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| | Montgomery County Illinois Trails |
 | | Townsend, who petitioned the state legislature to allow formation of Montgomery County on February 12, 1821, only three years after the state itself was officially organized. |
 | | The County was then named for Richard Montgomery, a Revolutionary General, of Irish birth, who was killed before Quebec on December 31, 1775. |
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