Identifier: historyofmarshal00west (find matches)
Title: The History of Marshall County, Iowa, containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, &c., a biographical directory of citizens, war record of its volunteers in the late rebellion, general and local statistics, portraits of early settlers and prominent men, history of the Northwest, history of Iowa, map of Marshall County, constitution of the United States, miscellaneous matters, etc
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Western Historical Co., Chicago, pub
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Publisher: Chicago, Western Historical Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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!>SV^«/ A IIEPUESKXTATIVK IlOXKKU. -^ =-r c«>3 of 1831, no one arriving here since that date taking first honors. Theinciting cause of the immigration which overflowed the prairies early inthe oOs Avas the reports of the marvelous beauty and fertility of theregion distributed through the East by those who had participated in theBlack Hawk campaign with Gen. Scott. Chicago and Milwaukee thenhad a few hundred inhabitants, and Gurdon S. Hubbards trail from theformer city to Kaskaskia led almost through a Avilderness. Vegetablesand clothing were largely distributed through the regions adjoining the THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 87 lakes by steamers from the Ohio towns. There are men now living inIllinois who came to the state when barely an acre was in cultivation,and a man now prominent in the business circles of Chicago looked overthe swampy, cheerless site of that metropolis in 1818 and went southward into civilization. Emigrants from Pennsylvania in 1830 left behind
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LINCOLN MONUMENT, SPKINGFIELD, ILLINOIS. them but one small railway in the coal regions, thirty miles in length,and made their way to the Northwest mostly with ox teams, finding inNorthern Illinois petty settlements scores of miles apart, although thesouthern portion of the state was fairly dotted with farms. Thewater courses of the lakes and rivers furnished transportation to thesecond great army of immigrants, and about 1850 railroads werepushed to that extent that the crisis of 1837 was precipitated upon us. THE NORTHWEST TERBITORY. from tlie effects of which the Western country had not fully recoveredat the outbreak of the war. Hostilities found the colonists of the prairiesfullv -alive to the demands of the occasion, and the honor of recruiting

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