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V BIOGRAPHY AND REMINISCENCE
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VI MONOGRAPHS AND SPECIAL WORKS
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INDEX
Abner, Henry, 443 Abolitionists, see politics
Adams, Charles Francis, 59
Adams county, 14, 439
Agricultural College, Northern Illinois, see education
Agriculture, animal products, 83-85, 375-378 ; banking system needed for, 93; Buel Institute, 242; Durham and Northumberland Farmers' Club of England, 341; farmers' organized regiments, 279; field products, 75-83, 373-375, 378-381; Fox River Dairy Club, 376; Illinois and Wisconsin Dairymen's Association, 376; Illinois State Agricultural Society, 78, 84, 140, 243, 280, 379, 381, 383, 384, 434, 453 ; Illinois State Horticultural Society, 82, 374; Illinois State Sugar Cane Convention, 82; Illinois Stock Im- porting Company, 83 ; immigrants in- terested in, 9-14, 21, 330, 338, 339, 341; Industrial League, 384; La Salle County Agricultural Society, 242; machinery for, 79-80, 382; National Agricultural Society, 79, 242; North- western Agricultural Society, 79; Northwestern Fruit Growers' Asso- ciation, 82; Northwestern Pomolog- ical Association, 242; Patrons of Husbandry, 386; Sangamon County Agricultural Society, 78; Southern Illinois Fruit Growers' Association, 374; transportation and, 27, 32, 49, 52, 355, 384-386; Turner advocated university for, 231, 240-245, 431-435; United States Agricultural Fair, 80; Wool Growers' Association, 378. See education
Alabama, 38, 330
Aldrich, Cyrus, 108
Alexander county, 2790, 341
Alexander, George D., 377
Alexander, John T., 376, 377, 383
Allen, George T., 1350, 352
Allen, James C., 118, 131, 196, 297, 299, 335
Allen, William Joshua, 297, 302, 309, 327, 328, 400, 411
Allen, Willis, 118
Alton, 7, 9, 11, 81, 85, 166, 213, 220, 248, 2500, 3710, 399, 433, 438, 440, 442, 445, 447, 453; anti-Nebraska forces in, 108, 118, 122, 123, 126; congres- sional election 1854 in, 131; educa- tion in, 430; encampment at, 262; know nothing movement in, 137; Lin- coln-Douglas debate at, 169, 173; population of, 1, 2, 23; railroad con- nections with, 33, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 49, 51, 52; republican strength in, 173, 200
Alton and Mt. Carmel railroad, see transportation
Alton railroad, Chicago and, see trans- portation
Alton railroad, Springfield and, see transportation
Alton railroad, Terre Haute and, see transportation
American Baptist Free Mission Society, see religion
American Bible Society, see religion
American Board of Commissions for Foreign Missions, see religion
American Emigrant Company, see im- migration
American Home Missions Society, see religion
American Missionary Association, see religion
American Tract Society, see religion Ames, Alfred E., 61
Ames, E. B., 95
Amusements, Chicago parks, 349; In- dependent Baseball Club of Cairo, 447; kinds of, 436-449 ; National As- sociation of Baseball Players of the Northwest, 447; National Baseball Player's Association, 447
Ancient Order of American Knights, see politics Andover, 20
Anna, 286, 331
Anthony, Elliott, 269
Anthony, Susan B., 428
Antietam, battle of, 288, 296
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Antislavery Convention, Christian, see religion
Antislavery Convention, Northwestern Christian, see religion
Antislavery Society, Illinois State, see politics
Appomattox (Va.), 289
Archer, William R., 131, 149
Arenz, Francis, 105, 110 Arkansas, 271
Army of Potomac, 277, 322
Arnold, Isaac N., 59, 237, 304, 355, 356 Arntzen, Bernard, 196, 200 Art, development of, 437
