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Mr. A. E. Plank, junior member of the firm of Johnson & Plank, was born
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at Wooster, Ohio, was well educated and from early life followed mechanical trades. He developed expert ability as an automobile mechanic, and was the first man to come to Quiney who thoroughly understood the mechanical construction and all phases of automobile machinery repairs. He is married and has two sons, Browning and Richard. Mr. Plank is also affiliated with the Masonic Order.
DAVID F. WILCOX. In the Court of Last Resort, where the All Wise will apply the test for true success to human life, the finite mind can conceive of no fairer gange than would be implied by the question, Did you gather good friends and keep them through halm and storm? In the judgment of thought- ful and well-meaning persons the nature of the answer spells the degree of that success which is only worthwhile at the last. And the man or woman who has reached that viewpoint of life has commenced to take on a calm and a dignity which nothing can deeply disturb.
Forty-four years in one community makes a long period in which to apply this simple yet conclusive test, and David F. Wilcox, as much as any citizen of Quincy, has withstood it, and each year and hour that he lives his success in making good friends and keeping them becomes more pronounced. It simply means that there is no pretense about him and that friends worth having have become firmly convinced of it by years of experience.
Mr. Wilcox comes of a sturdy Rhode Island family and was born in Harford Mills, Conrtland County, New York, on the 27th of October, 1851. His parents were Daniel and Angeline Wilcox, and the father, who came West in 1858, was for many years one of the owners and publishers of the Janesville (Wis- consin) Gazette. In 1867, with A. M. Thomson and W. G. Roberts, he organ- ized a stock company that took over the Milwaukee Sentinel, Daniel Wilcox being the business manager. In 1874 the father purchased the Quincy ( Illi- nois) Whig, his two sons, Chester A. and David F., being associated with him in the business. Daniel Wilcox, the father, died in 1878, the mother in 1904 and the brother in 1899.
David F. Wilcox was first edueated in the public schools of Janesville and at the University of Wisconsin. But his practical intellectual training com- menced with his work as a reporter on the Milwaukee Sentinel. He was one of the publishers of the Quincy Whig from January 1, 1874, to July 1, 1898. After the father's death in 1878 the two brothers carried on the business for twenty years, or until it was sold to a stock company made up of represen- tative business men of Quiney. In the following year (1899) Mr. Wilcox was appointed postmaster of the city, serving thus until 1914. During that long period of service the postal accommodations of Quiney were largely extended and thoroughly organized, and the Government Building was enlarged and remodeled. The postmastership is the only public office which he has ever held, although since his young manhood he has been active in promoting the interests of the republican party, and his father was one of its founders in the State of Wisconsin.
Outside of his official and newspaper relationships Mr. Wilcox has been persistently and continuously identified with the higher activities of his home city. He has been well known as a Mason for a period of more than forty years, having been identified with Lambert Lodge since 1876 and Quiney Chap- ter and El Aksa and Quincy commanderies, Knights Templar, since 1881. For many years he has also been a trustee of Woodland Orphan Home, the Asso- ciated Charities and the Young Men's Christian Association. As one of the reorganizers of the last named, he served as its first vice president for five years and was chairman of the furnishing committee for the new building of the Young Men's Christian Association, which was completed in 1911 at a cost of $115,000. He has also served for many years as a trustee of the Vermont Street Baptist Church, with which he has been prominently identified.
David F. Wilcox was married at Kalamazoo, Michigan, on September 13, 1876, to Miss Emma F. Hodge, daughter of Rev. M. G. Hodge, D. D., for a
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long term of years one of the most widely known men in the Baptist denom- ination. During his pastorate the Hanson Place Baptist Church was built at Brooklyn, New York, but his health requiring a change of climate from that prevailing on the Atlantic Coast Dr. Hodge filled pastorates at Janesville, Wis- consin, Kalamazoo, Michigan, and Milwaukee. Since coming to Quincy Mrs. Wilcox has been active and prominent in its church and social life. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox, as follows: Myra, wife of Dr. Kirk Shawgo; Harriet, wife of Charles L. Bartlett, who passed away in 1908; and Chester H., treasurer of the Quincy Casket Company, who married Helen Guinan, daughter of John Guinan, of Quincy, and they have one son, John Guinan Wilcox.
