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During this formative period several animated discussions were held concerning the eligibility of Unitarians to member- ship. Among the leaders of the affirmative were Rev. A. H. Conant and Melancthon Starr. The Association was pros- perous for about three years. The last president was Lucius M. West. The outbreak of the civil war drew many of the young men into military service, and the Association ceased to exist about 1861. The meetings were held on the second floor of the stone building on the southeast corner of State and Wyman streets. Last year Charles L. Williams found the records of the Association among his household effects, and presented them to the present Association.
The Third Street church was the second daughter of the First church. It was organized January 9, 1858, with about eighty members, while Rev. Hooper Crews was pastor of the parent church. Messrs. Benjamin Holt, William Brown, Charles Foster, Solomon Wheeler, George Troxell, Willard Wheeler, William Worthington, Francis A. Horn and James Chick constituted the first board of trustees. Two lots were purchased on the east side of North Third street for twelve hundred dollars. The church was built by John Early in 1858 at a cost of four thousand dollars. It was dedicated by Hooper Crews, Satur- day, October 9, 1858. Rev. Thomas M. Eddy, the well-known
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editor and author, preached the following Sunday morning. A small parsonage was built adjoining the edifice on the north in 1859, at a cost of six hundred dollars. In 1866 the church was enlarged and improved at an outlay of eighteen hundred dollars. In 1871 the society bought a parsonage on State street, nearly opposite the Baptist church, for three thousand and nine hundred dollars. This property was subsequently owned by Henry C. Gill. In 1874 the society sold the former parsonage on Third street for thirteen hundred dollars. This church was visited by several successful revivals.
The Third Street church became strong and influential. Rev. Nathaniel P. Heath served from 1858-60; Rev. Luman A. Sanford, 1860-62. May 19, 1876, the First church and the Third Street church concluded to unite their fortunes and spend their future as one body, under the name of the Centennial church.
The State Street Baptist church was organized in 1858. During Rev. Ichabod Clark's pastorate of the First Baptist church, letters were granted to thirty-four members who wished to organize a society on the east side of the river. This pur- pose had its origin in the prayer-meetings held by the Baptist women in that part of the city. The first formal step toward the new church was the organization of a Sunday-school, July 4, 1858. July 13th, a prayer-meeting was held in the vestry of the Westminster Presbyterian church, at which notice was given that two weeks from that date a second meeting of those inter- ested in the new movement would be held.
The organization of the church was formally completed in the vestry of the Presbyterian church August 17, 1858, with the following constitutent members: C. E. Buswell, A. S. Bus- well, Eliza Barker, Charles Barker, Sophia C. Chamberlain, Brewster H. Chamberlin, Susan Cram (Mrs. P. Mesick), Armina Cram, Ruhanna Compton, Amanda Crane, Abby M. Dennis, James T. Dunn, Jane L. Dunn, Ann A. Dunn, Thompson Dunn, Stephen Gilbert, Sarah Gilbert, Maria Gilbert, Jacob Hazlett, - Jane Hazlett, Catherine Hazlett, Margaret Hazlett (Mrs. J. P. Largent), James B. Howell, Cardina M. Hathaway, H. H. Guthrie, Ellen Miles, George Mills, Susan Mills, Chichester Mills, Elizabeth M. Mills, Erastus B. Perry, E. R. Riggs, Charlotte A. Riggs, Sarah A. Stearns. Six of this number are still living in Rockford : Jacob Hazlett, Mrs. Jane Hazlett, Catherine Haz- lett, Mrs. J. P. Largent, Miss Eliza Barker, and J. B. Howell.
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· The first board of deacons consisted of E. R. Riggs, J. T. Dunn and C. E. Buswell; Chichester Mills, clerk; R. Smith, treasurer.
The next day, Rev. Edward C. Mitchell arrived in the city. August 31st he was called to the pastorate, which he accepted September 14th. The terms were three hundred dollars in cash, an equal amount in board for himself and wife, and two hundred dollars additional if circumstances permitted. One of the first steps was the engagement of Prof. D. N. Hood to con- duct the music. The church was prosperous during Dr. Mitch- ell's pastorate. A sociable was held in Metropolitan Hall, and plans perfected for a house of worship. A little chapel was erected on the corner of Market, State and North Fifth streets, which is still standing. This chapel was dedicated February 2, 1860. Its cost was eighteen hundred dollars. It had sittings for two hundred and fifty people. This house was built at a cost of ceaseless industry and sacrifice, and with some of the forms of special effort incident to pioneer times. For nearly nine years this chapel remained the home of the society.
The organization was first called the Second Baptist church of Rockford, but on the choice of a permanent location, the name was changed to indicate its relationship to the city, to the State Street Baptist church, October 26, 1858.
