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 It is the earnest hope of the Madison County 
 Sesquicentennial Committee that this official souvenir 
 program will serve to enrich the historical knowledge 
 of its readers and enable them to enjoy more thorough- 
 ly the many and colorful events being held in com- 
 memoration of "Our 150 Years." 
 
 Months of preparation have gone into this celebra- 
 tion. Its success must be measured by how well it 
 depicts the passing scene and by whether it adds in 
 generous measure to our appreciation of the adven- 
 turous, fascinating deeds of our forebears. 
 
 Madison County has achieved growth not only 
 through the efforts of individuals but also through the 
 progress of scores of business and manufacturing firms, 
 many of which pre-date our oldest living residents. The 
 committee extends its thanks to these establishments 
 and individuals, young and old. whose advertising 
 messages appear in this program. It wishes them con- 
 tinued prosperity in the years to come. 
 
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 OUR 
 
 150 
 
 VEARS 
 
 by James S.Flagg 
 
 It was perhaps inevitable that Madison County 
 should develop from a beautiful wilderness and a 
 handful of whites and Indians in 1812 into one of the 
 nation's more populous and prosperous counties in the 
 atomic age. 
 
 The area's natural blessings — a varied, temperate 
 climate, good to very rich farmland, a wealth of wood- 
 lands and nearness to the confluences of the Mississippi- 
 Missouri and Mississippi-Illinois rivers — all of these 
 were enough to attract the imaginative pioneers from 
 Kentucky and Tennessee and Virginia, and later from 
 New England and the east and the north. 
 
 And so when Ninian Edwards, territorial governor 
 of Illinois, established the County of Madison on Sept. 
 14, 1812, he laid the foundation for a political sub- 
 division whose estimated 225,000 residents have, in an 
 era of orbiting si>ace capsules, every right to be proud 
 of their heritage. 
 
 For many decades prior to 1812 there were a few 
 white men in and near the county, notably at the 
 Cahokia settlement in St. Clair County. The pioneers 
 came and went. Knowledge of them is rather meager 
 aside from accounts of skirmishes with the Indians, 
 among them Chief Pontiac, and troubles novr and then 
 involving the Spanish, French and British. 
 
 With the end of the Revolutionary War, however, 
 migration to the promising West began in earnest. 
 Soon after 1800 Madison Coviniy had its first permanent 
 residents. 
 
 Theirs was not an easy lot. Their comforts were 
 few, their working hours long, and their luxuries al- 
 most non-existent. Their main concerns were shelter, 
 food and clothing. 
 
 It is probable that their motive for coming West 
 was the same as that of the average family changing 
 jobs today — to improve their living standards. This 
 they did while enduring a multitude of hardships. But 
 they worried not at all about fallout, parking places, 
 income taxes or cholesterol.
 
 
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 HISTORY OF HADISON COUNTY , ILLINOIS 
 
 aOVEKNOS NINIAN BDWASDS 
 
 THOMAS JUDY 
 
 When Gov. Edwards established the county, it was an 
 immense area. Its southern border included the present line but 
 it extended from the Mississippi to the Wabash River. All the 
 land north of that line to the Canadian border and even to the 
 North Pole, some say, was Madison County, including Wiscon- 
 sin, that part of Minnesota east of the Mississippi and northern 
 Michigan. 
 
 Subdividing began soon thereafter with the growth of the 
 territory, and by 1831 the county had dwindled to its present 
 proportions plus what is now Bond County. The latter area was 
 detached in 1843 and there has been no change since that year. 
 Thus it is quite understandable that there was a drop in 
 census figures with changes in the size of the county. The pop- 
 ulation is given as 13.550 in 1820, 6.221 in 1830, 14,433 in 1840, 
 20.441 in 1850. 31.351 in 1860, 44.131 in 1870 and 50.141 in 1880. 
 
 Whenever there was any sign of trouble from 1812 on, the 
 people looked for protection to Fort Russell, after which the 
 largest township of the county is named. The fort was about 
 a mile northwest of Edwardsville and less than a quarter-mile 
 west of what is now route 112. 
 
 Quoting from Davidson's and Stuve's History of Illinois 
 (1874): "The most notable, as also the largest, strongest and 
 best appointed in ever>' respect, of the stockade forts, was Fort 
 Russell (named after Col. William Russell) established by Gov. 
 Edwards early in 1812. The cannon (five) of Louis XIV, which 
 had done service in the ancient Fort Chartres, were removed 
 higher and placed in position. 
 
 "This stockade was made the rendezvous for the militia 
 and the regulars, and the main depot for military supplies. Gov. 
 Edwards here established his headquarters, during the perilous 
 times of 1812. and gathered about him the beauty and chivalry 
 of those days. Within the protective walls of this stockade were 
 attracted and found shelter much of the talent, fashion and 
 wealth of the country, and here His Excellency presided with 
 a courtly grace and dignity, well befitting his fine personal 
 appearance and his many accomplishments." 
 
 Who were Madison County's first permanent settlers? 
 When did they arrive and where did they make their homes? 
 These questions will be answered as completely as possible 
 within the limits of space. Millions of words could be written 
 about Madison County's 150 years, and several fine volumes 
 already have been published. This account, however, must be 
 confined to a mere outline of the county's personalities and 
 progress because of the limit on wordage. 
 
 It might be said with some degree of seriousness that the 
 county was misnamed. When the Rev. David Badgley. a Baptist 
 minister, and some others explored this area in 1799. they were 
 so impressed by the luxuriant growth of grass and vegetation 
 that they were reminded of the best of the land of Egypt. Re- 
 calling the Biblical story of the Land of Goshen, they gave that 
 name to this area. Appropriately enough, the county now has 
 a historical organization with the same name 
 
 The Rev. Badgley was never a resident of the county, 
 having lived near Belleville. Apparently the first American to 
 establish a home here was Ephriam Conner. In 1800 he built 
 a rude cabin in the northwest corner of the present CoUinsville 
 township. Conner seems not to have cared for the area's many 
 resources because a year later he disposed of his holdings to 
 Samuel Judy. 
 
 Judy became a permanent and valued citizen of the coun- 
 ty, having fought in the War of 1812 and served in the first 
 legislature and on the first county commission. He was married 
 to Margaret Whiteside, a sister of Gen. Samuel Whiteside. The 
 first or second year after his arrival he set out an orchard in 
 what was known as Goshen, at about the present site of Peter's 
 Station. In 1808 he built a brick house, the walls of which were 
 cracked by an earthquake in 1811. 
 
 Judy's oldest son, Jacob, was register of the Edwards- 
 ville land office from 1845 to 1849. Another son. Col. Thomas 
 Judy, was in the legislature in 1852 and 1853. 
 
 One of the first families to settle in Madison County was 
 the Gillham family. The first to come to America. Thomas 
 Gillham, was a native of Ireland. He arrived in Virginia in 1730 
 and later moved to South Carolina. His fourth son. James, was 
 the first to arrive in Illinois, coming here in 1794 to search for 
 his wife and children who were held captive by Indians. He set- 
 tled in the American Bottom, apparently south of St. Louis, 
 and later moved to Madison County. 
 
 Two other brothers. John and William, arrived in Madison 
 County in 1802. Another brother. Thomas II. had reached Illinois 
 in 1799. A fifth brother. Isaac, settled in this county in 1804 or 
 1805. 
 
 With this large delegation among the early settlers, and 
 with their descendants, the Gillham family became one of the 
 most prominent in the county. 
 
 Brink's Historj' of Illinois has this to say: "The Gillhams 
 were strong supporters of morality and order, and among the 
 best citizens of the county. Though born in a slave state, they 
 recognized the corruoting influence of slavery, and unalterably 
 opposed its introduction into Illinois. The author of a history of 
 the state, published in 1849. remarks that the convention party 
 of 1824 owed its defeat to the Gillham family and their kins- 
 men, who, almost in a solid phalanx, cast 500 votes against the 
 proposition to make Illinois a slave state." 
 
 Prominent among the county's early settlers were mem- 
 bers of the Whiteside family who moved from Monroe County 
 to a new home near that of Col. Judy at Goshen in 1802. Wil- 
 liam Grotts and Robert Seybold came in 1803, the latter living 
 in Jarvis township near Troy. 
 
 A short time later Dr George Cadwell settled near Venice, 
 and his friend. John Messinger. took uo residence on Ridge 
 Prairie between CoUinsville and Troy John T. Lusk arrived 
 in the Goshen country in 1805. Joseph Newman, a Pennsylvan- 
 ian. came to Fort Russell township in 1804. to be followed by 
 Maj. Isaac H. Ferguson in 1806.
 
 W G N U MEETS THE GOVERNOR 
 
 Reading from left to right: Chuck Norman, General Manager of Radio Station WIGNU, 
 Illinois Governor Otto Kerner, Madison County Circuit Clerk Willard Portell.WGNU 
 newsman Bob Baker and WGNU Account Executive Shirley Adams. 
 
 The photo was taken July, 1962 during the Governor' s visit to the ftuad Cities in 
 connection with the dinner for former President Truman. 
 
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 Granite City— Sixty-six years of growth— usually rapid 
 though sometimes laggard during industrial slumps — has put 
 Granite City far ahead of all other Madison County cities in pop- 
 ulation except Alton. In its first 64 years of existence. Granite 
 City blossomed from a stretch of rich farmland with a handful of 
 residents in 1896 to a population of 40,073 in 1960. Typical of its 
 in-a-hurry-to-get-there progress was its gain in the 1950's. The 
 census in 1950 registered only 29,465 people. A pinnacle of 
 achievement was reached in 1958 when Granite City was chosen 
 as an AU-American city. 
 
 The community received its name from its principal indus- 
 try of the time, the manufacture of graniteware. It was laid out 
 by two far-sighted industrialists, F. G. and William F. Niedring- 
 haus. Its principal industries as of 1962 are Granite City Steel 
 Co. and General Steel Industries, Inc. However, within the city, 
 and in nearby Madison and Venice, and in the surrounding area 
 are numerous other plants contributing millions of dollars in an- 
 nual payrolls. 
 
 These include Laclede Steel Co., American Steel Foundries, 
 
 A. 0. Smith Corp., Dow Metal Products Co., Cargill, Inc., Johns- 
 Manville Products Corp., National Lead Co., Nesco Steel Barrel 
 Co., The Nestle Co., Inc., Teilly Tar & Chemical Corp., and Un- 
 ion Starch & Refining Co. 
 
 The Chain of Rocks Canal, which bypasses a navigational 
 bottleneck in the Mississippi River, was completed in 1952 and 
 established Granite City as an important river terminal with ac- 
 cess to the entire inland waterway system and the St. Lawrence 
 Seaway. 
 
 The Granite City Army Depot on the west side of the city 
 is the largest engineer depot in North America. To the south and 
 east is Horseshoe Lake, one of Illinois' natural beauty spots 
 where excellent fishing, boating and duck hunting are available. 
 The lake area is now in the initial stages of being developed in- 
 to a state park. 
 
 While known primarily as an industrial city. Granite City 
 is also an important retail trading area and an attractive resi- 
 dential community. In recent years it has absorbed the former 
 village of Nameoki and new subdivisions have sprung up stead- 
 ily to the north and east. 
 
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 HISTORY OF HADliON COUNTY , ILLINO IS 
 
 SOLOMON PRBVITT 
 
 In 1806 Martin Preuitt cast his fortune at Sand Ridge 
 Prairie, about three miles east of Alton. His youngest son, 
 Solomon, born in 1790, became one of the more distinguished 
 citizens of the county. 
 
 Other very eariy arrivals: William Jones and John Fin- 
 ley in 1806. at Sand Ridge; Robert Reynolds, father of Gov. 
 John Reynolds, 1807, three or four miles southwest of Edwards- 
 ville; Toliver Wright, 1806, near the mouth of Wood River; 
 John Atkins, 1807. near Mitchell: Thomas Rattan, 1804: George 
 Bamsback, 1809. Edwardsville: Abel Moore, 1808, in Wood Riv- 
 er; Joseph Bartlett, 1809. Wood River. 
 
 A great many of the pioneers already mentioned and to 
 be mentioned were veterans of the Revolutionary War. 
 
 One of the earliest arrivals, and destined to be one of the 
 most prominent, was Thomas Kirkpatrick who located along the 
 banks of Cahokia Creek in the northern part of what was to 
 become Edwardsville. It was his house that was appointed the 
 seat of justice of the county in Gov. Edwards's proclamation in 
 1812. 
 
 Bv this time villages or hamlets had been established at 
 Alton, Upper Alton, Milton (just west of East Alton), Edwards- 
 ville, and on Wood River (the stream) near the present Alton 
 State Hospital grounds. Some histories estimate that there were 
 perhaps 1000 persons in the county when it was organized. 
 
 With the end of the war of 1812-14 and the signing of a 
 peace treaty with the Indian tribes of the Northwest in 1815, 
 settlements in Madison County increased rapidly. Whereas ear- 
 lier arrivals chose sites near the Mississippi River and along 
 Cahokia and Cantine Creeks, a substantial percentage of new- 
 comers now sought their fortunes in what are our central and 
 eastern townships. 
 
 Maj. Isaac H. Ferguson built the first house ever erected 
 on Marine prairie in 1813. From then until 1816 came John 
 Warwick, John Woods, George Newsome, Joseoh and Absolom 
 Ferguson. Aquilla Dolahide, Abraham Howard, Joshua Dean. 
 
 Chester Pain, Thomas Breeze, Richard Winsor, John Camp- 
 bell, John Giger, Henry Scott, John Lord. James Simmons, 
 Henr>' Peck, Andrew Matthews Sr., James French, and Abram 
 Carlock. 
 
 Along about this time, there came to Edwardsville the 
 families of Rowland P. Allen, Elijah Ellison, and Mrs. Eliza- 
 beth Randle. Some of the residents on the road leading from 
 Edwardsville to Alton were: John Newman, David Robinson, 
 Samuel Delaplane, Hiram Pruitt, Ben Wood, John Stout. John 
 Drum, William Montgomery. William and Isaac Cox. Charles, 
 John, and James Gillham, James Tunnell, Jonas Bradshaw, 
 John Springer, Joel Meacham. The road had been located by 
 Thomas G. Davidson, John Wallace and Abraham Prickett. 
 
