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 Articiles
Newspaper Articles Regarding Reunions of Co. D 115th IL. Volunteer Infantry
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
Excerpted from The Gazette - Beardstown, Cass County, Illinois
September 10, 1847 - Letter written to James Lawler from Rice Dunbar
Excerpted from The Illinois Patriot -
Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois
July 12, 1834 - Cholera Deaths in Rushville
Pubished Items of Interest
Mama Go to Court
Poem by Effie Connelly Beckerdite of Brooklyn, Illinois
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