BlockMcClellan Township
The complete chapter on this township from Wall's History of Jefferson County, Illinois, published 1909. 239 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marcoe | 1 | 2 | 1 | - |
Settlements in this township
1 placeEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. It is not named in the chapter: it was founded later or was never more than a post office.
The chapter
239 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from Wall's History of Jefferson County, Illinois, published 1909. 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.
Mcclellan Township
lies south of Shiloh. It is both prairie and woodland, soil much the same as the others, watered by branch of the Big Muddy. A son of Thomas Hicks was born here m 181 7 - supposed to be the first white child born in what is now Jefferson county. John Lee, Israel Lanier, John Stillwell, James Dickens, Jonathan Wells, and the Bodines, the Osborns, the Hayes, the Quinns came in and completed the settlement. Among the first improvements were roads and mills. Jonathan Wells put up the first mill - capacity, two bushels per day. Education and religious matters were next to receive attention. The first teacher was Judge D. Baugh, who taught in a log house on John Lee's farm. This log house was used for a church, also. Later the Christians built a nice church at Wolf Prairie and there the Methodists, Baptists and Universalists all worshipped along with the Christians - a very good way to show that they are Christians. McClellan township now has two railroads - the Mount Vernon & Chester and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy - running through it, with good stopping places on both lines, but no town of any importance. It is thoroughly agricultural and Democratic to the core. Its first Supervisor was W. A. Davis, Agriculturally speaking, McClellan is hard to beat. It is the home of the Davises, Lords, McLaughlins, Grays, Howes, Laceys and other prominent families.
Provenance
Text from Wall's History of Jefferson County, Illinois, published 1909, 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.