Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1868 [PAGE 231]

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Island and Pacific railroad, five miles ; Bureau Junction, three miles; Princeton, on Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad, nine miles. A. Rankin.—Location of farm ; section 31, range 2 west of 4th principal meridian, Monmouth township, one mile and a half from the depot. G. W. Mmier.—My farm is northeast quarter of section 3, town 23 north, range 2 west of the third principal meridian; three and a half miles due north'of Minier Station, on the St. Louis, Jacksonville and Chicago railroad. J. Robinson.—My farm is located in section 10, township 24 north, range 4 west of the third principal meridian, in Tazewell county, Illinois, and is distant seven miles from Pekin, on the Illinois river. J. R. Tull.—My farm is located in south half of section 7, township 7 north, of range 7 west of the fourth principal meridian, Hancock county, Illinois. It is two miles from a shipping point, and four miles from a market town. Th. Gregg.—My farm or fruit lot is located in the city limits of Hamilton, on section 29, township 5 north, range 8 west of the fourth principal meridian, in Hancock county, at the foot of the Lower Rapids, and opposite Keokuk, Iowa, from which it is distant one and a half miles, including the river. Keokuk and Warsaw, five miles below, are our shipping points by river, Hamilton by rail. A. G. Hammond.—My farm is situated in township 4 north, ranges 8 and 9 west, four miles from Warsaw. Harvey Sodowshy.—My farm is situated on the Little Vermilion river, being in sections 17 and 18, township 17, range 12 west. I am half a mile north of Chillicothe and ten miles south of the Great Western railroad. Fairmount and Catlin are my nearest shipping points. I am some twenty miles west of the Wabash river. Wm. M. Allen.—Section 8, township 18 north, 1 west. Shipping poiat Lincoln, distant twelve miles. S. P. Boardman.—That my farm consists of the west half of section 29, the east half of section 30, the southwest quarter of section 20, and the southeast quarter of section nineteen, all the tracts being in town 20, range 1 west of third principal meridian. It is six miles and a half from Lincoln, the county seat of Logan county, and my market town. G. Harding.—Farm located in township 15 north, range 12 west, twelve miles from Pas is. G. W. Vaughan.—Part of my farm is in section 3, township 13, range 5, and the rest in sections 27 and 34, 14 south east, third principal meridian. Its distance from a shipping point by rail is twelve miles, but the best shipping point, and that to which we usually take our grain, is Mattoon, 18 or 20 miles distant. My farm is one and a half miles from Sullivan, the county seat of our county. S.Butler.—My farm lays lengthwise, east and west, section 9, township 10 range 9, E. W. F. Bliss,—Montgomery county; section 21, in township 10 north, range 2 west, one mile west of Nokomis, which is its shipping point, and 81 miles from St. Louis on the St. Louis and Indianapolis railway. D. Gove.—My farm is located in sections 9 and 10, in township 10, range 7, Macoupin county; is two miles and a half north of Carlinville, the county seat of Macoupin county.