LOGAN  COUNTY, IL.

Famous & Interesting ... folks ... places ... events






IL 8th Judical Circuit
of 1850's - law was
brought by carriage & horseback to 14 counties
Lincoln Christian Church - Logan Co. Court 1857 The Spanish Influenza
 Epidemic
In Logan County,
 Illinois, 1918-1920
Lincoln State School                      Governor Richard Oglesby

              Mansion"Oglehurst" in  Elkhart
the Green Diamond

Mt. Pulaski Yankee     Windmill -->

St. John the Baptist Chapel/Elkhart Cemetery

Mt. Pulaski “Vinegar Hill”
during 1920's Prohibition
   
  
   
William Scully and the Scully Estates of Logan County,IL. Al Capone frequented bars in Logan Co. 1900 Republican Rally in
Mt. Pulaski - McKinley, Roosevelt,
John D. Rockefeller, etc.
Lawrence Beaumont
 Stringer - Judge,
Lawyer, Politician
Rt. 66 roadway oasis   Wright Model EX biplane, christened the Vin Fiz, flying across America via Middletown, IL. Jabez Capps, a tri-
founder of Mt.Pulaski
A.H. Bogardus, professional hunter, inventor, and legendary sharpshooting performer Mt. Pulaski Courthouse - Logan Co. seat 1848 - 1855

 



  Stubblebine's Band Mt. Pulaski Courthouse - circa 1848 Ruth Ann Webb Henson Lincoln Heritage Museum Castiron Tombstone
MP Cemetery
Atlanta public library/museum Pinball Machine from Lincoln Elkhart's John Dean Gillett Lincoln Courthouse United Methodist Church
in Chestnut
 

                                     1910 Wright Bi-Plane Race    Lincoln-Douglas     One of many Taverns Postville Courthouse   Hoblit Carriage House   Dunlap House  Vaughn De Leath      IL Terminal RR         Scully Building        USS Abraham Lincoln 

                                                                                          debates                 in old Lincoln                                                                                                                                                                                                                 CVN-72

    

Dick Romer
Horologist
Paul Beaver
Historian Emeritus
Lincoln College
2011 Abraham Lincoln book by
Paul Beaver
Darold Leigh Henson
Award-winning webmaste
r
Judge David Davis
8th Judicial Circuit
William Maxwell
Author
James Hickey
Historian, Curator
Il. State Historical Society
Hal Holbrook
Lincoln College
Commencement
Dr. Herbert Ryman
WWI Hero
Bill Donath
President & Researcher
LCGHS
Ron Keller
Author/scholar
Michael Scully
Descendant &
caretaker of mammoth
 Scully acreage


                      
               Lincoln College during 2020 COVID                          Mary Todd "whisperings"         Capt. Bogardus    historian Paul Gleason   Darrell Wibben with his Dulcimer      Hoke Beidler

       
Mt. Pulaski's John C. Mier
- oldestliving Civil War
Veteran died in 1940