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Library Association, Quincy, 458
Library, Camp Point, 595
Library, Quincy, 458, 502; at present time, 506 Liebig, George, 342
Lierle, James W., 1115
Lierle, William, 270
Lierle, William B., 143S
Lierle, William R., 270
Life at pioneer French Illinois settlements, 56 Likes, Jobn W., 1328
Lima, 196, 633; population, 135; high school, 254; first settlement, 633; bank, 633
Lima Lake, 2, 633
Lima precinct, 123
Lima township, 122, 633; land values, 133; personal property, 133; population, 135; value of school property, 262
Limestone, 2, 8
Lincoln, Abraham, 467
Lincoln Birthday Celebration, 642
Lincoln-Douglas debates, 467, 683; survivors
of (illustration), 469; fiftieth anniversary of, 470
Lincoln-Douglas festivities, 467
Lincoln School, 471, 475
Lincoln School (colored), (illustration), 472
Lindsay Church Home, 535
Linz, George, 367
Lionberger, Charles, 1090
Lippincott Hall, 235
Lisle, Daniel, 92, 100, 194, 443, 648
Little, J. R., 926
Little Missouri Creek, 601
Live stock, 29
Locating the Seat of Justice, 104
Location of Adams County, 1
Lock, Jacob, 379
Lock, John H., 335
Lockwood, Samuel D., 143
Lockwood, William R., 222
Locust Boulevard, 493
Loess, The, 3
Logan, George, 112
Logue, Curren E., 1381
Logue, William M., 1310
Lohr, Frederick, 366
Lohr, James E., 1086
Long, Ada V., 965
Long, Henry, 964 Loos, Arthur H., 1087
Loos, Charles F., 970
Loos, George F., 1320
Loos, George L., 1460
Loos, J. William, 1278
Loos, Michael, 351
Loos, William, 1006
Loraine, 618; population, 135; high school, 254; Street Scene (illustration), 618; churches, 619; fraternal organizations, 619; banks, 619
Loraine Lodge No. 641, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 619 Loraine State Bank, 619
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"Loraine Times," 620 Losses by fire, 484 Lott, Peter, 145, 211 Lovejoy, Jahez, 122 Lubbe, Anton J., 375
Lubbe, Joseph H., 1062
Luckett-Magnor murder trial, 154 Lumber, 463
Lummis, Elmer, 1017 Lummis, Joseph H., 1078
Lusk, Joseph J., 1012
Lutheran church, 554
Lutheran Church, Coatsburg, 675
Lutheran Church, Liberty, 650 Luther Memorial Church, 564 Lynch law, 154 Lytle, Nathan, 1134
Macadam roads, 198 Machine Gun Company, World war, 240, 723 Maclaskey, George K., 1083
Maclaskey, Mary E., 1084 Madison County, 88
Madison Park, 494 Madison school, 476
Maertz, Charles A., 322
Mail Coach, old-time (illustration), 181 Mail facilities, 451, 459
Mails, early, 181; first daily, 465
Maine Street east from Fourth, Quincy (il- lustration), 585 Mann, Jacob G., 1191
Manufactories, Quincy, 580 Maple sugar, 18 Maplewood High School, 595; (illustration), 596
Maplewood School, 592
Maps: Illinois Indians at Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, 35; American Bottom and old French Villages, 57; The North- west Territory, 1787, 72; Illinois in 1818, 76
Marblehead, 633
Marcy, Frederick V., 168 Marine Corps, Civil war, 223 Marlow, Hanson, 605 Marquette, 34, 39; in the Illinois Country (illustration), 40; last days of, 44
Marquette county, 119 Marriotte, George, 484 Marsh, William, 151 Marshall, J. Albert, 1204
Marshall, John C., 1161 Martin, James A., 789 Martin, William A., 934 Magnolia, 638 Markillie, David N., 1472
Marriott, George C., 1427 Masonic Temple, 571; (illustration), 569 Masons, Quincy, 566; Camp Point, 598 Masque of Illinois, 680 Masquerier, Louis, 157 Mast, Casper, 309 Mast, Christian F., 1280 Mast, Joseph, 290 Mast, Joseph, Sr., 308 Mast, Michael, 268, 289 Maus, Henry, 292 Mayors of Quincy, 470; early (portrait), 97; first, 456 McAdams, George, 846 McAnulty, Samuel, 590
McAnulty, Samuel R., 1210 McAnulty, William, 591 McArthur, HIattie, 819 MeCarl, J. Grant, 1419
