Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Shadrach Bond


Related Topics

In the News (Sat 19 Dec 09)

  
  Governor Shadrach Bond of Illinois
SHADRACH BOND, the first Governor of Illinois after its organization as a State, serving from 1818 to 1822, was born in Frederick County, Maryland, in the year 1773, and was raised a farmer on his father’s plantation, receiving only a plain English education.
Bond was no orator, but had made many fast friends by a judicious bestowment of his gubernatorial patronage, and these worked zealously for him in the campaign.
Bond was of a benevolent and convivial disposition, a man of shrewd observation and clear appreciation of events.
history.rays-place.com /governors/il/bond-s.htm   (1097 words)

  
 shadrach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Shadrach and Sarah are registered in the census as having 3 boys under 16 years, and one daughter, whose name was Rebecca, named after her grandmother.
Shadrach was one of the earliest settlers in the town of Pulteney.
Shadrach Norris, of Oskaloosa, was born in Holmes County, OH, July 7, 1832, a son of Levi and Margaret (Hockenberry) Norris, natives of NY and OH respectively.
members.dslextreme.com /users/enorrste/shadrach.html   (7603 words)

  
 Shadrach Bond: First Governor
Shadrach Bond (1773-1832) was Illinois' first governor, and for six years before that, the first representative of the area to become Illinois.
Bond's uncle, a scout with George Rogers Clark's Illinois regiment in the Revolutionary War and one of the first English-speaking frontiersmen to make a home in the Mississippi River basin, persuaded his nephew to become a farmer.
Bond also asked that whipping be abolished, that jails be built solidly for criminals, but that offenses like rape, arson, and murder should result in the death penalty.
www.lib.niu.edu /ipo/1993/ihy931218.html   (517 words)

  
 SHADRACH BOND FROM 1891 PORTRAIT & BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM OF SANGAMON COUNTY
Bond represented the "Convention party," for introducing slavery into the State, supported by Elias Kent Kane, his Secretary of State, and John McLean, while Nathaniel Pope and John P. Cook let the anti-slavery element.
The State appointed commissioners to explore the route and prepare the necessary surveys and estimates, preparatory to its execution; but, being unable out of its own resources to defray the expenses of the undertaking, it was abandoned until some time after congress made the grant of land for the purpose of its construction.
Gov. bond was no orator, but had made many fast friends by a judicious bestowment of his gubernatorial patronage, and these worked zealously for him in the campaign.
www.rootsweb.com /~ilsangam/1891/bond.htm   (1248 words)

  
 Gov. Shadrach Bond, and uncle,newspaper notices.
"Shadrach Bond is a canidate for delegate to congress from this territory." Vol.1, #42, Wed.
"Candidate for Governor is Shadrach Bond, for congress- Daniel P. Cook and John M'Lean, for the senate from Randolph Co..- George Fisher, for house of representatives- Nathaniel Pope, E.K. Kane and John Anderson, and for Sheriff- H. Conner, George Stam, Jr.
Shadrach Bond, from Baltimore, and Miss Ann Todd, daughter of the late Thomas Todd, were married at Walnut Grove on Thurs.
genforum.genealogy.com /bond/messages/2785.html   (504 words)

  
 Governors Shadrach Bond and Henry Horner: Guiding Illinois through Economic Depressions
Bond, as the first governor, lacked the constitutional basis for centralized executive authority that Horner enjoyed and had effectively exercised to his advantage.
Shadrach Bond lacked strong centralized executive powers due to constitutional restrictions, such as no veto power or chance to hold consecutive terms.
Bond was a weak executive due to both constitutional restrictions and his own lack of political power.
www.lib.niu.edu /ipo/1994/ihy940456.html   (902 words)

  
 Albany Mounds - Welcome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Governor Bond State Memorial marks the grave of Shadrach Bond, the first governor of Illinois after it attained statehood in 1818.
Bond was born in Maryland and settled in Monroe County, Illinois in 1794.
During his term as governor, the State Bank of Illinois was chartered and the capital was moved from Kaskaskia to Vandalia.
www.illinoishistory.gov /hs/governor_bond.htm   (79 words)

  
 Bond County, Illinois IL, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
Bond County is one of 102 counties in Illinois.
The county is in the Saint Louis metro area.The estimated population in 2004 was 17,980.
This was an increase of 1.97% from the 2000 census.
www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=5927   (446 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Shadrach Bond, of that city, was elected as the first governor, in October of the same year.
Mark Beaubien filed a bond of $200 to carry all citizens of Cook County across the river free, on condition that he should be permitted to take toll from those not resident in the county.
In 1843, certain holders of the State bonds made the offer to advance the money necessary to complete the canal, provided the payment of their advances and bonds was secured by adequate lien on the canal, its lands, and its revenues.
delta.ulib.org /ulib/data/moa/536/a66/356/313/c95/d/data.txt   (20527 words)