INDEX
Abbe. John (portrait), 97 Abbott, John R., 1317 Abbott, William C., 1170
Abel, Christian, 327 Adair, Anderson E., 1029
Adair, Henry L., 1314
Adair, J. Leroy, 843
Adams County, location of, 1; area, 1; drain-
age, 1; elevation, 2; geological formation, 2; soils, 9; climate, 10; birds, 11; geograph- ical center of great corn belt, 18; first orch- ard in the county, 18; farm adviser, 22; lack of railroad facilities, 26; archaelogical remains in, 32; first physician in, 95; crea- tion of. 96: first coroner in, 100; created. 103; naming of, 104;, census, 108; pioneer legislation, 112; first permanent lawyer, 112: first teacher and first preacher, 114: di- vided into townships, 121; officers, 128, 129, 130. 131; senators and representatives, 132; population, 1890, 1900, 1910, 134; first execution in, 153; pioneer members of the bar, 157; number of Civil war sol- diers, 213; population in 1860, 213; regi- ment. 224; school system. 243; school sys- tem, strong points of, 253; pioneer schools and teachers, 255: Red Cross Chapter, 530; geographical center of. 636; first white man, 640: celebrations, 643: World war, 689: World war personnel. 689
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Adams County Agricultural Society. 20
Adams County Courthouse, Second (illustra- tion), 116
Adams County Farmers' Institute, 20
Adams County Ilome, 136
Adams County Home Improvement Associa- tion, 24 Adams County Infirmary, 136
Adams County Medical Society, 177
Adams County Woman's Christian Temper- ance Union, 600 Adams. James E., 873
Adams, Jolmn H., 1345 Adams, John Quincy, immortalized, 105 Adams No. 365, 572
Adams school, 477
"Advocate," 118
Aerie No. 535, Fraternal Order of Eagles, 574 Agriculture, present and future, 25 Ahlemeier, Louis, 850 Ahlemeier, Sophia F., 851
Akers. Albert, 152, 966
Albers, L. U. 605: (portrait), 606
Albsmeyer, Fred W .. 803 Alexander, Perry, 639
Alexander. Samuel, 450 Alexander. Samuel S., 1176 Alfalfa, 28
Alfalfa Feeder for Hogs (illustration), 26 Alison, John F., 896
Allen, Edward P., 1055
Allen Encampment No. 4, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 572 Alluvial deposits, 3 Altenheim, 537
Altenhein, Charles H., 766
Altenhein, Fred C., 768
Altrogge Brothers, 1044
Altrogge, John, 1044
Altrogge, Henry, 1044
Amen, Francis M., 1305
Amen, Philip, 303
Amen, Ralph H., 1160
"American Bottom," 31
American Bottom and Old French Villages (map), 57
American Civil Government Northwest of the Ohio, 71
Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, 566-572, 598, 614, 628
Anck, Casper, 1028
Anck, William II., 777
Anderson, Asher, 446
Andrew, John E., 944
Anna Brown Home. 537
Anselm, Father, 558
Appellate court, 140
Apple orchards, 19 Archaeological remains in county, 32
Area of Adams county, 1
Arends, Gerdt G., 391
"Argus," 449, 511
Arning, Julia, 1025
Arning, William, 1024
Arnold, A. Otis, 963
Arntzen, Bernard, 166, 389
Arntzen, Edward, 417
Arrow Heads from the Mississippi Valley (il- lustration), 32 Arrowsmith, George, 1069
Arrowsmith, Mary, 1070
Ashbury, Henry, 158, 206, 213
Associated Charities, 524
Atlantis Club, 519
Attempts. early, at fruit raising, 18
Attorneys, first permanent, 112; in 1869 and after, 167 Auction sale of lands, first, 450
Austin, Adelbert M., 1170
Austin, William B., 1169 Awerkamp, Bernard, 415
Back tax, 136 Bader, William A., 378 Bailey Bank, 594 Bailey Opera House, 591
