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State's Attorney.
Edward C. Hagar, R.
.4069
Chas. B. Garnsey, D. and L. R.3287
Coroner.
Charles Richards, R. .
. . ....
.4181
Wm. M. Rich, D. and L. R. . . . 3142
ELECTIONS, 1873.
County Judge.
Samuel C. Camp, R.
1821
Benj. Olin, A. M .
2383
County Clerk.
Walter B. Hawley, R
2356
Chas. Snodd, A. M ..
1843
County Treasurer.
Wm. P. Caton, R.
1616
James W. Martin, A. M.
2538
Superintendent of Schools.
Chas. A. Hilton, R ..
. . .
.1678
Mrs. Sarah C. McIntosh, A. M.2215
County Surveyor.
A. J. Matthewson, R. and A. M.4315
Circuit Judge.
Josiah MeRoberts, Ind.
2790
S. W. Harris, Ind.
1482
ELECTIONS, 1874.
Congress.
Alex. Campbell, D. and A. M. . 4235
Franklin Corwin, R. .
2465
Senator, 15th District.
Fred. Sehring, D.
2669
Albert O. Marshall, R.
2681
J. D. Frazer, A. M.
.1308
Representatives.
William Mooney, A. M
.6125
H. II. Sta-sen, A. M.
4759
Daniel E. Hewes, D.
1988
Amos Savage, R. .
3302
3799
L. H. Goodrich, R. .
Sheriff.
George M. Arnold, A. M.
3488
James Boland, R ..
2978
O. H. Woodruff, D.
208
Coroner.
Eugene Daly, A. M.
2319
John R. Casey, D.
2068
M. B. Campbell, R. .
2331
ELECTIONS, 1875.
Judge of Sup. Court, 7th District.
T. Lyle Diekey, D.
1443
Harvey B. Hurd, R. .
579
County Treasurer.
James W. Martin, R.
2256
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GENERAL HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY.
Abijah Cagwin, D. . . 2164
County Surveyor.
A. J. Matthewson, R. and D ... 4409 ELECTIONS, 1876. Presidential Electors.
Michael Donohue and others ... 4771
Charles A. Walker and others.4000
John Landrigan and others ..
677
Moses Messner and others. .
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Philo P. Chapman and others. . 2
Congress.
Philip C. Hayes, R.
.4806
Alex. Campbell, D. and G. B. . 4637
State Board of Equalization.
Amos Savage, R ..
4657
James G. Elwood, D.
.4770
Representatives.
L. H. Goodrich, R.
6639}
James P. Murphy, R.
3771}
Fred. Kouka, R ..
4414
D. H. Pinney, D. .
9036
George Wightman, G. B.
2308
James N. Fryer, D.
22213
State's Attorneys for Will County.
Asa F. Mather, R. .
3771
James R. Flanders, D ..
5611
Clerk of Circuit Court.
Robert Clow, R.
4219
Thomas L. Walsh, D.
3874
H. H. Stassen, G. B.
1306
Sheriff.
Warren S. Noble, R.
.3711
Adam Sachs, D.
3525
William E. Henry.
2173
Coroner.
Romain J. Curtiss, R.
4175
T. H. McBride, D. and G. B .. 5229
ELECTIONS, 1877.
Circuit Judge, 9th Judicial District.
Francis Goodspeed, Ind.
3496
Geo. W. Stipp, Ind 83
David P. Jones, Ind ..
165
Charles Blanchard, Ind
18
County Judge.
Benj. Olin, Ind ...
4303
Daniel H. Pinney, D ..
2374
County Clerk.
Walter B. Ilawley, R.
2566
William H. Zarley, D ..
3320
John B. Sollitt, Jr., G. B.
718
County Treasurer.
Wm. F. Hutchinson, R ....
.3037
John T. Donohue, D. and G. B.3563
Superintendent of Schools.
Sarah C. McIntosh, R.
.2471
Joseph F. Perry, D ..
.3730
State House Appropriation.
For ..
272
Against
3265
ELECTIONS, 1878. Congress.
