Guide to Articles in the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 1908-1983, and the Illinois Historical Journal, 1985-1997, by Dorothy V. Ramm, 2013

 

 

Columns are Volume#, Issue#, Date, Page#, Title, Author, Notes on contents

 

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Title

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1

Apr. 1908

5-6

Editorial [reasons for publishing a journal for members]

 

Illinois State Historical Society; periodicals; Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society

1

1

Apr. 1908

10-12

Celebration of the semi-centennial of the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858

 

Lincoln, Abraham; Douglas, Stephen A.; election; Senate; 1858; debates; anniversaries; Illinois State Historical Society

1

2-3

July-Oct. 1908

3-14

Celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858

 

Lincoln, Abraham; Douglas, Stephen A.; election; Senate; 1858; debates; anniversaries; Ottawa, Ill.; Freeport, Ill.; Jonesboro, Ill.; Charleston, Ill.; Galesburg, Ill.; Quincy, Ill.

1

2-3

July-Oct. 1908

18-19

The Lincoln centennial

 

Lincoln, Abraham; centennial; memorials

1

2-3

July-Oct. 1908

33-43

Prehistoric Illinois : the Brown County ossuary

Snyder, J. F.

Illinois; prehistory; American Indians; burials; burial mounds; ossuaries; artifacts; Brown County, Ill.

1

4

Jan. 1909

6-8

The typical American : Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865

Weber, Jessie Palmer

Lincoln, Abraham; centennial; presidents; slavery; Civil War

1

4

Jan. 1909

9-11

One hundredth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln

 

Lincoln, Abraham; centennial; Springfield, Ill.; Lincoln Centennial Association

1

4

Jan. 1909

17-19

Woodford County Historical Society : celebration of ninetieth anniversary of admission of Illinois, December 3, 1908

 

Illinois; statehood; anniversaries; Woodford County, Ill.; Eureka, Ill.

1

4

Jan. 1909

23-30

Partial bibliography of poems relating to Abraham Lincoln

Booth, Mary Josephine

Lincoln, Abraham; poems; bibliography

1

4

Jan. 1909

31-40

Prehistoric Illinois : certain Indian mounds technically considered, part first : the effigy mounds

Snyder, J. F.

Illinois; prehistory; American Indians; mounds; effigies; Mound Builders

2

1

Apr. 1909

25-26

Local historical societies in the state of Illinois

 

Illinois; historical societies

2

1

Apr. 1909

27-33

The Lincoln centennial

 

Lincoln, Abraham; centennial; Hodgenville, Ky.; Springfield, Ill.; Illinois State Historical Society

2

1

Apr. 1909

47-65

Prehistoric Illinois : certain Indian mounds technically considered, part second : sepulchral and memorial mounds

Snyder, J. F.

Illinois; prehistory; American Indians; burial mounds; burials; Black Hawk; Mound Builders; artifacts

2

2

July 1909

37-42

Interesting extracts from old newspapers

Broadhead, George C., contributor

newspapers; articles; Boonslick Advertiser; Missouri Intelligencer; American Indians; treaties; boundaries; massacres; settlers; capture

2

2

July 1909

43-50

A statesman's letters of the Civil War period

Trumbull, Lyman;

Mowry, Duane, contributor

Trumbull, Lyman; letters; Doolittle, James Rood; Douglas, Stephen A.; election; Illinois; Senate; 1858; Civil War; volunteers; defense; Cairo, Ill.; St. Louis; Cameron, Simon; McClellan, George B.; Fremont, John C.; Doolittle, Henry; death

2

2

July 1909

51-54

Two letters from Gov. Ninian Edwards

Edwards, Ninian

Edwards, Ninian; letters; Enos, Pascal P.; Jackson, Andrew; appointments; removals; Calhoun, John C.

2

2

July 1909

55-64

Extracts from the journal of Captain Harry Gordon, chief engineer in the Western Department of North America, who was sent from Fort Pitt on the River Ohio, down the said River &c. to Illinois, in 1766

Gordon, Harry

Gordon, Harry; diaries; exploration; travel; Ohio River; geography; settlement; American Indians; forts; Great Britain

2

2

July 1909

65-70

Dedication of George Rogers Clark monument, at Quincy Illinois

Clendenin, H. W.

Clark, George Rogers; statues; dedication; Quincy, Ill.

2

2

July 1909

71-92

Prehistoric Illinois : certain Indian mounds technically considered, part third : temple or domiciliary mounds

Snyder, J. F.

Illinois; prehistory; American Indians; mounds; Mound Builders; artifacts

2

3

Oct. 1909

7-13

Death of General Alfred Orendorff, President of the Illinois State Historical Society

 

Orendorff, Alfred; Illinois State Historical Society; obituaries; lawyers; Herndon, William H.; Illinois General Assembly; Democratic Party

2

3

Oct. 1909

14-28

Shickshack in romance and real life

Snyder, J. F.

Shickshack; Winnebago Indians; Catherwood, Mary Hartwell; historical novels; Spanish Peggy; Sangamon River; Hash, Philip; family; Black Hawk War; treaties

2

3

Oct. 1909

29-37

Speech delivered by Senator James R. Doolittle, Springfield, Illinois, October 4, 1864

Doolittle, James R.

Doolittle, James Rood; speeches; 1864; election; president; Lincoln, Abraham; secession; Civil War

2

3

Oct. 1909

38-41

A curious proposition in 1776

Burnham, J. H.

Deane, Silas; Continental Congress; delegates; land grants; settlement; Northwest Territory

2

3

Oct. 1909

42-48

Reminiscences of a tragedy in pioneer life

Woolard, F. M.

Boltinghouse; Boltinghouse, Joe; Kickapoo Indians; murder; Edwards County, Ill.; Wayne County, Ill.

2

3

Oct. 1909

49-69

Extracts from old newspapers

Broadhead, Garland C., compiler

newspapers; articles; excerpts; Missouri Intelligencer and Boonslick Advertiser; American Indians; massacres; wars; Illinois; Black Hawk War; Atkinson, Henry; Brady, Hugh; treaties; Winnebago Indians; Sauk Indians; Fox Indians; Keokuk

2

3

Oct. 1909

70-76

Early attempts to form an Illinois State Historical Society

 

Illinois; history; societies; Antiquarian and Historical Society of Illinois; 1828; Illinois Literary and Historical Society; incorporation; Illinois; laws; 1847

2

3

Oct. 1909

77-84

Some old letters

 

Jones, George W.; senators; Iowa; letters; Breese, Sidney; slavery; railroads; Tennessee; Tennessee River; Douglas, Stephen A.; president; election; 1860; Democratic Party; slavery; secession

2

4

Jan. 1910

7-22

Margaret Fuller in northern Illinois

Carpenter, Richard V.

Fuller, Margaret; travel; Illinois; Chicago; Unitarian Church; Clarke, James Freeman; Clarke, William Hull; Fox River; Geneva, Ill.;  Conant, Augustus H.; Dixon, Ill.; Hazelwood, Ill.; Charters, Alexander; Grand Detour, Ill.;  Oregon, Ill.; Kishwaukee, Ill.; Belvidere, Ill.; Rock River

2

4

Jan. 1910

23-35

An Illinois burnt offering

Snyder, J. F.

Middle Creek, Ill.; Cass County, Ill.; Morgan County, Ill.; human sacrifice; Witty, John B.; Witty family; Rose, Pleasant; hysteria; Witty, Granny; Lewis, William; Elmore, Julius; Dick, Amos; Hash, Philip; indictment; murder; trial; jury; witnesses

2

4

Jan. 1910

36-39

An important contribution : gift of priceless Lincoln material to the Illinois State Historical Society and Library, by the Hon. Clinton L. Conkling

 

Lincoln, Abraham; letters; Civil War; Union; Springfield, Ill.; political meetings; Conkling, James C.; Conkling, Clinton L.

2

4

Jan. 1910

40-43

A memorable speech at Springfield and a by-stander's account of it

Mowry, Duane, contributor

Doolittle, James Rood; election; president; 1864; Lincoln, Abraham; candidates; Yates, Richard; Waterman, E. L.

2

4

Jan. 1910

44-48

Two old letters :one from Elijah P. Lovejoy, 1837; the other from Gen. Charles E. Hovey, 1858; the originals of which are in the Illinois State Historical Library

 

Lovejoy, Elijah P.; slavery; Alton, Ill.; Alton Observer; printing press; Wright, Erastus; Lincoln, Abraham; slavery; abolition; Hovey, Charles E.; Illinois State Normal School; curriculum; teachers; Willard, Samuel; letters

2

4

Jan. 1910

49-70

Important purchase of books by the Illinois State Historical Library

 

Illinois State Historical Library; books; Illinois; history; French; American Revolution; War of 1812; American Indians; Canada; Quebec

2

4

Jan. 1910

71-73

List of the editions of the works of Louis Hennepin in the Illinois State Historical Library

 

Hennepin, Louis; missionaries; bibliography; Illinois State Library

2

4

Jan. 1910

74-76

An interesting relic

 

Springfield, Ill.; Board of Trustees; meetings; minutes; 1832-1839

3

1

Apr. 1910

10-23

Agricultural organization in Illinois 1870-1880

Buck, Solon J.

farming; Illinois; crops; prices; politics; railroads; regulation; Kelley, Oliver; Grange; farmers' clubs; Illinois State Farmers' Association

3

1

Apr. 1910

24-44

Lincoln's defense of Duff Armstrong

Gridley, J. N.

Lincoln, Abraham; Armstrong, Duff; Metzker, James P.; Norris, James H.; trials; murder; almanacs; moon; University of Illinois; observatory; jurors; Brady, John T.; Armstrong, Hannah; Armstrong, Jack

3

1

Apr. 1910

48-49

Letter of Governor A. C. French to Professor J. B. Turner in regard to the affairs for the hospital for the insane

French, Augustus C.

French, Augustus C.; Illinois; Illinois Hospital for the Insane; director; Turner, Jonathan Baldwin

3

1

Apr. 1910

59-71

An agricultural poem

Lovejoy, Owen

farming; corn; wheat; cattle; horses; cooking; poems

3

1

Apr. 1910

71-76

Correspondence from Illinois : history of churches in Adams County

 

Adams County, Ill.; churches; history; Presbyterian Church; Congregational Church

3

1

Apr. 1910

76-77

Tornadoes

 

Sharon, Ill.; tornadoes; 1844; churches

3

1

Apr. 1910

78-93

Pioneer Congregational ministers in Illinois : the kind of men they were, and the work they did

Savage, G. S. F.

Congregational Church; Illinois; history; ministers; missionaries; Illinois; churches; colleges; schools; revivals; temperance; slavery

3

1

Apr. 1910

93-95

Circular appealing for aid for colonizing free Negroes in Liberia

 

African Americans; slaves; freedom; colonization; societies; migration; Liberia; Missouri Colonization Society

3

2

July 1910

11-25

Prehistoric Illinois : the primitive flint industry

Snyder, J. F.

American Indians; flint; chert; tools; mining; chipping

3

2

July 1910

26-38

Illinois in modern literature

Crews, E. K.

Illinois; literature; history; American Indians; French; pioneer life; Fort Dearborn; Lincoln, Abraham; Kaskaskia, Ill.; Lafayette, Marquis de; Illinois State Historical Society; poems

3

2

July 1910

39-44

Reminiscences of two Springfield weddings of the olden time

Palmer, Mrs. John M.

Springfield, Ill., weddings; Cook, Susan Lamb; Cook, John; Black, Caroline Lamb; Black, William J.; guests; receptions

3

2

July 1910

45-51

Governor Ford and his family

Snyder, J. F.

Ford, Thomas; governors; Illinois; Forquer, George; lawyers; Monroe County, Ill.; marriage; Ford, Frances Hambaugh; Galena, Ill.; judges; circuit court; Illinois Supreme Court; Ford family; children; death

3

2

July 1910

52-57

The old University of Chicago in 1867

Goodspeed, Edgar J.

University of Chicago; Douglas, Stephen A.; buildings; Baptist Church; Rush Medical College; Union College of Law; trustees; debt; closure

3

2

July 1910

61-64

The pioneer preacher in Illinois

Bradshaw, Arthur;

Cunningham, J. O., contributor

Bradshaw, Arthur; Methodist Church; Illinois; circuit riders; autobiography

3

2

July 1910

65-77

Semi-centennial celebration of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Urbana, Ill.

Cunningham, J. O.

Methodist Church, Urbana, Ill.; history; anniversaries

3

3

Oct. 1910

7-22

Charles Dickens in Illinois

Snyder, J. F.

Dickens, Charles; travel; United States; Mississippi River; St. Louis; American Notes; ; Belleville, Ill.; Lebanon, Ill.; Looking Glass Prairie; Monk's Mound; Cairo, Ill.

3

3

Oct. 1910

23-44

Edward Cole, Indian commissioner in the Illinois country

Alvord, Clarence Walworth

Cole, Edward; American Indians; Great Britain; colonies; trade; regulation; Illinois

3

3

Oct. 1910

45-58

A sketch of the life of George Washington, colored

Hamilton, Oscar B.

Washington, George (African American); slaves; slavery; Hamilton, Silas; plantations; Mississippi; migration; Jersey County, Ill.; public schools; Hamilton Primary School; farmers; George Washington Educational Fund

3

3

Oct. 1910

59-64

Governor Coles' autobiography

Coles, Edward

Coles, Edward; governors; Illinois; letters; Flagg, W. C.; autobiography; Virginia; travel; Madison, James; secretary; migration; Illinois; governor; slavery

3

3

Oct. 1910

65-67

Information in regard to the letters and other manuscripts of Morris Birkbeck

Colyer, Walter

Birkbeck, Morris; manuscripts; letters; Birkbeck, Robert E.

3

3

Oct. 1910

68-78

American history and the immigrant

Williamson, Oliver R.

United States; history; immigrants; patriotism; education; foreign languages

3

3

Oct. 1910

79-87

Honorable Lewis Steward

Beebe, Avery N.

Steward, Lewis; Steward, Marcus Aurelius; Plano, Ill., sawmills; lawyers; Kendall County, Ill.; supervisor; governor; Democratic Party; candidates; grain; railroads; charges

3

3

Oct. 1910

88-90

The "corner stone" resolution

Mowry, Duane

Democratic Party; New York State; conventions; 1847; resolutions; slavery

3

3

Oct. 1910

91-98

A letter from Illinois written in 1836

Beach, Richard H.

Beach, Richard H.; letters; migration; Springfield, Ill.; pioneer life; farming

3

3

Oct. 1910

99-101

Ebenezer Church, Morgan County, Illinois, a church with a history

 

Ebenezer Church; Methodist Church; Morgan County, Ill.; anniversaries; circuit riders; Akers, Peter; Ebenezer Manual Labor School

3

3

Oct. 1910

102-110

Jersey County Historical Society : seventy-first anniversary celebration, August 5, 1910

 

Jersey County, Ill.; anniversaries; Jersey County Historical Society

3

4

Jan. 1911

7-21

Nathaniel Pope

Meese, William A.

Pope, Nathaniel; lawyers; Kaskaskia, Ill.; Illinois Territory; secretary; Congress; Illinois; statehood; boundaries; Northwest Ordinance; schools; education; judges

3

4

Jan. 1911

22-48

Independent military companies of Sangamon County in the 30's

Jamison, Isabel

Sangamon County, Ill.; militia; military companies; First Springfield  Artillery; First Sangamon Sharpshooters; Jacksonville, Ill.; Jacksonville Cavalry; Jacksonville Light Infantry

3

4

Jan. 1911

49-58

Judge Theophilus L. Dickey and the first murder trial in Kendall County

Beebe, Avery N.

Dickey, Theophilus L.; judges; Kendall County, Ill.; Georgetown, Ill.; murder; trials; Rider, Ansel; McNeil, Charles; Haymond, Owen; Hollenbeck, George B.; Boyd, William P.; Rider, Charles

3

4

Jan. 1911

59-63

Edward Coles, second governor of Illinois : correspondence with Rev. Thomas Lippincott

 

Coles, Edward; Lippincott, Thomas; letters; slavery; Illinois; Ordinance of 1787;

3

4

Jan. 1911

64-66

Letters from Governor John Reynolds

 

Reynolds, John; Flagg, W. C.; letters; Madison County, Ill.; history

3

4

Jan. 1911

67-69

Kaskaskia destroyed by a curse : a tradition

Waller, Elbert

Kaskaskia, Ill.; French; Benard, Jean, Benard, Marie; American Indians; curses

3

4

Jan. 1911

70-73

The Wood River massacre

Perrin, J. Nick

Wood River Massacre; Alton, Ill.; War of 1812; American Indians; monuments

3

4

Jan. 1911

74-79

Ebenezer Manual Labor School

Akers, Charles N.

Ebenezer Manual Labor School; Akers, Peter; Ojibwa Indians; Chippewa Indians; Methodist Church; missions; Enmegahbowh; Johnson, John; Episcopal Church; Spates, Samuel

3

4

Jan. 1911

80-81

Ebenezer Manual Labor School

Osborne, Elizabeth J.

Osborne, Elizabeth J.; schools; memoirs; Ebenezer Manual Labor School; Ojibwa Indians; Akers, Peter; Akers, Eliza Faris

3

4

Jan. 1911

85-97

Extracts from the memoir of Alvan Stone

Stone, Alvan

Stone, Alvan; memoirs; Baptist Church; missionaries; pioneer life; Illinois

4

1

Apr. 1911

7-37

Alexander Pope Field

Stevens, Frank E.

Field, Alexander Pope; migration; Jonesboro, Ill.; lawyers; Illinois General Assembly; slavery; constitutional convention; Secretary of State; Edwards, Ninian; Black Hawk War; election; 1831; House of Representatives; McClernand, John A.; Carlin, Thomas; Whig Party; Democratic Party; Douglas, Stephen A.; Wisconsin Territory; governor; St. Louis; internal improvements; New Orleans; election; 1863; Louisiana; Attorney General; obituaries

4

1

Apr. 1911

38-44

Special meeting of the Illinois State Historical Society : to be held in the Old Supreme Court Room, in the State House, Springfield, Ill., April 14, 1911, in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the fall of Fort Sumter, the real breaking out of the War Between the States, 1861-1865

 

Illinois State Historical Society; meetings; anniversaries; Civil War; Fort Sumter

4

1

Apr. 1911

45-46

Annual meeting of the Illinois State Historical Society, Evanston and Chicago, May 17-18, 1911

 

Illinois State Historical Society; annual meetings

4

1

Apr. 1911

47-56

The burial and resurrection of Black Hawk

Snyder, J. F.

Black Hawk; burial; skeleton; Sauk Indians; Fox Indians; Iowa Territory;

4

1

Apr. 1911

57

Death of the last survivor of the Black Hawk War

 

Black Hawk War; soldiers; Riggs, Henry L.; obituaries

4

1

Apr. 1911

58-66

Church records of Salt Creek circuit, 1829-1833

 

Methodist Church; circuit riders; Salt Creek, Ill. Circuit; minutes; Cartwright; Peter;

4

1

Apr. 1911

67-81

Life and services of General Thomas J. Henderson

Templeton, J. W.

Henderson, Thomas J.; Henderson, William H.; migration; Illinois; Iowa; lawyers; Toulon, Ill.; Illinois State Legislature; Illinois State Senate; Republican Party; Civil War; 112th Illinois Infantry; Congress; Hennepin Canal; Lincoln, Abraham; letters; speeches

4

1

Apr. 1911

82-91

Hon. James H. Miller

Sandham, William R.

Miller, James H.; Illinois State Historical Library; Illinois State Historical Society; lawyers; state's attorney; Clark County, Ill.; Illinois House of Representatives; speaker; elections; laws; Chicago

4

1

Apr. 1911

92-94

An interesting letter

Rodenberg, A. D.;

Niles, Nathaniel

Niles, Nathaniel; letters; Reynolds, John; governors; Illinois; Gillespie, Joseph; ghost writers

4

1

Apr. 1911

95-97

An Illinois poet, Elijah Whittier Blaisdell

 

Blaisdell, Elijah Whittier; poets; authors; poems; Rock River

4

1

Apr. 1911

98-100

Centennial anniversary celebrated by Mrs. Dicy R. Dunlap

 

Dunlap, Dicy Runkle; birthdays; centennial; Dunlap, Stephen; Dunlap family; Morgan County, Ill.

4

1

Apr. 1911

101-105

Celebration by the Woodford County Historical Society of the seventieth anniversary of the founding of Woodford County, Illinois

 

Woodford County, Ill.; anniversaries; history; speeches; Woodford County Historical Society

4

2

July 1911

145-156

Monetary system of Nouvelle France

Thompson, Chas. M.

France; colonies; North America; money; fur trade; exchange; coins; gold; silver; copper; paper money

4

2

July 1911

157-164

Sac and Fox Trail

Steward, J. F.

Sac and Fox Trail; routes; maps; Sauk Indians; Fox Indians; French; Marquette, Jacques; Joliet, Louis; Black Hawk

4

2

July 1911

165-171

James Rood Doolittle of Wisconsin : gleanings from the private letters and documents of a senator of the Civil War period

Mowry, Duane

Doolittle, James Rood; senators; Wisconsin; slavery; Brown, John; Hurd, H. B.; Cameron, Simon; Bross, William; Browning, O. H.; Fell, Jesse W.

4

2

July 1911

172-183

An author at his residence -- Prof. John Russell, of Bluff Dale

Reynolds, John;

Lair, Pauline Russell

Russell, John S.; authors; homes

4

2

July 1911

184-189

Annual meeting of the Illinois State Historical Society, Evanston-Chicago, May 17, 18, 1911

 

Illinois State Historical Society;

annual meeting; Evanston Historical Society; Chicago Historical Society

4

2

July 1911

190-196

Annual report of the secretary of the Illinois State Historical Society, May, 1910-May,1911

Weber, Jessie Palmer

Illinois State Historical Society; annual reports

4

2

July 1911

197-199

Memorial meeting April 14, 1911, in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the breaking out of the War Between the States

 

Illinois State Historical Society; Civil War; anniversaries; meetings

4

2

July 1911

200-211

Celebration at Polo, Ill., of the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of the War Between the States

 

Polo, Ill.; Civil War; anniversaries; Lincoln, Abraham; president; election; 1860; Douglas, Stephen A.; soldiers; enlistment; 15th Illinois Regiment; women; war relief

4

2

July 1911

212-217

The Danville and Fort Clark Road

Cunningham, J. O.

Illinois; roads; Danville and Fort Clark Road; Kickapoo Indians; prairie; buffalo; squatters; settlement

4

2

July 1911

218-222

The Old Indian Trail, Sangamon County, Illinois

Enos, Zimri A.

Illinois; roads; Sangamon County, Ill.; Old Indian Trail; routes

4

2

July 1911

223-226

Thomson R. Webber : a pioneer of Champaign County

Cunningham, J. O.

Webber, Thomson R.; migration; Champaign, Ill.; Vermilion County, Ill.; county commissioners; clerk; Champaign County, Ill.; delegate; constitutional convention; 1848; 1862; Democratic Party

4

2

July 1911

229-232

Department of reprints : statistical and chronological view of the United States of North America and the several states and territories

Bartlett, M. R., compiler

United States; population; geography; history; states; Illinois; Missouri

4

3

Oct. 1911

271-287

Hooper Warren

Stevens, Frank E.

Warren, Hooper; migration; St. Louis; Illinois; journalists; Edwardsville Spectator; slavery; Smith, Theophilus W.; Sangamo Spectator; Meredith, Samuel C.; Edwards, Ninian; Galena, Ill.; Newhall, Horatio; Philleo, Addison; Putnam County, Ill.; circuit court; clerk; recorder of deeds; county clerk; Henry, Ill.

4

3

Oct. 1911

288-302

Prehistoric Illinois : its psychozoic problems

Snyder, J. F.

Illinois; prehistory; American Indians; settlement; archaeology; Paleolithic Age; Mound Builders

4

3

Oct. 1911

303-316

Early religious beginnings in Illinois

Thrapp, Russell F.

Illinois; ministers; priests; missionaries; Catholic Church; Marquette, Jacques; Allouez, Claude Jean; Baptist Church; Presbyterian Church; camp meetings; Congregational Church; Episcopal Church; Disciples of Christ;  

4

3

Oct. 1911

317-323

Lincoln's first Supreme Court case

Carpenter, Richard V.

Lincoln, Abraham; Illinois Supreme Court; cases; Boone County, Ill.; Cline, Cornelius; Whitney, Daniel Hilton; Scammon, Jonathan Young; note; payment; Neely, Alexander; Waterman, Hiram; Whitman, Seth S.; Stone, Dan; Judd, Norman B.; Loop, James L.; Spring, Giles

4

3

Oct. 1911

324-327

The cold Tuesday

Cunningham, J. O.

Danville, Ill.; weather; freeze; ice; storm; 1836; Kingsbury, Enoch

4

3

Oct. 1911

328-333

The Rev. Simon Peter and the quarterly conference

McElroy, W. N.

Peter, Simon; Methodist Church; Illinois Conference; ministers; expulsion; Deneen, William S.; Shepherd, John; Shepherd, Moses; Royal, William; Overstreet, Rev. Mr.

4

3

Oct. 1911

334-339

Old Fort Belle Fontaine

Norton, W. T.

Fort Bellefontaine, Mo.; history; French; Spanish; Lewis and Clark Expedition; Pike, Zebulon; Pike's Peak; War of 1812

4

3

Oct. 1911

340-342

Tribute to corn

Oglesby, Richard J.

corn; agriculture

4

3

Oct. 1911

343-346

Lydia Gundy : the facts about the last Indian resident of Wayne County, Illinois

Evans, R. B.

Gundy, Lydia; Cherokee Indians; Wayne County, Ill.; Mill Shoals, Ill., Henson, Philip; Brown, Narcissa Henson

4

3

Oct. 1911

349-350

The venomous worm

Russell, John S.

liquor; drinking; stills; temperance

4

3

Oct. 1911

351-353

Danville Enquirer : first paper published in Danville, by John S. Williams, from the Danville Enquirer, August 5, 1833

Williams, John S.;

Cunningham, J. O., contributor

Danville, Ill.; location; geography; buildings; roads; cattle

4

4

Jan. 1912

401-425

A case under an Illinois black law

Gridley, J. N.

Illinois; Black Laws; Civil War; 71st Illinois Infantry; Clay, Henry; African Americans; arrest; Collins, Thomas Byron; Knights of the Golden Circle; Van Demark, James K.; Pothicary, Joseph; Dummer, Henry E.; Brady, Emily Collins; Thacker, William H.

4

4

Jan. 1912

426-439

History of the title to lands in Rock Island County, Illinois

Walker, Charles L.

Rock Island County, Ill.; land; title; history; Great Britain; France; United States; Sauk Indians; Fox Indians; Winnebago Indians; Potawatomi Indians; Chippewa Indians; Ottawa Indians; Illlini Indians; treaties

4

4

Jan. 1912

440-445

The visit of Alfred Tennyson Dickens to Illinois

Perrin, J. Nick

Dickens, Alfred Tennyson; travel; Lebanon, Ill.; Belleville, Ill.; East St. Louis, Ill.;  Dickens, Charles; American Notes

4

4

Jan. 1912

446-458

Doctor James D. Robinson

Snyder, J. F.

Mount, Charles; Knoebel, Jake; travel; Belleville, Ill.; Shields, James; election; 1840; Harrison, William Henry; Van Buren, Martin; Whig Party; Democratic Party; campaigns; parades; speeches; Robinson, James D.; doctors; Mexican War; Addis, Rachael; bigamy; suicide

4

4

Jan. 1912

459-468

Historic sites and scenes in Randolph County, Illinois

Butler, W. M.

Randolph County, Ill.; Kaskaskia, Ill.; Menard, Pierre; floods; Fort Chartres, Ill.; D'Artaguette, Pierre; Chickasaw Indians; La Buissoniere, Alphonse de; Macarty Mactigue, Jean Jacques; Pontiac; Clark, George Rogers

4

4

Jan. 1912

469-472

The Indian statue, near Oregon, Illinois

Carpenter, Richard V.

Taft, Lorado; American Indians; statues; Oregon, Ill.; dedication

4

4

Jan. 1912

473-475

An Illinois quarantine order issued in1801

Perrin, Frank

Cahokia, Ill.; courts; smallpox; quarantines

4

4

Jan. 1912

476-479

An unusual material for aboriginal hoes

Steward, J. F.

American Indians; tools; hoes; mica; schist

4

4

Jan. 1912

480-485

Historical sketch of Wethersfield, Henry County, Illinois

Little, Charles T.

Wethersfield, Ill.; Wethersfield Township, Henry County, Ill.; history; settlers; pioneer life; log cabins

4

4

Jan. 1912

486-489

Jersey County Historical Society : report of the celebration of the seventy-second anniversary of the organization of Jersey County, Illinois

 

Jersey County, Ill.; anniversaries; Jersey County Historical Society

4

4

Jan. 1912

490

Novel picture of 152 Jersey pioneers

 

Jersey County, Ill; settlers; photographs

4

4

Jan. 1912

491-492

Organization of the Bureau County Historical Society

 

Bureau County, Ill.; history; Bureau County Historical Society

4

4

Jan. 1912

493-496

The battle flag of the Thirtieth Illinois infantry, after half a century, tattered and torn, comes to Memorial Hall, Springfield

 

30th Illinois Infantry; Civil War; flags; Camp Butler, Ill.; Battle of Atlanta; Hardee, William J.

4

4

Jan. 1912

499-503

Death of Elijah P. Lovejoy : a voice from the past

Krum, John M.

Lovejoy, Elijah P.; slavery; abolition; Alton, Ill.; Alton Observer; printing press; riots; death; Krum, John M.; mayor

4

4

Jan. 1912

504-509

The Wood River massacre

Lippincott, Thomas

Wood River, Ill.; massacres; American Indians; Reagan, Mrs. Reason; Reagan family; Moore family; Moore, Abel; Moore, William; Whiteside, Samuel

5

1

Apr. 1912

5-24

Illinois

Carr, Clark E.

Illinois; history; Northwest Territory; Northwest Ordinance; Illinois Territory; Pope, Nathaniel;  boundaries; Wisconsin;

population; slavery; constitutional convention; 1824; Coles, Edward; internal improvements; constitution; 1848; taxation; debt; Mexican War; Civil War; speeches; University of Illinois

5

1

Apr. 1912

25-41

Cairo in 1841: Darius B. Holbrook, Charles Dickens and Alfred Tennyson Dickens

Lansden, John M.

Cairo, Ill.; Holbrook, Darius B.; Breese, Sidney; railroads; bonds; Wright & Company; Illinois Central Railroad; Dickens, Charles; copyright; travel; United States; American Notes; Dickens, Alfred Tennyson

5

1

Apr. 1912

42-45

The visit of Alfred Tennyson Dickens to Lebanon, Belleville and East St. Louis, November 22, 1911

Johnson, Mrs. Charles P.

Dickens, Alfred Tennyson; travel; Lebanon, Ill.; Belleville, Ill.; East St. Louis, Ill.; McKendree College

5

1

Apr. 1912

50-65

A sketch of the Dubois family, pioneers of Indiana and Illinois

Allen, Helen L.

Dubois family; Dubois, Toussaint; Dubois, Jean Baptiste; genealogy; France; immigration; Ohio Valley; traders; American Indians; merchants; Vincennes, Ind.; Kaskaskia, Ill.; Cahokia, Ill.; Dubois, Janne Bonneau; Dubois, Jane Baird; Battle of Tippecanoe; Dubois, Jesse Kilgore

5

1

Apr. 1912

66-79

The Indian War

Orr, William

Black Hawk War; letters; Orr, William; Reynolds, John; governor; Illinois; American Indians; Battle of Stillman's Run; Stillman, Isaiah

5

1

Apr. 1912

80-82

Abraham Lincoln's substitute in the Civil War

Walker, E. S.

Lincoln, Abraham; Civil War; army; substitutes; Staples, John Summerfield

5

1

Apr. 1912

83-91

Walter L. Mayo, a pioneer of Edwards County, Illinois

Colyer, Walter

Mayo, Walter L.; migration; Edwards County, Ill.; teachers; county clerk; judges; Black Hawk War; soldiers; Mayo, Elizabeth Hall; Illinois General Assembly; disappearance; death

5

1

Apr. 1912

91-95

A letter from the daughter of Walter L. Mayo

Hopkins, Florence M.

Mayo, Walter L.; migration; Edwards County, Ill.; Black Hawk War; soldiers; Mayo, Elizabeth Hall; Illinois; legislature; judiciary; internal improvement; banks; land; purchasing

5

1

Apr. 1912

96-103

Killed by the Indians

Hutson, Austin; Callahan, E., contributor

Hutson, Isaac; Hutson family; travel; Crawford County, Ill.; Fort Lamotte, Ill.; American Indians; massacre

5

1

Apr. 1912

104-106

The battle of Adairsville, Ga., May 17, 1864

Keeley, C. W.

Civil War; soldiers; memoirs; Battle of Adairsville

5

1

Apr. 1912

107-115

Revolutionary heroes honored

Walker, Mrs. E. S.

Revolutionary War; soldiers; markers; graves; Sangamon County, Ill.

5

1

Apr. 1912

119-120

A speck of Indian warfare on the frontier of Illinois in 1811 : from the Belleville Advocate, June 25, 1911

 

Madison County, Ill.; frontier; American Indians; Price, A. M.; death; Whiteside, A. M.; War of 1812

5

1

Apr. 1912

121-125

Carrier's address to the patrons of the Belleville Advocate : January 1st, 1851

 

Belleville, Ill.; Belleville Advocate; newspapers; poetry; New Year

5

2

July 1912

159-172

The West and the war with Mexico

Dodd, William E.

Mexican War; Texas; Oregon; annexation; Polk, James K.; president; election; 1844; Walker, Robert James; Cass, Lewis; Trist, Nicholas; Mexico; treaties; Yucatan; annexation; Cass, Lewis; Walker, Robert J.; Scott, Winfield

5

2

July 1912

173-178

James A. Rose

 

Rose, James A.; obituaries; Illinois; Secretary of State

5

2

July 1912

179-196

Old times in Illinois

Wells, E. F.

Wells, E. F.; memoirs; Henry County, Ill.; pioneer life

5

2

July 1912

197-201

How a northern Illinois town suddenly became dry

Beebe, A. N.

Plano, Ill.; saloons; liquor; temperance; women

5

2

July 1912

202-206

Abraham Lincoln and Rock Island County

Oakleaf, J. B.

Lincoln, Abraham; Rock Island County, Ill.; Mississippi River; bridges; obstruction; lawsuits; St. Louis

5

2

July 1912

207-211

The Husted or Jacksonville raid

Gridley, J. N.

Illinois; politics; Democratic Party; Civil War; Cass County, Ill.; Copperheads; Knights of the Golden Circle; Husted, John; Husted Raid; Jacksonville, Ill.; Stokes, John;

5

2

July 1912

212-227

Some evidences of the route from the Lakes to the Gulf

Goodell, J. H.

Great Lakes; Chicago River; Mud Lake; Des Plaines River; Illinois River; Mississippi River; history; exploration; French; forts; Fort St. Louis; Starved Rock; exploration; travel; canoes; fur trade 

5

2

July 1912

228-230

Viris invictis

Shryock, H. W.

Titanic; shipwreck, poetry

5

2

July 1912

231-245

The Kaskaskia Indians : a tentative hypothesis

Snyder, J. F.

Marquette, Jacques; Joliet, Louis; Kaskaskia Indians; Peoria Indians; Illinois River; Illinois Indians; Kaskaskia, Ill.; DeSoto, Hernando; Cacique Indians; Cahokia, Ill.; artifacts

5

2

July 1912

246-255

The story of Nom-A-Que

Moon, Bill

Nom-A-Que; Potawatomi Indians; murder; trials; Peoria County, Ill.; Ogee, Joseph; Hamilton, William S.; appeal; retrial; escape

5

2

July 1912

256-260

Shabbona, the white man's friend

Thornton, N. W.

Shabbona; souvenirs; spoons; roads; beautification; Kane County, Ill.; Kane County Federation of Women's Clubs

5

2

July 1912

261-267

Henry Guest McPike (1825-1910) : a biographical sketch

 

McPike, Henry Guest; biography; Alton, Ill.; Civil War; Union League of America; real estate; mayors; horticulture

5

2

July 1912

268-270

Meeting of Illinois mayors at Evanston

Paden, Joseph E.

Illinois; mayors; conferences; Evanston, Ill.; 1912

5

2

July 1912

271-273

A hoax

Harris, W. P.

Mormons; tablets; Smith, Joseph; counterfeit; Kinderhook, Ill.; Whitton, Bridge; Wiley; Robert; letters; Harris, W. P.

5

2

July 1912

274-276

Soldiers of the American Revolution

Walker, Mrs. Edwin S.;

Rupp, Helen Nye

Illinois; Revolutionary War; soldiers; burials; graves

5

2

July 1912

279-284

Good news from the frontier

Reed, Isaac

Reed, Isaac; missionaries; circuit riders; Edgar County, Ill.; Paris, Ill.

5

3

Oct. 1912

323-342

Autobiography of Stephen A. Douglas

Douglas, Stephen A.;

Stevens, Frank E.

Douglas, Stephen A.; autobiography; migration; Winchester, Ill.; Jacksonville, Ill.; Hardin, John J.; Wyatt, John; Dement, John; Duncan, Joseph; Brooks, S. S.; Middlebury, Vt.; cabinetmaking; education; McConnel, Murray; teachers; lawyers; Democratic Party; politics; state's attorney; Morgan County, Ill.; Illinois State Legislature; internal improvements; Illinois and Michigan Canal

5

3

Oct. 1912

343-349

The editorial convention of 1856

Selby, Paul

Kansas-Nebraska Act; slavery; newspapers; editors; conferences; Decatur, Ill.; 1856; Republican Party

5

3

Oct. 1912

350-352

Dr. Ira B. Curtis

Nelson, W. B.

Curtis, Ira D.; doctors; Taylorville, Ill.; Decatur, Ill.; Civil War; county treasurer; Macon County, Ill.; justices of the peace

5

3

Oct. 1912

353-362

The past three-fourths of this century

Griffith, William E.

First Congregational Church, Griggsville, Ill.; history; ministers; anniversaries

5

3

Oct. 1912

363-371

Evolution of the American people

Cunningham, J. G.

United States; immigration; English; Dutch; Swedes; French; Scotch-Irish; Pennsylvania Dutch

5

3

Oct. 1912

372-381

Revolutionary heroes honored in Madison County

Walker, Mrs. E. S.

Revolutionary War; soldiers; markers; graves; Madison County, Ill.

5

3

Oct. 1912

382-385

The Madison County centennial celebration

Flagg, Norman G.

Madison County, Ill.; centennial

5

3

Oct. 1912

389-398

Some extracts from Way-side glimpses, north and south

Foster, Lillian

Chicago; Illinois; growth; railroads; internal improvements; Michigan Central Railroad; Tremont House; Democratic Party; Congress; governor; politics; candidates; political meetings; Richardson, William A.; Bissell, William H.;  Freeport, Ill.; Michigan Avenue; Douglas, Stephen A.; Lincoln, Abraham; slavery; Kansas; statehood; Lecompton Constitution

5

3

Oct. 1912

404-408

Old Berea Church, Morgan County, Ill.

Harris, Mrs. Andrew

Old Berea Church; Morgan County, Ill.; founding; membership

5

4

Jan. 1913

435-450

The Great Seal of Illinois

Whitlock, Brand

Illinois; Great Seal; design; symbolism; Northwest Territory; Illinois Territory; Tyndale, Sharon

5

4

Jan. 1913

451-457

Fort Crevecour

Lagron, Arthur

Fort Crevecoeur; location; French; Tonti, Henri de; La Salle, Robert Cavelier

5

4

Jan. 1913

458-467

Recollections of the War between the States

Connelly, Henry C.

Connelly, Henry C.; memoirs; Civil War; 14th Illinois Cavalry; Capron, Horace; Jenkins, David P.; Dent, James

5

4

Jan. 1913

468-474

Morgan's Raid and some incidents connected with it

Connelly, Henry C.

Morgan's Raid; Civil War; Morgan, John H.; Kentucky; Indiana; Ohio; Hobson, Edward H.; Manson, M. D.; Judah, H. M.; Shackelford, James M.; Capron, Horace; Connelly, Henry C.; memoirs

5

4

Jan. 1913

475-480

The old Illinois Agricultural College

Smith, George W.

Illinois Agricultural College; Turner, Jonathan Baldwin; Illinois; universities; Illinois Industrial League; land grants; charters; campus; Irvington, Ill.; appropriations; finance; Southern Illinois Normal University

5

4

Jan. 1913

481-485

The services of Richard Yates to public education

James, Edmund J.

Yates, Richard; governors; Illinois; universities; land grants; agriculture; Turner, Jonathan Baldwin; letters

5

4

Jan. 1913

486-487

Recollections of the Lincoln-Douglas debate held in Alton, Illinois, October 15, 1858

Beall, Edmond

Lincoln, Abraham; Douglas, Stephen A.; debates; election; Senate; 1858; Alton, Ill.

5

4

Jan. 1913

488-492

Recollections of the assassination and funeral of Abraham Lincoln

Beall, Edmond

Lincoln, Abraham; assassination; Springfield, Ill.; funeral; procession; tomb

5

4

Jan. 1913

493-500

Four original letters, 1820-1830

 

Thomas, Jesse B.; Pugh, J. H.; Mills, B.; Forquer, George; letters; Sangamon County, Ill.; public land; land office; county seat; judges; election; Secretary of State; Enos, Pascal P.; Enos, Louise I.

5

4

Jan. 1913

501-503

Some traits of Judge Silas J. Bryan, father of Hon. William J. Bryan

Cope, Rufus

Bryan, Silas J.; judges; lawyers; Bryan, William Jennings

6

1

Apr. 1913

7-57

John Reynolds

McHarry, Jessie

Reynolds, John; biography; Illinois; frontier; pioneer life; Kaskaskia, Ill.; politicians; campaigns; Illinois Supreme Court; justices; governor; Congress; Illinois State Legislature; Black Hawk War; internal improvements; expansionism; slavery; states' rights

6

1

Apr. 1913

58-71

Fort Kaskaskia

Snyder, J. F.

Fort Kaskaskia, Ill.; Revolutionary War; Clark, George Rogers; Fort Gage, Ill.; Fort Chartres, Ill.

6

1

Apr. 1913

72-111

Recollections of the War between the States : a continuation of the story of Morgan's Raid

Connelly, H. C.

Connelly, Henry C.; memoirs; Civil War; Morgan's Raid; Morgan, John H.; capture; escape; Shackelford, James M.; Burnside, Ambrose E.; East Tennessee campaign; Frazer, John W.; Longstreet, James C.; Poe, Orlando M.; Siege of Knoxville; Sturgis, Samuel D.; Ammen, Jacob

6

1

Apr. 1913

112-117

Soldiers of the American Revolution buried in Illinois

Walker, Mrs. E. S.

Illinois; Revolutionary War; soldiers; burials; graves

6

1

Apr. 1913

118

Historical research

Walker, Mrs. E. S.

Illinois; history; research; Daughters of the American Revolution; Illinois State Historical Society

6

1

Apr. 1913

119-128

Susan Short May : the story of her ancestry and of her early life in Illinois

May, Susan Short

May, Susan Short; memoirs; Short family; migration; Kendall County, Ill.; Yorkville, Ill.; Bristol, Ill.; Chicago; pioneer life; schools

6

1

Apr. 1913

129-133

A letter written by William Biggs, Esq.

Biggs, William

Biggs, William; Biggs, Benjamin; letters; American Indians; captives; escape

6

1

Apr. 1913

134-136

Pioneer history of Palestine Association of Regular Baptists

Goff, Charles S.

Baptist Church; history; Palestine Association of Regular Baptists; Parker, Daniel; missions

6

1

Apr. 1913

137-139

William Armstrong

Norton, W. T.

Armstrong, William; biography; Alton, Ill.; business; city council; Lovejoy, Elijah P.; monuments; Armstrong family

6

1

Apr. 1913

140-141

Fifty-five years ago: the Illinois Literary and Historical Society

 

Illinois Literary and Historical Society; meetings

6

2

July 1913

175-205

Benjamin Lundy, pioneer of freedom

Lawrence, George A.

Lundy, Benjamin; slavery; abolition; Whitney, Eli; cotton gin; cotton; Southern States; Wheeling, Va.; newspapers; Genius of Universal Emancipation; Garrison, William Lloyd; Haiti; slaves; resettlement; Texas; Mexican War; Lowell, Ill.

6

2

July 1913

206-213

The plans of the Illinois State Historical Library with special reference to the care of public archives

Green, Evarts Boutell

Illinois State Historical Library; archives; preservation; storage

6

2

July 1913

214-231

Letter of E. B. Washburne to John Dixon

Washburne, Elihu B.

Washburne, Elihu B.; Dixon, John; Dixon's Ferry, Ill.; Dixon, Ill.; Galena, Ill.; Black Hawk War; Whig Party; conventions; stagecoaches;  service; Winters, John D.; Frink & Walker; lawyers

6

2

July 1913

232-234

Soldiers of the American Revolution buried in Illinois

Walker, Mrs. E. S.

Illinois; Revolutionary War; soldiers; burials; graves

6

2

July 1913

235-241

Ancestry and recollections of Mrs. John Young, Rochelle, Ill.

Young, Christian J. Eager

Young, Christian Eager; Eager family; Young, John L.; migration; Knoxville, Ill.; pioneer life; farming; Civil War

6

2

July 1913

242-245

An old-time tragedy in the state penitentiary at Alton

Norton, W. T.

Alton, Ill.; penitentiary; prisoners; guards; warden; hostages; Hall, John W.; Crabb, C. C.; Buckmaster, S. A.; inquests

6

2

July 1913

246-251

Early libraries in Illinois

Norton, W. T.

Illinois; public libraries; history; Edwardsville, Ill.; Albion, Ill.; Kaskaskia, Ill.; Alton, Ill.; Jennie D. Hayner Library Association

6

2

July 1913

252-255

The scenes of frontier days

Thacker, W. H.

Illinois; pioneer life; poems

6

2

July 1913

256-257

The attitude of General John A. Logan on the question of secession in 1861

Strawn, Halbert J.

Logan, John A.; secession; Civil War; Union; army; Stewart, Charles

6

2

July 1913

258-263

Report of the secretary of the Illinois State Historical Society

Weber, Jessie Palmer

Illinois State Historical Society; annual reports

6

2

July 1913

264-272

The seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of Monticello Seminary, at Godfrey, Illinois

 

Monticello Seminary; anniversaries; women; education; Godfrey, Benjamin; Baldwin, Theron; Fobes, Philena; Haskell, Harriet N.; Erickson, Martina C.; James, Edmund J.

6

2

July 1913

273-287

Robert Kennicott

Foster, J. W.

Kennicott, Robert; naturalists; Illinois; The Grove; Chicago Academy of Sciences; Smithsonian Institution; Henry, Joseph; Baird, Spencer F.; Arctic; exploration

6

3

Oct. 1913

327-434

The Illinois constitutional convention of 1818

Carpenter, Richard E., introduction

Illinois; constitutional convention; journal; 1818; counties; delegates; slavery; suffrage; capital

6

3

Oct. 1913

425-444

Daniel P. Cook

Burns, Josephine E.

Cook, Daniel P.; lawyers; Illinois Territory; Illinois; journalists; Illinois Intelligencer; Adams, John Quincy; president; election; 1824; House of Representatives; judges; Missouri Compromise; constitutional convention; 1824; slavery; Illinois and Michigan Canal

6

3

Oct. 1913

445-451

Soldiers of the American Revolution buried in Illinois

Walker, Mrs. E. S.

Illinois; Revolutionary War; soldiers; burials; graves

6

3

Oct. 1913

452-453

The Gettysburg reunion : 1863-1913

 

Battle of Gettysburg; Civil War; soldiers; reunions

6

4

Jan. 1914

481-489

An old Tennessee deed

Lansden, John M.

Gallaher, Thomas; land; Tennessee; title; deeds; Jackson, Andrew; White, Hugh Lawson; president; election; 1836; Lincoln, Abraham

6

4

Jan. 1914

490-495

Marking the site of old Fort St. Joseph

Quaife, M. M.

Fort St. Joseph, Mich.; site; markers; Niles, Mich.

6

4

Jan. 1914

496-505

An interesting account of the Battle of Missionary Ridge

Roper, John S.

Civil War; letters; Roper, John S.; Battle of Missionary Ridge; Grant, Ulysses S.; Thomas, George H.; Bragg, Braxton

6

4

Jan. 1914

506-508

Prehistoric Illinois -- the great Cahokia Mound

Snyder, J. F.

Cahokia, Ill.; Monk's Mound; tomb; stone cutting; graves; burials; American Indians; Mound Builders

6

4

Jan. 1914

509-516

Legends of the Starved Rock country

Rhoads, H. A.

Starved Rock, Ill.; history; folklore; Iroquois Indians; Illini Indians; La Vantum, Ill.; Miami Indians; Potawatomi Indians; Kickapoo Indians; Joliet, Louis; Marquette, Jacques; La Salle, Robert Cavelier; Tonty, Henry de; Pontiac; Buffalo Rock; Pillette brothers; copper; mines; fur trade

6

4

Jan. 1914

517-522

An account of a party perishing in a blizzard in northern Illinois

Thacker, W. H.

Illinois; blizzards; travelers; freezing

6

4

Jan. 1914

523-524

Quadoghe

Currey, J. Seymour

Quadoghe; American Indians; tribes; boundaries

6

4

Jan. 1914

525-530

Robert Stubblefield and his son, John Stubblefield, pioneers of McLean County, Illinois

Stubblefield, George W.

Stubblefield, Robert; Stubblefield, John; War of 1812; Ohio;  Stubblefield family; Stubblefield, Sarah Funk; Stubblefield, Dorothy Funk; Funk, Adam; Methodist Church; migration; Funk's Grove, Ill.; Stubblefield, Ellisannah Houser 

6

4

Jan. 1914

531-534

Autobiographical sketch of a pioneer of Lee County, Illinois

Helmershausen, Henry Charles Frederick, Jr.

Helmershausen, Henry Charles Frederick, Jr.; autobiography; Maine; migration; Illinois; pioneer life; Helmershausen family

6

4

Jan. 1914

535-537

The Sidney Breese papers

 

Breese, Sidney; Illinois; senators; judges; Illinois Central Railroad; papers

7

1

Apr. 1914

7-33

The Know-Nothing movement in Illinois, 1854-1856

Senning, John P.

Know-Nothing Party; Illinois; Whig Party; Democratic Party; Compromise of 1850; Kansas-Nebraska Act; nativism; immigration; Germans; Irish;  secret societies; election; 1856; president; Fillmore, Millard; Buchanan, James; governor; Bissell, William H.; Richardson, William A.; Morris, Buckner S.; platform

7

1

Apr. 1914

34-50

Diary of Anna R. Morrison, wife of Isaac L. Morrison

Morrison, Anna R.

Morrison, Anna R.; diary; Tucker, Jonathan; Tucker, Miriam Weeks; Rapalje, George; travel; steamboats; St. Louis; Springfield, Ill.; Athens, Ill.; Jacksonville, Ill.; pioneer life

7

1

Apr. 1914

51-55

Senatorial disputes resulting from the Apportionment Act of 1841

Clyne, Kathleen M.

Illinois; Senate; apportionment; legislation; 1841; senators; terms; expiration;  Pearson, John; Matteson, Joel A.; Hoard, Samuel; Baker, E. D.; Harrison, Reuben; Kilpatrick, T. M.; Gilham, James; Cavarly, Alfred; English, Revel W.

7

1

Apr. 1914

56-58

Abraham Lincoln, Judge David Davis and Judge Edward Bates

Lansden, John

Lincoln, Abraham; Davis, David; Bates, Edward; trains; travel; 1861

7

1

Apr. 1914

59-61

An early character sketch of Mr. Lincoln

Thompson, Charles M.

Lincoln, Abraham; steamboats; travel; Illinois; politicians; Alton Telegraph; 1847

7

1

Apr. 1914

62-71

Bishop Matthew Simpson and the funeral of Abraham Lincoln

Sweet, W. W.

Simpson, Matthew; bishops; Methodist Church; Lincoln, Abraham; assassination; funeral; Springfield, Ill.; speeches

7

1

Apr. 1914

72-76

Reminiscences of Gen. U. S. Grant, read before Illinois Commandery Loyal Legion of the United States, January 27, 1910

Grant, Fred D.

Grant, Ulysses S.; Civil War; generals; Lincoln, Abraham; Cameron, Simon; reception; White House 

7

1

Apr. 1914

77-81

Forgotten statesmen of Illinois : Hon. John M. Robinson

Berry, Daniel

Robinson, John M.; Illinois; Carmi, Ill.; Democratic Party; senators;  judges; Robinson family; Independent Treasury Bill

7

1

Apr. 1914

82-91

The Piasa

Voelker, Frederick E.

Piasa Bird; petroglyphs; American Indians; description; Marquette, Jacques; Hennepin, Louis; Douay, Anastasius; St. Cosme, Jean; Stoddard, Amos; Russell, John; Jones, A. D.

7

1

Apr. 1914

92-98

Soldiers of the American Revolution buried in Illinois

Walker, Mrs. E. S.

Illinois; Revolutionary War; soldiers; burials; graves

7

1

Apr. 1914

99-109

Carmi's crisis

Berry, Daniel

Carmi, Ill.; murder; 1824; McKee, William; trial; execution; Cotner; Cotner, Elizabeth; pardon

7

1

Apr. 1914

110-114

Death of Lewis D. Erwin

Dyson, Howard F.

Erwin, Lewis D.; obituaries; Rushville, Ill.; migration; Democratic Party; Illinois General Assembly; Civil War; public library

7

2

July 1914

7-38

The early courts of Chicago and Cook County

Carter, Orrin N.

Chicago; Cook County, Ill.; courts; history; Illinois; constitution; 1818; judges; justices of the peace; constables; sheriffs; mayors; circuit courts; courthouses; prosecutors; lawyers; trials; Caton, John Dean; Arnold, Isaac N.; Butterfield, Justin; Hoyne, Thomas; Pearson, John; Butterfield, Justin

7

2

July 1914

39-59

New Jersey families in Illinois : the Casad and Stites families

James, Edmund J.

Casad family; Stites family; New Jersey; migration; Illinois; Martin, Ephraim; Martin family; Revolutionary War

7

2

July 1914

60-69

The name of Lincoln

Rogers, Kate Brainerd

Lincoln, Abraham; memorials; cities; towns; books; medals; schools; statues; monuments; birthplace; Hodgenville, Ky.; tomb; Springfield, Ill.; Lincoln Memorial; Lincoln Highway; Lincoln Way

7

2

July 1914

70-73

Soldiers of the American Revolution buried in Illinois

Walker, Mrs. E. S.

Illinois; Revolutionary War; soldiers; burials; graves

7

2

July 1914

74-75

Some information in regard to the statue of Stephen A. Douglas -- Leonard Volk, sculptor

Smith, R. C.

Douglas, Stephen A.; statues; Volk, Leonard W.; Springfield, Ill.

7

2

July 1914

76-79

Summerfield School : pioneer -- Grafton Road, Madison County, Illinois

Long, G. Frank

Madison County, Ill.; schools; Summerfield School; buildings; teachers; students

7

2

July 1914

83-87

Bluffdale : from the Illinois Monthly Magazine, February, 1832

 

Bluffdale, Ill.; scenery; geography; settlements

7

2

July 1914

88-95

The festival at Bluffdale : taken from the Western Monthly Magazine, November 1834

 

Bluffdale, Ill.; Greene County, Ill.; festivals; Bluffdale Temperance Society

7

3

Oct. 1914

147-165

The Methodist Episcopal Church and Reconstruction

Sweet, William W.

Methodist Church; Methodist Church South; Civil War; Reconstruction; missionaries; freedmen; African Americans; Johnson, Andrew; Grant, Ulysses S.; Newman, J. P. Logan, John A.; Logan, Mrs. John A.

7

3

Oct. 1914

166-194

The county seat battles of Cass County, Illinois

Gridley, J. M.

Cass County, Ill.; boundaries; county seat; Beardstown, Ill.; Virginia, Ill.; Illinois; constitutional convention; 1870

7

3

Oct. 1914

195-199

Soldiers of the American Revolution buried in Illinois

Walker, Mrs. E. S.

Illinois; Revolutionary War; soldiers; burials; graves

7

3

Oct. 1914

200-217

A short sketch of the life of Jules Leon Cottet, a former member of the Icarian Community

Snider, Felicie Cottet

Cottet, Jules Leon; Icarians; Cottet family; 1848; revolution; Rome; Napoleon III; France; prisoners; deportation; Algiers; escape; Nauvoo, Ill; Civil War; army; soldiers; African Americans; 

7

3

Oct. 1914

218-221

Letter of Abraham Lincoln to Charles R. Welles

Lincoln, Abraham

Lincoln, Abraham; Welles, Charles R.; letters; money; payments; Young & Brothers; Conkling, Clinton L.

7

3

Oct. 1914

222-223

Letter of Stephen A. Douglas to Gen. James Shields

Douglas, Stephen A.

Douglas, Stephen A.; Shields, James; letters; banks; payments; lawyers; Conkling, Clinton L.

7

3

Oct. 1914

224

Letter of Andrew Jackson to Governor John Reynolds of Illinois

Jackson, Andrew

Jackson, Andrew; Reynolds, John; letters; Sauk Indians; Black Hawk War; army; militia

7

3

Oct. 1914

225-247

M. H. Chamberlin, A. M. LL.D.

Chamberlin, Clifford D.

Chamberlin, McKendree Hypes; biography; McKendree College; presidents; fund raising; history; Methodist Church; lawyers; railroads; stocks; finance; Illinois State Railway and Warehouse Commission; mining; Colorado; New Mexico; 

7

3

Oct. 1914

248-261

Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, Quincy and the Civil War

Gay, William H.

Lincoln, Abraham; Douglas, Stephen A.; debates; election; Senate; 1858; Galesburg, Ill.; Republican Party; president; conventions; nomination; 1860; secession; Civil War; Emery, Samuel Hopkins; Quincy, Ill.; First Congregational Church; assassination

7

3

Oct. 1914

262-270

The hero of the "Wreck of the Independence" : some incidents in the life of Colonel A. F. Rodgers, a veteran of the Mexican and Civil Wars

Norton, W. T.

Rodgers, A. F.; biography; Alton, Ill.; Mexican War; gold rush; California; Independence; steamship; shipwrecks; Watson, Elsie; Mizner, Ella Watson; Mizner, Lansing; Tarr, Horace; Civil War; army; 80th Regiment, Illinois Volunteers; prisoners

7

3

Oct. 1914

271-280

General James Shields

Ireland, John

Shields, James; Ireland; immigration; Kaskaskia, Ill.; generals; Civil War; senators; Illinois; Minnesota; Missouri; statues; speeches

7

3

Oct. 1914

281

Statue of Gen. James Shields dedicated at Carrollton, Mo.

 

Shields, James; senators; Illinois; Minnesota; Missouri; statues; Carrollton, Mo.

7

3

Oct. 1914

282-286

A Revolutionary soldier and some of his family

Long, G. Frank

Long, Moses; Long family; Long, Stephen Harriman; surveyors; Long's Peak, Colo.; migration; Illinois

7

3

Oct. 1914

287-290

The Rock Island County Historical Society celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Campbell's Island

Hauberg, John H.

War of 1812; Battle of Campbell's Island; Battle of Credit Island; anniversaries: Rock Island County Historical Society

7

4

Jan. 1915

329-348

An unpublished chapter in the early history of Chicago

Weik, Jesse W.

Chicago; Chicago River; Des Plaines River; Illinois River; canals; Illinois and Michigan Canal; Bucklin, James M.; memoirs; surveys; Caldwell, Billy; Shabbona; railroads

7

4

Jan. 1915

349-373

Credit Island, 1814-1914

Meese, William A.

War of 1812; Battle of Credit Island; Mississippi River; Prairie du Chien, Wis.; forts; Fort Shelby, Wis.; American Indians; Clark, William; Campbell, John; McKay, William; McDouall, Robert; Graham, Duncan; Taylor, Zachary; Black Hawk

7

4

Jan. 1915

374-378

The county records of Illinois

Pease, Theodore Calvin

Illinois; counties; courthouses; archives; preservation

7

4

Jan. 1915

379-388

Elections and election machinery in Illinois 1818-1848

Thompson, Charles M.

Illinois; elections; newspapers; conventions; politics; candidates; funds; speeches; debates; voting; Democratic Party; Whig Party

7

4

Jan. 1915

389-403

The Shaw-Hansen election contest : an episode of the slavery contest in Illinois

Stevens, Wayne E.

Illinois; Congress; elections; 1822; 1824; Hansen, Nicholas; Shaw, John; slavery; constitutional convention; Coles, Edward

7

4

Jan. 1915

404-407

Soldiers of the American Revolution buried in Illinois

Walker, Mrs. E. S.

Illinois; Revolutionary War; soldiers; burials; graves

7

4

Jan. 1915

408-416

Mrs. Anna Margaret Lange James : death of the wife of the president of the University of Illinois

 

James, Anna Lange; James, Edmund J.; obituaries; University of Illinois; presidents

7

4

Jan. 1915

417-421

Gen. John I. Rinaker

 

Rinaker, John I.; obituaries; Civil War; army; generals;122nd Illinois Infantry; Jackson, Tenn.; Forrest, Nathan Bedford; Battle of Tupelo; 16th Army Corps; Mobile, Ala.;

7

4

Jan. 1915

422-424

Methodist Episcopal Church of Mount Sterling, Illinois, celebrates its diamond jubilee

 

Mount Sterling, Ill.; Methodist Church; anniversaries; history

8

1

Apr. 1915

7-22

The life and labors of Jonathan B. Turner

James, Edmund J.

Turner, Jonathan Baldwin; universities; land grants; education; agriculture; Morrill Land Grant Act; Morrill, Justin S.; University of Illinois

8

1

Apr. 1915

23-30

A chapter from the history of the Underground Railroad in Illinois : a sketch of the sturdy abolitionist, John Hossack

Ryan, John H.

Hossack, John; abolitionism; Underground Railroad; fugitive slaves; Ottawa, Ill.; Caton, John Dean; judges; Stout, Joseph; Stout, James

8

1

Apr. 1915

31-45

Historical sketches of part of the Wabash Valley : address of H. W. Beckwith delivered before the Old Settlers' meeting in Danville, Ill. September 5, 1878

Cunningham, J. O.

Beckwith, H. W.; speeches; Wabash River; history; Vermilion County, Ill.; American Indians; treaties; Harrison, William Henry; migration; settlements; pioneer life; farming; Vermilion River; Little Vermilion River; travel; Chicago; education 

8

1

Apr. 1915

46-54

Soldiers of the American Revolution buried in Illinois

Walker, Mrs. E. S.

Illinois; Revolutionary War; soldiers; burials; graves

8

1

Apr. 1915

55-64

Reminiscences of Fountain Green, Ill.

Tyler, C. C.

Tyler, C. C.; memoirs; Fountain Green, Ill.; history; Nauvoo, Ill.; Mormons; ferry service; courts; judges; lawyers; Douglas, Stephen A.; Lincoln, Abraham; Lincoln, Mordecai; Catholic Church

8

1

Apr. 1915

65-68

An old time postal distribution in Illinois

Ryan, John H.

Illinois; postal service; mail; mail carriers; delivery; routes

8

1

Apr. 1915

69-78

A belated book review : The school advocate, an essay on the human mind and its education, by John Reynolds

Snyder, J. F.

Reynolds, John; Illinois; governors; education; public schools; books; book reviews

8

1

Apr. 1915

79-84

William Taylor Davidson

Snively, E. A.

Davidson, William Taylor; journalists; editors; Fulton Democrat; temperance; Douglas, Stephen A.; Lewistown, Ill.; county seat; Fulton County, Ill.

8

1

Apr. 1915

85-113

William Taylor Davidson : editor of "The Fulton Democrat," Lewistown, Illinois

Rowland, John R.

