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Chase, Philander, 247, 248
Chase, Salmon P., 118, 133, 192, 194, 315, 317, 323
Chatsworth, 381
Chattanooga (Tenn.), 284, 286, 288 Cheney, the Reverend Charles E., 425 Chicago, 31, 55, 590, 60, 61, 73, 80, 108,
112, 118, 125, 195, 200, 212, 2130, 229, 2430, 257, 270, 292, 328, 338n, 342, 377, 381, 389, 396, 407, 428, 433, 434, 4350; amusements in, 436, 439, 440, 441, 442, 446, 447-448; antislavery meetings in, 219, 223, 224; art exhibit in, 437; banking in, 97, 99, 363; canal convention in, 355; churches in, 221, 222, 245, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 425, 445; commercial center, 29, 30, 46, 50, 51, 52, 76, 77, 85, 367, 374, 375, 384, 385; compromise of 1850 in, 71-72; congressional election of 1854 in, 129-130; crime in, 420; dem- ocratic convention at, 1864, 323, 326; Douglas in, 1855, 141; Douglas mon-
ument in, 398 ; Douglas' reception in, September 1, 1854, 132; education in, 230, 236, 237, 241, 242, 250, 429, 440; emancipation forces in, 295; enlist- ment in, 280-281; favored Blooming- ton convention 1856, 146; Fenian movement in, 344-347, 403; free soil meeting at, 69; growth of, 1, 2, 5-6, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 23-25, 348-353, 365; health conditions in, 216, 217; immi- grants in, 11, 12, 332, 334, 336, 339, 340, 34In ; industrial congress in, 89- 90; insurance companies in, 94; Johnson clubs in, 397, 399; labor troubles in, 203, 369-372; land con- ventions at, 89, 90, 91; medical schools in, 217, 218; municipal elec- tion 1856, 144; municipal election 1859, 182; musical center, 442-444; Nebraska and anti-Nebraska forces in, 122, 123, 126, 140; Negroes in, 333; Negro organizations in, 227; newspapers in, 26, 304, 417, 419, 450, 453, 455, 456, 458 ; Northwestern Ag- ricultural Society in, 79; Northwest- ern Fair at, 283 ; panics of 1854 and 1857 in, 98, 100; presidential elec- tion of 1860 in, 189, 190-195, 197; public utilities in, 3-4, 5, 6; repub- lican national convention in 1868, 410, 412; Sabbath convention at, 214-215; secret political societies in, 308-310; senatorial election in, 1858, 158n, 159, 161, 162, 166, 167, 168, 173, 177, 179; strength of know noth- ings in, 138n, 139; temperance move- ment in, 205, 206, 208, 210; terminus of underground railroad, 228; trans- portation and, 28, 33, 34, 37, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 46, 47, 48, 50, 51, 52, 357, 361, 416; war democrats met at, 1863, 32In
Chicago Academy of Music, see music Chicago Academy of Natural Sciences, see education
Chicago and Alton railroad, see trans- portation
Chicago and Aurora railroad, see transportation
Chicago and Galena railroad, see transportation
Chicago and Milwaukee railroad, see transportation
Chicago and Mississippi railroad com- pany, see transportation
Chicago and Mobile railroad, see transportation
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Chicago and Northwestern railroad, see transportation
Chicago Arbeiter Verein, see labor
Chicago Board of Trade, 93, 278n, 303, 386, 354, 36In
Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy rail- road, see transportation
Chicago Cotton Manufacturing Com- pany, 367
Chicago Emigrant Agency, see immi- gration
Chicago Fire and Marine Insurance Company, 94
Chicago Hibernian Benevolent Emi- grant Society, see immigration
Chicago Historical Society, see educa- tion
Chicago Jaegers, 281
Chicago Ladies Loyal League, 336
Chicago Mercantile Association, 278n
Chicago Musical Union, see music
Chicago Philharmonic Society, see
music
Chicago railroad, Rock Island and, see transportation
Chicago railroad, St. Louis, Jackson- ville, and, see transportation
Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific rail- road, see transportation
Chicago, St. Paul, and Fond du Lac Railway Company, see transportation Chicago Theological Seminary, see ed- ucation
Chicago Times, suppression of, 303-304 Chicago, University of, see education Chinese Sugar Manufacturing Com- pany, Northwestern, 380
Chiniquy, Father, 17
Christian Antislavery Convention, see religion
Christian church, 246, 424
Christian Commission, United States, see Civil War
Christian Union, see religion
Christy, William H., 127
Cincinnati (Ohio), 33, 35, 46, 146, 162, 185, 187, 223, 311
Civil liberties, suppression of, 300-305 Civil War, battles of, 266, 274, 284- 289, 296, 324; conclusion of, 289, 387- 390; desertion in, 305-306; Free- men's Aid Society, 283 ; German sup- port of, 342; guerilla warfare, 306- 308; Illinois agencies for relief, 282- 284; Illinois enlistment and the draft, 263, 273-282, 305; Illinois Soldiers' Orphans' Home, 283; Illinois Sol-
diers' Relief Association, 282; Ladies' War Committee, 283; Lincoln's call to arms, 261; outbreak of, 259; stim- ulated prices, 363, 364; United States Christian Commission, 283; United States Sanitary Commission, 283, 332, 427
Clark county, 89
Clay, Cassius M., 133
Clay, Henry, 55-57, 60, 66-74, 101, 149, 176, 388n, 453
Clayton amendment, 123
Cleveland (Ohio), 227, 263, 317, 3670, 378
Clingman, Thomas L., 307
Clinton county, 26, 148
Clubs, Audubon, 446; Excelsior So- ciety, 444; German, 25, 444; Hiber- nian Society, 444; Masonic order, 444, 445; New England societies, 444; Odd Fellows, 444; secret or- ganizations, 444-445; Société Fran- çaise, 444; Sons of Penn, 444; Sons of the Pilgrims, 444; St. Andrew's Society, 444; St. George's, 444; Young Men's Christian Association, 250, 303
Cobden, 374
Cochrane, John, 317
Cockle, Washington, 296
Codding, Ichabod, 128, 129, 131, 132, 133, 141, 218
Coffing, Churchill, 150, 175
Coles county, 307, 308
Colfax, Schuyler, 410, 413
Colleges, see education
Colorado, 9, 12
Colored National Convention, see Ne- groes Columbus (Ohio), 14 Comiskey, John, 346, 347
Commerce, banking system needed for, 93-95; railroads stimulate, 49- 52; water transportation stimulates, 29-30. See Chicago
Commissioners for Foreign Missions, American Board of, see religion
Compromise of 1850, 66-74, 103, 119
Congregational General Association, see religion
Congregationalists, 13, 220-224, 245, 247, 250, 424, 445
Conkling, James C., 105, 149
Conley, Philip, 161
Constable, Charles H., 149, 302
Constitutional union party, see politics
Cook, Burton C., 121, 134, 146, 258
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Cook county, 61, 102, 1030, 123, 190,
267, 269, 364, 365, 419, 431, 439
Cook, Isaac, 162, 188, 455 Cook, John, 421
Cooley, Horace S., 230, 235
Copperas Creek, 28
Copperheads, see politics
Corinth (Miss.), 287, 387
Cottage Hill, 4320
Coulterville, 224
Council Bluffs (Iowa), 361
Crane and Company's Great Oriental Circus, 438
Cravath, J. M., 3820
Cravath, M. A., 3820
Crawford county, 196
Crebs, John M., 398
Crimean War, 77
Crittenden, John J., 176n, 257, 291 Cromwell, Oliver, 313 Cuba, 184
Culture, amusements indulged in, 436- 449; Chicago living conditions, 350; crime in the fifties, 203-204; during the war, 420-427; German, 24-26, 214-215, 343; of foreign population, 17. See education and religion Cumberland Presbyterians, 246 Cumberland river, 7, 285
Cummings, Professor, 241 Cummins, Associate Bishop David, 425 Cunningham, Hibert B., 401, 402
Currency, demand for improved, 361- 364; kinds of, 97-99; small circula- tion of, 93
· Curtis, Benjamin R., 153, 154
Daggy, Professor, 442 Dahn, A. W., 443 Dana, Charles A., 456