The present house of worship was dedicated November 18, 1868; the cost was more than thirty-four thousand dollars.
Dr. Mitchell's successors have been : Revs. Spencer F. Holt, Henry C. Mabie, E. K. Chandler, A. R. Medbury, C. R. Lathrop, J. T. Burhoe, R. F. Y. Pierce, Langley B. Sears, J. T. Burhoe. Rev. Burhoe's first pastorate was the longest in the history of the church. It began in September, 1883, and closed in Febru- ary, 1892. His present pastorate began in November, 1898.
Dr. Mitchell, the first pastor, died in New Orleans, in Febru- ary, 1900. He held positions of influence in his denomination. He was professor of Biblical literature at Shurtleff college; held the chair of Hebrew and Old Testament interpretation in the Baptist Union theological seminary; professor of Hebrew in Regent's Park college, London; president of a Baptist theo- logical school in Paris; acting president of Roger Williams uni- versity, at Nashville, Tennessee ; president of Leland university, New Orleans. He also did considerable literary work. In 1879 he revised and edited Davies' Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon ; with this he issued the Principles of Hebrew Grammar. In 1880 he issued a new translation of Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar.
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CHAPTER LXXV.
CONCLUSION.
T "HE presidential election of 1860 marked an epoch in Amer- ican history. The nation had come to the parting of the ways. Mr. Lincoln's prophecy that the government could not permanently endure half slave and half free, was about to be demonstrated before the world. Mr. Lincoln, by reason of his profound insight into the political situation, which he had · shown in his debates with Judge Douglas, was the logical can- didate of his party.
The nomination of Mr. Lincoln was received with great enthusiasm by the citizens of Rockford. In August the Rock- ford Wide Awake Club was organized. Its object was co-oper- ation for the success of Republican principles and the election of Mr. Lincoln.
Saturday, September 1st, was a Republican rally day. The Wide Awake Clubs from neighboring towns were present. The special attraction was Cassius M. Clay, the celebrated orator of Kentucky. The exercises were held on the court house square, and it was estimated that fully twelve thousand people were in attendance. The first speech was made by Hon. James H. Baker, secretary of state of Minnesota. Mr. Clay was intro- duced by Judge S. M. Church. "His oratory," said the Register, "is not of the fervid kind, but he is a calm, cool, deliberate speaker, laying out his ideas into square blocks of solid argu- ment and building up an edifice supported by facts and figures which it is absolutely impossible to undermine or batter down."
During September and October, a series of joint discussions was held by Judge Allen C. Fuller, of Belvidere, and John A. Rawlins, of Galena, on the political issues of the day. One joint debate was held in each county of the First congressional district. Judge Fuller was the Republican candidate for presi- dential elector, and Mr. Rawlins was the candidate of the Doug- las Democracy. One discussion was held in Rockford Septem-
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ber 29th. These debates have a historic interest by reason of the subsequent prominence of the participants. Judge Fuller became the war adjutant of the state, and in this capacity he displayed great executive ability, and was the able supporter of Governor Yates, in the organization of the military forces of the state. Judge Fuller still resides in Belvidere. Upon the outbreak of the war in 1861, Mr. Rawlins came promptly to the support of the union cause; he was the confidential friend and adviser of General Grant during his campaigns, and in 1869 he became his secretary of war.
Among other gentlemen who made addresses in Rockford during the campaign were Judge Lyman Trumbull, Stephen A. Hurlbut, Governor Bebb, Melancthon Smith, Colonel Ellis, James L. Loop and Judge Church. Richard Yates and Owen Lovejoy made speeches at Belvidere October 9th.
The presidential election was held November 6th. Winne- bago county cast 3,985 votes for Abraham Lincoln and 817 for Judge Douglas; Richard Yates received 3,986 votes for governor, and Mr. Allen 826.
The election of Mr. Lincoln was perhaps the most notable event in the life of the nation. The shouts of victory had scarcely died away when one southern state after another openly revolted from the authority of the union. The election of Mr. Lincoln brought the sword, rather than peace. But the sword was drawn in a holy cause. For two hundred and fifty years the irrepressible conflict between freedom and slavery had continued. The "land of the free" had made iniquity her law. Millions of bondsmen wet the soil with tears and blood. Cause and Effect, the chancellors of God, had come to enforce the truth that there were rights that states must keep or they shall suffer for their sins. Victor Hugo says of Napoleon at Water- loo: "For Bonaparte to be conqueror at Waterloo was not in the law of the nineteenth century. . When the earth is suf- fering from a surcharge there are mysterious moanings from the deeps that the heavens hear. Napoleon had been impeached before the Infinite and his fall was decreed. He vexed God. Waterloo is not a battle; it is the change of front of the uni- verse." So the Slave-Power had overleaped itself, and could no longer resist the advance of a more enlightened Christian civil- ization.