Davidson, William Taylor; obituaries; biography; editors; journalists; Fulton Democrat; Davidson family; migration; Lewistown, Ill.; pioneer life; temperance; prohibition; county seat; industry; buildings; Presbyterian Church; speeches, Douglas, Stephen A.; Davidson, Lucinda Miner; Davidson, Margaret George

8

1

Apr. 1915

114-131

Diary of John Peake : a soldier of the American Revolution, who later settled in central Illinois

Crookes, Harold F., introduction and notes

Peake, John; diaries; Illinois; pioneer life; Revolutionary War; soldiers

8

1

Apr. 1915

132-136

The quarterly conference : records of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Pulaski for the years 1835 to 1841

Foster, R. W.

Methodist Church; Pulaski County, Ill.; Pulaski, Ill.; conferences; circuit riders; churches; Sunday Schools

8

1

Apr. 1915

137-138

A rare Illinois Indian flint artifact

Whelpley, Henry M.

American Indians; artifacts; flint; Illinois

8

1

Apr. 1915

139-142

Dedication of Fort Edwards monument, Warsaw, Illinois

Dallam, Philip

Fort Edwards, Ill.; history; Warsaw, Ill.; monuments; dedication

8

1

Apr. 1915

143-149

Site of the organization of the Grand Army of the Republic, Decatur, Ill., marked by the department of Illinois Woman's Relief Corps, April 6, 1915

 

Grand Army of the Republic; Civil War; fraternal organizations; speeches; Fallows, Samuel

8

1

Apr. 1915

150-153

Dedication of a tablet marking the site at Decatur, Illinois, of the Old Wigwam in which the Illinois state Republican convention of 1860 was held

 

Lincoln, Abraham; Republican Party; Illinois; president; election; conventions; 1860; Decatur, Ill.; markers; Wigwam; speeches; Scott, Owen; rail splitter

8

1

Apr. 1915

154-158

Mrs. Theodora Morgan, an army nurse, during the war for the Union celebrates her one hundredth birthday anniversary, April 1, 1915

 

Morgan, Theodora Fresard; Civil War; nurses; army; birthdays; Grant, Ulysses S.; Fresard, Joseph

8

2

July  1915

209-237

Life and labors of Hon. Adlai Ewing Stevenson

Cook, John W.

Stevenson, Adlai Ewing I; Illinois; migration; Kentucky, Bloomington, Ill.; lawyers; Williams, Robert E.; Metamora, Ill.; state's attorney; Stevenson, Letitia Green; Ewing, James S.; House of Representatives; president; election, 1876; Hayes, Rutherford B.; Tilden, Samuel J.; McKinley, William; Cleveland, Grover; assistant postmaster general; vice-president; Monetary Commission; governor; election; 1908

8

2

July  1915

238-248

The Lincoln life-mask and how it was made

Volk, Leonard W.

Lincoln, Abraham; Volk, Leonard W.; sculptors; bust; life mask; statues; president; nomination; 1860; speeches; Cooper Union

8

2

July  1915

249-259

Comments and corrections on "The Lincoln life-mask and how it was made"

Rankin, Henry B.

Lincoln, Abraham; Volk, Leonard W.; speeches; Cooper Union

8

2

July  1915

260-267

The first American -- Abraham Lincoln : an appeal to the citizens of our state and city

Rankin, Henry B.

Lincoln, Abraham; assassination; anniversary; Springfield, Ill.; historic sites; markers

8

2

July  1915

268-280

The North-West Territory

Kent, Charles A.

Northwest Territory; settlement; Quebec Act; French; American Indians; Revolutionary War; Henry, Patrick; Clark, George Rogers; Articles of Confederation; Northwest Ordinance; territories; boundaries; Illinois Territory; Illinois

8

2

July  1915

281-287

The Mormon war in Hancock County

Salisbury, Herbert Spencer

Mormons; Smith, Joseph; Smith family; slavery; abolition; Missouri; Nauvoo, Ill.; Mexican War; polygamy

8

2

July  1915

288-299

Soldiers of the American Revolution buried in Illinois

Walker, Mrs. E. S.

Illinois; Revolutionary War; soldiers; burials; graves

8

2

July  1915

300-315

David B. Sears, pioneer in the development of the water power of the Mississippi River

 

Sears, David; Sears, David, Jr.; biography; Mississippi River; water power; Shawneetown, Ill.; Moline, Ill.; dams; mills; logging; Minnetonka, Minn.; Civil War; Sears, Ill.; Sears family

8

2

July 1915

316-326

Dedication of a boulder to mark the spot where the Lincoln-Douglas joint debate occurred at Charleston, Illinois, September 18, 1858

 

Lincoln, Abraham; Douglas, Stephen A.; debates; election; Senate; 1858; Charleston, Ill.; slavery; markers; speeches; Pier, Charles; Brown, John J.; Wilson, C. E.; letters

8

2

July 1915

327-336

Historic flag of the Confederacy returned to Tennessee by Illinois

 

Illinois; Tennessee; Confederate States of America; flags; 18th Tennessee Regiment; Battle of Fort Donelson; speeches; Armstrong, L. M.

8

3

Oct. 1915

379-419

Indian treaties affecting lands in the present state of Illinois

Grover, Frank R.

Illinois; American Indians; treaties; Treaty of Greenville, 1795; Treaty of St. Louis,1804; Black Hawk; Treaty of St. Louis, 1816; Treaty of Chicago, 1821; Potawatomi Indians; Metea; Cass, Lewis; speeches; Treaty of Prairie du Chien, 1825; Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe; Treaty of Prairie du Chien, 1829; Atwater, Caleb; Treaty of Chicago, 1833; Latrobe, Charles J.

8

3

Oct. 1915

420-427

General Grant, Judge William H. Green and N. B. Thistlewood, of Cairo, Illinois

Lansden, John M.

Grant, Ulysses S.; Cairo, Ill.; reception; speeches; Thistlewood, N. B.; Green, William H.

8

3

Oct. 1915

428-439

Forgotten statesmen of Illinois : Hon. Robert Smith

Norton, W. T.

Smith, Robert; migration; Alton, Ill.; lawyers; Illinois General Assembly; real estate; Congress; election; 1843; Reynolds, John; Shields, James; Trumbull, Lyman; roads; public lands; Koerner, Gustave; Democratic Party; Smith family 

8

3

Oct. 1915

440-447

Soldiers of the American Revolution buried in Illinois

Walker, Mrs. E. S.

Illinois; Revolutionary War; soldiers; burials; graves

8

3

Oct. 1915

448-458

The Manierre family in early Chicago history

Manierre, George

Manierre family; Manierre, George; memoirs; Manierre, George, Sr.; Manierre, Ann Hamilton; Chicago; history; fires; 1857; Chicago Fire; schools; Yale College; Dibblee, Henry; real estate; Manierre, Ann Edgerton

8

3

Oct. 1915

459-465

A little McLean County history

Greene, Albert Robinson

McLean County, Ill.; Greene , Elisha H.; Greene family; migration; Mount Hope, Ill.; pioneer life; Underground Railroad; fugitive slaves

8

3

Oct. 1915

466-468

The church bell at Vandalia

Conkling, Clinton L.

Vandalia; Presbyterian Church; Graff, Illinois Riggs; Riggs, Romulus; Graff family

8

3

Oct. 1915

469-478

George Peter Alexander Healy

Sandham, Mrs. William R.

Healy, George Peter Alexander; artists; portraits; Paris; Healy, Louisa Phipps; Chicago; McCagg, Ezra B.; Illinois Hospital for the Insane

8

3

Oct. 1915

479-486

Military history of Kane County, Illinois

Wilcox, John S.

Kane County, Ill.; soldiers; War of 1812; Mexican War; Civil War; Joslyn, Edward S.; 7th Illinois Infantry; 36th Illinois Infantry; 8th Illinois Cavalry; 52nd Illinois infantry; Battle of Pea Ridge; Army of the Potomac; Seventeenth Illinois Cavalry

8

3

Oct. 1915

487-488

The origin of the ravines in the prairies

Sawyer, Amos

Hillsboro, Ill.; prairie; ravines; cattle; flies

8

3

Oct. 1915

489-490

Isaac Hibbard and Susan W. McLean Hibbard -- pioneers of Kendall County, Illinois

Beebe, Avery N.

Hibbard, Isaac; Hibbard, Susan McLean; migration; Plano, Ill.; Kendall County, Ill.; teachers

8

3

Oct. 1915

491

A letter from Andrew Shuman to United States Senator James R. Doolittle

Shuman, Andrew

Shuman, Andrew; Doolittle, James R.; letters; senators; editors; editorials; Chicago Evening Journal

8

3

Oct. 1915

492-493

The first caucus in Ogle County

Mason, Joseph C.

Ogle County, Ill.; Farwell family; migration; settlement; pioneer life; ague

8

4

Jan. 1916

531-549

Oddities in early Illinois laws

Thompson, Joseph J.

Illinois; laws; American Indians; French; Virginia; Illinois Territory; lawyers; canals; corporations; criminal law; divorce; marriage; elections; jury; legislators; liquor; milling; prisons; taxes; roads; slavery; vagrancy

8

4

Jan. 1916

550-558

The pacification of the Indians of Illinois after the War of 1812

Brown, Lizzie M.

War of 1812; Illinois; American Indians; peace; treaties

8

4

Jan. 1916

559-568

Lincoln at Galesburg -- a sketch written on the one hundred and seventh anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln

Evans, Joseph F.

Lincoln, Abraham; Douglas, Stephen A.; debates; election; Senate; 1858; Galesburg, Ill.; president; 1860; Seward, William H.; Weed, Thurlow  H.

8

4

Jan. 1916

569-571

Lincoln-Douglas debate -- Charleston

James D. D.

Lincoln, Abraham; Douglas, Stephen A.; debates; election; Senate; 1858; Charleston, Ill.; Mexican War; Ficklin, Orlando B.

8

4

Jan. 1916

572-580

Personal reminiscences of Mr. Lincoln

Vinson, John W.

Lincoln, Abraham; Douglas, Stephen A.; debates; election; Senate; 1858; Alton, Ill.; president; 1860; campaign; rallies; Palmer, John M.;

8

4

Jan. 1916

581-587

Historical sketch of Cahokia Township, Macoupin County, Illinois

Blevins, Henry B.

Cahokia Township, Macoupin County, Ill.; American Indians; Whiteside, Samuel; settlement; pioneer life

8

4

Jan. 1916

588-590

John Cook, pioneer settler of Illinois, one of the founders of the town of Collinsville

 

Cook, John; biography; migration; Collinsville, Ill.; Cook family

8

4

Jan. 1916

591-593

A letter from General U. S. Grant and one from his father, Jesse R. Grant : both letters to Hon. I. N. Morris

Grant, Ulysses S.;

Grant, Jesse R.

Grant, Ulysses S.; Grant, Jesse R.; army; general; president; Illinois State Fair; letters

9

1

Apr. 1916

7-22

Abraham Lincoln

Dunne, Edward F.

Lincoln, Abraham; lawyers; Illinois; Circuit Court; Supreme Court; slavery; Douglas, Stephen A.; election; president; 1860; cabinet; marriage

9

1

Apr. 1916

23-42

A modern knight errant -- Edward Dickinson Baker

Matheny, James H.

Baker, Edward Dickinson; Baker family; migration; Belleville, Ill.; lawyers; orators; Carrollton, Ill.; Black Hawk War; Springfield, Ill.; Galena, Ill.; Mexican War; House of Representatives; Panama Railroad; construction; San Francisco; Oregon; Senate; Civil War

9

1

Apr. 1916

43-45

Revolutionary soldiers buried in Illinois

Walker, Mrs. E. S.

Illinois; Revolutionary War; soldiers; burials; graves

9

1

Apr. 1916

46-48

Some interesting old letters

 

Richardson, John P.; Cook, Daniel P.; Edwards, Ninian; Enos, Pascal P.; migration; newspapers; election; president; 1824; land office

9

1

Apr. 1916

49-60

A journey from Urbana, Illinois to Texas in 1846

Strong, William R.

Strong, William R.; travel; covered wagons; Illinois; Texas

9

1

Apr. 1916

61-65

Early settlement of Walnut Grove

Epler, William

Walnut Grove, Ill.; Cass County, Ill.; Princeton, Ill.; settlers; Conover, Peter; Conover family; Beggs, Charles; Bergen, John; Bergen, Jonathan; schools

9

2

July 1917

117-122

Slavery or involuntary servitude in Illinois prior to and after its admission as a state

Aldrich, Orlando W.

Illinois; Illinois Territory; slavery; involuntary servitude; Africans; France; Great Britain; Northwest Ordinance; Constitution; courts; cases

9

2

July 1916

123-145

Early Presbyterianism in east central Illinois

Allen, Ira W.

Presbyterian Church; Illinois; missionaries; travel; Reed, Isaac; diaries; Paris, Ill.; Edgar County, Ill.; Palestine, Ill.; Grandview, Ill.

9

2

July 1916

146-151

The two Michael Joneses

Relf, Frances H.

Jones, Michael, Kaskaskia, Ill.; Jones, Michael, Shawneetown, Ill.; politicians; land office; land; sales; lawyers; justices of the peace; Senate; candidates

9

2

July 1916

152-171

Mary Spears

Beekman, James B.

Spears, Mary Nealy; migration; travel; Indians; captives; escape; pioneer life; Tennessee; Kentucky; Illinois

9

2

July 1916

172-176

Revolutionary soldiers buried in Illinois

Walker, Harriet J.

Illinois; Revolutionary War; soldiers; burials; graves

9

2

July 1916

177-183

Old trails of Hancock County

Salisbury, Herbert Spencer

Hancock County, Ill.; trails

9

2

July 1916

184-194

James M. Davidson

Snively, Ethan Allen

Davidson, James M.; newspapers; editors; Fulton Gazette; Fulton Democrat; Lewiston, Ill.; Canton, Ill.; music; teaching; Douglas, Stephen A.; Lincoln, Abraham; elections; president; 1860; slavery; secession; Civil War; Chicago Times; Carthage Republican

9

2

July 1916

195-197

Original letters : Parthenia Lockwood to her brother and sister

Lockwood, Parthenia

Lockwood, Parthenia; letters; Lockwood family; travel; steamboats; Buffalo; Sandusky, Ohio; Chicago; Lewistown, Ill.; pioneer life

9

2

July 1916

198-199

Original letters : John M. Peck to Pascal Enos

Peck, John M.

Peck, John M.; letters; schools; teachers; Loomis, Hubbel; Enos, Pascal P.

9

2

July 1917

200-208

The Illinois state flag or banner

 

Illinois; state flag; design; legislation; Lawrence, Ella Park

9

2

July 1916

209-210

Law partnerships of Abraham Lincoln

Stewart, Judd

Lincoln, Abraham; lawyers; partners; Stuart, John T.; Logan, S. T.; Herndon, William H.

9

2

July 1916

211-213

A letter from a venerable member of the Illinois State Historical Society

Gowin, Miner S.

Gowin, Miner S.; biography; patriotism; letters

9

3

Oct. 1916

245-256

The development of the veto power of the Governor of Illinois

Debel, N. H.

Illinois; governor; veto power; constitution; constitutional conventions

9

3

Oct. 1916

257-278

Lincoln and Gettysburg after fifty years

Kent, Charles A.

Lincoln, Abraham; slavery; secession; Civil War; Lee, Robert E.; Hooker, Joseph; Halleck, Henry W,; Meade, George; Battle of Gettysburg; Gettysburg Address

9

3

Oct. 1916

279-283

Benjamin Edwards : the father of Ninian Edwards, governor of Illinois Territory

Macpherson, Ernest

Edwards, Benjamin; Edwards, Margaret Beall; Edwards family; farmers; politicians; Revolutionary War; obituaries; Wirt, William

9

3

Oct. 1916

284-291

Russel Farnham

Holt, Orrin S.

Farnham, Russel; Illinois; surveyors; Astor, John Jacob; fur trade; exploration; Missouri River; Indians; captives; Alaska; Russian Fur Company; St. Louis; Fort Armstrong, Ill.

9

3

Oct. 1916

292-293

History of the Rock Island post office

Simonson, H. P.

Rock Island, Ill.; post office; history; postmasters

9

3

Oct. 1916

294-295

History of the Rock Island Argus

 

Rock Island, Ill.; newspapers; Rock Island Argus; history

9

3

Oct. 1916

296-300

A description of caisson work to bed rock in Chicago for modern high buildings

Manierre, George

Chicago; buildings; foundations; construction; caissons; excavation

9

3

Oct. 1916

301-302

The massacre during the Black Hawk War on Turkey Creek, near Aurora, Illinois, 1832

Love, Charles A.

Black Hawk War; Turkey Creek; massacres; Aurora, Ill.; Caswell, Pvt.; silver; army; paymaster

9

3

Oct. 1916

303-305

Douglas monument, Brandon, Vermont

Norton, W. T.

Douglas, Stephen A.; Senate; monuments; birthplace;  Brandon, Vt.; Fiske, Alice

9

3

Oct. 1916

306-307

Jersey County Centennial Association

Becker, J. W.

Illinois; centennial; Jersey County, Ill.; Jersey County Centennial Association

9

3

Oct. 1916

308-311

Original letter [George Forquer to Pascal P. Enos]

Forquer, George

Forquer, George; Enos, Pascal P.; Illinois; Senate; legislature; letters

9

3

Oct. 1916

311-314

Original letter [Mrs., David L. Gregg to Miss Susan Enos]

Gregg, Rebecca Eads

Gregg, Rebecca Eads; Enos, Susan; Caribbean Sea; Panama; letters; ships; travel; Jamaica; coffee

9

3

Oct. 1916

315-319

The Lincoln funeral train

Becker, J. W.

Lincoln, Abraham; funeral; train; Chicago and Alton Railroad; brakemen; railroad cars; locomotives; safety

9

3

Oct. 1916

320

Letter from Louis Germain, who served as bodyguard at funeral of Abraham Lincoln

Germain, Louis

Lincoln, Abraham; funeral; bodyguards; Germain, Louis; letters

9

3

Oct. 1916

321-343

Jesse W. Fell memorial gateway, State Normal University campus

 

Fell, Jesse W.; Illinois State Normal University; memorials; education; James, Edmund J.; Lincoln, Abraham; Douglas, Stephen A.; debates; elections; Senate; 1858; abolition; Congregational Church; Burnham, J. H.; railroads; Illinois; finance

9

3

Oct. 1916

344-356

Celebration of the seventieth anniversary of the founding of Bishop Hill Colony

 

Bishop Hill, Ill.; anniversaries; Janson, Eric; Swedish Americans; immigration; Olson, Jonas, Johnson, Eric; Henschen, Henry S.; King, E. J.

9

4

Jan. 1917

401-449

Penalties of patriotism : an appreciation of the life, patriotism and services of Francis Vigo, Pierre Gibault, George Rogers Clark and Arthur St. Clair, "the founders of the Northwest"

Thompson, Joseph J.

Vigo, Francis; Gibault, Pierre; Clark, George Rogers; St. Clair, Arthur; Revolutionary War; fur traders; finance; Wayne, Anthony; Hamilton, Henry; Kaskaskia, Ill.; Cahokia, Ill.; Vincennes, Ind.; Catholic Church; priests; army; Continental Congress; Northwest Territory; governors; pioneer life; St. Clair family; St. Clair, Louisa

9

4

Jan. 1917

450-469

Rev. Colin Dew James, a pioneer Methodist preacher of early Illinois

James, Edmund Janes

James, Colin Dew; biography; Methodist Church; ministers; circuit riders; James family; migration; travel; Helt's Prairie, Ohio; education; camp meetings; travel; education; Jacksonville Female Academy; McKendree College; Illinois Wesleyan University; Georgetown Academy

9

4

Jan. 1917

470-482

Some beginnings in central Cass County, Illinois

Epler, William

Cass County, Ill.; Beardstown, Ill.; settlers; Cox, Eli; Job, Archibald; Conover, Peter; Williams, Page; Epler, John; Epler family; Hopkins, Henry; pioneer life; orchards; mills; log cabins; churches; schoolhouses; Cartwright, Peter; ministers; circuit riders; Methodist Church

9

4

Jan. 1917

483-488

Early women preachers of Illinois

Stahl, Katherine

women; ministers; preachers; Illinois; Hubbard, Mrs.; Henry, Lily; Disciples of Christ; Bunker Hill, Ill.

9

4

Jan. 1917

489-498

Times when Lincoln remembered Albion : an early-day joint discussion

Colyer, Walter

Lincoln, Abraham; Albion, Ill.; Walker, Isaac T.; Whig Party; Democratic Party; election; 1840; Harris, Gibson; lawyers; Herndon, William H.; Pickering, William; farming; Illinois; legislature; Pickering, John; Pickering, Richard

9

4

Jan. 1917

499

The old Randolph House, Macomb, Illinois

Burns, James C.

Macomb, Ill.; hotels; Randolph House; Lincoln, Abraham; speeches; election; Senate; 1858

9

4

Jan. 1917

500-502

[Poem read at Shurtleff College, Alton, Illinois, on the rehanging of a portrait of Abraham Lincoln]

Abbott, L. A.

Lincoln, Abraham; portraits; Shurtleff College; poems

9

4

Jan. 1917

503-504

The captivity by the Indians in 1832 of the Hall girls

Brown, George W.

Horn, Sylvia Hall; obituaries; Indians; massacres; captives; Horn, W. S.; Horn family

9

4

Jan. 1917

505-507

Original letter, Rev. W. W. Harsha to John Dixon of Dixon's Ferry

Harsha, W. W.

Harsha, W. W.; Dixon, John; Anderson, Robert; Civil War; Dixon, Ill.

10

1

Apr. 1917

17-87

Transportation -- a factor in the development of northern Illinois previous to 1860

Lee, Judson Fiske

Illinois; prairie; rivers; lakes; railroads; roads; canals; steamboats; sailing ships; tonnage; Chicago; settlement; population; growth; industry; agriculture; freight; grain; wool; beef; pork; Illinois and Michigan Canal; Galena & Chicago Union Railroad; Illinois Central Railroad; Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad; Chicago and Rock Island Railroad; Illinois River; Peoria County, Ill.;  Marshall County, Ill.; Woodford County, Ill.

10

1

Apr. 1917

87-96

Shall Indian languages be preserved?

Dunn, Jacob Piatt

Peoria Indians; Miami Indians; language; dictionaries; translation

10

1

Apr. 1917

97-100

The Lincoln-Thornton debate at Shelbyville, Illinois, June 15, 1856

Smith, Dudley C.

Lincoln, Abraham; Thornton, Anthony; debates; Shelbyville, Ill.; 1856; Republican Party; Democratic Party; Fremont, John C.; Buchanan, James; paintings; Root, Robert Marshall

10

1

Apr. 1917

101-122

The Lincoln-Thornton debate of 1856 at Shelbyville, Illinois

Cooper, Homer H.

Lincoln, Abraham; Thornton, Anthony; debates; Shelbyville, Ill.; 1856; Republican Party; Democratic Party; Fremont, John C.; Buchanan, James; paintings; Root, Robert Marshall

10

1

Apr. 1917

123-126

Abraham Lincoln

Flagg, Norman G.

Lincoln, Abraham; portraits; Shurtleff College; speeches

10

1

Apr. 1917

127-

The Catholic bishops of the diocese of Alton, Illinois

Zurbonsen, A.

Alton, Ill.; bishops; diocese; Catholic Church;  Quarter, William; Van de Velde, James Oliver; O'Regan, Anthony; Melcher, Joseph; Juncker, Henry Damian; Baltes, Peter Joseph

10

1

Apr. 1917

139-147

John Foster Leaverton : soldier of the American Revolution, American pioneer, and his descendants

Sale, Nancy J. Leaverton

Leaverton, John Foster; Leaverton family; Revolutionary War; soldiers; farming; pioneer life; Highland County, Ohio; Leaverton, Noah; Leaverton, John A.; Bond County, Illinois; Civil War; Leaverton, John Franklin; Illinois Central Railroad

10

1

Apr. 1917

149-152

A pioneer farm home in Illinois

Edmunds, Palmer D.

Bailey, Henry; land grants; soldiers; War of 1812; Illinois; Edmunds, Obadiah; Edmunds, Daniel; migration; Edmunds family

10

1

Apr. 1917

153-155

The Black Hawk Trail near Montgomery, Aurora, Illinois

Love, Charles A.

Black Hawk Trail; Black Hawk War; Scott, Winfield

10

2

July 1917

191-206

A celebrated Illinois case that made history

Day, Stephen A.

Pullman Company; Pullman, Ill.; Pullman strike; Debs, Eugene V.; American Railway Union; labor unions; mail; Olney, Richard; Grosscup, Peter S.; troops; federal; Cleveland, Grover; Altgeld, John Peter

10

2

July 1917

207-236

Thomas Beard, the pioneer and founder of Beardstown, Illinois

Croll, P. C.

Beard, Thomas; Beardstown, Ill.; history; Beard family; settlement; migration; travel; steamboats; pioneer life; Kickapoo Indians; Thanksgiving; death; funeral

10

2

July 1917

237-255

Thomas Lippincott, a pioneer of 1818 and his diary

Rammelkamp, Charles H., ed.

Lippincott, Thomas; diaries; migration; travel; roads; steamboats; St. Louis; Milton, Ill.; Sunday schools; Illinois College; Presbyterian Church; ministers

10

2

July 1917

256-259

The great Cahokia Mound

Snyder, J. F.

Cahokia Mound; geology; construction; Mound Builders

10

2

July 1917

260-262

Colonel Isaac White

Sandham, William R.

White, Isaac; soldiers; War of 1812; Battle of Tippecanoe; biography

10

2

July 1917

263-275

The Illinois centennial celebration : a hundred years of progress

Weber, Jessie Palmer

Illinois; history; centennial

10

2

July 1917

276-279

Letter of Ninian Edwards to Nathaniel Pope

Edwards, Ninian

Edwards, Ninian; Pope, Nathaniel; War of 1812; Fort Meigs; Harrison, William Henry; letters

10

3

Oct. 1917

323-366

De Linctot, guardian of the frontier

Brennan, George A.

Linctot, Daniel Maurice Godfrey de; Revolutionary War; Clark, George Rogers; Kaskaskia, Ill.; Cahokia, Ill.; British; American Indians; French; Illinois Territory; Fort St. Joseph, Mich.; Detroit; DePeyster, Arent S.; Langlade, Charles; Hamilton, Henry; Bauman, Sebastian; La Balme, Mottin de; Haldimand, Frederick; Champion, Etienne; DuQuindre, Dagreux; Sinclair; Patrick; Point du Sable, Jean Baptiste; Murphy, Timothy

10

3

Oct. 1917

367-393

Historical notes on Lawrence County, Illinois

White, Mary Tracy

Lawrence County, Ill.; history; settlements; pioneer life; Dubois family; Lawrenceville, Ill.; Smallsburg, Ill.; roads; government; courts; ferries; taverns; Lincoln, Abraham; DuBois, Jesse K.

10

3

Oct. 1917

394-407

Reminiscences of Lake Forest Academy and its students from the opening of the academy in the fall of 1859 to the year 1863, inclusive

Manierre, George

Lake Forest Academy; Lake Forest, Ill.; campus; buildings; dormitories; faculty; students; Miller, S. F.; Price, William D.; Chandler, C. Vilasco; Norton, Wilbur; Caffrey, Edward

10

3

Oct. 1917

408-420

Early history of Pleasant Hill, McLean County, Illinois

Trimmer, D. F.

Pleasant Hill, Ill.; history; Smalley, Isaac; Smalley, Mrs. Isaac; pioneer life; farming; business; churches; schools

10

3

Oct. 1917

421-428

Reminiscences of the Black Hawk War : an interesting letter from Gen. Robert Anderson to E. B. Washburne, contributed by Sidney S. Breese

Anderson, Robert

Anderson, Robert; letters; Washburne, Elihu B.; Black Hawk War; cavalry; Dixon's Ferry, Ill.; Battle of the Bad Axe

10

3

Oct. 1917

429-432

Birthday of Henry W. Clendenin

 

Clendenin, Henry W.; editors; Springfield, Ill.; Illinois State Register; birthdays

10

4

Jan. 1918

473-547

The Oregon Trail : a thesis submitted for the degree of Master of Arts, University of Wisconsin, 1918

Dorris, Jonathan Truman

Oregon Trail; Oregon Territory;  boundaries; Great Britain; migration; travel; covered wagons; supplies; organization; route; American Indians; Columbia River; Whitman, Marcus; Willamette River; Jefferson, Thomas; Lewis, Meriwether; Clark, William; fur trade; Long, Stephen H.; legislation; Congress; Fremont, John C.; Linn, Lewis F.; Tyler, John; army; posts; 

10

4

Jan. 1918

548-560

A momentous incident in the history of Illinois

Johns, Jane Martin

Lincoln, Abraham; Johns, Henry C.; senators; election; Illinois; Trumbull, Lyman; Mattison, Joel A.; Shields, James; Koerner, Gustavus; slavery; abolitionism; Whig Party; Know-Nothing Party; Democratic Party; Kansas-Nebraska Act

10

4

Jan. 1918

561-567

The nomination of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency, an unsolved psychological problem

Johns, Jane Martin

Lincoln, Abraham; president; vice president; nomination; Republican Party; election; 1860; Republican Party; conventions; Decatur, Ill.; Oglesby, Richard J.; rail splitter; Hanks, John

10

4

Jan. 1918

568-576

The treaty of Greenville, August 3, 1795 : the story of a great treaty whereby the site of Chicago was secured from the Indians by the U.S. government, and the great Indian menace of the Northwest shattered

Kent, Charles A.

Treaty of Greenville; Wayne, Anthony; United States; boundaries; American Indians; Revolutionary War; British; Clark, George Rogers; St. Clair, Arthur; Little Turtle; Ohio River

10

4

Jan. 1918

577-583

Treaty with the Wyandot, etc., 1795

 

Treaty of Greenville; United States; American Indians; boundaries; Ohio River

10

4

Jan. 1918

585-592

Pioneer days of Major Richard Rue Cox

Cox, Charles E.

Cox, Richard Rue; Cox family; migration; Mercer County, Ill.; pioneer life; Cox, Charles E.; Civil War; army; business

10

4

Jan. 1918

593-638

History of Harmon Township, Lee County, Illinois

Porter, John L.

Harmon Township, Lee County, Ill.; Harmon, Ill.; history; pioneer life; government; schools; business; churches; farming; trails; roads; tornado; blizzard

10

4

Jan. 1918

639-642

Samuel McAnulty : a pioneer of Adams County

Farlow, W. O.

McAnulty, Samuel; migration; Adams County, Ill.; pioneer life; Mormons; Nauvoo, Ill.; slavery; farming

11

1

Apr. 1918

14-27

Historical sketch of Wabash County, State of Illinois

Harvey, B. A.

Wabash County, Ill.; settlement; Piankishaw Indians; Shawnee Indians; pioneers; pioneer life; Wabash River; Palmyra, Ill.; Centerville, Ill.; Mount Carmel, Ill.; schools; steamboats; pearl fishing; mussels; artifacts; Mound Builders

11

1

Apr. 1918

28-32

The First Presbyterian Church of Belvidere, Illinois

Kirk, Margaret C.

Belvidere, Ill.; First Presbyterian Church; pastors; Sunday School

11

1

Apr. 1918

33-37

The Illinois centennial : address at Jackson Park, Chicago, on the occasion of the presentation to the South Park Commissioners of the statue of "The Republic"

Dunne, Edward F.

Illinois; centennial; agriculture; railroads; industry; Lincoln, Abraham; Chicago; Illinois and Michigan Canal; Art Institute of Chicago; World's Columbian Exposition; statues

11

1

Apr. 1918

38-42

An old Mormon town, Nauvoo, Illinois

Clark, Nancy Duffy

Nauvoo, Ill.; Mormons; Smith, Joseph; Icarians

11

1

Apr. 1918

43-47

The old Chicago trail

Pierson, A. Van Dyke

trails; roads; Chicago; Bloomington, Ill.

11

1

Apr. 1918

48-56

Kannekuk or Keeanakuk : the Kickapoo prophet

Custer, Milo

Kannekuk; Keeanakuk; Kickapoo Indians; religion; prophets; prayer sticks

11

1

Apr. 1918

57-58

The original automobile : recollections of the first automobile in Springfield, Ill., over seventy years ago

Paddock, Gaius

automobiles; engines; steam; Springfield, Ill.; Semple, James; Prairie Car

11

1

Apr. 1918

59-61

Messages of love and encouragement : a reminiscence of the Civil War

 

Civil War; women; soldiers; letters; Knox County, Ill.

11

1

Apr. 1918

62-63

Letter of Sam G. Berrian, St. Louis, to Dr. I. M. Francis, New York

Berrian, Sam G.

Berrian, Sam G.; letters; travel; St. Louis; Illinois Territory; Ohio; Kentucky

11

1

Apr. 1918

64-67

Letter of George Churchill of Madison County, Ill. to Mr. Swift Eldred, Warren CT [with biographical sketch]

Churchill, George

Churchill, George; letters; Illinois; constitution; slavery; governor; lieutenant governor; Eldred, Swift; biography

11

2

July 1918

101-148

Illinois -- the land of men : Illinois centennial address

Bancroft, Edgar A.

Illinois; centennial; French; slavery; Civil War; education; government; civil rights; Lincoln, Abraham; Grant, Ulysses S.; soldiers; World War I

11

2

July 1918

149-156

Journalism in Illinois before the thirties

Miller, Carl R.

Illinois; newspapers; statehood; laws; mail; delays; paper; ink; editors; politics; public opinion; news; advertising

11

2

July 1918

157-167

Genesis of the courts of Tazewell County, Illinois

Curran, William Reid

Tazewell County, Ill.; courts; county commissioners; circuit courts; judges; probate; county seat; Mackinaw, Ill.; Pekin, Ill.; Tremont, Ill.; courthouses

11

2

July 1918

168-176

The Isaac B. Essex family : pioneers in three counties

Sandham, William R.

Essex, Isaac B.; Essex family; migration; pioneer life; Illinois; Peoria County, Ill.; Stark County, Ill.; Spoon River, Ill.; Rock Island County, Ill.; Union County, Ill.; Essex, Simeon

11

2

July 1918

177-179

Slavery in Douglas County, Illinois

Reat, James L.

Douglas County, Ill.; slavery; Illinois; Matteson, Robert; fugitive slaves; Wilmot, Simeon

11

2

July 1918

180-186

Benjamin Franklin Gardner, 1818-1915 : an early physician of Illinois

Brock, George W.

Gardner, Benjamin Franklin; physicians; Waynesville, Ill.; Atlanta, Ill.

11

2

July 1918

187-188

A runaway meteor

Epler, William

meteors; Cass County, Ill.; 1876; 1877

11

2

July 1918

189-192

History of the Episcopal Church in Edwards County, Ill.

Barkdull, Mrs. E. S.

Episcopal Church; Albion, Ill.; St. John's Church; Hutchins, Benjamin; Flower, George

11

2

July 1918

193-196

Presbyterianism in Stephenson County, Illinois

Knowlton, Mrs. D. A.

Stephenson County, Ill.; Presbyterian Church; Kent, Aratus; Freeport, Ill.; Cedarville, Ill.; Dakota, Ill.

11

2

July 1918

197-209

Unveiling of the William H. Herndon memorial at Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill., Thursday, May 30, 1919

Barker, Harry

Herndon, William H.; Lincoln, Abraham; lawyers; biography; memorial; speeches; Masters, Hardin W.

11

2

July 1918

210-215

Biographical sketch of Elihu Bone

Bone, David McCoy

Bone, Elihu; biography; Bone family; migration; Menard County, Ill.; pioneer life; Presbyterian Church

11

2

July 1918

221-235

The four constitutional conventions of the state of Illinois

 

Illinois; constitutional conventions; 1818; 1847; 1862; 1870

11

3

Oct. 1918

269-369

The development of the free public high school in Illinois to 1860 [pt. 1]

Belting, Paul E.

Illinois; public schools; high schools; Northwest Ordinance; land grants; pioneer life; education; schools; academies; administration; finance; taxation; tuition; missionaries; Catholic Church; Baptist Church; Methodist Church; Presbyterian Church; Peck, John Mason; Rock Spring Theological and High School; Hall, James; charters; colleges; students; admission; age; gender; tuition; school year; curriculum; examinations; manual labor; apprenticeship; legislation; 1825

11

3

Oct. 1918

370-378

The first official Thanksgiving in Illinois

Jamison, Isabel

Thanksgiving Day; proclamations; governor; Illinois; Duncan, Joseph; Carlin, Thomas; Presbyterian Church; pioneer life; Sangamo Journal; Francis, Simon;

11

3

Oct. 1918

379-385

Lawyers of Montgomery County, Illinois

Miller, Amos

Montgomery County, Ill.; lawyers; patriotism; War of 1812; Civil War; World War I; courthouses; pioneer life; Smith, Theophilus W.; judges; impeachment

11

3

Oct. 1918

386-390

Lincoln's first levee

 

Lincoln, Abraham; Lincoln, Mary Todd; receptions; Springfield, Ill.; balls; White House

11

3

Oct. 1918

391-399

Life and services of William Wilson, chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court

Monroe, B. D.

Wilson, William; Illinois Supreme Court; justices; chief justice; slavery; Coles, Edward; Secretary of State; Field, Alexander Pope; McClernand, John A.

11

3

Oct. 1918

400-407

Illinois descendants of Edward Smith : an English soldier in the Revolutionary War who deserted and joined the American army

Sale, Nancy Jane Leaverton

Smith, Edward; Revolutionary War; soldiers; British; American; migration. Corydon, Ind.; Smith family; Illinois

11

3

Oct. 1918

408-409

Mary E. Smith Leaverton : granddaughter of Edward Smith, a pioneer of Bond County, Illinois

Sale, Nancy Jane Leaverton

Leaverton, Mary E. Smith; biography

11

3

Oct. 1918

410-413

Historical sketch of the Baptist denomination in Livingston County, Illinois

Benden, Edwin

Livingston County, Ill.; Baptist Church

11

3

Oct. 1918

414-417

History of Christ Church, Carlyle, Illinois

Robinson, Mabel Hall

Carlyle, Ill.; Episcopal Church; Christ Episcopal Church

11

3

Oct. 1918

418-421

History of Pulaski County Episcopal Church

Hough, Frances L.

Pulaski County, Ill.; Mound City, Ill.; Episcopal Church; St. Peter's Episcopal Church

11

4

Jan. 1919

467-565

The development of the free public high school in Illinois to 1860 [pt. 2]

Belting, Paul E.

public schools; high schools; education; Illinois; Illinois Institute of Education; surveys; school districts; superintendents; teachers; salaries; legislation; finance; taxation; private schools; school districts; curriculum; school boards

11

4

Jan. 1919

566-575

George Washington land speculator

Hixon, Ada Hope

Washington, George; land; speculation; surveying; North America; Mississippi Company; Vandalia Land Company; Mohawk River; Military Company of Adventurers; Florida;

11

4

Jan. 1919

576-585

Indian corn : genesis of Reid's Yellow Dent

Curran, William Reid

corn; North America; Reid, Robert; Reid, James L.; Reid family; Tazewell County, Ill.; Delavan, Ill.; Reid's Yellow Dent Corn

11

4

Jan. 1919

586-591

The Cannon-Stark Indian massacre and captivity

Lindley, Robert;

Custer, Milo, ed.

Kickapoo Indians; massacres; captives; Cannon family; Stark family; Starks family; Okaw River; Illinois; Lindley, Robert; Lindley family

12

1

Apr. 1919

1-32

Protestantism in Illinois

before 1835

Stock, Harry Thomas

Protestantism; Illinois; Baptist Church; Lemen, James; Peck, John Mason; Rock Spring Seminary; Shurtleff College; Methodist Church; Ogle, Joseph; Lillard, Joseph; Walker, Jesse; McKendree, William; Cartwright, Peter; Presbyterian Church; Congregational Church; American Home Missionary Society; Ellis, John Millot; Sturtevant, Julian M.; Baldwin, Theron; Beecher, Edward; Clark, N. C.; Porter, Jeremiah; Hardy, Solomon; missionaries; circuit riders; camp meetings; revivals; preaching; Sunday schools; Bibles; temperance; slavery; morality

12

1

Apr. 1919

33-40

Early history of Paxton, Illinois

Taft, Oren B.

Paxton, Ill.; Goodrich, William; pioneer life; settlers; railroads; business; Ford County, Ill.

12

1

Apr. 1919

41-44

History of the poll tax in Illinois

McKay, M. K.

Illinois; poll tax; taxes; roads; bridges; military service

12

1

Apr. 1919

45-52

Who were the Mound Builders?

Keplinger, John G.

Mound Builders; pyramids; Egypt; astronomy; geometry; religion

12

1

Apr. 1919

53-57

Stephen Mack, first settler of Winnebago County

Buckley, Cornelius

Mack, Stephen; Winnebago County, Ill.; Rock River, Ill.; settlers; migration; Mack, Ho-no-ne-gah; fur trade; Black Hawk

12

1

Apr. 1919

58-70

The Collins family and connections

Moore, Ensley

Collins family; Collins, William; migration; Collinsville, Ill.; pioneer life; slavery; Presbyterian Church; Illinois

12

1

Apr. 1919

71-74

General Samuel Thomas : founder of Wyoming, Stark County, Ill.

Sandham, William R.

Thomas, Samuel; army; War of 1812; migration; Wyoming, Ill.; parks; Thomas Park

12

1

Apr. 1919

75-79

Autobiography of Rev. Joseph McCreary Bone

Bone, Joseph McCreary; Bone, Hugh McCreary, contributor

Bone, Joseph McCreary; autobiography; Cumberland Presbyterian Church; ministers; circuit riders; Illinois; Taylorville, Ill

12

1

Apr. 1919

80-88

Address at the dedication of the centennial tablet placed in the Memorial Hall, Capitol Building, February 22, 1919, to the Illinois soldiers and sailors in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865

Miller, Flo Jamison

Civil War; soldiers; sailors; Illinois; memorials; Battle of Shiloh; Battle of Belmont; Battle of Fort Donelson; Battle of Chickamauga

12

1

Apr. 1919

89-92

Methodist Church of Buffalo, Illinois celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of its existence as a church

 

Buffalo, Ill.; Methodist Church; history; anniversaries

12

1

Apr. 1919

93-106

Winifred Fairfax Warder

 

Warder, Winifred Fairfax; Cairo, Ill.; World War I; American Red Cross; Navy League; Illinois State Council of Defense, Woman's Committee; influenza; death

12

2

July 1919

149-217

The rise of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Illinois from the beginning to the year 1832

Barnhardt, John D., Jr.

Methodist Church; Northwest Territory; Illinois; migration; missionaries; missions; Lillard, Joseph; Ogle, Joseph; Rigg, Hosea, Young, Benjamin; Cartwright, Peter; Walker, Jesse; circuit riders; preachers; camp meetings; Sabbath; theology; churches; organization

12

2

July 1919

218-233

The pioneers of Wabash County : an address delivered by Theodore G. Risley at the dedication of McCleary's Bluff Monument, June 8, 1919

Risley, Theodore G.

Wabash County, Ill.; Shawnee Indians; Piankishaw Indians; fur trade; massacres; pioneer life; industry; McCleary, John; McCleary, Margaret Glenn; Campbell, James; McCleary's Bluff; monuments

12

2

July 1919

234-245

Harrison festival in Tremont in 1840

 

Harrison, William Henry; Tyler, John; 1840; election; president; vice-president; Whig Party; Tremont, Ill.; banquet; speeches; Davis, David; Fell, Jesse W.; Gridley, Asahel; Washington, Ill.

12

2

July 1919

245-251

Some notes in regard to persons whose names occur in account of Harrison festival at Tremont, Illinois, February 22, 1840

Gaither, Mary E.

Harrison, William Henry; Tyler, John; 1840; president; vice-president; election; Whig Party; Tremont, Ill.

12

2

July 1919

252-258

Stephen Sumner Phelps : (Wah-wash-e-ne-qua) of Oquawka, Illinois

 

Phelps, Stephen Sumner; biography; migration; Illinois; pioneer life; fur trade; Potawatomi Indians; Sauk Indians; Fox Indians; S. S. Phelps & Co.; American Fur Co.; Starved Rock, Ill.; Oquawka, Ill.; Black Hawk War; Black Hawk; Keokuk

12

2

July 1919

259-263

Sketch of Robert Mann Woods

Cox, Charles E.

Woods, Robert Mann; biography; Civil War; army; business; newspapers; publishers; Joliet Daily Republican

12

2

July 1919

264-270

Eminent men honored at Illinois College

 

Illinois College; memorials; Duncan, Joseph; Turner, Jonathan Baldwin; Bateman, Newton; Illinois; governor; education; public schools; land grants; universities; teachers

12

2

July 1919

271-275

Original letter contributed to the Historical Society by Archer R. and Charles S. Anderson through Governor Frank O. Lowden

Archer, William B.

Archer, William B.; letters; Bromwell, H. P. H.; Lincoln, Abraham; Republican Party; conventions; 1856; vice president; nomination; Anderson, Archer R.; Anderson, Charles S.

12

3

Oct. 1919

317-329

The war work of the women of Illinois

Bowen, Louise DeKoven

World War I; women; Illinois; war work; employment; child welfare; patriotism; conservation; food; gardens; social welfare; relief; Council of National Defense, Woman's Committee

12

3

Oct. 1919

330-406

War diary of Thaddeus H. Capron, 1861-1865

Capron, Thaddeus H.

Capron, Thaddeus H.; army; Civil War; letters; 55th Illinois Infantry; Battle of Shiloh; Siege of Corinth; Siege of Vicksburg; Battle of Chattanooga;  Battle of Kennesaw Mountain; Atlanta; Sherman, William Tecumseh

12

3

Oct. 1919

407-411

Colonel Theodore S. Bowers

Risley, Theodore G.

Bowers, Theodore S.; Civil War; army; railroads; accidents; death; Grant, Ulysses S.

12

3

Oct. 1919

412-416

Abraham Lincoln's early visits to Chicago

Currey, J. Seymour

Lincoln, Abraham; travel; Chicago

12

3

Oct. 1919

417-421

Will County Baptist history

Brown, J. Stanley

Will County, Ill.; Baptist Church; missionaries; churches; Freeman, A. B.; Joliet, Ill.

12

3

Oct. 1919

422-433

Ruth C. Fenner

Allensworth, Anne Briggs

Fenner, Ruth C.; teachers; biography; Tazewell County, Ill.; Tremont, Ill.

12

4

Jan. 1920

498-502

Abraham Lincoln : address of Lord Charnwood on the dedication of the statue of Abraham Lincoln on the State House grounds, Oct. 6, 1918

Charnwood, Godfrey Benson

Lincoln, Abraham; statues; Springfield, Ill.; speeches

12

4

Jan. 1920

503-514

A memoir of James Knowles Kellogg

McCarty, F. A.

Kellogg, James Knowles; biography; Kellogg family; Knowles, Mary Fisk; Knowles, Aschah Fisk; migration, Tazewell County, Ill.; Tremont, Ill.; pioneer life; schools; teachers; Tremont Congregational Church

12

4

Jan. 1920

515-531

In Meade's camp : a diary of the Civil War

Hatfield, Robert Miller

Hatfield, Robert Miller; diaries; Civil War; army; chaplains; Meade, George; United States Christian Commission; United States Sanitary Commission

12

4

Jan. 1920

532-546

Story of the Baptist Church of Waterman, Illinois

Congdon, George D.

Waterman, Ill.; Baptist Church; pastors

12

4

Jan. 1920

547-562

Lake Michigan's Illinois coast

Currey, J. Seymour

Lake Michigan; coast; Illinois; elevation; depth; dunes; bluffs; fish; gulls; birds; migration; lighthouses; weather; Illinois Territory; boundaries

12

4

Jan. 1920

563-567

Berry Cemetery near Oakland, Illinois, the oldest burial place in eastern Illinois

Yeargin, Lyman T.

Oakland, Ill.; cemeteries; Berry Cemetery; graves; tombstones

12

4

Jan. 1920

568-587

The spirit of '76 from the Green Mountains

Paddock, Gaius

Paddock, Gaius; biography; soldiers; Revolutionary War; New England; migration; travel; St. Louis; Missouri Compromise; slavery; Illinois; Edwardsville, Ill.

13

1

Apr. 1920

1-15

Some pastors and pastorates during the century of Presbyterianism in Illinois

McClure, James Gore King

Presbyterian Church; Illinois; ministers; churches; Spilman, Benjamin Franklin; Giddings, Salmon; Ellis, John M.; McGready, James M.; Berry, John McCutcheon; Kent, Aratus; Cornelison, Isaac Amada; Stewart, John Kirkpatrick; Vandalia Presbyterian Church; bell; Patterson, Robert W.

13

1

Apr. 1920

16-22

In St. Louis during the "crisis"

Plattenburg, Cyrus B.

Plattenburg, Cyrus B.; memoirs; steamboats; St. Louis; Civil War

13

1

Apr. 1920

23-32

Old-time campaigning and the story of a Lincoln campaign song

Smith, William Hawley

Lincoln, Abraham; election; president; 1860; campaign; Illinois; Chicago; rallies; songs

13

1

Apr. 1920

33-41

Life sketch of Samuel Seaney

Seaney, Mildred

Seaney, Samuel; biography; Seaney family; North Carolina; migration; Illinois; pioneer life

13

1

Apr. 1920

42-44

My retrospection of four score years

Paddock, Gaius

Paddock, Gaius; memoirs; transportation; communication; inventions; medicine; wars

13

1

Apr. 1920

45-47

Brief record of the Mexican, Civil, Spanish wars and the world's great conflict

Paddock, Gaius

Mexican War; Civil War; Spanish-American War; World War I

13

1

Apr. 1920

48-50

Is the Sangamon River navigable?

Paddock, Gaius

Sangamon River; steamboats; navigation; Springfield, Ill.; Lincoln, Abraham

13

1

Apr. 1920

51-63

Wilder's Brigade monument dedication

 

Wilder, John T.; monuments; Civil War; Chattanooga, Tenn.; Battle of Chickamauga; Atkins, Smith D.

13

1

Apr. 1920

64-70

A Mattoon pioneer : Capt. Joseph Withington--civilian, soldier and statesman

Sumerlin, Adolf M.

Withington, Joseph; biography; migration; Illinois; Mattoon, Ill.; Civil War

13

1

Apr. 1920

71-84

Pike County settled 1820 : 100 years ago

Thompson, Jesse M.

Pike County, Ill.; migration; pioneer life; Franklin, Ebenezer; Shinn, Daniel; Ross, William; Wood, John; Atlas, Ill.

13

1

Apr. 1920

85-86

Pioneer log church, Coles County, Illinois

Balch, Alfred

Presbyterian Church; Coles County, Ill.; buildings; construction

13

1

Apr. 1920

87-105

Mrs. Abbie Fay Newman : memorial

 

Newman, Abbie Fay; biography; teachers; patriotism; temperance; Presbyterian Church; Sunday schools; Delavan, Ill.

13

1

Apr. 1920

106-108

Early Methodism in Mount Carmel, Illinois

Risley, Theodore G.

Methodist Church; Mount Carmel, Ill.; Hinde, Thomas; McDowell, William, Beauchamp, William

13

1

Apr. 1920

109-112

A lost Stark County town

Sandham, William R.

Stark County, Ill.; Osceola, Ill.; Moore, Robert

13

1

Apr. 1920

113-115

A short courtship and a happy married life : a reminiscence of the early history of Stark County, Illinois

Sandham, William R.

Stark County, Ill.; Bayley, Louis; circuit riders; Bates, William S.; Bayley, Mary Lake

13

2

July 1920

145-179

Side lights on Illinois suffrage history

Trout, Grace Wilbur

Illinois; women; suffrage; Illinois Equal Suffrage Association; Chicago Political Equality League; Illinois State Legislature; legislation; Progressive Party; conventions; National American Woman Suffrage Association; McCulloch, Catherine Waugh; Booth, Elizabeth K.; Dunne, Edward F.; Funk, Antoinette; McCormick, Ruth Hanna; Dunne, Edward F.; McKinley, William B.; newspapers; Women's Emergency League; Constitution; Nineteenth Amendment; Illinois League of Women Voters

13

2

July 1920

180-191

Lewis and Clark at the mouth of Wood River -- an historic spot

Gray, Charles Gilmer

Lewis, Meriwether; Clark, William, Lewis and Clark Expedition; Wood River, Ill.; camp

13

2

July 1920

192-209

The visit to Springfield of Richard M. Johnson, May 18-20, 1843

 

president; election; 1844; candidates; Democratic Party; Johnson, Richard M.; War of 1812; Battle of the Maumee; Tecumseh; Proctor, Henry A.; Campbell, Thompson; receptions; Springfield, Ill.

13

2

July 1920

210-223

Greene County : born 100 years ago

Bradshaw, Charles

Greene County, Ill.; pioneer life; Carrollton, Ill.; American Indians; rangers; Carlin, Thomas, Thomas, Samuel; Rattan, Thomas; Fry, Jacob; Hunnicutt, Rowell; Baker, Edward Dickinson; Russell, John; Carlin, William P.; Hodges, Charles Drury; Woodson, David Meade; Willard, Samuel

13

2

July 1920

224-228

Park College and its Illinois founder

Hawley, Pauline Aston

Park College; Parkville, Mo.; Park, George S.; students; faculty

13

2

July 1920

229-233

Recollections of Lincoln and Douglas in Hillsboro, Illinois

Whitehead, John M.

Hillsboro, Ill. ; Lincoln, Abraham; death; Douglas, Stephen A.; election; Senate; 1858

13

2

July 1920

234-237

The northern boundary line of Illinois surveyed by Hiram Rountree

 

Illinois; boundary; surveys; Rountree, Hiram; Messinger, John; Lyons, Lucius; Strange, A. T.; Blackwelder, I. S.

13

3

Oct. 1920

312-323

Illinois women of the middle period

Cole, Arthur Charles

Illinois; women; servants; temperance; temperance societies; professions; editors; ministers; teachers; teachers' colleges; women's rights; suffrage; dress reform

13

3

Oct. 1920

324-354

The building of a state -- the story of Illinois

Bennett, A. Milo

Illinois; Mound Builders; American Indians; French; Joliet, Louis; Marquette, Jacques; La Salle, Robert Cavelier; Tonti, Henry; Starved Rock, Ill.; Pontiac; Tecumseh; Black Hawk; Clark, George Rogers; Kaskaskia, Ill.; Fort Chartres, Ill.; Vincennes, Ind.; Fort Dearborn; War of 1812; statehood; Black Hawk War; Mormons; Smith, Joseph; Young, Brigham; slavery; Missouri Compromise; Coles, Edward; Lovejoy, Elijah P.; Lincoln, Abraham; Douglas, Stephen A.; elections; Senate; 1858; debates; president; 1860; Civil War; Chicago Fire; World's Columbian Exposition; Chicago Drainage Canal; Chicago; landmarks; monuments

13

3

Oct. 1920

355-369

Life in the army

Capron, Cynthia J.

Capron, Cynthia J.; Capron, Thaddeus H.; army; travel; steamboats; New York City; Panama; Acapulco; San Francisco; Alcatraz; Angel Island; 9th Infantry; Mendocino County, Calif.; Camp Wright

13

3

Oct. 1920

370-377

The diary of Salome Paddock Enos

Enos, Louisa I., introduction

Enos, Salome Paddock; diaries; migration; travel; Vermont; St. Louis; Enos, Pascal P.; Paddock, Gaius

13

3

Oct. 1920

378-384

Some personal recollections of Peter Cartwright

Epler, William

Cartwright, Peter; Methodist Church; ministers; circuit riders; camp meetings

13

3

Oct. 1920

385-388

History of the Selma Methodist Episcopal Church : article written in1909

Pierson, A. V.

Selma, Ill.; Selma Methodist Church; Patton, John; churches; architecture

13

3

Oct. 1920

389-392

Death of Miss Mary Coles, 1834-1920, the daughter of Edward Coles, second governor of Illinois

Norton, W. T.

Coles, Mary; obituaries; Coles, Edward; governors; Illinois; slavery; Virginia; philanthropy; religion; missions

13

3

Oct. 1920

393-395

Some things I did in my 88th year

Cox, Charles E.

Cox, Charles E.; Vanderlip, Frank A.; Palos Verdes, Calif.; Palos Verdes Ranch; navy; Pacific Naval Fleet; travel

13

3

Oct. 1920

396-397

Early juvenile temperance society, Springfield, Ill.

 

Springfield, Ill.; temperance; youth; Sangamon County Juvenile Temperance Society

13

4

Jan. 1921

433-463

Dr. David Nelson and his times

Richardson, William A., Jr.

Nelson, David; conversion; ministers; hymns; Marion County, Mo.; Marion College; slavery; abolition; Bosely, John; Quincy, Ill.; Mission Institute; Hunter, Moses; Adelphia Theological Seminary

13

4

Jan. 1921

464-475

Robert T. Lincoln and James R. Doolittle : interesting political and historical letter from the James R. Doolittle private correspondence

Mowry, Duane

Lincoln, Robert T.; Doolittle, James R.; letters; president; election; 1860; Republican Party; nomination; Civil War; Reconstruction; Constitution; states' rights

13

4

Jan. 1921

476-503

The Indian border war of 1876

Capron, Cynthia J.

Capron, Thaddeus H.; letters; American Indians; Black Hills; Crook, George; Sheridan, Philip; Spotted Tail; Battle of Little Big Horn; Custer, George A.; Sitting Bull; Merritt, Wesley; Terry, Alfred H.; Battle of Slim Buttes

13

4

Jan. 1921

504-537

Congregational Church, Toulon, Illinois, 1846-1921

McKenzie, Clare

Toulon, Ill.; Toulon Congregational Church; pioneer life; slavery; temperance; music; Mormons; buildings; fire; ministers; Wright, Samuel G.; Dunn, Richard C.; McCord, Robert L.; Myers, John C.; Rogers, Samuel J.; Dixon, Julian H.; Francis, George H.; Rexford, George W.; Sutherland, John M; Stebbins, Charles E.; Parmiter, Charles A.; Warren, Treverton; Norton, Milton J.

13

4

Jan. 1921

538-544

Two pioneer doctors of Stark County, Illinois

Sandham, William R.

Stark County, Ill.; doctors; pioneer life; Hall, Thomas; Castle, Alfred

13

4

Jan. 1921

545-555

Morgan County soldiers' monument unveiled

 

Morgan County, Ill.; Civil War; soldiers; monuments; Rammelkamp, C. H.; Samuell, H. P.; Yates, Richard, Jr.

13

4

Jan. 1921

571-574

Captain George Wellington Streeter : battling hero of the "deestrick of Lake Michigan"

 

Streeter, George Wellington; obituaries; Chicago; Streeterville; District of Lake Michigan; saloons; Sunday closing

14

1-2

Apr.-July 1921

1-73

A history of the birds of Illinois

Musselman, T. E.

Illinois; birds; prairie; passenger pigeons; ducks; eagles; sparrows; starlings; migration; checklist

14

1-2

Apr.-July 1921

74-84

Lincoln as I knew him

Zane, Charles S.

Lincoln, Abraham; Springfield, Ill.; lawyers; law students; slavery; election; 1860; nomination; president

14

1-2

Apr.-July 1921

85-89

Abraham Lincoln in Congress, 1847-1849

Paullin, Charles O.

Lincoln, Abraham;  House of Representatives; boarding houses; Sprigg, Mrs. B.; bowling; Supreme Court; library; Lincoln, Mary Todd; Adams, John Quincy; death; funeral

14

1-2

Apr.-July 1921

90-91

Reminiscences of P. P. Grosboll

Beekman, Colby

Grosboll, P. P.; Rutledge, McGrady; Rutledge, Ann; Lincoln, Abraham; lawyers; cases

14

1-2

Apr.-July 1921

92-106

The pioneers of Macon County

Baker, N. M.

Macon County, Ill.; migration; Scotch-Irish; Germans; Pennsylvania; Virginia; North Carolina; South Carolina; pioneer life; churches; Cumberland Presbyterian Church; Methodist Church; schools; education; Mt. Zion Academy; farming; railroads; waterways

14

1-2

Apr.-July 1921

107-121

Pioneer days in Coles County, Illinois

Dole, Mrs. Joseph C.

Coles County, Ill.; pioneer life; prairie; Embarras River; Kaskaskia River; groves; settlers

14

1-2

Apr.-July 1921

122-127

A brief history of David McCoy and family

Van Patten, Edwin H.

McCoy, David; McCoy family; McCoy, Mary; migration; pioneer life; Sangamon County, Ill.

14

1-2

Apr.-July 1921

128-129

Will of David Shipman, a Revolutionary soldier buried in Tazewell County, Ill.

Spangler, Mrs. George, comp.

Shipman, David; will; Revolutionary War; soldiers; Tazewell County, Ill.

14

1-2

Apr.-July 1921

130

Estates of Revolutionary soldiers buried in Peoria County

Spangler, Mrs. George, comp.

Revolutionary War; soldiers; estates; Peoria County, Ill.

14

1-2

Apr.-July 1921

131-132

Will of Lemuel Gaylord, a Revolutionary soldier who is buried in Marshall County, Ill.

Spangler, Mrs. George, comp.

Gaylord, Lemuel; wills; soldiers; Revolutionary War; Marshall County, Ill.

14

1-2

Apr.-July 1921

133-134

Will of Barnet Houcks, a Revolutionary soldier of Maryland

Spangler, Mrs. George, comp.

Houck, Barnet; wills; soldiers; Revolutionary War

14

1-2

Apr.-July 1921

135-136

First will recorded in Tazewell County, Ill.

Spangler, Mrs. George, comp.

Tazewell County, Ill.; wills; Orendorff, Christian

14

1-2

Apr.-July 1921

137-160

Early marriages in Tazewell County

Spangler, Mrs. George, comp.

Tazewell County, Ill.; marriages

14

1-2

Apr.-July 1921

161-164

Camp Roosevelt--builder of boys

Ewertsen, Lillian

Camp Roosevelt; Chicago Board of Education; boys; camps; summer schools; military training

14

3-4

Oct. 1921-Jan. 1922

251-329

The Spoon River country

Chandler, Josephine Craven

Spoon River, Ill.; Masters, Edgar Lee; Spoon River Anthology; Sangamon River; Petersburg, Ill.; Masters, Squire D.; Masters, Lucinda; Lincoln, Abraham; Rutledge, Ann; Herndon, William H.; New Salem, Ill.; Lewistown, Ill.; War of 1812; land grants; French; American Indians; pioneer life; London Mills, Ill.; Bernadotte, Ill.; Strode, William; biologists; mussels; Davison, Dr.; Ross, Ossian M.; Phelps, William; Black Hawk; Black Hawk War; Walker, Newton; courthouse; fire; Douglas, Stephen A.; election; Senate; 1858; Proctor's Grove, Ill.; Ross, L. W.; homes; Civil War; Episcopal Church of St. James, Lewistown, Ill.; cemeteries

14

3-4

Oct. 1921-Jan. 1922

330-336

Some poets of Illinois

Brown, Stuart

Illinois; poets; poetry; Flint, Micah P.; Sarett, Lew; Taylor, B. F.; Bryant, John Howard; Stevens, Thomas Wood; Sandburg, Carl; Robertson, Donald; Jenks, M. H.; Patteson, Walter Lewis; Masters, Edgar Lee; Lindsay, Vachel

14

3-4

Oct. 1921-Jan. 1922

337-350

History of the Gallatin County salines

Myers, Jacob W.

Gallatin County, Ill.; Saline River; salt; salt springs; American Indians; pottery; Indiana Territory; Illinois Territory; Illinois; leasing; agents; wells; slavery; Temple, Broughton; Castle, Joseph J.

14

3-4

Oct. 1921-Jan. 1922

351-364

John Wanton Casey

Kretschmar, Ella Morris

Casey, John Wanton; migration; Illinois; Casey, Wanton; Casey, Elizabeth Morris; Pekin, Ill.; stores; warehouses; agricultural equipment; grain; steamboats; newspapers; articles; editorials

14

3-4

Oct. 1921-Jan. 1922

365-367

The old court house at Metamora presented to the state of Illinois

Irving, J. C.