MeCarl, Lyman, 128, 152, 641, 752
McCarl, Scott, 1373
McClellan, J., 236 McClintock, Jacob W., 1193
McCormick, Willian O., 790
McCoy brothers, 602
McCraney's Creck, 2
MeCrory, Charles B., 152
McFarland, Jolın A., 1166
McFarland, Lewis, 591
McGee's Creek, 2, 10
McIntyre, Robert, 1059
Mckean, John S., 125
McKee township, 638; land values, 133; per- sonal property, 133; population, 135; value of school property, 262 McKinnay, James, 1382
McMullen, Arthur R., 871
McMullen Brothers, 871
MeMullen, George E., 871
McMurray, John L., 1449
MeNay, Charles R., 1268
McNay, Edgar, 995
MeNeall, Derrick L., 1135
McNeall, William P., 1307
Mead, Charles W., 223
Mealiff, James, 803
Mealiff, William, 841
Meatheringham, John E., 22, 1440
Medical Society, 177
Meisser, Henry, 412
Melrose Episcopal Church, 639
Melrose township. 94, 122, 638; precinct, 123; land values and personal property, 133; population, 135; value of school property, 262; Centennial celebration, 647
Melton, Louis N., 1448
Memorial Park, 499
Mendon, 242; population, 135; platted, 612; early political center, 613; first school, 613; Pioneer Blacksmith Shop (illustration), 613; High School (illustration), 614; churches and lodges, 614; village incor- porated, 615; City Park (illustration), 615; newspaper, 616; banks, 616; Centennial cel- ebration, 644; Centennial pageant at, 682 Mendon Chapter No. 157, Royal Arch Masons, 614
"Mendon Enterprise," 616
Mendon Lodge No. 449, Ancient Free and Ac- cepted Masons, 614
Mendon Lodge No. 877, Independent Order of Odd Felllows, 614 Mendon Rebekah Lodge, 614
Mendon State Bank, 616
Mendon Star Chapter No. 153, Order East- ern Star, 614
Mendon township, land values, 133; per- sonal property, 133; population, 135; High School, 254; value of school property, 262; founded, 612; pioneers, 612
Menke, George W., 981 Menke, Henry B., 428 Menke, Herman H., 405 Mercantile Trust and Savings Bank, 589 Mercelline, 636 Merchants & Farmers National Bank, 584 Merkel, Albert O., 955
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Merkel. Allen H., 953 Merkel, Arthur C., 955 Merkel, Carl E., 955 Merkel Hardware Company, The, 953 Merker. George. 312
Merker, Nicholas, 313
Merker. Philip, 313
Merten, Herman II .. 420
Mester, Carl, 375
Mester. Theodore E., 919
Metcalf. Joseph O., 1230
Metehigamies, 34
Methodist Church of Clayton, 604; of Golden, 609; of Payson, 628; at Burton, 654
Methodist Episcopal Church of Camp Point. 597; of Loraine, 610: of Mendon. 614: of Melrose township, 639; of Pleasant Grove, 654; at Richfield, 665; Paloma, 674; Coats- burg, 676
Methodist Protestant Church, 542
Metz, William, 380
Metzger, Elizabeth, 765
Metzger, George F., 1429
Metzger, John J., 408, 765
Mexican war, 210
Meyer. Albert, 1142
Meyer, August F., 1233
Meyer, Edward H., 1304
Meyer, Frederick W., 427
Meyer, John C., 325
Meyer, J. Walter, 911
Meyer, Peter 1I., 418, 1263
Meyer, William D., 1011 Miamis, 36
Michael, Herman, 414
Michael, Joseph J., 982
Michel, Jacob. 335
Michelmann, Henry L., 797
Michelmann, John H., 416
Michels, Charles, 361
Middendorf, Bernard H., 388
Middendorf, Henry, 776
Middendorf, Theodore A., 1247
Middendorf, William H., 925
Middle Fork, 616
Mikesell, John P., 357
Military Bounty Land Tract, 88
Military Day, 684
Military history, Burton township, 659
Military leaders, Civil war, 228
Military Tract, 449
Militia, 201
Mill Creek, 2, 105, 182, 464, 632
Mill Creek township, 639; churches, 639; first sehoolhouse, 639; first election, 639
Miller, Bernard H., 1278
Miller, Charles W., 814
Miller, Frederick, 1313
Miller, George F., 1329
Miller, Grover C., 885
Miller, John E .. 840
Miller, Rufus L., 166
Mills, first in Keene township, 617
