BlockMount Pleasant Township (part 2 of 2)
Part 2 of 2 of the account of this township in History of Whiteside County, Illinois from Its Earliest Settlement to 1908 : Illustrated, with Biographical Sketches of Some Prominent Citizens of the County, published 1908. 54 words, covering 2 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Parts
2 pagesThe source prints this as one continuous account. It is split here so no single page grows too heavy to load; the text runs straight on across the parts and nothing is omitted.
- Part 1
- Part 2
The chapter
54 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from History of Whiteside County, Illinois from Its Earliest Settlement to 1908 : Illustrated, with Biographical Sketches of Some Prominent Citizens of the County, published 1908. 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.
Flavins J. Jackson was born Aug. 22, 1825, near Chesterville, Knox county, Ohio, and died Feb. 8, 1908, at the age of 82 years, 5 months and 16 days. He came west with his father's family in 1837, settling on a claim where Morrison now is and has made his home here ever since.
Provenance
Text from History of Whiteside County, Illinois from Its Earliest Settlement to 1908 : Illustrated, with Biographical Sketches of Some Prominent Citizens of the County, published 1908, 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.