Metamora, Ill.; courthouse; Lincoln, Abraham;  lawyers; judges

14

3-4

Oct. 1921-Jan. 1922

368-370

Dedication of old court house at Metamora as state Lincoln memorial

Fifer, Joseph W.

Metamora, Ill.; courthouse; memorials; Lincoln, Abraham; speeches

14

3-4

Oct. 1921-Jan. 1922

371-381

Thousands attend historical event : transfer of old Metamora court house to state has great setting

 

Metamora, Ill.; courthouse; Lincoln, Abraham; speeches; Ellwood, W. L.; Fifer, Joseph W.; Gillespie, Frank

14

3-4

Oct. 1921-Jan. 1922

382-385

Camp Butler

Kincaid, William L.

Camp Butler, Ill.; Civil War; army; hospitals; doctors; stewards; nurses

14

3-4

Oct. 1921-Jan. 1922

386-392

Early schools and churches of Edgar County, Illinois

Scott, Rose Moss

Edgar County, Ill.; Paris, Ill.; schools; public schools; Edgar Academy; churches; Presbyterian Church; Methodist Church; Baptist Church; Sunday schools

15

1-2

Apr.-July 1922

439-459

Promotion of historical study in America following the Civil War

Woodburn, James A.

United States; history; study; research; American Historical Association; White, Andrew D.; Adams, Henry; Adams, Herbert B.

15

1-2

Apr.-July 1922

460-476

In the ranks at Shiloh

Stillwell, Leander

Stillwell, Leander; memoirs; Battle of Shiloh; Civil War; army; Union; 61st Illinois Infantry

15

1-2

Apr.-July 1922

477-500

Springfield society before the Civil War

Brown, Caroline Owsley

Springfield, Ill.; social life; politicians; Illinois State Legislature; Edwards, Ninian; Lincoln, Mary Todd; homes; furniture; weddings; Matteson, Joel Aldrich; dancing; music; Civil War

15

1-2

Apr.-July 1922

501-503

The story of the runaway balloon

 

balloons; Illinois State Fair; Centralia, Ill.; 1858; balloonists; Wilson, Samuel; Harvey, Martha Ann; Harvey, David

15

1-2

Apr.-July 1922

503-506

The ascension of the two Harvey children

Wilson, Samuel

balloons; Illinois State Fair; Centralia, Ill.; 1858; balloonists; Wilson, Samuel; Harvey, Martha Ann; Harvey, David

15

1-2

Apr.-July 1922

507-509

How Abraham Lincoln received the news of his nomination for president

Kidd, T. W. S.

Lincoln, Abraham; election; 1860; president; Republican Party; nomination; baseball; Springfield, Ill.

15

1-2

Apr.-July 1922

510-518

Carthage College celebrates its diamond jubilee June 6, 1921 : Hillsboro College

Miller, Amos

Carthage College; Lutheran College of the Far West; Hillsboro College; Springer, Francis

15

1-2

Apr.-July 1922

519-523

Addresses made by General John J. Pershing, U. S. A., and Secretary of War Newton D. Baker to officers and soldiers of the 33rd Division in the field, Luxembourg, April 22, 1919

Pershing, John J.;

Baker, Newton D.

World War I; army; soldiers; 33rd Division; speeches; Pershing, John J.; Baker, Newton D.

15

1-2

Apr.-July 1922

524-530

Original letters--a description of the Illinois country

Dobell, William

Dobell, William; letters; Coveney, Lucy Dobell; pioneer life; farming; Albion, Ill.

15

1-2

Apr.-July 1922

531-538

Original letters : A. S. French to David W. Harrower

French, Alvin S.

French, Alvin S.; letters; Civil War; army; Harrower, David W.; slavery; Siege of Vicksburg

15

1-2

Apr.-July 1922

539-540

Circular letter by Gov. Ninian Edwards

Edwards, Ninian

Edwards, Ninian; Illinois Territory; governor; Illinois; statehood; Senate

15

3-4

Oct. 1922-Jan. 1923

579-591

The history of the Underground Railroad of McDonough County, Illinois

Blazer, D. N.

Underground Railroad; McDonough County, Ill.; Macomb, Ill.; slavery; abolition; Allison, Andrew; Allison, Harmon; Blazer, James; Blazer, John; Hale, John P.; Allison, Sarah

15

3-4

Oct. 1922-Jan. 1923

592-599

The beginning of the German immigration in the Middle West

Myers, Jacob W.

Germans; immigration; 18th century; Pennsylvania; 19th century; Middle West; liberalism

15

3-4

Oct. 1922-Jan. 1923

600-603

The Illinois State Capitol grounds

Palmer, Mrs. John M.

Springfield, Ill.; Illinois State Capitol; site; Mather, Thomas; Mather, Hannah Lamb

15

3-4

Oct. 1922-Jan. 1923

604-609

A pioneer woman of Illinois

Buck, Julia Ann

Bond, Nancy Stice; biography; migration; Madison County, Ill.; Terry, Andrew; Greenbush, Ill.; Bond, John C.

15

3-4

Oct. 1922-Jan. 1923

610-621

Major John Crain Bond

Hanley, Sarah Bond

Bond, John Crain; biography; Bond family; Alabama; migration; Galena, Ill.; election; president; 1860; Lincoln, Abraham; Douglas, Stephen A.; secession

15

3-4

Oct. 1922-Jan. 1923

622-639

Dedication of granite and bronze monument to the soldier dead of Fulton County, Ill., November 12, 1922

 

Fulton County, Ill.; Canton, Ill.; World War I; monuments

15

3-4

Oct. 1922-Jan. 1923

640-663

Civil War diary of Patrick H. White

Boos, J. E., contributor

White, Patrick H.; diaries; Civil War; army; Union; First Illinois Light Artillery; Battle of Fredericktown; Battle of Belmont; Battle of Fort Donelson; Battle of Shiloh; Battle of Corinth; Yazoo River, Miss.; Sherman, William Tecumseh

15

3-4

Oct. 1922-Jan. 1923

664-669

General Grant's first day's march

Bainum, Noah C.

Grant, Ulysses S.; Civil War; army; Union; 21st Illinois Infantry; Riddle Hill, Ill.; Pearce, Israel F.; Short, Caleb; Ewell, Charles

15

3-4

Oct. 1922-Jan. 1923

670-676

Lewis Bayley, one of La Salle County's first settlers and Augustus Bailey, La Salle County's first born male white child

Sandham, William R.

Bayley, Lewis; La Salle County, Ill.; settlers; ancestry; migration; Ohio; Bayley, Betsy Butler; covered wagons; La Salle County, Ill.; pioneer life; Potawatomi Indians; Shabbona; Bailey, Augustus; Stark County, Ill.; farming; Bailey, Catharine Smith; Davidson, William Thompson; doctors; Fulton County, Ill.

15

3-4

Oct. 1922-Jan. 1923

677-678

History of St. John Baptist Episcopal Church, Wabash County, Illinois

Keen, Effie J.

St. John Baptist Church; Mount Carmel, Ill.; ministers

15

3-4

Oct. 1922-Jan. 1923

679-687-

Asahel North -- biographical sketch and diary

 

North, Asahel; diaries; biography; travel; horseback; Illinois Territory; 1816

15

3-4

Oct. 1922-Jan. 1923

688-691

True history of the almanac used by Abraham Lincoln in the famous trial of Duff Armstrong

Ferguson, Duncan

Lincoln, Abraham; Armstrong, Duff; trials; murder; almanacs; moon

15

3-4

Oct. 1922-Jan. 1923

692-703

Albert J. Hopkins, lawyer and statesman

Shaw, James

Hopkins, Albert J.; Republican Party; Kane County, Ill.; state's attorney; lawyers; jury trials; cross-examination; House of Representatives; Senate; Panama Canal; legislation

15

3-4

Oct. 1922-Jan. 1923

704-713

Life and services of William H. Holden, 1843-1922

Goodspeed, C. G. B.

Holden, William H.; Holden, Charles N.; obituaries; Chicago; education; lawyers; real estate law; Second Baptist Church; Baptist Union Theological Seminary; University of Chicago; Young Men's Christian Association; Chicago Law Institute

16

1-2

Apr.-July 1923

1-19

The northwestern career of Jefferson Davis

Quaife, Milo M.

Davis, Jefferson; army; Fort Crawford, Wis.; Prairie du Chien, Wis.; Fort Winnebago, Wis.; Black Hawk War; logging; Taylor, Zachary; Davis, Sarah Taylor; Civil War; Confederacy; 1st Wisconsin Cavalry

16

1-2

Apr.-July 1923

20-42

A collection of letters from Lyman Trumbull to John M. Palmer, 1854-1858

Palmer, George Thomas, comp. and ed.

Trumbull, Lyman; Palmer, John M.; letters; Kansas-Nebraska Act; slavery; Democratic Party; Whig Party; Illinois; Senate; president; election; 1856; Republican Party; Know-Nothing Party; Fillmore, Millard; Douglas, Stephen A.

16

1-2

Apr.-July 1923

42-57

Congregationalism in Springfield

Piper, John H.

Congregational Church; Illinois; Home Missionary Society of Connecticut; American Home Missionary Society; Springfield, Ill.; Bergen, J. G.; First Congregational Church of Springfield; ministers; McLean, John Knox; Plymouth Church; Second Congregational Church; Congregational Home Missionary Society; Wallace, George R.

16

1-2

Apr.-July 1923

58-62

New York and the fusion movement of 1860

Sears, Louis Martin

president; election; 1860; Douglas, Stephen A.; Bell, John; Democratic Party; Whig Party; Hunt, Washington; Belmont, August

16

1-2

Apr.-July 1923

63-72

Hiram Rountree

Strange, A. T.

Rountree, Hiram; judges; Bowling Green, Ky.; War of 1812; army; Edwardsville, Ill.; Land Office; Montgomery County, Ill.; organization; courts; courthouse; Black Hawk War

16

1-2

Apr.-July 1923

73-77

A pioneer teacher -- Helen J. Buss

Hornbaker, Esther Perry

Buss, Helen J.; teachers; education; Illinois; Wilmington, Ill.; Will County, Ill.

16

1-2

Apr.-July 1923

78-84

The departed glories of old Palmyra -- when the courthouse for Cook County cost but 6-1/4 cents per year

Keen, D. E.

Illinois Territory; Edwards County, Ill; Palmyra, Ill.; Gard, Seth; Keen, Peter; Hazleton, Gervase; Compton, Levi; Waggoner, John; county seat; courthouse; Wabash County, Ill.; Centerville, Ill.

16

1-2

Apr.-July 1923

85-103

The significance of Yorktown

MacDowell, Charles H.

Revolutionary War; surrender; North America; Great Britain; colonization; Articles of Confederation; United States; Cornwallis, Edward

16

1-2

Apr.-July 1923

104-110

The Spanish-American War

Carlstrom, Oscar E.

Spanish-American War; army; Illinois; Illinois National Guard; veterans; anniversaries

16

1-2

Apr.-July 1923

111-116

John McMurray Lansden

Smith, Thomas W.

Lansden, John McMurray; ancestry; lawyers; Cairo, Ill.; historians; Lansden, Effie Smith

16

1-2

Apr.-July 1923

117-128

The pioneers of Macon County and the Civil War

Baker, N. M.

Macon County, Ill.; migration; Southern States; slavery; abolitionism; Civil War; army; recruitment; Union; Confederacy; Knights of the Golden Circle; Union League

16

1-2

Apr.-July 1923

129-133

Marriages performed by Rev. N. M. Baker in Macon County, Illinois -- 1861-1921

 

Baker, N. M.; ministers; marriages; Macon County, Ill.

16

1-2

Apr.-July 1923

134-140

Some sidelights on the early history of Stark County, Illinois

Jackson, William H.

Stark County, Ill.; LaSalle County, Ill.; Pontiac; Potawatomi Indians; Illinois Indians; trails; settlements; Spoon River, Ill.; Prince, Daniel; Essex, Isaac B.; pioneer life; education

16

1-2

Apr.-July 1923

141-146

A story of the early days in Springfield -- and a poem

 

Springfield, Ill.; Illinois; capital; settlers; Conkling, Mercy Levering; Conkling, Alice; Lincoln, Mary Todd; streets; wagons; drays; poems

16

1-2

Apr.-July 1923

147-150

Professor Evarts B. Greene goes to Columbia University

 

Greene, Evarts Boutell; professors; history; University of Illinois; Columbia University; Illinois State Historical Society

16

1-2

Apr.-July 1923

151-152

Evarts Boutell Greene

Brown, Stuart

Greene, Evarts Boutell; professors; history; University of Illinois; Illinois State Historical Society

16

1-2

Apr.-July 1923

153

Dinner for Professor Greene at the University of Illinois

 

Greene, Evarts Boutell; professors; history; University of Illinois; Columbia University

16

1-2

Apr.-July 1923

154-156

Mrs. Paul Selby

Weber, Jessie Palmer

Selby, Mary Jane Smith; teachers; Mount Holyoke Seminary; Springfield, Ill.; Bettie Stuart Institute; Hitchcock, Henry S.; Selby, Paul

16

1-2

Apr.-July 1923

157-183

Recollections of a little girl in the "forties" with apologies for a somewhat lengthy sequel

Selby, Mrs. Paul

Selby, Mary Jane Smith; memoirs; Smith, Porter; Smith, Mary Topliff; migration; pioneer life; Quincy, Ill.; industry; social life; Wood, John; American Indians; Mission Institute; immigration; Germans; cholera; fashions; education; schools; Civil War; literary societies; women

16

3-4

Oct. 1923-Jan. 1924

247-673

Life of Stephen A. Douglas

Stevens, Frank E.

Douglas, Stephen A.; biography; ancestry; law; Illinois; Jacksonville, Ill.; Winchester, Ill.; Democratic Party; Whig Party; Jackson, Andrew; Morgan County, Ill.; state's attorney; Illinois House of Representatives; Lincoln, Abraham; internal improvements; Illinois and Michigan Canal; slavery; Springfield, Ill.; land office; Secretary of State; Field, Alexander Pope; McClernand, John A.; Illinois Supreme Court; slavery; House of Representatives; Browning, Orville H.; Mormons; Nauvoo, Ill.; Oregon; Texas; expansion; Calhoun, John C.; Compromise of 1850; Senate; Fugitive Slave Act; Kansas-Nebraska Act; Pierce, Franklin; Buchanan, James; Lecompton Constitution; Dred Scott decision; Republican Party; elections; Senate; 1858; debates; president; 1860; secession; Civil War; Douglas, Martha Martin; Douglas, Robert M.; Douglas, Stephen A., Jr.; Douglas, Adele Cutts; Chicago; University of Chicago; land; Fitch, Graham N.; Oakenwald; monuments

17

1-2

Apr.-July 1924

1-20

Great dates and deeds of Illinois

Shannon, Frederick F.

Illinois; Marquette, Jacques; La Salle, Robert Cavelier; Duque, Pierre; Clark, George Rogers; Northwest Territory; Illinois Territory; statehood; Fort Dearborn; Wells, William; Black Partridge; Lincoln, Abraham; Chicago; Lovejoy, Elijah P.; Douglas, Stephen A.; Chicago Fire; World's Columbian Exposition; education; transportation; World War I; Lowden, Frank O.

17

1-2

Apr.-July 1924

21-143

History of Headquarters Company, One Hundred and Forty-Ninth Field Artillery, from June 30, 1917 to May 10, 1919

Gilmore, William E.

World War I; army; 149th Field Artillery; Fort Sheridan, Ill.; Camp Mills, N.Y.; USS President Lincoln; Saint Nazaire, France; Camp de Coetquidain, France; railroads; Luneville, France; Baccarat, France; L'Esperance, France; Champagne, France; Chateau-Thierry, France; Aisne-Marne Offensive; St. Mihiel Offensive; Essey, France; Pannes, France; Meuse-Argonne offensive; Armistice; Germany; occupation

17

1-2

Apr.-July 1924

144-150

Professor Jonathan Baldwin Turner and the Granville Convention

Inman, Dean M.

Turner, Jonathan Baldwin; Granville Convention; land grants; universities; agriculture; industry; Morrill Land Grant Act; markers

17

1-2

Apr.-July 1924

151-156

Early travel and methods of transportation in Illinois

Haven, Alice

Illinois; travel; transportation; horses; horseback riding; covered wagons; flatboats; stagecoaches; railroads; Underground Railroad

17

1-2

Apr.-July 1924

157-164

Some views of President Lincoln held by the London Times, 1861-1865

Wilgus, A. Curtis

Lincoln, Abraham; president; newspapers; London Times; editorials; Delane, John Thadeus; Civil War; slavery

17

1-2

Apr.-July 1924

165-169

The founders of Quincy, Illinois -- John Wood, Willard Keyes, Jeremiah Rose

Richardson, William A., Jr.

Quincy, Ill.; migration; pioneers; Wood, John; Keyes, Willard; Rose, Jeremiah

17

1-2

Apr.-July 1924

170-177

Reminiscences of Rock Creek Presbyterian Church and community

Bone, David M.

Rock Creek Presbyterian Church; Menard County, Ill.; centennial; Berry, John M.; circuit riders; camp meetings; revivals; Lansden, Abner;

17

1-2

Apr.-July 1924

178-181

Centennial anniversary of the Kane Baptist Church

Williams, Anna K.

Kane Baptist Church; Kane, Ill.; centennial; pageant

17

1-2

Apr.-July 1924

182-195

Some notes on the founders of the Presbyterian church and the other pioneers of Thorn Grove

Caldwell, Edward

Thorn Grove Presbyterian Church; Thorn Grove, Ill.; Bloom, Ill.; McEldowney family; Wallace family; Caldwell family; Hood family; Caldwell, Joseph; Vannest, Addy; Morrison, J. W.; immigration; Northern Ireland; Canada; Caldwell, Jane Morehead

17

1-2

Apr.-July 1924

196-203

Ninian Edwards

Norton, W. G.

Edwards, Ninian; education; migration; Kentucky; lawyers; judges; Illinois Territory; Illinois; governor; senator; ambassador; Mexico

17

1-2

Apr.-July 1924

204

Copy of an original letter of Simeon Francis to Andrew McCormick

Francis, Simeon

Francis, Simeon; McCormick, Andrew; letters; Illinois General Assembly; counties

17

1-2

Apr.-July 1924

205-210

The centennial anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, celebrated in Springfield, January 25, 1859

 

Burns, Robert; centennial; Springfield, Ill.

17

1-2

Apr.-July 1924

211-217

History of Au Sable Grove Presbyterian Church

Howell, Mae

Au Sable Grove Presbyterian Church, Yorkville, Ill.; centennial

17

3

Oct. 1924

333-351

John Locke Scripps, Lincoln's campaign biographer

Dyche, Grace Locke Scripps, compiler

Scripps, John Locke; Scripps family; McKendree College; professors; lawyers; Rushville, Ill.; Chicago; Chicago Tribune; editors; Lincoln, Abraham; campaign; 1860; biography; postmaster

17

3

Oct. 1924

352-368

An episode of the Civil War : a romance of coincidence

Chandler, Josephine Craven

Civil War; Union; army; Roberts, Edward R.; Strickland, Edward P.; 7th Illinois Infantry; 114th Infantry; Florence, Ala.; prisoners of war; Camp Oglethorpe; escape

17

3

Oct. 1924

369-380

Many contests for the county seat of Adams County, Ill.

Richardson, W. A., Jr.

Adams County, Ill.; county seat; Quincy, Ill.; Columbus, Ill.; Marquette County, Ill.; Highland County, Ill.; Coatsburg, Ill.

17

3

Oct. 1924

381-397

Shabonee

Walters, Alta P.

Shabbona; Illinois; Potawatomi Indians; settlers; Sauganash; Caldwell, Billy; Tecumseh; Illinois Territory; Illinois; Black Hawk War; treaties; land; reservations; Missouri

17

3

Oct. 1924

398-410

Gideon Blackburn, the founder of Blackburn University, Carlinville, Illinois

Rinaker, Thomas

Blackburn, Gideon; Blackburn University; Presbyterian Church; ministers; colleges; Illinois; Illinois College

17

3

Oct. 1924

411-416

A story of electric pioneering

Brown, E. L.

electricity; lighting; transmission; power plant; Elmwood, Ill.; Yates City, Ill.

17

3

Oct. 1924

417-427

The Fine Arts Building in Jackson Park, Chicago, and a brief account of some of the World's Fair architects : correction of a statement made in the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society

Weber, Jessie Palmer

World's Columbian Exposition; architects; Fine Arts Building; Atwood, Charles B.; Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, Burnham, Daniel H.; Root, John W.; Olmsted, Frederic Law; Hunt, Richard M.; Peabody and Stearns; McKim, Mead and White; Post, George B.; Van Brunt and Howe; Beman, S. S.; Adler, Dankmar; Sullivan, Louis; Cobb, Henry Ives; Burling and Whitehouse; Jenney, William Le Baron; Post, George; McKim, Charles

17

3

Oct. 1924

428-435

Jonathan Colby, pioneer of 1834 in Menard County, Ill.

Colby, Lydia

Colby, Jonathan; Colby, Lydia Conover; Colby family; migration; pioneer life; Menard County, Ill; New Salem, Ill.

17

3

Oct. 1924

436-439

Matthew Orr, pioneer in Henry County, Illinois, 1852

Colby, Lydia

Orr, Matthew; immigration; Ireland; Henry County, Ill.; pioneer life; Orr family

17

3

Oct. 1924

440-445

Sixty-sixth wedding anniversary of Daniel Gill and Lucinda Pyle Gill, DuQuoin, Illinois

Kimmel, H. E.

Gill, Daniel; Gill, Lucinda Pyle; wedding anniversaries; Gill family; Pyle family; DuQuoin, Ill.

17

3

Oct. 1924

446-495

Marie Lefrette : a story of Kaskaskia

McConnel, J. L.

Kaskaskia, Ill.; French; fiction

17

3

Oct. 1924

496-497

Island Grove Methodist Church, Sangamon County, celebrates its hundredth anniversary, August 12, 1923

 

Island Grove, Ill. Methodist Church; centennial

17

4

Jan. 1925

551-564

The changing West

Larson, Laurence M.

West; frontier; Turner, Frederick Jackson; plains; migration; pioneer life; immigration; Europe; ethnic groups; religion; Americanization

17

4

Jan. 1925

565-604

Early trails and tides of travel in the lead mine and Blackhawk country

Burchard, Edward L.

Illinois; Wisconsin; Rock River; trails; Wisconsin River; Mississippi River; American Indians; buffalo; Great Sauk Trail; French; fur traders; Prairie du Chien, Wis.; Kellogg Trail; Long, Stephen; expeditions; Chicago-Dubuque Highway; Pecatonica Trail; Kinzie, John; Kinzie, Juliette; lead mines; Galena, Ill.; Black Hawk; Black Hawk War; U.S. Land Survey; stage coaches; railroads; roads

17

4

Jan. 1925

605-610

My first Illinois ancestor

Montgomery, Hope

Tuttle, David; migration; travel; Illinois; pioneer life

17

4

Jan. 1925

611

Introductory note [to autobiography of Clarissa Emely Gear Hobbs]

Hobbs, Richard Gear

Hobbs, Clarissa Emely Gear; autobiography; Hobbs, Richard Gear

17

4

Jan. 1925

612-714

Autobiography of Clarissa Emely Gear Hobbs

Hobbs, Clarissa Emely Gear

Hobbs, Clarissa Emely Gear; autobiography; Gear family; ancestry; migration; Illinois; pioneer life; Alton, Ill.; Galena, Ill.; lead; mining; farming; Black Hawk War; Hobbs, James; doctors; Joliet, Ill.; slavery; Lincoln, Abraham; Civil War; Union; army; hospitals; Battle of Fort Donelson; Battle of Shiloh; Grant, Ulysses S.; Methodist Church; ministers; Springfield, Mo.

17

4

Jan. 1925

715-723

John Tillson

Strange, A. T.

Tillson, John; migration; Illinois; land office; surveyors; Edwardsville, Ill.; Montgomery County, Ill.; Tillson, Christina Holmes; Hillsboro, Ill.; Hillsboro Academy; Quincy, Ill.

17

4

Jan. 1925

724-727

Captain David Dewolf : a California gold seeker in 1849, and an officer from Illinois in the Civil War

Sandham, William R.

Dewolf, David; California; gold rush; railroads; construction workers; farming; Civil War; 47th Illinois Infantry; Battle of Corinth

17

4

Jan. 1925

728-729

New marker dedicated on site at Palermo, Ill., of signing of peace treaty by Col. George Croghan and Chief Pontiac, July 18, 1765

Scott, Rose Moss

Croghan, George; Pontiac; British; American Indians; treaties; markers; Palermo, Ill.

18

1

Apr. 1925

1-4

Jacksonville centennial celebration

Black, Carl E.

Jacksonville, Ill.; centennial

18

1

Apr. 1925

5-39

Jacksonville and Morgan County : an historical review

Heinl, Frank J.

Jacksonville, Ill.; Morgan County, Ill.; settlers; population; business; churches; slavery; abolition; Underground Railroad; Chinn, Marcus; Chinn, Lucy; slaves; education; public schools; colleges; academies; temperance; secret societies; newspapers; politics; Whig Party; Democratic Party; Douglas, Stephen A.; Duncan, Joseph; governor; Illinois; Republican Party; Lincoln, Abraham; Civil War

18

1

Apr. 1925

39-75

The memoirs of John Henry : a pioneer of Morgan County

Rammelkamp, C. H., ed.

Henry, John; memoirs; Jacksonville, Ill.; pioneer life; settlers; printers; bookbinders; newspapers; politics; Whig Party; Democratic Party; Illinois; Illinois State Legislature; Congress; House of Representatives; railroads; education; mental hospitals; farming; Strawn, Jacob; cattle farming; Duncan, Joseph; governor

18

1

Apr. 1925

76-88

The first settlers in Morgan County : the Kelloggs and Charles Collins

Heinl, Frank J.

Morgan County, Ill.; Kellogg family; Collins, Charles; Kellogg, Seymour; Kellogg, Elisha; War of 1812; migration; settlers; pioneer life; railroads; Illinois

18

1

Apr. 1925

89-100

Some reminiscences of my father, Murray McConnel

McConnel, George Murray

McConnel, Murray; migration; travel; flatboats; hunters; trappers; Missouri; farming; Missouri Compromise; Illinois; Jacksonville, Ill.; lawyers; Illinois State Legislature; Douglas, Stephen A.; Pierce, Franklin; Department of the Treasury; auditor; slavery; abolition; Constitution; Thirteenth Amendment; railroads; construction

18

1

Apr. 1925

101-135

The coming of the Portuguese

Poage, George Rawlings

Madeira; Kalley, Robert Reid; Free Church; Scotland; missionaries; Bible; translations; Hewitson, William Hepburn; riots; immigration; Trinidad; Jacksonville, Ill.

18

1

Apr. 1925

136-141

The organization of the First Presbyterian Church in Morgan County

Scott, Franklin D.

Morgan County, Ill.; First Presbyterian Church; Brich, John; Ellis, John Millot; Leeper, John; Posey, William C.

18

1

Apr. 1925

142-158

Minutes of the session of the First Presbyterian Church in Morgan County, 1827-1830

Scott, Franklin D.

Morgan County, Ill.; First Presbyterian Church; organization; session; minutes; Brich, John; Leeper, John; Posey, William C.; Ellis, John Millot

18

1

Apr. 1925

159-174

Progress in the Illinois Conference 1824-1924

Harker, J. R.

Methodist Church; Illinois Conference; centennial; education; McKendree College; Ebenezer Manual Labor School; women; Illinois Conference Female College; Illinois Wesleyan University; African Americans; public schools; Wesley Foundation

18

1

Apr. 1925

175-194

Origin of our state charitable institutions

Black, Carl E.

Illinois; Jacksonville, Ill.; social welfare; education; Ladies' Education Society; deaf; blind; feeble minded; institutions; mental illness; mental hospitals; Dix, Dorothea; Illinois; Illinois State Legislature

18

1

Apr. 1925

196-202

The Ladies' Education Society of Jacksonville, Ill. : founded October 4, 1833

Moore, Clara

Jacksonville, Ill.; societies; women; education; scholarships; Ladies' Education Society

18

1

Apr. 1925

203-204

The Club : fiftieth anniversary of The Club, according to the Jacksonville Journal of October 10, 1911

Moore, Ensley

Jacksonville, Ill.; literary societies; The Club; anniversaries

18

1

Apr. 1925

205-208

The Literary Union

Wood, William Dustin

Jacksonville, Ill.; men; Literary Union; literary societies

18

1

Apr. 1925

209-212

The Jacksonville Sorosis organized

Bassett, Phebe D.

Jacksonville, Ill.; Jacksonville Sorosis; women; literary societies; science; public affairs; Alcott, Bronson

18

1

Apr. 1925

213-217

Illinois College at the half century

Wood, William Dustin

Illinois College; anniversaries; faculty; students

18

1

Apr. 1925

218-227

The Bryants at Jacksonville

Heinl, Frank J.

Bryant family; Bureau County, Ill.; Bryant, John Howard; poems; Bryant, William Cullen; travel; Jacksonville, Ill.

18

1

Apr. 1925

228-256

Pioneer women of Morgan County

Osborne, Georgia L.

Morgan County, Ill.; Cahokia, Ill.; Kaskaskia, Ill.; French, Compt, Madame le; Morrison, Mrs. Robert; Revolutionary War; Edgar, Mrs. John; Ellis, Frances Brard; women; education; Jacksonville Female Academy; Tillson, Christiana Holmes; pioneer life; Carter, Julia Wolcott; Bancroft, Emily Adams; Duncan Home; memorials; Daughters of the American Revolution

18

2

July 1925

259-349

General Horace Capron, 1804-1885

Starr, Merritt

Capron, Horace; Capron family; Texas; Liepan Indians; Comanche Indians; farming; Illinois; Civil War; 14th Illinois Cavalry; generals; United States Commissioner of Agriculture; agriculture; advisors; Japan; art

18

2

July 1925

350-362

Centennial of the visit of General Lafayette to Shawneetown

 

Lafayette, Marquis de; travel; 1825; Shawneetown, Ill.; Kaskaskia, Ill.; Coles, Edward; centennial; program

18

2

July 1925

363-366

Address of Judge James Hall upon the occasion of the visit to Shawneetown of General Lafayette and his party, May 14, 1825

Hall, James

Lafayette, Marquis de; Revolutionary War; United States; independence; travel; Shawneetown, Ill.; 1825; speeches

18

2

July 1925

367-382

Address on the occasion of the observance of the centenary of the official visit of General Lafayette to Illinois

Doyle, Cornelius J.

Lafayette, Marquis de; Revolutionary War; France; travel; United States; 1825; Kaskaskia, Ill.; Shawneetown, Ill.; centennial; speeches

18

2

July 1925

383-389

The visit to Moline, Illinois of Capt. Francis Jeffrey Dickens, son of Charles Dickens, the English novelist

Alsterlund, Louise Jamieson

Dickens, Francis Jeffrey; Dickens, Charles; Northwest Mounted Police; travel; Jamieson, A. W.; Moline, Ill.; death; burial; letters; Jamieson, Guy; Jamieson, Norman; Dickens, Charles, Jr.

18

2

July 1925

390-392

The visit to Illinois of Charles Dickens, 1842; of his sons, Francis Jeffrey Dickens, in 1886, and Alfred Tennyson Dickens, in 1911 : what the Illinois State Historical Society has published about these visits

Weber, Jessie Palmer

Dickens, Charles; Dickens, Francis Jeffrey; Dickens, Alfred Tennyson; travel; Illinois; death; burial

18

2

July 1925

393-406

Pen pictures of the central part of the city of Quincy as it was when Douglas and Lincoln met in debate

Richardson, William A., Jr.

Quincy, Ill.; buildings; stores; business district; residents

18

2

July 1925

407-415

Edmund J. James, 1855-1925

Weber, Jessie Palmer

James, Edmund J.; educators; University of Illinois; Northwestern University; president; Evanston Township High School; principal; University of Pennsylvania; American Academy of Political and Social Science; University of Chicago, University Extension Division; Illinois State Historical Library; Illinois State Historical Society

18

2

July 1925

416-421

The coming of the Ingalls family to Illinois in 1834

Dixon, Mary F. C.

Ingalls family; Ingals family; Ingalls, Henry Lawrence; Ingalls, Charles Francis; migration; travel; diaries

18

2

July 1925

422-432

The John Murphy family as pioneers in Illinois

Murphy, A. F.

Murphy, John; Murphy family; Murphy, A. F.; memoirs; migration; pioneer life; Fulton County, Ill.; Henry County, Ill.; steamboats; farming; education

18

2

July 1925

433-435

Thomas Gregg : historian, editor and publisher

Gordon, J. A.

Gregg, Thomas; Hancock County, Ill.; newspapers; editors; historians

18

2

July 1925

436-439

General Henry Knox : after whom Knox County, Illinois was named

Sandham, William R.

Knox, Henry; Revolutionary War; generals; Washington, George; Secretary of War; Knox County, Ill.

18

2

July 1925

440-442

General Hugh Mercer, after whom Mercer County, Illinois, was named

Sandham, William R.

Mercer, Hugh; French and Indian War; Revolutionary War; generals; Washington, George;  Mercer County, Ill.

18

2

July 1925

443-445

General Philip Schuyler, after whom Schuyler County, Illinois, was named

Sandham, William R.

Schuyler, Philip; French and Indian War; Revolutionary War; generals; Senate; Schuyler County, Ill.

18

3

Oct. 1925

503-574

Eric Janson and the Bishop Hill colony

Erdahl, Sivert

Bishop Hill, Ill.; Janson, Eric; Olson, Olof; Olson, Jonas; Lutheran Church; Jansonism; Sweden; immigration; United States; Hedstrom, Jonas; Methodist Church; Janson, Sophia Pollock; Root, John; Root, Charlotte Janson; Berglund, Anders; Johnson, Olof; communism; Hedin, Nils; celibacy; business; finance

18

3

Oct. 1925

575-635

Address at the Jacksonville centennial, October 6, 1925

Yates, Richard [Jr.]

Jacksonville, Ill.; centennial; speeches; Yates, Richard; markers; Douglas, Stephen A.; Lincoln, Abraham; Webster, Daniel; Bryan, William Jennings; Bryan, Silas L.; Hardin, John J.; Grierson, Benjamin; Grant, Ulysses S.; Jackson, Andrew; Morgan, Daniel; Illinois College

18

3

Oct. 1925

636-657

A voice from the past : letters of Jean Girault relating to the Illinois country

Roberts, H. W.

Girault, Jean; letters; Clark, William; Illinois; land; Spain; Clark, George Rogers; army; interpreters; Revolutionary War; Kaskaskia, Ill.; Vincennes, Ind.; state's attorney; Rogers, John

18

3

Oct. 1925

658-667

The ringers of the Liberty Bell

Alexander, Mary D.

Liberty Bell; ringers; Kelley, Edward; Edward, David; McNair, Andrew; Lehre, Jacob; Hurry, William; Bowling, Thomas; Declaration of Independence

18

3

Oct. 1925

668-685

Personal recollections of the early settlement of Carlinville, Illinois

Wright, Mary Byram

Wright, Mary Byram Otwell; memoirs; Otwell, Stith M.; pioneer life; Carlinville, Ill.; Methodist Church

18

3

Oct. 1925

686-688

A sketch of the life and character of Mrs. Mary B. (Otwell) Wright

Wright, Emma Day

Wright, Mary Byram Otwell; biography; Methodists; Otwell, Stith M.; Wright, Ruel

18

3

Oct. 1925

689-693

Early settlements of Illinois -- some recollections of Harriet Baker Winston

Winston, Harriet Baker

Illinois; settlers; Baker, George Coon; Baker, Elizabeth Miller; Fort Edwards, Ill.; pioneer life

18

3

Oct. 1925

694-720

Somonauk United Presbyterian Church

 

Somonauk United Presbyterian Church; markers; log cabins; DeKalb County, Ill.; McMichael, T. H.; migration; settlers; Beveridge, George; Schmidt, O. L.; slavery; Underground Railroad; Fugitive Slave Act

18

3

Oct. 1925

721-725

Model of the Piasa Bird is found in French museum

Long, H. W.

Piasa Bird; petroglyphs; American Indians; Mongolians; sculptures; Potiers, France; museums; Marquette, Jacques

18

3

Oct. 1925

726-742

Tablet erected in Court House Park, Pittsfield, Pike County, Illinois, in commemoration of Lincoln and Douglas, and Nicolay and Hay

 

Lincoln, Abraham; Douglas, Stephen A.; Nicolay, John G.; Hay, John; markers; Pittsfield, Ill.; speeches; Thompson, Jesse M.; Rees, Thomas

18

4

Jan. 1926

779-792

Days in the Lincoln country

Masters, Edgar Lee

Masters, Edgar Lee; memoirs; Masters, Thomas; Black Hawk War; Morgan County, Ill.; Menard County, Ill.; lawsuits; Anno, William; Lincoln, Abraham; Masters, Hardin Wallace; slavery; Kansas-Nebraska Act; Petersburg, Ill.; Herndon, William H.; Graham, Mentor

18

4

Jan. 1926

793-969

Diary of Colonel William Camm, 1861 to 1865

Haskell, Fritz, comp. and ed.

Camm, William; diaries; Civil War; 14th Illinois Infantry; Battle of Shiloh; Battle of Metamora; Siege of Vicksburg; Battle of Meridian; Battle of Bentonville

18

4

Jan. 1926

970-980

Biography of Dad Joe Smith

Coulter, Mrs. Frank

Smith, Dad Joe; biography; Smith family; pioneer life; migration; Kentucky; Illinois

18

4

Jan. 1926

981-990

Pioneer life among the Indians

Young, Ella Smith

Smith, Dad Joe; pioneer life; American Indians; Illinois; Black Hawk; Black Hawk War

18

4

Jan. 1926

992-998

Reminiscences of Dad Joe

Coulter, Catherine

Smith, Dad Joe; Coulter, Catherine Smith; migration; Kentucky; Illinois; pioneer life.; Peoria, Ill.; Galena, Ill.

18

4

Jan. 1926

998-1000

Peoria and Galena State Road : N. Matson's reminiscences of Bureau Co., P. 291-2-3

Matson, N.

Smith, Dad Joe; roads; Peoria and Galena State Road; construction; commissioner; Illinois

18

4

Jan. 1926

1000-1001

Dad Joe Trail

 

Smith, Dad Joe; roads; Illinois; Dad Joe Trail; Dixon, Ill.; Princeton, Ill.; Lincoln Highway; Ivy Trail

18

4

Jan. 1926

1001-1003

Young Dad Joe's ride

 

Smith, Dad Joe; Black Hawk War; dispatches; Dixon, Ill.; Fort Wilburn, Ill.; Reynolds, John

19

1-2

Apr.-July 1926

13-15

Jessie Palmer Weber : August 1, 1863-May 31, 1926

Schmidt, Otto L.

Weber, Jessie Palmer; librarians; Illinois State Historical Library; Illinois State Historical Society; Illinois Centennial Commission

19

1-2

Apr.-July 1926

16-30

The Daniel Boone myth

Alvord, Clarence Walworth

Boone, Daniel; Kentucky; pioneers; fur trade; hunting; French; British; French and Indian War; settlers; migration; speculators

19

1-2

Apr.-July 1926

31-48

A rare judicial service : Charles S. Zane

Zane, John M.

Zane, Charles S.; judges; Illinois; Utah; Mormons; polygamy; Edmunds Act; trials

19

1-2

Apr.-July 1926

49-62

Revolutionary War soldiers buried in Illinois

Walker, Harriet J.

Revolutionary War; soldiers; graves; Illinois

19

1-2

Apr.-July 1926

63-76

Rock Creek Lyceum : an introductory note

Bone, Robert E.

Rock Creek, Ill.; Rock Creek Lyceum; literary societies; debating societies; Nance, Thomas J.; McElroy, James I. T.

19

1-2

Apr.-July 1926

77-93

Law address of ex-Senator James R. Doolittle : delivered before the Union College of Law at Chicago, June 6th, 1879

Mowry, Duane, ed.

Doolittle, James R.; speeches; law; lawyers; United States; Supreme Court; Constitution; states; sovereignty; republic

19

1-2

Apr.-July 1926

94-238

Autobiography of Abel Mills

Mills, Albert T., ed.

Mills, Abel; autobiography; Mills family; Quakers; farming; Brownsville, Pa.; migration; steamboats; Putnam County, Ill.; prairie; pioneer life; Clear Lake Monthly Meeting; meeting house; Mills, Arthelia Bosley; wolves; Clear Creek Monthly Meeting; travel

19

3-4

Oct. 1926-Jan. 1927

13-35

The significance of the sesqui centennial celebration of the American Revolution west of the Allegheny Mountains

James, James Alton

Revolutionary War; sesquicentennial; frontier; Clark, George Rogers; British; American Indians; Dunsmore's War; Kentucky; Detroit; Fort Pitt; Hamilton, Henry; Illinois; Fort de Chartres; Vincennes, Ind.; Cahokia, Ill.; Kaskaskia, Ill.; French; pioneer life; fur trade

19

3-4

Oct. 1926-Jan. 1927

36-42

Jessie Palmer Weber

Greene, Evarts Boutell

Weber, Jessie Palmer; librarians; Illinois State Historical Library; Illinois State Historical Society; Illinois Centennial Commission

19

3-4

Oct. 1926-Jan. 1927

43-73

Six months in the White House

Grimsley, Elizabeth Todd

Grimsley, Elizabeth Todd; Lincoln, Abraham; Lincoln, Mary Todd; presidents; inauguration; 1861; White House; Fort Sumter; Civil War; Battle of Bull Run; Seward, William H.

19

3-4

Oct. 1926-Jan. 1927

74-101

Abraham Lincoln and New Salem : an address delivered before the Mississippi Valley Historical Association and the Illinois State Historical Society on their joint pilgrimage to New Salem Saturday May 8, 1926

Barton, William E.

Lincoln, Abraham; New Salem, Ill.; restoration ; speeches; Rutledge, Ann; Owens, Mary; Saunders, Sarah Rutledge; Rutledge, David; letters; Marsh, Matthew S.

19

3-4

Oct. 1926-Jan. 1927

102-114

Lincoln and the American tradition of civil liberty

Cole, Arthur C.

Lincoln, Abraham; civil liberties; dissent; Alien Act; Sedition Act; War of 1812; Mexican War; Civil War; political prisoners; Chicago Times; conscientious objectors

19

3-4

Oct. 1926-Jan. 1927

115-141

Indians and Indian fighters

Doyle, Cornelius J.

American Indians; French and Indian War; colonists; soldiers; British; French; Pontiac; Tecumseh; Revolutionary War; Clark, George Rogers; Hamilton, Henry; Vincennes, Ind.; Northwest Ordinance; land; claims; St. Clair, Arthur; Wayne, Anthony; Harrison, William Henry; Tecumseh; Johnson, Richard; Black Hawk War; Jackson, Andrew; Sioux Indians; Cheyenne Indians; Red Cloud; Crazy Horse; Custer, George A.; Forsyth, Sandy; Black Kettle; Roman Nose; Bake, Eugene M.; Baker Massacre; Blackfoot Indians; Battle of Little Big Horn

19

3-4

Oct. 1926-Jan. 1927

142-152

Our Indians

Piersen, Joan

Potawatomi Indians; Fox River Valley, Ill.; Aurora, Ill.; Kane County, Ill.; Shabbona; Waubonsie

19

3-4

Oct. 1926-Jan. 1927

153-160

Sangamo Town

Roll, John Linden

Sangamo, Ill; Roll, John Eddy; migration; Lincoln, Abraham; flatboats

19

3-4

Oct. 1926-Jan. 1927

161-162

Judge John A. Arenz

 

Arenz, John A.; biography; judges; mayor; Beardstown, Ill.

19

3-4

Oct. 1926-Jan. 1927

162-163

Address of welcome

Arenz, John A.

Lincoln, Abraham; Beardstown, Ill.; Beardstown Republican Club; speeches

19

3-4

Oct. 1926-Jan. 1927

163-175

History of the Morgan County bar

Epler, Cyrus

Morgan County, Ill.; Circuit Court of Morgan County; lawyers; judges; courts; courthouses

20

1

Apr. 1927

13-48

"The fatal first of January, 1841"

Miles, Mary Leighton

Lincoln, Abraham; 1841; Herndon, William H.; Lamon, Ward Hill; Lincoln, Mary Todd; marriage; license; Illinois; House of Representatives; judicial reform; law; cases; Speed, Joshua F.

20

1

Apr. 1927

49-62

The burning of Sauk-E-Nuk : the westernmost battle of the revolution

Cummings, J. E.

Sauk-E-Nuk; Sauk Indians; Rock River, Ill.; Revolutionary War; Illinois; Clark, George Rogers; Montgomery, John

20

1

Apr. 1927

63-97

The genesis of old Vermilion, 1826-1926

Tilton, Clint Clay

Vermilion County, Ill.; French; Jesuits; British; Revolutionary War; Virginia; Spanish; Illinois; salt; migration; cities; towns; townships; Danville, Ill.; Beckwith, Dan; Northern Cross Railroad; Great Western Railroad; pioneer life; churches; schools; slavery; Lamon, Ward Hill; Lincoln, Abraham; Douglas, Stephen; debates; election; Senate; 1858; Civil War

20

1

Apr. 1927

98-102

"Old Trading Post," first house of the white man in Lee County

Neighbour, L. B.

Old Trading Post; fur trade; Dixon Township, Lee County, Ill.; Rock River, Ill.; Le Sallier

20

1

Apr. 1927

103-111

A history of the First Congregational Church of Princeton, Illinois : 1831-1924

Harrison, Ella W.

Princeton, Ill.; First Congregational Church; Hampshire Colony Congregational Church; migration; missionaries; Lovejoy, Owen; slavery

20

1

Apr. 1927

112-127

A history of the First Congregational Church of Geneseo

Taylor, Ella Hume

Geneseo, Ill.; First Congregational Church; revivals; migration; slavery; Underground Railroad; missionaries

20

1

Apr. 1927

128-135

Wheaton seventy years ago

Gary, Olin J.

Wheaton, Ill.; DuPage County, Ill.; county seat; Naperville, Ill.

20

1

Apr. 1927

138-154

Springfield Home for the Friendless

Humphrey, Mary E.

Springfield Home for the Friendless; Civil War; refugees; women; children; Springfield, Ill.; Springer, Francis

20

1

Apr. 1927

155-158

Will of Shadrach Bond, first governor of Illinois, found in the county clerk's office of Randolph County

 

Bond, Shadrach; governors; wills; slaves; freedom; Illinois

20

2

July 1927

185-200

Josiah Lamborn, Attorney General of Illinois, 1840-43

Doyle, Cornelius J.

Lamborn, Josiah; Illinois; attorney general; lawyers; murder; trials; Springfield, Ill.; Lincoln, Abraham; Douglas, Stephen A.; Jackson, Andrew

20

2

July 1927

201-215

The unveiling of tablet on Grant memorial tree at Riddle Hill, July 1, 1927

Speulda, Alta Mae

Grant, Ulysses S.; markers; Riddle Hill, Ill.; Civil War; 21st Illinois Infantry

20

2

July 1927

216-236

Ulysses S. Grant : address at the unveiling of tablet to Ulysses S. Grant at walnut tree, Riddle Hill, July 1, 1927

Yates, Richard

Grant, Ulysses S.; markers; Riddle Hill, Ill.; Camp Yates, Ill.; Civil War; 21st Illinois Infantry; Daughters of the American Revolution; speeches

20

2

July 1927

237-239

Ulysses S. Grant's visit to the home of Capt. James N. Brown, Inland Grove, Illinois, July 4, 1861

Brown, Benjamin Waterfield

Grant, Ulysses S.; Brown, James N.; 21st Illinois Infantry; Civil War; Island Grove, Ill.

20

2

July 1927

240-242

Lorado Taft's statue of Lincoln unveiled at Urbana, Illinois, July 3, 1927

 

Lincoln, Abraham; statues; Urbana, Ill.; Taft, Lorado

20

2

July 1927

243-254

The enduring Lincoln

Barton, William E.

Lincoln, Abraham; statues; Urbana, Ill.; Taft, Lorado

20

2

July 1927

255-257

Daughters of the American Revolution sponsor pageant, "The Discovery of Illinois," at Perrin's Ledge, Kampsville, Illinois

McKenney, Mrs. S. D.

Daughters of the American Revolution; Illinois; history; pageants

20

2

July 1927

258-264

Shurtleff College centennial

Potter, George Milton

Shurtleff College; centennial; Baptist Church

20

2

July 1927

265-281

The new Black Hawk State Park

Hauberg, John H.

Black Hawk State Park; Black Hawk; Sauk Indians; Fox Indians; Rock Island, Ill.; Rock River; French; Revolutionary War; Clark, George Rogers; War of 1812; Black Hawk War

20

2

July 1927

282-297

Rock River and its crossings

Wingert, Edward E.

Rock River; Dixon, Ill.; ferries; bridges; dams; Dixon, John; Ogee, Joseph; Ogee's Ferry; Dixon Dam and Bridge Company; Illinois Central Railroad

20

2

July 1927

299-302

Dutch windmill, built by Henry Emminga of Golden, Adams County, in 1872, still in operation

 

windmills; grain; Golden, Ill.; Emminga, Henry R.; Franzen, F. B.; Emminga, Margaret

20

3

Oct. 1927

329-356

Anti-slavery convention held in Alton, Illinois, October 26-28, 1837

Bowen, A. L.

Alton, Ill.; slavery; abolition; Hurlbut, Thaddeus B.; Alton Observer; Lovejoy, Elijah P.; Hurlbut, Wilberforce Lovejoy

20

3

Oct. 1927

357-369

The "piasa" or "thunder bird"

Stoddard, Henry Lee

Piasa Bird; petroglyphs; American Indians; Zodiac; astronomy; seasons; mythology; India; Africa; Arabia

20

3

Oct. 1927

370-410

An Illinois village, 1873 and 1923

Hall, Frank Richards

Eureka, Ill.; 1873; 1923; description; population; government; social life; agriculture; industry; politics; education; religion

20

3

Oct. 1927

411-420

Planting the Church of the Disciples at Little Mackinaw, 1833-1927 : Mackinaw Township, Tazewell County, Illinois

Darst, Emma Delle Railsback

Little Mackinaw Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Tazewell County, Ill.; Railsback, Thomas Fisher; ministers; elders

20

3

Oct. 1927

422-428

The assassination of Abraham Lincoln

DeMotte, William H.

Lincoln, Abraham; assassination; Booth, John Wilkes

20

3

Oct. 1927

429-431

Giant City State Park

Mulcaster, J. G.

Giant City State Park; Makanda, Ill.

20

3

Oct. 1927

432-454

William Davis Colby

Colby, Lydia

Colby, William Davis; biography; soldiers; Civil War; diaries; letters; farming; Henry County, Ill.; Colby, Mary Elizabeth Dodds

20

3

Oct. 1927

455-470

Charles A. Lindbergh's visit to Springfield, Illinois, Aug. 15th, 1927

 

Lindbergh, Charles A.; aviators; aviation; Spirit of St. Louis; Springfield, Ill.

20

3

Oct. 1927

471-475

Shelby County Illinois centennial observed in Forest Park, Shelbyville, Illinois, Oct. 11, 1927

 

Shelby County, Ill.; Shelbyville, Ill.; centennial

20

3

Oct. 1927

476-479

Unveiling of Paddock tablet by Ninian Edwards chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution

Flagg, Norman G.

Paddock, Gaius; soldiers; grave; Revolutionary War; markers

20

4

Jan. 1928

499-522

The Hankses

Barton, William E.

Hanks family; Lincoln, Nancy Hanks; genealogy; Lincoln, Abraham; Malmesbury, England; Hanks, Thomas

20

4

Jan. 1928

523-546

George Rogers Clark

English, Sara John

Clark, George Rogers; memorials; ancestry; Revolutionary War; army; Kentucky; Kaskaskia, Ill.; Vincennes, Ind.; British; French; American Indians

20

4

Jan. 1928

547-568

President Lincoln's clemency

Dorris, J. T.

Lincoln, Abraham; president; pardons; offenses; courts; courts martial; soldiers; deserters; slave trade; secession; Confederacy; assassination; Johnson, Andrew

20

4

Jan. 1928

569-577

The Methodist Memorial at Chateau-Thierry, France

Wadsworth, Julian S.

Chateau-Thierry, France; Methodist Memorial; Methodist Church; World War I; relief; social service

20

4

Jan. 1928

578-583

Early taverns and inns in Illinois

Elder, Paul Wilson

taverns; inns; Illinois; Nachusa Tavern; Dixon, John; Wolf Tavern; Chicago; Yankee Tavern; Princeton Hotel; Weaver Hotel; Princeton, Ill.

20

4

Jan. 1928

584-591

From the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia to Henry County, Illinois

Colby, Lydia

Funk, Abraham; Funk family; Mennonites; Civil War; pacifism; Virginia; migration; travel; pioneer life; Henry County, Ill.

20

4

Jan. 1928

592-593

William Richards, Esq.

Richards, Belle N.

Richards, William; pioneer life; Quincy, Ill.

20

4

Jan. 1928

594-597

Old covered bridge in Adams County, Illinois to be destroyed

Dittmer, Oscar L.

covered bridges; demolition; Adams County, Ill.; roads; Route 66

20

4

Jan. 1928

598-601

Illinois Day celebration

Illinois State Historical Society

Illinois; statehood; anniversaries; Illinois State Historical Society

21

1

Apr. 1928

1-91

Diary of Mrs. Joseph Duncan (Elizabeth Caldwell Smith)

Putnam, Elizabeth Duncan, ed.

Duncan, Elizabeth Smith; Duncan, Joseph; diaries; migration; pioneer life; religion; Jacksonville, Ill.; governors; Illinois

21

1

Apr. 1928

92-110

The public career of William Barton Warren

Urch, Erwin J.

Warren, William Barton; lawyers; migration; Illinois; Mormons; Nauvoo, Ill.; militia; Nauvoo Legion; Mexican War; army; officers; Scott, Winfield; Taylor, Zachary; Battle of Buena Vista; Illinois Supreme Court

21

1

Apr. 1928

111-159

The history of Trinity Church, Jacksonville, Illinois : the oldest Episcopal church in Illinois

English, Sara John

Trinity Church, Jacksonville, Ill.; Episcopal Church; Illinois; ministers; register; marriages; burials; baptisms

21

1

Apr. 1928

160-163

Oquawka celebrates its one hundredth anniversary of first white settlement, 1927

Smith, Elizabeth

Oquawka, Ill.; centennial

21

2

July 1928

183-199

Journal of a pioneer missionary -- the Rev. Lemuel Foster

Spinka, Matthew, ed.

Foster, Lemuel; missionaries; diaries; memoirs; pioneer life; Congregational Church; Illinois; Foster, Lydia Conderry; migration; travel

21

2

July 1928

200-217

President Lincoln's war problem

Palmer, John McAuley

Lincoln, Abraham; Civil War; World War I; morale; army; generals; McClellan, George B.; Lee, Robert E.; Jackson, Stonewall; Grant, Ulysses S.

21

2

July 1928

218-223

Discovery of record of Lincoln's Chicago speech of October 27, 1854

Wiley, Earl W.

Lincoln, Abraham; speeches; Chicago; 1854; Kansas-Nebraska Act

21

2

July 1928

224-232

An address which was not delivered : Fourth of July oration of Hon. James R. Doolittle, prepared by request to be delivered at the World's Fair of Chicago, July 4, 1893

Doolittle, James R.

Doolittle, James R.; speeches; World's Columbian Exposition; United States; patriotism

21

2

July 1928

233-234

Alexander Charters

Charters, Blanche S.

Charters, Alexander; homes; Dixon, Ill.; Rock River

21

2

July 1928

235-241

Macon County, Illinois

Foster, Lelah

Macon County, Ill.; towns; names; townships; government

21

2

July 1928

242-252

The unveiling of the Kelley cabin marker Dec. 3, 1927

Speulda, Alta Mae

Kelley, John; cabins; Springfield, Ill.; markers

21

2

July 1928

253-259

Lorado Taft's Pioneer Group at Elmwood

Hieronymus, R. E.

Taft, Lorado; Elmwood, Ill.; statue; Pioneer Group; Garland, Hamlin

21

2

July 1928

260-267

George Rogers Clark : conquest of the Northwest -- Fort Gage sesqui-centennial observation

Corr, Paul Benjamin

Clark, George Rogers; sesquicentennial; Fort Gage; Kaskaskia, Ill.; Cahokia, Ill.; Revolutionary War

21

2

July 1928

268-272

George Rogers Clark sesqui-centennial observations -- trail from Fort Massac to Kaskaskia

Corr, Paul Benjamin

Clark, George Rogers; sesquicentennial; trails; Fort Massac; Kaskaskia, Ill.; Revolutionary War

21

2

July 1928

273-280

Family history of John Halbert of St. Clair County

Halbert, William Underwood

Halbert, John; Halbert family; migration; Virginia; St. Clair County, Ill.; pioneer life

21

3

Oct. 1928

291-358

The Anglo-Spanish frontier in the Illinois country during the American Revolution, 1779-1783

Nasatir, A. P.

Revolutionary War; Illinois; Spanish; British; American Indians; trade; St. Louis; Fort St. Joseph; Cruzat, Francis; Leyba, Fernando de; Clark, George Rogers; Galvez, Bernardo de; Hamilton, Henry; Haldimand, Frederick; Sinclair, Patrick; Cartabona, Francisco; Pouree, Eugenio

21

3

Oct. 1928

359-381

Genet's western intrigue, 1793-1794

Hall, F. R.

Genet, Edmond Charles; Mississippi River; Louisiana; Spain; France; Clark, George Rogers; Michaux, Andre

21

3

Oct. 1928

382-394

The laws in force in Illinois prior to its statehood : address given before the alumni and students of Lincoln College of Law at their annual reunion at Springfield, June 14, 1928

Edwards, W. W.

Illinois Territory; laws; Articles of Confederation; Virginia; Northwest Territory; Northwest Ordinance; Constitution; speeches

21

3

Oct. 1928

395-408

Fundamentalism and modernism in an Illinois college

Rammelkamp, Charles H.

Illinois College; ministers; theology; education; fundamentalism; modernism; Presbyterian Church; Congregational Church; Beecher, Edward; Sturtevant, Julian M.; Turner, Jonathan Baldwin; Baldwin, Theron

21

3

Oct. 1928

409-418

Galena's memories of General Ulysses Grant

Bale, Florence Gratiot

Galena, Ill.; Grant, Ulysses S.; Civil War; army; presidency; memorials; Grant family

21

3

Oct. 1928

419-436

Elizabeth Moore Morris Casey

Kretschmar, Ella Morris Casey

Casey, Elizabeth Moore Morris; ancestry; Morris, Samuel; Morris, Sarah Galbraith; Casey, John Wanton; Pennsylvania; migration; Pekin, Ill.; pioneer life

21

4

Jan. 1929

453-499

Douglas and the Compromise of 1850

Harmon, George D.

Douglas, Stephen A.; slavery; Compromise of 1850; Missouri Compromise; Mexican War; California; territories; states; sovereignty; Wilmot Proviso; Fugitive Slave Act; Clay, Henry; Calhoun, John C.; Davis, Jefferson

21

4

Jan. 1929

500-505

The Peoria truce

Angle, Paul M.

Lincoln, Abraham; Douglas, Stephen A.; Missouri Compromise; repeal; speeches; 1854

21

4

Jan. 1929

506-524

Nauvoo, Illinois, under Mormon and Icarian occupations

Rees, Thomas

Nauvoo, Ill.; Mormons; Smith, Joseph; charters; government; newspapers; Nauvoo Expositor; migration; Utah; Icarians; communism; utopias; Cabet, Etienne Roux

21

4

Jan. 1929

525-530

Historic churches in Illinois

Schnapp, Margaret Katherine

churches; Rock Creek Presbyterian Church; Rock Creek, Ill.

21

4

Jan. 1929

531-532

Remarks of Mrs. William Jackson Sweeney, state D. A. R. regent of Illinois, on presenting the gold medal, state prize

Sweeney, Mrs. William Jackson

Illinois; history; essays; contests; awards; Schnapp, Margaret Katherine; Daughters of the American Revolution

21

4

Jan. 1929

534-540

Statue of the Madonna of the Trail unveiled at Vandalia by Daughters of the American Revolution

Moss, Bess D.

pioneers; women; mothers; statues; Daughters of the American Revolution; National Old Trails Committee; Moss, Mrs. John Trigg

21

4

Jan. 1929

541-546

Bronze memorial tablet to soldiers of 1812 buried in Bond Co., erected by Kaskaskia Chapter, United States Daughters of 1812, at Greenville, Illinois

Davidson, Mrs. Charles E.

War of 1812; soldiers; markers; graves; Bond County, Ill.; Greenville, Ill.; United States Daughters of 1812, Kaskaskia Chapter; Flagg, Norman G.

21

4

Jan. 1929

547-555

One hundredth anniversary of Presbyterian Church of Vandalia, Illinois

Gochenour, N. C.

Vandalia, Ill.; Presbyterian Church; centennial

21

4

Jan. 1929

556-568

Benjamin Dann Walsh

Pammel, L. H.

Walsh, Benjamin Dann; Rock Island, Ill.; entomology; Illinois

21

4

Jan. 1929

569-570

The Illinois State Society of Washington, D. C.

James, Otho F.

Illinois State Society of Washington, D.C.; members; programs

22

1

Apr. 1929

1-64

Civil War public opinion of General Grant

Green, Anna Maclay

Grant, Ulysses S.; public opinion; Civil War; newspapers; magazines; diaries; memoirs; military policy; personality; politics

22

1

Apr. 1929

65-78

Is Lincoln among the aristocrats?

Barton, William E.

Lincoln, Abraham; ancestry; genealogy; Lincoln family; Hanks family; Lee family; Lee, Robert E.

22

1

Apr. 1929

79-87

The Lincoln statue in Rosemond Grove cemetery, Rosemond, Illinois

Martin, Lorene;

Lincoln, Abraham; statues; Mulligan, Charles J.; Rosamond, Ill.; Rosemond Grove Cemetery; cannons

22

1

Apr. 1929

88-92

Benjamin Ogden -- first Western cavalier

Warren, Louis A.

Ogden, Benjamin; Methodist Church; ministers; circuit riders; Elizabethtown, Ky.; Lincoln, Thomas

22

1

Apr. 1929

93-163

Black Hawk's Mississippi : from Rock River to the Bad Axe

Hauberg, John H.

Black Hawk; Sauk Indians; Keokuk; Mississippi River; Illinois; Indiana, Wisconsin; travel; boating; Rock River; Rock Island, Ill.; Victory, Wis.; War of 1812; Clark, William; Fort Armstrong, Ill.; lead; mining; Black Hawk War; Battle of the Bad Axe

22

1

Apr. 1929

164-191

Shawneetown

Lyles, Stella Pendleton

Shawneetown, Ill.; pioneer life; Shawnee Indians; British; Croghan, George; Clark, George Rogers; Mound Builders; Coles, Edward; Lafayette, Marquis de; Ohio River; boating; floods

22

1

Apr. 1929

192-194

Sarah Lusk marker unveiled at Golconda, Illinois

Trovillion, Madge

Lusk, Sarah; markers; ferries; Golconda, Ill.; Sarahsville, Ill.

22

2

July 1929

215-295

Memoirs : record of events in the life and times of Edward William West, Belleville, Illinois, A. D. 1895

West, Edward William

West, Edward William; memoirs; pioneer life; farming; religion; politics; Belleville, Ill.

22

2

July 1929

296-298

Passing of E. W. West

 

West, Edward William; obituaries

22

2

July 1929

299-321

History of the Springfield Family Welfare Association

Brown, Jane Logan

Springfield Family Welfare Association; Springfield, Ill.; Springfield Associated Charities; charities; organization; administration; surveys; social workers; families; children

22

2

July 1929

322-334

Manual for the communicants of the Presbyterian Church at Belvidere, Boone Co., Ill., compiled April 1853

 

Belvidere, Ill.; Presbyterian Church; beliefs; covenant; worship; officers; members

22

2

July 1929

335-356

Letters written by a Peoria woman in 1835 : by boat, wagon, horse and foot to Peoria in the days of pioneers

Bigelow, Ellen

Bigelow, Ellen; letters; migration; travel; stagecoaches; railroads; Erie Canal; sailing ships; Buffalo, N. Y.; Detroit; Chicago; Illinois; prairie; Peoria, Ill.

