1842.
John Moore,. Lieut-Governor, 66
8, 1842.
Thomas Campbell,. .Secretary of State,
March 6, 1843.
William L. D. Ewing .. .. Auditor Public Accounts, .. 6, 1843.
Thomas H. Campbell,
P. A. (to fill vacancy),
26, 1846.
Augustus C. French, .. Governor,
December 9, 1846.
Joseplı B. Wells, . Lieut-Governor,
9,1846.
Horace S. Cooley, Secretary of State,
23, 1846.
Jolin Moore,
Treasurer, (to fill vacancy), .. August 14, 1848.
William McMurtry,
Lieut-Governor,. .January, 1849.
David L. Gregg,
Scc'y. of State (to fill vacancy), April 3, 1850.
Joel A. Matteson,
Governor,
January, 1853.
Gustavus Koerner,
Lieut-Governor,
1853.
Alexander Starne, ..
.Secretary of State, ..
1853.
Ninian W. Edwards, .Super't. Publie Instruction, ..... March 24, 1854.
William II. Bissell, .Governor, January 12, 1857.
John Wood, Lieut-Governor,.
Ozias M. Hatch, .Secretary of State, ..
12, 1857.
Jesse K. Dubois .Auditor Public Accounts, 12, 1857.
James Miller, Treasurer, 66 12, 1857.
William H. Powell, Super't. Public Instruction, .. 12, 1857.
Newton Bateman,. 10, 1859.
William Butler,. . Treasurer (to fill vacancy ) ... .. September 3, 1859.
Richard Yates,
.Governor,
January 14, 1861.
Francis A. Hoffman, ...... Lieut-Governor, 14, 1861.
Ozias M. Hatch, Secretary of State,
66 14, 1861.
Jesse K. Dubois, Auditor Public Accounts, 14, 1861.
William Butler, Treasurer,
Newton Bateman,. .Super't. Public Instruction,.
14, 1861.
Alexander Starne, Treasurer,
John P. Brooks,. .Super't. Public Instruction,.
12,1863.
Richard J. Oglesby, .. Governor,
William Bross, Lieut-Governor,
= 16, 1865.
James T. B. Stapp,. .. Auditor Public Accounts,
August 27, 1831.
Joseph Duncan, .Governor,
December, 1834
Alexander M. Jenkins, ... Lieut-Governor, «.
1834.
Levi Davis, Auditor Public Accounts ...
.Nov. 16, 1835.
11, 1869.
1841. Charles E. Lippincott,
.. Auditor Publie Accounts, = 13, 1873.
8,1879.
William H. Harrison.
14, 1861. Millard Fillmore New York, 1850 to 1853, three years.
Rutherford B. Hayes Ohio, ... .1877, present incumbent.
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HISTORY OF MACON COUNTY, ILLINOIS.
CHAPTER III.
PIONEERS AND EARLY SETTLERS.
HE facts contained in the pages of this chapter have been patiently gathered from all attainable sources of informa- tion. Nothing has been omitted which casts light upon the past of the county, nor has an earnest endeavor been wanting to make the narrative complete.
A record of the brave men and women who first settled in this county, and laid the foundations of the prosperity we enjoy to-day, cannot fail to prove at once interesting and instructive. They, through unremitting toil and hardship, through sacrifice and danger, have made possible the degree of comfort and leisure and culture now enjoyed, and jointly with the settlers of other sections have assisted the progress of seience, letters and philosophy in this great valley. The germ of our beneficent system of free schools was planted by their hands and watered by their care. They brought with them the elevating ceremonies of a pure religion, and the great ideas of personal freedom, and the brotherhood of man- kind. They
"Travailed in pain with the births of God, And planted a State with prayers ; "
and that great State presses closely on to her predestined place, as the first among a glorious sisterhood.
We are heirs and also debtors of the past. It is not credita- ble to us that we so easily forget our great obligation to the hardy men and women who more than a half century ago traveled westward into this part of the great Mississippi basin, and changed the wilderness into a fertile land, and made it to "blossom as the rose." Most of their number have gone to the narrow house appointed for all the living, and the tomb which received their worn frames received also the host of rceollections, anecdotes and reminiscences which was of almost priceless value. A few well nigh worn out with the battle and toil of life linger among a generation for whom they have done much. From them have been gathered directly or indirectly the facts composing this chapter. They deserve well of their country; and as we reap the grand harvest their hands have sown, we can at least eause them to feel that they are held in high honor, and that their dceds, trials and distresses will be ever held in grateful remembrance.