Minnawanna Tribe No. 159, Improved Order of Red Men. 575 Minshall, William A., 148
Mistletoe Lodge No. 391, Knights of Pythias, 604 Mississippi Apple Growers' Association, 19 Mississippi River, 1 Mississippi River Steamer (illustration), 462 "Mississippi Valley Magazine," 515
Mitchell, James A., 1022 Mitchell, Thomas J., 152
Modern Woodmen of America, Gem City Camp No. 219, 575; Mendon Camp No. 751, 614 Moellring, Henry, 769
Mollenhauer. Ada L., 1433
Mollenhauer, Edward A., 1247
Mollenhaner, George C., 1433
Moller, Bernard H., 421
Moller, Edward B., 823
Noller. Fred E., 850
Moller. Henry H., 849
Monroe, Edward N., 806
Monroe, Neal E., 1372
Montgomery, 634, 649
Montgomery, George W., 1383
Montgomery, E. Florence, 1384
Montgomery, Robert, 827
Monsters, legendary, of the Mississippi Val- ley, 41
Moore, Ebenezer. 456; (portrait). 97
Moore; Francis C., 447
Moore, Samuel D., 1404
Moore's Addition, 441
Morehead, Roy A., 237
Morgan, George W., 1009
Morgan, James D., 202. 210, 216, 218, 222, 228
Moriarity, John J., 970
Mormons, 202; war, 203; Quincy as peace- maker, 204; departure to Salt Lake, 206: battle, 207: troubles, committee to settle, 208; relief, 209; treaty, 209; exodus, 209
Morris, Arthur F., 1198
Morris, Frank E., 782
Morris, Isaac N., 160
Morton, Lieut. Col., 228
Morton, Horace D., 999
Morton. Z., 632
Mound builders, 31; prehistoric, in "Ameri- can Bottom," 31; origin of, 32; location of, in neighborhood of Quincy bluffs, 36
Mountain Rangers, 194
Mt. Pisgah, 443
Moyer, George H., 989 Muegge, Henry F., 755' Mueller. Anselm, 558
Mueller, Gerhard, 395
Mueller, Henry C., 915
Munroe, Floyd W., 767
Murrah, Peter E., 1134 Musselman, D. Lafayette. 972
"Mutual Politieal Journal," 460 Myers, David L., 924
Myers, Dudley H., 826
Myers, Henry L., 877
Myers, John W., 1363
Myers, Wilber L., 1279
Myers, William B., 1336
Naming of Quincy, 105
Naming of the county, 104
National Banks force out Free Banks, 86
National Cemetery, 501
National Guardsmen, 720
Nations, Guy J., 929 Nations, Stevens, 928
Natural features of Quiney's site, 440, 443 Naval volunteers, 726
"Needle Pickets, The." 215, 223. 231
Nelson. Herman E., 858 Neptune Fire Company No. 4, 387, 483
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Nesbitt, Sanmel S., 961 Neumann, John G., 363 Newcomb House, 113, 445 New Judicial Circuit formed, 148 Newland, John, 593 "News." 629
Newspapers, first, 449; first daily, 465; Quincy, 510; Camp Point, 594; Clayton, 603; Golden. 608; Mendon, 616; Payson, 627; Plainville, 629; Coatsburg, 631; Lib- erty, 634 Newton, 637
Nicholson, Joseph W., 820 Nickerson, Levin II. A., 1001 Nicolai, Louis, 1215 Niekamp, Frederick, 1460 Niehaus, Frederick W., 401
Nelsch, John, 314 Noll, Henry, 356 Noll. Leroy A., 953
Noll, W. Guy, 912 Non-high school tax, 136 Norris, Emma A., 1290
Norris, John, 1290
Northeast precinct, 118, 123
North East township, 121; land values, 133; personal property, 133; population, 135; schools, 255; first schoolhouse, 255; value of school property, 262; first native white men, 605; first marriage ceremony, 605; first schoolhouse, 605; township officers, 605
Northwest Territory, 39; 1787 (map), 72; population in 1808, 193 Northern Cross Railroad, 182 Norwood, Joseph, 622
Oak Camp No. 543, Royal Neighbors, 575 Oak ridges, 10 Oats, 28 Oberling. Jacob, 1221 Obert, Matthias. 341 O'Brien. Philip J., 929 Odd Fellows, 572, 604, 614, 619; Camp Point, 598; Burton, 656 Ode to the German Pioneers, 437 Oellmann, Henry, 402
Oenning, Elizabeth, 1001 Oenning Glass & Book Company, 403 Oenning. Henry A., 1000
Oertle, Joseph, 935
Oesterle, Sebastian, 313
Official standard of teaching qualifications, 480 Ogle, Edwin M., 1011 Ogle, Jacob, 1335 Ogle, Jolın H., 1450 Ogle, Maude, 1335 Ohio Valley, English invade the, 60 Ohnemus, Alexander, 748