22

2

July 1929

357-361

The Lincoln family in 1861 : a history of the painting and engraving

Smyser, George H.

Lincoln family; Lincoln, Abraham; engravings; lithographs; paintings; Carpenter, Frank B.; Buttre, J. C.

22

2

July 1929

362-364

Alexis Clermont, an old mail carrier

Haussner, R. A.

Clermont, Alexis; mail carriers; Chicago; Green Bay, Wis.

22

3

Oct. 1929

375-387

Historical values in the mid-century literature of the Middle West

Hirsch, Arthur H.

literature; Midwest; values; pioneer life; immigration; education; religion; humor

22

3

Oct. 1929

388-400

James Hall in Shawneetown

Shultz, Esther

Hall, James; Shawneetown, Ill.; frontier life; lawyers; newspapers; Illinois Gazette; slavery; politics; judges; state treasurer

22

3

Oct. 1929

401-446

A girl in the sixties : excerpts from the journal of Anna Ridgely (Mrs. James L. Hudson)

Corneau, Octavia Roberts, ed.;

Osborne, Georgia L.

Ridgely, Anna; diaries; Springfield, Ill.

22

3

Oct. 1929

447-450

Azel W. Dorsey : Lincoln's school teacher in Indiana buried in Illinois

Oakleaf, J. B.

Dorsey, Azel W.; teachers; Lincoln, Abraham; grave; Schuyler County, Ill.

22

3

Oct. 1929

451-460

Dedication of Marquette monument at Grafton, Illinois

Siedenburg, Frederic

Marquette, Jacques; monuments; exploration; Joliet, Louis; Grafton, Ill.

22

3

Oct. 1929

461-467

Beard family history

Collins, Minerva

Beard family; genealogy; Beard, Thomas; migration; Illinois; pioneer life

22

3

Oct. 1929

468-476

Annie Louise Keller memorial : unveiled at White Hall, Illinois

 

Keller, Annie Louise; teachers; Centerville, Ill.; tornado; students; monuments; Taft, Lorado

22

3

Oct. 1929

477-490

Rev. Jesse Pearce

Smith, Micah Pearce

Presbyterian Church; Cumberland Presbyterians; Illinois; ministers; ordination; camp meetings; genealogy

22

4

Jan. 1930

501-558

New Salem : early chapter in Lincoln's life

Chandler, Josephine Craven

Lincoln, Abraham; New Salem, Ill.; Offutt, Denton; Illinois State Legislature; Sangamon River; navigation; steamboats; Black Hawk War; Rutledge, James; Rutledge, Ann; Cartwright, Peter; Berry, William; McNeil, John; McNamar, John; Graham, Mentor; Illinois State Legislature

22

4

Jan. 1930

559-581

Sketch of Charles James Fox Clarke with letters to his mother

Clarke, Charles R.

Clarke, Charles James Fox; migration; Illinois; pioneer life; letters

22

4

Jan. 1930

582-592

Lincoln in the campaign of 1856

Wiley, Earl Wellington

Lincoln, Abraham; election; 1856; Republican Party; slavery; speeches

22

4

Jan. 1930

593-600

Early mills in Illinois

Hurie, Anna Kathryn

Illinois; mills; New Salem, Ill.; Sangamon River; Cameron, John M.; Offutt, Denton; Lincoln, Abraham; Bale, Fielding V..; Lankford, William C.

22

4

Jan. 1930

601-606

Lincoln-Douglas debates, seventy-first anniversary -- August 2, 1929 : Freeport unveils a Lincoln statue

Barton, Albert O.

Lincoln, Abraham; Douglas, Stephen A.; debates; anniversaries; election; Senate; 1858; statues; Crunelle, Leonard; Freeport, Ill.

22

4

Jan. 1930

607-614

Lincoln-Douglas debates : anniversary observed October 15, 1929, Alton, Illinois

Armstrong, W. D.

Lincoln, Abraham; Douglas, Stephen A.; debates; anniversaries; election; Senate; 1858; Alton, Ill.; speeches; Flagg, Norman G.

22

4

Jan. 1930

615-622

Tablet marks site of first church in Springfield, Illinois

 

Springfield, Ill.; churches; Methodist Church; markers

22

4

Jan. 1930

623-624

Standing guard at the Lincoln home : 1865

Greenleaf, C. J.

soldiers; Civil War; Union; Lincoln, Abraham; home; Springfield, Ill.

22

4

Jan. 1930

625-640

Forgotten statesmen of Illinois : Richard Adams

Stevens, Frank E.

Adams, Richard; doctors; Inlet, Ill.; Lee County, Ill.; Lee Center, Ill.; Adams, Deborah Ingals; Ingals, Ephraim; slavery; Republican Party; Illinois State Senate

22

4

Jan. 1930

641-648

A township pageants its progress

Nichols, Fred S.

Farmers Township, Fulton County, Ill.; centennial; pageant

22

4

Jan. 1930

649-656

Illinois College centennial celebration

 

Illinois College; centennial

22

4

Jan. 1930

657-658

Illinois birthday celebration

 

Illinois; anniversaries; Illinois State Historical Society

22

4

Jan. 1930

659-668

In the early days

Hanley, Sarah Bond

Illinois; women; pioneer life; LeCompte, Madame; Edgar, Rachel; Morrison, Mrs. Robert; Bradwell, Myra; Walworth, Ellen Hardin

23

1

Apr. 1930

1-83

Richard Yates : his record as Civil War governor of Illinois

Kimball, E. L.

Yates, Richard; Illinois; governors; Republican Party; House of Representatives; slavery; Kansas-Nebraska Act; Missouri Compromise; Civil War; Union; secession; Illinois State Militia; soldiers; recruitment; hospitals; medical care; supplies; Illinois State Sanitary Commission; Illinois General Assembly; Copperheads; Knights of the Golden Circle; constitutional convention; 1862

23

1

Apr. 1930

84-91

Mount Joliet : its place in Illinois history and its location

Knight, Robert;

Zeuch, Lucius

Mount Joliet, Ill.; location; maps; leveling

23

1

Apr. 1930

92-112

James Hall in Vandalia

Shultz, Esther

Hall, James; treasurer; Illinois; Antiquarian and Historical Society of Illinois; authors; frontier life; politics; newspapers; Illinois Intelligencer; magazines; Illinois Monthly Magazine

23

1

Apr. 1930

113-162

Asiatic cholera in Illinois

Custer, Milo

cholera; deaths; Illinois; central Illinois; McLean County, Ill.; newspapers; editorials

23

1

Apr. 1930

163-170

Douglas the loyal

Pollock, James;

Cushman, Esther Cowles, introduction

Douglas, Stephen A.; Lincoln, Abraham; secession; Union; Civil War

23

1

Apr. 1930

171-174

Final interment of President Lincoln's remains at the Lincoln Monument at Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill.

Meriam, Arthur L.

Lincoln, Abraham; tomb; Springfield, Ill.; Oak Ridge Cemetery; Lincoln, Robert Todd; Culver, J. S.; Culver Construction Company

23

1

Apr. 1930

175-182

Portrait of a pioneer printer

Jordan, Philip D.

Edwards, James J.; printers; newspapers; Illinois; Morgan County, Ill.; Iowa; Fort Madison, Iowa; Burlington Iowa

23

1

Apr. 1930

183-187

Special meeting of the Illinois State Historical Society, sponsored by the Will County Historical Society

 

Illinois State Historical Society; Will County Historical Society; meetings

23

1

Apr. 1930

188-189

Marissa Chapter, D. A. R., unveils marker to John Steele

McClintock, Cora White

Steele, John; markers; army; Revolutionary War; migration; Illinois; Daughters of the American Revolution

23

2

July 1930

201-204

References to Illinois in French-Canadian official documents

Riddell, William Renwick

Canada; French; Quebec Province; documents; Illinois

23

2

July 1930

205-208

The first British bishop of Quebec and the Catholics of Kaskaskia

Riddell, William Renwick

Quebec; bishop; Catholic Church; Briand, Jean-Olivier; British; Canada; Kaskaskia, Ill.

23

2

July 1930

209-239

Mrs. Caroline Phelps' diary

Ewan, Mrs. J. T. Phelps

Phelps, Caroline; diaries; pioneer life; Phelps, William; Lewistown, Ill.; Oquawka, Ill.; Des Moines, Iowa; American Indians

23

2

July 1930

240-245

Hon. Newton Cloud

English, Sara John (Mrs. Henry W.)

Cloud, Newton; Illinois; migration; Morgan County, Ill.; Methodist Church; ministers; Illinois State Legislature; Democratic Party

23

2

July 1930

246-315

Civil War letters of Brigadier General William Ward Orme -- 1862-1866

 

Orme, William Ward; Civil War; Union; army; generals; 94th Illinois Infantry; letters; Battle of Prairie Grove; Battle of Vicksburg; Yazoo City, Miss.

23

2

July 1930

316-324

The early history of the King's Daughters Home for Women, Springfield, Ill.

Walker, Harriet J.;

Gardiner, Mrs. John J. (Georgina Post)

King's Daughters Home for Women; Springfield, Ill.; International Order of the King's Daughters; women; elderly

23

2

July 1930

325-327

Kuhne Beveridge

 

Beveridge, Kuhne; sculptors; Illinois; Beveridge, Ray; Beveridge, John L.

23

2

July 1930

328

Julia Bracken Wendt

 

Wendt, Julia Bracken; sculptors; Illinois

23

2

July 1930

329-338

Dedication of memorial to Morris Birkbeck, at Albion, Edwards County, on October 27, 1929

 

Birkbeck, Morris; memorials; English; immigration; slavery; Edwards County, Ill.; speeches; Emmerson, Louis L.

23

2

July 1930

339-343

A biography of Morris Birkbeck

Shoemaker, L. E.

Birkbeck, Morris; biography; English; immigration; Edwards County, Ill.; Illinois; slavery; Secretary of State

23

3

Oct. 1930

371-438

Newspapers and periodicals in the Lincoln-Douglas country, 1831-1832

Heinl, Frank J.

Jacksonville, Ill.; Morgan County, Ill.; post office; newspapers; periodicals; subscriptions

23

3

Oct. 1930

439-458

Address of Cornelius J. Doyle, former secretary of state of Illinois, at the dedication ceremonies of the monument erected by Illinois to Stephen A. Douglas, at Winchester, Illinois, July 5, 1930

Doyle, Cornelius J.

Douglas, Stephen A.; monuments; Winchester, Ill.; biography; migration; Jacksonville, Ill.; lawyers; Jackson, Andrew; Illinois; Secretary of State; Illinois Supreme Court; House of Representatives; Democratic Party; University of Chicago; slavery; states’ rights; Senate; election; 1858; president; 1860; speeches

23

3

Oct. 1930

459-502

The life and works of James Gardiner Edwards

Jordan, Philip D.

Edwards, James Gardiner; biography; New York Courier; Edwards, Eleanor Dunlap; migration; Jacksonville, Ill.; Presbyterian Church; Western Observor; Whig Party; Illinois Patriot; Fort Madison, Iowa.; Western Adventurer; Burlington, Iowa; Iowa Patriot; Burlington Hawk-Eye; Salter, William; Congregational Church; Mexican War; president; election, 1848; Taylor, Zachary

23

3

Oct. 1930

503-510

An episode of journalism in 1840

Weber, John Richard

Weber, George R.; editors; Illinois Republican; Illinois; capital; location; Vandalia, Ill.; Springfield, Ill.; Henry, Dr.; Illinois Republican; Douglas, Stephen A.; Elkin, Garret; Weber, John B.

23

3

Oct. 1930

511-513

Winchester celebrates its one-hundredth birthday

 

Winchester, Ill.; centennial

23

3

Oct. 1930

514-516

Logan Day memorial

 

Logan, John A.; monuments; Murphysboro, Ill.

23

3

Oct. 1930

517-519

Lincoln’s statue unveiled at G. A. R. ceremony, Minneapolis, Monday, May 26, 1930

 

Lincoln, Abraham; statues; Minneapolis; Grand Army of the Republic

23

3

Oct. 1930

520-521

Lincoln monument, Bunker Hill, Macoupin County, Ill.

 

Lincoln, Abraham; monuments; Bunker Hill, Ill.; Macoupin County, Ill.; 1st Missouri Cavalry

23

3

Oct. 1930

522-536

Dedication of the memorial to James Butler Hickok, “Wild Bill”

Rice, Wallace

Hickok, Wild Bill; Hickok, James Butler; memorials; Troy Grove, Ill.; birthplace; marksmanship; Monticello, Kan.; stage coaches; Civil War; Union; army; scouts; marshals; Hays City, Tex.; Cheyenne, Wyo.; Lake, Agnes; Deadwood, S. D.; McCall, Jack

23

3

Oct. 1930

537-541

Dixon’s one-hundredth birthday celebration

 

Dixon, Ill.; centennial

23

4

Jan. 1931

557-603

Report of the sesqui-centennial celebration of the westernmost campaign of the Revolutionary War, at Rock Island, Illinois, and :

Why the Rock Island County sesqui-centennial

Hauberg, John H.

Revolutionary War; Rock Island, Ill.; sesquicentennial; Sauk Indians; Fox Indians; Great Britain; Unites States; army; LaMain Cassee; Gautier, Charles; Hamilton, Henry; Wabasha; Matchekuis; Hesse, Emanuel; Calve, Joseph; Ducharme, Jean-Marie; Clark, George Rogers; Montgomery, John

23

4

Jan. 1931

604-617

Col. Conrad Weiser, pioneer, soldier, diplomat, judge, provincial interpreter

Anderson, Mrs. K. T.

Weiser, Conrad; memorials; Weiser Park, Pa.; Germans; immigration; England; New York State; Pennsylvania; Mohawk Indians; Indian Bureau; treaties; French and Indian War

23

4

Jan. 1931

618-629

Lincoln’s early political background

Warren, Louis A.

Lincoln, Abraham; politics; ancestry; Lincoln family; Lincoln, Thomas; Lincoln, Sarah Bush; Boone, Ratcliffe; Illinois State Legislature; Illinois; speeches

23

4

Jan. 1931

630-641

Dr. John Gale, a pioneer army surgeon

Cutter, Irving S.

Gale, John; army; surgeons; Fort Armstrong, Ill.; Camp Missouri, Neb.; Fort Atkinson, Neb.; Fort Leavenworth, Kan.

23

4

Jan. 1931

642-651

The British Indian attack on Pain Court (St. Louis)

Drumm, Stella M.

Revolutionary War; British; American Indians; St. Louis; Ducharme, Jean Marie; Leyba, Fernando de; Clark, George Rogers; Montgomery, John

23

4

Jan. 1931

652-663

A forgotten hero of Rock Island

Quaife, M. M.

War of 1812; Prairie du Chien, Wis.; Clark, William; Fort Shelby, Mich.; British; McKay, William; Keating, James; Sauk Indians; Fox Indians; Taylor, Zachary

23

4

Jan. 1931

664-682

1780 – the Revolution at crisis in the West

Pease, Theodore Calvin

American Revolution; Revolutionary War; 1780; Great Britain; France; Spain; Mississippi Valley; Clark, George Rogers; Haldimand, Frederick; Sinclair, Patrick; Bird, Henry; Falls of the Ohio; La Balme, Augustin de; Fort St. Joseph, Mich.

24

1

Apr. 1931

1-11

Educational pathfinders of Illinois

Jones, Edgar DeWitt

Illinois; teachers; schools; Graham, Mentor; newspapers; ministers; missionaries; Peck, John Mason

24

1

Apr. 1931

12-17

Early schools and teachers in my county

Edwards, Owenetta

McLean County, Ill.; schools; teachers; education

24

1

Apr. 1931

18-19

Presentation of medal

Dixson, Mrs. Eli

Illinois; history; essays; awards; students; Edwards, Owenetta

24

1

Apr. 1931

20-25

The story of a statue

Stevens, Frank E.

Lincoln, Abraham; statues; Saint-Gaudens, Augustus; Chicago; Lincoln Park; Morse, Langdon; Knowlton, G. E.; Davis, Jefferson; miniatures; Saunders of London; Byron, George Gordon

24

1

Apr. 1931

26-104

A story of southern Illinois, the Soldiers’ Reservation, including the Indians, French traders, and some early Americans

Moyers, William Nelson

Southern Illinois; Soldiers’ Reservation; American Indians; Mound Builders; French; fur trade; Northwest Territory; forts; army; Wilkinson, James

24

1

Apr. 1931

105-109

The first airship

Elliott, Eugene C.

airships; Vermilion County, Ill.; Newell, Hugh; Liggate, Jesse; Coddington, Benjamin

24

1

Apr. 1931

110-128

Development of the peace movement in Illinois during the Civil War

Hofer, J. M.

Civil War; Democratic Party; Copperheads; peace movement; Knights of the Golden Circle

24

1

Apr. 1931

129-140

The repudiation of Lincoln’s war policy in 1862 – Stuart-Swett congressional campaign

Pratt, Harry E.

Illinois; House of Representatives; 1862; election; Republican Party; Democratic Party; Swett, Leonard; Stuart, John T.; Lincoln, Abraham; Civil War

24

1

Apr. 1931

141-160

An appraisal of the property of the Rev. James McGeoch, 1833

Harper, C. A.

McGeoch, James; ministers; Illinois; frontier life; books; clothes; furnishings

24

2

July 1931

173-186

Some correspondence of Ninian Edwards

Jordan, Philip D.

Edwards, Ninian; governor; Illinois Territory; Illinois; letters; New York Historical Society

24

2

July 1931

187-242

A catalogue of Illinois newspapers in the New York Historical Society

Mabbott, Thomas O.;

Jordan, Philip D.

Illinois; newspapers; catalogs; New York Historical Society

24

2

July 1931

243-298

A century of Methodism in Carlinville, Illinois

Turnbull, Everett R.

Methodist Church; Carlinville, Ill.; circuit riders; Otwell, Stith Mead; churches; Anderson Female Seminary; parsonages; Sunday schools; music; foreign missions; women

24

2

July 1931

299-310

Hardin County, Illinois

Miles, Arthur A.

Hardin County, Ill.; settlers; geology; topography; agriculture; residents

24

2

July 1931

321-332

Why Lincoln wore a beard

Dondero, George A.

Lincoln, Abraham; beard; election; president; 1860; Bedell, Grace; letters

24

2

July 1931

333-339

Rededication of Lincoln monument

 

Lincoln, Abraham; tomb; Springfield, Ill.; Hoover, Herbert

24

2

July 1931

340-341

Centennial of the First Presbyterian Church, Galena, Illinois

 

Galena, Illinois; First Presbyterian Church; centennial

24

2

July 1931

342-343

A chapter in the warfare against the Indians in Illinois during the year 1812 : copy of a letter found in “Genius of Liberty,” published at Uniontown, Pa., January 4, 1813

McVicker, George G.

War of 1812; army; Edwards, Ninian; Illinois Territory; Kickapoo Indians; Miami Indians

24

2

July 1931

344-346

The unveiling of a tablet to the memory of a Revolutionary soldier – Joshua Armstrong

Stifler, Sarah B.

Armstrong, Joshua; soldiers; markers; Revolutionary War; Jersey County, Ill.

24

3

Oct. 1931

369-554

Dr. Charles Chandler : his place in the American scene

Chandler, Josephine Craven

Chandler, Charles; physicians; medicine; biography; ancestry; Chandler family; Roxbury, Mass.; Woodstock, Conn.; Revolutionary War; royalists; frontier; migration; Illinois; Beardstown, Ill.; Panther Creek, Ill.; Sangamon River; pioneer life; cholera; malaria; Ingalls family; Ingals family; Lincoln, Abraham; Illinois College; homes; furniture; Presbyterian Church; Internal Improvement Act; 1837; panic;  slavery; abolitionism; merchandising; Chandler, Clarissa Child; medical schools; Congregational Church; canals; railroads; Illinois Central Railroad; Illinois River  Railway; Monticello Seminary; women; education; Lippencott, Charles; Lippencott, Emily Chandler; Chandlerville, Ill; gold rush; California; duels; Tevis, Robert; Republican Party; Civil War

24

3

Oct. 1931

553-577

Civil War letters of Winthrop S. G. Allen

Pratt, Harry E.

Allen, Winthrop S. G.; letters; Civil War; 12th Illinois Cavalry; Camp Butler, Ill.; Battle of Harpers Ferry

24

3

Oct. 1931

578-585

Last official French report on the Western posts

Riddell, William Renwick

Canada; French; forts; army; Illinois; American Indians; fur trade

24

4

Jan. 1932

589-605

Washington and the western fronts, 1753-1795

Paxson, Frederic L.

Washington, George; Virginia; settlements; Wabash River; Tennessee River; Mississippi River; army; French and Indian War; Revolutionary War; president; Northwest Territory

24

4

Jan. 1932

606-609

Dedication of memorial to Doctors John Gale and Richard M. Coleman, by the Rock Island County Medical Society, Rock Island, Illinois, October 20, 1931

 

Fort Armstrong, Ill; army; surgeons; monuments; Gale, John; Coleman, Richard M.

24

4

Jan. 1932

609-629

U.S. Army surgeons at Fort Armstrong

Hauberg, John H.

Fort Armstrong; army; surgeons; Rock Island, Ill.; traders; interpreters; Indian agents; LeClaire, Antoine; Davenport, George; Farnham, Russel; Forsythe, Thomas; St. Vrain, Felix; Street. Joseph M.; Bliss, John; Gaines, Edmund P.; Scott, Winfield; Taylor, Zachary; Atkinson, Henry; Gale, John; Coleman, Richard; Lawson, Thomas; Emerson, John; Scott, Dred; Finley, Clement A.; Smith, Samuel B.; Everett, Josiah; Muir, Samuel C.; Coleman, Richard M.

24

4

Jan. 1932

630-653

Illinois debt to soldiers of War of 1812 – and honor roll of 1812 soldiers who are buried in Morgan County, Illinois

English, Sara John

War of 1812; Illinois; army; navy; British; Brock, Isaac; Battle of Queenstown Heights; Perry; Oliver Hazard; Harrison, William Henry; soldiers; graves; Morgan County, Ill.

24

4

Jan. 1932

654-670

The first Des Plaines camp meeting, Des Plaines, Ill., August, 1860

Foster, John O.

Methodist Church; Des Plaines, Illinois; revivals; 1860; Beveridge, John L.; Boring. E. M.; Simpson, Matthew; Pearsons, John A.; Pearsons, Hannah; Beveridge, Helen Judson; Eddy, Thomas M.; Crews, Hooper; Hartman, Jacob

24

4

Jan. 1932

671-682

When the Gratiots came to Galena

Bale, Florence Gratiot

Gratiot family; Galena, Ill.; Gratiot, Charles; Switzerland; immigration; Gratiot, Henry; Gratiot, Jean Pierre; Gratiot, Paul Benjamin; Gratiot, Susan; Gratiot, Adele; pioneer life; Washburne, Adele Gratiot; Winnebago Indians; agent; Black Hawk War

24

4

Jan. 1932

683-690

Abraham Lincoln : dedicatory address upon the unveiling of a statue of Abraham Lincoln at Clinton, Illinois, Armistice Day, November 11, 1931

Stringer, Lawrence B.

Lincoln, Abraham; statues; speeches; Clinton, Ill.; Illinois; Illinois State Legislature; counties; DeWitt County, Ill.; Senate; election; 1858; debates

24

4

Jan. 1932

691-697

Early physicians in my county

Gore, Spencer

Menard County, Ill.; physicians; shamans; medicine; Allen, John

24

4

Jan. 1932

698-699

Presentation of gold medal

Peffers, Mrs. David J.

Illinois; history; essays; awards; students; Gore, Spencer

24

4

Jan. 1932

700-711

Fred J. Kern

Bowen, A. L.

Kern, Fred J.; Illinois State Board of Administration; hospitals; administration; management; Belleville, Ill.; mayor; House of Representatives; newspapers; editors; Belleville News-Democrat

25

1-2

Apr.-July 1932

5-48

The Buchanan-Douglas feud

Auchampaugh, Philip G.

Buchanan, James; Douglas, Stephen A.; Slidell, John; Lecompton Constitution; Kansas; slavery; Kansas-Nebraska Act; election; 1860; Democratic Party; nomination

25

1-2

Apr.-July 1932

49-62

Early trails of eastern Illinois

Baber, Adin

Illinois; trails; Fort Detroit-Kaskaskia Trail

25

1-2

Apr.-July 1932

63-107

Lincoln and Macon County, Illinois, 1830-1831

Davis, Edwin

Lincoln, Abraham; Macon County, Ill.; Lincoln, Thomas; Lincoln, Sarah Bush; migration; Decatur, Ill.; courthouse; Sangamon River; log cabin; public speaking

25

1-2

Apr.-July 1932

108-118

Galena, looking back

Snyder, Alice

Galena, Ill.; American Indians; French; British; settlement; Illinois; Le Sueur; lead; mining; Hamilton, William S.; steamboats; stagecoaches; pioneer life

25

3

Oct. 1932

139-153

Lincoln and the General Land Office, 1849

Ewing, Thomas

Lincoln, Abraham; General Land Office; Edwards, Cyrus; Butterfield, Justin; Ewing, Thomas

25

3

Oct. 1932

154-166

The Prairie Chicken : notes on Lincoln and Mrs. Kirkland

Mabbott, Thomas O.;

Jordan, Philip D.

Prairie Chicken; newspapers; Tilton, Ill.; Kirkland, Joseph; Kirkland, Carolina Matilda Stansbury; Lincoln, Abraham

25

3

Oct. 1932

167-189

From Central Illinois to the Shenandoah Valley in 1843 : the journal of John Edward Young

Hamil, Mrs. Frederick L., ed.

Young, John Edward; diaries; travel; Illinois; Indiana; Kentucky; Ohio; Virginia

25

3

Oct. 1932

190-234

Charles Henry Rammelkamp, 1874-1932

Barlow, Merrill M.;

Smith, Joe Patterson;

Black, Carl E.;

Heinl, Frank J.;

Carter, Clarence E.

Rammelkamp, Charles Henry; obituaries; Illinois College; faculty; history; president; finance; grants; board of trustees; Jacksonville, Ill.; World War I; bibliography

25

4

Jan. 1933

251-260

The pre-history of Illinois

Cole, Fay-Cooper

Illinois; prehistory; Mound Builders; burial mounds; American Indians; archaeology; excavation; Hopewell culture

25

4

Jan. 1933

261-270

Early editors and newspapers of Vermilion County

Ward, Arnold

Vermilion County, Ill.; Danville, Ill.; newspapers; editors

25

4

Jan. 1933

271-284

An unnoted factor in the Buchanan-Douglas feud

Stenberg, Richard R.

Buchanan, James; Douglas, Stephen A.; Lecompton Constitution; Kansas; slavery; Kansas-Nebraska Act; election; 1860; Democratic Party; nomination

25

4

Jan. 1933

285-317

Camp Butler in the Civil War days

Sheppley, Helen Edith

Camp Butler, Ill.; Civil War; soldiers; recruits, training; discharge; Confederates; prison

25

4

Jan. 1933

318-325

Some phases of the history of Alexander County

Rife, Laura Milford

Alexander County, Ill.; settlement; Shiloh Baptist Church; farming; pioneer life; Alexander, William

25

4

Jan. 1933

326-342

The reconstruction of New Salem : ceremonies at the laying of the cornerstone

 

New Salem, Ill.; restoration; Lincoln, Abraham; Horner, Henry; Evans, W. A.; Converse, Henry A.; Emmerson, Louis L.

26

1-2

Apr.-July 1933

5-59

Illinois highways, 1700-1848 : roads, rivers, ferries, canals

Boylan, Josephine

Illinois; Illinois Territory; rivers; navigation; Mississippi River; Illinois River; Clark, George Rogers; trails; roads; Northwest Ordinance; Public Road Act; National Road; ferries; bridges; canals; construction; finance

26

1-2

Apr.-July 1933

60-69

Some thoughts on Lincoln's presidency

Ewing, Thomas

Lincoln, Abraham; presidency; administration; cabinet; Seward, William H.; Chase, Salmon P.; Stanton, Edwin M.; Cameron, Simon; Welles, Gideon; Blair, Montgomery; McClellan, George B.; Civil War; slavery

26

1-2

Apr.-July 1933

70-135

An Illinois farmer during the Civil War : extracts from the journal of John Edward Young, 1859-66

Young, John Edward

Young, John Edward; diaries; farmers; Illinois; Menard County, Ill.

26

1-2

Apr.-July 1933

136-150

Some factors in the Americanization of the Swedish immigrant, 1850-1890

Ander, Fritiof

immigration; Sweden, Americanization; Lutheran Church; Augustana Synod; Hasselquist, T. N.; English language; Augustana College and Theological Seminary; newspapers; Hemlandet; Svenska Tribunen; Enander, John A.; Swensson, C. A.

26

1-2

Apr.-July 1933

151-162

Who built Monks' Mound?

Whitlock, W. H.

Monks' Mound; Cahokia, Ill.; Mound Builders; Toltecs

26

1-2

Apr.-July 1933

163-166

Historical notes : the Buchanan-Douglas feud (continued)

Auchampaugh, Philip

Buchanan, James; Douglas, Stephen A.; election; 1860; Democratic Party; nomination

26

3

Oct. 1933

183-201

Lincoln and Douglas : with some personal reminiscences

Goodspeed, Thomas Wakefield

Lincoln, Abraham; Douglas, Stephen A.; Senate; election; Illinois; 1858; debates; slavery; Compromise of 1850; Dred Scott decision; Kansas; Republican Party; president; nomination; conventions; Chicago;1860; election

26

3

Oct. 1933

202-221

The first printers of Illinois

McMurtrie, Douglas C.

printers; Illinois; Illinois Territory; newspapers; Kaskaskia, Ill.; Shawneetown, Ill.; Edwardsville, Ill.; Vandalia, Ill.; Belleville, Ill.; Galena, Ill.; Springfield, Ill.; Jacksonville, Ill.; Alton, Ill.; Chicago; Duncan, Matthew; Blackwell, Robert; Berry, Elijah C.; Eddy, Henry; Kimmel, Allen W.; Hall, James; Warren, Hooper; Fleming, Robert K.; Jones, James; Philleo, Addison; Lippincott, Thomas; Lovejoy, Elijah P.

26

3

Oct. 1933

222-269

The political career of William A. Richardson

Holt, Robert D.

Richardson, William A.; Kentucky; lawyers; migration; Illinois; Rushville, Ill.; Illinois State Legislature; House of Representatives; Democratic Party; Douglas, Stephen A.; Fugitive Slave Act; Kansas-Nebraska Act; Lecompton Constitution; governor; Nebraska; nomination; 1856; 1860; president; election; Buchanan, James; Civil War; Senate; Browning, Orville H.; Singleton, James W.; Lincoln, Abraham; African Americans; slavery

26

3

Oct. 1933

270-295

A pioneer in Lee County, Ill. : the autobiography of Charles Francis Ingals

Colby, Lydia, ed.

Ingals, Charles Francis; Ingalls, Charles Francis; autobiography; migration; Illinois; Lee County, Ill.; pioneers; farmers; land; sale; thieves; gold rush; California; log cabins

26

3

Oct. 1933

296-307

One hundredth anniversary of Rock Island County

Searle, Clinton

Rock Island County, Ill.; centennial; government; election; 1833; county commissioners

26

4

Jan. 1934

323-348

Douglas' place in American history

Milton, George Fort

Douglas, Stephen A.; Illinois; senators; politics; Democratic Party; Missouri Compromise; Compromise of 1850; Kansas-Nebraska Act; Lincoln, Abraham; debates; elections; 1858; Senate; 1860; president; Civil War

26

4

Jan. 1934

349-356

Early industries in Perry County

Rich, Paul

Perry County, Ill.; coal mining; St. John, Ill.; salt; wells; milling; Red Hoop Mill; apples; drying; manufacturing; Blakeslee Manufacturing Company

26

4

Jan. 1934

357-452

The Second Illinois in the Mexican War : Mexican War letters of Adolph Engelmann, 1846-1847

Engelmann, Otto B., ed. and translator

Engelmann, Adolph; Mexican War; army; 2nd Regiment of Illinois Foot Volunteers; Battle of Buena Vista; letters

26

4

Jan. 1934

453-458

New Salem : the dedication ceremonies

 

New Salem, Ill.; restoration; Lincoln, Abraham; Horner, Henry

26

4

Jan. 1934

459-466

Melville E. Stone : a brief sketch

Brophy, L. A.

Stone, Melville E.; newspapers; editors; journalists; Chicago Daily News; Associated Press

27

1

Apr. 1934

5-30

Jolliet goes west

Faye, Stanley

Jolliet, Louis; French; explorers; maps; fur trade; Lake Michigan; Mississippi River; Marquette, Jacques; Frontenac, Louis

27

1

Apr. 1934

31-54

A history of Saline County

Staff of the Mitchell-Carnegie Public Library, Harrisburg, Illinois

Saline County, Ill.; Piankashaw Indians; Shawnee Indians; Saline River; Northwest Territory; migration; salt; Shawneetown, Ill.; Gallatin County, Ill.; Harrisburg, Ill.; Civil War; railroads; coal mines; World War I

27

1

Apr. 1934

55-69

A brief history of Harrisburg, Illinois, 1853-1933

Staff of the Mitchell-Carnegie Public Library

Harrisburg, Ill.; population; buildings; tanning; mills; factories; tobacco; churches; schools; fires; floods; banking; coal mines

27

1

Apr. 1934

71-93

The White City : the beginnings of a planned civilization in America

Neufeld, Maurice

World's Columbian Exposition; Chicago; exhibits; planning; organization; architecture; World's Congress Auxiliary; conferences; city planning; Burnham, Daniel

27

1

Apr. 1934

95-107

The different editions of the "Debates of Lincoln and Douglas"

McMurtry, R. Gerald

Lincoln, Abraham; Douglas, Stephen A.; Senate; election; 1858; debates; newspapers; reporting; publication; editions

27

1

Apr. 1934

109-117

Historical markers for Illinois highways

Angle, Paul M.

Illinois; highways; historical markers

27

2

July 1934

133-177

The Fox River Norwegian settlement

Qualey, Carlton C.

Norwegians; immigration; Illinois; 1834; Fox River; Peerson, Cleng; Stavanger, Norway; Quakers; Kendall Township, N.Y.; Slogvig, Knud Anderson; Hovland, Gjert G.; Beaver Creek, Ill.; malaria; agriculture; religion; settlers; letters; Haaeim, Syver Jorgensen; Knudson, Halvor; newspapers; Wossingen; Voss, Norway

27

2

July 1934

178-194

The seven wonders of Egypt : the seven archaic stone walls on the seven hills

Moyers, William Nelson

Southern Illinois; stone forts; Giant City Stone Fort; Old Stone Fort; The Pounds; Draper's Bluff; Cornish Bluff; Water Lane Pound; War Bluff; Cherokee Indians

27

2

July 1934

195-201

The poverty of the Illinois French

McDermott, John Francis

Illinois Territory; French; Kaskaskia, Ill.; Cahokia, Ill.; poverty

27

2

July 1934

202-227

A bibliography of Peoria imprints

McMurtrie, Douglas C.

Peoria, Ill.; imprints; bibliography

27

2

July 1934

228-231

In memoriam Georgia Osborne

Norton, Margaret C.

Osborne, Georgia; obituaries; Illinois State Historical Library; Illinois State Historical Society

27

3

Oct. 1934

243-284

Chicago and Abraham Lincoln

Gernon, Blaine Brooks

Lincoln, Abraham; Chicago; Chicago Rivers and Harbors Convention; Whig Party; Goodrich, Grant; lawsuits; United States District Court; Kansas-Nebraska Act; Republican Party; Fremont, John C.; Illinois Central Railroad; Senate; 1858; Douglas, Stephen A.; president; election; conventions; 1860

27

3

Oct. 1934

285-296

The Prairie Hen : together with a sketch of its editor, E. S. Ingalls

Jordan, Philip D.

Prairie Hen; newspapers; Albion, Ill.; Antioch, Ill.; Ingalls, Eleazar S.; California; gold rush; Pike's Peak; Menominee, Mich.

27

3

Oct. 1934

297-329

Benjamin Darnell, Fort Darnell, and early settlers of Marshall County

Darnell, C. A.

Darnell, John; Darnell, Benjamin; migration; Sandy Creek, Ill.; Fort Darnell; Black Hawk War; settlers

27

3

Oct. 1934

330-340

The Southern Illinois College

Beyer, Richard Lawrence

Southern Illinois College; Christian Church; Carbondale, Ill.; Braden, Clark; students; curriculum; tuition; teachers; education; social life; athletics

27

4

Jan. 1935

351-431

The Peoria and Galena Trail and Coach Road and the Peoria neighborhood

Rennick, Percival Graham

Peoria and Galena Trail; Peoria and Galena Coach Road; historic sites; La Salle, Robert Cavelier; Tonti, Henry de; Fort Crevecoeur; Peoria Indians; French; La Ville de Maillet, Ill.; Peoria, Ill.; Peoria County, Ill.; Northampton, Ill.; Hallock, Ill.; Bureau County, Ill.; Princeton, Ill.; Tiskilwa, Ill.; Black Hawk; Senachwine; Rock River; Dixon, Ill.; Galena, Ill.

27

4

Jan. 1935

432-440

The indigenous iron industry of Illinois

Starke, Aubrey

iron; iron ore; mining; blast furnaces; Hardin County, Ill.

27

4

Jan. 1935

441-462

Congregationalism in Jacksonville and early Illinois

Heinl, Frank J.

Congregational Church; nationalization; Jacksonville, Ill.; Illinois; Illinois College; Ellis, John M.; Sturtevant, Julian M.; missions; slavery; abolitionism; Lovejoy, Elijah P.; Wolcott, Elihu; Underground Railroad; Douglas, Stephen A.; Yates, Richard; Republican Party; education; universities; federal aid

28

1

Apr. 1935

5-25

John Dean Caton's reminiscences of Chicago in 1833 and 1834

Pratt, Harry E.

Caton, John Dean; Chicago; migration; ships; business; manufacturing; homes; streets; Fort Dearborn; lawyers; prairie; balls

28

1

Apr. 1935

26-48

The Indian boundary line under the treaty of August 24, 1816

Davis, Charles D.

Illinois Territory; Illinois; American Indians; treaties; 1816; 1825; 1828; 1829; boundaries; Edwards, Ninian

28

1

Apr. 1935

49-64

Portraits of historic spots in Illinois

Newberry, Lane K.

Illinois; paintings; historic sites; Nauvoo, Ill.; Mormons; Newberry, Lane K.

28

1

Apr. 1935

65-77

A newly discovered speech of Lincoln : delivered at Bloomington, September 26, 1854

East, Ernest E., ed.

Lincoln, Abraham; speeches; Bloomington, Ill.; slavery; Kansas-Nebraska Act; Missouri Compromise; slavery; abolitionism; Republican Party; Whig Party

28

1

Apr. 1935

78-91

An aboriginal village site in Union County

Merwin, Bruce W.

Union County, Ill.; villages; American Indians; Sioux Indians; Mound Builders

28

2

July 1935

5-52

The Northern Cross Railroad

Stratton, H. J.

Northern Cross Railroad; railroads; construction; routes; track; rails; ties; gauge; canals; cost; Illinois; Internal Improvement Act; safety; grade crossings; Naples and Jacksonville Railroad Company; locomotives; freight cars; passenger cars; revenue; expenses; leasing; sale; Ridgely, Nicholas H.; Semple, James

28

2

July 1935

53-80

Stephen A. Hurlbut, 1815-1882

Sager, Juliet Gilman

Hurlbut, Stephen A.; lawyers; Belvidere, Ill.; Illinois; constitutional convention; Lincoln, Abraham; Whig Party; Republican Party; Civil War; army; Illinois State Legislature; Colombia; Peru; diplomats; canals; Isthmus of Darien; House of Representatives; election; 1876; Hayes, Rutherford B.; Blaine, James G.

28

2

July 1935

81-99

Evidences of the "higher life" on the frontier : as illustrated in the history of cultural matters in Chicago, 1830-1850

Still, Bayrd

Chicago; culture; 1830-1850; theater; education; schools; teachers; books; lectures; newspapers; music; religion

28

2

July 1935

100-109

A merchant of early Chicago : four letters of Eri Baker Hulbert

Wyant, Elizabeth, ed.

Hulbert, Eri Baker; migration; Chicago; Walker  & Co.; letters

28

3

Oct. 1935

123-163

The Foxes' fort -- 1730

Faye, Stanley

Fox Indians; Tonti, Henri de; Starved Rock, Ill.; Fort Chartres, Ill.; Illinois Indians; Peoria Indians; Sauk Indians; French; Louisiana; Canada; Illinois; Beauharnois, Charles de; Villiers, Nicolas-Antoine Coulon de; St. Ange, Robert Grosson

28

3

Oct. 1935

164-187

Historic spots in Henry County, Illinois

Colby, Lydia

Henry County, Ill.; historic sites; Benedict, Albert; migration; Pillsbury, Ithamer; Andover, Ill.; Wethersfield, Ill.; Morristown, Ill.; La Grange Colony, Ill.; Geneseo Colony, Ill.; Bishop Hill, Ill.; Great Sauk Trail; Allan, James M.; Richmond, Ill.; Vandalia, Ill.

28

3

Oct. 1935

188-203

Bank failures in Chicago before 1925

Thomas, R. G.

banks; national; state; private; failures; Chicago; notes; Panic of 1873; receivership; depositors; losses; regulation; management; loans; embezzlement; fraud

28

3

Oct. 1935

204-214

Ninety-eight years ago in Bloomington

 

Ellsworth, Oliver; travel; personal narratives; migration; Bloomington, Ill.

28

4

Jan. 1936

225-236

Otto Leopold Schmidt : 1863-1935

Pease, Theodore C.

Schmidt, Otto Leopold; doctors; obituaries; Chicago Board of Education; Chicago Historical Society; Illinois State Historical Library; Illinois State Historical Society; German-American Historical Society

28

4

Jan. 1936

237-246

Otto Leopold Schmidt : an appreciation

Larson, Laurence M.

Schmidt, Otto Leopold; obituaries; Illinois State Historical Society; Illinois State Historical Library; German-American Historical Society; Mississippi Valley Historical Association; Chicago Historical Society

28

4

Jan. 1936

247-257

One of Mr. Lincoln's old friends

Tyler, Moses Coit

Miller, Anson S.; Lincoln, Abraham; lawyers; personal narratives; slavery; Pope, Nathaniel; judges; election; 1860; Republican Party; conventions; nomination

28

4

Jan. 1936

258-270

Books in the wilderness

Starke, Aubrey

Illinois Territory; St. Louis; books; collections; catalogs; Gibault, Pierre; priests; Moore, James; Tardiveau, Barthelemi; Reynolds, John; Chouteau, Auguste; Beauvais; McGeoch, James; public libraries; Albion, Ill.; Flower, Richard; Edwardsville, Ill.; catalogs

28

4

Jan. 1936

271-278

Peter Cartwright and the cause of education

Pratt, Harry E.

Cartwright, Peter, Methodist Church; ministers; circuit riders; education; schools; colleges; Illinois

28

4

Jan. 1936

279-308

Autobiography of Dr. Ephraim Ingals

Weaver, George H., foreword

Ingals, Ephraim; Ingalls, Ephraim; autobiography; doctors; migration; Illinois; farming; education; teachers; medical schools; Rush Medical College; Ingals, Melissa Church; Chicago; North-Western Medical and Surgical Journal; Northwestern University; Chicago Medical College

29

1

Apr. 1936

5-41

Material customs in the Territory of Illinois

Smelser, Marshall

Illinois Territory; residents; food; preparation; service; drink; tea; coffee; wine; whiskey; clothing; homes; furniture; personal hygiene; health; medicine; sanitation; marriage; etiquette; amusements; reading; hunting; games; sports; dancing; travel

29

1

Apr. 1936

42-69

Abraham Lincoln in Bloomington, Ill.

Pratt, Harry E.

Lincoln, Abraham; Bloomington, Ill.; lawyers; Stuart, John T.; Congress; election; 1838; Douglas, Stephen A.; McLean County Circuit Court; cases; speeches; Illinois; senators; 1858; social life; Fell, Jesse W.; president; nomination; Republican Party; 1860; election; Civil War; death

29

1

Apr. 1936

70-75

The "Peoria truce" : did Douglas ask for quarter?

East, Ernest E.

Douglas, Stephen A.; Lincoln, Abraham; speeches; Kansas-Nebraska Act; Peoria, Ill.; Lacon, Ill.; Aurora, Ill.; Douglass, Frederick

29

1

Apr. 1936

76-88

The memoirs of James McGrady Rutledge, 1814-1899

Pond, Fern Nance, introduction and notes

Rutledge, James McGrady; memoirs; Rutledge, Ann; burial; Lincoln, Abraham; Rutledge, Margaret Harris; Houghton, Emma Rutledge

29

2

July 1936

103-120

George Rogers Clark's relief claims

Bodley, Temple

Clark, George Rogers; Revolutionary War; army; expenses; claims; payment; Virginia; United States; Congress; Northwest Territory

29

2

July 1936

121-134

The other end of the Great Sauk Trail

Spooner, Harry L.

Great Sauk Trail; trails; roads; Chicago Road; Illinois; Sauk Indians;  Fox Indians; British; Canada; Amherstburg, Ont.; River Rouge; burial mounds; Elliott, Matthew; Girty, Simon; Fort Malden, Ont.; War of 1812; Brock, Isaac

29

2

July 1936

135-150

"Conservative" -- another Lincoln pseudonym?

Seymour, Glenn H.

Lincoln, Abraham; writing; style; pseudonyms; Douglas, Stephen A.; Stuart, John T. candidates; election; House of Representatives; 1837; letters; Sangamo Journal

29

2

July 1936

151-160

The Branton tavern

Bale, Florence Gratiot

Branton Tavern; paintings; Newberry, Lane K.; Mineral Point, Wis.; Galena, Ill.; ore; mining; Cornish; immigration; Branton, Henry; Branton, Alice Dixon; Branton, Kate Santry; Smith, Alice Brandon

29

2

July 1936

161-167

The naming of Bloomington

Syfert, Vernon A.

Bloomington, Ill.; trappers; fur traders; Kickapoo Indians; Keg Grove, Ill.; Blooming Grove, Ill.; Allin, James; Orendorff, William; Orendorff, Thomas

29

2

July 1936

168-173

A plea for our old graveyards

English, Sara John

Illinois; cemeteries; gravestones; records; preservation

29

3

Oct. 1936

189-311

Illinois place-names

Barge, William D.;

Caldwell, Norman M.

Illinois; counties; cities; towns; place names

29

4

Jan. 1937

325-330

Address on the unveiling of a portrait of Dr. Otto L. Schmidt

Horner, Henry

Schmidt, Otto L.; Illinois State Historical Society; Illinois State Historical Library; German-American Historical Society; Mississippi Valley Historical Association; speeches

29

4

Jan. 1937

331-350

Functions of a local historical society

Kellar, Herbert A.

historical societies; research; materials; collection; cataloging; preservation; membership; Peoria Historical Society; Peoria, Ill.

29

4

Jan. 1937

351-363

Joseph W. Rickert

Steinbrecher, Ann

Richert, Joseph W.; lawyers; politicians; Democratic Party; biography; Waterloo, Ill.; Bryan, William Jennings

29

4

Jan. 1937

364-402

Normal and the Norman horse industry : Percherons of today

Dillon, Jessie M.

draft horses; Percherons; Normans; breeding; imports; France; sales; Normal, Ill.; Tazewell County, Ill.; E. Dillon & Co.; Dillon Bros.; Dillon, Ellis; Dillon, Isaiah; Dillon, Levi; Dillon, Adolphus; Old Louis Napoleon

29

4

Jan. 1937

403-431

A colony settlement : Geneseo, Illinois, 1836-1837

Hubbard, Anson M.

Geneseo, Ill.; migration; farming; recreation; Wilcox, Jairus; Bartlett, Cromwell K.; Steward, Roderick R.; Ward, John C.; Cady; Allen, James M.; Seymour, Arba M.; Hubbard, William H.; Hubbard, Anson M.

30

1

Apr. 1937

5-69

In defense of Mrs. Lincoln

Ritze, C. C.

Lincoln, Mary Todd; Lincoln, Abraham; marriage; Rutledge, Ann; Evans, William A.; Herndon, William H.; Shields, James; duel; Douglas, Stephen A.; Angle, Paul M.; Civil War

30

1

Apr. 1937

70-84

The journal of Charles Ballance of Peoria

East, Ernest E., ed.

Ballance, Charles; Kentucky; migration; Peoria, Ill.; travel; lawyers; mayors; diaries

30

1

Apr. 1937

85-134

Transportation in the development of Joliet and Will County

Shaw, Fayette B.

Joliet, Ill.; Will County, Ill.; transportation; trade; migration; canals; flatboats; steamboats; Illinois and Michigan Canal; Chicago; Des Plaines River; freight; trails; roads; stagecoaches; covered wagons; inns; taverns; railroads; Chicago and Rock Island Railroad Company; Illinois Central Railroad; Alton Railroad; Michigan Central Railroad

30

1

Apr. 1937

135-158

Letters from two wars

Burr, Barbara

Ozburn, Lindorf; Mexican War; Civil War; letters; Ozburn, Diza Glenn; Logan, John A.

30

2

July 1937

163-170

A new source of information for historians

Monaghan, James

Works Progress Administration; Chicago; periodicals; foreign language; translation; indexing

30

2

July 1937

171-179

Once-glorious Galena

Eby, Esther E.

Galena, Ill.; fur trade; lead; ore; mining; steamboats; immigration; homes; churches; hotels

30

2

July 1937

180-192

The Illinois Railroad and its successors

Boylan, Josephine

Illinois Railroad; Reynolds, John; Jarrot, Vital; construction; cars; coal; Anderson, William C.; St. Clair County Railroad Company; Pittsburg Railroad and Coal Company; Illinois and St. Louis Railroad and Coal Company; Belleville, Ill.; East St. Louis, Ill.

30

2

July 1937

193-255

The 130th Infantry, Illinois National Guard: a history

Wood, Walter Shea

Illinois National Guard, 130th Infantry; militia; French; British; Revolutionary War; War of 1812; American Indians; Black Hawk War; Mexican War; Civil War; Spanish-American War; World War I

30

3

Oct. 1937

289-344

Courts and lawyers in northern and western Illinois

Rennick, P. G.

Illinois; courts; statehood; constitution;1818; 1848;1870; justices; judges; Peoria County, Ill.; Jo Daviess County, Ill.; voters; aliens; governor; Secretary of State; Carlin, Thomas; Field, Alexander Pope; McClernand, John A.; Breese, Sidney; Ford, Thomas; Stone, Dan; Caton, John Dean; Koerner, Gustave; Douglas, Stephen A.; Scates, Walter B.; Lovejoy, Owen

30

3

Oct. 1937

345-352

Pierre La Sallier : Lee County's first white settler

Stevens, Frank E.

La Sallier, Pierre; La Sallier, Therese Marcot; Fisher, Marienne La Sallier; Fisher, Henry Monroe; Schindler, George; fur trade; settlers; Webb, James Watson; Lee County, Ill.

30

3

Oct. 1937

353-384

John Peter Altgeld and the election of 1896

Wish, Harvey

Altgeld, John Peter; governors; Illinois; elections; 1896; conventions; Democratic Party; platform; free silver; Bryan, William Jennings; Schurz, Carl; Pullman strike; troops; federal; Forman, William S.; Morrison, William R.; Lloyd, Henry Demarest

30

4

Jan. 1938

415-428

The significance of the Ordinance of 1787

Quaife, Milo M.

Northwest Ordinance; Northwest Territory; United States; settlement; expansion; Ohio; Indiana; Illinois; Michigan; Wisconsin; civil liberties; education; waterways; slavery; American Indians

30

4

Jan. 1938

429-440

Successful and unsuccessful merchants in the Illinois country

Thomas, Charles M.

Illinois; merchants; trading; fur trade; English; French; Spanish; American Indians; Baynton, Wharton and Morgan; Morgan, George; Franks and Gratz

30

4

Jan. 1938

441-503

With Grant at Vicksburg : from the Civil War diary of Captain Charles E. Wilcox

Erickson, Edgar L., ed.

Wilcox, Charles E.; diaries; Civil War; Army; 33rd Illinois Infantry Volunteers; Siege of Vicksburg; Grant, Ulysses S.

31

1

Mar. 1938

5-21

Hell and high water : the flood of 1937 in southern Illinois

Beyer, Richard Lawrence

floods; Ohio River; Southern Illinois; 1937

31

1

Mar. 1938

22-53

The French and British at play in the Old Northwest, 1760-1796

Russell, Nelson Vance

Old Northwest; French; British; settlers; clothing; homes; recreation; horse racing; sleighing; skating; parties; weddings; shooting; hunting; fishing; boat racing; dancing; hospitality;  drinking; politics

31

1

Mar. 1938

54-71

Illinois State University, 1852-1868

Evjen, Harry

Illinois State University, Springfield; Hillsboro College; Evangelical Lutheran Church; Lincoln, Abraham; Lincoln, Robert Todd; Hay, John M.; Springer, Francis; Harkey, S. W.; Reynolds, W. M.; Esbjorn, L. P.; scholarships; literary societies

31

1

Mar. 1938

72-96

Illinois in 1937

Eversole, Mildred

Illinois; chronology; 1937

31

2

June 1938

125-137

The record of a friendship : a series of letters from Lincoln to Henry E. Dummer

Angle, Paul M.

Lincoln, Abraham; letters; Dummer, Henry E.; Illinois State Historical Society

31

2

June 1938

138-159

Farming in Illinois a century ago as illustrated in Bond County

Schmidt, Hubert

agriculture; Bond County, Ill.; plows; oxen; horses; cotton; vegetables; corn; oats; wheat; hay; livestock; orchards; profits

31

2

June 1938

160-165

Thomas Langrell Harris : a biography by Stephen A. Douglas and James Shields

Palmer, John M., foreword

Harris, Thomas L.; biography; obituaries; House of Representatives; Illinois; speeches; Douglas, Stephen A.; Shields, James

31

2

June 1938

166-187

The Ladies' Association for Educating Females, 1833-1937

Moore, Margaret King

women; education; Illinois; Ladies' Association for Educating Females; Ladies' Education Society; Jacksonville, Ill.; Ellis, Celeste; Tillson, Mrs. John; teachers; Bannister, Zilpah Grant

31

2

June 1938

188-212

Contributions to Chicago history from Peoria County records, pt. 1

East, Ernest E.

Chicago; Peoria County, Ill.; government; jurisdiction; elections; taxation; courts; fur traders; Crafts, John; Wallace, William Henry; Kinzie, John; heirs; probate; estate; auction; Hunter, David

31

3

Sept. 1938

245-261

Laurence Marcellus Larson, 1868-1938

Pease, Theodore C.

Larson, Laurence Marcellus; obituaries; Illinois State Historical Society; Illinois State Historical Library; University of Illinois; History Department; American Historical Association; immigration; Norwegian Americans

31

3

Sept. 1938

262-296

The trials of a ghost-writer of Lincoln biography

House, Albert V., Jr.

Lincoln, Abraham; biographies; ghost writers; Black, Chauncey F.; Lamon, Ward Hill; Black, Jeremiah S.; Barton, William E.; Herndon, William H.; Osgood & Company; Buchanan, James; Davis, David

31

3

Sept. 1938

297-322

Southern Illinois folk songs

McIntosh, David S.

folk songs; Southern Illinois

31

3

Sept. 1938

323-341

Contributions to Chicago history from Peoria County records, pt. 2

East, Ernest E.

Chicago; Peoria County, Ill.; government; May, Francis; heirs; estate; liquor; sales; license; taverns; Kinzie, John; Watkins, Deborah; Watkins, Morrison; Clybourn, Archibald; Miller, Samuel; Robinson, Alexander; Beaubien, Mark; Heacock, Russell E.; ministers; Methodist Church; Walker, Jesse; See, William, Scarritt; ferry service; Helm, Linai Taliaferro; Helm, Margaret McKillip; divorce; Potawatomi Indians; Ottawa Indians; treaties; Caldwell, Archibald; Caldwell, Emily Hall; Josette; Caldwell, Billy; Robinson, Alexander

31

4

Dec. 1938

381-410

The role of Chicago Czechs in the struggle for Czechoslovak independence

Jahelka, Joseph

Czechs; Slovaks; Chicago; Bohemia; independence; associations; newspapers; Masaryk, Thomas G.; World War I; Austria; Serbia; Tvrzicky, Joseph; Nigrin, Jaroslav V.; Bohemian National Alliance; National Council of Czech Countries; Czechoslovak Army

31

4

Dec. 1938

411-423

The stage career of Buffalo Bill

Monaghan, James

Cody, William F. (Buffalo Bill); actors; theater; Buntline, Ned; Bennett, James Gordon; dime novels; Wild West shows; American Indians; Custer, George A.; Battle of Little Big Horn; Salsbury, Nate

31

4

Dec. 1938

424-448

Governor Altgeld pardons the anarchists

Wish, Harvey

Altgeld, John Peter; Haymarket Affair; anarchists; trial; pardon; Fielden, Samuel; Schwab, Michael; Neebe, Oscar; Gary, Joseph E.; Amnesty Association; police; Schilling, George; McConnell, Samuel P.; Bonfield, John; Schaak, Michael J.; newspapers

31

4

Dec. 1938

449-481

An Illinois state agent in Washington : the activities of Harry Dewitt Cook, 1865-1871

Ochs, Robert D.

Cook, Harry Dewitt; Illinois; United States; government; federal; state; agents; military; fiscal; Civil War; army; veterans; bounties; pensions; claims; Oglesby, Richard J.; Palmer, John M.; Department of the Treasury; War Department

32

1

Mar. 1939

5-19

Lincoln and conscription

Sandburg, Carl

Lincoln, Abraham; Civil War; army; draft; exemption; substitutes; bounties

32

1

Mar. 1939

20-50

The attitude of European officers of the revolutionary armies toward General George Washington

Gottschalk, Louis

Washington, George; Lafayette, Marquis de; liberty; equality; republicanism; Broglie, Charles-Francois; Mauroy, Charles-Louis; Dekalb, Jean; Conway, Thomas; Steuben, Friedrich von; Duportail, Louis Lebegue; Du Coudray, Philippe-Charles-Jean-Baptiste Tronson; Armand-Charles Tuffin, Marquise de la Rouerie

32

1

Mar. 1939

51-70

Frontier sketches : I. The politician

Carter, C. C.

Illinois; frontier; politicians

32

1

Mar. 1939

71-110

Illinois in 1938

Eversole, Mildred

Illinois; chronology; 1938

32

2

June 1939

139-172

Retail merchandising in Chicago, 1833-1848

Frueh, Erne Rene

merchandise; stores; retail; general; specialization; credit; cash; advertising; profits

32

2

June 1939

173-192

Mormonism in Illinois

Buckingham, Clyde E.

Mormons; Illinois; missionaries; Quincy, Ill.; Commerce City, Ill.; Nauvoo, Ill.; charter; militia; Nauvoo Legion; Nauvoo Temple; Smith, Joseph; polygamy; Law, Wilson; Law, William; Nauvoo Expositor; Smith, Hyrum; Young, Brigham; migration; Utah

32

2

June 1939

193-205

Shawneetown : a chapter in the Indian history of Illinois

Caldwell, Norman W.

Shawneetown, Ill.; Shawnee Indians; migration; French; Illinois; Fort Chartres, Ill.

32

2

June 1939

206-230

Frontier sketches : II. The schoolmaster

Carter, C. C.

Illinois; frontier; teachers; men

32

3

Sept. 1939

261-287

Books in a pioneer household

Baker, Clara Martin

Davis, David; Davis, Mary; Baker, William D.; Baker, Marilla; Illinois; migration; pioneers; books; Bibles; hymn books; theology; prayers; almanacs; medicine; children's books; textbooks; newspapers; magazines

32

3

Sept. 1939

288-312

The Pullman strike : a study in industrial warfare

Wish, Harvey

Pullman strike; Pullman Car Company; Pullman, George M.; Pullman, Ill.; workers; wages; rents; American Railway Union; General Managers' Association; Debs, Eugene V.; Olney, Richard; injunctions; troops; federal; state; police; Walker, Edwin; Miles, Nelson A.; Altgeld, John Peter; Gompers, Samuel; American Federation of Labor

32

3

Sept. 1939

313-357

Hazelwood, its master and its coterie

Stevens, Frank E.

Charters, Alexander; Irish; Belfast; migration; New York City; Dixon's Ferry, Ill.; Dixon, John; Hazelwood; Shillaber, John; Illinois Central Railroad; routes; Bryant, William Cullen; Kearny, Philip; Fuller, Margaret; Taylor, Bayard; Douglas, Stephen A.; Charters, Samuel M.; Charters, Jane Cregier; Charters, Fannie J.; Charters, James Boomer

32

3

Sept. 1939

358-378

The southern influence in the formation of Illinois

Barnhart, John D.

Illinois Territory; Illinois; migration; South; pioneers; farmers; officials; slavery; statehood; constitutional convention; delegates

32

3

Sept. 1939

379-389

Frontier sketches : III. The schoolmistress

Carter, C. C.

Illinois; frontier; teachers, women

32

4

Dec. 1939

417-441

Peter Akers : Methodist circuit rider and educator (1790-1886)

Johnson, T. Walter

Akers, Peter; Methodist Church; ministers; circuit riders; preaching; Kentucky; Akers, Eliza Faris; conversion; migration; Illinois; slavery; abolitionism; education; McKendree College; Ebenezer Manual Labor School

32

4

Dec. 1939

442-473

The Black Hawk War : a military analysis

Lambert, Joseph I.

Black Hawk War; Black Hawk; Sauk Indians; settlers; Mississippi River; Reynolds, John; Gaines, Edmund P.; Atkinson, Henry; army; infantry; cavalry; volunteers; Whiteside, Samuel; Stillman. Isaiah; Dodge, Henry; Henry, James D.; Taylor, Zachary; Scott, Winfield

32

4

Dec. 1939

474-497

Infant industries in Illinois : as illustrated in Quincy, 1836-1856

Wilkey, Harry L.

industry; Quincy, Ill.; meat packing; pork; milling; manufacturing; stoves; plows; wagons; carriages; foundries; machine shops; whisky; distilleries; wood working; barrels; cabinets; leather; shoes; saddles; harnesses

32

4

Dec. 1939

498-516

The Welsh people in Illinois

Monaghan, Jay

Welsh; immigration; Chicago; religion; churches; choral singing; Welsh language; Republican Party; World's Columbian Exposition; Welsh National Cymrodorian Society; Jones, Jenkin Lloyd; newspapers; lodges; Cambrian Benevolent Society; American True Order of Ivorites; Kymry Society; builders; contractors; Wright, Frank Lloyd; Apmadoc, William; Prothero, Daniel; Llewellyn, A. J.

32

4

Dec. 1939

517-524

Frank Everett Stevens : January 5, 1856-October 16, 1939

Angle, Paul M.

Stevens, Frank Everett; Illinois; history; research; writing; books; collections

33

1

Mar. 1940

7-56

The Charleston riot, March 28, 1864

Coleman, Charles H.;

Spence, Paul H.

Charleston, Ill.; Coles County, Ill.; Civil War; riots; Union; army; soldiers; Copperheads; Knights of the Golden Circle; Constable, Charles H.; 54th Illinois Infantry; O'Hair, John H.; Wells, Nelson; Sallee, Oliver; Mitchell, Greenville M.; Freesner, Levi; Rardin, George W.; Redmon, John; Lincoln, Abraham; trial; Coles County Circuit Court; Effingham County Circuit Court

33

1

Mar. 1940

57-67

Benjamin Lundy in Illinois

Landon, Fred

Lundy, Benjamin; slavery; abolitionism; newspapers; Genius of Universal Emancipation; Illinois Anti-Slavery Society; LaSalle County, Ill.

