Tells of the founding of Lebanon Seminary, later McKendree College, at Lebanon, Ill., in 1828.
Chicago City Directory, for the Year 1855-56, and Northern Illinois Gazetteer. Chicago: Robert Fergus, 1855. 150+xxxii.+208+128 pp.
Of slight value for our purpose, although the historical introductions to the directories of the various cities and towns have a few usable statements.
Chicago daily Democratic Press. Railroads, History and Commerce of Chicago, three Articles. 2d ed. Chicago: Democratic Press Job and Book Steam Print, 1854. 80 pp.
Of considerable interest, although many statements are of too late a date to be used.
Chicago Magazine. Chicago, Ill.
I., 103-16 (1857), gives an account of the massacre at Fort Dearborn, August 15, 1812, largely taken from the Kinzie narrative.
Chicago Sunday Tribune, Nov. 28, 1897.
New light thrown on Old Fort Dearborn. An account of the finding of important records in the archives of the U. S. government. The archives contained the original order for building a fort where Fort Dearborn later stood (order of 1803), and sketches of Fort Dearborn as early as January, 1808. The sketches are reproduced.
Clarke, S. C. Prairie State, The. (Atlantic Monthly, VII., 579-595, May, 1861.)