History of Hancock County, Illinois, together with an outline history of the State, and a digest of State laws . ern only lastedabout three years, the trade being too limited. Louis R. Chaflin was the first Postmaster, a position which heheld till 1846. When Mormonism spread itself over the county,Mr. Chaflin, among some others of La Harpe, embraced it; and whenthey lelt, in 1847, he left with them, and the last his old neighborsheard of him he was a missionary of that sect, proselyting in thewilds of Australia. La Harpe is well supplied with railroads, the Toledo, Peoria &Warsaw entering it f
History of Hancock County, Illinois, together with an outline history of the State, and a digest of State laws . ern only lastedabout three years, the trade being too limited. Louis R. Chaflin was the first Postmaster, a position which heheld till 1846. When Mormonism spread itself over the county,Mr. Chaflin, among some others of La Harpe, embraced it; and whenthey lelt, in 1847, he left with them, and the last his old neighborsheard of him he was a missionary of that sect, proselyting in thewilds of Australia. La Harpe is well supplied with railroads, the Toledo, Peoria &Warsaw entering it from the east, and running to the city, whereit divides, the Warsaw branch running southwardly, and that toBurlington taking a northwest course and crossing the line at DiscoStation. La Harpe is the only town in the township. It has become aplace of considerable business, the business center for all the north-east portion of the county. It sports a bank, a good complementof well stocked business houses, and a proportionate number oftradesmen and manufactories and a newspaper. Its population is (892) 0i-:.
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