The early settlers brought with them little we call wealth, but they brought what are of more value to him who would subdue a wilderness, frugal habits, stout muscles and brave hearts.
Before speaking more specifically of the pioneers and first settlers of Macon county, it is proper to speak briefly of the Indians who roamed over this land at the time the pioneer built his hut. Never did a race inspire more romantic contemplation, or suffer morc spcedily a disastrous fate. They perished when they came in con- tact with our civilization, almost as the hues of sunset fade when you look at them through the telescope ; or as the odor of the rose vanishes when you attempt to analyze it. Before they could be studied as inen or as nations, as families or tribes, they had disap- peared, or at least had fallen below the level of scientific observa- tion. We, therefore, know but little of them. Their origin is a mystery ; their history a myth ; their language mostly unknown and their literature a blank. But their misfortunes, no less than their brotherhood in the race, entitle them to remembrance, and the interests of historical and ethnological science prompt to collect every item of knowledge which remains to illustrate, in any way, their history.
It seems clear that they were not the first denizens of the soil
but that America was the home of a prior race, and evidence is not wanting that this race was preceded by another. Of the race directly preceding the Indians there remains but a mcagre record. A few mounds, some beads, a small variety of earth-made ware, stone hammers, implements for dressing skins, and now and then one of their idols of religious worship, together with a few articles of luxury, dissipation or ornament, are all of their domestic or pub- lic life left us. To describe them were impossible, and to write their history would be to set forth the " baseless fabric of a vision."
The Indian race which succeeded was numerous less than a con- tury ago, but we know little of them. They were a hunter race. They practiced scarcely one of the arts of peace. They were sheltered by wigwams ; they had rarely fixed boundaries for their tribes. And so we can remember only a brief day of their history. They were, and are not. They preceded us, but left the country no better for their labors. We can scarcely be grateful. We find their gimlets, arrow-heads, spcar-heads, flesh-scrapers, spades and ham- mers, all made of stone, and demanding infinite patience for their manufacture. They delved as patiently as their neighbors, the beavers, yet despised labor and imposed it as a degrading burden on their women. We alternately pity and despise them; admire their sublime stoicism, and sicken at their abominable cruclties. We use the maize which they sometimes cultivated, and stupefy ourselves with the smoke of the tobacco they taught us to consume. Their modes of life were individual rather than social. They were cunning and cruel, cautious and brave. Like the lion, they sprang unawares from ambush upon their victim, and from a lurking place would speed the arrow into the back of an enemy. Yet they could endure torture with stoic indifference, and look a single foe in the face with Spartan determination.
The Kiekapoo Indians occupied this portion of the country before the advent of the whites, and a remnant of this once powerful and warlike tribe was found here when the first settlements were made. This tribe was at peace with the whites, so that there are no blood- curdling tales of midnight attacks on defenceless settlements to re- count. Nevertheless troubles arose sometimes between the "intruding pale face " and the red man, and impartial history records that the whites were the cause of the disagreements. Until 1825-6 from 200 to 500 Indians would, at certain seasons of the year, camp in the vicinity of the trading-house of the Lortons. In 1827 a company of twelve men was formed to drive a band of Indians out of the settlements for threats made against the most turbulent of the Ward family, on account of injuries received from him. The last appear- ance of Indians in Macon county was in 1828 when a band of braves, twelve in number, with their squaws and pappooses came into the settlements. They soon departed, but were overtaken by a company of men commanded by John Ward. Smith Mounce of the Ward party, wrested a gun from an Indian after a struggle, but returned it by order of his captain. The Indians were then ordered to leave, and warned never to return, and the warning was heeded. The Kickapoos, thus associated with the history of Macon county, after leaving Illinois lived for many years on a beautiful reservation in the eastern part of Kansas. The rapid settlement of that State by the whites compelled them to enter into a new treaty with the gov- ernment, and remove further west.
EARLY SETTLEMENT.
The history of Macon county is singular in this, that the first settlers came to stay. The list of genuine pioneers is short, com. prising but two or three names.