33

1

Mar. 1940

68-77

Mary Hartwell Catherwood : a bibliography

Price, Robert

Catherwood, Mary Hartwell; historical novels; poems; short stories; bibliography

33

1

Mar. 1940

78-115

Illinois in 1939

Eversole, Mildred

Illinois; chronology; 1939

33

2

June 1940

153-165

Streeterville saga

Broomell, Kenneth F.; Church, Harlow M.

Streeter, George Wellington; Chicago; Streeterville; District of Lake Michigan; treaties; Potawatomi Indians; land; title; police; raids

33

2

June 1940

166-189

A poet's mother in Illinois

Bohman, George V.

Bryant, Sarah Snell; Bryant, William Cullen; migration; Princeton, Ill.; Bureau County, Ill.

33

2

June 1940

190-202

The drama in southern Illinois (1865-1900)

Stallings, Roy

theater; showboats; circuses; Southern Illinois; Cairo, Ill.; Cairo Athenaeum; Cairo Opera House; Cairo Opera Company; Carbondale, Ill.; Herrin, Ill.

33

2

June 1940

203-206

Prudence Crandall, abolitionist

Tisler, C. C.

Crandall, Prudence; abolitionism; African Americans; students; schools; Philleo, Calvin; Philleo Academy; Troy Grove, Ill.

33

2

June 1940

207-211

The president of the Lincoln Guard of Honor

Swift, Lester L.

Lincoln, Abraham; corpse; theft; tomb; Springfield, Ill.; Lincoln Guard of Honor; Power, John Carroll; Dana, Gustavus S.

33

2

June 1940

212-232

The story of an ordinary man

Angle, Paul M., ed.

Tebbetts, William H.; migration; Illinois; Civil War; Union; army; letters

33

3

Sept. 1940

269-277

The Navy and the Booth conspirators

Paullin, Charles O.

United States Navy; Lincoln, Abraham; assassination; Booth, John Wilkes; O'Laughlin, Michael; Arnold, Samuel B.; Herold, David E.; Atzerodt, George A.; Payne, Lewis; Spangler, Edward; Montgomery, John B.; Washington Navy Yard; Parker, Foxhall A.; Stanton, Edwin M.

33

3

Sept. 1940

278-303

Domestic arts and crafts in Illinois (1800-1860)

Taylor, Marjorie Caroline

Illinois; settlers; log cabins; homes; churches; schools; furniture; farming; food; storage; cooking; utensils; gardens; livestock; washing; clothing; wool; spinning; sewing; quilting; weaving

33

3

Sept. 1940

304-340

Rock Island and the Rock Island Arsenal

Nothstein, Ira Oliver

Rock Island Arsenal; arms; ammunition; Davis, Jefferson; Sauk Indians; Fox Indians; French; British; War of 1812; Fort Armstrong; Black Hawk War; Civil War; Kingsbury, C. P.; Rodman, Thomas J.; prisons; Confederates; Flagler, D. W.; Spanish American War; machine shops; World War I

33

3

Sept. 1940

341-358

Notes on Rock River navigation

Larson, Gustav E.

Rock River; Illinois; Wisconsin; navigation; fur trade; lead; lumber; flatboats; steamboats; canals; locks; Rock River Navigation Company

33

4

Dec. 1940

389-411

Wanderings in the West in 1839

Hayter, Earl W.

Gould, , J.; travel; narratives; Illinois

33

4

Dec. 1940

412-437

Literary opportunities in pioneer times

Monaghan, Jay

United States; books; authors; textbooks; novels; magazines; women authors; Irving, Washington; Cooper, James Fenimore; Stone, William L.; Woodworth, Samuel; plays; minstrel shows; Foster, Stephen; historical novels; sports writing; dime novels; Ingraham, J. H.; Buntline, Ned

33

4

Dec. 1940

438-468

Charles Reynolds Matheny, pioneer settler of Illinois (1786-1839)

Johnson, T. Walter

Matheny, Charles R.; migration; settlers; Virginia; Kentucky; Illinois; Methodist Church; circuit riders; farming; War of 1812; St. Clair County, Ill.; Illinois Territory; Illinois State Legislature; circuit courts; judges; statehood; slavery; indentured servitude; Panic of 1819; Sangamon County, Ill.; Springfield, Ill.; Springfield Academy

33

4

Dec. 1940

469-477

Mr. Lincoln goes to the theatre

Hemminger, Art

Lincoln, Abraham; theater; Hillis, Lois; Jefferson, Joseph III; Burton, William Evans; Hackett, James H.; Springfield, Ill.; Chicago; Washington, D.C.; licensing; fees; plays; minstrel shows

33

4

Dec. 1940

478-520

Hiram K. Jones and philosophy in Jacksonville

Anderson, Paul Russell

Jacksonville, Ill.; philosophy; Jones, Hiram K.; physicians; medicine; Platonism; Plato; Plato Club; evolution; Fuller, Louise M.; King, Mrs. J. O.; Wolcott, Mrs. Elizur; Wolcott, Elizur, Block, Lewis; Alcott, Bronson; Concord School of Philosophy; Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich; American Akademe; Harris, William Torrey; Emery, S. H., Jr.; Snider, Denton J.; Wilder, Alexander

34

1

Mar. 1941

7-25

Charles S. Deneen, 1863-1940

West, Roy O.;

Walton, William C.

Deneen, Charles S.; obituaries; state's attorney; Cook County, Ill.; governor; Illinois; McKendree College

34

1

Mar. 1941

26-49

A Confederate prisoner at Rock Island : the diary of Lafayette Rogan

Hauberg, John H., ed.

Civil War; prisons; prisoners; Confederates; prisoners; diaries; Rock Island, Ill.

34

1

Mar. 1941

50-83

Quincy, an outpost of philosophy

Anderson, Paul Russell

Quincy, Ill.; philosophy; Plato; Platonism; Emery, Samuel H., Jr.; Emerson, Ralph Waldo; Alcott, Bronson; Denman, Sarah; McClure, Edward; Friends in Council; women's clubs; Plato Club; Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich; Concord School of Philosophy

34

1

Mar. 1941

84-91

Zachary Taylor in Illinois

Hamilton, Holman

Taylor, Zachary; army; Illinois; War of 1812; Battle of Credit Island; narratives

34

1

Mar. 1941

92-122

Illinois in 1940

Eversole, Mildred

Illinois; chronology; 1940

34

2

June 1941

161-163

The Illinois State Historical Society : a statement of policy

 

Illinois; history; Illinois State Historical Society

34

2

June 1941

164-176

The painted record of a community experiment : Olaf Krans and his pictures of the Bishop Hill colony

Jacobson, Margaret E.

Bishop Hill, Ill.; Krans, Olaf; artists; paintings

34

2

June 1941

177-208

Jacob Strawn and John T. Alexander : central Illinois stockmen

McClelland, Clarence P.

Strawn, Jacob; Alexander, John T.; Morgan County, Ill.; farming; cattle

34

2

June 1941

209-232

Was Abraham Lincoln really a spiritualist?

Monaghan, Jay

Lincoln, Abraham; spiritualism; seances; Lincoln, Mary Todd; Hall, Fayette; Maynard, Nettie Colburn

34

2

June 1941

233-244

An Icarian in Nauvoo

Barnes, Sherman B.

Icarians; utopias; communism; Nauvoo, Ill.; Cabet, Etienne; Roux, Pierre; letters

34

3

Sept. 1941

281-302

Camp Lincoln

Illinois Writers' Project

Camp Lincoln; Springfield, Ill.; Illinois National Guard; cavalry; infantry; training; Civilian Conservation Corps; discipline; saloons; drinking; African Americans; race relations; riots; recreation; marksmanship; athletics

34

3

Sept. 1941

303-333

English settlers in Illinois

Foreman, Grant

English; immigration; settlers; Illinois; letters; potters

34

3

Sept. 1941

334-343

Canton College : an early attempt at higher education in Illinois

Eversole, Mildred, ed.

Canton College; colleges; Illinois; Wright, Nathaniel; Wright, Joel; Dewey, N. W.; letters

34

3

Sept. 1941

344-348

Lincoln was tough on officers

Russell, Don

Lincoln, Abraham; Union; army; officers; courts martial; penalties

34

3

Sept. 1941

349-365

The Illinois State Historical Society

 

Illinois; history; Illinois Historical Society; publications; conferences; Illinois Literary and Historical Society; Illinois State Historical Library

34

4

Dec. 1941

401-438

The raising of Union forces in Illinois during the Civil War

Dayton, Aretas A.

Civil War; Illinois; Union; army; recruitment; volunteers; draft; evasion; bounties; substitutes; Yates, Richard; War Department; Cameron, Simon; Stanton, Edwin M.; Oakes, James; Knights of the Golden Circle; Chicago Draft Insurance Company

34

4

Dec. 1941

439-452

James Hall and the Antiquarian and Historical Society of Illinois

Flanagan, John T.

Hall, James; Illinois; history; societies; Antiquarian and Historical Society of Illinois; historic preservation

34

4

Dec. 1941

453-471

The Lake Michigan water diversion controversy : a summary statement

Graff, Maurice O.

Lake Michigan; water; diversion; Chicago; Chicago River; sewage; Chicago Drainage Canal; inland waterways; Canada; Illinois River; Great Lakes; Wisconsin; Michigan; Ohio; Pennsylvania; New York State

35

1

Mar. 1942

7-20

The "Latin peasants" of Belleville, Illinois

Villard, Oswald Garrison

German Americans; immigration; Belleville, Ill.; Hilgard, Theodore; Koerner, Gustav; democracy; politics; Democratic Party; Republican Party; Engelmann, Friedrich

35

1

Mar. 1942

21-56

Illinois in 1941

Eversole, Mildred

Illinois; chronology; 1941

35

1

Mar. 1942

57-72

Illinois Indians on the lower Mississippi, 1771-1782

Faye, Stanley

Illinois Indians; Peoria Indians; Kaskaskia Indians; Cahokia Indians; Tamaroa Indians; Quapaw Indians; Mississippi River; Arkansas River; France; Spain; Great Britain; trade; Orieta, Josef de; Du Coigne, Jean Batiste; Unzaga, Luis de; Villiers, Balthazar de; Clark, George Rogers

35

2

June 1942

107-114

The historical society in wartime

Beyer, Richard L.

history; historical societies; World War II; patriotism; culture; archives; preservation; education

35

2

June 1942

115-132

A forgotten Evanston institution : the Northwestern Female College

Clark, Dwight F.

Northwestern Female College; Jones, William P., Jr.; Jones, J. Wesley; women; education; Northwestern University; Evanston College for Ladies

35

2

June 1942

133-139

Did Abraham Lincoln receive the Illinois Germanic vote?

Monaghan, Jay

Lincoln, Abraham; German Americans; Illinois; election; president; 1860; Republican Party; Democratic Party

35

2

June 1942

140-147

The unique career of an Illinois musician

Martin, Lorene

Bagby, Albert Morris; Rushville, Ill.; Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; lectures; concerts; Liszt, Franz

35

2

June 1942

148-173

Audubon's "Journey up the Mississippi"

McDermott, John Francis, ed.

Audubon, John James; Mississippi River; travel; narratives

35

2

June 1942

174-179

The Illinois Historical Records Survey : a bibliography of its publications

Hall, Thomas R.

Illinois; archives; Illinois Historical Records Survey; publications; bibliography

35

3

Sept. 1942

213-215

Our national ignorance : an editorial

Angle, Paul M.

American history; courses; requirements; colleges; universities

35

3

Sept. 1942

216-235

Galesburg : hot-bed of abolitionism

Muelder, Hermann R.

Galesburg, Ill.; abolitionism; Illinois Anti-Slavery Society; Knox County Anti-Slavery Society; Knox College; Kellogg, Hiram H.; Gale, George Washington; World Anti-Slavery Convention; State Female Anti-Slavery Society; Davis, Mary Brown; black codes; Liberty Party; Holyoke, William; Parker, Lucius H.; Blanchard, Jonathan

35

3

Sept. 1942

236-259

Early settlers of the Rock River Valley

Buckingham, Clyde E.

Rock River; Rock River Valley, Ill.; settlers; lead; mining; Galena, Ill.; Kellogg, O. W.; Kellogg Trail; Dixon, John; migration; pioneers; South; New England; New York State; travel; narratives; religion; missionaries; temperance; abolitionism

35

3

Sept. 1942

260-287

Anton C. Hesing : the rise of a Chicago boss

Olden, Peter H.

Hesing, Anton C.; Chicago; politics; German Americans; sheriff; Cook County, Ill.; election; 1860; Republican Party; Democratic Party; Know-Nothing Party; nativism; publisher; Illinois Staats-Zeitung

35

4

Dec. 1942

321-322

One hyphenated American

Steinbrecher, Edith

Jussen, Edmund; Anderson, Anna Jussen; citizenship; Germany; United States; liberty

35

4

Dec. 1942

323-337

History in war time

Hudson, H. Gary;

Hendrickson, Walter B.

American history; courses; requirements; colleges; universities; patriotism; democracy

35

4

Dec. 1942

338-346

Illinois at West Point : her graduates in the Civil War

Ness, George T., Jr.

Illinois; United States Military Academy; army; graduates; Union; Confederate Army; Civil War

35

4

Dec. 1942

347-367

Colonel James W. Stephenson : Galena pioneer

Lebron, Jeanne

Stephenson, James W.; Galena, Ill.; Black Hawk War; army; politics; Illinois; State Senate; Stephenson, Ellen Kyle; land office; governor; nomination; Democratic Party

35

4

Dec. 1942

368-389

History of the Illinois School for the Deaf

Cleary, Minnie Wait

Illinois School for the Deaf; deaf; schools; education; mental disability; Jacksonville, Ill.; Officer, Thomas H.; Gillett, Philip G.; curriculum; athletics; Walker, S. Teft; Morse, Anna; Gordon, J. C.; Gillett, Charles P.; White, H. T.; Smith, O. C.; Reig, J. W.; Whipp, F. W.; Cloud, Daniel T.; Archer, T. V.

36

1

Mar. 1943

7-20

The old Chatterton : a brief history of a famous old opera house

Bunn, George W., Jr.

Chatterton Opera House; Springfield, Ill.; Chatterton, George W., Jr.; Rudolph's Opera House; concerts; theater; actors; plays; musical comedy; burlesque; minstrel shows; lectures; magic shows

36

1

Mar. 1943

21-40

Where did the Battle of Chicago take place?

Musham, H. A.

Fort Dearborn; War of 1812; Potawatomi Indians; narratives; battlefield; site; Chicago

36

1

Mar. 1943

41-49

William Henry Bissell : eleventh governor of Illinois

Halbert, William U.

Bissell, William Henry; governors; Illinois; Republican Party; Mexican War; army; House of Representatives; slavery

36

1

Mar. 1943

50-89

Illinois in 1942

Eversole, Mildred

Illinois; chronology; 1942

36

2

June 1943

121-163

Abraham Lincoln and the Illinois Central Railroad, 1857-1860

Brown, Charles Leroy

Lincoln, Abraham; Illinois Central Railroad; panic; 1857; bonds; taxation; property; valuation; land grants; Illinois; Illinois State Auditor; Illinois Supreme Court; Holbrook, Darius D.; Breese, Sidney; Douglas, Stephen A.; Bissell, William H.; Brayman, Mason; Dubois, Jesse K.; lawyers; fees; payment; Osborn, William H.; McClellan, George B.; Caton, John D.; Walker, Pinkney H.

36

2

June 1943

164-189

Art in southern Illinois, 1865-1914

Ayers, Esther Mary

Southern Illinois;  art; painting; sculpture; interior decoration; china painting; ceramics; exhibits; county fairs; Cairo, Ill.; Safford Memorial Library; teaching; Southern Illinois Normal University; Nash, Helen N.; Salter, Matilda Finley; Kirkpatrick, Amy; Union Academy; Perrine, Dan; Willard, Frank; McAvoy; Segar, Elziar; Moon Mullins; The Potters; Popeye; Rittenhouse, Maud; Halliday, Mary; Root, Robert; Clemens, Charles Anthony; Sandborn, Hannah; Anna Pottery

36

2

June 1943

190-207

Dutch Reformed beginnings in Illinois

Ellis, Elizabeth

Dutch Reformed Church; Illinois; Fairview, Ill.; Wilson, Abraham; Reformed Church of Fairview; Brunswick Dutch Reformed Church; VanderVeer Dutch Reformed Church; Pekin, Ill.; Raritan, Ill.; Bushnell, Ill.

36

3

Sept. 1943

237-270

Lincoln's offer of a command to Garibaldi : further light on a disputed point of history

Marraro, Howard R.

Lincoln, Abraham; Garibaldi, Giuseppe; Italy; liberation; Civil War; Union; army; commission; Tuckerman, Henry T.; Vecchi, Augusto; Quiggle, James W.; Seward, William H.; Sanford, Henry S.; Marsh, George P.; Canisius, Theodore; Rice, William T.; Bertinatti, Giuseppe; Melegari, Luigi A.; Clay, Green

36

3

Sept. 1943

271-283

The political metamorphosis of Robert Green Ingersoll

Cramer, C. H.

Ingersoll, Robert G.; Democratic Party; Republican Party; Congress; elections; 1860; 1862; 1864; Kellogg, William; Ingersoll, Ebon C.

36

3

Sept. 1943

284-315

Owen Lovejoy in Princeton, Illinois

Haberkorn, Ruth Ewers

Lovejoy, Owen; Princeton, Ill.; abolitionism; slavery; Underground Railroad; Congregational Church; clergy; Hampshire County Congregational Church; Lovejoy, Elijah P.; Lovejoy, Eunice Storrs; Buckner, John; People v. Lovejoy; House of Representatives

36

4

Dec, 1943

345-367

The old French towns of Illinois in 1839 : a reminiscence

Snyder, J. F.

Snyder, John Francis; Snyder, Adam; travel; narratives; politics; Democratic Party; Waterloo, Ill.; Kaskaskia, Ill.; Prairie du Rocher, Ill.; Cahokia, Ill.

36

4

Dec, 1943

368-377

The genesis of restored New Salem

Nelson, G. E.

New Salem, Ill.; restoration; Old Salem Chautauqua Association; Ike Walton Club; Old Salem Lincoln League; Lincoln, Abraham

36

4

Dec, 1943

378-407

The education of females in early Illinois

McClelland, Clarence P.

women; education; Illinois; schools; elementary; secondary; colleges; curriculum; teachers; Grant, Zilpah; Beecher, Catherine; Lyon, Mary; Ladies Association for Educating Females; Ladies Education Society; Jacksonville Female Academy; Monticello Seminary; Rockford Female Seminary; Rockford College; Atheneum; Northern Female College; Northwestern Female College; Northwestern University; Illinois Conference Female Seminary; MacMurray College

37

1

Mar. 1944

7-47

The Middle Western historical novel

Flanagan, John T.

Middle West; history; novels; French; American Indians; fur trade; Lincoln, Abraham; Chicago; pioneers; settlement; farming; mining; lumber industry; railroads; schools; religion

37

1

Mar. 1944

48-55

Lieutenant John Armstrong's map of the Illinois River, 1790

Storm, Colton

Illinois River; maps; Armstrong, John

37

1

Mar. 1944

56-84

Illinois in 1943

Eversole, Mildred

Illinois; chronology; 1943

37

2

June 1944

117-130

The war records program of the Illinois War Council

Erikson, Stanley;

Roach, Elinor

World War II; Illinois; records; archives; preservation; Illinois War Council; war councils; colleges; universities; historical societies

37

2

June 1944

131-163

The inhabitants of Chicago, 1825-1831

East, Ernest E.

Chicago; residents; births; deaths; marriages; voting

37

2

June 1944

164-172

Theodor Erasmus Hilgard, ambassador of Americanism

Hirsch, Helmut

Hilgard, Theodor Erasmus; Germans; immigration; United States; Belleville, Ill.; writings; government; politics; democracy; Hilgard, Friedrich; 1848; revolution

37

3

Sept. 1944

205-212

Origin of political symbols

Monaghan, Jay

Republican Party; elephant; election; 1860; Rome; coins; East Indies; West Indies; England; Duke of Cumberland; Townshend, George; Democratic Party; donkey; Jackson, Andrew; Whig Party; alligator-horse; coonskin cap; Roosevelt, Theodore, bull moose; political cartoons

37

3

Sept. 1944

213-228

The wreck of the James Watson : a Civil War disaster

 

steamboats; James Watson; shipwrecks; Civil War; Union; army; Fortney, John F. M.; Miller, David; letters

37

3

Sept. 1944

229-241

The last years of Kaskaskia

 

French, Maude Crisler; travel; narratives, Kaskaskia, Ill.

37

3

Sept. 1944

242-249

Abraham Lincoln's first murder trial

Pratt, Harry E.

Lincoln, Abraham; Truett, Henry B.; Early, Jacob M.; murder; trial; Springfield, Ill.; land office; Galena, Ill.; May, William L.; Douglas, Stephen A.

37

3

Sept. 1944

250-255

Across the prairie : a chapter of early Chicago history

Gueroult, Mary Young

Chapronne, Francois; Chapronne, Rosalie; French; immigration; Chicago; Wilmette, Ill.; gardening; flowers; Chapronne, Zoe; Gueroult, Theophile; Gueroult, Maurice; Gueroult, Edward

37

3

Sept. 1944

256-263

Early hotels of Vermilion County : a study in contrasts

Tilton, Clint Clay

Vermilion County, Ill.; hotels; boarding houses

37

4

Dec. 1944

293-300

Forty-fourth annual meeting, Illinois State Historical Society

 

Illinois State Historical Society; annual meeting

37

4

Dec. 1944

301-316

Fort St. Louis at Peoria

Mulkey, Floyd

Fort St. Louis; Peoria, Ill.; Starved Rock, Ill.; La Salle, Robert Cavelier; Tonti, Henri de; Liette, Pierre-Charles de; French; American Indians; Jesuits; missions; Rasle, Sebastien; Gravier, Jacques; Binneteau, Julien; Marest, Gabriel; Aramipinchicoue, Marie; fur trade

37

4

Dec. 1944

317-328

The Italians come to Herrin

Manfredini, Dolores M.

Italians; immigration; Herrin, Ill.; mining; trade; societies; clubs; holidays; St. Mary's Catholic Church; English language; schools; newspapers; World War I; World War II

37

4

Dec. 1944

329-350

Formative years of the Chicago Y.M.C.A. : a study in urban history

Dunn, F. Roger

Young Men's Christian Association; Chicago; Farwell, John V.; Moody, Dwight L.; Young Men's Association; Chicago Mechanics' Institute; Young Men's Society for Religious Improvement; Protestantism; evangelism; revivals; prayer meetings; 1857-1858; reading rooms; libraries; lectures; employment service; Civil War

37

4

Dec. 1944

351-357

Three generations of New Salem pioneers

Bale, Ida L.

New Salem, Ill.; Bale, Henry; Germans; immigration; Bale, Solomon; Bale, Jacob; Bale, Abraham; Bale, Hardin; farming; milling; Baptists; ministers; revivals

38

1

Mar. 1945

7-37

An excursion into the early history of the Chicago and Alton Railroad

Yungmeyer, D. W.

railroads; construction; Springfield, Ill.; Alton, Ill.; Chicago; Bloomington, Ill.; Joliet, Ill.; Blackstone, Timothy B.; Chicago and Alton Railroad; Chicago and Mississippi Railroad Company; Kansas City, St. Louis and Chicago Railroad Company; bridges; Mississippi River; Missouri River

38

1

Mar. 1945

38-57

A search for copper on the Illinois River : the journal of Legardeur Delisle, 1722

Faye, Stanley, ed.

Delisle, Legardeur; diaries; Illinois River; Fort St. Louis; American Indians; French; Cadillac, Antoine de Lamothe; ore; lead; copper; mines

38

1

Mar. 1945

58-70

Wayland Female Institute (Alton, 1853-1856)

Smith, Grace Partridge

Wayland Female Institute; women; schools; education; courses; faculty; Alton, Ill.; Kimball, James Spencer; Kimball, Clara Partridge

38

1

Mar. 1945

71-98

Illinois in 1944

Eversole, Mildred

Illinois; chronology; 1944

38

2

June 1945

143-206

Frontier landlords and pioneer tenants

Gates, Paul Wallace

frontier; pioneers; land; purchase; sales; landlords; tenants; Riggs, Romulus; Ellsworth, Henry L.; Illinois Central Railroad; Grigg, John; Corcoran, William W.; Funk, Isaac; Sullivant, Michael; Sibley, Hiram; Alexander, John T.; Scott, Matthew T., Jr.; Allerton, Samuel; Irish; immigration; Scully, William; aliens

38

2

June 1945

207-226

A Frenchman in America : two chapters from Ampere's Promenade en Amerique, 1851

Crew, Mildred H., translator

Ampere, Jean-Jacques; travel; narratives; Chicago; prairie; American Indians; churches; religion; schools; grain; reapers; theater

38

2

June 1945

227-237

The Reverend John Brich : his life and tragic death

Davis, Charles G.

Brich, John; English; immigration; missionaries; Presbyterian Church; Illinois; horseback riding; accident; death

38

3

Sept. 1945

277-294

The western trip of Philip Hone

Angle, Paul M., ed.

Hone, Philip; diaries; travel; narratives; steamboats; Cairo, Ill.; St. Louis; Peoria, Ill.; Chicago; Sheboygan, Wis.; Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.

38

3

Sept. 1945

295-318

The Southern Collegiate Institute (1891-1916)

Dukes, E. L.

Southern Collegiate Institute; Albion Normal School; Edwards County Normal College; students; faculty; Congregational Church; teachers; education

38

3

Sept. 1945

319-344

The Wesley Foundation in Urbana : the origin of an idea

Piersel, W. G.

Methodist Church; Urbana, Ill.; White, John Paintor; Parks Chapel; University of Illinois; students; Tobie, Williard Nathan; Second Methodist Church of Urbana; Trinity Church, Urbana; James, Edmund J.; Baker, James C.; Wesley Foundation

38

4

Dec. 1945

383-413

From log cabin to sod house

Dale, Edward Everett

frontier; pioneers; log cabins; sod houses; farming; forests; prairie; migration; West

38

4

Dec. 1945

414-445

Alson J. Streeter -- an agrarian liberal, pt. 1

Newcombe, Alfred

Streeter, Alson J.; Lee County, Ill.; Knox College; gold rush; California; farming; Mercer County, Ill.; Illinois General Assembly; Granger Movement; Greenback Party; monopolies; senators; election; 1885; Illinois; National Farmers' Alliance; Haymarket Affair

38

4

Dec. 1945

446-467

Illinois, host to well-known nineteenth century authors

Hubach, Robert R.

Illinois; authors; travel; narratives; Hall, James; Illinois Gazette; Illinois Monthly Magazine; Lincoln, Abraham; Bryant, William Cullen; Latrobe, Charles J.; Hoffman, Charles F.; Martineau, Harriet; Dickens, Charles; Fuller, Margaret; Whitman, Walt; Emerson, Ralph Waldo; Alcott, Bronson; Trollope, Anthony; Clemens, Samuel; Twain, Mark; Wilde, Oscar; Field, Eugene; Arnold, Matthew; Kipling, Rudyard

39

1

Mar. 1946

7-20

Let's study the local history of Illinois

Alexander, Edward T.

Illinois; history; teaching; schools; historical societies; collections

39

1

Mar. 1946

21-67

From England to Illinois in 1821 : the journal of William Hall, pt. 1

Monaghan, Jay, ed.

Hall, William; diaries; farming; immigration; sailing ships; wagons; flatboats; travel; narratives; farming; England; Illinois

39

1

Mar. 1946

68-95

Alson J. Streeter -- an agrarian liberal, pt. 2

Newcombe, Alfred

Streeter, Alson J.; farming; labor; Union Labor Party; election; president; 1888; conventions; senator; 1891; Farmers Mutual Benefit Association; Republican Party

39

1

Mar. 1946

96-125

Illinois in 1945

Eversole, Mildred

Illinois; chronology; 1945

39

2

June 1946

165-178

The early theatre in Chicago

Briggs, Harold E.;

Briggs, Ernestine B.

theater; Chicago; plays; Sauganash Hotel; Rialto Theatre; Chicago Theatre; Illinois Theatrical Company; Jefferson, Joseph; McKenzie, Alexander; Lyne and Powell; Marshael, Reuben; Rice, John B.; Rice Theatre; McVicker, James H.

39

2

June 1946

179-195

Trial lawyers I have known

Kehoe, John E.

trial lawyers; judges; Palmer, John M.; Senate; election; 1891; Davis, David; Shutt, William E.; Hamilton, Lloyd F.; Hay, Milton; Calhoun, William J.; Mann, Joseph V.; Wendling, George R.; Bryan, William Jennings;  Ingersoll, Robert G.; Hines, William J.; Trude, A. S.; Gary, Joseph E.; Hardy, Charles M.; O'Brien, William; Mills, Luther Laflin; Wing, Russell M.

39

2

June 1946

196-207

What about teaching the history of Illinois in our public schools?

Ander, O. Fritiof

Illinois; history; social science; schools; teaching; teachers; historical societies; historians

39

2

June 1946

208-254

From England to Illinois in 1821 : the journal of William Hall, pt. 2

Monaghan, Jay, ed.

Hall, William; diaries; farming; Illinois; Birkbeck, Morris

39

3

Sept. 1946

303-322

Beginnings of architecture in Illinois

Newcomb, Rexford

architecture; Illinois; balloon frame; steel frame; Snow, George Washington; Holabird, William; Jenney, William Le Baron; Burnham, Daniel H.; Chicago; Kaskaskia, Ill.; log cabins; houses; churches; courthouses; Springfield, Ill.; capitol; Rague, John Francis

39

3

Sept. 1946

323-332

Lincoln, Wright, and Holmes at Fort Stevens

Hicks, Frederick C.

Lincoln, Abraham; Holmes, Oliver Wendell; Woollcott, Alexander; Wright, Horatio G.; Fort Stevens, Washington, D.C.; Early, Jubal T.

39

3

Sept. 1946

333-344

The archduke Francis Ferdinand in the United States

May, Arthur J.

Francis Ferdinand; travel; United States; Chicago; World's Columbian Exposition; New York

39

3

Sept. 1946

345-360

The autobiography of William Osborne Davis

Davis, William Osborne;

Sinclair, Harold, ed.

Davis, William Osborne; editors; Bloomington Pantagraph; Bloomington, Ill.; autobiography

39

4

Dec. 1946

407-418

The wreck of the Lady Elgin

Clark, Dwight F.

steamboats; Lake Michigan; Lady Elgin; shipwreck; 1860; Winnetka, Ill.; Spencer, Edward W.; Wilson, Jack; Augusta; Malott, D. M.

39

4

Dec. 1946

419-424

How to give away an opera house

Hansen, Harry

Crosby, Uranus H.; Chicago; Opera House; lottery; 1867; Lee, Abraham Hagerman

39

4

Dec. 1946

425-446

An eyewitness account of the death and burial of J. Wilkes Booth

Baker, L. B.

Booth, John Wilkes; arrest; death; Corbitt, Boston; burial

39

4

Dec. 1946

447-458

Morgan County's dog fennel war : an account of the Cass County invasion of Jacksonville in 1863

Monaghan, Jay

Morgan County, Ill.; Jacksonville, Ill.; Civil War; Democrats; peace; army; draft; secret societies; Knights of the Golden Circle; Union League; Husted, John; Stokes, John W.

40

1

Mar. 1947

7-22

The notorious Colonel Wilkins

Storm, Colton

Wilkins, John; British; army; commandants; Illinois; Fort Chartres, Ill.; traders; contracts; courts; Baynton, Wharton and Morgan; Morgan, George; French; American Indians; Gage, Thomas

40

1

Mar. 1947

23-37

Belleville Germans look at America (1833-1845)

Klett, Ada M.

Germans; immigration; Belleville, Ill.; St. Louis; letters; Engelmann, Theodor; Koerner, Gustav; Engelmann, Georg; Engelmann, Lottchen; Koerner, Sophie Engelmann

40

1

Mar. 1947

38-61

The food of the frontier

Dale, Edward Everett

food; American colonies; pioneers; frontier; corn; bread; biscuits; vegetables; fruit; game; pork; cattle; menus

40

1

Mar. 1947

62-81

Illinois in 1946

Wetherbee, S. A.

Illinois; chronology; 1946

40

2

June 1947

135-153

Jediah F. Alexander, Civil War editor

Schmidt, Hubert G.

Alexander, Jediah F.; newspapers; editors; Greenville, Ill.; Greenville Advocate; Civil War; Union

40

2

June 1947

154-167

Jubilee College and its founder

Chase, Virginius H.

Chase, Philander; clergy; Episcopal Church; Kenyon College; bishops; Illinois; Jubilee College

40

2

June 1947

168-175

Some Illinois influences on the life of William E. Borah

Braden, Waldo W.

Borah, William E.; Borah, William N.; Toms Prairie, Ill.; schools; education; Southern Illinois Academy

40

2

June 1947

176-199

Red stacks in the sunset

Dowling, Edward J., S. J.

Goodrich, A. E.; Lake Michigan; Chicago; steamships; wood; iron; steel; propellers; side wheel; screw drive;

40

2

June 1947

200-208

A century ago in Saline County

Thompson, Scerial

Saline County, Ill.; settlement; pioneers; immigration; farming; coal mining; 1847

40

3

Sept. 1947

253-366

"The morning-star of memory"

McClelland, Clarence P.

MacMurray College; Methodist Church; Illinois Conference Female Academy; Illinois Conference Female College; Illinois Female College; Illinois Woman's College; Cartwright, Peter; Akers, Peter; Jaquess, James Frazer

40

3

Sept. 1947

267-297

James T. Ayers, Civil War recruiter

Franklin, John Hope

Ayers, James T.; slavery; Illinois; abolitionism; African Americans; soldiers; diaries; Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham; election; 1864

40

3

Sept. 1947

298-312

When Dio Lewis came to Dixon

Vest, Eugene B.

Lewis, Dio; Dixon, Ill.; gymnastics; women; dress reform; temperance; Harsha, W. W.

40

3

Sept. 1947

313-330

Origin of the Progressive Mine Workers of America

Young, Dallas M.

Progressive Mine Workers of America; United Mine Workers of America; Lewis, John L.; coal miners; wages; Illinois; Farrington, Frank

40

4

Dec. 1947

377-396

The folklore Lincoln

Donald, David

Lincoln, Abraham; biographies; legends; folklore; Herndon, William H.

40

4

Dec. 1947

397-413

The historians of the Northwest Ordinance

Billington, Ray A.

Northwest Ordinance; historians; slavery; authorship; Jefferson, Thomas; Dane, Nathan; Cutler, Manasseh; Northwest Territory; government

40

4

Dec. 1947

414-425

Destruction of the Mormon temple at Nauvoo

Arrington, Joseph Earl

Nauvoo, Ill.; Mormons; Mormon Temple; fire; arson; Agnew, Joseph B.; Palmer, John W.; Icarians

40

4

Dec. 1947

426-438

An Illinois educator -- Frederick Gordon Bonser

Bonser, Louella

Bonser, Frederick Gordon; Shelbyville, Ill.; Avon, Ill.; University of Illinois; Illinois State Normal School; Western Illinois State Normal School; Speyer School; Columbia University Teachers College

41

1

Mar. 1948

7-15

Evarts Boutell Greene, 1870-1947

Peace, Theodore C.

Green, Evarts Boutell; obituaries; Illinois State Historical Society; University of Illinois; faculty; Illinois; history

41

1

Mar. 1948

16-27

The beginnings of Swedish immigration into Illinois a century ago

Bergendoff, Conrad

Illinois; Swedish; immigration; Hedstrom, Jonas; Hedstrom, Olof; Olson, Olof; Janson, Eric; Bishop Hill, Ill. Methodist Church; Lutheran Church; Esbjorn, L. P.; Unonius, Gustaf; von Schneidau, Polycarp; Chicago; Cassel, Peter

41

1

Mar. 1948

28-42

The duty -- or dilemma -- of every Illinoisan

Brayer, Herbert O.

Europe; food; World War II; relief; rehabilitation; Communism; Russia; Marshall Plan

41

1

Mar. 1948

43-63

Illinois in 1947

Wetherbee, S. A.

Illinois; chronology; 1947

41

2

June 1948

134-145

Peter S. Newell, cartoonist

Goltra, Mabel Hall

Newell, Peter S.; cartoonists; Jacksonville, Ill.

41

2

June 1948

146-158

An exiled Swedish novelist and the Civil War

Johnson, E. Gustav

Almquist, Carl Jonas Ludwig; authors; Sweden;  United States; Civil War; Union; election; 1864; McClellan, George B.; Belleville, Ill.

41

2

June 1948

159-170

Drama in Swedish in Chicago

Naeseth, Henriette C. K.

Chicago; theater; Swedish language; dramatic societies; actors; audiences; Svea Theatrical Society; Svenska Amator Sallskap; Svenska Dramatiska Sallskap; Svenska Teatar Sallskap

41

3

Sept. 1948

219-230

Illinois records of 1000 A.D.

Deuel, Thorne

Illinois; archaeology; artifacts; Hopewellian culture; burial mounds

41

3

Sept. 1948

231-243

Old Hutch -- the wheat king

Ferris, William

Hutchinson, Benjamin Peters; Chicago Board of Trade; wheat; prices; brokers; meat packing; Burt, Hutchinson, and Snow; Union Stock Yards; First National Bank; Corn Exchange National Bank; Blinn, Fanny; Cudahy, John; Pardridge, Edwin

41

3

Sept. 1948

244-264

Illinois agriculture in transition 1820-1870, pt. 1

Bardolph, Richard

Illinois; farming; agriculture; grain; farm implements; prairie; fences; transportation; Chicago

41

3

Sept. 1948

265-280

Portrait of my grandmother, Mrs. Lincoln's kinswoman

Woodward, Elizabeth Raymond

Edwards, Helen Dodge; Dodge, Jane Varick; Dodge, Henry; Edwards, Benjamin; Edwards, Ninian; Springfield, Ill.; Lincoln, Abraham; Lincoln, Mary Todd

41

4

Dec. 1948

353-366

Theodore Calvin Pease

Randall, J. G.

Pease, Theodore Calvin; University of Illinois; Illinois State Historical Society; Illinois Historical Survey; Illinois Historical Collections

41

4

Dec. 1948

367-382

Lincoln and Pinkerton

Lewis, Lloyd

Lincoln, Abraham; Pinkerton, Allen; McClellan, George B.; Civil War; Secret Service; Confederate Army; Chicago; police; railroads; Underground Railroad; Brown, John; Pinkerton, Billy

41

4

Dec. 1948

383-401

A Morgan County volunteer in the Mexican War

Henderson, Alfred J.

Duncan, John; soldiers; Mexican War; letters

41

4

Dec. 1948

402-414

The importance of action in local history

Potts, Abbie Findlay

Rockford College; centennial; history; literature

41

4

Dec. 1948

415-437

Illinois agriculture in transition 1820-1870, pt. 2

Bardolph, Richard

Illinois; agriculture; farmers; crops; diversification; corn; wheat; cattle; pigs; sheep; fruit; dairy farming; tobacco

42

1

Mar. 1949

7-29

Notes on old Cahokia

Peterson, Charles E.

Cahokia, Ill.; French; priests; mission; 1699; traders; Louisiana; Fort de Chartres, Ill.; forts; farming; fur trade; American Indians; British; St. Louis;

42

1

Mar. 1949

30-39

Plainsman from Illinois

Paine, Clarence S.

Hickok, Wild Bill; La Salle County, Ill.; abolitionism; Underground Railroad; Kansas; Civil War; Wyoming

42

1

Mar. 1949

41-56

Lincoln and the Peoria French claims

East, Ernest E.

Lincoln, Abraham; Peoria, Ill.; land; claims; War of 1812; French; Browning, Orville H.

42

1

Mar. 1949

57-79

Silas Bryan of Salem

Coletta, Paolo E.

Bryan, Silas L.; McKendree College; lawyers; Salem, Ill.; Bryan, Mariah Elizabeth; Illinois State Legislature; judges; constitutional convention; 1870; Illinois; Baptists; Presbyterians; Bryan, William Jennings; Illinois College

42

2

June 1949

127-146

Lloyd Downs Lewis, 1891-1949

Monaghan, Jay

Lewis, Lloyd D.; obituaries; Illinois State Historical Library; Chicago Daily News; journalists; editors; authors; Grant, Ulysses S.; Sherman, William Tecumseh; Smith, Henry Justin

42

2

June 1949

147-166

The Beaubien claim

Roden, Carl B.

Chicago; Beaubien, Jean Baptiste; Fort Dearborn; land; sales; ownership; claims

42

2

June 1949

167-178

The importance of books

Buck, Pearl S.

books; reading; censorship; education

42

2

June 1949

179-192

Lincoln in Kansas

Hawley, Charles Arthur

Lincoln, Abraham; president; election; 1860; Kansas; slavery; 1859

42

2

June 1949

193-208

Notes on old Cahokia : pt. 2, Fort Bowman (1778-1780)

Peterson, Charles E.

Cahokia, Ill.; Clark, George Rogers; Revolutionary War; Bowman, Joseph; Fort Bowman; French; Spanish; British; American Indians

42

3

Sept. 1949

259-270

The writing of Abraham Lincoln : a History

Nicolay, Helen

Nicolay, John G.; Hay, John; Lincoln, Abraham; private secretary; biography

42

3

Sept. 1949

272-291

John Russell of Bluffdale

Flanagan, John T.

Russell, John; Bluffdale, Ill.; Baptists; ministers; publishers; authors; oratory; temperance; Illinois State Lyceum

42

3

Sept. 1949

292-312

A tour of Illinois in 1842

Williams, Mentor L.

Paulding, James Kirke; Van Buren, Martin; travel; narratives; Illinois; prairie; towns; cities; 1842

42

3

Sept. 1949

313-343

Notes on old Cahokia : pt. 3, American domination (1778-1790)

Peterson, Charles E.

Cahokia, Ill.; French; Virginia; occupation; Clark, George Rogers; government; Todd, John; farming; fences; land; Northwest Territory; villages; mills; architecture; Old Courthouse; Church of the Holy Family; houses

42

4

Dec. 1949

385-410

Stephen A. Douglas : his weaknesses and his greatness

Nevins, Allan

Douglas, Stephen A.; Illinois; senators; politics; oratory; slavery; Kansas-Nebraska Act; president; election; 1852; 1860

42

4

Dec. 1949

411-423

Slavery and Negro servitude in Pope County, Ill.

Allen, John W.

African Americans; slavery; indentured servitude; emancipation; Pope County, Ill.

42

4

Dec. 1949

424-445

Keen & Cooke : prairie publishers

Stern, Madeleine B.

publishers; booksellers; Chicago; Keen & Cooke; Cooke, David B.; Keen, William B.; D. B. Cooke & Company; Brautigam & Keen; Joseph Keen, Jr., & Brother; Keen & Lee; law books; Americana; detective stories; Pinkerton, Allan

42

4

Dec. 1949

446-456

Pioneer Illinois library

Travous, R. Louise

Edwardsville, Ill.; library; catalog

43

1

Spring 1950

7-14

Sandburg's words at New Salem

Sandburg, Carl; Schrader, Fred, transcriber

Sandburg, Carl; Lincoln, Abraham; history; oratory

43

1

Spring 1950

15-27

Commencement week in 1876

Hendrickson, Walter B.

Jacksonville, Ill.; graduations; reunions; 1876; Jacksonville High School; Jacksonville Female Academy; Illinois College; Illinois Institution for the Education of the Blind; Young Ladies Athenaeum; Illinois Female College

43

1

Spring 1950

28-45

The frontier in Illinois history

Billington, Ray A.

Illinois; frontier; glaciers; soil; immigration; Southern States; New England; Europe; prairie; farming; land; speculation; finance; democracy

43

1

Spring 1950

46-57

Changing urban patterns in the Mississippi Valley

Pierce, Bessie Louise

cities; Mississippi Valley; Chicago; industry; immigration; government; politics; crime

43

1

Spring 1950

59-60

Allan Nevins adds to his biography of Douglas

 

Nevins, Allan; Douglas, Stephen A.; biography; secession; Civil War

43

2

Summer 1950

91-99

Addenda to Lincoln's assassination

Eisenschiml, Otto

Lincoln, Abraham; assassination; People's Weekly; Green, Ben E.; Stanton, Edwin M.; Holt, Joseph ; Baker, Lafayette C.; Stevens, Thaddeus

43

2

Summer 1950

100-119

Fort Massac during the French and Indian War

Caldwell, Norman W.

Fort Massac, Ill.; Ohio River; construction; French; Cherokee Indians; French and Indian War; Louisiana; Makarty; British; occupation; Chickasaw Indians

43

2

Summer 1950

120-136

Monmouth literary societies

Beth, Loren P.

Monmouth College; literary societies; Erodelphian Society; Philadelphian Society; Eccritean Society; Amateurs des Belles Lettres; Aletheorian Society

43

3

Autumn 1950

171-186

Oliver Rogers Barrett, 1873-1950

Dilliard, Irving

Barrett, Oliver R.; obituaries; Lincoln, Abraham; manuscripts; letters; Illinois State Historical Library; Illinois State Historical Society

43

3

Autumn 1950

187-203

Richard Cobden and Illinois

Armytage, W. H. G.

Cobden, Richard; diaries; travel; United States; Illinois; Chicago; schools; England; Anti-Corn Law; grain; Illinois Central Railroad

43

3

Autumn 1950

204-219

Addenda to Lincoln's assassination, pt.2

Eisenschiml, Otto

Lincoln, Abraham; assassination; Wood, William P.; Stanton, Edwin M.; Old Capitol Prison; superintendent; Surratt, Mary; Booth, John Wilkes; Corbett, Boston; Baker, Luther B.; Conger, Everton J.

43

4

Winter 1950

249-264

Billy Yank and the brass

Wiley, Bell Irvin

Civil War; Union; army; soldiers; enlisted men; officers; discipline; punishment; McClellan, George B.; Grant, Ulysses S.; Sherman, William Tecumseh

43

4

Winter 1950

265-281

Fort Massac : the American frontier post, 1778-1805

Caldwell, Norman W.

Fort Massac, Ill.; Ohio River; rebuilding; Wayne, Anthony; Shawnee Indians; Delaware Indians; massacres; French; Spanish; Doyle, Thomas; Pike, Zebulon; Wilkinson, James; Powers, Tom; Cox, Zachariah; Bissell, Daniel

43

4

Winter 1950

282-295

McClellan and Seymour in the Chicago convention of 1864

Zornow, William Frank

McClellan, George B.; Seymour, Horatio; president; candidates; Democratic Party; conventions; 1864; Civil War; Barlow, Samuel; Marble, Manton M.; Wood, Fernando

44

1

Spring 1951

7-25

Your truly attached friend, Mary Lincoln

Darrin, Charles V.

Lincoln, Mary Todd; Shearer, Hannah Miner; letters

44

1

Spring 1951

26-31

Mayo General Hospital

Freeman, L. Willard

Mayo General Hospital; army; World War II; Galesburg, Ill.; Krafft, Henry L.; University of Illinois, Galesburg Undergraduate Division

44

1

Spring 1951

32-46

Six letters by John Russell

Flanagan, John T., ed.

Russell, John; Illinois; letters; Gregg, Thomas; Russell, William A.J.; Russell, Spencer G.

44

1

Spring 1951

47-60

Fort Massac : since 1805

Caldwell, Norman W.

Fort Massac, Ill.; Ohio River; Burr, Aaron; Bissell, Daniel; Dunbaugh, Jacob; Tecumseh; War of 1812; 24th Regiment of Infantry; earthquake; New Madrid, Ill.

44

2

Summer 1951

103-119

Lincoln rebukes a senator

Horner, Harlan Hoyt

Lincoln, Abraham; letters; Browning, Orville H.; Illinois; senators; Republican Party; Fremont, John C.; martial law; proclamation

44

2

Summer 1951

120-141

Yankee land agent in Illinois

Gara, Larry

land; speculation; agents; Illinois; Russell, William S.; Woodman, Cyrus; Winslow, Ill.; Boston and Western Land Company

44

2

Summer 1951

142-146

Joseph Kirkland's novels

Henson, Clyde E.

Kirkland, Joseph; novels; Illinois; Zury; The McVeys: an Episode; The Captain of Company K

44

2

Summer 1951

147-159

The Pikes Peak gold rush

Temple, Wayne C.

Pikes Peak, Colo.; gold rush; Illinois; 1859-1860

44

2

Summer 1951

160-169

The Civil War comes to 'Egypt'

Cross, Jasper W.

Southern Illinois; Civil War; slavery; loyalty; secession; Logan, John A.; Knights of the Golden Circle; 18th Illinois Infantry

44

3

Autumn 1951

199-209

Voice of the volunteer of 1847

Canaday, Dayton W.

Mexican War; army; newspapers; Picket Guard; Osman, William; Osman, Moses

44

3

Autumn 1951

210-217

Robert Todd Lincoln and a family friendship

Darrin, Charles V.

Lincoln, Robert Todd; Shearer, William Lincoln; letters

44

3

Autumn 1951

218-230

Books for the boys in blue

Quenzel, Carrol H.

Civil War; Union; soldiers; books; newspapers; magazines; libraries; Christian Commission; Thomas, Joseph Conable

44

3

Autumn 1951

231-240

Hard times in Illinois in 1780

Hauberg, John H.

Illinois; 1780; winter; soldiers; war; food; clothing; Clark, George Rogers; French; British

44

3

Autumn 1951

241-248

A beginner on the old Eighth Judicial Circuit

Pratt, Harry E.

Swett, Leonard; Lincoln, Abraham; Davis, David; lawyers; Eighth Judicial Circuit; Illinois; Clinton, Ill.

44

4

Winter 1951

289-304

The Cherokee cross Egypt

Thompson, Scerial

Cherokee Indians; removal; Illinois; 1838-1839; Ross, John

44

4

Winter 1951

305-322

The America First Committee

Cole, Wayne S.

America First Committee; World War II; isolationism

44

4

Winter 1951

323-331

Health measures in early Springfield

Blankmeyer, Helen Van Cleave

health; physicians; medicine; sanitation; cholera; smallpox; hospitals; Springfield, Ill.

44

4

Winter 1951

332-339

Captain Benjamin Godfrey, the prairie prophet

Denison, B. W.

Godfrey, Benjamin; women; education; Monticello Female Seminary; Baldwin, Theron

44

4

Winter 1951

340-348

Back-yard archaeology at Lincoln's home

Hagen, Richard S.

Lincoln, Abraham; home; Springfield, Ill.; outbuildings; restoration; excavation

44

4

Winter 1951

349-354

Lewis B. Parsons : mover of armies and railroad builder

Pratt, Harry E.

Parsons, Lewis B.; papers; Illinois State Historical Society; Civil War; Union; army; railroads

45

1

Spring 1952

5-22

The Virginian who made Illinois a free state

Richardson, Eudora Ramsay

Coles, Edward; slavery; Virginia; Illinois; governor; election; 1821; African Americans; Black Code

45

1

Spring 1952

23-29

Sol Smith Russell, actor from Jacksonville

Mason, Bertha K.

Russell, Sol Smith; actors; comedians; Jacksonville, Ill.

45

1

Spring 1952

30-49

How Big Bill Thompson won control of Chicago

Schottenhamel, George

Thompson, William Hale; Chicago; politicians; mayors; election; African Americans; ethnic groups; Prohibition; 1915; 1919; 1923; 1927; 1931; Sweitzer, Robert A.; Hoyne, Maclay; Dever, William; Cermak, Anton

45

1

Spring 1952

51-54

The Galena Market House, oldest in the Midwest

Carroll, Virginia R.

markets; meat; produce; Galena, Ill.;  Galena Market House

45

1

Spring 1952

55-69

The murder of Eric Janson, leader of Bishop Hill colony

Pratt, Harry E., ed.

Janson, Eric; Bishop Hill, Ill.; murder; Root, John; Root, Charlotte Janson; Reynolds, H. G.; Hill, Britton A.; Drummond, W. W.

45

2

Summer 1952

101-123

The Distillers' and Cattle Feeders' Trust, 1887-1895

East, Ernest E.

distilleries; trusts; corporations; rebates; Illinois; Distillers' and Cattle Feeders' Trust; Distilling and Cattle Feeding Company; Greenhut, Joseph B.; Gibson, George J.; Takamine, Jokichi; Morris, Nelson

45

2

Summer 1952

124-135

Charles A. Dana and the Chicago Republican

Gertz, Elmer

Dana, Charles A.; newspapers; Chicago Republican; Johnson, Andrew

45

2

Summer 1952

137-145

John H. Hauberg : "the standing bear"

Ander, O. Fritiof

Hauberg, John H.;  lawyers; Rock Island, Ill.; Augustana College; Illinois State Historical Society

45

2

Summer 1952

146-163

The unwanted Mr. Lincoln

Zornow, William Frank

Lincoln, Abraham; nomination; Republican Party; 1864; Davis, Henry Winter; Wade, Benjamin; Chase, Salmon P.; Opdyke, George; Field, David Dudley; Democratic Party; McClellan, George B.

45

3

Autumn 1952

197-211

The Judd-Wentworth feud

Fehrenbacher, Don E.

Judd, Norman B.; Wentworth, John; Republican Party; Illinois; governor; Chicago; mayor; suit; libel; Lincoln, Abraham; election; 1860; House of Representatives; ambassador; Prussia

45

3

Autumn 1952

212-219

A forgotten figure in Chicago's medical history

Bonner, Thomas N.

Holmes, Bayard; bacteriology; physicians; medical schools; libraries; College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago; People's Party; Chicago; mayor; election; 1895

45

3

Autumn 1952

220-240

Civil War subversives

Smith, Bethania Meradith

Civil War; secret societies;  Knights of the Golden Circle; Corps de Belgique; Order of American Knights; Sons of Liberty; Bickley, George W. L.; Wright, Phineas C.; Vallandigham, Clement L.; Hines, Thomas Henry; Morgan, John Hunt; Bullitt, Joshua F.; Thompson, Jacob

45

3

Autumn 1952

241-251

Land hunting in 1836

Young, James Harvey, ed.

Wetmore, Isaac Miller; letters; migration; land; purchase; Illinois

45

4

Winter 1952

295

A tribute to Carl Sandburg at seventy-five

Pratt, Harry E.

Sandburg, Carl; authors

45

4

Winter 1952

297-299

A friend and admirer

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Sandburg, Carl; Stevenson, Adlai E.; inauguration; speech; governor; Illinois

45

4

Winter 1952

300-305

The Galesburg birthplace

George, Adda

Sandburg, Carl; birthplace; restoration; Galesburg, Ill.; Carl Sandburg Association

45

4

Winter 1952

307-310

Lombard memories

Wright, Quincy

Sandburg, Carl; Lombard College; yearbook; editor; Asgard Press; Wright, Philip Green; Wright, Quincy

45

4

Winter 1952

311-315

Mentor and first publisher

Jenkins, Alan

Sandburg, Carl; writing; social reform; Wright, Philip Green; Lombard College

45

4

Winter 1952

316-318

A pair of "Dreamers"

Van Norman, C. E.

Sandburg, Carl; Wright, Philip Green; poetry; introduction; Asgard Press; Van Norman, C. E.

45

4

Winter 1952

319-320

A folksy, friendly fellow

Jordan-Smith, Paul

Sandburg, Carl; Wright, Philip Green; Asgard Press; Jordan-Smith, Paul

45

4

Winter 1952

321-325

And the Chicago Daily News

Hansen, Harry

Sandburg, Carl; Hansen, Harry; Chicago Daily News; journalists; Smith, Henry Justin

45

4

Winter 1952

326

Beginning of a friendship

Babcock, Frederic

Sandburg, Carl; journalists; Babcock, Frederic

45

4

Winter 1952

327-328

A cold walk with Carl

Sherwood, Robert E.

Sandburg, Carl; authors; Sherwood, Robert E.

45

4

Winter 1952

329-333

Carl

Randall, J. G.

Sandburg, Carl; authors; Lincoln, Abraham; papers

45

4

Winter 1952

334-335

Cattails

Starr, Thomas I.

Sandburg, Carl; Starr, Thomas I.

45

4

Winter 1952

336

Carl Sandburg, yes

Schenk, William P.

Sandburg, Carl; Schenk, William P.

45

4

Winter 1952

337-338

Thoughts on a friend

Meserve, Frederick Hill

Sandburg, Carl; Meserve, Frederick Hill; Lincoln, Abraham; biography; photographs

45

4

Winter 1952

339-340

A man of faith in man

Thomas, Benjamin P.

Sandburg, Carl; Thomas, Benjamin P.; Lincoln, Abraham; biography

45

4

Winter 1952

341-353

Political circuit rider

Weirick, Bruce

Sandburg, Carl; Weirick, Bruce; authors; poets; poetry; journalists; politics

45

4

Winter 1952

354

The eloquent drumstick

Felts, David V.

Sandburg, Carl; Felts, David V.

45

4

Winter 1952

355-360

Friends on the Post-Dispatch

Dilliard, Irving

Sandburg, Carl; St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Howard, Bart; Dilliard, Irving

45

4

Winter 1952

361-372

Nevins, Allan

Sandburg as historian

Sandburg, Carl; Lincoln, Abraham; biography; history; Civil War

45

4

Winter 1952

373-378

A reporter, yes

Finnegan, Richard J.

Sandburg, Carl; Finnegan, Richard J.; Chicago Times; Depression; World War II; journalism

45

4

Winter 1952

379-383

Birthday snapshots

Gertz, Elmer

Sandburg, Carl; Gertz, Elmer

45

4

Winter 1952

385-387

He heard America sing

Haverlin, Carl

Sandburg, Carl; Haverlin, Carl; folk music; American Songbag; New American Songbag

45

4

Winter 1952

388-394

Bright fellowships

Butcher, Fanny

Sandburg, Carl; Butcher, Fanny; Lewis, Lloyd; book reviews

45

4

Winter 1952

395-399

Forty years of friendship

Harcourt, Alfred

Sandburg, Carl; Harcourt, Alfred; publishers; poetry; Lincoln, Abraham; biography

45

4

Winter 1952

400-401

Farewell to a troubadour

Carruthers, Olive

Sandburg, Carl; Chicago; North Carolina; Carruthers, Olive

45

4

Winter 1952

402-406

A selective checklist of Carl Sandburg's writings

Newman, Ralph G.

Sandburg, Carl; bibliography

46

1

Spring 1953

7-12

Lincoln's home in 1860

Scott, Kenneth

Lincoln, Abraham; home; Springfield, Ill.; journalists

46

1

Spring 1953

13-27

The happy soldier : the Mexican War letters of John Nevin King, pt. 1

Hendrickson, Walter B., ed.

King, John Nevin; Mexican War; soldiers; letters; Mexico

46

1

Spring 1953

28-44

James Robert Mann : legislator extraordinary

Ellis, L. Ethan

Mann, James R.;  congressmen; Illinois; aldermen; Chicago; Hyde Park; Republican Party; minority leader; interstate commerce; railroads; regulation; Hepburn Act; Mann Act; Mann-Elkins Act; Pure Food and Drug Act; tariffs; newsprint

46

1

Spring 1953

45-59

The pioneers of Monmouth College

Davenport, F. Garvin

Monmouth College; Associate Reformed Church; Porter, James C. Ross, Robert; Monmouth, Ill.; Monmouth Academy; Brown, James R.; Wallace, David A.

46

1

Spring 1953

60-70

The Post Office in Illinois politics

Fehrenbacher, Don E.

United States Post Office; Illinois; politics; patronage; postmasters; appointment; mail; delivery

46

1

Spring 1953

71-78

Illinois' testimonial to Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes

Scott, George Tressler

Hayes, Lucy Webb; temperance; women; Illinois; autographs

46

2

Summer 1953

119-12

James Garfield Randall, 1881-1955

Pratt, Harry E.;

Temple, Wayne C.

Randall, James Garfield; obituaries; Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham; history; faculty; University of Illinois; Illinois State Historical Society; bibliography

46

2

Summer 1953

132-141

The Stars and Stripes of Illinois boys in blue

Lutz, Earle

Civil War; soldiers; Illinois; regiments; newspapers; bibliography

46

2

Summer 1953

142-150

The Indian liquor trade at Peoria -- 1824

Covington, James W.

Potawatomi Indians; liquor; sales; prohibition; Peoria, Ill.; Clark, William; Forsyth, Thomas; Ojai, Joseph

46

2

Summer 1953

151-170

The happy soldier : the Mexican War letters of John Nevin King, pt. 2

Hendrickson, Walter B., ed.

King, John Nevin; Mexican War; soldiers; quartermaster;  letters; Mexico

46

2

Summer 1953

171-177

John Peter Altgeld as a public speaker

Ellingsworth, Huber W.

Altgeld, John Peter; governors; Illinois; oratory

46

3

Autumn 1953

231-246

Not without thy wondrous story, Illinois

Nevins, Allan

Illinois; history; Lincoln, Abraham; frontier; Mexican War; Chicago; social reform

46

3

Autumn 1953

247-253

Horatio Alger, Jr. as a Lincoln biographer

Fiore, Jordan D.

Alger, Horatio, Jr.; Lincoln, Abraham; biographies

46

3

Autumn 1953

254-264

Patent medicines : the early post-frontier phase

Young, James Harvey

medicine; patent medicine; sales; advertising

46

3

Autumn 1953

265-276

Samuel Fallows : expansionist

Pease, William H.

Fallows, Samuel; Reformed Episcopal Church; bishops; patriotism; Americanism; Spanish-American War; expansionism

46

3

Autumn 1953

277-282

Lincoln, Benjamin Jonas and the Black Code

Segal, Charles M.

Lincoln, Abraham; Shelby, John; Jonas, Benjamin F.; Jonas, Annie E.; African Americans; Herndon, William H.; New Orleans; Black Code

46

3

Autumn 1953

283-289

They saw the early Midwest : a bibliography of travel narratives, 1722-1850

Hubach, Robert R.

Midwest; pioneers; travel; narratives; bibliography

46

4

Winter 1953

343-362

John Kinzie's narrative of the Fort Dearborn massacre

Williams, Mentor L.

Kinzie, John; Fort Dearborn; War of 1812; Potawatomi Indians; Heald, Nathan; Helm, Linai T.; Wells, William; Douglass; David Bates; Kinzie, Juliette Magill

46

4

Winter 1953

363-372

The Ku Klux Klan in southern Illinois

Hall, Andy

Ku Klux Klan; Southern Illinois; Franklin County, Ill.; Williamson County, Ill.; Hogan, John; Mason, James F.; Jacobs, Bill; sheriff; posse; 1875

46

4

Winter 1953

401-406

Sandburg's private printings

Jenkins, Alan

Sandburg, Carl; Asgard Press; prose; poetry

46

4

Winter 1953

407-424

Beginning of the Rock Island lines

Agnew, Dwight L.

railroads; Rock Island, Ill.; Davenport, Iowa; construction; stock; sales; directors; Rock Island and La Salle Railroad; Chicago and Rock Island Railroad; Illinois and Michigan Canal; Sheffield, Joseph E.; Farnam, Henry; Michigan Central Railroad; Michigan Southern Railroad

47

1

Spring 1954

7-19

Cracker barrel days in old Illinois stores

Carson, Gerald

Illinois; general stores; storekeepers; merchandise

47

1

Spring 1954

20-34

Lincoln's fence rails

Temple, Wayne C.

Lincoln, Abraham; 1860; campaign; president; rails; rail splitter; Oglesby, Richard J.; Hanks, John; Republican Party; conventions; Illinois

47

1

Spring 1954

35-44

H.L. Kinney and Daniel Webster in Illinois in the 1830's

McCampbell, Colin

Kinney, Henry L.; Webster, Fletcher; Webster, Daniel; Webster, Julia; land; speculation; farming; Peru, Ill.

47

1

Spring 1954

45-56

A Frenchman's visit to Chicago in 1886

Joyaux, George J., translator

Cotton, L. de; French; travel; diaries; Chicago; 1886

47

1

Spring 1954

71-83

Illinois in 1953

Adams, James N.