Abraham Lincoln was the divinely-appointed man for the hour. There seem to be certain superhuman adjustments that
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philosophy does not explain, that work out righteous results. Human wisdom does not foresee them; they do not destroy human freedom, but they do achieve their results with infallible certainty. The leaders of such events are like Æneas in the fable: they are often covered with a cloud woven by divine fin- gers, and men do not see them. But when they are needed the cloud breaks away, and they stand before the world prepared to do their work. Such a man was Abraham Lincoln. He was called to lead in a war made holy by the quickened moral con- science of the nation. Poets, and reformers, and statesmen had cast up the highway for the King, who should visit the nation with chastening. This judgment day was at hand, because Phillips, and Garrison, and Sumner had come ; because Whittier, and Lowell, and Harriett Beecher Stowe had come ; because Lincoln, and Seward, and Chase had come ; because Grant, and Sherman, and Sheridan had come; because the great and terri- ble day of the Lord had come !
INDEX
Agricultural society organized, 172. Alling, D. D., 49, 152, 156, 243. 245. Amusements, village, 133. Andrus, Isane, 246. Articles of Confederation, 4. Atlantic cable celebration, 357. Attorneys, city, 316. Atwater, Caleb, 12.
Baker. Col. Edward D., 207. Baker, Hon. E. H., 122-123, 347. Baker, Henry N., 123. Baker, Ira, 92, 122, 123. Banditti of the Frontier, 174-187. BANKS :
Briggs, Spafford & Penfield, 123,331. Dickerman, Wheeler & Co., 49, 331. E. H. Potter & Co., 331. Fuller & Tomkins, 331. Horsman's Bank, 317, 331.
Kitchel, Edward N., 331. Lane, Sanford & Co., 49, 235. Robertson & Holland, 331. Spafford, Clark & Ellis, 331. Winnebago National Bank, 355. Barbour, O. F., 343. Barnard, D. A., 340. Barnum, Anson, 38, 86, 100, 155.
Barnum, Daniel, 129.
Barnum, Ezra, 38, 86, 87. Barnum, Harris, 129-130. Baume, Rev. James, 73. Beattie, John, 49, 144, 159, 246. Beattie, Misses 10, 49. Bebb, Gov., trial of, 358-359. Beers, Daniel, 38, 69, 71, 100. Bertrand & Sames, 324. Big Thunder, 34, 111. Births, first, 76. Black Hawk, 16-21. Black Hawk War, 14, 16-21, 63. Black, Ike, 45, 46. Blackmer, O. C., 342. Blackstone, E. S., 104, 131, 185. 237. Blaisdell, E. W., 218-219. Blake School, 31. Blake, Thatcher, 27, 31, 36, 63, 87. 106. Blake, Mrs. Thatcher, 31, 43. Blair, John, 353. Blakeman, Benjamin, 363. Blinn, Jesse, 313, 322, 333. Boilvin, Nicholas, 58, 59.
Boswell, James, 36. Brett, Mrs. Carrie, 126. 244, 356. BRIDGES : First Rockford, 231-233. Second Rockford, 314.
Bridge tax levy. 233. Briggs, C. C., 337, 354. Brinckerhoff, Geo. W .. 29, 48. 62, 70. 78, 88. 189, 244, 245. Brown, Andrew, 103, 104.
Brown, E. W., 276.
Brown, Eunice, 87. 88. Brown, Horace, 340.
Brown. Judge Thomns, 100, 159, 185, 242, 263. Brown, Judge William, 130, 276-277. Bundy, H. W., 85. Bundy & Goodhne, 85. Burnap, Francis, 120, 157. 167, 168, 171, 194, 213, 251. 354.
Burhoe, Rev. J. T., 377.
Burns, Michael, 246, 371.
Bushnell, Horace, 95, 96.
Butterworth, Thomas, 349, 365-366.
Campbell, John, nmrder of, 177. Campbell, Thompson. 101. Currico. T. W., 50. Catlin, Dr. A. M., 107-109. 229.
Catlin, Dr. E. P., 47, 303.
Catlin, Mrs. E. P., 93. 283.
Cemeteries, 151-153. Census. County, first, 53.
Census, resume, 357. Census. Village, first, 148. Chaney. Ralph, 175. 176. 177. 179. 181. Charivari fatality. 358. Charters, Rockford. 314-315. Charters. Royal. 1. Chase, Salmon P., 357. Chetlain, Mrs .. 92, 228. CHURCHES : Baptist, First. 138-147. Baptist, State Street. 376-377. Catholic, St. James, 369-370. Christian, 373.
Congregational, First, 87-96.