Danenhower, William Weaver, 139, Ison, 176, 448, 449
Danville, 15, 360
Davis, David, 191
Davis, Jefferson, 68n, 184, 188, 294, 302, 308, 326
Davis, William M., 402 Dawson, Thomas H., 20In Dayton, William L., 146, 1500, 185 Dayton, 367
-Decatur, 4, 15, 43, 80, 283, 284, 328, 332, 351, 371, 378, 402, 407, 431, 456; anti-Nebraska convention at, 1856, 143-144, 145; congressional election 1854 in, 131; convention at, 1860, 190, 192, 196; Union League organ- ized in, 396-397
Defiance, Camp, 262
De Kalb county, 130, 380
Delahay, Mark W., 166
Delavan, and Nathan's Circus, Welch, 438
Dement, John, 102, 103
Democratic party, see politics
Denmark, 342
Dental Convention, Western, see West- ern Dental Convention
Denton, Charles, 79
Detrich, John E., 296
Dickey, H. T., 228
Dickey, Theophilus Lyle, 150, 175, 398. 399, 402-403
Dickinson, Anna, 428
Dillman and Company, 371
District of Columbia, 69, 294, 318n
Dixon, Archibald, 117
Dixon, Arthur, 347
Dixon, 356, 457
Doblebower, John C., 303
Dodge, Augustus C., 115
Doggett, Kate M., 428
Donelson, Andrew J., 146
Donelson, Fort, 284, 285, 286, 387
Doolittle, James R., 199
Dougherty, John, 162, 166, 411
Douglas, Camp, 304, 310
" Douglas Invincibles," 258
Douglas, Stephen A., 25, 61, 62, 65, 136, 1390, 1490, 1500, 152, 279, 297, 398, 401, 454, 457; anti-Lecompton position of, 157-160; attempted to save the union, 257, 261 ; contributed land to University of Chicago, 237- 238; debated with Lincoln, 169-173, 197; failed to avert anti-Nebraska victories 1854, 131-135; Grant fol- lower of, 286; homestead bill of 1849, 90; interest in Pacific railroad, 361; internal improvement policies of, 31, 36-39, 44; Kansas-Nebraska act and, 113-127, 146, 455; objected to New England teachers, 235; opinion of, on Dred Scott decision, 154, 155, 156, 184; presidential aspirant 1852, 102, 105-107; presidential aspirant 1856, 146-147; presidential campaign 1860, 183-201; senator, III, 160-180, 445; sought to unite democratic party, 141-142; supported Lincoln 1861, 259-260; urged compromise meas- ures 1850, 65-72; Wentworth advo- cated, for president, 54
Douglass, Frederick, 133, 438
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Dred Scott decision, 153-155, 156, 163, 164, 171, 184, 187
" Driskells, the," 22
Dubois, Jesse K., 100, 191, 199
Duff, Andrew D., 302, 309
Duggan, Bishop James, 345, 425
Dunlap, Mathias L., 81
Dunne, P. W., 344n Du Page county, 439 Du Quoin, 360, 399, 426
Durham and Northumberland Farmers' Club of England, see agriculture
Dutch, Alfred, 108, 453, 454
Dyer, Charles V., 59, 218, 219
Dyhrenfurth, Julius. 443
Earlville, 51 East St. Louis, 351. See Illinoistown Eastman, Zebina, 146n, 218, 448
Economic conditions, among laborers, 202-204; influenced by growth of cities, 1-5 ; health conditions, 216-218; inadequate banking system and, 92; Negroes and, 227-229; railroads af- fect, 48-52
Eden, John R., 299, 307, 411 Edgar county, 218, 307, 308, 335 Edgewood, 360
Education, agricultural college agita- tion, 231, 232, 240-245, 407, 408, 431- 435; Chicago Academy of Natural Sciences, 440; Chicago Historical Society, 440; colleges: Baptist Uni- versity of Chicago, 237; Blackburn Theological Seminary, 250; Chicago Theological Seminary, 250; Eureka College, 431; Garrett Institute, 250; Hahnemann Medical College, 217; Illinois College, 217, 236, 256, 294, 433; Illinois Industrial University, 428, 431; Illinois Soldiers' College and Military Academy, 396n; Illi- nois State Normal University, 280, 336, 431, 440; Illinois Wesleyan Universi- ty, 237; Jacksonville College, 231, 239, 240, 241, 439; Jubilee College, 247; Knox College, 218, 222, 231, 236, 238, 240, 433, 444; Lebanon Col- lege, 241; Lind University, 217; Lombard College, 336; McCormick Theological Seminary, 250; McKen- dree College, 238, 241 ; Mechanics' Institute of Chicago, 448; Northern Illinois Agricultural College, 244; Northwestern University, 237, 241, 250; Quincy College, 431; Rush