Ashland (Ky.), 66
Ashmun, George, 195
Atchison, David R., 113-116 Athens, 19 Atkins, Jerome, 79
Atlanta (Ga.), 289, 324
Atlantic and Mississippi railroad, see transportation Atlantic ocean, 356
Audubon Club, see clubs
Augusta, 367
Aurora, 41, 43, 51, 71, 128, 130, 161, 210, 2130, 351, 445 Aurora railroad, Chicago and, see transportation
Avoca, 252
Bailhache, John, 453 Bailhache, William Henry, 453
Baker, Edward D., 57, 67, 68
Baker, Edward L., 453 Baker, Edwin S., 82
Baker, Jehu, 126, 212n
Balatka, Hans, 444 Baltimore conventions : 1848, 55, 59,
60; 1852, 106, 107, 108, 130; 1860, 188, 195-196, 199; 1864, 317-318 Bancroft, George, 394
Banking, bank bill, 95-96, 103; facili- ties for, 92-95; issue of, in presiden- tial election of 1868, 411; organiza- tion of, 97-100; panics of 1854 and 1857, 98, 100; problems of, 361-364; proposed anti-bank provision, 268, 270, 271 ; State Bank, 93
Banks, Nathaniel P., 142, 147, 16In Baptist church, abolition, slavery, and, 220, 222, 224
Baptists, French, 17; Negro, 337; schools of, 237-238 ; strength of, 245, 246, 249, 424; women's rights move- ments and, 213
Baptist Free Mission Society, American, see religion
Baptist University of Chicago, see edu- cation
"Barnburners," 54
Barnum's Grand Colossal Museum and Menagerie, 438
Bascom, Flavel, 223
Baseball Player's Association, National, see amusements
Batavia, 380
Bateman, Newton, 163, 395, 396, 429, 430
Bates, Edward, 189, 191, 192, 194, 298 Bates, General Erastus N., 411
Baton Rouge (La.), 289
Beardstown, 1, 8, 18, 28, 85, 248, 249 Bebb, William, 15
Beecher, Henry Ward, 438
Beet Sugar Company, Germania, 381 Beet Sugar Company, Illinois, 381 . Bell, John, 195, 200
Belleville, 25, 34n, 46, 81, 118, 215, 226, 258, 292, 3690, 421 ; bank in, 97; edu- cation in, 236, 430; enlistment in, 280; know nothing influence in, 137; opposed Kansas-Nebraska act, 122, 123 ; population of, 8, 23 ; temperance movement in, 204, 209, 210; union meeting at, 69
Belleville and Illinoistown railroad, see transportation
Belleville and Southern railroad, see transportation
Belmont, battle of, 266, 285, 399
Belvidere, 41
Benton, 201 Benton, Thomas H., 70, 106, 113 Berlin, 20 Bernadotte, 221
Betts, Charles A., 105
Bible Society, American, see religion
Biblical Institute, Northwestern, see education
Birney, James G., 59n
Bishop Hill, 20-21, 15on
Bissell, William H., 38, 44, 65; con- gressional aspirant, 108-109; con- gressman 1858, 57, 65; favored agri- cultural university, 244; governor 1856, 92, 100, 145-146, 151, 152, 181, 258; opposed Kansas-Nebraska act, 118, 122, 142; supported Fremont 1856, 147
Blackburn Theological Seminary, see education Blackwell, Robert S., 130, 149
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Blair, Francis P., 147, 199, 298, 354, 411
Blair, Montgomery, 324
Blanchard, Jonathan, 218, 222, 223, 224, 231, 238-239, 240, 444-445 Blanchard, Mrs., 402
Bloody Island, 51
Bloomer, Mrs., 213
Bloomington, 28, 83, 87, 129, 177, 232, 283, 334, 360, 367, 375, 3820, 398, 426, 430, 432, 433, 434, 4350, 440; anti-Nebraska meeting in, 123, 128; Douglas and Lincoln in, 1858, 168, 171; growth of, 366; normal school at, 234, 235, 236; population of, 1, 2; republican convention 1856 at, 144-146, 148, 149, 150, 176, 190; state farmers' convention at, 384-385
Bloomington and Western railroad, In- dianapolis, see transportation
Blue Island, 431 Bluffdale, 292, 294, 449
Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, American, see religion
Bond, Benjamin, 44, 228, 302
Boon, Levi D., 303
Booth, Edwin, 443
Borden and Company, Gail, 375
