Identifier: historyofhancock01greg (find matches)
Title: History of Hancock County, Illinois, together with an outline history of the State, and a digest of State laws
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Gregg, Thomas, b. 1808. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Chicago, C.C. Chapman
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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fh school, with a course of three rears. The normal course of fouryears embraces two courses, a classical and a scientific course; bothmake the study of the English language and literature quiteprominent. THE ILLINOIS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY, Located at Urbana, was chartered in 1867. It has a corps of twen-ty-five instructors, including professors, lecturers and assistants.and has an attendance of over 400 pupils. It comprises fourcolleges (1) Agriculture, (2) Engineering, (3) Natural Science,(4) Literature and Science. These colleges embrace twelve subor-dinate schools and courses of instruction, in which are taughtdomestic science and art, commerce, military science, wood engrav-ing, printing, telegraphy, photographing and designing. This insti-tution is endowed with the national land grant, and the amount ofits productive fund is about $320,000. The value of its grounds,l)uildings, etc., is about $640,000. It is well supplied with appara-tus, and has a library of over 10,000 volumes.
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HI OF mtu COITI, CHAPTER I. PHYSICAL FEATURES, GEOLOGY AND NATURAL PRODUCTIONS. Hancock County is situated about forty miles north of the centerof the State, on its west line, and within what is known as theMilitary Bounty Land Tract. It is bounded on the south byAdams county, to which it was attached from 1825 to 1829, east byMcDonough and Schuyler, north by Henderson, and west by theMississippi r^ver, which separated it from Clarke county, Missouri,and Lee county, Iowa, and constitutes about two-fifths of its wholeboundary. It lies between forty degrees and ten minutes and fortydegrees and forty minutes north latitude; and between thirteendegrees and thirty-five minutes and fourteen degrees and five min-utes west longitude from Washington. It is thirty miles long fromnorth to south, and on an average of twenty-fourmiles wide fromeast to west—its northern line measuring just twelve miles to itsintersection with the Mississippi, while its southern measures alittle oyer thirty miles.

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