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Livingston County, Illinois

An Up-To-Date Historical Narrative with County and
Township Maps and Many Unique Aerial Photo-
graphs of Cities, Towns, Villages and Farmsteads

By
JOHN DRURY

Author O/d Illinois Houses, Historic Midwesf Houses,

Midwest Heritage, etc., and member of American

Association for State and Local History

1955

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This is the twenty-ninth of a series of new-style county histdries which will
include all of the 102 counties of Illinois, and, ultimately, all of the 3,103 counties
of the United States. The project, specializing in low-altitude aerial photographs
of cities, towns, villages and farmsteads and with brief historicalnarratives added,
is known as The American Aerial County History Series. For a list of already-
published volumes in Illinois, see back of title page of this book. Each of the
volumes is being written by John Drury, author of Old Illinois Houses, Historic
Miduest Houses, Midwest Heritage, etc., and member of the American Association
for State and Local History and the Illinois State Historical Society.

In the preparation of this work on Livingston County, Illinois, the writer and
publisher hereby acknowledge their gratitude, for advice and assistance generously
given them, to Mr. Joseph C. Wolf and Mrs. Ellen Chase of the Newberry Library,
Chicago; to Mr. Herbert H. Hewitt, Mrs. Roberta Sutton and Miss Winifred Baum,
all of the Chicago Public Library, Chicago; and to various librarians, public offi-
cials, business executives and private citizens of the city of Pontiac and the
county of Livingston, Illinois. The author also wishes to express special acknowl-
edgments to his wife, Marion Neville Drury, for research, editorial and proof-reading
assistance.

Grateful appreciation is also shown here to officials of the Bureau of Public
Roads of the United States Department of Commerce and to officials of the Depart-
ment of Public Roads & Planning of the State of Illinois (in particular to those in
charge of that department's Bureau of Research and Planning in the Highway De-
partment), for permission to use the Livingston County maps included in this book.

Sources used by the author in preparing this volume were: The History of
Livingston County, Illinois, by O. F. Pearre, W. H. Perrin, H. H. Hill and A. A. Gra-
ham (published by Wm. Le Baron, Jr., & Company, Chicago, 1878); Inventory of the
County Archives of Illinois, No. 53, Livingston County (The Historical Records
Survey, Chicago, 1940); Illinois: A D escriptive and Historical Guide, The American
Guide Series (A. C. McClurg & Company, Chicago, 1939); County and City Data
Book, 1952 (United States Bureau of the Census, Washington, 1952); The Editor
and Publisher Market Guide for 1955 (The Editor and Publisher Company, New
York, 1955); and The Rand M cN ally Commercial Atlas for 7955 (Rand McNally
Company, 1955).

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

MAP OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY
STORY OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY
CITY OF PONTIAC

Amity Township (Cornell)

Avoca Township (McDowell, Lodemia )

Belle Prairie Township •

Brougbton Township (Emington, Campus)

Charlotte Township (Charlotte)

Chatsworth (Chatsworth, Cereal)

Dwight Township (Dwight)

Eppards Point Township (Ocoya)

Esmen Township (Rowe) .

Fayette Township (Strawn) .

Forrest Township (Forrest, Risk)

Germanville Township

Indian Grove Township (Fairbury)

Long Point Township (Long Point)

Nebraska Township (Flanagan)

Nevada Township (Sunbury, Nevada)

Newton Township (Manville, Missal, Smithdale)

Odell Township (Odell, Cayuga)

Owego Township (Swygert, Rugby)

Pike Township .

Pleasant Ridge Township (Wing)

Pontiac Township (Pontiac)

Reading Township (South Streator, Ancona, Reading, Munster)

Rooks Creek Township (Graymount)

Round Grove Township (Campus, Reddick, Cardiff, Bla3

Saunemin Township (Saunemin, Eyler, Scovel'

Sullivan Township (Cullom, Griswold)

Sunbury Township (Blackstone, Budd)

Union Township (Emington, Loretto) »

Waldo Township (Waldo)

STORY OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY

STORY OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY, ILLINOIS

If Livingston County has long been the locale of famed reform institutions,
among the more prominent of which are the Pontiac branch of the Illinois state
penitentiary, the State Reformatory for Women and the Keeley Institute (for the
treatment of alcoholism), yet it must not be forgotten that the county is today, and
has been for many years past, one of the leading agricultural localities of the
Prairie State. Situated in the northeast quarter of Illinois and now the state's
fourth largest county, Livingston produced farm products (crops, livestock, poul-
try, dairy products) amounting to $31,522,000 in 1949 (when such figures were last
obtained by the federal census), whereas about the same time its manufactured
articles, goods and materials amounted to only $3,573,000. At the same period,
32.5 per cent of its total employed persons were engaged in agriculture, while
13.5 per cent were engaged in manufacturing.

In addition to being the site of the world-famous institution founded by Dr.
Leslie E. Keeley, originator of a cure for alcoholic, drug and cigarette habits,
Livingston County is the place where another noted reformer. Dr. Francis E. Town-
send, first saw the light of day, his birthplace having been a few miles from the
city of Fairbury. But Livingston County has produced men of note in other fields,
too, one such being Frank L. Smith, an outstanding leader of the Republican party
in Illinois and for many years chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission.

Referring back to Livingston's historic past, first settlers of the county wit-
nessed in their midst some of the Indian missionary work of the Reverend Jesse
Walker, pioneer minister known in Illinois annals as the "Daniel Boone of Metho-
dism." Another Illinois historical personage associated with Livingston County
is Jesse W. Fell, early land developer, founder of towns, friend of Lincoln's and
great-grandfather of AdIai E. Stevenson II, candidate for President of the United
States in 1952. Although not a resident of the county, Jesse Fell pioneered in the
development of the county's seat of justice and principal city, Pontiac.

And some local historians tell us that both Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A.
Douglas often appeared in Pontiac in connection with legal cases. Of interest,
too, is the fact that a future king of England, Edward VII, once went hunting on
the prairies of Livingston County, holding at that time the title of Prince of Wales.
Still another historical personage associated with the county is Octave Chanute,
pioneer in American aviation. He was one of the founders of the present city of
Fairbury.

INDIAN OCCUPATION

When the first American settlers came to the prairie region that now is Liv-

ingston County, they found it occupied by several villages of the Kickapoo tribe
of Indians. This tribe, joined at an earlier date by the Pottawatomies, had replaced
in the krea the large and widely-scattered Illini tribe, from which the name "Illi-
nois" is derived. After the Pottawatomies left the Livingston County area and
moved to the Fox River countryside, the Kickapoos settled down in the region of
the present county and pursued a quiet, peaceful life, fishing on the Vermilion
River, hunting in the woods, cultivating corn, beans, potatoes and tobacco on the
rich prairie soil.

It was about 1830 when the Kickapoos built a large council house just south
of the present town of Chatsworth, in the southeast corner of the county. Soon a
village of wigwams grew up about the council house and in time it came to be
known as Kickapoo Grove. In its prime, the village contained more than 600 men,
women and children of the Kickapoo tribe. This village was still in existence when
Martin Darnell, one of the county's early settlers, arrived in the vicinity.

FATHER WALKER'S MISSION

Darnell, as well as other early settlers, found the Kickapoos a peaceful,
friendly people, inclined to keep to themselves. A pioneer character who came
among the Indians of Kickapoo Grove was the Reverend Jesse Walker, familiarly
known on the frontier as "Father" Walker. An itinerant preacher of the Methodist
faith, Father Walker established a mission at the Livingston County village'of
Kickapoos, ordaining one of their number as a resident minister. For a prayer book.
Father Walker used a board on which he traced symbols or characters understand-
able to the Indians. After preaching among the Indians of northern Illinois for many
years, the Reverend Mr. Walker died at Des Plaines in 1835-

BLACK HAWK WAR

With the outbreak of the Black Hawk War in 1832, what few settlers were
living in the area of future Livingston County became apprehensive as to the atti-
tude of the Indians at Kickapoo Grove; would they join Chief Black Hawk or not?
A delegation of settlers was quickly formed, headed by Franklin Oliver, and a visit
was made to the camp of the Kickapoos. Among other early residents in the dele-
gation were Martin Darnell, William Popejoy, Abner Johnson, Uriah Blue, Isaac
Jordon, John Hanneman and William McDowell and his five sons.

When the whites arrived at the Kickapoo council house, they were courteously
received by the Indian chiefs and told they would not be harmed. The Kickapoos,
they were told further, had refused to join Black Hawk in his war against the
whites; they would remain peaceful. Despite this assurance, however, members of
the delegation were still doubtful. On leaving the Indians at Kickapoo Grove, they
held a meeting in the log cabin home of William McDowell, in what is now Avoca
Township, and decided to gather up their families and return to Indiana, the state
from which most of them came.

Thus it was tha^ seven families of the Avoca settlement, numbering about
thirty persons, departed from the Vermilion River area in ox-drawn wagons and
slowly, made their way back to Indiana. At the end of the Black Hawk war some
months later, however, they returned to their claims in future Livingston County.
With the war over, all Indian tribes, including the Kickapoos of the Vermilion River
countryside, were removed from Illinois and established on reservations west of
the Mississippi River. Thereafter, Illinois saw a great inrush of wh'ite settlers.

FIRST SETTLERS

As we have indicated, there were a few brave pioneers who ventured into the
Livingston County area while it was still occupied by Indians; while it, and all of
upper Illinois, was still claimed by Chief Black Hawk and some of his confeder-
ates. Recorded as the first white men to settle in what is now Livingston County
are Valentine M. Darnell, Frederick Rook and Isaac Jordan. All of them came with
their families in the fall of 1829 and settled in what later became Belle Prairie,
Avoca and Rooks Creek townships.

A year later, these first settlers were joined by Garret M. Blue and Andrew
McMillan, both of whom located on Rooks Creek, and by Jacob Moon, who built a
cabin for himself and family at what later became known as Moon's Point. All of
these earliest homeseekers experienced the hardships and privations of the Winter
of the Deep Snow, as the unforgettable winter of 1830-1831 is often called by Illi-
nois historians.

Then, in the early spring of 1832, which was just before the outbreak of the
Black Hawk War, there arrived in the region William McDowell with his five sons
and two daughters, and this family settled in present Avoca Township. About the
same time there came Franklin Oliver, William Popejoy and John Hanneman, all of
whom built cabins near the McDowell habitation on the Little Vermilion River.

After the Black Hawk War of 1832, an inrush of Easterners poured into north-
ern Illinois. Among those who came to the Livingston County area in 1833 were
Dr. John Davis (the county's first physician), Daniel Rockwood, Henry, E. F., and
James Weed, John Recob, John Johnson, the Murray family. Squire Hayes, John
Chew, Daniel Barackman, John Downey and Joseph Reynolds and his brothers.

ORGANIZATION OF COUNTY

As more and more settlers arrived and took up claims on either side of the
Vermilion River and along some of the area's creeks, a movement was started
looking to the formation of a new county. At that time the region now composing
Livingston County was partly in La Salle and partly in McLean counties. By the
end of 1836 it was felt there were enough citizens in the region to form a new
county.

Accordingly, a committee was formed to prepare a petition to the Illinois

state legislature calling for the creation of a new county. One member of this com-
mittee was Jesse Fell, who, although a resident of Bloomington in McLean Coun-
ty, felt that the settlers in the north portion of McLean were entitled to a county
of their own. After enough signatures were obtained on the petition, it was pre-
sented to the state legislature at Vandalia (then the state capital). There followed
the passage of an "Act to establish the County of Livingston." It was dated Feb-
ruary 27, 1837. The act was signed shortly afterwards by Governor Joseph Duncan.
At that time the new county had a population of 450 inhabitants.

EDWARD LIVINGSTON

It was at the suggestion of Jesse Fell that the new county was named after
Edward Livingston, celebrated American jurist, statesman and brother of Robert R.
Livingston, who also was a celebrated statesman. The last-named is best known
for his negotiation of the great Louisiana Purchase of 1803 — an acquisition em-
bracing almost all of the vast region west of the Mississippi River.

Member of an old, wealthy, distinguished New York family and a lawyer by
profession, Edward Livingston was elected mayor of New York city in 1803. Later
he moved to New Orleans and became a member of ithe Louisiana legislature. In
this capacity, he prepared a new code of criminal law which has since become
known in America and Europe as the "Livingston Code."

At a still later period he served as Secretaryof State in the cabinet of Presi-
dent Andrew Jackson. From 1833 to 1835 Livingston was minister plenipotentiary
to France. He died in New York state in 1836— one year before Livingston County,
in Illinois, was established.

FIRST COUNTY OFFICERS

When the legislative act creating Livingston County was passed on February
27, 1837, it called for a special election of county officers to be held on May 8,
1837, at the house of Andrew McMillan. At that time McMillan's "house" was a
log cabin near Rooks Creek, just west of the future site of Pontiac city.

Apparently the election was held as required by law, for on May 18, 1837, we
find the County Commissioners' Court (as the ruling body of a county was then
called) holding its first official session in the log cabin home of Andrew McMillan.
The county's first commissioners were Jonathan Moore, Daniel Rockwood and
Robert Breckenridge. They appointed Abram W. Beard as the county's first clerk,
and John Recob as the county's first treasurer. Joseph Reynolds was elected first
sheriff.

No record is available showing that a recorder, surveyor or coroner had been
selected at that first special election. But at the county's first regular election,
held August 29, 1838, we find that James S. Munson won the post of recorder; Isaac
Whitaker, that of surveyor; and Simeon Mead, that of coroner. At this election,

also, three new commissioners were elected to the County Court: Uriah Springer,
Albert Moon and William Popejoy.

FOUNDING OF PONTIAC

Another provision of the Livingston County enabling act was that three com-
missioners from outside the new county were to be appointed by the legislature to
select a suitable county seat. The three named for this purpose were James Piatt,
of Macon County; William B. Peck, of Will County; and Thompson S. Flint, of Taze-
well County.

The commissioners were ordered to meet "in the house of Andrew McMillan
on the first Monday of June next and proceed to select a proper site provided that
it shall be located on public land if a proper site on such land can be found." If a
"proper" site could only be found on land owned by an individual, however, the
owner was required to donate a twenty-acre tract on which public buildings could
be built, or, in lieu of this, to contribute at least $3,000 for the erection of public
buildings.

When the locating commissioners later made their report to the County Com-
missioners' Court, it was found they had chosen a site in the center of the county
on land owned by three early settlers, Henry Weed, Lucius W. Young and Seth M.
Young. Here, the three settlers laid out a townsite. They not only agreed to con-
tribute $3,000 to the county for public buildings, but they offered to donate 200
square feet of ground for a public square and. one acre for the location of a jail and
"stray pen." They also promised to build a bridge across the Vermilion River here
within two years.

When their offer was accepted, the donors posted a $5,000 bond signed by
C. H. Perry, first county merchant; James McKee, owner of water privileges at
Pontiac; and Jesse Fell, land developer. The donors then deeded the land for a
public square to the county on July 27, 1837, and thus was the city of Pontiac
born. It was named, at the suggestion of Jesse Fell, after the great Indian chief,
Pontiac.

POSTMASTER GARNER

Although Cornelius W. Reynolds was Pontiac's first postmaster, it was the
city's second, Jerome Garner, who lived longest in the memories of old-time coun-
ty residents. And that was because of his stovepipe hat. In Inventory of the County
Archives oj Illinois, Livingston County, No. 53, we find this account of him: "It is
told of Garner that, upon receiving his appointment, he purchased a bell-crowned,
stovepipe hat in which he kept all mail that arrived at Pontiac."

The account continues: "He was a confirmed fisherman, and when a citizen
expected a letter or desired to mail one, he would betake himself up and down the
Vermilion until he found the official, who would solemnly remove his hat, perform

the duties of his officef- and resume fishing with his private postoffice back in its
accustomed place."

FIRST COURTHOUSE

In the beginning, the County Commissioners' Court held its official sessions
in private homes in and near the new town of Pontiac. One of these homes, as we
have seen, was that of Andrew MacMillan. Another was the log dwelling place of
Pontiac's first settler, John Foster, who afterwards became familiarly known as
"Uncle Johnny" Foster. He was the builder of Pontiac's first hotel. He was also
the builder of Livingston County's first courthouse.

This building was not completed until 1842. For constructing it, John Foster
received $800. It was a two-story frame edifice, painted white and located in the
center of the public square. At a later date a tower was added. The Circuit Court
held sessions on the first floor, and various county officers transacted their busi-
ness on the second floor. This courthouse served the county until 1856, when a
new structure was built.

LAWYER LINCOLN IN PONTIAC

From Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Livingston County,
written by Christopher C. Strawn and others (Munsell Publishing Company, Chi-
cago, 1909), we learn that Abraham Lincoln was one of the attorneys in Livingston
County's first trial by jury. Quoting Judge W. G. McDowell, historian of theold set-
tlers' society, the account says that "the first regular term of the circuit court
was held in the spring of 1840, in the Weed log house, and the jury held its delib-
erations on a lot of saw-logs which lay on the banks of the river."

The account continues: "The first trial by jury in the circuit court was be-
tween Isaac Wilson and Nathan Popejoy, in which Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A.
Douglas were attorneys, after which they spoke on political issues of the day . . .
They spoke in the street, or rather open prairie, from the top of a dry-goods box.
Judge David Davis of Bloomington was also there as one of the prominent attor-
neys. The judge and all attorneys came across the country from Springfield and
Bloomington in buggies and on horse-back."

Another local historical work, The History of L ivingston County, Illinois, by
0. F. Pearre and others (Wm. Le Baron, Jr., & Company, Chicago, 1878), tells us
that "Uncle Johnny" Foster, first innkeeper of Pontiac, often entertained the vis-
iting judge and attorneys during "court week" in the county seat. This volume
says: "Foster, on these occasions, entertained Douglas, Lincoln, and other dis-
tinguished lawyers, for the attorneys followed the judge from county to county.*'

The Pearre volume says further: "Lincoln, during one term of court, paid his
hotel bill by attending to a suit in which Foster, as constable, was concerned in
the replevin of some goods taken on execution. Lincoln gained the case, and

Uncle John formed a high opinion of his new boarder. Foster's recollections of
these early days are vivid and interesting."

DWIGHT IS BORN

It was on January 30, 1854, that final details on the laying out'of the town of
Dwight were completed. The town was established by Richard P. Morgan, Jr., on
land owned by Morgan and several others, among them Jesse W. Fell. At that time
Morgan was one of the assistant construction engineers of the Chicago & Alton
Railroad, then being built and not completed to the new townsite of Dwight until
the following July.

The new town was named after Henry Dwight, a New York capitalist who
furnished much of the cash for the construction of the Chicago & Alton Railroad
between Joliet and Bloomington. After the Alton "steam road" was built through
it, Dwight, quickly expanded as a commercial and shipping center. Here, later,
were built the Keeley Institute, State Reformatory for Women and the Veterans'
Administration Facility Building. Today, Dwight has a population of 2,843.

FIRST RAILROAD

An important factor in the development of Livingston County was the building
of railroads through it in the middle and late 1850's. First "steam road" to be
constructed in the county was the Chicago & Mississippi, which now is part of the
Chicago & Alton Railroad. It was completed to Dwight on July 4, 1854. A few
years later the Illinois Central Railroad was built through the county, to be fol-
lowed by the Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw Railroad.

ODELL LAID OUT

Another early "railroad town" of the county besides Dwight is the village of
Odell, which today has a population of 908. It was laid out on the Chicago & Mis-
sissippi Railroad in 1855 by William H. Odell, Henry A. Gardner and S. S. Morgan.
Two years later there arrived here, with his family, A. A. Streator, who built O-
dell's first hotel and who became a popular innkeeper. He was later elected a
Justice of the Peace.

SECOND COURTHOUSE BUILT

After the coming of the railroads, Livingston County grew rapidly in popula-
tion, and, as a consequence, its county business increased to an unprecedented
degree. A newer, and larger, courthouse soon was needed. Thus it came about that,
on December 6, 1856, citizens witnessed the completion of the county's second
courthouse on the public square. It was built at a cost of $14,000. The new build-
ing was constructed of brick and stood two stories high. It served the county until

1874 when it was ainfost completely destroyed by fire, a blaze which also de-
stroyed the Union Block and the Phoenix Hotel adjacent to it. A new courthouse,
the couhty's third (and present), was completed in 1876.

OCTAVE CHANUTE LAYS OUT FAIRBURY

It was none other than Octave Chanute, later to become famous as an aviation
pioneer, who laid out the city of Fairbury in 1857. His associate in the project
was Caleb L. Patton. At that time Chanute was one of the civil engineers of the
Peoria & Oquawka Railroad, then being built through the county.

Originally, Patton owned all of the land on which Fairbury was laid out, but
he gave half of the town lots to Chanute in return for the latter's help in getting
the railroad to build a station at this point. It was Chanute who planned the town
and gave a name to it. Today, Fairbury has a population of 2,300. It was after
Octave Chanute that Chanute Field, at Rantoul, Illinois, and Chanute city, in
Kansas, were named.

A FUTURE KING GOES HUNTING

An outstanding event in the history of Livingston County was the occasion
when, in i860, the then young Prince of Wales, eldest son of Queen Victoria of
England, visited the county and went hunting on its prairies. While en route from
Chicago to St. Louis, the nineteen-year-old Prince stopped at Dwight and was the
house guest, for three or four days, of James C. Spencer, pioneer railroad builder.
During his visit the young Prince and others of his hunting party bagged more than
two hundred prairie chickens. The royal guest also planted an elm tree on Spenc-
er's farm. It was in 1901 that he became Edward VII of England, reigning until his
death in 1910. His son was George V.

THE CIVIL WAR

When President Lincoln sounded his call for 75,000 volunteers at the out-
break of the Civil War in 1861, Livingston County responded quickly with more
than its quota of men and money for the Union cause. We are told that the county
"sent into the Union Army a total of 1,444 soldiers who, through the years of con-
flict, took part in most of the famous battles." An imposing monument to men of
the county who fell in the Civil War was erected on the public square in 1903 and
dedicated by President Theodore Roosevelt.

DR. KEELEY AND THE KEELEY INSTITUTE

Generally regarded as the most famous of Livingston County institutions is
the Keeley Institute, an establishment for the cure of alcoholism. It was founded
at Dwight in 1879 by Dr. Leslie E. Keeley, a pioneer physician of the town. He

based his cure on the premise that chronic drunkenness "is a disease of the nerve
cells, and must be treated as such." More than 400,000 patients from all parts of
the world were cured of alcoholism at the Keeley Institute since it was founded
in 1879.

LEADING CORN PRODUCING COUNTY

''At one time," says the Livingston County volume of the Inventory of Coun-
ty Archives of Illinois, "Livingston was the greatest corn producing county in
Illinois. In 1907, not a particularly good year for corn because of frost and too
heavy rainfall, the corn yield was 12,000,000 bushels; besides the corn used for
home consumption, there was more of the cereal shipped out of Livingston County
in that year than the amount raised in the states and territories of Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, North Dakota,
Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and
California."

FRANK L. SMITH, POLITICAL LEADER

Perhaps the most prominent citizen of Livingston County during the 1920's,
or when Harding and Coolidge served successively as the nation's chief execu-
tives, was Frank L. Smith, farmer, banker and leader of the Republican party in
Illinois. He came to the climax of his public career in 1926 when he was elected
to the United States Senate, but was not seated in that office.

A native of Dwight, where he was born on November 24, 1867, Frank Leslie
Smith was educated in the public schools of the town, and, after his marriage to
Erminie Ahern in 1893, became a farmer and banker. He was appointed collector
of internal revenue for the Springfield district in 1908 and served in that capacity
until 1912.

In 1918 he became chairman of the Republican state committee. In that same
year he was elected to Congress and served in that body until 1921. Afterwards,
Smith was appointed chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission, a position he
held until 1926. During this time, also, he served as chairman of the Republican
State Central Committee. During the length of his public career Smith was a dele-
gate to eight National Republican Conventions. His last political campaign was
in 1930, when he sought the office of congressman-at-large for Illinois.

STATE REFORMATORY FOR WOMEN

Another outstanding Livingston County institution is the State Reformatory
for Women, located on a 160-acre tract of landscaped ground about two miles south
of Dwight. It was created by legislative action on June 30, 1927, and $300,000 was
appropriated for its initial establishment. The buildings of the institution were
completed in 1930.

Now under the control of the State Department of Public Welfare, this wom-
en's penal institution is regarded as one of the most modern in America. Here are
eight limestone buildings, of the Normandy cottage type, which house such depart-
ments as a clinic, a hospital, a recreation center, an administration office, and
facilities for educational and vocational instruction. The policy of the institution
is to rehabilitate as well as confine inmates.

DR. TOWNSEND AND THE TOWNSEND PLAN

A native son of Livingston County who became a national figure during the
depression years of the 1930's was Dr. Francis E. Townsend, originator of the
famous Townsend Plan. He was born in 1867 on a farm near the present city of
Fairbury, in Indian Grove Township. In his unique plan. Dr. Townsend advocated
pensions of $200 a month for unemployed persons over sixty years of age. Several
state legislatures, including those of Arizona, California, Nevada and Wyoming,
favored the plan and urged Congress to adopt it. At that time. Dr. Townsend was a
resident of California.

THE PONTIAC BRANCH

Although it was founded as a reform school for boys as long ago as 1867, the
Pontiac branch of the Illinois state penitentiary system was not established until
1933- Today, this branch occupies twenty-six handsome buildings on a twenty-acre
tract of landscaped ground within the bound-s of Pontiac city. More than 2,000 in-
mates are housed in these buildings. When founded in 1867, it was known as the
"State Reform School." Then, in 1891, it was reorganized and the age admission
raised to twenty-one years. It continued to operate as a reformatory until 1933-

LIVINGSTON COUNTY TODAY

On the basis of the latest published United States census returns, a statisti-
cal profile may be drawn of Livingston County as it was in 1950, or in mid-twent-
ieth century. This will show that the county then had a total population of 37,809,
a figure which placed it 734th in population rank among the 3,103 counties of the
United States.

The county's seat of justice and largest city, Pontiac, had a population of
8,990. Its next largest city, Dwight, had a population of 2,843— an increase of 13-8
per cent over its 1940 population. The institutional population (inmates of homes
for dependent or delinquent children, prisons, etc.) of Livingston County in 1950
was given as 1,740.

Having a land area of 1,043 square miles (it is the fourth largest county in
Illinois), Livingston's density of population in 1950 was 36 inhabitants per square
mile. In regard to its total population, 13,030 were found to be rural non-farm dwel-

lers (residents of tow^ns, villages and country places), 12,894 were rural farm dwel-
lers, and 11,885 were urban dwellers (mostly residents of Pontiac and Dwight).

There were 3,789 infants under five years of age, 4,220 persons sixty-five
years old and over, and the median age of the county was given as 31.1 years.
Also, there were 2,470 residents temporarily living in some other county of the
United States or abroad during 1950. In that same year, too, there were 24,387
potential voters (persons twenty-one years old and over).

With respect to vital statistics, the county in 1950 had 772 live births, 408
deaths (including 12 infants), and 303 marriages.

There were 9,575 families in the county then (two or more persons related by
marriage or blood). The median income of all of these families was given as
13,146. More than 24 per cent of these families had incomes of less than $2,000,
while 20.1 per cent had incomes of $5,000 or more.

Under the heading of education, it was found that the county contained 6,140
young persons between the ages of seven and seventeen years (school age). Within
this group were 3,950 between the ages of seven and thirteen years (primary school
age), and 95.0 per cent of these were enrolled in primary schools. Also within the
over-all group were 1,660 young persons between the ages of fourteen and seven-
teen (high school age), and 83.8 per cent of these were enrolled in high schools.
Of all persons in the county twenty-five years old and over, it was found that the
median number of school years they completed was 8.9. Slightly more than 5 per
cent completed less than five grades, while 31.2 per cent completed high school
or more.

In reference to labor, Livingston County in 1950 had a potential labor force
(persons fourteen years old and over) of 28,589. Actually employed, however, were
13,883, of which 73.5 per cent were males and 22.2 per cent females. As we ex-
plained in the beginning, Livingston is a leading Illinois agricultural county. The
largest number of those employed in 1950 were engaged in agriculture, the figure
being 4,417. The census figures showed further that 2,271 were engaged in whole-
sale and retail trade, 1,838 in manufacturing, 1,166 in professional and related
services, 822 in construction, 801 in transportation, communication and other pub-
lic utilities, 699 in business and personal services, 264 in finance, insurance and
real estate, and 51 in mining. The labor figures are summed up by showing that
32.5 per cent of the county's total employed were engaged in agriculture, while
13.5 per cent were engaged in manufacturing.

In the field of housing, the county in 1950 had a total of 11,367 dwelling
units (in 1940 it had 10,257). The median number of rooms per unit was given as
5.9. More than 82 per cent were one-dwelling unit detached structures (including
occupied trailers), 9.2 per cent were built in 1940 or later, and 61.4 per cent had
hot running water with private toilet and bath. Also, 56.5 per cent were owner-
occupied, 61.8 per cent had central heating, 89.5 per cent had mechanical refriger-
ators, and 97.4 per cent had radios. There were 7,710 houses classified as non-

farm dwelling units. The median value of these was given as $6,018. The median
gross monthly rent of renter-occupied dwellings was given as $47.41.

In 1-948, when the last business census was taken, Livingston County had a
total of 537 retail stores, which employed 1,589 persons, and which grossed
$31,753,000 in sales. The largest group of retail establishments were food stores,
which numbered 113 and which grossed $6,542,000 in sales. Next largest were
eating and drinking places, which numbered 90 and which grossed $2,526,000 in
sales. There were 100 wholesale establishments in the county in 1948, and these
employed 331 persons and grossed $31,617,000 in sales. According to the manu-
facturing census for 1947, there were 35 manufacturing plants in the county then.
These employed 1,127 persons and produced goods, articles, materials, etc., in
the amount of $3,573,000.

It is in agriculture, however, that Livingston County leads. In 1950 it had a
total of 3,286 farms, of which 3,181 were classified as commercial farms. The
figures showed further that 58.0 per cent of all farms were operated by tenants.
The average value of land and buildings per farm for all farms was given as
$51,177. In 1949, when such figures were last obtained, the value of all farm
products sold (crops, livestock, poultry, dairy products) was given as $31,522,000.
Farm expenditures that same year amounted to $2,777,000 for livestock and poultry
feed, and $948,000 for hired labor.

PONTIAC CITY

VISIO»S

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BEVISIOHS
BOAD lyPE
CULIUBAL
TUBES.

POHTIAC TOiMSHIP

GENERAL HIGHWAY MAP

BUREAU Of rese;arch and planning

OVISION OF HIGHWAYS
DCPARTMENT Of PUeUC WORKS & BLHLCHNGS

SCALE OF ENLARGEMENTS

T28N R5t

CITY OF PONTIAC

Seat of justice and largest city of Livingston County is Pontiac, located on
the Vermilion River in the geographical center of the county. As the story of Liv-
ingston County is largely the story of Pontiac, details of the city's past will be
found in the opening historical narrative of this book. ,

Although the corporate population of Pontiac is 8,990, it is the center of a
retail trading area estimated at more than 40,000. Within the boundaries of the city
is located the Pontiac branch of the Illinois state penitentiary system. It occupies
twenty-six buildings on a twenty-acre tract of landscaped ground and houses more
than 2,000 inmates. Just west of Pontiac may be found the Chief City Airport.

On the courthouse lawn in Pontiac may be found a stone memorial to the
celebrated Indian chief after whom the city is named. Here, also, stands the Sol-
diers' and Sailors' Monument, memorializing men of the county who fell in the
Civil War. The city's central business district contains branches of such national
chain stores as J. C. I'enny Company, Kroger, A & P, National Tea, Montgomery
Ward & Company and Sears Roebuck & Company.

Among leading manufacturing plants within the city are the Fashion-Hilt
Shoe Company, the Johnson Press Company, the Brockton Heel Company and the
Morton Printing Company. The city has two banks which, in 1954, had savings
deposits totaling $624,936.41. Only newspaper of the county seat is the Leader,
which in 1954 had a circulation of 4,770.

Located ninety-two miles southwest of Chicago in the midst of a rich farming
area, Pontiac is served by the Illinois Central, the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio, and the
Wabash railroads, as well as by US 66 and state highways 116 and 23- This city
is the only community of Pontiac Township (see "Pontiac Township"), which in
1950 had a total population of 9,906. Parts of the township were annexed to Pon-
tiac city in 1942 and 1946.

AMITY TOWNSHIP

CORNELL

FOR DATES
OF REVISIONS
OH ROAD TYCE
AND CULTURAL
FEATURES.

AMITY TOWNSHIP

GENERAL HIGHWAY MAP

BUREAU OF rese;arch and planning

DIVISION OF HIGHWAYS
0£PARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS & BUILDINGS

SCALE OF ENLARGEMENTS

POLYCONIC PROJECTION

CORNELL

Northwest of Pontiac city, and not far from the Vermilion River, lies the early
"railroad town" of Cornell, which today has a population of 458. The town has a
number of retail stores, service establishments and a postoffice. It is located on
the Wabash Railroad and on State 23- Cornell was platted in 1871 by Walter B.Cor-
nell. In that year the Wabash Railroad was built through the area. Another who
aided in the development of Cornell was Willard D. Blake. Today, Cornell is the
only community in Amity Township, which has a total population of 931. First
settlers of the township were Thomas N. Reynolds, Samuel K. Reynolds and E.
Breckinridge, all of whom came here in 1833 from Ohio.

BAPTIST CHURCH

Co r n e 1 1

FIRST METHODIST CHURCH

Cornell

ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHINCH
Rev. Cunningham

METHODIST NIGH CHAPEL CHURCH & CEMETERY

Rev. Milo Smith Rt. 1 Pontiac

U'LUMBIA SCH 'OL
Flanagan

Rt. 1
1 acre

CORNELL HIGH SCHOOL
Cornell

GRADE SCHOOL
Cornell

J'FARMERSAUTO
'"•^ANCEASSOCIAT'

CHARLES IDE

General Insurance
CORNELL, ILLINOIS

ADS IT, MRS . LOUISE

Pontiac Elmer Durre Mgr.

Rt. 1
150 acres

OLD LILY SCHOOL

Pontiac Now Home of Oral 01 sc

BARTCN PRISCILLA MRS.
Cornell Barton George Cpr.

BAYLES EARL f«S . Mrs. R. D. Cays Dt. 1

Manville 5 acres

bLi-KiviAi'j I'viLVIN
Manville

Rt. 1
70 acres

BEAMAN LOUIS ESTATE Rt. 1

Manville Mgr. Cashmer, Clifford C. Tenant House

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BEAMAN LOUIS ESTATE Rt. 1

Manville Mgr. Cashmer, Clifford C. 267 acres

CAGLEY CRVILLE W.
Manville

Pt. 1
i acre

BEMAN WILLIAM
Cornell

CASHMER ARTHUR W.
Manville

nUSTEE, HENRY CARSTEN
Pontiac Noble Alcoke Mgr.

Rt. 1
160 acres

COLE MINNIE Rt. 2

Streator Shoemaker W. T. Operator

CARSTEN HENRY

Pontiac Mgr. Zehr Donald

Rt. 1
200 acres

COLE MINNIE Rt. 2

Streator Shoemaker W. T. Tenant 160 acres

CORRIGAN, MP.S. RENEA
Cornell Vincent Corrigan

CASSIDY GEORGE
Cornell

Rt.
80 acres

CULLEN MRS. BERTHA Rt. 1

Pontiac Opr. Brashear, Paul 80 acres

CROCKER ESTATE

Pontiac Eugene L. Rapp Mgr.

Rt. 1
acres

DARGAN DR C. M Rt. 1

Flanagan Mgr. Richardson, Cecil 240 acres

DELHEIMER GECKGE F.
Cornell

Rt. 1
55 acres

EDEN HILDA

Cornell Mgr. Gayan John

DICUS DR GEORGE

Manville Shawback Levi Tenant

Rt. 1
160 acres

ERICKSON B. 0.

Cornell Lloyd Erickson Mgr.

Rt. 1
159 acres

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FARERO JCHN
Cornell

L.A.>K.T..^;, il. .V. Rt. 1

Pontiac Mgr. Garretson, Raymond 200 acres

FOLEY MAURICE
Cornell

GARRETSON HOWARD A.
Pontiac

Rt. 1
80 acres

FULKERSON ROY
Cornell

GASPARDO, JOHN Rt. 1

Cornell Clare Kelly Operator 24it acres

GABLIN WILLIAM W Rt. 1

Manvllle Gablin William S. Tenant 80 acres

GENTES DELOSS A.
Pontiac

Rt. 1
acres

GENTES MRS. ACS. DELOSS A. GENTEP Rt. 1

Pontiac 240 acres

GINGRICH, reiffi

Pontiac Orville Gingrich Mgr.

Rt. 1
140 acres

GINGRICH EMANUEL Rt. 1

Pontiac Mgr. Erschen, Frank 290 acre

GOURLEY JOHN F.
Cornell

Rt. 1
120 acres

GINGRICH LELA

Pontiac Mgr. Crow John

Rt. 1
160 acres

GRANT MAURICE W.
Cornell

GINGRICH LELA

Flanagan Clyde Earl Opr.

Rt. 1
160 acres

GREENBAUM J. C.

Cornell Lee Hartley Mgr.

Rt. 1
212 acres

WYLIE, MRS . HANNAH Rt. 1

Pontiac Willard Williams Mgr. 163 acres

HCX3G L.

Cornell Oscar Swanberg Mgr.

M Rt. 1
200 acres

HATZER LOUIS E.

Manvillo

vJ9i

Rt. 1
acres

HOLSHELL ALICE CCRA RAMME
Cornell Mqr. Ramme Otto

HIEDtivhct^H fhtu
Cornell

Rt. 1
40 acres

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HUMISTON ESTATE Rt. 1

Pontiac Mgr. Albert Koltveit 336 acres

HINSHAW FRANK C.
Cornell

Rt. 1
212 acres

HUMISTON ESTATE

Pontiac Mgr. Ertmoed, Kenneth

Rt. 1
160 acres

JOHNSON MATT
Pontiac

KETTffiER ANTON
Cornell

Rt. 1
80 acres

Rt. 1
acres

HUSTED LYLE V.
Cornell

Rt. 1
228 acres

KNAPP A. P.

Cornell C. C. Oyer Mgr.

Rt. 1
160 acres

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LEACH J P

Pontiac Mgr. Leach, Jesse C. Jr.

n, L

230 acres

Box 455
65 acres

LEONARD ANDREW

Manville Mgr. Crow Burdell

LEANORD ANDREW

Cornell Opr. Burdell Crow

Rt. 1
120 acres

LEVIS , W?S . RUTH

Rt. 1

LUCAS ROSS

Rt, 1

Cornell Robert H.

Girard

Mgr.

220 acres

Pontiac Mqr.

Willis,

Les

80 acres

MAYBECK RUSSELL P.
Cornell

Rt.
98 acres

MING & TOMBAUGH Rt. 1

Pontiac Mgr. Garretson, Laverne 240 acres

McCLEAN FOSTER
Manville

Rt. 1
108 acres

NELVIN CHARLES W.

Cornell Mgr. Ralph Voigts

MITCHELL ESTATE

Cornell Lloyd Erickson Mgr.

MORRIS R. B. Rt. 1

Manville Left, Johnson, OrviUe 4 2/3 acres

MllNSON DPAIEY Rt. 1

Pontiac Mgr. Harold & Kenneth Munson 160 acres

MlRRlaON Lbh
Mdnvllle

NIVEN ROBERT & GILBERT J LAURITZEN Rt. 1

Pontiac 160 acres

KDRRISON WILL M
Manville

ORR SMMUEL L
Pontiac

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OTTO NELVIN

Flanagan Mgr. Tesch, Vernon

Rt. 1
160 acres

PATTERSON CHARLIE Rt. 1

Pontiac Mgr. Patterson, Harold 260 acres

PARK MRS . GRACE

Flanagan ^to^. Douchette, Leo

Rt. 1
54 acres

patters™ guy

Pontiac Mgr. Paris, Elbert

Rt. 1
1 acre

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PKT^ircE, ED'/.'ARD

Cornell Louis W. Meyer

it. 1
260 acres

PATTERSON, GUY
Pontiac

Rt. 1
190 acres

PARTRIDGE WM.

Cornell Krominga Edward

PATTERSON WAYNE

Manville Mgr. Paris, Elbert

Rt. 1
77 acres

p^,;,..L\,.'. , ;.:. . :,L'L; c ;.;cvay, Helen Rt. i

Manville Rucker, F.H. Mgr. 244 acres

REDFERN WALTER & WILLIAM
Cornell

Rt.
87 acres

PIPER, CHARLES

Rt. 1

RUFF AND SONS

Pontiac O.V.

Davis,

Mgr

80 acres

Streator

Rt. 2
320 acres

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PIPER, CHARLES
Flanagan

Rt. 1
80 acres

SASS CHARLIE

Streator Mgr. Emm, John

Rt. 2
260 acres

PIPER CHARLES
Pontiac

Rt. 1
160 acres

SASS CHARLES

Pontiac Mgr. Rassow Charles

SAXTON, H.L.

Pontiac Gregory Orlie Mgr.

Rt. 1
160 acres

SCHOTT, ROBERT

Flanagan Ronald Hough .'.Vgr

Rt. 1
107 acres

SaMAYAR HERBERT
Cornell

SCHLUETH! HARM Rt. 2

Streator Mgr. Schlueter, Chester 80 acres

SCHNEIDER HENRY C.

Pontiac Mgrs. Brashear Bros.

SCHLUETER, HARM

Streator Myrl Schlueter, Mgr.

Rt. 2
160 acres

SCHULER ALVIN F.
Cornell

Rt.
200 acres

S^ "'ZXiiii

SIEVffiS, ROY
Cornell

SPRINGER ESTATE

Pontiac Mgr. Orr, James

Ht. 1
acres

;^..«^'

SMITH FRANCIS N Rt. 1

Cornell Opr. Burkett & Sons Early 360 acres

ST. JOHN CLIFFORD

Manvllle Mgr. St. John Robert

Rt. 1
180 acres

SNYDER, ROBERT
Pontiac

Rt. 1
80 acres

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SNYDER MRS OTIS

Flanagan Mgr. Tesch, Vernon

Rt. 1
120 acres

SULLIVAN V. J
Cornell

SWORDS, MRS. ADA

Flanagan Elmer Cashmer Mgr.

Rt. 1
240 acres

TRAINOR HAROLD SR . Rt- 1

Cornell Mgr. Trainor, Harold Jr. 200 acres

SWANBERG OSCAR A.
Cornell

Rt. 1
160 acres

VALENTINE, FRED I ,
Cornell

Rt. 1
77 acres

TRAINOR HAROLD JR.
Cornell

VISSERING ADELIA MRS.
Cornell Opr. Barton Carl

VISSERING WILLIAM
Manvllle

Rt. 1
70 acres

WERTZ WARREN
Pontiac

Rt. 1
acres

VOLLMER GEORGE

Cornell Wayne Seggerman Mgr. loO

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WALLACE, MRS. MARY
Cornell Lloyd Schott

Rt. 1
225 acres

WILLIAMS MRS A>™a C Rt. 1

Manville Delheiraer George E. Tenant 200 acres

WEBffi ffiNEST S ,
Cornell

WILLIAMS DR. H. L. ESTATE Rt. 1

Manville Opr. Walter Delheimer 320 acres

WONDER AL
Pontlac

Rt. 1
80 acres

AVOCA TOWNSHIP

McDowell

LODEMIA

FOB D»T[S
OF »EVISIOHS
ON ROAD TYPE
«K0 CUITUB
FEATURES.

AVOCA TOUINSHIP

GENERAL HIGHWAY MAP

BUREAU OF RESEARCH AND PLANNING

WVISION OF HIGHWAYS
DEPARTMENT Of PUBLIC W0FTK5 & BUILDINGS

SCALE OF ENLARGEMENTS
V2

POLYCONIC PROJECTION

MCDOWELL
T27N RSE.B6E

McDowell

Founded more than eighty years ago, the small village of McDowell, south-
east of Pontiac city, today has a population of thirty-five. It is located near the
Vermilion River and through it runs the Wabash Railroad. The village is served by
the postoffice at nearby Pontiac. McDowell was platted in 1873, or the same year
in which the Wabash Railroad was built through the area. Its founder was Judge
Woodford G. McDowell, son of William McDowell, early settler of the region.

Today, this village is the principal community of Avoca Township, which
has a total population of 516. First settlers of the township were Isaac Jourdan,
William Popejoy and John Hannaman, all of whom came with their families in 1330.
It was in 1832 that William McDowell arrived with his five sons.

LODEMIA

Just south of McDowell, on the Wabash Railroad, lies the small hamlet of
Lodemia. It, also, was founded when the railroad was first built through here more
than eighty years ago. A Methodist church was erected here in 1876.

FIRST METHODIST CHURCH OF MACDOWELL
Rev. Paul McCleary Rt . 4

Po n t i ac

FEDERAL LAND BANK

FARM LOANS

Made by the

National Farm Loan Association of Pontiac

ROY C. HAMMAN, Secy-Treas.
Phone 5131 109 WEST WATER ST., PONTIAC, ILL.

SECURE THESE ADVANTAGES:

1. Low Cost, 4% interest, no fees or commis-
sions.

2. Long Term, fully amortized.

3. Repayment Privileges, part or all, any date,
no penalty.

4. Future Payment Fund, earns interest.

5. Fair Treatment by Local Folks.

6. Security and Safety in Good Times and Bad.

LOANS FOR FOLLOWING PURPOSES:

1 . Buying a Farm.

2. Refinancing Indebtedness.

3. Provide Repairs and Improvements.

4. For General Agricultural Uses:

Purchasing Equipment, Livestock, Fertilizer,
Soil Conservation.

Further lr}formation Wifhout Obligation
When you think of Credit - - - Think of Cooperative Land Bank Credit

L^DEMIA SCHOOL
Fairbury

Rt. 3
1 acre

AHLSTROM, CECIL F.
Fairbury

Rt. 3
160 acres

AVOCA CEMETERY
Fairbury

ARMBUSTER
Fairbury

LODEMIA TOWN HALL
Fairbury

Rt. 3
1"4 acres

BANE MRS.

Rt. 3

Fairbury

Hish L.

120 acres

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STRAIGHTENING 8, IVIDENING THE RIVER CHANNEL
between Fairbury & Pontiac Nov. 1954

Section Ovaca

BENTLEY CLARK L.
Fairbury

Rt. 3
40 acres

BRICKEY JESSE P.
Fairbury

Rt. 3
120 acres

BES GROVE, ROY E.
Fairbury

Rt. 3
160 acres

BRUER HARLAN Rt. 4

Pontiac Mgr. Ray S. Hornickel 137 acres

CHAPLAIN ELEVATOR
Fairbury

BRESSNER KENNTEH & BERNICE
Fairbury Operates 245 acres

Rt. 3
85 acres

CHESEBRO MRS. ADA

Pontiac Kimdred Wm. Tenant

CHESEBRO ADA Rt. 3

Pontiac Tammen Arnold Tenant 240 acres

Fairbury

Rt. 2
120 acres

COLBOURNE JOHN

Fairbury Mgr. Lester A. Perkins

at. 3

398 acres

DAF:T CHA^LIF
Fairbury Dart Geo.

Rt. 2
120 acres

COLBOURNE JOHN

Fairbury Lester A. Perkins Mgr.

DART CHARLES

Fairbury Sutton B. E.

Rt. 2
104 acres

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DART CHARLES

Fairbury Scherr Earl

Rt. 2
160 acres

ENDERLI HERBERT

Fairbury McKinney Henry

DIRKS L. E.

Fairbury Atteberry Charles R.

ENDERLI, HERBERT
Fairbury

Rt. 3
40 acres

ENDERLI HERBERT

Fairbury Vander Hoek John

Rt. 3
560 acres

EMMKE HENRY

Fairbury Skrobonk Adam

Rt. 3
400 acres

ENDERLI HERBERT
Fairbury

Rt. 3
110 acres

ESTEP GRAVEL CO.
Fairbury

FREDERICK RAY

Fairbury Warren Frederick Opr.

Rt. 3
80 acres

FEHR EDWIN

Rt. 3
160 acres

FREED, DARWIN
Fairbury

Rt. 3
80 acres

FICKLIN ROBERT
Fairbury

Rt. 2
280 acres

FUGATE M . D
Fairbury

FIETTffi ETHEL P.
Fairbury Harms Milton P.

FULTON MARJCRIE
Fairbury Maubach Leo

Rt. 2
160 acres

GLINNEN ROBERT
Fairbury

Rt. 2

acres

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GOOLD, I«?S. EDA
Fairbury

Rt. 3
160 acres

GaiLD, JAMES

Faiii:^;v

Rf. 3
30 acres

GOOLD R R
Fairburv Graf Geo

GREEN, DELBERT

Pontiac Kenneth Green Operator

Rt. 4
180 acres

GMLD R. R.

Fairbury Goold John R

GREEN, MRS. JOHN
Fairbury

HAAS FRED

Rt. 2

HENDERSON,

LOU

Rt. 2

Falrbury

Glinnen Chris

40 acres

Fairbury

Kenneth f*?tz

219 acres

HANLEY NEALE

Fairbury Stephens Vernon

Rt. 2
200 acres

HERLOG ELIZEBETH
Fairbury Sanders Verne

Rt. 2
100 acres

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HOBART, GILBERT
Pontiac

Rt. 4
388 acres

HENDERSON LOU MRS.

Fairbury Bender Raymo nd

Rt.2
150 acres

IFFT WILLIAM
Fairbury If ft Fred

Rt. 2
200 acres

JAMES PERCY
Fairbury

LA,',, ;,;,.,. l;.:,^v

Fairbury

KIPFER ARNO
Pontiac

LEISTER FRArji
Pontiac

fc^-ta.

LODEMIA ELEVATOR

Fairbury Ross Hildreth Mgr.

Mcdowell farmers elevator go.

Pontiac

MACK JCEEPHINE

Fairbury Willard Mack Opr.

RT. 3
160 acres

MEISTER CHRISTINE

Fairbury Meister Edward

Rt. 2
120 acres

MERNINGS WALTER
Fairbury

Rt. 3
120 acres

MIES EARNEST G
Fairbury

lOWERY JAMES
Fairbury

Rt. 2
24 acres

Rt. 3
120 acres

NEUBAUER BEN
Pontiac

Rt. 4
HI acres

NcubAuth i_ . LtlLA Mj->.i.
Pontiac Ben Neubauer Mgr,

Rt. 4
108 acres

M3RRIS0N IVAN G
Fairbury

OLTMAN R.J.

Pontiac Ralph H. Oltman

Rt. 4
360 acres

POST ALBERT
Fairbury R .

Rt. 3

Uh...t_ T,3v.'h..r 160 acres

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PFLAGER, VIRGIL R
Pontiac

PRICHARD M. C.

Fairbury Hunting R. S.

Rt. 3
acres

Fairbury

Rt. 3
160 acres

RAMSEY ELMER

Fairbury Gouge John J.

Rt. 3
120 acres

PHILLIPS,

R. BURNELL

Rt. 4

RICKTTS ERVIN

Pontiac

Joe Ripsch Mgr.

187 acres

Fairbury

STAFFORD MRS . FLOYD
Fairbury

Rt. 2
200 acres

STEIDINGER LEAH

Fairbury Grosenbach Louis

Rt. 2

160 acrp?

STOEIB, HENRY

Fairbury William H. Streip

Rt. 3
160 acres

SMITH HELEN L.

Fairbury Weeks Stanley

Rt. 2
200 acres

TAVENER RAYMCN C.
Fairbury

Rt. 3
360 acres

TEUBEL KARL

Fairbury Teubel Herman

Rt. 2
120 acre

TOLLENSDORF B. A.

Fairbury Mgr. John F. Tollensdorf

Rt. 3

acres

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TEXAS OIL STATILM
Fairbury

TRONC S. W.

Pontiac Clark Ray

Rt. 2

160 acres

TINGES LEWIS
Pontiac

Rt. 4
56 acres

ULFFERS, JACOB W.
Fairbury

Rt. 3
80 acres

VIELEY JACK
Pontlac

Rt. 4
acres

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ULPHERS JACOB

Fairbury Raymond Winger, Opr.

Rt. 3
80 acres

VIELEY JAMES C.
Pontiac

Rt. 4
Lot

VIELEY IDA
Pontiac

Rt. 4
100 acres

WAGONSELLER JDNN
Fairbury

Rt. 3

80 acres

VIELEY JAMES
Pontiac

WAGONSELLER, JOHN
Fairbury

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WAGEMSELLER,

MRS.

PEARL L.

Rt. 3

WALKER JENNit

Rt. 2

Fairbury

1 acre

Fairbury Jans sen Burdette

160 acres

W/t3Y ANGIH

Fairbury Water Harry

Rt. 2
160 acres

WAGY ANGIE

Fairbury Freed Darwin

Rt. 3
240 acres

WEBSTER FRANK L.
Pontiac

WEEKS CURTIS
Fairbury

Rt. 4
14 acres

WILLIAH6, R .J.
Pontiac

Rt. 4
acres

YERMA KATORINE
Fairbury

Rl. 2
160 acres

WINCE EMORY
Pontiac

Rt. 3
35 acres

WINCE EIORY
Fairbury

Rt. 3
444 acres

ZILLER WAYNE
Fairbury

Rt. 3
160 acres

WINSLOW WILLIAM
Fairbury

Rt. 3
213 acres

BELLE PRAIRIE TOWNSHIP

Although without any towns or villages, Belle Prairie Township, on the south
boundary line of the county is a farming area as fertile and productive as any in
Livingston County. In 1950 it had a total population of 310. The township is
drained by Indian Creek and several smaller streams.lt was in Belle Prairie Town-
ship that one of the earliest settlers of Livingston County came to live in 1829 or
1830. He was Valentine M. Darnell, who had earlier resided in Kentucky. Another
pioneer of the township was R. B. Harrington, afterwards to become county clerk
of Livingston. He suggested the name Belle Prairie ("beautiful prairie") for the
township when it was organized in 1858.

OF REVISIONS
ON ftOAD TYPE

>«D CULTUR
FEATURES.

BELLE PRAIRIE TOWNSHIP

GENERAL HIGHWAY MAP

BUREAU OF REISEARCH AND PLANNING

WVISION OF MIGHWAtS
D£PARTM£NT OF PUBLIC WORKS

US DEPARTMCNT Of COMMEFICE
BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROADS

SCALE .

SCALE OF ENLARGEMENTS

POLYGON IC PROJECTION

R6E
MC LEAN COUNTY

Gla

FAIRVIEW METHODIST CHURCH
Rt. 1

C ro p sey

BELLE PRAIRIE TOWN HALL
Fairbury Old Phelps School

CORNELL CEMETERY
Cornell

SOirra SIDE CEMETERY
Fairbury

FAIRBURY WATERWORKS
Fairbury

ABBEY GLENN S.
Cropsey

Rt. 1
180 acres

ABBEY LESTffi S,
Cropsey

Rt. ]
120 acres

HjE^

Rt. 1
160 acres

ABBEY RAY V.

Rt. 1

BAHLER EMIL

Cropsey Mgr.

Charles Elliott

80 acres

Cropsey

BROOKER BERNELL
Cropsey

Rt. 1
160 acres

BtCKWALTER EDWARD
Cropsey

BOLLINGER, BILL
Fairbury

Rt. 1
80 acres

CLAUDON, C.J. Rt. 1

Fairbury M. Van Sickle Renter 160 acres

COOK ALICE ESTATE
Cropsey

CRUMBAKER, O-IVER W.
Fairbury

ESTATE DOMINY

Fairbury Henry Bose Renter

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Fairbury George A. Killian

nt. 1

160 acres

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ELLIOTT CHARLES
;;ropsey

Rt. 1
acres

ELLIOTT KENNETH W
Cropsey

ELLIOTT THCMA:-

Fairbury Mgr. Maurice Tavlor

Rt. 2
233.3 acres

GOEMBEL CARL N.
Falrburv

Rt. 1
160 acres

FICKIN, MRS. MARIE
Fairbury

FICKIN, lUBS. MARIE
Fairbury John Fickin

Rt. 1
200 acres

GOEMBEL HORACE Rt. 1

Fairbury 1863 - Goembel Homestead 200 acres

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Fairbury

MM Rt. 1
160 acres

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GffiBffl CHRIS

Fairbury Opr. Irvin Gerber

Rt. 2
240 acres

HELMERS, JACOB H.
Fairbury

Rt. 1
80 acres

HELMERS, JACOB H.
Cropsey

Rt. 1
133 acres

HINES. MRS. EFFIE

Fairbury Harvey Mines Renter

HELMERS, JACOB H. AND FLORENCE
Cropsey

HaVARTH, MISS JANE
Fairbury Charles

Farley

Rt. 1
80 acres

HELMERS, JOHN

Cropsey Jacob H. Helmers Renter

Rt. 1
160 acres

HIERONYMUS, LYTLE
Fairbury

^ Rt. 1
80 acres

Fairbury Stanley Hoffman

Rt. 1
80 acres

KUPFERSCHMID, BILL
Cropsey

McCULLOUGH J. W. Rt. 1

Cropsey Mgr. Everett E. McCullough 160 acres

KRETZER, ARTHUR
Fairjjury

Rt. 1
200 acres

MORTON ESTATE

Fairbury Russell McGuire Operator

Rt. 1
196 acres

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MCNDliLL EFFIE S. BEYER CCRA
Fairbury Omer Meyer Opr.

POSHARD RUSSELL
Fairbury

Rt. 1
160 acres

MUNDELL HELEN
Fairbury

Rt. 1
160 acres

ROTH D^IEL ESTATE
Cropsey

Rt. 1
240 acres

PAYNE, MRS. EARL
Fairbury

Rt. 1
80 acres

PHELPS HARVEY
Fairbury

RUDKINS MRS Z T
Fairbury Hoffman Curtis

Rt. 1
120 acres

SCHADE MRS. BERTHA
Cropsey

Rt. 1
acres

Falrbury

Rt. 1
107 acres

SHADE mS. EUNICE
Cropsev

RT. 1
80 acres

SHEPPARD, MRS . CORA
Fairbury

Rt. 1
79 acres

STEFFEN, ALF. L.
Cropsey

Rt. 1
120 acr.-;.

SLATER GUY

Fairbury .Century Farm

STEFFEN BEN C.
Cropsey

Rt. 1
230 acres

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Rt. 1
113 acres

THOMAS , MRS . ALMA

Cropsey Howard Payne Renter

Rt. 1
75 acres

STEIDI^GER BEN IFFT PAUL

Fairbury Steidinger Opr.

Rt. 2
200 acres

TOMLISON G. WILLIAM
Cropsey

TKAVIS, LESTER E.
Fairbury

.Rt. 1
;31 acres

TAYLOR BERT A. Rt. 1

Fairbury Taylor Delbert A. 198^ acres

TRAVIS, LESTER
Fairbury

TUCKER, DONALD
Fairbury

Rt. 1
160 acres

WEEKS CYRIL & DORIS
Fairbury

Rt. 1
205.8 acres

VANSICKLE, HUGH
Fairbury

Rt. 1
80 acres

WEEKS, FLOYD G.

Colfax Glen Schuler

nt. 1

acres

WEEKS FLOYD G
Fairbury

Rt. 1
80 acres

WATKINS HOWARD H.
Cropsey

RT. 1
80 acres

WEEKS, FLOYD G
Fairbury

BROUGHTON TOWNSHIP

EMINGTON
CAMPUS

OF BEVISIOHS
OH R0»0 TYPE
MO CULTURAL
FEATUBES.

BROUGHTON TOKNSHIP

GENERAL HIGHWAY MAP

BUREAU OF RESEARCH AND PLANNING

DIVISION OF m&MWAYS
DCPARTMCNT OF PUBLIC WORKS & BUILDINCA

SCALE OF ENLARGEMENTS

POLYCONIC PROJECTION

EMINGTON

In the fertile farming country northeast of Pontiac city stands the incorpor-
ated village of Emington, main part of which lies in Broughton Jownship. That
portion of it in Broughton has a population of ninety-eight, while that portion of it
in adjoining Union Township has a population of fifty-two. The village is situated
on the Wabash Railroad and has a number of retail stores, service establishments,
banking facilities and a postoffice. Emington is located in Broughton Township,
which in 1950 had a total population of 595. First settlers of the township were
members of the Broughton family, who arrived in 1854. When the township was
organized in 1858, William Broughton was elected its first supervisor.

CAMPUS

Another village partly located in Broughton Township is Campus, which has
a present population of 183- That part of it in Broughton has a population of forty-
six, while that part of it in adjoining Round Grove Township has a population of
137. The village is situated on the Wabash Railroad.

SACRED HEART CHURCH

Camp us

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BROUGHTjN SCHO-'L

Emington Dist. 285

EMlNGluN COMMUNin' U3NS0LIDATED SCHOOL
Emington

GRADE SCHOOL
Campus

CLOSE SCHOOL

Emington 100 years old

SACRED HEART CE^ETERY
Campus

AtJDERSON, MRS.

Cabery Gerald Nelson

BROUGHTON COb-NTi' CEMEIERY
Kempton

BAILEY CLARENCE
Kempton

Rt. 1
1 acre

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AHBN, MRS. ELLA G.
Emington Manning ''. ■h-

Rt. 1
240 acres

BFATTY, ARTHER

Buckingham Ugene Richie

Rt. 1
80 acres

AHffiN, VERNON
Cabery

Rt. 1
160 acres

BECKER NICK Sec. 29

Emington Becker Harold A. Tenant

Rt. 1
acres

BECKER, NICK Sec. 29 R.R. #1

Emington Lee Owens Tenant 80 acres

BERGIN BERNADETTE Rt. 1

Campus 200 acres

Been in this generation for 100 years

BECKB), NICK.

Emington Harvey Becker Tenant

R.R.Sl
acres

BENSCN LULA

Kempton Benson Dean

BORER THOMAS
Buckingham

Rt. 1
acres

BRENNAN, TOM
Kempton

Rt. 1

CALL WRAY

Sec.