 James Renfro settled in what is now Collinsville township 
 in 1811; Jacob Gonterman in Edwardsville in 1816, the Rev. 
 Thomas Ray, a Baptist minister, in 1818, Alvis Hauskins in 
 1819, and the Fruit family, John Minter and Mathias Handlon 
 at about this time. 
 
 Arrivals in St. Jacob townshio in 1816 were John Giger, 
 Gilmore Anderson, William Faires, John Herrin, Nich- 
 olas Kyle and William Parkinson. First settlements in Foster 
 township were made about 1816 by Joseph S. Reynolds and 
 Orman Beeman. 
 
 Among those casting their lot with the county in 1818 
 were Gaius Paddock, from Vermont, to Fort Russell township: 
 Gershom Flagg, from Vermont, to Fort Russell: David Gilles- 
 pie, from Ireland and New York to Edwardsville, and Daniel 
 A. Lanterman, from Kentucky to Fort Russell. 
 
 Paddock, a soldier of the Revolution, was to become the 
 grandfather of another Gaius Paddock who lived to be 100 years 
 old. His home was on route 112 eight miles north of Edwards- 
 ville. Flagg, a veteran of the War of 1812, was the father of 
 State Senator Willard C. Flagg and the grandfather of State 
 Senator Norman G. Flagg. His home was half a mile south of 
 the Paddock's. 
 
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 MATSEL WESTERN AUTO STORE 
 
 5? 
 
 AMP BOWLING BALL 
 
 TROJAN BOWL & SNACK BAR 
 
 GENERAL ELECTRIC SAUCE PAN 
 
 GAMBLE'S STORE 
 
 
 ELECTRIC ROTISSERIE 
 AND CHARCOAL BBQ 
 
 HOTZ LUMBER CO. 
 
 EDIARDSVILLE 
 
 BROWNIE CAMERA 
 
 MOTTAR DRUG 
 
 EDIARDSVILLE 
 
 
 GENERAL ELECTRIC 
 DRY AND STEAM IRON 
 
 KAHLE HARDWARE 
 
 GRANITE CITY 
 
 WEST BEND ELECTRIC TOASTER 
 
 KUHNEN HARDWARE 
 
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 GIFT CERTIFICATE 
 
 CARP'S INC. 
 
 GRANITE CITY 
 
 GIFT CERTIFICATE 
 
 HUG'S MEN & BOYS WEAR 
 
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 LANVIN COLOGNE 11 GARDNER FRENCH PURSE 
 
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 MADISON COUNTY SESQUICENTENNIAL COMMITTEE 
 
 EXECUTIVE COMITTEE 
 
 Mr. Lesley M. Marks - Chairman 
 
 Mrs. Maitland A. Timtnermiere - Secretary 
 
 Miss Mary Kreutzberg - Asst. Secy. 
 
 Mr. Irving Dill iard 
 
 Mr. Edward A. Kane 
 
 Mr. Edwin G. Gerl ing 
 
 Mr. Wilbur Meyer 
 
 Mr. A.H. Paul i 
 
 Miss Eulal ia Hotz 
 Mr. Gus Hal ler 
 Mr. Lesl ie Prehn 
 Mr. Wilbur R.L. Trimpe 
 Mr. Alfred Y, Armstead 
 
 Mr. Willard Flagg 
 
 subcomm; 
 
 HEADQUARTERS Miss Evelyn Bowles 
 
 TREASURER Mr. Leo M. Dustmann 
 
 INSURANCE Mr. Wilbur Meyer 
 
 FIREWORKS Mr. Arthur Flannery 
 
 OPERATING CAPITAL Mr. Lyle Willard 
 
 DECORATIONS Mr. Albert H. Paul i 
 
 REVENUE Mr. Burton C. Bernard 
 
 PARTICIPATION 
 
 DIVISION Mr. Harley Fultz 
 
 SPECTACLE 
 
 DIVISION Miss Dorothy Colonius 
 
 SPECTACLE TICKET 
 
 DIVISION Dorothy Fink 
 
 PUBLICITY DIVISION. ...Mr. Myron Bishop 
 
 HOSPITALITY Col. Ralph B. Jackson 
 
 SPECIAL EVENTS Dr. John E. Lee 
 
 Chairman 
 
 Mr. James Chapman 
 
 Co>Chairinan 
 
 HISTORICAL 
 
 PROGRAM Mr. Willard G. Flagg 
 
 Mr. James S. Flagg 
 BROTHERS OF 
 
 THE BRUSH Mr. Lesley Marks 
 
 TICKETS Mr. Claxton Burroughs 
 
 ADVANCE SALE Mrs. Walter Kubant 
 
 COSTUME AND MAKE UP-. Little Theater, 
 
 Inc. of Alton 
 
 TTEE 
 
 SCENARIO AND TITLE .. Mr. Edward A. Kane 
 
 PRESS RELEASES Mrs. Louis A. Bower 
 
 RADIO AND TV Mr. Al 1 en R iehl 
 
 DIGNITARIES AND 
 
 GUESTS Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Butler 
 
 CONCESSIONS Mr. I. W. Van Haaften 
 
 CELEBRATION BALL ....Mrs. Austin Lewis 
 PATRONS TICKETS ....Mrs. Fred Habbegger 
 CASHIER AND G AT ES ... .Mr. Robert Coul tas 
 
 PROPERTIES Mr. Robert Stonum 
 
 Chairman 
 
 Mr. Robert Nash 
 
 Co-Cha i rman 
 
 CONSTRUCTION Mr. Melvin Suhre 
 
 SPEAKERS Mr. Herbert W. Loeh 
 
 TRAFFIC AND 
 
 SAFETY Police Chief Jack Hartung 
 
 HOSPITALITY C EN T ER . .Mrs. Wi 1 1 ard G. Flagg 
 
 PARADE Mrs. Arthur Flannery 
 
 MUSIC Mr. Franklin C. Kreider 
 
 Chairman 
 
 Miss Mlldered Smith 
 
 Co-Chairman 
 
 AUDIENCE AREA Mr. Ben Isselhardt 
 
 GROUNDS Mr.Albert H. Paul! 
 
 Mr. Edward Kane,
 
 HISTORY OF HADISOH COUHTY , ILLIHOtS 
 
 Gillespie's two sons, Matthew and Joseph, helped organ- 
 ize the Republican party in Illinois. Lanterman once recalled 
 that there were only two stores in EdwardsvLlle in December, 
 1818. In lower Alton in 1822. he said, only three men and no 
 women resided. „ ,, , 
 
 Early arrivals in Hamel township wt.-e Henry Keley, and 
 Robert and Anson Aldrich. in the winter of 1817-18. In 1816, 
 Archibald Coulter and James East settled in Saline township. 
 Some seven years later in Silver Creek bottom in Saline town- 
 ship, a salt lick attracted deer and cattle William Biggs, a 
 Kentuckian, undertook to bore for salt. He struck solid rock 
 
 at 30 feet, and continued the shaft to a distance of 440 feet 
 when salt water began to flow. Into the shaft he set the trunk 
 of a hollow sycamore tree, cemented to the rock. The experi- 
 ment was expensive and ended in failure. 
 
 William Hinch, a pioneer from Kentucky, was the first 
 white settler in Alhambra township, arriving in 1817 and build- 
 ing a cabin a short distance north and east of Silver Creek. 
 James Pearce, in 1818, removed from Edwardsville township 
 where he had settled 3 years earlier, and made the first settle- 
 ment in Leef township. 
 
 UNVBILimS D.A.K. TABLET .PADDOCK CBMSTAMY .OCTOBBK .1937 
 
 From Left to Might: 4th'lir».l»ab.l Hmtt Hatch. Sth.Norman CFtrnti ,6th-Hi»* Hay Fmdaock ,9tn'ttima 
 Alice Paddock, lOth-Caiua Paddock .Jr . .llth-Miaa Sar»h Paddock .tlth'Oaiua Paddock, Sr, (Saatad at 
 right o.' atone i« Ura. Alice Flagi feutt) Othara Vnident if ied. 
 
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 EDVARDSVILLE 
 
 to QO^m MOUSE WAeA3H OtPOT 
 
 PLACES OF PUBLIC INTEREST .BDWARDSVILLE 
 
 Edwardsville — Third oldest city in the state and county 
 seat of Madison County is the community named for Ninian 
 Edwards, the territorial governor of Illinois when the county 
 was established. It was here that the cabin home of pioneer 
 Thomas Kirkpatrick was designated by Gov. Edwards as the 
 seat of justice. It has been that — and much more — ever since. 
 
 Date of EdwardviUe's incorporation is listed as Feb. 23, 
 1819. The only two cities in the state having earlier incorpora- 
 tion dates are Shawneetown (1814) and Cairo (1818). 
 
 Edwardsville is proud of its heritage and rightfully so. 
 Family after family living there today can look back from 100 
 to 150 years and find the records of their ancestors as early set- 
 tlers in the county and indeed, in many cases, the township. 
 These descendants, many of whom command prominent posi- 
 tions in the professions, business and industry, are too numerous 
 to mention in this limited account. They, with the thousands who 
 have followed, have welded the city into a solid community. 
 Through good times and bad the city has retained its gracious- 
 ness, its dignity and its character as the hub of Madison County. 
 
 Like most municipalities, EdwardsvUle for the greater part 
 of its existence has depended upon outlying agriculture for much 
 of its well-being. This is stUl true to a degree. However, the 
 makeup of the city has experienced some changes. Late in the 
 last century, for instance, the N. O. Nelson plumbing equipment 
 firm was established there and its payrolls totaled millions over 
 the years. Likewise, the radiator industry helped bolster the Ed- 
 wardsville economy over a lengthy period. Later came the Wag- 
 ner Electric Co., some nearby coal mines and various small in- 
 dustries. 
 
 Most of them are gone now, but prosperous Edwardsville 
 keeps rolling along, gaining slowly but steadily in population. 
 
 From 8,776 residents in 1950 the city grew to an official 9,996 in 
 1960 and is stiU expanding. Subdivisions have sprouted up adja- 
 cent to beautiful, tree-lined St. Louis street, on the southern edge 
 of the city and around picturesque Dunlap Lake. 
 
 The city has pushed over its borders in just about every 
 direction because something new, besides industry and agricul- 
 ture, has come into the picture — the commuter. Every day hun- 
 dreds of Edwardsville residents go to work in other cities — in 
 Wood River, Roxana, Granite City, St. Louis. This has devel- 
 oped gradually in the last 30 to 40 years because newcomers 
 recognize Edwardsville as a good place to live and rear their 
 families. They can earn their livelihoods in an industrial area 
 within 20 mUes and still live in a quiet, well-regulated commu- 
 nity. 
 
 The city is the home of the Madison County Farm Bureau, 
 organized there in 1918, and now occupying a new building on 
 Hillsboro avenue. Hundreds of retired farmers find Edwardsville 
 an ideal place in which to live. 
 
 One of the main sparks in the city's life is politics. As the 
 county seat, Edwardsville is the center of more than the average 
 share of political gatherings, the home of a great many lawyers. 
 
 Soon it wiU be known as a college center. Southern Illinois 
 University is in the process of setting up a campus just a few 
 miles southwest of the city to replace the branches now serving 
 temporarily in East St. Louis and in the buildings of old Shurt- 
 leff College at Alton. Construction has been started for an ex- 
 penditure of $25,000,000 on the 2600-acre campus near Edwards- 
 ville. Facilities will be provided for 5000 students by 1964-5. Pre- 
 dicted enrollment is 18,000 students by 1970. 
 
 It requires little imagination to realize what the university 
 will mean to EdwardsviUe's progress and prosperity in the years 
 to come. 
 
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 • FOR PROBATE JUDGE 
 Austin Lewis 
 
 {•FOR PROBATE CLERK 
 Dale Hilt 
 
 ^)^J«FOR COUNTY TREASURER 
 George f^usso 
 
 i»FOR SHERIFF 
 
 Barney Fraundorf 
 
 |»FOR COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT 
 OF SCHOOLS 
 
 mibur R.L.Trlmpe 
 
 Vote 
 DENOORITIC 
 
 SHERIFF* 
 George Musso 
 
 CORONER* 
 W.Hf.BilMngf 
 
 COUNTY CLERK* 
 Eulalla Hotz 
 
 CIRCUIT CLERK* 
 WNIard V.Portell 
 
 ■PROBATE CLERK* 
 Dale Hilt 
 
 COUNTY RECORDER* 
 James F. Chapman 
 
 COUNTY AUDITOR* 
 John L.Kraynak 
 
 COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT* 
 OF SCHOOLS 
 
 Wilbur R.L.Trlmpe
 
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 A. 6. B. FEED & SEED STORE, INC. 
 Profit Reaper and A. & B. Feeds 
 
 FEED - SEED ■ GRAIN - GRINDING - MIXING 
 
 NUTRENA FEEDS 
 
 PHONE: 656-0910, 1^6 W. VANOALIA, EDWARDSVILLE, ILLINOIS 
 
 The business was started in 1923, by Mr. Louis C. Abenbrink, John A.Buhrleand John Klueter. It 
 was incorporated in 1925 when Mr. John Fruit became a stock holder in the company, as president. 
 The business is presently operated by Roy H. Fruit and John A.Buhrle. The building has been in 
 
 the same location since 1923. 
 
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 Dorothy Schuette, Prop 
 
 BILL'S RESTAURANT 
 
 I I 1 E. Vandal i a Edwardsv i 1 1 e, 111. 
 
 STYLE MART 
 
 233 N. Main Edwardsvi 1 1 e, II 
 
 (lihe Thomas F. Ladd Co., Inc. is proud of its contribution to the growth of Madison County. 
 Many of the building landmarks in the area, such as Edwardsville High School, include work 
 done by the Ladd company. 
 
 Founded bv A. H. Ladd. father of the present owner, in 1906 as a one-man lathing and plastering 
 Easiness, it now provides employment. for .;5 persons. The company has expanded its services to 
 include concrete construction, ceramic tile and acoustical treatments. 
 