  
 Chapter 16: Illinois
In fact, in 1819 the legislature passed a law specifically to discourage slaveowners from bringing their slaves to Illinois for the purpose of freeing them, requiring that the master post bond of $1000 per slave to ensure that his fls would not become wards of the county where they lived.
His superior intelligence was soon recognized, and he became the leading figure at the constitutional convention at Kaskaskia, and, as secretary of state, the power behind the throne in Governor Bond's administration.
Shadrach Bond, the first governor of Illinois, was born in Maryland of a well-to-do, slaveholding family, although his father, a convert to Methodism, freed four slaves on his death in 1804.
www.poemsforfree.com /cc16.html   (5002 words)

  
 ShadrachMercer1740Rhoda
One thing which has hampered research on Shadrach is the relativescarcity of records from th e counties in which he either lived or hadbusiness dealings.
Shadrach also appears as a witness to deeds in Pitt County in 1776and again in 1787.
She was born in North Carolina in1761 and died in Muhlenberg County, Kent ucky between 1830 and 1840.
www.homestead.com /whittenfamily/ShadrachMercer1740Rhoda.html   (3452 words)

  
 USGenWeb, ILGenWeb - Illinois History Project - Governor Shadrach Bond
The people, however, did not become very much excited over this issue until 1820, when the famous Missouri Compromise was adopted by Congress, limiting slavery to the south of the parallel of 36° 30' except in Missouri.
) The ticket of 1818 was a compromise one, Bond representing (moderately) the pro-slavery sentiment and Menard the anti-slavery.
The State appointed commissioners to explore the route and prepare the necessary surveys and estimates, preparatory to its execution; but, being unable out of its own resources to defray the expenses of the udnertaking, it was abandoned until some time after Congress made the grant of land for the purpose of its construction.
www.rootsweb.com /~ilhistor/governors/bond.html   (1115 words)

  
 Bond County Fact Sheet
Named after Shadrach Bond, the first Governor of the State of Illinois.
Bond served as Governor from October 6, 1818 to December 5, 1822.
Click on thumbnail to view a map of Bond County and its civil and congressional townships.
www.sos.state.il.us /departments/archives/irad/bond.html   (87 words)

  
 PRS - Shadrach Bond
On this date, Shadrach Bond was elected to four years as governor.
The Shadrach Bond continued to serve the IC in general service for three more years until it was reconfigured into a 32 seat diner/8 seat lounge for service on the Land O'Corn from 1967 to 1969.
Recently, significant progress to restore the Shadrach Bond to an operationally appearance has been accomplished.
www.pacificrailroadsociety.org /equipment/passenger/bond/index.html   (504 words)

  
 Governors of Illinois - presented by Illinois Genealogy Trails
Shadrach Bond was born in Frederick County, Maryland, in the year 1773.
He came to Illinois in 1794 and lived with his uncle, Shadrach Bond, senior, for some years, and then purchased a farm for himself in the American Bottom and improved it well.
Such was the person of "Farmer Bond." In early life he was a member of the General Assembly of the Indiana Territory, which met at Vincent and he was a good, substantial member.
genealogytrails.com /ill/governors.html   (9881 words)

  
  ILLER - LoveToKnow Article on ILLER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
At the general election in November 1908 the people of Illinois authorized the issue of bonds to the amount of $20,000,000 to provide for the canalizing of the Desplaines and Illinois rivers as far as the city of Utica, on the latter river, and connecting with the channel of the Chicago Sanitary District at Joliet.
The bonded debt on the same date was $17,500; these bonds ceased to bear interest in, 1882, but although called in by the governor they have never been presented for payment.
But the proposed issue under this law of bonds with which Chicago was to purchase or construct railways would have increased the citys bonded indebtedness beyond its constitutional limit, and was therefore declared unconstitutional in April 1907 by the supreme court of the state.
www.1911ency.org /I/IL/ILLER.htm   (9236 words)

  
 Bond County, Illinois — Greenville College, Bock Museum, Hogue Hall, Wolf Creek State Park
Just over 17,000 people live in Bond County, one of the smallest counties in the state.
On January 4 of that year, the Illinois Territorial Legislature voted to establish a new county, and named it after its territorial governor, Shadrach Bond.
Despite its size, Bond County is home to parts of some of the most popular parks in the state.
www.brownandcrouppen.com /bond_county.html   (299 words)

  
 ~Historic~ Greenville Illinois - Historical Society -  Greenville Chamber of Commerce
The cornerstone for the present Bond County Court House was laid June 4, 1884.
Bond County was 24 miles wide and six hundred miles long - bordered on the north by Lake Superior and stretching to six miles south of its present border.
George Davidson donated twenty acres to the county for the new seat of justice and thus, Greenville was born.
www.greenvilleusa.org /historical.htm   (568 words)

  
 Illinois State Historical Markers: Governor Shadrach Bond, 1773-1832   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Shadrach Bond, the first Governor of Illinois, was born November 24, 1773, in Fredericktown, Maryland.
In 1805 he was elected to the Indiana Territorial Assembly, where he was instrumental in creating the Illinois and Indiana boundaries.
Bond was elected to Congress in 1812 as the first Territorial Delegate from Illinois.
www.historyillinois.org /Markers/old_markers/121.htm   (136 words)