Medical College, 217; Shurtleff Col- lege, 238, 336, 433; Sloan's Central Commercial College, 2130; Southern Illinois Normal University, 431; University of Chicago, 237-238, 432n; University of Illinois, 237, 239-245; Wheaton College, 239n; elementary, 230-236, 429-430; Ger- man interest in, 25, 340; higher, 236- 245, 250, 431-435; Illinois Natural History Society, 440; Illinois Histor- ical Society, 451; Illinois State Edu- cational Society, 230-231, 235; Indus- trial League of the State of Illinois, 242; libraries, 440; National Educa- tional Society, 234-235; Negro, 228, 336-337; regiment formed from Nor- mal University, 280; State. Teachers' Association, 440; State Teachers' Institute, 236
Edwards, Cyrus, 175
Edwards, Ninian W., 105, 232-233, 243 Edwardsville, 69, 248
Effingham county, 89
Elections, see politics
Elgin, 28, 40, 41, 2000, 246, 366, 375, 376 Ellis, R. F., 213
Ellis Island, 331 Elsinore (Denmark), 342
Elyutt, Archie J., 379
Emancipation proclamation, 296, 298, 300, 301, 335
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 438
Emigrant Agency, Chicago, see immi- gration
Emigrant Aid Society, Cairo, see immi- gration Emigrant Aid Society, German, see immigration
Emigrant Association, Vermont, see emigration
Emigrant Company, American, see im- migration
Emigration, California, 9, 348; Emi- grant Aid Society, 11; Kansas and Nebraska, 10-12, 348; Kansas Set- tlers' Society, 11; Kansas Women's Aid and Liberty Association, 12; Ne- braska Colonization Company, 11; Vermont Emigrant Association, 13 Emporium, 8
England, 84, 118, 176, 339, 344, 365 Englewood, 431
English, 109, 443. See population Episcopalians, 220, 247-249, 425
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Erie railroad, New York and, see transportation Eureka College, see education Evangelical church, 247
Evans, John, 241
Evanston, 250 Evarts, William M., 194 Everett, Edward, 120, 195 Excelsior Society, see clubs
Fairbury, 367 Farmington, 137, 21In
Farragut, Admiral David J., 324, 327, 398, 399
Fell, Jesse, 435n
Fenian movement, 344-346, 403
Ferree, Reverend, 201
Ficklin, Orlando B., 53
Field, Thomas, 228
Fillmore, Millard, 56, 107, 108, 110, 146, 149-150, 176, 302
Finance, business interests need sys- tem of, 92; need of new system of, 361-364; railroad construction and land sales affect, 91-92, 98. See banking and currency
Fink and Company, see transportation Fire and Marine Insurance Company, Chicago, see Chicago Flagg, Willard C., 374
Fleishman, Charles L., 23
Florence, 28
Florida, 254
Fond du Lac Railway Company, Chi- cago, St. Paul and, see transporta- tion
Fondey, William B., 162
Fontenelle (Kansas), 11
Ford county, 377
Foreign Missions, American Board of Commissioners for, see religion
Forrest, Edwin, 443
Foster, Lemuel, 22In
Foster, R. G., 237
Fouke, Philip B., 109, 131
Fox river, 41 Fox River Dairy Club, see agriculture France, 17, 381
Francis, Allen, 453
Francis, Simeon, 453 Frederic, 28
Fredericksburg, 288
Freedman's Aid Commission, North- western, see immigration
Freeman, J. D., 218
Freeman's Aid Society, see Civil War
Free Mission Society for the Northwest, see religion
Freeport, 79, 80, 1270, 258, 403, 413 ; doctrine, 170-172, 183, 184, 185, 187; Lincoln-Douglas debate at, 169 Free soil party, see politics