Philip C. Hayes, R.
3479
Wm. S. Brooks, D.
2915
Alexander Campbell, G. B.
.1764
Senator.
Sylvester W. Mum, R
.3434
Daniel E. Hewes, D ..
2771
Chas. W. Cook, G. B.
1822
Representatives.
Jerry Kenniston, R
5395
Fred. Kouka, R.
5111}
William Werner, D.
42023
Henry LeCaron, D.
39053
Win. P. Thompson, G. B .
56272
Clerk of Supreme Court.
E. F. Dutton, R
.3777
H. R. Enoch, D
.2510
Richmond M. Springer, G. B. . 1827
Clerk of Appellate Court.
James R. Combes, R.
3792
James R. Walshe, D ..
2490
George M. Fugate, G. B.
1823
Sheriff.
Henry F. Piepenbrink, R.
4471
David G. Murphy, D.
3628
Coroner.
Frank M. Searles, R
3545
F. W. Schoop, D ..
2458
Eugene Daly, G. B.
2134
Amendment to Sec. 31, Art. IV.
For.
.7377
Against
205
ELECTIONS, 1879. County Treasurer.
John T. Donohue, D.
3515
James W. Marlin, R.
3160
Jas. J. Towser, G. B.
434
County Surveyor.
A. J. Matthewson, R ..
6855
Judge Supreme Court, 7th District.
Thomas Dent, R. .
.1980
T. Lyle Dickey, D.
2819
Circuit Judges, 9th Circuit.
Francis Goodspeed, Ind.
.3732
Josiah McRoberts, Ind
.3452
Charles Blanchard, Ind.
.1743
Geo. W. Stipp, Ind.
.1744
Royal E. Barber, Ind.
1621
Charles C. Warren, Ind.
56
Edwin S. Leland, Ind
473
ELECTIONS, 1880. Presidential Electors.
Robert T. Lincoln and others .. 5776 Patrick C. Haley and others. .. 3803 B. S. Heath and others. . 882
Jonathan Blanchard and others. 8 Michael Millspaugh and others. 37
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Congress.
William Cullen, R 5763
Daniel Evans, D .. 3803
Royal E. Barber, G. B. 917 Board of Equalization.
Amos Savage, R ...
5849
Michael W. Shurts, D
3754
Lott Schofield ...
870
Representatives.
Michael Collins, R.
8460
Harvey Stratton, R
74263
E. B. Shumway, D.
107643
Daniel Mclaughlin, G. B ..
.. . . 4545
State's Attorney for Will County.
Cyrus W. Brown, R
5862
James L. O'Donnell, D.
4314
Clerk of the Circuit Court.
Robert Clow, R.
5709
George M. Arnold, D
4144
George Sperry, G. B.
613
County Treasurer.
George Munroe, P ..
5002
Sheriff.
Henry F. Piepenbrink, R.
.5399
Peter P. Adler, D .
4399
Wm. P. Thompson, G. B
609
Coroner.
F. W. Werner, R. and D
9527
Eugene Daly, G ..
981
New Court House.
For.
3081
Against
4939
Amendment of Sec. 8 Art. X.
For.
6859
Against
809
ELECTIONS, 1882. Congress 8th District.
P. C. Haley, D .4868
Wm Cullen, R 3935
Otis Hardy, P. . 325
Lewis Stewart, G. B
157
Senator Ist District.
E. B. Shumway, D 5052
Ed. C. Hazer, R. 3785
George Lynn, G .. 192
Edwin B. Mason, P.
233
Representatives.
George Bez, D. 7422
John O'Connell, D. 7936
James L. Owens, R. 5863 John R. Meader, R 5409
James D. Frazer, G.
1283
County Judge.
Chas. B. Garnsey, R. 8663
Royal E. Barber, G. B 297
Benj. F. Allen, P. 330 County Clerk.
William H. Zarley, D
4732
Albert J. Sanger, R
4185
George W. Minard, M.D., P ... 317
William H. Pacey, G. B.
125
Sheriff.