Congregational, Second. 306-312. Episcopal, 284-286. Lutheran, First Swedish, 372-373. Methodist, Court Street, 368-369. Methodist, First, 68-74.
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CHURCHES-continued.
Methodist, Third Street, 375-376. Methodist, Winnebago Street, 374. Presbyterian, First, 370-372. Presbyterian, Westminster, 373-374. Unitarian, 194-200. Universalist, 229-230, Church, Samuel I., 93, 351 ..
Church, Judge S. M., 29, 38, 41, 50, 62, 132, 167, 168, 171, 191, 226, 239, 241, 249, 264, 354. Church, Mrs. S. M., 87, 238. Churchill, P. P., 38. Circuit courts, first, 100.
City tax levies, 316. Claim fights, 76-80.
Clark, Dr. D. S., 275, 303.
Clark, Dr. Dexter, 275, 331.
Clark, George Rogers, 2, 3.
Clark, Rev. Ichabod, 144, 145.
Clark, Dr. Lucius, 274-275, 291.
Clark, Dr. L. A., 275.
Clark, Orlando, 224, 234, 322.
Clary, Rev. Dexter, 295, 308.
Clay, Henry, 45, 258, 317.
Clerks, city, 315. Coleman, John S., 279, 310, 334-335. Colton, A., 192, 193, 218.
Commercial Block, 359.
Commissioners' court, 55, 58, 154, 157, 164, 201.
Conant, Rev. A. H., 197-199, 287.
Conick, W. G., 101, 215. Conick, Mrs. Willianı, 50.
Constitution of 1818, 55, 261.
Constitutional convention of 1818, 264.
Corey, Alonzo, 163, 236.
Corwin, Tom, 197, 358-359.
Cosper, Elias, 197, 339.
Cotton, Robert H., 50.
Cotton, Mrs. Robert H., 50 312. County commissioners, 54, 58.
County divided, 81.
County jail, first, 156.
County jail, brick, 159.
County officers made elective, 201.
County seat contest, 154-159.
County seat located, 58. Countryman, Alfred, execution of, 351. Court house, first, 70, 88, 89, 101. Crawford, S. P., 145. Crews, Rev. Hooper, 73, 351.
Crime, first, 75. Croly, David G., 220. Crosby, Asa, 87, 92, 100. Cross, Robert J., 39, 53, 54, 55, 57, 84, 121, 172, 191,. 264.
Cunningham Brothers, 124-125.
Cunningham, I. N., 29, 43, 136, 156, 172, 194. Cunningham, William, 103. 156. Curtis, Prof. E. L., 90.
Curtis, G. W., 200, 327. Curtis, Rev. W. S., 90, 251.
Dacotas, 11. Dam, first, 222-224. Davenport, Col., 16, 184, 187.
Davis, Jefferson, 15, 108, 337. Dennett, G. H., 366. Dennis, W. P., 47, 86, 168.
Dickerman, W. A., 91, 235-236, 240. Reminiscences of, 235-247.
Dickerman, Mrs. W. A., 113. Dixon, John, 212. Doty, Simon P., 54.
Douglas, Stephen A., 76, 160, 161, 250, 262, 263, 330, 360-361.
Dow, Daniel, 144, 158, 169-170, 242. Driscolls, the, 174-181.
Drummond, Thomas, 101, 242, 263, 322. Dunbar, William E., 38, 54, 55, 67, 76, 163, 168, 239.
Early, Hon. John, 335-336.
Ebbert, John, 271.
Edwards, John, 116, 280.
ELECTIONS :
County, first, 54.
Precinct, 56. Previous to 1850, 201-207.
Of 1852-53, 819-320.
Of 1856, 356. Of 1860, 379.
Ellis, Col. E. F. W., 336.
Ellsworth, Col. E. E., 356-357.
Ely, Rev. B. E. S., 90, 372.
Emerson, Prof. Joseph, 94, 334.
Emerson, Rev. Joseph, 309-310.
Emerson, Ralph, 322, 323, 334.
Emerson, Mrs. Ralph, 334.
Enoch, Abraham I., 39, 131, 320.
Enoch, Henry, 69, 100.
Enoch, Mary, 69.
Enoch, H. R., 43.
Fair, first, 172-173.
Farnsworth, Hon. J. F., 191.
Farwell, Seth B., 100, 181.
Ferguson, Duncan, 120-121, 145, 190.
Ferguson, Samuel, 340.
Ferry, 60, 61-62.
Fisher, Henry, 46.
Fisher, John, 62.
Foote Brothers, 107-108.
Foote, Rev. Hiram, 293. Forbes, A. D., 339.
Forbes, Duncan, 324, 339.
Forbes, Geo. R., 116, 246, 340. Fire department, 316. Floats, Indian, 13, 14, 29, 41, 59, 77.
