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From: "Helen Jackson" <>
Subject: Re: [ILBOND-L] Anyone Else Interested in This Article?
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 23:55:14 -0700


Hi Bob,

Is there any mention of the Savage families of Bond County in the article
written about farming in Bond County? My Savage family I think, arrived in
Bond county in 1829 and farmed during the time mentioned. What a wonderful
thing to share with us! Thanks!!

Helen
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Subject: [ILBOND-L] Anyone Else Interested in This Article?


> I'm new to this list, so perhaps this has already been discussed. I
recently
> obtained a copy of the June 1938 issue of the Journal of the Illinois
State
> Historical Society, which has an article by historian Hubert Schmidt about
> "Farming in Illinois a Century Ago as Illustrated in Bond County." This
is
> an abridged version of Schmidt's master's thesis at the University of
> Chicago; he was later a professor at Rutgers, and wrote a history of 300
> years of farming in New Jersey. The article is about much more than
farming,
> though; since most of the county's residents in the 1820-1850 period were
> farmers, it really deals with life in general at that time.
(Incidentally,
> that is when my Merry and Jett ancestors settled there.)
>
> There are not many surnames in the article, but here are a few: Potts,
> Smith, Nance, File, and Gilham. There are also several references to a
> "large estate" of someone who died in 1839.
>
> Ideas about the best way to distribute this to those who might be
interested,
> are welcome. It runs 22 pages, plus several full-page b&w photos of
farming
> implements of the time.
>

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