 THOS. F. LADD CO., INC. 
 CONTRACTORS 
 
 512 Cass Avenue 
 EDWARDSVILLE, ILLINOIS 
 
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 HISTORY OF MADISON COUNTY, ILLINOI S 
 
 First to arrive in Omphghent township was David Swett. 
 who in the fall of 1820 built a cabin near the site of the old 
 Omph Ghent church. He was the first justice of peace in the 
 township. In Olive township. James Street was one of the early 
 settlers but in a short time moved away Isham Nincent lived 
 three years in Trov, then in 1820 set up a horse-mdl in the 
 northern part of the county. His house was the early voting 
 place of Silver Creek precinct. 
 
 New Douglas townships earliest settler is believed to have 
 been Daniel Funderburk, who was bom in South Carolina and 
 arrived here in 1819. 
 
 GOVEKNOK EDWARD COLES 
 
 Governors From Our County — Norton's Centennial His- 
 tory of Madison County (1912) points out that six governors of 
 lUiriois have, at one time or another, lived in Madison county. 
 Only one of them, Edward Coles of Edwards ville, was a resident 
 when elected in 1822. 
 
 Gov. Ninian Edwards lived in Edwardsville from 1818 
 to 1825, when he moved to BellevUle and was a resident of that 
 city when elected governor in 1826. 
 
 Thomas Ford was a resident of Edwardsville for several 
 years and married there, but when elected governor in 1842, 
 resided in Ogle County. John Reynolds resided in Madison County 
 from 1807 to 1815, and when elected governor in 1830 was a resi- 
 dent of St. Clair County. John M. Palmer lived in Madison 
 County, at Upper Alton, when a youth and a young man, but 
 when elected governor in 1868 was a resident of Springfield. 
 
 Although Charles S. Deneen was born in Edwardsville, 
 he was brought up in St. Clair county. When a young man he 
 taught at Godfrey. When elected governor in 1904 and 1908, he 
 was a resident of Chicago. 
 
 County Government— A Court of Common Pleas as pro- 
 vided by Illinois territorial laws was Madison County's first of 
 seven forms of government. Three of these forms were in op- 
 eration during the six-year period from creation of the county 
 until Illinois was admitted as a state on Dec. 2, 1818. 
 
 The second form was a county court and it was followed 
 by a system which placed affairs in hands of the justices of the 
 peace. When Illinois was admitted as a state, the affairs passed 
 to control of three commissioners. They served until 1849 when 
 a county court was again established. The court functioned until 
 Jan 24, 1874. when a new law provided for three commission- 
 
 ers They' had charge for a little more than two years. 
 
 Voters of the county authorized township organization in 
 November, 1875, and the Board of Supervisors has had charge 
 since April, 1876. At this writing, in 1962, Gus Haller of Wood 
 River township has recently been elected chairman of the Madi- 
 son County Board for the 30th time. 
 
 GUS HALLER 
 
 Mr Haller, long active in preserving the history of Madi- 
 son County and in establishing the county's historical museum 
 in the courthouse, was elected to the board for the first time 
 in 1913 He served until 1949, except for two terms, serving 31 
 vears as supervisor. He was then elected assistant supervisor. 
 His tenure as chairman of the board is a recorc in Illinois and 
 probably in the nation. , . . ■ ,dit 
 
 Madison County's first courthouse was completed in 1B17 
 and cost $437.50. Of that amount, Thomas Kirkpatnck donated 
 $100 The second was opened in 1835 after $1500 cash had been 
 raised and about $2500 worth of brick and other materials do- 
 nated Twenty-two years later, in 1857. the third courthouse was 
 completed at a cost of $34,846. It was on the site of the present 
 courthouse which was dedicated Oct. 18. 1915. Cost of this struc- 
 ture including furnishings and furniture, total about $291.(m 
 
 ' County government now comes under the heading of big 
 business. The 1960 federal census gave the county a population 
 of 224 689 It is the fifth largest in the state, being exceeded 
 only by Cook. DuPage. Lake and St. Clair counties. 
 
 Partly because Countv government is big business and 
 partly because an antiquated constitution must be observed, 
 many voices are being heard these days for various changes m 
 our type of government. 
 
 State's Attorney Dick H. Mudge. Jr.. a member of an 
 old Madison County family, is advocating a complete reorgan- 
 ization of county government He and Sheriff George Musso 
 are the chief enforcement officers of the county. 
 
 At the present- time. Madison County is proud to have 
 George T Wilkens. an Edwardsville resident, serving as State 
 Superintendent of Public Instruction He was appointed County 
 Superintendent of Schools in 1948 to fill the vacancy caused by 
 the death of Leonard P Wetzel During his eleven years as 
 County Superintendent of Schools he was instrumental m re 
 organizing the school system of the County from 135 school 
 districts into the present 15 efficient and progressive Com- 
 munity units and consolidated districts- Continuing in the 
 same high type of school administration is the present coun- 
 ty Superintendent Wilbur R L- Trimpe 
 
 Simon Kellerman was chosen Circuit Clerk and served 
 for more than 30 years in that capacity until his death tn 
 
 April 1960 ^ , 
 
 A major change being advocated in a multitude of quar- 
 ters is the substitution of a state income tax for at least part of 
 the real estate tax. This reform already is being discused se 
 riously in the state legislature by lawmakers who believe that 
 the old system of property taxation has long been outdated. 
 
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 The Edwardsville Creamery Company was founded in 1927 by Martin 
 Jensen. The creamery has been located at the same address since 
 the beginning of the company. It started producing Butter and 
 Mi)k powder and later expanded Its operations to bottled Grade 
 A Milk and other dairy products. The incumbent president is C.W. 
 Fruit. 
 
 
 PARK & JOHNSON STREETS • EDWARDSVILLE. ILL. ^ 
 
 
 MONTCLAIRE HARDWARE 
 
 1 522 TROY ROAD W H 
 
 TELEPHONE EDWARDSVILLE, ILLINOIS 656-7409 ., 
 
 mm 
 
 OLIVER •FOOD MARKET* 
 
 JACOBER, GROCERIES 4 MEATS EDWARDSVILLE 
 
 PROP. ILL. 
 
 DIAL 656-6000 
 
 HOME 
 
 FURNBHERS 
 
 115 N. Main Street 
 EDWARDSVILLE, ILL. 
 
 ll7i^tS'i:^'a^'!X^fi»>KtJSKW^ 
 
 GUARANTY |, 
 
 ABSTRACT & TITLE COMPANY i 
 
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 "ON THE COURT HOUSE SQUARE" 
 
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 HISTORY OF lAADlSON COUHTY . iLLIHO I S 
 
 Politics — From the horse and buggy days when hand- 
 shaking at church suppers was the principal medium of reaching 
 the voters, to the present era of expensive television speeches, 
 politics have come a long way in Madison County. Whether 
 their direction is a wholesome one leading to better government 
 is a matter of opinion. 
 
 As of now and for many years, voter apathy has been 
 the main obstacle of candidates of both major parties. Voters 
 turn out pretty well for presidential elections, not so well for 
 countv and legislative elections, and poorly for school board 
 and judicial elections. 
 
 Complexities of life in the space age seem to dilute the 
 interest in at least some of their forms of government. There 
 is simoly too much to do. The trip to the polls often is one of 
 those do-itifyouhave-time chores. 
 
 Mass or bloc voting has. in the past several decades, be- 
 come an evil or a blessing, depending upon the point of view. 
 The growth of labor, farm, business and even racial organiza- 
 tions has resulted in throwing of masses of votes for or against 
 a certain individual or issue. The precinct organization of both 
 the Democratic and Republican parties also lends itself to bloc 
 voting. A lot of citizens vote the way their precinct commit- 
 teeman asks them to. 
 
 There seems to have been a trend in recent years, how- 
 ever, to more discernment, more independent judgment, by the 
 voters. Some vote for the candidate, some for an issue. Taken 
 as a lot. the voters can at times be pretty fickle. At any rate, 
 veteran politicians have long since learned to brush off over-con- 
 
 fidence. They know it's safer to "run scared." 
 
 The political pendulum has swung back and forth from 
 the Democrats to the Republicans many times over the years. 
 The Democrats control the courthouse now and have for a long 
 time. With the exception of circuit judges, the Republicans have 
 not elected a courthouse candidate since 1946. That was the 
 vear the G.O.P. elected Dallas Harrcll as sheriff. George Am- 
 brosius as countv treasurer, and Joseph Hcaley as probate clerk. 
 
 In the 1920s the Republicans were usually in control and 
 in 1930 and 1932 the Democrats came back. From then until the 
 1940s, the Republicans achieved several breakthroughs but not 
 nearly as often as during the first few decades of the Twentieth 
 century. 
 
 In recent years, such able vote-getters as Congressman 
 Melvin D. Price of East St. Louis, the county clerk, Miss Eul- 
 alia Hotz. and County Judge Michael Kinney, have carried the 
 Democratic ticket to shutout victories over their ooponents. 
 
 While Madison County in the past often had a Republican 
 state senator and two Republican state representatives out of 
 three, the situation is iust the opnositc now. There are three 
 Democrats in our legislative delegation — Senator James 0. 
 Monroe of Collinsville. and Representative Lloyd (Curley) 
 Harris of Granite City and Representative Paul Simon of Troy; 
 and one Republican. Representative Ralph T Smith of Alton. 
 
 There are also two Democrats on the circuit bench— 
 Judees Joseph Barr of Wood River and James O. Monroe Jr., of 
 Collinsville, and one Republican, Judge Harold R. Clark of 
 Alton. 
 
 THE GILLHAMINOIAN STORY 
 
 RYDERVS CLARK GILLHAM Jr. SHOWN WITH 
 GRANDSON W.C. GILLHAM OF BENTON. KY. 
 
 One of the most fascinating, vet tragic sagas of pioneer 
 davs concerns the kidnaping of a Gillham family by Kickaooo 
 Indians in June 1790 in Kentucky and their forced migration 
 [Pto jU.inois. Numerous versions of the crime have been pub- 
 bshed in the past but none were quite complete or correct ac- 
 cordmg to a direct descendant. Mrs. Royal O. Helgevold of 
 Chicago It IS to Mrs. Helgevold and her cousin. Willard Clark 
 Gillham of Benton. Ky., that credit must go for numerous fresh 
 facets in the following account. 
 
 On this day in 1790 James Gillham and one of his sons, 
 Isaac, were plowing corn on their farm in Kentucky. At their 
 home a considerable distance away, meanwhile, a party of 
 Indians captured James Gillham's wife and their three other 
 
 children, Samuel, Jacob and Nancy. Mrs. Gillham was pregnant 
 with her fifth child. 
 
 The mother and three children were hurried off in the 
 direction of Kickapoo town, apparently near the headwaters 
 of the Sangamon River in Illinois. The Indians, with their cap- 
 tives, avoided settlements and in their anxiety to escape pur- 
 suit they pushed forward without rest or food. The children's 
 feet became sore and bruised, and the mother tore her clothing 
 to get rags in which to wrap them. 
 
 The Indians had a small quantity of venison with them 
 and they gave that to the children but neither the Indians nor 
 the mother had anything to eat until one day when they caught 
 a racoon and cooked it. 
 
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 ^^ jj-^-^-k^-faj LEAF -HOME 
 
 i9HBBnpapip 
 
 148 NORTH MAIN 
 
 EDWARDSVILLE 
 
 656-6122 
 
 The present corporate structure of the Clover Leaf Hone Building and Loan was 
 confirmed in IQtB, through consolidation of the assets of the Home Building and Loan 
 Association and tne Clover Leaf Loan. The "Home" was organized in i892 and the Ciover 
 Leaf Loan was organized in i889. Consoi idation of these two strong associations under 
 one management has permitted economies in operation and a combination of experienced 
 personnel for greater service to the public. 
 
 PRESiDENT, O.W. SCHMIDT 
 
 SECT.-TREAS.,E.W. HAASE 
 
 e%3 @ii. SiSiiiS & 
 
 Arnold Cassens 
 
 EDWARDSVILLE & HAMEL, ILLiNOIS 
 
 CASSENS & SONS INC. 
 
 Edwardsville, illinois 
 
 Your C h ry s 1 e r- Dodge- i mpe r i al Dealer Since i933 
 
 Dependable Used Cars and T r u c l< s 
 
 We Service What We Sell 
 
 Albert Cassens 
 
 MADISON CO. TRACTOR & EQUIPMENT CO. 
 
 Ford & Massey Harris Farm implements 
 G E A ppl i ances 
 
 STATE SECURITY INSURANCE CO. 
 
 Complete Auto insurance 
 
 ''Safe Drivers Save Honey'' 
 
 HAMEL OIL COMPANY H^ael, Illinois 
 Distributors of Conoco Products 
 
 CASSENS TRANSPORT COMPANY INC. 
 
 Auto Hauling 
 
 CASSENS INSURANCE AGENCY 
 
 Dealing in General Insurance 
 
 SECURITY CREDIT COMPANY 
 
 Financing of Autos 4 Equipment
 
 HISTORY OF l*ADl$OH COUHTY , ILLINOIS 
 
 THE GILLHAM-INDIAN STORY 
 
 (CONTINUED) 
 
 Rafts were built to cross the Ohio River into Indiana, 
 and once this was done, the Indians were more relaxed. They 
 marched slower and obtained more food. They crossed the Wa- 
 bash River below Terre Haute and proceeded through the pres- 
 ent Illinois counties of Clark, Coles and Macon, finally reaching 
 the Indian town on Salt Creek about 20 miles east of north 
 from the present city of Springfield. ^.^ . . » 
 
 Contrary to some accounts, the Indians did not mistreat 
 Mrs. Giliham or the children, although of course Mrs. Gillham 
 was terribly frightened. . j . . u i 
 
 On the long trek, one Indian is reported to have broken 
 his leg Mrs. Gillham tore up her pettiskirts to splint his leg. 
 
