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Southern Illinois Normal University, see education
Southern railroad, see transportation
Southwestern Illinois Sabbath Conven- tion, see religion
Speculation, and banking, 99; in Cairo, 7; in land, 85-89; railroad, 31-52 Springer, Francis, 231, 237
Springfield, 10, 15, 25, 31, 34, 48, 54, 57, 61, 63, 69, 72, 73, 96, 101, 103, 104, 111, 112, 119, 144, 156, 182, 249, 250, 251, 258, 267, 268, 27on, 286, 300, 304, 309, 321, 346, 366, 369, 372, 377, 388, 393, 398, 399, 422, 426, 428, 432, 434, 440, 450, 454, 456n, 457; advo- cates insurance companies, 94; amusements in, 438, 440, 441, 442 ; banks in, 97; colored mass meeting in, 337; congressional election of 1854, 131; crime in, 420; democratic convention in 1861, 256; democratic peace meeting at, 299-300; demo- cratic victory in, 144; Douglas in 1854, 132-133; Douglas' letters to confidants in, 115; Douglas urged union loyalty at, 261; enlistment in, 281; favored Bloomington conven- tion 1856, 146; growth of, 1, 2, 6, 19, 351; health conditions in, 216- 217; immigrants in, 332, 336; know nothing convention in, 139; presiden- tial election 1860 in, 185, 186, 195, 198; public utilities in, 4, 5, 6-7; railroads, connections with, 33, 42, 48; religious fervor at, 424; repub- lican state convention 1854, 128-129, 143; republican convention 1858, 190; schools in, 230, 231, 237, 240,
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241, 242, 243 ; senatorial election 1858 in, 158-180; state fair at, 79; Stock Importing Company at, 83-84; sugar cane convention at, 82; temperance movement in, 205, 207, 208, 210; women's rights movement in, 212 Springfield and Alton railroad, see transportation
Springfield and Illinois Southeastern railroad, see transportation
Springfield and Meredosia railroad, see transportation
St. Andrew's society, see clubs
St. Anne, 17
St. Anthony, 437
Stark county, 20, 234
Starne, Alexander, 103
State Agricultural Society, see agricul- ture
State Antislavery Society, Illinois, see politics
State Bank, see banking
State Educational Society, Illinois, see education
State Medical Society, 218
State Sanitary Fair, 284
State Sugar Cane Convention, Illinois, see agriculture
State Teachers' Association, see educa- tion
State Teachers' Institute, see education St. Clair county, 51, 97, 105, 1350, 146, 226; education in, 230, 233; republi- can following in, 148, 151
Stebbins bonds, Macalister and, 92 Stephens, Alexander H., 178
Stephenson, Benjamin F., 397 Sterling, 356
Stevens, Thaddeus, 318
St. George's Society, see clubs
St. Louis, 16, 31, 220, 442, 445; bank circulation from, 95; commerce and railroad connections with, 29, 33, 34, 35, 36, 41, 42, 43, 45, 46, 51, 52, 177, 360; commercial center, 5, 7, 8, 18, 19, 350, 351, 357, 374; Fremont in, 265; influence of press of, 450, 458; secession strength in, 262-263
St. Louis and Terre Haute railroad, see transportation
St. Louis, Jacksonville, and Chicago railroad, see transportation St. Louis railroad, Rockford, Rock Island, and, see transportation
St. Louis, Vandalia, and Terre Haute railroad, see transportation
Stock Importing Company, Illinois, see agriculture
Stock Yard and Transit Company, Union, 385
Stone, Lucy, 212, 438 Stoneman, George, 289
Storey, Wilbur F., 456
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 448
St. Paul (Minn.), 41
St. Paul, and Fond du Lac Railway Company, Chicago, see transportation St. Paul railroad, Milwaukee and, see transportation
" St. Paul's," 437
Strawn, David, 78
Strawn, Jacob, 83, 376
Stringer, Mrs. C. T. F., 428
