History of Hancock County, Illinois, together with an outline history of the State, and a digest of State laws . and historian, was publishing at Rock Springin this State, and afterward at St. Louis, the Western Springfield, Simeon Francis was conducting the SangamoJo%irnal\; and at Jacksonville was the Illinois Patriot., by JamesG. Edwards, and the Illinois Spectator., by Mr. Brooks, father ofthe late Austin Brooks, of the (^w\ Herald., and John P. Brooks,one of our former State Superintendents of Public were soon discontinued or changed. Mr. Brooks removedel
History of Hancock County, Illinois, together with an outline history of the State, and a digest of State laws . and historian, was publishing at Rock Springin this State, and afterward at St. Louis, the Western Springfield, Simeon Francis was conducting the SangamoJo%irnal\; and at Jacksonville was the Illinois Patriot., by JamesG. Edwards, and the Illinois Spectator., by Mr. Brooks, father ofthe late Austin Brooks, of the (^w\ Herald., and John P. Brooks,one of our former State Superintendents of Public were soon discontinued or changed. Mr. Brooks removedelsewhere, and Mr. Edwards emigrated to Iowa, took the press ofthe Adventurer^ and established the Fort Madison Patriot., whichhe afterward transferred to Burlington and named the Hawkeye. About the same date Samuel H. Davis, of the Wheeling (Va.)Gazette., came to Peoria and established The Register, which heconducted with ability and success until his death. Long John Wentworth had a year or two before located at Chicago and issuedThe Democrat, though two or three other papers had previously (386) ^^/?J^^. ^ ^
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