The History of Henry County, Illinois, Its Tax-Payers and Voters: Containing, Also, a Biographical Directory, a Condensed History of the State, Map of the County, a Business Directory, an Abstract of Every-Day Laws, War Record of Henry County, Officers Of

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We have endeavored to get the names of all tax-payers and voters. \ve have about names, the vote being about which shows we could not have missed many. In our History of the County we have endeavored to give an interesting, condensed and correct sketch. Our History of Illinois will give the reader some interesting and valuable historical facts. Our Laws should be carefully read by every business man and farmer; they contain invaluable infor mation. In fact we have toiled long and at great expense, and have far exceeded our promises to make every thing in these pages interesting and valuable, and all you could expect or wish, and in your criticisms, please to bear in mind that in gathering, compiling and publishing a volume of this kind, perfection would be an impossibility.

We wish to extend our sincere and warmest thanks to the citizens of Henry County for their kind treatment, and for assistance rendered us in furnishing information for this work. They are too numerous to here name, but to the press and early settlers in particular we are grateful for their labors in aiding us to gather the material for the History of the County. The Cambridge C/zrom'rle furnished us with its files of 1858 and 1859, which contained a series of articles by Dr. A. A. Dunn, its editor, on the early settlement of the county, and from them we have taken much of our early History.

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