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"Bailey Park," 591, 595
Bailey, Thomas, 122, 591, 594
Baker, Samuel A., 1444 Baker, Thomas, 95, 443 Baldwin. Benjamin, 612, 668
Ball, Elizabeth B., 917
Bancroft, Amos, 108 Bane, Moses M., 225, 228, 229, 274, 1463
Bangert, Charles C., 1139
Bangert, John A., 994
Bank failures, 583
Banking, Wild Cat, 78; pioneer methods, 354 Bank of Quincy, 584
Banks, 84; National foree ont free banks, 86; sehool savings system, 479; Quiney, 582; failures, 583; Camp Point, 597; Clay- ton, 603; Mendon, 616; Loraine, 619; Pay- son, 627; Plainville, 629; Coatsburg, 631; Paloma, 632; Lima, 633; Liberty, 634
Baptist Church at Adams, 655
Baptist Church of Payson, 628
Baptist Church, Richfield township, 666
Bar, pioneer members of, 157
Barker, E. B., 152
Barlow, Joseph, 835
Barnard, William H., 1284
Barth, Edward J., 1464
Barth, Henry E., 316
Bartlett, Henry, 1385
Bartlett, S. M., 222
Bartlett & Wallace State Bank, 603
Basse, August, 805
Basse, Marie, 806
Basse. William A., 416
Bastert, Henry C., 371
Bates, Amos D., 1155
Batsehy, John, 1187
Battell. John T., 122
Bauman, Gustave A., 757
Bauner, Andrew, 1151
Bean, Charles, 274
Bear Creek, 2, 590, 606
Bear Creek country, 612
Beatty, Erde W., 1370
Beavers, William H., 1334
Beck, Henry H., 978
Beeker, Andrew, 379
Beeker, Christian, 976
Beekman, Joseph H., 1467 Beckman, William, 1467
Beebe, Silas, 19
Behrens & Ohlsehlager, 1005
Behrens, Aldo F., 1005
Behrens, Archibald II .. 1003
Behrens Brothers, 1005
Behrensmeyer, C. F. Adolph, 419
Behrensmeyer, Henry C., 429
Beilstein, George P., 343 Beilstein, Walter P., 1298
Beisel, Felix, 360
Belker. John H., 1124
Benediet, Fred A., 1179
Benevolent societies, 566
Benjamin Lodge No. 297. Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, 598 Benneson, William H., 164, 222
Benson, Stephen .A., 1046 Benton, Daniel, 612
Benton, Joel, 1405
Benton, Levi T .. 637
Benton township, 122 Benz, Joseph, 1376
Berger. Lonis H., 1235
Berghofer, William F., 990
Bernard, J. C., 622
Berrian, Benjamin F., 152, 1043
Berrian Park, 495
Berrian school, 476
Berrian's Addition, 441
Berry, William W., 233
Bert, Jean P., 296
Bert, John L., 298
Bert, J. Philip, 297
Berter. Bernard H., 1419
Best, John H., 779
Bethel German Methodist Episcopal Church, 562 Beverly, 638
Beverly precinct, 123
Beverly township, 122, 637; land valnes, 133; personal property, 133; population, 134; sehools, 255; valne of school property, 262
Biekhaus, A. C., 796
Big Neek Creek, 616
Binkert, Anton, 334, 785
Bird, Frank E., 933
Bird life, 10; one hundred varieties in eoun- tv, 11: relation to farm economy, 13; con- servation, 16 Birkenmaier. J. George, 781
Bishop, Charles F., 1395
Bishop of Quincy, 548
Bitter, John H., 402
Bitter. J. W. Edward, 754
Black Code, Illinois, 77
Black Hawk, 200
Black Hawk war, 200
Black, Ivin, 1439
Blacksmith shop, Mendon (illustration). 613
Blair, Francis G., 246
Blasland, H. D., 236
Blessing Hospital, 535; (illustration). 536
Bliekhan, Alois J., 1202
Blicklan, John, 295
Bliekhan, Lonisa, 296
Blomer, Henry, 1150
Blomer, John A., 364
Blomer, John G., 1149
Blomer, Joseph H., 1141
Bloomfield, 638
Bluffs, height of, 443
Board of Education, ereated, 473: members of, 477 Board of Health ereated, 179
Board of Supervisors, first, 122
Boek, William, 1324
Boekhold, George J., 1321
Boekhold, Henry, 1465
Bodley Lodge No. 1, Aneient Free and Ac- cepted Masons, 566