Rt. 1

91 acres

Emlngton

80 acres

BROT/N, ALEX

Emington Paul Guymon

Rt. 1
60 acres

DiJr-.ivHAjV, VELL

Cabery Fleischauer John

Rt. 1
acres

CANHAM EMORY
Cullom

Rl. 1
140 acres

CAHILL, JAMES F.
Emington

Sec. 29 R.R. Hi
80 acres

CANHAM EJVDRY Sec. 31

Emington Lavern Canham Tenant

Rt. 1
acres

CIACOMETTI, JOE
Buckingham

Rt. 1
160 acres

CORKILL, JOHN A. Sec. 32 Rt. 1

Eraington Harley Shelton Tenant 120 acres

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Kempton

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Rt. 1
240 acres

CLOGS ETHEL

Kempton Cloos Francis

EARING ORVA Sec. 27
Kempton

Rt. 1
160 acres

EHRHARDT, EDWARD S.
Cabery

EHRHARDT ORVILLE Sec. 31

E^ington

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Cabery

Rt. 1
160 acres

FENTON DCNALD Sec. 22
Kempton

Rt. 1
160 acres

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FITZPATOICK LEO
Buckingham

FLYNN ESTATE
Emington

Sec. 16 Rt. 1
120 acres

FLYNN ESTATE Sec. 21 Rt. 1

Emington Francis Flynn Tenant 160 acres

FRAHEP, CSCAR Rt. 1

Emington Donald Fraher Tenant 160 acres

FORNERIS, JOHN
Cabery

Rt. 1
acres

FRAHER MARTHA

Buckingham Fraher Joe

Rt. 1
60 acres

GISH DONALD
Kemp ton

Rt. 1
80 acres

GOCDPASTER ETHLE
Emington Jamieson Jaraes

GUNDERSON, E .E . ESTATE
Emington G.A. Piercy

Sec. 26 R.R.#1
160 acres

GREENABAUM, ESTATE Sec. 31 R.R. til

Emington Leo J. Conroy Tenant 160 acres

GUNDERSON MRS. JENNIE
Eiidngton Lowe George

Rt. 1
120 acres

HAAG RAYMOND Rt. 1

Kempton Haaq Harvey ^enant 160 acres

GUELDENllAAli E.
Cabery

Et. 1
160 acres

HAMILTON BEN
Campus

Rt. 1
605 acres

HILL, LUCILE

Cabery Gaalord, Earing

Rt. 1
160 acres

JOHNSON ESTATE
Campus Flood M. J.

131^ acres

HINES, W?S.

Kempton Alvin Love 11

Rt. 1
160 acres

KAIN, ROBERT

Emington Walter R. Kain

Sec. 33 Rt. 1
160 acres

HOWARD, MRS. RUIh
Eminqton Donald Howard

KELLY H. W.
Emington Austii; V,

JAMES MRS. ALMA

Ellington Petree Robert A. Tenant

KELLY, H.W.

Emington Carl 0. Austin

R.R. #1.
180 acres

KELLY, H.W. R.R.tn

Emington Matt S. Austin Tenant 160 acres

KENNEDY, JOHN

Emington Lawrence Goley Jr.

Rt. 1
158 acres

KILEY C. LELA Rt. 1

Emington Kiley Donald S. Tenant 400 acres

KILEY, DONALD Sec. 29 R.R.#1

Emington Delmar Platz Tenant 160 acres

KELLY HOWARD Kelly Krest

Cabery Rieck Charlie

Rt. 1
120 acres

LARSON WILLIAM Rt. 1

Kempton Larson Durwood 137 acres

LAMB, ESTATE

Cabery Francis Lamb

Rt. 1
58 acres

WIKOFF MRS. MATTIE

Emington Locke Harold G. Tenant

Rt. 1
120 acres

LOVELL B. A.
Cabery

LARSON JOSEPH
Kempton

Rt. 1
acres

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MACKINSON, JENNIE Rt. 1

Kempton Daniel Mackinson 320 acres

McCAUGHEY H. H.
Emington Donley Roger

Rt. 1
80 acres

Cabery Nelson Leslie

Rt. 1
loO acres

MALONE JOE SR

Kempton Malone Joe Jr.

Rt. 1
160 acres

MILLER KANNE, LORETTA & ARNOLD Sec. 22 Rt. 1

Emington John M. Kanne Tenant 240 acres

MILLffi S. F.
Cabery

Rt. 1
acres

NELSON ALVIN M.
Cabery

Rt. 1
160 acres

NELSCN CASPER
Cabery

Rt. 1
acres

NELSON ims.

Kempton Nelson Godfrey

Rt. 1
113 acres

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NELS™, ALLEN
Dwight

NIELSEN ANDREW P.
Cabery

Rt. 1
acres

O'DONNELL LORETTA
Emington

Rt. 1
80 acres

REYNOLDG ESTATE Rt. 1

Cabery Harry E. Nielsen Tenant 160 acres

REYNOLDS ESTATE Sec. 8

rabery Madsen Donald R. Tenant

Rt. 1
320 acres

PCTffiSON Ol;CAJJ p. Sec. 27 Rt. 1

Emington Lloyd Peterson Tenant 320 acres

RICH DELLA

Kempton Martin Geo.

RICHIE ESTATE

Buckingham Richie John

SCHAFROTH, OLLIE

Kempton L.H. Scha froth

Rt. 1
160 acres

SANCKEN, JOHN, VIRGIL, & LAEL Sec.l8&19 R.R./C
Emington 133 acres

SANCKEN SONS
Emington

Sec. 19 R.R. #2
120 acres

SEIDENIOP EMMA Rt. 1

Cabery fhristensen Harry 200 acres

SARGEANT GLEN

Cabery Loughry Earl

Rt. 1
80 acres

SLATER WALTER
Buckingham Miller John

SMi™ CLARA

Emington Foley Edmund Joe Tenant

Rt. 1
120 acres

STHAYER CmRLIE
Emington

Rt. 1
53 acres

SMITH, R.E.

Emington Norman Smith Tenant

Rt. 1
160 acres

TAYLOR ROY Sec. 20

Emington Bridges Wayne

Rt. 1
160 acres

Kemp ton

R.R.#1
acres

TELEFORD, ELIZABETH Rt. 1

Emington Wayne H. Bridges Tenant 80 acres

SPAFFORD CHARLES

Emington Godfrey Nelson

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ULRirH LOUIE H. Sec. 9 Box 35
lampus

WAGNER HOWARD
Kempton

Rt. 1
acres

WALSH. EDNA Sec. 21 pt. 1

Emington Cyril J. Fraher Tenant 160 acres

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W«3NER GEO. 8. CLARENCE
Kempton

Rt. 1
160 acres

WALSH, HAROLD E.

Emington James L. Morgan Tenant

Rt. 1
160 acres

WAGNOR AUGUST & EARNEST
Kempton Hardwick Robert

Rt. i
160 acres

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Cabery Lowe Fred

Rt. 1
160 acres

ViATTffiSON, ROBERT I. Sec. 10 Rt. 1

Cabery Patrick E. Masching Tenant 160 acres

WALGENBACK ES'^A'^F

....'. Sec. 30

Biungton Jones Reg. Tenants

Rt. 1
160 acres

WOOLEY, M.S.

Kempton Avis Bailey

'"YLIE, ARTHUR
Suing ton

Rt. 1
160 acres

Rt. 1
acres

WEST ROY 0.
Bnlngton

Rt. 1
160 acres

WYLLIE, JOHN

Cabery Milo Holm Tenant

Rt. 1
162 acres

100

WYLLIE, JOHN M.

Emington Dale Kanne Tenant

Rt. 1
240 acres

WYLLIE ESTATE

Emington Nelson Clarence

Rt. 1
114 acres

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102

CHARLOTTE TOWNSHIP

CHARLOTTE

103

REVISIONS 1

SEE

COUNTY

MAP

fOd DUItS
OF REVISIONS
ON R0*0 TYPE
AND CULTURAL
FEATURES.

CHARLOTTE TOWNSHIP

GENERAL HIGHWAY MAP

BUREAU OF re:se;arch and planning

DIVISION OF HIGHWAYS
DtPABTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS > BUILOINOS

US DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROADS

SCALE .

HI-

SCALE OF ENLARGEMENTS

POLYCONIC PROJECTION

SULLIVAN TOWMSHIP

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CHARLOTTE
T27N R6E

104

CHARLOTTE

In the eastern portion of the county, on the Illinois Central Railroad, lies the
village of Charlotte, with a population of forty-five. It is situated just south of the
Vermilion River. Around it are thriving farms of the kind seen in other parts of the
county. Charlotte is the only community of Charlotte Township, which in 1950 had
a total population of 391. First settler of the township was Patrick Monahan, who
came in 1857 and who was described as "a genuine, warm-hearted, big-souled
Irishman." A pioneer of the township, L. W. Dart, is said to have named the town-
ship after "a girl that he courted in Vermont in his bachelor days, and for whom
he seemed to still retain a warm feeling."

105

CHARLOTTE EVANGELICAL UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH
Rt.l /iacre Cull(

CHARLOTTE SCHOOL

Cullom Mrs. Roena Telford Teacher

Rt. 1
^ acre

ANDERSON, MARY A. ,\MD rR;\NK C.
Chatsworth

Rt.l
120 acres

ASKEN A. D. & ROBERT Rt. 2

Chatsworth Foster Donald Renter 160 acres

106

BAKKER .MAGGIE ESTATE
Piper City

Rt. 1
80 acres

BENDEP, JACOB

Chatsworth Lloyd Bendei

Rt. 1
acres

BALDWIN, GLADYS E., HERR, MARIE M.
Chatsworth Charles E. Elliott

Rt. 1
160 acres

BENNETT ROT E. & RICHARD L. — HELEN M. Rt. 1
Chatsworth 100 acres

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BLATZ , MRS .

Chatsworth Raymond Wallrich

Rt. 1
acres

BENNETT, ROY E. Rt. 1

Chatsworth Clarence C. Helen May 120 acres

BAYSTON, CHESTS A. Sec. 31 Rt. 2

Chatsworth Clarence B. Bayston Tenant 120 acres

BERGAN BROS.
Forrest

Sec. 18 Rt. 2

320 acres

107

BITNER FRED
Chat '.worth

Rt. 1
80 acres

CAUGHEW R , S .
Chatsworth

Rt. 1
74 acres

CULKIN ARTHUR Rt. 2

Chatsworth Renter Culkin Charles A. 160 acres

BRADY MR :. 'L^LIA Rt. 2

Chatsworth Renter Hoeqer Leonard 160 acres

CUNNINGTON RAY MRS. RUTH CORDING Rt. 2
rhat'.-. -.r*"-, '"nrd'-- '.Vayne 240 acres

CAIN, MARIE

Chatsworth Paul Salzman

Rt. 1
157 acres

DANFORTH, MED
Forrest

Rt. 1
80 acres

108

DOHMAN, FRANK

Cullom Alvin Saathoff

R.R. Hi.
180 acres

DESMCND PEARL E.
Chatsworth Bargmann Otis

Rt. 1
40 acres

FARRAGHER, EDWARD OWNER Rt.l

Chatsworth Richard Dohman Tenant 233 acres

DOHMAN, FRANK

Cullom George Dohman Renter

Rt. 1
200 acres

DRILLING BEN

Piper City Pearson Howard

Rt. 1
160 acres

109

EDWARDS, EVfflETT
Chatsworth

Pt. 1
80 acres

FARAGHER EDWARD
Chatsworth Payston Howard

EDWARDS EVffiETT
Chatsworth

ENDRES WITTLER FRED &. JOSEPHINE Rt. 2"

Chatsworth Endres Fred Tenant 240 acres

FEELY h;ATHl)YN

Chatsworth Francis Feely

Rt. 1
184 acres

FAPAGHER, ALBH^T
Chatsworth

Rt. 2
acres

FLESSNER, JOHN
Piper City

Rt. 1
160 acres

110

FOr.E.'.lAN, MINNIE Pt. 1

Chatsvvorth Clifford M. Sterrenberg 160 acres

FLESSNER, V;.J.
Chatsi orth

Rt. 1
160 acres

FRAHER ED. Sec. 29
Chatsworth Perkins Archie Tena"

Rt. 2

160 acres

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FLESSNER, WILLIAM
Chatsworth

Ht. 1
acres

F■T.E^^A^l, minnie

Cullom Harry Rosendahl

FRIEDEN JCHN H.
Piper City

111

GINGRICH MISS AGNES
Chatsworth Honegger Albert

Rt. 2
160 acres

HAHn, WS. LriLA
Chatsworth

GINGffilCH FRANK L. Rt. 2

Chatsworth Cole Elden V. Tenant 160 acres

HARMB, FANNIE
Chatsworth John Harms

Rt. 1
160 acres

Rt. 2

Forrest Bohannan Robert Tenant 160 acres

HAASE WILLIAM

Piper City Haase Merritte C.

Rt. 1
80 acres

HARRINGTCN EARL

Piper City Berry Graydon

112

HEMKEN FRED
Chatsworth

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JACKSON LESTER Rt. 2

Chatsworth Renter Kurtenbach Clarence

160 acres

HERKERT OTTO

Chatsworth Schlabowske Jerome

Rt. 1
acres

JAMES, MRS . PERCY
Chatsworth Lewis McNeely

Rt. 1
160 acres

HETKERT, OTTO

Chatsworth Lester Herkert

/ Rt. 1
160 acres

JEHLE EARL & FLOYD

Piper City Flessner Eldon

Rt. 1
40 acres

113

KIERCE, E.J.

Chatsworth Charles A. CulkinRenter

Rt. 2
80 acres

KERBH?, MRS. ANNA Rt. 1

Chatsworth Dan W. &. Leonard C. Kerber 400 acres

KILEY, MRS. LUCILLE Sec. 30 Rt. 2

Chatsworth Gerald P. Kemmer Tenant 160 acres

KERBffi LEONARD
Chatsworth

Rt. 1
80 acres

Chatsworth ► ina tlveiftt

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KIELY M^S. LUCILLE

Cullom Renter Robisky Raymond

Rt. 1
240 acres

KING LLOYD
Chatsworth

Rt. 1
130 acres

114

KLOTHE MRS D A
Piper City

Rt. 1
40 acres

KRUEGER, MRS. WM.
Chatsworth Lester Hubly

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KNOLL, FRANK
Chatsworth

Rt. 1
97 acres

KYBUR2, F;ED
Chatsworth

Rt. 1
160 acres

LARNARD ESTATE

Chatsworth Frank Crews

Rt. 1
160 acres

KRUEGffi, MRS. WM.
Chatsworth Lester Hubly

LARNED ESTATE
Chatsworth Frank Crews

115

LA'.-JLESS, JOHN ESTATE
Chatsworth

Rt. 1
acres

MHISErJHELDER, THEODORE C. Rt. 1

Chatsworth Russell L. Lindquist 200 acres

McGREAL, MARGARET
Chatsworth Francis Dohman

Rt. 1
160 acres

CRTLEPP ESTATE
Saunemin

116

OTIMULLHK K.J.
Cullom

Rt. 1
280 acres

SAATHOFF, BEN
Chatsworth

Rt. 1
80 acres

OTTMULLER, R.J.
Cullom

Rt. 1
54.73 acres

SAATHOFF MRS. FRANK
Chatsworth Saathoff Georqe

Rt. 1
acres

ffi«™l«

ROEDER JOHN Sec. 27
Chatsworth

Chatsworth

Rt. 1
160 acres

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RYAN JOHN

Chatsworth Hubly Leo Renter

Rt. 2
160 acres

SHOLS CLARENCE J.
Chatsworth Shols Donald M.

Rt. 1
120 acres

117

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SHOLS, CLARENCE J.
Chatsworth

Rt. 1
120 acres

BRUNS, SISTERS
Chatsworth

Rt. 1
156 acres

SHOLS ESTATE

Chatsworth Omer J. Lindquist

Rt. 1
200 acre?

STERRENBERG, FRITZ
Chatsworth

Rt. 1
120 acres

BRUNS SISTERS
Chatsworth

Rt. 1
acres

STERRNBffiG MRS. HENRY
Chatsworth Kerrins J. R.

Rt. 2

400 acres

118

VIRKLER ELKBi

Chatsworth Virkler Perry

Rt. 1
160 acres

STODDARD, MISS MELITA

Piper City William Dohman

WAHLS, ROY

Piper City Lyle Wahls

Rt. 1
200 acres

STRIEN, MICHAEL
Chatsworth

Rt. 1
acres

WALKER BROS .

Chatsworth Francis Dohman

Rt. 1
120 acres

THCRNDYKE JOHN J.
Saunemin

Rt. 1
142 acres

WALLRICK, WALLACi
Chatsworth

Rt. 1
120 acres

119

WEHSTEIN JCHN & CAROLINE Sec. 17
Forrest Kyburz Dan Tenant

Rt. 2
200 acres

i'.iLl: uN mr- . lijA ~.ec. ly Rt. 2

Forrest Hendershot Harry A. Ten. 154 acres

WILLIAMS HENRY

Chatsworth Rosendahl W. A.

Rt. 1
acres

ZORN FRANK Sec. 19
Forrest Zcrn Clair Tenant

Rt. 2
160 acres

Chatsworth Hanna Leslie Renter 200 acre;

120

CHATSWORTH TOWNSHIP

CHATSWORTH
CEREAL

121

«1.IM0»-,

FOR DATES
OF REVISIONS
ON ftOAO TYPE
A«0 CULTURAL
FEATURES.

CHATSKORTH TOWNSHIP

GE>IERAL HIGHWAY MAP

BUREAU OF RESEARCH AND PLANNING

DIVISION OF HIGHWAYS
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORftS k BUILDINGS

Htl-

SCALE OF ENLARGEMENTS
V4 Vj ^

POLVCONIC PROJECTION

I - TO PIPER CITr

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122

CHATSWORTH

Platted nearly a century ago, the incorporated town of Chatsworth, in the
southeast corner of the county, today has a total population of 1,119. It has num-
erous retail stores, service establishments, banking facilities and a postoffice.
The town is located on the Illinois Central and the Toledo, PeoriA & Western rail-
roads and on US 24. Chatsworth was founded in 1859 by Zeno Secor and Corneli-a
Oilman, both of New York.

Today, it is the principal community of Chatsworth Township, which has a
total population of 1,582. First settler of the township was Franklin C. Oliver, who
arrived in 1832. It was in Chatsworth Township that the Reverend Jesse Walker,
known as the "Daniel Boone of Methodism," established a mission at an Indian
camp here called Kickapoo Grove (later called Oliver's Grove).

123

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CEREAL

Another community of Chatsworth Township is the small hamlet of Cereal. It
is located southwest of Chatsworth on the Illinois Central Railroad. The hamlet is
surrounded by level, fertile farms as productive as any in the county.

124

DILLER TILE COMPANY

Manufacturers of High Grade Drain Tile
Retailer of Brick and Steel Culverts

PHONE 81
CHATSWORTH, ILLINOIS

PONTIAC READY-MIX, INC.

512 N.Vermillion St.

Phone 5035

PontiaC/ Illinois

125

BARTLETT

Lumber and Coal Company

Lumber, Coal and Building Material
Posts, Fence and Paint

PHONE 148
CHATSWORTH, ILLINOIS

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FARMERS' GRAIN COMPANY

OF CHARLOTTE

Grain • Coal • Feeds • Seeds

FERTILIZERS
MILLING AND SEED CLEANING

PHONE 4
P. O. Chatsworth, III.
CHARLOHE, ILLINOIS

HAPPY HOME STOCK FARM

P. H. McGREAL & SONS

Dealers and Truckers of Livestock

Route 2
Chatsworth, Illinois

OLIVER GROVE FARM

FOUNDED IN 1829

ABERDEEN ANGUS CATTLE
Eileemere Breeding

CHATSWORTH 97F2

MR. and MRS. O. O. OLIVER

Route 2

Chatsworth, Illinois

126

ST. PAUL EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN
Rev. K. F. Trost

Chat s wo r t h

.i4lk»^..;iC.«Mj!SiadlP^

COMMUNITY UNIT DISTRICT NO. I
Chatsworth Kibbler Principal

OLD PLEASANT VIBV SCHOOL Dist. 251
Chatsworth

Breeding Available

At All Times

Oldest Continued Breeding

Herd of Herefords in

Livingston County

DAN J. DONOVAN

FOUR CORNER STOCK FARM chatsworth, Illinois

127

1£.

CHATWWORTH CEMETffiY
Chatsworth

ABERLE, CARL

Thawville Harold Aberle Operator

Rt. 1
240 acres

GERMANVILLE CEMETERY
Chatsworth

BARTLETT MR . & MRS . C . G.
Chatsworth

ST PATRICK'S CEMETERY
Chatsworth

BARTLETT LUMBER & COAL CO
Cnatsworth

GffiMANVILLE COMMUNITY HALL
Chatsworth

BLAIR MRS. MAR<'. '
Chatsworth Shadylane Earn
Operated By J. Lauren Blair

128

Mit

Bi< AUV MAkuAk £
Strawn

CLAUDON, CHESTER Rt. 2

Chatsworth Walter Grieder Operator 240 acres

BROWN GEORGE 8. CLARA SCHADE Box 329 Rt.

Chatsworth 144 acres

CLAUDON, CHESTER Rt. 2

Chatsworlth Cleotis Grieder Operator 240 acres

CAVANrt3H CHARLES & EMMETT
Strawn

CAVANAGH EDWARD
Chatsworth

Rt. 2
70 acres

CONVERSE ESTATE Pt. 2

Chatsworth Raymond C. Martin Operator 320 acres

129

COOMBS A. J
Chatsworth

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COOMBS DR . A. J. Rt. 1

Chatsworth Fred F. Hornstein, Opr. 212 acres

Chatsworth Russel Edwards

nt. 1

200 acres

DASSOH RALPH C. Rt. 1

Chatsworth Harold L. Dassow, Opr. 240 acres

130

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DASSOW RALPH '■•■■• 1

Chatsworth Kenneth Hummel Opr. 200 acres

DEHH, LAVERNE
Chatsworth

Rt. 1
80 acres

DILLERTILE CO.
Chatsworth

DONOVAN DAN K
Chatsworth

DONOVAN DAN J
Chatsworth

Rt. 1
160 acres

FELT, WM. Pt. 2

Chatsworth Ernest Kemnitz Operator 160 acres

DONOVAN JCHN F.
Chatsworth

FERREN ETTA
Chatsworth

Rt. 1
acres

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FARAGHER, ED.

Roberts John Boomgarden Operator

Rt. 1
160 acres

FCRD THOMAS C
Chatsworth

131

FRANEY, EDMOND
Oiatsworth

Rt. 2
acres

GERTH HERMAN kt. i

Chatsworth Hubert S. Herman Gent Opr. 160 acres

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FROEBE BROTHERS Rt. 1

Chatsworth Vernon Hummel Opr. 240 acres

GERTH HUBERT
Chatsworth

Rt. 1
acres

GABEL ALVINA
Chatsworth

Rt.
60 acres

GILLETT, MRS. HOf.'.-:^' HI. 1

Chatsworth Lloyd B. Gillett Opr. 160 acres

132

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GRC6ENBACH CLARENCE Rt. 2

Chatsworth Arnold Ashman, Opr. 100 acres

HOELSCHHR EARL
Chatsworth

Rt. 1
160 acres

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GROSENBACH WALTER
Chatsworth

Rt. 1
160 acres

HUTTENBURG ETHEL
Chatsworth

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HITCH, ALFRED
Chatsworth

Rt. 1
120 acres

IFFT, WM. Rt. 1

Roberts Anton Boomgarden Operator 240 acres

133

IRWIN MILPJRD
Qiatsworth

Rt. I
acres

KEOHLEP, MRS. GEORGE
Roberts

Rt. 1
160 acres

KDEHLER A. B.

Chatsworth Robert Koehler, Opr.

Rt. 1
120 acres

KIMMEL DALE
Chatsworth

Rt. 2
19 acres

KfJEHLER ROBERT
Chatsworth

Rt. 1
120 acres

134

KOERNER LELAND
Chatsworth

Rt. 1
210 acres

KUEFFNER CLARRISA
Chatsworth

Rt. 1
160 acres

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KOERNER PHIL

Chatsworth Koerner Homestead

Rt. 1
160 acres

KIKTENBACH, MRS. ELIZABETH Rt. 1

Chatsworth Francis Kurtpnbach Opr. 240 acres

KCHLER C. E. 8, PHIL
Chatsworth

Rt. 1
160 acres

KL',: iLNLiAl H, Ffcl -.-F

Chatsworth

nt. 2

acres

KOHLER PHIL A.

Chatsworth Leo Hornstein, Opr.

LEAR ISBELLE
Chatsworth

135

The Livingston Grain Co.

GRAINS - SEEDS - FEEDS - FERTILIZERS

"Take Care of the Soil and It Will
Take Care of You"

HOWARD TRINKLE
Manager

CHATSWORTH, ILLINOIS

LIVINGSTON AIR SERVICE
Chatsworth

STOTON HOUSE L'nit #6 Rt. 1

Chatsworth 80 acres

F. Leland and Martha W. Livinqston

lae

LIVINGSTON, F. LELAND & MARTHA I'J. Unit #1 Rt. 1
Chatsworth John A. Haberkorn, Operator 160 acres

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LIVINGSTON F LELAND & MARTHA Rt. I

Chatsworth Rosendahl Jerry Unit #9 400 acres

LIVINGSTON, MARTHA iV. Unit #4 and 5 Rt. 1
Chatsworth F.L."Pete" Livingston, Opr. 560 acres
Henry IV. Haberkorn, Resident

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LIVINGSTON, MARTHA '.V . Unit #3 Rt. 1

Chatsworth F.L."Pete" Livingston, Opr. 400 acres
Fteter Nickrent, Resident

THE LIVING3T.N GRAIN CD.
Chatsworth

LIVINGSTON GRAIN 8. SUPPLY WAREHOUSE
Chatsworth

137

LIVINGSTON, F. LELAND & MARTHA W. Rt. 1

Chatsworth 160 acres

MURRAY ROBERT Rt. 1

Chatsworth Opr. George Luckett 320 acres

McGREAL & SONS Rt. 2

Chatsworth McGreal Bros. Opre. 240 acres

OLIVER, ORVILLE MR. «. MRS .
Chatsworth Oliver Grove Farm

Rt. 2
640 acres

McGRL,,x. 1 . ...

Chatsworth McGreal Bros. Opr.

Chatsworth

138

olivef; crville

Chatsworth Raymond T. Martin, Opr.

Rt. 2
acres

PENWITT ROBERT & ALBERT
Chatsworth Ford Delmar A.

OPIE GLENN & PATRICK
Chatsworth

Rt. 2
176 acres

OS LAND MARGUERITE
Chatsworth

PERKINS :.y . ■■;.:■■:■ Sec. 6 Pt. 2

Chatsworth Perkins Roy A. Tenant 100 acres

OSLAND MARGUERITE
Chatsworth

PIERCE ED J. - Fannie 8. Esther
Chatsworth

Rt. 1
80 acres

139

PORTERFIELD S. J.

Chatsworth Opr. Richard Ashman

Rt. 2
80 acres

PUFFER LOUIS
Chatsworth

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SCHADE, CHARLES J. ESTATE Rt. 1

Chatsworth Francis C. Schade Operator 120 acres

SCHADE LESLIE

Chatsworth

Farmed By L. Clair Schade

Kt. 1
200 acres

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RINGLER, CLARENCE
Chatsworth

Rt. 2
160 acres

SCHAFER ALBERT
Chatsworth

Rt.
160 acres

SARGENT WAYNE
Chatsworth

SHAFER ED ESTATE Rt. 1

Chatsworth Opr. Lloyd Shafer 360 acres

140

ChatsHorthk Dan A. Schlatter, Opr. 160 acres

ALOIS SCHULZ ESTATE

Chatsworth Hiillip Schulz, Opr.

Box 295
28 acres

SMITH LEE R ,
Chatsworth

STADLER, RAYMOND
Chatsworth

Rt. 1
120 acres

STaiTEMYER E. R. Rt. 1

Chatsworth Augusta Schlemmer Opr. 320 acres

TJARDES HARRY

Strawn Opr. Edgar Haab

141

TRl'NK, FRANK M. Rt. 1

Chatsworth James E. Trunk Opr. 160 acres

WILLIAI^ HENRY
Chatsworth Hanna Leslie

Rt. 2
208 acres

TUCKER, KENNETH R. Rt. 2

Chatsworth Harley Snow Tenant 240 acres

WOLKEN ANTON Rt. 1

Chatsworth Leo Berdes Operator 220 acres

WATKINS, RALPH

Chatsworth Homer Shell Opr.

Rt. 1
250 acres

WRIGHT RICHARD 0.
Chatsworth

Rt. 2
8 acres

WATSON MRS. MARY ELLEN
Chatsworth Wesley Clem, Opr.

Rt. 1
80 acres

ZII.V.'.ERMAN, GLEN & COLE, M.E.
Chatsworth

142

DWIGHT TOWNSHIP

DWIGHT

143

ON ROAD TYPE
«N0 CULTURAL
FLATUBES.

DWIGHT TOWNSHIP
GENERAL HIGHWAY MAP

BURilAU OF RESEARCH AND PLANNING
DIVISION OF HIGHWAYS

dcpartme;nt of public works & BUILOIN&S

US DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROADS

. SCALE .

■ F 1 I 1 I-

Hit-

SCALE OF ENLARGEMENTS

POLYCONIC PROJECTION

144

DWIGHT

Second largest community of Livingston County, and once famous throughout
America as the home of theKeeley Institute, is the incorporated village of Dwight.
In 1950 it had a total population of 2,843- In and near the village today are located
the State Reformatory for Women, built in 1930, and the Dwight Veterans' Hospital,
a unit of the Veterans' Administration Facility.

Dwight was platted in 1854 by Richard P.Morgan, Jr., on land owned by Mor-
gan and several others, among them Jesse W. Fell. The latter was a great-grand-
father of Adlai E. Stevenson II, candidate for President of the United States in
1952. After the Chicago & Mississippi Railroad was built through Dwight late in
1854, the village quickly expanded as a commercial and shipping center.

The Keeley Institute, an establishment for the cure of alcoholism, was foun-
ded here in 1879 by Dr. Leslie E. Keeley. Most prominent of Dwight's citizens
during the 1920's was Frank L. Smith, farmer, banker and leader of the Republican
party in Illinois. Today, Dwight is the only community in Dwight Township' which
has a total population of 3,586. First settler of the township was John Conant,
who arrived early in 1854. He was the first postmaster at Dwight village.

145

HATCHERY
and MILLING CO.

GENERAL OFFICES DWIGHT • RETAIL STORES IN DWIGHT, KANKAKEE. MORRIS AND STREATOR

KNUDSEN CONCRETE PRODUCTS CO.

READY-MIX CONCRETE • CONCRETE BLOCKS • BUILDING MATERIAL

Phone 1 1
415 SOUTH WASHINGTON STREET DWIGHT, ILLINOIS

146

esDwlahi L^teenkouded

PHONE DWIGHT 122
Dwight, Illinois

EsfablUhad 1835

BANK OF DWIGHT

DWIGHT, ILLINOIS

"A Cenfury of Continuous Service"

JOHN P. McWILLIAMS, President
HAROLD J. WEST, Exec. V. P. and Cashier
ANGUS S. LOWER, Vice-President
HUGH THOMPSON, Asst. Cashier

Hager Lumber Company

Lumber • Coal * Cement • Fuel Oil
Builders' Hardware and Material

DWIGHT, ILLINOIS

cJLe

.ewis
JEWELERS

Jewelry and Gifts

H. F. LEWIS

DWIGHT, ILL.

VETERAN'S HOSPITAL
Dwight

147

CATHOLIC CHURCH

Dwi gh t

METHODIST CHURCH

Dwi g h t

14«

LUTHERAN CHURCH
M a zo n Av e .

Dwigh t

M^^y^g^

ST. PETER & PAUL CATHOLIC SCHOOL & CHURCH
Rev. Richard Raney Chatsworth

149

DWIGHT PUBLIC XHOOL
Dwight

VET. - ANIMAL IICSPITAL
Dwight

PRIME SCHOOL
Dwight

Mcdowell cemetery

Dwight

ADAM & MARX GARAGE
Dwight

SI. PATRICKS CcMElERY
Dwight

ADAMS ROBERT
Dwight Ballou James Tenant

Rt. 3
acres

150

iV.C.VlLLiA;.t: iVir.o. HELLN ! t. 1

Dwight Anderson Andrew H- 320 acres

BOUCHAKD HiANUT;
Dwight

i-t. 1
320 acres

BEIER, IRVING
Dwight

Rt. 1
136 acres

BUNTTING, JAMES
Dwight

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BUNTING JMCS R .
Dvight

Rt. 3
120 acres

BLITSTINE BILLIE
Dwight

BUNTING LESLIE
Dwight

151

BUNTING ESTATE

[>»ight Worm Lewis Operator

BtBH HATCHERY & MILLING CO.
Dwlght

BUNTING ESTATE Rt. 3

Dwight Miss Bunting & Mrs. Worm 160 acres
Anderson LeRoy S. Operator

"'&«««'"

BURGER WAYNI
Dwight

Rt. 2
Jo/ acres

CHRISTENS EN, C.

Dwight

BURNS DR . J . J .

Dwight Burkhart Howard P.

CHRISTMAN DONALD
Dwight

152

CHRISTMAN, LOUIS
Dwight

Rt. 3
80 acres

CHRISTOFER ELMER

Dwight Anderson Harry Ten.

Rt. 1
acres

CLEAR Y LUMBER CO. Old Rt. 66

Dwight Telephone bOO All Types of building
Material, Millwork, Hardware, Paints, Etc.

CHRISTOFER ELMER
Dwight

Rt. 1
80 acres

DAMGARD DCROTHY

Dwight Cazel Earl E. Tenant

153

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Dwight Perschnick Herman Opr.

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Rt. 1
160 acres

DAMGARD DCROTHY OUGHTON

Rt. 1

DAVIS ELMER L.

Rt. 3

Dwight Carter Richard Tenant

180 acres

Dwight Weaver S. Sons

320 acres

DAMGARD DOROTHY OUGHTON Rt. 3

Dwight Curraiy Joseph Opr. 200 acres

DAVIS MRS. R .
Dwight

Rt. 3
320 acres

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DAM3ARD, DCBTHY Rt. 1

Dwight Fred Christensen Operator 180 acres

DIPPON E
Dwight

154

DORMAN RICHARD & THEODORE
Dwight Andreason Jens Opr.

Rt. 3
240 acres

EHMAN Wis. LEO
Dwight

Rt. 3
149 acres

DCRNBIERER JACOB
Dwight

Rt. 3
160 acres

FIELDMAN EMIL
Dwight

Rt. 1
95 acres

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FIELDMAN RAY
Dwight

Rt. 1
160 acres

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DWIGHT GREENHOUSE
Dwight

FIELDMAN ROBERT LEE
Dwight

Rt. 3
160 acres

155

Dwight

.jrsg

Pt. 3
acres

FJELDE MARTIN
Dwight

Rt. 3
acres

GARRETT, MRS. FLCRENCE
Dwight Lyle Brierly Operator

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GRAVES, MRS. CARRY
Dwight

Rt. 3
160 acres

FLINT MRS. NONA
Dwight

Rt. 3
200 acres

GRIEFF LYLE
Dwight

Rt. 1
200 acres

156

GUTEL, EARNEST
Dwight

Rt. 3
148 acres

HAGER LUMBER CO.
[)wight

HAHN LUTHbi u.
Dwight

Rt. 3
160 acres

HOLO HAN, FRANCIS R ,
Dwight

Rt. 1
5 acres

HANSEN S. N
Dwight

Rt. 2
160 acres

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SANCKENS THEODORE

Dwight Holzhauer Raymond Opr.

Rt. 1
141 acres

157

KLINE FRANK
Dwight

Rt. 3
acres

KELCH, MRS. CHLOE
Dwight

Rt. 1
63 acres

KLEIN, MRS. NORMAN OWNER
Dwight . Arden Chappie Tenant

Rt. 3
80 acres

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KEPPLINGER, GEORGE
Dwight

Rt. 1
160 acres

KLEHM ALBERT C.
Dwight

Rt. 3
120 acres

KCRNffl CAROLINE
Dwight

Rt. 3
Lot

158

KUEFFNER HEIRS
Chatsworth

Rt. 1
160 acres

CAZEL EARL

Dwight McBeath Loren Tenant

Rt. 3
acres

KYBURZ HENRY ESTATE
Chatsworth

Rt. 2
54 acres

LESKANICH JOHN

Dwight Leskanich Richard Opr.

Rt. 1
238 acres

McCONNELL, JAMES Rt. 3

Dwight Jaraes E. McConnell Tenant 160 acres

Rt. 3
7 acres

McCCNNELL WM . & ELIZABETH
Dwight

159

McWILLIAMS ALEX

Dwight Branz William D.

Rt. 3
160 acres

uHatMHafli

McWILLIAJ/B CHARLES
Dwight Brown Sherman
Prince of Wales Farm

Rt. 1
345 acres

McWILLIAMS WEST, L.
Dwight

Rt. 2
209 acres

McWILLIAMS ESTATE Rt. 3

Dwight Burkhart H. L. Tenant 283 acres

McWILLIAM, CHARLES D.

Dwight Qrland Bossert Operator

Rt. 1
450 acres

McWILLIAMS ESTATE

Dwight Burger Wayne Tenant

160

MICHAELS RAY
Dwight

Rt. 3
acres

NELSON S. 0.

Dwight Wilkey James W.

Rt. 3
160 acres

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MILLER ROBERT
Dwight

NEVILLE FRANCES

Dwight Turner Marion F.

Rt. 3
80 acres

MYERS SAM S. GEO

Rt. 3

O'BRIEN RICHARD & TIMOFHY BROS.

ru. 3

Dwight Burton Clem C.

160 acres

Dwight

160 acres

161

OLDGMOBILE GARA3E
Dwight

OUGHTON JAMFS

Dwight Larsen Jacob Opr.

O'NIELL, MRS. JOSEPH

Dwight Lindy Larsen Operator

■ :■'• ■: 'AMES Rt. 3

Dwight Mortensen Andrew Operator 312 acres

OLGHTON JAMES H.

Dwight Ferguson Sanford Opr.

OUGHTON RICHARD
Dwight

Ft. 3
240 acres

162

OUGHTON R. C.

Dwight Lucas Ralph Tenant

Rt. 3
360 acres

DEACON CHARLES

Dwight Paulsen Walter

Rt. 3
320 acres

0U3HT0N R . C .

Dwight Hopkins Delaney

Rt. 3
230 acres

PATCHETT JACK L.
Dwight

Rt. 3
3/4 acre

PRICKETT JAMES

Dwight Lund Henry Tenant

Rt. 3
80 acres

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PAULSEN MARTIN Rt. 3

Dwight Batten Irwin Dealer 200 acres

RADCLIF.-E ESTATE

Dwight Worby Francis Opr.

Rt. 1
80 acres

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RIORDAN, GRACE

Dwight Leo Riordan Tenant

SCHMITT BERT F.
Dwight

SEABERT JOHN

Rt. 1

riwiqht Pittman Alice

116 -

■ 40 acres

SCOTT E.

Rt. 3

oHHARHK WILLIAM

Rt. 3

Dwight

Porth Arnold Opr.

80 acres

Dwight Thomas Glen

200 acres

164

SONDERGAARD MRS. P. H.

Dwight Lauritzen Holgar Opr.

Rt. 3
80 acres

STANDARD OIL
Dwight

STARRETT EDWARD
Dwight

Rt. 1
80 acres

SPANDET MRS. BEATRICE

Dwight Mortvedt Howard Opr.

CLEM STEICHEN ESTATES

Dwight Niesen Wilbur Operator

SPENCER A. D.
Dwight

Rt. 3
200 acres

^H^9»^i|34Pe

■P

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SRs^E

mgjH

STRUFE MOTEL

Dwight John & Dorothy Strufe Old 66

165

SUTTON CARL
Dwight

Rt. 3
1 acre

THOMAS HAROLD S. VERNA
Dwight

rt. 3
160 acres

TERWILLEGAR GERTRUDE K.
Dwight

Rt. 3
acre";

'^i^&iiiSSii^

WALSH, DALE Rt. 3

Dwight Edward Masching Ciperator 186 acres

Gen. Del.
Lot

"y^^fn^-^rmsr^;

TERWILLGAR MRS BhHl
^^ight Rose Jot

Ri. 3
1)0 -Tcrts

liAl ll-K; , L,l

Dwight

Rt. 2
160 acres

166

NATTERS HENRY
CVfight

Rt. 3
acres

W^ .«».

t:z.

ZABEL FRED
Dwight

Rt. 1
120 acres

WILKINSON DICK
Dwiqht

Rt. 1
2 acres

WCRM, LEWIS

Dwight Lester Hansen

Rt. 3
160 acres

167

168

EPPARDS POINT TOWNSHIP

OCOYA

169

FOB DATES

or revision:

OH ROAD TYPE

EPPARDS POINT TOUKNSHIP

GENERAL HIGHWAY MAP

BUREAU OF RESEARCH AND PLANNING

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORK

US DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCI
BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROADS

. SCALE .

SCALE OF ENLARGEMENTS

POLYGON IC PROJECTION

-II-

r:2:^'^"> - J ^

3 5 "H 38

MC LEAN CCUMTY

OCOYA
T27N P5E

170

OCOYA

Only community of Eppards Point Township, south of Pontiac city, is the
village of Ocoya, with a population of forty. It is served by the postoffice at
Pontiac. The village is located on the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad and on US 66
(principal highway in Illinois between Chicago and St. Louis). Ocoya was platted
in 1854, the same year in which the railroad was built through the area, by Jona-
than Duff and A. W. Cowan, banking partners of Pontiac.

First building in the village was a combination warehouse and depot erected
by Charles Roadnight, then general freight agent of the Chicago & Alton Railroad.
The township in which the village is located, Eppards Point, today has a popula-
tion of 625. First settlers of the township were members of the Eppard, Hayes,
Pendle, Brock, Suttle and Anderson families, all of whom are believed to have
arrived about 1834 or 1835-

171

#1p

III ta^^

CENTER METHODIST CHURCH

Rev. Paul McCleary Rt . 4

Pont i ac

HYBRID CORN PIANT

SMALL SIID PLANT

PIKE HYBRID CORN COMPANY, INC.

Pontiac, Illinois
'The Largest Suppliers of Farm Seeds in Livingston County"

172

CENTER METHODIST CHURCH & TOWNSHIP SHEDS

Rt . 4 Po n t i ac

GRACE EVANGELICAL CHURCH
Rt.5 lacre

Che no a

173

?>^-

^sMi-

CENTER 9CH-
Pontiac

Mcdowell school Dist. 8i

Eppards Point Miss Cecil Easton 8 grades

FAIRVIEW 3CH00L
Chenoa

OCOYA SCHOOL
Ocoya

KELLY SCHOOL Dist. 83

OLD BRICK SCHOOL
Pontiac

LAKESIDE SCHOOL
Chenoa

Ht. 2
1 acre

OLD TURTLE CREEK SCHOOL
Pontiac

Rt. 4
1 acre

174

- ')

H^^l|^%i^^

^.*.?"J'.\<,<.

REED SCHOOL
Pontiac

Rt. 5
1 acre

ADSIT STEFHEN
Pontiac

Rt. 4
160 acres

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. '4

•-^^^s

p!*-''

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■1

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CHENOA CALVARY CEMETffiY
Chenoa

ANDERSON MRS NORA
Pontiac

Rt. 4
acres

PAYNE CEMETERY
'Jienoa

'.■^«tf^ii^. .

."'i 'Jt.* , \^^l

ASPER F. EARL Rt. 4.

Pontiac J. T. Armstrong Estate 350 acres

.^♦'

ACKERMAN WILLIAM
Pontiac

Rt. 4
acres

ASPB? WILBERT W Rt. 5

Pontiac J. T. Armstrong Estate 210 acres

175

^''S&i^

BAHLER, HERMAN no.:

Fairbury Merle W. Kaisner Operator 22b acrer

BARNES, EARNBT Rt. 4

Pontiac Leroy Barnes Operator 80 acres

BAILEY EVffitn Rt. 4

Pontiac Perry Sanders, Employee 370 acres

BARNES, EARNEST
Pontiac

Rt. 4
120 acres

BALBACH, MISS DYMPNA
Fairbury V..0. Willis Mgr.

Rt. 3
160 acres

BAPTIST CONUENTION OF SPRINGFIELD
Pontiac R. C. Westermeyer

Rt. 5
acres

BROCK, L.M.
Pontiac

176

BRUCKER, JOHN

Pontiac Gaylord A. Stephens Mgr.

Rt. 4
160 acres

Chenoa James Craddock

CHENOA STONE CO .
Chenoa

Rt. 1
acres

CRAIG ARTHUR E.
Chenoa

Rt. 1
23i- acres

177

CROtCH ELMEH
Pontiac

Rt. 4
acres

DAWSUN, MIsb DI'LA

Chenoa Swift Dawson Mgr.

Rt. 2
160 acres

CUNNINGHAM F.
Pontiac

Rt. 4

160 acros

DILLON PAUL
Pontiac

Rt. 4
120 acres

DAHL CLINTON L .
Pontiac

Rt. 4
120 acres

DOLTON, C.L.
Pontiac

Rt. 1
20 acres

DANCEY ESTATE , SAMUEL Rt. 3

Fairbury Harold and Lloyd Metz Operator 312 acres

[XiNoVAN JAMES P.
Chenoa

Rt. I
160 acres

176

FINNEL FRANK Rt. 5

Chenoa 160 acres

EGGENBERGER MRS. NELLIE
Pontiac

Rt. 4
160 acres

FITZGERALD, ELIZABETH Rt. 4

Pontiac Gilbert H. Hobart Mgr. 395 acres

.^*«*'lS

ELLIWGER, MRS. jH^iKIE
Pontiac

Rt. 4
acres

^LUtH LtNA
Chenoa

Rt. 1
120 acres

ELLINGER MRS. NO. A Rt. 4

Pontiac Opr. Frederick Smith 120 acres

FLURER CHARLES W.
Chenoa

Rt. 1
80 acres

179

FLURER IDA
Pontiac

Rt. 5
80 acres

FREDERICK W WARREN
Pontiac

Rt. 4
acres

FOLSON MISS EDITH
Pontiac

Rt. 4
acres

GENTES MRS. HAZEL
Chenoa

Rt. 1
acres

Rt. 1

240 acres

GREEN, CYRUS R.
Pontiac El -

Rt. 4
120 acres

FREDERICK RAY

Pontiac Green Acres

Rt. 4
80 acres

GILMAN WALTER & SON
Pontiac

180

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r-*""^-'

OILMAN WALTER & SON r. . . -

Pontiac 245 acres

GREEN ESTATE NATHAfi

Pontiac Albert Shafer Operator

Rt. 4.
280 acres

.— ^

GLEASON MARGARET

Pontiac Schultz Bros. QDrs.

RT. 3
160 acres

HAMILTON JES;e B

Pontiac Mgr. ^rville Hamilton

Rt. 4
acres

Fairbury Lee J. Hobart Operator 160 acres

HAMILTON JESSE B.
Pontiac

Rt. 4
80 acres

■flfei

GRAVES MRS . CLARA
Pontiac

Rt. 5
97 acres

HITCH HARRY Rt. 3

Fairbury Harold W. Schroeder Mgr. 80 acres

181

HCBART LEE J.
Fairbury

Rt. 3
acres

Fairbury Ronald Tinges Mgr.

Ht. 3
80 acres

HOOPES DR. B. F.
Pontiac

Rt. 4

240 acres

HOUDBR ESTATE Rt. 4

Pontiac Francis Ricketts Operator 80 acres

JACOBS AVRS. CHRISTINE
Pontiac

Rt. 4
80 acres

JENSEN MARSHALL
Ftontiac

Rt. 4
200 acres

182

KRIDNER GORDON
Pontiac

Rt. 4
240 acres

KEELEY ELMETA
Pontiac

Rt. 4
160 acres

KRIDNER GJRDON
Pontiac

Rt. 4
acres

KING, MRS. EVA M. OWNER
Fairbury Ronald Tinges Mgr.

KRIDNER HAROLD
Pontiac

Rt. 4
80 acres

183

KRIPFEL ALEX
Pontiac

Rt. 5
80 acres

LEDFORD LESTER H
Pontiac

LIVINGSTON STONE CO.
Pontiac Mgr. David Moran

LEH, CHAItLES
Chenoa

Rt. 1
15 acres

MAMHR MRS ANNA

Pontiac Mgr. Don Bressner

Rt. 4
160 acres

184

Mccarty eugene & robert

Pontiac Eugene McCarty

Rt. 5
200 acres

MOHR MRS. F. J.
Pontiac Leo Shoop Mgr.

Rt. b
80 acres

MEYER N D ESTATE
Pontiac

Rt. 4
160 acres

MORRISCN J. CHESTER
Pontiac Melody Lane Farii

MOAT MRS . AMELIA
Pontiac

Rt. 4
240 acres

MOHAR, KATHERINE Rt. 4

Pontiac Clarence Gates Operator 80 acres

OCOYA CO— OP GRAIN CO.
Pontiac

185

XOYA STONE CO.
Pontiac

PHILLIPS B. W.
Pontiac

Rt. 5
2 acres

ORLAND ELLIS Rt. 5

Pontiac J. T. Armstrong Estate 160 acres

Rt. 2
acres

PICK HARRY E
Chenoa

Rt. 2
200 acres

PFLAGER, ELIZABETH

Pontiac Cleo Snow Operator

Rt. 4
110 acres

PIKE LHiOY Rt' 4

Pontiac Pke Hybrid Corn Company 160 acres

186

PIKE HYBRID CORN CO., INC.
Pontiac

POTTER G. H.
Ocoya

Rt. 5
120 acres

RAMSEYER, A.D.
Pontiac

Rt. 4
80 acres

PULSIPHER, LYDIA

Chenoa Franics W. Grant Mgr.

REED FRANK H
Pontiac

187

ROOF, MRS . REUBEN

Pontiac Cleo Snow Operator

Rt. 4
80 acres

RICHARDSON, DR. D.E.
Pontiac

Rt. 4
acres

PUFF, A'^'FHi"' r.

Pontiac Everett Ruff Operator

Box 48
51 acres

RIPLEY RAYMOND
Ocoya

u>y^'

RUFF HAROLD J. & JEROME R. Rt. 4

Pontiac Oprs. Lewis & Harold 290 acres

188

RUTHERFORD, MELVIN 0.
Chenoa

Rt. 1
27 acres

SCHIIL'17 ELMER
Pontiac

Rt. 4
acres

SCOTT HENRY
Pontiac

Rt. 4
160 acres

SCHULTZ ELMER
Chenoa

Rt. 1
80 acres

SCHULTZ L
Pontiac

Rt. 5
160 acres

3CHR0EDER, JOHN C.
Pontiac Harold Schroeder

Rt. 4
160 acres

SCHULTZ RONALD W.
Pontiac

Rt. 4
240 acres

189

SCHULTZ RAYMCND W.
Pontiac

Rt. 5
acres

SHAFER, MRS. WM. Rt. 4

Pontiac Abner Brockman Operator 19C acr^s

,iJAj -. ,

SEAMAN EDWARD
Chenoa

SEEMAK FRED L .
Chenoa

Rt. 1
80 acres

SMITH MRS. NELLIE
Pontiac

Rt. 4
80 acres

SHAFffi, ALBERT J.

Pontiac Donald Alltop Employee

Rt. 4
80 acres

SMITH WARREN
Pontiac

Rt. 5
58 acres

190

TPFrxn p.

Chenoa

Rl. 2
acres

UMSTEAD DAVID
Pontiac

Rt. 5
125 acres

TURCK PIERRE
Pontiac

Rt. 4
acres

VILVEN, WAYNE
Pontiac

Rt. 4
120 acres

TURCK PIERRE
Pontiac

iwn \

Rt. 4
440 acres

TURCK PIERRE
Pontiac

Rt. 4
160 acres

WADE, MRS. OLIVE
Chenoa

191

. ■ :: ■ , '.J' . ". ■ ■ , ■ .A.G. It. 4

Pontiac Richard Ruff, Operator 200 acres

V.'AGNER, HA.^RY AND ;;t'ITIl
Pontiac

Rt. 4
154 acres

WAGNER STONE CD.
Pontiac

WAGNER MRS LAURA
Pontiac

Rt. 5
328 acres

WAGNER STCNE CO. Rt. 1

Chenoa Mgr. Hilton F. Dunahm 172 acres

WALDDR JOHN 0.
Pontiac

Rt. 4
4 acres

WAGNER G L
Pontiac

Rt. 5
120 acres

WEBER B.
Ocoya

Rt. 5
120 acres

192

WENDING CARL J .
Chenoa

Rt. 1
60 acres

WINK JOHN
Pontiac

Rt. 4
80 acres

WENELING CARL J
Chenoa

Rt. 1
60 acres

Mi^tHB^

WILKINS GLEN
Chenoa

Rt. 1
140 acres

WIRTZ, NONIK
Chenoa

Rt. 1
llT-j- acrps

WOMACK G W
Chenoa

Rt. 1
12 acres

193

WORTHINGTON MRS. HATTIE
Pontiac

Kt. b
110 acres

iVhiuHiAM MAHVIN L
Pontiac

Rt. 5
115 acres

WEBBER A J

Pontiac Mgr. Clark Webber

YAMBHIT, C.H.
Chenoa

Rt. 1
160 acres

194

ESMEN TOWNSHIP

ROWE

195

ESMEN TORNSHIP

GENERAL HIGHWAY MAP

BUREAU OF RESEARCH AND PLANNING •

BEVISIOHS

SEE COUHT?

MAP

DIVISION OF MIGMWAVS

FOR 0»TES
OF REVISIONS
OK R0»0 TYPE

DCPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WOflRS & BUILDINGS ,
US DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

FEATURES.

1 ^^^"-^ 2 3 4 MILES

I 1 1 1 1

— 1 1 1

SCALE OF ENLARGEMENTS
V* Vj 3/4

POLYCONIC PROJECTION

KQWE

196

ROWE

Founded more than eighty years ago, the village of Rowe, northwest of Pon-
tiac city, is today the only community in.Eamen Township. It is located on the
Wabash Railroad in the south portion of the township. Rowe was platted in 1871
and named after James Rowe, owner of the site. In that same year the Chicago &
Paducah Railroad — now the Wabash — was built through this part of the county.

The township in which the village is located, Esmen, today has a total popu-
lation of 514. First settler of the township was John Chews, who came from Ohio
in 1835. A later settler here was B. P. Babcock, who afterwards was elected a
county judge. Another early settler was Apollos Camp, son-in-law of the famous
American clockmaker, Seth Thomas.

197

BAUGHMAN N. S.

Odell Opr. Baughman, Everett

Rt. 3
160 acres

CAMP CEMETERY 1911

Odell

BAYLES LOUIS T.
tornell

Rt. 1
318 acres

AFl, (."*•' L F.

Pontiac

Rt. 3
40acres

BBCK, LEONARD F.
Cornell

BARR, LOR IMG C.
Cornell

182.5 acres

BOLEN, JOHN C
Odell

198

Rt. 2
160 acres

COLLINS ELOISE Rt. 3

Pontiac Mgr. Arthur E. Wiehle 320 acres

BROWN JOSEPH

Odell Brown Elwin

COLLINS GORDON
Pontiac

199

COLLINS, RCP^T
Pontiac

Rt. 3
160 acres

tiss Claude

Rt. 3
acres

COOL FLOYD JR.
C6rnell

Rt. 1
5 acres

CURTISS, MRS . FANKY
Pontiac

CURTISS, MRS. FANNY
Pontiac Carl Curtis Mgr.

Rt. 1
290 acres

CRGGO, VRS. ERNEST

Pontiac Roland Crego Operator

Rt. 3
77 acres

DEHM, WILLIAM

Odell Weldon Dehra Opr.

200

DES VOIGNES, MRS. ETHEL
Odell Wesley Starker Opi

Rt. 2

160 acres

EATON GRETTON
Cornell

Rt. 1
180 acres

EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH FARM Rt. 3

Pontiac Opr. Floyd Highland 145 acres

EATON, GRETTON
Cornell

FINKENBINDER MERLE E
Odell

201

.-. . ■'. :.; vic'h; Rt. 3

Pontiac Arthur Eckhoff Opr. 120 acres

GSCHWENDTNER MRS. FRANK
Pontiac Mgr. Leonard Albert

Rt. 1
160 acres

FISHER, E.G.
Odell

Rt. 2
160 acres

FORr;,

Pontiac

HAMERWAY ESTATE
Pontiac '. "1;!:;^

FOSSEEN SAMUEL 8, ELSIE
Pontiac

Rt. 3
acres

HAMREWAY ESTATE

Pontiac Mrr. Peterson, Arnold

202

fwilM^PP^^^

HANSON ANTON Rt. 3

Pontiac Mgr. Gundlock Robert 250 acres

HERGEHT, MRS. AGHES

Odell J.E. Ross Operator

Rt. 3
220 acres

HARGRAVE J. W. Rt. 2

Odell Oprs. J. r. - Eldon - Glenn Finkenbinder

HIGHLAND, OLE
Pontiac

Rt.3
120 acres

il^?^'T^>

HARGRAVE J. W. Rt. 2

Odell Oprs. J. R . - Eldon - Glenn Finkenbinder

480 acres

HIGHLAND SAM A.
Cornell

Kt. 1
115 acres

HARRIS, ARTHUR
Pontiac

.. Rt. 3
80 acres

HOBART SCOTT

Pontiac Asper Harold

Rt. 3
80 acres

2ua

U, BE:TS, 'AILLIAiM H. Rt. 3

120 acres

iii'i.': : :: - :■,:

Odell Earl Snyder, Sr. Opr.

HOSKINS, DELOS

Cornell Donald Gordon Mgr.

Rt. 1
160 acres

HUMISTON ESTATE

Pontiac Opr. Lloyd Baughman

Rt. 3
acres

HUGHES, WILLIAM

Cornell Donald Gourley Opr. 240 acres

HURT, GAITHER
Odell

nt. 2

80 acres

HUMISTON ESTATE-1

Odell Floyd Greenman Operator

204

^'^S*-

JACOBS IDA Rt. 1

Pontiac Opr. James W. Erschen 155^ acres

JACOBSON, JOHN E.
Pontiac

Rt. 3
80 acres

KMUDSON EGBERT
Cornell

Rt. 1
27-^ acres

KIMBER, WILLIAM A.
Odell John Senninger

KRAAI, JACOB

Odell Telford Thorson

205

LAFEBER T. J.

Rt. 2

LEGNEF L.

Rt. 3

Odell Mgr. Wagner E.

80 acres

^, e r ,

Harold

240 acres

"^^'»v.;««i

LL'NDY, PARIS

Cornell Robert Green Mgr.

Rt. 1
acres

LARSON. ALGUST W.

Cornell Virgil P. Larson Tenant

MACKINSON, CHARLES D. Rt. 3

Pontiac Earl Mackinson Operator 320 acres

206

f.iACKINSON MRS. EiV,.".A Rt. 3

Pontiac Raymond Mackinson Operator 160 acres

Mccarty mrs. leo

Pontiac

Rt. 3
120 acres

MACKINSON J. D.

Pontiac Opr. Mackinson, J. W.

Rt. 3
320 acres

Mcintosh, gay

Cornell

, Rt. 1
94 acres

MAUPIN, WILLIAM C.
Cornell

Rt. 1
acres

MCCABE, RICHARD
Cornell

Rt. 1
acres

MURRAY, LESTER

Odell Gordon Collins Operator

207

^^URRAY, LESTER Rt. 3

Odell Gordon Collins Operator 160 acres

NICHOLS, BAr-:NEY
Cornell

Rt. 1
97 acres

MYERS, LESLIE D.
Cornell

Rt. 1
120 acres

NOLAN CHRIS

Odell Sumner Jay R.

Rt. 2
160 acres

NELSON A. V.

Odell Opr. Otto & Earl Coffey

-'orilijc \Ur

Rt. 3
160 acres

NELCON, A.V.
Odell

OLIVER mS. ELLA

Pontiac Opr. Schmidt, Walter

208

PIPER, RALPH
Pontiac

Rt. 3
80 acres

sj^T^

PASCAL PETffi JR.
Cdell

Rt. 2
240 acres

POWELL, JESSE

Cornell Leroy Kavanaugh t-Sgr

Rt. 1
175 acres

PEACH W.
Cornell Mgr

3rl Swanberg

Rt. 1
230 acres

PEARSON, M^S. LYLE Rt. 3

Pontiac Eldon Ftearson Operator 233 acres

RAPP EDWARD

Pontiac Opr. Rapp Ronald

Rt. 3
160 acres

209

t-MKN^'-r- f t^

RAUBE, CARL
Pontiac

RISLEY. CLAUDE 0.
Cornell

Rt. 1
19i acres

SCHMIDT, RAYMOND L .
Pontiac

Rt. 3
200 acres

RT. 2
160 acres

SCHOOK ARNOLD
Odell

MM Rt. 2
160 acres

210

SHAY ARTHUR R.
Pontiac

RT. 3
156.5 acres

SHAY ARTHUR R.

Por. t iac

SHAY ESTATE

Pontiac Opr. Howard Shay

GHANC, BURTON

Pontiac John Shane Operator

SHULT, FLOYD
Cornell

211

^^§i&^

SIDRi:: ,
Cornell

Rt. 1
120 acres

Rt. 2
160 acres

^.Otm

SIDFRIDS, LOWELL
Cornell

Rt. 1
120 acres

TODD DAVID G.
Odell

Rt. 2
acres

.:. A, , MRS. GUSSIE L.
Cornell Gaylord Mcintosh Mar

Rt. 1
acres

SINN, CHARLES E.
Odell

Rt. 2
acres

TFAINOR, SID
Pontiac

212

Pontiac Burtis Turner Mgr.

Rt. 3
120 acres

WESSEL, F.H.

Odell Sam Gourley Operator

Rt. 2
160 acres

■■-it^s^

TURNER., JC6EPH
Odell

Rt. 2
160 acres

KHALEN, JOE AND AGNES
Pontiac

Rt.
120 acres

WILMOTH DR. ELMER
Pontiac

Rt. 3
100 acres

^Ji».

WEAVER LOUIS E.
Pontiac

Rt. 3
78 acres

WILSON, GEORGE
Cornell

Rt. 1
160 acres

213

214

FAYETTE TOWNSHIP

STRAWN

215

REVISIONS 1

SEE

COUNTY

fo«

D»I£S

REVISIONS

W»0 TYPE

«H(

CUITUBAL

TUBES.

