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A Very Brief History of Boone County, Illinois If you want to sign up for the new forum, please send me an email, so that I can approve you. I got him by smut and don't want to have to go through that mess again. The Surnames have been moved to pasttracker.com where I have the software to do family trees. If you would like to register the surnames that you are researching please send me an email. If you would like to contribute to the site, I am more than happy to have them at anytime other than the 3 months before the Christmas holiday. I am simply to busy at that time of year. Understand, I do answer emails and you can send information, I just can't post it at that time. Boone County, Illinois, was organized from Winnebago County on March 3, 1836, being named in honor of Kentucky's pioneer, Daniel Boone. However, its present boundaries were not gained until May 4, 1843, when a mile-wide strip was annexed to the western border from Winnebago County. Boone County is bordered on the north by Wisconsin (Rock and Walworth Counties), on the south by DeKalb County, on the east by McHenry County, and on the west by Winnebago County. In 1850, there were eight townships: Belvidere, Benton (previously Fairfield and then Flora), Boone, Bonus, Caledonia, Leroy (previously Beaver), Manchester and Ohio (later renamed as Spring). Poplar Grove township was eventually created from parts of Boone and Caledonia townships. Boone County is the smallest of the "northern tier" of counties, having an area of only 290 square miles. Before agriculture was introduced, its surface was chiefly rolling prairie. The earliest settlers came from New York and New England, and among them were included MEDKIFF, DUNHAM, CASWELL, CLINE, TOWNER, DOTY and WHITNEY. Later (after the Pottawattomies had evacuated the country), came the SHATTUCK brothers, Maria HOLLENBECK and Mrs. BULLARD, Oliver HALE, Nathaniel CROSBY, Dr. WHITING, H. C. WALKER, and the NEELEY and MAHONEY families. The first frame house in the county was erected by S. F. DOTY and stood for fifty years in the village of Belvidere on the north side of the Kishwaukee River. The County-seat, belvidere, was platted in 1837, and an academy built soon after. The first Protestant church was a Baptist society under the pastorate of Rev. Dr. King. (Taken from The
Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and
Harley Haskin's transcription of the 1850
Federal Census of Boone County, Illinois)
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