A pioneer is "one who goes before to clear the way." He is the skirmisher of the van-guard of civilization, and never goes into per-
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manent quarters. He sows the seed, but leaves others to gather the harvest. He is never happy but when upon the frontier. When the tracking columns of those seeking homes appear, he plunges deeper into the western wilderness. Let him not be despised. His mission is to spy out the land and direct the footsteps of the swarm- ing millions behind him.
Europe was a thousand years in passing the pioneer stage of her history ; ours will be finished in three hundred, and soon the bold and careless pioneer will exist only in story and in song.
Reynolds, in his History of Illinois, says of the pioneers : "They were rough in personal appearance, yet kind, social and generous. They were hunters and stock-growers, and confined their agricultural operations chiefly to corn. They were brave, prompt and decided in war, yet liberal and magnanimous to a subdued foe. They were hospitable and generous, and ready to share with newly arrived strangers their last loaf."
The first white men who settled in this county were the brothers Lorton, from St. Joe, Michigan. They were Indian traders, and built a trading house twelve miles north-east of Decatur in 1816. As has been said, the Indians were at that time numerous, and the Lortons carried on a thriving trade until 1825-6, when the Indians ceased to visit this part of the country except in very small com- panies. The Indians engaged in hunting and trapping, and ex- changed at the trading house furs and other articles, for blankets, ammunition, whiskey, &c. When trade ceased to be profitable the Lortons went back to Michigan. They have no claim to the honor of being the first settlers in the county, as their venture was purely a business one, and they only intended to make a temporary resi- dence.
The first genuine pioneer was the bee-hunter and trapper, Wil- liam Downing. Wild honey was plentiful, and two hundred and sixteen pounds have been obtained from one tree, while fur-bearing animals abounded. Downing came from near Vandalia in the fall of 1820, and built a log cabin on the south side of the Sangamnon, near the site of the residence of Capt. D. L. Allin, and this was the first building erected for a residence within the limits of the county. When Jolin Ward came in 1824 Downing sold out his improve- ments to him and removed to Bond county, Illinois, where he lived for many years. It is a matter of regret that but little information has come down to us of the professional hunter and trapper who made the first settlement in the county.
The first permanent settler of Macon county was Leonard Stevens, Sr. He built a log house in 1821 or '22 (most probably the latter) on Stevens' creek, three miles north-west of Decatur. This became the nucleus of what was called the Stevens settlement.
It should be stated that the early settlements were made along the water courses, in the edge of the timber, where an abundance of wood and water was handy. In an early day it was not thought the prairies could ever be settled. In many places they were marshy, and so infested with flies and other insects that the settler was compelled to cross them with a team, and could only travel in the night time.
Mr. Stevens was a native of Connecticut, and was born in 1764. He was married in Connecticut to Alice Gates, also a native of that State, who was born in 1765, and survived her husband one year. Shortly after his marriage he emigrated to New York, where their children were born. They removed to Randolph county, Illinois, in 1818, distinguished as the year in which Illinois was made a State. From there he removed to Macon county. With him came Thomas Cowan, one of the commissioners appointed to select a site for the county seat. Mr. Stevens liad a large family ; seven sons and two daughters. Their names were Buel, Keziah, Leonard, Jr., Augus-
tus, Luthier, Dorus, Joseph, Harrict and James. Joseph died not long since, and at the time of his death, was the oldest settler of the county.
Josephi Stevens was born in New York, in 1808, and was thirteen years of age when he came to this county with his father. In 1830 he was married to Mary Warnick, daughter of William Warnick, the first sheriff of Macon county. He had three children by his first wife, Francis M., Wm. Henry and James M. His second wife was Mrs. Cunningham, nee Sentenay, who was a native of Kentucky By hier he had one child, Cyrus. The descendants of Leonard Stevens were numerons, and some of them are now residents of this county.
The first settlements werc on the north and south sides of the Sangamon river. That on the north was known as the Stevens settlement, that on the south as the Ward settlement. Those comprising the Stevens settlements were from New York, Virginia and Ohio, and were called Yankees by those of the other settlement who were from the Carolinas and Tennessec. The feeling between the two settlements was not very friendly, and fights were not un- common. Many of the Ward settlement had served in the army under General Jacksou, and were very proud of the fact.
Macon county was organized in 1829. Until 1828 the two settle- ments included about all the inhabitants who lived within the present limits of the county. In that year a wave of immigration poured into the county, and the settlements began rapidly to extend up and down the river. When Macon county was organized its area was much greater than at present; for it then included all of what is now De Witt county, except the northern tier of townships, all of Piatt except one township, and about half of Moultrie county.