FAYETTE TOWNSHIP

GENERAL HIGHWAY MAP

BUREAU OF RESEARCH AND PLANNING

DIVISION OF HIGHWAYS
DePARTMCNT OF PUBLIC WORKS & BUILDINGS

SCALE OF ENLARGEMENTS

POLYGON IC PROJECTION

_ __ _. ^ ^.. . j^^^X:^ ^ _• .

FORD COUNTY

216

STRAWN

An early "railroad town" of the county is the incorporated village of Strawn,
which today has a population of 173. It is located near the south boundary of the
county on the Wabash Railrotu and on State 47. The village was platted in 1873,
or soon after the Chicago & Paducah Railroad— now the Wabash— was built through
the area. It was named after David Strawn, founder of the village.

Strawn is the only community in Fayette Township, which has a total popu-
lation of 450. The first settler of the township was Rees Morgan, who arrived in
1863. A few years later Fayette Township became the site of a major portion of
the famous Burr Oak Farm, claimed at that time to be one of the largest farms in
the world. It was established by M. L. Sullivant and embraced nearly 40,000 acres
in Livingston and Ford counties.

217

THE METHODIST CHURCH
Ellis Brinnon Pastor

S t r a wn

stha™ grade school

Strawn Mabel Marlar, Principal

ST. ROSE CATH0LI6 & STRAWN PROTESANT CEMETERY
Strawn

Riskhaven Farm

REGISTERED BROWN SWISS
Since 7922

LIVINGSTON COUNTY'S HIGHEST HERD
(Also Three Highest Cows)

PHONE STRAWN 6F12
GEORGE LEHMANN
FORREST, ILLINOIS

218

ST. ROSE CATHOLIC CHURCH
Father Powers

St r awn

ADAM ED 8. FRED
Strawn

Rt.
160 acres

BAHLER, HERMAN
Strawn

ADAM ED, KATHERINE, & FRED
Strawn

BAHLER HERMAN & EDWARD MEISTER
Fairbury

Rt. 2
160 acres

219

BENWAY, WILLIAM

StravvTi Jerome BenAay Operator

BITTNER BEN Rt.

Strawn Oscar Schneider Cpr. 160 acres

"■^■t \

■^ ^ .

BCLLIGER, WM.

"a John Mueller, Operator

BRUCKER HAZEL Rt. I

Strawn Wayne Davis Opr. 320 acres

lo**.. ja.

BRADY W. B.
Chatsworth

Rt. 2
162 acres

CRUM ESTATE

Strawn Charles Seegrailler Operator 100 acres

220

DECKER FARM
Stravm

GKBffi LYDIA, LAURA, AND CHRIS Rt.

Strawn Irvin Gerber Operator 113 acres

>i-»m^

DUKE GLENN

Strawn Bobby Moore Opr.

GEYER, ALF.
Strawn

Rt. 1
115 acres

ELI.IOTTE, GILBERT

Strawn Everette Aliott, Opr. 156 acres.

GOEMBEL, I".'. A.

Strawn Paul Goembel Operator 160 acres

FRENCH, J. ■ Rt. 1

Strawn Richard Ringler Operator 200 acres

GREENE MBS. THOMAS
Strawn

221

GREUTER DAN

Strawn Sam Zimmerman Opr.

HIBSCH PAULINE

Strawn Jesse McNutt Opr.

HAACK, H. A.
Strawn

HOERR ESTATE

Forrest Paul Ifft Operator

Rt. 1
148 acres

HAACK, HFPf.W!

rator 160 acres

HCRNICKLE FRANK

Strawn Greatworth Farm

Rt.
acres

HHNRXCHS HEIRS

Strawn Chris Kafer Operator

222

KUNT7, AGNE"^

Strawn Francis Kuntz Operator

KENNEDY MARY
Stravm

KUNTZ ARTHUR
Stravm

m-^-iS

KIEFER, MRS . LYDIA

Strawn Wesley Kiefer Operator 160 acres

Lhll, :, .

Stra.-.n

lliU acres

223

- ■ ■■ -L^. t". ' -

LINCOLN LELIA ESTATE
Strawn

Rt. 1
160 acres

MARLIN JC8EPHINE
Strawn

PERKINS VERA L. Box 53

Strawn Harvey Leman Opr.

Rt.
246 acres

MEEKER, G.M. ESTATE

Cropsey Bernard Convis, Jr. Opr. 160 acres

PRATT HARRY Rt. 1

Strawn Opr. Morris Pratt 160 acres

PSIKINS ARTHUR
Strawn

raATT PERRY
Cropsey

224

•-■te.^'^ip'^st.

PRATT, PERRY
Crop?py

Rt. 1
acres

RUDOLPH HEIRS ESTATE
Strawn

QUAKER OATS ELEVATOR RISK STATION
Strawn

SHADE UBP.-.

Rt. 1

120 acres

RATH MR. 8, MRS. GEORGE J,
Strawn

Rt.
76 acres

RINGLER, FRANK
Cropsey

STAPK, LEWIS E.
Cropspy

Rt. 1
acres

225

STEFFEN SISTERS

Stravvn Elsworth Dixon, Opr.

Rt. 1
207 acres

•4

1^m^...^^..^,M^mt

■^^^■^^1,.^

BRLh

STEFFEN, W.J.
Fairbury

Rt. 2
190 acres

STEIN CHESTER
Strawn

STEFFEN, W.J.

Strawn John fAieller Operato:

Pt. 1
1 .■'' acres

STEIN FRED C.
Strawn

III* ■■■■Ml il

STEFFEN W. J
Strawn

STRAWN MRS. F. M. ESTATH Rt.

Strawn Walter Tredennick Cpr. 270 acres

226

STOAWN _ SIBLEY DIST School
Strawn Dick Poppe, Opr.

STRAWN ESTATE MRS. P.M.
Strawn Ben Bachtold Operator

STHAWN — SIBLEY SCHOOL DIST.
Strawn William H. Brandt Opr.

STRAWN ESTAU: ? .M . Rt . 1

Forrest George Lehmann Operator 415 acres

SUTER, ELIZABETH

Strawn Joe and Gerald Kuntz Operators 240 acres

STRAWN SIBLEY SCHOOL DIST.
Strawn

THE STRAWN PIT

Strawn Ed - Fred & Katherine Adam

227

YUDHR SIDNEY
Strawn

WENGER EDWARD

Strawn Opr. Warren Hartman 160 acres

ZIMMERMAN, MRS. WILLIAM Rt. 3

Pontiac Jensen & Zimmerman Oprs. 120 acres

228

FORREST TOWNSHIP

FORREST
RISK

229

MAP
FOB D»IES
OF REVISIONS
RO«D rrPE
AND CULTURAL
FEATUBES.

f — I I — i~F

FORREST TOWNSHIP
GENERAL HIGHWAY MAP

BUREAU OF RE.SEARCH AND PLANNING

DIVISION OF HIGHWAYS
OePAHTMENT OF PUBLIC WC«KS & BUILDINGA

US DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROADS

, ^^^^ 2
I I

SCALE OF ENLARGEMENTS
'^ V2

POLYCONPC PROJECTION

230

FORREST

On the Vermilion River, southeast of Pontiac, lies the incorporated village
of Forrest, which in 1950 had a population of 1,040. It has numerous retail stores,
service establishments, banking facilities and a postoffice. The village is located
on the Toledo, Peoria & Western and the Wabash railroads and on US 24 and State
47. The village was platted in 1866 for I. J. Krack, owner of the site. He was first
postmaster here, as well as first railroad station agent.

Forrest village is the principal community of Forrest Township, which today
has a total population of 1,632. First settler of the township was Charles Jones,
who came from New Jersey in 1836 and built a log cabin on the site of present
Forrest village. Soon after railroads were built through the area, quite a few Ger-
man-Amish immigrants arrived in the township and established farms.

231

BUSINESS SECTION OF FORREST

232

RISK

Only other community of Forrest Township is the small hamlet of Risk. It is
served by the postoffice at nearby Strawn village. The hamlet is located on the
Illinois Central Railroad and on State 47.

233

CITY OF PONTIAC

On the courthouse lawn in Pontiac may be found a stone memorial to the
celebrated Indian chief after whom the city is named. Here, also, stands the Sol-
diers' and Sailors' Monument, memorializing men of the county who fell in the
Civil War. The city's central business district contains branches of such national
chain stores as J. C. Penny Company, Kroger, A & P, National Tea, Montgomery
Ward & Company and Sears Roebuck & Company.

234

BUSINESS SECTION OF PONTIAC

235

CROSS ROADS
CAFE

Open 24 Hours Daily

PHONE 209

Intersection of Routes 24 and 47

FORREST, ILLINOIS

FIRST STATE BANK OF FORREST

"Complete Banking Service
for our Community"

GLEN E. OPIE President

HUGH WALLACE Vice-President

FRED RIEGER Vice-President

R. HIPPEN Director

WILLIAM G. FOLLMER Cashier

VELMA B. BROWN Ass't Cashier

R. D. HIPPEN Ass't Cashier

FORREST, f>^, PHONE
ILL m^I 21

f^^v:*»

IT^'*^^

FORREST MILK PRODUCTS CO., INC.

FORREST, ILLINOIS

236

Head's Herefords being loaded for Ecuador, Soufh Am9iiea

ROBERT HEAD

Owner and Breeder of

Registered Herefords

FORREST, ILLINOIS

Herd Sires Now fn Use . . .

REAL SILVER DOMINO — 335

REAL HUSKER — 6TH

BEAU DOMINO — 400

These Sires are being used on Husker Mischief, Young Mischief, and Beau Paladin Cows

237

CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH

Forrest

THE BACHTOLD ALL PURPOSE MOWER

IT SAWS — Big 20-inch blade can be used in
either horizontal or vertical position.

IT MOWS — Cuts fence rows, fields and lawns.
Works equally well on flat or hilly terrain.
Can come equipped with 2-whee! drive.

IT CULTIVATES — Replaces four separate garden
tools! Cultivator attachment works almost
any type of soil including rocky ground.

No finer built machine of its type on the
market today.

SELF PROPELLED OR PUSH TYPE

Manufactured Exclusively by

BACHTOLD BROTHERS, INC.

FORREST, ILLINOIS

238

REORGANIZED CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER
DAY SAINTS Forrest

The Old Audd School Dist. 193 Rt . I

OLD GRADE SCHOOL

Forrest District 192

FORREST GRADE 8. FORREST STRAWN WING H. S. Rt.

Forrest A. H. Tomlinson, Supt.

Agricultural Transportation Ass'n

FREEMAN L. VAUGHAN • YODER BROTHERS
Agents

FORREST, ILLINOIS • PHONE 70
tocaf and Long Distance Hauling

"WE HAUL AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS ANYWHERE"

239

FORREST CEMETERY
Forrest

ABBOTT LOUIS W Rt. 2

Fairbury Lyle Brucker Opr. 160 acres

ADS IT ESTATE
Forrest

Rt. 1
160 acres

ANLIKER, EMIL
Forrest

Rt. 1
140 acres

■A"Y

lirbury IVm. C. Wheat Opr.

^^^ui^-i "liiilllfimiliilll

AGRICULTURAL ^BA^^SPORTATICN ASSOCIATION
Forrest Vaughn L. Freeman Agent

AUSTMAN HARRY
Forrest

240

AUSTMAN HARRY Rt. 2

Forrest Donald D. Harms, Opr. 240 acres

BACH HEIRS Rt. 1

Forrest Harvey Rieger Operator 240 acres

BACHITOLD BROS. INC.
Forrest

mj. 'c..j^^p

^^mm.u

l^^j^j^^jii^S)****'^-

fc jt^L^^

^■CSK^^

f^^

BACHTOLD, GUS

Strawn Walter Baker Operator

Rt. 1
160 acres

BEAL WILLIAM H.
Forrest

241

BROqUARD, JOE SR . ' t. 1

Forrest Joe D. Broquard Jr. Opr. 240 acres

Bl'^-'l, V. ALTER
Forrest

Rt. 1
acres

BROQARD ESTATE
Stravm

BYRNE, MRS. FLOYD A. Rt. 1

Forrest Dean Nussbaum Operator 160 acres

242

CHRISTOFF, WILLIAM
Forrest

u.n.tu

104 acres

FARNEY JENNIE Rt. 1

Forrest Warren Farney Operator 210 acres

CROSS ROAD CAFE
Forrest

FARNEY VIRGIL
Forrest

DECKER MRS. HENRY
Strawn

FEHR, JOHN W.
Fairbury

.C -*• ^iW*^

Rt. 2
129 acres

243

FRANEY JOHN T
Chatsworth

FLEMMINGS, MRS. KARY B. Rt. 2

Chatsworth Robert Kroeger Operator 160 acres

FUNK, MRS. CLEDA Rt. 2

Fairbury Raymond Mishler Operator 160 acres

GEE GUY K .

Forrest Guy & Sons Oprs.

Rt. 1
acres

244

"....Afif^il

GERBffl, JOHN
Forrest

Rt. 1
59 acres

HARI GOTTLIEB Rt. 1

Forrest Sidney Lebman Operator 160 acres

•-«*iS!K'

GERBER LYDIA
Forre st

HARI GOTTLIEB

Forrest Carl John Operator

Rt. 1
160 acres

^■:.:^.:. i„>;.;_. Rt. I

Forrest Chris Schaffer, Operator 160 acres

HEAD ROBERT Rt. 2

Forrest Breeder of Reaestered Herffords

HALLAM, JEROME J.
Forrest

Rt. 1
157 acres

HODGSON, A.V.

Forrest Earl Anderson Operator

245

HONEGGER, PAUL
Forrest

Rt. 1
acres

HCNB3Ge^ FRANK 8. SAM
Forrest

Rt. 1
acres

HONBXER, PAUL
Forrest

Rt. 1
acres

HCNEGGER SAM R.
Forrest

Rt. 1
3 acres

-m

HONEGGffi, JULIA
Forrest

Rt. 1
120 acres

HOTBSGER, SAM AND FRANK Rt. 1

Forrest Ray Steffen Operator 160 acres

246

HCNEGGERS TEST FARM
Forrest

HOTALING PHILLIP Rt.

Forrest Russel Lindenbaum Opr. 160 acres

JA^ES, ALMA LEWIS Rt. 1

Forrest Charles Holforty Operator 240 acres

HCNEGGffi ESTATE
Forrest

KAFB, HENRY
Fairbury

Rt. 2
165 acres

247

KAISNER, MATILDA . t. 1

Forrest Wm. Perdelwitz Operator 157 acres

KOEHL ANDREW Rt. 2

Fairbury Clarence Koehl, Opr. 160 acres

KEELEY ESTATE THE

Forrest Harold Keeley Opr.

LANG:^TAFF I"' . JA^ES
Fairbury

Rt. 2
240 acres

KLOPFENSTEIN HARRY
Forrest

LAW, LUCY AND OTIS H.
Forrest

248

LEMAN MRS. CARRIE Rt. 1

Forrest Clarence Kachelmuss Opr. 160 acres

LIVINGSTON GRAIN & SUPPLY tti.

Forrest Fred L. Martin Gen. Mgr.

MORRIS, BERTHA Rt. 1

Forrest <--v,.-,ctpr Wince Operator 80 acres

MAIER MRS. ALDINE Rt. 1

Forrest Edward Traub Operator 140 acres

NUSSBAUM IRA

Forrest Willis Nussbaum Opr.

349

NUSSBAUM, SAM Rt. 1

Forrest Nelson Nussbaum Operator 160 acres

RIEGER, HERMAN

Forrest Hascal Martin Operator

Rt. 1
acres

ROTH, DAN

Forrest Marvin Roth Operator

Rt. 1

160 acres

RIEGffi, FRED
Forrest

Rt. 1
acres

ROTH HARRY
Forrest

Rt. 1
acres

250

RUDD, JESSIE

Forrest Sam Meyer, Operator

Rt. 1
132 acres

SLOCOMB, LILY 8, WAGENSELLER, PEARL Rt. 1
Forrest Perry Honegger Operator 160 acres

SCHAFFER, ROBERT E.
Fairbury

Rt. 2
200 acres

SMITH JAMES & MARY

Forrest Edward Honegger Opr.

^^m-",

EIHLEK ;.:, .. ..;.;.

Forrest Carl Waibel Operator

Fairbury

Rt. 2
60 acres

SKINNER, H.C. Rt. 1

Forrest John Bammann Operator 200 acres

Rt. 2
165 acres

251

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SOMSiS F. P. ESTATE

Fairbury Al J. Somers, Opr.

Rt. 2
160 acres

STEIDINGffi, JOHN
Forrest

: t . 1

75 acres

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dfej-

ti*J

.MM

lil^

p""^^^

^^ kP

mim

■■»

p»^

pr -iM

STANFORD, IVRS . MINNIE J. ,„^ ''*• ^

Forrest Guy K Gee & Sons Operators 186 acres

isfe^j^ws''

STEIDINGER, ELMffi Rt. 2

Fairbury Richard F. Steidinger, Opr. 160 acres

STEIDINGIS, ROY
Fairbury

252

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^^ji

.-.JV

^Bifl

I^H

STOLLER, ALEX Rt. 1

Forrest Elmer Huisman Sr. Tenant 200 acres

TOAUB EDWARD G.
Forrest

Rt. 1
160 acres

STOLLER, BEN

Forrest Arthur Huette

WEEKS, MRS. HOBERT

Fairbury Roger Weeks Operator

253

WENGffi ALBERT
Fairbury

Rt. 2
270 acres

WOODING, J.E.

Strawn John "ar + ir. "n.-ratc

Rt. 1
320 acres

WENGER, EDWARD Rt. 2

Fairbury Raymond Wenger Operator 100 acres

YODER, SIDNEY
Forrest

Rt. 1
180 acres

WINTER LAND, DICK
Fairbury Wal*'"-

Rt. 2

Inr-i "pprator 120 acres

YCDER, SIDNEY
Forrest

Tit. 1
180"'acres

WOODING, J.E.

Stravm John Martin Operator

Rt. 1
80 acres

YCDER WESLEY
Forrest

254

Id^JkJBt'

ZIMMERMAN, SAM
Fairbury

Rt. 2
160 acres

ZIMACRMAN, GEORGE
Fairbury

Rt. 2
82 acres

'/.■HARTON, VAN 0.

Fairbury Donald Broquard Renter

Rt. 1
acres

'■■ULLIMJB, TED
Fairbury

Rt. 1
2 acres

255

256

GERMANVILLE TOWNSHIP

Although having no towns or villages, Germanville Township, in the southeast
corner of the county, is a thriving locality of farms which are as productive as any
in Livingston County. At the present time, the township has a population of 262.
It derived its name from an early influx of German-Amish immigrants, who broke
the prairie sod and laid out farms and built roads. First settler of the township,
however, was Thomas Y. Brown, who came in 1855 from New York state. Among
the first German immigrants to arrive here were Nicholas Fraoeb and P. Goembel,
both of whom came in the fall of 1856 from the Black Forest country of Germany.
A later resident of the township was Samuel T. Fosdick, a leading county lawyer
and state senator.

257

REVISIONS 1

SEE

COUNTY

MAP

FOR

«ND
FtA

DATES
REVISIONS
ROAD TYPE
CULTURAL
TUBES.

GERMANVILLE TOUNSHIP

GENERAL HIGHWAY MAP

bure;au of research and planning

0<VISION OF HIGHWAYS
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS i BOILDIMOS

f — I I — I r=

SCALE OF ENLARGEMENTS

POLYCONIC PROJECTION

CHATStKORTH TOWNSHIP

1 k1 •\ I jvl

■Tri F-i;i- i F-i n'V : ri r i |'ri giby^e j ' ^^

FORD COUNTY

258

'''viimrtii«ipiiiijii„^„|i;,,j|'i |iV III ii'mo,^

BRUCKER PEARL Rt. 2

Chatsworth O^r. Eugene Gillette 164 acres

BENSON JCHN
Strawn

CHRISTIE ESTHER U.

StravTi \ '^. He if

BRISTLE ANDREW ESTATE

Melvin Opr. Frank Bristle

CORNELIUS CLARENCE
Melvin

BROWN JCHN C
Chatsworth

DANNFORTH, NED Rt. 1

Chatsworth Lloyd Dannforth Operator 80 acres

259

DASSOW H.N. HEIRS

Chatsworth Ralph Dassow, Agent 120 acres

ENTWISTLE MYRTLE

Melvin Opr. Jesse Meers

DICKAMN GEORGE
Melvin

HENRY FALCK ESTATE

Stravm Bernon & Marvin Opr. 240 acres

;tiawn Opr. Ludwig Metz

FARRAGHER EDWARD
Chatsworth

Rt. 1
acres

ENDRES CHARLES

Chatsworth Qpr. Albert Endres

FARAGHER EDWARD

Chatsworth Opr. Alois Reising

Rt. 1
240 acres

260

FRANEY ED.

Melvin Opr. Will Kemmer

GRUBERT HARRY 8. HEIRS

Melvin Clarence Cornelius, Opr.

Rt.
160 acres

FREEHILL MARY ESTAEE

Strawn Opr. Claude Freehill

HAMILTON MRS .

Strawn Opr. Silas Clauss

ffiOHBH HR(JlHbRS Rt. 2

Chatsworth Opr. Harold Hornickel 301^ acres

HANCOCK 0. C.
Melvin

Rt. 1
acres

jaM . -.-i^-i >u^v:

GERDES THEODORE
Melvin

HEINS REMMERT

Chatsworth Opr. John Friedman

261

HERINGER LEO

Chatsworth

Orr. Harry & Dale Cope

in. 1

400 acres

Strawn Clyde Hornickel, Opr. 160 acres

•"li^i^.,.: ~*

HCRNICKLE, ALBERT
Chatsworth

Rt. 2
acres

HORNICKEL GUST

Rt. 2

HCRNICKLE CHARLES & CONRAD

Rt. 2

Chatsworth Shady Elm Farm

200 acres

Chatsworth

240 acres

HCRNICKEL HENRY N.

Chatsworth Opr. Henry C. Branz

Rt. 2
80 acres

IRWIN WILL & W. D.
Chatsworth

262

KEMNET7 CCRA I. Rt.

Strawn Reinhart Deutsch, R:slclent 320 acres
Charles Singer Employees

KEMNETZ HANNAH
Chatsworth

KNIGHT MRS. MARGARET

Roberts Opr. Howard Bertram

Rt. 1
acres

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u."

^^^t*^'' ' '■''

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1 --*.

■-^^^e

KEMNETZ JOESPH

Strawn Opr. Vernon Kemnetz 240 acres

KOHLER C. E.

Cnatsworth Earl Stow, Tenant

Rt. 2
320 acres

Bjr- .jjBt

jmm^

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1^2

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mL,

KILEY LUCILLE M.

Stravwi Opr. Ben Rinkenberger 155 acres

KUNTZ ELIZABETH

Chatsworth Opr. George Sutter

Rt.
160 acres

263

LUlCuN JJi.N

Chatsworth Thomas Lutson, Opr.

Rt. 1
acres

'S^..

LAWLESS JANES
Strawn

LYNCH ELIZABETH & ED
Strawn Ed & Sons Oprs.

LEE GECRGE

Strawn Walter Lee, Opr.

LEE WILLIAM
Strawn

LYNCH H. J.

Strawn Opr. Harold

264

iVLIRTENSaJ, D.E.

Roberts Ray Shambrook Opr.

Rt. 1
160 acres

NETHffiTON ARTHUR Rt

Melvin Opr. LeLand Netherton 160 acres

NETHERTON MRS. DOTTIE

Chatsworth Floyd Kurtenbach, Opr

McCULLY D. W.

Strawn Paul E. Klehm

PATTuN SAMUEL J.
Chatsworth

Rt. 1
acres

McGKEAL RAPHAEL V.
Chatsworth

Rt. 1
156 acres

■

■>

■ - •• .1

I^^JH

^-^ — ^

PHILLIPS MRS. IDA
Melvin

Rt. 1
240 acres

265

ROBERTSON MRS . DCNALD

Strawn Opr. Charles Edwards 120 acres

SCHIFFGENS JOE & JULIA

Stravm Stanley Weaver, Resident

Opr. Lester Kemnetz

'^^i^si^B^£.

SCHROEN CHARLES B.

Chatsworth Opr. Glenn Schroen

Rt. 1
acres

SCHADE ESTATE

SCHROEN BRUNO

Rt. 1

Stra'/.n Charles

:~chade

Opr.

200 acres

Chatsworth ipr.

Clarence

:~chro.Ti

loO acres

PfllSlh^^^ J

Pi*

SCHIFFGENS JOE & JULIA
Stravm Opr. Lester Kemnetz

Rt.
160 acres

STCRR, CHARLES ESTATE Rt.l

Chatsworth Anton Weller Operator 200 acres

266

^jukM rhtij Rt. 1

Chatsworth Burnell Henrichs, Opr. 80 acres

UTT JAMES, AghN 1

Melvin Opr. William Mortens

TOAINCR SAM ESTATE

Strawn A. J. Walters Operator

WISTHUFF WILLIAM Rt. 1

Chatsworth Opr. Burnell Herdricks 80 acres

267

268

INDIAN GROVE TOWNSHIP

FAIRBURY

269

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FOR

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DA
BEVI

IliRi

TES
SIONS
TYPE

INDIAN GROVE TOiNSHIP
GENERAL HIGHWAY MAP

BUREAU OF RESEARCH AND PLANNING

DIVISION OF HIGHWAYS
0€PARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS & 8UIL0INGS

Hl-

f — I ' — ' >-

SCALE OF ENLARGEMENTS

1/2 ^n

TO CHEHOA - 1

T36N H6E

270

FAIRBURY

Third largest city of Livingston County is Fairbury, which today has a popu-
lation of 2,300' It is located in the rich farming area southeast of Pontiac and
through it passes the Wabash and Toledo, Peoria & Western railroads, as well as
US 24. In addition to numerous retail stores and service establishments, Fairbury
has banking facilities and a postoffice.

Of unusual interest is the fact that Fairbury was laid out in 1857 by Octave
Chanute, later to become a famous American aviation pioneer (Chanute Field, at
Rantoul, Illinois, is named after him). His associate in the platting of the town
was Caleb L. Patton, original owner of the site. Today, Fairbury is the only com-
munity in Indian Grove Township, which has a total population of 3,315. First
settler of the township was Joseph Moore, who arrived in the fall of 1831 from
Tennessee.

271

IHURO BILT

PRODUCTS, Inc.

FAIRBURY, ILLINOIS
PHONE 666

Sectional Buildings Designed for
Farm and Home

FARMERS' GRAIN COMPANY

OF FAIRBURY

WILLARD BARCLAY, Mgr.

Dealers in

Grain • Seeds • Fertilizers
Seed Cleaning and Treating

PHONE 2
FAIRBURY, ILLINOIS

J. N. BACH SONS

Lumber and Building Material
FAIRBURY AND FORREST, ILLINOIS

272

HONEGGERS

Honegger's modern feed mill a\ Fairbury
is designed to manufacture feed with
push button control, precision weighing
and recording, and absolute quality
control.

Every bag of Honeggers' "H" Feed is
dated and coded to insure uniformity
and quality that is always dependable.
The most modern, up-to-date feed mill
in the country.

The nation's largest
U. S. Certified Hatch-
ery located on Route
47, 3 miles south of
Forrest, is the home of
the nation-wide net-
work of Honegger As-
sociate Hatcheries and
the home of fhe fa-
mous Honegger Leg-
horn.

Honegger's 600 Acre
Practical Test Farm, 3
miles south of Forrest,
is the home of Honeg-
gers' testing and for-
mulation program with
about 2,000 hogs, 20,-
000 chickens, numer-
ous beef, turkey and
Other livestock on hand
every year to test and
try Honeggers' Big "H"
Feeds, and equipment.

Two retail stores service fhe Forrest and Fairbury area —

one located in downtown Fairbury, the other three miles

south of Forrest on Route 47.

The "Farm Service Stores" are dedicated to help livestock

and poultry producers do the best possible job with good

management, good breeding, good feeding and good

marketing.

In downtown Forrest, the Federal and State Egg Gradir}g

Station helps farmers market their eggs at the highest

possible price.

HONEGGERS

Breeder Hatchery Division
Forrest, Illinois

Feed & Milling Division
Fairbury, Illinois

273

APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH
J. J. Broquard, Minister

Fai rb ur y

EXCELSIOR SCHOOL Dist. #138
Falrbury

FAIRBURY HIGH SCHOOL
Falrbury

ZIEGEHHORN and SONS

WELDING
MAGNETO SERVICE

NEW IDEA & KEWANEE
FARM MACHINERY

JOHN DEERE SALES AND SERVICE
Phone 58 Fairbury, Illinois

274

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

Rev. D. L. Vaupel, Pastor

Fairbury

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Rev. John Foss, Pastor

Fairbury

275

POTTER SCHOOL
Fairbury

FAIRBURY HOSPITAL
Fairbury

COOPER FRANK CEMETffiY
Fairbury

ALPERS, MARTIN
Fairbury

Pt. 1
111 acres

GRACELAND CE^ETERY
Fairbury

ARNOLD MARGERY Rt. 3

Fairbury Elmer Wpnqer, Opr. 160 acres

ST. JOHN'S CEMETERY
Fairbury

ASKEW WALTER B
Fairbury

Rt. 1
73^ acres

276

BACH LUMBER 00.
Fairbury

BANE, MRS. LIZZIE Rt. 2

Chenoa Richard Thomas Operator 252 acres

BACH LUMBER 00.
Fairbury

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BAHLET,, He;
Fairbury

Rt. 3
240 acres

Fairbury

Rt. 3
160 acres

277

BARNES ESTATE
Fairbury

Rt.l
160 acres

Fairbury

:t. 1
160 acres

BARTLETT W. H SR.
Fairbury Bartlett W.

Fairbury

Rt. 2
MO acres

BENDffl, JACOB
Fairbury

BOLLIGER ELMER Rt. 3

Fairbury 160 acres

1952 National Mechanical Corn Picking Champion

278

BOOKER, CHARLIE S
Fairbury

BROQUARD JAKE
Fairbury

Rt .2
160 acres

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BRADLEY S. P. MOTOR CO.
Pontiac

BROWN IRA T.
Fairbury Clar"

Rt. 3

■jr., r>r. 240 acres

BRANDT, SENA E. OWNER

Chenoa Albert Meyer Qserator

Rt. 2
173 acres

CARTER HARRY A.
Fairbury

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BROQUARD, GEORGE
Fairbury

Rt. 1
160 acres

CARTER, J.W.
Fairbury

Rt. 1
80 acres

279

Ojciti tbTATE Rt. 1

Fairbury Karl Teubel Renter 240 acres

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COX FRANK

Fairbury Denison Herbert

Rt. 1
167 acres

DALLY, MRS. V .L . Rt. 3

Fairbury Arnold Huddleston Operator 173 acres

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CRAIG ROBKRT
Fairbury

Rt. 2
240 acres

DUWNh , HR hu
Fairbury

Pt. 1
160 acres

280

FICKLIN, MAME LEWIS Rt. 1

Fairbury Russell Kiper Renter 240 acres

FARMERS GRAIN CO. OF FAIRBURY
Fairbury

FISHER, MRS. MAUDE
Fairbury

Rt. 1
102 acres

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FREED, GEORGE

Fairbury Myron Erdman

Rt. 1
160 acres

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FICKLIN MAME LEWIS

Fairbury Renter Wessels Clarence

FRY HOMER 0.
Fairbury

281

GAEMBEL, WILLIS
Fairburv

Rt. 3
4 acres

GOSLIN HAITI E C
Fairbury

GERBER JC6EPH

Fairbury Myers George

Rt. 1
173 acres

GROSSHANS, FRED
Fairbury

Rt. 1
acres

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OILMAN, FRED i-i

Fairbury C.H. & L.A. Walston Renter 244 acres

GtKHCBM MILLIE
Fairbury

Rt. 3
100 acres

HOFFMAN CLYDE
Fairbury

282

H0NEG3ERS FEED MILL
Fairbury

HCJARTH SISTEPS Rt. 1

Fairbury Joseph Glover Renter 160 acres

Fairbury

HOUSEHOLDER DEBCLD
Fairbury

JAMES ALMA L.

Fairbury Grace Ernest

Rt.
312 acres

283

■

JAVES, MRS. ALMA LEWIS
Fairbury

n. 2

J C I ("• s

KELLY, RALPH

Fairbury V.'aynr- Newnam

Rt. 1
200 acres

KAISNER, DAVID Rt. 1

Fairbury Francis Kaisner Operator 160 acres

KELGUS, HERMAN
Fairbury

KVENll JOE N,
Fairbury

Rt.
24 acres

284

MacDOWELL,
Fairbury

G.Y.
H.E.

Bobblett Renter

Rt. 1
320 acres

MEEKER BERT

Fairbury Myers OlUe B.

MEISS DAN C.
Fairbury

Rt. 1
160 acres

Rt. 1
acres

285

Biammrssa^x^j-

MIES, LESLIE
Falrbury J.C. Mies

MUNZ ESTATE
Fairbury

MILNEXSONS A.
Fairbury

Rt. 2
7 acres

MLINTZ JONATHAN
Fairbury

MUNDs, oris

Fairbury

Rt. 3
68 acres

MUNTZ, JONATHAN
Fairbury

Rt. 3
160 acres

286

NEWNAM, HARRY
Fairbury

Rt. 3
20 acres

ODELL, JOHN F.
Fairbury John Drev

Rt. 1
120 acres

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NORTHERN TRUST COMPANY^
Fairbury Waldbeser Carl

Rt. 1
160 acres

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PARR MRS ALICE

Fairbury Sutter Mauricd

Rt. 1
160 acres

NUSSBAUM, OSCAR
Fairbury

Rt. 2
204 acres

ODELL HAROLD E.
Fairbury Drew John

PETERMAN JESSIE

Fairbury Paternoster Joe

287

SHROYER, MR? . LAURA

Fairbury Clarence Ferguson

Rt. 1
160 acres

STEIDINGffi, BEN
Fairbury

r-t. 3

dU acres

Rt. 2
160 acres

SORG JOHN & LOUIS
Fairbury Vr^ur Georgp

Rt. 1
?'i acres

SPA^GLER, NETTIE
Fairbury

STREIB ELMER L
Fairbury

288

SUMMERS, ELDINE
Fairbury

Rt. 3
60 acres

THUROBILT PRODUCTS, INC.
Fairbury

SUTTEP, , JOHN E
Fairbury

SUITER, W.P.
Fairbury

Rt. 2
120 acres

VAIL ESTATE, ALLIE C.

Fairbury John Mehrkens & Son Opr.

Rt. 3
43C acres

THOMAS PAUL R .
Fairbury

Ht. 3
80 acres

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VAMCE, GEUxGE
Chenoa

170 acres

289

VEATCH C. W. Rt. 2

Fairbury Mgr. Joshua J. Broquard 193 acres

VEATCH C.

Rt. 2

WELSH BRCB. OWNER

Rt. 2

Fairbury

Mgr.

Walter Moser

160 acres

Chenoa Floyd Barnes Operator

173 acres

VEATQi ULIFT
Fairbury

VJl..':. LL^, ALFI'lLD M.
Fairbury

Rt. 1
160 acres

VOGELSINGER, HARRY
Fairbury Glen Craig

WESSELS HARVEY F
Fairbury

290

ZIPGENHORN, AARON AND CLIFFORD Rt. 1

Fairbury Herbert Steidinopr Rpnter 205 acres

ZIEGENHORN, AARON AND CLIFFORD Rt. 1

Fairbury Herbert Steidinger Renter 40 acres

ZEHR BEN J.
Fairbury

291

292

LONG POINT TOWNSHIP

LONG POINT

293

LONG POINT TOWNSHIP

GENERAL HIGHWAY MAP

OF REVISIONS
OM ROAO TYPE
AND CULTUR.
FEATURES.

BUREAU OF RESEARCH AND PLANNING

aVTSION OF HIGHWAYS
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS & BUILDtNCS

-»h

f- 1 I 1 F

SCALE OF ENLARGEMENTS

POLYCONIC PROJECTION

294

LONG POINT

One of the first "towns" to be laid out on the Chicago, Pekin & Southwestern
Railroad (now part of the Santa Fe System) when it was built through the county
in 1872 was Long Point. Today, the incorporated village of Long Point has a pop-
ulation of 286. It is located in the northwest portion of the county and is served
by a spur road of State 23. The original proprietors of the village were Andrew
McDowell, Samuel Sillik and F. Plumb.

This village is the only community of Long Point Township, which has a
present population of 803. It was Andrew McDowell who first came to the town-
ship, and, on November 6, 1838, entered the first land there. The township was
organized in 1858 and its first supervisor was James P. Morgan.

295

RITTENHOUSE & SONS

INTERNATIONAL
. TRUCKS

Phone 46

/. .J FARM IMPLEMENTS AND REPAIRS

Long Point/ Illinois

LONG POINT GRADE SCHOOL
Long Point

in. 1
4 acres

MX)N SCHOOL
Streator

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GRAIN • COAL • SEED

PHONE 11
LONG POINT, ILLINOIS

296

ADANB ALFRED

Flanagan Mgr. Ronald Hough

Rt. 1
acres

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BALBACH MISS DYMPNA Rt. 1

Long Point Mgr. Schutheis, Glen & Gordon

280 acres

ALLEM, I ■■
Long Point

Pt. 1
165 acres

BANE RAY In. 1

Long Point Frank Masterson Mgr. 160 acres

ARGUBRIGHT SCHOOL
Long Point

Rt. 1
1 acre

BARTOB L T

Flanagan Mgr. Carls Melvin J.

297

BEALL, LARRY
Streator

Rt. 2
20 acres

BOYD, FRED ' Rt. 1

Long Point Roy Klendworth Mgr. 120 acres

BEUTKE ffiNEST Rt. 1

Long Point Mgr. Beutke, William 120 acres

BBJTKE ffiNEST Rt. 1

Long Point Mgr. Beutke, Wallace 160 acres

BLCSS IRWIN

Long Point Mgr. May Fred

Rt. 1
172 acres

BROWN ROBERT J.
Long Point

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Dana Qpr. Glenn Hakes

Rt. 1
73 acres

298

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COLRALY ESTATE

Long Point Mgr. Schulties, Gordon

Rt. 1
acres

CRAWFORD MRS. AUDREY

Flanagan Mgr. Zimmerman, Eldon L.

Rt. 1
80 acres

CRAWFORD IVAN G. Rt. 2

Flanagan Mgr. Crawford Warren D. 200 acres

CRUSE MRS. H L

Long Point Mgr. D»vyer Wayne

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CULLEN BERTHA ANN Rt. 1

Long Point Opr. Kenneth Mumuschenk 280 acres

CULLEN MRG. BERTHA Rt. 1

Long Point Mgr. Rients, Henry H. 228 acres

CRAWFORD MRS. LILLIAN D, Rt. 2

Flanagan Mgr. Smith Everett J. 80 acres

CUSTIS OBY A
Streator

Rt. 2
294 acres

299

DCDEN JCHN G .

Streator

Rt. 2

120 acres

DURRE HERMAN

Pontiac Mgr. Durre, Elmer

Rt. 1
acres

DODHN, JOHIi
Streator

Rt. 2
b7i- acres

DUNHAM GLENN
Long Point

&ASPARDO MARTIN & MARUGERITE
Long Point

Rt. 1
120 acres

300

OILMAN W?S. LIZZIE

Long Point Mgr. Weppler Dale

Rt.
240 acres

GRAU LEWIS Rt. 1

Long Point Mgr. Donald Wulzen 160 acres

GOLDSMITH MS. CLARA Rt. 1

Long Point Opr. Bruce S. Bennett 160 acres

GRAY LEWIS

Long Point Mgr. Russell L. Loudon

(BAU, WILLIAM
Flanagan

Rt. I
acres

301

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Flanagan

Rt. 1
160 acres

HAYES ARTHUR D.
Long Point

GRAU LEWIS

Long Point Elmer Fewres Mgr.

Rt.
160 acres

HAKES MRS. ANNA

Long Point Don F. Winters Opr.

302

Rt. 1
acres

Rt. 1

45^ acrps

HANLEY MRS . FANNY

Flanagan Mgr. Carl, Alfred

Rt. 1
80 acres

HERMAN BECKMAN
Ancona

Rt.
80 acres

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HENDERSON HELEN

Long Point Fred Uphoff Opr.

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HOLLAND PARKE D. ' Rt. 1

Long Point Mar. Smith Arthur 160 acres

HORN RUSS5L W Rt. 1

Long Point Hodges Essie

HOLLAND PARKE D.

Streator Mgr. Donze Donald

Rt. 2
320 acres

IMM, PHILLIP J.
Long Point

Rt. 1
acres

HOLMSTROM IDA 8, ROV
Flanagan

Rt. 1
acres

JEN? I':, I ".}.'.
Flanagan

303

JENKINF ALLEN

Rt. 2

JENKINS MR.

& MRS.

H' WARD

Rt. 2

Long Point Mgr.

Kinkade,

James

80 acres

Streator

80 acres

JENKINS ALLEN

I.ono Point

Rt. 1
80 acres

JOCGTEN G. C.
Flanagan

Rt. 2
200 acres

JENKINS ALLEN
Long Point

Rt. 1
160 acres

JOCSTEN MRS. MARCELLA Rt.

Long Point Mgr. Drummet Walter G. 120 acres

JENKINS MRS. HOWARD
Streator

KAIRNS, MRS. DAVID Rt. 1

Long Point Carl Bedicker Mgr. 120 acres

304

KAMINKE R. B.
Long Point

Rt. 1
120 acres

KLENDWCRTH IRA SR .
Dana

Rt. 1
180 acres

KAMINKE R. B.
Long Point

Rt. 1
acres

KLENDWCRTH LEE
Flanagan

Rt. 2
80 acres

KLESATH FRANK C. Rt. 1

Flanagan Wavely Carvey Operator 200 acres

KNAPP GEPRGE F.

Streator Mgr. Eden Wilbur P.

Rt. 2
160 acres

305

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Long Point

Rt. 2
80 acres

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KOOPMAN BROS,
Flanagan

Rt. 2
40 acres

KUTZNER MRS. TILLIE Rt. 1

Flanagan Mgrs. Kutzner Albert E. & Henry D.

280 acres

KOOPMAN, HENPY pt. 1

Long Point Harvey LrooKer Mgr. 380 acres

Rt. 1
120 acres

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Rt. 1

LENZ WALTER

Flanagan Mgr.

Smith Henry L.

200 acres

Long Point

Rt. 1
80 acres

306

LESTER, ERWIN
Long Point

Rt. 1
120 acres

LOUDON W CHARLES

Long Point Mgr. Loudon Russell L.

Rt. 1
75 acres

LIVINGSTON GRAIN 00.

Long Point Max Waltrip Gen. Mgr.

LOUDON GORDON
Long Point

Rt. 1
40 acres

LONG POINT LUMBER YARD & 0. B. WHEELER GRAIN CO.
Long Point

LOUDON W. CHARLES
Long Point

MARXHALL PAUL H
Flanagan

30?

MORGAN MRS. JESSIE E. Rt. 1

Long Point Mgr. Jordan Edward 120 acres

NELoUN ALFRbD H.
Streator

Rt. 2
120 acres

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PARKS MRS. C. A.

Flanagan Mgr. Parks, Clifford

PETSiSON TRUST S . G .

Long Point Mgr, Armstrong Melvin R. 233 acres

NEVENS ROBERT

Streator Mgr. Defenbaugh, Jonn

Rt. 2
253 acres

RIENTS MRS. GRACE

Flanagan Mgr. Smith Barney

•sns

RIENTS, HARRY

Flanagan Harry Jansen Mgr.

Rt. 1
80 acres

POST ALBERT E
Long Point

RIENTS HARRY Rt. 2

Streator Mgr. Rustman, Harold E. 160 acres

RIENTS MRS. L. H.

Flanagan Opr. Uffa Rients

RICHARDSON WALTER
Long Point

309

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Pt. 1

160 acres

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RITTENHa'SE, E.F.
Long Point

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RITTENHOUSE E. F. Rt. 1

Long Point Mgr. Rittenhouse, Paul E. 285 acres

SASS CARL Rt. 2

Streator Mgr. Matter, Lester 220 acres

RITTENHa'SE PAI
Long Point

SASS FRED
Long Point

Rt. 1
UC acres

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SAHMISCH E. W
Long Point

SASS, LEONARD F.
Long Point

Rt. 1
160 acres

310

SASS FRED Rt. 1

Long Point Maruim Ensigh Opr. 120 acres

SCHLUETER HARM

Flanagan Mgr. Rapp, Glenn L.

Rt. 1
acres

SASS DRIES
A.icona

Rt. 1
120 acres

SEEGER, FLORENCE & ALBERT
Streator

Rt. 2
240 acres

SAXTON CLIFFORD
Flanagan

Rt. 1
acres

SCHLAGATER , MRS . ANNA
Streator Joe Durdan Mgr.

Rt. 2
260 acres

STEHL WILLIAM
Long Point

Rt. 1
80 acres

311

STEWART VIH :: :. :■ ' i : ; 'u. i

Long Point Mgr. Marshall William 120 acres

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SIR OPE FRANK
Long Point

Rt. 1
80 acres

TURNER DR . GUY

Long Point Cakes Elmer

Long Point Robert '.'!. Taylor Mgr. 4. acres

Long Point Artman Everett

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Long Point

Rt. 1
492 acres

TURNER, DOCTOR GUY Rt. 1

Ancona Willis Brown Operator 220 acres

312

TURNER DR . GUY
Long Point

Rt. 1
80 acres

TURNER ESTATE

Long Point Artman Janies

Rt. 1
120 acres

Flanagan Mgr. Uftrig, Herbert 30 acres

VISSERING H. ESTATE Rt.

Long Point Mgr. Vernon G. Harms 160 acres

WEBBffi RAYMCND W.
Long Point

Rt. 1
180 acres

313

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Flanagan

Rt. 2
320 acres

WIECHMANN BEN
Long Point

Rt. 1

125 acres

WERNER, VINCENT A.
Streator

Rt. 2
120 acres

WILLIAMS WILLARD kt. 1

Long Point Mgr. Klendworth Russell 160 acres

Long Point

314

Rt. 1
160 acres

WHEELER 0. B. GRAIN CO.
Long Point

NEBRASKA TOWNSHIP

FLANAGAN

315

FOB DATES
OF RCVrSlONS
0" ROAD TYPE
ANO CULTURAL
fEATUBtS.

NEBRASKA TOWNSHIP

GENERAL HIGHWAY MAP

BUREAU OF RESEARCH AND PLANNING

DIVISION OF MIGHWAVS
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS A BUILDINGS

SCALE OF ENLARGEMENTS
V2

POLYCONIC PROJECTION

TO ROANOKE ~

316

FLANAGAN

In the fertile farming area west of Pontiac city lies the incorporated village
of Flanagan, with a population of 672. Through it passes the Illinois Central Rail-
road and State 116. This village is the only community of Nebraska Township, the
population of which is 1,386. First settler of the township was Isaac Sheets, who
arrived in the summer of 1855 from Ohio. Among numerous homeseekers who came
here in 1857 were the Flanagan brothers, John, Peter E., Patrick, and E. F. It was
after this family the village of Flanagan was named. Several years later quite a
few German Lutheran families arrived in the township. These families banded to-
gether and built a church here in 1866.

317

CHRISTIAN CHURCH

Flanagan

EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH & MANSE Flanagan

Rev. E. V. Schreader Rt . 2

318

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FLANAGAN MENNONITE CHURCH
Rt. 2

Fl anagan

METHODIST CHURCH

Flanagan

319

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ST. JOHN'S EV. LUTHERAN CHURCH

Founded in 1884

Rev. Merritt L. Bomhoff

Flanagan

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FLANAGAN HIGH SCHOOL
Flanagan

FLANAGAN GRADE SCHOOL
Flanagan

N!I4'J:MI^

SLAGELL & YORDY CHEVROLET SALES

JiaC^

HARVEY SLAOKLL

Telephone 222
FLANAGAN, ILLINOIS

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VKR\"0\ 'i-ORDY

320

JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH

Fl an agan

SPRING CORNER SCHOOL
Flanagan

(Hcr-npcratitte (!lo.

GRAIN, COAL, SEEDS, FENCING
AND FERTILIZERS

CHESTER J. GERIG. Manager

Phone 207
FLANAGAN, ILLINOIS

321

CENTER CEMETERY
Flanagan

wet^-FW^^VMt"

ABELS JOHN G ,
Flanagan

Rt. 2
120 acres

ST. JOSEPH CEMETERY
Flanagan

ALBRECHT JOHN
Flanagan

Rt. 1
200 acres

SALEM CHILDREN'S CHOME
Flanagan

ALBRECHT, JOHN

Flanagan May Virgil Mgr.

Rt. 1
160 acres

SALEM PARK
Flanagan

ALBRIGHT JOHN A.
Flanagan

Rt. 1
160 acres

322

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ALBRECHT, MARVIN
Flanagan

Rt. 2
160 acres

ADEN MRS TEDA

Flanagan Mgr. Aden Henry J.

Rt. 2
100 acres

ACKERMAN HARM H.
Flanagan

Rt. 2
159 acres

,^DLEP., MR. ROBERT Rt. 2

H. Knack Operator 160 acres

AUGSBURGER, ELMH'-' ' Rt. 2

Flanagan Donald Augsburger Operator 80 acres

ANDREWS HOWARD

Flanagan Mgr. Martin Falk

Rt. 1
120 acres

ADEN MRS . JOHN Rt . 2

Flanagan Mgr. Mehlberg, Herman 100 acres

ASKEW J. CYRUS

Flanagan Clarence G. Rients

Rt. 1
160 acres

323

■■^_; ' ■ . , V: :VA Rt. 1

Flanagan Mgr. Wayne Norman 160 acres

CARSTEN ESTATE

Flanagan Mgr. Carsten Wilbur

Rt. 1
30 acres

CHUM, MRS . ROSE
Flanagan

Rt. 2
13 acres

CRAWFORD MRS. LILLIAN 0. Rt. 2

Flanagan Mgr. Reese Louis Jr. 160 acres

BRAUMING CHRIS
Flanagan

Rt. 2
40 acres

CRAWFORD MRS. LILLIAN D. Rt. 2

Flanagan Mgr. Clements, Raymond 160 acres

324

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CRAWFC]RD LUTHER G.
Flanagan

DILLON IWS . ELIZABETH
Flanagan Mgr. Fortman, John

DAUCKAS HENRY Rt. 1

Flanagan Raymond Damekas Opr. 180 acres

DOCRM, H.
Flanagan

Rt. 2

80 acrp^.

DOUCETTE LEO
Flanagan

Rt. 2
80 acres

DILLON ESTATE

Flanagan Mgr. Don D. Dillon

Rt. 1
80 acres

DUIS, W?S. LENA
Flanagan

Rt. 2
80 acres

325

J^mmmmiafi'^9sai-

DYE MRS . ESTHER ' . .

Flanagan Mgr. Weichman, Albert I'.. 160 acres

FECHTER JOHN
Flanagan

I 1^

FLACKER ESTATE Rt. 2

Flanagan Mgr. Eden Wessel, Jr. 120 acres

Rt. 2
3 acres

FLANAGAN FARMERS COOPERATIVE CO.
Flanagan

326

FLANAGAN JLIIA
Flanagan

Rt. 1
160 acres

FRANZEN HENRY C. SR .
Flanagan

Rt. 2
25 acres

Flanagan

LUTHERAN CHURCH ' - Rt. 2

Iz acres

FRANZEN, MRS. KATHERINE

Flanagan Donald Hepner Operator

Rt. 2
acres

FOSDICK ORVILLE C.
El Paso

Rt. 2
acres

FRANZEN, PETE

Flanagan Don Hepner Operator

Rt. 2
80 acres

327

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FROBISH MRS . ROY
Flanaaan

HEEREN FRED T.

Flanagan Mgr. Harms, Walter J.

Rt. 1
360 acres

CniiFNBERG, HENRY Rt. 2

Flanagan Carl Obert Operator 200 acres

HEEREN FRED T. Ri. I

Flanagna Mgr. Harms, Walter J. Rapp, ^Lloyd

350 acres

GUELDENHAAR HENRY
Flanagan

Rt. 2
120 acres

HEEREN FKED T.

Flanagan Mqr. Harms, Walter J.

Rt. 1
360 acres

HARMS EILT R.

Flanagan Mgr. Harms, Paul H.

Rt. 2
160 acres

HEEREN, HEYE

Flanagan Roy A. Molln Mgr.

Rt. 1
120 acres

328

HEIBULT FRANK

Rt. 1

HEMKEN FRIT^

Flanagan Mgr.

Barth,

Edwin

240 acres

Flanagan

Rt. 2
78 acres

HEIBULT HERMAN
Flanagan

Rt. 1
120 acres

HEIDENREICH JAKE
Flanagan

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Rt. 2
80 acres

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HENKEL EILERT Rt. 1

Flanagan Mgr. Henkel Paul R. 220 acres

HOLLAND ESTATE

Flanagan Mgr. Monk Fred T.

HUXTABLE BERT
Flanagan

329

IVERSON, RUSSELL A.
Flanagan

3/4 acre

JANSEN HARM R. Rt. 2

Flanagan Mgr. Lawrence Barth 160 acres

JANSEN LOUISE

Flanagan '.V:r. Vrry A. VJfichman

JANSEN, ARTHHf, EARNEST & ALFRED
Flanagan

Rt. 2
160 acres

JANSSEN W. JACOB

Flanagan Mgr. Norman Rients

Rt. 2
acres

330

KALKWARF D. JOHN Rt. 2

Flanagan Mgr. Alfred Kalkwarf 120 acres

KETTWICH JCHN

Flanagan Fred Uphoff Mgr.

Rt. 2
acres

KETTWICH JCHN

Flanagan Renter Uphoff Fred

Rt. 2
acres

KENT LUMBER & CuAL
Flanagan

KEELY C. C.

Flanagan Mgr. Lituberg George

Rt. 2
115 acres

331

KNAPP TENA 8. LYLE
Flanagan

Rt. 2
80 acres

KUTZNER ALBERT

Falnagan Simon Carls Operator

Rt. 2

acres

KOOPMAN, HENRY
Flanagan Ed Seggerman

KUTZNER MRS. LEWIS SR Rt. 1

Flanagan Mgr. Kutzner Lewis L. Jr. 160 acres

KOOPMAN HUBERT
Flanagan

Rt. 2
120 acres

LEHMAN HERMAN
Flanagan

Rt. 1
90 acres

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KUTZNER ALBffiT

Flanagan Opr. Libby Kutzner

Rt. 1
160 acres

LIMBERG HARM
Flanagan

Rt. 2
60 acres

332

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MILES PHILLIP E . "1.2

Flanagan Mgr. Frobish, Thomas 160 acres

OLDENBURG MRS CLARA Rt. 1

Flanagan Mgr. Trumann Theodore R. 120 acres

MINCERS VICTOR A. Rt. 2

Flanagan Mgr. Thomas, William 160 acres

OLTMAN BROS.
Flanagan

Rt. 2
acres

O'BRIEN MARY Ul'T^S
Flanagan f.'cr. '::. L.

Rt. 1
7^ acres

OLTMAN H.
Flanagan

Rt. 2
acres

DHL RUDOLPH

Flanagan Mgr. Hilary Bertsche

Rt. 1
160 acres

OTTO GECRGE

Flanagan Melvin Otto Mgr

333

PARK<^, ADA PCTATF
Flanac

Rt. 2
acres

POST ANNA 8, ALBERTA
Flanagan

Rt. 2
40 acres

PARSONS MRS . JENNIE

Flanagan Mgr. Lawrence S. R.

Rt. 2
acres

POST ANTJE & PAUL INT

Flanagan Mgr. Kovacevich Dave

PARK THERESA Rt.

Flanagan Henry Park Operator 40 acres

POST ANTJE & PAULKNE Rt. 2

Flanagan Mgr. Kovacevich, Dave M. 160 acres

PETERSON ESTATE Rt. 2

Flanagan Mgr. Stimpert, Edward 320 acres

POST THEODORE
Flanagan

Rt. 2
acres

PC6T JCB-i H.

Flanagan Theodore Post

Rt. 2
80 acres

RICH MRS. MABLE
Flanagan

Rt. 2
80 acres

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PRHAL EMMA Rt. 2

Flanagan Mgr. Rustman, Arthur S. 160 acres

RICH MRS. ROSE Rt. 2

Flanagan Mgr. Kalkwarf, Alfred 80 acres

RIDGE BERT Rt. 2

Flanagan Mgr. Kalkwarf Henry 120 acres

RENKEN F. W.
Flanagan

Rt. 2
78 acres

RIENTS IDA MRS

Flanagan Spencer Donald Mgr.

335

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ROESCHLEY ROY
Flanagan

Rt. 2
acres

RIENTS TJARK L.
Flanagan

Rt. 2
80 acres

RUSTMAN FRANK
El Paso

Rt. 1
acres

RUSTMAN F. J
Flanagan

ROESCHLEY M?S . ELIZABETH
Flanagan Mgr. Roeschley Orie

Rt. 1
100 acres

RUSTMAN H. JOHN

Flanagan Mgr. Glen A. Rustraan

Rt. 2
acres

336

SCHLUETER HARM Rt. 1

Flanagan John A. Wiechmann Mgr. 80 acres

SCHMEIDER, MRS. EDNA Rt. 1

Flanagan Tjark V. Rients Mgr 200 acres

SCHNEIDER HENRY C.

Flanagan Mgr. Rients, John

Rt. 1
200 acres

SEGGERMAN GEORGE Rt. 2

Flanagan Seggerman Orville 160 acres

SCHNEIDER MRS. EDNA Rt. 2

Flanagan Mgr. Rients, LeRoy 160 acres

SLONAKER, JM.
Flanagan'

Rt. 1
80 acres

337

SMITH MRS . BERTHA
Flanagan

Rt. 2
80 acres

SMITH HOWARD Rt. 2

Flanagan Mgr. Rients, LeRoy 120 acres

SMITH MRS MARY

Flanagan Mtf. ^ni*h, "^rville

Rt. 1

120 acres

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STRUNK SISTERS

Flanagan Edward Mehlberg

Rt. 1
200 acres

SV.ITK !.r.S. JOHN
Flanagan

Rt. 1
87 acres

138

Flanagan

Rt. 1
240 acres

UNDERHILL MRS. CLARA Rt. 2

Flanagan Mgr. Kovacevich, Dave. M. 160 acres

THOMPSON ESTATE Rt. 2

Flanagan Mgr. Vissering, Herman 200 acres

VAN DORN, l'.'ILLlA^.l E.
Flanagan

339

VOSS, HENPY

Flanagan Donald Voss

VISSERING PETER J.
Flanagan

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VISSERING SOPHI
Flanagan

Rt. 2
160 acres

VCSS HENRY

Flanaoan

Rt. 2
160 acres

VCFS, HENFY
Flanagan

Rt. 2
acres

340

WIECHMAN, JOHN H.

Flanagan Victor Wiechman

Pt. 2
160 acres

WEICHMAN ALBERT B.
Flanagan Mgr. Eden Edwin

Rt. 2
80 acres

WIECHMAN IVRS. ALBERT

Flanagan Mgr. Tarman, Dean V.

Rt. 2
acres

WIECHMANN CLARENCE

Flanagan Mgr. Wiechmann, Bert

Rt. 1
acres

WEICHMAN FRED
Flanagan

WIECHMAN HANS T.

Flanagan Mgr. Oltman Melvin E.

Rt. 2
acres

341

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WIECHMANN JOHN W.
Flanagan

Rt. 1
acres

Flanagan Mgi . laiiiU'l A. '.■■t" r

WIKHMAN, JOHN M.
Flanagan

Rt. 2
80 acres

WIECHMANN JOHN H. Rt. 1

Flanagan Mgr. Wiechmann Harold 80 acres

Flanagan

Rt. 2
40 acres

WIECHMANN JOHK
Flana5ar!

Rt. 2
160 acres

WUEB3ENS EST AT
Flanaoan

Rt. 2
40 acres

342

YCRDY M. C. Rt. 1

Flanagan Leonard Schruck Mgr. 100 acres

ZIMJCRMAN, E.E.

Flanagan Peter Stucky Mgr.

Rt. 1
acres

ZIMMERMAN LENA
Flanagan

Rt. 2
120 acres

ZEHR MILO C.
Flanagan

Kt. i
160 acres

343

344

NEVADA TOWNSHIP

SUNBURY
NEVADA

345

OF REVISIONS
ON ROAO TYPE
AND CULTURAL
FEATUBES.

NEVADA TOWNSHIP

GENERAL HIGHWAY MAP

BUREAU OF RESEARCH AND PLANNING

' HIGHWAYS

C WORKS & BUILDINGS

F — I I — I — r=

SCALE OF ENLARGEMENTS
V4 V2 3/4

POLYCONIC PROJECTION

GBUNDY COUNTY
R6 E

346

SUNBURY

On the New York Central Railroad just west of Dwight lies the small village
of Sunbury, with a population of fifteen. It is served by the postoffice at Dwight.
This village, located near the Grundy County line, is the principal community of
Nevada Township, which has a total population of 371. The township was first
settled by James Funk, who arrived in 1848. A few years later came Stephen Kyle,
who was afterwards elected the township's first Justice of the Peace, and, in 1858,
the township's first supervisor. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Kyle was com-
missioned a lieutenant in the Union Army and subsequently killed in action.

347

NEVADA

Another community in Nevada Township is the small hamlet of Nevada, lo-
cated just west of Dwight on the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad. The hamlet was
laid out in 1870 by William Shephard, formerly of Jersey County, Illinois. The first
store in the hamlet was opened by E. D. Brown.

