History of Jerseyville, Illinois

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Excerpt from History of Jerseyville, Illinois: 1822 to 1901 This volume I now respectfully dedicate to the citizens of Jerseyville, Ill. I am not unmindful of the many kind and encouraging words spoken to me by almost all the citizens of Jerseyville, while in course of writing and construction, especially am I endebted to Editor Becker for his many sensible pointers which have been very helpful. This book contains a history of our City, covering a period of seventy-nine years, beginning when John Ballard, a pioneer squatter who built his cabin on Abija Davis' farm in the north part of the city in 1822, before a foot of land was entered, in or near, Jerseyville. Taking this date for my starting-point, I have systematically followed the rise and progress of our city to the present moment, giving an impartial and correct account of all her internal improvements, every business interest which has risen and passed away, with all that remains, every profession, whose representatives have passed away, or remain with us, every occupation once followed, and is still followed, the churches, their organization, growth, with the successive change of their pastors, and when, our educational system, of which our citzens are justly so proud, have all been carefully, but of necessity briefly, represented. This volume is also embellished with portraits of about one hundred and fifty of our citizens, some of them the early pioneers, others early professional and business men, with the larger part of the professional and business men who remain with us, with some twenty children placed in groups, altogether covering in their lives a period of about one hundred and ten years. When all these faces are hid in the tomb, this memorial book will reveal to the survivors many reminiscences of by gone day. I have spared neither pains nor labor in canvassing every inch of the business and human life of Jerseyville, to make this a volume absolutely correct and complete in all its statements. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.