Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois . ILLIAM LEE D. EWING,Governor of Illinois Nov. 3?;3 to 17, 1834, was a nativeof Kentucky, and probablyof Scotch ancestry. He had?^ a 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 weJ^^ see in history concerning Mr. Ewing, in-forms us that he was a Receiver of PublicMoi cys at Vandalia soon after
Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois . ILLIAM LEE D. EWING,Governor of Illinois Nov. 3?;3 to 17, 1834, was a nativeof Kentucky, and probablyof Scotch ancestry. He had?^ a 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 weJ^^ see in history concerning Mr. Ewing, in-forms us that he was a Receiver of PublicMoi cys at Vandalia soon after the organization State, and that the public moneys in his handsvere deposited in various banks, as they are usually??? tJK /resent day. In 1823 the State Bank wasobbed, by which disaster Mr. Ewing lost a thousand-dollar deposit. The subject of this sketcli had a commission as(olonel in the Black Hawk War, and in emergenciesne aci^ed also as Major. In the summer of 1S32,•/hen I was rumored among the whites that BlackHawk his men had
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