From: lincoln@rand.org (Tom Lincoln)
Newsgroups: soc.roots
Subject: Re: Illinois-Michigan Canal
Date: 4 Oct 92 15:21:33 GMT
Organization: RAND Corporation.

In article <ROOTS-L%92100321000447@VM1.NODAK.EDU> JWD@PSUVM.BITNET writes:
>One branch of my ancestors were among the earliest settlers in Lake
>County IL.  A cousin sent me a clipping about the origin of Lake Forest
>in which it states
>"The first white families to come into this area were Irish immigrants
>who had worked on the Illinois-Michigan canal in the Chicago area.  They
>received farmlands in what became Lake Forest as part payment for their service
>s.  By the middle of the fifties there were a dozen clearings and farmsteads
>belonging to Thomas ATTERIDGE, William SWANTON, Edward LEE, Patrick CONLON,
>Francis MCANDRY, and Michael and Peter MOONEY."
>Does anyone know more about this canal?  Was granting of lands a common
>compensation method for canal projects?
>The above quotation suggests that this settlement occurred in the early
>1850s

Well.. Melvyl says taht we Lincolns were in the loop...

19.
Author: Temple, Wayne Calhoun, 1924-
Title:  Lincoln's connections with the Illinois & Michigan canal, his
return from Congress in '48, and his invention / by Wayne C.
Temple. Springfield, Ill. : Illinois Bell, 1986.
Description:    xxi, 121 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes:  Bibliography: p. 91-111.

Subjects:       Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Views on the Illinois and
Michigan Canal (Ill.)
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Political career before 1861.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Contributions in ship propulsion.
Ship propulsion.
Illinois and Michigan Canal (Ill.)

Call numbers:   UCSB    Library E457.2 .T33 1986 Wyles Coll

.... and there might be a lot of documentation here...

10.
Author: Illinois. Division of Waterways.
Title:  Documentary history of the Illinois and Michigan Canal :
legislation, litigation and titles. / Compiled by Walter A.
Howe, engineer of special investigations and reports.
[Springfield], 1957.
Description:    174 p. : illus., fold. maps ; 24 cm.

Subjects:       Illinois and Michigan Canal.

Other entries: Howe, Walter A.

Call numbers:   UCLA    Law Lib T H8387i 1957
SRLF    A 0009783002 Type EXP SRLF for loan details.

..... and it was a key project at the time..

15. DISSERTATION
Author: Putnam, James William.
Title:  The Illinois and Michigan Canal; a study in economic history, by
James William Putnam... Illinois centennial publication.
Chicago, University of Chicago press, 1918.
Description:    xiii, 213 p. front., pl., maps, diagrs. 24 cm.

Series: Chicago Historical Society's collection ; vol. 10.

Notes:  Illinois centennial publication.
"Originally prepared as a doctoral dissertation at the
University of Wisconsin."--Pref. note.
Bibliography: p. 182-203.

Subjects:       Illinois and Michigan Canal.

Call numbers:   UCB     Main    F548.1 .C4 v.10
UCLA    URL     F 548.1 C43c v. 10

..... and maybe you have a protected familty structure..

13.
Title:  An Inventory of historic structures within the Illinois and
Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor. [Washington, D.C.?]
: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American
Engineering Record, National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the
Interior, 1985-
Description:    v. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Doc Numbers:    Govt Doc No.:   I 29.74:Il 6/v.-
GPO Item No.:   648-B

Notes:  Cover title.
Description based on vol. II.
Shipping list no.: 89-359-P (vol. II)
"Overview history, previously published in Volume I, is
reprinted here"--Vol. II, p. [i]
Includes bibliographical references (vol. II, p. 30-33)
Contents:       vol. II. Morris.

Subjects:       Historic buildings -- Illinois -- Illinois and Michigan
Canal
National Heritage Corridor.
Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor (Ill.)

Other entries: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American
Engineering
Record.

Call numbers:   UCSD    Central I 29.74:Il 6/v.- Documents United States


... and many more...

Tom

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