 The Indians, aware that Mrs. Gillham was an expectant 
 mother wanted to know whether the baby would have brown 
 eyes. She assured them that the baby would. The Indians wanted 
 to keep the baby, and it is reported that they did. 
 
 But that is getting ahead of the story. In the Indian camp, 
 Mrs Ann Barnett Gillham lived with the Indian women until 
 the baby came, and the boys and girl were put out m other 
 groups or families. However, she was allowed to have Samuel, 
 the eldest, with her from time to time. 
 
 The baby was reported given to an Indian woman who 
 had lost a baby. Later, it either became ill or for some other 
 reason was returned to the camp where Mrs. Gillham and Sam- 
 uel lived. . ,., ... J 
 
 Then suddenly the Indians became warlike and started 
 to pile up a huge mass of sticks and logs. There seemed to be 
 a powwow afoot. Mrs. Gillham was afraid she and her children 
 were to be killed. . , .• 
 
 Fearing that the baby would cry and awaken the Indians 
 when she escaped, Mrs. Gillham made as difficult a decision as 
 any mother could be called on to make. She decided to leave 
 the baby behind to save the rest of her family. 
 
 Accordingly, Mrs. Gillham and Samuel stole away in the 
 darkness and ran the rest of the night. When dawn neared they 
 climbed to the top of a leafy tree and hid all day. About mid- 
 morning the Indians and a dog came looking for them but 
 didn't see or scent them. That evening the Indians came back 
 silent and angry, but didn't detect them. 
 
 Later that night, Mrs. Gillham and Samuel resumed 
 their trek through the wilderness, west and south, they thought. 
 At predawn, when they were still afraid and wondering what 
 to do, they came upon a beautiful big horse. Strange as it may 
 seem, the horse allowed them to approach it. Mrs. Gillham 
 made a rope of some sort out of a vine, put it around the 
 horse's neck, and she and Samuel rode to a nearby settlement. 
 There a white woman offered the strangers all she could in 
 the way of hospitality. 
 
 Getting back to Mrs. Gillham's husband and son Isaac, 
 when they returned home from the field all was confusion. 
 Feathers from the beds were scattered over the yard and mother 
 and other children were gone. It was obvious that they had 
 been taken prisoners by the Indians. 
 
 Mr. Gillham lost no time starting a search. The Indian 
 trail was plain at first, then lost. Gillham was obliged to aban- 
 don the hunt for a time but still retained hope of finding 
 his family. He sold his effects in Kentucky and visited Vincennes 
 and Kaskaskia, with the hope of enlisting the aid of French 
 traders. The start of hostilities between whites and Indians 
 made his task almost hopeless. 
 
 After five years of disappointment he learned from some 
 of the French traders that his family was with the Kickapoos. 
 With two Frenchmen as interpreters and guides he visited the 
 Indian town on Salt Creek, and gradually found all members 
 of his family alive and well. 
 
 It developed that the husband of the woman who took in 
 Mrs. Gillham and Samuel after their escape from the Indians 
 had heard earlier of the kidnaping. His first thought was ran- 
 som. Ultimately, it is said James Gillham had to pay about 
 $8000 for the return of his three children. Interest rates were 10 
 to 12 per cent at the time, and the payment left the family 
 in financial straits for years. 
 
 After he was ransomed, the younger boy, Jacob, kept re- 
 turning to the summer camps of the Indians for many years 
 for two reasons: his love of Indian life, and to see the baby. 
 
 James Gillham is said to have taken a month or so to 
 return to Kentucky to raise the money for the ransom. His 
 wife and Samuel were the first to be recovered, then Nancy, 
 then Jacob. The baby apparently never was recovered. 
 
 James Gillham died in 1812 or 1813, possibly as a result of 
 a wound in the war of 1812. His widow was given a tract of 
 land in Chouteau township by the U. S. Government because of 
 her trials and tribulations. liu 
 
 THE WOOD RIVER MASSACRE 
 
 What was perhaps the largest mass killing by Indians 
 within the borders of Madison County occurred July 10. 1814, 
 when a woman and six children were slain as they walked on 
 a road or trail a short distance northeast of Wood River. The 
 victims, Mrs. Reason Reagan and her two children, two chil- 
 dren of the Abel Moores and two children of the William 
 Moores, are buried in what is now known as Vaughn Cemetery 
 on Route 111 south of Civic Memorial Airport. 
 
 The cruel atrocity was committed on a Sunday afternoon 
 when Mr. Reagan was in church, having left his family at the 
 home of Abel Moore a mile away. For some unknown reason, 
 Mrs. Reagan decided to return to her home briefly and was 
 planning to come back to the Moore's before her husband ar- 
 rived from church. The six children accompanied her on the 
 walk from which they were never to return. 
 
 At dusk, uneasiness was felt for the failure of the party 
 to return and soon a search was started. 
 
 William Moore was the first to come upon a body but in 
 his haste in the darkness he was unable to identify it. Mean- 
 while, Mrs. William Moore, traveling a different route on horse- 
 back, saw a human figure lying near a log. She alighted and 
 found the body of Mrs. Reagan, who had been scalped. Near 
 the body was Mrs. Reagan's fatally injured son who was able to 
 tell Mrs. Moore that, "The black man raised his axe and cut 
 them again." The boy died the next day. 
 
 Subsequently all seven victims were found and in the 
 meantime the alarm had been rushed to Fort Russell. Quickly 
 Gen. Whiteside organized a group to hunt down the Indians. 
 Among those taking part in the search were James and Abra- 
 ham Preuitt, James Stockden, William Montgomery, Peter Wag- 
 oner and others, some of whose descendants now live in the 
 Moro, Bethalto and Wood River areas. 
 
 On the evening of the second day part of the posse came 
 upon the Indian trail at a point near the present city of Virden, 
 south of Springfield. The Indians scattered into different direc- 
 tions and so did the posse. James Preuitt, having the fastest 
 horse, soon sighted one Indian. He rode to within 30 yards of 
 him and shot him in the thigh. The Indian fell but managed to 
 get to a tree top that was blown down. Abraham Preuitt soon 
 came up and finished him off. In the Indian's pouch was the 
 scalp of Mrs. Reagan. The Indian raised his gun but was too 
 weak to fire. 
 
 The other Indians hid in the woods and in a drift in the 
 creek. It was ascertained later that the only Indian who escaped 
 was the chief, ttai 
 
 LEGEND OF THE PIASA BIRD 
 
 Few white men believe the story of the Piasa bird but the 
 saga has been preserved and deserves a place in the fascinating 
 annals of Madison County. Thousands of persons cruising on the 
 Mississippi River above Alton have seen the painting of the bird 
 on the bluff. What they see is a reproduction of an earlier figure 
 allegedly painted on the bluff by the lUini Indians. The original 
 remained on the cliff until 1857 when it was quarried away to get 
 rock for ballast for the Chicago and Alton (now Gulf, Mobile & 
 Ohio) railroad. The figure of the bird-beast was 25 feet wide 
 and 11 feet high. 
 
 It was this same tribe of niini Indians that handed down 
 the legend of the Piasa bird which they said existed perhaps 300 
 or 350 years ago. It is now described as having the wings of an 
 airplane, a scaled body, the head of a moose, and talons of an 
 eagle — only much larger. 
 
 The creature is said to have lived in a cave near Grafton. 
 It would fly out of its home each morning and come screaming 
 down the Mississippi River looking for prey. Frequently it would 
 find an Indian man or woman, grasp it in its huge claws and 
 take it back to the cave for a meal. 
 
 This sometimes happened several times a day and, 
 quiet understandably, as the sudden death rate in the Illini 
 tribe rose higher and higher, the morale of the tribe became 
 lower. 
 
 The Illini tribe's Chief Ouatoga, being a man of action, 
 decided to lose no time in halting these tragedies. He communi- 
 cated with the Great Spirit who told him that the arrows of his 
 braves would pierce the scaled body of the Piasa bird. Accord- 
 ingly, he called in his braves and told them of his plan to de- 
 coy the bird down close enough to kill it. 
 
 Chief Ouatoga volunteered to serve as the decoy while the 
 braves stood by with bows and arrows that had killed buffalo. 
 
 On the chosen day Chief Ouatoga, carrying a red blanket. 
 
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 Established August 16, 1919, with 253 signatures, the company 
 qualified for a charter from the Illinois Insurance Department in 
 January 1920. Membership fees were set at $20.00, and reduced 
 to $10.00 in 1923. The growth of the company is reflected in the 
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 HISTORY OF UADISON COUHJY . ILL I NOl $ 
 
 LEGEND OF THE PIASA BIRO 
 
 (CONTINUED) 
 
 THE PIASA BIRD 
 
 ascended to the too of a cliff to await the arrival of the bird- 
 beast. Meanwhile, before dawn, the braves with their bows and 
 arrows hid in grass and shrubbery near the chief to be ready for 
 the kill ^. ^ .. u u J 
 
 As dawn broke, the screams of the Piasa bird could be heard 
 up the river. Chief Ouatoga stood out in plain sight as the bird 
 flew in to look for its breakfast. With screams and roars the 
 great bird circled around and, setting its great wings, made 
 
 ready to grasp the Indian in its talons. The chief stood un- 
 moved, determined to demonstrate to his men how brave an II- 
 lini could be in the face of danger. 
 
 The Piasa bird came closer and was iust dropping its tal- 
 ons to grasD the old chief when 100 poisoned arrows sped toward 
 the bird. Most of them cut through the scaly armor. With a 
 screech, the bird rolled down the bluff and fell into the watiers 
 of the Mississippi. ^^^ 
 
 CAHOKtA MOUNO 
 
 CAHOKIA OR " MONK'S HOUND, " MADISON CO. .ILL. 
 
 A phenomenon which might challenge some of the Seven 
 Wonders of the World is scattered near Cahokia Creek along 
 the Madison-St. Clair County line west of CoUinsville. There, 
 rising above the great American Bottom's horse radish, sweet 
 com and wheat fields are Cahokia or 'Monk's" Mound and 60 or 
 70 "satellites" or smaller mounds. 
 
 It has never been established who built the mounds. Some 
 historians think the Indians did. Others point out that most 
 Indians took a dim view of manual labor, which is something 
 that construction of the mounds took a lot of. In 1807 the Monks 
 of LaTrappe made their home on Cahokia Mound and remained 
 there until about 1816 when they returned to France. To them 
 
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 is attributed the discovery of coal in the neighboring bluffs. 
 
 Cahokia Mound, 998 feet from north to south, 721 from 
 east to west and 99 feet high, is said to cover more ground than 
 any pyramid of Egypt and with the exception of Cholula is the 
 largest in the world. 
 
 The scores of mounds surrounding Cahokia Mound have 
 been embraced, for the most part, in a state park to preserve 
 them. A state museum at the foot of the big mound houses hun- 
 dreds of relics and trinkets unearthed over the years from In 
 dian burials, ancient homes and villages. Many of the smaller 
 mounds have yielded to the plow and after years of cultiva- 
 tion are hardly noticeable. ^^
 
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 1861-1865 
 
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 TENT NO. 96 
 
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 RENKEN'S 
 
 e^ Edwardsville's STORE for MEN (3^ 
 
 229 N. Main St. Phone 656-0887 
 
 oj^ In the Moose Building g>«^^ 
 
 This was the way Main Street and Hillsboro Avenue 
 looked about 1890. The corner is presently occupied by: 
 
 154.156 N. MAIN REXALL DRUG EDWARDSVILLB 
 
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 Complete Line of Fine Jewelry 
 
 656-078H 
 213 N. MAIN STREET EDWARDSVILLE. ILLINOIS 
 
 WEBER FUNERAL HOME 
 
 EDWARDSVILLE, ILLINOIS 
 
 THE MADISON SERVICE COMPANY was organized, in 1932, by Madison County farmers primarily 
 
 as distributors of petroleum products. 
 
 Through the years, Madison Service Company e)q)anded to include Feed and Seed.Fertil izer, 
 
 L.P. Gas and in 1962 acquired grain elevators. 
 
 The first president of the company was Herman W. Sievers , who served as president until 
 
 1952. 
 
 The total sales from 1932 through 1962 exceeded $20,000,000 and total dividends paid to 
 
 its shareholders amounted to $1,756,000. 
 
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 rganized on September 12, 1921, under the Illinois Building 
 and Loan Act as the Edwardsville Loan Association, it be- 
 came the First Federal Savings and Loan Association on 
 March 30, 1959, upon receiving a Federal Charter from the Fe- 
 deral Hoffle Loan Bank of Washington, D.C. 
 
 prOTO BV rB«>iit J. ST«EJCE« 
 
 This house, no« over 60 years old, was 
 the first loan nade by the Edvardsville 
 Loan Association and this loan was paid 
 off 15 •onthB later. 
 
 Since 1921, First Federal has grown in size until it is 
 now one of Edwardsville' s leading financial institutions 
 with resources of approximately 7 3/4 million. Since its in- 
 ception, its objectives have always been to encourage thrift 
 habits and individual financial security and to provide pri- 
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 of all income. 
 
 
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 Is proud to have had an Important 
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 next 150 years will be as progressive 
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 HISTORY OF »ADl$OH COUNTY, ILLIHOIS 
 
 THE LOVEJOY RIOT 
 
 TUB not ATTACKING TBE WASEHOVSE OF GODFREY CILMAN * CO. ALTON. ILL. ON THE NIGHT OF THE 7TH OF NOVEMBER 1837. 
 AT TBB TIME LOVEJOY WAS MURDERED AND HIS PRESS DESTROYED. 
 
 second and third presses were destroyed before he acquired the 
 press that was to be seized at the time of his murder. 
 
 The fourth press had just arrived by boat the night of 
 
 The killing of Elijah Parrish Lovejoy by a pro-slavery mob 
 the night of Nov. 7, 1837, in Alton is one of the more tragic ep- 
 isodes of Madison Countj- histor>'. Historians agree that it ad- 
 vanced the anti-slavery movement by many years and that it 
 also dealt a severe blow to the prestige of Alton. 
 
