History of Pike county Illinois; together with sketches of its cities villages and townships educational religious civil military and political history; portraits of prominent persons and biographies of representative citizens. History of Illinois

This ebook contains illustrations. Here the shrewd and enterprising Easterner the courtly Southerner and the sturdy practical Westerner have met and mingled have inherited the better traits possessed by each other and thus have formed a society a people superior in many particulars to that of most localities. This historic treasure tells the story of the sturdy pioneers of Pike County who inhabited the Military Tract a section of bounty land set aside by an act of Congress as payment to volunteer soldiers of the War of 1812. These counties among the first settled in Illinois were located in the western part of the state between the Illinois and Mississippi rivers. This land includes the present counties of Adams Brown Calhoun Fulton Hancock Henderson Knox McDonough Mercer Peoria Schuyler Stark and Warren. From the Mound Builders and Indians who first roamed this land to the French occupation the history and development of these early pioneer settlements are recorded including detailed documentation of the accomplishments and struggles of its citizens. The agricultural geological archeological and legal histories are addressed including the War of 1812 the Black Hawk War the Mexican War the Civil War and the organization of Illinois as a state. This publication is a must for anyone interested in the full historical coverage of this region. This is a reproduction of a book believed to be published in 1880. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. that were either part of the original artifact or were introduced by the scanning process.