Bradley, Furst and, see Furst and Bradley
Bradwell, James B., 428
Bradwell, Mrs. Myra, 427, 428
Bragg, Braxton, 287
Brainard, Daniel, 59
Breckinridge, John C., 195, 196, 200, 411
Breckinridge, T. L., 403
Breese, Sidney, congressional aspirant 1852, 108-109; debated with Doug- las, 132-133; opposed Kansas-Ne- braska act, 126; proposed for presi- dent 1868, 410; railroad policies of, 36-38, 45; senatorial candidate 1849, 61-62, 63 ; senatorial candidate 1858, 162, 165, 166
British, see English
Brockway, James W., 337
Brooks, Thorndike, 402
Bross, William, 317
Brough, Colonel John, 44, 52
Brown, Antoinette L., 213
Brown, George T., 145, 449, 454
Brown, John, raid of, 182-183, 187
Browning, Orville H., 297, 403; leader
at Bloomington convention 1856, 145, 146; secretary of the interior, 397- 398; supported Fremont 1856, 149;
supported Kansas-Nebraska act, 127; supported Lincoln, 191, 192, 194, 298n, 314n, 3230
Bryce, James, 313
Buchanan, James, 106; break between Douglas and, 157-166, 174, 178, 179, 184-185, 187-188, 196; president 1856, 26, 91, 146-150, 151; presidential as- pirant 1848, 53, 54; vetoed land grant bill for colleges, 244, 431 Buckmaster, Samuel A., 196
Buel Institute, see agriculture
Buena Vista (Mexico), 56, 57
Buffalo (N. Y.), 59, 60, 345
Buford, General N. B., 331, 335
Bull, Ole, 442
Bullock, L. L., 242
Bull Run, battle of, 264, 274
Bunsen, George, 25, 233
Bureau county, 218
Burlingame, Anson, 147
Burlington, and Quincy railroad, Chi- cago, see transportation
Burnett, Henry C., 174 Burnside, General Ambrose E., 303-304
Burritt, Elihu, 438
Bushnell, General Washington, 411
Butz, Caspar, 25, 317
Cabet, A. Charles, 18
Cairo, 118, 201, 226, 283, 354, 360, 368, 377, 397, 399, 401, 4170, 447, 448, 450, 457; congressional election of 1854 in, 131; crime in, 420; education in, 430; encampment in, 262, 304; en- listment in, 279, 306; Grant in com- mand at, 266, 285; growth of, 7-8, 16, 351-353; immigrants in, 331, 332, 334, 335, 336, 3370, 339, 340, 344; kidnapping Negroes in, 228; railroad connections with, 32, 33, 36, 37, 38, 52; secession strength in, 253, 260, 262
Cairo City and Canal Company, see transportation
Cairo Emigrant Aid Society, see immi- gration
Calhoun, John, 111, 133, 173, 1740, 187, 317 California, 9-10, 12, 64, 66-68, 147, 348 Cambridge University, 240
Cameron, Daniel, 455
Cameron Guards, 281
Cameron, Simon, 191, 192, 193, 194, 264
Campbell, Alexander, 246, 372
Campbell, George H., 196
Campbell, James M., 121
Campbell, Thomas H., 103
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INDEX
Canada, 17, 228, 229, 278, 310, 333, 345, 346-347, 355
Canisius, Theodore, 342
Canton, 28, 137, 210, 21In, 236, 251, 399 Carbondale, 21on, 374, 379, 402, 431
Carlinville, 51, 177, 2100, 250
Carlyle, 108
Carpenter, Philo, 218
Carthage, 283n, 285, 335, 423
Cartwright, Peter, 246, 249
Casey, Zadoc, 45, 104n
Caseyville, 262
Cass, General Lewis, 53, 54, 55, 58, 60, 61, 106, 147
Cassell, William M., 377
Catholics, 26; French, 17; strength, 245, 248, 425-426; temperance and, 206
Caton, John D., 31, 299, 3270, 366
Central America, 184
Central Commercial College, Sloan's, see education
Central Illinois Methodist Conference, see religion
Central Military Tract railroad, see transportation
Centralia, 21, 76, 331, 403, 425
Champaign, 50, 177, 407, 434
Champaign county, 78, 83, 373, 376, 377, 382, 383, 434
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Chancellorsville (Va.), 288
Charleston, 169, 172, 306-308
Charleston (S. C.), 187-188, 199, 259
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