Boekenhoff, Roma T .. 927
Boling, Daniel J., 1123
Boling. Orval, 1353
Bond, Gov. Shadrach, 75
Bond interest tax, 135 Bond law, protects home seekers, 74
Bonds for road construction, 199
Bonds of the eity of Quiney burned, 686
Bonfoey, Lawrence P., 913
Bonnet, John J., 419
Bonney, Osear P., 152
Booth, Christopher S., 1437
Booth, Stephen, 947
Booth, Wesley, 947
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Booth, William, 632, 947 Bornmann, Henry, 263, 342, 514, 904 Bornmann, John, 372 Boschulte, Peter H., 402 Boston Bay, 461 Bottom lands, 2 Boulevard system, Quincy, 488 Boundaries of Quincy, original, 454 "Bounty Land Register," 449, 511 Bowers, Charles E., 1238 Bowker, Melvin W., 1174
Bowling Green, 638 Boyer, Lewis L., 193, 856 Brackensick, William H., 1345
Brakensiek, Fred G., 1209 Brakensiek, Henry F., 1210 Brakensiek, Simon H., 1197 Bradfield, Norman D., 1175
Bradley, Ellen, 1365 Bradley, Samuel, 612 Bradley, Samuel H., 1364 Bredeweg, Frank H., 865 Bredeweg, John G. H., 359
- Breitwieser, Charles W., 863 Breitwieser, John, 344 Brenner, Franklin T., 1146 Breuer, George, 1003 Brickwedde, Augustus, 325 Bridge across the Mississippi, cost of, 192 Bridge Company, The, 191 Bridges, building of. 189, 196; pioneer, 196; wooden, 196; steel, 196 Brinkhoff, Theodore, 370 Brinkoetter, Fred W., 1146
Broadway Bank, 589
Broady, John C., 152 Brockman, Tom, 207 Brockman's army, 209 Brockschmidt, Alfred J., 752 Broekschmidt, John H., 391 Brocksebmidt, Joseph, 351 Broderick. John, 1292
Bross, Ignatz, 316 Brotherhood Protective Order of Moose, 575
Brown, Jonathan, 590 Brown, Mrs. George W., 94 Brown, Rufus, 113, 446 Browning and Douglas, congressional fight between, 146 Browning, Orville II., 146, 157, 158
Bruesserman, Albert, 1448 Buckley, Edward H., 120, 160 Buerkin. Joseph, 434 Buffington, James M., 1015 Buggy Shed. Liberty township, 649 Building of present courthouse, 125 Bull, C. H., 584 Bull. Lorenzo, 584, 587 Bunte, Gottlieb. 1311 Burge, Gottlieb, 418 Burial Ground reserved, 113 Burlington limestone, 2, 8 Burnham School, 258 Burns, Patrick H., 1362
Burton, 637; fraternal organizations, 656 Burton Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows, 656 Burton precinct, 118, 123 Burton township, 122, 637, 652; land valnes and personal property, 133; population, 134; school, 255; value of school prop- erty, 262; centennial celebration, 644; old-
est church in, 653; oldest school in, 656; first log schoolhouse, 656; military his- tory, 659; soldiers of the Spanish-Ameri- can war, 660; soldiers of World war, 661 Bush, Albert R., 845
Bush, Clement, 845
Bushnell, Nehemiah, 159
Butterworth, Edgar S., 1064
Butterworth, Sophia M., 1065
Buttz, Abraham H. D., 648, 1103
Buttz, Henry, 649
Cahell, Milton S., 798 Cahill. Lieut-Col., 228
Cahokia, 54; capture of, 65
Cain, Charles E., 1442
Caldwell, J. Erle, 242, 1429
Calkins, Addison N., 1426
Calkins, Ira R., 1424 Callahan, Lawrence L., 1157
Calvary cemetery, 501
Campbell, David M., 601
Camp meetings, Liberty township, 649 Camp Point, 186, 242, 590; precinct, 123; population, 134; high school, 254; dis- tinguished citizens, 591; residences (illas- tration), 591; early schools, 592; churches, 593, 597: newspaper, 594; platted, 594; library, 595; banks, 597; fraternal organi- zations, 598; women's organizations, 600 Camp Point Bank, 597
Camp Point Chapter No. 170, Royal Arch Masons, 599
Camp Point Homestead Association, 597