Ohnemus, Frank J., 1242 Ohnemus, Landolin, 948 Ohnemus, Matthias, 340 Oil lamps, 465
Old Bear Creek Bridge, 196 Old Mississippi River Steamer (illustration), 462
Old People's Home, 537 Old Slab Town, 638 Old-Time Mail Coach (illustration), 181 Oliver, Alexander, 605 Omer, Robert A., 1202
One Hundred and Eighteenth Infantry, Civil war, 226, 230 One Hundred and Forty-Eighth Regiment, Civil war, 227
undred and Forty-Sixth Regiment, Civil war, 227 .
One Hundred and Fourth Illinois Infantry, Civil war, 221
One Hundred and Nineteenth Infantry, Civil war. 226. 231 One Hundred and Thirty-Eighth Regiment, Civil war, 237
One Hundred and Thirty-Seventh Illinois In- fantry, Civil war, 227
Opera House Block, 595
Opera House, Liberty, 649
Orchard, first in the county, 18
Orchards, apple, 19
Order of the Eastern Star, 567
Ordinance of 1787, 71 Ording, Henry, 418 Ording, John C., 1473
Original election precinets, 118
Origin of the prairies, 6
Ormond, John J., 1070
Orphanage, first in Quincy, 531
Orr, Grayson. 122, 633
Orr, Joseph, 633
Orr. William, 633
Orton, Vandeleur, 1409 Osborn, Charles C., 960 Osgood, Edwin P., 836
Pacific Hotel, 319 Padavic, Anton, 1182
Paloma, 631, 671, 672; bank, 632; church, 632 Paloma Exchange Bank, 632
Paloma Lumber Company, 632
Paloma Methodist Episcopal Church, 632
Pape, Frederick, 389
Pape, John H., 376
Pape, William H., 979 Parent Teachers' Association, 255
Park revenue, sources of, 492 Park system, Quincy, 488
Parker (E. J.) Bank. 584
Parker, Edward J., 586; (portrait), 490
Parker, Frank B., 1340
Parker Heights, 497
Parker Heights Memorial Park (illustration), 498 Parsons, Abigail, 639 Pasture lands, acreage of, 18
Payson, 621, 638; population, 135; high school, 254; founding of, 622; first store, 622; first church, 622; stone windmill, 622; schools, 622; high school, 624; first incor- porated, 627; banks, 627; newspaper, 627; churches, 628; public school, 623; Centen- nial pageant at, 683
Payson Lodge No. 375. A. F. & A. M .. 628 Payson precinct, 118, 123
Payson township, 122; land values and per- sonal property, 133; population, 135: value of school property, 262. 621; pioneer horti- culturists, 621; Centennial celebration, 646 Peach trees, 19
Pearce, George T .. 1188 Pearce, Jackson R .. 857 Pease, Nathaniel, 19
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Peine, Carl, 1413 Peine, Frederick A., 1413 Pendleton, Frederic M., 1357
Penfield, U. S., 222
People's Bank, Camp Point, 597
People's Exchange Bank, 608
Peorias, 36
Perigo, Justus I., 92, 100, 194, 255, 443
Perkins, William H., 1294
Permanent road fund tax, 136
Perry, C. F., 582
Pershing's Beauties, 685 Personal property, by townships, 133
Peter, Edward W., 1418
Peter, Michael, 293
Peter, Roy A., 1381
Peter, William, 293
Petit jury, 141; first, 141
Petri, Charles, 223, 410
Pfanschmidt, Charles C., 302
Pfanschmidt family, 300
Pfanschmidt, Gottfried S., 301
Pfanschmidt, Johanna M., 301
Pfeffer, Charles W., 1402
Phil Miller Camp No. 5, Woodmen of the World, 573
Phoenix Fire Company No. 5, 483
Physicians, 174; in the Civil war, 178
"Piasa" bird, 41; (illustration), 42
Pickleville. 632
Piekle Station, 632
Pieket Guard, 211
Pieper, Charles, 1166
Pieper, John F., 842
Pieper, Simon, 1165
Pieper, Simon H., 385
Pieree, Earl, 108, 117, 201
Pieree, Ira, 182
Pierson, E. L., 201
Pierson, Truman T., 582
Pigeons, wild, 12
Pike County, 88; Pioneer Home in (illustra - tion), 89 Pile, Daniel, 601
Pile, Jacob, 601
Pillatt, Anna S., 1076
Pillatt, William, 1076
Pinklemann, Peter E., 1457
Pioneer Blacksmith Shop, Mendon (illustra- tion), 613
Pioneer county legislation, 112
Pioneer families, Liberty township, 649; Honey Creek township, 673