Illinois; chronology; 1953

47

2

Summer 1954

119-132

Making the Lincoln statue for New Salem

Fairbanks, Avard

Lincoln, Abraham; statues; New Salem, Ill.; Fairbanks, Avard

47

2

Summer 1954

133-148

Lindbergh flies air mail from Springfield

Steiger, William A.

Lindbergh, Charles A.; pilots; air mail; Springfield, Ill.; Peoria, Ill.; Chicago; St. Louis

47

2

Summer 1954

149-166

The antislavery movement in Illinois : 1824-1835

Dillon, Merton Lynn

slavery; Illinois; constitution; abolitionism; Presbyterian Church; Methodist Church; African Americans; colonization; Africa; Haiti; American Colonization Society; Illinois State Colonization Society

47

2

Summer 1954

167-175

Chicago in 1833 : impressions of three Britishers

Jones, Dallas L.

Chicago; 1833; travel; narratives; immigration; British; Latrobe, Charles J.; Shirreff, Patrick; Cleaver, Charles

47

2

Summer 1954

176-184

Walt Whitman and Lincoln

Brown, Clarence A.

Lincoln, Abraham; Whitman, Walt; democracy; slavery; United States

47

3

Autumn 1954

231-251

Entertainment and amusement in Cairo, 1848-1858

Briggs, Harold E.

Cairo, Ill.; recreation; circuses; menageries; showboats; minstrel shows; concerts; theater; dances; walking; marathons

47

3

Autumn 1954

252-263

Illinois in the 1830's : impressions of British travelers and immigrants

Jones, Dallas L.

Illinois; travel; narratives; immigration; British; Stuart, James; Burlend, Rebecca; Featherstonhaugh, George; Murray, Charles A.; Hoby, James A.; Cox, F. A.; Martineau, Harriet; Logan, James; Marryat, Frederick

47

3

Autumn 1954

264-299

Letters by John Mason Peck

Flanagan, John T., ed.

Peck, John Mason; letters; Baptists; ministers; Russell John; Russell, W. A. J.

47

3

Autumn 1954

300-305

Little Eddie Lincoln : "we miss him very much"

Pratt, Harry E.

Lincoln, Abraham; Lincoln, Mary Todd; Lincoln, Edward Baker; death; burial

47

4

Winter 1954

343-359

The first automobile race in America

Anderson, Russell H.

automobile racing; Chicago; 1895; Chicago Times-Herald; Kohlsaat, Herman H.; Adams. Frederick U.; Duryea, J. Frank; Duryea Motor Wagon Company; H. Mueller & Co.; R.H. Macy & Co.; Sturges Electric Motocycle

47

4

Winter 1954

360-372

Hinckley's railroad empire

Gerson, Blaine Brooks

Hinckley, Francis Edward; railroads; Ogle & Carroll County Railroad; Chicago & Iowa Railroad; Joy, James F.; Chicago, Pekin & Southwestern Railroad; Chicago & Paducah Railroad; Chicago, Clinton and Western Railroad; Chicago & Illinois Southern Railroad; Chicago, Rockford & Northern Railroad; Chicago & St. Louis Railway

47

4

Winter 1954

373-384

The adoption of cumulative voting in Illinois

Blair, George S.

Illinois; General Assembly; representatives; election; cumulative voting; constitutional convention; 1870

47

4

Winter 1954

385-397

They saw the early Midwest : a bibliography of travel narratives, 1673-1850

Hubach, Robert R.

Midwest; travel; narratives; bibliography

47

4

Winter 1954

398-409

Lincoln and the division of Sangamon County

Pratt, Harry E.

Lincoln, Abraham; Sangamon County, Ill. division; Illinois; capital; location; Vandalia, Ill.; Springfield, Ill.

48

1

Spring 1955

5-27

"What a pleasant home Abe Lincoln has"

Hagen, Richard S.

Lincoln, Abraham; home; Springfield, Ill.; research; restoration

48

1

Spring 1955

28-40

"Judge" Abraham Lincoln

Pratt, Harry E.

Lincoln, Abraham; Davis, David; judges; cases; Sangamon Circuit Court; Champaign County Circuit Court; Logan Circuit Court; DeWitt Circuit Court

48

1

Spring 1955

41-44

Tad Lincoln and Gus Gumpert

Gumpert, Gustav

Lincoln, Tad; Lincoln, Abraham; Gumpert, Gustav Edward; Sweney, Thomas W.

48

1

Spring 1955

45-51

Mary Lincoln writes to Noah Brooks

Hatch, Francis Whiting

Lincoln, Mary Todd; Brooks, Noah; letters; stock certificates

48

1

Spring 1955

52-58

Lincoln at Brady's Gallery

Haverlin, Carl, ed.

Lincoln, Abraham; Cunningham, John L.; photographs; Brady, Mathew; Brady's Gallery

48

1

Spring 1955

59-64

"Took tea at Mrs. Lincoln's" : the diary of Mrs. William M. Black

 

Black, Elizabeth Dale; diaries; First Presbyterian Church, Springfield, Ill.; Lincoln, Mary Todd

48

1

Spring 1955

65-81

The Lincolns go shopping

Pratt, Harry E., ed.

Lincoln, Abraham; Lincoln, Mary Todd; John Irwin & Company; J. Bunn & Co.; accounts

48

2

Summer 1955

119-136

James Hall, pioneer Vandalia editor and publicist

Flanagan, John T.

Hall, James; Vandalia, Ill.; judges; lawyers; editors; Western Souvenir; Western Monthly Magazine; Illinois Intelligencer

48

2

Summer 1955

137-151

William Henry Milburn : blind man eloquent

McClelland, Clarence P.

Milburn, William Henry; blind; Methodist Church; ministers; Illinois; Congress; chaplains

48

2

Summer 1955

152-180

Copperhead secret societies in Illinois during the Civil War

Klement, Frank L.

Copperheads; secret societies; Knights of the Golden Circle; Order of American Knights; Sons of Liberty; Bickley, George W. L.; Forrest, Joseph King Cummins; Sanderson, John P.; Wright, Phineas C; Judd, S. Corning; Ayer, I. Winslow; Phillips, David L.; Sanderson, John P.; Illinois; constitutional convention; 1862; constitution; ratification

48

2

Summer 1955

181-190

Lincoln and the Jews

Korn, Bertram W.

Lincoln, Abraham; Jews; Civil War; chaplains; Zacharie, Isachar; Blumenberg, Leopold; Grant, Ulysses S.; Army of the Tennessee

48

2

Summer 1955

204-216

Illinois in 1954

Adams, James N.

Illinois; chronology; 1954

48

3

Autumn 1955

247-270

The Haymarket riot and the trial of the anarchists

Busch, Francis X.

Haymarket Affair; anarchists; trial; Spies, August; Schwab, Michael; Parsons, Albert R.; Fielden, Samuel; Engel, Louis; Fischer, Adolph; Lingg, Louis; Neebe, Oscar; Gary, Joseph E.

48

3

Autumn 1955

271-283

Agrarian radicalism in Illinois' constitutional convention of 1862

Jones, Stanley L.

Illinois; constitutional convention; 1862; farmers; banking; corporations; Illinois Central Railroad

48

3

Autumn 1955

284-306

Charles G. Dawes and the McKinley campaign

Pixton, John E., Jr.

Dawes, Charles G.; Republican Party; nomination; election; 1896; Illinois; McKinley, William; Cullom, Shelby M.; Bryan, William Jennings

48

3

Autumn 1955

307-321

Lincoln and Daniel Webster

Current, Richard N.

Lincoln, Abraham; Webster, Daniel; Whig Party; Senate; House of Representatives; Taylor, Zachary; Clay, Henry; slavery; Douglas, Stephen A.; Kansas-Nebraska Act; Compromise of 1850; oratory

48

4

Winter 1955

359-365

John Henry Hauberg, 1869-1955

 

Hauberg, John Henry; obituaries; Illinois; history; Illinois State Historical Society

48

4

Winter 1955

366-401

Michael Kelly Lawler : Mexican and Civil War officer

Dorris, J. T.

Lawler, Michael Kelly; Mexican War; United States; army; Bishop, William; diaries; Civil War; 18th Illinois Infantry; morale; discipline; court martial; Third Brigade, First Division, Thirteenth Army Corps; Vicksburg, Miss.

48

4

Winter 1955

402-426

Madison and the empire of free men

Brant, Irving

Madison, James; Madison County, Ill.; Illinois Territory; Edwards, Ninian; suffrage; government; republic; public lands; civil liberties

48

4

Winter 1955

427-430

Memorial to James L. Reid : pioneer corn breeder

Iftner, George H.

Reid, James L.; memorials; corn; agriculture; Illinois

48

4

Winter 1955

431-455

Orville H. Browning : Lincoln's colleague and critic

Baxter, Maurice G.

Browning, Orville H.; Lincoln, Abraham; Illinois State Legislature; Congress; Kansas-Nebraska Act; slavery; president; election; 1860; 1864; secession; Civil War; Senate

49

1

Spring 1956

7-33

The Mary Lincoln letters to Mrs. Felician Slataper

Turner, Justin G.

Lincoln, Mary Todd; Slataper, Eliza Jane Lee; letters

49

1

Spring 1956

34-47

Methodists and "butternuts" in the Old Northwest

Morrow, Ralph E.

Methodist Church; politics; Civil War; Republican Party; Democratic Party; Copperheads; Southern Methodists

49

1

Spring 1956

48-66

The Mormons and politics in Illinois: 1839-1844

Gayler, George R.

Mormons; Illinois; Smith, Joseph; politics; Whig Party; Democratic Party

49

1

Spring 1956

71-94

Illinois in 1955

Adams, James N.

Illinois; chronology; 1955

49

2

Summer 1956

135-148

Harry Edward Pratt, 1901-1956

Thomas, Benjamin P.

Pratt, Harry Edward; obituaries; Illinois; history; Lincoln, Abraham; Abraham Lincoln Association; Illinois State Historical Society; Illinois State Historical Library

49

2

Summer 1956

149-162

Western attitudes and Reconstruction politics in Illinois, 1865-1872

Dante, Harris L.

Reconstruction; Illinois; Republican Party; Democratic Party; Western States; Southern States; African Americans; suffrage; Johnson, Andrew; Logan, John A.; Trumbull, Lyman; White, Horace; Chicago Tribune

49

2

Summer 1956

163-189

Thomas Scott Baldwin : the Columbus of the air

Scamehorn, Howard Lee

ballooning; stunts; aeronauts; parachutes; airships; airplanes; Baldwin, Thomas Scott; Baldwin, Sam; Ivy, William

49

2

Summer 1956

190-209

Railroad strikers in court : unreported contempt cases in Illinois in 1877

Sigmund, Elwin W.

railroads; strikes; unions; courts; injunctions; contempt of court; Drummond, Thomas; Treat, Samuel Hubbel; Indianapolis, Bloomington and Western Railway; Urbana, Ill.; St. Louis and Southwestern Railway; St. Louis; East St. Louis, Ill.; Mt. Vernon, Ill.; Roe, Edward R.; Leffingwell, H. W.; Treat, Samuel

49

2

Summer 1956

210-212

Funk memorial at Research Acres

Cavanagh, Helen M.

Funk, Isaac; memorials; agriculture; research; Funk Brothers Seed Company; Corn Foundation

49

3

Autumn 1956

263-270

Discovered -- an authentic Lincoln fingerprint

Croy, Homer

Lincoln, Abraham; autographs; fingerprints; Matile, Gustave E.; Holmes, Samuel Newell; Steiger, William A.

49

3

Autumn 1956

271-293

The three lives of Frank H. Hall

Hendrickson, Walter B.

Hall, Frank H.; students; blind; education; Illinois Institution for the Education of the Blind; Braille; printing; writing; Sieber, Gustav A.; superintendent of schools; Aurora, Ill.; agricultural education; Illinois Farmers' Institute

49

3

Autumn 1956

295-307

Joseph Kirkland's Company K

Holaday, Clayton A.

Kirkland, Joseph; soldiers; Civil War; historical novels; Captain of Company K

49

3

Autumn 1956

308-327

The Piasa Bird : fact or fiction?

Temple, Wayne C.

Piasa Bird; petroglyphs; Illini Indians; Potawatomi Indians; legends; Mississippi River; Marquette, Jacques; Jolliet, Louis; Douay, Anastasius; Russell, John

49

4

Winter 1956

359-374

Lorado Taft and theater

Richardson, Genevieve

Taft, Lorado; sculptors; sculptures; theater

49

4

Winter 1956

375-386

Shelby M. Cullom : presidential prospect

Pitkin, William A.

Cullom, Shelby M.; senators; Interstate Commerce Commission; railroads; telegraph; president; candidate; 1888; 1892; 1896

49

4

Winter 1956

387-393

The destruction of an early Illinois library

Flanagan, John T.

Peck, John Mason; library; fire; documents

49

4

Winter 1956

394-404

Chicago and the war between Greece and Turkey in 1897

Panagopoulos, E. P.

Greece; Turkey; war; 1897; Chicago; relief; volunteers; business; finance

49

4

Winter 1956

405-415

Spelling bothered Lincoln, too

Coleman, Charles H.

Lincoln, Abraham; writings; spelling

50

1

Spring 1957

7-23

Benjamin Platt Thomas, 1902-1956

Angle, Paul M.

Thomas, Benjamin Platt; obituaries; historians; Abraham Lincoln Association; secretary; Lincoln, Abraham; biography

50

1

Spring 1957

24-35

Three Galena generals

Gertz, Elmer

Rawlins, John Aaron; Grant, Ulysses S.; Parker, Ely S.; Chetlain, Augustus L.; Civil War; Union; army; generals

50

1

Spring 1957

36-50

Sources of early antislavery thought in Illinois

Dillon, Merton L.

Illinois; slavery; emancipation; rationalism; Baptist Church; Methodist Church; Illinois; Coles, Edward; Birkbeck, Morris; Flower, George; Flower, Richard; Peck, John Mason; Lippincott, Thomas

50

1

Spring 1957

51-62

Lincoln's tomb : designs submitted and final selections

Hosking, William J.

Lincoln, Abraham; tomb; designs; National Lincoln Monument Association, Springfield, Ill.

50

1

Spring 1957

71-84

Illinois in 1956

Adams, James N.

Illinois; chronology; 1956

50

2

Summer 1957

119-140

Education in Illinois before 1857 : Normal University centennial

Bone, Robert Gehlmann

Illinois State Normal University; education; schools;  public schools; teachers; Illinois; Illinois State Teachers Association; Illinois Superintendent of Public Instruction; Hovey, Charles E.

50

2

Summer 1957

141-167

The town and the gown : Normal University centennial

Marshall, Helen E.

Illinois State Normal University; teachers; education; Bloomington, Ill.; Normal, Ill.; Fell, Jesse W.; buildings; students; housing; dormitories; prohibition; street railroads; roads; electricity; telephone; schools

50

2

Summer 1957

168-175

The school extends its influence : Normal University centennial

Kinneman, John A.

Illinois State Normal University; teachers; education; graduates; colleges; presidents; school superintendents; professors

50

2

Summer 1957

176-189

A library grows up : Normal University centennial

Welch, Eleanor Weir

Illinois State Normal University; teachers; education; books; library; librarians; instruction

50

2

Summer 1957

190-203

Special education -- then and now : Normal University centennial

Sands, Theodore;

Parker, Rose E.

Illinois State Normal University; special education; students; disabilities; teachers; training

50

3

Autumn 1957

231-242

"Won, 1880 -- one, 1884," the courtship of William Jennings Bryan and Mary Elizabeth Baird

Coletta, Paolo E.

Bryan, William Jennings; Baird, Mary Elizabeth; Illinois College; Jacksonville Female Academy; Democratic Party; speeches

50

3

Autumn 1957

243-276

Charles E. Hovey : educator and soldier

Marshall, Helen E.

Hovey, Charles E.; Hovey, Harriette; educators; Boys' Stock School; Peoria, Ill.; public schools; Illinois Teacher; teachers; education; Illinois State Normal University; Civil War; 33rd Illinois infantry

50

3

Autumn 1957

277-293

John Henry Rauch and public health in Illinois 1877-1891

Davenport, F. Garvin

Rauch, John Henry; Illinois State Board of Health; public health; smallpox; vaccination; quarantine; school children; immigration; sanitation; yellow fever; tuberculosis; medical schools; standards

50

3

Autumn 1957

295-307

Rendleman House -- museum of the Mississippi

Rissler, Howard F.

Rendleman House, Cairo, Ill.; museums; Illinois State Historical Library; Grieve, Frederick J.; Grieve, Adelaide Rendleman; Halliday, William Parker; Rendleman, John J.

50

4

Winter 1957

343-376

Lincoln and Hiram Barney

Adams, James N.

Lincoln, Abraham; Barney, Hiram; Cooper Institute; Young Men's Republican Union of New York; Republican Party; election; president; 1860; Custom House; collector; New York City; Palmer, Albert N.; Chase, Salmon P.

50

4

Winter 1957

377-384

The Dodge-Henry controversy

Hagan, William T.

Henry, James D.; Dodge, Henry; Black Hawk War; Fort Winnebago; Wisconsin River; Sauk Indians

50

4

Winter 1957

385-390

John Mason Peck : a study in historical rationalization

Dillon, Merton N.

Peck, John Mason; Baptists; ministers; slavery; abolitionism; Reynolds, John

50

4

Winter 1957

391-411

Governor Ford and the death of Joseph and Hyrum Smith

Gayler, George R.

Smith, Joseph; Smith, Hyrum; assassination; Mormons; Nauvoo, Ill.; Nauvoo Expositor; Ford, Thomas; Warsaw Signal; Carthage, Ill.; jail

50

1

Spring 1958

7-27

McLean County's newspapers -- particularly the Pantagraph

Merwin, Loring C.

newspapers; Bloomington, Ill.; McLean County, Ill.; Daily Pantagraph, Bloomington; Bloomington Observer and McLean County Advocate; McLean Register; Western Whig; Fell, Jesse W.; Hill, William; Merriman, Charles P.; Lewis, Edward J.; Davis, William Osborne

50

1

Spring 1958

28-41

Governor Cullom and the Pekin whisky ring scandal

Searles, William C.

Wilson, Bluford; Cullom, Shelby M.; Harper, John T.; Smith, Albert; whiskey; distillers; Pekin, Ill.; taxes; payment; Republican Party; Democratic Party

50

1

Spring 1958

43-58

Sixty years of Who's Who : some notes on the history of an Illinois institution

Sammons, Wheeler, Jr.

United States; biography; Who's Who in America; Marquis, Albert Nelson; Sammons, Wheeler; A.N. Marquis Company

50

1

Spring 1958

59-85

President Lincoln's campaign against the Merrimac

Bradley, Chester D.

Lincoln, Abraham; Civil War; navy; battleships; Union; Confederacy; Goldsborough, Louis M.; Hampton Roads, Va.; Fort Monroe; Merrimac; Monitor; Vanderbilt  steamboat; Vanderbilt, Cornelius

50

1

Spring 1958

86-96

Illinois in 1957

Adams, James N., comp.

Illinois; chronology; 1957

50

1

Spring 1958

108-109

Recent acquisitions of the Historical Library

 

Illinois State Historical Library; manuscripts; archives

50

2

Summer 1958

127-148

Illinois' oldest memorial -- the Stephen A. Douglas monument

Eisendrath, Joseph L., Jr.

Douglas, Stephen A.; Douglas, Adele Cutts; death; burial; monuments; design; construction; Chicago; Volk, Leonard Wells

50

2

Summer 1958

149-160

New homes in the west -- 1833-1834

Oliver, Egbert S.

Hoffman, Charles Fenno; travel; narratives; Michigan; Illinois

50

2

Summer 1958

161-180

The twilight of the local passenger train in Illinois

Burford, Cary Clive

railroads; trains; passengers; crew; baggage; stations; Illinois

50

2

Summer 1958

181-189

A "study" of John Surratt?

Eisenschiml, Otto

Surratt, John; Isacsson, Alfred; Lincoln, Abraham; assassination; Surratt, Mary

50

2

Summer 1958

191-198

Carl Sandburg at eighty

Flanagan, John T.

Sandburg, Carl; authors; poets; Lincoln, Abraham; biography; Chicago; Illinois

50

2

Summer 1958

220

Recent acquisitions of the Historical Library

 

Illinois State Historical Library; manuscripts

50

3

Autumn 1958

245-267

Patrick Henry Davenport, pioneer Illinois portrait painter

White, Judson

Davenport, Patrick Henry; artists; portraits

50

3

Autumn 1958

269-283

A southerner's tribute to Illinois' "pagan prophet"

Nolan, Paul T.

Ingersoll, Robert G.; Williams, Espy; agnosticism; South; Republican Party; drama; The Atheist

50

3

Autumn 1958

284-305

When Cairo was saved for the Union

Pitkin, William A.

Cairo, Ill.; Civil War; Yates, Richard; governors; Illinois; Logan, John A.; Pillow, Gideon J.; Prentiss, Benjamin M.; Grant, Ulysses S.

50

3

Autumn 1958

306-319

President Lincoln in Confederate caricature

Abbott, Martin

Lincoln, Abraham; presidents; journalism; caricatures; Confederacy

50

3

Autumn 1958

324

Recent acquisitions of the Historical Library

 

Illinois State Historical Library; manuscripts

50

4

Winter 1958

357-379

Natural scientists and the farmers of Illinois, 1865-1900

Davenport, F. Garvin

scientists; farmers; agriculture; Illinois; insects; birds; state entomologist; Walsh, Benjamin D.; LeBaron, William; Thomas, Cyrus; Forbes, Stephen A.

50

4

Winter 1958

380-387

The little soldier of the 95th : Albert D.J. Cashier

Clausius, Gerhard P.

Cashier, Albert D. J.; Hodgers, Jennie; Civil War; women; soldiers; 95th Infantry

50

4

Winter 1958

388-402

Illinois days of Daniel Parker, Texas colonizer

Tingley, Donald F.

Parker, Daniel; ministers; Baptists; slavery; politics; Illinois State Legislature; Illinois; foreign missions; seminaries; education; predestination

50

4

Winter 1958

403-416

Owen Lovejoy's role in the campaign of 1858

Magdol, Edward

Lovejoy, Owen; senators; election; 1858; Illinois; slavery; abolition; Kansas-Nebraska Act; Douglas, Stephen A.; Lincoln, Abraham; Republican Party; Whig Party

50

4

Winter 1958

417-427

The Illinois State Historical Society

 

Illinois State Historical Society; history; activities; publications

50

4

Winter 1958

428-430

The Illinois State Historical Library

 

Illinois State Historical Library; books; manuscripts; newspapers; maps; Lincoln, Abraham; Civil War

50

4

Winter 1958

434

Recent acquisitions of the Historical Library

 

Illinois State Historical Library; manuscripts

51

1

Spring 1959

5-6

Introduction [to Lincoln sesquicentennial issue]

Walton, Clyde C.

Lincoln, Abraham; sesquicentennial

51

1

Spring 1959

7-32

The Constitution and Declaration of Independence as issues in the Lincoln-Douglas debates

King, Willard L.;

Nevins, Allan

Lincoln, Abraham; Douglas, Stephen A.; Senate; election; debates; 1858; slavery; African Americans; Constitution; Declaration of Independence; nationalism

51

1

Spring 1959

33-44

Lincoln in literature

Basler, Roy P.

Lincoln, Abraham; biography; poetry; drama; novels

51

1

Spring 1959

45-51

Exquisite collector, or the scalping of Abraham Lincoln

Mearns, David C.

Lincoln, Abraham; hair; ring; Hay, John; Wilson, James G.; Taft, Charles S.; Taft, Charles C.; Roosevelt, Theodore

51

1

Spring 1959

52-58

Lincoln letters theme has not been exhausted

Hostick, King V.

Lincoln, Abraham; letters; collections; publication

51

1

Spring 1959

59-90

Lincoln's Lincoln grandmother

Coleman, Charles H.

Lincoln, Abraham; Lincoln, Bathsheba Herring; Lincoln, Abraham, I; Lincoln, Thomas; genealogy; migration; Virginia; Kentucky

51

1

Spring 1959

91-105

A critical examination of three Lincoln photographs

Monaghan, Jay

Lincoln, Abraham; photographs; dating; identification

51

1

Spring 1959

106-122

Lincoln's Russian general

East, Ernest E.

Turchin, John Basil; generals; Civil War; 19th Infantry Regiment; 14th Army Corps; court martial; Lincoln, Abraham

51

1

Spring 1959

123-129

Lincoln patriotics

McMurtry, R. Gerald

Lincoln, Abraham; envelopes; Civil War

51

1

Spring 1959

130-145

Lincoln and his namesake town

Dooley, Raymond N.

Lincoln, Abraham; Lincoln, Ill.; county seat; railroad; station; Latham, Robert; Primm, James; Lincoln College

51

1

Spring 1959

146-163

This was a lawyer

Duff, John J.

Lincoln, Abraham; lawyers; law; practice; prosecution

51

1

Spring 1959

164-179

Lincoln allegiance in the southern Appalachians

Kincaid, Robert L.

Lincoln, Abraham; Appalachia; Kentucky; Tennessee; Virginia; Civil War; Lincoln Memorial University; Howard, O. O.

51

1

Spring 1959

180-194

Mary Todd Lincoln's travels

Temple, Wayne C.

Lincoln, Mary Todd; Lincoln, Abraham; travel; steamboats; trains

51

1

Spring 1959

195-207

Three R's in Lincoln's education : Rogers, Riggin and Rankin

Hickey, James T.

Lincoln, Abraham; books; Rogers, Matthew; Rogers, Henry C; Rankin, Arminda Rogers; Riggin, James; Riggin, Harry

51

1

Spring 1959

208-224

Lincoln and Halleck : a study in personal relations

Ambrose, Stephen E.

Lincoln, Abraham; Halleck, Henry W.; generals; Civil War; McClellan, George B.; McClernand, John A.; Grant, Ulysses S.

51

2

Summer 1959

229-247

"Porte Crayon" meets General Grant

Eby, Cecil D., Jr.

Strother, David H.; "Porte Crayon"; Grant, Ulysses S.; travel; Mexico

51

2

Summer 1959

248-262

"The moral lights around us"

Muelder, Hermann R.

Lincoln, Abraham; Douglas, Stephen A.; Senate; election; debates; 1858; Galesburg, Ill.; slavery; abolitionism; colleges; Knox College

51

2

Summer 1959

263-278

The Virden and Pana mine wars of 1898

Hicken, Victor

coal miners; coal companies; salaries; working conditions; unions; strikes; strike breakers; African Americans; Virden, Ill.; Pana, Ill.; Chicago-Virden Company; Pana Coal Company; United Mine Workers of America

51

2

Summer 1959

279-290

The final two chapters in the Surratt controversy

Isacsson, Alfred;

Eisenschiml, Otto

Lincoln, Abraham; assassination; Surratt, John, Surratt, Mary

51

2

Summer 1959

291-306

The sesquicentennial of Lincoln's birth

Rissler, Howard F.

Lincoln, Abraham; sesquicentennial; banquets; speeches; lectures; Springfield, Ill.; Washington, D.C.; Urbana, Ill.

51

2

Summer 1959

314

Recent acquisitions of the Historical Library

 

Illinois State Historical Library; archives

51

3

Autumn 1959

365-418

Currency and banking in Illinois before 1865

Marckhoff, Fred R.

Illinois; banks; banking; State Bank of Illinois; currency; bonds; notes; legislation

51

3

Autumn 1959

419-430

Three antislavery prisoners

Kilby, Clyde S.

Burr, James E.; Thompson, George; Work, Alanson; slavery; slaves; Underground Railroad; prisoners; burial; Wheaton College; Illinois Institute

51

3

Autumn 1959

431-438

Family histories

 

Illinois State Historical Library; genealogy; family histories

51

3

Autumn 1959

442-443

Recent acquisitions of the Historical Library

Wax, Bernard

Illinois State Historical Library; archives

51

4

Winter 1959

477-502

My life with the Colonel

Trohan, Walter

McCormick, Robert R.; Chicago Tribune; journalism; editors; journalists

51

4

Winter 1959

503-525

A proposed agenda for Illinois historians

Felt, Thomas E.

Illinois; history; biography; politics; government; economics; industries; transportation; arts; recreation; cities; towns. counties

51

4

Winter 1959

526-543

Law and lawlessness in Rock Island prior to 1850

Ander, O. Fritiof

Rock Island, Ill.; Stephenson, Ill.; constables; law enforcement; crime; murder; Gerrard, Joseph; Davenport, George

51

4

Winter 1959

565

Recent acquisitions of the Historical Library

Wax, Bernard

Illinois State Historical Library; archives

52

1

Spring 1960

5-28

The Braidwood lockout of 1874

Gutman, Herbert G.

coal miners; coal companies; lockouts; Braidwood, Ill.; Chicago, Wilmington and Vermillion Coal Company; Braidwood Miners Union

52

1

Spring 1960

29-36

The kidnaped cornerstone

Hodges, Carl G.

Illinois State Capitol; cornerstone; Ingersoll, Robert G.; Masons

52

1

Spring 1960

37-63

Chicago's Camp Douglas,1861-1865

Eisendrath, Joseph L., Jr.

Camp Douglas; Civil War; soldiers; recruitment; training; prisoners; Confederates; Douglas, Stephen A.

52

1

Spring 1960

64-69

Mission unaccomplished : Lincoln and an office seeker

Warford, William S.

Lincoln, Abraham; Browning, Orville H.; Swartwout, Cornelius J.; port surveyor; political appointment

52

1

Spring 1960

99-101

Recent acquisitions of the Historical Library

Wax, Bernard

Illinois State Historical Library; archives

52

2

Summer 1960

117-148

The Municipal Voters' League and Chicago's boodlers

Roberts, Sidney I.

Chicago; aldermen; City Council; corruption; reform; utilities; franchises; Civic Federation; Municipal Voters' League; Gage, Lyman J.; Cole, George E.

52

2

Summer 1960

149-162

Nehemiah Matson -- historian of northern Illinois

Haberkorn, Ruth Ewers

Matson, Nehemiah; historians; Princeton, Ill.; Bureau County, Ill.; history; maps; bibliography; travel

52

2

Summer 1960

163-178

John A. McClernand and the House speakership struggle of 1859

Hicken, Victor

McClernand, John A.; Illinois; House of Representatives; speaker; 1859; Democratic Party; Republican Party; Douglas, Stephen A.

52

2

Summer 1960

179-181

Alfred Whital Stern, 1881-1960

 

Stern, Alfred Whital; Lincoln, Abraham; books; manuscripts; Civil War; Illinois State Historical Library

52

3

Autumn 1960

229-246

The centennial year of two great Illinoisans : Jane Addams and William Jennings Bryan

Dilliard, Irving

Bryan, William Jennings; Salem, Ill.; Jacksonville Ill.; Lincoln, Neb.; Omaha World-Herald; Democratic Party; candidate; president; conventions; 1896; 1900; 1908; evolution; Scopes trial; Addams, Jane; Cedarville, Ill.; Rockford College; Toynbee Hall; social work; Hull House; women; suffrage; peace

52

3

Autumn 1960

247-265

Jane Addams vs. the ward boss

Davis, Allen F.

Addams, Jane; Powers, Johnny; Chicago, Ill.; Hull House; Nineteenth Ward; politics; reform; schools; garbage collection

52

3

Autumn 1960

266-282

Bryan the orator

House, Boyce

Bryan, William Jennings; oratory; free silver; Democratic Party; conventions; 1896; 1904; 1912; Wilson, Woodrow; Chautauqua

52

3

Autumn 1960

289-293

Family histories

 

Illinois State Historical Library; genealogy; family histories

52

3

Autumn 1960

294

Recent acquisitions of the Historical Library

Wax, Bernard

Illinois State Historical Library; archives

52

4

Winter 1960

341-360

The education of Robert Todd Lincoln

Goff, John S.

Lincoln, Robert Todd; education; Illinois State University, Springfield; Phillips Exeter Academy; Harvard College; Harvard Law School; Soule, Gideon Lane; Lowell, James Russell

52

4

Winter 1960

361-375

The Chicago church-theater controversy of 1881-1882

Shiffler, Harrold C.

theater; religion; Chicago; Fourth Presbyterian Church; Johnson, Herrick; McVicker, James H.; McVicker's Theatre

52

4

Winter 1960

376-388

Herman Melville's visit to Galena in 1840

Tanselle, G. Thomas

Melville, Herman; travel; narratives; Galena, Ill.; Melvill, Thomas

52

4

Winter 1960

389-403

Abolitionism comes to Illinois

Dillon, Merton L.

abolitionism; Illinois; Bond County, Ill.; Shoal Creek Presbyterian Church; Stewart, William M.; Putnam County, Ill.; Garrison, William Lloyd; Putnam County Anti-Slavery Society; Union Grove Presbyterian Church; Dickey, James H.; Liberty Party

52

4

Winter 1960

418-419

Recent acquisitions of the Historical Library

Wax, Bernard

Illinois State Historical Library; Civil War; letters; diaries

54

1

Spring 1961

5-24

Oglesby's fence rail dealings and the 1860 Decatur convention

Hickey, James T.

Oglesby, Richard J.; Lincoln, Abraham; election; president; 1860; rails; Republican Party; conventions; Decatur, Ill.

54

1

Spring 1961

25-50

Diary of a New York doctor in Illinois -- 1830-1831

Reznek, Samuel

Fitch, Asa; doctors; diaries; Greenville, Ill.

54

1

Spring 1961

51-55

Trumbull's private opinion of the Grant scandals

Jones, James P.

Trumbull, Lyman; Grant, Ulysses S.; corruption; Republican Party; Democratic Party

54

1

Spring 1961

56-83

Edgar Lee Masters -- biographer and historian

Hartley, Lois

Masters; Edgar Lee; biography; Mayer, Levy; Lincoln, Abraham; Lindsay, Vachel; Whitman, Walt; Twain, Mark; history; Chicago; Sangamon River

54

1

Spring 1961

84

Recent acquisitions of the Historical Library

Wax, Bernard

Illinois State Historical Library; archives

54

2

Summer 1961

117-180

State sovereignty and slavery -- a reinterpretation of proslavery constitutional doctrine, 1846-1860

Bestor, Arthur

Constitution; slavery; abolition; secession; states' rights; Fugitive Slave Act; territories; Wilmot Proviso; Dred Scott decision; Confederacy

54

2

Summer 1961

181-197

The Nauvoo Legion, 1840-1845 -- a unique military organization

Gardner, Hamilton

militias; Nauvoo, Ill.; Nauvoo Legion; Mormons

54

2

Summer 1961

198-203

Francis Grierson -- a biographical sketch and bibliography

Simonson, Harold P.

Grierson, Francis; essayists; pianists; biography; bibliography

54

2

Summer 1961

204

Recent acquisitions of the Historical Library

Wax, Bernard

Illinois State Historical Library; archives

54

3

Autumn 1961

229-245

Cairo's Civil War angel, Mary Jane Safford

Fischer, Le Roy H.

Safford, Mary Jane; Bickerdyke, Mary Ann; Civil War; hospitals; nursing; Cairo, Ill.

54

3

Autumn 1961

246-267

Nineteenth-century natural history organizations in Illinois

Hendrickson, Walter B.

natural history; organizations; museums; Illinois; Illinois Natural History Society; Turner, Jonathan Baldwin; Wilber, Charles D.; Powell, John Wesley; High School and College Association of Natural History; Forbes, Stephen A.

54

3

Autumn 1961

268-293

Lincoln's assassination and the Protestant clergy of the North

Stewart, Charles J.

Lincoln, Abraham; assassination; clergy; Protestant; sermons; interpretation

54

3

Autumn 1961

294-297

Family histories

 

Illinois State Historical Library; genealogy; family histories

54

3

Autumn 1961

298-299

Recent acquisitions of the Historical Library

Wax, Bernard

Illinois State Historical Library; archives

54

4

Winter 1961

341-373

The Civil War letters of the Dutch ambassador

Schulte Nordholt, J. W.

Netherlands; ambassador; letters; United States; Civil War; slavery; emancipation; Roest van Limburg, Theodorus Marinus; Lincoln, Abraham; Seward, William H.; Davis, Jefferson; Cass, Lewis; Johnson, Andrew

54

4

Winter 1961

374-391

James Park Slade -- nineteenth-century schoolman

Button, Henry Warren

Slade, James Park; schools; education; superintendent; St. Clair County, Ill.; East St. Louis, Ill.; superintendent of public instruction; Illinois; colleges; Almira College

54

4

Winter 1961

392-404

"I am my own boss," -- a German immigrant writes from Illinois

Tonsor, Stephen J.

German Americans; immigration; White County, Ill.

54

4

Winter 1961

405-418

Edward Eggleston as a social historian

Brown, Clarence A.

Eggleston, Edward; authors; fiction; realism; Hoosier Schoolmaster

54

4

Winter 1961

419-422

John J. Duff, 1902-1961

Gates, Arnold

Duff, John J.; Lincoln, Abraham; biography

54

4

Winter 1961

443

Recent acquisitions of the Historical Library

Wax, Bernard

Illinois State Historical Library; newspapers; microfilm

55

1

Spring 1962

5-31

The Chicago Civic Opera Company, its rise and fall

Hodge, John E.

opera; Chicago; finance; Chicago Civic Opera Company; Civic Opera House; Auditorium Theater; Chicago Music Foundation; Insull, Samuel; Polacco, Giorgio; Garden, Mary; Witherspoon, Herbert

55

1

Spring 1962

31-44

An Illinois colonel's visit to Jeff Davis in 1864 : his contribution to Lincoln's re-election

McClelland, Clarence P.

Jaquess, James Frazier; Lincoln, Abraham; election;1864; Davis, Jefferson; Civil War

55

1

Spring 1962

45-71

Indian place names in Illinois, part I

Vogel, Virgil J.

Illinois; American Indians; place names

55

1

Spring 1962

88-89

Recent acquisitions of the Historical Library

Wax, Bernard

Illinois State Historical Library; manuscripts

55

2

Summer 1962

117-135

Nauvoo Times and Seasons

Sorensen, Parry D.

Mormons; Nauvoo, Ill.; newspapers; Times and Seasons; Robinson, Ebenezer; Smith, Don Carlos; Smith, Joseph; Taylor, John; Woodruff, Wilford; Law, William; Nauvoo Expositor

55

2

Summer 1962

136-156

Frontier perils told by an early Illinois visitor

Gustorf, Fred

Gustorf, Fred; German Americans; immigration; diaries; farming; Albion, Illinois

55

2

Summer 1962

157-189

Indian place names in Illinois, part II

Vogel, Virgil J.

Illinois; American Indians; place names

55

2

Summer 1962

190

Recent acquisitions of the Historical Library

Wax, Bernard

Illinois State Historical Library; newspapers; Lincoln, Abraham; election; 1864

55

3

Autumn 1962

229-249

John Patterson Stelle : agrarian crusader from southern Illinois

Scott, Roy V.

Stelle, John P.; farming; Granger Movement; Greenback Party; Farmers Mutual Benefit Association; Progressive Farmer; Populist Party; Illinois; Southern Illinois

55

3

Autumn 1962

250-254

A Dawes diplomatic dinner

Ferrell, Robert H.

Dawes, Charles G.; ambassadors; United States; Great Britain; Errol, Leon

55

3

Autumn 1962

255-270

Frontier perils told by an early Illinois visitor, part II

Gustorf, Fred

Gustorf, Fred; diaries; Illinois; steamboats; Peoria, Ill.; Belleville, Ill.

55

3

Autumn 1962

271-308

Indian place names in Illinois, part III

Vogel, Virgil J.

Illinois; American Indians; place names

55

3

Autumn 1962

313

Recent acquisitions of the Historical Library

Wax, Bernard

Illinois State Historical Library; manuscripts

55

4

Winter 1962

341-369

Henry Horner and Richard Finnegan -- footnote to a friendship

Meyers, W. Cameron

Horner, Henry; Finnegan, Richard J.; Illinois; governor; election; 1932; 1936; editors; Chicago Daily Times; Democratic Party;  Prohibition; repeal; saloons; teachers; loyalty oaths; Bundesen, Herman; Brooks, C. Wayland

55

4

Winter 1962

370-384

Jonathan Baldwin Turner and the land-grant idea

Brown, Donald R.

Turner, Jonathan Baldwin; universities; curriculum; agriculture; industry; land grants; Morrill Land Grant Act; Illinois Industrial University; University of Illinois

55

4

Winter 1962

385-458

Indian place names in Illinois, part IV

Vogel, Virgin J.

Illinois; American Indians; place names

55

4

Winter 1962

481

Recent acquisitions of the Historical Library

 

Illinois State Historical Library; manuscripts

56

1

Spring 1963

5-19

William Dean Howells's unpublished letters about the Haymarket Affair

Wilson, Howard A.

Howells, William Dean; Haymarket Affair; anarchists; trial; letters; amnesty; Salter, William Mackintire

56

1

Spring 1963

20-35

The Cuban diary of Edwin M. Lacey

Tingley, Donald F.

Cuba; Spanish American War; soldiers; diaries; communications; telegraph; Lacey, Edwin M.

56

1

Spring 1963

36-60

John A. Logan, freshman in Congress, 1859-1861

Jones, James P.

Logan, John A.; congressmen; Democratic Party; House of Representatives; speaker; slavery; secession; election; president; 1860; Douglas, Stephen A.; Lincoln, Abraham

56

1

Spring 1963

61-73

Higher education in transition, 1850-1870

Hildner, Ernest G.

Illinois; colleges; universities; charters; finance; curriculum; enrollment; coeducation; physical education; fraternities; sororities; land grants; Illinois State Normal University; Illinois Agricultural College; University of Illinois

56

1

Spring 1963

78-83

Family histories

 

Illinois State Historical Library; genealogy; family histories

56

1

Spring 1963

84-85

Recent acquisitions of the Historical Library

Wax, Bernard

Illinois State Historical Library; newspapers; microfilm

56

2

Summer 1963

119-120

Introduction [Civil War centennial issue]

Walton, Clyde C.

Illinois; Civil War

56

2

Summer 1963

121-138

Richard Yates : a personal glimpse of the Illinois soldiers' friend

Nortrup, Jack

Yates, Richard; governors; Civil War; soldiers; Illinois; Grant, Ulysses S.; McClernand, John A.; Siege of Vicksburg

56

2

Summer 1963

139-149

Resurgence of the Chicago Democracy, April-November, 1861

Dick, David B.

Democratic Party; Civil War; Douglas, Stephen A.; Storey, Wilbur A.; Chicago Times; Chicago

56

2

Summer 1963

150-163

Letters from the front

Kaiser, Leo M.

Civil War; soldiers; letters; excerpts; Tallman, John N.

56

2

Summer 1963

164-176

Mulligan and the Irish Brigade

Smith, Harold F.

Mulligan, James A.; Civil War; Irish Americans; Irish Brigade; 23rd Illinois Infantry

56

2

Summer 1963

177-192

Five butternut Yankees

Maul, David T.

Civil War; Confederacy; Union; army; Irish Americans; soldiers; Illinois; 23rd Illinois Infantry; Connor, John; King, Patrick; Joyce; Michael; Carmody; Patrick; Crane, Michael

56

2

Summer 1963

193-211

The 55th Illinois at Shiloh

Eisenschiml, Otto

Civil War; soldiers; 55th Illinois Volunteers; Battle of Shiloh; Stuart, David; Malmborg, Otto

56

2

Summer 1963

212-232

The Civil War years of John Alexander Logan

Dickinson, John N.

Logan, John A.; Civil War; 31st Illinois Infantry; McClernand, John A.; Grant, Ulysses S.; McPherson, James B.; Sherman, William Tecumseh.; election; 1864; Lincoln, Abraham

56

2

Summer 1963

233-256

Pvt. Charles E. Affeld describes the Mechanicsburg expeditions

Bearss, Edwin C.

Affeld, Charles E.; Civil War; soldiers; diaries; Siege of Vicksburg; Mechanicsburg Expeditions

56

2

Summer 1963

257-281

Colonel Julian E. Bryant : champion of the Negro soldier

Murray, Donald M.;

Rodney, Robert M.

Civil War; Negroes; soldiers;  Bryant, Julian E.; 51st U.S. Colored Infantry

56

2

Summer 1963

282-297

One story of the 109th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Parks, George E.

Civil War; soldiers; Illinois; ; Union County, Ill.; 109th Illinois Infantry; Battle of Holly Springs; Evans, James

56

2

Summer 1963

298-315

Army memoirs of Lucius W. Barber

Lowe, Donald V.

Civil War; soldiers; Barber, Lucius W.; 15th Illinois Infantry; diaries; memoirs; Battle of Shiloh; Siege of Vicksburg; prisoners; Andersonville Prison

56

2

Summer 1963

316-339

"In the Bastile of the rebels"

Tusken, Roger

Civil War; soldiers; prisoners; Libby Prison; Lodge, George R.; diaries

56

2

Summer 1963

340-349

"The Empire City of the West" --  a view of Chicago in 1864

Staudenraus, P. J.

Civil War; Chicago; newspaper correspondents; Brooks, Noah

56

2

Summer 1963

350-363

The Clingman raid

Tingley, Donald F.

Civil War; gangs; raids; Clingman, Thomas L.; Montgomery County, Ill.; Fayette County, Ill.; Bond County, Ill.

56

2

Summer 1963

364-371

Uncle Dan Emmett's "Dixie"

Jones, Robert Huhn

Emmett, Daniel D.; Dixie; minstrel shows; Civil War; Union; Confederacy

56

2

Summer 1963

372-390

A Tuscolan in the war and afterward

Laing, Diana Whitehill

Civil War; soldiers; Williams, John Thomas; Tuscola, Ill.; newspapers

56

2

Summer 1963

391-411

A basic Civil War library

Newman, Ralph G.;

Long, E. B.

Civil War; bibliography

56

3

Autumn 1963

431-432

Introduction [emancipation centennial issue]

Davis, Corneal A.;

Robinson, William H.

African Americans; slavery; emancipation; centennial

56

3

Autumn 1963

433-438

The Negro's two hundred forty years in Illinois -- a chronology

Horney, Helen; Keller, William E.

African Americans; chronology; Illinois

56

3

Autumn 1963

439-453

Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, the first Chicagoan

Meehan, Thomas A.

Point du Sable, Jean Baptiste; African Americans; settlers; Chicago

56

3

Autumn 1963

454-473

The black laws of Illinois

Gertz, Elmer

African Americans; civil rights; slavery; Black Laws

56

3

Autumn 1963

474-494

The Illinois background of Lincoln's attitude toward slavery and the Negro

Strickland, Arvarh E.

African Americans; slavery; abolition; Lincoln, Abraham; Illinois; constitutional convention; 1847

56

3

Autumn 1963

495-507

Some of early Illinois' free Negroes

Watkins, Sylvestre C., Sr.

African Americans; Illinois; Point du Sable, Jean Baptiste; Washington, George; McWorter, Frank; Fleurville, William de; Johnson, William; Jones, John

56

3

Autumn 1963

508-528

The Underground Railroad in Illinois

Gara, Larry

Underground Railroad; African Americans; slavery; abolitionism; Illinois

56

3

Autumn 1963

529-551

The record of Illinois' Negro soldiers in the Civil War

Hicken, Victor

African Americans; Civil War; soldiers; Illinois; 29th United States Colored Infantry

56

3

Autumn 1963

552-569

Negro churches in Illinois : a fragmentary history with emphasis on Chicago

Fisher, Miles Mark

African Americans; churches; Illinois; Chicago

56

3

Autumn 1963

570-591

The Negro press in Illinois

Lochard, Metz T. P.

African Americans; newspapers; migration; segregation; civil rights; Illinois; Chicago Defender; Abbott. Robert S.

56

3

Autumn 1963

592-624

Civil Liberties of Negroes in Illinois since 1865

Dilliard, Irving

African Americans; civil rights; discrimination; riots; voting; fair employment; Republican Party; Democratic Party; Illinois

56

4

Winter 1963

629-653

The Lincolns' Globe Tavern, a study in tracing the history of a nineteenth-century building

Hickey, James T.

Lincoln, Abraham; Lincoln, Mary Todd; Globe Tavern; Springfield, Ill.; construction; ownership; Ransdell, Wharton; Bennett, William T.; Spottswood, George Washington; Saunders, Cyrus G.; Beck, Sarah; Barrett, Richard F.; Butler, William; Gray, Isaac; Renfro, Willis H.

56

4

Winter 1963

654-676

John Peter Altgeld as a candidate for mayor of Chicago in 1899

Tompkins, C. David

Altgeld, John Peter; mayor; Chicago, election; 1899; streetcars; municipal ownership; Municipal Ownership League; Democratic Party; Harrison, Carter H., II; Yerkes, Charles T.

56

4

Winter 1963

677-691

The Stephen A. Douglas letters in the State Historical Library

Felt, Thomas E.

Douglas, Stephen A.; letters; slavery; Democratic Party; presidency; candidates;  Illinois State Historical Library

56

4

Winter 1963

692-712

Illinois' convention ratifies the Twenty-First Amendment

Kohn, Walter S. G.

prohibition; repeal; Constitution; Eighteenth Amendment; Twenty-First Amendment; ratification; constitutional conventions; states; Illinois

56

4

Winter 1963

720

Recent acquisitions of the Historical Library

Wax, Bernard

Illinois State Historical Library; archives

57

1

Spring 1964

5-22

Dr. John Harvey Kellogg as a social gospel practitioner

Schwarz, Richard W.

Kellogg, John Harvey; Kellogg, W. K.; cereals; Battle Creek Sanitarium; medical missions; Chicago Branch Sanitarium; Pacific Garden Mission; Skid Row; Workingmen's Home; American Medical Missionary College; Seventh Day Adventist Church; Chicago

57

1

Spring 1964

23-29

Lincoln and the escape of the Confederate commissioner

Moore, J. Preston

Mann, Ambrose Dudley; Lincoln, Abraham; Seward, William H.; Civil War; Confederacy; recognition; Great Britain; France

57

1

Spring 1964

30-48

Do-it-yourself books for Illinois immigrants

Savage, James P., Jr.

immigration; United States; handbooks; regions; cities; transportation; land grants; farming

57

1

Spring 1964

95-96

Recent acquisitions of the Historical Library

Wax, Bernard

Illinois State Historical Library; letters; manuscripts

57

2

Summer 1964

117-142

The Chicago Indian treaty of 1833

Gerwing, Anselm J.

treaties; Chippewa Indians; Ottawa Indians; Potawatomi Indians; 1833; Chicago; Senate; ratification; Shabbona; Sauganash; Caldwell, Billy; Chechebinquey; Robinson, Alexander; Herring, Elbert; Cass, Lewis; Porter, George; Owen, Thomas J.V.; Weatherford, William; Schermerhorn, John F.

57

2

Summer 1964

143-155

Studies of political loyalty of two nationality groups : isolationism and German-Americans, the Rockford Swedish community

Allen, Howard W.;

Homer, Dorothy

German Americans; Swedish Americans; voting; isolationism; World War II; Hamilton County, Ill.; Rockford, Ill.; Democratic Party; Republican Party

57

2

Summer 1964

156-171

"In these waste places" -- Pekin, Illinois, 1824-1849

Soady, Fred W., Jr.

Pekin, Ill.; incorporation; Black Hawk War; cholera; erysipelas; scarlatina; drought; Mexican War

57

2

Summer 1964

207-208

Recent acquisitions of the Historical Library

Brubaker, Robert L.

Illinois State Historical Library; manuscripts

57

3

Autumn 1964

229-248

Competition and consolidation : the Galena Packet Co., 1847-63

Toole, Robert C.

steamboats; Mississippi River; competition; Galena Line; Galena, Dubuque, Dunleith and Minnesota Packet Company;  Dubuque and St. Paul Packet Company; St. Louis and St. Paul Union Line; Northern Line; La Crosse and Minnesota Steam Packet Company

57

3

Autumn 1964

249-260

Edgar Lee Masters, political essayist

Hartley, Lois

Masters, Edgar Lee; politics; essays

57

3

Autumn 1964

261-269

The Common School Advocate : molder of the public mind

Peterson, Charles E., Jr.

education; periodicals; Illinois; Common School Advocate; Baldwin, Theron

57

3

Autumn 1964

270-283

Northern intellectual attitudes toward Lincoln, 1860-1865

Williams, Lorraine A.

Lincoln, Abraham; intellectuals; public opinion; Civil War; election; 1864

57

3

Autumn 1964

284-297

The issue of freedom in Illinois : under Gov. Edward Coles, 1822-1826, under Gov. Wm. H. Bissell, 1857-1860; under Gov. Richard Yates, 1860-1865

Cassidy, John Thomas;

Hiller, Mary Jane;

Hartman, Linda

Illinois; governors; slavery; abolition; reapportionment; Illinois State Legislature; Democratic Party; Republican Party; secession; Coles, Edward; Bissell, William H.; Yates, Richard

57

3

Autumn 1964

329-330

Recent acquisitions of the Historical Library

Wax, Bernard

Illinois State Historical Library; manuscripts

57

4

Winter 1964

341-365

The Keeley League

Barclay, George A.

Keeley League; alcoholism; treatment; Keeley, Leslie E.; Keeley Institute; Leslie E. Keeley Company; Dwight, Ill.

57

4

Winter 1964

366-379

Vachel Lindsay writes to Floyd Dell

Tanselle, G. Thomas

Lindsay, Vachel; poetry; poets; Dell, Floyd; Chicago Evening Post; Friday Literary Review

57

4

Winter 1964

380-396

Lyman Trumbull and the real issues in the Lincoln-Douglas debates

Krug, Mark M.

Trumbull, Lyman; Lincoln, Abraham; Douglas, Stephen A.; elections; Senate; 1858; debates; Democratic Party; Republican Party; slavery; abolition

57

4

Winter 1964

406-410

Family histories

Schulz, Mildred

Illinois State Historical Library; genealogy; family histories

57

4

Winter 1964

411-413

Recent acquisitions of the Historical Library

Brubaker, Robert L.

Illinois State Historical Library; manuscripts

58

1

Spring 1965

5-20

"In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all" : a timetable for the Lincoln funeral train

Newman, Ralph G.

Lincoln, Abraham; assassination; funeral; train; burial; Springfield, Ill.

58

1

Spring 1965

21-33

Springfield, May, 1865

Hickey, James T.

Springfield, Ill.; population; business; housing; restaurants; entertainment; Lincoln, Abraham; assassination; funeral

58

1

Spring 1965

34-53

Illinois' year of decision, 1837

Sutton, Robert M.

Illinois; Illinois State Legislature; 1837; internal improvements; railroads; panic; Deere, John; plow; Alton, Ill.; newspapers; Alton Observer; slavery; abolitionism; Lovejoy, Elijah P.; murder

58

1

Spring 1965

56-76

Illinois pulls out of the mud

Wrone, David R.

roads; construction; improvement; legislation; finance; Vermilion County , Ill.; Vermilion County Good Roads Association; Illinois Highway Improvement Association; Edens, William G.; Lowden, Frank O.; Small, Len

58

1

Spring 1965

 

Recent acquisitions of the Historical Library

Brubaker, Robert L.

Illinois State Historical Library; manuscripts

58

2

Summer 1965

117-138

Wesley Raymond Brink, history huckster

Spahn, Betty;

Spahn, Raymond

Brink, Wesley Raymond; publishers; counties; atlases; history; biography; Illinois; Madison County, Ill.

58

2

Summer 1965

139-164

The Chicago Tribune's "lost" years, 1865-1874

Dante, Harris L.

Chicago Tribune; editors; Medill, Joseph; White, Horace; Cowles, Alfred; politics; radicalism; tariff; Johnson, Andrew; impeachment; Reconstruction; Grant, Ulysses S.; Republican Party; Democratic Party

58

2

Summer 1965

165-189

From Galena to Appomattox : Grant and Washburne

Simon, John Y.

Grant, Ulysses S.; Washburne, Elihu B.; Republican Party; House of Representatives; Civil War; Union; army; generals; Lincoln, Abraham

58

2

Summer 1965

190-199

The final assembly of the Civil War Centennial Commission and the State Historical Society's spring tour

 

Civil War; United States Civil War Centennial Commission; Springfield, Ill.; Illinois State Historical Society

58

2

Summer 1965

200-204

Recent acquisitions of the Historical Library

Brubaker, Robert L.

Illinois State Historical Library; manuscripts; Civil War

58

3

Autumn 1965

245-264

President Theodore Roosevelt and Illinois politics, 1901-1904

Tarr, Joel A.

Roosevelt, Theodore; president; Republican Party; Illinois; elections; Senate; governors; Lorimer, William; Dawes, Charles G.; Hopkins, Albert G.; Yates, Richard, Jr.; Deneen, Charles S.; Lowden, Frank O.

58

3

Autumn 1965

265-278

John Scripps, Methodist circuit rider extraordinary

Pennewell, Almer M.

Scripps, John; Methodist Church; circuit riders; Illinois; Indiana; Missouri; Arkansas

58

3

Autumn 1965

279-300

The travels of the Marstons

Norton, Henry L.

Lawrence, Margaret Marston; Marston, Thomas; Marston, Jane Graham; immigration; travel; British; slavery; Boonville, Mo.; Quincy, Ill.

58

3

Autumn 1965

301-304

The historical markers program

Hurst, Richard M.

Illinois; historical sites; markers

58

3

Autumn 1965

305-307

Recent acquisitions of the Historical Library

Brubaker, Robert L.

Illinois State Historical Library; manuscripts

58

4

Winter 1965

357-377

Michael K. Lawler's ordeal with the Eighteenth Illinois

Pitkin, William A.

Lawler, Michael K.; Civil War; Union; army; 18th Illinois Infantry; morale; discipline; Dickerman, Robert; Evans, William; homicide; hanging; chaplains; Catholic; Lambert, Louis; court martial

58

4

Winter 1965

378-395

The slavery-extension controversy and Illinois congressmen, 1846-50

Silbey, Joel H.

slavery; extension; Wilmot Proviso; Compromise of 1850; Congress; congressmen; Democratic Party; Whig Party; Illinois

58

4

Winter 1965

396-423

Gubernatorial power and the Illinois and Michigan Canal : a study of political development in the nineteenth century

Elazar, Daniel J.

Illinois and Michigan Canal; construction; governors; Illinois; Bond, Shadrach; Coles, Edward; Edwards, Ninian; Reynolds, John; Duncan, Joseph; Carlin, Thomas; Ford, Thomas

58

4

Winter 1965

424-430

Family histories

Schulz, Mildred

Illinois State Historical Library; genealogy; family histories

59

1

Spring 1966

5-29

The University of Illinois struggles for public recognition, 1867-1894

Solberg, Winton U.

universities; Illinois; public relations; curriculum; liberal arts; science; agriculture; University of Illinois; Illinois Industrial University; president; Gregory, John Milton; Dunlap, Matthias L.; Peabody, Selim H.; Burrill, Thomas J.

59

1

Spring 1966

30-47

Out-of-state influences and the Lincoln-Douglas campaign of 1858

Heckman, Richard Allen

elections; Senate; 1858; Lincoln, Abraham; Douglas, Stephen A.; Democratic Party; Republican Party; Buchanan, James; Seward, William H.; Greeley, Horace

59

1

Spring 1966

48-66

The Chicago Relief and Aid Society, 1850-1874

Nelson, Otto M.

charities; poverty; relief; Chicago Relief and Aid Society; Chicago Fire

59

1

Spring 1966

67-68

Recent acquisitions of the Historical Library

Spence, Paul

Illinois State Historical Library; manuscripts

59

2

Summer 1966

117-130

The Chicago I remember, 1907

Borough, Reuben W.

Borough, Reuben W.; socialism; Spencer-Whitman Center; Chicago Daily Socialist; Sercombe, Parker H.; Simons, Algie Martin; Chicago

59

2

Summer 1966

131-142

Three days of violence : the regulators of the Rock River Valley

Jones, Robert Huhn

gangs; Driscoll, John; Driscoll, Pierce; Driscoll, William; Driscoll, David; Driscoll, Taylor; vigilantes; lynching; Regulators; Ford, Thomas; Wellington, W. S.; Campbell, John; Chaney, Phineas; Rock River Valley, Ill.

59

2

Summer 1966

143-160

An Illinois physician and the Civil War draft, 1864-1865 : letters of Dr. Joshua Nichols Speed

Hanchett, William

Civil War; draft; Illinois; physicians; letters; Speed, Joshua Nichols; Speed, Ellen Scripps

59

2

Summer 1966

161-171

Negro protest at the Chicago World's Fair, 1933-1934

Meier, August;

Rudwick, Elliott

African Americans; Century of Progress; exhibits; visitors; employees; discrimination; Chicago

59

2

Summer 1966

176-179

Recent acquisitions of the Historical Library

Spence, Paul

Illinois State Historical Library; manuscripts

59

2

Summer 1966

180-181

The historical markers program

Hurst, Richard M.

Illinois; historical sites; markers

59

3

Autumn 1966

229-251

The Sandburg I remember

Borough, Reuben W.

Sandburg, Carl; Borough, Reuben W.; Mance, Alfred W.; Sandburg, Lilian Steichen; Daily Socialist; authors; socialism; Marxism; Chicago

59

3

Autumn 1966

252-271

The Infanta at the fair

Wilson, Robert E.

World's Columbian Exposition; Eulalia, Infanta; letters; Potter, Bertha Honore; Chicago; Spain

59

3

Autumn 1966

272-288

The Dial in transition : the end of the Browne family's control, 1913-1916

Joost, Nicholas

Dial (Chicago, Ill.); Browne, Francis Fisher; literature; art; criticism; magazines; Payne, William Morton; Cary, Lucian; Donlin, George Bernard; Browne, Waldo R.; Browne, Herbert S.; Hale, Edward E.; Johnson, Martyn

59

3

Autumn 1966

321-323

Recent acquisitions of the Historical Library

Spence, Paul

Illinois State Historical Library; manuscripts

59

4

Winter 1966

341-353

The founding of the Chicago Daily News

Abramoske, Donald J.

newspapers; journalism; Chicago; Chicago Daily News; Stone, Melville D.; Lawson, Victor F.

59

4

Winter 1966

354-383

Ingersoll's political transition -- patriotism or partisanship?

Angel, Donald E.

Ingersoll, Robert G.; Congress; election; 1860; Ingersoll, Ebon C.; abolitionism; Republican Party; Democratic Party; Civil War; United States Army

59

4

Winter 1966

384-406

The movement to establish Lebanon Seminary, 1833-1835

Weil, Oscar A.

colleges; Methodist Church; Lebanon Seminary; McKendree College; Akers, Peter; charters; Illinois

59

4

Winter 1966

407-412

Family histories

Schulz, Mildred

Illinois State Historical Library; genealogy; family histories

59

4

Winter 1966

413-416

Recent acquisitions of the Historical Library

Spence, Paul

Illinois State Historical Library; archives; Keeley Institute

60

1

Spring 1967

5-22

The National Road in Illinois

Hardin, Thomas L.

National Road; construction; location; finance; internal improvements; Illinois; Vandalia, Ill.

60

1

Spring 1967

23-36

The MacKenzie-Jefferson Theatrical Company in Galena, 1838-1839

Wilmeth, Don B.

theater; actors; plays; MacKenzie, Alexander; Jefferson, Joseph, II; Galena, Ill.

60

1

Spring 1967

37-63

Omer N. Custer : a biography of a downstate political boss

Peterson, Lowell N.

Custer, Omer N.; biography; politicians; county treasurer; Knox County, Ill.; postmaster; Galesburg, Ill.; state industrial board; state treasurer; governor; candidate; 1932; Illinois; Republican Party

60

1

Spring 1967

64-69

Recent acquisitions of the Historical Library

Spence, Paul D.

Illinois State Historical Library; manuscripts

60

2

Summer 1967

117-136

The leasing of mineral lands in Illinois and Wisconsin

Everhart, Duane K.

public lands; minerals; lead; leasing; mining; smelting; Illinois; Wisconsin; Galena, Ill.

60

2

Summer 1967

137-144

An American Communist reports from Russia, November, 1922

Keiser, John H.

