. Portrait and biographical record of Winnebago and Boone counties, Illinois, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States. LLIAM LEE I). EWING,Governor of Illinois Nov. 3s% to 17, 1834, was a nativeof Kentucky, and probablyof Scotch ancestry. He hada fine education, was a gentle-man of polished manners andrefined sentiment. In 1830 John Rey-nolds was elected Governor of the State,and Zadok Casey Lieutenant Governor,and for the principal events that followed,and
. Portrait and biographical record of Winnebago and Boone counties, Illinois, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States. LLIAM LEE I). EWING,Governor of Illinois Nov. 3s% to 17, 1834, was a nativeof Kentucky, and probablyof Scotch ancestry. He hada fine education, was a gentle-man of polished manners andrefined sentiment. In 1830 John Rey-nolds was elected Governor of the State,and Zadok Casey Lieutenant Governor,and for the principal events that followed,and the characteristics of the times, seesketch of Gov. Reynolds. The first weg^ see in history concerning Mr. Ewing, in-forms us that he was a Receiver of at Vandalia soon after the organization oft*iis State, and that the public moneys in his handsvere deposited in various banks, as they are present day. In 1823 the State Bank was-obbed, by which disaster Mr. Ewing lost a thousand-dollar deposit. The subject of this sketch had a commission asColonel in the Black Hawk War, and in emergenciesne acTed also as Major. In the summer of 1832,?^hen L ?oras rumored among the whites that BlackHawk and lis men had encamped somew
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