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Published: 2018-10-12
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Excerpt from Souvenir of the Diamond Jubilee of St. Boniface Congregation, Quincy, Illinois: Including an Historical Sketch 1837-1912 The first permanent settlement on the present site of Quincy was made by John Wood in the year 1821, when he came to take possession of the lands allotted to him for his services in the war of 1812. Little did he dream at the time that he was laying the foundation of a great and prosperous city, a city of many flourishing industries, a city of commercial enterprise, a Gibraltar in the world of finance, a vast domain of parks and gardens, a realm of beautiful homes, a center of efficient schools and colleges, the seat of magnificent churches and charitable institutions, the Gem City of the West. It was named after Quincy Adams, then president of the United States, from whom also the county in - which it is situated derives its name. In 1826 was built the first court house, a two-story log cabin measuring 18x22 feet. In 1829 Michael Mast (born 1797, died 1852) the first German Catholic settler, arrived in Quincy, and in 1834 we find him among the trustees who signed the application for the incorporation of their settlement, consisting of about 600 souls living mainly along the river front and around the site now ocen pied by Washington Park. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