Ford, Thomas H., 16, 53, 166, 167, 175, 181, 262. Forty-niners, 283.
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Foundry, first, 233-234. Fraley, John, 367. Fraternities, 347-348. Freeman, Henry, 342-343. French, Irvin, 88. French occupancy of Illinois, 1, 2.
Frink, Walker & Co., 99, 102, 103, 182, 237, 242. Fuller, Arthur, 287.
Fuller, Margaret, 33, 197, 200, 287.
Fuller, Gen. Allen C., 242, 378-379.
Galena alien case, 261.
Gas Light and Coke Company, 349.
Geological survey, 6-9.
George, Sampson, 42, 75, 284.
Gibson, Allen, 354.
Giddings, Joshua R., 333.
Gipsy steamboat, 114-115.
Gleason, H. W., 100. Goodall, Blanche. 96.
Goodhue, Geo., 85.
Goodhue, Dr. J. C., 40, 63, 66, 85, 109, 110-112, 148, 163, 168, 173, 188, 189.
Goodrich, Dr., 45. Goodwin, Dr. A. E., 337.
Goodwin, Rev. H. M., 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 227,294. Gorham, M. L., 365.
Grand jury, first, 100. Grant, U. S., 160, 379. Greeley, Horace, 197, 327-328.
Gregory, Eliphalet, 36, 54, 71. Gregory, Joanna, 69.
Gregory, L. B., 170, 223, 275.
Gregory, Samuel, 36, 37, 69, 71, 72, 100. 271. Griggs, Joseph P., 53, 54, 57.
Haight, D. S., 35-36, 47, 54, 55, 60, 63, 66, 67, 70, 85, 86, 88, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 148, 155, 167, 171, 189, 213, 214. 215, 281. Haines, Anthony, 129, 338. Hale, Dr. H. B., 366.
Hale, John P .. 317. Hall, Alonzo, 191. Hall, John H., 363. Hall school, 363. HALLS :
Metropolitan, 126, 358, 359. Peake's, 129. Warner's, 196, 371. Hard, Giles C., 62, 99. Hard winter, the, 171. Harper, Derastus, 156, 158, 159, 214, 231, 232.
Haskell, George, 36,86, 114-117, 138, 139, 156, 158, 167, 172, 214, 246, 247, 289. Haskell, Rev. Samuel, 114, 117, 145. Hatch, Rufus, 93.
Hazlett, Jacob, 340.
Hempstead, Chas. S.,29, 164, 263,289. Henry, Patrick, 3.
Herrick family, 125-126. Hitchcock, Jonathan, 105.
Hitt, Hon. R. R., 256, 331, 361.
Holland, John A., 111, 121, 187, 191, 239, 279, 349.
Holland, H. P., 345, 349.
Ho-no-ne-gah, 22-25.
Hood, D. N., 364.
HOTELS :
American House, 70, 101, 104. Brown's Cottage, 104.
City, 316.
Eagle, 104. Holland House, 355-356.
Inn, The 104.
Log Tavern, 104.
Rockford House, 100, 103, 148, 162, 172, 173, 174, 252.
Rock River House, 104.
Union, 104. Washington House, 252.
Waverly, 104. Winnebago House, 136, 171, 241, 242, 246, 252. Horsman, C. I., 42, 97, 133.144, 156, 158, 168, 172, 173, 188, 191, 192, 231, 241. Horsman, Mrs., 42, 241.
Hough, D. S., 366.
Houghton, Bethuel, 43, 86.
Howell, Daniel, 103, 157, 192, 231.
Howell, J. B., 144, 224, 273.
Howes, Phineas, 46, 127, 136, 185.
Hulin, William, 24, 129, 144, 158, 159, 191. Huntington, C. A., 80, 129, 244, 275- 276, 277. 289.
Hurlbut, Gen. Stephen A., 191. 242, 264, 265, 329, 330, 331.
Hydraulic company, 222-224.
Illinois, state, 5, 6. Illinois, territory, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
Indiana, territory, 5, 17. Irving, Washington, 250.
Jefferson, Joseph, 85. Jefferson, Thomas, 4. Jenks, Cyrus C., 86, 100. Jennie June, 221. Johnson, I. D., 271. Journalists and Journalism, 215-221.
Keith, Adam, 38 Kemble, J. C., 45. 97, 149, 188, 189. Kemp, Joseph, 25. Kent. Aratus, 36, 289, 291, 295. Kent, Germanicus, 26-31, 48, 53, 54, 57, 61 62, 63, 65, 66. 70, 86, 87, 88, 99, 103, 163, 167, 171, 208, 209, 211, 214, 244, 281.
