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Title: The History of Marshall County, Iowa, containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, &c., a biographical directory of citizens, war record of its volunteers in the late rebellion, general and local statistics, portraits of early settlers and prominent men, history of the Northwest, history of Iowa, map of Marshall County, constitution of the United States, miscellaneous matters, etc
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Western Historical Co., Chicago, pub
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Publisher: Chicago, Western Historical Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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in a veryflourishing condition. Illinois has a State Lunatic and a Deaf and DumbAsylum at Jacksonville ; a State Penitentiary at Joliet; and a Home for (90) THE NORTHWESTERN STATES. 241 Soldiers Orphans at Normal. On November 30, 1870, the public debt ofthe State was returned at $4,870,937, with a balance of 11,808,833unprovided for. At the same period the value of assessed and equalizedproperty presented the following totals: assessed, $840,031,703 ; equal-ized $480,664,058. The name of Illinois, through nearly th. whole ofthe eighteenth century, embraced most of the known regions north andwest of Ohio. French colonists established themselves in 1673, atCahokia and Kaskaskia, and the territory of which these settlementsformed the nucleus was, in 1763, ceded to Great Britain in conjunctionwith Canada, and ultimately resigned to the United States in 1787.Illinois entered the Union as a State, December 3, 1818; and now sends19 Representatives to Congress. Population, 2,539,891, in 1870.
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242 THE NORTHWESTERN STATES. INDIANA The profile of Indiana forms a nearly exact parallelogram, occupy-ing one of tlie most fertile portions of the great Mississippi Valley. Thegreater extent of the surface embraced within its limits consists of gentleundulations rising into hilly tracts toward the Ohio bottom. The chiefrivers of the State are the Ohio and Wabasli, with their numerousaflluents. The soil is highly productive of the cereals and gra-sses—mostparticularly so in the valleys of the Ohio, Wabash, Whitewater, andWhite Rivers. The northeast and central portions are well timberedwith virgin forests, and the west section is notably rich in coal, constitut-ing an offshoot of the great Illinois carboniferous field. Iron, copper,marble, slate, gypsum, and various clays are also abundant. From anagricultural point of view, the staple products are maize and wheat, withthe other cereals in lesser yields ; and besides these, flax, hemp, sorghum,hops, etc., are extensively raised. Ind

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