BlockBrown Township
The complete chapter on this township from Early History and Pioneers of Champaign County : Illustrated by One Hundred and Fifteen Superb Engravings by Melville : Containing Biographical Sketches of the Early Settlers, the Early History of the County Obtained from the Most Reliable Sources and Many Graphic Scenes and Incidents from the Bright and Shady Sides of Pioneer Life, published 1891. 335 words, covering 4 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
1 sectionThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.
The modern record here
3 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
4 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. 1 of the 4 is named in the chapter; the rest were founded later or were never more than a post office.
The chapter
335 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from Early History and Pioneers of Champaign County : Illustrated by One Hundred and Fifteen Superb Engravings by Melville : Containing Biographical Sketches of the Early Settlers, the Early History of the County Obtained from the Most Reliable Sources and Many Graphic Scenes and Incidents from the Bright and Shady Sides of Pioneer Life, published 1891. 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.
Brown Township
Organized from East Bend in 1869. First settler one Wm. B. King, in 18;M, who was the only one for years in what is now Brown township. The first entry of land was in 1845 in Sec. 4. Wm. Brown was an early settler on Sec. 3. The town takes its name from him. Thomas Stevens, a wealthy cattle dealer, settled in the north part in 185,5, (now in Gibson), Ithaman Maroney in the extreme northwest corner about same time. He enlisted in tlie army in 1862 and did not return to this county. Wm. H. Groves, the oldest living settler, came in 1854, and still lives on section 34. Among the earliest settlers we mention Carl Dobson, C. C. Harris, now of Champaign. Wm. Peabody, now in Oregon, David Cooter, John Strauss, Lyman Smith, Adams, Steven Brown and
The Chicago branch of the Wabash R. R. cuts tlirough the northwest corner of the town and a flourishing village called Foos is the station. The H., R. & E. also runs through the south and on it Fisher is situated.
Newcomb, formerly couiposed of range 7 and 8, in town 21, divided in 1867. Sangamon river runs through east side. First settler is said to have been one Mitchell in 18.35 at Pancake's Point. He was a Kentuckian and did not remain long. Wm. Pancake and Jesse W. Pancake came in 18.37; Joseph T. Everett, 1841 ; Major Sam'l Houston, 1849 ; J. S. Hannah and J. J. Hannah, 18.57; Wm. Lane, Goo. Kimble, P. Hinton, Augustus Blacker, Sam'l Rhodes, Sam'l and Allen Hubbard, R. Lester, Banes Broderick, 18,53; Rector and Merrill E. Hollo way, J. H. Funston and Hiram Trotter, 1856. First school teacher. Miss Martha Newell, at Jesse Pancake's old house in 1851. First birth, Joseph Pancake, son of Wm. P. and wife. First preaching at J. S. Hannah's, Methodist Episcopal, by Rev. Parker. First postoffice, Shiloh Centre, ni 1874. Shiloh church built in 1865; U. B. church, section 3, built in 1874.
Provenance
Text from Early History and Pioneers of Champaign County : Illustrated by One Hundred and Fifteen Superb Engravings by Melville : Containing Biographical Sketches of the Early Settlers, the Early History of the County Obtained from the Most Reliable Sources and Many Graphic Scenes and Incidents from the Bright and Shady Sides of Pioneer Life, published 1891, 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.