History of Schuyler County, Illinois Newspapers
Excerpted from Old Times In Schuyler
Articles originally prepared, written & published by Howard F. Dyson in The Rushville Times 1918
- First Record of Exploration
- The Military Tract
- Evolution of County Organization
- First Settlement in Schuyler
- Schuyler’s First Settlers
- County Organized in 1825
- Rushville Platted in 1826
- Indians Here in 1826
- The Second Wedding in the County
- Chauncey Hobart Tells of Those Early Days
- Early Day Settlers
- J. D. Manlove Recalls the Early days
- Rushville Grew Rapidly in 1830’s
- Rushville in 1836
- First School in 1826 – Rushville High School 1848
- Incorporated in 1831
- Schuyler Had Militia Company
- Rushville in 1855
- First Industry Started in 1855
- Frederick in 1859
- History by Mrs. Bagby
- Pork Packing in 1859
- Two Routes Into Schuyler
- Town Sites Long Forgotten
(mentions towns of Atlas, Erie, Schuyler City, Milton, New York,Ague Bend, York, Richmond, Centerville, Ridgeville, Mosco, Mt. Meacham, Newburg, Center, Illinois) - Snake Drive in Schuyler
- Work of the Pioneer Woman
- Rifle Was Needed Equipment
(includes fur & peltry, bee hunting,rafting logs,staves, & hoop-pole trades, steamboat business) - Had Crude Farm Implements
- A Record for “Jug Town,” Ripley, Illinois (pottery business)
Excerpted from Schuyler Citizen Newspaper:
- December 29, 1858 – Deaths in Rushville for 1849 – 1850
- January 19, 1859 – Deaths in Rushville for 1851
- January 26, 1859 – Deaths in Rushville for 1852
- February 2, 1859 – Deaths in Rushville for 1853
- February 25, 1859 – Deaths in Rushville for 1854
- March 2, 1859 – Deaths in Rushville for 1855
- March 9, 1859 – Deaths in Rushville for 1856
- March 23, 1859 – Deaths in Rushville for 1857
- January 5, 1859 – Deaths in Rushville for 1858
- January 4, 1860 – Deaths in Rushville for 1859
- January 16, 1861 – Deaths in Rushville for 1860
- Miscellaneous Articles
- December 21, 1871
- December 28, 1871
- January 4, 1872
- January 11, 1872
- January 25, 1872
- February 1, 1872
- February 8, 1872
- February 15, 1872
- February 22, 1872
- February 29, 1872
- March 7, 1872
- March 14, 1872
- April 4, 1872
- April 11, 1872
- April, 25, 1872
- May 30, 1872
- June 20, 1872
- June 27, 1872
- September 5, 1872
Schuyler Citizen Newspapers
Deaths & Obituaries for years 1879-1880
Surnames: Achison, Ames, Armstrong, Asher, Badenbinder, Baker, Baxter, Beckrom, Berry, Bert, Bertholf, Bidamon, Blair, Branstool, Briney, Brown, Buckingham, Burnham, Campbell, Carlilsle, Christianson, Clark, Collins, Crandall, Crosoer, Curtis, DeWitt, Demoss, Farneworth, Fifer, Foote, Fowler, Gadbert, Garrett, Gay, Goodwin, Gray, Greer, Hagans, Haney, Harman, Haskell, Heita, Heitz, Heitzman, Hermetet, Herron, Higgins, Hiler, Hopley, Hoskinson, Howell, Irvins, Irwin, Jackson, Johnson, Jones, Jonte, Kennedy, Kerr, King, Kotzman, Kuhn, Lambert, Larash, Lawler, Lewis, Linn, Little, McClure, McCutcheon, McIntyre, McMaster, Merritt, Meyers, Middleton, Milby, Millison, Montgomery, Morris, Nall, Nardin, Newberry, Noble, Norton, Packard, Parker, Parr, Parrott, Pierson, Potts, Purdy, Ray, Rebman, Roberts, Robertson, Robinson, Roosa, Ruth, Schultz, Scott, Scripps, Seward, Slack, Sloan, Smith, Smither, Strong, Swayze, Taylor, Thompson, Todd, Trone, Wade, Walton, Wheelhouse, Window, Wright, Yoke
Some Deaths & Obituaries from 1897
Surnames: Armstrong, Breeden, Coffman, Decounter, Evans, Hale, Hodges, Justus, Lawler, McClintock, Payne, Peckenpaugh, Prather, Schmoldt, Smith, Stodgell, Toland
Military Articles
Marriages / Anniversaries
- Three sisters, brother marking 50th wedding anniversaries within year – newspaper May 7, 1980
Surnames include: Briggs, Shelts, Reeder, Hare, Raper, Vance, Schuenke, Henniger, Osborne, Kamm