Download or read book Past and Present of Pike County, Illinois (Classic Reprint) written by M. D. Massie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Past and Present of Pike County, Illinois In eighty-seven years the state has had eleven democrats and twelve republicans as governors. In the old whig party days they were only in the running but did not capture the prize. From 1810 to 1813 the territory of Illinois furnished men for the Indian wars that the general govern ment was suppressing. And the state furnished men in the Black Hawk war, 1832 to 1833. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.