Fremont, General John C., possible presidential candidate, 189; presi- dential aspirant 1864, 315, 316, 317, 323, 324, 342 ; presidential candidate 1856, 146-148, 15on, 151, 200, 201; reason for being relieved of com- mand, 291-292; relieved of command at St. Louis, 263, 264-266, 285, 318 French, 177, 341. See population
French, Augustus C., 3, 51, 54, 62, 65, 91, 162, 2150, 240, 241, 242; attitude toward banking, 94, 95, 97, 98 ; guber- natorial candidate 1848, 55, 56-57; land interests of, 88-89 ; railroad pol- icy of, 34-35, 40, 44, 45 French Canadian, see population
Fruit Growers' Association, Northwest- ern, see agriculture
Fruit Growers' Association, Southern Illinois, see agriculture
Fry, James B., 276n
Fuller, General Allen C., 276n, 359, 395 Fuller, Henry W., 367
Fulton, 41, 396n
Fulton county, 305, 408
Funk, Isaac, 83, 150
Furst and Bradley Company, 365
Galena, 1, 7, 23, 33, 40, 41, 42, 161, 217, 250, 281, 286, 303, 351, 437
Galena railroad, Chicago and, see transportation
Galesburg, 20, 43, 169, 172, 245, 282, 336, 351, 433
Galva, 20, 150
Garrett Institute, see education
Garrison, William Lloyd, 133, 176, 218, 317, 439, 456
Geneseo, 280, 356
Geneva, 132
Gennert, Theodore, 381
Georgetown (Ky.), 238
Georgia, 61, 99, 178, 330
Georgian Bay, 30
German Emigrant Aid Society, see im- migration
German guides, 28r
Germania Beet Sugar Company, 381
Germans, 247, 292; amusements and, 215, 441; attitude toward Johnson, 394; customs of, 343-344; education- al interest of, 233 ; enlistment among,
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263, 280-281 ; immigration of, 23-26, 340, 341; interested in music, 442- 444; labor, 369; Lincoln's reelection and, 316-317, 323, 327-328; political value of, 58, 110, 123-124, 137, 139, 148, 150-151, 177, 186, 189, 190, 200, 341-344; temperance movement and, 209-210. See population
Germany, 16, 23, 381
Gettysburg (Pa.), 288, 298
Giddings, Joshua R., 133, 141
Gillespie, Joseph, 44n, 109, 131, 149, 176
Glover, Joseph O., 59
Gooding, A. M., 218
Goodman, Epaphras, 223
Gordon, Joseph, 25on
Goudy, William C., 299
Government, bank measures, 362; bills passed 1863, 299; constitutional con- vention 1869, 418; educational re- forms, 232-234; Negro laws, 333, 335-336; proposed constitution re- jected, 259, 267-272; war measures passed, 262
Grand Army of the Republic, 396, 397, 399, 403
Grant, Ulysses S., 34In, 387, 389, 398, 399; battle of Belmont, 266; charges against, 295; general, 263; military achievements of, 285-289, 318, 327; president 1868, 408, 410-414; pro- posed presidential candidate, 322
Granville, 223, 241 Grau, J., 443
Grayville, 137 Great Britain, see England
Great Lakes, 29, 30, 37, 41, 42, 354, 355 Great Western, Illinois, see transporta- tion
Great Western railroad, Toledo, Wa- bash, and, see transportation Great Western Railway Company, see transportation
Greeley, Horace, 133, 160, 186, 253, 295, 319-320, 438
Green, Amos, 321
Green, David K., 403 Green, William H., 260, 273, 302, 403 Gregg, David L., 102, 103, 104
Gregory and Hastings, 377 Gregory, John M., 434 Grierson, Benjamin H., 289
Grierson's band, 442 Griggs, Clark R., 433, 434 Griggsville, 28 Grimshaw, Jackson, 317 Grove, 248
Grover, Leonard, 443 Grundy, 384
Hahnemann Medical College, see edu- cation
Hale, John P., 147
Haley, W. D., 122
Halleck, Henry W., 285, 287
Hamilton, 247
Hamlin, Hannibal, 194-195, 197, 201,
355 Haney, Richard, 423
Hannibal (Mo.), 360
Harney, William S., 263
Harper's Ferry, 182, 187
Harris, B. Frank, 78, 83
Harris, Onesimus, 333
Harris, Thomas L., 57, 67, 73, 131
Harvard University, 237, 451
Hastings, Gregory and, 377
Hawkins, John, 205
Hay, C. D., 156
Haynie, Isham W., 297, 317
Hayti, 227
Healy, G. P. A., 437
Hecker, Friedrich, 23, 25, 146, 151, 177, 274, 280, 316
Henry county, 20, 3410
