Excerpt from History of Jefferson County, Illinois Chapter 111 - City of Mount Vernon - More About Its Early Citizens - Some Pen Photographs - The Second C ourt House - Mount Vernon From 1824 to 1830 - A Few of the Old Houses - Relics of a By-gone Period - More Township Items, and a Triple Wedding - Later Settlers - County Roads - The First Churches Outside of Town. 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.