  
 Passenger Cars - Page 1
The original name of this car was the Shadrach Bond, another tongue-twister that caused renaming to be considered.
The Shadrach Bond has not been restored to service, although major work was begun to clean and repaint its interior.
On the same trip that brought PRS the Shadrach Bond, John and Rolland dealt for the purchase of either the Council Bluffs or its sister, the Cairo.
www.pacificrailroadsociety.org /equipment/passenger/history.html   (3040 words)

  
 The History of Shelby and Moultrie Counties, Illinois
Shadrach Bond, afterward the first Governor, was elected from Illinois, a member of the Territorial Legislature which convened at Cincinnati, in January, 1799.
Shadrach Bond, then a resident of St. Clair County, was elected the first Delegate to Congress from Illinois.
The first election under the Constitution was held in September, 1818, and Shadrach Bond was elected Governor, and Pierre Menard, Lieutenant Governor.
www.edenmartin.com /counties/chpt2.htm   (8424 words)

  
 IHX Manuscripts A-C
Jehiel Bond preached his last sermon on Apr. 26, 1938, on the occasion of his and Anna's seventy-second anniversary.
The Bond Family collection contains Jehiel and Anna's correspondence, mainly from the 1860s, to and from their parents, Levi and Lydia Williams Bond, and Evan and Gulielma Bond Marshall; and Jehiel's cousin, Elizabeth Bond ("Libbie" or "Lizzie").
The materials pertain to charges brought against Coles for his failure to give bond at the time of the manumission of slaves that he brought from Virginia.
www.library.uiuc.edu /ihx/col_info-abc.htm   (17121 words)

  
 Bond County Illinois Trails
The county-seat is Greenville, where the first cabin was erected in 1815 by George Davidson.
The county was organized in 1818, and named in honor of Gov. Shadrach Bond.
Bond County Is Bordered By These Neighboring Counties
www.iltrails.org /bond   (311 words)

  
 Bark ‘ N’ Blog…nuttin’ but the dog in me! » Shadrach
Shadrach the Neo Mastiff blogs about natural dog care and welfare from a canine perspective!
See, I could be considered a bully breed bepaws people go by the drama they see on television, and people don’t know their breeds or true facts.
Hehe, I’ve had these two on here before but JD was just a little wag of the tail when I first had her on her last year.
www.bark-n-blog.com /author/shadrach   (2593 words)

  
 Southwestern Illinois RC&D - Bond County Biography
Bond County, Illinois is located in southern Illinois.
The National road and the projected railway from Terre Haute to St. Louis pass through the county.
Named in honor of Shadrach Bond, first governor of Illinois.
www.swircd.org /swircd/regional_info/bond.htm   (231 words)

  
 Slavery in Indiana 1807
The greatest change was in Dearborn, but, by assuring every one that he was heartily in favor of whatever they wanted, Jesse B. Thomas was again elected there.
Shadrach Bond and William Biggs were returned from St. Clair, and George Fisher from Randolph, as before.
Davis Floyd of Clark had his hands full with his trial for complicity with Burr, and James Beggs was elected in his place.
www.adena.com /adena/epler/e13.htm   (1092 words)

  
 DANIEL POPE COOK
On August 18, 1818, the Illinois Constitutional Convention was held in Kaskaskia and adopted a state constitution selecting Kaskaskia as the first state capital.
On October 6, 1818, Shadrach Bond was inaugurated as the first state Governor.
On December 3, 1818, President Monroe signed the act of admission by which Illinois became the 21st state of the union.
www.co.cook.il.us /secretary/HomePage_Links/daniel_pope_cook.htm   (2574 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Bond
Bond, Charles Grosvenor (1877-1974) — also known as Charles G. Bond — of Brooklyn,
Bond, Richard — of Honolulu, Island of Oahu,
Bond, Shadrack (1773-1832) — also known as Shadrach Bond — Born in Frederick, Frederick County, Md.,
politicalgraveyard.com /bio/bond.html   (556 words)

  
 Illinois.gov - Illinois Government News Network (IGNN) - Search the News Results
Menard was appointed President of the Illinois Territory Legislative Council and led this pre-statehood governing body from 1812 to 1818.
Pierre Menard was widely supported as a candidate for the state’s first lieutenant governor to serve alongside Governor Shadrach Bond.
But in the grand tradition of Illinois politics, an exception had to be made so Menard could run for that office.
www.illinois.gov /PressReleases/ShowPressRelease.cfm?SubjectID=27&RecNum=3272   (2414 words)

  
 Prairie Years
Nevertheless, Illinois was granted statehood, and in 1818 became the twenty-first state to join the Union.
Shadrach Bond, the first governor of Illinois, set up government offices in a rented facility in Kaskaskia soon after the new state was admitted, and conducted business there until a State House could be built in the newly designed capital, Vandalia.
Completed in 1820, the new State House became the seat of Illinois government until 1837, when the capital was moved permanently to Springfield.
mccoy.lib.siu.edu /illinois/chap2_intro.htm   (427 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.