Henry, Fort, 285
Herndon, William H., 145, 146n, 159, 290, 292, 314, 427
Hibernian Benevolent Emigrant So- ciety, Chicago, see immigration
Hibernian Society, see clubs
Hillsboro, 35, 51, 237
Hinchcliffe, John, 369n
Hobbs, Mrs. Amelia, 428
Hodnett, John Pope, 346, 347
Hoffman, Francis, 26, 123, 151, 177, 190 Holbrook, Darius, 38, 39
Holly Springs (Miss.), 306
Home Missions Society, American, see religion Homer, 382
Horticultural Society, Illinois State, see agriculture Hossack, John, 229
Hovey, Charles E., 280 Howe, Julia Ward, 439
Hoyleton, 13
Hubbard, Mrs., 213
Humphreys, Truman, 84
Hunter, C. W., 218
Hunter, General David, 285
Hurlbut, General Stephen A., 263, 285, 288, 289, 303, 335, 397 Hussey, Obed, 79
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Icaria, 18-19 Idaho, 348
Illinois and Wisconsin Dairymen's As- sociation, see agriculture
Illinois Beet Sugar Company, 381
Illinois Central, see transportation
Illinois College, see education
Illinois Conference, see Methodists
Illinois Congregationalist associations, see religion
Illinois Great Western, see transporta- tion
Illinois Historical Society, see educa- tion
Illinois Industrial University, see edu- cation
Illinois Labor Convention, see labor
Illinois Natural History Society, see education
Illinois Order of American Knights, see politics
Illinois river, 28, 29, 30, 31, 52, 75, 80, 85, 109, 354, 416, 437
Illinois Soldiers' College and Military Academy, see education
Illinois Soldiers' Orphans' Home, see Civil War
Illinois Soldiers' Relief Association, see Civil War
Illinois State Agricultural Society, see agriculture
Illinois State Antislavery Society, see politics
Illinois State Educational Society, see education
Illinois State Horticultural Society, see agriculture
Illinois State Normal University, see education
Illinois State Sugar Cane Convention, see agriculture
Illinois State University, see education
Illinois Stock Importing Company, see agriculture
Illinois Wesleyan Missionary Confer- ence, see religion
Illinois Wesleyan University, see edu- cation
Illinois Woman Suffrage Association, see women's movement
Illinoistown, 8, 34n, 44, 45, 46, 247, 262, 351
Illinoistown railroad, Belleville and, see transportation
Illinoistown railroad, Terre Haute and, see transportation
Immigration, American born, 12-16,
330-338; American Emigrant Com- pany, 339; Cairo Emigrant Aid So- ciety, 339; Chicago Emigrant Agen- cy, 339; Chicago Hibernian Benevo- lent Emigrant Society, 21 ; effect of, upon agriculture, 75; foreign, 16-26, 338-344; German Emigrant Aid So- ciety, 339; Northwestern Freedman's Aid Commission, 336; Prairie Land and Emigration Company, 21; rail- roads affect, 48, 51; Scandinavian Aid Society, 340; Women's Protec- tive Immigration societies, 15
Independent Baseball Club of Cairo, see amusements
Indiana, 14, 43, 95,' 176, 177, 192-194, 197, 200, 257, 263, 308, 310, 339
Indianapolis (Ind.), 33, 310
Indianapolis, Bloomington, and West- crn railroad, see transportation Indians, 113
Industrial Congress, 90
Industrial League, see agriculture
Industrial League of the State of Illi- nois, see education
Ingersoll, Eben C., 296
Ingersoll, Robert, 427, 428
Iowa, 18, 42, 52, 83, 115, 194, 263, 330, 340, 357, 361
Ireland, 16, 62, 339, 344, 346, 398
Irish, 248, 425; enlistment among, 281 ; Fenian movement and, 344, 348 ; im- migration of, 16, 21-23, 3390, 340, 341; National Fair, 344; political value of, 58, 136, 137, 150-151, 177, 200, 341, 344-348, 403; temperance movement and, 210. See population Iroquois county, 377
Island Number 10, 286, 335
Italians, 341, 443. See population
Jackson, Andrew, 31, 74, 96, 101, 255, 314, 357
Jackson county, 368