348

NEVADA TOWNSHIP SCHOOL
Dwight

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OAK LA»ra CEMETERY Rt. 2

Dwight Gateway Erected in Memory of 32 acres

Veterans of Civil War by Major Curtiss J. Judd

ADAMS CHAS Rt. 2

Dwight Watters Bob Tenant 160 acres

ST. PAUL CEMETERY
Odell

CLUB OOUNTERY
Dwight

APPLEGATE ROY Rt. 1

Blackstone Wieting LeRoy C. Tenant 160 acres

349

AHNSTFONG, ESTATE

Odell Fred Hodgeman Tenant

BRUST IVOL

Odell Corriqan John J. Tenant

Rt. 1
acres

BENDIXEN BO Rt. 2

Odell Waldschmidt John J. Tenant 16 acres

BUTCHER PAUL
Odell

Rt. 2
240 acres

Rt. 2
143 acres

350

CANNCN MRS . HFLEN

Blackstone Ralph Raymond Opr.

Rl. 1
200 acres

CHRISTESEN WILLIAM
Dwight

Rt. 2
acres

CLEARY PHILL
Odell

Rt. 2
240 acres

DAVIS HARRY L
Dwight

Rt. 3
160 acres

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CLEARY PHILL
Odell

DAM3ARD JOHN T. TRUST Rt. 2

Blackstone Berta 111 Joseph Opr. 160 acres

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CLEARY, LEO
Odell

Rt. 1
160 acres

DEAMffi LOUIS
Dwight

Rt. 2
80 acres

351

DESVOIGNE ETHEL C.

Odell Thome John i.pr.

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DREW JCHM
Dwight

Pt. 3
160 acres

DCRAN ESTATE
Dwight

Rt. 2
40 acres

DRURY aVDE
Blackstone

DCRAN PATPia; L.
Twight

Rt. 2
25 acre

Rt.l
160 acres

DREW MARION
Dwight

Rt. 3
160 acres

DWYER W E
Odell

Rt. 1
120 acres

352

EGGENBERGER ANNIE

Odell Verdun Arthur J. Opr.

Rt. 2
160 acres

FR AMDS EN M
Odell

Rt. 1
1 acre

GIBBONS FRANK GRAIN CO.
Dwiqht

GIBBON GRAIN CO.
Dwight

FCRD ROBERT

Dwight McConnell Alan Tenant

Rt. 3
160 acres

Rt. 1
160 acres

353

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HAGGERTY MRS. ANNA
Dwight Berger Verl C^r.

HOFFMAN SUE MRS. ESTATE
Dwight Carpenter Dale Tenant

Pt. 3
163 acres

HAGGERTY ESTATE

Dwight Mortensen Freemont

Rt. 2
acres

HOGAN JOHN
Odell

Rt. 1
240 acres

HANSEN HAZEL

Odell Dwyer Thomas Opr.

Rt. 1
142 acres

HOEEGER EARL
Odell

HOGAN TDM
Odell

Rt. 1
240 acres

354

ILL. VALLEY ICt CRhAM CO.
Dwight Berta Joseph Opr.

Rt. 2
148 acres

HUBERT ESTATE
Odell

Rt. 1
160 acres

VERDILN, J. J. Rt. 1

Odell Verne Johnson Tenant 160 acres

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HUBERT DENNIS

Dwight Verdun J. Win. Tenant

Rt. 2
78 acres

Dwight Opr. Miller Marvin E. 320 acres

HUBERT, THEODORE
Dwight

Rt. 2
133 acres

KANE MRS . MAE

Dwight Kohrt Elmer Tenant

355

KOEHNER CAROLINE

Cdell Opr. Forth M. J

:-.t. 2
acres

KCRNER CAROLINE Rt. 1

Dwight Opr. Perth Michael Jr. J. 400 acres

LEVIS MRS . MARY
Odell'

Rt. 1
140 acres

KLUSMAN HENRY

Dwight Mortensen Freemont

LEGNER FRANCIS J
Odell

MARTIN, MRS. I.E.
Odell

Rt. 2
160 acres

356

McCTiEVEY ESTATE-
Dwight

Rt. 2
acres

McNAMARA CLAIR Rt. 2

Dwight Opr. Jensen Martin E. 160 acres

McWILLIAf.G, CHAS.
Odell

Rt. 1
16 acres

McWILLIAMS ESTATE Rt. 2

Dwight Morse Harold Tenant 160 acres

McWILLIAMS EDWARD

Dwight Ralph Harold Cpr

357

■.■Kur-^rma^r^'

MILLER, ANNA ESTATE
Odell

NOONAN DONALD
Odell

Rt. 2
160 acres

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MILLER, MRS. EDITH

Dvjight Leo G. Noonan Operator

Rt. 2
220 acres

MOFFITT, HUGH
Odell

PELLOUCHOUD, VINCE
Odell

358

Rt. 1

240 acres

SAVILLH FRANK
Blackstone

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.Mm

Rt. 3
120 acres

SKDNETSKY ROBERT
Dwight

Rt. 3
200 acres

359

SLATTERY ROY Rt. 2

Dwight Schmdt Walter Jr. Tenant 160 acres

TI3SIERE, M.J.
Odell

SPANDET, JENS J.

Odell Arnold Spandet Tenant

Rt. 1
160 acres

STIECHM, C.J.
Dwight

Rt. 1
80 acres

STITZER L L

Dwight Schultz L W Opr.

TURNER BROS
Odell

360

VERDUN, JOHN L.
Odell

Rt. 1
260 acres

VOIGTS RICHARD Rt. 2

Dwight Funk Donald Tenant 172 acres

VERDUN THOMAS
Odell

Rt. 2
260 acres

VICKERY MRS. MYRTLE Pt. 1

Dwight Wilson Claude Tenant 290 acres

VERDON AMDS
Odell

WASSOM L. W
Dwight

361

WEST ROY

Rt. 2

YATES MRS

G W

Rt. 2

Dwight

Buger Walter

156 acres

Dwight

Ruder J.

Tenant

190 acres

362

NEWTON TOWNSHIP

MANVILLE

MISSAL
SMITHDALE

363

ON ROAO TYPE
AMD CULTUML
FEtTUBES.

NEWTOWN TOWNSHIP

GENERAL HIGHWAY MAP

BUREAU OF RESE:ARCH AND PLANNINO

RTMENT OF PUBLIC WORftS & BUtLDIMCS

SCALE Of" ENLARGEMENTS

POLYCONIC PROJECTION

LA SALLE COUtnY
R4 E

MANVILLE
T30N R4E

364

MANVILLE

In the Vermilion River countryside northwest of Pontiac lies the village of
Manville, with a population of seventy-two. It is served by the Wabash Railroad
and by nearby State 17. This village is the principal community of Newtown Town-
ship, which has a total population of 719. First to settle in the township was
Emsley Pope, who arrived in the early 1830's from North Carolina. Among other
pioneers of the township were Ewin Houchin, M. A. Newman, and Enoch, John and
Amos Lundy.

365

MISSAL

Another community of Newtown Township is the small hamlet of Missal. It is
served by the postoffice at nearby Streator, in La Salle County. Missal is situated
on the New York Central Railroad just north of Manville.

366

SMITHDALE

Still another community in Newtown Township is the small hamlet of Smith-
dale. It is located just southeast of Streator on the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad.
Smithdale was laid out in 1870 by William Shepard, pioneer land developer.

367

MANVILLE METHODIST CHURCH ,, Manville

Built 1874 Oct. 31 Enrollment 70
Reb. loder Pastor

UNITED BRETHERN CHURCH
Simons Lawrence

Bl ackstone

368

IT. BOOK STORE

J^ ^, (l5ooh S^L

ore

"Everything for the Office"
111 E. MAIN STREET

PHONE 2438
STREATOR, ILLINOIS

MANVILLE SCHOOLE
Manville

RAMME SCHOOL Dist. 79

Streator

CENTENIAL SCHOOL Unit «5
Manville

PHILLIPS CEMETERY
Manville

CHAMPION SCHOOL Dist. 78

Manville

NEW MICHIGAN CEMETERY
Manville

369

MANV1L„L
Manville

APPEL LAVERNE W
Blackstone

POST OFFICE RESIDENCE Rt. 1

Manville Post Master Mrs. Evangeline Hoobler

BAKALAR BREWBAKER MARGARET & EDNA Rt. 1
Manville 108 acres

APPEL JCHN Rt. 1

Blackstone Spaniol Lawrence R. 160 acres

APIEL, JCHN M.
Manville

""t:

Rt. 1
276 acres

BELL LINNA

Manville Gray Glenn L. Operator

Rt. 1
120 acres

370

BERGE WILLIAM C
Manville

Rt. 1
226^ acres

BURT CHARLES E
Manville

Rt. 1
40 acres

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BEUTKE ESTATE Rt. 2

Streator Beutke John L. Tenant 308 acres

CAIRNS MISS HELEN

Biackstone Bayles Dean T.

Rt. 1
200 acres

BRANDES ALBERT Rt. 1

Manville Bermes John V. Jr. Ten. 320 acres

CAI.;PBELL, GfflALD V. Rt. 1

Manville Orrin E. Campbell Tenant 320 acres

BRANDES EDWARD H
Manville

Rt. 1
160 acres

CASHMER DONALD E
Manville

371

CDNLEY DR ORIS

ManviUe Opr. Priddy Curtis

Rt. 1
160 acres

CONNER, JAMES B. '-f^ 32

ManvUle Elton Holland Operator nt acres

CORBIN ARTHUR
Manville

Rt. 1
acres

eONNETT SARAH

Manville Decker Lloyd Operator

Rt. 1
40 acres

DAUGHERITY WALLACE

Manville Daugherity Glen Tenant

372

DECKER LLOYD & MONICA
Manville

Ri. 1
300 acres

DODD JOSEPH D.
Blackstone

Rt. 1
206 acres

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, COMMCDITY CREDIT CORP
Blackstone Reserve Grain Storage Rt. 1 Lot

DYCUS DR . GEO. A.
Manville McClennen Basil

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DIXON ART1LIR
Streator

Rt. 1

240 acres

EAST LA.VREN^L
Manville

DODGE MRS . ELLA
Blackstone Keesee Donald

Rt. 1
160 acres

EAST LAWRENCE
Manville

373

ELSON EARL F
Manvllle

Rt. 1
120 acres

FRASER MRS BESSIE
Blackstone Lucas Kenntth H.

GEBHARDT, EARL
Blackstone

Rt. 1
160 acres

FLETTO PETE

Manville Daugherity Glenn Opr.

OILMAN ESTATE Rt. 1

Blackstone Charles E. Bevill 240 acres

374.

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GILMAN ESTATE

Blackstone Johnson Harold M.

Rt. 1
m80 acres

GILMAN D.

Manville Perry Clarence Tenant

Rt. 1
275 acres

GILLMAN I. D.

Blackstone St. John Roy

GODDARD FRANK
Manville

Rt. 1
20 acres

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GODDARD HAROLD & ELMA
Manville McDonald Amos Opr.

Rt. 1
93 acres

GODARD MAC

Blackstone Ferguson Calvin V.

Rt. 1
160 acres

weaB«a,i«.

GODDARD MRS ELLA Rt. 1

Manville Decker Lloyd Jr. Operator

GODDARD WILBUR

Mdnville Vaughan Verdane

375

a I'

GOLL, KITTY 1. 1. 1

BlacKstone Sidney Simons Opr. 189 acres

GREENER ECWARP

Streator Carr Arland Opr.

GRANT HELEN

Manville Holland T. Keith Tenant

Rt. 1
207 acres

GREENER, EDWARD

Streator John Gallup Tenant 260 acres

GRANT WM
Manville

Rt. 1
93 acres

HACK OTTO

Blackstone Lucas IXrain

Rt. 1
160 acres

376

HANUSIK ANDREW
Streator

Rt. 1
50 acres

HARWOOD ESTATE Ht. 1

Manville Rucker Floyd Operator 200 acres

HARMS WILLIAM J
Blacks tone

Rt. 1
274 acres

HEFNER HAROLD
Streator

Rt. 1
240 acres

HART F C
Ancona

Rt. 1
acres

HEPNER HAROLD
Streator

377

HOLUND CHARLES
Blackstonf

HOLDRIDGE ESTATE Rt. 1

Cornell Burton Everett Opr. 160 acres

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HOLLAND J T

Blackstone Koliand John S.

ISERMAMN W D

Manville Trainor Bernard Opr.

Rt. 1
acres

Rt. 1

Hand Elton 0. Tenant 158 acres

JAMISON WILLIAM

Manville Hamilton Elmer Tenant

HOLLAND MRS MIHA

Blackstone Opr. Keesee Oliver

Rt. 1
160 acres

KENNEDY KEITH L
Blackstone

Rt. 1
160 acres

378

KOHN MRS MINNIE
Streator

Rt . 1
195 acres

LAWRENCE ELMER J.
Cornell

Rt. 1
acres

KRAMER MRS BERTHA

Streator Kramer Walter R.

Rt. 1
164 acres

LEHMAN FUJRENCE Rt. 1

Anacona Tullis William J. Ten. 150 acres

KREIER MRS. ELLA M.
Blackstone

Rt. 1
acres

KREIER MRS. ELLA

Streator Taylor Charles E.

Rt. 1
160 acres

MANVILLE GROCERY & TOWN HALL
Manville

379

MASON ROY J
Manville

Kl. 1
198 acres

McCCRD DR. AN M.D.
Cornell Russow Kenneth

Rt. I
80 acres

MxOORD DR A N Rt. 1

Blackstone St. John Danny 252 acres

Manville Hart Dennis Tenant

:.i. 1
110 acres

Mcmullen

Manville

Rt. 1
60 acres

McCDRD DR A N M D.
Streator St. John Danny

Rt. 1
252 acres

MEILS RICHARD I
Blackstone

Rt. 1
160 acres

380

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MCRTLAND, CLARENCE
Blackstone

MITAL GECRGE
Manville

MORTLAND, FRED Rt. 1

Manville Carlyle S. Mortland Tenant 200 acres

MCBLEY PETS! L.
Blackstone

MORRIS MRS. FLORENCE B
Blackstone

Rt. 1
80 acres

381

RISS ELVIN
Blackstone

t%-.

Rt. 1
160 acres

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OSTERDOCK RAY & CHARLES
Manville

Rt. 1
40 acres

ROTH STEVE
Streator

Rt. 2
HI acres

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PAPFENBliRG, WIS. LIZABETH Rt. 1

Streator Clarence Pappenburg Opr. 240 acres

ROUDEBUSH RUSSELL
Manville

Rt. 1
18 acres

RICHARDS ETTA Rt. 1

Manville Williams Gilbert Tenant 200 acres

RUSSOW C.J.

Cornell Russow L. J

382

RU3S0W EfflEL
Ancona

SASS FRED Rt. 1

Ancona Wonders Albert Tenant 299 acres

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SCHAEFFER, ALBERT

Manville Bud Schook Operator

Rt. 1
acres

SHEARER WHEELER & CHARLOTTE AUDREY Rt. 1

Manville Defenbaugh Charles M. Tenant 200 acres

SANTELMAN EDWARD
Cornell Barton Reno

Rt. 1
160 acres

SHOOK, IffiLVIN
Black stone

383

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SMITH RUSSELL E
Manville

Rt. 1
2 acres

ST;j: ILL .VILBUR H
Streator

Rt. 2
J acre

SNOW hDRRIS D
Streator

it's?

Rt. 2
1.8 acres

SUTTON RALEIGH L
Ancona

Rt. 1
20 acres

TOMBAUGH REID & LOHEMAN HELEN
Manville Girard Lyle D.

Rt. 1
200 acres

STASELL CHARLES MRS
Manville

Rt. 1
120 acres

TRAINOR MARION
Manville

Rt. 1
172 acres

384

TRIBBETT LOU

Blackstone Russow Kenneth

Rt. 1
80 acres

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Manville Ide Frank E. Tenant

Rt.
160 acres

WILSON DR G K Rt. 1

ManvillG Fulkerson Orville Ten. 196 acres

VISSERING, MELVIN Rt. 1

Blackstone Clarence Limberg Operator 280 acres

WILSON DR GEO K

Blackstone Papenburg Alvin H.

Rt. 1
229 acres

WALLKNG MRS. EMMA Rt. 1

Manville Burton Samuel Tenant 120 acres

WINN HARaO L.
Cornell

Rt. 1
40 acres

385

WOLF ANTON MRS.
Cornell Gaspardo John

Rt. 1
acres

WOODWARD ALLEN Ul. 1

Manville Opr. Streator Canning Co. 160 acres

WONDERS MRS IM Rt. 1

Biackstone Wonders Arthur

ZEIGLER DEAN
Uiackstone

386

ODELL TOWNSHIP

ODELL
CAYUGA

387

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ON ROAD TYPE
AND CULTURAL
FEATURES.

ODELL TOIKNSHIP

GENERAL HIGHWAY MAP

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DIVISION OF HIGHWAYS
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS A BUILDINGS

SCALE OF ENLARGEMENTS

POLYCONIC PROJECTION

CAYUGA
T29N R5E.R6E

388

ODELL

Situated on that leading Illinois highway, US 66, the incorporated village of
Odell, just northeast of Pontiac, today has a population of 908. In addition to
numerous retail stores and service establishments, the village has banking facili-
ties and a postoffice. Through it runs the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad. Odell was
laid out on the Chicago & Mississippi Railroad in 1855 by William E. Odell, Henry
A. Gardner and S. S. Morgan. The first hotel in Odell was built by A. A. Streator.

Today, Odell is the principal communityof Odell Township, which has a total
population of 1,375. First settlers of the township were a handful of employees of
the Chicago & Mississippi Railroad who built shacks at the new Odell station and
who attended not only to the station but to a water tank and to road maintenance.
One of these, Daniel Smith, became first station agent as well as first postmaster
of Odell village.

389

CAYUGA

Another community of Odell Township is the village of Cayuga, with a popu-
lation of sixty. The village was platted in 1855 by Corydon Weed, of McLean
County.

390

FRED MUIR and SONS

Chuck and Jimmy

Breeders of

HEREFORD CATTLE

AND YORKSHIRE SWINE

Odell, Illinois Phone 23F13

Odell Phosphate Plant

ODELL, ILLINOIS
W. A. BLYSTONE

Anhydrous Ammonia * Potash
Super Phosphate • Rock Phosphate

ODELL PHONE - 9
PONTIAC PHONE - 3273

STONEY'S SERVICE

Dayton Tires and Tubes
Batteries and Accessories

PHONE 203
ODELL, ILLINOIS

Odell Grain and Coal Company

NICHOLAS J

WOLF, Mgr.

GRAIN

• COAL

• SEEDS •

FEEDS

Phone

66 •

Odell,

Illinois

FLOYD & DON FARM STORE

CULLOM, ILL. ItfEW I dea PHONE 29

FARM EQUIPMENT

International Motor Trucks — Farmall Troctors
Complete Parts and Service Department

391

ST. PAULS CATHOLIC CHURCH & HIGH SCHOOL Odell
Church founded in 1873

Rev. James F. Garrahan Pastor

Family Pictures of JAMES B. MUIR Family

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392

McCLDUD SCHOOL
Odell

AL'S SERVICE STATI»J
Odell

ODELL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL AND ODELL
COMMUNITY CONSOLIDATED GRADE SCHOOL
Odell Vern D. Amacher Supt.

ST. PAUL GRADE SCHOOL

Odell Sister Mary Theodore, 0. P.

Dedicated 1/16/55

BRANZ ESTATE
Odell

Rt. 3
acres

ODELL CEMETERY
Odell

BATTICE MRS. MARY

Odell Renter Green Francis

Rt. 3
213 1/3 acres

393

BASHORE, CAROLYN
Ode 11

Rt. 2
40 acres

BELLOT jam Rt. 3

Odell Renter Leathers John 160 acres

BOLEN JCHN
Odell

BECK LAWRENCE F.
Odell

Rt. 3
240 acres

394

T , J^

BOURQUIW h'HED

Odell Stadel Joe Tenant

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Rt. 2
120 acres

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BRAhC WILLIAM ESTATE

Odell C^jr. Borcherding George

Rt. 3
160 acres

CLEARY MRS. ANNA Rt. 1

Odell Cleary John J. Tenant 160 acres

BROWN, WESLEY
Odell

Rt. 3
203 acres

CLEARY FRANK
Odell

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BUCK, NELSON L. Rt. 3

Odell Robert Fraher Operator 160 acres

CLEARY, MIKE
Odell

Rt. 1
167 acres

395

CLEARY NELLIE
Odell

Rt. 1
160 acres

CLEMENTS, EDWARD M.
Odell

Rt. 3
184 acres

CniPH, MRS. MADELINE

Odell Lester Cripe Opr.

Rt. 3
160 acres

CRAVEN GEO.
Cdell

DAMBACHER FRANK

Odell Opr. Fosen, Tenis

396

DOHLEMAN, ROBERT
Pontiac

Rt. 3
80 acres

LiuuuhAN hU'A'AhU
Odell

Rt. 3
acres

ELY, CLARENCE
Odell

Rt. 2
151 acres

DaiGHAN, EDWARD P.
Odell

FINNB3AN E. J
Odell

397

FORGARYS M3BIL SERVICE
Odell

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GALL IRA
Odell

Rt. 1
120 acres

GALL MRS . IRA

Odell Opr. Gall, Henry

Rt. 3
120 acres

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GALL HENRY
Odell

RU 2
160 acres

GALL, IRA
Odell

rt. 2

120 acres

GORDON, E.F.

Odell Roger Gordon Operator

Rt. 2
160 acres

398

GOWER ALLEN MRS . ADA

Odell

HEATH, WARREN
Odell

Rt. 3
266 acres

r^MM

HARNER RICHARD
Odell

Rt.2
80 acres

HASSINGER CLARENCE W.
Odell Opr. Sapp, Ancel

HOGGHOUSE BEN
Odell

Ft. 2
acres

399

JACOBSON GRAIN ELEVATORS
Cavuaa

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JACOBSON GRAIN ELEVATORS
Cayuga

P^-^

KEENETH LINDEN

Odell Opr. Colclasure Percy

Rt. 3
acres

KEIGHIN, C.B.

Odell Arthur Schilling Operator

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KEENETH FRANK

Rt. 3

KIMBEL GILBERT

Odell Opr. Glen W.

Keeneth

175 acres

Odell

Rt. i
160 acres

KEENETH LINDEN
Odell

Rt. 3
160 acres

KIMBALL JESS Rt. 3

Odell Renter Lanstrom Roy 320 acres

400

LARSON DR . ROBINA

Odell Opr. G. C. Simpson

RT. 3
320 acres

McWlLLIAVE LOUISE EblAlt

Ocjell ' John Fogarty Operator

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McWILLIAMS ESTATE
Odell Thorne Frank

Rt. 1
160 acres

McWILLIAMS LOUISE ESTATE
Odell Opr. Murphy John S.

401

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MICHAEL ALBERT
Odell

RT. 1
160 acres

MILLE'\ ;-.TLLIAr>'
'■■»J.-'ll

Rt. 3
213 acres

MORSE ARTHUR Sec. 18

Odell Tenants Gernentz Donald

Rt. 3
160 acres

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MILLER, MAT J. AND CECILIA I.
Odeii Edward Kennedy Operator

Rt. 3
80 acres

MILLER MAT J.
Odell

Rt. 3
160 acTd?

402

MULLANEY DAN
Odell

NELSON, A.V.
Odell

403

ODELL PHOSPHATE PLANT
Odell

QUAKER OATS ELEVATOR

Strawn Fred Aellig Mgr.

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RICHARDSCN ROT
Pontiac

Rt. 6
acres

SANCKEN ALTON :.

Odell Renter Sisk Clair

Ht. 3
240 acres

SCULLY ESTATE

Pontiac Roy Bookman Operator

SCULLY ESTATE

Pontiac Oscar Kiese\vetter

STEPHENS, HOMER Rt. 3

Odell James Sullivan Operator 160 acres

SHANE, BURTON

Pontiac John Shane Operator

Rt. 3
125 acres

SIDNEY'S SERVICE
Odell

STUBBLEFIELD, KENNETH Rt. 2

Odell Robert "Stubble field Operator 160 acres

S PEERS RAYMCND G.
Odell

Rt. 3
160 acres

SULLIVAN, DONALD
Odell

Rt. 2
300 acres

405

THOMAS MRS. LOTTIE

Cdell Cpr. Bennington Frank

TVl'OHEY, JAMES

Odell Victor Earhart Operator

Rt. 3
240 acres

TOEMMES LOUIS

Odell Opr. Wolf, Leo M.

Rt. 3
200 acres

TWOHEY JAMES

Odell Opr. Robert Waldo

TOOHEY, FRANCES
Odell

;,t. 2
80 acres

TOWHEY GRACE
Odell

Rt. 2
80 acres

VERDUN MISS ADELE

Odell Opr. Hoke George H.

406

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VERDUN LEO
CMell

Rt. 3
160 acres

VISSERING JOHN Rt. 3

Odell Renter Schaffer Clifford 160 acres

WHEELER, THOMAS
Odell

Rt. 2
acres

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WALTER, WILLIAM

Odell Lloyd Moore Operator

ZAPPA FRANK
Odell

WASSOM M . E .

Odell Operator J. J. Bellot

Box 273
215 acres

407

408

OWEGO TOWNSHIP

SWYGERT
RUGBY

409

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OWEGO TOWNSHIP

GENERAL HIGHWAY MAP

BUREAU OF RESEARCH AND PLANNING

DIVISION OF HIGHWAYS
DCPABTMtNT OF PUBLIC WORKS A BUILDINGS

US DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROADS

SCALE

SCALE OF ENLARGEMENTS

POLYCONIC PROJECTION

410

SWYGERT

On the Illinois Central Railroad, just northeast of Pontiac, stands the village
of Swygert, with a population of thirty-one. It is served by the postoffice at Pon-
tiac. The village was named after Charles Swygert, who served as Owego Town-
ship supervisor from 1876 to 1878. Swygert village is now the prin^cipal community
of Owego Township, which has a total population of 503. First to settle in the
township was Daniel Rockwood, who came in 1833 from New York state. When
Livingston County was established in 1837, Daniel Rockwood was elected one of
its first three county commissioners. He was subsequently elected first supervisor
of Owego Township.

411

RUGBY

Another community of Owego Township is the small hamlet of Rugby, located
just east of Swygert on the Illinois Central Railroad. It is served by the postoffice
at Pontiac.

412

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Available From Your Lumber Dealer

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COAL

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GRAIN

PONTIAC FARMERS' GRAIN COMPANY

Pontiac/ Illinois Phone 5130

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SWYGERT, ILLINOIS

RUGBY, ILLINOIS

TURK PONTIAC FURNITURE COMPANY

PONTIAC, ILLINOIS

413

EMMANUEL EVANGELICAL UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH
Rev. Curtis Price Rt . 3 Fairbu

WSGA RLFI.'-NTARY CONSTRUCTION SCHOOL
Pontiac

Rt. 6
2 acres

iSBK-siiassjfs^:':

SWYGERT SCHOOL
Pontiac

SWYGERT CEMETERY
Pontiac

414

OWEGO HALL
Pontiac

BASHORE JONN L.
Pontiac

Rt. 2
93 acres

BOLL ELSIE Rt. 3

Fairbury Weaver Vaurice 0. 100 acres

BRUER, ANNA

Pontiac Harlan Bruer, Mgr.

Rt. 4
235 acres

BAMMAN HENRY
Pontiac

BRAAE, JCHN
Pontiac

Rt. 2 ■
160 acres

415

BLBH HR5. CLARA RT. 6

Pontiac Opr. Gschwendtner, Kenneth 160 acres

CLEVENGER CROM
Pontiac

RT. 6
160 acres

BUSH CLARA

Pontiac Sancken Howard

Rt. 2
160 acres

CHESEBORO tIRS . ADA
Pontiac Gerdes LeRoy E.

Rt. 6
260 acres

CUHTISS, GEORGE
Pontiac

Rt. 2
40 acres

CLEUEMGB?, BOB
Pontiac

DANFCRTH MRS. RHODA J.
Pontiac Opr. Henry Banmann

416

DENKER A. G.
Pontiac

Rt. 6
80 acres

DIMHli, PL
Pontiac

nL. 6

200 acres

DEHM ALBERT

Pontiac Opr. Baier, Homer

Rt. 6
115 acres

DINGWALL, MILDRED
Pontiac

417

DOHLMAN FRED
Pontiac

Rt. 6
80 acrpc

EDWARDS LESLIE D
Pontiac

DODSON, H.
Pontiac

Rt. 4
96 acres

FICKLIN WALTER Rt. 6

Pontiac Renter Dixon Charles F. 160 acres

EDWARDS MRS . BERT

Pontiac Edwards Everett Renter

FIENHOLD BILL
Pontiac

Rt. 4
160 acres

418

GATCHEL CLARENCE I
Pontiac

FRIESLEBEN ELIZABETH
Pontiac Sutton Chlorus

Rt. 2
240 acres

GREEN, CHARLES P.
Pontiac

Rt. 6
158 acres

GALLUP, HARVEY W.
Pontiac

Rt. 2
240 acres

GREEN, CHARLES P. .

Pontiac Wayne Coroan Renter

Rt. 6
158 acres

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GATCHEL ARTHUR Rt. 6

Pontiac Opr. Gschwendtner, Ken. 80 acres

GREENEBAUM liWS . J. C. & ELIZABETH 8. HENRY Rt. 6
Pontiac Wellenreiter Walter Rent. 160 acres

419

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HANSON ANTON
Pontiac

Rt. 2
120 acres

HANSON, EMIL
Pontiac

Rt. 4

160 acres'

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HANSEN, KATHERINE
Pontiac

HANSON ANTON
Pontiac

HARDING J. W

Pontiac Womack Elbert

Rt. 2
160 acres

420

a*»*ia!T«iS(;iiB*

HARDING J W
Pontiac

Rt. 2
160 acres

HOBGGER, HARRY
Pontiac

Rt. 6
acres

HARDING JOE
Pontiac

Rt. 2
160 acres

HOUDER MR . 8. MRS .

Pontiac Mgr. Gotchall, Paul

Rt. 4

If.:? acres

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I'JRIGHT, lOm HEIR? Ft. 6

Pontiac Earl Gschwendtner Operator 76 acres

HENKEL, REV. L .L. Rt. 6

Pontiac Joseph Wiegand Operator 320 acres

IMMKE HENRY

Pontiac Sancken Harold

421

KAISER HARRY E.

Pontiac

KENNEDY, E.
Pontiac

Rt. 2
53 acres

Rt. 2
60 acres

LEWIS JAMES MRS . ALMA

Pontiac Renter Collins Loyal

K3;iJEDY, FRANCIS
Pontiac

Rt. 2
140 acres

JCHNSTCW MURRIEL M.
Pontiac

Rt. 6
80 acres

KENNEDY, WILLIAM H.
Pontiac

Rt. 2
40 acres

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KLYVER, WILLIAM

Pontiac Lynn Sutton Renter

Rt. 6
160 acres

LAIN DENNIS Rt. 2

Pontiac Decker Geo. 160 acres

MACKINSON CHARLIE & EARL
Pontiac Hendershot Earl

Rt. 2
160 acres

MACKINSON, W.
Pontiac

Rt. 2
160 acres

LAMBERT EDW.

Pontiac Opr. Lambert, Sam J.

McWILLIANE, CHARLES D. AGENT
Pontiac Arthur Kelly Center

Rt. 6
160 acres

423

MCRTIMCRE, EARL
Pontiac

■Ik .r^sn, ryikV).^ I

Rt. 2

320 acres

PONTIAC FARMERS GRAIN 03.
Swygert

M3LEN TOM
Pontiac

Rt. 2
160 acres

PONTIAC FARMERS GRAIN CO.
Pug by

424

PORTER CHARLES M.

Pontiac Mgr. Edward M. Porter

Rt. 2
acres

PORTER HARRY Rt. 6

Pontiac »^r. Edward M. Porter 120 acres

REITZ GEORGE Rt. 4

Pontiac Mgr. William Swager 160 acres

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PCRTER, CHARLIE
Pontiac

Rt. 2
160 acres

REITY, GEORGE
Pontiac

Rt. 2
160 acres

425

ROSENBfflGER, EDV/ARD J.
Pontiac

Rt. 6
40 acres

SHAFER ELIZABETH
Pontiac Miller John

Rt. 2
80 acres

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SCHULTZ, FF:£D
Pontiac

Rt. 4
120 acres

Pontiac Donald Shane Operator

" t. 6
acres

SELLYMAR, JCGEm
Pontiac

STEFFENS, G.A.
Pontiac

Rt. 2
200 acres

426

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STEFFENS G A.
Pontiac

Rt. 2
200 acres

TOONC LEWIS

Pontiac Tronc LeRoy

Rt. 2
120 acres

TELFORD EAR
Pontiac

Rt. 2
160 acres

TRONC LEROY

Pontiac Hammer Lloyd

Rt. 2
acres

TOOJC MAIUE

Pontiac Tronc Paul

TRONC LEROY
Pontiac

Rt. 2
60 acres

VILVEN, CHARLIE

Pontiac Lester Ulrich

427

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VILVEN CHAS .

Kt. 2

WILES HERB

Pontiac Ulrich Lester J.

Tenant

240 acres

Pontiac

VITZTHUM FRANCIS
Pontiac

Rt. 1
160 acres

WHEELER JAJffiS
Pontiac

Rt. 6
80 acres

WORTHINGTON HATTIE MRS. Rt. 2

Pontiac Mgr. Gordon D. Worthington 160 acres

WESSELS F H
Pontiac

Rt. 2
180 acres

WORTHINGTON HATTIE MRS. Rt. 2

Pontiac Mijr. Gordon D. Worthinqton 80 acres

428

WORTHINGTON HENRY

Pontiac Whiteside Geo. Tenant

Rt. 2
200 acres

WRIGHT AM, ROY E.

Pontiac Francis Green Renter

429

430

PIKE TOWNSHIP

Although without any towns or village's, Pike Township, southwest of Pontine
city, is a fully developed farming area with a total population of 546. It is drained
by Pike Creek and several smaller streams. Through its southeast corner passes
US 66 and the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad. It was just after the building of the
first railroad in Livingston County in 1854 that the first settlers came to Pike
Township. Among these were Alonzo Huntoon, Albert Parker, James McFadden, a
Mr. Woodbury, and Messrs. Bedenger and Seawright. A Methodist church was built
in the township in 1878 and its first pastor was the Reverend J. L. Ferris.

431

VISIONS

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Of

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FE»

D4TES
REVISIONS
ROAD TYPE
CULTUR*!.
TURES.

PIKE TOIKNSHIP

GENERAL HIGHWAY MAP

BUREAU OF re;search and planning

OePARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS & BUK.DINCS

SCALE OF ENLARGEMENTS

POLYCONIC PROJECTION

432

HOGAN SCHOOL
Flanagan

Rt. 1
1 acre

CONSTRUCTION OF NEV HIGHl'.'AY R

Between Chenoa & Pontiac Oct. 1954

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ACKER MAN CHARLES
Chenoa

Rt. 1
acres

OLD PIKE CENTER SCHOOL
Chenoa

ANDERSON ESTATE Rt. 1

Flanagan Wesley Black Operator 160 acres

PIKE CEMETARY
Qienoa

ANDERSON NCRA M.

Pontiac Renter Joe Coyne

Rt. b
80 acres

433

BARRETT WOODROW
dienoa

Rt. 1
80 acres

BAUMAN CLARA M.
Chenoa

Rt. 1
1 acre

ou, » , rl^ : u R t • 1

Chenoa Edward Gentes Operator 100 acres

BAUMAN, CLARA M
Chenoa

Rt. 1
159 acres

BURT FRED H.

Chenoa Mgr. Glenn Rocke

434

CLARK, ELMEP S.

Chenoa Wilbert Stalter Mgr.

Rt. 1
160 acres

BLUE PCRTER J.
Chenoa

Rt. 1
100 acres

C (XL INS WILBUR
Flanagan

Rt. 1

12P acrp?

BURK R. A Rt. 1

Chenoa H. Ruthford Opr. 200 acres

COLLINS W. C.

Flanagan M. C. Dunahee Opr.

Rt. 1
230 acres

CANE K.

Chenoa John Wall Operator

Rt. 1
240 acres

WAYNE DOWNES
Chenoa

Rt. 1
80 acres

435

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ELSON EVERETT Rt. 1

Chenoa Opr. Lyell Everett 292 acres

DUNHAM, HILTON F.
Chenoa

Rt. 1
122 acres

ELSON EVERETT
Chenoa

EASH CLIFFCRD L.
Chenoa

;■, L. 1

1 dcrp

EHRESMAN DAVE
Flanagan

Rt. 1
80 acres

EPPEL FRED

Oienoa H. J. Eppel

436

EYMANN MRS. MARIE Rt. 5

Pontiac Opr. Arthur Bertsche 280 acres

FISHER A.
Chenoa

Rt. 1
acres

FEIT VICTOR
Chenoa

FCRNF?/ WiS . FANNY

Flanagan Mgr. Jerrold I. Rocke

437

F06DICK MRS. TO ESS IE

Chenoa ^'«r. Eldon L. Bryant

Rt. 1
80 acrps

GENTES ALVIN E.
Chenoa

Rt. 1
80 acres

FRIESLEBEN f.KS. BERTHA

Pontiac Martin A. Schieler Opr.

RT. 5
acres

Chenoa Mgr. Raymond Ballenger

Rt. 1
acres

GENTES VICTOR
Chenoa

438

GENTES VICTOR
Chenoa

HANSON SENIUS

Chenoa L. Gridley Operator

GREEN, MRS. JUANITA
Chenoa Roland ':'

Rt. 1
160 acres

PC6T, VICTOR
Pontiac

HARTNETT JUBHPHINE RT. 1

Chenoa Francis Sullivan Mgr. 240 acres

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HANCOCK C. N.
Chenoa

HEDGE JCGEPH

Chenoa Mgr. Otto Herschel

439

HEINRICH AUGUSTINE

Chenoa Opr. Simon Hein

Rt. 1
acres

HOERNER, HARLEY
Chenoa

Rt. 1
80 acres

HOERNER, RICHARD
Chenoa

Rt. 1
acres

HERR MRS M E

Chenoa Renters Kauffman Bros.

Rt. 1
160 acres

JANSSEN LOUISE MISS
Flanagan Elmer R. Falk

440

KLEIN JOHN D
Chenoa

Rt. 1
240 acres

KOERMER, R.E.
Chen a

Rt. 1

160 acres

KLEIN CARL F
Chenoa

LAW MRS . JAKE
Pontiac

441

Chenoa Mgr. Vernon L. McDevitt

MYER MERLE R
Chenoa

Rt. 1
acres

NIOjL EDWAi;[ A.
Pontiac

NICOL JAMES

Pontiac Everett Hoerner Cpr.

Rt. 5
80 acres

Rt. 5
3 acres

Rt. 5
160 acres

NICOL DAVID HENRY
Chenoa

NICOL VICTOR

Cuenoa Mgr. Dunahee Victor

442

OLTMAN FRED
Chenoa

Rt. 1
240 acres

OLTMAN FRED

Poiitiac Mgr. John Oltman

Rt. 5
240 acres

RABER LLOYD C
Graymont

OTTO, GEORGE W.
Gridley

Rt. 2
162 acres

RABER WILL M. Rt. 1

Flanagan Wayne Raber Operator 220 acres

PEPPARD MRS. EMMA
Flanagan

Rt. 1
80 acres

REESER DEBOLDT

Chenoa Mgr. Lawrence V. Felt

Rt. 1
300 acres

443

REX B. CARL

Chenoa Mgr. Elmer L. Dunahee

REINERS MARCUS

Rt. 1

RHODA L

Chenoa Mgr. Ronald P.

Gentes

120 acres

Chenoa

REINERS REINER
Qienoa

Rt. 1
120 acres

RINGENBERG, C .H .

Chenoa Merlin Eash Renter

444

ROCKE ELLA MRS

Gridley Cecil Rocke

Rt. 2
acres

ROCKE DALE S .
Chenoa

ROCKE MERLE E.
Flanagan

Rt. 1
40 acres

SANDMEYffi ANNA MRS.

ChenoE Mgr. Merle McKinney

445

SCHICKADANZ SIMCN
Chenoa

Rt. 1
80 acres

SCHOENBECr. ^ r.ffiS. ANNA SANDMEYEF,
Pontiac Mgr. Charles Eggers

Rt. 5
160 acres

SCHNEIDER MRS MARY

Pontiac Glen E. Hoerner Opr.

Rt. 5
158 acres

SCHNECXENBURGER RUSSELL
Qienoa

Rt. 1
120 acres

SCH^^ENBEi K L ''I
Pontiac

Rt. 5
acres

SCHOENBECK MRS. BARBARA
Pontiac

SCHULTZ C
Chenoa

Rt. 1
160 acres

446

SCHULTHEIS WENDEL

Che.noa Robert P. Brock Mgr.

Rt. 1
160 acres

JBPIi^k^

SCHICKDANZ ALVA T
Chenoa

SCHliLTHEIS WENDEL
Chenoa

Rt. 1

ts^'^?i^^T!: ^mMmMmM^w^'m' ^:

SCHULTHEIS CHARLES
Graymont

HI. 1
acres

SEAMAN WARREN

Chenoa Renter M. Durham

Rt. 1
160 acres

SCHULTHEIS JUHN
Flanagan

LOUIS SEMAN
Chenoa

447

SILLIMAN MARTHA Rt. 1

Chenoa Opr. Robert H. Elder 160 acres

STALTER Cu :._, .:«;.

Chenoa Mgr. Stalter Harvey C.

Rt. 1
120 acres

STUCKEMYER W

Chenoa Opr. Ivan EXinahee

Rt. 1
acres

SPRINGER HOMER
Gridley

kt. 1
160 acres

STUCKEMEYER MRS. W. H.
Chenoa R. V. Weber

Rt. 1
240 acres

Rt. 2
160 acres

STUCKEMEYER W. H.
Chenoa

-*^ipia^

Rt. 1
acres

44«

THEOBALD ANDY
Chenoa

UPHOFF CLARENCE
Chenoa

Rt. 1
200 acres

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BhIk

^?V

■1^

^^jE-^.

UPHOFF JONN B. Rt. 1

Graymont Operator Clarence Uphoff so seres

r-^,\' ■^^i^*V'i^"~ »-

VFPCI.FR, MISS NHTIk Ht. 1

Chenoa Francis Vercler Mgr. 120 acres

TOIEL MIKE

Flanagan Opr. Henry Thiel

Rt. 1
120 acres

VffiCLER RUDOLPH & FRANCIS
Chenoa

449

VERCLER, RUDOLPH E.
Chenoa

Rt. 1
acre

WAHLS IRVIN C.
Chenoa

Rt. 1
240 acres

WEBffl NELSON C.

Pontiac Richard Weber Opr.

Rt. 5
160 acres

Rt. 1
240 acres

WILLIAMS MRS . ELMER
Chenoa

Rt. 1
acres

450

ZIMVERMAN CHRISTIAN E.
Chenoa

Rt. 1
acres

WOODING RANK
Chenoa

451

452

PLEASANT RIDGE TOWNSHIP

WING

453

REVISIONS 1

SEE

COUKTY

H*P

fOS

DATES

?tVISIOHS

TOAD TYPE

«NI

cut TUBAL

TUBES.

PLEASANT RIDGE TOWNSHIP
GENERAL HIGHWAY MAP

BUREAU OF RESEARCH AND PLANNING

DIVISION OF HIGHWAYS
DePARTMCNT or PUBLIC WOAKS & BUILDINGS

HI-

SCALE OF ENLARGEMENTS

POLYCONIC PROJECTION

WING
T27N R7E

454

WING

Near the north fork of the Vermilion River, southeast of Pontiac, may be
found the village of Wing. It has a population of seventy-five. The village is
served by the postoffice at nearby Forrest. Through it passes the Wabash Rail-
road, and, just west of it, passes State 47. Wing is the only community in Pleasant
Ridge Township, which in 1950 had a population of 463. First to settle 'in the
township was Nathan Townsend, who arrived in 1843 from New Jersey. A later
settler was Isaac Wilson, who subsequently was elected first supervisor of the
township. He was also an early Justice of the Peace.

455

^'"^m^

FLOYD KAMRATH

Breeder of

REGISTERED POLLED
SHORTHORNS

Route 2
Forrest, Illinois

PAUL and BOB IMMKE

Breeder of
BLACK POLAND CHINA

"BLUE RIBBON WINNERS"

Registered
PUREBRED HEREFORDS

Arnold Immke &l Sons

Saunemin, Illinois

.^Slfc#»---'*^

GRAIN ELEVATORS AT

LONG POINT • FORREST

SAUNEMIN • EYLAR

BLUE SEAL FEEDS

GROW CROP FERTILIZER

UNICO STEEL EQUIPMENT

ti:i.

LIVINGSTON GRAIN & SUPPLY COMPANY

222 WEST MADISON

PONTIAC, ILLINOIS

456

WING GRADE SCHOOL

Wing Lila P. Ferguson, Princiapl

ACKERMAN KATHRYN

Forrest Histein Clarence

Rt. 2
240 acres

APC6TLIC CHRISTIAN CEMETHiY
Forrest

BANE, MRS.

Fairbury Earl Anliker Tenant

Rt. 2
160 acres

PLEASANT RIDGE CEMETERY
Saunemin

BACH, GEORGE
Forrest

Rt. 2
75 acres

TOWN HALL
Forrest

BACH, MRS . LENA

Forrest Edward S. Bach

R.R.#2
160 acres

457

BARBER, JOHN L.
Forrest

Sec. 33 Rt. 1

160 acres

BEATTIE, R.E.

Forrest John Kyburz

R.R.«2
240 acres

BRAUMAN, ERNEST
Forrest

Rt. 1
160 acres

^^ rue-*

BELL ESTATE

Chatsworth Elbert Lester

Rt. 1
240 acres

BOLLIER.EMMA ESTATE
Forrest Ralph Harms

458

Rt. 2
acres

BROWN IVAN

Forrest Wilborn H. W.

Rt. 1
130 acres

BROWN WAR TIN
Forrest

BROWN, MRS.

PHILIP

Rt. 2

DAY, AARON

Rt. 2

Forrest

Martin Brovm

400 acres

Forrest

Edwin G.

Harms

160 acres

CARTER ALVA

Forrest Harms Harold

Rt. 1
280 acres

CARTER BROS.
Fairbury Haab John

Rt. 2
370 acres

ELBERT LESTER
Forrest Nance John

459

ENDERLI HERBERT
Forrest

Rt. 2
320 acres

Forrest Fellers James

Rt. 2
160 acres

FARNEY VIRGIL

Forrest Pitcock Gordon

Rt. 2
160 acres

HAAB, ED
Forrest

Rt. 1
acres

FUGATE WILLIAM

Fairbury Bentley Kenneth

Rt. 1
240 acres

HAAB R.
Forrest

Rt. 1
80 acres

GARDNER, R.
Forrest

Rt. 1
80 acres

HAAS FRED W
Fairbury

460

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, "__^_ ■«^' ^^"iflKE^^yiiii^H

1^^

HARMS, JOHN R. Rt. 2

Forrest Ralph J. Harms Tenant 80 acres

HARWB, MANO

Forrpst

Pt. 2
acres

HARMS, HARRY Sec. 17 Rt. 2

Forrest Herman A. Harms Tenant 80 acres

HARMS RALPH
Forrest

Rt. 2
acres

HARMS, HARRY Rt. 2

Forrest Herman A. Harms Tenant 80 acres

HliBER, ED

Forrest John V. Fehr Tenant

Pt. 1
160 acres

461

HOLLOWAY F T

Forrest Pokarney Mike

HUBER ED

Forrest Fehr John V.

Rt. 1
160 acres

HOLLOWAY, FARM
Forrest

Rt. 2
80 acres

HUISMAN, ELMffi
Forrest Roy Sleeth

R.R./G
320 acres

462

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IMMKE, ARNOLD
Saunemin

Rt. 1
acres

KAISNER, JOSEPH
Forrest

R.R.#2
160 acres

IMMKE, WILLIAM

Saunemin Arnold Immke

i ■. ^f^m^

JRJNIMGS, ZETA Sec. 34 Rt. 1

Forrest Vern E. Metz Tenant 240 acres

KAf.P.ATH, HENRY A.

Forrest Leroy Kamrath

Rt. 2
160 acres

JOTCE, MRS. ELLA
Forrest Earl Ford

KELLY JAMES

Fairbury Brown James

Rg. 2
160 acres

463

KILaiS, ALVIE
Forrest

Sec.21 Rt. 2
57 acres

LEUTHOLD MARY ESTATE Sec. 20 Rt. 2

Forrest Honegger William Tenant 80 acres

KILGUS, HENRY

Forrest John Kilgu5 Tenant

Rt. 2
160 acres

MAURER ALPHIA Sec. 20
Forrest Maurer Ray Tenarit

Rt. 1
80 acres

KILGUS RUDY Sec. 28
Forrest Tyler Ernest Tenant

Rt. 2
160 acres

r , ''\ ' HI
Foi rest

Rt. 2
acres

KCRNER LOTUS
Saunemin McCaughey

Rt. 1
240 acres

MEENEN MITCHELL R .
Forrest

Rt. 1
120 acres

464

METZ JOE
Forrest

MOLINA FRANK MRS.

Fairbury Steffen Andrew

Rt. 2
190 acres

METZ, ROY Rt. 1

Forrest Edward R. Plattner Tenant 120 acres

Rt. 2
120 acres

MC6CR, CARL C.
Forrest

Sec. 29 Rt. 1

120 acres

MOLINA BARBARA

Fairbury Steffens Andrew

Rt. 1
190 acres

MOSffi, SI

Forrest Henry Stork

Sec. 26 R.R.W2
160 acres

465

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NUSSBAUM SILAS

Forrest Nussbaum Bvron

ROHRER, C.C. ESTATE Sec. 22 R.R. #2

Forrest Burdell Gardner 240 acres

Fairbury

Rt. 3
acres

ROHRER, C.H. Sec. 22 Rt. 2

Forrest Elmer H. Huisman Jr. Tenant 298 acres

QUAKER OATS GRAIN ELEVATOR CO.
Forrest White Thomas Mgr.

LANGSTAFF

Forrest Saunders Tenant

466

SCHARER CHARLES & JACK
Fairbury

Rt. 1
200 acres

SINGLETON MRS LEONA Rt. 1

Forrest Engelbrecht Victor & Son 160 acres

SCHMIDT CARL
Fairbury

Rt. 2
acres

STANFORD, CLARK
Forrest

Rt. 1
160 acres

SHIELDS, MRS. CLARENCE
Saunemin Robert Immke

Rt. 1
80 acres

STOLLER FARM

Saunemin Perry Zimmerman

Rt. 1
205 acres

467

ULFER? KILGII':, WARREN AND VODA Rt. 1

Forrest Edmon & James Coleman Tenant 160 acres

STORTZ, JACOB
Forrest

R.R. f(2
160 acres

VAIL ESTATE

Forrest Harry Bryant

Sec. 27 R.R.#2
160 acres

SUTTON DR E A & EMI LUCY
Forrest Witte Walter

Rt. 2
140 acres

VEATCH, CHARLES
Forrest

Rt.l
127 acres

TEUBEL EMIL
Forrest

WALTER ELI E.
Saunemin

Rt. 1
103 acres

468

L*^

WALTON JOHN

Fairbury Aupperle Elias

Rt. 2
320 acres

WARBINTON WADE M
Saunemin

Rt. 1
130 acres

WEIHERMILLER, ARTHUR
Forrest

Rt. 1
80 acres

YODER MAR I CM
Fairbury

Rt. 3
50 acres

WENDEL HARRY

Forrest King Earl C. Tenant

Rt. 1
160 acres

ZIfWERMAN, EDWIN

Forrest Maurice Zimmerman

469

470

PONTIAC TOWNSHIP

PONTIAC

471

MAP
FOR DATES
Of REVtSIOHS
ON ROAO TYPE
AND CULTURAL
FEATURES.

PONTIAC TO«NSHIP

GENERAL HIGHWAY MAP

BUREAU OF RESEARCH AND PLANNING
DCPARTMENT Of PUBLIC WORKS & 8UK.(NNCS

f 1 I 1 1-

SCALE OF ENLARGEMENTS

T2eN R5t

472

CITY OF PONTIAC

On the courthouse lawn in Pontiac may be found a stone memorial to the
celebrated Indian chief after whom the city is named. Here, also, stands the Sol-
diers' and Sailors' Monument, memorializing men of the county who fell in the
Civil War. The city's central business district contains branches of such national
chain stores as J. C. Penny Company, Kroger, A & P, National Tea, Montgomery
Ward & Company and Sears Roebuck & Company.

Located ninety-two miles southwest of Chicago in the midst of a rich farming
area, Pontiac is served by the Illinois Central, the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio, and the
Wabash railroads, as well as by US 66 and state highways 116 and 23. This city
is the only community of Pontiac Township (see "Pontiac Township"), which in
1950 had a total population of 9,906. Parts of the township were annexed to Pon-
tiac city in 1942 and 1946.

473

JACOBSON GRAIN ELEVATORS
Cayuga, Illinois

Jacobson Grain Elevators

GRAIN • FEED • SEED
FENCING • FERTILIZER

JACOBSON GRAIN ELEVATORS
Rowe, Illinois

JACOBSON GRAIN ELEVATORS
Pontiac, Illinois

474

HOFFRICHTER'S WEST SIDE LUMBER YARDS

PONTIAC, ILLINOIS

PHONE 6011

WOLF-JACOBSON, INC.

Chevrolet Sales and Service

GOODYEAR TIRES AND TUBES • FARM SERVICE
PHONE 5149 PONTIAC, ILLINOIS

475

BUSINESS SECTION OF PONTIAC

476

"The Lounge of Disf/ncfi'on"
and DIXIE CAFE

Across from the Pontiac Post Office
B. J. LO PICCALO

CITIES SERVICE OIL CO.

VERNON SHOOP
Bulk Agent

STATION OPERATORS

Duffy, Akers and Alltop

PONTIAC, ILLINOIS

Dealers for Your Farm, Home, Business
and Automobile

GAS • FUEL OIL • OIL
SPECIAL INDUSTRIAL OILS

24 Hour Service
CITIES SERVICE BULK PLANT

901 WEST REYNOLDS
PONTIAC, ILLINOIS

CLEVENGER'S FURNITURE

Distinctive Furniture for YOUR Home

214 W. Washington

Pontiac, Illinois

NORTH ROKNOW'S TAVERN

Smoker's Headquarters — Package Liquors
— Phone 5384 —

221 W. MADISON ST.

PONTIAC, ILL.

477

S. p. BRADLEY MOTOR COMPANY

STUDEBAKER CARS AND TRUCKS

FIRESTONE DISTRIBUTOR

"Continuous Service Since 1918"

PONTIAC, ILLINOIS

\M ^ Greai Lsyitig-Big Paying

CORN BELT HATCHERIES, INC.

PHONE 5338
PONTIAC, ILLINOIS

H. J. EPPEL & COMPANY

Bridge and Drainage Contractors

EARTHWORK DRAINAGE • CONCRETE AND STEEL BRIDGES
FOUNDATIONS AND RELATED CONSTRUCTION

free estimates and preliminary surveys to our tustomers.

Phone 5138 or 6521 Pontiac, Illinois

478

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Pontiac

THE CHRISTIAN CHLIRCH
Pontiac

479

FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH
Pontiac

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Pontiac

480

METHODIST CHURCH
Pontiac

PONTIAC EVANGELICAL UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH
Pontiac

481

ST. MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH
Pontiac

ST. MARY'S CATHOLIC GRADE SCHOOL
Pontiac

482

TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH
Pontiac

ST. PAUL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH

Ro we

483

CENTRAL SCHOOL
Pontiac /

LADD SCHOOL
Pontiac

4»4

4tt&ES!^'te«SM

LINCOLN SCHOOL
Pontiac

WASHINGTON SCHOOL
Pontiac

485

PONTIAC CITY HALL
Pontiac

LIVINGSTON COUNTY COURT HOUSE
Pontiac

486

ST. JAIVES HOSPITAL
Pontiac

PONT I AC LIBRARY
Pontiac

487

MOOSE CLUB
Pontiac

F. N. SMITH and SON

LUMBER YARDS

Phone 5332
Pontiac, Illinois

"Building With Pontiac
For Over 60 Years"

PONTIAC
MOTOR COMPANY

GORDON T. CAMPBELL

Ford , , . Mercury

Phone 5175
Pontiac, Illinois

488

PONTIAC HIGH SCHOOL
Pontiac

MEMORIAL CEMETERY
Pontiac

ST. MARY'S CATHOLIC CEMETERY
Pontiac

PONTIAC - ESMEN SCHOOL Rt. 3

Pontiac Prin-Bernice Durham Dist. #430

ROWE CEMETERY
Pontiac

FURNITURE

•

ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES • RADIOS

• TV SETS

INSULATED

SIDING

• PAINT • ROOFING • INSULATION •

FLOOR COVERING

GAMBLE STORES

DARRELL MILLS, Mgr.

STORE PHONE 5016 WE TRADE PONTIAC,

ILLINOIS

489

W' Jk^

CHIEF CITY AIRPORT
Pontiac

LIVINGSTON COUNTY NURSING HOME & FARM Rt. 5

Pontiac Mr. Bowland Mgr. 240 acres

ELKS COUNTRY CLUB
Pontiac

LIVINGSTON COUNTY SANATCRiUM
Pontiac

ILLINOIS STATE PENITENTIARY Pontiac Branch
Pontiac James E. Denney, Warden

PONTIAC ARMORY
Pontiac

ILLINOIS STATE PENITENTIARY FARM PONTIAC-BR ANCH
Pontiac

PONTIAC GUN CLUB
Pontiac

Rt. 1
10 acres

490

ILLINOIS STATE PENITENTIARY

Pontiac Branch

Pontiac James E. Denney Warden

LIVINGSTON COUNTY SANATORIUM
Pontiac

491

SOUTH SIDE CITY CEMETERY
Pontiac

PONT I AC ARMORY
Pontiac

492

fi*J|)?V

DADLLI^r., I'.AI „ Rt. 3

Pontiac Wilbur Hassinger Mgr. 356 acres

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BABCOCK, MAY ESTATE

Pontiac Wilbur Hassinger Mgr.

Rt. 3
356 acres

BARNES HARRY
Pontiac

Rt. 5
120 acres

BAHMAN JAKE
Pontiac

Rt. 5
120 acres

EVERETT M. BAILEY & SONS
Pontiac

BENTLEY, A.E .

Pontiac George Raube Opr.

493

BENTLEY ELDINE Rt. 2

Pontiac Mgr. Worthington, Gordon 160 acres

BERBERICH FRANK

Pontiac Mgr. Orville Weber

Rt. 2
148 acres

BRESSNER CARL
Pontiac

Rt. 5
234 acres

BOYD FORD

Pontiac Mar. °oy '."inar

Rt. 2
14 acres

BRESSNER FRANCIS
Pontiac

Rt. 5
52 acres

BOYU FORD Rt. 2

Pontiac Mgrs. Vern & Roscoe Laver 160 acres

BRINKMAN HENRY ESTATE
Pontiac Mgr. Brinkman Roy

494

CLEVELAND, GERTRUDE ESTATE Rt. 1

Pontiac Clyde W. Taplin Mgr. 96 acres

BRUE MRS. RALPH & JOHN 8. BILLY BRUE Rt. 5

Pontiac 160 acres

CREGO MRS . ERNEST

Pontiac Opr. Crego Roland

Rt. 6
30 acres

BRUE, RALPH Rt. 4

Pontiac Clarence Schulz Operator 160 acres

DAVIS LESTER
Pontiac

Rt. 6
7 acres

*^%5^

COLLINS MRS. ELOISE

Pontiac Opr. Schoop, William

DIEMER A. C, Rt. 6

Pontiac Opr. Lambert Earl & Levi 234 acres

495

DIEMER EDWARD
Pontiac

Rt. 5
240 acres

DIXON, JIM ;■,'.

Pontiac

Pt. 5

80 acres

dieml;,,

Pontiac

DUFFY, MARY ESTATE

Pontiac William Duffy Mgi

DIENER PETE
Pontiac

Rt. 2
160 acres

EDWARDS BERT

Pontiac Mgr. Deemer, Robert

496

EDIVARDS, ROY
Pontiac

1-k acres

FEENY S, WRIGKTAM GARAGE t. buDY SHOP
Pontiac

@^:,c^^^i^:

EISaE, LEO
Pontiac

Rt. 1
12 acres

FINLEY MISS BLANCHE
Pontiac R. Smith Ira

Rt. 3
355 acres

EPPEL, MR. £, ;.',R3. HaiRY
Pontiac

Pontiac Ira Smith Opr.

FINLEY, MISS BLANCH
Pontiac

497

FITZGERALD, DR. G.H. Pt. 1

Pontlac Eugene Mullen Mgr. 152 acres

GARDNER DELBERT

Pontiac Alvin E. Jones

Rt. 5

.61 acres

■^^iweat"

FOSTER, C.E.

Pontiac Harold R. Foster Tenant

Rt. 3
acres

GOODALL, CARRIE E.

Pontiac Jake Bauman Operator

Rt. 4
acres

FRANCIS, JOE SR.
Pontiac

Rt. 3

acres

GREIDER RAY I.
Pontiac

Rt. 1

10 acres

FRANCIS JOE, SR,
Pontiac

Rt. 3
80 acres

GREEN MRS . ALICE
Pontiac

498

GSCHWENDTNER MRS. ANNA
Pontiac Opr. William Nolan

Rt. 6
311 acres

GUNS EL MRS . HENRY

Pontiac Mgr. Veatch Stanley

Rt. 5
acres

GSCHWENDTOER BSiNARD

Pontiac Mgr. William J. Becker

Rt. 3
100 acres

HALL, FRED AND MARY Rt. 2

Pontiac Justin Wolf Operator 120 acres

HAMILTuN JlriN M.

Pontiac Mgr. John F. Hamilton

Rt. 2
120 acres

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GSCHV/ENDTNER FRANK & SONS
Pontiac

Rt. 5
142 acres

HAMILTON, JOHN M.
Pontiac

Rt. 2
220 acres

499

HANLON HANNAH

Pontiac Mgr. Eugene Kutzner

Rt. 3
120 acres

HOFFRICHTER'S WEST SIDE LUMBER CO.
Pontiac

HEIMS, JOHN H.