Pioneer French Illinois settlements, life at, 56
Pioneer German Couple (illustration), 264
Pioneer Ilook and Ladder Company, 483
Pioneer Home in old Pike County (illustra- tion), 89
Pioneer Implements Used by Old Settlers (il- lustration), 101
Pioneer members of the bar, 157
Pioneer Quincy Home (illustration), 447
Pioneer roads and bridges, 196
Pioneer schools and teachers, 255
Pioneer settlements, 54; life at, 56
Pioneers, German, 267 Pioneers, Mendon township, 612 Pipe, John L., 1424
Pitman, James E. (portrait), 97 Plainville, 621, 628; population, 135; high- school, 254; bank, 629; newspaper, 629;
churches, 629; fraternal organizations, 629; officials, 629 "Plainville News," 629 Plank, A. E., 1475
Pleasant Grove Methodist Episcopal Church, 654
Pleasant View Baptist Church, Liberty, 651 Poliee, Quincy, 501; chiefs, 501
Poling, Theodore C., 743
Politseh, Henry, 359
Polling precinets, 122
Polly Sumner Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, 530
Pond, Quincy on site of, 442
Pontiae, buried at St. Louis, 63; (portrait), 64 Poor House, 136
"Poor One Kickapoo Me," 37
Population, city and country compared, 459
Population, figures, 459
Population of county in 1890, 1900, 1910, 134; in 1860, 213
Population of Quiney, in 1832, 201; in 1842, 459
Pork packing, 19
Port of entry, 465
Porter, Jabez, 258, 446
Porter school, 114
Portraits: Pontiac, 64; Ebenezer Moore. Enoch Conyers, John Wood, John Abbe, Samuel Holmes, James E. Pitman, 97; Civil War Volunteers, Fiftieth Illinois In- fantry, 212; E. J. Parker, 490; Sarah At- water Denman, 517; L. U. Albers, 606
Postage rates, 181
Postmaster, first, 181
Postoffice at John Wood's house, 181
Postoffice Block, 449
Postoffice, kept in stout pine chest, 181
Postoffice, Quincy, 442
Pottawatomies, 36
Potter, Celena A., 1331
Potter, E. B., 1469
Potter, Tillmon, 1331
Pottle, Brackett, 1375
"Poultry Keeper," 515
Powell, George B., 1060
Prairie fires, 6
Prairies, 2; origin of, 6; swamp lands trans- formed into, 7
Preacher, first, 114
Precinets, polling, 122
Prehistorie mounds, 31
Prentiss Benjamin M., 202, 210, 214, 216, 217, 228
Prentiss, Major Henry L., killing of, 155
Presbyterian Church, 541, 550; of Camp Point, 597; of Clayton, 604; of Golden, 609; of Liberty, 650; of Burton township, 653
Press Club, 515
Preux Chevalier Lodge No. 18, 572
Primrose school, 592
Prince, David, 622
Prinee, Edward, 228
Probate judges, 152
Publie instruction, report of state superin- tendent of, 246
Public Library, Quincy, 502; (illustration), 503
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Public schools, financial basis of system, 244;
Field Day (illustration), 250; first city, 457; Payson, 623
Public Square, 467; fenced, Quincy, 457 Purple, Norman H., 147
Purpus, Arthur H., 1452
Putnam, William H., 1057
Queen of the West Camp No. 51, Royal Neigh- bors, 575
Quigg, William B., 1159
Quincy, Indian village on the site of, 36; mounds in neighborhood of, 36; unbroken wild, 91; first man and first woman, 92; first white woman settler, 94; first settler, 95; second house, 95; early mayors of (portraits), 97; named, 105; platted, 109; first sale of town lots, 110; opposition to as county seat, 115; precinct, 118; county seat remains at, 119; population, 135; Board of Health created, 179; first postmaster, 181; railroad con- nection with Chicago complete, 184; (il- lustration), 190; Indian village at site of, 194; first streets, 195; population in 1832, 201; state capital, 203; peace-maker in Mormon troubles, 204; women in Civil war, 215; center of military activity, Civil war, 221: Civil war activities at, 226; high schools, 254; schools, 258; first school in, 258; school tax levied in, 258; foundation of school system, 261; value of school property, 262; first German family, 286: solving waterworks problem, 388; natural features of site, 440; drainage of the city, 443; natural features of city's site, 443; original town platted, 445; first sale of lots, 445; pioneer home (illustration), 447; hotels, 448; first newspaper, 449; first frame building, 449; land office, 449; be- comes a town corporation, 452; part of township system, 452; birth of fire depart- ment. 453; street improvements, 453; boundaries of original city, 455; wards. 