Peoria city and county, Illinois; a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement . Work at once began on the new buildingand on Saturday, September 30, 1876, the corner stone was laid, with verysimple ceremonies. Addresses were made on that occasion by Jonathan , one of the pioneer members of the bar, and Hon. Joseph W. Cochran,judge of the circuit court. After the speeches, Thomas Cratty, member of thebar, and Mark AI. Aiken, one of the oldest settlers of the county, placed within ,the stone a number of documents and articles of historical value. Early in the m
Peoria city and county, Illinois; a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement . Work at once began on the new buildingand on Saturday, September 30, 1876, the corner stone was laid, with verysimple ceremonies. Addresses were made on that occasion by Jonathan , one of the pioneer members of the bar, and Hon. Joseph W. Cochran,judge of the circuit court. After the speeches, Thomas Cratty, member of thebar, and Mark AI. Aiken, one of the oldest settlers of the county, placed within ,the stone a number of documents and articles of historical value. Early in the month of November, 1878, the building was completed, and onthe 18th the event was celebrated by a grand reception to the public, which ter-minated with a banquet, at which time a number of speeches were delivered,being preceded, however, with prayer by Rev. J. D. Wilson, rector of ChristEnglish Reformed church. The orators of the occasion were Judges DavidMcCulloch, Joseph W. Cochran and Sabin D. Puterbaugh, and Messrs. Law-rence W. James, Washington Cockle, Thomas Cratty, McCoy, Tipton, Cremer. PE(.IRIA COIXTY COURTHOTSE HISTORY OF PEORIA COUNTY 115 and Fuller. The day was spent by a vast throng of visitors to the building andby night time their numbers had increased amazingly. The banquet was pre-pared by Charles H. Deane, proprietor of the Peoria House, which was dis-cussed by about 250 persons. The total cost of the building, to which, as amatter of course, various additions and changes have been made after the planshad been adopted, was $248, The clock in the tower was manufacturedby the Seth Thomas Clock Company, of New York; the bell, which weighsfour thousand pounds, was made at the McNeely & Kimberly bell works, Troy,New York, both bell and clock furnished by the American Clock Company ofNew York, cost $2,495. The architects description of this beautiful building is as follows: Style,Venetian Italian ; plan, cruciform, with grand colonnade entrance or porticoes,4
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