Title: History of the English settlement in Edwards county, Illinois, founded in 1817 and 1818, by Morris Birkbeck and George Flower
First published: 1909
Description: The completed manuscript of this history of the English Settlement, written by the founders, was presented by Flowers to the Chicago Historical Society in 1860. Flowers was a wealthy Englishman who bought some 26,000 acres (40 sq. miles) in the vicinity of present-day Albion, Illinois, and brought about 200 English settlers to farm upon it. Birkbeck and Flowers went on to play important roles in preventing Illinois from becoming a pro-slavery state in 1824.
Subjects: History, British, English
Places: Albion (Ill.), Edwards County (Ill.), Illinois
People: Morris Birkbeck (1764-1825)
Time periods: 1815-1850