Lorenz Reitz, D
.4750
Frank Haviland, R
4311
J. J. Touser, G. B. .
271
County Coroner.
F. W. Werner, M.D., D
4828
G. E. Willard, M.D., R.
.3952
Eugene Daley, G. B. .
486
County Treasurer.
Henry Spangler, D.
.4677
Fred Wilke, R
4188
John B. Sollitt, Sr., G
162
John Conrad, P
328
Superintendent of Schools.
John McKernan, D. .
4346
W. F. Hutchinson, R .. 2984
Joseph F. Perry, Ind.
1801
Adelia Mack, P
208
Appropriations.
Against $581,712.18 Appro .1211
For ..
. 6659
Ceding Canal to United States.
Against
137
For.
9058
In 1880 the vote of the 8th Distriet was as follows: Counties. Rep. Dem.
LaSalle 6,941
6,308
Grundy
2,087
1,135
Kendall
.1,954
679
Du Page
2,327
1,229
Will
5,776
3,803
Total
19,085 13,154
Republican majority .. 5,931
The Greenback vote was 2,225 in 1880, reduced to 1,203 votes in 1882. The Prohibitionists gave 1,047 votes in 1882.
In 1882 congressional honors were contested by Messrs. Cullen and Ha- ley, the latter reducing the Republi- ean majority of 1880 to the close figures shown in the following table: Dem. Counties. Rep.
LaSalle. 5,162
6,349
Grundy
1,597
997
Kendall 1.340 456
Du Page 1,817
1,003
Will .3,935
4,868
Total 13,851 13,673
Republican majority .
178
Colonel Plumb was nominated for Congress in August, 1884, receiving 30 distriet votes against Senator Mar- shall's 17.
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The Democratic convention of 1884 nominated Colonel M. W. Shurts, of Joliet, as one of the Presidential Electors, while the Prohibitionists also selected a Joliet citizen-an old and tried temperance man-J. P. Murphy, as one of their Presiden- tial Electors.
Public Buildings .- In 1837 the first court-house and jail was erected by the contractors- Blackburn & Wilson - for $2,000. The building stood just north of the present county jail. The second court-house-that solid, rectangular struct- ure-which is now to be hidden behind the greater building of 1884, was begun in 1847, and completed in 1848. Unlike its predecessor, it will remain with the people for years to come, to remind them of that time when the county was emerging from its days of settlement to hold a foremost place among the polit- ical divisions of the West. The new court-house was com- menced in April, 1884, and will, it is said, cost a quarter of a million of dollars to complete it.
The county poor-house and farm, a history of which is given in that of the township wherein they are located, cost the county, in 1883, $4,218.97. The inventory of public property, in this institution, gives: 1 pair mares 10 years, 5 cows, 37 hogs, 34 pigs, 1 new lumber wagon, 1 old lumber wagon, 1 old democrat wagon, 1 pair bob sleds, 1 set double harness, 1 set single har- ness, 1 plow, 1 drag, 1 cultivator, 1 hay rake, 20 acres corn, 7 acres oats, 4 acres potatoes, 24 tons hay.
Whole number of inmates in poor-house from September 10, 1882, to September 10, 1883: Whole number during year, 103; whole number died during year, S; whole number discharged during year, 42; whole number in county-house September 10, 1883, 61. Nationality: British and Irish, 30; German, 12; American, 10; Bohemian, 4; Swiss, 2; Swede, 2; French, 1.
Courts and Bar .- The Circuit Court of Fulton county, the first connected with Northern Illinois, was held April 26, 1824. There was not another term of the court held until November 10, 1825, when the old pioneer Judge, Hon. John York Sawyer, presided. Judge Sawyer was one of those early judges who had no finely furnished and fitted room in which to hold court. It was the humble cabin, or plain board building, in which this able judge presided. He has been known to hold court upon the bank of the Mackinaw river in Tazewell county. He was a man eminently suited to the times. John Twing, attorney- general pro tem., acted as prosecuting attorney at this term, and Stephen Dewey clerk. Ossian M. Ross officiated as sheriff. This was the First Circuit at that time, and extended throughout the northern part of the State. A few years later it was changed to the Fifth, and included all the country in the Military Tract, even the counties of Cook and Jo Daviess. This county remained in the Fifth Judicial District until 1849, when the circuits were
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rearranged, and Will county placed in the Eleventh Circuit. In 1873 it belonged to the Seventh, and in 1877 to the Ninth Cir- cuit.
