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Title: History of Vermilion County, together with historic notes on the Northwest, gleaned from early authors, old maps and manuscripts, private and official correspondence, and other authentic, though, for the most part, out-of-the-way sources
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Beckwith, H. W. (Hiram Williams), 1833-1903
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Publisher: Chicago, H. H. Hill and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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WILLI A&1 D. BARGE,CHICAGO. HISTORY *2> u\j of 2 2 <f VERMILION COUNTY, TOGETHER WITH HISTORIC NOTES ON THE NORTHWEST, GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS, PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES. By H. W. BECKWITH, Of the Danville Bar ; Corresponding Member or the Historical Societies ofWisconsin and Chicago. WITH MAP AND. ILLUSTRATIONS. CHICAGO: H. H. HILI/jAND COMPANY, PUBLISHERS. 1879. 4/Si/ 01 Copyright, 1879. By H. W. BECKWITH AND SON. I KIIISHT I LEcilARD. 1 PREFACE. / In the following pages the writer has limited himself, for the most part, to the ter-ritory watered by the Illinois, the St. Joseph of Lake Michigan, the Maumee and theWabash rivers. He has chosen to do so to the end that the early history of the countrytreated of might be the more fully considered. The topographical features of, and themilitary and civil events occurring in, localities beyond these limits have been not

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