Excerpt from The Past and Present of Boone County, Illinois: Containing a History of the County Its Cities, Towns, &C., A Biographical Directory of Its Citizens, War Record of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, General and Local Statistics The incidents related under the caption of political and personal recollections, are gathered from Old Settlers and a series Of letters written by Dr. Daniel H. Whitney, and published by the Belvidere press a few years ago. Our undertaking to preserve the past and present 0f boone county is completed, and it only remains for us to return our thanks to the intelligent, kind and courteous people of Little Boone for their words of approval, the information they have given us, as well as for their generous and liberal patronage, and to assure them that whatever of merit this offering may deserve, is due in some measure to them and the interest they have manifested in a desire to perpetuate in this form the annals of a county which their enterprise and energy has made to rank second to no other county in the state in all that goes to make a community prosperous, dignified and refined. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.