Publication Number Twenty-nine

OF THE

ILLINOIS STATE HISTORICAL LIBRARY

Transactions

OF THE

Illinois State Historical Society

FOR THE YEAR 1922

Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the Society, Springfield, Illinois
May 4-5, 1922

Board of Trustees of the Illinois State Historical Library

[Printed by authority of the State of Illinois.]

An Appeal to the Historical Society and the General Public....

12

Annual Address-Promotion of Historical Study in America

following the Civil War....

James Shaw-

37

A Neglected Episode in the Life of Abraham Lincoln............

51

Charles B. Johnson-

On and about the Old National Road in the Early Fifties....

59

Theodore Calvin Pease-

The Illinois Historical Collections...

66

Stella Davidson Ainsworth-

James T. Gifford and the Founding of Elgin, Illinois....

69

Early Marriages in Putnam County, compiled by Mrs. George

Spangler, Historian of Peoria Chapter, D. A. R.....

Rose Moss Scott, Preliminary Treaty of 1765 between Col.

George Croghan and Pontiac....

105

123

List of Publications of the Illinois State Historical Library and

Society.

CHARLES H. RAMMELKAMP,... President Illinois College, Jacksonville

GEORGE W. SMITH,.... Southern Ill. State Normal School, Carbondale RICHARD V. CARPENTER..

. Belvidere

EDWARD C. PAGE... .. Northern Ill. State Normal School, DeKalb