 W. T. Norton's "Centennial History of Madison County" 
 states: "Not only did immigration to Alton cease as a sequence 
 to the riot, but many men who had settled there who had anti- 
 slavery views, or who foresaw a shadowed future for the city, 
 sought new homes. Many, especially business and professional 
 men, moved to Chicago or St. Louis. Not for nearly two genera- 
 tions did the city rally from the blow." 
 
 Lovejoy, bom in Maine in 1802, taught school in St. Louis 
 several years and then became editor of the St. Louis Times. In 
 a revival of religion in St. Louis in 1832 he became converted 
 and entered Princeton Theological Seminarv. He returned to 
 St. Louis and became editor of the St. Louis Observer. 
 
 His extreme views regarding slavery and other topics of 
 the time incited much enmity and before long a mob had de- 
 stroyed his office in St. Louis. Lovejoy thereupon decided to 
 move to Alton, having acquired a second press to replace one 
 destroved on the St. liuis waterfront. 
 
 his editorials in the newly-created Alton Observer stirred 
 up certath elements of the population to such an extent that the 
 
 Nov. 6, 1837, when events began to move rapidly. The press was 
 guarded successfully the first night it arrived, and on the sec- 
 ond night it was believed safe to the extent that most of the 
 guard left the Observer building at 9 p.m. Soon thereafter a 
 mob began gathering and the 20 or so men remaining in the 
 building, including Lovejoj-, were trapped. 
 
 Some time after the mob gathered, a ladder was raised to 
 the roof. A man ascended the ladder with material to bum the 
 building. When volunteers inside the building were called to 
 shoot the man off the ladder, Lovejoy. Amos B. Roff and Royal 
 Weller stepoed out of the building. As they emereed, Lovejoy 
 was struck by five shots, walked back into the building, and fell 
 dead. The other two men were seriously wounded. 
 
 In 1896-7, a stately monument in memory of the martyr 
 was erected in Alton b>- the state and the citizens of Alton. 
 
 Norton's history gives the names of the other men in the 
 Loveiov building that night as: William Haraed. James Morse 
 Jr., John S. Noble. Edward Breath, George H. Walworth, J.. C. 
 Woods. George H. Whitney. Reuben Gerry, W. S. Gilman, Enoch 
 Long, George T. Brown, Samuel J. Thompson. D. F Randall. 
 H. D. Davis. D Burt Loomis, Thadeus B. Hurlburt, and Henry 
 Tanner. 
 
 LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATE 
 
 One of the cherished events of Madison County history 
 occurred on Oct. 15, 1858 when Abraham Lincoln and Stephen 
 A. Douglas staged their seventh and final debate at the site of 
 the old citv hall on Alton's riverfront. Obser\-ers at the time 
 estimated the crowd at 10,000— in a city of 3000. From all direc- 
 tions the>' came, by boat, wagon, horseback, buggy, and many 
 on foot. The downtown area was crowded for hours prior to the 
 historic debate. 
 
 The contest was for the United States Senate. Douglas, • 
 
 37 
 
 Democrat, had been nominated for re-election and the Republi- 
 cans had nominated Lincoln as his opponent. Douglas won, not 
 by a vote of the people but by election by the senators and rep- 
 resentatives of the state assembly some weeks after the debate. 
 In our jet age it is difficult to retain an audience's atten- 
 tion for as long as half an hour. The Lincoln-Douglas debate at 
 Alton consumed three hours. First, Douglas spoke an hour, then 
 Lincoln for an hour and a half, tnd then Douglas was allowed 
 90 minutes for his rejoinder. «~n
 
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 HE ILLINOIS LUMBER COMPANY has contributed ouch to the growth and de- 
 velopment of Madison County , providing employment and service to a large 
 percentage of the lumber trade In the area. 
 » of the oldest firms In the county. It was founded In 1867 under the name of 
 3lze Lumber Company at Bethalto. In 1874 Mr. John Stolze moved his business to 
 •s present location, 225 E.Vandalla Street . EdwardsvlUe. The facilities at this 
 cation now house a retail warehouse and hardware store supplying building ma- 
 rlals, hardware, plumbing and electrical supplies. The greatly expanded corpo- 
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 431 East Vandalia — Edwardsville 
 
 THIS IS THE OLDEST BRICK HOUSE IN •LOWERTDWH', 
 AS THE FIRST SETTLEMENT ALONG NORTH MAIN STREET WAS 
 CALLED. IT IS NOW OCCUPIED BY RUSTY'S. IT WAS BUILT 
 IN 1819 AS A STORE AKO FOR A TRADING POST FOR THE 
 POGUE BROTHERS, ROBERT AND GEORGE, WHO CAME FROM PHI- 
 LADELPHIA VERY EARLY IN E D WAR D SV I L L E • S HISTORY TO 
 TRADE WITH THE INDIANS. 
 
 LATER THE FIRST POST OFFICE AND THE EDWARDSVIL- 
 LE LAND OFFICE WAS HOUSED IN TWO ROOMS OFTHIS BUIL- 
 DING. 
 
 ABOVE IS A SKETCH BY THE ARCH I T ECT , J ACK A.GOCKEL 
 OF FLIPPO *«l) GOCKEL ARCHITECTS, ALTON AND STAUNTON, 
 ILL. OF THE REMODELING AND ADDITION TO RUSTY'S. 
 
 THE EXTERIOR MATERIALS WILL BE REDWOOD PLYWOOD, 
 BATTEN STRIPS, AND STUCCO ON PAINTED BLOCK. 
 
 THE NEW ADDITION WHICH CONTAINS A LARGE KITCHEN 
 AND DINIHG ROOM IS INTENDED TO BETTER HANDLE THEGROW- 
 IHG BUSINESS AT RUSTY'S. 
 
 CONTRACTORS OH THE JOB ARE:MEL SUHRE, GEORGE GENT, 
 CENTRAL ELECTRIC AND CITY REFRIGERATION.
 
 HISTORY OF MADISON COUNTY . ILLINOI S 
 
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 All was not drudgery for the early settlers of Madison 
 County. They managed to exist without creme de menthe and 
 daiquiris and cha-chas, jitterbug music and even fox trots. But 
 they did have whisky to drink and danced to jigs and reels 
 played by passable violinists. 
 
 This condensed account of "shucking" from "Reynolds' 
 Pioneer History of Illinois" gives an insight into the social cus- 
 toms of the times: 
 
 "The crops of com were never husked on the stalk . . . 
 but hauled home in the husk and thrown in a heap . . . The 
 whole neighborhood was invited to the shucking, as it was 
 called. The girls and many of the married ladies generally en- 
 gaged in this amusing work. Two leading expert buskers were 
 chosen as captains, and the heap of com divided as nearly 
 equally as possible . . . Each captain chose, alternately, his 
 corps of buskers, male and female . . . Then each party com- 
 menced a contest to beat the other, which was in many cases 
 truly exciting. 
 
 "One rule was that whenever a male husked a red ear of 
 com, he was entitled to a kiss from the girls. This frequently ex- 
 cited much fuss and scuffling, which was intended by both par- 
 ties to end in a kiss. It was a universal practice that taffia or 
 Monongahela whisky was used at these husking frolics. It was 
 drunk out of a bottle, each couple drinking out of it and handing 
 it to a neighbor, without using any glass or cup whatever. 
 
 "Almost always these shuckings ended in a dance. To 
 prepare for this amusement, fiddles and fiddlers were in great 
 demand, and it often required much fast riding to obtain them. 
 One violin and a performer were all that was contemplated at 
 these innocent rural games. Towards dark, and the supper 
 half over, then it was that the bustle and confusion commenced. 
 
 "When the fiddler began tuning his instrument, dishes, 
 victuals, tables and all disappeared in a few minutes, the room 
 was cleared and the floor swept off ready for action. The music 
 at these country dances made the young folks almost frantic, 
 and sometimes much excitement was displayed to get on the 
 floor first ... In those days they danced jigs and four-handed 
 reels, as they were called. Sometimes three-handed reels were 
 also danced. In these dances there was no standing still; all 
 were moving at a rapid pace from beginning to end. In the jigs 
 the bystanders cut one another out . . . Sometimes the parties 
 in a jig tried to tire one another down in the dance, and it would 
 last a long time before one or the other gave up. The cotillion 
 or stand-stiU dances were not then known. 
 
 "The bottle went around at these parties as it did at the 
 shuckings, and male and female took a dram of it as it was 
 passed around. No sitting was indulged in, and the folks either 
 stood or danced all night, as generally daylight ended the frolic. 
 The dress of these hardy pioneers was generally plain home- 
 spun. The hunting shirt was much worn at that time . . . Some- 
 times dressed deerskin pantaloons were used on these occasions, 
 and mocassins — rarely shoes — and at times bare feet were in- 
 dulged in. In the morning aU went home on horseback or foot. 
 No carriages, wagons or other vehicles were used on these 
 occasions, for the best of reasons, because they had none." 
 
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 trea^f'€!!.a've3'<r€ i j^<^rec»'^re3tf ! 
 
 IT HAPPENED IN HIGHLAND 
 
 Seventyseven Years Ago! 
 
 In 1885, a group of Madison County farmers and businessmen founded a tiny company 
 in Highland, 111 inois to produce a new kind of product. On June 14,1885, the world's 
 first evaporated milk, condensery was opened and the first can of evaporated milk was 
 produced on June 18,1885. 
 
 From that beginning-seventy-seven years ago- in Madison County-has grown a gigantic 
 industry, with literally billions of cans of evaporated milk sold throughout the world 
 each year. 
 
 And Helvetia Milk Condensing Conpany has become Pet Milk Company. ..one of America's 
 leading food conpanies. For, in addition to the evaporated milk which made it famous. 
 Pet Milk Company now produces and markets Pet Instant Nonfat Dry Milk, Pet-Ritz and 
 Swiss Miss Frozen Pies.Sego Liquid Diet Food, Muss el man's applesauce and other fruit 
 product s,Funsten nuts, Laura Scudder's potato chips and snack foods in the U.S.A,- 
 several additional products in Canada-and conducts a large fresh dairy products bu- 
 siness in the southeastern states. 
 
 But this is our birthplace. It all started. here seventy-seven years ago. 
 
 PET MILK COMPANY 
 
 Founded in Highland, 111 inois in 1885 
 
 HIGHLAND 
 
 
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 AN ARTIST'S CONCEPTION OF HIGHLAND IN 1838. 
 
 Highland— The sobd, thrifty hub of southeastern Madison 
 County is the city of Highland, 4,943 strong in its 1960 census. Its 
 growth since the town was founded in 1837 has been steady rath- 
 er than spectacular. A large percentage of the residents are de- 
 scendants of early Swiss and German settlers, noted for their 
 economy and for being allergic to debts, be they private or mu- 
 nicipal. 
 
 Aside from being surrounded by a rich dairying and other- 
 wise prosperous farms. Highland m recent years has bolstered 
 its economy by diversified industry. Largest at this writing is the 
 Basler Electric Co., maker of motors and other electronic equip- 
 ment, and the Highland Supply Corp., makers of cellophane, 
 floral foil, Easter grass, aluminum foil Christmas trees, and re- 
 lated products. Highland Supply occupies the plant of the old Pet 
 MUk Co., for years a cornerstone of Highland's economy. It also 
 uses for storage the building which once served as the Highland 
 brewery. 
 
 Other important industries include the Wick Pipe Organ 
 Co., which dates back to 1908, and the Highland Embroidery 
 Works, founded in 1881 by John Rush of Switzerland and sound- 
 
 42 
 
 ly established in 1883 by J. J. Spindler, president. 
 
 To the outsider, Highland is most famous for its county 
 fair. This is an institution in the city, begun shortly before the 
 dawn of the Twentieth century. Highland has been the site of the 
 fair ever since. Lindendale Park with its colorful swimming pool 
 is one of the county's more attractive parks. 
 
 Progress has come on many fronts. A large addition to St. 
 Joseph's Hospital was added after World War II. A tremendous 
 lake is being developed a short distance north of the city to en- 
 hance the adjacent water supply. Serving the city since 1868 has 
 been the Pennsylvania Railroad's main line between St. Louis 
 and New York. Norton's Centennial History of Madison County 
 has this to say of Highland: "The population is a quiet, indus- 
 trious class, now numbering 3,000, everybody being busy and 
 working during the day, steady and regularly as clockwork. 
 There is not a beggar, and no loafers and idlers are seen on the 
 streets. . . There are but few families who do not own their own 
 homes. . . They are also known to be the best taxpayers . ." 
 
 "There is not a shack or dilapidated building in town, all 
 being kept in good order. The streets and alleys are clean."
 
 HISTORY OF yiADlSON COUNTY , ILL INOl S 
 
 MAJOR INDUSTRIES 
 
 WILLIAM ELIOT SMITH 
 
 Owens-Illinois Glass Co.— From a Mississippi River fill 
 through which Shield's Creek once flowed has risen one of the 
 giants of Madison County industry, the Owens-Illinois Glass Co. 
 Through the years it has given employment to thousands with 
 its millions of dollars in payrolls. It stands as a model of what 
 perseverence of pioneer industrialists accomplished in the lat- 
 ter quarter of the Nineteenth century. 
 
 Success of this venture was very much in doubt in the 
 early years. William Eliot Smith, one of the founders, had been 
 a farmer. Edward Levis, the other founder, had been in the 
 furniture business. Neither was experienced in glassmaking. Yet, 
 in 1873, thev bought a small bankrupt glass factory on Belle 
 street in Alton from a Mr. Hayner. They borrowed a chemistry 
 book to learn what they could. 
 
 Smith had charge of sales and Levis and his seven sons 
 handled the actual manufacture of bottles. By 1876 the Illinois 
 Glass Co. was so successful that the founders planned to move 
 to St. Louis to avail themselves of rail and river transportation 
 facilities there. Alton, however, arranged to keep the factory 
 bv providing the present site. 
 
 Edward Levis died in 1903 and his seven sons took over 
 
 operation of the plant. When Smith died in 1909 the young n -n 
 assumed complete management. 
 
