. Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . A. Douglas, andlater Richard Yates, afterwards the War Gov-ernor of Illinois. It is the seat of several im-portant State institutions, notably the CentralHospital for the Insane, and Institutions for theEducation of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind—besides private educational institutions, includingIllinois College, Illinois Conference Female Col-lege (Methodist), Jacksonville Female Academy,a Business College and others. The city ha3several banks, a large woolen mill, carriage fac-tories, brick yards, planing mills, and two news-paper establishments, eac
. Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . A. Douglas, andlater Richard Yates, afterwards the War Gov-ernor of Illinois. It is the seat of several im-portant State institutions, notably the CentralHospital for the Insane, and Institutions for theEducation of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind—besides private educational institutions, includingIllinois College, Illinois Conference Female Col-lege (Methodist), Jacksonville Female Academy,a Business College and others. The city ha3several banks, a large woolen mill, carriage fac-tories, brick yards, planing mills, and two news-paper establishments, each publishing daily andweekly editions. It justly ranks as one of themost attractive and interesting cities of the State,noted for the hospitality and intelligence of itscitizens. Although immigrants from Kentuckyand other Southern States predominated in itsearly settlement, the location there of IllinoisCollege and the Jacksonville Female Academy,about 1830, brought to it many settlers of NewEngland birth, so that it early came to be. INSTITUTION FOR FOR DEAF AND DIMB, JACKSONVILLE.
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