Portrait and biographical album of Pike and Calhoun counties, Illinois .. . bonds andthus rob the State Treasury of nearly a quarter of amillion dollars. Tlife State Government was impli-cated in this affair, and to this day remains unex-plained or unatoned for. For the above, and othermatters previously mentioned, Gov. Bissell has beenseverely criticised, and he has also been most shame-fully libelled and slandered. On account of exposure in the army, the remotecause of a nervovis form of disease gained entranceinto his system and eventually developed paraplegia,affecting his lower extremitie
Portrait and biographical album of Pike and Calhoun counties, Illinois .. . bonds andthus rob the State Treasury of nearly a quarter of amillion dollars. Tlife State Government was impli-cated in this affair, and to this day remains unex-plained or unatoned for. For the above, and othermatters previously mentioned, Gov. Bissell has beenseverely criticised, and he has also been most shame-fully libelled and slandered. On account of exposure in the army, the remotecause of a nervovis form of disease gained entranceinto his system and eventually developed paraplegia,affecting his lower extremities, which, while it lefthis body in comparative health, deprived him of loco-motion except by the aid of crutches. While he wasgenerally hopeful of ultimate recovery, this myste-rious disease pursued him, without once relaxing itsstealthy hold, to the close of his life, March 18,i860, over nine months before the expiration of hiagubernatorial term, at the eariy age of 48 years. Hedied in the faith of the Roman Catholic Church. 0/1 ivhich he han. been a member since
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