by IlGenWeb SC | Jul 11, 2015 | 1915 Biographies
CABLE, a town in Mercer County, on the Rock Island & Peoria Railroad, 26 miles south by east from Rock Island. Coal-mining is the principal industry, but there are also tile works, a good quality of clay for manufacturing purposes being found in abundance....
by IlGenWeb SC | Jul 11, 2015 | 1915 Biographies
BABCOCK, Amos C., was born at Penn Yan, N. Y., Jan. 20, 1828, the son of a member of Congress from that State; at the age of 18, having lost his father by death, came West, and soon after engaged in mercantile business in partnership with a brother at Canton, Ill. In...
by IlGenWeb SC | Jul 11, 2015 | 1915 Biographies
ABBOTT, (Lieut.-Gov.) Edward, a British officer, who was commandant at Post Vincennes (called by the British, Fort Sackville) at the time Col. George Rogers Clark captured Kaskaskia in 1778. Abbott’s jurisdiction extended, at least nominally, over a part of the...
by IlGenWeb SC | Jun 30, 2015 | History Project
The first bank in the Territory of Illinois was established at Shawneetown, of Gallatin County, Illinois the act authorizing its establishment having been approved December 28, 1816. It was named the Bank of Illinois; its capital was not to exceed $300,000, one-third...
by IlGenWeb SC | Jun 9, 2015 | 1837 Gazetteer
Fort Chartres Fort Chartres is located in Randolph County, about three miles north of the village of Prairie du Roches. Early Illinois history centers about Fort Chartres, the hub of French influence in the central west for almost half a century before it was wrested...
by IlGenWeb SC | Jun 9, 2015 | 1837 Gazetteer
Racoon, a small stream in Greene county, that enters the Illinois river twelve miles above its mouth. The bottoms on this creek, and on the Illinois river at this point, are narrow, and the surface adjoining is much broken into bluffs and ravines. Racoon Creek, a...
by IlGenWeb SC | Jun 9, 2015 | 1837 Gazetteer
Mackinau, (Michilimacinac) a navigable stream in Tazewell county. It rises in the prairie near the centre of Mc Lean county, and after receiving several small branches, runs southwestwardly through Tazewell county, and enters the Illinois three miles below Pekin. It...
by IlGenWeb SC | Jun 9, 2015 | 1837 Gazetteer
Hadley’s Creek rises in the north part of Pike county, in four south, three west, and enters the Snycartee slough. The land is undulating but good. Hadley, a post office and settlement, in Will county, eight miles northeast of Juliett, and on the road to...
by IlGenWeb SC | Jun 9, 2015 | 1837 Gazetteer
CHICAGO, the seat of justice for Cook county, is situated on a river or bay of the same name, at the junction of North and South branches, and from thence to lake Michigan. The town is beautifully situated on level ground, but sufficiently elevated above the highest...
by IlGenWeb SC | Jun 9, 2015 | 1837 Gazetteer
Apakeesheek Grove, in La Salle county, lies three miles north of Holderman’s grove. Adams’s Fork, a branch of the Skillet fork of the Little Wabash. It rises in the prairies of Marion county, passes southeast, across the corner of Jefferson, and enters the...
