——A brief History of Danville, Illinois, with a concise Statement of its mining, manufacturing, and commercial Advantages. Danville, Ill.: Danville Printing Co., 1874. 11 pp. (unnumbered).
Slight, but tells of the beginnings of the city in the third decade of the 19th century.
Beckwith, Paul. Creoles of St. Louis. St. Louis: Nixon-Jones Printing Co., 1893. 169 pp.
The genealogy of the five branches of the Chouteau family is given. As many of this family were prominent in early Illinois the work is of some interest, although not wholly reliable.
Beggs, Rev. Stephen R. Pages from the early History of the West and North-West: embracing Reminiscences and Incidents of Settlement and Growth, and Sketches of the material and religious Progress of the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, with especial Reference to the History of Methodism. Cincinnati: Methodist Book Concern, 1868. 325 pp.
Good upon the beginnings of northern Illinois. Tells of the Chicago massacre (1812), of the work of Rev. Jesse Walker, and of early pioneer life. No clerical bias, in the bad sense.
Bernheim, G. D. History of the German Settlements and of [pg 237] the Lutheran Church in North and South Carolina, from the earliest Period of the Colonization of the Dutch, German and Swiss Settlers to the Close of the first Half of the present Century. Philadelphia: The Lutheran Book Store, 1872. ix.+557 pp.
Pages 471-3 tell of the North Carolina Synod sending a missionary to Illinois in 1827.
Birney, William. James G. Birney and his Times. The Genesis of the Republican Party with some Account of abolition Movements in the South before 1828. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1890. 24mo. x.+443 pp.
Chapter 12 is on abolition in the South before 1828. The work is helpful in learning the conditions from which southern emigrants moved.