Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . EXPERIMENT FARM (TIIK VINEYAKIm UNIVERSITY ill ILLINOIS. EXPERIMENT FARM ( OKI II AIM > ( VATION) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ILLINOIS. 13 anil Louisville; seat of Southern 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 five churches and splendid public (1900), 1,162; (est. 1904), 1,500. ALCORN, James Lnsk, was born near Gol-conda, 111., Nov. 4, 1
Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . EXPERIMENT FARM (TIIK VINEYAKIm UNIVERSITY ill ILLINOIS. EXPERIMENT FARM ( OKI II AIM > ( VATION) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ILLINOIS. 13 anil Louisville; seat of Southern 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 five churches and splendid public (1900), 1,162; (est. 1904), 1,500. ALCORN, James Lnsk, was born near Gol-conda, 111., Nov. 4, 1816; 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 1851 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 in18
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