Jacksonville, 10, 19, 190, 348, 376, 423, 426, 433, 439, 449 ; amusements in, 438, 442, 447 ; education in, 429 ; guerrilla bands in, 306; Illinois College in, 217, 236; Negroes in, 336; size of, 351; temperance movement in, 205, 210; Trumbull supports Lincoln in, 173; Turner from, 240, 314; union meeting at, 69
Jacksonville, and Chicago railroad, St. Louis and, see transportation
Jacksonville College, see education Janson, Eric, 20
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Jefferson, Thomas, 54, 74
Jersey county, 428 Jerseyville, 218, 232, 303 Jessup, William, 192 Jews, 281, 341 Jo Daviess county, 3030 Johns, H. V., 84
Johnson, Andrew, 342, 346, 404, 410, 424n; impeached, 408-409; politi- cians' attitude toward, 391-403; ve- toed Trumbull's bills, 395; visited Illinois, 398-399
Johnson, Herschel V., 201 Johnson, Madison T., 303, 321
Johnson, Moses, 228
Johnson, Professor, 442
Joliet, 29, 41, 249, 344, 371, 403, 421; abolition convention at, 147; know nothing movement in, 137; temper- ance movement in, 210
Jones, James C., 178
Jones, John, 338n Jones, J. Russell, 333 Jones, William, 238
Jonesboro, 169, 172, 2100, 3060, 331, 374, 379
Jubilee College, see education
Judd, Norman B., 59, 121, 123, 134, 135, 186; campaigned for Lincoln 1860, 191, 193, 199; defeated for governor, 190
Kalamazoo (Mich.), 434 Kane county, 20on, 368, 375, 419 Kankakee, 17, 34, 177, 399 Kankakee river, 17
Kansas, 147, 156, 183, 239; emigration to, 7, 9, 10-12, 348; influence of Le- compton constitution on election of 1858, 157-180; Kansas-Nebraska act and, 113-124; republicans on in cam- paign of 1856, 148
Kansas-Nebraska act, 74, 158, 172, 176, 183, 190, 209, 219, 224, 455, 456; pro- visions and passage of, 113-124; re- publican party and, 125-152
Kansas Settlers' Society, see emigration Kansas Women's Aid and Liberty As- sociation, see emigration
Keep; Henry, 359 Kellogg, A. N., 458 Kellogg, L. D., 335 Kellogg, William, 256 Kendall county, 426 Kennicott, John A., 241, 245 Kennison, David, 60 Kenosha, 71
Kentucky, 15, 174, 175, 176n, 191, 194,
195, 238, 263, 271, 285, 291, 310, 331, 335n, 425 Killpatrick, Thomas M., 231
King, William R., 109
Kinkel, Gottfried, 24
Kinney, William C., 1350
Knapp, Anthony, 296
Knights of the Golden Circle, see poli- tics
Know nothing party, see politics
Knox College, see education
Knox county, 20, 172
Knox, James, 111, 118, 131, 137
Knox, John T., 73
Knoxville, 131
Koerner, Gustave, 44, 46, 326n ; com- missioner 1861, 258; gubernatorial aspirant, 139; lieutenant governor, 26, 450, 103, 110, 134, 135n; minister to Spain, 342; opinion on Dred Scott decision, 155; opinion on secession, 255n ; opposed Kansas-Nebraska act, 123, 142-144; raised regiment, 280- 281; republican leader, 25, 226, 262; supported Fremont, 147, 151, 265; supported Lincoln, 177, 191, 192, 199 Kroh, J. M., 82
Kuykendall, Andrew J., 261, 296, 317, 328, 336n, 397, 4170
Labor, affected industrial development, 368-369; Chicago Arbeiter Verein, 369 ; colored, 334; emigration affects, 15; European, 339, 381-382; Illinois Labor Convention, 370; National Labor Union, 419; political value of, 325, 370-372; protection of home, 410; shortage of farm, during war, 373; wages and unemployment of, 202-204
Lacon, 367
Ladies' War Committee, see Civil War Lafayette, 20 Lake Forest, 217
Land, railroads, and speculators in, 47- 48, 85; reform, 89-91, 102; sale of, 85-89
Lane, Henry S., 193 L Lanphier, Charles H., 454
La Salle, 8, Ion, 22, 28, 29, 42, 241, 340, 366, 372, 433
La Salle county, 13, 78, 128, 218, 267, 373, 384, 419 La Salle County Agricultural Society, see agriculture Latshaw, W. D., 454
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