The loss of so much territory occasioned no dissatisfaction, as at that time it was not thought the prairies would ever be cultivated, and the expense of maintaining roads was felt to be a burden. There seems to have been no immigration in 1823, but in 1824 came the Ward families from the vicinity of Vandalia. John Ward, Sr., was a native of England, born in 1769. In his youth lie emigrated to South Carolina, where he married Mary Ward, a native of Ireland, born in 1768. They removed to Tennessee, and then in a few years to Logan county, Kentucky, where Mr. Ward died. The mother remained until October, 1819, at which tiinc the family removed to the youthful State of Illinois, settling eleven
miles from Vandalia. On arriving in the county they settled on the south side of the river. The family was a large one. The eld- est son, Jerry, was born in South Carolina in 1788. He married in Kentucky, removed from this county first to Missouri and then to Texas, where he resided till his death. John Ward, Jr., was also a native of South Carolina, and was married in Kentucky. He had a family of seventeen children; died in 1831 and was buried at Wal- nut Grove. James, also, was born in South Carolina, and was mar- ried in Kentucky. He went to Missouri, then to Texas, where he died. Sarah, Margaret, Polly and Lucy were all born in South Carolina. Sarah became the wife of William Gambrel, in Ken- tucky, and died in Texas. Margaret was married in Kentucky to Elisha Freeman, one of the first commissioners of this county. She died in 1873. Polly married William Freeman, and lives in Missouri. Lucy became the wife of Hiram Reavis, and became a resident of Missouri. William was born in South Carolina in 1802, and came to Illinois in 1819. He was tlic father of Franklin, Hiram and John Ward. The other children were Thomas, born in 1804, who died in Christian county; Nancy, born in 1806, who died in Missouri, and whose children yet live there; and Lewis B., born in 1809. To the latter are we indebted for the information relating to the family.
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It seems probable that about the time the Wards came, the Spragues became residents here. Indeed, it is thought by some, that the third house in the county was built by Abraham Sprague, just south of the fair ground, and that the fourth house was built by Hubble Sprague on the site of the fair ground. They came from New York. Another early settler was William King, who settled a short distance south of the Spragues. Hc probably built on Stevens' ereek, in 1826, the first mill in the county. This was afterwards owned by Mr. Renshaw, and was called Renshaw's mill.
The year 1825 witnessed the arrival of quite a number of good citizens. Among them we mention Benj. R. Austin, a native of Virginia, and a surveyor by profession. He laid out the plat for the original town of Decatur ; was for many years justice of the peace. He married Margaret Warnick, by whom he had nine chil- dren. The same year also came Wm. Warnick, a native of North Carolina, born in 1784. He first moved to Tennessee and thence to this county. He bore a conspicuous and honorable part in the early history of this county ; was its first sheriff, holding that office from its organization until 1835; was a captain of rangers during the Black Hawk war, in which he was slightly wounded. It was during his term of office as sheriff that Redmon and Wyatt were whipped, receiving 39 and 21 lashes respectively by order of the court. The sheriff himself laid them on. Ile died in 1855.
Mr. Warniek's children were John, Margaret, Polly, (who mar- ried Joseph Stevens) James, Lucinda, Clark, Ira, Robert and Sarah. When Abraham Lincoln came with his father to Illinois, he first became a resident of Macon county. His mind was accidentally determined towards the profession of law by the perusal of some law books at the house of " Uncle Billy Warniek." It eame about in this way : He went to Unele Billy's house to see one of the girls, but in going got his fect badly frosted, and was, for a week or ten days, unable to return home. While under the medical treatment of old Mrs. Warnick, he began the study of the stray law-books owned by Unele Billy.
In 1825 also came David Florey, a native of Virginia, born 1803, and settled in what was soon to be known as Macon county. He was first married to Isabella Wright, also born in Virginia. Jerome Florey was the issue of this union. His second wife was Rachael, Rittenhouse, by whom he had three children : J. W., Melissa J. and Franklin. With him came P. D. Williams and Mr. Epper- son. David Florey, the well-known farmer and stock raiser, yet lives in Whitmore township. One account states that Mr. Draper came with him, but this is an error, as Mr. Draper did not arrive until nearly three years later. The same year also came Samuel and Joseph Widick, and possibly also Jacob and George. They were brothers of John Widick.
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