The settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830

by Arthur Clinton Boggess

Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate. Kentucky. A pioneer Commonwealth. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1885. viii. + 433 pp.

Useful as giving an insight into the character of a neighboring state from which many of the early settlers of Illinois came. One of the best of the American Commonwealths series.

Shea, John Gilmary. History of the Catholic Church in the United States, 1808-1843. New York: John G. Shea, 1890. vii. + 731 pp.

References to Illinois are very few, but are important. The volume is the third in the author's four-volumed History of the Catholic Church in the United States.

Siebert, Wilbur Henry. The Underground Rail Road from Slavery to Freedom; with an Introduction by Albert Bushnell Hart. New York; The Macmillan Co., 1898. viii. + iii. + 478 pp.

Has notes of great interest on the U. G. R. R. in Illinois before 1830. Criticism: Am. Hist. Rev., IV., 557.

Smith, Theodore Clarke. The Liberty and Free Soil Parties in the Northwest. New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1897. vii. + 351 pp. (Harvard Hist. Studies, VI.)

A well-written book, but only the first chapter concerns the period before 1830. This chapter is, however, well worth attention.

Steinhard, S. Deutschland und sein Volk. Gotha: Hugo Scheube, 1856-7. 2 vols. I., x. + 658; II., 826 pp.

Pages 28-46 of volume II. are on the Germans in the United States and contain a few important facts, including statistics, for our period. The Vandalia (Ill.) settlement of 1820 is mentioned.