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Kent, Lewis, 208-209. Kerr, Dr. Thomas, 121, 146-147. Keyt, David, 310, 354. Kilburn, Benjamin, 50, 76. Kilburn, Milton, 38. Kimball, Henry P., 303, 336-337. Kimball, Mrs. H. P , 117.
Kirk, E. A., 50, 129. Kishwaukee, village, 105, 108. Knapp, Rev. Jacob, 117, 139, 142-144. Knowlton, W. A., 340.
Lake, John. 46-47. Lake, Lewis F., 53.
Lake, Thomas, 36, 40, 46, 84, 86, Land sale at Dixon, 213-214.
Lane, R. P., 235, 338.
La Salle, 1, 2.
Lathrop, William, 313, 314, 335.
Latimer, Charles, 168, 171, 181, 282. Lawler, Thomas G., 96, 199, 228. Leach, Shepherd, 123, 124, 251, 252, Leavitt's town plat, 214.
Lecture courses, 1853-1860, lectures by E. P. Whipple, Horace Mann, Geo. W. Curtis, Horace Greeley, Bay- ard Taylor, Ralph Waldo Emerson, J. G. Saxe, James Russell Lowell, and others, 326-328. Lee, Geo. W., 105, 172, 188, 189. Leetown, 105.
Lincoln, Abraham, 21, 108, 160, 161, 202, 228, 262, 322-324, 334, 356, 378-80.
Lincoln-Douglas debate, 360-361. Logan, John A., 160, 330. London Company, 1. Loomis, H. W., 44, 243. Loomis, Nathaniel, 41, 44.
Loop, James L., 111, 163, 185, 186, 242, 330, 335.
Loss, Rev. Lewis H., 91, 92, 94, 289, 293.
Lovejoy, Rev. Elijah P., 116, 280, 361. Lowell, James Russell, 200, 328. Lowry, A, G., 340. Lyceum, 168.
Lyon, Isaiah, 114, 136, 138, 139, 148, 149, 156, 250.
Mack, Stephen, 20, 22-25, 63. McKenney robbery, 182. Mail, first, 98. Maine temperance law, 349. Manlove, J. G., 338. Manny, F. H., 325, 366.
Manny, J. H., 321-324. Manny, Mrs. J. H., 324. Manny, John P., 325; 340. Manny-McCormick suit, 322-324. Manny mansion, 353. Manufacturers, 1850-1860, 324-325.
Marriages, first, 75. Marsh, Jason, 91, 94, 118-120, 126,
157, 163, 168, 173, 179, 181, 185, 186, 191, 192, 238, 252, 289. Marsh school, 342. Marsh, Volney A., 93, 171.
Martyn, James B., 36, 65, 71, 85, 100, 174.
Maynard, H. R., 50, 239, 243, 244. Mayors, 315.
Midway, 65, 66.
Mile-strip contest, 81-83.
Miller, Anson S., 157, 168, 169, 171. 185, 187, 206, 246, 289, 355.
Miller, Asher, 62, 238, 308.
Miller, C. F., 152, 168, 169, 171, 185, 187, 246. Miller, D., 367.
Miller, Horace, 70, 71, 130, 163, 172, 181.
Miller, Jacob, 104, 181, 189. Miller, John, 50. Miller, Orrin, 169.
Mitchell, Rev. E. C., 140. 377.
Mitchell, James, 100, 148. 159. 251. Molony, Dr., 250.
Montague, Richard, 38, 152, 172,194. Montague school, 38.
Morgan, Abiram, 29, 41, 138, 139. 156, 241, 251. Morgan, Mrs., 41, 241, 251.
Morrill family, 87.
Morrill, Rev. John, 49, 87, 88.
Moulthrop, Dr. L., 37, 163, 284.
Moulthrop, L., 277, 284, 285, 317.
Moundbuilders, 10, 11.
Mulford robbery, 183-184.
Myott, Catherine, 14, 59.
Navigation Rock river, 188-191. Nelson, John, 337. Nevius, Col. Garrett, 363.
Newburg, 105.
New England influence, 253-256.
North west Territory, 4, 5, 163. Norton, Rev. O. W., 90.
Oliver, Charles, 103, 174, 185. 186. Ordinance 1787, 4. 296.
Patriotic celebration, first, 97.
Peake, Laomi, Sr., 128-129, 157, 237.
Penfield, David S., 93, 123, 213, 251.
Penfield, J. G., 123, 339.
Penfield, Mrs. J. G., 339.
Penfield, S. F., 342, 366.
Penfield, William, 86, 97.
Perry, Seely, 46, 47, 277, 303, 315, 333, 345, 352, 353. Perry, Mrs. Marie T., 294. Peters, William, 50. Phelps, John, 25. Phillips, Wendell, 253-254. Pioneer (locomotive), 271.