Pontiac Geo. Schulz Renter

Rt. 5
280 acres

HOFFRICHEER'S WES I SlUb LUMBER YARDS
Pontiac

HOLZHAUER, CARL C.
Pontiac

Rt. 3
acres

HENDERSHOT, L.H.
Pontiac

Rt. 1
48 acres

HOLZHAUER FRED
Pontiac

500

HOLZHAUER NORMAN L.
Pontiac

Rt. 3
94.83 acres

JACABSON GRAIN ELEVETffi
Pontiac

HaiDER CEMETPRY
Pontiac

JACOBS ON GRAIN ELEVATCRS
Rowe

JACOBS ON OLAF, G
Pontiac

IRVIN MRS. LAURA Rt. 6

Pontiac Opr. Francis Burnside 240 acres

Rt. 5
120 acres

501

..,,;•/, «w*VVj^«

JONES, PEARL M. Rt. 4

Pontiac John Allison, Jr. Operator 40 acres

KANE MRS.

Pontiac Mgr. E. Trost

Rt. 4
240 acres

JONES. ZEL DON
Pontiac

KENNEDY HAROLD
Pontiac

Rt. 2
12 acres

JOHN?i>I FARM Rt. 4

Pontiac L.C. Blair Cperator 120 acres

KELLY VICTOR E.

Pontiac Opr. Eckhoff, Bernie

JCRDON, L.A.
Pontiac

Rt. 1
200 acres

KEPLINGER, E.G. Rt..6

Pontiac Floyd Schoop Operator 160 acres

502

KEPLINGER, F .G . Rt. 6

Pontiac Wilson Richardson Opr. 160 acres

KNUDE.ON, CHARLIE AND JOE

Pontiac Charles A. Knudson Mgr.

Rt. 1
240 acres

KOERNER, HENRY Rt. 1

Pontiac Merle Koerner Mgjr. 80 acres

KIPPER MRS . JESSIE

Pontiac Opr. Bressner, Harold E.

KOERNER, H.W. Rt. 1

Pontiac Merle U. Koerfer Mgr. 167 acres

KNAPP, MRS . BERTHA

Pontiac Donald Francis Operator

Rt. 6
189 acres

LEDFCRD LESTER H
Pontiac

503

/V r' ''•••; ^ ♦ *

LEE E C. ESTATE
Pontiae

1; t . 5
160 acres

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Pontiae The Old South

LEGNER, HENRY L.
Pontiae

Rt. 5
240 acres

LOBB'S DEPT. STORE
Pontiae 223 W. Madison

L: ii™\;, MP :. M/\RTHA

Pontiae Mgr. Glenn Schott

Rt. 2

150 acres

MACKINSON JOHN D.
Pontiae

lOL' acres

LEONARD ESTATE

Pontiae David Leonard Operator

Rt. 4
45 acres

MARCELLO MOTOR SALES
Pontiae

504

Mccormick mrs . & mrs . br ewer

Pontiac

Rt. 4
100 acres

McCULLEY CHARLES
Pontiac

Rt. 2
acres

MITCH: LL
Pontiac

Rt. 6
2 acres

MIES, MRS. KATE Rt. 4

Pontiac Harold Mies, Operator 160 acres

MOTEL FIESTA
Pontiac

Rt. 66 & 116

MIES, MRS. KATE

Pontiac Eugene Mies, Operator

Rt. 4
163 acres

NIEMAN, MILDRED

Pontiac Ernest Trost Operator

505

OGDEN, OLIVER
Pontlac

!:t. 3
80 acres

ORMDORFF ESTATE

Pontiac Ray Ormdorff Mgr.

Rt. 1
164 acres

030 WILLIAM

Pontiac Opr. Bressner Harold E.

PIKE HYBRID SEED CO.
Pontiac

■

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P-.^

■•^mip^^^;

•- iff'

- ■* - '-mmifmmmmMfssm-

BLANCH WEBER

Rt. 5
5 acres

OLSON, ms. LENA Rt. 3

Pontiac William Schoop Operator 60 acres

PONTIAC CONCRETE CO
Pontiac

506

PONTIAC FARMERS GRAIN CO.
Pontiac

PORTER, CHARLES JR.
Pontiac

Rt. 2
ih acres

PONTIAC M3T0R 00.
Pontiac

PONTIAC READY MIX
Pontiac

PONTIAC STONE CO.
Pontiac

RENNE JOHN R.

Pontiac Mgr. W. H. Ledford

Rt. 4
186 acres

507

RIBCRDY J.J.
Pontiac

He^^

^■■|K|^H|^^^LS3Pi

IffC^

RITTENHOUSE FLOYD
Pontiac

Rt. 5
15 acres

ROBERTS RICHARD
Pontiac

Rt.5
120 acres

ROBERTS EDWIN L
Pontiac

Rt. 5
400 acres

RUFF DELBERT
Pontiac

508

Rl'FF DELBERT Rt. 1

Pontiac Lewis H. Voigts Mgr. 192 acres

SCHNEEMAN CLYDE F.

Pontiac Donald E. Schneeman

Rt. 3
200 acres

RUSSELL WILLIAM R.
Pontiac

Rt. 5
45 acres

SCHENEEMAN ALBERT
Pontiac

Rt. 3
160 acres

SCHUI^, CL.WFNCE
Pontiac

Rt. 4
20 acres

SCHNEEMAN, ALBERT W.
Pontiac

Rt. 3
160 acres

SCOTT FRED
Pontiac

Rt. 1
3 acres

509

'■JLi'ii«iir.r^^"^

SCOTT, MABEL E. Rt. 4

Pontiac John Allison, Jr. Operator 160 acres

SHAMF,
Pont ix

hjnr. Opr.

Rt. 2
80 acres

SCULLY ESTATE Ht. 3

Pontiac Henry Kiesewetter Operator 163 acres

SHOTT, ELSIE
Pontiac

Rt. 5
160 acres

SELLS JUSTIN

Rt. 1
acres

SHOOP R. H.
Pontiac

Rt. 2
4 acres

SELOTI JOE
Pontiac

LINE 00. SINCLAIR PIPE
Pontiac

510

%Afc

t'diM

SINCLAIR PIPE - LINE CO.
Pontiac

SPLEAR A. E. Rt. 1

Pontiac Joe Erschem Manager 149 acres

SMITH F N & SONS LUMBER YARDS
Pontiac

SNELL MRS . ELIZABETH
Pontiac

Rt. I
19 acres

T. V. MAST COMPANY
Pontiac Terwilligher

SPARKS PAUL A. LUMBER YARDS
Pontiac

VAN DUYNE, HERMAN
Pontiac

511

.Wo:-,'. --V:

WOLF ESTATE
Pontiac

Rt. 5
143 acres

WEBER, HARRY
Pontiac

WOLI^JACOBSON INC.
Pontiac

WIEGERS, HENRY
Pontiac

WATTS THO^WS

Pontiac Mgr. Ray Cairns

Rt. 3
275 acres

WOLF EDNA 8, JUSTIN
Pontiac

512

WOLFORTH HENRY
Pontiac

Rt. 1
10 acres

WURMNEST, WILLIAM
Pontiac

Pt. 2
acres

ZEHR MRS. BERTHA
Pontiac

Rt. 6
10 acres

li^^^if^ *v

■iV.i:;g, Lbiin Rt. 3

Pontiac Ross W. Holzhaver Mgr. 240 acres

ZIMMERMAN PAUL A.
Pontiac

YOUNG, MRS. MARY

Pontiac Richard Duffy Mgr.

ST JAMES HOSPITAL
Pontiac

513

MARCELLO
MOTOR SALES

Oldsmobile and Cadillac

Junction of U. S. 66 and Route 116

PHONE 6771

PONTIAC, ILLINOIS

^ X

EVERETT M. BAILEY & SONS

V.Mr^''^-

3 Blocks Bast of I. C. Oepof

PHONE 5269 • PONTIAC, ILLINOIS

Distributor for Central Illinois

American Seating Company

School Furniture

Distributor for Illinois

Oneida Poducts Corporation

Safety School Bus Bodies

SALES AND SERVICE

Distinctive Cliildrens Apparel

WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S SHOES

"Nationally Adveri'.sed Quality Merchandise"

PONTIAC, ILLINOIS

When in need of a plumber
(Call SHUG)

L. M. SHUGART

213 W. Washington St.
Pontiac, Illinois

Just as close as your phone — 6261

JANITROL GAS BURNERS

WILLIAMS OIL-O-MATIC OIL BURNERS

PLUMBING • HEATING

Steam and Hot Water

Product of Iron Fireman

Individual Thermostatic Control of
Temperature in Each Room

514

BANK OF

PONTIAC

PONTIAC,

ILLINOIS

'The Friendly Bank

in the Chief C/fy"

MEMBER
FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

MEMBER
FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION

SCHLOSSER RADIO SERVICE

Headquarters for

RADIOS — RECORDS — PHONOGRAPHS
TELEVISION SALES AND SERVICE

307 West Madison Street Phone 5260

^mitk d Aewelru

G. E. DURHAM, iev/eier

117 West Madison Street Phone 5315 Pontiac, Illinois

515

is»*

PAUL A. SPARKS LUMBER YARD

Building Material • Hardware
Coal

PHONE 5048

Old U. S. Route 66 at I. C. Tracks
PONTIAC, ILLINOIS

9^m^'9^

POWER STEERINC

ZIMMERMAN SALES & SERVICE

210 North Ladd Street
Phone 5209 • Pontiac, Illinois

,.*^'

PUREBRED REGISTERED HOLSTEINS

CLYDEDALE FARMS

Donald E. Schneeman
D. H. I. A. Testing

CREDITED HERD

Registered Ho/sfeins Since 1943

Route 3
Pontiac, Illinois

516

READING TOWNSHIP

SOUTH STREATOR
ANCONA
READING
MUNSTER

517

«t»ISIONS 1

SEE

COUHH

MAP

FOB
OF

Alio
FEA

OAIES
REVISIOIIS
ROAO TYPE
CULTURAL
TUBES.

READING TOMNSHIP
GENERAL HIGHWAY MAP

BUREAU or rese;arch and planning

WVISION OF HIGHWAYS
OePARTMEINT Of PUBLIC WORKS & BUILDINGS

US DE:paRTMENT Of COMMERCE
BUREAU Of PUBLIC ROADS

. SCALE

SCALE OF ENLARGEMENTS

POLYCONIC PROJECTION

LA SALLE COUMTY R3E

ro WCNONA ~

READING
T30N R3E

ANCONA
T30N R 3 E

518

ANCONA CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Winston Zastro Pastor

An CO n a

SOUTH STREATOR

An unincorporated community known as South Streator, with a population of
1,508, lies in Reading Township in the northwest corner of Livingston County. The
main part of Streator city, with a total population of 16,469, lies in adjoining
La Salle County. Parts of Reading Township were annexed to Strea^tor city in 1944
and 1947. What is now South Streator is the largest community of Reading Town-
ship, which in 1950 had a total population of 2,294. The township was first settled
by Jacob Moon and his sons, Rees, Albert and Thomas, and a daughter, Margaret,
all of whom arrived just after the Black Hawk War of 1832.

519

•^-«:

ANCONA

Another community of Reading Township is the village of Ancona, with a
population of 125- It is located southwest of Streator on the Santa Fe Railroad.
It was platted in 1854 for Orson Shackleton and Joseph Gumm, owners of the site.

520

READING

Also in Reading Township is the village of Reading, with a population of
thirty-five. It is served by the postoffice at Ancona. The village was platted in
1851 by David Boyle and Caleb Mathis, owners of the site.

521

MUNSTER

One more community in Reading Township is the pioneer hamlet of Munster.
It is located west of Streator on the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad. Near it flows
Eagle Creek.

522

PONTIAC CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE

Building Together to Improve the
Interest of Our Community

COMMERCIAL • INDUSTRIAL
CIVIC • AGRICULTURAL

Serving Streator and
vicinity since 1882.

illiams

HARDWARE CO.

"♦♦^.

f, **i

HAROLD R. FOSTER
LANDON J. FOSTER

Breeders

Registered Horned Herefords

ROUTE 3

Three Miles Northwest of Pontiac, Illinois

Melvin Sales Company

2'/4 miles norfh of Streator, Illinois

PHONES: 2136 and 2137
Complete Fertilizer Service

ANHYDROUS AMMONIA

MIXED FERTILIZERS

BASIC ELEMENTS

LIQUID PLANT FOODS

WEED KILLERS

INSECTICIDES

"Spreading a Specialty"

WATER WORKS
Streator

CLINIC CARLA GATHA
Streator

523

ANCONA CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Winston Zastro Pastor

An CO n a

^^-f';^#«

r''^j0tt ''"T

DEFENBAUGH SCHOOL
Streator

WILSON SCHOOL
Streator

Ancona

WOODLAND COMMUNIIY UNIT SCHOOL Dist. b Rt. 2
Streator

534

WCX)DLAND COMMUNITY UNIT SCHOOL Dist. 5 Rt. 2

Streator

ALLEN, ELLSWORTH 8. LUCY
Streator

Rt. 2
180 acres

ANCONA CEMETARY

Ancona Ward Coes Caretaker

AR^eTRONG, MRS. A.J.
Streator

Rt. 2

^2 acr>"".

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4.--^

"*v

•^|K

■'■■*'., 1

m^~

DEFENBAUGH CEMETERY
Ancona

ARMSTRONG, GEORGE A.
Streator

Rt. 2
160 acres

MDON POINT CEMETERY
Streator

ARMSTRONG, RAY R.
Streator

525

ARNOLD MRS FRANK W
Ancona Ma this f:3 1

BARACKJ/J\N, MILAN G.

Streator Robert J. Skaggs

Rt. 2
151 acres

BERMES, JOHN SR .
Streator Donald Berraes

Rt. 2
120 acres

BARNHART, DAVE
Streator

Rt. 2
10 acres

BENEKENDORF, MISS EMMA

Streator Irving - Hinkelman

Rt. 2
280 acres

CAIRNS HELEN

Streator Bedecker Edwin W. Ten.

Rt. 2
166 acres

526

1*.^
^

P^ ^^

^^.

» 1

CAIRNS, MISS HELEN
Streator

Rt. 2
168 acres

CLARK EUIER S
Aiicona

Rt. 1
240 acres

CAIRNS JAMES
Streator

'-.^etSSSSiiMS':.

*3fc-/

CARLTON DENNIS B.
Ancona

CLAY RAY

Streator Thies Donald

Rt. 2
120 acres

CARLTON D.
Aiicona

Rt. 1
120 acres

COE CHARLE- £. LOR."
Streator

Rt. 2
acres

527

Streator

CULLENS MRS. BERTHA E
Ancona Davis Paul W.

PM^

1 1%- ^ ■

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^!^

COE, WARD

Ancona Roland H. Ringer

Rt. 1
160 acres

DEFENBAUGH ALBERT

Streator Defenbaugh Louis

Rt. 2
70 acres

■1

1 ...^M

.^^B3b

CONNELL M.N J.
Streator

Rt. 3
Connell Vincent C 168 acres

DEFENBAUGH, ART
Streator

Rt. 2
99 acres

CONNELL CAN

Streator Connell Vincent

Rt. 3
168 acres

DEFENBAUGH, CHARLES & AMMON
Streator George IDefenbaugh

528

DEFENBAUGH, CHAFiLtS H. AMMON Ht. 1

Ancona Talbert Armstrong Tenant 320 acres

DEFENBAUGH GROVER
Ancona

Rt. 1
acres

<i!.i.«ii^ "«■■■-. ii^

DEFENBAUGH OlARL-
Ancona

DEFENBALGH, HARRY
Ancona

Rt. 1
acres

DEFENBAUGH, CHARLES

Ancona James L. Hayward

Rt. 1
160 acres

DEFENBAUGH H H
Ancona

529

DEFENBALGH, RC6S
Streator

Rt. 2
8 acres

FENNER LOUISE

Ancona Hayward Hugh W. Opr.

DURDAN JOHN S
Ancona

Rt. 1
160 acres

FENNER RCeZELL

Streator G. E. Miller Tenant

FEHR
Ancona

Rt. 1
160 acres

FENNER MRS UiUISt

Ancona Hayward Hugh W. Tenant

Rt. 1
320 acres

FERTILIZER PLANT

Streator Smith - Douglas

530

FORDISE HARRY

Ancona Gamp G. F.

FCiRDYCE, HA,"RY
Ancona

Pt. 1
acres

>., ...

■■"^ ■ -'.A. ■ '■

■• rs^s

H^^^^^i^l

»^5

"^^1

1^^^^

.-. . /■^•:.

/ /■/ : f, ,.r

FRYE DAVE J.

Streator Mills John D.

FCRDYCE HARRY S.
Ancona

Rt. 1

FRY & SON

MARK 8, ALICE E.

Rt. 1

acres

Ancona

94 acres

,531

CILU-'AN, MRS. LI^Zl
Ancona George W. Rients

nt. 1
340 acres

GRIFFIN ESTA'E

Aiicona Decker Gene

GOLDSMITH, CLARA
Long Point

Rt. 1
40 acres

HACnr'.TY, JC6EPH P,
Streator

Rt. 2
102 acres

£^»^

' :'-:%' 'SdlLll^ .(.'"^^r^ *^i^^^B9i

fl^BHg&c^^^^l

*te4CSi^jr^^^^^ •^. ^ I ■< ^ J '^'^^^^l^nll

■^rM^^^BnajigMH

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GOURLEY EARL
Ancona

HEPLER WADE
Streator

GREVHACK FARM

Rt. 1

HEPLER WADE M.

Flanagan Opr.

Dunham

160 acres

Streator

Rt. 2
acres

532

HELPER, WILLIAM
Streator

Rt. 2
100 acres

HOLMES RALPH R. Casey Earl

Streator

80 acres
Rt. 3

HICK BROS.

Ancona Stanley E. Brown

HOLLAND PARK

Streator Coe Harry Jr.

, Rt. 2
480 acres

HOL^ES MRS D. F
Streator Howard Merl W.

HOSKINS DELOS

Ancona Obert Herman Operator

533

Ik.^KlNo DELOS

Ancona Obert Herman Tenant

Hi. 1
276 acres

I. T. BOOK STORE
Streator 1113 Main St.

HUBBARD, GEORGE
Streator

nu;iA!: f.'.

Ancona

Rt. 1
80 acres

Rt. 1
77 acres

S5^^

HUDSON MOTORS
Streator

JACOBS RUSSELL D. ESTATE
Ancona

Rt. 1
130 acres

534

JENSEN, AlCI'ST
Ancona

JOHNSON HENRY T.
Streator

Rt. 2
24 acres

.Si^K^';-

Ik.

^^C^

^:i^:.

jif

KENNEDY, THOMAS F.
Streator Frank L. Barron

Rt. 2
208 acres

KAMINKE MRS.

FRED

Rt. 2

LAMP B.

Rt. 1

Streator

Decker William F.

160 acres

Ancona

Virgil

Reum Operator

160 acres

KENNEDY TOM
Streator Percy J,

LAWSON LEE Rt. 1

Ancona Mgr. Tullis, William St. 200 acres

535

LENTMAN ORLYN & LAVtkfi:
Streator

Rt. 2
172 acres

LINDER, GLEN GRAIN COMPANY
Anconda

MALLORY DAVID M
Streator

Rt. 2
200 acres

LESKANICH, JCHN
Streator

Rt. 2
40 acres

MATHIS, GEORGE R.
Ancona

LIKENS MARK
Streator

Rt. 2
45 acres

McGUIRE JCHN
Streator

Rt. 2
^ acre

536

■".'tMmmk-yt^' I '

HcFADDEN ESTATE Rt. 2

Streator Dean w. McFadden 80 acres

MCRTLAND, NERLE
Streator Robert Mortland

Rt. 2
190 acres

MILLER i ATHERINF;

Ancona Miller Raymond J,

Rt. 1
160 acres

MUSSER MRS. BELLE

Long Point Steinke Glenn W.

-J-

--.,11

MILLER CHARLES E.
Ancona

Rt. 1
140 acre?;

MYERS SHERMAN CO,
Streator

MILLER RICHARD G
Streator

Rt. 2

160 acres

NORRIS JOHN H
Streator

537

••' - A

Rt. 2
160 acres

PERRY, ROy

Streator Stephen Sedlock

O'BREIN EDMOND
Aiicona

Rt. 1
120 acres

PHILLIPS 66 BULK PLANT
Streator

0' SULLIVAN »mS ELLEN
AiLCOna Brennan John

Rt. 1
160 acres

PLOWMAN SHERMAN
Streator

Rt. 2
80 acres

PERISHO NANCY

Rt. 1

PRENDERGAST MRS. LULAH

Rt. 2

Ancona Mille Kenneth C.

100 acres

Streator Doden Gerhard J.

160 acres

538

,i^ '^

PROUD SELBY
Streator

Rt. 2
153 4/10 acres

REDFERN ED & BELLE

Streator Redfern Raymond E.

Rt. 2
acres

REDFERN EDWARD & BELLE
Streator Redfern Everett J.

Rt. 2
80n acres

REDFERN ED. & BELLE
Streator

Rt. 2
acres

SASS A F

Streator Nev. Henry A

.539

SASS, A.F.

Streator Walter Thies Tenant

Rt. 2
220 acres

SASS FRANK

Ancona Sass William

SASS CHARLES

Streator Mgr. Ruff Dean

Rt. 1
200 acres

SASS FRANK
Ancona

SASS FRED
Streator

SASS MRS. IDA Rt. 1

Ancona Davis Irwin C 193 l/3 acres

540

SAVAGE, Wm. and CHARLES Rt. 2

Streator Dwight Krischel 200 acres

'-'t. 2
12M acros

SIXT GEORGE
Streator

SASS U. G.

Streator Olson Floyd

Rt. 3
294 acres

SIXT GEORGE
Streator Lutz Donald

Rt. 2

206 acres

541

|^»v

SKAGGS JAM..
Streator

^i** •;*

"■^2!^:

STREATOR DRAIN & TILE C"
Streator

TALBOT RALPH G..

Ancona Cook Lawrence J.

STANDARD OIL CO
Streator

■■ ■■'■, . :. TAMLEY

'treator '.Vayne A. Scott

STREATOR BRICK & TILE 00
Streator Mgr. H. Scheffler

TOMBALCH ESTATE

Streator Mrs. Gertrude & Glen

542

WHALEN FRANK
Streator

WHALEN, nr;:r'\

Streatoi " ' 1

Rt. 2
320 acres

WALTERS MAURICE
Ancona

WHALEN, JOHN J.
Streator

Rt. 2
160 acres

WALSH MARY C.

Streator Walsh John

WHITE MRS. JIM
Ancona Kenny Jim

Rt. 1
120 acres

543

WREITO DORSEY

Streator Kenner Gene

Rt. 2
acres

rj^^.

-■#^~

' "S

tidtor Connie E. Pottinqer

Rt. 2

WREITH, DORSEY
Ancona

POLICE STATE HIGHWAY
Pontiac

544

ROOKS CREEK TOWNSHIP

GRAYMONT

545

ISIONS 1

SEE

HAP

FOB

DATES 1

(FVI

SIOHS

iOAll

TYPE

ANC

URAL

Ft* TUBE

ROOKS CREEK TOINSHIP
GENERAL HIGHWAY MAP

BUREAU OF RESEARCH AND PLANNING

F — I I — ir:E

SCALE OF ENLARGEMENTS
V4 Vz ^

POLYCONIC PROJECTION

GRAY MONT

T28N R4E

5«j

GRAYMONT

In the fertile farming country just west of Pontiac lies the incorporated vil-
lage of Graymont, which in 1950 had a population of 125- Through it passes the
Illinois Central Railroad, and immediately south of it passes State 116. This vil-
lage is the only community of Rooks Creek Township, which has a total population
of 623- First to settle in the township was Roderick Rook, who came with his
family in 1830 from Pennsylvania. His name was afterwards bestowed on the creek
near which he settled, and this same name was given to the township. An early
arrival in the township was Andrew McMillan, in whose log cabin home was held
Livingston County's first election (1837).

547

THE
PONTIAC NATIONAL BANK

PONTIAC, ILLINOIS

MEMBER OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

*Coinplete Banking Service
•Checking Accounts
•Savings Accounts
•Government Bonds Bought and
Sold

•Certificates of Deposit
•Travelers Checks
•Loans to Individuals and Firms on
Approved Security
•Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent

TRUST DEPARTMENT

Acting as Administrators, Executors, Trustees and Conservators of Estates.
We invite you when making your will to consult us, together with your lawyer,

FARM LOANS AND FARM MANAGEMENT

Lowest Interest Rates and Liberal Prepayment Privileges.
If you are buying a farm, or need refinancing on your present loan, we invite yon
to inquire as to our rates and privileges. No obligations.

OFFICERS

R. M. Niven _ Chairman of the Board

H. E. Vogelsinger President Louis Wolff Vice-President

H. L Shepherd Assistant Vice Fres. H. D. Bentley .... Assist. Cashier & Auditor

James R. Green Cashier H. E. Vogelsinger, Jr Asst. Vice.-Pres,-

Kenneth Tucker Farm Manager

Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Washington, D. C.

IKoeschlei

Hybrid Seed Corn

"Blue Ribbon Winners"

SEED HOUSE

7.V1 miles and V4 mile east of

GRAYMONT, ILLINOIS

Phones
Graymont 13-24

LEO ROESCHLEY, Prop.

ROOKS CREEK COMMUNITY OONSOLIDATED SCBDOL Rt. 1
Graymont Dist. 425 1 acre

STRAIGHTENING & WIDENING THE Ve?MILi™ RIVER
CHANNEL November 1954

Between Pontiac & Fairbury

548

BAPTIST CHURCH
Rt . 1

1 acre

G r aymo nt

ROOKS CREEK METHODIST CHURCH
Rev. Richard Chrisman Rt

Po n t i ac

549

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ALBERTS ON, JOHN
Graymount

Rt. 1
120 acres

ALBRIGHT JCHN

Flanagan Mgr. Wilton Ulrich

550

Rt. 1
120 acres

ALMCND BERTSCHE
Flanagan

30 acres

ARNETT WILLIAM

Pontiac Mgr. Russell, Glenn

Rt. 1
186 acres

BALBACH DYMPNA MISS Rt. 1

Flanagan Mgr. John E. Earth 240 acres

BERTSCHE AUON
Flanagan

Rt. 1

80 acres

Flanagan

Rt. 1
acres

BROWN C.
Pontiac

551

BUSKE HAROLD
Pontiac

CAnblhivb, DELBERT
Flanagan

Pt. 1
acres

CARSTEN HENRY

Pontiac Mgr. Bateman Dalt

Rt. 1
160 acres

CARSTEN CLARENCE F
Graymont

CLANCY BESSIE
Pontiac Eldon Poter

552

CAHLCON, CLARENCE 8, MISS MINETT
Pontiac

Rt. 1
186 acres

DEIMER, A.C. Rt. 1

Graymount Ervin Albertson Mgr. 160 acres

DIEMER A. C.

Pontiac Mgr. Diemer Emil

DONNELL MRS. BUENA

Pontiac Thomas Nolan Opr.

Rt. 5
265 acres

DEIMER, A.C.

Graymount Ervin Albertson Mgr.

553

EISELE ESTATE

jiaymont Mgr. Smith, Rcchard G.

Rt. 1
acres

EBEN A.
Pontiac

Rt. 5
40 acres

EMM MISS MARY Rt. 1

Graymont Tone Jacobs Operator 80 acres

ERICKSON ART
Pontiac

Rt. 1
1 acre

l-;BBiT CELIA MR-: .

RL. 1

EYMAN JOSEPH & PETER

Rt. 5

Flanagan Lester

Frobish

240 acres

Pontiac Dean R. Donzd Opr.

200 acres

554

EYMANN MRS. MARIE

Pontiac Arthur Bertsche Opr.

FIENHOLD HARRY J. Rt. 1

Pontiac Mgr. Fienhold Charles F. 200 acres

FARRITER EDWARD
Graymont

Ft. 1
acres

FIENHOLD, HARRY

Pontiac Richard Fienhold Mgr.

Rt. 1
200 acres

FOLLMER, LESTER H.
Graymount

Rt. 1
40 acres

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FARRITER JAMES
Graymont

Rt. 1
76 acres

FCRNEY RALPH
Flanagan

Rt. 1
acres

555

■ ' . i

L"Ster J. Henke 1 Mgr 80 acres

GOCHNOUR MELVIN

Graymont Mgr. Highland, Selmer

Rt. 1
156 acres

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FCSTER, V.'.E. R^. 1

Graymount Lester J. Henkel Mgr. 100 acres

GRAU HENRY

Graymont Mgr. Grau, Phillip H.

Rt. 1
160 acres

FRIESLEBEN MRS.
Pontiac

Rt. 5
acres

GRAU, PHILLIP

Graymount Frank Moreland Mgr.

Rt. 1
157 acres

FRUIN, E.G.

Grayiiount John Kapraun f^r.

GRAYMONT COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION
Graymont

556

. -.^ivtsN

C3RAVES GORDON
Pontiac

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Rt. 5
1 acres

GREEN, JUNAITA

Pontiac Raymond Kennedy Mgr.

105

Rt. 1
acres

GSCHWENDTNER MRS . A . Rt. 1

Flanagan Leo Nolan Operator 160 acres

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GRIESER, WAYNE L.

HARRIS LEONARD I
Graymont

557

HARRIS OTTO & HEEREN, MRS. HEYE
Craymount

Rt. 1
160 acres

HOERNER EUGENE • . :

Graymont Mgr. Wayne L. Grieser 320 acres

HEEREN HEYE

Graymont Mgr. Molln, Roy

Rt. 1
80 acres

HOERNER, JAMES
Pontiac

Rt. 5
158 acres

HEFLIN PAUL B Rt. 1

Pontiac Mgr, Olson, Ernest & ORAL 372 acres

HEIDENREICH, JOSEPH
Graymount

Rt. 1
81 acres

HUTSON N H ESTATE
Pontiac

Rt. 5
120 acres

55b

JACOBS TONE W.
Graymont

KALKWARE NARIE HEIDENREICH JENNIE Rt. 2

Flanagan 80 acres

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55^

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KALK.'.A,'';-,
Graymount

irichs Mgr.

JOHNSON HAROLD G.

Pontiac Mgr. Orlin Ryerson

Rt. 1
240 acre

KEPLINGER F. G.

Graymont Mgr. Cashmer, Robert

559

KESSINGER RAY R .

Pontiac A. C. Voland Operator

KiiUG (HESTER M
Flanagan

Rt. 1
120 acres

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KIPFER MRS. JESSE
Pontiac Mgr. Rapp Henry

RT 1
120 acres

KUNKEL MRS. M. Rt. 5

Pontiac William Wakey Operator 120 acres

KLYVER WILLIi'^M
Pontiac r.Vr- Schulz

KOERNER, W^S. H. fi.VEPCLffl, MISS N. Rt. 1

Pontiac James McCabe Mgr. 200 acres

LEACH J. P. Rt. 1

Pontiac Mgr. Leach, Alvin & Earl 240 acres

560

<dftse

LEACH J.

Rt. 1

MATTER , MR .

AND MRS.

ROY

I, Rt. 1

Pontiac

Mgr.

Leach,

Alvin

80 acres

Flanagan

146acres

LliHMAN RArV'r
Graymont

Rt.
105 acres

MARKS MRS . MRS . M . KAW; R t . 1

Pontiac Mgr. Mgr. Nolan Frances 240 acres

LEHMAN FRANK
Pontiac

Rt. 5
40 acres

McMILUN BEN

Pontiac Mgf. McMillan, V. 1.

Rt. 1
124.8 acres

LINSKEY MARY MRS. & J. C. ANTRIM Rt. 1

Pontiac 160 acres

McGUIRE JOHN

Pontiac Mgr. Rich, Floyd

.5bl

MITCHl-l.1
Pontiac

Rt. 1
41 acres

Graymont Mauri r

Rt. 1
160 acres

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MILES, NFS. R.B.

Pontiac Francis Eisele Mgr.

Rt. 1
120 acres

NEWMAN, H.
Pontiac

■" :: '. -iA S . 8. J. C. MLINSON Rt. 1

Pontiac NVgr. Duffy Richard L. 160 acres

MUNSON, CHRISTINA S.
Pontiac

Rt. 1
acres

OTTO, MELVIN AND HER5CHEL
Graymount

Rt. 1
120 acres

562

PAMFEL LLOYD H.
Graymont

PAMPEL, NOEL E.
Graymount

Rt. 1
40 acres

PEMBFRTON ^•YIiTI|: h'"nATI-
Pontiac Allen Johnsori 'tir.

Rt. 5

40 arr'-s

PAMPEL, ORVILLE E.
Graymount

Rt. 1
100 acres

POTTER ELDON C,
Pontiac

Rt. 5
160 acres

PAMPEL, ETHER M. & EZRA F.
Graymount

Rt. 1
140 acres

POTTER MYRii.

Graymont Robert Schieler Opr

Rt.
acres

563

RAPP GENE
Pontiac

R*. 1
120 acres

REEK FARMERS GRAIN CO.

RENNE JCHN Rt. 5

Pontiac Wm. L. Bressner Opr. 120 acres

RICH DAVID

Graymont

Rt. 1

acres

RORK, DONALD LEE
Graymount

Pt. 1
160 acres

S****.

RUSSELL, ALEX
Graymount

Rt. 1
acres

564

SCHNEIDER, MRS. EDNA
Grayraount

Pt. 1
180 acres

RYERSON A. R.

Pontiac Paul Ryerson Qdt.

Rt. 5
acres

SCHNEIDP", H ' i .
Grayraount lohn ' .

Rt. 1
200 acres

SCHNEIDER, l«RS . EDNA Pt. 1

Graymount Ralph J. Spaniol Mgr. 180 acres

SCHEELER A. B.

Graymont Mgr. Cashraer, Harold

565

S'lALTER ROY
Pontiac

ht. 1
110 acres

SCHOPP MRS. M & ALDINE CARPENTER
Pontiac L. Duffy

Rt. 1
160 acres

SLENKER MRS. VERNA
Pontiac

Rt. b
40 acres

STEIMRE MRS .

Graymont Mgr. Hulse, Martin

Rt. 1
80 acres

TAMMEN, MRS . HARRY
Flanagan Roy Maher Mgr

566

THOMPSON CLE ESTATE Rt. 1

Pontiac ^§^. Elmer L. Thompson 120 acres

THOMPSON, ANDREV; .
Pontiac Arthur [,ong |,;gr.

Rt. 1
80 acres

TLITTLL-, MR". . FWfflY
Graymount Eli; ■ 'ni : 1

THOMPSOJ ANDREW

Graymont Mgr. Eisele, Donald

Rt. 1
120 acres

rPHOFF JCHN

Pontiac Elmer Otto Operator

VOLLMER WILLIA.'.! i:. c. ARTHUR
Pontiac

Rt. 1
160 acres

567

WHELAN, MRS . ELLA
Graymount

Rt. 1
80 acres

WELLS JOHN 0.
Pontiac

Rt. 5
126 acres

WINTERS MAX

Graymont Kenneth Winters

WRIGHTMAN, HARLEY
Pontiac

■ • . 1
80 acres

WEBER, PAT

Pontiac Clayton Weber Operator

YCRDY CLAIR
Graymont

568

YCtT ESTATE

Graymont Paul Yost

Rt. 1
190 acres

ZIMMERMAN FLOYD
Graymont

Rt. 1
160 acres

569

570

ROUND GROVE TOWNSHIP

CAMPUS

REDDICK

CARDIFF

BLAIR

571

FOR DATES
Of BEVISIOHS
OM ROAD TYPE
AND CULTURAL
FEATURES.

ROUND GROVE TOINSHIP
GENERAL HIGHWAY MAP

BUREAU OF RESEARCH AND PLANNING

DIVISION OF MIGMWAY5
OCPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS i. SULCHNCS

US DEPARTMENT Of COMMERCE
BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROADS

SCALE OF ENLARGEMENTS

POLYGON IC PROJECTION

GRUNDY COUNTY

— rO KANKAKEE

CARDIFF
T30N RBE

572

CAMPUS

Principal community of Round Grove Township, in the northeast corner of the
county, is the incorporated village of Campus, with a population of 183. A small
portion of its population (46) dwells in adjoining Broughton Township. The village
is located on the Wabash Railroad and near it flows Broughton Creek. The township
in which the village is mainly located, Round Grove, today has a total population
of 639. First to settle in the township was John Currier, who came about 1850 or
1851 from New York state. In I860 this township was the scene of a hunting ex-
pedition headed by the then visiting Prince of Wales, afterwards to become King
Edward Vll of England.

.573

IMMANUEL UNITED E\'ANGELIST CHURCH
Reddick

REDDICK

Although the main part of Reddick village lies in adjoining Kankakee County,
a small portion of it (thirty-one inhabitants) is situated in Round Grove Township.
The total population of the village is 208. Through it passes the Wabash Railroad
and State 17.

574

CARDIFF

Another community of Round Grove Township is the small village of Cardiff
with a population of twenty-eight. It is served by the postoffice at Dwight. Through
It passes the Wabash Railroad.

575

BLAIR

One more community in Round Grove Township is the small hamlet of Blair.
It is located in the fertile farming area just west of Reddick village. Just south of
it passes State 17.

576

IMMANUEL UNITED EVANGELIST CHURCH
Reddick

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,577

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CXvight Mortensen Mrs. Florence Teacher 1 acre

ARTERBERRY RUTH
Buckingham

Rl. 1
160 acres

BALLOTTI MARY
Dwight

ANDERSEN, ERMA

Reddick Dale Anderson

Rt. 1
199 acres

Rt. 1
acres

.578

BENEITONE JOE
[)wight

Rt. 1
260 acres

BENCrriA, JOHNIE

Buckingham Richie Willard

BOYER HOWARD
Reddick

Rt. 1
77 acres

BIAVA BETTY

Dwiqht Confectionarv CarHiff

BROUILETT, ILAH A.
Reddick Thomas Finnagan

579

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Divight

Rt. 1
160 acres

Reddick

Rt. 1
102 acres

BURNS MRS. CHARABEL

Dwight Humbert Nicholas Cperator

Rt. 1
97 acres

CLOVER, MERRALD
Reddick

Rt. 1
160 acres

Dwight

Rt. 1
160 acres

CODY FRANK T. Rt. 1

Dwight Bennington Salvin Opr. 260 acres

CLARK, MILDRED
Reddick

Rt. 1
100 acres

COPASSO LOUIS
Reddick

Rt. 1
208 acres

580

DENNISTON WILLIAM Rt. 1

Dwight Wagner Rudolph 240 acres

DRECHSEL ELIAS

IXright Drechsel A. A.

Rt. 1
160 acres

DOLGLAS HARRY
Reddick

iWfe'<

Rt. 1

160 acres

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Frank taring

Rt. 1

160 acres

DRECHSEL, CARL
Dwight

Rt. 1
acres

ESKILDSBI EHMES
Reddick

.581

FEEHERY MINNIE

Dwight Walsh James

Rt. 3
145 acres

FIT2PATOICK GARAGE
Campus

FIELDMAN EDNA
Dwight

Rt. 1
160 acres

FHURD ELMER

Reddick Graf Toney

Rt. 1
acres

FINNEGAN CYRIL
Dwight

Rt. 1
240 acres

FINNEGAN FRANCIS J
Dwight

FRAHER (ISCAR

Dwight Father Farley Pastor

St. Bernard Sanbrey

582

GEIS, MRS. MARY Rt. 1

Dwight Theodore Lund Operator 260 acres

HAMILTON B. E. Rt. 1

Buckingham Leadingham Thomas 160 acres

GREEN JfflN
Reddick

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GUL:;i HCtVAiitj 1;
Reddick

Rt. 1
94 acres

HAMILTON BEN

Dwight McCarter Isaac

Rt. 1
160 acres

583

HAMILTON, BEN TILE, YARD
Campus

HAMILTON, BEN ESTATE
Dwight Roger Ferguson

Rt. 1
160 acres

HOYE MRS. JOE
Dwight

Rt. 1
160 acres

HllDAK, Kii-E

Dwight John Jordan

Rt. 1
160 acres

Rt. 1
80 acres

HUBERT CLIVER
Reddick

584

JENSEN, CRCNA
Dwight

JENSEN, HOLGER
Dwight

Rt. 1
123 acres

Jo™SuN HAROLD F.
Dwight

Rt. 1
160 acres

LAUHITZEN, CHARLES
Dwight M.L. Mathison

Rt. 1
acres

KELLY JOE ESTATE
Buckingham

LAURITTEN CHARLES
Reddick Patchett Calvin

Rt. 1
160 acres

585

LAWLESS LYLE
Reddick

Rt. 1
160 acres

MCWILLIAMS, JANE 8, ED
Dwight Arnold Nielson

Rt. 3
320 aacres

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LYDIGSEN FRED ESTATE Rt. 1

Dwight Lydigsen Lester Operator 192 acres

-**»^

MAGUIRE THOMAS P.
Campus

MONROE JCHN
Reddick

Rt. 1
160 acres

MCGINN IS TOM
Buckingham

MULFCRD, MRS. ISABELL,*- SUSAN Rt. 1

Dwight Ernest Perschnick Operator 160 acres

586

MULFORD, O.W. Rt. 1

Dwight Dale Sorensen Operator 160 acres

NEW YORK CENTRAL R. R. CO.
Redducj Anderson Fred

NIELSEN GRAIN ELEVATOR CO.
Reddick

liiiiiiiiiHiii

NARETTO ANTON

Reddick Naretto Joe

Rt. 1
120 acres

NIELSEN, KENNETH
Reddick Ralph Chamness

Rt. 1
^ acre

NELSON THOR
Dwight

OUGHT ON, BROS

Dwight Peter Pedersen

Rt. 1
320 acres

587

PATCHETT MfELlk
Dwlght

Rt. 1
160 acres

PETERSON JOE
Dwight

Rt. 1
160 acres

PEFFERMAN EUNICE
Reddick

Rt. 2
acres

OUGHTON RICHARD

[Vdght Pedersen Ludvig

Rt. 3
262 acres

RIBER CHRIS

Dwight Pedersen Leo

in. I

240 acres

588

RIEKE, ARTHUR
Reddick

Rt. 1
110 acres

SANDING, ALVIN
Reddick

Rt. 1
160 acres

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SCHRINER PAUL
Reddick

Rt. 1
1 acre

RIEKE EDWARD W
Reddick

Rt. 1
158 acres

SCOTT MRS. NELLIE
Reddick

136 acres

HAGERTY JAMES ESTATE

Dwight Rusterholz Francis Opr.

RL. 1
160 acres

SCULLY ESTATE

Diiaght Patchett Stanley

589

SrUIXY ESTATE

Dwight Mateska Fred

Rt. 1
160 acres

Reddick Shelly (orwin H. 154 acres

Dealer for DeKalb Corn

SHELLY NORWOOD
Reddick

Rt. 1
148 acres

SIEDENTOP A. L. Rt. 1

Buckingham Giacometti Bros. 320 acres

SHAFROTH WILLIAM

Reddick Halloran Giles

SLATER ESTATE
Reddick

Rt. ,>.
acres

590

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STECHEN, WILLIAM
Dwight

Rt. 1
240 acres

SLATER WALTER
Buckinqham

Rt. 1
160 acres

STUDLEY LA. VAN
Reddick

SORENSEN CHRIS
Dwight

STUDLEY, J.H. ESTATE
Peddick

Rt. 1
320 acres

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STEICHEN CLIFFORD
Dwight

Rt. I
160 acres

SWING ALBERT

Dwight Edgar Hansen

Rt. 1
240 acres

591

TAVARES JOE

Reddick Riordan Hiil

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TYLER JCHN
Reddick

TAVARES MAYME ■ t. 1

Dwight Nielsen Arthur L. Operator 166 acres

rraRELL TOM
Dwight

Rt. 1
158 acres

TAMBLING ESTATE

RU 1

WALSH AUDRY 8. HERB

Rt. 1

Diright Tambling Russell

160 acres

Cabery Ulrich John

320 acres

592

-0^M

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WALSH DALE
Campus

WICKWARE HERBERT
Buckingham Wau Arthur

WALSH MARGIE Rt. 1

Buckingham Richie Roy 160 acres

WILSON MINNIE

Dwight Nielson Irvin

WELLER, MRS . ANTON
Dwight

WOODING, J.E.

Dwight Elmer Jacobsgaard

Dwight l':eller LaVern Operator

593

594

SAUNEMIN TOWNSHIP

SAUNEMIN

EYLER

SCOVEL

595

Revisions 1

stt

COUNTY

MAP

FOR DATES
OF REVISIONS
ON ROAD TYPE
AND CULTUBAl
FEATURES.

SAUNEMIN TOWNSHIP

GENERAL HIGHWAY MAP

BUREiAu OF re;search and planning

WVISION OF HIGHWAYS
DePARTMCNT Of PUBLIC WO«RS & BUILDINGS

SCALE

SCALE OF ENLARGEMENTS

POLYGON IC PROJECTION

596

SAUNEMIN

Saunemin village, which now has a population of 338, had its origin in a
postoffice opened here in 1869- This was after the Township of Saunemin was
organized. Soon after the postoffice was opened, a Methodist church was built and
a general store erected. There followed a blacksmith shop and several more retail
stores. Today, Saunemin village, located east of Pontiac on the Wabash Railroad,
is the principal community of Saunemin Township, which has a total population of
847. First to settle in the township were David Cripliver and his two sons, Joseph
and S. P., all of whom arrived in 1845 from Indiana.

.597

EYLER

Another community of Saunemin Township is the small village of Eyler, with
a population of twenty-five. It is served by the postoffice at Saunemin. The village
is located on the Illinoi.'- Central Railroad.

598

SCOVEL

Also located in Saunemin Township is the small hamlet of Scovel. It is situ-
ated on the Wabash Railroad just north of Saunemin village. West of it passes
State 47.

599

WILLIAM M. FULTON

Saunemin, Illinois

REGISTERED
SHORTHORNS

'Ten Years a Breeder"

600

§fatf lank
of ^auttpmttt

A Strong Bank in a
Good Town

Capital Stock $50,000

f»aititemtu, JllUuois

Directors

J. p. LANNON, President

J. D. LANNON, Chairman of the Board

S. B. LANNON, Vice-President

R. J. LANNON, Cashier

LENORE LANNON NEFF

MERRILL J. RICH & SONS

SAUNEMIN, ILLINOIS

Breeder of

Registered Polled Shorthorns

"Blue Ribbon Winners"

Breeding Stock
For Sale

SAUNEMIN

IMPLEMENT CO.

SAUNEMIN, ILLINOIS
PHONE 98

Dealers in Hardware and
Farm Equipment

SYMBOL
OF

SERVICE

601

IMMKE BROS.

Registered
SOUTHDOWN SHEEP

CLARENCE IMMKE
& SONS

Breeder of

Registered Scotch Shorthorns

Saunemin, Illinois

FLOYD IMMKE

Breeder of

REGISTERED SHORTHORN
CAHLE

FREDDIE IMMKE

Breeder of

REGISTERED HAMPSHIRE
SHEEP

"Blue Ribbon Winners"
FAIRBURY, ILLINOIS

JOE HOSKINS & SON

Route 1
Saunemin, Illinois

POLLED HEREFORDS

Domestic Mischief

and

Battle Domino

Blood Lines

CHEVIOT SHEEP
"Wsifors We/come"

DONALD WUNSCH

Breeder of

PURE-BRED

YORKSHIRE SWINE

MEAT TYPE HOGS

'Blue Ribbon Winners'

SAUNEMIN, ILLINOIS

60B

EYLAR METHODIST CHURCH

Rev. R. G. Marks Kacre

Ey 1 ar

METHODIST CHURCH

Saunemin

603

TOM SPAFFORD & SONS

Saunemin, Illinois

REGISTERED HEREFORD CATTLE

REGISTERED CHEVIOT SHEEP

Breeding Stock
for Sale

CHENOA
STONE COMPANY

Agricultural Limestone

Concrete Aggregates

Road Rock — All Sizes

PHONE OCOYA 43

CHENOA, ILLINOIS

SAUNEMIN COMMUNTIY CDNSOLIDATED SCHOOL
q^unemiP Dist. #438

SAUNEMIN TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL
Saunemin

l-'^AU .

SAUNEMIN CEMETSiY

S aunemin William Flessner Sextant 2 acres

SUNNY SL3PE CEMETERY
Saunemin

601

ADAf.l, ALFRED
Pontiac

Rt. 2
Earl E. Ellenger 160 acres

BAEHLER, GERALD
Saunemin Frank Hurt

Rt. 1
80 acres

ADAM ALFRED S. MARY
Pontiac

Rt. 2
240 acres

ATTIG KATHRYN
Fair bury

BANE, MRS.

Pontiac Carl Schauble

ATTIG WILLIAM

Fairbury Attig Lee W. Tenant

BENNETT, E.G.
Saunemin Lloyd Rich

Rt. 1
acres

605

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BRYDQN, WESLEY

Saunemin Weldon W. Brydon

Rt. :

80 acres

BYRNE, IRA C.

Saunemin John W. Byrne

ft. 1
160 acres

FARM BUREAU BULK PLANT
Saunemin

CHAMBERS, HAZEL

Forrest Floyd Weaver

Rt. 2
315 acres

Shunemin Bunch J. A.

CHEREBRO ADA Sec.

Pontiac Maubach George Tenant

Rt. 6
160 acres

BYRNE, IRA C.
Saunemin

CHEREBRO ADA Sec. 18
Pontiac Friant Elmer Tenant

606

DeG^OODT, GEORGE
Saunemin

Pt. 1
200 acres

CRAWFORD MRS. P. L.
Saunemin

DICK HAROLD

ruHom Locke Frank

Rt. 1
acres

DANFORTH LYLE Sec. 31

Saunemin

DRACH JOSEm

Saunemin Drach Victor

Rt. 1
160 acres

607

ELLIS IWb . MABEL

Saunemin Dixon Clarence L.

Rt. 1
160 acres

ELLIS M?S. MABEL Rt. 1

Saunemin Deweese Doley Tenant 153 acres

FIELDS, MRS. FRANCIS
Saunemin Glendean Rodefer

Rt. 1
240 acres

hMHlY, mtu

Pontiac Homer Mann Renter

Rt. 6
190 acres

FIELDS FRANCES Rt. 6

Pontiac Fulton Eugene Tenant 240 acres

^"WV^:,V(/^

FARR RUTH

Saunemin Dewees Doley

FIELDKAMP MRS. M.
Saunemin

Rt. 1
80 acres

608

FLESSNER FRED H.
Saunemin

Rt. 1
160 acres

FULTON, WILLIAM ESTATE
Saun William Fulton

Rt. 1
160 acres

FOX BALTHAS & LOWIS ROSE
Saunemin Fox Robert

Rt. 1
160 acres

FULTON, WILLIAM J. R.
Saunemin

Rt. 1
480 acres

FRIESLEBEN MRS ELIZEBE™
Pontiac Tammen Henry

Rt. 2
240 acres

GASSMAN, JOHN W.
Saunemin

Rt. 1
1 acre

FULTON ESTATE
Saunemin Vera Fulton

Rt. 1
160 acres

GOOD CLARA

Saunemin Nolan James

Rt. 1
160 acres

609

GOODRICH, FffiOL AND BERNELL
Saunemin

Rt. 1
acres

HADAWAY, GEORGIA
Saunemin

Rt. 1
acres

HARREL, T.M.
Pontiac

Rt. 6
acres

HANLON ESTATE
Emington O.L. Asper

Rt. 1
160 acres

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Saunemin H. McDowell Alva

Rt. 1
160 acres

HOLDRIDGE ARCHIE L.

Saunemin El linger Robert E.

Rt. 1
160 acres

610

IMMKE CLARENCE
Saunemin

Rt. 1
256 acres

IMMKE FRED

Pontiac Imnke Alvin

Rt. 2
120 acres

Rt. 3
132 acres

IMMKE CLARENCE
Saunemin

IMMKE, HENRY
Saunemin

611

JENSEN CHRIS
Saunemin

JOHNSON, JCHM
Saunemin

Rt. 1
6 acres

KOHLMIER IRVIN V.
Pontiac

Rt. 6
120 acres

JOHNSON FRANCIS H.
Saunemin

Rt. 1
120 acres

KCENER, CAROLINE
Saunemin Victor Johns

Rt. 1
160 acres

612

LANNCM, J. P.

Saunemin Marshall Mason

Rt. 1
200 acres

LIGHTY CLYDE
Cullom

LEATHERS RICHARD
Pontiac

Rt. 2
80 acres

LIVINGSTON GRAIN CO. EYELAR
Saunemin McPowell Herman Mgr.

Ig- acres

LOCKER, DR . H .L .

Forrest Harold Kuerth

LINDENBAUM WILLIAM
Saunemin William Baker

LONGBOTTOM GEORGE Sec. 6
Saunemin Henry William Tenant

613

tW"''^*-*i

^ ^

LOPEMAN CLARA B.

Rt. 1

:m<m j.

Saunemln Lopeman John T.

93 acres

Saunemin

McGEE ELMER

Saunemin Corban Merle

MALLORY ELLA
Fairbury

Rt. 1
320 acres

Rt. 3
120 acres

MARSH J. S.
Saunemin

Rt. 1
250 acres

McCULLEY CHARLES

Pontiac Vitzthum Clair

Rt. 2
160 acres

614

McCULLEY. CHARLES
Pontiac Clair Vitzthum

Rt. 2
160 acres

MIES, CHARLES
Saunemin

Rt. 1
160 acres

McGUIRE, JOHN

Saunemin William H. Briqgs

Rt. 1
220 acres

MIES ESTATE

Saunemin Hanley Raymond

Rt. I
310 acres

MEIS ESTATE

Saunemin George John

Rt. 1
400 acres

MEYH), mr;- . i:tta Rt. 1

Saunemin Charles Wiebers Tenant 240 acres

MILLER, JOHN S. ESTATE
Saunemin

615

millkk, John s. estate

Saunemin

Rt. 1
310 acres

PC6T ALBERT
Pontiac

MITCHELL, W.R.
Saunemin

Rt. 1
acre?

POST, VICTOR
Pontiac

PRIME, MRS

Saunemin Luther Barrett

PATTEN CHAS.
Saunemin

Rt. 1
217 acres

miTCHARD KATHRINE
Fairbury

616

PUFFER MRS. CHARLIE Rt. 1

Saunemin Lopeman Claude Tenant 95 acres

READ INA , Sec. 8 Rt. 1

Saunemin Farrell Willard Tenant 160 acres

RICH, GEORGE

Sauenmin Forrest Dewies

Rt. 1
200 acres

RECK, HARRY

Saunemin B. Fox and Sons

Rt. I
160 acres

RICH JCHN D.
Saunemin

Rt.
138 acres

617

SAATOOFF GEORGE F. Rt. 1

Saunemin Saathoff George J. Tenant 160 acres

RIDINGffl CLARA ESTATE
Saunemin Bucnh _^o"=eph »..

Rt. 1
30 acres

SANCKEN A H

Saunemin Sancken Everett

Rt. 1
160 acres

PH HlhF, IV.B.
Saunemin

Rt. 1
158 acres

RUDDir MRS. VERA

Pontiac McKinney William

Rt. 2
120 acres

SANCKEN, CARL
Saunemin

Rt. 1
acres

618

SANCKEN CARL C,
Saunemin

Rt. 1
160 acres

SANCKEN, CARL

Saunemin Donald Green

Rt. 1
160 acres

SANCKEN THEODu
Saunemin Sancken Elton

Rt. 1
227 acres

i^^-fy

SANCKEN, FRED
Saunemin

SANDIFCRTH JOHN & HERBERT & HILDA Rt. 1

Saunemin Lopeman Claude 80 acres

SANCKEN, FPED
Saunemin

Rt. 1
160 acres

SCHAinFLER, EVELYN

Saunemin Harry Freeland

Rt. 1
120 acres

619

HANLCN ESTATE

Saunemin Alvin Scott Tenant

I't. 1
240 acres

1 /.

SHAFER CHRIS
Forrest

SCHULZ FRED
Saunemin

Rt. 1
153 acres

SHAPLAND, JOHN

Saunemin Ward Goodmon

Rt. 1
200 acres

'■Cir'FNM, IDA

i**:.-^

Rt. 1
160 acres

SELLlWm LEONARD
Saunemin

Rt. 1
313 acres

SHUBERT A. B
Saunemin

620

SHUBERT A. B.
Saunemin

-^ga£.

sim; marguret &. burr

Forrest

Rt. 2
120 acres

GTEVENSCN, WI'.L G.
Saunemin

Rt. 1
acres

VAN DORN MRS. SARAH

Pontiac Perring Dale Tenant

Rt. 6
acres

SPAFFORD JOHN M
Saunemin

VITZTOUM LENA

Pontiac Vitzthum Harry

621

VOGELSINGER, HARRY E.
Forrest Margil 0. Weaver

Rt. 2
160 acres

VROOMAN, CARL Pt- 1

Saunemin Joseph H. Maubach Tenant 160 acres

Saunemin Grant Shoemaker Tenant 160 acres

WATffiSON BUD
Pontiac

Rt. 6
5 acres

ZANEIS, CHARLES
Saunemin Joe Monahan

622

SULLIVAN TOWNSHIP

CULLOM
GRISWOLD

623

FOB D«IES
OF BtVISIOHS
0« IIOAO lYPC
»»0 CULTURAL
FtAIUBtS^

SULLIVAN TOINSHIP

GENERAL HIGHWAY MAP

BUREAU OF HESEABCH AND PLANNING

DIVISION OF HIGHWAYS
DCPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WOF»KS & BULOINCS

SCALE

SCALE OF ENLARGEMENTS

POLYCONIC PROJECTKJN

wl POP 492^

^v^-

I ~ TO ASHKUM

GRISWOLD
T2eN R7E,R»E

634:

CULLOM

In the eastern portion of the county, close to the Ford County line, may be
found the incorporated village of Cullom, which in 1950 had a population of 492.
It is located on the Illinois Central Railroad and on State 116. This village is the
principal community of Sullivan Township, with a total population of 1,037. First
to settle in the township were Alexander Harbison and J. G. Chesebrough, both of
whom came in 1855 from New York state. The township was named (with the letter
"t" dropped) after M. L. SuUivant, who once owned a 40,000-acre farm here and in
adjoining Ford County.

625

GRISWOLD

Another community of Sullivan Township is the hamlet of Griswold, located
northwest of Cullom on the Illinois Central Railroad. Aiound it are the thriving
farms of eastern Livingston County.

636

VERMILLION
VALLEY FARMS

Breeders of

REGISTERED BROWN SWISS

Blood Lines

DUKE DAN AND

JANE OF VERNON

HERD T. B. ACCREDITED

CALFHOOD VACCINATED

LOUIS BERBERKH and SONS

CULLOM, ILLINOIS

CULLOM GRAIN CO.

North Elevator

W. T. RAMIEN, Mgr.

Cullom, ill.

GRAIN

FEEDS

AND

SEEDS

GILBERT G. ZOLLINGER

Orchard Knoll Farm

CULLOM, ILLINOIS

Registered
AMERICAN BRAHMANS

American Brahmans Breeders Association

Illinois Brahmans Breeders Association

Eastern Brahmans Association

CASPER'S

GROCERY & LOCKER SERVICE

Cullom, Illinois

CLETUS S. CASPER, Owner

"Just a Unle Street Where

Old Friends Meet"

627

LUTHERAN CHURCH
Rev. Buckler

Cu 1 1 o m

CONSOLIDATED GRADE SCHOOL & CULLOM HIGH SCHOOL
Cullom

KINGDOM SCHOOL
Cullom

GRISWOLD SCHOOL Sec. 7
Emington Dist. 273

100 years old

628

SULLIVAN CENTER CEMETERY Rt. 1

Cullom Sullivan Center Cemetery is over 100 years
old. Civil War Vet. was buried in this Cemetery.

WESTLAWN CEMETERY
Cullom

AUGUST ESTATt

Cullom Raymond Ehlers

R.R. #1
80 acres

i;^.JNtA

ALTIG, NETTIE
Cu 11 cm

Pt. 1
120 acres

BAILEY NANNIE

Cullom Spangler Francis

Rt. 1
80 acres

APPEL L . E .
Cullom

Rt. 1
acres

ATTIG, LESTER
Cullom

BfflBffllCH, ELIZABETH
Cullom Louis Berberich

629

BILLERBECK, MRS. ESTHER S. HOMER
Cullom

Rt.l
120 acres

BRITTAIN, CLYDE Sec. 6 R.R. SI

Emington John Brittain Tenant 200 acres

BILLERBECK MINNIE Sec. 31 Rt. 1

Cullom Billerbeck Robert Tenant 160 acres

BRYNES, ELMER , Sec. 11 R.R.#1

Cullom Lewis H. Wagner 213 acres

BLACKMORE, CLYDE

Piper City John Gerdes, Jr.

Rt. 1
160 acres

BURBRICK, LOUIE
Cullom

Rt. 1
acres

BLOCK. L.

Cullom Carl Robisky

Rt. 1
240 acres

BlIREN, ASA ESTATE
Cullom

Sec. 9 R.R.ttl
155 acres

630

CANHAM, EMO:jY

Saunemin Keith Frantz Renter

r>t. 1
160 acres

CLASSEN, HENRY & CLINTON
Cullom

CO-OP (SAIN CO.

Cullom Hack LeRoy Mgr.

Rt.l
160 acres

CLARK, MRS . LFXAH

Piper City La Van Clc

Rt. 1
80 acres

DAVISON
Cullom

Rt. 1
183 acres

631

DOWSE, BONITA

Cullora A.J. Gassier

Rt. 1
151 acres

DETWILER, SAM

Cullom Monard Schramm

Sec. 17 R.R.#1
80 acres

DOWSE, IDA K. R.R. #1

rvllnr Donald D. Nettleingham Ten. 117 acres

DETWILER SAM

Cullom Renter Maggee Ray

Rt. 1
160 acres

ELLIS urns. MABEL

Cullom Renter Frantz Alvin

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DOMINY ESTATE

Cullom Farney Raymond L. Tenant

Rt. 1
320 acres

ELLIS MRS MABEL
Cullom Tinker L. R.

Rt. 1
240 acres

632

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Khr-',- i:?'mmKffi^mmmmtt&-:i''.<^:-st

ELLINGER, JOHN

Cullom Adam W. Ellinger

R.R. #1
80 acres

FAGEN, MICHAEL

Piper City Sullivan

FRANTZ FLOYD
Cullom

Rt. 1
acres

633

GALLUP, I .J .

