The Centennial History of Illinois Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1918 Excerpt: ... INDEX A. B. plot, 98, 99, 101, 102, 103 Adams, James, 149; gubernatorial can-didate, 145, 20611 Adams, Captain John G., 16311 Adams, John Quincy, 92, 240, 268, 289, 328, 364, 370, 380; charges against in campaign 1828, 116, 117, 118, 120, 121, 122; Cook supported, 96, 107, 108, 111-112; Edwards lost favor with, 98-99; elected president, 115; influence of, in local politics, 123, 124, 127, 128, 129, 131, 132, 133, 139, 141, 145; one founder of whig party, 236; presidential chances of, 106 Adams county, 174, 203, 2o6n, 325, 369 Africa, 85, 87 Agriculture, 122; abundant crops, 400; among Mormons, 348, 349; Birk-beck's influence on, and founding of society, 15-17; Bond encouraged, 105; crops, 383; estimated output of farms, 207; extent, 6-7, 15; German influence on, 393; improvements in, 383-385; Irish undertake, 396; meth-ods of, and kind of land for, 179-181; products shipped to New Orleans, 52; Scandinavian interest in, 399; Scotch influence on, 398; slave labor and, 88-89; Turner's contribution to, 439 Alabama, 174-175 Albany, 190, 237, 254, 275 Albion, 82; Flower founded, 15; library at, 393n Alexander county, 89, 112 Alexander, General Milton K., 287; in Black Hawk War, 165, 167 Alexander, William M., 61 Allen, W. T., organized antislavery so-cieties, 371 Allen, William, 247; editor of Madi-lonian, 245; proposed for president, 329 Alsace, 423 Alton, 9, 84, 192, 198, 206, 209, 210, 340, 34, 375. 35. 36; all-Oregon meet-ing at, 328; anti-abolition resolutions passed at, 370; branch bank at, 305; commercial importance of, 189, 212, 221, 309-310, 387; Lovejoy killed in, 365-368; Peck edited paper in, 366; prohibition at, 426; proposed capital site at, 202, 203; school at, 22; Sun-day school established at, 29 Alton and Mt. Carmel railroad, see transportation ...