Portrait and biographical record of Ford County, Illinois : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States . LLIAM LEE I). EWING,Governor of Illinois Nov. 3^^«s to 17, 1834, was a nativeof Kentucky, and probablyof Scotch ancestry. He bada fine education, was a gentle-man of polished manners andrefined sentiment. In 1830 John Rey-nolds was elected Governor of the State,and Zadok Casey Lieutenant Governor,and for the principal events that followed,and the characteri
Portrait and biographical record of Ford County, Illinois : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States . LLIAM LEE I). EWING,Governor of Illinois Nov. 3^^«s to 17, 1834, was a nativeof Kentucky, and probablyof Scotch ancestry. He bada fine education, was a gentle-man of polished manners andrefined sentiment. In 1830 John Rey-nolds was elected Governor of the State,and Zadok Casey Lieutenant Governor,and for the principal events that followed,and the characteristics of the times, seesketch of Gov. Reynolds. The first we^Ph/ see in history concerning Mr. Ewing, in-forms us that he was a Receiver of at Vandalia soon after the organization ofthis State, and that the public moneys in his deposited in various banks, as they are usuallyW-aW i^resent day. In 1823 the State Bank was-ubbed,by which disaster Mr. Ewing lost a thousand-dollar deposit. The subject of this sketcli had a commission asColonel in the Black Hawk War, and in emergenciesne acted also as Major. In the summer of 1832,when I ras rumored among the whites that BlackHawk and his men had encamped somewher
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