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1. The History of Jo Daviess County, Illinois. Containing a History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., a Biographical Directory of its 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 Illinois, Map of Jo Daviess County, Constitution of the United States, miscellaneous matters, etc.

(Originally published in 1878, about 850 pages) 

Contents: 
  Map of Jo-Davies County
  The Northwest Territory
  Early history of Illinois
  Abstract of Illinois state laws
  Constitution of the United States of America and its amendments
  Practical rules for every day use
  U. S. government land measure
  How to keep accounts
  Surveyors' measure
  Names of the states of the union, and other signifaications
  Productions of agriculture, state of Illinois, by counties.--1870
  History of Jo Daviess County
  Jo Daviess County volunteers
  A tabular statement
  Statement of the assessment of property by townships in Jo Daviess County and the taxes levied thereon for the year 1877
  Official vote of Jo Daviess County, Illinois, November 7, 1876
  Galena
  Dulnleith
  Scales Mound
  Nora
  Apple River
  Warren
  Rush
  Elizabeth
  Hanover
  Coucil Hill
  Derinda
  Stockton
  Ward's Grove
  Guilford
  Menominee
  Berreman
  Rice
  Pleasant Valley
  Vinegar Hill
  Thompson
  Biographical Directory of Jo Daviess County
  Biographical Directory - West Galena
  East Galena
  Warren Township
  Nora Township
  Apple River Township
  Scales Mound Township
  Guilford Township
  Dunleith Township
  Rush Township
  Derinda Township
  Elizabeth Township
  Hanover Township
  Woodbine Township
  Stockton Township
  Council Hill Township
  Thompson Township
  Berreman Township
  Pleasant Valley Township
  Ward's Grove Township
  Vinegar Hill Township
  Rice Township
  Meniminee Township
  Physical geography
  Lead and lead mining
  Zinc and zinc mining
  Ancient mounds

2. Portrait and Biographical Album of Jo Daviess and Carroll Counties, Illinois. Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, Together With Portraits and Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of the Presidents of the United States.

(Originally published in 1889, about 1,010 pages)

3. Recollections of Seventy Years

(Originally published in 1899, about 304 pages.)

Contents:
  Chapter I. Early Galena
  Chapter II. The Blackhawk War of 1832--Galena, 1832 to 1836
  Chapter III. Galena, 1836 to 1850--Sketches of prominent citizens
  Chapter IV. Galena, and the Northwest in the '50s
  Chapter V. Civil War, 1861-62
  Chapter VI. Civil War--Fort Donelson to Vicksburg, 1862-3
  Chapter VII. Civil War, 1863-65
  Chapter VIII. Utah, 1867-9--The Mormons and Mormonism
  Chapter IX. United States consul at Brussels, 1869-72
  Chapter X. Chicago after the Great Fire of 1871
  Chapter XI. The World's Columbian Exposition 1893
  Chapter XII. Noted women of Chicago
  Chapter XIII. Army societies
  Chapter XIV. The Dominion of Canada
  Chapter XV. The Philafrican Liberators' League
  Chapter XVI. Galena and its men at the close of the nineteenth century

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