. The history of Will County, Illinois, containing a history of the county .. . A KEPRESENTATlVJi PIONEER. of 1831, no one arriving here since that date taking first honors. Theinciting cau:ie of the immigration which overflowed the prairies early 30s was the reports of the marvelous beauty and fertility of theregion distributed through the East by those who had participated in theBlack Hawk campaign with Gen. Scott. Chicago and Milwaukee thenhad a few hundred inhabitants, and Gurdon S. Hubbards trail from theformer city to Kaskaskia led almost through a wilderness. Vegetablesand clothi
. The history of Will County, Illinois, containing a history of the county .. . A KEPRESENTATlVJi PIONEER. of 1831, no one arriving here since that date taking first honors. Theinciting cau:ie of the immigration which overflowed the prairies early 30s was the reports of the marvelous beauty and fertility of theregion distributed through the East by those who had participated in theBlack Hawk campaign with Gen. Scott. Chicago and Milwaukee thenhad a few hundred inhabitants, and Gurdon S. Hubbards trail from theformer city to Kaskaskia led almost through a wilderness. Vegetablesand clothing were largely distributed through the regions adjoining the 88 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. lakes by steamers from the Ohio towns. There are men now living inIlHnois who came to the state when barely an acre was in cultivation,and a man now prominent in the business circles of Chicago looked overthe swampy, cheerless site of that metropolis in 1818 and went south-ward into civilization. Emigrants from Pennsvlvania in 1830 left behind. LINCOLN MONUMENT, SPKINGFIELD, ILLINOIS. them but one small railway in the coal regions, thirty miles in length,and made their way to the Northwest mostly with ox teams, finding inNorthern Illinois petty settlements scores of miles apart, although thesouthern portion of the state was fairly dotted with farms. Thewater courses of the lakes and rivers furnished transportation to thesecond great army of immigrants, and about 1850 railroads werepushed to that extent that the crisis of 1837 was precipitated upon us, THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 89 from tlie effects of which the Western country had not fully recoveredat the outbreak of the war. Hostilities found the colonists of the prairiesfully alive to the demands of the occasion, and the honor of recruiting
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