BlockRice Township
The complete chapter on this township from The History of Jo Daviess County, Illinois, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., a Biographical Directory of Its Citizens, War Record of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion ... History of the Northwest, History of Illinois ... Constitution of the United States, published 1878. 1,028 words, covering 3 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
4 sectionsThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.
The people it describes
1 namedEveryone the 1878 history stops to write about in this chapter. Each name opens the passage itself.
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
3 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. 1 of the 3 is named in the chapter; the rest were founded later or were never more than a post office.
The chapter
1,028 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from The History of Jo Daviess County, Illinois, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., a Biographical Directory of Its Citizens, War Record of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion ... History of the Northwest, History of Illinois ... Constitution of the United States, published 1878. 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.
Rice Township
This land, which is less used as farming land, is still very valuable, furnishing, as it does, some of the richest leads in the lead mining region. Passing along beside the river on the bluff road, which was graded for railroad purposes, in 1837, by the old Illinois Central Railroad Company, a beautiful view is presented, extending many miles up and down the river valley. All along the road, above and under it, drift leads penetrate far into the bluffs, marked on the outside by rows of clay dumps, which extend out into the river bayous. On each of these is a trainway, on which a dirt cart plies to and fro. Occasionally an engine is stationed at the mouth of one, for the purpose of pumping out the water. The largest mine now in use is that of Captain D. S. Harris, among the New California diggings, nine miles below Galena. Of it and the Marsden mines more is said in the special chapter relative to the mining interests.
There is a Methodist Episcopal Church on the northwestern part of section 5. The school-houses of the township are located on sections n (near the centre), and 9 (northeast part), and 27 (eastern part).
Supervisor, James Ginn ; Town Clerk, W. H. Dick ; Assessor, Anthony McAllister; Collector, David Virtue; Commissioners of Highways, Bernard Lampa, John Funston, and John Bouch ; Constable, Nelson Mougm ; Justices of the Peace, David Virtue and John Spratt. The population was, in 1860, 539, and in 1870, 570.
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DICK ROBERT K. Farmer; Sec. 25 ; P. O. Galena ; owns 400 acres of land ; was born in Co. Antrim, Ireland, in Oct., 1810 ; came to this country in 1829, and settled in Pa., in which state he remained eight years ; during his stay in that state he was married to Miss Margaret Marshall, Feb. 9, 1836; she was born in Ireland Dec. 23, 1808 ; they came to this Co. in 1837 ; Mr. Dick has held various town and school offices during his residence in this Tp ; they have had seven children ; the living are : Ann Jane, now Mrs. James Speers, born Aug. 10, 1838 ; John E., May 20, 1844; Elizabeth L., Nov. 3, 1845, she is now Mrs. J. Wilson ; Robert K., Dec. 25, 1846; William H., Aug. 17, 1849.
JAMES, Farmer; Sec. 12; P. O. Galena ; owns 350 acres of land ; was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 29, 1830; moved to this Co. with his parents in 1834; on the 2d of Feb., 1859, he married Miss Jane Funston, in Town of Rice; she was born in Ireland Nov. 1, 1839 ; Mr. Ginn was elected Supervisor of this Tp. last Spring (1877) and is the present incumbent of that office; he has held the office of Sheriff of Jo Daviess Co. two years ; was also Deputy Sheriff two years ; in 1861 he enlisted in Co. H, 3d Mo. V. I. ; served as a Sergeant; was honorably discharged at St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 2, 1864 ; he has been in many severe engagements, among them being the battles of Vicksburg, Atlanta, and a series of battles around each one ot those places; his father (Johnson Ginn) came to this Co. in 1834, thus becoming one of the pioneers of the Northwest, resides in Galena.
Hi8Toky Of Jo Davie8S County
VIRTUE DAVID, Farmer; Sec. 12; P. O. Galena ; owns 100 acres of land ; was born in County Donegal, Ireland, in the year of 1805; came to this Co. in 1845, and located in this Tp., and it has been his home since ; in looking among the Tp. Records we find that he has held most every office known in the catalogue of Tp. and School offices, among them being that of Justice of the Peace, which office he has held twelve years, Town Treasurer twentyfour consecutive years ; he is the present incumbent of the offices of Justice of the Peace and Town Collector; he has been twice married; first wife was Catherine Read ; she was born in Ireland in 1804 ; they were married in 1828 ; she died in 1829; present wife was Margaret Roe; they were married in Ireland; they have had five children, viz. : William Roe, born Nov. 10. 1830 ; Eliza Jane (now Mrs. J. Gray), Nov. 16, 1834; Robert, Nov. 28, 1837; he enlisted in Co. A, 96th Regt. I. V. I. ; was in many hard-fought battles, among them being the battles of Nashville and Franklin; he died on Dec. 6, 1865; Ellen, in 1842; James, April 20, 1845, died in infancy.
VIRTUE WILLIAM I. Farmer; Sec. 13; P. O. Galena; owns 200 acres of land ; was born in Galena, in this Co., on Sept. 25, 1841 ; in 1861, when the dark clouds of war overshadowed our land and armed hands threatened the dissolution of the union of our fathers, he answered his country's call and enlisted in Co. A, 96th Regt. 1. V. I., in which Regt. he served three years ; he was honorably discharged ; was in every engagement with the enemy that his Regt. was; he was promoted Corporal in 1863 ; was married to Miss Martha Campbell in this town (Rice) on March 7, 1867 ; she was born in Galena in 1842 ; they have six children: viz.: Adam Howard, Feb. 14, 1868; Mary Jane, April 14, 1870; Margaret Eliza, Nov. 11, 1871; Anna G., July 11, 1873; David Samuel, Jan. 9, 1876 ; Sarah Rebecca, Nov. 12, 1877.
Virtue Will1Ah Roe
Farmer; Sec. 12; P. O. Galena; owns 140 acres of land ; was born in Ireland Nov. 10, 1830 ; came to this Co. with his parents in 1845 ; in politics he has always been Republican, casting first vote for Winfield Scott ; is the present School Trustee, which office he has held for the last sixteen years; he married Miss Jane Virtue in this town on May 3, 1860 ; she was born in Galena on Oct. 12, 1839 ; they have had two children : M. Emma, born Aug. 15,
Provenance
Text from The History of Jo Daviess County, Illinois, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., a Biographical Directory of Its Citizens, War Record of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion ... History of the Northwest, History of Illinois ... Constitution of the United States, published 1878, 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.