Emlngton Ralph S. Gallup Tenant

fwR. ttl
200 acres

CULLOM GRAIN ELEVATOR
Cullom

CULLOM CO-OP GRAIN CO.
Cullom

634

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HAflG, L. ESTATE
Cullom LeP.oy Haag

Rt. 1
240 acres

HAHN ESTATE

Cullom Hahn Lester

Rt. 1
40 acres

HACK, ROY AND DEN A
Cullom Mervil Haag

Rt. 1
240 acres

Cuiiom MenauF Spall

R.R.#1
acres

635

-..I i

HAREN ROLLO Sec. 5

Cullom

Rt. 1
160 acres

HARMS, MRS. WALIHH
Cullom A.B. Hirstein

Rt. 1
257 acres

HARMS, FANNIE

Cullom John Harms

R.R. #1
80 acres

HARWE, GEORGE S.
Cullom Roy Harms

R. n

acres

HERMER MARIE Sec. 22
Cullom Haag Floyd Tenant

HARNE H. G.

Cullom Harms Wesley C

JEHLE MRS. MINNIE

Cullom Jehle Lyle Tenant

636

JEWKES CHARLES

Cullom Wittenderg Glenn

JEWKES CHARLES Rt. 1

Cullom Harms Clarence Tenant 160 acres

JEWKES, CHARLES

Cullom Richard Shapland Tpi

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JEWKES CHARLES Rt. 1

Saunemin Sterrenberg Francis E. Ten. 160 acres

JBVKES, CHARLES Sec. 15 R..r'.S1

Cullom Elmer Kratina 160 acres

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J; Rt. 1

Sauneiiiiii jterrenberg trances Tenant 80 acres

, -. FRED
Cuiiom Kenter Brantley Austin

637

JEYLE MRS MINNIE
CuUom

Rt. I
60 acres

KILEY S J Sec. 8

CUllom Kiley Jerome Tenant

Rt. 1
160 acres

KANE, ELI.'.ER

Cullom Floyd Cook Tenant

R.R. #1
160 acres

KILEY, VINCENT

Cullom Lloyd Blackmore

R.R. #1
80 acres

KANE, THOMAS J.
Cullom Arthur Kane

R.R. #1
160 acres

KINGDON E. W. Rt. 1

Cullom Renter Spangler Paul 160 acres

KERNER FARM

Cullom Remmers LeRoy

KITTLE, ESTATE

Cullom Cleo Edman

638

KCENIG, AUGl'ST
cmington

Sec. 33 R.R.#1

160 acres

LANDIS, CARRIE
Cullom

Rt. 1
100 acres

KOEHLER, GEORGE A.
Cullom Gus Koehler

Rt. 1
200 acres

LANG, MILTON

Rt. 1
9 acres

KOLHER, PHIL P. .R.W

Cullom Fred W. Schnoor Tenant 157 acres

LARKIN, MRS . HAROLD
Emington

R.R.#1
80 acres

KOPP, C.L.
Cullom

Rt. 1
240 acres

LATHROP, ONA

Cullora Glenn Hdman

Rt. 1
160 acres

639

LESCHEN ESTATE R.R.#1

Cullom Henry Billerbeck Tenant 160 acres

McCAUGHEY FRANCIS B.
Cullom

Z-. ■,.'5?5<:

LONGMIRE CLAIR
Cullom

LONGBuTTOM, GtORGE
Cullom Glenn Ehlers

Rt. 1
160 acres

McDERMOTI, JAMES g^^ _ ^j R.R. #1

Cullom George Mooore Tenant ' 80 acres

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MALONE WILLIAM

Kempton Schnoor Anton

Rt. 1
160 acres

McGEE, ELMER

Saunemin Merle Corban

610

NETTLEINGHAM CHARLES Sec. 5
Cullom

Rt. 1
200 acres

NETTLEINGHAM , CHARLES F .
Cullom

le '.'.til

80 acres

R.R.#1
acres

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ORTMAN F. A. Rt. 1

Cullom Renter Fraher William 160 acres

PERKINS ARCHIE
Cullom

Rt. 1
100 acres

ORTLEPP F A Sec. 6 Rt. 1

Cullom Ortlepp Neal Tenant 160 acres

POST, LOUIS

Cullom Lloyd Land is Renter

641

PC6T LuUlL,

Cillotn Landis Lloyd Renter

Rt. 1
160 acres

RAMIEM BROS. pt. i

Saunemin Jehle Earl Tenant 133 acres

RILEY JCHN W. Rt. 1

Cullom Spahl Mendis Tenant 120 acres

IH IIII IUL|J ^j^

TAiiP'.JimK '

RICH, GEORGE

Cullom Guy Blackmore

Rt. 1
160 acres

RITTENHOUSE ESTATE Sec. 7

Cullom Coittrell William Tenant

Rt. 1
160 acres

642

ROTHROCK, -ELESY &. VITOIL Sec. 7 R.R. tfl

VADA LOCKE

Emington Virgil Rothrock Tenant 157 acres

SHAPLAND, RICHARD
Cullom

R.R.,#1
80 acres

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SAATHOFF, Ji.
Cullom

Rt. 1
200 acres

SHEA!-[1:, '.:..

Cullom Omar Grubbs

Rt. 1
160 acres

SCHIPPER, MRS. IDA H.
Cullom

Rt. 1
102 acres

SCHODER, H-\V:.-
Cullom Paul .Vag,

SKINNER, LE NORA • R.R.#1

Emington Wesley Rothrock Tenant 160 ■ acres

643

SPAFFORD MISS GERTRUDE
Cullom Renter Ashman Robert

Rt. 1
160 acres

SUTTON ESTATE

Kempton Joe button Manager

Rt. 1
acres

%^:;*ill

STEIGHP. CLAI'.A
Cullom

SIJTTON WILLIAM Rt. 1

Cullom Mills Bros., James 8. Sam 160 acres

STEWART RUBSELL
Chenoa

Rt. 2
160 acres

blUUUHHU Mibb MtLilA

Cullom Taylor Howard

SWEARING EN OCWALD
Kempton

644

TAYLOR A.W.

Cullom Glenn Taylor

VOSS, MRS. MARY
Cullom Lloyd Voss

R.R. #1
97 acres

^>^0^:

THCBT PETE

Cullom Renter Trost Tpd

Rt. 1
160 acres

Cullom Earl Banner Tenant

R.R.#1
1575- acres

615

WQGSTEIN ESTATE R .1 . Ul

Cullom Frank Rewerts Tenant 160 acres

::(jLLII1Gl1:, george w.

Cullom Gilbert G. Zollinger

;,i. 1

198 acres

WOOLSEY, ALICE B. Sec.20 Rt. 1

Saunerain Paul J. Henrichs Tenant 320 acres

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Cullom

Z.tlMH UAN p^ Y

rullom Allen Orville Tenant 158 acres

Z0LLLM3ER G. W. '
Cullom Earing Elmer C

6^6

SUNBURY TOWNSHIP

BLACKSTONE
BUDD

SEE COU«TY

FOR 0»IES

REVISIONS
Ott R0*0 TYPE
»MD CUITDR
FE»TURES.

SUNBURV TORNSHIP

GENERAL HIGHWAY MAP

BUREAU OF re;se:arch and planning

OCPARTUENT or PUBLIC WORKS & BUILOIN&S

4 MILES I

SCALE OF ENLARGEMENTS

POLYCONIC PROJECTION

<o R 5 E U SALLE COUNTf

BLACKSTONE
T30N R5E

618

BLACKSTONE

With a number of retail stores and service establishments, Blackstone village
is the principal trading center of Sunbury Township on the north border of the
county. In 1950 it had a population of 100. It is situated on the Gulf, Mobile &
Ohio Railroad and adjacent to State 17. Blackstone was laid out in 1870 by Wil-
liam Shepard, pioneer land developer. It was named after Timothy B. Blackstone,
then president of the Chicago & Alton Railroad. Today, this village is the main
community of Sunbury Township, which has a total population of 530. First to
settle in the township was Andrew Sprague, who arrived in 1835 from New York
state.

&19

BUDD

Another community of Sunbury Township is the small hamlet of Budd, which
in 1950 had a population of ten. It is served by the postoffice at nearby Black-
stone. Through it passes the New York Central Railroad.

660

BLACKSTONE M. E. METHODIST CHURCH Blackstone

ST. BERNARD CATHOLIC CHURCH
Rt. 1

Bl ackstone

651

SLNBURY CONSOLIDAl;
Blackstone

Rt. 1
1 acre

ANDREE ALFRED Rt. 1

Blackstone Snow Ernie Operator 156 acres

BLACKSTONE CEMETERY

Blackstown Roy Appelgate (Sextant)

ANDREE, ALFRED Box 26

Blackstone Jim S. William Andree 46 acres

SilKsssiiMi^^BHB''''''^ '»'^

JONES CEMETERY
Blackstone

ARONIN ABE

Buckingham Fredrick Malcom

Rt. 1
620 acres

SUNBURY TOWN HALL
Blackstone

APPLEGATE ROY
Blackstone Foley Ray

652

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APPELGATE ROY & SON
Blackstone

APPLEGATE ROY

Blackstone 'Simpson Justine

APPLEGATE ROY

Blackstone Simpson Raymond

APPELGATE ROY Rt- 1

Blackstone Bayer Mr. & Mrs. Fred 120 acres

APPLEGATE, HOY

Blackstone Raymond Spaniol

APPELGATE, ROY

Blackstone Elbert A. Knuteson

653

APPLEGATE RdY Rt. 1

Blackstone McCambridge Danny K.

BLACKSTONE FARMER GRAIN COMPANY
Blackstone Ray Callahan Mgr.

BENDIXEN DR . B. 0. Rt. 1

Blackstone Waldschmidt Peter B. 240 acres

BROOKER, MRS. NONA
Blackstone Joe Sasell

BENSON, LESTB? R.

Rt. 1

BUNDY ESTATE

Rt. 1

Blackstone

Seth Langhoff

240 acres

Blackstone Gordon Frank

Opr.

160 acres

654:

BUNDY ESTATE

Blackstone Gordon Frank Qar.

Rt. 1
acres

CAHILL E. M.
Blackstone

Rt. 1
1 acres

CASSADY CHARLES L
Blackstone

Rt. 1
160 acres

CLANi:7
Odell

Rt. 2
240 acres

CASSIDY MICHAEL J.
Blackstone

Rt. 1
80 acres

CONNCR JCHN Rt. 1

Blackstone Connor Roger Opr. 160 acres

CAHILL GRAIN CO.
Blackstone

Rt. 1
3 acres

Rt. 1
acres

665

CURRIGAN EUA Rt. 1

Blackstone Corrigan Francis Opr. 160 acres

COUGHLIN NCRBERT
Blackstone

Rt. 1
1 acre

CCRRIGAN FRANK

Ransom Corrigan Justin Opr.

CRAWLEY CHARLES J
Blackstone

OORRIGAN W H
Blackstone

656

CROCKER F. L. ESTATE

Biackstone Fulkerson Delbert

Rt. 1
160 acres

Biackstone Davis Clyde Opr

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DeFENBAUGH MRS J Rt_ i

Biackstone Oak Charles G. Opr. 157|- acres

DAVIS LESTER

Cornell Starks Glenn

Rt. 1
200 acres

EDWARDS WILLIAM
Cornell Jensen Ernie

657

EDWARDS WILLIAM

Blackstone King Myrle D.

Rt. 1
153 acres

1-uELS MRS. LOUISE
Biackstone

Rt. I
30 acres

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FOELS , MRS .

Cornell Russel Lightner

FOELS MRS. LOUIS,;
Blackstone Stipp Carl

Rt. 1
440 acres

GIBBINS THav
Odell

Rt. 2
200 acres

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FOSS NORMAN
Blackstone

Rt. 1
240 acres

GOWER DR WALTER & MRS HUNDLEY Rt. 2

Odell 0. Pierson & S. Gilbert Mgr. 500 acres

658

GOWER ESTATE

Cornell Langhoff J''

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Rt. 1
320 acres

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GORDON FRANK
Blackstone

Rt. 1
120 acres

HIGGINS REV. MCNSIGNCR
Blackstone Kehoe D. J. Opr.

Rt. 1
231 acres

HOBERG MRS MARGARET
Blackstone Corbin Arthur

Rt. 1
160 acres

GRUGY ALBERT B.
Uteadows

ej59

Rt. 1

acres

JCRDAN LUKE A.
Blackstone Duffy John

HORN ALBERT
Odell Duay Earl

Rt. 2
acres

JACOBS . ANDREW
Blackstone

Pt. 1
210 drres

JOHNSON VERNON Rt. 1

Blackstone McWhorter Robert Opr. 160 acres

KEHOE DANIEL J.

Blackstone Gernentz Walter

660

KETTERER ANTONE
Cornell

Rt. 1
1 acre

LEE, WALTER G
Blackstone

LYNCH, JA^ES ESTATE Rt. 1

Pat Lynch, Vincent Trainer, Anna Ruddy
Blackstone Burt Floyd Tenant 240 acres

661

LUX ANTHONY

Cornell Ketterer Leonard

Rt. 1
160 acres

MURPHY JOHN S
Blackstone

Rt. 1
320 acres

McCAMBRIDGE ELMER J.
Blackstone

Rt. 1
40 acres

MURPHY LEO
Cdell

Rt. 2
acres

McEACHRAN C. D. MRS.
Cornell Davis Ralph

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Blackstone Johnson LeRoy Opr.

RT. 1
160 acres

PEARSON OSCAR J
Ode 11

662

ROBERTSON FRANK
Odell

Rt. 2
acres

RUDDY W C ESTATE Rt. 1

Blackstone Ruddy Bros. Frank 8. Jack 191 acres

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RUSSaV CHARLES J.

Blackstone Russow Wilbur C.

SAMPSON CXLE

Blackstone Langhoff John

663

SAMPSON OLE A.

Ode 11 Sampson Laura 8. Anna

Rt. 2
acres

SHAY MRS. ARTHUR H.

Rt. 1

SMITH CHAS

Ransom Corrigan Martin

Opr.

275 acres

Odell

Rt. 2
240 acres

SIEDENTOP HENRY F
Ransom

STORM WALTffi
Cornell

661:

TRAINOR, LORETTA
Blackstone

TRAINCR, mOMAS
Blackstone

TRAINOR, VINCENT
Blackstone

Rt. 1
240 acres

Rt. 2
230 acres

"sW. ■ ^-

TRAINCH CHARLES

Blackstone Sullivan Michael

Rt. 1
acres

VISSERING FRANK H
Odell

Rt. 2
120 acres

666

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Blackstone Johnson Jay Opr.

Rt. 1
160 acres

WEBER GEORGE R

Ransom Weber Lloyd C. Opr.

Rt. 1
acres

WILLEY HAROLD J.
Blackstone

Rt. 1
100 acres

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WEBER J H Rt. 1

Blackstone Bedeker Lester Opr. 100 acres

WRIGHT ROBERT
Blackstone

Rt. 1
240 acres

WEST PAUL Rt. 1

Blackstone Brodersen LaVerne J. 80 acres

YOIING, LENORD Rt. 1

Ransom Curtis Chesser Operator 160 acres

666

UNION TOWNSHIP

EMINGTON
LOREHO

667

FOB D»I£S
OF REVISIONS
OH ROAO TYPE
>N0 CUITUB
FEATURES.

UNION TOWNSHIP

GENERAL HIGHWAY MAP

BUREIAU OF RESEARCH AND PLANNING

OfVISION OF HICMWAV5
OCPARTMCNT OF PUBLIC WORKS & BUILDINGS

SCALE OF ENLARGEMENTS
W Vz 3/4

POLYGON IC PROJECTION

668

EMINGTON

Although the main part of Emington village is located in adjacent Broughton
Township, a portion of it (fifty-two inhabitants) lies in Union Township. Its total
population is 150. Through it runs the Wabash Railroad. The township in which its
smaller portion is located, Union, today has a total population of 524. First to
settle in the township was John Harbison, who arrived in 1^56 from Pennsylvania.
Later that same year came Joseph Walton and his family, as well as a Mr. Scott.
The township was organized in 1864 and James C. Brown was elected its first
supervisor.

LORETTO

Another community of Union Township is the small hamlet of Loretto, with a
population of ten. It is served by the postoffice at nearby Odell. Just east of the
hamlet passes State 47.

670

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
Vornho 1 t Rev . E. R.

Emi ngton

%' J

ST. MARY'S LORETTO Odell

Rev. R. J. Lassuy Pastor since Jan. 1949
Founded 1874 Enrollment 325 Rt. 1

671

ST. MARY'S PARISH HALL
Rt. 1

Odell

Kt. 1
1 acre

DICK SCHOOL Sec. 29

Odell Over 100 years old

Rt. 1
^ acre

EGGENBERGER SCHOOL
Emington

HOKE SCHOOL

Odell Tuner Margaret Teacher
For 25 years

672

ST. MARY'S CEMETERY
Ode 11

BROIWN I. W.

Eiangton Fraher Arnold

Rt. 1
160 acres

.t'^^.

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UNION CEMETERY Rt. 1

Emington Gray Clarence Caretaker

UIBACK ESTATE

ALLEN, DONALD

Dwight James R. Bunting Operator 160 acres

BRUBACK MRS. KATE

Odell Bruback George

Rt. 1
77 acres

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ARNOLTS, PETffi
Odell

Rt. 1
1 acre

CLEARY NELLIE
Odell

673

:^.

WYLLIE ESTATE

Rt. 3

DEMMSTON W. B.

Rt. 3

Dwight Christensen A.

160 acres

OdeU Call S.

Tenant

400 acres

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DES'VOIGNE, ETHEL
Emington Leroy Crouch

DEPSON CHRIS

Emington Bundy Cecil

DESVOIGNE, ETHEL C. Sec. 15 Rt. 1

Emington Floyd D. Eighty Tenant 160 acres

DEMOTTE, MCRRIS
Bnlngton

DIEMER PETE

Pontiac Sec. 31

Rt. 6
80 acres

674

DIEMER PETE Sec. 31 Rt. 6

Pontiac Diemer George Tenant 160 acres

DRURY RUSSELL
Eraington

Rt. 1
acres

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'>=. V,

Dwight

Pt. 3
160 acres

EGGENBERBER ALBERT
Emington

Rt. 1
120 acres

EQGENBERGER CARL
Odell

R. E. Mund Pon'_i

Rt. 1
240 acres

DRACH JOSEPH

Emington IJrach Clifford

Rt. 1
240 acres

EGGENBERGER ESTA I E Rt. 1

Saunemin Eggenberger Nick & John D. 160 acres

675

HAMILTON, BEN Ht. 1

Emington Francis Eggenberger Tenant 160 acres

.#•

FARTHERING, DAVID
Emington Philip Smith

Rt. 3
160 acres

FOX, FRANCIS
Emington

Rt. 1
240 acres

•FITZSIMMCWS, MRS. JAAtS
Emington William Cramer

Kt. 1
120 acres

FOX LAWRENCE
Emington

FLESIGE MRS. LORANIA
Emington

FOTHER INGHAM, JOHN
Emington Bert Milller

676

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FOTHERINGHAM, JOHN & DAVID
Emington

Rt. 1
240 acres

GOLEY, LAWRENCE SR .
Emingtdn

. Rt. 1
160 acres

FOTHERINGHAM, JOHN & DAVID pt. 1

Emington Luther Guymon

Rt. 1
160 acres

GRAY, BROTHERS Rt. 1

Emington Carl Sancken, Tenant 160 acres

HANLON, CHARLES

Emington John W. Kennedy

Rt. 1
160 acres

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GREENBAUM, MRS. GRACE
Emington John Johnson

Rt. 1
140 acres

HAhiLON, CHARLES
Emington

Rt. 1
160 acres

677

HANLON TnOMAS

Emington Fraher Leo Tenant

Rt. 1
160 acres

HEATH WARREN

Rt. 3

HILTI, NICK

Odell Renter

Stabler Harold

90 acres

Saunemin

Rt. 1
160 acres

HEATH WARREN Rt. 3

Odell Renter Stabler Harold 160 acres

HILTI, FLORA E .

Odell James B. Hilti Tenant

Rt. 1
80 acres

HERB JACOB ESTATE
Emington Mulligan Ray

RT. 1
160 acres

JACCBS, ALBERT

Emington Randall Bofock

Rt. 1
acres

678

KLEHM, ALBERT C.
Odell

Sec. 10 Rt. 1
160 acres

LAWLER JOHN

Odell Sec. 31

LEGNER ALVA Sec. 29
Odell Legner Raymond
Built in 1875

Rt. 1
80 acres

KLEHM, ALBERT C
Odell

LEGNER FRANK

Odell Renter Larkin Joseph

679

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LUTZOW WILLIAM Sec. J2
Pontiac Wallace Schultz Tenant

Rt. 6
140 acres

MASCHING, ALVIN
Emington

'^t. 1
80 acres

MASCHING r. W.
Odell

Rt. 1
acres

MARTIN, ETTA L. Sec. 2U Rt. 1

Odell Lyle M. Stabler Tenant 77 acres

MASCHING HENRY C Sec. 18

Odell

Rt. 1
80 acres

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MARTIN, TED E.
Odell

Rt. 1
160 acres

MASCHING, JCHN J. Rt. I

Odell Ernest J. Donovan Tenant 80 acres

680

McCONNELL, MRS. ELIZEBETH
Emington James Gray

Rt. 1
156 acres

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McCONNELL WILLIAM
Dwight Adair Earl

Rt. 3
160 acres

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McWILLIAMS, HELEN
Emington Ralph Spandet

Rt. 1
106 acres

McDCNALD FLOYD
Dwight Johnson E.

Rt. 3
acres

MILFORD, HAROLD

Emington Emmett Fraher

Rt. 1
160 acres

681

MCRRIS MARGEAT
Cdell

Rt. 1

160 acres

NORGAARD ELMER
Emington

MCRSE ARTHUR Sec. 18 Rt. 3

Odell Tenant Kennedy William 160 acres

RICH, JOHN D. Rt. 1

Odell Edward R. Fellers Tenant 240 acres

MULFORD 0. J.

Emington Kelly Joseph L. Sr. Ten.

Rt. 1
240 acres

RICHARDSON, DR . B .A . Rt. 1

Odell Morris D. Rich Tenant 160 acres

683

SAMPSON SISTERS

Emington Ralph Schafer Rfnt.-

Rt. 1
160 acres

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SCHOPP FRANK
Odell

Rt. 1
115 acres

SCOTT, H.V.

Odell Harry Verdun

Sec. 20 R.R.#1
320 acres

WYLLIE ETATC Rt. 1

Emington O.C. Seerup S. Son Tenant 160 acres

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SKIPTON, FRANK E. Rt. 1

Odell Melvin G. Clark Tenant 160 acres

SCHROEDER, LEWIS
Emington

SPANNETT BEATHICE
Emington Clark Donald

683

Emington Robert Speers

Rt. 1
160 acres

■■TASILR; HAROLD '(■c. 1

Crfell

'■•t. 3
112 acres

SPEERS MRS. FANNIE
Bnington Speers Robert

SWARTZ, WILLIAM L.
Emington

Rt. 1
120 acres

STAHL ESTATE Sec. 31 I' I. 1

Odell Maubach Clarence & William 240 acres

STAHLER, FRANK H.
Odell

Sec. 32 Rt. 1
320 acres

TAYLOR ESTATE
Emington Jensen John

681

TAVNER, RAYMCND Sec. 33 Rt. 1

Saunemin George Dehm Tenant 160 acres

THOMAS 8. RC8S FARM Sec. 17 Rt. 1

Odell Tenant Eggenberger Fred G. 160 acres

TELFCRD, ALBERT
Emington

Rt. 1
266 acres

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THOMAS JOHN ESTATE

Odell Thomas Henry M. Tenant

TELFORD, CHARLES
Emington

Rt. 1
160 acres

THOMAS, JOHN ESTATE

Odell Henry M. Thomas Tenant

TELFORD, MRS. LIZZIE

Rt. 1

. :.3^S. L. 5

. LAITIIT^HM ni.3

Emington Carl Frazier

160 acres

LWiqnt

ritzen Cpr.

160 acres

685

IVALKER, MR? . IL^li:

Odell Harold On Tenant

Rt. 1
240 acres

TURNER CORNELIUS
Odell

Rt. 1
240 acres

WALDO, ELSIE

Odell E.B. Billington

Sec. 28 Rt. 1
200 acres

TURKTi ■ , ,!i:t;E & MARGARET Sec. 17 Rt. 1

^ ' • 160 acres

VROOMAN CARL Sec. 30

Odell Maubach Edward J.

'.'.'ATTS, MISS EVELYN
Saunemln Henry Wynistorf

686

WELCH, BLANCHE

Odell Joe Masching Tenant

Rt. 1
120 acres

WRIGHT, HERB 1 : Rt. 1

Odell John 1!. .jgenberger Tenant 160 acres

■Lmington Fred Humbert

A^t.

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WYLLIE HEIRS Rt. 1

Emington Bernard Kay & Louie Telford 200 acres

WYLLIE ESTATE Rt. 2

Emington Garner Virgil M. Opr. 160 acres

WYLLIE ESTATE MRS. JJi. Rt. 3

Dwight Wm. A. Wyllie Operator 160 acres

687

YAEGFR ESTATE

Emington Charles Ehrhardt

i'.t. 1
23b acres

YOUNG CHARLES
Emington

Rt. 1
170 acres

YENDER J. J. Sec. 20

Odell Wolf Alvin L. Tenant

688

WALDO TOWNSHIP

WALDO

689

ROWE
T29N R5E

»£.,S,O.S 1

SEE

COUNTt

HAP

FOR DAItS
OF BEVISIOKS
ON «0«0 TYPE
AND CULTURAL
FEATURES.

KALDO TOWNSHIP

GENERAL HIGHWAY MAP

BUREAU OF RESEARCH AND PLANNING

DIVISION OF HIGHWAYS
DCPAHTMtNT OF PUBLIC WORKS A BU«J>INCS

US OEPARTMtNT Of COMMCRCE

auncAu OF public roads
. SCALE .

SCALE OF ENLARGEMENTS
V2

POLYGON IC PROJECTION

MC LEAN COUNTY

690

WALDO

In the southwest corner of the county lies the small hamlet of Waldo, only
community of Waldo Township. Around it are the thriving farms of that part of the
county. At the present time, Waldo Township has a total population of 534. First
to settle in the township was James McFadden, who came in 1857 and bought land
here from the Illinois Central Railroad. Later that year others arrived and also
bought land from the railroad, among them being Richard Breeser, James Sample,
James King, Isaac Burkholder, Parker Jewett and J. C. Hawthorne. In I860 the
township saw the first arrivals of its Gerraan-Amish settlers.

691

SALEM MENNOITE CHURCH
Rt. 2

G r i d 1 e y

WALDO METHODIST CHURCH
Rt. 2

G r i d 1 e y

692

OLD G. SCHOOL

Gridley Herbert Pinkhara

ADAMS, MRS. E STELLA Rt. 2

Gridley Russell Schneckenburger Mgr. 160 acres

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WALDO CEMETERY
Gridley

ALsriErm, glendon a.

Flanagan

Rt. 1
160 acres

SALEM CHILDREN'S FARM HOME
Flanagan George Egle Mgr,

Rt. 1
4 acres

ALCnECHT, GLENDON A.
Flanagan Ed Stalter

Rt. 1
40 acres

ALBRECHT JOHN W.

El Paso Mgr. Marshall H. Tarraan

693

ALBFECHT, J.V:.
Gridley

Rt. 2
80 acres

ALBRECHT DR . WM .

Gridley Mgr. Hartzler F. A.

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ANDREWS ELLA

Flanagan Barth M. J.

ALBRIGHT PETB?
Flanagan

ANDREWS JANES ADMIN.
Flanagan G. Dean Ulrich

Rt. 2
80 acres

694:

BARNARD PARK
Flanagan

Rt. 2
acres

BAl'CHMAt,, I.Lij\ri A.
Gridli/y Arth^ i ;.'hi

Rt. 2
160 acres

OTTO, AUGUST

Gridiey Arnold Otto Mgr.

BARNARD PARK
Gridiey

Rt. 2
160 acres

BAUGHMAN LESTER

Gridiey Walter Porzelius

Rt. 2
160 acres

BENEDICT LLOYD
Gridiey

Rt. 2
40 acres

695

BERTSCHE ALMON
Flanagan

BLAIN, TARMAN & MRS. CHARLES SHANEBROOK Rt. 2
Gi-idley 86 acres

BERTSCHE JOHN ESTATE

Flanagan Mgr. 0. J. Bertsche

BOITNOTT, B.L.

Gridley Earl Boitnott Mgr.

Rt. 2
120 acres

696

BREmERN HOMES Rt. 2

Gridley Mrs. Alvina & Laverne Kent 200 acres

CASTLE MRS.

Rt. 2

acres

CLAIEEN MISS CLARA A.
Gridley Clausen Frank

CASTLE MRS . L. Rt. .2

Gridley Mgr. Ralph S. Schlipe 160 acres

DeWILDE
Gridley

Rt. 2
160 acres

COE MRS. WILLIAM

Gridley Clausen Gordon F.

Rt. 2
acres

697

FLEMING DON
Gridley

Rt. 2
1 acrp

Gridl' 7 !-o' dick Wallace

Rt. 2
acres

FLURER LENA

Gridlev Herbert Flurer Mgr.

Rt. 2
acres

FOERTER JOSEPH Rt. 2

Gridley Mgr. John W. Stauter 120 acres

FREY ALBERT
Gridley

'<«-

!U. 2
120 acre=.

FOLKERS JOHN WiS .

El Paso Ngi' Ralph Folkers

FREY ANDREW
Gridley

698

ri Nr. i*.-:. . ELDA
Gridley Funk Virgil

Rt. 2
120 acres

GERIG EZRA J.
Gridley

Rt. 2

RO acres

Flanagan Donald Mullen ^^

GBRDES GEORGE

Gridley Mg». Lowell Gerdes

699

HOLT J. HARVEY M. 2

Flanagan Mgr. Roger Johnson 160 acres

HASSINGER CLARENCE

Flanagan Mgr. Donald Hassinger

HENRICHS A. 0,
Gridley

Rt. 2
acres

GREENV-'ALD, HAROLD D.
Gridley

Rt. 2
1 acre

700

HOOBLER JACOB JR.
Gridley

RT. 2
160 acres

KEARNEY LEO P.
El Paso

Rt. 2
acres

HUBER JOSEPH
Gridley

Rt. 2
40 acres

JOHNSON 0. ORVILLE

Flanagan Pleasant Hill School

KELLB? JESSIE MRS.
El Paso Joe Johnson

701

KIEFS? H3WARD

Gridlr.y

Rt. 2
acres

KIEFER EDWARD
Gridley

Rt. 2
acres

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KIEFER DEBOLT

Gridley Silas Kiefer

KING ED. E.
Flanagan

Rt. 1
80 acres

702

KIRTHAUSER LESTER E.
Gridley

Rt. 2
40 acres

LUCKERT CLARENCE

Gridley

KIRKTON HOUGH

Gridley Arthur Guth Opr.

Rt. 2
80 acres

LUCKERT IVA

Gridley Mgr. Wayne Downen

KINGD™ ARCHIE & CLARA
Gridley

Rt. 2
80 acres

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MARTIN ESTATE
Gridley

Rt. 2
280 acres

703

Mckinley frank l.

Gridley

Rt. 2
160 acres

MEILS BERNICE MRS.

Gridley Mgr. Roy B. Hassinger

MOCBERRY MRS. EDNA
Flanagan Weichman Chris

704

MURRAY LAURA
Gridley

Rt. 2
acres

MURRAY JCHN E.
Gridley

Rt. 2
acres

MURRAY MRS CHRISTINE
Gridley Murray John E.

Rt. 2
acres

OHL H CARL

Flanagan Milton E. Bertsche Mgr.

Rt. 1
160 acres

MURRAY JAMES MRS .

El Paso Mgr. Ernest Kingdon

01 rO WILLIAM

Gridley Mock Virgil L

705

OTTO H. H. Ht. /

Gridley Leo 8. Wilfred Robbins 320 acres

OTTO ARNOLD
Gridley

Rt. 2
40 acres

ORENDORF JOE
Gridley

ite.iiiii£k.

PFEFFINGER VARA

Gridley Mgr. Floyd McDonald

Rt. 2
62 acres

PFEFFINGER, RAY
Gridley

Rt. 2

160 acres

RAPP WALTER

Gridley Eugene W. Rapp

Rt. 2
130 acres

PFI ESTER SEED COMPANY
Gridley Tenant Farm

Rt. 2
240 acres

Rt. 2
80 acres

706

REMMERS MELVIN

Gridley Mgr. Walter Nyberg

Rt. 2
320 acres

RINGENBERG A. H
Flanagan Gundy Roger

Rt. 2
acres

RINGENBERG C. H. Rt. 2

El Paso Vernon H. Ringenberg Mgr. 120 acres

RINutNotHo AhiiHUK
Flanagan

KL. 2

40 acres

RINGENBERG JULIA MRS. Rt. 2

Gridley Mgr. R. E. Litwiller 180 acres

RINGENBERG A. H.
Flanagan Sutter Lyle

Rt. 2
160 acres

RODESILL LEONARD
Gridley

707

ROTH CLARIS R.
Gridley

Gridley

Kt. 2
39 acres

Rt. 2
acres

SCHROCK JOE
Flanagan

Rt. 1
160 acres

RUTHERFORD BERT W
Gridley

SHAMEBROCK C. C.
Gridley

Rt. 2
80 acres

708

ST ALTER WILL. SR . Rt. 2

Gridley William Stalter Jr. Mgr. 240 acres

STALTER ED

Gridley Fritz Gtalter f/gr.

STQLLER CLARENCE
Gridley

STALTER LESTER
Flanagan

Gridley

709

TUTTLE FANNY
Gridley

Rt. 2
80 acres

TESSO FRED

Gridley Frank Schulz Renter

Rt. 1
200 acres

mETZEL M^S. HANNAH K.
El Paso Kirkton Max

710

YORDY AMSY

Flanagan Mgr. Robert Zehr

Rt. 1
80 acres

WERNER EDWARD R,
Gridley

Rt. 2
160 acres

ZIimERMANN, JC6EPH H. nt. 2

Flanagan Merlo M. Zimmermann Mgr. 120 acres

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WOOD HARRY
Gridley

Rt. 2
20 acres

711

BREEDING TABLES

INCUBATION AND GESTATION
PERIODS

INCUBATION

Canaries 14 Days

Chickens 21 Days

Ducks 30 Days

Guineas 28 Days

Geese 30 Days

Pheasants 25 Days

Pigeons 21 Days

Parrots 40 Days

Swan 42 Days

Turkeys 28 Days

GESTATION

Ass 12 Months

Bear 6 Months

Bitch 9 Weeks

Camel 11-12 Months

Cow 9 Months

Cat 8 Weeks

Deer 8 Months

Dromedary 12 Months

Dormouse 31 Days

Elephant 21 Months

Geat 5 Months

Guinea Pig 21 Days

Giraffe 14 Months

Lion 108 Days

Mare 11 Months

Monkey 7 Months

Opossum 26 Days

Rabbit 30 Days

Sheep S Months

Sow 16 Weeks

Squirrels and RaU 28 Days

Wolf and Fox 62 Days

GESTATION TABLE

Average Gestation Period
Weeks or Days

Sow 16 H2

Ewe. ...22 ISO

Cow....4«H 283

Mare... 48 H 340

Extremes (days)
109 to 120
146 to 157
240 to 311
307 to 412

Date of

Date Animal Due to Give Birth

Service

Mare

Cow

Ewe

Sow

Jan. 1

Dec. 7

Oct. 11

May 31

Apr. 25

Jan. 11

Dec. 17

Oct. 21

June 10

May S

Jan. 21

Dec. 27

Oct. 31

June 20

May IS

Jan. 31

Jan. 6

Nov. 10

June 30

May 25

Feb. 10

Jan. 16

Nov. 20

July 10

June 4

Feb. 20

Jan. 26

Nov. 39

July 20

June 14

Mar. 2

Feb. S

Dec. 10

July 30

June 24

Mar. 12

Feb. 15

Dec. 20

Aug. 9

July 4

Mar. 22

Feb. 25

Dec. 30

Aug. 19

July 14

Apr. 1

Mar. 7

Jan. 9

Aug. 29

July 24

Apr. 11

Mar. 17

Jan. 19

Sept. 8

Aug. 3

Apr. 21

Mar. 27

Jan. 29

Sept. 18

Aug. 13

May 1

Apr. 6

Feb. 8

Sept. 28

Aug. 23

May 11

Apr. 16

Feb. 18

Oct. 8

Sept. 2

May 21

Apr. 26
May 6

Feb. 28

Oct. 18

Sept. 12

May 31

Mar. le

©ct. 28

Sept. 22

June 10

May 16

Mar. 20

Nov. 7

Oct. 2

June 20

May 26

Mar. 30

Nov. 17

Oct. 12

June 30

June 5

Apr. 9

Nov. 27

©Gt. 22

July 10

June IS

Apr. 19

Dec. 7

Nov. 1

July 20

June 25

Apr. 29

Dec. 17

Nov. 11

July 30

July 5

May 9

Bee. 27

Nov. 21

Aug. 9

July 15

May 19

Jan. 6

Dec. 1

Aug. 19

July 2S

May 29

Jan. 16

Bee. 11

Aug. 29

Aug. 4

June 8

Jan. 26

Dec. 21

Sept. 8

Aug. 14

June 18

Feb. 5

Dec. 31

Sept. 18

Aug. 24

June 28

Feb. 15

Jan. 10

Sept. 28

Sept. 3

July 8

Feb. 25

Jan. 20

Oct. 8

Sept. 13

J^ly 18

Mar. 7

Jan. 30

Oct. 18

Sept. 23

July 28

Mar. 17

Feb. 9

Oct. 28

Oct. 3

Aug. 7

Mar. 27

Feb. 19

Nov. 7

Oct. 13

Aug. 17

Apr. 6

Mar. 1

Nov. 17

Oct. 23

Aug. 27

Apr. 16

Mar. 11

Nov. 27

Nov. 2

Sept. 6

Apr. 26

Mar. 21

Dec. 7

Nov. 12

Sept. 16

May 6

Mar. 31

Dec. 17

Nov. 22

Sept. 26

May 16

Apr. 10

Dec. 27

Dec. 2

@ct. 6

May 26

Apr. 20

Duration and frequency of heat in
farm animals in regular condition

If not impregnated
In heat for heat will recur in —

Mares 5-7 days' 3 to 6 weeks

Cows 2-3 days* 3 to 4 weeks

Ewes 2-3 days 17 to 28 days

Sows 2-4 days 21 days

'Subject to variation.

Date
Bred

Description

Date
Due

Date
Bred

Description

Date
Due

712

SEED PLANTING TABLES

(Compiled from Reports of the U. S. Department of Agriculture)

NEW ENGLAND

Kind of Crop

Date of Planting

Best Soil

Amount of Seed
per Acre

Wks. to
Mature

Corn

May 10 to 30

Sandy or clay loam ....

8 to 12 qts

2 bush

14-17

Oats

Strong loam

2 to 3 bush

5 to 6 pecks

1 to 1 J^ bush

8 to 16 qts

8 to 20 bush

1 lb

11-15

April to June 20

April to May, Sept ....

10-15

8-14

April 15 to May 1

Tulv 1 to August 3

April 15 to May 5

Seed bed April

12-20

Turnips

Mangels

Strong, heavy loam ....

4 to 6 lbs

17-22

9-12

Hay

MIDDLE STATES

Corn

Wheat

Oats

Barley

Rye

Buckwheat . . . .
White Beans . . .

Potatoes

Sweet Potatoes.

Cabbage

Turnips

Mangels

Flax

Tobacco

Hay, timothy. .
Hay, clover. . . .

April 20 to May 30.
Sept. 20 to Oct. 20.

March to May

Sept. 1 to Oct. 1. . .

June to July

May to June

March to May

May to June

March to July

July

May

Seed bed March . . . .

Aug. to Oct

Feb. to April

Medium loam

Lx>am

Moist clay loam

Clay loam

Sand or gravel loam . .

Loam

Sandy loam

Loam

Sandy loam

Clay or sandy loam . . .

Loam

Limestone loam

Sandy loam

Clay loam

6 to 8 qts

2 bush

2 to 2!,3 bush. .
2 to 2 \i bush . .

1 Yi bush

H to 1 J-2 bush .

1 Vn bush

8 to 15 bush. . .
10 to 12 bush. .
4 to 8 oz

2 to 5 lbs

10 to 15 bush. .
20 qts

6 to 8 qts.
6 qts

16-18
41-43
16-17
13-16
40-43

8-10
13-14
14-22
10-15

8-15
10-12
15-18

8-10
15-20

CENTRAL AND WESTERN STATES

Kind of Crop

Date of Planting

Best Soil

Amount of Seed
per Acre

Wks. to
Mature

April 1 to June 1

Black or sandy loam. . .

6 qts

16-20

Wheat.

2 bush

40-42

April 1 to May 1 ..... .

2 to 3 bush

2 bush

12-14

Barley

11-13

Rye

Sept. 1 to 30

1 to 2 bush

1 Yi bush

35-40

10-12

May 10 to June 10. . . .

Mar. IS to June 1

July 15 to Aug. 30. . . .

April 1 to May 15

Mar. 15 to May 15

Seed bed March

April to May

5 to 10 bush

1 to 6 lbs

10-20

Turnips

Mangels

Flax

Loam or muck

10-16

6 to 8 lbs

22-24

2 to 3 pecks

Oz. to 6 sq. rd . . . .
8 to 15 lbs

15-20

15-18

Hay

Clay loam

SOUTHERN STATES

Cotton

Corn

Wheat

Oats

Barley

Rye

White Beans . . .

Cabbage

Watermelons . . .

Onions

Potatoes

Sweet Potatoes.

Pumpkins

Tomatoes

Turnips

Tobacco

Cow Peas

Feb. to May IS

Feb. to June

Sept. to Nov

Feb., May, Sept....

April to May

Sept. to Oct

March to May

Oct., Mar. to May.
Mar. 1 to May 10. .
Feb. 1 to Apr. 10.. .
Jan., Feb. to April .

May to June

April 1 to May 1 . . .
Jan. 1 to Feb. 19...
Feb., Aug., April. . .
Seed bed March . . . .
May 1 to July 15. . .

Sandy loam

Rich loam

Clay loam

Light loam

Rich, light loam..
Loam or muck . . .
Light, loose loam.

Sandy loam

Rich, light loam. .
Rich, sandy loam.
Rich, light loam. .

Sandy loam

1 to 3 bush .
8 qts

2 bush

2 Vi bush . . .
2 Vz bush . . .
1 Vi bush . . .

1 to 2 bush.
4 to 8 oz . . .

2 to 7 lbs . . .

8 to 10 bush. . .
10 to 12 bush. .

4 to 7 lbs

4 to 9 or

2 to 6 lbs

Oz. to 6 sq. rd .
2 to 5 pecks . . . .

20-30

18-20

7-8

16-20

16-24

11-15

12-15

17-20

14-20

8-12

18-20

6-8

713

BANKING TABLES

RULES FOR COMPUTING INTEREST

The following is an approximate way to estimate the interest on any principal for any number
of days. When the principal contains cents, mark off four places from the right of the result to
express the interest in dollars and cents. When the principal contains dollars only, mark off
two places.

2% — Mult-iply the principal by the number
of days to run, and divide by 180.

4% — Multiply the principal by the number
of days to run and divide by 90.

5% — Multiply by number of days and di-
vide by 72.

6% — Multiply by number of days and di-
vide by 60.

7% — Multiply by number of days and di-
vide by 52.

8% — Multiply by number of days and di-
vide by 45.

9% — Multiply by number of days and di-
vide by 40.

10% — Multiply by number of days and di-
vide by 36.

12% — Multiply by number of days and di-
vide by 30.

15% — Multiply by number of days and di-
vide by 24.

NUMBER OF DAYS BETWEEN TWO DATES

Jan.

Feb.

Mar.

Apr.

May

June

July

Ai»g.

Sept.

Oct.

Nov.

Dec.

Jan

365

334

306

275

245

214

184

153

122

31
365

337
306
276
245
215
184
153
123
92
62

28
365
334
304
273
243
212
181
151
120

59
31

365
334
304
274
243
212
182
151
121

120
89
61
30

365
334
304
273
242
212
181
151

151

120

365

335

304

273

243

212

182

181

150

122

365

334

303

273

242

212

181

153

122

365

334

304

273

243

212

184

153

123

365

335

304

274

273

242

214

183

153

122

365

334

304

273

245

214

184

153

123

365

335

334

Feb

303

Mar

275

244

214

183

July

153

122

Sept

Oct

Dec

365

AMOUNT OF ONE DOLLAR AT COMPOUND INTEREST

YEARS

iH%

YEARS

4H%

1,03

1,04

1.04

1,05

1.06

1.75

2,10

2.30

2.52

3.02

1.06

1 ,08

1 .09

1.10

1.12

1.80

2,19

2.41

2.65

3.20

1 .09

1.12

1.14

1.15

1.19

1 ,86

2,27

2.52

2.78

3.40

1.12

1.17

1.19

1.21

1.26

1 .91

2,37

2.63

2,92

3.60

1,15

1.21

1.24

1.27

1.33

1,97

2.4<i

2.75

3,07

3.82

1.19

1.26

1,30

1.34

1.41

24 '.

2.03

2,56

2,87

3,22

4,04

1,23

1 .31

1,36

1,40

1.50

2,09

2,66

3,00

3,38

4.29

1,26

1,36

1,42

1.47

1.59

2,15

2,77

3,14

3,55

4,54

1.30

1.42

1,48

1,55

1,68

2,22

2.88

3,28

3,73

4.82

1 .34

1,48

1.55

1.62

1,79

2.28

2.99

3,43

3,92

5.11

1,38

1,53

1.62

1.71

1,89

2,35

3.11

3,58

4.11

5.41

1.42

1.60

1.69

1.79

2,01

2,42

3.24

3,74

4.32

5,74

1 ,46

1,66

1,77

1.88

2.13

2.50

3.37

3,91

4.53

6,08

1,51

1,73

1,85

1.98

2.26

2.57

3.50

4.09

4.76

6,45

1,55

1.80

1,93

2.07

2.39

2.65

3.64

4,27

5.00

6,84

1,60

1.87

2,02

2.18

2.54

2.73

3.79

4,4«

5.25

7,25

1,65

1.94

2.11

2.29

2.69

2.81

3.94

4,66

5.51

7,68

1.70

2.02

2.20

2.40

2.85

100

19.21

50.50

81.58

131 .50

339.30

714

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES

APOTHECARIES' WEIGHT

20 grains 1 scruple 8 drams 1 ounce

3 scruples 1 drain 12 ounces .... 1 pound

Ounce and pound are die same as in Troy Weight.

AVOIRDUPOIS WEIGHT

27 11/32 grains . 1 dram 25 pounds ... 1 quarter

16 drams 1 ounce 4 quarters 1 cwt.

16 ounces 1 pound 2.000 lbs.. .1 short ton

2.240 pounds Long Ton

TROY WEIGHT

24 grains 1 PW-

20 pwt 1 ounce 12 ounces .... 1 pound

Used for weiring gold, silver and jewels.

CLOTH MEASURE

2 )i inches 1 nail 4 nails 1 quarter

4 quarters 1 yard

CUBIC MEASURE

1 ,728 cubic inches 1 cubic foot

27 cubic.feet 1 cubic yard

128 cubic feet I cord (wood)

40 cubic feet 1 ton (shipping)

2,130.42 cubic inches 1 standard bushel

231 cubic inches 1 U. S. standard gallon

1 cubic foot about 4 /5 of a bushel

DRY MEASURE

2 pints 1 quart 4 pecks 1 bushel

8 quarts 1 peck 36 bushels. . 1 chaldron

LIQUID MEASURE

4 gills 1 pint 4 quarts 1 gallon

2 pints 1 quart 31 )^i gallons . . 1 barrel

2 barrels 1 hogshead

LONG MEASURE
12 inches I foot 40 rods 1 furlong

3 feet 1 yard 8 furlongs . . 1 sta. mile

5H yards 1 rod 3 miles 1 league

MARINERS' MEASURE

6 feet. . 1 fathom 120 fathoms. . 1 cable length

7 ii cable lengths 1 mile

5,280 feet 1 statute mile

6,085 feet 1 nautical mile

PAPER MEASURE
24 sheets, 1 quire; 20 quires, 1 ream (480 sheets)
2 reams 1 bundle S bundles . . . 1 bale

SQUARE MEASURE

144 sq. inches 1 sq. ft 40 sq. rods. . . . 1 rood

9sq.ft 1 sq. yd 4 roods 1 acre

30 ^ sq. yds. . 1 sq. rod 640 acres . . 1 sq. mile

SURVEYOR'S MEASURE

7 .92 inches 1 link

25 links 1 rod

4 rods 1 chain

10 sq. chains or 160 sq. rods 1 acre

640 acres 1 sq. mile

36 sq. miles (6 miles sq.) 1 township

TIME MEASURE

60 seconds. ... 1 minute 24 hours 1 day

60 minutes ... 1 hour 7 days 1 week

28, 29, 30 or 31 days 1 calendar month

30 days 1 month in computing interest

365 days 1 year 366 days. . . 1 leap year

MISCELLANEOUS

3 inches 1 palm 6 inches 1 span

4 inches 1 hand 18 inclies 1 cubit

21 .8 inches 1 Bible cubit

2 J-i feet 1 military pace

METRIC EQUIVALENTS
Linear Measure

1 centimeter 0.3937 inch

1 inch 2 .54 centimeters

1 decimeter 3.937 inches 0.328 foot

1 foot 3.048 decimeters

1 meter. 39.37 inches 1.0936 yards

1 yard 0.9144 meter

1 dekameter 1 -9884 rods

1 rod 0.5029 dekaraeter

1 kilometer.'.'.' 0.62137 mile

J mile 1 .6093 kilometers

Square Measure

1 square centimeter 0.1550 square inch

1 square inch 6.452 square centimeters

1 square decimeter 0.1076 square foot

1 square foot 9.2903 square decimeters

1 square meter 1 196 square yards

1 square yard 0.8361 square meter

1 acre 3.954 square rods

1 square'reid 6.3529 acre

1 hectare 2 47 acres

1 acre 0.4047 hectare

1 square kilometer 0.386 square mile

1 square mile 2.59 square kilometers

Measure of Volume

1 cubic centimeter 0.061 cubic inch

1 cubic inch 16.39 cubic centimeters

1 cubic decimeter 0.0333 cubic foot

1 cubic toot 28.317 c«bic decimeters

1 cubic meter 1 -308 cubic yards

1 cubic yard 0.7646 cubic meter

1 stere 0.2759 cord

1 cord 3.624 steres

1 liter. !'. '.oigOS quart dry 1.9567 quarts liquid

1 quart dcy 1 IflJ 'f^*^"

1 quart liquid 0.9463 liter

1 dekaliter 2 .641 7 gallons 1 35 pecks

1 gallon 0.3785 dekaliter

1 p«ck ' ' ' 0.881 dekaliter

1 hektoiiter .'.'.'.'.' 2*375 bushels

1 bushel 0.3524 hektoiiter

Weights

1 cram 0.03527 ounce

1 ounce ' 28.35 grams

1 kil9gram .'.'.'." '.'.'.'. 2.2046 pounds

1 pound 0.4536 Kilogram

1 metric ton 1 .1023 English tons

1 English ton 0.9072 metric ton

APPROXIMATE METRIC
EQUIVALENTS

1 decimeter -4 inches

1 litier 1 .06 quarts liquid , .9 quart dry

1 meter * •' yar°*

1 kUometer 'A?L^ ^'1^

1 hektoiiter 2% bushels

1 hectare • • ■ ,?^ '^"^^

1 kilogram 2 1/5 pounds

1 stere, er cubic meter ■ K of a cord

1 metric ton 2 ,200 pounds

TEMPERATURES

Fahrenheit

Milk Freezes 30° above Zero

Water Ftoeics 32° above Zero

Olive oil Freezes 36° above Zero

Wine Freezes 20 above Zero

Vinegar Freezes 28° above Zero

Alcohol ' .' Bolls at 173° above Zero

Water Boils at 212° above Zero

Petroleum (average) Bolls at 306° above Zero

Blood Heat 98.4° above Zero

Eggs Hatch 104° above Zero

715

HANDY FACTS TO KNOW

To find diameter of a circle multiply cir-
cumference by .31831.

To find the circumference of a circle mul-
tiply diameter by 3.1416.

To find area of a circle multiply square of
diameter by .7854.

To find surface of a ball multiply square
of diameter by 3.1414.

To find side of an equal square multiply
diameter by .8S62.

To find cubic inches in a ball multiply
cube of diameter by .5236.

Doubling the diameter of a pipe increases
its capacity four times.

Double riretinfr is frem 16 to 20 per cent
stronger than single.

One cubic foot of anthracite coal weighs
about 53 pounds.

One cubic foot of bituminous coal weighs
from 47 to 50 pounds.

One ton of coal is equivalent to two cords
of wood for steam purposes.

A gallon of water (U. S. Standard) weighs
S'A pounds and contains 231 cubic inches.

A cubic foot of water contains Tyi gallons,
1,728 cubic inches, and weigfcs 625^ pounds.

Each nominal horse power of a boiler re-
quires 30 to 35 pounds of water per hour.

To sharpen dull files lay them in dilute sul-
phuric acid until they are eaten deep enough.

A horse power is equivalent to raising
33,000 pounds one foot per minute, or 550
pounds one foot per second.

The average consumption of coal for steam
boilers is 12 pounds per hour for each square
foot of grate surface.

To find the pressure in pounds per square
inch of a column of water multiply the height
of the column in feet by .434.

Steam rising from water at its boiling point
(212 degrees) has a pressure equal to the
atmosphere (14.7 pounds ta the square inch).

To evaporate one cubic foot of water re-
quires the consumption oi Tyi pounds of ordi-
nary coal, or about 1 pound of coal to 1 gallon
of water.

LUMBER TABLE

LENGTHS IN FEET

Size in
Inches

1 I 2

V/f,

2"^

1 X 3

^Va

Z'A

1 X 3H

1 X 4

4J^

6J€

1 I 5

1 I 6

1 X 8

914

10%

13%

14%

1 X 9

714

954

lOA

133-1

16%

1 xie

lOM

i-m

«%

16%

18%

1 xl2

1 xl3

15%

17^

1»%

21%

23%

1 il4

lai-i

1S%

23%

25%

|x3

4W6

iVs

1x4

4>l

|x5

ftfl

95^8

IOt^j

ll^i

|x 6

6«

1154

ni4

13M

ix8

8J^

10%

ii%

13%

16%

i-x9

nji

laji'e

183^

16%

18M

20%

1 xlO

IOt^

12H

13i|

14t\

16%

20%

22H

|xl2

12H

16^

17H

22%

27%

2x3

6}^

2x4

10%

13%

14%

2x9

19'^

2 xlO

\&H

2\%

28%

26%

33%

36%

4x4

13H

18%

21%

26%

29%

5x5

26%

27tV

29%

3»%

37%

41%

45%

6x6

8x8

53M

69^

74%

85%

106%

117%

8 xlO

66%

86?^

93%

106%

120

133%

146%

MISCELLANEOUS DATA

196 Pounds Flour Make 1 Barrel

200 Pounds Beef or Pork Make 1 Barrel

135 Pounds of Potatoes Make 1 Barrel

135 Pounds of Apples Make 1 Barrel

280 Pounds of Salt Make 1 Barrel

350 Pounds of Sugar Make 1 Barrel

100 Pounds Nails Make a Keg

2150.42 Cubic Inches Make 1 Bushel

231 Cubic Inches Make 1 Gallon

43,560 Square Feet Make 1 Aere

5,280 Feet Make 1 Mile

128 Cubic Feet Make a Cord

1 Gallon Water About 8-1/3 Pounds

1 Gallon Milk About 8-3/S Pounds

1 Gallon Kerosene About 6l4 Pounds

1 Cubic Foot Water About 62 J4 Pounds

^ Inch equals 1 size in measuring boots and
shoes.

4 Inches equals 1 hand in measuring horses.

1 Link equals 7.92 inches.

1 Rod equals 25 links, 16'/$ feet.

1 Chain equals 4 rods, 66 feet.

1 Mile equals 80 chains, 5^0 feet.

Wall paper is usually 18 inches wide.

A single roll is 24 feet long.

A double roll is 48 feet long.

A lath is 4 feet long and 1 'A inches wide.

Buil<lers calculate that a bunch of laths will

cover 3 sq. yds.
1008 Shingles, applied 4 in. to weather cover

about 100 sq. ft,
1000 Shingles require about 5 pouhds shingle

nails.
20 Yards of surface will require about 1000

laths.
1000 Laths will require about 11 pounds of lath

nails.

716

HOME HELPS

KITCHEN WEIGHTS,
MEASURES, ETC.

4 large tablespoonsful = J^ gill
1 teacup = 1 gill

1 comnion sized tumbler = y^ pint

2 cups = 1 pint

2 pints = 1 quart

I tablespoonful = J^ ounce

1 large wine glass = 2 ounces
8 quarts = 1 peck

4 cups flour = 1 pound

2 cups solid butter = 1 pound
4 quarts = 1 gallon

2 cups granulated sugar = 1 pound

3 cups cornnieal = 1 pound

2 % cups brown sugar = 1 pound
2 cups solid meat = 1 pound
2 Va cups powdered sugar = 1 pound
16 ounces = 1 pound

2 tablespoons butter, sugar, salt = 1 ounce

4 tablespoons flour = 1 ounce
16 tablespoonsful = 1 cupful
60 drops = 1 teaspoonful

8 saltspoonsful = 1 teaspoonful

3 teaspoonsful = 1 tablespoonful

4 tablespoonsful = M cupful

1 cup shelled almonds = %, pound
M pound cornstarch = 1 cupful

Cup Measures *

1 cup granulated sugar = J'2 pound

1 cup butter = J^ pound

1 cup lard = K pound

1 cup flour — ,'<i pound

1 cup rice = }-i pound

1 cup cornmeal = 5 ounces

1 cup raisins (stemmed) = 6 ounces

1 cup currants (cleaned; = 6 ounces

1 cup bread crumbs (stale) = 2 ounces

1 cup chopped meat = J4 pound
* Approximate only.

Equivalents of Capacity
(All measures are level full)

3 teaspoons
J^ fiuid ounce
16 tablespoons

2 gills
3^ liquid pint

8 fluid ounces

1 liquid pint
16 fluid ounces

Lbs. per bu.
Apples, 45
Barley, 47
Beans, dried, 60
Beets, 56
Bran, 20
Buckwheat, 48
Cabbage. SO
Carrots, 50
Cement, 100
Charcoal, 20

= 1 ta.blespoon
= 1 tablespoon
= 1 cup
= 1 cup
= 1 cup
= 1 cup
= 2 cups
= 2 cups

Lbs. per bu.
Cherries, 56
Chestnuts, SO
Clover seed, 60
Coal, 75
Coke, 40
Com, shelled, 56
Corn, ear, 70
Cornmeal, 50
Cranberries, 40

Lbs. per bu.
Cucumbers, SO
Currants. 40
Grapes, 48
Grass seed. 14
Hominy, 60
Lime, 80
Oats. 32
Onions, SO
Peaches, 48
Peanuts, 22
Pears, 50
Peas, green, 56
Peas, dried, 60
Plums, 64
Potatoes, 60

Lbs. per bu.
Potatoes (sweet) 54
Quinces, 48
Rice, 45
Rutabaga, 60
Rye, 56
Rye-meal. 60
Salt (coarse). 85
Salt (ground), 62
Sand, 100
Timothy seed, 45
Tomatoes, 60
Turnips, 60
Walnuts, 50
Wheat, 60

WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES

1st Year Paper

2nd Year Calico

3rd Year. . . . Muslin

4th Year Silk

5th Year Wood

6th Year Iron

7th Year Wool

8th Year .... Bronze
9th Year . . . Pottery
10th Year Tin

ISth Year Crystal

20th Year China

2Sth Year. . . .Silver

30th Year Pearl

35th Year Coral

40th Y'ear Ruby

45th Year. .Sapphire

SOth Year Gold

SSth Year. . .Emerald
60th Year. .Diamond

7Sth Year. .Diamond

BIRTHSTONES AND
FLOWERS

January
February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Garnet
Amethyst

Snowdrop
Primrose

Bloodstone and Aquamarine

Violet

Diamond Daisy

Emerald Hawthorn

Pearl and Moonstone Rose

Ruby Water Lily

Sardonyx and Peridot Poppy

Sapphire Morning Glory

Opal and Tourmaline Hops

Topaz Chrysanthemum

Turquoise and Lapis Lazuli

HoUy

717

HOW TO REMOVE STAINS

Blood and meat juice. Use cold water; soap
«nd cold water ; or starch paste.

Bluing. Use boiling water.

Chocolate and cocoa. Use borax and cold
water; bleach if necessary.

Coffee and tea. (Clear.) — Use boiling water;
bleach if necessary. (With creain.) — Use cold
water, then boiling water; bleach if necessary.

Cream and milk. Use cold water, then soap
and cold water.

Egg. Use cold water.

Fruit and fruit juices. Use boiling water;
bleach if necessary.

Grass. Use cold water; soap and cold water;
alcohol; or a bleaching agent.

Grease and oils. Use French chalk, blotting
paper or other absorbent; or warm water and
soap; or gasoline, benzine, or carbon tetra-
chloride.

Iodine. Use warm water and soap; alcohol;
or ammonia.

Ink. Try cold water; then use an acid or
bleach if necessary.

Iron. Use oxalic acid; hydrochloric acid;
salts of lemon; or lemon juice and salt.

Kerosene. Use warm water and soap.

Lampblack and soot. Use kerosene, benzine,
chloroform, ether, gasoline, or carbon tetra-
chloride.

Medicine. Use alcohol.

Miidew. If fresh, use cold water; otherwise
try to bleach with javelle water or potassium
permanganate.

Paint and varnish. Use alcohol, carbon tetra-
chloride, chloroform, or turpentine.

Perspiration. Use soap and warm water;
bleach in the sun or with javelle water or po-
tassium permanganate.

Pitch, tar, and wheel grease. Rub with fat;
then use soap and warm water; or benzine,
gasoline, or carbon tetrachloride.

