Long Point Township

Long Point Township

The Chicago, Pekin & Southwestern Railroad was completed through this township in 1872, and immediately there sprang up all along the line at the distance of a few miles apart, new towns, among which was the village named. The Burvey was made by A. C. Huetson, County Surveyor, for F. Plumb, Samuel Sillik and A. J. McDowell, from parts of Sections 4, 5 and '.>.

As soon as it was settled that a station was to be located here, this became a busy point indeed. Lots were bought, houses were built, stores opened, shops erected, and, within less than a year, almost every kind of business carried on in a town a dozen years old was flourishinof.

The first building erected was the one afterward occupied by Hiram and Wesley Grable, of Wenona, as a store room. John Gossett followed soon after with a portion of the hotel to be used as a boarding house. The first dwelling was put up by Peter Bennet.

The road at first refused to make a station of Ancona ; and, consequently, some of its best institutions were removed to this point, among which were Amos Bosserman and the Masonic Lodge. Bossermau was made agent of the road at this place, and still remains in the position. The Lodge, previously known as Ancona Lodge, was removed the year following the establishment of the town ; and in 1877, its name was changed to Long Point Lodge. This Lodge was organized in October, 1866. The first officers were : Abel Bradley, W. M.; 0. Chubbuck, S. W.; J. C. Mills, J. W.; J. B. Phillips, Treas.; A. J. Bosserman, Sec; E. L. Stratton and J. C. Fulton. Deacons; and I. D. Bullock, Tiler. The present officers are A. J. Bosserman, W. M.; S. D. Carson, S. W.; E. L. Stratton, J. W., A. M. Taggart, Sec; Wm. Miller, Treas.

The township of Long Point bore an honorable part in the struggle for the preservation of the Union. The promptness with which volunteers flocked to the standard of the country was not surpassed by that of any other community, and several of them sacrificed their lives in their eff'orts to protect it.

Source changes here: from Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Livingston County, Vol. 2 by Strawn, Johnson, and Franzen (1909)., by Dale C. Maley, published 1909; 191 words in this source stream.

Long Point Township

Long Point was laid out as a village on February 5, 1873, for Samuel Silleck and Andrew J. McDowell, from parts of sections 4, 5 and 9. The Chicago, Pekin and Southwestern railroad (now the Santa Fe) was completed through the village the year previous. A. J. Bosserman was the first station agent. Grable Brothers conducted the first store, John Hossett conducted the first boarding house, and Peter Bennett built the first dwelling. The village now has about 375 inhabitants. It has two general stores, drug store, hardware store, two meat markets, hotel, black- smith shop, confectionery store, two barber shops, three grain elevators, and a custom mill, It also has a newspaper - The Long Point Advocate. There is but one brick building in the village, occupied by the Bank of Long Point, of which B. F. Colehower is president. Two churches are located here - Methodist Protestant and Christian. The village also has two school houses. Among the secret and fraternal orders are the Masons, Knights of Pythias, Modern Woodmen, Court of Honor, Royal Neighbors, and Order of the Eastern Star. The residents of the little village are proud of their cornet band.