Stuart, John T., 176, 196, 3880 Sturtevant, Julian M., antislavery lead- er, 239, 256n; critic of Lincoln, 294
Stuttgart (Germany), 23
Suffrage Association, Illinois Woman, see women's movement
Sugar Cane Convention, Illinois State, see agriculture
Sullivant, Joseph, 14
Sullivant, Michael L., 14, 78, 382
Sumner, Charles, Massachusetts sena- tor, 294, 318
Sumter, Fort, 259, 274
Superior, Lake, 36In
Sweat, Peter, 95
Swedenborgians, 245
Swedes, see Scandinavians
Swedish Lutherans, 247
Swedish Methodists, 245
Swedona, 20
Sweeney, Thomas W., 345
Swett, Leonard, 190, 334
Swiss, 441
Sycamore, 380
Tammany Society, 178 Taney, Roger B., chief justice, 154
Tariff, 101, 366n, 367, 409-410 Taylor, Colonel Edmund D., attitude toward Kansas-Nebraska act, 126, 133
Taylor, General Zachary, 62, 64; pres- ident 1848, 56-58, 60, 61 ; proposal of, 1850, 67, 69
Tazewell county, 123, 309
Teachers' Institute, State, see education Telegraph, extension of, 31
Temperance movement, 204-211, 421
Tennessee, 15, 175, 178, 195, 271, 289, 330, 331
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Tennessee river, 7, 285, 286
Terre Haute (Ind.), 7, 14, 33, 46
Terre Haute and Alton railroad, see transportation
Terre Haute and Illinoistown railroad, see transportation
Terre Haute railroad, St. Louis and, see transportation
Terre Haute railroad, St. Louis, Van- dalia, and, see transportation
Texas, 65, 83, 288, 365, 376, 377
Theological Seminary, Blackburn, see education
Theological Seminary, Chicago, see ed- ucation
Theological Seminary, McCormick, see education
Third Industrial Convention, 2430
Thomas, William, 57
Thornton, Anthony, 299
Thurston, Sherman, 228
Tilton, Theodore, 338
Toledo, Wabash and Great Western, see transportation
Tolona, 377
Tonica, 21In
Toombs, Robert, Georgia senator, 173
Towanda, 21In
Tract Society, American, see religion
Transportation, agriculture and, 27, 32, 49-50, 355, 384-386; bills for improved 1869, 416; Cairo City and Canal Company, 38-39; Chicago center of, 349, 350; Douglas' interest in Pacific railroad, 114; Fink and Company, 48; growth of railroad, 2, 5, 7, 14, 27, 31-52, 357, 361, 364; Illinois and Michigan canal, 5, 8, 29, 32, 33, 36, 85, 92, 354, 356, 407, 416; of immi- grants, 330-334; plank roads, 28; railroad construction affects finance, 91-92, 98; railroad men organized brigade, 280; railroads: Alton and Mt. Carmel, 47; Alton and Terre Haute, 46, 51; Atlantic and Missis- sippi, 33, 44, 46, 48, 88; Belleville and Southern, 360; Central Military Tract, 43; Chicago and Alton, 18, 45, 48, 49n, 360; Chicago and Aurora, 41 ; Chicago and Milwaukee, 47, 359; Chicago and Mississippi Railroad Company, 42; Chicago and Mobile, 38; Chicago and Northwestern, 47, 48, 359, 361; Chicago and Rock Island, 359, 361 ; Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, 43, 51, 360; Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific, 360, 361;
Chicago, St. Paul, and Fond du Lac Railway Company, 359; Galena and Chicago, 8, 40-41, 46, 48, 52, 130, 303, 359, 361; Great Western Railway Company, 36-40; Illinois Central, 7, 8, 13, 18, 21, 33, 36-40, 41, 42, 43, 48, 50, 51, 52, 86-89, 91, 92, 108, 114, 177, 208n, 270, 330, 331, 332, 334, 339, 351, 374, 375, 416; Illinois Great West- ern, 43; Indianapolis, Bloomington, and Western, 360; Michigan Central, 33; Michigan Southern, 349n; Mil- waukee and St. Paul, 359; New York and Erie, 40; Northern Cross, 33, 43, 46-47; Northern Pacific, 36In; Ohio and Mississippi, 33, 34, 44, 45, 46, 52 ; Pacific, 147, 1630, 350, 361; Peoria and Oquawka, 43; Peru and