 Meanwhile, in 1903, Michael J Owens invented the first 
 glassblowing machine in Toledo, O. He and Edward D Libbey 
 headed the Libbev Glass Co. and the Owens Bottle Machine Co. 
 there. The Illinois Glass Co. was one of the first to acquire the 
 automatic glassblowing machine and its expansion thereafter 
 was evidenced bv the fact that additional plants were added in 
 Chicago Heights," 111.; Gas City, Ind., and Bridgeton, N. J. 
 
 In 1929 the Illinois Glass Co. and the Owens Bottle Co. 
 merged to form the Owens-Illinois Glass Co. William E. Levis, 
 grandson of the founder, became the first president of the new 
 company. Another grandson, Preston Levis, was named to man- 
 age the Alton plant 
 
 The company moved into new markets in the 1930s— milk 
 bottles, soft drink bottles, glass block and electric insulators. 
 Later came the formation of plants to manufacture glass fibers, 
 laboratory and pharmaceutical glassware, television bulks and 
 other electronic glassware. 
 
 Expansion has proceeded since that time, no'.ably with the 
 purchase of three plants in 1946 and 1947, thus putting the com- 
 pany into new fields.
 
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 ^-^VHIGHLAND, ILLV 
 
 BERT APKEN PHONE 654-7567 
 
 ST. JACOB 
 ELEVATOR 
 
 FEEDS 
 
 & 
 
 FERTILIZERS 
 
 CUSTOM 
 
 GRINDING 
 
 ST. JACOB, ILL. 
 
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 Marine, 111. 
 
 JOHNNY'S TAVERN 
 
 Worden, 111 >459-32IO 
 
 RElNHEimER'S MOTOR COMPANY 
 St. Jacob, III. ph 2331 or 2333 
 
 RED i STEWS TAVERN 
 
 6th & Douglas St Jacob, III. 
 
 SCHAEFER CLOVER FARM 
 
 Marine, 111. 
 
 C.N. VIENTZ HARDVARE 
 East Alton Street Marine, III- 
 
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 Complete 
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 Service 
 
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 J All the news of Highland and vicinity appears I 
 weekly, served in the most tasteful manner, I 
 in the columns of the L^™ 
 
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 ^^^^^Establ ished 1893^^^ 
 Its Strong Points: 
 
 It covers the local field thoroughly and well 
 
 It gives Court news of Madison and Bond Counties 
 
 It pays close attention to market quotations 
 
 ■V® NOTHING ESCAPES IT.©!.» 
 
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 DRDA ELECTRIC 
 
 ELECTRICAL 
 CONTRACTOR 
 
 Light Fixtures 
 Westinghouse Appliances 
 
 Wiring Service 
 Sales & Service 
 
 I Phone 654-2149 — Highland, 111. 
 
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 HUG'S MEN & BOYS WEAR< 
 
 The prices will astonish you. We have our goods 
 all marked in plain figures, and warrant 
 
 the lowest cashes prices „^,„^ „„„ 
 
 R.G. Center Drugs 
 
 Fine Cosmetics / 
 
 Prescriptions- Fountain Service 
 
 PH0NE654-6886. . .HIGHLAND, ILL.I 
 
 Farmers and Merchants 
 k was Incorporated In 
 with total resources 
 of $79,000.00. As of June 30, 
 1962 our total resources have 
 reached $11,720,462.18. This 
 Is definite proof that A Good 
 Place to do your Banking is at 
 the Farmers and Me r c h an t s Ban k 
 of Highland 
 
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 Ph. 654-2137 
 
 
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 cine jinbel miift tincn SBedjiel nut bicfem Cfen inadjen mill, \o 
 f^reibt e5 ui',5. aBenii 3ftr nun finbet bofe jcbet Sefijier bt3 
 9Kajeftic ciomM iff, benfclben jn emyieblen, i|t baS nit^t geniU 
 flenb jiir iya^i. jofort aui) einen ju tauren. 
 
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 Offset '^ Letterpress '^Thermograving 
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 j Phone 654-4766 
 
 Highland, Illinois 
 
 "Stayin' in the Game' 
 
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 GREENIE' S LIOL'OR STORE 
 
 %4S)Bert £ Joe Gruenenfeldersi** 
 
 816 Broadway ^J^ rMW^^^ Hig hland, 111 
 
 • I -©FEEDS and FARM SERVICE^ I ' 
 
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 ; Ij Highest 
 ^ Quality 
 
 Cheerful 
 Service 
 
 ^ . 1013 SIXTH ST e^®«»<9V 
 
 HIGHLAND. ILL ^ -^ 
 
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 PLOW CO. 
 
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 fOT well iiigli seveuty yeaM the Damf John D.^rv biu l)«eu Atn.-n<a'ii wmrliwc nl 
 in Ihe mnrvfloos rtttricollorsl drvrlopmriit iit ihc r.inulry. lu IHSti John Dft-rt- 
 g«Te to the world the flnit iiteel plow eier oinrte. lu IKOT he idlllt oiakiDR the be»l 
 plows the worlil hsa ever weu and ihipptuii them to ail paru of the earth The 
 Deere Veliicl^-s have b«en before the trade tiuce Ib7». and haTe a JuiilT rtewrred 
 n-patatioii for reliability, which Koe« haoil m hauci with the fame of the plow 
 
 'For the latest in farm machinery - see us " 
 
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 MANUFACTURER OF 
 PAINTS and ENAMELS 
 HIGHLAND, ILL. 
 
 908 LAUREL ST. Phone: 654-7381 
 
 II.I.INOIS. 
 
 Seitz Jewelry Store 
 
 Keepsake ^ Prince Gardner 
 
 Diamonds 
 
 Billfolds 
 
 Elgin 
 Watches 
 
 923 Main Street a^^^^F*"^^ Highland, Illinois 
 
 IIHLiJilLllJL 
 
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 y & TIRE SERVICE 
 
 Proprietor* 
 
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 TELEVISION SETS ♦ RADIOS ♦ REFRIGERATORS 
 ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES ♦ FOOD FREEZERS 
 CAR. TRUCK a TRACTOR TIRES 
 
 X _^tfllC HIGHLAND, ILLINOIS 
 
 This ComDan; was organized and has since been carried 
 on in the Interest or the Parner and Consuter. 
 
 Oberbeck Feed Company 
 
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 It has striven to establish a market for everything the 
 
 Parmer raises, paying the Highest Market Price, and 
 
 selling to the Consmier at 
 
 very small profits/ 
 
 Pamers and Consumers will further their own interests 
 by giving us their patronage. 
 
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 WHEAT'S LP-GAS SERVICE 
 
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 Old. Rt. 40 West P.O. Box 7 Highland. 111. 
 
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 CHANCING SCENE 1912-1962 
 
 so YEAR* AGO— SATURPAV NIGHT WA$ THE 
 MWT MISERABLE Nl&HT IN THE WEEK,E$PE- 
 CIALLY FOR THIi CLP GENTLEMAN 
 
 TODAY 
 
 . Modern fast recovery LP-Gas water 
 
 heaters provide plenty of hot water for all ( (£) 
 family bath, laundry, and kitchen needs at any *^ 
 hour of the day or night. 
 
 SUHRE'S GAS & APPLIANCE CO. 
 
 Since 1872 
 
 I]:is\x]?£i,nice Oo. 
 
 145 we:st state street 
 <ii;^HAMEL, ILLINDISg^;^ 
 
 United 
 
 Savings 
 
 & 
 
 Loan 
 
 Association 
 
 of 
 
 Troy 
 
 213 S.Maln St. 
 Troy, Illinois 
 
 Gelirig's Store ' ' ^
 
 HISTORY OF m/iDISOH COUNTY . ILUNOl S 
 
 Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporafiorv— Growing with Madi 
 son Countv since its parent companies were founded in 1892 is 
 the mammoth Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp. From modest be 
 ginnings these parent firms, combined in 1954. now have annual 
 sales of aoproximately $600,000,000 and assets of more than $600, 
 OOO.OOO. The corporation has more than 44.000 emplo.ves in 70- 
 odd plants and 200 offices throughout the world It has more 
 than 43.000 stockholders. 
 
 Franklin W. Olin started the company that was the an- 
 cestor of Olin Industries. Inc., in 1892 in one small East Alton 
 mill and with a handful of employes. .After supplying the Illinois 
 coal fields with black powder for several years, Olin found that 
 he needed other outlets for e.xcess production. He turned to the 
 manufacture of ammunition and in 1898 formed the Western 
 Cartridge Co.. which became Olin Industries in 1944. When com- 
 petition prevented him from obtaining the necessary component 
 parts for ammunition, he was forced to make his own bullets, 
 shot and wadding, and to fabricate brass for cartridge cases. 
 
 In World War I. Olin increased his explosives and metals 
 manufacturing facilities to meet huge government orders. When 
 the war was over and he was left with excess facilities, he 
 turned to making '•tailor-made" brass and other copper alloys, 
 chiefly in strips, sheets and coils. These products found a ready 
 
 market in the growing automobile and electrical appliance 
 fields 
 
 In 1930 Olin purchased the historic Winchester Repeating 
 Arms Co., and this cemented the comoany's position in the small 
 arms and ammunition business Winchester rifles had long 
 been known as "The Gun That Won The West." 
 
 In later years Olin entered new fields, acquiring plants 
 that manufactured cellophane, paper, film, and tubing. Timber- 
 lands also were purchased. In 1952 the company acquired Ram- 
 set Fasteners, Inc., thus entering the field of power-actuated in- 
 dustrial tools, with its ammunition facilities manufacturing the 
 cartridges for the tools. Also in 1952 Olin acquired an interest in 
 the Armstrong Coalbreak Co. of Benton Harbor, Mich., which 
 holds basic patents, and sells and services equipment for the 
 new and rapidly growing technique of mining coal by com- 
 pressed air. 
 
 Thus by the time of the me-ger with Mathieson Chemical 
 Corp. in 1954, Olin Industries, Inc.. was manufacturing a diversi- 
 fied number of high quality products in ever-widening and re- 
 lated fields. 
 
 Carrying on for the Olin family as executives of the cor- 
 poration are Founder Franklin W. Olin's two sons. John and 
 Spencer Olin. ^y 
 
 Granite City Steel Company— .A key industry of the second 
 largest metropolitan area in Illinois is the Granite City Steel Co. 
 which employs more than 5000 men and women. The company 
 started in the late 1860's as a producer of granite ware. The 
 main ingredient in the enamel was ground granite. The process 
 of coating ironware used in household utensils with enamel was 
 introduced in the United States by two brothers who owned a 
 tin fabricating company in St. Louis— William F. and Frederick 
 G. Niedringhaus. 
 
 Their business prospered and in 1878 they built the Granite 
 Iron Rolling Mills, the business ancestor of today's Granite City 
 Steel. Later, the brothers bought a large tract of farm land 
 across the Mississippi River from St. Louis. There .in 1894, they 
 built a steel works and sparked establishment of the city that is 
 today's Granite City. 
 
 A few years later the steel works was consolidated with 
 Dlants that fabricated household utensils to form the National 
 Enameling and Stamping Co. Then, in 1927, Nesco's steelmaking 
 activities were incorporated separately as the Granite City Steel 
 Co. 
 
 In 1928, its first fuU vear as an independent company. 
 Granite City Steel sold S14.619.000 worth of steel products— as 
 against $137,131.00 in 19.S6. In the 10 years from 1946 through 
 1955. Granite City Steel spent $97,000,000 on new plant and 
 equipment. Late in 1955 it began a $33,000,000 expansion pro- 
 gram. 
 
 The company is the St. Louis area's largest consumer of 
 such materials as natural gas, fuel oil, refactory bricks, and 
 palm oil from East Africa, the second largest of coal and the 
 third largest of electricity. It buys more tin than any other local 
 industry, and more zinc than all but a few companies in the 
 United States. <rb 
 
 WILLIAM F. NIEDKINGHAUS 
 
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 H \ S10R\ OF WETHOD/SIM 
 ^ , ^- IN MADISON COUNTY 
 
 ^VS EARLY AS 1«03 METXODIST ITENERANTS BEGAN RIDIMC FROM ONE SETTLEMENT TO ANOTHER HOLDING SERVICES ABOUT OKCE 
 A MONTH. 
 
 THE FIRST METHODIST CHURCH IN ILLINOIS TERRITORY KAS BUILT IN 1805. ON LAND 0*NED BY THOMAS GOOD ABOUT 2)4 MILES SOUTH- 
 WEST OF EDWARDSVILLE.it was called BETHa AND WAS THE LARGEST RELIGIOUS SOCIETY IN THE COUNTY. 
 
 THE FIRST CAMP MEETING WAS HELD NEAR THE RESIDENCE OF THOMAS GOOD IN THE SPRING OF 1807. THIS MEETING WAS UNDER THE 
 DIRECTION OF BISHOP *M. McKENDREE, A PRESIDING ELDER OF CIRCUITS COVERING SEVERAL WESTERN STATES AND TERRITORIES. THIS 
 MEETING WAS INTHE CHARGE OF REV. JESSE WALKER, THE FOUNDER OF TOE METHODIST CHURCH IN ILLINOIS AND THE FIRST PRESIDING ELDER 
 OF THE ILLINOIS DISTRICT, 
 
 ONE OF THE FIRST ORGANIZATIONS OF THE METHODIST CHURCH WAS AT WANDA, KNOW AS OLD SALEM IN 1809 BY AUTHORITY OF THE 
 WESTERN CONFERENCE HELD THAT YEAR AT CINCINNATI. 
 
 IN 1813 A METHODIST SOCIETY WAS ORGANIZED IN TROY IN THE HOUSE OF JOHN JARVIS AND LATER A FRAME CHURCH CALLED 
 'GILEAO"WAS CONSTRUCTED ON SECTION 14 NEAR THE RESIDENCE OF REV. JESSE RENFRO , A CIRCUIT PREACHER. 
 
 IN 1815 A CHURCH AT EDWARDSVILLE WAS ORGANIZED WHEN REV. JOHN HOCAN WAS ON THE CIRCUIT; AND THREE SUCCESSIVE CHURCHES 
 HAVE BEEN BUILT ON THE PRESENT SITE OF ST. JOHN'S METHODIST CHURCH. 
 
