Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society for the year 1924
Subtitle: twenty-fifth annual meeting of the Society, Springfield, Illinois, May 22-23, 1924
Contributors: Illinois State Historical Library
Publisher: Illinois State Historical Library
Published: 1924
Place of publication: Springfield, Illinois
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
Subjects: Family; History; Illinois State Historical Society
Other titles: Hanks-Hitchcock research collection.
Notes: 067440 r/jl.

Publication No. 31 of the Illinois State Historical Society.

Includes index and bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: PART I: Record of official proceedings annual meeting 1924.; title: Directors' meeting.; title: Business meeting.; title: Secretary's report.; title: Report of Genealogical Committee.; title: PART II: Papers read at the annual meeting 1924: Early mineral explorations in the Mississippi Valley, 1540-1840 / Willard Rouse Jillson.; title: Early history of Monticello Seminary / Harriet Congdon.; title: Old time camp meetings in Central Illinois / Rev. John H. Ryan.; title: Two forgotten heroes of the Illinois country: Jean Vincennes and Joe Hamilton Daviess / William N. Gemmill.; title: The mansion house of Cahokia and its builder, Nicholas Jarrot / Margaret E. Babb.; title: Harnessing the Illinois streams in pioneer days / Charles B. Johnson.; title: John Locke Scripps, Lincoln's campaign biographer / Grace Locke Scripps Dyche.; title: An episode of the Civil War, a romance of coincidence / Mrs. Carl B. Chandler.; title: Ancestry of Abraham Lincoln / Rev. William E. Barton.; title: PART III: Contributions to state history: The house of the house divided : address by Mr. Henry A. Converse before the Lincoln Centennial Association, in the Circuit Court Room, Springfield, Illinois, February 12, 1924.