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Title: History of Illinois Republicanism, embracing a history of the Republican party in the state to the present time ... with biographies of its founders and supporters ... also a chronological statement of important political events since 1774
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Raum, Green B. (Green Berry), 1829-1909
Subjects: Republican Party (U.S.)
Publisher: Chicago, Rollins Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ge ofa law for completing the Illinois and Michigan Canal, and also the law for thecreation of the Illinois Hospital for the Insane at Jacksonville, 111. In 1854, when the anti-Nebraska sentiment swept over Illinois, Dr. Boalbecame a candidate for a seat in the Illinois House of Representatives uponthat issue, and was elected. The session of that Legislature in 1855 was madememorable by the candidacy of Abraham Lincoln for the United States Senate.Dr. Boal voted for Mr. Lincoln as long as there was any hope of his election,and then, at the request of Mr. Lincoln, cast his vote for Hon. Lyman Trumbull,who was elected. In 1856 Dr. Boal was re-elected to the Legislature, and waschairman of the joint committee of the two houses appointed in 1855 to investi-gate the conditions of the Hospital for the Insane and the Blind and Deaf andDumb.Institutions at Jacksonville. A most careful and intelligent investigationwas made of these institutions and of the manner in which they had been con- 316
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(farUZ£M*4~*L> 317 ducted. It was found that considerable ill feeling and controversy existedbetween the trustees of these institutions, most of whom were citizens of Jack-sonville. The report of the committee was approved by the Legislature, and alaw was passed for the better government of those institutions, an importantfeature being that the trustees should be appointed from different counties inthe State. In 1857 Dr. Boal was appointed by Governor Bissell, trustee of theDeaf and Dumb Institution; he held this position for seventeen years. Thelast five years he was president of the Board. He was successively reappointedby Governors Yates, Palmer, Oglesby and Beveridge. The Doctor performedthe duties of this position with marked ability. Dr. Boal was a delegate from Marshall county, in 1856, to the BloomingtonConvention, which organized the Republican party of Illinois and nominatedWilliam H. Bissell as a candidate for Governor. In i860 he was an alternatedelegate to the Republi

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