Scorch. Bleach in the sunshine or with
javelle water.

Shoe polish. (Black.) — Use soap and water;
or turpentkie. (Tan.) — Use alcohol.

Syrup. Use water.

Stove polish. Use cold water and soap; or
kerosene, benzine, or gasoline.

Vaseline. Use kerosene or turpentine.

Water. Steam or sponge the entire surface
of water-spotted materials.

Wax. Scrape off as much as possible. Use
French cha-lk, blotting paper or other absorb-
ent, with a warm iron; or use benzine or gaso-
line. If color remains, use alcohol or bleach.

ACTUAL TIME IN USE IN THE

LARGEST CITIES OF THE WORLD

WHEN IT IS 12:00 NOON,

WASHINGTON

Athens 7:00 P. M.

Auckland next

day 3:00 A.M.

Berlin 6:00 P. M.

Bombay.... 10:30 P. M.

Boston 12:00 noon

Buffalo 12.-00 noon

Cape Town.. 7K)0 P. M.

Chicago 11:00 A.M.

CiQcimiati. .11:00 A.M.
Cleveland., .12:00 noon
Con3tantinople7:00 P. M .

Denver 10:00 A.M.

Detroit 12:00 noon

Galveston... 11:00 A.M.

Halifax ....
Hamburg . .

Havana

Hong Kong

next day.

Houilulu . .

Jerusalem. .

1:00 P. M.
feOO P. M.
11:31 A.M.

1:00 A. M.

6:30 A. M.

7:00 P. M.
Kansas City. 11 K)0 A.M.

Lisbon 4:24 P. M.

Liverpool... 6:00 P. M.

London 5:00 P. M.

Madrid 6:00 P.M.

Man3a o«zt

1:00 A. M.

IVlelboume

next day.. 3:00 A.M.
Milwaukee.. 11:00 A.M.
Minneapolis. 11:00 A. M.

Natal 7:00 P. M.

New Orleans 11:00 A.M.
New York... 12:00 noon

Omaha 11:00 A.M.

Ottawa 12,00 noon

Panama 12:00 noon

Paris 5:00 P. M.

Philad'p'a... 12:00 noon
Pittsb'r'g. . .12:00 noon
Portland..,. 9:00 A.M.

Quebec 12:00 noon

RiodeJ'n'ro. 2:00 P. M.

Rome 6:00 P.M.

Salt L. City. 10:00 A.M.
San Francisco 9:00 A. M.
St. Louis.... 11:00 A.M.

Seattle 9:00 A.M.

Suez 7:00P.M.

Toledo 12:00 noon

Vancouver.. 9:00A.M.

Vienna 6:00 P. M.

Winnipeg. ..11:00 A.M.
Yokohama

Dcxt day.. 2:00 A.M.

ROMAN AND ARABIC
NUMERALS

XXX . . . .

Ill

LXX

VII

LXXX ..

VIII

100

200

CCC ....

300

XII

CCCC ....

400

XIII

500

XIV

600

DCC

70O

XVI

DCCC ....

800

XVII

900

XVIII

1000

XIX

2000

ANCIENT MYTHOLOGICAL
GODS:

Jupiter: God of Heaven and Earth; Apollo:
(jod of Sun, Music and Medicine; Venus:
God of Love and Beauty; Neptune: God of
the Sea; Mercury: God of Commerce; Mars:
God of War.

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PRINCIPAL HOLIDAYS

January 1. New Year's Day.
January 8. Anniversary of the Battle of New
Orleans; In Louisiana.

January 19. Lee's Birthday: In Fla., Ga.,
N. C, S. C, Va.. Ala., Miss, and Ark.

February 12. Georgia Day: In Georgia.

February 12. Lincoln's Birthday: In Calif.,
Colo., Ct.. Del., 111., la.. Ind., Kansas. Kentucky,
Mich., Minn., Mon.. Nebraska. Nevada. N. J.,
N. Y., N. Dakota, Oregon, Penn., S. Dakota,
Utah, Wash., W. Va., Wyo.

February 14. Admission Day: In Arizona.
February 22. Washington's Birthday.

March 2. .A.nniversary of Texan Independ-
ence: In Texas.

March 17. St. Patrick's Day.

March 25. Maryland Day: In Maryland.

March 30. Seward Day: In Alaska.

April (First Monday). Annual Spring Elec-
tion: In Michigan.

April 12. Halifax Independence Resolutions:
In North Carolina.

April 13. Thomas Jefferson's Birthday: In
.Alabama.

April 19.

achusetts.

Patriot's Day: In Maine and Mass-

April 21. Anniversary of the Battle of San
Jacinto: In Texas.

April 26. Confederate Memorial Day: In
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi and
Virginia.

May 10. Confederate Memorial Day: In
North Carolina and South Carolina.

May (Second Friday). Confederate Day: In
Tennessee.

May 24. Victoria Day: In Canada.

May 20. Anniversary of the Signing of the
Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence: In
North Carolina and Kentucky.

May 30. Decoration Day: In all the States
(D. of C, Puerto Rico, Hawaii), except Alaska,
.\rkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North
Carolina, South Carolina and Texas.

June 3. Jefferson Davis's Birthday: In .Ar-
kansas, Fla., Ga., Ala., Miss.. Texas, S. C. and
Virginia. In La., known as "Confederate Mem-
orial Day".

June (Last Wednesday). Primary Election
Day: In North Dakota.

July 1. Dominion Day: In Canada.

July 4. Independence Day.

July 10. Admission Day: In Wyoming.

July 24. Pioneers' Day: In Utah.

July (Fourth Saturday). Primary Election
Day: In Texas.

August. Primary Election Day: In Missouri.
In Michigan (last Tuesday in August preceding
every general November election.

August 1. Colorado Day: In Colorado.

August 16. Bennington Battle Day: In Ver-
mont.

1st Monday in Sept. Lahdir Day.

September. Primary Election Day; In Ne-
vada, Wisconsin, First Tuesday.

Sept. 9. Admission Day: In California.
September 12. "Old Defenders' Day: In

Baltimore, Md.

October 12. Columbus Day: In .Alabama,
Arizona, Ark.. Calif., Colo., Conn., Del., Idaho,
111., Ind., Kansas, Ky., Maryland, Mass., Mich.,
Mo.. Montana. Nebraska, Nevada, New Hamp-
shire, N. J., New Me.-cico, N. Y., Ohio, Okla.,
Oregon, Penn., Puerto Rico, R. I., "Texas, Vt.,
Wash., West Virginia.

October 31. .Admission Day: In Nevada.

Nov. 1. All Saints' Day: In Louisiana.

November. General Election Day: In Ala-
bama, .Alaska, Arizona, California. Cclorado,
Delaware, Florida, Idaho, lUinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mis-
souri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire. New
Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Narth Carolina,
North Dakota, Ohio (from 12 M. to 5.30 P. M.
only), Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Pcrto
Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina. Siuth
Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia. \\ c.-t Vir-
ginia, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming, in
the years when elections ar« held therein. First
Tuesday after First Monday.

November. Thanksgiving Day: (usually the
last Thur.sday in November): Is observed in all
the States, and in tiie District of Columbia,
Puerto Rico, Hawaii and .Alaska.

December 25. Christmas Day.

There are no.statutory holidays in Mississippi,
but by Common consent the Fourth of July,
Thanksgiving and Christmas are observed. In
New Mexico. Washington's Birthday, Decora-
tion Day, Labor Day, Flag Day (June 14), and
.Arbor Day are holidays, when so designated by
the Governor. In South Carolina, Thursday of
Fair Week is a legal holiday.

Arbor Day is observed by the States on differ-
ent days, usually in the Spring; in Georgia, in
December. The dates in the same States often
vary from year to year by proclamation.

Mother's Day is observed on the second Sun-
day in May.

Father's Day is observed on the third Sunday
in June.

Saturday Afternoon is a holiday in many of
the States and Cities and in the District of
Cnhtmbia. Sundays are statutory holidays in
Canada.

When a Legal Holiday falls on a Sunday, the
following day is generally observed.

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FACTS OF THE UNITED STATES

PRESIDENTS

1. George Washington 1789-1797

2. John Adams 1797-1801

3. Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809

4. James Madison 1809-1817

5. James Monroe 1817-1825

6. John Q. Adams 1825-1829

7. Andrew Jackson 1829-1837

8. Martin Van Buren 1837-1841

9. Wm. H. Harrison 1841-1841

10. John Tyler 1841-1845

11. James K. Polk 1845-1849

12. Zachary Taylor 1849-1850

13. Millard Fillmore 1850-1853

14. Franklin Pierce 1853-1857

15. James Buchanan 1857-1861

16. Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865

17. Andrew Johnson 1865-1869

18. Ulysses S. Grant 1869-1877

19. Rutherford B. Hayes 1877-1881

20. James A. Garfield 1881-1881

21. Chester A. Arthur 1881-1885

22. Grover Cleveland 18S5-1889

23. Benjamin Harrison 1889-1893

24. Grover Oeveland 1893-1897

25. William McKinley 1897-1901

26. Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909

27. William H. Taft 1909-1913

28. Woodrow Wilson 19131921

29. Warren G. Harding 1921-1923

30. Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929

31. Herbert C. Hoover 1929-1933

32. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933-1945

33. Harry S. Truman 1945-1953

34. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953-

STATE CAPITALS

Alabama, Montgomery; Arizona, Phoenix
Arkansas, Little Rock; California, Sacramento;
Colorado, Denver; Connecticut, Hartford;
Delaware, Dover; Florida, Tallahassee;
Georgia, Atlanta; Idaho, Boise; Illinois, Spring-
field; Indiana, Indianapolis; Iowa, Des Moines;
Kansas, Topeka; Kentucky, Frankfort; Lou-
isiana, Baton Rouge; Maine, Augusta; Mary-
land, Annapolis: Massachusetts, Boston;
Michigan, Lansing; Minnesota, St. Paul;
Mississippi, Jackson; Missouri, Jefferson City;
Montana, Helena; Nebraska, Lincoln; Nevada,
Carson City; New Hampshire, Concord; New
Jersey, Trenton; New Mexico, Santa Fe; New
York, Albany; North Carolina, Raleigh; North
Dakota, Bismarck; Ohio, Columbus; Okla-
homa, Oklahoma City; Oregon, Salem; Penn-
sylvania, Harrisburg; Rhode Island Provi-
dence; South Carolina, Columbia; South
Dakota, Pierre; Tennessee, Nashville; Texas,
Austin; Utah, Salt Lake City; Vermont,
Montpelier; Virginia, Richmond; Washington,
Olympia; West Virginia, Charleston; Wisconsin,
Madison; Wyoming, Cheyenne.

•DON'TS" IN THE USE OF THE FLAG

The conference called at Washington in
June, 1923, to draw up a code covering proper
civil usage of the flag, adopted the following
list of things to avoid:

1. Do not dip the flag of the United States to
any person or any thing. The regimental
color, State flag, organization or institu-
tional flag, will render this honor. At sea
the flag may be dipped in acknowledgment
of the salute of the flag of another nation.

2. Do not display the flag of the United States
with the Union down except as a signal of
distress.

3. Do not place any other flag or pennant
above or to the right of the flag.

4. Do not let the flag of the United States
touch the ground or tail in the water.

5. Do not place any object or emblem of any
kind on or above the flag of the United
States.

6. Do not use the flag as drapery.

7. Do not fasten the flag in such manner as
will permit it to be easily torn.

8. Do not drape the flag over the top or sides
of a vehicle, train or boat.

9. Do not use the flag to drape over front of
a platform or over chairs or benches.

10. Do not display the flag on a float in a
parade except on a staff.

11. Do not use the flag as a ceiling covering.

12. Do not use the flag of the United States as
a portion of a costume.

13. Do not put lettering upon the flag.

14. Do not use the flag in any advertising.

15. Do not use the flag in such a manner as to
cause it to be soiled or damaged.

720

FIRST AID

WHAT TO DO IN CERTAIN
EMERGENCIES

First ?.id is the first care given to help
Injury or sudden illness until necessary treat-
ment can be given by a physician.

Cuts and Scratches: If severe, stop the
bleeding by direct pressure on the wound
with a sterile pad. Wlien the blecdiag ceases,
paint with 2 per ce«t iodine and let it dry
thoroughly before applying bandage or Band-
Aid. V

Open Wounds: Clean dirty or greasy
wounds with high grade benzine, then apply
half strength iodine. All epen wennds sh»uld
be covered with ga«ze er bandage. Do not
touch wound with fingers. Do not use ajiy-
thing but accepted aBtisepties, or blood pois-
oning may be caused.

Burns: For severe burns call a physician at
once. To slight burns apply sterile gauze
wrung out in a solution o-f warm water and
baking soda, or apply the 5 per cent tannic
acid jelly from your first aid kit. Never put
iodine on a burn. Apply any bandage loosely.

Poison Ivy and Sumac: Wash thoroughly
with soap and warm water. Apply dressings
kept wet with a very strong solutian of
Epsom salts and cold water; or elee apply a
thick paste made of saap and worm water,
which should be allowed to dry and remain
on all night.

Insect Stings: Remove "sting" and apply
household ammonia or a paste made of bakmg
soda.

Sprains: Violent stretching or twisting of
a joint may cawse a spraie. It is character-
ized by pain and rapid sweil>«g. Keep injured
part raised, on pi41ow if an ankle, in sling if a
wrist. Apply compresees wrung out of c»ld
water, or ice bags. Send for a d»ctor if the
case is severe.

Fainting: Keep patient lying down and
lower head. Loasea any tight cilotiiiag. Ap-
ply amm»nia ishalaet or smeHtHg salts to
nose and sprinkle face with cold water.

Shock: Lay patient an back, head low,
loosen clothing arou^id neck, chest and abdo-
men. Keep warm with blankets and hot water
bottles. If conscious and abVe t« swallow, give
hat, strong cefitee, hot ntilk, or half a teaspoan-
ful of aramatic spirits of ammonia in water.

Fracture: Apply splints reaching above
and below the jaints of the fractured bone, to
permit maving withsut pain or danger. Three
persons are needed for lifting an stretcher —
one at head and shoulders, one at hips, and
the other at the legs.

Eye Injuries: Loose particles may be re-
moved from eyelid with a clean handkerchief
or a bit of ootton rolled on a taothpick. Par-
ticles emi)edded in the eyeball or lid must
ahvays be left t« a surgeon, or blindness may
result. Use cold compress temporarily to re-
lieve pain until doctor arrives.

Sunstroke : Cool head »nd body • — espe-
cially head — as quickly as poseible with cold
compresses, ice bags, or a coal bath. Never
give stimulants. Keep held slightly raised.
Treat beat exhaustion same as shock.

Fits: Do not attempt to hold patient down.
Place any small object between teeth to pre-
vent biting tongue. Let sleep after the attack
has passed, as exhaustion usually foUo'Ts.

Dog Bite: Wash waund with running
water, and apply tincture of iodine. Bandage
and take to doctor immediately to decide
whether Pasteur or Vaccine Treatment is ad-
visable. Have the dog exaaaiuad by the local
health authorities for passible evidence •£
rabies.

FOR POISONING

First: Send for a physicima.

Second: Induce vomiting by tickling throat
with feather or finger. Drink hot water «r
strong mustard and water. Swallaw sweet ofl
or whites of eggs.

SPECIAL POISONS AND ANTIDOTES

Acids: Muriat-ic, Oxalic, Acetic Sulphuric
(Oil of Vitriol), Nitric (A^u« Fartis).
Ant.: Soap suds, magnesia, lime-water.

Prnssic Acid: Cyanide af Potassium.
Ant. : Ammonia in water. Dash water ia
face. Give stimulants.

Carbolic Acid:

Ant. : Flour and water, mucilaginoas drinks.

Alkalies: Potash, Lye, Hartshorn, Am-
monia.

Ant.: Vinegar or lemon juice in water.

Arsenic: Rat Poison, Paris Green.
Ant.: Milk, raw eggs, sweet oil, lime-water,
flour and water.

Bug Poison : Lead, Saltpatre. Corrosive
Sublimate, Sugar of Lead, Blu^ Vitriol.

Ant.: Whites of eggs er milk ia large doses.

Chloroform: Chloral, Ether.

Ant.: Give emetic, keep patient aroused;
apply mustard plaster aver heart and calves
of legs; use artificial respiratiaa.

Carbonate of Soda : Copperas, Cabah.
Ant.: Soap suds and mucilaginous drinks.

Iodine: Antimony, Tartar Emetic.
Ant.: Starch and water, chalk, magnesia,
starchy food, strong tea. Apply external heat.

Mercury and its Salts.

Ant.: Whites of Eggs, Milk Mucilages.

Opium : Morphine, Laudanum, Paregoric,
Soothing Powders or Syrups.

Ant.: Strong coffee, mustard or ipecac as
emetic. Keep awake and maving. Keep warm.

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722

ILLINOIS

'Land of Lincoln'

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The articles and other textual material contained in the following pages are
from the Illinois Blue Book, I953-I95H, edited by Secretary of State Charles
F. Carpentier. For permission to use this material the Publisher is indebted
to Secretary of State Charles F. Carpentier. . . For permission to use the
photographs of state parl<s, state memorials and conservation areas included
In the following pages, the Publisher is indebted to Mr. Robert 6. Miley,
Superintendent of the Division of Parks « Memorials of the Illinois Department
of Conservation, and to Mr. Carl G. Hodges. Super intendent of the Division
of Reports in the Illinois Department of Finance.

The "Illinois — Land of Lincoln" insignia used on many publications
and exhibits of the Secretary of State's office was designed by Secretary
Carpentier within a few days after he took office in January, 1953. Mr.
Carpentier wanted a distinctive original marking to identify material issued
by his office, but also one which would be a brief, appropriate description of
and tribute to the State.

The insignia became popular immediately, and in the 1953 session of
the General Assembly, Senator Fred J. Hart of Streator introduced a bill in
the Senate which would require that it be reproduced on Illinois motor
vehicle license plates.

When investigation revealed that this would materially increase the
cost of the license plates, Senator Hart was consulted and asked to amend
his bill to make placing of the insignia on the plates discretionary with the
Secretary. Senator Hart agreed to make the amendment, and since then

Illinois license plates have carried the words, /aftcf oF JJllColll

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Life Portrait, by

GEORGE H. STORY

Purchased by the State in 1925, and hung in the

Lincoln Room of the Illinois State Historical

Li])rary, Centennial Building, Springfield.

STATE SYMBOLS

The Great Seal of Illinois

""Phe presknt great seal of Illinois was authorized by the Assembly on March
7, 1867, but was not used until October 26, 1868, and an unusual situation is
in\ol\ed in the history of the seal.

According to Brand W'hitlock, famous author, the first of all the seals used
for official documents in what is now Illinois, was that of 1788. It was known as
"The Seal of the Territory of the U. S. N. W. of the Ohio River." The words were
within two concentric circles. The center of the seal showed a river, on which rode
two canoes, with woodland showing beyond the river.

In 1800, when Indiana Territory, which included Illinois, was created, a new
seal was needed. This situation was met by duplicating the seal of the Northwest
Territory, the only change being the substitution of the words "Indiana Territory"
within the circles.

When Illinois Territory came into existence in 1809, still another seal was
required. So the fathers made an almost exact copy of the Great Seal of the United
States, merely eliminating the "E Pluribus Unum." This seal was first used on
February 4, 1^8 10.

When Illinois gained Statehood in 1818, the second session of the First
General Assembly decreed on February 19, 1819, that it was the duty of the
Secretary of State to procure a permanent State seal, as was to be agreed upon
by the Governor — Shadrach Bond — and the Justices of the Supreme Court —
Thomas C. Browne, William P. Foster, Joseph Phillips, John Reynolds and William
Wilson. The new seal was another duplicate of the United States seal, but differed
from the preceding seal of the Territory in that the Eagle held a scroll in its beak
on which were the words of the State motto, "State Sovereignty — National Union."
As previously, the eagle held a bunch of arrows in one talon, an olive branch in
the other, with the escutcheon on its chest.

Seal of the Illinois Territory, sketched by the
late Mr. Brand Whitlock and reproduced in
the Journal of the Illinois Historical Society.

First Great Seal, adopted after Statehood.
Sketched by the late Mr. Whitlock and repro-
duced from the Illinois Historical Society's
Journal.

This seal remained in use until late October, 1868 when inexplicable activities
by Sharon Tyndale, Secretary of State, brought about the creation of the seal
which exists today.

Tyndale, in January 1867, told Senator Allen C. Fuller that the old seal had
outlived its usefulness, that a new one was necessary, and asked Fuller to sponsor a
bill to change it. The bill was presented to the Senate January 7, 1867, and passed
without comment. It went to the House and when read there on January 10th,
Assemblyman Dinsmore from Whiteside County suggested an amendment to read
that the new seal was to be "an exact facsimile of the present seal."

The amendment was defeated 31 to 46.

Dinsmore's beaten amendment created immediate suspicion of the' bill. It was
recalled to the Senate. The vote that approved the bill was reconsidered. It was
discovered that Tyndale planned in the new seal to reverse the wording on the
scroll, changing it from "State Sovereignty, National Union" to "National Union,
State Sovereignty." The recent Civil War, he believed, put national union above
state sovereignty. But the change that he contemplated was thwarted by a Senate
amendment which ruled that the words on the scroll of the renewed seal were to
correspond with the old seal in every particular.

The bill was passed March 7, 1867 in its amended form.

The old seal continued in use until its last official imprint on October 24,
1868, and the final impressions were sharp and clear, indicating it was not "badly
out of order" as had been claimed by Tyndale.

The new seal, which is the present one and which was designed by Tyndale,
is a radical departure from the old. When it first appeared, and all through the
years since, the reasons for the inside design, made at Tyndale's direction, have
puzzled many beholders.

The shield no longer adorns the eagle's breast, but is in a titled position on
the ground; the arrows are gone; the branch bears little resemblance to an olive
branch; the eagle is sitting on a boulder in a prairie, and a rising sun shines on
a distant Eastern horizon. Strangest of all, the wording on the seal ignores the
amendment and "National Union" appears above "State Sovereignty."

Second Great Seal of the State of Illinois.
While this design differed from the first Seal,
it remained unchanged in a heraldic sense.

Present Great Seal bearing altered design in-
troduced in 1868. This design is far removed in
meaning from that of the original State Saal.

STATE FLAG OF ILLINOIS

State Flag of Illinois

Illinois State Flag was officially adopted on July 6, 1915, after a vigorous cam-
paign by Mrs. Ella Park Lawrence, State Regent of the Daughters of the
American Revolution.

Early in 1912, Mrs. Lawrence began visiting local D. A. R. chapters through-
out Illinois seeking cooperation in promoting selection of an official State banner
to place in the Continental Memorial Hall in Washington, D. G. In 1913, Mrs.
Lawrence offered a prize of $25.00 to the Illinois D. A. R. chapter submitting the
best design for the banner. She also wrote to members of the General Assembly
seeking their cooperation.

Four judges were then selected to choose the winning design. Thirty-five de-
signs were submitted and the Rockford Chapter entry was chosen as Illinois' future
emblem.

State Senator Raymond D. Meeker introduced the bill which was to legalize
the flag. After passage in the Senate it was pushed through the House of Represen-
tatives, despite an overcrowded calendar.

The measure automatically became a law July 6, 1915, when the Govemor
failed to affix his signature to the bill.

The first official flag, made in Washington, D. C, was three by five feet in
size, of white silk. Flags were given by Mrs. Lawrence to Secretary of State;
Daughters of the American Revolution in Illinois; National Society Daughters of
the American Revolution in Illinois; National Society Daughters of the American
Revolution (to hang in Memorial Continental Hall, Washington, D. C); Rebecca
Parks Chapter, Galesburg and the Illinois State Historical Society.

Visitors to Springfield cannot fail to notice the State Banner flanking the
Stars and Stripes in the Rotunda at the State House. In the same juxtaposition it
appears in the office of the Secretary of State. It is flown on ceremonial days by
numerous patriotic bodies throughout the State. For officials and the public alike
it stands as a reminder of our greatness as a State and our pride in our membership
in the United States of America.

State's Official Tree, Flower and Bird
Qhosen by School Children

HPhe mighty oak is the State tree of Illinois.

The shrinking violet is the State flower.

And the vivid red cardinal, with its lilting song, is the State bird of Illinois.

All three were chosen through ballot by school children, with the selections
made official by acts of the Assembly.

In 1907, Mrs. James C. Fessler, of Rochelle, suggested that school children be
permitted to vote on the State tree and the State flower. The ballots were dis-
tributed in November 1907, and the results were as follows:

State Tree

Oak 2 1 ,897

Maple - -- - 16,517

Elm - 5,082

State Flower

Violet -- - 16,583

Wild Rose ....12,628

Golden Rod - 4,315

In January 1908, Senator Andrew J. Jackson, of Rockford, introduced a bill
making the Oak the official tree of Illinois, and the Violet the State flower. The
measure was adopted in February, 1908.

There are 19 species of Oak trees in Illinois, ele\en belonging to the black
Oak group, the others to the white.

The Violet grows in practically every section of Illinois, and, in Springtime
blankets the landscapes as far as eye can see.

In 1928 the Macomb branch of the National Federation of Professional
Women's Club decided that there should be an official State bird. The idea was
submitted to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, who approved, and a list of
five birds, conspicuous in Illinois, was submitted to the school children that year,
for balloting. A blank space was included in the event the children wished to vote
for birds other than the five named.

A total of 128,664 ballots were cast in 96 counties, and the result was as
follows :

Cardinal 39,226

Blue Bird .- 30,306

Meadow Lark — 16,237

Quail - 1 5,843

Oriole 15,449

A bill authorizing the Cardinal as the official State bird was introduced in the
56th Assembly by Representative James Foster, and adopted June 4, 1929.

Tire Cardinal, officially' known as Cardinalis Cardinalis, sometimes is called
the redbird and also the Cardinal grosbeck. The adult bird is about eight inches
long. It has a head with a conspicuous crest, but it is only the male whose coloring
is a brilliant red. The female shade is olive gray.

^^^'

THE NATIVE OAK
State Tree of Illinois

Official State Song "Illinois"

An Act establishing a state song.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General
Assembly:

Section 1. The song "Illinois" having words written by C. H. Chamberlain*
and music composed by Archibald Johnston, is established as the official State
Song of Illinois.

[* Correspondence, dating back more than forty years, recently acquired by the
State Historical Library, indicates several mistakes that have become almost as well
established as the song itself, according to Dr. Harry E. Pratt, State Historian.
One has to do with spelling of the name of the author of the song, Charles H.
Chamberlin. Usually it is spelled Chamberlain, which is incorrect. Two of the
letters are from Oscar B. Knight, a friend of Chamberlin, for whom the song was
written and who first sang it. Previously, the date it was written has been given
as between 1890 and 1894. Knight says, in one of these letters, that he suggested
the material for the fourth and final verse and that Chamberlin finished the song
in his office in the summer of 1892.

This differs from the usual version that the song was written earlier and first
used in the campaign to have the World's Columbian Exposition awarded to
Chicago. The Knight letter also states that in the spring of 1892 Chamberlin had
written a campaign song with the refrain, "April fool, April fool," (the election
was on April 1), to be sung to the tune of "Baby Mine." He said he knew of no
other inspiration" for "Illinois."]

Words of the song follow:

ILLINOIS

By the rivers gently flowing, Illinois, Illinois,

O'er thy prairies verdant growing, Illinois, Illinois,

Comes an echo on the breeze.

Rustling through the leafy trees, and its mellow tones are these,

Illinois, Illinois,
And its mellow tones are these, Illinois.

From a wilderness of prairies, Illinois, Illinois,

Straight thy way and never varies, Illinois, Illinois,

Till upon the inland sea.

Stands thy great commercial tree, turning all the world to thee,

Illinois, Illinois,
Turning all the world to thee, Illinois.

When you heard your country calling, Illinois, Illinois

Where the shot and shell were falling, Illinois, Illinois,

When the Southern host with-drew.

Pitting Gray against the Blue, There were none more brave than you,

Illinois, Illinois
There were none more brave than you, Illinois.

Not without thy wondrous story, Illinois, Illinois,

Can be writ the nation's glory, Illinois, Illinois,

On the record of thy years,

Abraham Lincoln's name appears. Grant and Logan, and our tears,

Illinois, Illinois,
Grant and Logan, and our tears, Illinois.

10 • • • • •

LEGAL HOLIDAYS IN ILLINOIS

NEW YEAR'S DAY January 1

LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY February 12

WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY February 22

GOOD FRIDAY Friday immediately before Easter Sunday

each year

MEMORIAL DAY May 30

INDEPENDENCE DAY July 4

LABOR DAY First Monday in September

COLUMBUS DAY October 12

ARMISTICE DAY November 11

THANKSGIVING DAY _ The day being recommended by the Gov-
ernor or by the President of the U. S.

CHRISTMAS DAY December 25

ELECTION DAY Election of Members of General Assem-
bly (even number years only)

When such holidays fall on Sunday, the Monday next following shall be held
and considered such holiday.

Chronology of Illinois History
1673-1954

1673 Marquette and Jolliet descend
the Mississippi to the Arkansas and
return by way of the Ilhnois River.

1674-75 Marquette and two compan-
ions spend the winter in a shelter
at the mouth of the Chicago River.

1675 Marquette founds the mission of
the Immacula.te Conception at the
Creat Village of the Illinois, near
present Utica.

1680 La Salle builds Fort Crevecoeur
on the Illinois River, near present
Peoria.

1682 La Salle builds Fort St. Louis
on Starved Rock.

1691-92 Tonti and LaForest build the
second Fort St. Louis, better known
as Fort Pimiteoui, on Lake Peoria.

1696 Father Pinet establishes the mis-
sion of the Guardian Angel at
Chicago. After a troubled existence
of about four years this Jesuit ven-
ture among the Miami is aban-
doned, and Father Pinet leaves
Chicago to labor among the Illi-
nois Indians in the Cahokia region.

1699 Montigny and St. Cosme, priests
of the Seminary of Foreign Mis-
sions, establish the Holy Family
mission at Cahokia.

1703 In April, the Jesuits transfer
their Illinois Indian mission from
Des Peres (present St. Louis) to
the Kaskaskia River, thus founding
the town of Kaskaskia.

1717 By decree of the French Royal
Council, Illinois is to be governed
from Louisiana.

1718 Boisbriant, first commandant of
Illinois, arrives at Kaskaskia.

1718-30 Fox War. Hostile tribes,
under the leadership of the Fox
Indians, form a confederacy that
menaces the Illinois Country. Their
depredations conhnue until the
Fox are defeated and practically

annihilated by a combination of
French and friendly Indians.
1719 Fort de Chartres, near present
Prairie du Rocher, is begun. It is
completed the following year, and
becomes the 'seat of military and
civil government in Illinois.

1725 Dutisne becomes commandant,
• succeeding Boisbriant.

1726 De Liette succeeds Dutisne as
commandant.

1727 Fort de Chartres, fallen into dis-
repair and recently inundated by
Mississippi floods, is rebuilt.

1730 St. Ange succeeds De Liette as
commandant of the Illinois.

1732 St. Ange builds a new Fort de-
Chartres half a mile farther back
from the river.

1733 Dartaguiette replaces St. Ange as
commandant.

1736 La Buissoniere succeeds Darta-
guiette as commandant.

1740 On the death of La Buissoniere,
the Sieur de St. Clair becomes act-
ing commandant.

1742 Bertet, the new commandant,
arrives at Fort de Chartres.

1744-48 King George's War (War of
the Austrian Succession). Territori-
ally, the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
maintains the status quo in the
Illinois Country, but the British
are beginning to make serious in-
roads on the French control of the
Indians.

1749 The Sieur de St. Clair serves as
acting commandant on the death
of Bertet.

1751 Makarty, the new commandant,

reaches Illinois.
1753 The construction of a new Fort

de Chartres is begun, this time to

be built of stone.

1755-63 French and Indian War
(Seven Years' War). The conclu-
sion of this, the final struggle be-
tween France and Great Britain
for colonial supremacy in North
America, marks the end of French
rule in America.

1757 The French build Fort Ascen-
sion, later known as Fort Massac,
on the Ohio River, near present
Metropolis.

1760 Neyon de Villiers succeeds Ma-
karty as commandant.

1763 By the Treaty of Paris, France
cedes her North American posses-
sions east of the Mississippi to
Great Britain.

1764 St. Ange de Bellerive becomes
commandant of tire Illinois Coun-
try.

1765 Capt. Thomas Stirlmg occupies
Fort de Chartres for the British.
Maj. Robert Farmar replaces Stir-
ling as commandant.

1766 Lt. Col. John Reed becomes the

commandant, and is succeeded by
Capt. Hugh Forbes.
1768 Lt. Col. John Wilkins becomes
the commandant, and establishes a
civil court at Fort de Chartres.

1771 Maj. Isaac Hamilton succeeds
Wilkins as commandant.

1772 The British destroy Fort de
Chartres, already damaged by
floods. Capt. Hugh Lord, com-
mandant, and a small garrison re-
main at Kaskaskia.

1774 In June, by the Quebec Act,
which extends the boundaries of
Quebec to the Ohio on the south
and to the Mississippi on the west,
the Illinois Country is brought
under the control of an appointive
governor and council.

1776 Capt. Hugh Lord, recalled by
the British, appoints de Rocheblave
as his successor at Kaskaskia.

1777 Matthew Johnson is officially
appointed to succeed Captain Lord,
but he never comes to the Illinois

Country. De Rocheblave continues
in actual command at Kaskaskia.

1778 July 4 — George Rogers Clark
and his small army take Kaskaskia
by surprise. The other French and

Indian villages accept the new
order, and Illinois is organized as a
county of Virginia.

1779 February 24 — Marching over-
land from Kaskaskia, George Rogers
Clark captures Vincennes, which
had been retaken by the British
after it declared its allegiance to
Virginia. In May, John Todd, first
county lieutenant, reaches Illinois
and organizes the civil government.

1783 The Treaty of Paris, ending the
War of Independence, extends the
United States boundary to the Mis-
sissippi, with the exception of East
and West Florida.

1784 March 1 — Virginia relinquishes
her claim on Illinois to the United
States, thus paving the way for the
organization of this territory.

1787 July 13 — Congress passes the
Ordinance of 1787, providing for
the organization of the Northwest
Territory, of which Illinois becomes
a part.

1788 Arthur St. Clair is appointed
governor of the Northwest Terri-
tory.

1790 St. Clair and Knox counties are
organized.

1795 Randolph County is organized.
* August 3 — By the Treaty of
Greenville, a new boundary line
between Indian land and land open
for settlement is established. Cer-
tain areas are reserved by the
United States for forts, three being
in Illinois at Chicago, Peoria, and
at the mouth of the Illinois River.

1800 May 7 — Congressional legislation
creating the Indiana Territory, in-
cluding Illinois, is approved.

1801 January 10 — William Henry
Harrison, Governor of Indiana Ter-

ritory, arrives at Vincennes, the
territorial capital.

1803 United States troops build and
occupy Fort Dearborn, on the site
of Chicago. Governor Harrison con-
cludes a treaty with the Kaskaskia
Indians at Vincennes, by which
their claim to all land in the Illi-
nois Country, excepting a small
area around Kaskaskia, is relin-
quished.

1804 March 26 — Congress directs the
establishment of the first United
States land office at Kaskaskia, al-
though land is not yet subject to
entry. * November 3 — By the
Treaty of St. Louis, the Missouri
River Sac relinquish all Sac and
Fox claims to the area bounded by
the Mississippi, Illinois, Fox and
Wisconsin rivers.

1805 December 30 — Piankashaw In-
dians cede a large tract of land in
southeastern Illinois.

1809 February 3 — Illinois Territory,
including the present state of Wis-
consin, is created by Act of Con-
gress. Kaskaskia becomes the first
territorial capital. * April 24 —
Ninian Edwards of Kentucky is
appointed the first territorial gov-
prnnr

1810 Population: 12,262. * Coal is
shipped from southern Illinois to
New Orleans for the first time.

1812-14 The War of 1812 marks the
last combined British and Indian
attempt to stem the tide of Ameri-
can westward expansion.

1812 May 20 — Illinois becomes a ter-
ritory of the second grade, with
suffrage for all white males over 21
who pay taxes and have lived in
the territory over a year. * Aug-
ust 15 — Indians massacre United
States troops and civilians, who
were evacuating Fort Dearborn
under orders. * A land office is
established at Shawneetown, al-
though land is not yet on sale.

1813 Fort Clark is constructed on
Peoria Lake. It is garrisoned by
United States troops and state mili-
tia during the War of 1812, and
at intervals until 1815. In 1819 the
fort is destroyed by Indians.

1814 Matthew Duncan establishes the
first printing press in Illinois at
Kaskaskia, and publishes the first
newspaper, the Illinois Herald.

1816 The United States builds and
garrisons Fort Armstrong (Rock
Island), Fort Edwards (Warsaw),
and rebuilds Fort Dearborn C Chi-
cago). * A land office is opened
at Edwardsville. * The Wea and
Kickapoo Indians cede a small strip
of land west of the Wabash in
Vermilion County, and the Pota-
watomi, Ottawa and Chippewa
relinquish their claim to territory
in Cook and Will counties.

1818 April 18— The Illinois Enabling
Act, sponsored by Nathaniel Pope
territorial delegate, becomes a law.
It provides for the organization of
a State government, fixes the north-
ern boundary of Illinois, and estab-
lishes a permanent school fund
from a portion of the proceeds
from the sale of public lands. *
August 26 — The Illinois Consti-
tutional Convention, meeting at
Kaskaskia, adopts a state constitu-
tion and selects Kaskaskia as the
first state capital. * October 6 —
Shadrach Bond, first Governor of
the State of Illinois, is inaugurated.
Pierre Menard is the first Lieu-
tenant Governor. * Decembe*
3 — The President signs the act of
admission, by which Illinois be-
comes the twenty-first state to enter
the Union.

1820 Population: 55,211. * Decem-
ber 4 — By act of the General
Assembly, Vandalia is to be the
scat of government for Illinois for
20 years. Land offices are estab-
lished at Palestine and Vandalia.

1821 February 3 — The General As-
sembly charters a State bank at
Vandalia, with four branches.

1822 December 5 — Edward Coles is
inaugurated Governor.

1823 A land office is opened at Spring-
field. The rush to the Galena lead
mines begins.

1824 August 6 — Illinois voters refuse
to call a convention to amend the
constitution in order to legalize
slavery in Illinois. After a long and
bitter campaign, the anti-slavery
forces, under the leadership of Ed-
ward Coles, Morris Birkbeck, and
Daniel P. Cook, decisively defeat
the pro-slavery element.

1825 The General Assembly grants a
charter to the Illinois and Michi-
gan canal company, and Ic ies the
first tax for public schools. * La-
fayette visits Kaskaskia and Shaw-
neetown.

6 December 6 — Ninian Edwards
is inaugurated Governor,
1827 Congress grants land to Illinois
to aid in the construction of the
Illinois and Michigan canal. *
The General Assembly establishes
a state penitentiary at Alton. * A
threatened Indian uprising in
northern Illinois is forestalled by
General Henry Atkinson and
United States troops. This disturb-
ance comes to . be known as the
"Winnebago War."

1829 July 29— The Potawatomi, Ot-
.tawa and Chippewa Indians cede
more than 3,000 square miles in
northern Illinois.

1830 Population: 157,445. * Thomas
Lincoln and family move from In-
diana to Macon County, Illinois. *
December 6 — John Reynolds takes
office as Governor.

1831 Land offices are opened at
Quincy and Danville. * The Sac
and Fox Indians, under Black
Hawk, threaten resistance to white

squatters on the Rock River, but
retire to Iowa before a force of
United States regulars and Illinois
militia. * Abraham Lincoln, now
22, is hired by Denton Offutt to
take a flatboat of produce to New
Orleans and on his return to tend
store at New Salem. * The Lin-
coln family removes from Macon
to Coles County.

1832 The Black Hawk War. In
April, Black Hawk and his band
make a final attempt to return to
their homes on the Rock River.
They are opposed by a vastly su-
perior force of United States troops
and Illinois militia, and decisively
defeated in the Battle of Bad Axe
River, on August 3. Black Hawk is
captured; the Potawatomi and
Winnebago are compelled to cede
land in northern and eastern Illi-
nois.

1833 August 12 — The newly elected
Board of Trustees of the town of
Chicago meets for the first time,
marking the beginning of the legal
existence of the town of Chicago.
September 26 — By the Treaty of
Chicago, the Potawatomi, Ottawa,
and Chippewa Indians relinquish
all claim to their lands in north-
eastern Illinois. This is the last of
the Indian treaties pertaining to
land in Illinois. * Jacksonville Fe-
male Seminary, first institution for
the higher education of women in
the state, is opened.

1834 November 17— William L. D.
Ewing is inaugurated Governor to
fill out the unexpired term of Gov-
ernor Reynolds, who had resigned
to become congressman from Illi-
nois. * December 1 — Abraham
Lincoln takes his seat, for the first
time, in the House of the Ninth
General Assembly. * December
3 — Joseph Duncan is inaugurated
Governor.

1835 Land offices are opened at Ga-
lena and Chicago. * The General

Assembly grants charters to Mc-
Kendree, Alton (Shurtleff) and
Illinois Colleges, all of which have
been in operation for several years.

1836 January 16 — The Galena and
Chicago Union Railroad, now a
part of the Chicago and North
Western, is chartered. * July 4 —
Actual construction on the Illinois
and Michigan canal is begun at
Canalport on the Chicago River.

1837 February 15 — Knox Manual
Labor College at Galesburg is in-
corporated. Twenty years later the
name is changed to Knox College.

* February 27 — The General
Assembly passes the Internal Im-
provement Act, calling for a state-
wide program of public works.
Roads and railroads are to be built,
and rivers and streams made navi-
gable, all at state expense. This
grandiose scheme was to collapse
under its own weight by 1841, leav-
ing the state burdened with a huge
debt. * March 3 — The General
Assembly passes an act providing
for the removal of the state capital
from Vandalia to Springfield. *
March 4 — The General Assem-
bly approves a city charter for
Chicago. * July 4 — The cor-
nerstone of the first statehouse at
Springfield is laid. This building,
now the Sangamon County court-
house, is not completed until 1853.

* November 7 — Elijah P. Love-
|oy, editor of the abolitionist news-
paper the Alton Observer, is slain
by an anti-abolitionist mob at
Alton. * A land office is opened
at Dixon.

1838 December 7 — Thomas Carlin is
inaugurated Governor.

1839 February 22 — A State Library
is created by the General Assem-
bly. * February 23 — The Gen-
eral Assembly establishes the Illinois
Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb at
Jacksonville. * June 20 — Gover-

nor Carlin issues a proclamation
ordering the removal of all state
offices from Vandalia to Springfield
by July 4. * Mormons, driven
from Missouri, found the town of
Nauvoo on the Mississippi Ri\er.

1840 Population: 476,183.

1842 February 15 — The first train
reaches Springfield over the tracks
of the Northern Cross Railroad
(Meredosia to Springfield). This
road is now a part of the Wabash
system. * December 8 — Thomas
Ford takes office as Governor. *
December 15 — By an act of the
General Assembly, the State Li-
brary is divided into two libraries:
the Supreme Court Library under
the control of the Supreme Court,
and the State Library under the
control of the Secretary of State.

1844 June 27 — Climaxing a growing
dissension between the Mormons
and their neighbors, Joseph Smith,
the Prophet, and his brother Ily-
rum are slain by an anti-Mormon
mob in the Carthage jail.

1845 January 28 — Jubilee College, in
Peoria County, is incorporated.

1846-48 Illinois furnishes six regiments
and several independent companies
in the Mexican War.

1846 August 3 — Abraham Lincoln is
elected to the United States House
of Representatives. * December
9 — Augustus C. French is inaugu-
rated Governor. * In the early
spring the Mormons leave NauVoo
on their long journey to Utah. This
forced exodus ends a two-year
period marked by frequent clashes
between the. Mormons, the anti-
Mormons and the state militia in
Hancock County.

1847 February 25 — Rockford Female
Seminary at Rockford is chartered.
* February 27 — The Alton &
Sangamon Railroad Company (now
the G.M.&O. Railroad) is incorpo-
rated to construct a railroad from

Alton to Springfield. * March 1
— The Illinois State Hospital for
the Insane is established at Jack-
sonvflle.

1848 March 5 — Illinois voters ratify
the new State constitution, sub-
mitted by the constitutional con-
vention of 1847. * April 23 — The
first boat passes through the Illinois
and Michigan canal. This waterway
connects Chicago on Lake Michi-
gan and La Salle on the Illinois
River.

1849 January 8 — Augustus C. French
is inaugurated for a second term.
He is the first Illinois Governor to
succeed himself. * November 5
— The General Assembly enacts
legislation providing for a general
system of incorporating railroads.

1850 Population: 851,470. * In Feb-
ruary, the Galena and Chicago
Union Railroad (now a part of the
Chicago and North Western) is
completed from Chicago to Elgin.

1851 — January 28 — Northwestern Uni-
versity is chartered by the General
Assembly. * February 10 — The
Illinois Central Railroad Company
is incorporated. * In September,
Newton Bateman organizes the
first free public high school in llh-
nois, the West Jacksonville District
school.

1852 September 9 — The first train
enters Springfield over the Alton
& Sangamon tracks. This marks
the completion of the road from
Alton to Springfield.

1853 January 10 — Joel A. Matteson
takes office as Governor. * Feb-
ruary 12 — Illinois Wesleyan Uni-
versity at Bloomington is chartered.
The General Assembly passes the
first law for wild life conservation
in Illinois. * October 11-13 —
The first Illinois State Fair is held
at Springfield.

1854 February 22 — The Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific Railroad,
chartered as the Rock Island &

La Salle, is completed from Chi-
cago to Rock Island. * March
15 — Ninian W. Edwards is ap-
pointed first superintendent of the
newly created Office of Public In-
struction. * October 11-14 — The
second Illinois Stafe? Fair is held at
Springfield. Hereafter the State
Fairs are held annually at different
towns over Illinois until 1893.
when the tan is permanently
located at Springfield.
1855 — February 14 — The General As-
sembly appropriates money for the
first Illinois State Arsenal, to be
located on North Fifth Street in
Springfield. * February 15 — Leg-
islation enacted by the General
Assembly, to provide a free public
school system, is approved.

1856 May 29 — The first Republican
state convention of Illinois is held
at Bloomington. * September 27
— The Illinois Central Railroad is
completed between Chicago, Cairo
and Dunleith (East Dubuque).

1857 January 12— William H. Bissell
is inaugurated Governor. * Feb-
ruary 13 — Blackburn Theological
Seminary, at Carlinville, later
Blackburn College, is incorporated.

* February 16— -Monmouth Col-
lege at Monmouth is incorporated.

* February 18 — Illinois State
Normal University is established at
Normal.

1858 From August to October, Lin-
coln and Douglas hold one debate
in each of seven congressional dis-
tricts of Illinois as a part of their
senatorial campaign. Douglas is the
successful candidate, but the cam-
paign does much to make Lincoln
a national figure.

1860 Population: 1,711,951. * March
21 — Lieutenant Governor John
Wood becomes Governor, succeed-
ing William H. Bissell, the first
Illinois Governor to die in office. *
May 16-18— The Reoublican Na-

tional Convention meets at Chicago
and nominates Abraham Lincoln
for President.

1861 January 14 — Richard Yates is
inaugurated Governor. * Febru-
ary 22 — Wheaton College at
Wheaton is chartered. * March
4 — Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated
President.

1861-65 The Civil War begins in
April when the Confederate forces
fire on Fort Sumter, and President
Lincoln issues his first call for
troops. It ends four years later,
after the Confederacy has exhausted
every resource. During this period
Illinois answers promptly every call
for troops, and is one of the few
states to exceed its quota.

1862 A constitutional convention
meets at Springfield to draw up a
new State constitution, but the new
constitution fails to receive a rati-
fying vote.

1863 June 10 — Governor Yates pro-
rogues the Illinois General Assem-
bly.

S4 August 29 — The Democratic
National Convention meeting in
Chicago, nominates Gen. George
B. McClellan for President. * No-
vember 7 — A plot to liberate the
Confederate prisoners confined at
Camp Douglas in Chicago is de-
feated when the Federal authorities,
arrest the conspirators just before
the date set for the execution of
the plan. * November 8 — Abra-
ham Lincoln is re-elected President.
1865 January 16 — Richard J. Oglesby
takes office as Governor. * Feb-
ruary 1 — Bv ioint resolution of
the General Assembly, Illinois be-
comes the first state to ratify the
1 >lh amendment to the Constitu-
tion. * April 14 — Abraham Lin-
coln is assassinated at Ford's
Theatre in Washington, by John
Wilkes Booth. Uis body is brought
to Springfield, a slow journey

marked by frequent stops, and
placed in a receiving vault at Oak
Ridge cemetery on May 4.

1866 April 6 — The first post of the
Grand Army of the Republic is
established at Decatur. This organ-
ization of Cixil War soldiers was
founded earlier in the year at
Springfield by Dr. Benjamin F. Ste-
phenson.

1867 February 27 — The office of At-
torney General is created by the
General Assembly. Robert G. Inger-
soll is appointed tlie first Attorney
General. * February 28 — By act
of the General Assembly, the Illi-
nois Industrial University is estab-
lished at Urbana. In 1885 the name
is changed, by law, to the Univer-
sity of Illinois. * March 5 — The
General Assembly enacts legislation
making eight hours a legal dny's
work.

1868 February 25 — The General As-
sembly authorizes the construction
of a new statehouse at Springfield.
Work is begun the same year and
the cornerstone is laid October
5, 1868, but the building is not
entirely completed until 1888. *
May 20-22 — U. S. Grant is nomi-
nated for President by the Republi-
can National Convention at Chi-
cago.

1869 January 11 — John M. Palmer
is inaugurated Governor. * April
9 — The State Board of Charities is
created by the General Assembly.

1870— Population: 2,539,891. * Aug-
ust 8 — The new Illinois State con-
stitution, having been ratified by
the voters, goes into effect. *
September 5 — The first classes are
held at Saint Ignatius College (Chi-
cago), founded by the Jesuits. In
1909 this is re-chartered as Loyola
University.

1871 April 13 — An act of the Gen-
eral Assembly, creating a Ra.'iroad
and Warehouse Commission is ap-
proved. * April 15 — The Illinois

State Department of Agriculture is

created. * October 8-9 — The Chi-
cago fire destroys an area of three
and one-half square miles in the
heart of the city. About 300 lives
are lost and $200,000,000 worth of
property is destroyed.

1872 April 15— The first legislation
for the protection of miners in
Illinois is approved.

1873 January 13 — Richard J. Oglcsby
begins his second term as Gover-
nor. * January 23 — John L.
Beveridge is inaugurated Governor
succeeding Richard J. Oglesby, who
resigns to become United States
Senator.

1874 October 15 — The Lincoln Mon-
ument, located ii» Oak Ridge ceme-
tery at Springfield, Illinois, is
dedicated by U. S. Grant, Presi-
dent of the United States.

1877 January 8— Shelby M. Cullom
takes office as Governor. * May
18 — The General Assembly enacts
legislation providing for the crea-
tion of the Illinois National Guard.
* May 25— The State Board of
Health is created.

1879 May 29— The General Assembly
provides for a State Board of Labor
Statistics.

1880 Population: 3,077,871. * June
2-8 — The Republican National
Convention at Chicago nominates
James A. Garfield for President.

1881— January 10— Shelby M. Cullom
begins his second term as Gover-
nor.

1883 February 6-— John M. Hamilton
becomes Governor, succeeding
Shelby M. Cullom, who resigns to
become United States Senator. *
June 23 — The first compulsory
school attendance law in Illinois is
passed by the General Assembly.

1884 June 3-6— The Republican Na-
tional Convention, meeting at Chi-
cago, nominates James G. Blaine
for President and John A. Logan of

Illinois for Vice President. * July
8-11 — The Democratic National
Convention meets at Chicago and
nominates Grover Cleveland for
President.

1885 January 30 — Richard J. Oglesby
is inaugurated Governor, the only
governor in Illinois history to be
elected three times.

1886 May 4 — When a detachment of
police moves to break up a labor
mass meeting in Haymarket Square,
Chicago, a bomb explodes and the
police open fire. Seven officers are
killed, and many others are killed
and wounded. Numerous arrests are
made and four alleged anarchists
are hanged. In 1893, Governor
Altgeld pardons the three surviving
prisoners.

1 887 June 16 — The Governor approves
an act of the General Assembly
accepting the Lincoln Home — the
gift of Robert Todd Lincoln and
his wife to the State of Illinois.

1888 June 19-25 — The Republican
National Convention at Chicago
nominates Benjamin Harrison for
President.

1 889 January 14— Joseph W. Fifer is
inaugurated Governor. * May 25
— The General Assembly enacts
legislation creating the Illinois State
Historical Library. * In Septem-
ber, Jane Addams and her asso-
ciates found Hull House in Chi-
cago. It is one of the earliest social
settlement houses in the United
States.

1890 Population: 3.826.352. * Sep-
tember 10 — The University of
Chicago is chartered. This institu-
tion succeeds an earlier one by the
same name which functioned from
1858 to 1886.

1891 June 19— By act of the General
Assembly the right of suffrage in
school elections is granted to
women. * June 22 — ^The General
Assembly passes a ballot reform
bill, embodying the principles of

the Australian secret ballot.

1892 June 21-23 — The Democratic
National Convention at Chicago
nominates Grover Cleveland for
President and Adlai E. Stevenson
of Illinois for Vice President.

1893 January 10— John P. Altgeld is
inaugurated Governor. * May 1-
OcTODER 30— The World's Colum-
bian Exposition, commemorating
the 400th anniversary of Colum-
bus' discovery of America, is held
at Chicago. * June 17 — The
General Assembly passes the
"Sweatshop Act" providing for the
inspection of factories and the reg-
ulation of child labor. * June 21 —
The General Assembly establishes
the Illinois naval militia.

1894 From May to July, a strike of
Pullman Palace Car Company em-
ployees at Pullman develops into
a general railway strike. Before or-
der is restored there is mob violence
and destruction of property, and
Federal troops are called out.

1895 March 20— The General Assem-
bly passes an optional civil service
law for cities.

1896 July 7-11— The Democratic Na-
tional Convention at Chicago nom-
inates William Jennings Bryan for
President.

1897 January 11 — John R. Tanner is
inaugurated Governor.

1898 April 25— The United States
declares war on Spain after the de-
struction of the battleship Maine
in Havana harbor. By August hos-
tilities have ceased and the peace
treaty is signed at Paris on Decem-
ber 10. Illinois furnishes over
12,000 men and is conspicuous for
the promptness and completeness
of her response.

1899 April 11 — The General Assem-
bly establishes free employment
offices in cities over 50,000, and
provides for the licensing of private
employment agencies.

1904 June 21-23 — The Republican
National Convention at Chicago
nominates Theodore Roosevelt for
President.

1905 January 9 — Charles S. Deneen
is inaugurated Governor. * May
11 — The General Assembly enacts
a State civil service code to be ad-
ministered by an appointive com-
mission. * May 13 — The State
Beard of Health is authorized to
distribute diphtheria antitoxin.
Under certain circumstances the
distribution is to be free of charge.

1907 May 16 — A local option law is
passed by the General Assembly.

* December 24 — De Paul Univer-
sity (Chicago) is chartered. This
institution replaces Saint Vincent's
College, founded in September,
1898, by the Vincentian Brothers.

* The Hennepin (Illinois-Missis-
sippi) canal, authorized in 1890, is
completed. It extends from Great
Bend on the Illinois River to the

1900 Population: 4,821,550. * The
main channel of the Chicago Sani-
tary and Ship canal, from Chicago
to Lockport, is opened.

1901 January 14— Richard Yates, the
son of Illinois' Civil War governor,
is inaugurated governor. * May
11 — The General Assembly appro-
priates money to build a new state
arsenal at Springfield. * June 1 —
The work of remodeling the Lin-
coln Monument, undertaken in
November, 1899, is completed.

1903 May 15 — An improved law for
the regulation of child labor is
passed by the General Assembly.
Under the provisions of this act,
Illinois is the first state to establish
an eight-hour day and a 48-hour
week for children. * December
30 — A fire in Chicago's Iroquois
Theater results in the death of 571
persons. The tragedy is followed by
the passage of improved safety leg-
islation throughout the nation.

Mississippi River, three miles be-_
low Rock Island.

1908 June 16-19 — The Republican
National Convention, meeting at
Chicago, nominates William How-
ard Taft for President.

1909 January 18— Charles S. Deneen
begins his second term as Governor.

* June 1 5 — The General Assembly
passes the 10-hour law for women.
The constitutionality of this law is
upheld by the Illinois Supreme
Court. * November 13 — Two
hundred and fifty-nine men are
killed in a disastrous mine fire at
Cherry, 111. This calamity gives
impetus to the enactment of pro-
tective legislation, particularly for
fire fighting, in mines.

1910 Population: 5,638,591. * March
4 — Illinois is the first state to pass
legislation providing for mine fire-
fighting and rescue stations in coal
mining centers. * March 9 —
After several unsuccessful attempts,
the General Assembly passes a
direct primary law which is upheld
by the courts.

1911 May 26 — The General Assembly
enacts legislation protecting work-
men against occupational diseases.

* June 5 — By providing a fund for
the care of dependent and neg-
lected children, Illinois becomes
the first state to pass state-wide
"mother's aid" legislation. * June
10— The "Starved Rock State Park
Bill," providing for a park commis-
sion and the acquisition of Starved
Rock, becomes a law. By the end
of the year the site of Starved
Rock state park has been trans-
ferred to the State. * June 10 —
The General Assembly passes the
first workmen's compensation act,
providing compensation for death
or injury in certain designated in-
dustries.

1912— June 18-22— The Republican
National Convention at Chicago

nominates William Howard Taft
for President. * August 5-7 — The
first national convention of the
Progressive Party, meeting at Chi-
cago, nominates Theodore Roose-
velt for President.
1913 February 3 — Edward F. Dunne
is inaugurated Governor. * June
26 — The General Assembly passes
legislation extending woman suf-
frage, and creating a Legislative
Reference Bureau.

1915 June 24— The State Board of
Health is authorized to provide free
distribution of a prophylactic (silver
nitrate) for the prevention of blind-
ness in infants. * July 6 — A state
flag is adopted by the General
Assembly. * July 24 — The excur-
sion steamer Eastland capsizes as
it leaves its wharf in the Chicago
River. Of some 2,000 passengers,
812 are lost.

1916 June 7-10— The Republican Na-
tional Convention at Chicago
nominates Charles E. Hughes for
President.

1917 January 8 — Frank O. Lowden
is inaugurated Governor. * March
2 — The General Assembly passes
the Civil Administrative Code, pro-
viding for the reorganization and
consolidation of the state govern-
ment. * In May, and again in
July, the Illinois National Guard
is sent to East St. Louis to restore
order. Race rioting had broken out
when a stream of Negro labon —
from the South flooded the lat
market.

1917-18 The United States enters L
World War on the side of the
Allies. In Illinois a State Council
of Defense is appointed, and all
State facilities are mobilized. Over
350,000 men, including the 33rd
Division composed entirely of Illi-
nois National Guard units, are in-
ducted into the Army and Navy.
Illinois farmers produce record

breaking crops, and capital and
labor cooperate to meet the in
creasing needs of war production
Liberty Loan drives are over
subscribed and relief organizations
generously supported.

1918 November 5 — Illinois voters ap-
prove the first bond issue ($60,-

000,000) for the construction of a
state-wide system of hard roads.

1919 June 17 — The Illinois Waterway
Bill, calling for the construction of
a deep waterway from Lockport to
Utica, is approved. A $20,000,000
bond issue for the construction of
the waterway is authorized. * July
27-AuGusT 3 — The Illinois Na-
tional Guard is called out when
serious race riots break out in Chi-
cago.

1920 Population: 6,485,280. * Janu-
ary 6 — The Illinois Constitutional
convention convenes at Springfield.
* June 8-12— The Republican Na-
tional Convention at Chicago
nominates Warren G. Harding for
President. * November 6 — Con-
struction of the Illinois Waterway
is begun at Bell's Island, west of
Marseilles.

21 January 10 — Len Small is in-
augurated Governor.
1922 June 21-22 — Twenty-two miners
are slain at Herrin when violence
breaks out during the general coal
strike. * December 12 — Illinois
voters reject the proposed consti-
tution, submitted by the constitu-
tional convention.

1924 November 4 — The second bond
issue ($100,000,000) for the con-
struction of hard roads is approved
by Illinois voters.

1925 January 12 — Len Small begins
his second term as governor. *
June 30 — The General Assembly
adopts the song, "Illinois," as the
official state song. The words were
written by C. H. Chamberlin, and
the music composed by Archibald

Johnston.
1926 June 21-24— The 28th Euchar-
istic Congress of the Roman Cath-
olic Church is held at Chicago.

1929 January 14 — Louis L. Emmer-
son is inaugurated Governor. *
March 25 — A tax on motor fuel is
authorized by the General Assem-
bly. Money thus collected is to be
used in the State hard road pro-
gram.

1930 Population: 7,630,654. * iXUy
12-JuNE 27 — A special session of
the General Assembly passes a
series of bills to relieve the finaricial
difficulties of Chicago. The meas-
ures relate to delinquent taxes,
future tax levies, and the issuance
of bonds without referendum.

1931 June 17 — President Herbert
Hoover rededicates the Lincoln
Monument at Springfield. The
Monument has recently been re-
modeled for the second time.

1932 June 14-16 — The Republican
National Convention at Chicago
nominates Herbert Hoover for
President. * June 27-July 2 — The
Democratic National Convention
at Chicago nominates Franklin D.
Roosevelt for President. * Four
special sessions of the General
Assembly are called in an effort to
relieve the economic distress of
Chicago and the rest of the State.
An Unemployment Relief Commis-
sion and an Emergency Relief
Commission are created; a State
income tax law is passed but is
later declared unconstitutional; and
money is borrowed from the Re-
construction Finance Corporation.

1933 January 9 — Henry Homer is
inaugurated Governor. * May 27-
November 13 — A Century of
Progress International Exposition,
celebrating the 100th anniversary
of the City of Chicago, is held at
Chicago. * June 22 — The arrival
in Chicago of a flotilla of river

barges from New Orleans marks
the official completion of the Illi
nois Waterway. * June 25 — The
Retailers' Occupation Tax of 2 pei
cent is passed by the General
Assembly. * July 6 — An act estab-
lishing a fair minimum wage stand-
ard for women and minors is passed
by the General Assembly.