 IN 1817 A CHURCH WAS ORGANIZED IN UPPER ALTON UNDER THE MINISTRATIONS OF REV. S.H.THOMPSON. THIS CHURCH WAS THE NU- 
 CLEUS OF A FLOURISHING SOCIETY. 
 THE CHURCHES INCLUDE: 
 
 ALTON FIRST ROBERT SIMPSON 
 
 ALTON GRACE ROBERT J. BERRY 
 
 ALTON MAIN St'. JOHN HENDERSON 
 
 ALTON ST. MARKS MELVIN BYRD 
 
 BETHALTO LEO COPELAND 
 
 COLLINSVILLE FIRST BILL HAHS 
 
 EDWARDSVILLE IMMANUEL. . .ROBERT HOLLIS 
 
 GODFREY FIRST JOHN CURTIS, JR. 
 
 GLEN CARBON FIRST HUBER ROBERSON 
 
 MARYVILLE METHODIST HUBER ROBERSON 
 
 MADISON METHODIST RUSELL D.ODEN 
 
 ROXANA METHODIST 
 WANDA METHODIST 
 ST. JACOB METHODIST PHILLIP SNYDER 
 
 GRANITE CITY DEWEY AVE. . .RAYMOND SWITZER TRCV METHODIST B.R. CUMMINS 
 
 GRANITE CITY NAMEOKI FRANK PIERCE MT.ZION CIRCUIT 
 
 EAST ALTON FIRST JACK TRAVELSTEAD GRANITE CITY NEIDRINGHAUS. .VERNIE BARNEH VENICE METHODIST CRAIG DILLMAN 
 
 EAST ALTON ST. PAULS JACK L.ADAMS GRANITE CITY TRINITY. .... .JAMES T.BRYANT WOOD RIVER METHODIST EDWIN H. GRANT 
 
 EDWARDSVILLE ST. lOHN ' S. . J AMES L.NETTLETON HARTFORD FIRST R.E. GEORGE WORDEN HARRY M.FISH. 
 
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 Collinsville— The story of CoUinsville, one of the fast grow- 
 ing communities in the St. Louis area, carries through three 
 phases— agricultural, mining, and commuter. From the time the 
 four Collins brothers founded the city in 1817 until late in the 
 Nineteenth century, Collinsville was chiefly an agricultural com- 
 munity. To this day, it is agricultural to a degree because it is 
 surrounded by some of the better farm land of the county. 
 
 During the last quarter of the Nineteenth century and well 
 into the Twentieth, coal mining was the principal industry. Dr. 
 Octavius Lumaghi was one of the pioneers of the industry and 
 his work was carried on by his son, Louis. Other mines sprung 
 up in Collinsville, Maryville, Glen Carbon and Troy to contribute 
 to the Collinsville economy. 
 
 Some decades ago when electricity and gas and diesel fuel 
 and fuel oil for homes started to replace coal, the Collinsville 
 area mines started to shut down until today there is only one— 
 the Lumaghi slope mine. 
 
 Meanwhile, however, people employed in St. Louis, East 
 St. Louis, Granite City, and elsewhere started choosing home 
 sites where they could "get away from it all," and many chose 
 Collinsville. As a result, Collinsville is to a considerable extent 
 a "bedroom city," a city of commuters. Its population spurted to 
 an official 14,217 in the 1960 census and the growth goes on. 
 There were 11,862 residents in 1950 and 12,902 in 1954. 
 
 Population of the trading area now is estimated at 26.430 
 and this figure is expected to reach 35,000 by 1970 The recent 
 opening of Interstate Highway 70 to East St. Louis is likely to 
 provide added impetus to expansion of the city and area. 
 
 Chief industries are the Lumaghi mine. Brooks Fine Foods 
 Co.. and the Martha Manning dress factory. Several tracts have 
 been annexed to the city in recent years and more arc contem- 
 plated. An additional outlet from the city to the belt line on the 
 northwest is planned in (he Clay-Goethc-Walnut street area. The 
 Chamber of Commerce has been so active that it has authorized 
 the employment of a full-time executive secretary. 
 
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 113 WEST MAIN ST. CD LLI N B VI LLE, ILL. 
 
 
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 KAST STANDARD SERVICE 
 
 301 Buchanan St. Edwardsvl 1 le, 111. 656-9823 
 
 MRSH SINCLAIR SERVICE 
 
 204 Edwardsville Road Troy, 111. 
 
 CULLOP- JENNINGS FLORIST 
 
 517 W. Clay Coll Insville, 111. 
 
 THELUA'S CAFE 
 
 107 E. Main Collinsville, 111. 
 
 52
 
 HISTORY OF UADISON COUNTY , I LL INO I S 
 
 General Steel Industries, Inc.— The history of this Granite 
 City firm, one of the tremendous plants of Madison County 
 that has contributed millions of dollars in payrolls through the 
 years, is one that didn't start until the Twentieth century. Its 
 achievements, however, are none the less commendable. After 
 all. it is a durable goods industry that had the leadership to 
 guide it successfully through the depression and on to much 
 greater prosperity in the quarter century that has followed. 
 
 The industry started out as the Commonwealth Steel Com- 
 pany a few years after the turn of the century. At that time 
 Clarence H Howard, who controlled the old Double Body Bolster 
 Co., received orders for cast-steel bolsters for railroad passenger 
 cars. His problem was how to produce them. Steel castings of 
 such size had not been made before. He finally negotiated with 
 the small, recently-incorporated Commonwealth firm which 
 agreed to take the business on the condition that Mr. Howard 
 help work out the production problem. 
 
 To make a long story short, he was offered, in 1904, finan- 
 cial and operational control of the company. Two former 
 schoolmates at the old St. Louis Manual Training School joined 
 him in the business— Harry M. Pflager and George K. Hoblit- 
 zelle. It was this team of three that built the business. Howard 
 was the salesman, Pflager the technical and production man. 
 and Hoblitzelle the specialist in finance and business policy. 
 
 The smooth, comfortable ride of the modem railroad pas- 
 senger car is the direct result of General Steel's historic devel- 
 opment of new designs of trucks with cast steel frames and bol- 
 sters. 
 
 After World War I the company's engineers designed an 
 entire underframe structure for a steam locomotive in one 
 piece. The next step was to produce a one-piece locomotive bed 
 with cylinders, steam chests and saddle cast integral. The first 
 such locomotive bed was furnished to the Terminal Railroad 
 Association of St. Louis in 1926. 
 
 During the same period cast steel underframes and trucks 
 were developed for electric locomotives and underframes were 
 developed for various types of freight cars such as ore, sulphur, 
 gondola, tank, hopper, flat and depressed center cars. 
 
 Despite the success experienced with freight car products. 
 General Steel's management recognized that the company could 
 not depend on its railroad business to keep it going as in the past. 
 Accordingly, the company acquired in 1955 the National Roll & 
 Foundry Co. near Pittsburgh which produces cast iron and steel 
 rolls. A few years later an electric foundry was established at 
 Granite City for producing special alloy wear resistant castings 
 to the mining and crushing field. Then in 1960, General Steel 
 purchased the St. Louis Car Co., one of the foremost builders 
 of railroad and rapid transit cars. 
 
 Having met with success in these ventures, General Steel 
 Castings Corp. has outgrown its name. Since there was continued 
 activity toward further diversification, it was decided, effective 
 May 1, 1961, to change the name to General Steel Industries, 
 Inc. 
 
 Standard Oil Co.— A conviction held by no means by all of 
 our Madison County residents— that the automobile was here to 
 stay— was the motivation for the founding of the Standard Oil 
 Co. at Wood River early in the Twentieth century. 
 
 In 1906 three men, W. P. Cowan, Dr. William M. Burton 
 and J. E. Evans, walked over the watermelon, wheat and corn 
 land that very soon was to become the site of one of the giants 
 of our county's industry. The 600-acre tract was purchased, con- 
 struction began, and families moved in. Before long. Standard 
 Oil had a plant and Wood River was born. 
 
 By the end of 1907 the plant was running crude oil. Frank 
 J. Gainer was the first timekeeper. He served almost 50 years. 
 At first there were only three men on the payroll but shortly 
 there after, there were 400. 
 
 Common labor in those days drew IT'/t; cents an hour; a 
 foreman drew 25 cents. Shifts were 12 hours long, and each 
 shift worked all 24 hours every' second Sunday. Chief products 
 at first were kerosene, fuel oil, paraffin, coke and asphalt. Be- 
 fore long, gasoline was king. 
 
 Standard Oil, and consequently Wood River, saw lean 
 years in the depression, fat years in World War II. The refinery 
 grew to 745 acres and to a running capacity of more than 50,000 
 barrels of crude oil a day, with a payroll of 1500. 
 
 Standard Oil has been like a godfather to Wood River. 
 The two have co-operated remarkably well through the years, 
 and both have prospered. 
 
 Shell Oil Co.— Founding of the Shell Oil Co.'s Wood River 
 plant coincides with the start of World War I in 1917. The Rox- 
 ana Petroleum Co., later incorporated into Shell Oil Co., started 
 construction on a 180-acre site on the east side of what is now 
 route 111. Crude distilling operations were begun in September, 
 1918. 
 
 In the first year, about 7100 barrels of crude were handled 
 a day. about 4 per cent of the present figure. Six modern homes 
 were erected on the grounds for a supervisory staff. 
 
 Meanwhile, 50 cottages were built north of the refinery for 
 employes, and these homes became the nucleu's of the present 
 village of Roxana 
 
 During World War I most of the employes lived in Alton 
 and rode the interurban to Hartford, about a mile from the re- 
 finery. They covered the remaining distance on foot. Old timers 
 recall that in bad weather considerable fortitude was required 
 to walk the distance; sometimes they preferred, instead, to stay 
 at the plant overnight. 
 
 Through the years the refinery has expanded and devel- 
 oped scores of new techniques for refinement of crude oil. It is 
 proud of the fact that it was one of the first manufacturers of 
 100 octane aviation gasoline, and that it was the first petroleum 
 refinery to win the Army-Navy "E" award in World War II. 
 
 Laclede Steel Co. — Named in honor of the soldier-engineer 
 who helped found St. Louis, the Laclede Steel Co. has grown 
 from its modest origin in 1911 to a firm of more than 4000 em- 
 ployes. Its first plant was a rail re-rolling mill in Madison that 
 produced reinforcing bars. 
 
 The story of Laclede Steel is essentially that of its founder, 
 Thomas R. Akin, who served as president, treasurer and direc- 
 tor until his death in 1945. Since then his son, W M. Akin, has 
 directed activities and operations of the company as its presi- 
 dent. 
 
 Laclede produces a substantia', proportion of the highway 
 and building steel used in this country. All of the major high- 
 ways and many of the public and private buildings in the met- 
 ropolitan St. Louis area contain Laclede reinforcing and con- 
 struction steel. 
 
 In addition, many of Laclede's other products such as wire, 
 pipe and tubing move regularly to all states in the union, to 
 Canada, Mexico and overseas. The firm produces 620,000 tons 
 of ingot steel annually, with yearly sales exceeding $65,000,000. 
 
 The Alton works was purchased in 1915 and at the end of 
 that year the annual ingot capacity was 78,400 net tons. In 1916 
 the Valley plant in East St. Louis was purchased and its prin- 
 cipal product was railroad car axles from steel made at Alton. 
 The Valley plant was sold in 1925 and proceeds invested in a 10- 
 incli continuous strip mill. Since then the company's operations 
 and products have expanded to put it among the top-ranking 
 steel makers of the nation. 
 
 THOMAS R. AKIN. FOUNDER 
 
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 A PORTION OF THE STANDARD OIL CO. REFINERY. IN THE EARLY DAYS. LOOKING NORTHWEST 
 
 SHELL CONSTMVCTION WORKERS ABOUT 1920. 
 
 Wood River— Construction of the Standard Oil Co. (now 
 American Oil Co.) refinery here in 1906 and 1907 was the spark 
 that touched off the founding and rapid growth of Wood River. 
 By 1920 it was the "fastest growing city in the United States," 
 according to the census of that vear. Its 1960 population was 
 11,694. 
 
 By 1918 the Shell Oil Co., too, had its roots in the ground and 
 thus two huge refineries were contributing handsomely to the 
 economy of this thriving city. Meanwhile, Roxana, just across 
 the street, was sprouting up. 
 
 These large industries inevitably attracted smaller ones 
 and soon Wood River was one of the outstanding centers of man- 
 ufacturing in highly-industrial western Madison County. 
 
 Nearby Hartford for many years was a dock from which 
 river boats handled coal and supplies. In 1916 International Shoe 
 Co. built a tannery in Hartford which for marrj' years was one of 
 the largest shoe tanneries in the nation. White Star Refining Co. 
 was built in 1919. In 1941 the Wood River Refinery was founded. 
 
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 and was sold to Sinclair Oil Co. in 1950. Wood River Township 
 proudly holds the title of "Refining center of the Middle West." 
 
 A landmark of the township is the Union Tank Car Co.'s 
 all-steel dome that houses a regional tank car repair plant. It is 
 380 feet in diameter and 120 feet high with no internal supports. 
 Dedicated in 1961, it was raised pneumatically by a huge air-in- 
 flated nylon bag. 
 
 The city has much to be proud of. Wood River Township 
 Hospital (80 beds) was erected in 1947-49, the first township, tax- 
 supported hospital in Illinois. There are three city parks and 
 playgrounds, lighted baseball diamonds, a year-around youth 
 program, and one of the largest outdoor swimming pools in the 
 country (a gift of Standard Oil in the 20's.) 
 
 A short distance south of Wood River, near Hartford, is 
 the point from which Lewis and Clark began their famous expe- 
 dition UD the Missouri River to the West in 1804. Wood River is 
 rich in history but most significant is a history of its industrial 
 growth.
 
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 Hartford Coin Laundry 
 
 404 North Delmar CL 4-7117 
 
 i,^Hartford, lllinoi5<Si>f> 
 
 Maytag Washers 25 Pound Glover Washer 
 
 R/CC/'S REXALL DRUG STORE 
 
 Bethalto. Ml. 
 