"Camp Point Journal," 594
Camp Point Lodge No. 215, Independent Or- der of Odd Fellows, 598
Camp Point township, 121, 590; land values, 133; personal property, 133; population, 134; schools, 255; second schoolhouse, 257; value of school property, 262; early settle- ments in. 590; first officers, 593; created. 594; centennial celebration, 646 Capital moved to Springfield, 82
Capture of Kaskaskia, Cahokia and Vin- cennes, 65 Carlin, Jolın, 640
Carlin, Thomas, 103, 450
Carmelites. The, 59
Carroll, John B., 1122
Carson, George, 1466
Carson, Martha B., 1466
Carter, Arthur M., 1111
Carter, Joseph N., 165
Carter. Marion, 1071
Cartwright, Peter, 615, 649
Cassell. Hiram F., 284
Castle, Alfred L., 1056 Castle, Edward G., 178
Castle Hall, 572 Castle, Timothy P., 1055
Cate, Benjamin F., 807 Cather, W. H., 152 Catholic Church, 544; first resident Ger- man priest, 325 Cavalry company organized, Civil war, 223 Celebrations in the county, 643 Cemeteries, 500 Census figures, 108, 459
Centennial Celebration. 523, 640; Liberty township, 643; Ellington township, 644; parade, 684
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Centennial Commission formed, 641
Centennial Pageant, 680: Quiney, 682; Lib- erty, 682; Mendon. 682; Payson, 683; Golden, 683
Center Congregational Church, 541
Central Baptist Church, 543
Central Military Traet Railroad Company, 184
Chaddock Cadets, World war, 240, 242
Chamber of Commerce Building, 319; (illus- tration), 582
Champlain, 39 Channon. Harry O., 1162
Charles W. Seymour High School, 624; (il- lustration), 625
Charities of Quincy, 525
Charter of 1840, Quincy, 454
Chatten, Clark, 19
Chatten, William C., 848
Chatanqua Association, 595
Cheerful Home Settlement, 525; (illustra- tion), 526
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, 185 Chief Keokuk, 305
Chiefs of police, Quincy, 501
Chittenden, Henry F., 22, 872
Chittenden, John B., 612
Cholera in 1833, 175: in 1849, 176
Christian churches, 554; Camp Point, 598; Loraine, 619; Liberty, 650; Richfield town- ship, 666; Coatsburg, 676
Christian Scientists, 563
Church Association, first, 99 Church federation, 566
Churches, first regular in Quincy, 463;
Quincy, 541; colored. 560; Camp Point, 593, 597; Clayton, 604; Golden, 609; Men- don. 614; first in Keene township, 617; Loraine, 619; first at Payson, 622; Pay- son, 627: Plainville, 629; Coatsburg, 631; Paloma, 632; Liberty, 634, 650; Mill Creek township, 639; Burton township, 653; Adams, 655; Richfield township, 665; Honey Creek township, 674
Church of the Brethren, Liberty, 650
Circuit Clerks, 128, 129, 130, 131
Circuit Court, 140; first sits. 141
Circuit Judges, 128, 129, 130, 131, 149, 151 Cisterns, 484
Citizens Water Works Company, 488
City Board of Ilealth created, 179
City Hall (illustration), 438
City Hospital, 498
City properties, valne of, 133
City Seal, Quincy, 457
Civie Improvement Society, 600
Civil Government, American, Northwest of the Ohio, 71
Civil war, 211; (Fiftieth Illinois Infantry), (portraits), 212; colored regiment, 213; soldiers from Adams County, 213; hospitals for sick and wounded, 214; women of Quincy in, 215: Tenth Infantry of Illinois Volunteers, 216; Quiney a great center of military activity, 221; One Hundred and Fourth Illinois Infantry, 221; Cavalry company organized, 223; Marine Corps, 323; Quincy Cadets, 223: Quiney National Zouaves, 223; Union Rifle Company, 223; Sixteenth Regiment of Illinois Infantry, 224; Fiftieth Regiment. 225: Seventh Illi- nois Cavalry, 225; activities at Quincy,
