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Title: Papers in Illinois history and transactions
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Illinois State Historical Society. 1n Illinois State Historical Society. Transactions. 1n
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Publisher: Springfield
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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least one of the oldest congregationsof this city was organized within its walls and for over a year conductedits services within its court room. As this was before Mr. Beards death,it is not impossible, nor a wild flight of the imagination, to conceive thathe may have been a witness at this churchs founding or organization.This congregation erected in 1850 its first building at Fourth andLafayette Streets. But the murder trial of Duff Armstrong takes precedence of allother interesting incidents connected with this hall. The story of it iswell and minutely told in an article by Hon. J. N. Gridley of Virginia,and published in the Illinois State Historical Societys Journal ofApril, 1910. It would be interesting to quote at length from the articlehere, but wo refer the inteiested reader to the article itself and turn toanother and the last of Beards historic landmarks. This is his summerhome in the bluffs, and has just given way to Times devouring tooth,as it Avas razed this very spring.
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* 123 In 1836 Thomas Beard, having found fortune smiled upon him,bought 560 acres of land at the bluffs to the northeast of town, wherethis skirting rim of land elevation forms an obtuse angle of about 240degrees in the frame it builds of the eastern and southern sides for theIllinois and Sangamon Eiver valleys. It is six miles from town andlocated just east of the brick schoolhouse (which, by the way, was builtby Beard), where the bluffs shove out this elbow. The property is nowthe possession of Mrs. Ella Seaman, widow of the late Fred Seaman.Here Mr. Beard reared his summer home, located on the first terrace ofbluff land in the shape of a commodious bungalow of oak and walnut.He surrounded the same with choice orchards and vineyards and openedthe house to hospitality, sociability and domestic bliss. Many were theoccasions when these three sisters, like sweet graces, presided here, andmany are the memories of our few surviving octogenarians of social func-tions enjoyed here; and many

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