Johnston, Jack W.; Communism; Russia; 1922; workers; American Federation of Labor; Profintern; Fitzpatrick, John; Chicago Federation of Labor

60

2

Summer 1967

145-175

The Chicago Negro voter and the Democratic consensus : a case study, 1918-1936

Allswang, John M.

African Americans; ethnic groups; voting; Democratic Party; Republican Party; Chicago; Thompson, William Hale; Dever, John; Harding, Warren G.; Coolidge, Calvin; Hoover, Herbert; Smith, Al; Roosevelt, Franklin D.; De Priest, Oscar; Cermak, Anton J.; Mitchell, Arthur W.; Kelly, Edward J.; newspapers; endorsements

60

2

Summer 1967

176-180

Recent acquisitions of the Historical Library

Spence, Paul D.

Illinois State Historical Library; manuscripts

60

2

Summer 1967

181-183

The historical markers program

Hurst, Richard M.

Illinois; historical sites; markers

60

3

Autumn 1967

245-266

Admiral Dewey visits Chicago

Clifford, John Garry

Dewey, George; Spanish American War; Battle of Manila Bay; parade; presidency; candidate; Chicago

60

3

Autumn 1967

267-296

Pvt. Charles E. Affeld reports action west of the Mississippi

Bearss, Edwin C.

Affeld, Charles E.; Civil War; Battle of Vicksburg; diaries

60

3

Autumn 1967

297-312

U.S. commissioner of pensions Green B. Raum of Illinois

Barlow, William

Raum, Green B.; Civil War; veterans; pensions; administration; corruption; Republican Party; Democratic Party

60

3

Autumn 1967

323-327

Recent acquisitions of the Historical Library

Spence, Paul D.

Illinois State Historical Library; manuscripts; archives

60

4

Winter 1967

357-382

When Woodrow Wilson was invited to head the University of Illinois

Dilliard, Irving

Wilson, Woodrow; Wilson, Ellen; universities; presidents; University of Illinois; Princeton University

60

4

Winter 1967

383-390

The artist Gustaf Pfau

Alderfer, William K.

Pfau, Gustaf; artists; German Americans; immigration; St. Louis; Springfield, Ill.

60

4

Winter 1967

391-410

The Illinois hemp project at Polo in World War II

Marsh, Robert

hemp; rope; mills; farming; Polo, Ill.; World War II

60

4

Winter 1967

411-441

The heritage from Chicago's early settlement houses

Wade, Louise C.

settlement houses; working class; neighborhoods; social justice; adult education; labor unions; sanitation; Hull House; Chicago Commons; University of Chicago Settlement; Addams, Jane; Taylor, Graham; McDowell, Mary; Kelley, Florence; Chicago

60

4

Winter 1967

442-445

Recent acquisitions of the Historical Library; family histories

Schulz, Mildred

Illinois State Historical Library; genealogy; family histories

60

4

Winter 1967

446-447

Newton C. Farr, 1887-1967

 

Farr, Newton Camp; realtors; Illinois State Historical Society; president; trustees

61

1

Spring 1968

5-8

Introduction to the sesquicentennial issues

Alderfer, William K.

Illinois; sesquicentennial; Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society

61

1

Spring 1968

9-40

The architecture of early Illinois forts

Babson, Jane F.

forts; British; French; architecture; Illinois; Fort St. Louis; Fort de Chartres; Fort Massac, Ill.; Fort Kaskaskia, Ill.; Fort Dearborn; Fort Armstrong

61

1

Spring 1968

41-57

The Chevalier Macarty Mactigue

McCarthy, William P.

Illinois; French; commandant; defense; forts; Macarty Mactigue, Jean Jacques

61

1

Spring 1968

58-82

John Rice Jones, citizen of many territories

Burgess, Charles E.

Jones, John Rice; judges; territories; Kaskaskia, Ill.; Vincennes, Ind.; Dodge, John; Clark, George Rogers; Harmar, Josiah

61

2

Summer 1968

117-139

The American Fur Company and the Chicago of 1812-1835

Haeger, John D.

fur trade; traders; Chicago; American Fur Company; monopolies; British; American Indians; Astor, John Jacob; ; Kinzie, John H.; Crafts, John

61

2

Summer 1968

140-149

Wood River, 1803-1804

Mayer, Robert W.

Wood River, Ill.; parks; Lewis and Clark Expedition; camp; site; Lewis, Meriwether; Clark, William

61

2

Summer 1968

150-163

Edward Coles : Virginia gentleman in frontier politics

Spencer, Donald S.

Coles, Edward; governors; Illinois; slavery; abolition; referendum; constitutional convention

61

2

Summer 1968

164-181

Sidney Breese : his early career in law and politics in Illinois

McNulty, John W.

Breese, Sidney; lawyers; politicians; prosecutors; Kane, Elias Kent; slavery; Jackson, Andrew; Democratic Party; political parties; Illinois Supreme Court; decisions; Illinois

61

2

Summer 1968

182-190

Freemasonry comes to Illinois

Cerza, Alphonse

Masons; lodges; Illinois; Kaskaskia, Ill.

61

2

Summer 1968

191-196

The historical markers program

Birk, Russell Charles

Illinois; historical sites; markers

61

3

Autumn 1968

229-247

In search of the real Lincoln, or Lincoln at the crossroads

Johannsen, Robert W.

Lincoln, Abraham; historians; research; publications; reviews

61

3

Autumn 1968

248-268

Stephen Arnold Douglas in American historical writing

Jeffrey, Kirk, Jr.

Douglas, Stephen A.; historians; research; publications; reviews

61

3

Autumn 1968

269-332

The photographs of Mary Todd Lincoln

Ostendorf, Lloyd

Lincoln, Mary Todd; photographs

61

3

Autumn 1968

333-349

Lincoln's life as dramatic art

Whitney, Blair

Lincoln, Abraham; plays

61

3

Autumn 1968

350-364

Lincoln's 1858 visit to Pittsfield, Illinois

Fischer, LeRoy H.

Lincoln, Abraham; Pittsfield, Ill.; speeches; election; Senate; 1858

61

3

Autumn 1968

365-373

Lincoln and taxation during his Illinois legislative years

Borit, G. R.

Lincoln, Abraham; Illinois; Illinois State Legislature; taxation; internal improvements

61

4

Winter 1968

397-430

The state capitol, 1837-1876

Rissler, Howard F.

Springfield, Ill.; Old State Capitol; construction; Henry, Anson G.; Rague, John F.; Lincoln, Abraham; funeral; Douglas, Stephen A.; Civil War; Sangamon County Courthouse

61

4

Winter 1968

431-442

How Illinois preservationists finally saved the old capitol

Alderfer, William K.

Springfield, Ill.; Old State Capitol; Sangamon County Courthouse; historic preservation; Lincoln, Abraham; Lincoln Memorial Commission

61

4

Winter 1968

443-452

The razing and renovation of the Old State Capitol : a brief record in pictures

Whitney, Ellen, text;

Von Behren, Alfred, photographs

Springfield, Ill.; Old State Capitol; renovation

61

4

Winter 1968

453-456

Dedication of the reconstructed capitol

 

Springfield, Ill.; Old State Capitol;; Shapiro, Samuel G.; Kerner, Otto

61

4

Winter 1968

457-462

Newspaper notes on early capitols

Keller, William E.

Illinois; capitols; Kaskaskia, Ill.; Vandalia, Ill.

61

4

Winter 1968

463-472

The Grant papers : a review

Monroe, Haskell

Grant, Ulysses S.; papers; editing

61

4

Winter 1968

473-478

Family histories

Schulz, Mildred

Illinois State Historical Library; genealogy; family histories

62

1

Spring 1969

5-34

Yates, the prorogued legislature, and the constitutional convention

Nortrup, Jack

Yates, Richard; Illinois; governors; constitutional convention; 1862; Illinois State Legislature; dismissal; Chicago Tribune; Forrest, Joseph King Cummins; Civil War; Republican Party; Democratic Party

62

1

Spring 1969

35-52

The new-stock politicians of 1912

Buenker, John D.

immigration; ethnic groups; governors; Dunne, Edward F.; legislators; Illinois; Democratic Party; Republican Party; Progressive Party

62

1

Spring 1969

53-64

An Illinois carpetbagger looks at the southern Negro

Logsdon, Joseph

Shaw, James; Reconstruction; African Americans; suffrage; Southern States; Johnson, Andrew

62

1

Spring 1969

72-83

The historical markers program

Birk, Russell Charles

Illinois; historical sites; markers

62

1

Spring 1969

84-89

Recent acquisitions of the Historical Library

Spence, Paul

Illinois State Historical Library; manuscripts

62

2

Summer 1969

117-134

The Prager affair : a study in wartime hysteria

Hickey, Donald R.

Prager, Robert Paul; World War I; German Americans; socialists; coal miners; unions; lynching; Collinsville, Ill.

62

2

Summer 1969

135-146

Speculation, promotion, and the Panic of 1837 in Chicago

McLear, Patrick E.

Chicago; land; sales; speculation; promotion; panic; 1837; Hubbard, Gurdon S.; Ogden, William Butler; Wright, John S.; railroads; Frink, John; Kinzie, John H.; Illinois and Michigan Canal; trade; grain

62

2

Summer 1969

147-169

John H. Finley's Illinois education

Gettleman, Marvin E.

Finley, John H.; La Salle County, Ill.; journalists; New York Times; education; Ottawa Township High School; Knox College

62

2

Summer 1969

170-186

Sidney Breese, the Illinois circuit judge, 1835-1841

McNulty, John W.

Breese, Sidney; Illinois; judges; circuit courts; lawyers; Caton, John Dean;  Mormons; constitution; governor; Secretary of State; Field, Alexander P.; McClernand, John A.; Carlin, Thomas; Edwards, Ninian; Democratic Party; Whig Party; Illinois Supreme Court

62

3

Autumn 1969

229-266

The Union Miners Cemetery at Mt. Olive, Illinois : a spirit-thread of labor history

Keiser, John H.

Union Miners Cemetery; coal miners; Mt. Olive, Ill.; Progressive Mine Workers of America; United Mine Workers of America; Bradley, Alexander; Lewis, John L.; Jones, Mother; Jones, Mary Harris; strike breakers; African Americans;

62

3

Autumn 1969

267-292

Union County in 1858 and the Lincoln-Douglas debate

Simon, John Y.

Union County, Ill.; Jonesboro, Ill.; Lincoln, Abraham; Douglas, Stephen A.; elections; debates; Senate; 1858; Democratic Party; Republican Party; slavery; abolition; African Americans; Civil War

62

3

Autumn 1969

293-306

The Chicago Black Sox and the myth of baseball's single sin

Voigt, David Quentin

baseball; Chicago White Sox; World Series; 1919; gamblers; bribes; Comiskey, Charles A.; Gandil, Chick; Cicotte, Eddie; Weaver, Buck, Jackson, Joe; Williams, Claude; Risberg, Swede; Felsch, Oscar; McMullin, Fred; Fullerton, Hugh; Landis, Kenesaw Mountain

62

4

Winter 1969

341-362

The Illinois River Potawatomi in the War of 1812

Edmunds, R. David

Potawatomi Indians; War of 1812; Illinois River; Northwest Territory; Main Poque; Tecumseh; Gomo; Edwards, Ninian; Forsyth, Thomas; Levering, Samuel; Hopkins, Samuel; Dickson, Robert

62

4

Winter 1969

363-384

The Illinois legislature and Prohibition, 1907-1919

Buenker, John D.

Illinois State Legislature; Prohibition; local option; saloons; immigration; Protestant churches; Roman Catholic Church; United Societies; Republican Party; Democratic Party

62

4

Winter 1969

385-406

A historical reexamination of Juchereau's Illinois tannery

Fortier, John; Chaput, Donald

Juchereau de St. Denys, Charles; tannery; hides; buffalo; Mississippi River; Ohio River; Hautmesnil, Gabrielle Philippe de; Hautmesnil, Francois Philippe; Mermet, Jean; Jesuits; priests

62

4

Winter 1969

407-413

Family histories

Schulz, Mildred

Illinois State Historical Library; genealogy; family histories

63

1

Spring 1970

5-34

Mary Todd Lincoln, patient at Bellevue Place, Batavia

Ross, Rodney A.

Lincoln, Mary Todd; Lincoln, Robert Todd; mental illness; trial; sanitarium; Bellevue Place; Batavia, Ill.; Bradwell, Myra

63

1

Spring 1970

35-54

The “robin’s egg renaissance” : Chicago and the arts, 1910-1920

Tingley, Donald F.

Chicago; culture; artists; writers; magazines; bohemia; radicals; socialists; pacifists

63

1

Spring 1970

55-68

The New Deal comes to Illinois

Strickland, Arvarh E.

Illinois; election; 1932; governor; Horner, Henry; Democratic Party; Republican Party; Cermak, Anton J.; Carlstrom, Oscar E.; Custer, Omer N.; Small, Len; Thompson, William Hale; taxation; farmers; Depression; Prohibition; repeal

63

1

Spring 1970

69-90

President James and his campaigns for University of Illinois funds

Rodnitzky, Jerome Leon

University of Illinois; president; Illinois; governor; James, Edmund J.; Illinois State Legislature; appropriations; lobbying; trustees; alumni

63

1

Spring 1970

111-112

Historical societies and museums

 

Illinois; museums; historical societies

63

2

Summer 1970

117-131

Charles A. Beard in Chicago, 1896

Soderbergh, Peter A.

Beard, Charles A.; historians; political scientists; social justice; reform; Chicago

63

2

Summer 1970

132-157

Ideological fruits of manifest destiny : the geopolitics of slavery expansion in the crisis of 1850

Wilson, Major L.

United States; expansion; Mexican War; slavery; free soil; Whig Party; Democratic Party; Wilmot Proviso

63

2

Summer 1970

158-166

Lester Frank Ward, “the American Aristotle,” in Illinois

Sorensen, Andrew A.

Ward, Lester Frank; sociologists;  botanists; geologists

63

2

Summer 1970

167-179

Chicago helps to reelect Lincoln

Spencer, Ivor D.

Duvergier de Hauranne, Ernest; travel; Chicago; Lincoln, Abraham; McClellan, George B.; election; 1864

63

2

Summer 1970

183-188

Manuscript acquisitions of the Historical Library

Spence, Paul D.

Illinois State Historical Library; manuscripts

63

2

Summer 1970

189-195

The historical markers program

Birk, Russell Charles

Illinois; historical sites; markers

63

2

Summer 1970

222-224

Historical societies and museums

 

Illinois; museums; historical societies

63

3

Autumn 1970

228-256

Chicago businessmen and the Burnham Plan

McCarthy, Michael P.

Burnham Plan; Chicago; city planning; publicity; Burnham, Daniel H.; Bennett, Edward H.; Wacker, Charles; Moody, Walter D.; Merchants Club; Commercial Club; Chicago Plan Commission; business; central business district; railroads; streets; port; docks; boulevards; parks; civic center

63

3

Autumn 1970

257-269

The British press reacts to Lincoln’s election

Heckman, Richard Allen

Lincoln, Abraham; election; 1860; slavery; secession; Civil War; newspapers; Great Britain

63

3

Autumn 1970

270-289

Robert Ridgway : Illinois naturalist

Davenport, F. Garvin

Ridgway, Robert; naturalists; birds; ornithology; Illinois; Smithsonian Institution; Baird, Spencer; conservation

63

3

Autumn 1970

290-301

Kipling’s first visit to Chicago

Peterson, William F.

Kipling, Rudyard; travel; narratives; letters; newspapers; Chicago

63

3

Autumn 1970

302

Harry E. Pratt Memorial Award

 

awards; articles; Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society; Keiser, John Howard

63

3

Autumn 1970

303-310

Family histories

Schulz, Mildred

Illinois State Historical Library; genealogy; family histories

63

3

Autumn 1970

311-313

Historical societies and museums

 

Illinois; museums; historical societies

63

4

Winter 1970

336-367

Partisan conflicts, 1839-1841 and the Illinois constitution

Shankman, Arnold

Illinois; constitution; Illinois Supreme Court; governor; Secretary of State; aliens; voting; judiciary; judicial reform; circuit courts; Field, Alexander Pope; Edwards, Ninian; Carlin, Thomas; McClernand, John A.; Breese, Sidney; Douglas, Stephen A.; Kyle, Jeremiah; Stone, Dan; Whig Party; Democratic Party

63

4

Winter 1970

368-386

Illinois socialists and progressive reform

Buenker, John D.

Socialist Party; Illinois; House of Representatives; election; 1912; progressivism; Mason, J. M.; Harris, H. W.; Madsen, Christian; Stedman, Seymour; legislation; labor; welfare; working conditions; unemployment; business; regulation; women; suffrage; defense; Prohibition

63

4

Winter 1970

387-398

Agricultural growth in antebellum Illinois

Ankli, Robert E.

agriculture; production; Illinois; 1840-1849; 1850-1859

63

4

Winter 1970

399-421

Civic pride in Chicago, 1844-1860

Abbott, Carl

Chicago; civic pride; population; growth; location; prosperity; trade; transportation; commerce; buildings; culture

63

4

Winter 1970

422-438

Illinois sesquicentennial publications : a preliminary descriptive checklist

Whitney, Ellen M.;

Dunn, William R.

Illinois; history; sesquicentennial; publications ; counties; cities; townships

64

1

Spring 1971

4-21

The Mormons in Illinois, 1838-1846 : a special introduction

Kimball, Stanley B.

Mormons; Illinois; Nauvoo, Ill.; Smith, Joseph

64

1

Spring 1971

22-65

Mormons in Hancock County : a reminiscence

Marsh, Eudocia Baldwin;

Wilson, Douglas L.;

Davis, Rodney O., eds.

Marsh, Eudocia Baldwin; Mormons; Smith, Joseph; Smith, Hyrum; assassination; polygamy; Hancock County, Ill.; Carthage, Ill.; Nauvoo, Ill.

64

1

Spring 1971

66-78

The Nauvoo charter : a reinterpretation

Kimball, James L., Jr.

Mormons; Nauvoo, Ill.; charters;  cities; Illinois

64

1

Spring 1971

79-90

Joseph Smith and the Masons

Godfrey, Kenneth W.

Mormons; Smith, Joseph; Masons; lodges; Illinois; Nauvoo, Ill.

64

1

Spring 1971

91-97

Manuscript acquisitions

Spence, Paul D.

Illinois State Historical Library; manuscripts

64

1

Spring 1971

98-102

Historical societies and museums

 

Illinois; museums; historical societies

64

2

Summer 1971

125-160

The Illinois Republican Party, pt.1 : a party organizer for the Republicans in 1854

Howard, Victor B.

Codding, Ichabod; Republican Party; Illinois; Free Democratic Party; Whig Party; fusion; slavery; Kansas-Nebraska Act; Clay, Cassius M.; Eastman, Zebina; Douglas, Stephen A.; Lincoln, Abraham

64

2

Summer 1971

161-172

The Chicago anti-department store crusade of 1897 : a case study in urban commercial development

Tarr, Joel A.

department stores; central business districts; retailers; competition; Chicago

64

2

Summer 1971

173-191

Cooperative marketing in McLean County

O’Rourke, Alice A.

grain; prices; marketing; cooperatives; surpluses; reduction; McLean County, Ill.; United States Grain Growers, Incorporated; Grain Marketing Company; National Farmers Elevator Grain Company; Rural Grain Company; Illinois Grain Corporation

64

2

Summer 1971

192-205

Ralph Waldo Emerson on the Illinois lecture circuit

Tingley, Donald F.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo; lectures; tours; Illinois

64

2

Summer 1971

210-213

Manuscript acquisitions

Spence, Paul D.

Illinois State Historical Library; manuscripts

64

2

Summer 1971

214-216

Historical societies and museums

Dunn, William R.

Illinois; museums; historical societies

64

3

Autumn 1971

244-266

Civil War draft resistance in Illinois

Sterling, Robert E.

Civil War; draft; resistance; Illinois; Oakes, James

64

3

Autumn 1971

267-284

Eastern money and the urban frontier : Chicago, 1833-1842

Haeger, John Denis

business; capitalists; investments; Bronson, Arthur; Butler, Charles; Ogden, William B.; Russell, Edward A.; Hubbard, Gurdon S.; Kinzie, John H.

64

3

Autumn 1971

285-311

The Illinois Republican Party, pt. 2 : the party becomes conservative, 1855-1856

Howard, Victor B.

Codding, Ichabod; Republican Party; Illinois; Whig Party; Free Democratic Party; lectures; fusion; Kansas-Nebraska Act; slavery

64

3

Autumn 1971

312-326

The Chicago Daily News and traction politics, 1876-1920

Schmidt, Royal J.

Chicago Daily News; Lawson, Victor F.; Stone, Melville; street railways; policy; franchises; municipal ownership; Yerkes, Charles T.; Harrison, Carter H.; Dunne, Edward F.; Thompson, William Hale

64

3

Autumn 1971

327-336

Illinois commentary : letters from a Cass County farmer

Campbell, Archibald;

Grant, A. Cameron, introduction and notes

Campbell, Archibald; letters; Scots; immigration; Illinois; Combe, George

64

3

Autumn 1971

337

Harry E. Pratt Memorial Award

 

awards; articles; Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society; Buenker, John D.

64

3

Autumn 1971

338-340

Historical societies and museums

Dunn, William R.

Illinois; museums; historical societies

64

4

Winter 1971

365-381

Chicago public schools and the depression years of 1928-1937

Burbank, Lyman B.

public schools; finance; taxes; teachers; salaries; unions; tenure; Depression; Chicago Board of Education; Cermak, Anton J.; Kelly, Edward J.

64

4

Winter 1971

382-400

The crusade against secret societies and the National Christian Association

Roberts, Clarence N.

Masons; anti-Masonic movement; secret societies; National Christian Association; Christian Cynosure; Blanchard, Jonathan; Carpenter, Philo C.

64

4

Winter 1971

401-418

The Raymond Robins case for progressive Republicanism

Havig, Alan R.

Robins, Raymond; Progressive Party; Republican Party; elections; 1916; Wilson, Woodrow; Hughes, Charles Evans

64

4

Winter 1971

419-441

A western Whig in Washington

Nortrup, Jack

Yates, Richard; House of Representatives; slavery; Compromise of 1850; Fugitive Slave Act; land grants; Whig Party; patronage; railroads; Kossuth, Louis

64

4

Winter 1971

442-444

Illinois commentary : the light that failed, the decline of a unique educational venture

Barbour, Frances M.

John Wesley College; Cambria, Ill.

64

4

Winter 1971

445-447

Manuscript acquisitions

Spence, Paul D.

Illinois State Historical Library; manuscripts

64

4

Winter 1971

448-455

Historical societies and museums

Dunn, William R.

Illinois; museums; historical societies

65

1

Spring 1972

5-21

Death down below : coal mine disasters in three Illinois counties, 1904-1962

Kalisch, Philip A.

coal mines; disasters; explosions; methane; coal dust; safety; regulation; Illinois

65

1

Spring 1972

22-42

John Wickliffe Kitchell – prairie philanthropist, conchologist, and patron of the arts

Hendrickson, Walter B.

Kitchell, John Wickliffe; philanthropy; collectors; shells; butterflies; etchings; paintings; books; Cropsey, Jasper F.

65

1

Spring 1972

43-53

Financing the western colleges, 1844-1862

Johnson, Daniel T.

colleges; finance; Midwest; Society for the Promotion of Collegiate and Theological Education at the West

65

1

Spring 1972

54-68

The high noon of Chicago’s bohemias

Gazell, James Albert

bohemians; artists; writers; intellectuals; housing; South Side; Towertown; Dill Pickle Club; Chicago

65

1

Spring 1972

69-93

Industrialism and the American aristocrat : a social study of John Hay and his novel, The Bread-Winners

Jaher, Frederic Cople

Hay, John; The Bread-Winners; novels; capitalism; labor; industry; strikes

65

1

Spring 1972

94-100

Manuscript acquisitions

Spence, Paul D.

Illinois State Historical Library; manuscripts

65

1

Spring 1972

103-105

Historical societies and museums

McElligott, Mary Ellen

Illinois; museums; historical societies

65

2

Summer 1972

125-141

The Illinois Waterway from conception to completion, 1908-1933

Waller, Robert E.

Illinois Waterway; Great Lakes; Gulf of Mexico; Chicago Sanitary District; Sanitary and Ship Canal; electric power; sewage; diversion; flood control; Chicago; Rainey, Henry T.; Dunne, Edward F.; Lowden, Frank O.

65

2

Summer 1972

142-157-

Henry T. Rainey of Illinois

Block, Marvin W.

Rainey, Henry T.; House of Representatives; Democratic Party; waterways; Great Lakes; Gulf of Mexico; Panama Canal; tariffs; Roosevelt, Franklin D.; Illinois

65

2

Summer 1972

158-172

Politics and the parks : Chicago businessmen and the recreation movement

McCarthy, Michael B.

parks; recreation; fieldhouses; Special Park Commission; South Park Board of Commissioners; Foreman, Henry G.; Lincoln Park Board; West Chicago Park Board; Eckhart, Bernard A.; Jensen, Jens; Special Park Commission; forest preserves; Chicago

65

2

Summer 1972

173-201

Illinois water mills, 1790-1818

Zochert, Donald

water mills; construction; operation; grain; owners; Illinois

65

2

Summer 1972

202-205

Illinois commentary : Chapin’s general store

Yeager, Lyn Allison

Chapin, Ill.; general stores; John Onken and Brother Store

65

2

Summer 1972

210-212

Manuscript acquisitions

Spence, Paul D.

Illinois State Historical Library; manuscripts

65

2

Summer 1972

213-218

Historical societies and museums

McElligott, Mary Ellen

Illinois; museums; historical societies

65

3

Autumn 1972

244-245

A special introduction

Alderfer, William K.

African Americans; history; Illinois

65

3

Autumn 1972

246-268

The American Missionary Association in southern Illinois, 1856-1862 : a case history in the abolition movement

Raines, Edgar F., Jr.

abolitionism; Southern Illinois; missionaries; American Missionary Association; Illinois; periodicals; American Missionary

65

3

Autumn 1972

269-279

The African slave trade and Lincoln’s campaign of 1858

Satz, Ronald N.

slavery; slave trade; Africa; Lincoln, Abraham; Douglas, Stephen A.; Senate; elections; 1858

65

3

Autumn 1972

280-292

A glorious time : the 1874 abolitionist reunion in Chicago

Gara, Larry

abolitionism; convention; Chicago; 1874

65

3

Autumn 1972

293-312

An experiment in color : the Eighth Illinois Volunteers, 1898-1899

Gatewood, Willard B., Jr.

African Americans; soldiers; militia; Illinois; Spanish-American War; Cuba; 8th Illinois Infantry; Buckner, John C.; Marshall, John R.

65

3

Autumn 1972

313-326

Black strikebreakers and racism in Illinois, 1865-1900

Keiser, John H.

African Americans; Illinois; strikes; strikebreakers

65

3

Autumn 1972

327-336

Documents of the race riot at East St. Louis

Asher, Robert

African Americans; race riots; East St. Louis, Ill.; 1917

65

3

Autumn 1972

337

Harry E. Pratt Memorial Award

 

awards; articles; Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society; Howard, Victor Ball

65

3

Autumn 1972

338-341

Historical societies and museums

McElligott, Mary Ellen

Illinois; museums; historical societies

65

4

Winter 1972

365-382

Competition for the World’s Columbian Exposition : the New York campaign

Parmet, Robert D.

World’s Columbian Exposition; site; New York City; politics; Tammany Hall; Democratic Party; Republican Party; Depew, Chauncey; Platt, Thomas Collier; Grant, Hugh J.; Senate Quadro-Centennial Committee; House Committee on the World’s Fair

65

4

Winter 1972

382-394

Competition for the World’s Columbian Exposition : the Chicago campaign

Lederer, Francis L., II

World’s Columbian Exposition; site; Chicago; World’s Exposition of 1892; finance; stock; Cregier, DeWitt C.; Bryan, Thomas B.; Jeffery, Edward T.; Senate Quadro-Centennial Committee; House Committee on the World’s Fair

65

4

Winter 1972

395-418

Potawatomi politics

Conway, Thomas G.

Potawatomi Indians; tribe; culture; politics; chiefs; Main Poque; Tecumseh; Caldwell, Billy; Topenebee; Pokagon; Waubonsie; British; Americans; treaties; Illinois

65

4

Winter 1972

419-433

The golden years : Western Illinois University, 1905-1914

Hicken, Victor

Western Illinois State Normal School; Macomb, Ill.; president; Henninger, John W.; Bayliss, Alfred E.; Hursh, Samuel; faculty; students; education; social life

65

4

Winter 1972

434-450

“Brick” Pomeroy and the Greenback clubs

Doolen, Richard M.

Pomeroy, Mark; currency reform; Greenback Party; Greenback clubs; newspapers; Pomeroy’s Democrat

65

4

Winter 1972

451-461

Illinois commentary : a reminiscence of Confederate prison life

Moore, Hugh; Haka, Clifford

Moore, Hugh; memoirs; Civil War; battles; Atlanta; Confederates; prisons; Andersonville

65

4

Winter 1972

464-465

Historical societies and museums

McElligott, Mary Ellen

Illinois; museums; historical societies

66

1

Spring 1973

5-19

David Kinley : a paternal president in the roaring twenties

Rodnitzky, Jerome Leon

Kinley, David; University of Illinois; president; conservatism; economics; social reform; academic freedom; tuition; admissions; enrollment; paternalism

66

1

Spring 1973

20-40

Lawrence Stringer : a Wilson Democrat

Lindstrom, Andrew

Stringer, Lawrence B.; Democratic Party; Illinois; politics; corruption; Wilson, Woodrow; nomination; 1912

66

1

Spring 1973

41-61

Thomas J. Morgan and the United Labor Party of Chicago

Scharnau, Ralph William

Morgan, Thomas J.; labor; United Labor Party of Chicago; Haymarket Affair

66

1

Spring 1973

62-70

Fort Pillow massacre : the aftermath of Paducah

Huch, Ronald K.

Forrest, Nathan Bedford; Confederates; Civil War; Hicks, Stephen G.; Paducah, Ky.; Fort Anderson, Ky.; Thompson, A. P.; Fort Pillow, Ky.

66

1

Spring 1973

71-78

Illinois commentary : Clayville Inn

Watt, Kay C.

Clayville Inn; Broadwell, Moses; Clayville, Ill.

66

1

Spring 1973

88-92

Manuscript acquisitions

Spence, Paul D.

Illinois State Historical Library; manuscripts

66

1

Spring 1973

93-95

Historical societies and museums

McElligott, Mary Ellen

Illinois; museums; historical societies

66

2

Summer 1973

125-144

The mayor, the governor, and the People’s Council : a chapter in American wartime dissent

Thurner, Arthur W.

World War I; pacifism; People’s Council of America for Democracy and Peace; convention; Chicago; Lochner, Louis Paul; Thompson, William Hale; Lowden, Frank O.

66

2

Summer 1973

144-158

The Mexican immigrant in the Chicago area during the 1920’s

Reisler, Mark

immigration; Mexicans; Chicago; wages; railroads; steel industry; meat packing; prejudice; nationalism

66

2

Summer 1973

159-176

General Matthew Mark Trumbull : respectable radical

Boston, Ray

Trumbull, Matthew Mark; Civil War; labor; Chartists; British; United States; Iowa; immigration; slavery; abolition; free trade; Haymarket Affair; anarchists

66

2

Summer 1973

177-186

Allan Nevins : a reminiscence

Tingley, Donald F.

Nevins, Allan; obituaries;  historians; Civil War; oral history

66

2

Summer 1973

187-197

Shortest route to the Galena lead mines : the Lewistown Road

Birk, Russell Charles

Galena, Ill.; lead; mining; Lewistown Road

66

2

Summer 1973

198-204

Illinois commentary : an Illinois family of the 1870s

Clinton, Katherine B.

Thomas, Lewis F.; letters; Polo, Ill.

66

2

Summer 1973

212-215

Manuscript acquisitions

Spence, Paul D.

Illinois State Historical Library; manuscripts

66

2

Summer 1973

216-217

Historical societies and museums

McElligott, Mary Ellen

Illinois; museums; historical societies

66

3

Autumn 1973

245-270

The Reorganized United Mine Workers of America, 1930-1931

Cary, Lorin Lee

Reorganized United Mine Workers of America; United Mine Workers of America; labor unions; miners; strikes; Illinois; Depression; Lewis, John L.; Fishwick, Harry; Farrington, Frank; Howat, Alex; Brophy, John; Germer, Adolph; Walker, John; Hapgood, Powers

66

3

Autumn 1973

271-284

The Immigrants’ Protective League of Chicago, 1908-1921

Leonard, Henry B.

Immigrants’ Protective League; immigration; employment; education; civil rights; public health; Americanization; United States; Abbott, Grace; Addams, Jane; Women’s Trade Union League

66

3

Autumn 1973

285-301

Construction labor on the Illinois Central Railroad

Lightner, David L.

railroads; construction; labor; recruitment; wages; cholera; injuries; labor camps; violence; riots; Story, Albert; Illinois Central Railroad

66

3

Autumn 1973

302-305

The piasa—it isn’t a bird!

Belting, Natalia Maree

Piasa Bird; petroglyphs; water monster; American Indians; Marquette, Jacques; Jolliet, Louis

66

3

Autumn 1973

306-326

The sanitation revolution in Illinois, 1870-1900

Davenport, F. Garvin

sanitation; drainage; sewage; garbage; streets; cleaning; buildings; plumbing; water; filtration; treatment; ventilation; toilets; waste disposal; meat packing; Illinois; Chicago; Sanitary District of Chicago; Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal; Chicago Department of Health

66

3

Autumn 1973

327-340

Adolph Joachim Sabath in Congress : the early years, 1907-1932

Boxerman, Burton A.

Sabath, Adolf J.; House of Representatives; Democratic Party;  immigration; tariff; women; suffrage; World War I; Czechoslovakia; child labor; Wilson, Woodrow

66

3

Autumn 1973

349-351

Historical societies and museums

McElligott, Mary Ellen

Illinois; museums; historical societies

66

4

Winter 1973

364-375

Lyman Trumbull, the states’ rights issue, and the Liberal Republican revolt

DiNunzio, Mario R.

Trumbull, Lyman; states’ rights; federalism; slavery; Republicans; Liberal Republicans; Democrats

66

4

Winter 1973

376-386

Ye kort martial : a tale of Chicago politics, theatre, journalism, and militia

Renner, Richard Wilson

militia; court martial; Chicago; duels; Dix, J. H.; Pearson, George; Beaubien, John Baptiste; Leib, Charles; Chicago Times; Chicago Tribune; Chicago Democrat; McVicker, James H.; theater; plays; Ye Kort Martial

66

4

Winter 1973

387-403

Letters from an Illinois farm, 1864-1865

Phifer, Louisa Jane;

Pye, Carol Benson, introduction and notes

Phifer, Louisa Jane; letters; farming; Fayette County, Ill.; Civil War

66

4

Winter 1973

404-411

Research projects in Illinois history

Zochert, Donald

Illinois; history; research; economic; social; biography; books; magazines; newspapers; urbanization; towns; commerce

66

4

Winter 1973

412-427

Illinois manuscript and archival collections : a checklist of published guides

Bridges, Roger D.

manuscripts; archives; collections; guides; Illinois

66

4

Winter 1973

428-443

Adolph Joachim Sabath in Congress : the Roosevelt and Truman years

Boxerman, Burton A.

Sabath, Adolph J.; Roosevelt, Franklin D.; Truman, Harry S.; Democratic Party; New Deal; House of Representatives; Rules Committee; patronage; Committee on Un-American Activities; interventionism; World War II; Jews; Palestine; Israel

66

4

Winter 1973

444-454

Illinois commentary : college letters of Samuel Willard

Nortrup, Jack

Willard, Samuel; colleges; students; letters; Illinois College

66

4

Winter 1973

460-464

Manuscript acquisitions

Spence, Paul D.

Illinois State Historical Library; manuscripts

66

4

Winter 1973

465-467

Historical societies and museums

McElligott, Mary Ellen

Illinois; museums; historical societies

68

1

Feb. 1975

3-8

Introduction

Alderfer, William K.

Lincoln, Abraham; symposium; Abraham Lincoln Association; Sangamon State University; Illinois State Historical Society

68

1

Feb. 1975

9-26

Lincoln and Frederick Douglass : another debate

Breiseth, Christopher N.

Lincoln, Abraham, Douglass, Frederick; Civil War; African Americans; soldiers; slavery; emancipation

68

1

Feb. 1975

27-44

Lincoln and the politics of morality

Rietveld, Ronald D.

Lincoln, Abraham; slavery; morality; Kansas-Nebraska Act

68

1

Feb. 1975

45-56

Lincoln and the weight of responsibility

Fehrenbacher, Don E.

Lincoln, Abraham; reading; Shakespeare, William

68

1

Feb. 1975

57-73

Lincoln and Congress : why not Congress and Lincoln?

Hyman, Harold M.

Lincoln, Abraham; Congress; Civil War; research

68

2

Apr. 1975

98-120

The origins and early years of the Illinois State Historical Society

Bridges, Roger D.

Illinois State Historical Society; Illinois State Historical Library; headquarters; location; Greene, Evarts B.; Beckwith, Hiram W.; Snyder, John Francis; James, Edmund J.; Weber, Jessie Palmer

68

2

Apr. 1975

121-142

History on the Illinois frontier : early efforts to preserve the state’s past

Johannsen, Robert W.

Illinois; history; Vandalia, Ill.; Antiquarian and Historical Society of Illinois; Illinois State Lyceum; Hall, James; Peck, John Mason

68

2

Apr. 1975

143-158

Kent Keller, the liberal bloc, and the New Deal

Weiss, Stuart

Keller, Kent; congressmen; New Deal; Democratic Party; House Committee on Un-American Activities;  Dies, Martin; coal mining; public works; Illinois

68

2

Apr. 1975

159-173

Some new books on the American Revolution : a review essay

McColley, Robert

American Revolution; books; reviews

68

2

Apr. 1975

174-180

The role of the Duryea brothers in the development of the gasoline automobile

Garrett, Romeo B.

automobiles; gasoline; Duryea, Charles E.; Duryea, J. Frank; Duryea Motor Wagon Company; Duryea Manufacturing Company; Peoria, Ill.

68

2

Apr. 1975

181-194

Annual report of the state historian, Illinois State Historical Library, and executive director, Illinois State Historical Society : for the fiscal year 1973-1974

Alderfer, William K.

Illinois State Historical Library; Illinois State Historical Society

68

3

June 1975

202-212

The disgrace of Ira Munn

Ferris, William G.

Munn, Ira; Scott, George L.; Lyon, John B.; Maher, Hugh; grain; markets; elevators; regulation; Chicago; Illinois; Supreme Court; Munn v. Illinois

68

3

June 1975

213-227

The Koreshan unity : the Chicago years of a utopian community

Fine, Howard D.

Koreshan Unity; Koresh; Teed, Cyrus R.; utopian communities; celibacy; Chicago; Estero, Fla.

68

3

June 1975

228-242

Woman against the law : Myra Bradwell’s struggle for admission to the Illinois bar

Spector, Robert M.

Bradwell, Myra; lawyers; women; Illinois; Chicago Legal News; Illinois Supreme Court; Supreme Court

68

3

June 1975

243-256

Safety first : slogan and symbol of the industrial safety movement

Bennett, Dianne;

Graebner, William

industry; safety; accidents; slogans; posters; publicity; Illinois Steel; United States Steel; Young, Robert J.; National Safety Council

68

3

June 1975

257-266

Barns, buildings, and windmills : a key to change on the Illinois prairie

Kruckman, Laurence;

Whiteman, Darrell L.

barns; farmhouses; corncribs; outbuildings; windmills; prairie; McLean County, Ill.

68

3

June 1975

267-288

Illinois commentary : the reminiscences of Lula Gillespie Lentz

 

Lentz, Lula Gillespie; memoirs; childhood; Johnson County, Ill.

68

4

Sept. 1975

306-318

Nora Marks, investigative reporter

Lederer, Francis L., II

Marks, Nora; Stackhouse, Eleanora; investigative  reporting; domestic servants; Salvation Army; peddlers; stockyards; laborers; poverty; charities; aid; boys; poorhouses; reformatories; divorce; Chicago Home for the Friendless

68

4

Sept. 1975

319-323

Financing education and science in nineteenth-century America : the case of Cleveland Abbe, the Chicago Astronomical Society and the first University of Chicago

Hetherington, Norriss S.

colleges; faculty; salaries; astronomers; University of Chicago; Chicago Astronomical Society; Abbe, Cleveland

68

4

Sept. 1975

324-336

Radical reinforcement : John A. Logan returns to Congress

Jones, James P.

Logan, John A.; generals; Civil War; Reconstruction; House of Representatives; Congress; Republican Party; Radical Republicans; Johnson, Andrew; impeachment

68

4

Sept. 1975

337-343

Adolph Germer and the 1890’s depression

Cary, Lorin Lee

Germer, Adolph; Germans; immigration; Staunton, Ill.; coal miners; United Mine Workers of America; depression; 1893; strikes; 1894; 1897; 1898; Mount Olive, Ill.; Virden, Ill.; socialism; Debs, Eugene V.

68

4

Sept. 1975

344-352

The black press in Illinois

Belles, A. Gilbert

African Americans; newspapers; Illinois; editors; publishers; date; frequency

68

4

Sept. 1975

353-367

Illinois commentary : the reminiscences of Lula Gillespie Lentz, pt. 2

 

Lentz, Lula Gillespie; memoirs; childhood; youth; Johnson County, Ill.; Creal Springs, Ill.; Carbondale, Ill.; Southern Illinois University

68

4

Sept. 1975

371-375

Manuscript acquisitions

Spence, Paul D.

Illinois State Historical Library; manuscripts

68

5

Nov. 1975

386-395

The singing societies and Philharmonic Orchestra of Belleville

Blair, Virginia K.

orchestras; choruses; conductors; Belleville, Ill.; Germans; immigration; Belleville Philharmonic Orchestra; Belleville Philharmonic Society; Belleville Saengerbund; Liederkranz Society; Kronthal Liedertafel Chorus

68

5

Nov. 1975

396-406

The Chicago school board crisis of 1907

Candeloro, Dominic

Chicago Board of Education; superintendent of schools; mayor; appointments; land; rents; corporations; taxation; teachers; evaluation; unions; Chicago Teachers’ Federation; Cooley, Edwin; Dunne, Edward F.; Busse, Fred A.; Haley, Margaret; Post, Louis F.; Young, Ella Flagg

68

5

Nov. 1975

407-420

John Stephen Wright and urban and rural promotion in the nineteenth century

McLear, Patrick E.

Wright, John Stephen; cities; promotion; real estate; speculation; agriculture; newspapers; railroads; wool; reapers; Union Agriculturalist and Western Prairie Farmer; Land Improvement Company; Chicago

68

5

Nov. 1975

421-428

The origin of mothers’ pensions in Illinois

Travis, Anthony R.

mothers;  poverty; aid; public; private; Illinois; Cook County, Ill.; Cook County Juvenile Court; Pinckney, Merritt W.; Breckinridge, Sophonisba ; Abbott, Edith

68

5

Nov. 1975

429-434

Philip David Sang, 1902-1975

Walton, Clyde C.

Sang, Philip David; obituaries; documents; collections; history; Illinois State Historical Society

68

5

Nov. 1975

435-443

Paul M. Angle : warm recollections and clear impressions

Dilliard, Irving

Angle, Paul M.; obituaries; Illinois State Historical Library; Illinois State Historical Society; Lincoln, Abraham; Rutledge, Ann; Lincoln Centennial Association; Abraham Lincoln Association; Chicago Historical Society

68

5

Nov. 1975

444-448

Books and pamphlets written, compiled, annotated or introduced by Paul M. Angle

 

Angle, Paul M.; bibliography

68

5

Nov. 1975

449-459

Annual report of the state historian, Illinois State Historical Library, and executive director, Illinois State Historical Society : for the fiscal year 1974-1975

Alderfer, William K.

Illinois State Historical Library; Illinois State Historical Society

69

1

Feb. 1976

2-16

An Illinois first family : the reminiscences of Clara Matteson Doolittle

Hickey, James T.

Doolittle, Clara Matteson; memoirs; Matteson, Joel Aldrich; family; homes; governors; Illinois; Springfield, Ill.

69

1

Feb. 1976

17-25

The Lincoln writings of Charles P. T. Chiniquy

George, Joseph, Jr.

Chiniquy, Charles P. T.; Lincoln, Abraham; assassination; Jesuits; Catholicism

69

1

Feb. 1976

26-34

A commentary on morality : Lincoln, Justin H. Smith, and the Mexican War

Ruiz, Ramon Eduardo

Lincoln, Abraham; Smith, Justin H.; historians; Mexican War; Texas; United States; border; invasion; expansion; Polk, James K.; Taylor, Zachary

69

1

Feb. 1976

35-45

European interventionism and the crisis of 1862

Graebner, Norman A.

Civil War; Great Britain; France; neutrality; mediation; peace; Confederacy; Seward, William H.; Lyons, Richard; Russell, John; Stuart, William; Palmerston, Henry; Mercier, Henri

69

1

Feb. 1976

46-66

John Hay and the Union generals

Montero, George, ed.

Hay, John; New York Tribune; book reviews; military history; Civil War; McClellan, George B.; Palfrey, Francis W.; Doubleday, Abner; Gordon, George H.; Reed, Samuel R.; Cist, Henry M.

69

1

Feb. 1976

70-75

Manuscript acquisitions

Spence, Paul D.

Illinois State Historical Library; manuscripts

69

2

May 1976

82-83

A special introduction

Alderfer, William K.

United States; bicentennial; conference; Illinois; papers

69

2

May 1976

84-90

The colonial view of the West

Evans, Emory G.

North America; British; Ohio Valley; settlement; colonization

69

2

May 1976

91-99

Radical political thought in the American Revolution

McColley, Robert

American Revolution; historians; radicalism; politics

69

2

May 1976

100-109

Great Britain and the Illinois country in the era of the American Revolution

Horsman, Reginald

Illinois; policy; Revolutionary War; Great Britain; Clark, George Rogers; Haldimand, Frederick; Hamilton, Henry; De Peyster, Arent; Sinclair, Patrick

69

2

May 1976

110-118

The Spaniards and the Illinois country, 1762-1800

Bannon, John Francis, S. J.

Illinois; Spanish; North America; French; British; Ulloa, Juan de; Laclede, Pierre; St. Louis; Clark, George Rogers; Revolutionary War

69

2

May 1976

119-126

The native American as myth and fact

Belting, Natalia Maree

American Indians; culture; Illinois

69

2

May 1976

127-138

The Illinois Indian tribe : from autonomy and self-sufficiency to dependency and depopulation

Hauser, Raymond E.

Illinois Indians;; culture; tribes; chiefs; French; British; Americans

69

2

May 1976

139-146

Indian history and the Indians of Illinois

Whitney, Ellen M.

Illinois Indians; Kickapoo Indians; Sauk Indians; Fox Indians; Potawatomi Indians; Winnebago Indians; removal; historians

69

3

Aug. 1976

162-163

A special introduction

Alderfer, William K.

United States; bicentennial; conference; Illinois; papers

69

3

Aug. 1976

164-172

“New aspects of men and new forms of society” : the Old Northwest, 1790-1820

Davis, James E.

Northwest Territory; migration; settlers; creativity; republicanism

69

3

Aug. 1976

173-184

George Morgan, early Illinois businessman : a case of premature enterprise

Sutton, Robert M.

Morgan, George; Fort Chartres, Ill.; merchants; Royal Department of Indian Affairs; Wilkins, John; Franks and Company; Illinois

69

3

Aug. 1976

185-200

George Morgan’s “memorandums” : a journey to the Illinois country, 1770

Oaks, Robert F., ed.

Morgan, George; diaries; merchants; Baynton, Wharton and Morgan; Illinois

69

3

Aug. 1976

201-212

From New England to the Old Northwest : the American odyssey of the Jeremiah Greenman family

Bray, Robert;

Bushnell, Paul

Greenman, Jeremiah; Greenman, John; Greenman, Jeremiah, Jr.; Revolutionary War; officers; pensions; migration; farming; Old Northwest; Ohio; McLean County, Ill.

69

3

Aug. 1976

213-223

George Flower comes to the Illinois country : a new look at motivations

Salter, Mary Ann

Flower, George; Birkbeck, Morris; travel; narratives; immigration; British; letters; English Settlement; slavery; United States; Illinois; Edwards County, Ill.; Albion, Ill.; Flower, Jane Dawson; Flower, Eliza Andrews

69

3

Aug. 1976

224-237

The way to Future City

Havighurst, Walter

Northwest Territory; Future City, Ill.; migration; immigration; British; Birkbeck, Morris; Flower, George; Flower, Eliza Andrews; Tillson, John; Tillson, Christina Holmes; Funk, Isaac; Funk, Absalom; prairie; Wells, William; Fort Dearborn; Chicago; Illinois

69

4

Nov. 1976

242-329

Illinois and Illinoisans, 1876-1976 : from the collections of the Illinois State Library

 

Illinois; history; 1876-1976; manuscripts; papers; Illinois State Library

69

4

Nov. 1976

330-340

Annual report of the state historian, Illinois State Historical Library, and executive director, Illinois State Historical Society : for the fiscal year 1975-1976

Alderfer, William K.

Illinois State Historical Library; Illinois State Historical Society

69

4

Nov. 1976

341-346

Manuscript acquisitions

Spence, Paul D.

Illinois State Historical Library; manuscripts

70

1

Feb. 1977

2-9

Jefferson Davis and the American revolutionary tradition

Thomas, Emory M.

Davis, Jefferson; Confederates; Old South; radicals; secession; Civil War; American Revolution; Revolutionary War

70

1

Feb. 1977

10-17

Lincoln, the rule of law, and the American Revolution

Paludan, Phillip S.

Lincoln, Abraham; election; 1864; rule of law; American Revolution

70

1

Feb. 1977

18-21

The 1856 election, an unpublished Lincoln letter

Gienapp, William E., ed.

Lincoln, Abraham; letters; Trumbull, Lyman; election; 1856; presidency; candidates; McLean, John; Fremont, John C.; governor; Illinois; Bissell, William H.

70

1

Feb. 1977

22-26

A family divided

Hickey, James T., ed.

Maynard, Lizzie Green; Edwards, Helen Dodge; Civil War; Confederates; surrender. spy; execution; Beall, John Yeates; Lincoln, Abraham

70

1

Feb. 1977

27-89

“A monotony full of sadness” : the diary of Nadine Turchin, May, 1863-April, 1864

McElligott, Mary Ellen, ed.

Turchin, Nadine; diaries; Turchin, John; Russians; immigration; Civil War; generals; Union; army; Tennessee; Georgia

70

2

May 1977

98-113

Apostle in Zion

Heath, Alden R.

Dowie, John Alexander; ministers; healing; Divine Healing Association; Christian Catholic Church; Chicago; Zion, Ill.; Voliva, Wilbur Glenn

70

2

May 1977

114-129

Three Chicago settlements : their architectural form and social meaning

Szuberla, Guy

settlement houses; architecture; architects; Pond, Irving K.; Pond, Allen P.; Perkins, Dwight Heald; Taylor, Graham; Hull House; Chicago Commons; University of Chicago Settlement

70

2

May 1977

130-139

Charles Guiteau of Illinois : President Garfield’s assassin

Peskin, Allan

Guiteau, Charles J.; Garfield, James A.; assassination; Noyes, John Humphrey; Oneida Community; Guiteau, Annie Bunn; debt collection; fraud; evangelism; Blaine, James G.

70

2

May 1977

140-148

The Illinois Intercollegiate Prohibition Association : 1893-1920

Roberts, Clarence N.

Prohibition; colleges; students; Illinois Intercollegiate Prohibition Association; Illinois; Monmouth College; North Central College; Augustana College; Aurora College ; Wheaton College; Hedding College; McKendree College

70

2

May 1977

149-160

Illinois commentary : “the great wave of fire” at Chicago, the reminiscences of Martin Stamm

Ranalletta, Kathy, ed.

Stamm, Martin; ministers; personal narratives; First Evangelical Church; Chicago Fire

70

2

May 1977

161-163

Ralph Ware of Granville : champion of agriculture and education

Leavitt, Edward T.

Ware, Ralph; Buel Institute; universities; land grants; agriculture; education

70

3

Aug. 1977

178-184

The Edith Abbott I knew

Taylor, Eleanor K.

Abbott, Edith M.; social workers; University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration; Breckinridge, Sophonisba P.

70

3

Aug. 1977

185-195

Early development of the Illinois state penitentiary system

Greene, William Robert

prisons; jails; penitentiaries; Illinois; leases; contracts; Dix, Dorothea; Buckmaster, Samuel A.; Alton, Ill. Joliet, Ill.; Chester, Ill.

70

3

Aug. 1977

196-200

Letters home : an Illinois coed in the 1850's

Kedro, M. James, ed.

Hall, Melinda; colleges; students; letters; Berean College

70

3

Aug. 1977

201-207

Charles Wesley Bliss and the Montgomery News

McInerney, Paul M.

Bliss, Charles Wesley; journalists; newspapers; Montgomery News; Montgomery County, Ill.

70

3

Aug. 1977

208-248

A bibliography of dissertations related to Illinois history, 1884-1976

Bridges, Roger D., compiler

Illinois; history; dissertations; bibliography

70

4

Nov. 1977

258-275

Jacksonville artists of the 1870's

Hendrickson, Walter B.

artists; Jacksonville, Ill.; Art Association of Jacksonville; oil paintings; portraits; sculptures; gravestones; monuments; Mason, Ebenezer; Woodman, William S.; Smith, Robert Campbell; Clark, George W.

70

4

Nov. 1977

276-282

A confidential account of Mayor Kelly's visit to London, November 1945

Hachey, Thomas E., ed.

Kelly, Edward J.; mayors; Chicago, Ill.; London; air routes; American Airlines; United Nations; headquarters; Gallienne, Wilfred Hansford

70

4

Nov. 1977

283-291

William Butler Ogden : a Chicago promoter in the speculative era and the Panic of 1837

McLear, Patrick E.

Ogden, William Butler; developers; land; speculation; steamboats; Illinois and Michigan Canal; construction; railroads; investments; 1837; panic; mayor; elections; Chicago

70

4

Nov. 1977

292-298

Early Welsh settlements in Illinois

Davies, Phillips G., ed. and translator

immigration; Welsh; Chicago; Bridgeport Union Rolling Mill; Big Rock, Ill.; Coal Valley, Ill.; Braceville, Ill.; churches; Thomas, Robert D.

70

4

Nov. 1977

299-301

First hospital in the Illinois country

Pearson, Emmet F.

hospitals; Fort de Chartres, Ill.

70

4

Nov. 1977

302-320

Scott W. Lucas of Illinois : his rise and fall as majority leader in the United States Senate

Schapsmeier, Edward L.;

Schapsmeier, Frederick H.

Lucas, Scott W.; Illinois; Democratic Party; House of Representatives; Senate; Truman, Harry S.; Fair Deal; Dirksen, Everett M.

70

4

Nov. 1977

321-331

Annual report of the state historian, Illinois State Historical Library, and executive director, Illinois State Historical Society : for the fiscal year 1976-1977

Alderfer, William K.

Illinois State Historical Library; Illinois State Historical Society

71

1

Feb. 1978

2-12

Levi Davis, Illinois' third auditor

Curran, Nathaniel B.

Davis, Levi; Illinois; auditor; Stapp, James T. B.; Lincoln, Abraham; Douglas, Stephen A.; internal improvements; capital; location; Vandalia, Ill.; Springfield, Ill.; Alton, Ill.; Civil War; Davis, Lucy Stapp; Davis, James W.; Davis, Charles Wise; Davis, Levi, Jr.

71

1

Feb. 1978

13-21

Monmouth College in the Civil War

Urban, William

Monmouth College; Civil War; students; enlistment; Wallace, David Alexander; Harding, Abner Clark; McClanahan, John; Union; army; 83rd Illinois Infantry

71

1

Feb. 1978

22-29

Planning, proper hygiene, and a doctor : the good health of the English Settlement

Miller, Keith L.

immigration; British; English Settlement; site; selection; health; hygiene; doctors; Pugsley, Charles; Edwards County, Ill.

71

1

Feb. 1978

30-56

A Chicago political diary, 1928-1929

Roberts, Daniel A.;

Roberts, Daniel J., ed.

Roberts, Daniel A.; diaries; parks; West Parks Board; attorney; politics; judges; elections; 1928; Chicago

71

1

Feb. 1978

57-65

Photograph acquisitions : rare photographs of Illinois congressmen

Petterchak, Janice

photographs; congressmen; Illinois

71

2

May 1978

82-106

The achievement of Virginia S. Eifert

Hallwas, John E.

Eifert, Virginia S.; naturalists; natural history; writers; artists; Illinois; Springfield, Ill.; Illinois State Museum; Living Museum; Mississippi River; steamboats; Delta Queen

71

2

May 1978

107-118

Taming the environment : the drainage district in Illinois

Herget, James E.

swamps; drainage; companies; counties; districts; commissions; legislation; Illinois

71

2

May 1978

119-132

"Political dynamite" : the Chicago Polonia and President Roosevelt in 1944

Sadler, Charles

Polish Americans; Chicago; Polish Roman Catholic Union; Polish National Alliance; Polish American Congress; Polish American Council; National Committee of Americans of Polish Descent; Germany; Soviet Union; Poland; World War II; Roosevelt, Franklin D.; Sikorski, Wladyslaw; Mikolajczyk, Stanislaw; Swietlik, Francis; Rozmarek, Charles; Wegrzynek, Maximilian

71

2

May 1978

133-142

Conflict in the American socialist movement, 1897-1901 : a letter from Thomas J. Morgan to Henry Demarest Lloyd

Stow, Robert N., ed.

Morgan, Thomas J.; letters; Lloyd, Henry Demarest; socialism; political parties; Socialist Party of America; Socialist Labor Party; Social Democratic Party; Debs, Eugene V.; United States

71

2

May 1978

143-147

Account of a journey on the Great Lakes

Hickok, William A.;

Harmon, Edith Andrews, ed.

Hickok, William Alonzo; Great Lakes; steamboats; travel; narratives; Chicago; Buffalo, N.Y.

71

3

Aug. 1978

162-175

General Robert E. Wood : the evolution of a conservative

Doenecke, Justus D.

Wood, Robert E.; United States Army; Sears, Roebuck and Company; New Deal; America First Committee; World War II; isolationism; Communism; Latin America

71

3

Aug. 1978

185-210

Merchant, soldier, broker, chief : a corrected obituary of Captain Billy Caldwell

Clifton, James A.

Caldwell, Billy; Caldwell, William, Sr.; obituaries; Amherstburg, Ont.; Upper Canada; Mohawk Indians; Potawatomi Indians; Chicago; fur trade; traders; War of 1812; Fort Dearborn; Treaty of Chicago; Indian reservations; Council Bluffs, Ia.

71

3

Aug. 1978

211-224

Canal boats on the Illinois and Michigan Canal

Lamb, John M.

towboats; barges; steamboats; passenger; freight; Illinois and Michigan Canal

71

3

Aug. 1978

225-231

A review essay : Richard J. Jensen's Illinois: A Bicentennial History

Hoffmann, John

Jensen, Richard J.; Illinois; history; tradition; modernism

71

4

Nov. 1978

242-251

Treason or loyalty? : frontier French in the American Revolution

Chaput, Donald

French; North America; Great Britain; Midwest; Canada; Louisiana; American Revolution

71

4

Nov. 1978

252-263

Congressman Noah Morgan Mason : from Wales to Washington

Samosky, Jack A.

Mason, Noah Morgan; La Salle, Ill.; Oglesby, Ill.; city commissioner; Illinois State Senate; Republican Party; Prohibition; roads; construction; New Deal; House of Representatives; Illinois

71

4

Nov. 1978

264-271

Illinois commentary : wing dams and riprap

Semrad, Alberita Napier Richards

Mississippi River; dams; construction; steamboats; Army Corps of Engineers; Richard, Albert Lennox

71

4

Nov. 1978

272-282

General Isaac B. Curran : gregarious jeweler

Curran, Nathaniel B.

Curran, Isaac B.; jewelers; Springfield, Ill.; Curran, Anastasia Spotswood; quartermaster general; Illinois; Pension Agency; Matteson, Joel Aldrich; Douglas, Stephen A.; Curran, Catherine Buckmaster Mitchell

71

4

Nov. 1978

279-287

The troubles of an itinerant teacher in the early nineteenth century

Nortrup, Jack

Willard, Frances Langdon; private schools; girls; Chicago; Carrollton, Ill; Alabama; Connecticut, New York State; Peoria, Ill.; Canton, Ill.; Mt. Vernon, Ill.; Ingersoll, John

71

4

Nov. 1978

288-298

Photograph collections : the Guy Mathis collection

Petterchak, Janice

Mathis, Guy Roy; photographers; photographs; Springfield, Ill.

71

4

Nov. 1978

299-310

Annual report of the state historian, Illinois State Historical Library, and executive director, Illinois State Historical Society : for the fiscal year 1977-1978

Alderfer, William K.

Illinois State Historical Library; Illinois State Historical Society

72

1

Feb. 1979

2-12

Hunting in early Illinois

Flanagan, John T.

Illinois; hunting; prairie; game; regulation

72

1

Feb. 1979

13-20

Farm and gown : the University of Illinois and the farmer, 1904-1918

Rodnitzky, Jerome L.

University of Illinois; College of Agriculture; Agricultural Experiment Station; press releases; Davenport, Eugene; James, Edmund Janes

72

1

Feb. 1979

21-38

Isabel Bevier at the University of Illinois and the home economics movement

Bartow, Beverly

Bevier, Isabel; home economics; University of Illinois; Department of Household Science; Illinois Association of Domestic Science; Dunlap, Nora B.

72

1

Feb. 1979

39-56

Booth's diary

Hanchett, William

Booth, John Wilkes; Lincoln, Abraham; assassination; diaries; Baker, Lafayette C.; Stanton, Edwin M.; Holt, Joseph; Johnson, Andrew; Butler, Benjamin F.

72

1

Feb. 1979

57-69

Tragedy in November : the Cherry mine disaster

Stout, Steve

coal; mines; fire; Cherry, Ill.; St. Paul Coal Company

72

2

May 1979

82-100

Thomas Sharp and anti-Mormon sentiment in Illinois, 1842-1845

Hampshire, Annette P.

Sharp, Thomas; Mormons; Illinois; Nauvoo, Ill.; Nauvoo Expositor; Missouri; Smith, Joseph

72

2

May 1979

101-110

John Brown White and early women's education : a history of Almira College

Jordahl, Donald C.

White, John Brown; White, Mary Powers Merriam; Morse, Stephen; Morse, Almira Blanchard; women; higher education, Almira College; Greenville College

72

2

May 1979

111-122

Ethnicity, civic pride and commitment : the evolution of the Chicago militia

Turnbaugh, Roy

militia; regiments; officers; training; strikes; 1877; Illinois National Guard; Chicago, Ill; Ducat, Arthur C.

72

2

May 1979

123-138

Democracy revisited : the law and school districts in Illinois

Herget, James E.

Illinois; townships; school districts; public schools; superintendent of schools; finance; law; Coles, Edward; Duncan, Joseph

72

3

Aug. 1979

162-178

Norman L. Jones versus Len Small in the Illinois gubernatorial campaign of 1924

Waller, Robert A.

Jones, Norman L.; Small, Len; Essington, Thurlow G.; Illinois; governor; elections; 1924; corruption; Chicago Tribune; roads; labor; women; transit; Prohibition

72

3

Aug. 1979

179-212

British coal miners : a demographic study of Braidwood and Streator, Ill.

Gottlieb, Amy Zell

coal miners; Great Britain; immigration; unions; demographics; Braidwood, Ill.; Streator, Ill.

72

3

Aug. 1979

193-212

Selected letters of Humphrey Hood, Litchfield physician : part I, 1852-1856

Gegenheimer, Elizabeth, ed.

Hood, Humphrey; Hood, Benjamin; physicians; letters; Jerseyville, Ill.; Hardinsburg, Ill.; Litchfield, Ill.

72

3

Aug. 1979

213-224

An experiment in military and civilian education : the Students' Army Training Corps at the University of Illinois

Shearer, Benjamin F.

