Excerpt from History of Macoupin County, Illinois, Vol. 1: Biographical and Pictorial

Within the last thirty years this fertile portion of the Prairie state has as sumed a new aspect. In the moral and physical changes that have produced this result, in the improvements of its soil, and the establishment of its political and literary institutions, you, the inhabitants of the county, have ever been the zeal ous actors.

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