455; first city election and officials, 456; council meetings, 457; public square fenced, 457; first public schools, 457; city seal, 457; free library. 458; street grades estab- lished, 458; population in 1842, 459; flood of 1844, 459; population in 1845, 459; worst fire, 488; telegraphie communication, 460; first real city directory, 460; geo- graphical position, 461; growth up to 1848, 461; Indians numerous, 462; schools, 463; first church, 463; exodus of gold hunters, 464: first daily mail and daily newspaper, 465; made a port of entry, 465; illuminating gas, 465; houses numbered, 467; mayors, 470: commission form of government rejected, 470; schools, 471; Board of Education created, 473; members of Board of Education, 477; school sav- ings system, 479: Junior High School. 479; present status of schools, 482; fire depart- ment, 483; water main, 484; losses by fire, 484; water works, 485; worst fire, 488; park and boulevard system, 488; sources of park revenue, 492; City Hospital, 498; cemeteries, 500; police, 501; work house and house of correction, 501; library, 502, 506; lighting and heating, 507; transporta- tion, 508; horse railways, 508; street cars,
508; newspapers, 510; charities of, 525; first orphanage, 531; churches, 541; oldest existing industries, 579; manufactories, 580; banks, 582; bank failures, 583; look- ing southeast from the courthouse (illus- tration), 585; Centennial pageant at, 682; bonds burned, 686; first white child born in, 686; in World war, 689
"Quincy Academy," 476
Quincy, Alton & St. Louis Railroad, 189 "Quincy Argus," 511
Quincy, Atlas and Warsaw road, 194
Quincy Bar Association, 168
Quincy Battalion, 202
Quincy Boulevard and Park 489; officers of, 492
Association,
Quincy Cadets, Civil war, 223
Quincy Chamber of Commerce, 581
Quincy Chapter No. 5, Royal Arch Masons, 567
Quincy Commandery No. 77, Knights Tem- plar, 568
Quincy Committee, 209
Quincy Council No. 15, Royal and Select Mas- ters, 568
Quincy Council No. 195, Royal Arcanum, 573 Quincy Council No. 583, Knights of Columbus, 573
Quincy Country Club, 578
Quincy Court No. 20, Tribe of Ben Hur, 574
Quincy Fair Association, 20
Quincy Freight Bureau, 348, 582
Quincy Gas, Electric and Heating Company, 507
Quincy Gas Light and Coke Company, 467
"Quincy Germania," 514
Quincy Grays, 202
"Quincy Herald," 511
Quincy Herald Company, 512
Quincy Historical Society, 521; (illustra- tion), 522
Quincy Hotel, 451
Quincy House, 219, 446, 467; (illustration), 142
Quincy Humane Society, 528
"Quincy Journal," 514
"Quincy Labor News," 515
Quincy-Liberty road, 198
Quincy limestone, 2
Quincy Lodge No. 12, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 572
Quincy Lodge No. 296, Ancient Free and Ac- cepted Masons, 567
Quincy Mercantile Bank, 409
Quincy, Missouri & Pacific Railroad Company, 188
Quincy National Bank, 479, 588
Quincy National Zouaves, Civil war, 223
Quincy Naval Reserves. Spanish-American war, 237; after the war, 238
Quincy Press Club, 515
Quincy Riflemen, 202; become Company A, Mexican war, 210
Quincy Rifles, 218
"Quincy Republican," 513
Quincy Savings Bank, 584
Quincy Teachers' Institute, 473
Quincy Tent No. 161, Knights of the Macca- bees, 575.
