CONTENTS.

I Officers of the Society..

II Edmund J. James.

3

The Life and Labors of Jonathan B. Turner.. ¡

III John H. Byan

A Chapter from the History of the Under-

ground Railroad in Illinois..

33

IV. H. W. Beckwith.

A Belated Book Review-The School Advocate

by Governor John Reynolds............

69

IX. E. A. Snively.

The Quarterly Conference.-Records of the

Methodist Episcopal Church of Pulaski,

1835-1841

XIII. Henry M. Whelpley.

A Rare Illinois Indian Artifact.

..132

.137

Dedication of Fort Edwards

Edwards Monument,

Warsaw, Ill.

139

XIV. Philip Dallam.

Organization of the Grand Army of the Repub

lic, Decatur, Ill.-Address of Bishop Samuel Fallows

....

....143

XVI. Dedication of a Tablet Marking the Site at Decatur, Ill., of the Old Wigwam in Which Was Held the Republican State Convention of 1860.150

XVII. Mrs. Theodora Morgan, Former Army Nurse Celebrates Her One Hundredth Birthday Anniversary

XVIII. Editorial.

...154

Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Illinois State
Historical Society ....

..161

State Centennial Commission

.163

The Lincoln Memorial Exhibit in the Illinois State Building at the Panama Pacific Exposition at San Francisco....

.164

....164

Dedication of the Illinois State Building at the
Panama Pacific Exposition
Fiftieth Anniversary of the Death of Abraham
Lincoln. Proclamation by Governor E. F.
Dunne

..

..167

The McLean County Historical Society. ..168
The Edwards County Centennial.
Acknowledgment of Gifts to the Illinois State

Minor Notices.

Historical Society and Library....

Judge Charles S. Zane...

XIX. Necrology.

Mrs. Rhoda Bissell Thomas.

Mrs. John P. Altgeld

Theodore S. Chapman

Edward F. Leonard.

Erastus S. Willcox

..171

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.198

XX. List of Publications of the Illinois State Histor

ical Society and Library.