The first mention we find of the Circuit Court in Cook county is contained in the minutes of September 6, 1831, pro- viding that it be held in "Fort Dearborn, in the brick house, and in the lower room of said house." To preside over this session, Judge Young came in April, 1832, with the reports of war. In October, 1836, the first Circuit Court of Will county was held. Judge Thomas Ford presided. According to Mr. W. H. Woodruff's reminiscences, Wilson's store was the court- room. He states: "The court was constituted by appointing Levi Jenks, clerk, and Uri Osgood, State's attorney. Fenner Aldrich had just been elected sheriff, having heroically stepped forward to fill the gap caused by Bob Stevens's refusal, and he rang out the ' O-yez, o-yez, the honorable Circuit Court of Will county is now in session,' for the first time in our history, and with a rhythm and a roar which I do not believe have been surpassed during the succeeding ages. Impressed with a sense of the importance and gravity of the occasion, his voice trembled a little and his chin quivered. But this only made the scene more impressive. But this was not all the court. A grand jury had been summoned and were now called. The following was the original panel: Armstead Runyon, Thomas Reed, Edward Poor, Thomas H. Rickey, Ralph Smith, Reason Zarley, Isaiah Treat, Joseph Cox, Peter McCarty, William Sheriff, Justin Taylor, Charles Goodwin, John I. Davidson, Harry Boardman, Ezra Goodhue, Richard L. Wilson, Samuel Holcomb, George Beckwith, Joseph Shoemaker, Elias Brown, and Aaron Moore. Five of these did not put in their appearance, and the sheriff, as is usual now, we believe, was ordered to fill up the vacancies from the loafers hanging around. George H. Woodruff, Will- iam Gougar, Richard Hobbs, Jonathan Barnett, and E. S. Sill were scooped up. Reason Zarley was chosen foreman."
The Judges of the old 11th Circuit were: Hugh Henderson, April 4, 1849; S. W. Randall (vice Henderson deceased), Octo- ber 31, 1854; S. W. Randall, June 25, 1855; Jesse O. Norton (vice Randall resigned), March 14, 1857: John Pearson, 1857; Sidney W. Harris, July 1. 1861; Josiah McRoberts, October 1, 1866; Josiah McRoberts, June 27, 1867.
The Judges of the 7th Circuit under the act of 1873 were: Josiah McRoberts, June 16, 1873, and Edwin S. Leland, June 16, 1873.
The Judges of the 9th Circuit under the act of 1877 are: Francis Goodspeed, August 20, 1877; George W. Stipp, June 16, 1879; Josiah McRoberts, June 16, 1879; Francis Goodspeed, June 16, 1879. Charles B. Garnsey is Judge of the County Court.
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Among the members of the old bar were E. C. Fellows, 1834-1876, died in August, 1876; Joel Manning, 1836-1869, died January 8, 1869; David L. Gregg, 1837, died in Nevada in 1869; Jesse O. Norton, 1839, died August 3, 1875; Uri Osgood, 1836, died February, 1871; Willard Wood, 1836, William E. Little, 1840, died September 30, 1851; J. E. Streeter, died February 20, 1863; Counselor Pepper, General James Turney, N. D. Elwood, John W. Paddock, 1847, died February 24, 1861; C. C. Pepper, 1835, Charles Gardner, Wm. A. Boardman, died in 1872; Hugh Henderson, 1835, died in October, 1851; John M. Wilson, died at Englewood, near Chicago, in 1883; John C. Newkirk, J. R. Doolittle and Judge G. D. A. Parks.
