BlockHope Township
The complete chapter on this township from History of LaSalle County, Illinois : Its Topography, Geology, Botany, Natural History, History of the Mound Builders, Indian Tribes, French Explorations, and a Sketch of the Pioneer Settlers of Each Town to 1840, with an Appendix, Giving the Present Status of the County, Its Population, Resources, Manufactures and Institutions, published 1877. 288 words, covering 1 settlement. 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
1 settlementWhat 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.
| Settlement | Fires | Storm reports | Mines and quarries | Specimens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lostant | 5 | 26 | - | - |
Settlements in this township
1 placeEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. It is named in the chapter.
The chapter
288 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from History of LaSalle County, Illinois : Its Topography, Geology, Botany, Natural History, History of the Mound Builders, Indian Tribes, French Explorations, and a Sketch of the Pioneer Settlers of Each Town to 1840, with an Appendix, Giving the Present Status of the County, Its Population, Resources, Manufactures and Institutions, 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.
Hope Township
'The town of Hope is Township 31, Rangel. Tt is the southwestern town in the body of the county - is all prairie, and was entirely neglected by the early settlers, Its northern portion forms part of the divide which separates the waters which flow northerly tothe Vermillion and Illinois and those that flow west and southwest to the Illinois,
The head of Bailey's creek drains the northeastern portion of its surface, which rans to the Vermillion, but the larger portion is drained by the north branch of Sandy creek and its affluents, called Little Sandy, which runs west and sonthwest and empties into the Illinois near Henry.
Samuel D. MeCaleb, from Rockbridge County, Virginia, and his wife, Catharine Wood, from Mason County, Kentucky, settled on Ox Bow Prairie, Putnam County, in August, 1832, where Samuel D. died in September, 1839. His widow moved to 8. $ 8. 9, town of Hope, with her family of five boys and one girl, in April, 1850. She is now living in Lostant. Her children are; Albert G., in Lostant; Gilbe B., Lostant; Herbert C., Wenona ; Ethel red Missouri; and Hubert A., in Ottawa; the sister is now dead.
Infantry, Second Lieutenant and First Lieutenant same company, Lieutenant Colonel Sixth U. 8. C. Artillery, Colonel same regiment, Sheriff LaSalle County from 1866 to 1868, and County Clerk from 1873 to 1877.
John M. Richey, from Muskingum County, Ohio, came to Putnam County in 1887, He entered S. 24 in Hope, in 1849, on which he resided till his death in 1875. The village of Lostant was laid out on Mr. Richey's farm in 1861. He married Clara 0, Colster, and left three living children: Mary C., Candace M., and John C.
Provenance
Text from History of LaSalle County, Illinois : Its Topography, Geology, Botany, Natural History, History of the Mound Builders, Indian Tribes, French Explorations, and a Sketch of the Pioneer Settlers of Each Town to 1840, with an Appendix, Giving the Present Status of the County, Its Population, Resources, Manufactures and Institutions, 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.