BlockBig Grove Township
The complete chapter on this township from History of Kendall County, Illinois, from the Earliest Discoveries to the Present Time, published 1877. 86 words, covering 2 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
2 sectionsThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.
The people it describes
1 namedEveryone the 1877 history stops to write about in this chapter. Each name opens the passage itself.
The modern record here
2 settlementsWhat the federal record holds for each settlement inside this township: wildfires and storm reports since the 1950s, mineral workings, and museum specimens collected nearby. These are counted within a few miles of each settlement, so neighbours share them and the columns are deliberately not added up. Every row links to the settlement's own page, where each figure is broken out.
Settlements in this township
2 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. 1 of the 2 is named in the chapter; the other was founded later or was never more than a post office.
The chapter
86 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from History of Kendall County, Illinois, from the Earliest Discoveries to the Present Time, published 1877. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
Big Grove Township
James Crellen, corporal, killed at Shiloh, April 6, '62. Thomas Garner, corporal. James R. Barrow^s, corporal. Edward P. Atkins, corporal, died at Newark, March
Thirty-Sixth Infantry, Company F.
1863. Paul Stevenson, killed at Pea Ridge, March 7th, 1862. William D. Hibbard. John Thompson, served three years. Charles N. Ralph, served three years. Canute K. Johnson, served three years. Henry M. Seymour, served three years. Albert H. Wolf, served three years.
Darius Sullivan, 2nd lieutenant, promoted captain. Lafayette Halliday, served four years. Joseph Bushnell, sergeant, served four years. James H. Mason.
Provenance
Text from History of Kendall County, Illinois, from the Earliest Discoveries to the Present Time, published 1877, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.