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Pioneers of 1838, 130. Pioneers, previous to 1840, 38-39, 50, 130.
Pioneers, trials of, 131-133.
Plank road, 191.
Platt, Jolin, 50, 115, 116. 243. Plymouth Company, 1.
Polish Claims, 149, 210-214.
Political reminiscences, 201-107, 329- 331.
Pope, Nathaniel, 5, 162, 164, 165. Porter, Rev. Lansing, 90, 252, 308, 353.
Porter, John R., 366.
Posson, family, 43.
Postmaster, first, 98.
Postmasters of Rockford, 226-228.
Pottawatomies, 22, 34, 111, 170.
Potter, E. H., 48, 87. 92, 100, 101, 157, 213, 231, 232, 237, 289, 291, 313.
Potter, H. B., 40, 87, 98, 107, 108, 238.
Potter, Joel B., 92, 125, 131, 173, 238. Potter & Preston, 45. Precincts created, 56. Presiding elders, roster of, 74.
Preston, Samuel D., 48, 87, 101, 149, 167.
Public library, first, 344-345.
RAILROADS :
Galena & Chicago Union, 266-272. Chicago & Northwestern. 272. Kenosha & Rockford, 352-353. Rockford Central, 348.
Railroad convention, 267-268.
Rawlins, John A., 378-379.
Reed, Charles, 58, 59, 60, 155, 247. Reed, Rev. D. M., 199.
Reformn of Judiciary, 260. Regan. M. H., 71, 249, 273. Rhoades, Levi, 367.
Rib-town, 104. Richings. Dr. C. H., 42-43.
River and harborconvention, 257-259. Robertson. Thomas D., 121-122, 157, 158. 163, 168, 171, 185, 237, 239, 279, 289.
Robinson, Sylvester, 283.
Rockford's attitude toward repudia- tion of state debt, 166-167.
Rockford City Greys, 356. Rockford houses in 1838, 134-136.
Rockford, incorporated as a city, 313. Rockford seminary, 287-295.
Rock River Baptist Association, or- ganized, 140. Rock River conference, 68-74.
Rock River Medical Association, 283. Rock River Mutual Insurance Co., 332. Rodd, Joseph, 224, 324.
Roe. Rev. C. H. 146, 287.
Rose. Benjamin A., 274.
Rowland, William L., 345, 362. Rowland, William M., 362. Rowley, Isaac, 88.
Sacs and Foxes, 16. 17.
Sackett. C. T., 367.
Sanford, Albert, 36. 243, 251.
Sanford, Clara G., 10, 96. Sanford, G. A., 49. 84, 115. 116, 136, 159, 167. 185, 214, 231, 235, 239, 243, 251, 310. Sanford, Robert, 251.
Sayre, James, 105.
Schools, free public, 1855-'61, 341-343.
School funds, 297-300.
School houses and teachers, early, 300-303. Scipio, 104, 155.
Scott, Gen. 14, 19.
Scott. Sir Walter. 250, 363.
Scarles, H. D., 104, 128.
Seccomb, J. W., 277.
Secession convention, Rockford, 162. Secession from Illinois, proposed, 160- 165.
Seminary at Kishwaukee, 107-108.
Seventy-fourth regiment. 119.
Shaw, Bela, 130, 233, 236, 237, 289.
Shaw, C. A., 354, 366.
Sheldon, C. W., 265, 338-339.
Sheldon, Judge, 351.
Sheldon, Porter, 265.
Sherratt, Harriott Wight, 86, 118.
Sherratt, John H., 60.
Shumway family, 43-44.
Silk culture, 247.
Sill, Anna P., 94, 289, 290, 291, 292- 295.
Silsby, H. H., 45, 114, 136-137, 234. Skinner, Dea., 92. 246.
Smith, Abraham E., 228.
Smith, Melanethon, 227-228.
Social life in the early forties, 248-252.
Sons of Temperance, 344.
Southgate, J. M., 120, 340.
Southgate, Volney, 120.
Sovereign, I., 367. Spafford, Amos Catlin, 91, 127, 224. Spafford, Charles H., 126, 171, 185, 226, 227, 228, 249, 290, 320, 352. Spafford, Mrs. Charles II., 103, 126, 171, 249, 251. Spafford, John, 127, 359.
Spaulding, D. A., 44, 54, 55. 57, 66, 67,79,87.
Squier, John F., 345.
Stage barn, 70, 88, 102.
Stage coach, 102-103. Starr, Melancthon, 196, 278-280. State roads, 63. Stillman's Run, 19, 108, 109. Stone, Judge, Dan, 100, 261.
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Sunday at the ferry, 245. Swedish emigrants, first, 332. Sweasy, Rev. Lewis, 107. Sumner, E. B., 52, 106. Sumner, Ephraim, 89, 52, 56, 105, 131. Surveys, first, 66.
