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title: 'Early Society in Southern Illinois: A Lecture, Read Before the Chicago Historical Society, October 19, 1880'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
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authors:
- 'Robert Wilson Patterson'
date: 1881-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'History (General)'
- 'Colonization'
scriptures:
- 'Acts 2'
- 'Proverbs 31'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/patterson-1881-early-society-in-southern-illinois-a-lecture-read-before-the-chicago-historical-society-october-19-1880
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# Early Society in Southern Illinois: A Lecture, Read Before the Chicago Historical Society, October 19, 1880

1880 lecture recounting early 19th-century Southern Illinois: settlement origins, frontier occupations, housing, community customs (house-raisings, squatting), and rural life.

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