Henry Snapp, 1843; Linton Zarley, T. L. Breckinridge, Royal E. Barber, W. W. Stevens, 1855, W. C. Goodhue, 1857, died October 19, 1870; S. W. Munn, 1852; D. G. Grover, 1859, died in 1862; T. A. Bartleson, 1855, died in 1862; John W. Merrill, 1859, Francis Goodspeed, Circuit Judge, though not pioneer lawyers, may be considered as members of the old bar of the county. Among the legal visitors to the county in early times were Hugh R. Colton, of Fulton; Pat. Ballingall and Bartleson, State's Attorneys, John Dean Caton, James H. Collins, Springfield; T. Lyle Dickey, Goodrich and Butterfield, of Chicago.
The county bar of the present time is made up as follows: A. F. Knox, C. M. Henssgen, John W. D'Arcy, R. E. Barber, S. W. Randall, B. A. Fuller, John B. Fithian, Martin West- phal, S. P. Avery, E. C. Akin, G. D. A. Parks, C. A. Hill, Dorrance Dibell, J. H. Hanson, George J. Munroe, George S. House, Daniel F. Higgins, Asa F. Mather, D. H. Pinney, Benj. Olin, Horace Weeks, Egbert Phelps, Thomas H. Hutchins, Chas. B. Garnsey, C. W. Brown, Fred Bennitt, Edward C. Hagar, A. C. Clement, H. D. Carpenter, J. H. Breckinridge, E. Meers, H. M. Snapp, Henry Snapp, A. O. Marshall, T. L. Breckinridge, P. C. Haley, J. L. O'Donnell, J. R. Flanders, Peter Shutts, S. W. Munn, C. W. Munn, Charles Goodspeed, R. M. Wing, J. W. Morrell, J. W. Johnson, Wilmington; William Mooney, Braidwood; J. S. Reynolds, Braidwood; Frank E. Munn, Braidwood; William S. Myers, Lockport; Sheldon Har- mon, Lockport. In other pages very many references are made to citizens who were admitted to the bar, not now engaged in practice.
Military History of Will County .- The military history of Will county begins with the Black Hawk war of 1832. Pre- viously, the Ottawas, Illinois, and Pottawattomies were the only interested inhabitants in military affairs, as they were, indeed, the only residents of the territory now embraced in the county. On the approach of the spring of 1832, Circuit Judge Richard M. Young, and the pioneer lawyer, Benjamin Mills,
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Colonel Strode and others came from Galena, via Dixon, to be present at the court to be held at Chicago. They reported Black Hawk with five hundred Sauk and Fox warriors moving up Rock river in their war paint. Other arrivals, during court, confirmed the first news, and brought reports of the defeat of Major Stillman's volunteers. In April, 1832, preparations were made at Chicago to defend the settlers. The measures of de- fense took definite shape, May 2, 1832, when the adult male inhabitants of the settlement agreed to place themselves under the command of Gholson Kercheval, captain of militia, and George W. Dole and John S. C. Hogan, first and second lieu- tenants. The private troops thus enrolled were: Rich I. Ham- ilton, Jedediah Woolley, Jesse B. Brown, George H. Walker, Isaac Harmon, A. W. Taylor, Samuel Miller, James Kinzie, John F. Herndon, David Pemeton, Benjamin Harris, James Gindsay, S. T. Gage, Samuel Debaif, Rufus Brown, John Well- maker, Jeremiah Smith, William H. Adams, Herman S. Bond, James T. Osborne, William Smith, E. D. Harmon, Isaac D. Harmon, Charles Moselle, Joseph Lafromboise, Francis Le- barque, J. W. Zarley, Michael Ouilmette, Henry Boucher, Christopher Shedaker, Claude Lafromboise, David Mckee, David Wade, Ezra Bond, William Bond, Robert Thompson, Samuel Ellis.
Jedediah Woolley and J. W. Zarley, eldest son of Reason Zarley, represented Joliet Mound district, while George H. Walker represented the Ottawa portion of the volunteer mil- itary precinct.