226; Captain Delano's company of dra- goons. 226: Tenth, Sixteenth, Twenty- seventh, Fiftieth regiments, 226; Seventy- eighth Infantry, 226; Eighty-fourth In- fantry, 226; One Hundred and Eighteenth Infantry, 226; One Hundred and Nine- teenth Infantry. 226: Seventy-third In- fantry, 227: One Hundred and Thirty- seventh Illinois Infantry; 227; One Hun- dred and Thirty-eighth Regiment, 227; Twenty-ninth Colored Regiment, 227; One Hundred and Forty-eighth Regiment, 227; One Hundred and Forty-sixth Regiment, 227; draft law, 227; military leaders, 228; Sixteenth, Infantry, 228; Fiftieth Regi- ment, 229; Twenty-seventh Infantry, 229; Eighty-fourth Infantry, 230; One Hundred and Eighteenth Infantry. 230; One Hun- dred and Nineteenth Infantry, 231
Clark, Charles H .. 1105
Clark, George R., 64; bronze statue of (illus- tration). 66 Clarkson, Ansel, 638 Clays, 9
Clayton, 601; precinct, 118. 123; popula- tion, 134; high school, 254; first school- house, 257; founded, 601; first store, 602; first hotel, 602; village today, 602; banks, 603; business street (illustration), 603; Experiment Station of the Illinois Uni- versity, 603; churches and fraternal organi- zations, 604
"Clayton Enterprise." 603
Clayton Exchange Bank, 603
Clayton township, 121, 601; land values, 133; personal property, 133; population, 134; schools, 255, 257; value of school prop- erty, 262; early settlers, 601; first mar- riage in, 601; first death, 601
Clary. Elmer C .. 1393
Climate, healthful, 10
Clough, John G., 880
Clover, 27
Coal measures, 8
Coats, William A., 1082
Coatsburg, old coal shaft at. 4; population, 135; high school, 254; newspaper, 631; bank. 631; churches, 631, 671; competitor of Quincy for county seat, 672
Coe, Wilbur F., 1116
Coe, James B., 1312
Coe's Springs, 639
Coffield school, 592
Coles, Edward, 158
Collins Plow Company Works (illustration), 580
Collins, William H., 220, 580 Colored churches. 560
Columbus, 115. 134. 636: fights for county seat. 118; precinets, 123; population, 135 Columbus township. 122; land values, per- sonal property, 133; population, 134; value of school property, 262; geographieal een- ter of county, 636; Centennial celebration, 647
Commercial Club, Liberty, 649
Commission form of government rejected, Quincy, 470
Commissioners of schools. county. 261
Commissioners' Stake, 115
Committee to settle Mormon trouble, 208 "Community Enterprise," 631
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Company E, Tenth Illinois Volunteers, World war. 240
Company I, Eighth Illinois Volunteers, World war, 240 Comstock, Helen, 24
Concord grapes, 19
Concord township, 122, 638; land values, 133; personal property, 133; population, 134; value of school property, 262; Centennial celebration, 647 Cone, William O., 549
Congregation K. K. B'nai Sholem, 555
Congregational Church, 541; Mendon, 614; Payson, 628
Congressional fight between Douglas and Browning, 146
Conrad, Charles E., 426
Constitution of 1848, 83, 120
Constitution of 1870, 86
Constitutional Convention, 74
Conyers, Enoch (portrait), 97
Cook, Henry S., 1096
Cook, James B .. 1099
C'ook, Willis, 1252
Coon skins, 462
Cordilleran ice sheet, 5
Corn belt, 18
Corn, exhibit of (illustration), 18 Corner-stone of new courthouse, laying of, 127
Cornstalk militia, 202
Coroner, first, 100
