BlockWashington Township
The complete chapter on this township from The History of Carroll County, Illinois, Containing a History of the County-its Cities, Towns, Etc., a Biographical Directory ... War Record ... Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men ... History of the Northwest ... Illinois ... Miscellaneous Matters, Etc, published 1878. 362 words, covering 3 settlements. 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 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. None of the 3 is named in the chapter: they were founded later or were never more than a post office.
The chapter
362 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from The History of Carroll County, Illinois, Containing a History of the County-its Cities, Towns, Etc., a Biographical Directory ... War Record ... Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men ... History of the Northwest ... Illinois ... Miscellaneous Matters, Etc, 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.
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FISH <;E0. R. Farmer; Sec. 17; P. O. Savanna; born in Orleans Co., Vt., Sept. 8, 1825; came to this Co. in 1850; owns 410 acres land; has been married twice; first wife was Miss Eveline Pierce; she was born and married in tliis Co.; he was married a,i,Min, to Lizzie Stakemiller, of Mt. Carroll, April 14, 1870; sjic was born June 20, 184;{; has two cliildnn bv first wife: Julia Hell, born Oct. 27; 18(51: [ra A, June!), ISIU ; fliree by second wife: Geo. \.. Iiorn .\prii '.i, 1873; Mary L., Nov. 25,1875; ("lias., Nov. 7, 1877. Fosdick Francis, farmer; P. O. Savanna.
1837; came to this Co. in 1849; not married ; owns 193J^ acres of land, valued at .$5,790; was Justice of the Peace four years and Constable two years.
MACJE .TOHAIVNA MRS. Farming; Sec. 7; P. O. Savanna; was born in the Province of Hanover, Germany, Jan. 21, 1826; has been a resident of this Co. ^-ince Oct. 9, 1855; has been married twice; first husband was Leo Kratzenstein, born in Prussia, July 17, 1824, and died Jan. 9, 1861 ; she married again, to Thomas Mace, July 9, 1861; he died in Feb. 1874; she has two children by her second husband: Emily P., born Jan. 2, 1874; George B., Jan. 3, 1866.
TAYL.OB MASOX C. Farmer; Sec, 1; P. O. Savanna; born in Chillicothe, O., Jan. 1, 1806; came to Galena in Spring of 1829 ; was reared in Ky. and Va. ; mined aroiiud Galena and worked at wagon-making, for six years; he enlisted in the Volunteers at Galena, and served during the Black Hawk War, and was honorably discharged at its close ; settled on a farm near where he now resides; helped gather corn on the farm located by Kirker, in Rush Tp., in the Fall of 1831, for Hiram Innis; married Miss Mary Cummings in 1840 ; she was born in Pa.; were married in Iowa; have two children living; James W. and Jos. L. owns 260 acres of land ; served two terms as Coroner of Carroll Co., and three years as Supervisor of the Tp. in which he lives.
Provenance
Text from The History of Carroll County, Illinois, Containing a History of the County-its Cities, Towns, Etc., a Biographical Directory ... War Record ... Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men ... History of the Northwest ... Illinois ... Miscellaneous Matters, Etc, 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.