The news of the burning of Rev. James Sample and his wife by Gerty's band of Sauks, near Rock Island, increased the anxiety of the settlers, and urged them on to action. About May 16, 1832, a small force consisting of twenty-five men was organized in Fort Dearborn under the command of Captain J. B. Brown with Captain Joseph Naper, Colonel R. J. Hamilton and Captain Sisson, for the purpose of securing the frontier on Fox river, and to ascertain from personal observation the extent of the depredations committed on the property of the inhabitants. It was also intended to render aid to the inhabitants settled on the Du Page river, who had assembled at Mr. James Walker's, where Plainfield now stands, and erected a small fort for their protection. On the third evening after their departure, a camp was made near Holderman's grove. Before daylight the next morning, G. E. Walker, the sheriff of La Salle county, of Ot- tawa, came in with information that the Indians had attacked the Indian Creek settlement. Upon receiving this information, Captain Brown immediately marched the company, with all possible dispatch, to Indian Creek where the firing had been heard. Some five or six, a part of whom had joined the expedition on the route, left it and returned to afford protec-
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tion to their respective families. The company arrived at Will- iam Davis' house between nine and ten o'clock, May 20. The scene there, as described by Colonel Hamilton, was the most painful that could well be imagined. George H. Woodruff, in Fifty Years Ago, deals minutely with this massacre. He says: "On the afternoon of May 20th, according to the narrative of Mrs. Rachel Munson (then Rachel Hall), as given in the his- tory of La Salle county, the situation of the settlement was as follows: H. R. Hall, the eldest son of William Hall, Mr. Davis and Mr. Robert Norris were at work in the blacksmith shop near Mr. Hall's house. Two other sons of Hall, Mr. Howard and son, two sons of Mr. Davis, and John R. Henderson, were breaking prairie half a mile from the house. Henry, George and William Davis, Jr., were at work on the mill-dam near by; while Mr. Pettigrew, and wife and three children, Mrs. Hall and three daughters, Sylvia, aged seventeen; Rachel, aged fifteen, and Elizabeth, aged eight, and Mr. Davis, were in the house. Suddenly a band of Indians in their horrid war paint entered the dooryard and rushed for the door. Mr. Pettigrew, with child in his arms, endeavored to shut the door, but was shot down. Mrs. Pettigrew, with her arms around Rachel Hall, was the next victim, the flash of the gun burning the latter's cheek. An Indian seized a child of Pettigrew's and beat out its brains against a stump. A little son of Davis was held by two Indians while a third shot him. The deaths of Mr. Hall, Mr. Norris and of Mr. George, and of Mr. Davis and wife quickly followed. Davis was a strong, powerful man, and defended himself some time, and clubbing his rifle used it vigorously for a while over the heads of his assailants, but was at last overpowered and killed. And so the savage butchery went on until fifteen in all were killed. Some succeeded in making their escape, but only two were spared from the slaughter. These were the two girls, Sylvia and Rachel Hall." It is related that two Indian admir- ers of the Misses Hall carried them into captivity. Their free- dom was gained June 3, 1832, by two Winnebago chiefs, who paid the Sauks $2,000 cash, forty horses, a lot of blankets, and a number of peltries. J. W. Hall, their brother, who barely escaped the massacre, aided by Colonel Gratiot and the Winne- bagoes were the movers in the negotiations for the release of the captives. The Legislature of 1883 granted to each of the Misses Hall a traet of canal lands, while Congress appropriated a sum of money for their use. Sylvia married Rev. W. L. Horne in May, 1833, and sold her land claim to James McKee, of Jack- sonville. This claim he located on the west half of the south- east quarter of section nine, on the west bank of the Des Plaines.
