Historical encyclopedia of Illinois, ed . EXPERIMENT FARM (THE VINEYARD) UNIVERSITY OF EXPERIMENT FARM (ORCHARD CULTIVATION) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ILLINOIS. 13 anil Louisville; seat of Soutliern Collegiate In-stitute; has plant for manufacture of vitrifiedshale paving brick, two newspapers, creamery,flouring mills, and is important shipping pointfor live stock; is in a rich fruit-growing district;has avo churches and splendid public (1900). 1,162; (est. 1904), 1,.500. ALCORN, Liink, was born near Gol-conda. 111., Nov. 4, ISlfi;

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Historical encyclopedia of Illinois, ed . EXPERIMENT FARM (THE VINEYARD) UNIVERSITY OF EXPERIMENT FARM (ORCHARD CULTIVATION) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ILLINOIS. 13 anil Louisville; seat of Soutliern Collegiate In-stitute; has plant for manufacture of vitrifiedshale paving brick, two newspapers, creamery,flouring mills, and is important shipping pointfor live stock; is in a rich fruit-growing district;has avo churches and splendid public (1900). 1,162; (est. 1904), 1,.500. ALCORN, Liink, was born near Gol-conda. 111., Nov. 4, ISlfi; early went South andheld various offices in Kentucky and Mississippi,including member of the Legislature in each;was a member of the Mississippi State Conven-tions of IS,)! and 1861, and by the latter appointeda Brigadier-General in the Confederate service,but refused a commission by Jefferson Davisbecause his fidelity to the rebel cause wasdoubted. At the close of the war he was one ofthe first to accept the reconstruction policy; waselected United States Senator from Mississippi in1865, bu

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