PUBLICATION NO. 8 OF THE ILLINOIS STATE HISTORICAL LIBRARY

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TRANSACTIONS

OF THE

ILLINOIS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY

FOR THE YEAR 1903.

FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY

SPRINGFIELD, JANUARY 27 AND 28, 1903.

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE
ILLINOIS STATE HISTORICAL LIBRARY, 1903.

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BANYAN COLLE IL LIBRAR

MAR 10 1904

CAMPRIDE, MASS
The Library.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE ILLINOIS STATE
HISTORICAL LIBRARY.

H. W. BECKWITH, President, Danville.

E. J. JAMES, PH. D., Vice President, Evanston.
GEORGE N. BLACK, Secretary, Springfield.

PUBLICATION COMMITTEE OF THE ILLINOIS STATE
HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

J. H. BURNHAM, Chairman.

MRS. JESSIE PALMER WEBER.

E. B. GREENE, PH. D.

DR. J. F. SNYDER, President of the Society, ex-officio,

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

List of officers of the Illinois State Historical Society.

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List of members of the Illinois State Historical Society.

Committees of the Illinois State Historical Society..

Constitution of the Illinois State Historical Society

Transactions of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Illinois State Historical Society.

January 27 and 28, 1903

Business meeting.....

Committee reports

Literary sessions

Program of exercises

Address of welcome, Hon. Wm. A. Northcott. Lieutenant Governor of Illinois.

VI

VIII

6-9

.9-125

10

Response to the address of welcome, Dr. J. F. Snyder, First Vice President of the Illi-

nois State Historical Society..

.12-15

Annual address, The Constitutional Conventions and Constitutions of Illinois, Hon.

Adlai E. Stevenson....

65-74

75-83-

.84-96

97-104

.105-117

Men and Manners of the Early Days in Illinois, Dr. A. W. French

Sectional Forces in the History of Illinois, Evarts B. Greene, Ph. D...................

Decisive Events in the Building of Illinois, Hon. William H. Collins..................

Edward Coles, Second Governor of Illinois. Mrs. S. P. Wheeler.....

Fort de Chartres. Its Origin, Growth and Decline, Joseph Wallace, M. A.

A Few Notes for an Industrial History of Illinois, Ethelbert Stewart, United States De-

partment of Labor, Chicago....

Necrologist's Report-In Memoriam..

James Affleck of Belleville, an Honorary Member of the Illinois

State Historical Society

Addendum-Papers Contributed to the Illinois State Historical Society, 1903..

Prairie du Rocher Church Records, with Translation by Rev. C. J. Esch-

mann.......

Travels in Illinois in 1819, by Ferdinand Ernst, Translation by Prof. E. P.
Baker of McKendree College, Lebanon, Ill...
150-165

The Army Lead by Col. George Rogers Clark in his Conquest of the Illi-
nois, 1778-1779, Notes by Dr. J.F. Snyder.....
...166-178

An Early Illinois Newspaper, Extracts from its Files, by J. H. Burnham.179-189

Forgotten Statesmen of Illinois, Hon. John McLean-Hon. Thomas Sloo-

Hon. Charles Slade.....

.190-210

Errata

Hon. John McLean, by J. H. Burnham........................................................................................ 190-201

Thomas Sloo, by Dr. J. F. Snyder..................................................................................................
Charles Slade, by Dr. J. F. Snyder..

The Attorneys-General of Illinois, Mason H. Newell..

Lincoln in Rushville, 1832-1858. Howard F. Dyson..

Early History of the Drug Trade of Chicago, compiled from the records of

the Chicago Veteran Druggists' Association, by Albert E. Ebert, historian

Jean Cabriel Cerré, a sketch. By Judge Walter B. Douglas..

Report of the Committee on Historic Places in Illinois, Edwin E. Sparks,

chairman

201-206

207-210

211-220

221-233

.234-274

275-288

289-293

Action of the Illinois members of the Society of Daughters of the Ameri-

can Revolution in relation to the purchase by the State of the site of Old

Fort Massac, copy of the bill appropriating money for the purchase of the

site of old Fort Massac....

.294-298

.299-301

Seventh biennial report to the Governor of the State of Illinois of the Board
of Trustees of the Illinois State Historical Library...

Copy of the bill amending the act for the organization of the Illinois State

Historical Library, by which the Illinois State Historical Society is made

a department of the Illinois State Historical Library

Index..........

List of illustrations-

Table of Contents-Concluded.

1. Frontispiece. Portrait of H. W. Beckwith, president of the Illinois State Histori-

cal Society, 1899-1903....

7. Cut of engine and coach used on early railroads of the United States

8. The old State House at Springfield,

9. Edward Coles, second Governor of Illinois..

10. Last relic of Fort Chartres, 1903..................................................................................................................................

11. Gen. E. B. Hamilton.

12. Gen. George Rogers Clark

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18. John McLean memorial tablet..

14. Hon. Thomas Sloo....

15. Abraham Lincoln in 1858..

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123

166

190

202

221

224

234

16. Schuyler county court house at Rushville.
17. The Sauganash hotel, Chicago...