Rock Island, 41; Rockford, Rock Island, and St. Louis, 360; Rock Island and Chicago, 8, 41, 349n; Sangamon and Morgan, 43; Springfield and Alton, 42-43 ; Springfield and Illinois South- eastern, 360; Springfield and Mere- dosia, 43; St. Louis and Alton, 177; St. Louis and Terre Haute, 360; St. Louis, Jacksonville, and Chicago, 360; St. Louis, Vandalia, and Terre Haute, 360; Terre Haute and Alton, 45-46, 52; Terre Haute and Illinois- town, 46; Toledo, Wabash and Great Western, 43, 360; sabbath observ- ance and, 214; water, 27, 29-30, 33, 354-357
Trapp, Albert H., 135n Treat, Samuel H., 309
Trumbull, Lyman, 255, 421; aided in war legislation, 262; bills of, 1866, 395; campaigned for Lincoln, 173- 175, 198-199; debated with Douglas, 132-133, 141; favored Negro enlist- ment, 282; in congressional canvass 1866, 403-404; leader at Blooming- ton convention 1856, 145; opinion on Dred Scott decision, 155; opinion of Palmer, 264; opposed Kansas-Ne- braska act, 126, 142; radical war position of, 291, 293-294, 297-298, 302, 304, 312, 314, 315; senator, 131, 134- 137, 163, 166, 200, 259, 399, 404-405; supported conscription, 275; sup- ported Fremont, 147, 265; voted for Johnson's acquittal, 409 Turner Cadets, 281
Turner, Jonathan B., 80-81, 239, 247n, 314; advocated agricultural and in- dustrial university, 231, 232, 2330,
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240-245, 431-435; congressional can- didate 1854, 130; lecturer, 439
Turner, Thomas J., 62, 2090, 258, 397, 398, 403, 413 Tuttle, James H., 334 Twain, Mark, 439
Uncle Tom's Cabin, 226
Underhill, Isaac, 81
Underwood, William H., 143, 215, 421
Unger, Julius, 443
Union county, 2790, 306, 374
Union League, see politics
Union Musical Association, see music
Union Stock Yard and Transit Com- pany, 385
Unitarian Conference, Western, see re- ligion
Unitarians, 220, 248, 426
United Presbyterians, 246
United States Agricultural Fair, see agriculture
United States Christian Commission, see Civil War
United States Sanitary Commission, see Civil War
Universal Brotherhood, League of, see religion
Universalists, 245, 248, 249, 426, 427
University of Chicago, see education University of Illinois, see education Upper Alton, 238, 436
Urbana, 4, 15, 42, 79, 81, 304; agricul- tural university at, 408, 433-435 Usrey, William J., 143
Utah, 64, 66, 68, 70, 116, 184
Vallandigham, Clement L., 296, 323, 326
Van Amringe, H., 18, 90, 212
Van Buren, John, 121, 147
Van Buren, Martin, 59-61, 89, 219 Vandalia, 306
Vandalia, and Terre Haute railroad, St. Louis, see transportation
Van Deren, D. J., 220
Van de Velde, Right Reverend James Oliver, 248 Van Meter, "Professor," 442 Vaudois, 18
Vaughan, J. C., 146 Vermilion county, 377
Vermont, 13, 137, 235, 244
Vermont Emigrant Association, see em- igration Vicksburg (Miss.), 284, 287, 288, 298, 399
Victoria, 20
Vincennes (Ind.), 31, 33, 35, 44, 46, 360 Vinton, James E., 205 Virginia (Ill.), 28, 177
Virginia, 15, 98, 147, 174, 175, 257, 263, 271, 331
Wabash, and Great Western railroad, Toledo, see transportation Wabash county, 82
Wabash river, 7, 14
Wade-Davis bill, 319, 323
Wait, Olive Starr, 212
Wait, William S., 89, 212
Waite, C. B., 428
Waldenses, 18
Walker, George, 454
Walker, James B., 223n
Walker, Mrs. Mary L., 427
Ward, B. C., 280
Ward, S. G., 200n
Washburne, Elihu B., abolition and, 219; attended Bloomington conven- tion 1856, 145; congressman, 111, 130, 131, 242; favored Douglas, 161; op- posed Kansas-Nebraska act, 118 ; sup- ported Lincoln, 319 Washington county, 26