Students' Army Training Course; World War I; education; University of Illinois; War Department; James, Edmund J.; Kinley, David; Abercrombie, William R.

72

3

Aug. 1979

225-234

The French impress on place names in the Mississippi Valley

McDermott, John Francis

French language; place names; Mississippi Valley

72

4

Nov. 1979

242-256

Selected letters of Humphrey Hood, Litchfield physician : part II, 1862-1867

Gegenheimer, Elizabeth, ed.

Hood, Humphrey; physicians; letters; Litchfield, Ill.; Civil War; Fort Pickering, Tenn.; Hood, Matilda; Hood, Benjamin; Hood, Mary Jackson; Hood, Abigail Torrey Paden; Grant, Ulysses S.; Sherman, William Tecumseh; Steele, Frederick; Blair, Francis P., Jr.; Chase, Salmon P.; Lincoln, Abraham

72

4

Nov. 1979

257-272

The Socialist Party of America in municipal elections : Canton, Illinois, 1911-1920

Stevens, Errol Wayne

Socialist Party; Canton, Ill.; city council; mayor; coal; mining; agricultural implements; manufacturing; Parlin & Orendorff Company; water; meters; railroads; tracks; relocation; Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad; women; suffrage; Prohibition; World War I

72

4

Nov. 1979

277-312

Annual report of the state historian, Illinois State Historical Library, and executive director, Illinois State Historical Society : for the fiscal year 1978-1979

Alderfer, William K.

Illinois State Historical Library; Illinois State Historical Society

73

1

Spring 1980

2-16

The Doyle mission to Massac, 1794

Johnson, Leland R.

Doyle, Thomas; Fort Massac, Ill.; Ohio River; Shawnee Indians; French; Spanish; Wayne, Anthony; Montgomery, John

73

1

Spring 1980

17-26

The Galena and Chicago Union Railroad : a symbol of Chicago's economic maturity

McLear, Patrick E.

railroads; construction; Chicago; Galena, Ill.; Galena and Chicago Union Railroad; Hubbard, Elijah K.; Ogden, William B.; Newberry, Walter L.

73

1

Spring 1980

27-44

Progressive school administration : Ella Flagg Young and the Chicago schools, 1905-1915

Smith, Joan K.

Young, Ella Flagg; Chicago; schools; progressive education; teachers; unions; administration; Dewey, John; Chicago Normal School; Chicago Teachers' Federation; Cooley, Edwin G.; Harrison, Carter H., Jr.; Rothmann, William; Shoop, John D.

73

1

Spring 1980

45-52

William Patterson Jones : American consul in China, 1862-1868

Kehoe, Barbara B.

Jones, William Patterson; consul; China; Northwestern Female College; Evanston, Ill.

73

1

Spring 1980

53-60

Illinois commentary : three generations of river commerce, the Jenkins family of Grand Tower

Linsenmeyer, Helen Walker

Jenkins, Herod Marshall; Jenkins, Thomas; Jenkins, Thomas Whitson; merchants; rivers; commerce; Illinois

73

1

Spring 1980

61-64

Nora Marks -- reinvestigated

Lederer, Francis L., II

Marks, Nora; Atkinson, Eleanor Stackhouse; authors; children's books; investigative reporters; Chicago Tribune

73

2

Summer 1980

78-116

"Goodbye dear Governor. You are my best friend" : the private letters of Robert G. Ingersoll to Richard J. Oglesby, 1867-1877

Plummer, Mark A.

Ingersoll, Robert G.; Oglesby, Richard J.; Illinois; attorney general; governor; nomination; politics; agnosticism; letters

73

2

Summer 1980

117-131

"Necessary adjuncts to its growth" : the railroad suburbs of Chicago, 1854-1875

Abbott, Carl

Chicago; suburbs; railroads; real estate; developers; social status

73

2

Summer 1980

140-160

The double-crib log barns of Calhoun County

Price, H. Wayne

barns; logs; cribs; Calhoun County, Ill.

73

3

Autumn 1980

162-176

Freedmen's farm letters of Samuel and Louisa Mallory to "our absent but ever remembered boy" in McHenry County, Illinois

Wenzel, Carol N.

Mallory, Samuel; Mallory, Louisa; Mallory, Leroy; letters; Civil War; McHenry County, Ill.; freedmen; Freedmen's Home Farm; Freedmen's Bureau

73

3

Autumn 1980

177-188

Early Illinois author John L. McConnel and "The Ranger's Chase"

Hallwas, John E.

McConnel, John L; authors; Illinois; The Ranger's Chase

73

3

Autumn 1980

189-200

Andrew Johnson and the 1866 Illinois election

Oder, Broeck N.

Johnson, Andrew; campaign; tour; elections; Illinois; 1866

73

3

Autumn 1980

201-213

The 1730 Fox fort : a recently discovered map throws new light on its siege and location

Peyser, Joseph L.

Fox Indians; French; siege; 1730; fort; location; Illinois

73

3

Autumn 1980

214-234

His father's son : letters from the Robert Todd Lincoln collection of the Illinois State Historical Society

Hickey, James T.

Lincoln, Robert Todd; letters; Lincoln, Abraham; Lincoln, Mary Todd; Lincoln, Mary Harlan; Isham, Mary Lincoln; Lincoln, Jack; Beckwith, Jessie Lincoln; Secretary of War; Garfield, James A.; Pullman Palace Car Company

73

3

Autumn 1980

235-237

Mother Jones, 1830-1930

McDonald, Duncan

Jones, Mother; Jones, Mary Harris; labor; miners

73

4

Winter 1980

242-262

The Lincoln-Douglas campaign of 1858 : background and perspective

Johannsen, Robert W.

Lincoln, Abraham; Douglas, Stephen A.; Senate; elections; slavery; Kansas; Buchanan, James; Illinois; 1858

73

4

Winter 1980

263-276

Conflicting concepts of justice : a Winnebago murder trial on the Illinois frontier

Zanger, Martin

Winnebago Indians; Americans; Illinois; murder; trials; Leavenworth, Henry; Calhoun, John C.

73

4

Winter 1980

277-290

Mark Twain's Chicago

Thoresen, Trygve

Twain, Mark; lectures; Chicago

73

4

Winter 1980

291-320

Annual report of the state historian, Illinois State Historical Library, and executive director, Illinois State Historical Society : for the fiscal year 1979-1980

Alderfer, William K.

Illinois State Historical Library; Illinois State Historical Society

74

1

Spring 1981

2-16

Illinois viewed from the Johnson White House

Elzy, Martin I.

Lyndon Baines Johnson Library; University of Texas; Illinois; Chicago; Douglas, Paul H,; Dirksen, Everett M.; Stevenson, Adlai E.; Kerner, Otto; elections; political conventions; Chicago; 1968; Walker, Daniel

74

1

Spring 1981

17-30

Writing a corporate history : a personal memoir

Giddens, Paul H.

Standard Oil Company (Indiana); corporate history; personal narratives; Wilson, Robert E.; Rockefeller, John D., Jr.; Giddens, Paul H.

74

1

Spring 1981

31-40

Conflict of ideals : Samuel Gompers v. "Uncle Joe" Cannon

Petterchak, Janice A.

Cannon, Joseph G.; Speaker; House of Representatives; Committee on Labor; legislation; strikes; injunctions; Gompers, Samuel; American Federation of Labor

74

1

Spring 1981

41-50

Transient prisoner : the reminiscences of William H. Gilbert

Sunseri, Alvin R., ed.

Gilbert, William H.; memoirs; Civil War; Confederacy; prisons; prisoners; Libby Prison; Pemberton Prison; Danville Prison; Andersonville Prison; Charleston Prison; Florence Prison

74

1

Spring 1981

51-57

Soperville : an immigrant community in Knox County

Hallberg, Carl V.

Soperville, Ill.; immigration; Swedes

74

1

Spring 1981

58-79

Robert Todd Lincoln and the "purely private" letters of the Lincoln family

Hickey, James T.

Lincoln, Robert Todd; Lincoln, Abraham; Lincoln, Mary Todd; letters; papers

74

2

Summer 1981

82-108

Equality deferred : civil rights for Illinois blacks, 1865-1885

Bridges, Roger D.

African Americans; civil rights; Black Laws; repeal; suffrage; education; segregation; political participation; Illinois

74

2

Summer 1981

109-118

John A. Kennicott of The Grove : physician, horticulturist and journalist in nineteenth-century Illinois

Ernst, Erik A.

Kennicott, John A.; horticulture; medicine; education; universities; agriculture; Kennicott, Robert; Turner, Jonathan Baldwin; The Grove

74

2

Summer 1981

119-129

"'Police force' in the arsenal shops" : a document on the 1899 machinists' strike at Rock Island Arsenal

Harahan, Joseph P., ed.

machinists; strikes; wages; work rules; Rock Island Arsenal; Russell, A. H.; Blunt, Stanhope E.; Buffington, Adelbert R.; Alger, Russell A.

74

2

Summer 1981

130-144

McLean County and the influenza epidemic of 1918

Walters, Karen A.

influenza; 1918; McLean County, Ill.; Bloomington, Ill.; Camp Grant, Ill.; Rockford, Ill.; Red Cross

74

2

Summer 1981

145-156

The Cantine Mounds of southern Illinois : the first published report of their existence and an 1811 eyewitness account of the monks who lived there

Hammes, Raymond H., ed.

Cantine Mounds; Illinois; Brackenridge, Henry M.; monks; Trappists; Guillet, Urban

74

3

Autumn 1981

162-178

Florence Kelley in Illinois

Harmon, Sondra D.

Kelley, Florence; child labor; women; sweatshops; factories; legislation; inspection; eight hour day; National Consumers' League

74

3

Autumn 1981

179-198

The infamous Pullman strike as revealed by the Robert Todd Lincoln collection

Chapin, John R.

Pullman, George M.; Pullman Company; Pullman strike; Sweet, Charles S.; Runnells, John Sumner; Debs, Eugene V.

74

3

Autumn 1981

199-216

War and partisanship : what Lincoln learned from James K. Polk

Neely, Mark E., Jr.

Lincoln, Abraham; Polk, James Knox; Mexican War; Civil War; generals; Whigs; Democrats; internal improvements; Constitution; presidents

74

3

Autumn 1981

217-229

Tavern theatre in early Chicago

Bloom, Arthur W.

Chicago; theater; taverns; performers; plays; actors; Sauganash Hotel; Isherwood, Harry; MacKenzie, Alexander

74

3

Autumn 1981

230-240

Manuscript acquisitions

Bowen, Laurel G.

Illinois State Historical Library; manuscripts

74

4

Winter 1981

242-260

Taxation and social conflict : teacher unionism and public school finance in Chicago, 1898-1934

Murphy, Marjorie

teachers; unions; salaries; public schools; finance; taxes; buildings; Chicago; Chicago Teachers' Federation

74

4

Winter 1981

261-278

Historian in cowboy boots : Jay Monaghan, 1893-1980

Dilliard, Irving

Monaghan, Jay; obituaries; Illinois; Illinois State Historical Library; Illinois State Historical Society; Works Progress Administration; Writers' Project

74

4

Winter 1981

279-296

"Own the house till it ruins me" : Robert Todd Lincoln and his parents' home in Springfield

Hickey, James T.

Lincoln, Robert Todd; Lincoln, Abraham; Lincoln, Mary Todd; home; leasing; Springfield, Ill.; Tilton, Lucian; Harlow, George H.; Akard, Jacob D.; Conkling, Clinton L.; Wendlant, Gustave; Oldroyd, Osborne Hamiline; Lincoln Homestead Trustees

74

4

Winter 1981

297-302

Photograph acquisitions

Michaels, Mary

Illinois State Historical Library; photographs

74

4

Winter 1981

303-320

Annual report : Illinois State Historical Library, Illinois State Historical Society

Alderfer, William K.; Foster, Olive S.

Illinois State Historical Library; Illinois State Historical Society

75

1

Spring 1982

2-14

The ethnic entry into Chicago politics : the United Societies for Local Self-Government and the reform charter of 1907

Flanagan, Maureen A.

liquor; sales; saloons; Sunday closing; Prohibition; United Societies for Local Self-Government; ethnic groups; home rule; charter; 1907; Chicago; Cermak, Anton J.

75

1

Spring 1982

15-28

Queries regarding the Western rivers : an unpublished letter from Thomas Jefferson to the Geographer of the United States

Hoffmann, John

Jefferson, Thomas; letters; Hutchins, Thomas; rivers; maps; United States; territories

75

1

Spring 1982

29-38

"Union holiday -- closed till further notice" : the 1936 general strike at Pekin, Illinois

Brune, Lester H.

Pekin, Ill.; strikes; 1936; collective bargaining; American Distilling Company; Pekin Distillery Employees Association; American Federation of Labor; National Labor Relations Board

75

1

Spring 1982

39-46

Louis Rodenberg : pioneer in Braille printing

Hickey, Donald; Seymour, Lyle

Rodenberg, Louis; Braille; blind; printing; music

75

1

Spring 1982

47-60

William Butler Ogden and the growth of Chicago

Downard, William L.

Ogden, William Butler; Chicago; mayor; American Land Company; real estate; Lill and Diversey Brewery; Galena and Chicago Union Railroad Company; Chicago and North Western Railway Company

75

1

Spring 1982

61-72

The Rudowitz extradition case

Giffin, Frederick C.

Rudowitz, Christian Ansoff; refugees; extradition; Russia; revolution; 1905; Schilling; Ernest von; Daily Socialist; Political Refugee Defense League; Foote, Mark A.; Root, Elihu

75

2

Summer 1982

82-100

Midwestern Jewish commitment and practical American idealism : the early history of Temple Sinai, Champaign, Illinois

Rubenstein, Asa

Jews; Reform Judaism; synagogues; Champaign, Ill.; Temple Sinai; Champaign-Urbana Hebrew Congregation; Congregation B'nai Israel; University of Illinois; Ivrim Society

75

2

Summer 1982

101-114

Quarreling in the English Settlement : the Flowers in court

Salter, Mary Ann

Birkbeck, Morris; Flower, George; Flower, Jane Dawson; Flower, Eliza Andrews; Pugsley, Charles; bigamy; lawsuits; courthouse; property; slander; English Settlement; Edwards County, Ill.; Albion, Ill.

75

2

Summer 1982

115-120

The camp on Wood River : a winter of preparation for the Lewis and Clark expedition

Lankiewicz, Donald P.

Lewis, Meriwether; Clark, William; Lewis and Clark Expedition; camp; Wood River, Ill.

75

2

Summer 1982

121-136

James Adams : early Springfield Mormon and Freemason

Walgren, Kent L.

Adams, James; Smith, Joseph; Mormons; Sangamon County, Ill.; Probate Justice; election; 1837; Masons; Nauvoo, Ill.

75

2

Summer 1982

137-147

Origin of the "Champaign system" : prelude to the McCollum case, 1945-1948

McCollum, Dannel Angus

religion; classes; public schools; released time; Champaign, Ill.; Nickell, Vernon L.; Cromwell, Arthur; McCollum, Vashti Cromwell

75

2

Summer 1982

148-160

The making of a myth : Abraham Lincoln's family background in the perspective of Jacksonian politics

Purvis, Thomas L.

Lincoln, Abraham; parents; relatives; genealogy; status

75

3

Autumn 1982

179-217

John Mason Peck on Illinois slavery

Bridges, Roger D., ed.

Peck, John Mason; ministers; Baptist Church; slavery; African Americans; Northwest Territory; Illinois

75

3

Autumn 1982

218-242

Annual report of the state historian, Illinois State Historical Library, and executive director, Illinois State Historical Society : for the fiscal year July 1, 1981-June 30, 1982

Foster, Olive S.

Illinois State Historical Library; Illinois State Historical Society

75

4

Winter 1982

242-262

The age of ambition in Quincy, Ill.

Brown, Thomas J.

Quincy, Ill.; incorporation; growth; grain; meat packing; flour; steamboats; Mississippi River; railroads; slavery; Civil War; finance; debt

75

4

Winter 1982

263-276

A fragment of French Canada on the Illinois prairie

Kantowicz, Edward R.

French Canadians; immigration; Le Vasseur, Noel; Chiniquy, Charles Pascal Telesphore; Illinois Central Railroad; Kankakee River; Illinois; Bourbonnais, Ill.; St. Viator's College

75

4

Winter 1982

277-288

Cartography of the Illinois country : an analysis of middle Mississippi maps drawn during the British regime

Thurman, Melburn D.

maps; Mississippi River; Illinois; British; French; place names

75

4

Winter 1982

289-308

Abraham Lincoln and the idea of equality

Lightner, David

Lincoln, Abraham; slavery; African Americans; equality

75

4

Winter 1982

309-320

A family album : the Dressers of Springfield

Hickey, James T.

Dresser family; Dresser, Nathan; Dresser, Rebecca; Dresser, Charles; Dresser, Henry; Dresser, Nathan, Jr.; Springfield, Ill.

76

1

Spring 1983

2-16

Everett M. Dirksen of Pekin : politician par excellence

Schapsmeier, Edward L.;

Schapsmeier, Frederick H.

Dirksen, Everett M.; Illinois; Republican Party; House of Representatives; Senate

76

1

Spring 1983

17-34

Everett McKinley Dirksen : the roots of an American statesman

Fonsino, Frank J.

Dirksen, Everett M.; childhood; youth; United States Army; World War I; Pekin, Ill.; city council; American Legion; Illinois; House of Representatives; election

76

1

Spring 1983

35-48

Congressman Noah Morgan Mason : Illinois' conservative spokesman

Samosky, Jack A.

Mason, Noah Morgan; Illinois; House of Representatives; Republican Party; conservatism; anticommunism; regulation; states' rights; New Deal; government spending

76

1

Spring 1983

49-60

Cold War observer : Governor Adlai E. Stevenson on American foreign relations

Roberts, John W.

Stevenson, Adlai E.; United States; foreign policy; isolationism; United Nations; foreign aid; Marshall Plan; Korean War; corruption; election; governor; Illinois; 1948; Green, Dwight H.

76

1

Spring 1983

61-70

A German P.O.W. at Camp Grant : the reminiscences of Heinz Richter

Richter, Anton H., translator and ed.

Richter, Heinz; memoirs; Luftwaffe; Germany; prisoners of war; Camp Grant, Ill.

76

1

Spring 1983

71-74

"My dear Mr. W." : Mary Lincoln writes to Alexander Williamson

Cowden, Gerald Steffens, ed.

Lincoln, Mary Todd; Williamson, Alexander; letters; debts

76

2

Summer 1983

82-94

The birth of Chicago : an examination of economic parentage

Holt, Glen E.

Chicago; Fort Dearborn; Illinois and Michigan Canal; Chicago River; port; Army Corps of Engineers

76

2

Summer 1983

95-114

Conflict in the Illinois woman suffrage movement of 1913

Wheeler, Adade Mitchell

women; suffrage; legislation; lobbying; Illinois; Illinois Equal Suffrage Association; Chicago Political Equality League; McCulloch, Catharine Waugh; Trout, Grace Wilbur; Blount, Anna Ellsworth; Stewart, Ella; Booth, Elizabeth Knox; Funk, Antoinette Leland; McCormick, Ruth Hanna

76

2

Summer 1983

115-130

The 1942 mid-term elections in Illinois

Morgan, Iwan

elections; Congress; Illinois; 1942; isolationism; Brooks, C. Wayland; Day, Stephen A.; Kelly, Edward J.; Wright, Warren E.; McKeough, Raymond; Douglas, Paul H.; Adamowski, Benjamin

76

2

Summer 1983

131-138

The Congress on Labor at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition

Downey, Dennis B.

World's Columbian Exposition; Congress on Labor; labor; unemployment; unions; single tax; Chicago

76

2

Summer 1983

139-149

Jacob Allaman, covered bridge builder : a case study

Sculle, Keith A.

Allaman, Jacob; covered bridges; Eames Bridge; Henderson County, Ill.

 

 

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78

2

Summer 1985

82-96

Blowing the trumpet : the Chicago Defender and black migration during World War I

Grossman, James R.

Chicago Defender; newspapers; African Americans; migration; Chicago; Abbott, Robert S.

78

2

Summer 1985

97-112

The American roots of German Lutheranism in Illinois

Elbert, E. Duane

Lutheran Church; Germans; immigration; Illinois; Scherer, Daniel; Heyer, John Christian Frederick; Keller, Ezra; Kohler, David

78

2

Summer 1985

113-128

Extraterritoriality and the fugitive slave debate

Keller, Ralph A.

Fugitive Slave Act; fugitive slaves; slavery; slaveholders; extraterritoriality; South; Senate

78

2

Summer 1985

129-142

"Scholarship, virtue, and religion" : Robert Allyn and McKendree College, 1863-1874

Eaton, William

Allyn, Robert; McKendree College; Methodist Church

78

3

Autumn 1985

162-178

Conferring status : Lorado Taft's portraits of an artistic community

Garvey, Timothy J.

Taft, Lorado; artists; writers; promotion; Chicago; busts; Fuller, Henry Blake; Garland, Hamlin; Fiske, Horace Spencer; Belden, Ella Celeste Pomeroy; Nixon, Eldora Lynde; Miller, Joaquin; Zangwill, Israel; Clarkson, Ralph

78

3

Autumn 1985

179-194

Beating the devil : life and art in Peter Cartwright's Autobiography

Bray, Robert

Cartwright, Peter; ministers; circuit riders; Methodist Church; autobiography; preaching; folklore; comedy

78

3

Autumn 1985

195-206

A banker at war : the World War I experiences of Charles Gates Dawes

Goedeken, Edward A.

Dawes, Charles Gates; United States Army; purchasing; supplies; General Purchasing Board; World War I

78

3

Autumn 1985

207-216

"The last, best hope of earth" : Abraham Lincoln's perception of the mission of America, 1834-1854

Porter, Laura Smith

Lincoln, Abraham; democracy; government; liberty; equal rights; United States; Illinois

78

4

Winter 1985

242-256

Black Chicago political realignment during the Depression and New Deal

Reed, Christopher Robert

African Americans; Democratic Party; Republican Party; Depression; New Deal; Kelly, Edward J.; Mitchell, Arthur W.; Sneed, Edward M.; Dickerson, Earl B.; Tittinger, Joseph; DePriest, Oscar Stanton; King, William E.; Dawson, William L.; Jackson, Robert R.; Chicago

78

4

Winter 1985

257-272

Schoolman among scholars : Andrew S. Draper at the University of Illinois, 1894-1904

Johnson, Ronald M.

Draper, Andrew S.; University of Illinois; president; education; administration; funding; lobbying; trustees; faculty; students

78

4

Winter 1985

273-288

Olive Beaupre Miller and My Book House

Taylor, Dorothy Loring

Miller, Olive Beaupre; My Book House; children; literature; publishing

78

4

Winter 1985

289-302

Classical music in Chicago and the founding of the Symphony, 1850-1905

McColley, Robert

classical music; musicians; concerts; Chicago; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Thomas, Theodore; Fay, Charles Norman; Thomas, Rose Fay; Burnham, Daniel H.; Auditorium Theater; Orchestra Hall

79

1

Spring 1986

2-18

Organizing the workers in a steel company town : the union movement in Joliet, 1870-1920

Freedman, Stephen

unions; steel workers; quarries; wire factories; strikes; Joliet, Ill.; Joliet Steel Company; Illinois Steel Company; American Steel and Wire Company; U. S. Steel Company; Elgin, Joliet, & Eastern Railway; Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers

79

1

Spring 1986

19-32

Socialist publishing in Illinois : Charles H. Kerr & Company of Chicago, 1886-1928

Ruff, Allen M.

Kerr, Charles H.; Charles H. Kerr & Company; publishers; socialism; Simons, Algie Martin; Marcy, Mary E.; International Socialist Review; Socialist Party of America

79

1

Spring 1986

33-58

Smile, and work, and serve : the legacy of an Illinois officer in World War I

Elbert, E. Duane

Dunn, Andrew K.; letters; patriotism; United States Army; officers; World War I

79

1

Spring 1986

59-62

The Civil War concluded in the Papers of Ulysses S. Grant

Plummer, Mark A.

Grant, Ulysses S.; Civil War; papers

79

2

Summer 1986

82-98

The University of Illinois and the community-junior college movement, 1901-1965

Hardin, Thomas L.

Illinois; public schools; junior colleges; high schools; vocational education; University of Illinois; Illinois Commission on Higher Education

79

2

Summer 1986

99-112

Thomas Jefferson and the Ordinance of 1784

Horsman, Reginald

Jefferson, Thomas; Ordinance of 1784; United States; settlers; territories; government

79

2

Summer 1986

113-126

A special place : Lake Forest and the Great Depression, 1929-1933

Van Sickle, Frederick Mercer

Lake Forest, Ill.; Depression; oral history; unemployment; relief; banks

79

2

Summer 1986

127-138

The obscurity of August Mersy : a German-American in the Civil War

Hess, Earl J.

Mersy, August; German-Americans; Civil War; 9th Illinois Infantry

79

2

Summer 1986

139-142

Lincoln family documents in the F. J. Dreer collection

George, Joseph, Jr.

Dreer, Ferdinand Julius; manuscripts; Lincoln, Abraham; Lincoln, Mary Todd; Lincoln, Robert Todd; Ellsworth, Elmer E.

79

3

Autumn 1986

162-184

Hell hath no fury like a general scorned : Nelson A. Miles, the Pullman strike, and the beef scandal of 1898

Wade, Louise Carroll

Miles, Nelson A.; Pullman strike; Chicago; stockyards; troops; War Department; Alger, Russell A.; Spanish-American War; beef; refrigeration; preservation

79

3

Autumn 1986

185-196

"I am in purgatory now" : journalist Hooper Warren survives the Illinois frontier

Kindig, Everett W.

Warren, Hooper; journalists; newspapers; Edwardsville, Ill.; Edwardsville Spectator; Galena, Ill.; Galena Advertiser; Newhall, Horatio; Philleo, Addison

79

3

Autumn 1986

197-212

Grant's role in beginning black soldiery

Westwood, Howard C.

Grant, Ulysses S.; African Americans; slavery; Union; army; soldiers; Confederacy; captives

79

4

Winter 1986

230-244

Welcoming the world : Illinois' role in the World's Columbian Exposition

Cassell, Frank A.

World's Columbian Exposition; Chicago; legislation; Illinois General Assembly; exhibits; Illinois Board of World's Fair Commissioners; Illinois Women's Exposition Board; Columbian Clubs; Illinois

79

4

Winter 1986

245-256

Ulysses S. Grant one hundred years later

Simon, John Y.

Grant, Ulysses S.; Civil War; politics; presidency; Reconstruction; economics; memoirs

79

4

Winter 1986

257-266

Nathan Clifford Ricker and the beginning of architectural education

Charney, Wayne Michael; Stamper, John W.

Ricker, Nathan Clifford; architects; architecture; education; University of Illinois

79

4

Winter 1986

267-274

The Lincoln handbill of 1837 : a rare document's history

Schwartz, Thomas F.

Lincoln, Abraham; Adams, James; land; speculation; ownership; forgery; fraud

80

1

Spring 1987

2-12

Richard J. Oglesby, Lincoln's rail-splitter

Plummer, Mark A.

Oglesby, Richard J.; Lincoln, Abraham; political conventions; nomination; slogans; governor; Civil War; general; Illinois; Haymarket Affair

80

1

Spring 1987

13-22

"This bleak situation" : the founding of Fort Sheridan, Illinois

Smith, Nina B.

Fort Sheridan, Ill.; United States Army; post; Commercial Club of Chicago; Haymarket Affair; Lyster, John; Holabird, Samuel Beckley; Holabird, William; Holabird & Roche

80

1

Spring 1987

23-36

Confederate caricatures of Abraham Lincoln

Holzer, Harold

Lincoln, Abraham; caricatures; Confederates; Volck, Adalbert

80

1

Spring 1987

37-46

Black migration to Pulaski County, Illinois 1860-1900

Carlson, Shirley J.

African Americans; migration; Pulaski County, Ill.

80

2

Summer 1987

66-84

James Semple, prairie entrepreneur

Burton, William L.

Semple, James; land; speculation; Tamarawa, Ill.; politics; steam power; prairie car; railroads; Illinois; Elsah, Ill.

80

2

Summer 1987

85-100

George Wolfe and the "Far Western Brethren"

Eller, David B.

Wolfe, George; Brethren; Far Western Brethren; Illinois; Universalism

80

2

Summer 1987

101-110

Ferdinand Ernst and the German colony at Vandalia

Stroble, Paul E., Jr.

Ernst, Ferdinand; Germans; immigration; Vandalia, Ill.

80

3

Autumn 1987

130-146

Ellen Van Volkenburg, Maurice Browne and the Chicago Little Theatre

Tingley, Donald F.

Van Volkenburg, Ellen; Browne, Maurice; theater; Chicago; Chicago Little Theatre

80

3

Autumn 1987

147-154

The 1730 Siege of the Foxes : two maps by Canadian participants provide additional information on the fort and its location

Peyser, Joseph L.

Fox Indians; French Canadians; siege; fort; location; maps; Illinois

80

3

Autumn 1987

155-176

Her own boss : businesswomen and separate spheres in the Midwest, 1850-1880

Murphy, Lucy Eldersveld

women; self-employed; business; merchants; artisans; professionals; hotelkeepers; Midwest; Illinois

80

3

Autumn 1987

177-188

John Jones : a study of a black Chicagoan

Gliozzo, Charles A.

Jones, John; African Americans; Illinois; Black Laws; repeal; Chicago

80

4

Winter 1987

210-227

Illinois and the four Progressive-era amendments to the United States Constitution

Buenker, John D.

United States; Constitution; Sixteenth Amendment; income tax; Seventeenth Amendment; senators; election; Eighteenth Amendment; Prohibition; Nineteenth Amendment; women; suffrage; Illinois

80

4

Winter 1987

228-247

Popular sovereignty and constitutional change in the United States and Illinois constitutions

Cornelius, Janet

United States; Illinois; Constitution; constitutional conventions; revision

80

4

Winter 1987

248-269

Slavery, the "more perfect union," and the Prairie State

Finkelman, Paul

Illinois; African Americans; slavery; fugitive slaves; interstate transit; migration; kidnapping; Black Laws; legislation; courts

81

1

Spring 1988

2-12

A reinterpretation of black strategies for change at the Chicago World's Fair, 1933-1934

Reed, Christopher Robert

Century of Progress; African Americans; exhibits; employment; discrimination; civil rights

81

1

Spring 1988

13-24

The Northwest Ordinance : a bicentennial souvenir

Sutton, Robert M.

Northwest Ordinance; Northwest Territory; government, statehood; civil rights; slavery; Ordinance of 1784; Jefferson, Thomas

81

1

Spring 1988

25-34

Reports of a downstate independent : excerpts from the letters of Lewis Omer to Allan Nevins, 1930-1953

Hufft, Jane Wolf, ed.;

Loftis, Anne Nevins, ed.

Omer, Lewis; letters; Nevins, Allan; Carthage, Ill.; Depression; agriculture; politics; New Deal; World War II

81

1

Spring 1988

35-44

Forgotten soldiers : the Confederate prisoners at Camp Butler, 1862-1863

Corlas Quinn, Camilla A.

Camp Butler, Ill.; Civil War; prison; Confederates; escape; pneumonia; smallpox; filth

81

1

Spring 1988

45-60

Adlai E. Stevenson, McCarthyism, and the FBI

O'Reilly, Kenneth

Stevenson, Adlai E.; Communists; McCarthy, Joseph R.; Hoover, J. Edgar; Federal Bureau of Investigation; Broyles, Paul; Illinois

81

2

Summer 1988

82-94

Eyeing the world with all delight : Helga Sandburg looks back at her family

Sandburg, Helga

Sandburg, Carl; Sandburg, Lilian Steichen; Sandburg, Helga; Sandburg, Margaret; Sandburg, Janet; authors; poetry; folk songs

81

2

Summer 1988

95-108

"The people in miniature" : the Illinois General Assembly, 1818-1848

Davis, Rodney O.

Illinois General Assembly; representatives; legislation; committees; constitutional convention; Illinois

81

2

Summer 1988

109-124

The economic transformation of carpentry in late-nineteenth-century Chicago

Suhrbur, Thomas J.

carpenters; unions; contractors; journeymen; factories; piecework; Chicago

81

2

Summer 1988

125-140

The American coal mining novel : a century of development

Booth, Stephane Elise

coal mining; coal miners; novels; United States

81

3

Autumn 1988

162-180

From Ireland to Illinois : the life of Helen Ross Hall

Riley, Glenda

Hall, Helen Ross; Hall, Samuel; Irish; immigration; Bloomington, Ill.

81

3

Autumn 1988

181-190

A newcomer observes the climax of the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas campaign

Plummer, Mark A., ed.;

Maher, Michael, ed.

Davis, William Osborne; Lincoln, Abraham; Douglas, Stephen A.; Fell, Jesse W.; elections; Senate; 1858; Illinois

81

3

Autumn 1988

191-210

Ruth Hanna McCormick and the senatorial election of 1930

Miller, Kristie

McCormick, Ruth Hanna; elections; Senate; gender; Republican Party; 1930; Prohibition; unemployment; campaign; expenditures

81

3

Autumn 1988

211-220

Charles S. Johnson and the Chicago Commission on Race Relations

Pearson, Ralph L.

Johnson, Charles S.; riots; Chicago; 1919; race relations; research; Chicago Commission on Race Relations; Taylor, Graham

81

4

Winter 1988

242-254

Putting America in the driver's seat : the Deere-Clark motor car

Stegh, Leslie J.

automobiles; Deere automobiles; Deere-Clark Motor Car Company; bankruptcy

81

4

Winter 1988

255-268

Charles G. Radbourne : the greatest pitcher of the nineteenth century

Holst, David L.

Radbourne, Charles G.; baseball; pitchers; Providence Grays; Boston; National League; Players League

81

4

Winter 1988

269-282

Ulysses S. Grant and the failure of reconciliation

Simpson, Brooks D.

Grant, Ulysses S.; South; reconciliation; Reconstruction; African Americans; whites

81

4

Winter 1988

283-292

The eloquence of W. Willard Wertz

Egan, Gerald F.

Wirtz, W. Willard; speeches; writing; delivery; Secretary of Labor

82

1

Spring 1989

2-16

"A Samaritan had passed by" : George Miller -- Mormon bishop, trailblazer and Brigham Young antagonist

Bennett, Richard E.

Miller, George; Young, Brigham; Smith, Joseph; Wight, Lyman; Strang, James J.; Mormons; Nauvoo, Ill.; migration

82

1

Spring 1989

17-32

Chicago press treatment of the gangster, 1924-1931

McDonough, Daniel

Chicago; gangsters; politicians; police; Prohibition; newspapers; O'Banion, Dion; McGurn, Jack; Capone, Al; McSwiggin, William H.; Moran, Bugs; Russell, William F.; Thompson, William Hale; St. Valentine's Day Massacre; Lingle, Jake

82

1

Spring 1989

33-46

Edward Coles and the constitutional crisis in Illinois, 1822-1824

Sutton, Robert M.

Coles, Edward; governor; slavery; Northwest Ordinance; constitutional convention; Illinois

82

1

Spring 1989

47-54

The pioneer squatter

McCluggage, Robert W.

Northwest Territory; backwoodsmen; pioneers; squatters; hunters

82

2

Summer 1989

74-92

A history of Camp Butler, 1861-1866

Peterson, William S.

Camp Butler, Ill.; Civil War; soldiers; recruits, training; discharge; Confederates; prison

82

2

Summer 1989

93-107

The rise of Jacksonian politics in Illinois

Leichtle, Kurt E.

Coles, Edward; Phillips, Joseph; Moore, James B.; Browne, Thomas C.; Edwards, Ninian; Sloo, Thomas, Jr.; governor; politics; political parties; elections; slavery; Illinois

82

2

Summer 1989

108-112

Private Albert Cashier as regarded by his/her comrades

Davis, Rodney O.

Cashier, Albert D. J.; Hodgers, Jennie; Civil War; soldiers; women

82

2

Summer 1989

113-126

Frank Lloyd Wright's Dana-Thomas House : its history, acquisition and preservation

Hallmark, Donald P.

Wright, Frank Lloyd; Dana-Thomas House; Springfield, Ill.; Dana, Susan Lawrence

82

3

Autumn 1989

147-166

"No, thank you. I've been to Dwight" : reflections on the Keeley cure for alcoholism

Morgan, H. Wayne

alcoholism; treatment; Keeley, Leslie E.; Leslie E. Keeley Company; Dwight, Ill.

82

3

Autumn 1989

167-176

Sounds of silence : an aspect of Lincoln's Whig years

Maidenbaum, Aryeh

Lincoln, Abraham; Mormons; abolitionism; Lovejoy, Elijah P.; lynching; Illinois

82

3

Autumn 1989

177-194

The American Years of Harold Sinclair

Bray, Robert

Sinclair, Harold A.; authors; novels; American Years; Journey Home; Bloomington, Ill.

82

3

Autumn 1989

195-200

Some thoughts on public history and social responsibility

Crouch, Tom D.

public history; museums; exhibits; National Museum of American History Japanese Americans; internment; World War II

82

4

Winter 1989

218-230

Gilded Age politician : Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois and his times

Schlup, Leonard

Stevenson, Adlai Ewing I; House of Representatives; United States Post Office; vice-president; Cleveland, Grover; Bryan, William Jennings; Democratic Party; Bloomington, Ill.

82

4

Winter 1989

231-238

Dear diary, 1886-1890 : Clara Lindbeck writes from Bishop Hill

Dowell, Cheryl Wexell

Lindbeck, Clara; diaries; Bishop Hill, Ill.; Olson, O. B.

82

4

Winter 1989

239-262

Discouragement, weariness, and war politics : desertions from Illinois regiments during the Civil War

Sterling, Bob

Civil War; regiments; Illinois; desertion; officers; draft

82

4

Winter 1989

263-270

"More pleasure in the pursuit than in the possession: : a brief history of the Henry Horner Lincoln Collection of the Illinois State Library

Schwartz, Thomas F.

Lincoln, Abraham; Horner, Henry; collections; Illinois State Library

83

1

Spring 1990

2-12

Thomas Bentley and the American Revolution in Illinois

Thompson, David G.

Bentley, Thomas; merchants; British; Americans; treason; Revolutionary War; Illinois

83

1

Spring 1990

13-30

The Chicago Catholic Charities, the Great Depression and public monies

Jones, Gene D. L.

Depression; relief; Cermak, Anton J; Ryerson, Edward L., Jr.; Emmerson, Louis L.; Horner, Henry; Council of Social Agencies of Chicago; Mundelein, George; Catholic Charities

83

1

Spring 1990

31-44

"My poor little Ninth" : the Ninth Illinois at Shiloh

Cozzens, Peter E.

Civil War; Battle of Shiloh; 9th Illinois Infantry

83

1

Spring 1990

45-49

The Springfield lyceums and Lincoln's 1838 speech

Schwartz, Thomas F.

Lincoln, Abraham; speeches; lyceums; Springfield, Ill.; Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield; 1838

83

2

Summer 1990

75-84

Dirksen and Douglas of Illinois : the pragmatist and the professor as contemporaries in the United States Senate

Schapsmeier, Edward L.

Dirksen, Everett M.; Douglas, Paul H.; Republican Party; Democratic Party; Senate; Illinois

83

2

Summer 1990

85-96

Constitutionalism and the Illinois community college system : a case of dissenting taxpayers, 1966-1968

Sherman, Richard G.

community colleges; taxation; bonds; Illinois; Carl Sandburg Community College

83

2

Summer 1990

97-108

Creating community in a midwestern village : fifty years of the Cobden Peach Festival

Adams, Jane

festivals; Cobden, Ill.; Cobden Lions Club; Cobden Peach Festival

83

2

Summer 1990

109-111

A new Mary Todd Lincoln photograph : a tour of the White Mountains in summer, 1863

Ostendorf, Lloyd

Lincoln, Mary Todd; White Mountains; photograph; 1863

83

2

Summer 1990

112-126

Lessons from the landscape : the stone arch bridges of Monroe County, Illinois

Sculle, Keith A.

bridges; stone arch; design; construction; Monroe County, Ill.

83

3

Autumn 1990

146-158

History, fantasy, memory : Ben Hecht and a Chicago hanging

Schmuhl, Robert

Hecht, Ben; authors; journalists; hanging; Redding, Grover Cleveland

83

3

Autumn 1990

159-172

The Chicago Defender in the progressive era

Stovall, Mary E.

Chicago Defender; African Americans; newspapers; progressivism; Abbott, Robert S.

83

3

Autumn 1990

173-186

The dry machine : the formation of the Anti-Saloon League of Illinois

Pegram, Thomas R.

Anti-Saloon League; liquor; regulation; local option; Prohibition; lobbying; Illinois

83

3

Autumn 1990

187-200

"Join hands and hearts with law and order" : the 1893 lynching of Samuel J. Bush and the response of Decatur's African American community

Cha-Jua, Sundiata Keita

lynching; vigilantism; racism; Bush, Samuel J., African Americans; 1893; Decatur, Ill.

83

3

Autumn 1990

201-204

Steamboat Elsie of Henry

Raffensperger, Helen Gould

Longman, Elsie; Longman, Hubby; steamboats; lighthouses; Longman's Landing; Henry, Ill.

83

4

Winter 1990

218-234

Edward F. Dunne : Illinois' most progressive governor

Morton, Richard Allen

governors; Illinois; mayors; Chicago; Dunne, Edward F. progressivism; initiative; referendum; women; suffrage

83

4

Winter 1990

235-246

The Prince of Wales in the United States : a harbinger of English opinion of the Civil War

Keiser, Thomas

Edward VII; tour; United States; 1860; newspapers; reporting; England; Civil War

83

4

Winter 1990

247-258

A Federalist on the frontier : General Thomas Posey

Posey, John Thornton

Posey, Thomas; Revolutionary War; governor; Indiana Territory; Wea Indians; Kickapoo Indians

83

4

Winter 1990

259-264

Grief, souvenirs, and enterprise following Lincoln's assassination

Schwartz, Thomas F.

Lincoln, Abraham; assassination; letters; memorabilia

84

1

Spring 1991

2-14

Around the world in a day : international participation in the World's Columbian Exposition

Sandweiss, Eric

World's Columbian Exposition; exhibits; pavilions; design; France; Spain; Germany; Great Britain; Japan; Midway Plaisance

84

1

Spring 1991

15-24

The Bulgarian colony of southwestern Illinois, 1900-1920

Cassens, David E.

Bulgarians; immigration; culture; Bulgarian Orthodox Church; World War I; Illinois; Granite City, Ill.; Madison, Ill.; Venice, Ill.

84

1

Spring 1991

25-38

Community dynamics and educational decisions : establishing public schools in Belleville and Galesburg

Carr, Kay J.

public schools; Belleville, Ill.; Galesburg, Ill.; Knox College

84

1

Spring 1991

39-54

Ulysses S. Grant and Benjamin Butler in the Appomattox campaign

Westwood, Howard C.

Civil War; Grant, Ulysses S.; Butler, Benjamin F.; Appomattox

84

2

Summer 1991

75-100

Forgotten hero : Philip Sidney Post

Cozzens, Peter

Post, Philip Sidney; Galesburg, Ill.;  Civil War; 9th Missouri Infantry; 59th Illinois Infantry; consul; Vienna; Republican Party; House of Representatives

84

2

Summer 1991

101-118

Reactions against the Vietnam War and military-related targets on campus : the University of Illinois as a case study, 1965-1972

Kennedy, Patrick D.

Vietnam War; students; activism; civil disobedience; University of Illinois, Urbana

84

2

Summer 1991

119-124

"About new powder" : an unpublished Lincoln note

Schwartz, Thomas F.

Lincoln, Abraham; Civil War; gunpowder; Diller, Isaac R.; Dahlgren, John A.

84

3

Autumn 1991

146-160

Marie Rouensa-8cate8a and the foundations of French Illinois

Ekberg, Carl J.

Rouensa, Marie; Kaskaskia Indians; Kaskaskia, Ill.; French; Catholics; missionaries; conversion; will; estate; inventory; Gravier, Jacques; Accault, Michel; Philippe, Michel

84

3

Autumn 1991

161-172

Plucking the apple without rooting up the tree : environmental concern in the production of Prairie State petroleum

Miller, Keith L.

petroleum; production; conservation; environment; law; regulation; Illinois

84

3

Autumn 1991

173-176

The actor from Jacksonville views the outlaw from Missouri : Sol Smith Russell reports on the surrender of Frank James

Saum, Lewis O.

Russell, Sol Smith; James, Frank; actors; outlaws

84

3

Autumn 1991

177-193

Paris newspapers and the American Civil War

Blackburn, George M.

Civil War; France; newspapers; democracy; slavery; Napoleon III

84

4

Winter 1991

218-234

The murder of Zura Burns, 1883 : a case study of a homicide in Lincoln

Smith, Beverly A.

Burns, Zura; murder; Carpenter, Orrin A.; trial; courts; convictions; Lincoln, Ill.

84

4

Winter 1991

235-248

Chicagoua/Chicago : the origin, meaning and etymology of a place name

Swenson, John F.

Chicago; etymology; chicagoua; wild leek; wild garlic; wild onion; Joutel, Henri

84

4

Winter 1991

249-267

The business of a midwestern trial court : Knox County, Illinois, 1841-1850

Wilson, Terry

courts; common law; appellate; criminal; chancery; Knox County, Ill.; Knox County Circuit Court

84

4

Winter 1991

268-272

"The conservative" : a Civil War soldier's musical condemnation of Illinois copperheads

Noe, Kenneth W.

Civil War; songs; lyrics; Copperheads; Charington, Aden E.

85

1

Spring 1992

2-22

Suppression of dissent : academic freedom at the University of Illinois during the World War I era

Tap, Bruce

University of Illinois; World War I; faculty; dissent; patriotism; research; academic freedom

85

1

Spring 1992

23-36

The Fulton County war at home and in the field

Anderson, William M.

Civil War; public opinion; soldiers; draft; desertion; Fulton County, Ill.

85

1

Spring 1992

37-46

Monuments to their skill : Urbana-Champaign carpenters, contractors and builders, 1850-1900

White, Allison Carll

Champaign, Ill.; Urbana, Ill.; carpenters; contractors, builders

85

2

Summer 1992

74-88

"Honest men and law-abiding citizens" : the 1894 railroad strike in Decatur

Sampson, Robert D.

railroads; labor; Pullman strike; Decatur, Ill.; Wabash Railroad; American Railway Union; Perl, Peter; Ballard, William

85

2

Summer 1992

89-104

Aspiration and reality : occupational and educational choice among Filipino migrants to Chicago, 1900-1935

Posadas, Barbara M.; Guyotte, Roland L.

Filipinos; immigration; education; employment; Chicago

85

2

Summer 1992

105-118

Serving under seven presidents : Les Arends and his forty years in Congress

Schapsmeier, Edward L.; Schapsmeier, Frederick H.

Arends, Leslie; Illinois; Republicans; whip; House of Representatives

85

3

Autumn 1992

143-160

"Blood in the moon" : the war for the seat of Edwards County, 1821-1824

Wood, Thomas J.

Edwards County, Ill.; county seat; English; Americans; Albion, Ill.; Palmyra, Ill.; Wabash County, Ill.; Mount Carmel, Ill.

85

3

Autumn 1992

161-174

Reticent Germans : the East Frisians of Illinois

Frizzell, Robert W.

East Frisians; Germans; immigration; Illinois

85

4

Winter 1992

194-208

To hold the prize : the county seat war in Du Page County, 1867-1872

Buck, Stephen J.

Du Page County, Ill.; government; county seat; Naperville, Ill.; Wheaton, Ill.

85

4

Winter 1992

209-220

"I have labored hard to find the law" : Abraham Lincoln for the Alton and Sangamon Railroad

Beard, William D.

railroads; stock; sales; payment; breach of contract; Alton and Sangamon Railroad Company; Lincoln, Abraham; Barret, James A.

85

4

Winter 1992

221-238

Recipe for violence : war attitudes, the Black Hundred riot, and superpatriotism in an Illinois coalfield, 1917-1918

Dechenne, David

World War I; dissent; patriotism; coal miners; German Americans; Industrial Workers of the World; Socialist Party of America; United Mine Workers of America; Macoupin County, Illinois; Montgomery County, Illinois; Oberdan, Severino; Metzen, John; Donaldson, Clifford; Prager, Robert Paul

86

1

Spring 1993

2-14

Should we drink the water? : typhoid fever worries at the World's Columbian Exposition

McCarthy, Michael P.

typhoid fever; water; pollution; filtration; Chicago; Waukesha, Wis.; pipeline; World's Columbian Exposition

86

1

Spring 1993

15-26

The Chicago Metropolitan Mutual Assurance Company : a profile of a black-owned enterprise

Weems, Robert E., Jr.

insurance; African Americans; Chicago;  Metropolitan Mutual Assurance Company of Chicago; Chicago Metropolitan Mutual Assurance Company; Metropolitan Funeral System Association; Jackson, Daniel McKee; Cole, Robert Alexander

86

1

Spring 1993

27-40

A new version of the founding of the Chicago Daily News

Digby-Junger, Richard

Chicago Daily News; newspapers; investors; Chicago; Stone, Melville E.; Meggy, Percy R.; Lloyd, Henry Demarest; Bross, William; Lawson, Victor Fremont

86

2

Summer 1993

71-84

Hamlet in New York : Adlai Stevenson during the first week of the Cuban missile crisis

White, Mark J.

Stevenson, Adlai E.; Cuban missile crisis; United Nations; Kennedy, John F.; Kennedy, Robert; Saturday Evening Post; Alsop, Stewart; Bartlett, Charles

86

2

Summer 1993

85-92

Heurtley to Bluemner : early impressions of Frank Lloyd Wright

Kruty, Paul

Wright, Frank Lloyd; architecture; clients; Heurtley, Arthur; Bluemner, Oscar; Oak Park, Ill.

86

2

Summer 1993

93-118

The prohibitionists' Lincolns

Hamm, Richard F.

Lincoln, Abraham; alcohol; temperance; Prohibition; Merwin, James B.; Prohibition Party

86

3

Autumn 1993

146-158

"His own fault" : Rev. Charles H. Ellis of Bloomington sermonizes on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Chesebrough, David B.

Lincoln, Abraham; assassination; Ellis, Charles H.; slavery; abolitionism; Civil War

86

3

Autumn 1993

159-180

Changing images at Shimer College : from rural home to collegiate quadrangle

Crankshaw, Ned

Shimer College; Mount Carroll Seminary; Frances Shimer Academy of the University of Chicago; Shimer, Frances Ann Wood; architecture; landscapes

86

4

Winter 1993

210-224

The Fox raid of 1752 : defensive warfare and the decline of the Illinois Indian tribe

Hauser, Raymond E.

Fox Indians; Illinois Indians; raids; fortifications; French; Macarty Mactigue, Jean Jacques

86

4

Winter 1993

225-244

The Yalta conference and its impact on the Chicago congressional elections of 1946

Ubriaco, Robert D., Jr.

Yalta Conference; Congress; elections; 1946; Chicago; Polish Americans

86

4

Winter 1993

245-256

Soldiers on our streets : the effects of a Civil War military camp on the Springfield community

Quinn, Camilla A.

Camp Butler, Ill; soldiers; training; prisoners; Confederates; Springfield, Ill.

87

1

Spring 1994

2-20

"A contest in which blood must flow like water" : Du Page County and the Civil War

Buck, Stephen J.

Civil War; soldiers; recruitment; age; ethnicity; families; welfare; Du Page County, Ill.

87

1

Spring 1994

21-40

The ironies of partyism and antipartyism : origins of partisan political culture in Jacksonian Illinois

Leonard, Gerald

political parties; political conventions; elections; democracy; aristocracy; partisanship; Van Buren, Martin; Jackson, Andrew; Harrison, William Henry; Duncan, Joseph; Illinois

87

1

Spring 1994

41-50

The Espionage and Sedition Acts of 1917 and 1918 : sectional interpretations in the United States District Courts of Illinois

Burton, Shirley J.

freedom of speech; World War I; Espionage Act; Sedition Act; district courts; enforcement; Illinois

87

2

Summer 1994

74-94

Pushing every button, pulling every string : the University of Illinois, the 1895 legislature, and the struggle over appropriations

Franch, John

University of Illinois; Draper, Andrew Sloan; Altgeld, John Peter; Meyer, John; Dunlap, Henry Mathias; appropriations; Illinois State Legislature; 1895; Illinois

87

2

Summer 1994

95-108

Aiding and abetting : disloyalty prosecutions in the federal civil courts of southern Illinois, 1861-1866

Blake, Kellee Green

Civil War; Southern Illinois; federal courts; disloyalty; treason; confiscation; Treat, Samuel Hubbel

87

2

Summer 1994

109-130

Stephen A. Douglas, the Know-Nothings and the Democratic party in Illinois, 1854-1858

Hansen, Stephen;

Nygard, Paul

Douglas, Stephen A.; Know-Nothing Party; Democratic Party; nativism; slavery; Illinois

87

3

Autumn 1994

151-170

The early career of Robert Kennicott, Illinois' pioneering naturalist

Vasile, Ronald S.

Kennicott, Robert; naturalists; natural history; exploration; Kennicott, John A.; Chicago Academy of Sciences; The Grove

87

3

Autumn 1994

171-184

"Vote for the advantage of ourselves and our race" : the election of the first black alderman in Chicago

Hendricks, Wanda A.

DePriest, Oscar Stanton; alderman; Chicago; 2nd Ward; election; African Americans; women; Alpha Suffrage Club; Wright, Edward H.; Cowan, William Randolph; Wells-Barnett, Ida B.; Republican Party; Chicago

87

3

Autumn 1994

185-232

A bibliography of Illinois Civil War regimental sources in the Illinois State Historical Library : Part I, published and printed sources

Tubbs, William B., compiler

Illinois State Historical Library; regiments; Civil War; bibliography

87

4

Winter 1994

242-258

"The town that Billy Sunday could not shut down" : Prohibition and Sunday's Chicago crusade of 1918

Fea, John

Sunday, Billy; Prohibition; local option; referendum; revivals; Chicago; 1918

87

4

Winter 1994

259-276

"Our great opportunity" : organized women advance women's work at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893

Gullett, Gayle B.

women; employment; homemaking; volunteerism; activism; African Americans; World's Columbian Exposition; Women's Building; Queen Isabella Association; Women's Auxiliary; Board of Lady Managers; Congress of Representative Women; World's Congress Auxiliary; Palmer, Bertha Honore; Sewall, May Eliza Wright; Henrotin, Ellen Martin; Wells-Barnett, Ida B.

87

4

Winter 1994

277-324

A bibliography of Illinois Civil War regimental sources in the Illinois State Historical Library : Part II, manuscripts

Tubbs, William B., compiler

Illinois State Historical Library; regiments; Civil War; bibliography; manuscripts

88

1

Spring 1995

2-18

A new frontier in the Chicago suburbs : settling Fermilab, 1963-1972

Kolb, Adrienne;

Hoddeson, Lillian

Fermilab; particle accelerators; public support; imagery; United States; frontier; individualism; Weston, Illinois; Wilson, Robert

88

1

Spring 1995

19-36

African Americans and the World's Columbian Exposition

Paddon, Anna R.;

Turner, Sally

World's Columbian Exposition; African Americans; Africans;  exhibits; speakers; Woman's Columbian Association; Woman's Columbian Auxiliary Association; Board of Lady Managers; Wells-Barnett, Ida B.; Douglass, Frederick; Trent, Lettie A.; Palmer, Bertha Honore

88

1

Spring 1995

37-58

Chicago settlement women in fact and fiction : Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor, Clara Elizabeth Laughlin, and Elia Wilkinson Peattie portray the new woman

Raftery, Judith

settlement houses; novels; women; Chicago; United States; Chatfield-Taylor, Hobart Chatfield; Laughlin, Clara Elizabeth; Peattie, Elia Wilkinson; Two Women and a Fool; Just Folks; The Precipice

88

2

Summer 1995

79-100

The demolition of the Garrick Theater and the birth of the preservation movement in Chicago

Held, Theodore W.

Garrick Theater; Chicago; demolition; historic preservation; Sullivan, Louis; Nickel, Richard Stanley; Balaban and Katz; Commission on Chicago Architectural Landmarks; Chicago Heritage Committee; Public Building Commission

88

2

Summer 1995

101-116

Agriculture, mentalites, and violence on the Illinois frontier

Ekberg, Carl J.

open field agriculture; villages; French Creoles; Anglo-Americans; cooperation; individualism; violence; Illinois

88

2

Summer 1995

117-134

Prairie politician : William Andrew Jackson Sparks and the politics of honor during the Gilded Age

Schlup, Leonard

Sparks, William Andrew Jackson; Illinois; Democratic Party; House of Representatives; General Land Office

88

3

Autumn 1995

154-172

Merchants as models : the Merchandise Mart Hall of Fame and changing values in postwar Chicago

Garvey, Timothy J.

Merchandise Mart; merchandising; success; Chicago; Merchants of America Hall of Fame; Kennedy, Joseph P.

88

3

Autumn 1995

173-188

Hayseed immigration policy : "Uncle Joe" Cannon and the immigration question

Zeidel, Robert F.

immigration; legislation; literacy test; House of Representatives; Cannon, Joseph Gurney

88

3

Autumn 1995

189-202

"The lady candidate" : Ruth Hanna McCormick and the senatorial election of 1930

Strickland, Arvarh E.

McCormick, Ruth Hanna; Illinois; election; Senate; 1930; gender; Prohibition; unemployment

88

4

Winter 1995

222-240

Illinois farmers in revolt : the Corn Belt Liberty League

Sommer, Lynnita Aldridge

Corn Belt Liberty League; New Deal; agriculture; crop surpluses; quotas; legislation; Agricultural Adjustment Act; farmers; Illinois

88

4

Winter 1995

241-262

"With ... candour and good faith" : Nathaniel Pope and the Admission Act of 1858

Edstrom, James A.

Pope, Nathaniel; Cook, Daniel Pope; Illinois; statehood; boundary; legislation; House of Representatives; Senate

88

4

Winter 1995

263-278

Chicago's Irish Americans and the candidacies of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932-1944

Kennedy, Patrick D.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.; elections; Irish Americans; Chicago; Democratic Party; Kelly, Edward J.; Nash, Patrick

89

1

Spring 1996

3-16

Adlai Stevenson, television, and the presidential campaign of 1956

Slaybaugh, Douglas

Stevenson, Adlai E.; presidency; election; 1956; television; image; speeches

89

1

Spring 1996

17-34

Ten million acres for the insane : the forgotten collaboration of Dorothea L. Dix and William H. Bissell

Lightner, David L.

Dix, Dorothea L.; Bissell, William H.; mental illness; hospitals; funding; land grants; prisons; United States; Illinois; Alton, Ill.; Joliet, Ill.

89

1

Spring 1996

35-50

Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed : attorney and client

Krause, Susan

Lincoln, Abraham; Speed, Joshua Fry; lawyer; client; cases; partnerships; debts; collection; James Bell & Company

89

2

Summer 1996

70-84

Migration and separation : divorce in Kane County, 1837-1869

Looney, Rebecca

divorce; separation; migration; Kane County, Ill;. Kane County Circuit Court

89

2

Summer 1996

85-98

Policing in Mormon Nauvoo

Allaman, John Lee

Mormons; Nauvoo, Ill.; police; Smith, Joseph; Bennett, John Cook; Dunham, Jonathan H.; Nauvoo Legion

89

2

Summer 1996

99-116

"Pretty damned warm times" : the 1864 Charleston Riot and "the inalienable right of revolution"

Sampson, Robert D.

Charleston, Ill.; Mattoon, Ill.; riots; Civil War; Democrats; Copperheads; loyalty; free speech

89

3

Autumn 1996

134-146

"In view of the uncertainty of life" : a Coles County lynching

Lupton, John A.

Monroe, Adolphus; Ellington, Nathan; lynching; Coles County, Ill.; Charleston, Ill.

89

3

Autumn 1996

147-160

Andrew Borders v. William Hayes : indentured servitude and the Underground Railroad in Illinois

Pirtle, Carol

Borders, Andrew; Hayes, William; slavery; indentured servitude; Underground Railroad; Illinois; Randolph County, Ill.

89

3

Autumn 1996

161-174

"We broadcast better music" : WBBM goes on the air in Lincoln, Illinois

Tubbs, William B.

Atlass, H. Leslie; radio stations; WBBM; Lincoln, Ill.; Chicago

89

4

Winter 1996

198-212

"I want to thank you for the confidence placed in me" : Horace Duncan and the construction of the St. Bede Abbey round barn

Price, H. Wayne; Sculle, Keith A.

barns; round; Duncan, Horace; Huber, Rev. Vincent; St. Bede Abbey. Peru, Ill. contract; suppliers; payment

89

4

Winter 1996

213-232

Abolitionists and escaped slaves in Jacksonville : Samuel Willard's "My first adventure with a fugitive slave : The story of it and how it failed"

Willard, Samuel; Steiner, Mark E., ed.

Jacksonville, Ill.; slavery; fugitive slaves; abolitionism; Underground Railroad; Willard, Samuel; Willard, Julius A.; Green, Judy

89

4

Winter 1996

233-246

The movement for compulsory health insurance in Illinois, 1912-1920

Bennett, Michael T.

health insurance; compulsory; Illinois; Illinois Committee on Social Education; Illinois Association for Labor Legislation; Illinois Health Insurance Commission; Illinois Federation of Labor; Lowden, Frank

90

1

Spring 1997

2-24

Did the cow do it? : a new look at the cause of the great Chicago Fire

Bales, Richard F.

Chicago Fire; causes; fire alarms; cow; O'Leary, Catherine; O'Leary, Patrick; Sullivan, Daniel; Regan, Dennis

90

1

Spring 1997

25-46

The Grayville waterworks war

Alcorn, Michael

Grayville, Ill.; waterworks; electricity; Prohibition; saloons; Gray, William Walden; Gray, Will

90

1

Spring 1997

47-64

Forerunners for a domestic revolution : Jane Addams, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and the ideology of childhood, 1900-1916

Grimm, Robert Thornton, Jr.

Addams, Jane; Gilman, Charlotte Perkins; childhood; gender; child labor; women; suffrage; education

90

2

Summer 1997

82-96

"Not following in the groove" : Lowney Handy, James Jones and the Handy Colony for writers

Wood, Thomas J.

Handy, Lowney Turner; Jones, James; Handy Colony; writers; Marshall, Ill.

90

2

Summer 1997

97-132

A bibliography of dissertations related to Illinois history, 1977-1995

Tubbs, William B., compiler

Illinois; history; dissertations; bibliography

90

3

Autumn 1997

154-172

A new look at the beginning of the Illinois Architects Licensing Law

Kruty, Paul

architects; licenses; examinations; law; Illinois; Adler, Dankmar; Wright, Frank Lloyd

90

3

Autumn 1997

173-190

The people vs. Nicholas P. Earp

Urban, William

Earp, Nicholas Potter; Monmouth, Ill.; Monmouth College; law enforcement; Prohibition; Earp, Walter, Sr.; Earp, Walter C.; Earp, Francis; Earp, Wyatt

90

3

Autumn 1997

191-210

James R. Mann : the Illinois years

Margulies, Herbert F.

Mann, James R.; Hyde Park; Chicago; City Council; corruption; reform; Republican Party; House of Representatives; Mann Act; Mann-Elkins Act; Pure Food and Drug Act

90

4

Winter 1997

226-244

Whirlwinds of change : the transformation of Illinois State Normal University, 1956-1971

Clark, Daniel A.

Illinois State University; Illinois State Normal University; teachers colleges; universities; research; students; faculty; unrest

90

4

Winter 1997

245-264

Ninian Edwards's republican dilemma

Simeone, James

Edwards, Ninian; Illinois; Illinois Territory; popularity; republicanism; politics

90

4

Winter 1997

265-284

The African American struggle for equality and justice in Cairo, Illinois, 1865-1900

Hays, Christopher K.

Cairo, Ill.; African Americans; laborers; strikes; domestic servants; suffrage; civil rights; political parties; education; segregation