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This comprehensive history of Ford County, Illinois, is a must-read for anyone interested in local history or genealogy. The book covers everything from the earliest settlers to the current events of 1908. It includes biographical sketches of prominent citizens as well as histories of the different townships. This book is a valuable resource for anyone researching their family or the history of Ford County, Illinois. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Excerpt from History of Ford County, Illinois, Vol. 2: From Its Earliest Settlement to 1908 Judge Hugh Parish Beach, a lawyer of Piper City and editor and proprie tor of the Pan Handle Advocate, was born in a log cabin in the then wilderness about thirty miles south of Cleveland, in Montville township, Medina county, Ohio, more than sixty-six years ago. On the paternal side he is descended from an old family of New Jersey. His grandfather, David Beach, served in the war of the Revolution, and his grandmother, Mary Tomkins was a near relative of Daniel D. Tomkins, who was prominent in the early history of this country and at one time was governor of New York, and afterward vice president of the United States, for eight years, with President James Monroe. 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.