"Quincy Teutonia," 373
Quincy township, 122; land value and per- sonal property, 134
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"Quincy Tribune," 373 Quincy Turn Verein, 577
Quincy Water Works, 485 "Quiney Whig," 460, 513 Quincy Women's Forum, 521
Quincy Work House, 501
Quincy & Carthage Railroad, 189 Quincey & Toledo Railroad, 186
Railroad bonds, first voting of, 186 Railroad bridges, 189 Railroad connection with Chicago complete, 184
Railroad connections west of the Mississippi, 187
Railroad facilities, lack of, 26
Railroad Park, 595
Railroad properties, valne of, 193
Railroad train, first to Chicago, 185
Railroad Yards from Riverview Park, Quincy (illustration), 190
Rainfall, 10
Ralston, James H., 144, 158
Ralston, Joseph N .. 174, 457
Randall, George W., 225
Rankin, Charles H., 1120
Ray, William T., 1431
Reardon, Patrick W., 884
Rearick, Frederick, 434
"Record," 515
Recorders, 128, 129, 130, 132
Red Cross Chapter, Adams County, 530
Red Cross Lodge No. 44, Knights of Pythias, 572 Red Men, 575
Redmond, Thomas, 191
Red Ribbon Club, 504
Rees, Henry, 1400
Reese, William J., 1411
Regimental Armory (illustration), 241
Reich Brothers & Company, 1087
Reich, George F., 1088
Reich, William. 1088
Reichel, Adolph D., 432
Reichel, Edmund, 398
Reid, Alexander, 1077
Reinebach, C. Fred, 1406
Reinebach, Paul F., 1407
Reinecker, John C., 358
Reinoehl, Jacob B., 435
"Reliable Poultry Journal," 515
Renault, 55
Renken, Henry, 1023
Renken, Tette A., 1024
Renken, Wilke J., 1024
Representatives in State Legislature, 132
Representatives, legislative, 132
"Republican," 467, 513
Rettig, Frank, 341
Rettig, Jolın B., 399
Ruoff. Christian, 305
Rupp Bros. & Company, 859
Rupp, Christopher, 431
Rupp, Fred, 860
Rupp. Frederick. 830
Rupp, George, 859
Rupp, George A., 860
Rupp, Henry, 330
Rupp, Theresa II .. 830
Rural lands, value of, 133
Rural schools standardized, 249
Richfield township, 122, 638: land values and "Rural West." 373 personal property, 133; population, 135; Rusk, Earl W. 1457
value of school property. 262: schools, 662; first schoolhouse, 662; churches, 665 Richland township, 122
Ricker Bank. 348
Ricker family, 353
Ricker, Henry F. J., 353, 584, 588
Ricker, H. Frank J., 354
Ricker National Bank, 354, 588
Ridder, Henry A., 914
Riddle, Ebenezer, 612
Ringier, Margaret, 507
Rittler. John F., 415
River scenes, 190
Riverside township, population. 135; land values and personal property. 134: soldiers' home located in, 233; value of school prop- erty, 262 Riverview Park, 493
Road and bridge tax, 135
Road building, 196
Road districts, 196
Road overseers, 196
Roads, pioneer, 196; Ticehard road law, 197; damage in 1917, 198; gravel and macadam, 198
Robbins, Daniel E., 1062
Robbins, John P., 122
Robertson, William W., 1420
Robinson, W. A., 648
Rochester, Robert A., 853
Rock Creek, 2
Roeder, Albert, 435, 1003
Roeder, John L., 371
Roehrig, Frederick, 434
Roeschlaub, Michael J., 390
Rogers, Hiram, 174
Rogers, Samuel W., 174
Roller, John C., 408
Root, Henry, 276
Rose, Jeremiah, 100
Rose, Major, 19 Rose, Mrs. Jeremiah, 94
Ross, John F., 1178
Roth, Frank. 360
Roth, George D., 822
Roth, John A., 318
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