 HEEREN'S STORE 
 
 Bethalto, Ml. 
 
 BETHALTO BEAUTY HAVEN 
 
 Bethalto, Ml. 
 
 IRENE'S BEAUTY SALON 
 
 Moro, Ml. 
 
 NOLTE'S RED S MITE FOOD UARKET 
 
 Moro, Ml, 
 
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 Bethalto, Ml. 
 
 CARR'S GROCERY 
 
 Bethalto, Ml. 
 
 BETHALTO LUUBER COMPANY 
 
 Bethalto, Ml. 
 
 LOMNSTEIN'S A. G. STORE 
 
 Moro, Ml. 
 
 ERNST HARDIVARE 6 APPLIANCE 
 
 Hamel 
 
 111. 
 
 
 he pastor and members of First Evangelical United Brethren Church unite with all 
 Christians of the area to thank God on the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of 
 Madison County for the wonderful blessings He has bestowed upon our community. 
 With the Psalmist we say: "Not unto us,0 Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy Name give 
 glory." 
 The public is invited to attend all our service: 
 
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 PHONE: 4.4!)4(i 
 
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 WE SPECIALIZE IN CORRECTIVE SHOE FITTING 
 
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 325 W. Mc Arthur Drive Cottage Hills, 111, 
 
 VIOOLARD'S DX SERVICE 
 
 Expert Lube & Wash Cottage Hills, Ml, 
 
 BRIDGEMTER T.V.S APPLIANCE 
 
 Roxana, 111. 
 
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 Phone 4-5412 Phone 4-8342 
 790 Condlt Ave. ^ 207 Delmar Ave. 
 A Wood River, III. Hartford, 111 
 
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 2nd S Lorena Wood River, 111. 
 
 HARTFORD LUMBER COMPANY 
 
 700 M. Delmar Hartford, 111, 
 
 FLOYD S FLO'S TAVERN 
 
 Bethalto, 111. 
 
 TRIO CAFE 
 
 Bethalto, 111. 
 
 V.V. VIRGIN INSURANCE 
 
 Bethalto, Ml.
 
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 ELM RIDGE-RESIDENCE OF WILLIAM ELIOT SMITH .WASHINGTOS ST. MIDDLE ALTON. ILL. 
 
 Alton— The largest city in Madison County— acclaimed an 
 AllAmerican city in 1960— probably could make a ver>' good 
 case if it claimed also to be the wealthiest in historical lore. 
 For here is a site visited by Marquette and Joliet in 1673, the 
 home of the legendary Piasa bird, scene of the Lincoln-Douglas 
 debate in 1858, and of the Lovejoy anti-slavery riot in 1837. 
 
 Here, on the shores of the Mississippi river, landed hun- 
 dreds of the pioneers whose descendants were destined to be 
 Alton's giants m industry and business and the professions. Here, 
 also is the city once chosen to be the capital of Illinois, only to 
 be bypassed later when Springfield prevailed. 
 
 The Alton of today with its population of 43,047 (1960 cen- 
 sus) has as some of its leaders the descendant of pioneers. 
 But with them are thousands of others who were attracted by 
 the city's industries. From the fine homes in Fairmount, on 
 beautiful, broad Henry Street, in so-called Upper Alton and else- 
 where down to the more modest neighborhoods come a hetero- 
 genous populace that has helped make Alton a prosperous, rap- 
 idly growing community. 
 
 Industries that have contributed to Alton's well-being are 
 many. Some of the larger ones, past and present; Owens-Illinois 
 Glass Co., Laclede Steel Co.. Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp. in 
 nearby East Alton, Duncan Foundry and Machine Works, Inc., 
 Beall Bros., Alton Boxboard Co , Mississippi Lime Co., Sparks 
 Milling Co., Standard Tilton Milling Co., Luer Packing Co., Alton 
 Brick Co., and C. F Sparks Machine Co. 
 
 Shurtleff College opened its doors in Alton in 1827 and 
 from it have come thousands of alumni who remained in Alton 
 the rest of their lives. The college closed some years ago and 
 
 its campus has since been taken over by Southern Illinois Uni- 
 versity Nearby are the Western Military Academy and .\lton 
 High School. ^^ , 
 
 Progress has come to the city in many ways. The Lewis 
 and Clark bridges over the Missouri and Mississippi rivers were 
 completed in the late 1920 s. They are named after Meriwether 
 Lewis and William Clark who headed the famous expedition to 
 the northwest in 1804. 
 
 Civic Memorial airport, a few miles east of Alton serves 
 the city's needs for air service. Dam No. 26 by the federal 
 government in depression years created Alton Lake which has 
 given enjoyment to thousands of the area's boating enthusiasts. 
 
 Alton has three fine hospitals: St. Joseph's, with a spacious 
 addition constructed some years ago; St. Anthony's, and Alton 
 Memorial, built in the late 1930s as a gift from the late Miss 
 Eunice Smith of Alton and her sister. Mrs. Pascal E Hatch of 
 Springfield. Their father was William Eliot Smith, a founder of 
 the Illinois Glass Co.. now Owens Illinois. 
 
 At nearbv Godfrey is Monticello Seminary, founded by 
 Capt. Benjamin Godfrey, and up the river a few miles is Prin- 
 cipia College, at Elsah. 
 
 Within the past four years Alton has gone through a bitter 
 dispute over city government. The city manager form was 
 adopted in 1958, and four years later the citizens voted to re- 
 turn to the aldermanic form Prior to the latter vote, a large 
 percentage of the city's policemen went on strike and cit>- coun- 
 cil meetings were punctuated with heated exchanges stemming 
 from proponents and opponents of the city manager system. 
 
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 1520 WASHINGTON AVENUE 
 
 ALTON, ILLINOIS 
 
 PHONE: ALTON 2-9761 
 
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 60 YEARS OF BANKING SERVICE 
 
 ^Iton Banking & Trust Co., "Wedge Bank" to its many friends and customers, Is celebrating 
 its 60th Anniversary of serving the Alton area. Sixty years of successful banking, through 
 
 two World Wars and several depressions is an accomplishment of which we are proud 
 
 Age or years of service, however, has little meaning in todays world - What we do tomorrow 
 
 is more important. 
 
 On this our 60th Anniversary year we rededlcate ourselves to the policy of providing our 
 
 friends and customers with the best In sound banking practice. 
 
 Wedge Bank Is a bank for all the people, and the off leers, directors and all members of the 
 
 Wedge Bank family invite you to make Wedge Bank your banking headquarters. 
 
 1902 
 
 1962 
 
 MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION 
 
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 Foilowing are cities and oiliages of the county and the dates of incorporation. 
 
 EDWARDSVILLE— February 23. 1819. May 30. 1837. Sep 
 
 tember 23. 1872. 
 ALTON— .Januarv 30. 1821. September 11. 1877. 
 EAST ALTON— Slav 4. 1894 
 WOOD RIVER — lune 16. 1911 
 HAMEL— February 19. 1955. 
 HARTFORD— March 9. 1920 
 ROXANA— April 7. 1921 
 BETHALTO— April 19. 1869. April 23. 1873. 
 GRANITE CITY— March 9. 1896 
 NAMEOKI— March 8. 1917 
 VENICE— February 5. 1897 
 MADISON— Noyember 2. 1891 
 WORDEN— October 22. 1877 
 GLEN CARBON— .hine 6. 1892 
 TROY— February 18. 1857. April 12. 1892 
 MARYVILLE— June 4. 1902 
 
 COLLINS\'ILLE— February 15. 1855. October 1. 1872 
 LIVINGSTON- Noyember 15. 1905 
 WILLIAMSON— March 14. 1907 
 NFW nolGLAS— December 16. 1874. 
 GKANTKORK- February 18, 1886. 
 ALHAMHRA— April 5. 1884 
 MARINE— March 8. 1867 
 ST. .JACOB- September 8. 1875. 
 HIGHLAND— February 14. 1863. 
 
 Names make news, it is said, but how did our townships get their names? 
 Here are the best answers auailabie: 
 
 Alton — For the eit.v which was named in honor of Alton 
 Easton. a son of Col. Rufus Easton. the city's founder. 
 
 Foster — For Oliyer P. Foster, an early resident. 
 
 Granite City— For the city, which derived its name from 
 granite ware, a product of its first factory. 
 
 Godfrey— For Capt. Benjamin Godfrey, a pioneer. 
 
 Wood River — For Wood River, the stream passing through 
 the township. 
 
 Venice — For the city, which was named by Dr. Cornelius 
 Campbell of St. Louis, presumably after the city of the same 
 name in Italy. 
 
 Edwardsville— For the city, named for the first governor 
 of Illinois territory. Ninian Edwards. He lived in Edwardsville. 
 
 Chouteau — In honor of the French settlers who were in the 
 township prior to 1800. 
 
 Nameoki — An Indian word meaning smoky. Selected per- 
 haps because of smoke from forges of the monks on Monks 
 Mound or because of mists hanging over the bottoms. 
 
 Collinsville— For the city, which was named for its found- 
 ers, four Collins brothers. 
 
 Moro — Presumably the name of an early settler. 
 
 Fort Russell— For Col. William Russell, commander of 
 Fort Russell just north of Edwardsville a short distance west of 
 Route 112. 
 
 Omphghent— For the old Omph Ghent church, built by 
 early settlers. 
 
 Hamel— For Jack Hamel, an early settler. 
 
 Pin Oak — For a grove of pin oak trees that early settlers 
 found. 
 
 Jarvis— For a widely known family of early settlers. 
 
 Olive — For several families of early settlers. 
 
 Marine — In honor of several retired sea captains who set- 
 tled there. 
 
 Leef— For Jacob Leef, an early settler. 
 
 Alhambra — Chosen by Mrs. Louis F. Sheppard, whose hus- 
 band platted the village of 1849. Mrs. Sheppard and a friend were 
 reading a book entitled "Spanish Alhambra" at the time. 
 
 St. Jacob — For Jacob Schuetz and Jacob Schroth, early 
 settlers. 
 
 New Douglas— Named by A. Foster, founder of the village 
 of New Douglas, who selected the name to honor Senator Ste- 
 phen A. Douglas. 
 
 Saline— For the saline or salt beds found under parts of 
 the township. 
 
 Helvetia — Chosen by early Swiss settlers. Helvetia in the 
 Swiss language means Switzerland. 
 
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 Alton Savings and Loan Association was Incorporated In 1904 with 
 
 assets totaling $10,000.00. 
 
 Now 58 years later, In 1962, our total assets are more 
 
 SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION 
 
 620 EAST THIRD STREET - ALTON. ILLINOIS 
 
 Phone H0-5-H483 
 
 Hotel 
 
 SerTing Madison County Since 1914 
 
 ifmM 301 East Broadway Alton, Illinoi 
 
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 150 YEARS 
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 ABOUT 
 
 CONGRATULATIONS 
 
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 Broadway and Piasa- Alton, III. 
 
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 S^ '' ... and, they say the Alton Marine and Fire 
 
 5^ Insurance Company makes change. . . takes de- 
 
 ^ posits... and actually conducts a banking 
 
 ^. business ' ' 
 
 ^ leaber Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation j 
 
 ^ Member Federal Reserve Systea j 
 
 That Is hoa It was In 1836 ahen.on February 2, 
 the Alton Marine and Fire Insurance Coapany 
 
 started In business Throuch Bergers and 
 
 consolidations, the little Insurance office 
 Is today our FIRST NATIONAL BANK 4 TRUST CO. 
 IN ALTON 
 
 So, aeasured In years, ae are an old Instl- 3^ 
 
 tutlon vlth the stability. Integrity and ex- ^ 
 
 perlence that are the prerogatives of age ^ 
 
 ...yet In spirit, we are young, enterprising, ^ 
 
 and aggressive and flrnly believe that Madison ^ 
 
 County Is at the threshold of greater expansion, ^ 
 
 development and new enterprise... Certainly.me ^ 
 
 will be a part of all thi» ^ 
 
 FIUST .yUlt^<^^l€^^ 
 
 BANK a TRUST COMPANY 
 
 THE 
 
 CROSSROADS 
 
 OF 
 
 ALTON 
 
 SINCE 
 
 1884 
 
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 IIN HONOUR OF THE 
 SESOUICENTENNIAL 
 
 sheppard. morgan 8c SCHNA/AAB 
 
 consulting engineers 
 
 SPECIALIZING IN MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENTS 
 
 BANK OF COWAR 
 
 EDISON AVE^ 
 
 ■ L.Oa.. CDWAROSV 
 
 aRANITC CITY, 
 
 WATERV^ORKS 
 SEWERAGE 
 
 PAVEMENTS 
 DRAINAGE 
 
 SURVEYS 
 REPORTS 
 
 Alton's Leading Brand 
 
 Name Department Store 
 
 104 West 3rd 
 
 ALTON 
 
 HO 5-8851 
 
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 F.W. WOOLWORTH CO. 
 
 QUALITY PRODUCTS - SINCE 1879 
 111-115 THIRD ST. ALTON. ILL. 
 
 FAULSTICH CIGAR STORE 
 
 HOFFt*AN FEED i SUPPIX 
 
 119-121 Market 
 
 113 M. Broadway 
 
 Alton 
 
 Alton 
 
 Lou i Vic Schwegel 
 
 
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 THE BANK OF EDWARDS VI LLE3 
 
 m 
 
 state Bank of Collinsville was granted a charter June 15,1891. On Saturday, June 20, the bank 
 opened for business in one rented room on Main Street. Mr.Hadley, President, Mr. John Cook, 
 Cashier and Mr. Wi 1 1 iaM Hadf ield, Vice President. were the first officers. Total Assets were 
 $25,000.00. In 1916 the assets totaled $700,000.00. Today they exceed $7,000,000.00. 
 
 Present officers of the bank serving the people of the county are: 
 
 President- 
 
 -George G. McCormIck 
 
 Exec. V. President Irwin C.Maurer 
 
 Vice President Mary Ann Meyer 
 
 Cashier Harry C.Schnuck 
 
 Ass't Cashier Eugene J.Luner 
 
 Ass't Cashier Charles Maurer 
 
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