Portrait and biographical album of Pike and Calhoun counties, Illinois .. . >-5—<? o<s^-<lll!».^o kr^O LLIAM LEE D. EWING,Governor of Illinois Nov. 3;3 to 17, 1834, was a nativeof Kentucky, and probablyof Scotch ancestry. He bada fine education, was a gentle-man of polished manners refined sentiment. In 1830 Jolm Rey-•^^ nolds was elected Governor of the State,k^ and Zaduk Casey Lieutenant Governor,Is, Sld for the principal events that followed,and the characteristics of the times, seesketch of Gov. Reynolds. The first wesee in history concerning Mr. Ewing, in-forms us that h
Portrait and biographical album of Pike and Calhoun counties, Illinois .. . >-5—<? o<s^-<lll!».^o kr^O LLIAM LEE D. EWING,Governor of Illinois Nov. 3;3 to 17, 1834, was a nativeof Kentucky, and probablyof Scotch ancestry. He bada fine education, was a gentle-man of polished manners refined sentiment. In 1830 Jolm Rey-•^^ nolds was elected Governor of the State,k^ and Zaduk Casey Lieutenant Governor,Is, Sld for the principal events that followed,and the characteristics of the times, seesketch of Gov. Reynolds. The first wesee in history concerning Mr. Ewing, in-forms us that he was a Receiver of PublicMor eys at Vandalia soon after the organization oftftis State, and that the public moneys in his handsvere deposited in various banks, as they are usually?•?\W /resent day. In 1823 the State Bank was-(jbbed, by which disaster Mr. Ewing lost a thousand-dollar deposit. The subject of this sketch had a commission as(olonel in the Black Hawk War, and in emergenciesne acted also as Major. In the summer of 1832,^hen ivras rumored among the
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