Sweet, M. P., 101, 163, 185, 187, 242.
Taggart, Hon. A., 343. Talcott, Henry, 39, 367.
Talcott, Sylvester, 56, 75, 322, 334, 367.
Talcott, Thomas B., 39, 54, 267, 367.
Talcott, William, 39, 367.
Talcott, William A., 334.
Taylor, Bayard, 197, 347.
Taylor, H. W., 364-365.
Taylor, James, 62.
Taylor, John F., 350-151.
Taylor, John W., 152, 156, 163, 171, 245, 251. Taylor, Zachary, 21.
Tax levy, first, 83-84.
Telegraph line reaches Rockford, 356.
Temperance society, first, 150.
Thompson, N. C., 325, 340, 365.
Thomas, Dr. Alden, 112-113, 158, 235, 241. Thomas, Dr. H. W., 74. Thurston, Henry, 47, 97, 100, 103, 214.
Thurston, John H., 32, 34, 35, 47, 66, 98, 103, 131, 182, 215, 249.
Ticknor, J. S., 348. Tinker, Robert H., 86, 345, 363.
Tinker, William H., 85.
Todd, L. H., 366.
Toms, Isaac, 50. Townsend, W. H., 93, 366. Township organization, 304. Trahern, W. D., 324, 367. Treaty of Paris (1763), 2; (1783), 3, 4. Treaties, Indian, 12-14, 17, 59, 77. Trowbridge, L. A., 273. Trowbridge, Mrs. M. T., 86.
Tullock, George, 170.
Twelve-Mile Grove, 65, 78, 79, 103, 105, 109, 242. Twogood, Sidney, 36, 40, 84, 86, 102. Twogood, William, 50.
Udell, Grant B., 171, 187. Upton, C. O., 338. Utter, Isaac, 234, 322, 339.
Vance, John. 86. Vanceborouglı, 105, 106. Vanhorne, Rev. G. R., 68.
Village plats, 104-106.
Village of Rockford incorporated, 148. Vincent, Bishop, 68, 69. Virginia, 1, 2, 3, 4.
Voters, first election, roster of, 54-55.
Waldo, Hiram H., 91, 92, 235, 252, 277-278, 330. Waldo, Lorenzo D., 373. Wallis, W. T., 93.
Walton, Rev. J. E., 286, 312. Warner, Lyman F., 278.
Washburne, Elihu R., 242, 319-320, 322, 329, 330, 331, 354-355, 360.
Water-power company, 321.
Warren, Edward, 171, 226.
Waterman, John D., 228.
Watson, Rev. Cyrus L., 89, 90.
Watson, Peter H., 233, 322.
Webster, Daniel, 20, 45, 317.
Weldon, Jonathan, 80, 172, 285.
Wentworth, John, 101, 110, 188, 215, 216, 257.
Wesleyan seminary, 346.
West, L. M., 363-364.
Wheeler, B. G., 227, 235, 290.
Wheeler, Willard, 71, 124, 213, 231, 239, 313.
Whitman, Rev. S. S., 138, 140, 141, 142, 250.
Whitney, Daniel, 29.
Whitney, Dr. Daniel H., 53, 54, 59, 75, 76.98, 163, 202, 264.
Whittier, John G., 115,
Wight, J. Ambrose, 97, 217-218.
Wight, James M., 118, 157, 168, 185, 191, 194, 229, 238.
Wight, Miss Mary, 118.
Wight school, 118.
Wilcox, Rev. W. T., 374.
Wilder, Nathaniel, 48.
Williams, Charles, 315, 362.
Williams, Charles L., 25, 364, 375.
Winnebagoes, 10-15, 19, 34, 59. Winnebago county organized, 51-57. Winnebago village, 58, 59, 60, 61, 108, 154, 155. Winters, John D., 99, 103.
Woodruff, Gilbert, 48, 69, 364. Works, Charles, 87. Worthington, William, 128, 229, 237. Wyman, Ephraim, 37, 86, 148, 152, 156, 194, 214, 233, 244, 279.
Yates, Richard, 160, 379. Young Men's Association, 326-328, 344. Young Men's Christian Association, 103, 215, 374-375.
ERRATA.
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On page 50, the name Henry Maynard should read Hiram R. Maynard.
On page 66 it is stated that Charles B. Farwell succeeded John A. Logan in the United States senate in 1886. It should read, in 1887.
On pages 163, 185, and 242, James M. Loop should read James L. Loop.
In the last line of the first paragraph on page 43, the name Dr. C. H. Richings should read Dr. Henry Richings. Also on page 129, in the paragraph on William Hulin, the same substi- tution of the two names should be made.
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