Coroners, 128, 129, 130, 131
Corporation tax, 135
Corrigan, James B., 778
Cost of bridge across the Mississippi, 192
Cottrell, Gorham J., 957 Cottrell, Lavina, 957
Council of Defence, 30
Council meetings, Quincy, 457
Country Club, 578
County Clerks, 128, 129, 130, 131
County Farmers' Institute organized, 20 County Home, 136 County Infirmary, 136
County Judges, 128, 129, 130, 131, 152
County officers, 128; 1870-79, 130; 1882-1918, 131; first election for, 108
County Poor Farm, once in Iloney Creek township, 673
County school commissioners, 261
County school superintendents, 261
County seat, opposition to Quincy, 115; Co- lumbus fights for, 118; remains at Quincy, 119; contest, 636: Coatsburg the competi- tor of Quincy for, 672 County tax, 135 Court, first, 108
Courthouse, first, 94; first log, 111; (illustra- tion), 112; second (illustration), 116; burned, 124; building of present, 125; cost of, 127; laying of corner stone of new, 127; first, marked with bronze tablets, 687 Cox, John H., 1409 Cox's Addition, 441 Crafton, James H., 1443
Craig, James II., 1313 Craig, Sarah, 1313 Cramer. Ferdinand H., 370 Crandall, Orson H., 958 Creative act, 107 Crocker, Thomas, 122
Crooked Creek, 2 Crooks, Charles C., 775
Crum, Theodore W., 1216 Cultivated tract, first, 92 Cummings, Barnett. P., 1332 Cupp, llenry C., 19, 279, 898
Curl, John E., 601 Curry, Richard S., 1200
Curry, William. 601
Cusick, Solomon, 122
Cutter, Isaac, 592, 1446
Cyrus, George W., 594, 596, 1220
Cyrus, Henry A., 637
Daily mails, first, 465
Daily newspapers, first, 465
Dairying, 26
Danecke, Albert, 335
Daugherty, Jacob F., 852
Danghters of Rebekah, 572
Daughters of the American Revolution, 530
Davidson, Margaret, 1456
Davidson, William H., 1456
Davis, Greenleaf H., 745
Davis, Hope S., 162, 471
Dean, George C., 1131
Dean, George W., 21, 1130 Decker, John, 1440
Dedert, Edward H., 1143
Dedert, Henry, 1192
Dedert, Louis, 862
Dedert, Simon, 1072
Dedication of Gold Star Flag, 687
Deege, Edward C., 1117
Deege, J. Philip, 1125
Deege, Philip J., 1158
Degenhardt, Ilenry B., 544, 1164
Delabar, Anton, 286
Delabar, Charles, 287
Delano, Sterling P., 167
Delano's company of dragoons, Civil war, 226
Delaplain, Charles E., 805
Demonstration Meeting of County Farm Im- provement Association (illustration), 23
DeMoss, James E., 1398
Dempsey, Thomas B., 1227
Denman, Sarah A. (portrait), 517
Detention Home, 537
de Tonti, Henri. 46
Dewey School, 476 Dick, Albert, 1234
Dick, August R., 981
Dick Brothers, 422
Dick, Frank, 1262
Dick, Jacob, 422, 1241
Dick, Matthew, 422
Dickerman, John F., 823
Dickhut, Charles W., 288
Dickhut, Christian G., 288, 1186
Dickhut, Eleanor S., 869
Dickhut, Ella W., 817
Dickhut, John A., 869
Dickhut, John W., 362
Dickhut, Joseph, 816
Dickhut, Oliver P., 794
Dickhut, William, 311
Didacus, Father, 777
Dieker, Herman, 362
Dingeldein, Sebastian, 317
Dingersen, William F., 1257
Directory, first real of Quincy, 460
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Disciples of Christ, 554
Disciples of Christ Church, Clayton, 604 Disselhorst, Henry, 844 Distilleries, 463
Distribution of men, World war, 715
Dittmer, Mary, 1154
Dix, Henry A., 227
Doerr, Adelaide E., 913
Doerr, Andrew, 430, 913
Dougherty, Theodore, 839
Douglas and Browning, congressional fight between, 146
Douglas, Stephen A., 119, 145, 163, 467 Dover township, 122
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