History of St. Clair County, Illinois
Author: Brink, McDonough & Co
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Published: 1881
Total Pages: 580
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Author: Brink, McDonough & Co
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Published: 1881
Total Pages: 580
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 371
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 458
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Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781230025100
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ... that would redound to the advantage of the public or the benefit of individuala. He accumulated wealth rapidly, but wealth in his hands was simply the means of enabling him to do good to othent lie was induetrioun in making money, but ncemed equally industrious in giving it away. No object of charity ever appealed to him and went away empty-handed. Every worthy enterprise of a public character found in him a donor to the full extent of his ability to give. The noun he gave were not no large and princely, but he waa constantly giving; and yet in nuch a quiet, unostentatious manner, that it may truly be nnid of him that the right knew not What the left hand hand did. In the origination and organization of the Agricultural Society, he had more to do than perhape any other man in the county. lie wan one of the original directors, and continued his connection with it until his death. He was for some time its president, and, in fact, held all the ofiicea. The not-iety nuatained a great loss in hin death. He wan, for many yearn, a director in the Bellevillc Saving, ' Bank, and, at his death, resolutions of ra-pect were pruned by the Directors, and placed upon the records of the banlt, extolling his many virtue: an an otlioer and a man. Alorto the old settlers of St Clair county, and of those who have exercised a marked influence in the county, is Colonel John Thomas, the subject of the following sketch: His ancestors were from Wales, and emigrated to America about the beginning of the last century. His great-grandfather, Daniel Thomas, was the father of seven sons and three daughters. His son, Griilith Thomas, had a family of eight sons and two daughters. Of this family was John Thomas, the father of Colonel John Thomas. lie was a native of...
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Published: 2013-01
Total Pages: 532
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Published: 1882
Total Pages: 456
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Published: 1881
Total Pages: 618
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Published: 1892
Total Pages: 674
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Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2021-09-09
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9781013792625
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 458
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