1934 May 26-October 31— A Cen-
tury of Progress Exposition is re-
peated at Chicago.

1935 May 23— The Retailers' Occu-
pation Tax is increased to 3 per
cent. * June 29— The Old Age
Security Act, providing state aid
for qualifying persons, is passed by
the General Assembly. * July 2 —
The General Assembly passes an
appropriation bill to build a new
state armory at Springfield. It is to
be erected on the site of the old
armory, which was destroyed by
fire February 18, 1934.

1936 June 6 — A law caUing for the
permanent registration of voters in
Chicago and certain downstate
cities is enacted by the General
Assembly.

1937 January 4 — Henry Homer be-
gins his second term as Governor.

* June 23 — The General Assembly
passes the Saltiel marriage law, re-
quiring a physical examination prior
to the issuance of a marriage
license. * June 30 — An Act set-
ting up a system of unemployment
compensation is passed by the Gen-
eral Assembly. * July 1 — The
eight-hour law. limiting the hours
of work for women, goes into effect.

* In January, oil is discovered on
the Merryman farm, near Patoka,
Marion County. This is the begin-
ning of an oil boom in southern
Illinois, centering in Marion-, Rich.-
land. Clay and Fayette counties. By
the end of 'the year Illinois ranks
eleventh among the oil producing
states, with approximately 7,500,

000 barrels.

1938 The General Assembly, meeting
in special session, passes two ap-
propriations for emergency relief.

* Illinois climbs to seventh place
among the oil producing states,
with a yearly yield of approximately
24,000,000 barrels. During this
year the rich Lake Centralia-Salem
field is opened.

1939 July 1— By an act of the Gen-
eral Assembly, Illinois becomes the
first state to establish a separate
division for the prevention of delin-
quency. * Illinois ranks fourth
among the oil producing states,
with a total annual output of ap-
proximately 94,000,000 barrels.

1940 Population: 7,897,241. * July
15-18 — The Democratic National
Convention meets at Chicago and
nominates Franklin D. Roosevelt
for a third term as President. *
July 25 — The Illinois Institute of
Technology at Chicago is created
from the consolidation of Lewi?
Institute and Armour Institute of
Technology. * October 6 — Gov-
ernor Homer dies at Winnetka, the
second Illinois governor to die in
office. He is immediately succeeded
by Lieutenant Governor John Stelle.

* The oil industry continues to
expand in southern Illinois, as
146,700,000 barrels are produced in
1940. There are now 21 oil produc-
ing counties in the state.

1941 January 13 — Dwight H. Green
is inaugurated governor. * March
5 — The Illinois National Guard is
inducted into federal service. It is
replaced by the recently created
Illinois Reserve Militia. * April
17 — The Governor signs a bill pro-
viding for a State Council of
Defense. * May 16 — A State
Department of Public Safety, con-
solidating divisions dealing with

* public safety, crime fighting and
penal administration, is created by

the General Assembly. * Decem-
ber 18 — A special session of the
General Assembly convenes to put
Illinois on a war footing, the
United States havirg declared war
on Japan, December 8. * The
total oil output for 1941 is 134,-
000,000 barrels.

1942 January 13 — Donald M.Nelson,
Chicago executive, is named head
of the new War Production Board,
to direct the nation's war produc-
tion program. * March 3 — The
mine sweeper YMS-84, the first
navy vessel built in Illinois in
World War 11, is launched in the
Chicago River. * June 6 — Th{
Illinois Neuropsychiatric Institut(
and Hospital is dedicated in Chi
cago. Built for the State Depart
ment of Public Welfare, it will b'
used for research and teaching ii
the fields of nervous and ment?
disorders. * November 24 — Ser

tencc is passed in Chicago federa
court on three German-American
and their wives, in the first treasoi
trial ever held in Illinois. The mei
are sentenced to death, the womer
to fine and imprisonment. In 1944
following a new trial because of a
legal technicality, Hans Haupt,
father of the executed Nazi sabo-
teur, receives life imprisonment and
fine. His two male confederates
receive 5-year prison terms; the
three women are discharged. *
December 2 — First nuclear chain
reaction set off at University of
Chicago, under direction of Physi-
cists Arthur Compton, Enrico
Fermi, and others.

1943 January 21— The 551-mile oil
pipe line from Longview, Texas to
Norris City, Illinois is completed.
The line has a capacity of 300,000
barrels per day. * ' March 20 —
Frank O. Lowden, Illinois gover-
nor, 1917-1921, dies at Tucson,
Arizona. On March 25 he is buried
in Graceland cemetery, Chicago. *

July 31 — The first four-engine
army cargo transport plane flies
over Chicago. It was built by the
Douglas Aircraft Company at Chi-
cago.

1944 January 13 — Governor Dwight
H, Green approves legislation,
passed by a special session of the
legislature, to facilitate soldier vot-
ing. * June 28 — Thomas E. Dewey
of New York and John W, Bricker
of Ohio are nominated for presi-
dent and vice president by the
Republican National Convention
meeting in Chicago. * July 20-21
— The Democratic National Con-
vention meeting at Chicago nomi-
nates Franklin Delano Roosevelt of
New York for president and Harry
S. Truman of Missouri for vice
president.

1945 January 8 — Dwight H. Green is
inaugurated governor for the sec-
ond consecutive term. * April
1 3 — ^Governor Green designates
April 14 an official day of mourn-
ing and prayer for President Frank-
lin D. Roosevelt, who died at
Warm Springs, Ga., on April 12.

* May 8 — Illinois joins in the
celebration of V-E Day as the rati-
fication of the unconditional sur-
render of Germany marks the end
of the war in Europe. * August
14 — The unconditional surrender
of Japan is announced by President
Truman, although official V-J Day
is not observed until September 2,
when the surrender document is
signed on board the U. S. S. Mis-
^ouri in Tokyo Bay. * November
1 9 — Weekly airline service from
Chicago to London is inaugurated
by American Airlines.

1946 — April 25 — Forty-five persons are
killed and 100 injured in the crash
of two Chicago, Burlington &

^ Quincy streamliners at Naperville.

* June 14 — A bonus bill for
World War II veterans passed by

a special session of the legislature
is approved. On November 5, the
$385,000,000 bond issue to finance
this bonus is approved by the
voters. * July 7 — Mother Frances
Xavier Cabrini, who died in Chi-
cago in 1917, is proclaimed a saint.
She is the first United States citi-
zen to be so honored by the Roman
Catholic Church. * July 23 —
Gov. Green calls a second special

session of the legislature to enact
rent legislation. The session is
adjourned Aug. 1, following the
restoration of federal rent control
by Congress. * August 9 — The
first Illinois State Fair since 1941
begins. The State Fairgrounds were
leased to the War Department dur-
ing the war.

1947 March 25— A coal mine explo-
sion at Centralia kills 111 miners.
* June 17 — The legislature passes
the first congressional reapportion-
ment bill since 1901. * July 11
— A child labor law, passed in
1945 and scheduled to become law
six months after the cessation of
hostilities, goes into effect. It calls
for more effective regulation of em-'
ployment of minors between 14 and
16. * July 26 — Impressive cere-
monies at the Library of Congress
mark the opening of the Robert
Todd Lincoln Collection of the
papers of Abraham Lincoln, im-
pounded since the death of the
donor in 1926. * December 12 —
The United Mine Workers under
the leadership of John L. Lewis
withdraw from the American Fed-
oration of Labor, following the
latter organization's compliance
with the Taft-Hartley Act.

1948 June 4 — Prince Bertil and the
official Swedish delegation attend a
festival at Chicago Stadium, climax-
ing the centenary celebration of
Swedish settlement in the Middle
West. * July 20-October 3 —

The Railroad Fair, commemorating
100 years of railroad progress, is
held on the former site of the 1933
Century' of Progress Exposition.

1949 January 10 — Adlai E. Stevenson
is inaugurated governor. * May
15-22 — The 250th anniversary of
the founding of the first permanent
white settlement in the Mississippi
Valley is celebrated at Cahokia. *
June 30 — Tlie Galesburg division
of the University of Illinois, opened
September 1946 to accommodate
veterans of World War II, is dis-
continued. It will be reconverted to
hospital use for the State Depart-
ment of Public Welfare. * Octo-
ber 25 — Herbert Wells Fay, cus-
todian of the Lincoln Tomb from
1921 to 1948, dies at Springfield.

1950 Population: 8,712,176. Center of
nation's population now near Olney.

* March 5 — Edgar Lee Masters,
poet and author, best known for his
Spoon River Anthology, dies at
Melrose Park, Pa. He is buried in
Oakland Cemetery, Petersburg, 111.

* March 14 — Lewis Fablinger of
Downers Grove, last Civil War vet-
eran in the state, dies at the age of
103. * May 2 — Gwendolyn Brooks,
of Chicago, receives the Pulitzer
prize in poetry for her poem Annie
Allen. She is the first woman of her
race (Negro) to receive this award.

* June 25 — North Korea invades
South Korea, an action challenged
by the United States as a breach
of the peace. Two days later Presi-
dent Truman authorizes the use of
United States air and naval power
in support of South Korea.

1951 May 8 — Carl Sandburg is award-,
ed Pulitzer prize in poetry for his
Complete Poems. * May 14 — The
Mt. Vernon Tuberculosis Hospital
is dedicated. This is the first state
owned and operated tuberculosis
hospital in Illinois. * July 9 — The
Illinois Civil Defense Act, creating

a state civil defense agency to act
with local units in the event of an
atomic explosion or other wartime
disaster, becomes a law. * July
9 — Governor Adlai E. Stevenson
signs a bill to enable municipalities
of 500,000 or less to adopt a city
manager form of government by
referendum. * October 8 — Ab-
bott Center, Illinois' first hospital
for mentally ill children, is dedi-
cated at Bartonville.
1952 Feb. 3 — Harold L. Ickes, secre-
tary of the Interior in the cabinets
of Presidents Roosevelt and Tru-
tnan and long active in Chicago re-
form politics, dies at 77. * July
7-11 — The Republican National
Convention, meeting in Chicago,
nominates Dwight D. Eisenhower
for president and Richard M.
Nixon of California for vice presi-
dent. This ticket is successful in
the November 4 election. * July
19-26 — The Democratic National
Convention meets at Chicago and
nominates Governor Adlai E. Stev-
enson of Illinois for president and
John J. Sparkman of Alabama for
vice president. * Dec. 7 — An
operation for the separation of
Roger Lee and Rodney Dee Brodie,
15 month old Siamese twins joined
at the head, is performed at the
Illinois Research Hospital in Chi-
cago. Roger Lee lives until Jan. 20,

1953.

1953 Jan. 12— William G. Stratton is
inaugurated governor. His appoint-
ments include Vera M. Binks as
director of Registration and Educa-
tion, and Joseph J. Bibb director of
Public Safety, the first woman and
the first Negro to hold positions of
this rank in Illinois. * March 5
— The 634 foot Marine Angel,
largest vessel to negotiate the Illi-
nois Waterway in one piece, reaches
Lake Michigan from the Gulf of
Mexico.! * May 2 — The Baha'i
Temple at Wilmette, first in the
Western hemisphere, is dedicated.
* July 13 — A bill creating an Illi-
nois Toll Roads Commission, with
authority to build and operate toll
roads in Illinois, is approved by the
Governor. * June 18 — By joint
resolution the Legislature agrees
to submit a constitutional amend-
ment tor reapportioning the state's
legislative districts at the general
election of 1954.

1954 Feb. 15 — Ground is officially
broken for a new state office build-
ing at Springfield, for which $12,-
500,000 was appropriated by the
last legislature. * Nov. 2 — Voters
approve reapportionment amend-
ment giving Cook County 24 Sen-
ate districts to 34 downstate, and
30 House districts to 29 downstate.

[Compiled by Margaret A. Flint, Reference Librarian, Illinois State Historical
Librarv.l

Old Battle Flags of Illinois

IThk Illinois regimental flags which flew through four wars — Mexican, Cnil,

Spanish-American and World War I — have hallowed places in Memorial liall.
on the first floor of the Centennial Building in Springfield.

There are two from the Mexican War, of 1846-1848; 546 from the Ci\il
War, 1861-1865; 22 from the Spanish-American War, 1898, and 93 from the
World War I in which Illinois' men played such gallant roles.

The Mexican, Civil, and Spanish War flags, torn and faded in combat, h,nc
been quilted between sheets of black netting to prevent further deterioration. 1 he
delicate task necessitated the efforts of 20 women, who worked almost fi\e years on
the project. These flags have lost almost all their color, but the World War flags,
which were not carried into battle, retain much of their original rich shades.

In addition to the flags. Memorial Hall contains the head-dress of the soldiers
in the four wars.

Spaced around the architrave beneath the gold-leafed ceiling of the hall are
the names of 28 of Illinois' war heroes: Smith D. Atkins, Edward Dickinson Baker.
William H. Bissel, Napoleon Bonaparte Buford, William Passmore Carlin, Elon
John Famsworth, Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin H. Grierson, Martin D. Hardin.
James D. Henry, Stephen A. Hurlbut, John Basil Turchin, John A. Logan, Wcsk\-
Merritt, James Dady Morgan, James A. Mulligan, John Alexander McClernand,
Richard J. Oglesby, John McCauley Palmer, John Pope, Benjamin Mayberrv Prjii-
tiss, John A. Rawlins, Richard Rowett, John McAllister Schofield, James Shields.
Ceorge W. Smith, William Henry Lamb Wallace, and James Harrison Wilson.

inois' Chain of Title

» »

Owners, Occupants Nature of Claim

or Claimants

INDIANS:

Illinois (Illini)
and others. . .
Illinois tribes:
1. Mitchigamis . . Occupancy and use of soil.

Extent of Claim

Occupancy and use of soil. Indefinite.

2. Kaskaskias ... Occupancy and use of soil.

3. Peorias . .

4. Cahokias .

5. Tamaroas

SPAIN:

ENGLAND:

SPAIN:

FRANCE:

ENGLAND:

FRANCE:

Occupancy and use of soil.
Occupancy and use of soil.

Occupancy and use of soil.

Columbus' Discovery, 1492.
Cabot's Discovery, 1498.

1. De Leon's Discovery of

Florida, 1513.

2. De Soto's Landing on

the Mississippi, 1541.

3. Menendez' Proclamation,

1565.
De Chastes — De Monts'
Charter, 1603.

1. Patent for Virginia, 1606

and 1609.

London Company, South

Virginia.
Intermediate district

open to both.
Plymouth Company,

North Virginia.

2. Massachusetts Bay

Charter, 1629.

3. Connecticut Colony

Rights.

1. Canada and Indians of

the west Treaty, 1671.

2. Discovery of Illinois,

etc., by Marquette et
al., 1673.

3. La Salle ceremony at

the mouth of the Mis-
sissippi, 1682.

4. Crozat Patent, 1712.

5. Company of the West,

1717.

1. Originally west of the

Mississippi river.

2. Region between Lake

Michigan and Lake
Peoria.

3. Region of Lake Peoria.

4. Region of Cahokia and

the American Bottom.

5. Region of Southeastern

Illinois.
Western Hemisphere.
Continent of America.

1. North America south of

Great Lakes.

2. Region on Mississippi

river and its tributa-
ries.

3. All North America.

North America between
40 degrees and 46 de-
grees north latitude.

1. North America between

34 degrees and 45 de-
grees north latitude.

34 degrees to 38 degrees
north latitude.

Bancroft, Hist. U. S.,
Vol. 1. 120.

41 to 45 degrees north
latitude.

2. M a s s a c h u s e tts Bay

Country to sea on
west.

3. Connecticut River Coun-

try.

1. Northwestern Lake Re-

gion.

2. Illinois and the North-

west.

3. Mississippi and tributa-

ries from Gulf to New
France.

4. Same as far as the Illi-

nois.

5. Same.

* From Perrin's History of Illinois.

ENGLAND:

VIRGINIA:

UNITED STATES:

1. Treaty of Paris, 1763.

2. Transfer of Fort Char-
tres, 1765.

1. Capture by Clark, 1778.

2. Erected into Illinois

county.

1. Cession from Virginia,

1784.

2. Cession from Massachu-

setts, 1785.

1. French possessions east

of Mississippi river
except New Orleans
and islands.

2. Same.

1. Northwest of Ohio river.

2. Same.

1. Country Northwest of

the Ohio river.

2. 42 degrees, 2 minutes to

43 degrees, 43 min-
utes, 12 seconds, north
latitude, west of New
York to Mississippi
river.

3. Cession from Connecti-
cut, 1786.

3. 41 degrees to 42 degrees,
2 minutes north lati-
tude, west of Pennsyl-
vania to Mississippi
river.

ILLINOIS:

4. Northwest Territory, by

ordinance of 1787.

5. Indiana Territory, by

Act of Congress, 1800.

6. Illinois Territory, by

Act of Congress,
1809.

7. Illinois Territory, Sec-

ond Grade, 1812.

8. Indian Cessions.
Admitted as a State by Act

of Congress, 1818.

4. Country northwest

the Ohio river.

5. Indiana, Illinois, etc.

6. Illinois, Wisconsin, etc.

7. Same.

Various tribes.
Illinois.

NAMES OF COUNTIES

Six counties of Illinois, Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe,
Adams, and Jackson, were named for Presidents of the United States; Adams
for John Quincy Adams, sixth President, and not for John Adams, second
President, as is sometimes stated.

Four counties. Bond, Coles, Edwards, and Ford, were named, respectively
for the first, second, third and seventh Governors of Illinois. Bond received
its name the year before the election of the first Governor of the State.

Sixteen counties were named for other citizens of the State, prominent
in different walks of life.

Alexander, for William M. Alexander, an early settlei- of the county
bearing his name and Senator in the second and third General Assemblies
of the State.

Cook, for Daniel P. Cook, a pioneer lawyer, first Attorney General of the
State and Representative in Congress from 1819 to 1827.

Douglas, for Stephen A. Douglas, an eminent lawyer, brilliant political
orator. Secretary of State (1840), Representative in Congress (1843-1847),
United States Senator (1847-1861), and candidate for the Presidency in 1860.

Edgar, for John Edgar, a pioneer merchant, politician and land specu-
lator.

Kane, for Elias Kent Kane, a pioneer lawyer. Territorial judge, promi-
nent member of the Constitutional Convention of 1818, first Secretary of State
of Illinois, and later United States Senator.

Logan, for Dr. John Logan,' a pioneer physician, father of General John
A. Logan.

McHenry, for William McHenry, a pioneer of White County, soldier of
the War of 1812 and the Black Hawk war. Representative in the first, fourth,
fifth and ninth General Assemblies, and Senator in the sixth.

McLean, for John McLean, a pioneer lawyer. Territorial judge, first Rep-
resentative in Congress from Illinois (1818), and United States Senator
(1824-1825).

Menard, for Pierre Menard, a pioneer Indian trader. Colonel of Terri-
torial militia, and first Lieutenant Governor of the State.

Ogle, for Joseph Ogle, pioneer politician and Lieutenant of Territorial
militia.

Piatt, for Benjamin Piatt, a pioneer lawyer and Attorney General of the
Territory (1810-1813).

Pope, for Nathaniel Pope, first Territorial Secretary of State (1809-1816),
and last Territorial Delegate to Congress from Illinois.

Stephenson, for Benjamin Stephenson, prominent pioneer, a Colonel
Territorial militia, and Adjutant General of the Territory (1813-1814).

White, for Leonard White, pioneer of Gallatin County, Major of Terri-
torial militia, member of Constitutional Convention of 1818, State Senator
in second and third General Assemblies, and killed at battle of Tippecanoe,
Nov. 7, 1811. .

Whiteside, for Samuel Whiteside, a Colonel of Territorial militia. Repre-
sentative in the First General Assembly, and Brigadier General of militia
during Black Hawk War.

Will, for Conrad Will, a pioneer politician. Territorial Recorder of Jack-
son County, member of the Constitutional Convention of 1818, and member of
the General Assemblies of the State from the first to ninth inclusive.

Twenty-two counties were named in honor of military heroes, generally
of the Revolution, but some of later wars.

Brown, for Jacob Brown, Major General during the War of 1812, who
won distinction at Sackett's Harbor, Chippewa and Niagara.

Clark, for George Rogers Clark, a soldier of the Revolution, who, as a
Colonel of Virginia militia, established Colonial control in the Illinois coun-
try, by the capture of Kaskaskia and Fort Vincennes.

DicKai.I!, for Johann DeKalb, a German baron, who served in the Colonies
during the Revol\ition, and was mortally wounded at Camden, S. C, 1780.

Gkeene, for Nathaniel Greene, a Major General in the Revolution, who
distinguished himself as commander in the Southern Colonies.

Ja.speu, for William Jasper, a Sergeant of the Revolution who, during the
action in Charleston harbor, replaced the flag shot away at Fort Moultrie,
and later was killed at Savannah, 1779.

JoDavikss, for Joseph Hamilton Daviess, prominent lawyer of Kentucky,
United States District Attorney, and Major of militia; killed at the battle of
Tippecanoe, 1811.

Johnson, for Richard M. Johnson, a Colonel of Kentucky militia, who
served in Indian wars and the War of 1812, and reputed to have killed the
Indian chief, Tecumseh, at the battle of the Thames; Representative in Con-
gress and United States Senator from Kentucky and Vice-President, 1837-1841.

Knox, for Henry Knox, a soldier of the Revolution who commanded the
storming party at Stony Point, later a Major General and Washington's
Secretary of War.

Makion, for Francis Marion, a soldier of the Revolution who distinguished
himself as a partisan commander in the Carolinas.

Mercer, for Hugh Mercer, a General of the Revolution, killed at the
battle of Princeton.

MoNTGOitERY, for Richard Montgomery, a Revolutionary General, of Irish
birth, who was killed before Quebec, December 31, 1775.

Morgan, for Daniel Morgan, a General of the Revolution, who, as com-
mander of the "Rifle Brigade," served with distinction at Quebec, Saratoga,
the Cowpens, and other important engagements.

Moultrie, for William Moultrie, a General of the Revolution, who built
Fort Moultrie and successfully defended it.

Pike, for Zebulon Pike, an early explorer of the Louisiana purchase.
Pike's Peak was named in his honor. He was a General of the War of 1812
and was killed at York, Canada.

Pulaski, for Count Casimir Pulaski, a Polish exile who espoused the
cause of the Colonies during the Revolution and was killed at the attack on
Savannah, 1779.

Putnam, for Israel Putnam, a Major General of the Revolution.

Schuyler, for Philip Schuyler, a soldier of the French and Indian wars,
a Major General of the Revolution, a member of the Continental Congress
and United States Senator from New York.

Stark, for John Stark, a soldier of the French and Indian wars, a Major
General of the Revolution, who served with distinction at Bunker Hill, Tren-
ton, Princeton, and Bennington.

St. Clair, for Arthur St. Clair, a soldier of the French and Indian wars,
a Major General during the Revolution, Commander-in-Chief of the Army
after the Revolution, and Governor of the Territory of the United States
northwest of the Ohio.

Warren, for Joseph Warren, a physician and soldier who served at
Lexington, a Major General of Massachusetts militia; killed at the battle of
Bunker Hill.

Wayne, for Anthony Wayne, a surveyor and politician of Pennsylvania,
a Major General during the Revolution, Commander-in-Chief of the Army
after General St. Clair, and successful Indian Fighter in the Northwest
Territory.

Three counties were named in honor of naval commanders:

Lawrence, for Captain James Lawrence, Commander of the Chesapeake,
who was mortally wounded in an engagement between that vessel and the
British vessel. Shannon, during the War of 1812.

McDoNouGH, for Thomas McDonough, a Commodore of the United States
Navj', who commanded the fleet on Lake Champlain in a successful engage-
ment with the British fleet, near Plattsburg, 1814.

Perry, for Oliver Hazard Perry, a Commodore of the United States Navy,
who won distinction as Commander of the fleet in the battle of Lake Erie,
in 1813.

Twenty-one pounties were named for statesmen and politicians, not citi-
zens of Illinois, some of whom had distinguished themselves in military as
well as civil life.

Calhoun, for John C. Calhoun, a lawyer and statesman, Representative
in Congress and United States Senator from South Carolina, Secretary of
War under Monroe, Vice-President of the United States, and Secretary of
State under Tyler, and was recognized as the "Father of Nullification."

Carroll, for Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a statesman of the Revolution-
ary period, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and United States
Senator from Maryland.

Cass, for Lewis Cass, a soldier as well as statesman. Territorial Governor
of Michigan, Minister to France, United States Senator from Michigan, Secre-
tary of War under Jackson, Secretary of State under Buchanan, and at one
time a prominent candidate for the Presidency.

Clay, for Henry Clay, a statesman and political orator. Representative
in Congress and United States Senator from Kentucky, three times Speaker
of the United States House of Representatives, famous as the author of the
political measures known as the "Missouri Compromise," and a prominent
candidate for the Presidency.

Clinton, for DeWitt Clinton, a distinguished lawyer, financier and states-
man. Mayor of the city and Governor of the State of New York, United States
Senator and chief promoter of the Erie Canal.

Crawford, for William H. Crawford of Georgia, United States Senator,
Minister of France, Secretary of War, Secretary of the Treasury, and a promi-
nent candidate for the Presidency in 1824.

DeWitt, for DeWitt Clinton. (See Clinton County.)

Franklin, for Benjamin Franklin, philosopher, statesman, diplomatist,
author, printer, a member of the Continental Congress, Ambassador to France,
and (before the Revolution) Deputy Postmaster General of the British Colo-
nies in America.

Gallatin, for Albert Gallatin, a statesman and financier, Representative
in Congress from Pennsylvania, Secretary of the Treasury of the United
States, and Minister to France and England.

Grundy, for Felix Grundy, a lawyer and politician. United States Senator
from Tennessee, and Attorney General of the United States.

Hamilton, for Alexander Hamilton, a soldier, statesman, author and
financier, aid on the staff of Washington during the Revolution, a member
of the Continental Congress, first Secretary of the Treasury (1789-1795), and
Commander-in-Chief of the United States Army in 1799.

Hancock, for John Hancock, a prominent figure of the Revolutionary
period, a Major General of militia. President of the Continental Congress, first
signer of the Declaration, and first Governor of tue State of Massachusetts.

Henry, for Patrick Henry, a lawyer, orator and statesman of the Rev-
olutionary period, a member of the Continental Congress, and Governor of
Virginia.

Kendall, for Amos Kendall, a successful politician and journalist. Post-
master General under Jackson, and as partner of S. F. B. Morse, the inventor
of the electric telegrapli, he contributed largely to the commercial success of
that invention.

Lee, for Richard Henry Lee, an orator and statesman of the Revolution-
ary period, a member of the Continental Congress, a Representative in Con-
gress and United States Senator from Virginia.

Livingston, for Edward Livingston, a lawyer and statesman. Mayor of
New York City, Representative in Congress from New York and later from
Louisiana, United States Senator from the latter state. Secretary of State
undei- Jackson, and United States Minister to France.

Macon, for Nathaniel Macon, a Colonel during the Revolution and later
a Representative and United States Senator in Congress from North Carolina.
He strenuously opposed the adoption of the United States Constitution as

conferring powers on the Federal government which should be reserved to
the States. *

Marshall, for John Marshall, a soldier of the Revolution, statesman,
author and jurist. Ambassador to France, Representative in Congress from
Virginia, Secretary of State and Chief Justice of the United States Supreme
Court.

Randolph, for Edmund Randolph, a soldier of the Revolution, a lawyer
and statesman, member of the Continental Congress, Attorney General and
Governor of Virginia, Secretary of State of the United States and Attorney
General under Washington.

Shelby, for Isaac Shelby, a soldier of the Revolution and Indian wars,
Governor of Kentucky (1792-1796) and again (1812-1816). He commanded the
Kentucky troops in the battle of the Thames in the War of 1812.

Tazewkll, for Lyttleton W. Tazewell, an eminent lawyer. Governor,
Representative in Congress, and United States Senator from Virginia.

Nine counties of Illinois adopted the names of counties of other states
through the influence of emigrants from the counties whose names were thus
adopted: Champaign and Richland from Ohio; Christian, Hardin, Hender-
son, Mason, Scott, and Woodford from Kentucky; and Williamson from
Tennessee.

Seven counties bear Indian names, given originally, as a general rule,
to a creek, river or lake, and afterward transferred to the county. These
named are Iroquois, Kankakee, Macoupin, Peoria, Sangamon, Wabash and
Winnebago.

Fourteen other counties derive their names from sources so diverse that
they cannot easily be classified under any special head.

Boone, for Daniel Boone, a pioneer hunter, Indian fighter and pathfinder
of the early days.

Bureau, for Pierre Buero, a French trader with the Indians.

Cumberland, from the Cumberland road, named in its turn from the town
of Cumberland, Maryland, which derived its name from the mountain range
of the same name adopted, presumably, from the Cumberland mountains of
Great Britain.

DuPage, from a small river of the same name said to have derived its
name from a French trapper and trader of that region.

Effingham, for Lord Edward Effingham, who resigned his commission
as general in the British army, 1775, refusing to serve in the war against
the colonies.

Fulton, for Robert Fulton, the first successful builder of steamboats on
American waters.

Jersey, for the State of New Jersey, which derived its name from the
Isle of Jersey, Great Britain.

Lake, for Lake Michigan.

LaSalle, for Robert de LaSalle, the French explorer who effected the
first white settlements in Illinois and explored the Mississippi to the Gulf.

Massac, from Fort Massac, a corruption of a French surname, Massiac.

Rock Island, from the rock island of that name in the Mississippi.

Saline, frpm Saline creek, so called on account of numerous salt springs
in that locality.

Union, from the federal union of the American States.

Vermilion, from the river of that name, the principal branches of which
.flow through the county.

LIST OF COUNTIES

Showing Origin of Name, Date of Organization, County Seat, Area and

Population in 1950.

The seventeen counties marked ' are not under township organization. The others have adopted
township organization.

Counties

Adams

•Alexander...

Bond

Boone

Brown..

Bureau

•Calhoun

Carroll

Cass

Champaign..

Christian

Clark

Clay

Clinton.

Coles

Cook. _.

Crawford

Cumberland.

DeKalb

DeWitt

Douglas

DuPage

Edgar

•Edwards

Effingham

Fayette

Ford

Franklin

Fulton

Gallatin

Greene

Grundy

Hamilton

Hancock

•Hardin

Henderson...

Henry

Iroquois

Jackson

Jasper

Jefferson

Jersey

JoDaviess

•Johnson

Kane ^

Kankakee

Kendall

Knox

Lake

LaSalle

Lawrence

Lee

Livingston...

Logan..

Macon

Origin of name

John Quincy Adams

William M. Alexander

Gov. Shadrach Bond

Daniel Boone

Gen. Jacob Brown

Pierre de Bureo, Indian trader.

John C. Calhoun

Chas. Carroll, of CarroUton

Gen. Lewis Cass

A county in Ohio

A county in Kentucky

George Rogers Clark

Henry Clay

DeWitt Clinton

Gov. Edward Coles

Daniel P. Cook..l

William H. Crawford

Cumberland Road

Baron DeKalb

DeWitt Clinton...

Stephen A. Douglas

DuPage River

John Edgar

Gov. Ninian Edwards

Gen. Edward Effingham

Marquis de La Fayette

Gov. Thomas Ford.

Benjamin Franklin

Robert Fulton

Albert Gallatin

Gen. Nathaniel Greene

Felix Grundy

.\lexander Hamilton

John Hancock

A county in Kentucky

Henderson River

Patrick Henry

Indian name

Andrew Jackson

Sergt. William Jasper

Thomas Jefferson

New Jersey

Col. Joseph H. Daviess

Col. Richard M. Johnson

Senator Elias K. Kane

Indian name

Amos Kendall

Gen. Henry Knox

Lake Michigan

LaSalle, the explorer

Com. James Lawrence

Richard Henry Lee

Edward Livingston

Dr. John Logan

Nathaniel Macon

Established

Jan.

Mar.

Jan.

Mar.

Feb.

Jan.

Feb.

Mar.

Feb.

Mar.

Dec.

Jan.

Dec.

Mar.

Feb.

Jan.

Nov.

Feb.

Jan.

Sept.

Jan.

Feb.

Jan.

Mar.

Jan.

Feb.

Jan.

Feb.

Mar.

Feb.

Sept.

Jan.

Feb.

Jan.

Mar.

Jan.

Feb.

Jan.

, 1825
, 1S19
, 1817
, 1837
, 1839
, 1837
, 1825
, 1839
, 1837
, 1833
, 1839
, 1819
, 1824
, 1824
, 1830
, 1831
, 1816
, 1843
, 1837
, 1839
, 1859
. 1839
, 1823
, 1814
, 1831
, 1821
, 1859
, 1818
, 1823
, 1812
, 1821
, 1841
, 1821
, 1825
, 1839
, 1841
, 1825
, 1833
, 1816
, 1831
, 1819
, 1839
, 1827
, 1812
, 1836
, 1853
, 1841
, 1825
, 1839
, 1831
, 1821
, 1839
, 1837
, 1839
, 1829

Area,
square
miles

224

383
283
307
868
259
468
370

1,000
709
505
464
498
507
954
442
347
636
399
420
.331
628
225
483
718
488
434
874
328
543
432
435
797
183
381
826

1,122
603
495
574
374
614
345
516
680
320
728
457

1,153
374
729

1,043
622
577

County seat

Quincy

Cairo

Greenville

Belvidere

Mt. Sterling...

Princeton

Hardin

Mt. CarroU

Virginia

Urbana..

Taylorville

Marshall

Louisville

Carlyle

Charleston

Chicago

Robinson

Toledo

Sycamore..

Clinton

Tuscola

Wheaton

Paris

Albion

Effingham

Vandalia

Paxton

Benton

Lewis town

Shawnee town..

CarroUton

Morris

McLeans boro...

Carthage

Elizabethtown..

Oquawka

Cambridge

Watseka

Murphysboro

Newton

Mt. Vernon

Jersey ville

Galena

Vienna

Geneva

Kankakee

Yorkville

Galesburg

Waukegan

Ottawa

Lawrence ville..

Dixon

Pontiac

Lincoln

Decatur

Popula-
tion
1950

64, 690
20,316
14.157
17,070

7.132
37,711

6,898
18,976
15,097
106,100
38,816
17,362
17,445
22,594
40,328
4,508,792
21,137
10,496
40,781
16,894
16,706
154,599
23,407

9,056
21,675
24,582
15,901
48,685
43,716

9,818
18,852
19,217
12,256
25,790

7,530

8,416
46,492
32,348
38, 124
12,266
35, 892
15,264
21,459

8,729
150,388
73,524
12,115
54,368
179,097
100,610
20,539
36,451
37,809
30,671
98.853

List of Counties — Concluded.

Counties

Origin of name

Established

Area,
square
miles

County seat

Popula-
tion
1950

Jan. 17,
Sept. 14,
Jan. 24,
Jan. 19,
Jan. 20,
Feb. 8,
Jan. 25,
Jan. 16,
Dec. 25,
Feb. 15,
Jan. 13,
Jan. 6,
Feb. 12,
Jan. 31,
Feb. 16,
Jan. 16,
Jan. 13,
Jan. 29,
Jan. 27,
Jan. 31,
Jan. 10,
Mar. 3,
Jan. 13,
Oct. 5,
Feb. 24,
Feb. 9,
Feb. 25,
Jan. 30,
Jan. 13,
Feb. 16,
Jan. 23.
Mar. 2,
Apr. 27,
Mar. 4,
Jan. 31,
Jan. 2,
Jan. 18,
Dec. 27,
Jan. 13,
Jan. 2,
Mar. 26,
Dec. 9,
Jan. 16,
Jan. 12,
Feb. 28,
Jan. 16,
Feb. 27.

1829
1812
1823
1839
1841
1843
1826
1836
1830
1839
1825
1816
1821
1823
1843
1836
1825
1827
1841
1821
1816
1843
1825
1795
1841
1831
1847
1821
1825
1839
1827
1830
1790
1837
1827
1818
1826
1824
1825
1818
1819
1815
1836
1836
1839
1836
1841

872
731
580
395
541
246
582
611
1,173
312
556
380
706
565
345
757
624
443
437
829
381
204
166
594
364
420
384
880
434
251
772
291
670
568
653
414
898
221
542
565
715
501
690
845
441
520
537

Carlinville

Edwardsville...

44,210

182,307

41,700

Mni^hull

13,025

Havana

Metropolis

Macomb

Woodstock

Bloomineton...

Petersburg

Aledo

Waterloo

Hillsboro

Jacksonville

Sullivan

Oregon

15,326

13,594

McDonough

Com. Thomas McDonough

28,199
50, 656

76,577

9,639

17,374

13,282

Montgomery

Gen. Richard Montgomery

32,460
35,568

13,171

Ogle

33.429

Peoria

174,347

Com. Oliver H. Perry

Pinckneyville..

MonticeUo

Pittsfield

Golconda_

Mound City

Hennepin.

Chester

Olnev

21,684

Piatt

13,970

Pike

Zebulon M. Pike

22, 155

•Pope

5,779

•Pulaski

Count Casimir Pulaski

13,639

4,746

•Randolph...

31,673

16,889

Rock Island

Harrisburg

Springfield

Rushville

Winchester

Shelbyville

Toulon

133.558

33,420

131,484

Gen. Philip Schuyler

9,613

•Scott

7,245

Shelby

24.434

Stark

8,721

St. Clair

Gen. Arthur St. Clair

Belleville

Freeport

Pekin

205,995

Stephenson

Col. Benjamin Stephenson

Gov. Lyttleton W. Tazewell

The Union

41,595
76, 165

Jones boro

Danville

Mt. Carmel

Monmouth

Nashville

Fairfield

20,500

87,079

•Wabash

14,651

21,981

14,460

20,933

White

20,935

Whiteside

Morrison

Joliet

49,336

Will

Conrad Will

134,336

Marion

48,621

Rockford

Eureka

152,385

21,335

Total population of state 8.712,176; square miles, 55,947.

Roster of State Officers

UNITED STATES SENATORS FROM ILLINOIS

Term

Name

of service

Residence

Remarks

Ninian Edwards, Dem

1818-1819

Kaskaskia

Jesse B. Thomas, Dem

1818-1823-

Kaskaskia

1819-1824

Edwards ville.

Own successor. Resigned 182-1

Jesse B. Thomas, Dem. -

1823-1829

Edwardsville.-

Own successor.

John McLean, Dem., —

1824-1825

Shawneetown..

Vice Edwards, resigned.

1825-1831 -

1829-1830

Nov. 12-Dec.

Kaskaskia

Shawneetown..

To succeed McLean.
Died Oct. 14, 1830.

David J. Baker, Dem _ .

11, 1830

Kaskaskia

Appointed, vice McLean, deceased.

1830-1835

1831-1835

Kaskaskia

Own successor. Died Dec. 12,

1835.

1835-1841

William L. D. Kwing, Dem

1835-1837

Vandalia

Vice Kane, deceased.

Richard M. Young, Dem

1837-1843

Jonesboro

To succeed Ewing.

Samuel McRoberts. Dem

1841-1843

Waterloo

Vice Robinson. Died Mar. 22

1843.

1843-1849

Carlyle

To succeed \ oung.

James Semple, Dem._.

Stephen A. Douglas, Dem

1843-1847

1847-1853

Quincy

To succeed Semple.

1849-1855

Springfield

To succeed Breese.

Stephen A. Douglas, Dem

1853-1859

Chicago

Own successor.

L. Trumbull, Anti-Neb., Dem.-

1855-1861

Belleville

To succeed Shields.

Stephen A. Douglas, Dem

1859-1861

Chicago

Own successor. Died June 3,

1861.

1861-1867

Chicago

Own successor.

Orville H. Browning, Rep

1861-1863

Quincy

Appointed, vice Douglas.

William A. Richardson, Dem...

1863-1865

Quincy

To succeed Browning.

1865-1871

Jacksonville...

To succeed Richardson.

1867-1873..

Own successor.

1871-1877

Chicago

To succeed Yates.

Richard J. Oglesbj', Rep

1873-1879

Decatur

To succeed Trumbull.

1877-1883

Bloomington.

To succeed Logan.

1879-1885

Chicago

To succeed Oglesby.

Shelby M. CuUom, Rep

1883-1889 -

Springfield

To succeed Davis.

1885-1886

Chicago

Died Dec. 26, 1886.

Charles B. Farwell, Rep

1887-1891

Chicago

Vice Logan, deceased.

Shelby M. CuUom, Rep __.

1889-1895

Springfield

To succeed himself.

John M. Palmer, Dem -

1891-1897

Springfield ..

To succeed Farwell.

Shelby M. Cullom, Rep

1895-1901

Springfield

To succeed himself.

William E. Mason, Rep

1897-1903

Chicago

To succeed Palmer.

Shelby M. Cullom, Rep

1901-1907

Springfield

To succeed himself.

Albert J. Hopkins, Rep..

1903-1909

Aurora

To succeed Mason.

Shelby M. Cullom, Rep

1907-1913

Springfield

To succeed himself.

•William Lorimer, Rep

1909-1912

Chicago -.

To succeed Hopkins.

James Hamilton Lewis, Dem...

1913-1919

Chicago -_

To succeed Cullom.

Lawrence Y. Sherman, Rep

1913-1915 _

Springfield

In place of Lorimer.

Lawrence Y. Sherman, Rep

1915-1921

Springfield

To succeed himself.

Medill McCormick, Rep

1919-1925

Chicago

To succeed Lewis.

William B. McKinley, Rep

1921-1927

Champaign...

To succeed Sherman.

Charles S. Deneen, Rep

1925-1931

Chicago

To succeed McCormick.

1927-

Dwight

Murphysboro..
Chicago

To succeed McKinley.

In place of Frank L. Smith.

To succeed Deneen.

Otis F. Glenn. Rep.

1928-1933

1931-1937 _

James Hamilton Lewis, Dem. -

William H. Dieterich, Dem... .

1933-1939

Beardstown

To succeed Glenn.

James Hamilton Lewis, Dem

1937-19.39

Chicago.

Died April 9, 1939.

1939-1945

1939-1940.

Havana

Chicago -

To succeed Dieterich.
Appointed; vice Lewis, deceas

James M. Slattery, Dem ...

ed.

C. Wayland Brooks, Rep

1940-1943

Chicago

Elected to fill Lewis term.

C. Wayland Brooks, Rep

1943-1949

Chicago

Scott W. Lucas, Dem

1945-1951

1949-1955

Havana

Everett McKinley Dirksen, Rep

1951-1957

Pekin

* Unssated, election bsin? declared illegal by Senate,
t Refused hh ssat by action of the Sanate.

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inois' State Capitols

IV/Tany years ago, in 1703, a group of Jesuits transferred their Illinois Indian Mis-
sion from Des Peres (present St. Louis) to the juncture of the Kaskaskia and
Mississippi Rivers in what later was to be known as Randolph County.

This little settlement became Kaskaskia and on December 3, 1818, when Illi-
nois was admitted to the Federal Union, it became the commonwealth's first
Capital. Since that historic day, Illinois has had three governmental seats (Kas-
kaskia, Vandalia and Springfield) and six Capitols.

For more than a century, before becoming Illinois' fount of government, Kas-
kaskia played an important role in Illinois history, Kaskaskia was the scene of one of
George Rogers Clark's early triumphs when he and a little army of Virginians
captured it from the British in 1778. In 1809, when Illinois Territory was cre-
ated by an Act of Congress, Kaskaskia was chosen as the territorial capital and it
was the center of population when Nathaniel Pope petitioned Congress for state-
hood for his adopted territory on January 16, 1818. The Congressional Enabling
Act was passed and Illinois became the 21st state on December 3, 1818.

The first Capitol, or State House, was rented. It was a two story brick build-
ing. The House of Representatives occupied the lower floor and on the floor above
was the Senate Chambers. Meeting in this unimpressive setting, the first General
Assembly composed of 13 Senators and 27 Representatives petitioned the Congress
for a grant of land to serve as a new State Capital. The request was granted and

First State House of Illinois at
Kaskaskia. The building was
rented and served as a Cap-
itol from 1818 until 1820. Due
to the encroachments of the
Mississippi River the building
was destroyed in 1900.

Kaskaskia in 1895. The original
site of the capital city lies
beneath the murky Mississippi.

a committee of five was named to choose the site. They decided upon "Reeves
Bluff," later to be known as Vandalia, which was about 80 miles northeast on the
Kaskaskia River from Kaskaskia.

The remova] of the Capital from Kaskaskia to Vandalia grew out of a mania
for speculation on the part of some of the State's early citizens who thought that
money could be made by starting a land boom in a new location.

The origin of the name "Vandalia" is not known. For many years credence
was given to the story that some wag managed to convince the founders that the
spot had been inhabited by an extinct tribe of savages known as "Vandals." The
most plausible suggested origin is that of Vandalia, Ohio. In 1775, forty-five years
before the establishment of the new Illinois town, the Ohio Land Company's name
had been changed to the Vandalia Land Company. From this sprang the name
Vandalia, Ohio. Regardless of where the name originated the "city planners" pro-
ceeded to justify the story of vandalism by uprooting all the trees which might have
shaded the public square and streets.

Kaskaskia Destroyed by River

After Vandalia became the Capital in 1820, Kaskaskia deteriorated, gradually
disappearing under the waters of the Mississippi River which lapped its shores. In
1881, the river went on one of its many rampages, changed its course, moving east-
ward and then southwest to find its old channel. When the turbulent water had
subsided an island had been created and a considerable portion of the ancient
capital city had been washed away. Each recurring spring flood encroached further
upon the site until the last vestige of historic Kaskaskia slipped into the Mississippi.

On the remaining portion Qf the present island is a farming community of
around 150 persons and the island srill bears the name Kaskaskia, perhaps to per-
petuate in memory the little Capital which lies beneath the muddy Mississippi.

Original Capitol at Vandalia

A plain two story frame structure was erected in Vandalia. The lower floor was
devoted to one room for the House of Representatives. A passage and stairway led
to the second floor which consisted of two rooms, the larger for the Senate Chamber
and the smaller for the Council of Revision. The Secretary of State, Auditor and
Treasurer occupied rented offices detached from the Capitol.

The State's Archives, consisting of a small wagonload, were removed from Kas-
kaskia to Vandalia by Sidney Breese, then clerk to the Secretary of State who later
became a Supreme Court Justice and U. S. Senator. Breese was paid $25.00 for
his labor.

The first session of the Second General Assembly met in the first State-owned
Capitol on December 4, 1820 and during its sitting passed an act making Vandalia
the seat of government for the next twenty years.

On December 9, 1823 fire destroyed this first State-owned Capitol. During
the summer of 1824 a new building was constructed of brick at a cost of $15,000.
Soon thereafter agitation was started for the removal of the Capital to a site nearer
the geographical center of the State. This sentiment caused the General Assembly
to pass an act in 1833 whereby the voters at^the folFowing general election could
decide the location for a new capital city.

The sites on which the vote was to be taken were Vandalia, Jacksonville,
Springfield, Peoria, Alton, and the State's geographical center. ^Al ton received the
greatest number of votes but the margin was so small as to be inconclusive, and
the vote was not announced officially as it would undoubtedly 'have been rejected

State House at Vandalia.
This was the third build-
ing there to be used as a
Capitol.

The State's fifth Capitol at left,
is now the Sangamon County
Court House in Springfield.

by the next General Assembly. So the suggested removal from Vandalia was dropped
until the 1836-37 session revived the question.

Lincoln Suggests Springfield

Residents of Vandalia were determined that they should retain the Capital
so in the summer of 1836, without authorization, and while the legislature was
recessed, they tore down the old Capitol. In its stead they erected a State House
costing $16,000. This gesture, however, was in vain for with the return of the
General Assembly Lincoln was successful in having Springfield named as Illinois'
new Capital.

Matters then took a very different turn for the proposal was interesting a ris-
ing young lawyer known as Abraham Lincoln who represented Sangamon County.
Lincoln introduced a bill providing for removal of the Capital of Illinois to Spring-
field, and he was backed by eight fellow members who with him were known as
the Long Nine because their aggregate height was 54 feet.

On February 25, 1837, the Assembly passed a bill providing that the Capital
be moved from Vandalia to some place nearer the center of the State and three
days later Springfield was chosen as the new Capital City. Because the Act of
Assembly in 1820, Vandalia was to continue as the Capital until December 1,
1840, but on June 20, 1839, Governor Thomas Carlin issued a proclamation that
all State records be removed to Springfield by July 4, 1839.

The Eleventh General Assembly returned the Vandalia Capitol to the county
of Fayette and the city of Vandalia, and the old State House still stands, though
now again is State property.

The cornerstone of the State's fourth Capitol was laid at Springfield on July 4,
1837. After many delays the building finally was completed in 1853 at a total cost
of $260,000 double its original estimate.

The building occupied the center of the square nearly three acres in extent,
and was constructed of cut stone brought from a quarry six miles away. The build-
ing was considered one of the architectural wonders of the State.

This building is rich in Lincoln associations. After Lincoln became a resident
of Springfield in 1837 he was, of course, one of the regular frequenters of the
State House. In addition to serving in the legislature he appeared and argued nearly
250 cases before the Supreme Court, located in the edifice, and made frequent use
of the State and Supreme Court libraries. In this building he often took public
issue with Douglas, here he made his famous "House divided against itself" speech,
here were his headquarters during his 1860 campaign for the Presidency, and here
finally his remains rested on May 3-4, 1865, before burial at Oak Ridge.

Present State House Planned in 1867

Illinois continued to prosper and gain in population and soon it was apparent
that a much larger Capitol would be needed. The enabling act was passed by the
25th General Assembly on February 24, 1867. This was the fifth of the buildings
owned by the State and the one in use today.

The old Capitol at Springfield was sold to Sangamon County for $200,000.
The deed was executed October 23, 1869, neariy seven years before the present
Capitol was used. Certain alterations were made to this old building, the most re-
markable one being that of raising the massive two-story structure high off the
ground and while suspended, the present ground floor of the Sangamon County
Court House was built.

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Ground was broken for the present Capitol, March 11, 1868. Formal laying
of the cornerstone took place October 5th of the same year. Still unfinished,' the
building was first occupied in 1876. Twenty-one years after the Legislature first

authorized its construction, the building finally was completed. Originally construc-
tion costs were limited to $3,000,000, but before completion expenditures amounted
to more than $4,500,000.

The present Capitol, situated on a nine acre plot, is in the form of a Latin
Cross. The circular foundation, 92 Vz feet in diameter, upon which the vast dome
rests, is 25 Vi feet below the grade line, set on solid rock. It is interesting to know
that many feet below runs one of the richest veins of Illinois coal.

The walls supporting the dome are 17 feet thick from the foundation to the
first story. They are built of granular magnesian limestone from quatries of Han-
cock County.

The outer walls of the superstructure are of Niagara limestone, that of the
lower stories from the quarries of Joliet, and that of the upper stories from Lemont.

The extreme length of the building from north to south is 379 feet, and from
east to west 268 feet. The height from the ground line to the top of the dome
is 361 feet, and to the tip of the flagstaff 405 feet, the highest building in central
Illinois. This led to the choice of the State House dome for the installation of the
red beacon which glows through the night as a guidance for pilots. In 1949 the
beacon was equipped with an electronic "eye" which turns the light on when
visibility reaches a certain low — day or night. It used to operate on a clock device
which turned the lights on in the evening and off in the morning, making no pro-
vision for foggy or overcast days.

Capitol Group of Buildings

Since the turn of the century, additional buildings have been erected on or
near the capitol grounds as follows:

CENTENNIAL BUILDING— Cornerstone laid in 1918, completed in 1923.
It was constructed to commemorate the 100th birthday of Illinois as a state of
the Union. Costs were approximately $3,000,000. In this building are located the
State Library, State Historical Library, the Museum, Memorial Hall (where flags
of Illinois regiments are encased), and some state oflBces.

ARCHIVES BUILDING— Completed in 1938 at a cost of more than $800,-
000. It was designed and constructed to house the valuable historic and semi-cur-
rent record of the State. Its architecture is unique and although it is seven stories,
it contains no windows above the third floor. The building is air-conditioned and is
as nearly fireproof as modern science can make it. At the time of construction,
only two buildings of similar design were in the United States.

ARMORY BUILDING — Situated north of the State House across Monroe
Stfeet stands the Armory building. Here are housed the military branches of the
State. Some offices under the Governor's administration are also located here.

SUPREME COURT BUILDING— Just east of the Capitol. A magnificent
edifice of classic design. It was dedicated in 1908 and cost $500,000. In the build-
ing are the chambers of the State's Supreme Court, Office of the Attorney General
and offices of the Appellate Court.

A network of tunnels connects all buildings.

ILLINOIS NEW OFFICE BUILDING— In a ceremony attended by high
ranking state officials, Governor William G. Stratton, on February 15, 1954 broke
ground for a new state office building.

To alleviate crowded working cjudit^ons and centralize stat2 offices, the 6Sth
General Assembly appropriated a total of $12,500,000 or so much thereof as may
be needed, for construction and equipping of an office building for state purposes.

The new building and its adjacent parking area will be situated on a site two
blocks long and one block wide. 'I he building's dimensions will be 381 feet bv
252 feet. I'he center of the H-shaped building will be eight stories high and the
north and south wings will be seven stories. Basement space will include a cafeteria,
mechanical equipment, storage space and a truck senice dock.

A limestone exterior, with granite base and aluminum windows and trim, is
planned. Completely air-conditioned, the building will have 445,020 square feet
of gross floor space with 82 per cent of the space usable; only 18 per cent of the
floor space will be taken up by service facilities such as storage, corridors and
elevators. The imposing new structure will enable the state to consolidate its agencies,
some of which now arc scattered in 19 various locations in downtown Sprmgfield
because of crowded conditions in present state buildinp;s.

The General Assembly approved the measure March 25, 1953. This building
also will be connected to the Capitol by an underground tunnel.

Construction of Illinois' new office building officially, began February 15, 1954. Annong
those pictured with Governor Stratton (at microphone) are: Mayor John MacWher+er
of Springfield; Charles F. Carpentier, Secretary of State; Earl Searcy, Clerk of the
Supreme Court; State Senator Roland V. Libonati; Vernon L. Nickeil, State Superintend-
ent of Public Instruction; Latham Castle, Attorney General; Orville Hodge, State
Auditor; State Senator Merritt Little and Edwin A. Rosenstone, Director of Public
Works and Buildings.

Population of Illinois

The following table indicates the population gains of Illinois since 1810, giv-
ing the percentage of increase and urban-rural division of inhabitants.

Population

The State

Division

Census Year

Increase over
preeeeding census

Urban

Rural

Number

Per cent

1950

8,712,176

7,897,241
7,630,654
• 6,485,280
5,628,591
4,821,550

3,836,352
3,077,871
2,539,891
1,711,951
851,470

476, 183
157,445
55,211
U2,282

814,935

266,587
1,145,374
846,689
817,041
995, 198

748,481
537,980
827,940
860,481
375,287

318,738
102,234
42,929

10.3

3.5
17.7
15.0
16.9
26.0

24.3
21.2
48.4
101.1
78.8

202.4
185.2
349.5

77.6

73.6
73.9
67.9
61.7
54.3

44.9
30.6
23.5
14.3
7.6

2.0

22.4

1940 ---

26.4

1930 .

26.1

1920 .

32.1

1910

38.3

1900

45.7

1890

55.1

1880

69.4

1870

76.5

I860

85.7

1850

92.4

1840

98.0

1830

100.0

1820

100.0

1810

100.0

I The 1810 population was that of Illinois Territory, which comprised the area now constituting the
State of Illinois, almost all of Wisconsin, the western part of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and the
northeastern part of Minnesota.

Location of Principal
State Parks and Memorials

23B LINCOLN TOMB - Th# resting pl«c« of the Great
Enanc ipater.

29A LINCOLN HOME - The only hone that Abraham Lincoln ever
owned.

^2A NEW LiaCOU STATUE - ■•• Sale* State Park

226 TME LINCOLN- BERRY STORE - New Salaa Stata
Park

p METAHORA COURT HOUSE - Where Lincoln once plead-
ed ceeee.

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98 LINCOLN TRAIL MONUMENT - This is the
starting point of the Lincoln National
Menorial Highoay.

2S THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN HOME - Hoae of

ThoMas Lincoln, the Enanc i pator's father.

1. EARLY HOME OF GENERAL U. S. GRAMT - A aost
successful gen«ra) in the Union Araies of the
Civil War.

?• CHAIN O'LAKES - Pictured above >s the
boat dock on one of the series of lakes
in this popular state-owned area.

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2. APPLt RIVER CAHYON - Looking tOMrds
Charles Peak highest point in Illinois.

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4. ILLINOIS BEACH STATE PARK - Beach Housel

6. LOWDENS MEMORIAL STATE PARK - Black
Hawk Statue

7. MIVE THR0UO4 WHITE PINES FOREST STATE PARK

'B WNITE PINES FOREST STATE PARK

9 BLACK HAWK STATE PARK - View down Rock
River from watch tower.

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10 BUFFALO ROM STATE PARK - Picture above
of Buffalo in Park.

11. STARVED ROa STATE PARK - Where • band of
Illinois Indians besieged on its top by the
PottaaatOBies, perished

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X2 NXTTHIESSEN STATE PARK - Oeer Park

16. JUBILEE COLLEGE - IN JUBILEE COLLEGE STATE
PARK

19 DICKSON MOUNDS STATE PARK - One of 125
burials. Or. Don Dickson holding pot
burled «ith this body.

26 KICKAPOO STATE PARK - The fourth

lar-gest recreational area in the ininoie
atate park systea.

29 FOX RIDGE STATE PARK - RIdgo Lake

30 PERE MARQUETTE STATE PARK - Largest of
all Illinois State Parks.

32. CAHOKIA HOUNDS STATE PARK - The above vie* of
the IM acre historical recreational area and
gigantic burial aounds.

33 6RAMD HARAIS STATE PARK - Boat House

35] FORT CHARTRES STATE PARK - Picture above
I of Gateway to Fort Chartres.

36, FORT KASKASKIA STATE PARK - Once known
la* 'The Paris of Illinois', no trace of
the town now renains.

39 GIANT CITY STATE PARK . Picture above is
one of the strange Canyons.

42 CAVE- IN-ROCK STATE PARK - Cave- In-Rocit
once the lair of river pirates who preyed
upon the thriving Ohio River traffic.

»3- DIXON SPRIUGS STATE PARK - ROCK FORHATION

4«. FORT MASSAC MEMORIAL - George Rodgers Clark

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»S CHANNAHON PARKWAY STATE PARK - Above
Picture shows two artists painting a
scenic site along the Des Plaines River.

|6 PIERRE HENARO HOMESTEAD - In FoCt Kaskas
kla State Park. Pierre Henard first Lt.
Governor of Illinois.

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Al ROCK ISLAND ANNUAL INDIAN POW POW
Every year on Labor Day Week End.

DISTRICT NO. 9 Office and Garage Building,
Carbondale.

DISTRICT NO. 2 Office and Garage Building,
Dixon.

DISTRICT NO. 3 Office and Garage Building,
Ottawa.

DISTRICT NO. 4 Office and Garage Building,
Peoria.

DISTRICT NO. 6 Office and Garage Building
Springfield.

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DISTRICT NO. 7 Office and Garage Building,
Eff inghan.

DISTRICT NO. 8 Office and Garage Building,'
French Village (East St. Louis).

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DISTRICT NO. 9 Office and Garage Building,
Carbondale.

CENTRAL GARAGE State Highway Central Ga-
rage Building, Springfield.

DISTRICT HO. 10 Chicago Branch Laboratory
and Garage Building, Chicago.

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STATE HIGHWAY POLICE DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS
Station located 2 miles east of Sterling.

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STATE HIGHWAY POLICE DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS
Station located at Harlem Avenue and Irv-
ing Park Road in Cook County.

STATE HIGHWAY POLICE DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS
Station located at Stateville on U.S.
Route I3A.

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Heavy grading equip/hent, south of Mt. Sterl
ing, Brown County.

Heavy grading equipment making grade change,
U.S- Route 51 north of Vandal ia, Fayette
County.

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Typical paving operation, U. S. Route 66,
north of Wi 1 ) iamsvil le, Sangamon County.

Typical photograph of subgrade preparation
before placing concrete, t). S. R cute 66
south of Faraersvil le, Montgomery County.

Typical photograph showing dual pavers in
operation, u> S. Route 66 south edge of
parmersvil le, Montgomery County.

Grade Separation on Edens Expressway in Mor-
ton Grove, Cool< County.

Typical modernization of sharp curvds, U>S.
Route 45 near Bloomfield, .Johnson County.

Typical modernization of pavement, U> S.
Route 66 at Farmersvi 1 le, Montgoaery County.

Typical modernization of pavement, U.S.
Route 66 north of Lincoln, Logan County.

Bituminous surfaced pavement, U.S. Route 36
near Winchester, Scott County.

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New high level bridge over Illinois River
at BeardstoMn, U. S. Route 67, Cass County.

Typical Farm to Market Township Road, Ob-
long Township, Crawford County.

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STATE HIGHWAY POLICE DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS
Station located at Pontiac.

STATE HIGHWAY POLICE DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS
Station located at Rock Island.

STATE HIGHWAY POLICE DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS
Station located at Hacomb on U.S. Route 136.

STATE HIGHWAY POLICE DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS
Station located on U.S. Route 66 south of
Springfield.

STATE HIGHWAY POLICE DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS
Station located 5 miles south of Effingham
on U.S. Route 45>

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STATE HIGHWAY POLICE DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS
Station located I mile south of DuQuoin on
U.S. Route 51

ILLIHOIS STATE PEHITENTIARY
Stateville Branch — Front View

ILLIHOIS STATE PENITEMTIARY
Stateville Branch — ' Rear View

ILLINOIS STATE PENITENTIARY
Jol iet Branch — Front View
Plagnoatic Depot just to right of the highwi

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ILLINOIS STATE PENITENTIARY

Jol iet Branch Rear View

Diagnostic Depot just to left of the highway

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ILLINOIS STATE PENITENTIARY
PontJac Branch - Front View Fro« North

ILLINOIS STATE PENITENTIARY
Henard Branch - View From Mississippi River