The tide of war seemed turned toward Will county, even be- fore the Indian Creek massacre. The settlers round Walker's mills, together with the refugees from Fox river, who gave the
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first alarm, had assembled at the house of Stephen R. Beggs, after Captain Brown's company left. Lawton of Riverside, and many of his Indian relatives who met Gerty's band at Hollen- beck's cabin, near Indian Creek, and knew of the massacre, arrived at Walker's mills May 21, 1832, confirmed all the bad tidings, and urged them to make every preparation for defend- ing the settlement. At this time there were 125 souls around the house of Mr. Beggs, including the refugees from the Fox river and neighborhood, all marshaled under James Walker, and ready to enter the barricaded house of Mr. Beggs - Fort Beggs, on the first signal of danger. It was even proposed to evacuate this position and seek refuge in Chicago, but the propo- sition was opposed by Mrs. R. Flagg and others, and thus a record of the Massacre of Walker's Mills has not been trans- mitted. It is now known that a large body of savages awaited such a movement to effect the murder of the whole number of settlers and refugees, as they did that of Rev. Adam Payne who did leave. On May 22 or 23, 1832, Captain Brown's Rangers returned, en route to Fort Dearborn, and with them the inhab- itants of Fort Begg marched to Chicago. (Vide history of Plainfield for names.)
The Fort or Block House at Joliet Mound was constructed in 1832 by the Vermillion county militia under Colonel Moore and Gurdon S. Hubbard, assisted by Reason Zarley, Jesse Cook and other citizens of the neighborhood who returned after the first alarm. To this post the name of Fort Nonsense was given. The one company garrison was transferred to Fort Naper soon after by order of General Atkinson, and at the request of Joseph Naper. The Fort at Yankee Settlement was commanded by Holder Sisson, a soldier of the War of 1812.
The personal history of the militia organizations of Plain- field, and Yankee Settlement, taken from the Adjutant Gen- eral's records, and so fully noticed in Mr. Woodruff's remin- iscences of fifty years ago, are given thus:
Walker's Grove .- Muster roll of a detachment of mounted volunteers, commanded by Captain James Walker, enrolled June 25, 1832, in Cook county, Illinois, and mustered out of service August 12, 1832: James Walker, captain. Lieut. enants - First, Chester Smith; Second, George Hollenbeck- Sergeants - William See, Edmund Weed, Chester Ingersoll. Corporals - Elisha Fish, Reuben Flagg, Peter Watkins. Mu- sician - Edward A. Rogers. Privates - B. F. Watkins, Henry Jones, Thomas Woolley, Henry Weakley, Ralph Smith, Elisha Curtiss, Samuel Fountain, Thomas R. Covell, E. G. Ament, Peter Watkins, J. Woolley, A. C. Ament, James Gillson, Hiram Ament, D. J. Clark. Total, 25 men. Rev. S. R. Beggs was also a member of this company, but being detained in Chicago, his name was not on the muster roll, but he got his land warrant.
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GENERAL HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY.
Yankee Settlement. - Muster roll of a company of mounted volunteers, commanded by Captain Holder Sisson, enrolled July 23, 1832, in Cook county, Illinois, for defense of northern portion of the State of Illinois, against the Sac and Fox Indians, and mustered out of service August 13, 1832: Captain-Holder Sisson. Lieutenants-First, Robert Stevens; Second, W. T. Bradford. Sergeants-James Sayers, Uriah Wentworth, John Cooper, Abraham Francis. Corporals - Armstead Runyon, Thomas Coombs, Edward Poor, Cornelius C. Van Horn. Pri- vates-William Gougar, John Gougar, Nicholas Gougar, Daniel Gougar, Aaron Moore, Daniel Robb, Daniel Height, Aaron Friend, Joseph Norman, David Maggard, Aaron Wares, Thomas Francis, John McDeed, James McDeed, Abraham VanHorn, Simon O. VanHorn, Wm. Rogers, Calvin Rowley, Selah Lanfear, David Crandall, Alva Crandall, Daniel Mack, Wm. Barlow, Joseph Johnson, James Johnson, Silas Henderson, Patterson Frame, Oren Stevens, Joseph Cox, Alfred Johnson, Lucius Scott, Benjamin MacGard, Anderson Poor, Samuel Fleming, David Smith, Peter Lemesis, Timothy B. Clark, Barrett Clark, Wm. Clark, Enoch Darling, John Wilson, Wm. Chapman, O. L. Turner, James Mathews, Peter Lampseed. Total, 60 men.
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