Washington, D. C., 38, 39, 62, 68, 72, 91, 102, 114, 131, 156, 157, 161, 166, 184, 185, 188, 255, 256, 257, 259, 262, 263, 264, 265, 277, 282, 288, 315, 317, 318, 339, 355, 409, 447, 451
Waukegan, 69
Wayne county, 230
Webb, Edwin B., 105, 149, 176
Webster, Daniel, 66, 70, 108
Webster, John W., 451
Weed, Thurlow, 16In
Welch, Delavan, and Nathan's circus, 438 Welles, Gideon, 318, 398 Wells, C. D., 59
Wentworth, John, 38, Io3n, 125, 229; 453, 454, 456; abolition and, 219; anti-Nebraska democrat, 142, 1440; campaigned for Lincoln 1860, 199; congressional aspirant 1854, 129-130; congressman, 111, 328; influence of, 54-55, 57, 59-60, 61, 63, 67, 68, 73, 108, 109, 112, 190; land reform ad- vocated by, 89; opposed Kansas- Nebraska act, 117, 118; prominent editor, 455; supported Douglas, 105- 106; supported Fremont 1856, 148; supported new constitution, 270; urges united action in north, 140
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Wesleyan Missionary Conference, Illi- nois, see religion
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Wesleyan University, Illinois, see edu- cation
West Belleville, 217
Western Dental Convention, 218
Western Tract Convention, see religion
Western Unitarian Conference, see re- ligion
West Urbana, 50, 149, 249
West Virginia, 263
Wheaton College, see education
Whig party, see politics
White county, 105, 398
White, Horace, 255, 410, 456
White, J. G., 426 Whitehouse, Bishop Henry J., 248, 425 Whiteside county, 396n
Whitney, Alfred M., 149n
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 456 " Wide awake " organization, see poli- tics
Wilderness campaign, 289
Will county, 28, 79, 128, 267, 341, 419
Williams, Archibald, 127, 131
Williams, Isaac, 57
Williamson county, 260, 400
Wilmington, 375
Wilmot, David, 60
Wilmot proviso, 54, 55, 58, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 67, 69, 70, 74, 90, 102, 103, 113 Wilson, Charles L., 108, 453, 456
Wilson, Henry, 16In
Wilson, Thomas, 401
Wilson's Creek, 285
Winnebago, 21In Winnebago county, 15, 151, 210 Winona (Minn.), 357
Wisconsin, 41, 47, 52, 128, 142, 177, 199, 263, 316, 330, 340, 350, 357, 359
Wisconsin Dairymen's Association, Illi- nois and, see agriculture
Wisconsin Marine and Fire Insurance Company, 94
Wise, Henry A., 147
Women's Aid and Liberty Association, Kansas, see emigration
Women's movement, 211-214, 427-429; Illinois Woman Suffrage Association, 428
Women's Protective Immigration so- cieties, see immigration
Wood, John, 258, 268
Woodward, James H., 69, 130
Wool Growers' Association, see agri- culture
Wool Tariff Convention, 378
Wright, Erastus, 128
Wright, Horatio G., 306n
Yale College, 237 Yates, Camp, 262
Yates, Richard, 268, 387, 403 ; advanced Grant, 286; called for volunteers, 274, 275; called special legislative session, 261 ; campaigned for Lincoln 1860, 191, 199 ; comments on secession strength, 267; congressman, 73, 111, 242; defeated for congress 1854, 131, 137; defeated for senate, 298; fa- vored Negro enlistment, 282; gov- ernor 1860, 190, 200, 346, 355, 432, 433; inaugural address of, 255-250; opposed Kansas-Nebraska act, 118; opposed new constitution, 270, 272; prorogued legislature 1863, 299; rec- ommended reorganization of militia, 273; senator 1864, 328, 417; suc- ceeded by Oglesby, 328; supported Fremont 1856, 148, 149; supported Lincoln 1864, 327; war interest of, 257-258, 276-277, 281, 283, 284: 295, 297, 307, 314 Yates, William, 81
Yocum, William, 3350
York, Major, 307
York, Shubal, 218
Young Men's Christian Association, see clubs
Young, Timothy R., 57
Ziegfeld, Dr. Florence, 444n
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