Historical Encyclopedia Of Illinois And History Of Cass County Vol 2 Classic Reprint

Author : Illinois Historical Records Survey
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780666168405
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Inventory of the County Archives of Illinois written by Illinois Historical Records Survey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Inventory of the County Archives of Illinois: No; 9. Cass County (Virginia) The undertaking now officially designated the Historical Records Survey Projects was initiated nationally in January 1936, as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration, now the Work Projects Administration. In Illinois the Survey became an independent unit in August 1936, but continued to operate as part of the nation-wide project under the technical supervision of Dr. Luther H. Evans, National Director, and under the administra tive supervision of the Division of Community Service Programs. Dr. Evans resigned March 1, 1940 and was succeeded by the present director, Sargent B. Child. Alston G. Field, Howard E. Colgan, and Royal S. Van de Woestyne were the first three state directors, serving until November 1, 1937, to May 16, 1939, and to October 1, 1940, respectively. On September 1, 1939 the Illinois State Library, of which Secre tary of State Edward J. Hughes is State Librarian and Helene H. Rogers, Assistant State Librarian, became the sponsor of the Illinois Historical Records Survey. On January 15, 1940 this sponsorship was assumed by the University of Illinois. The present sponsor of the Survey is the Honorable Dwight H. Green, Governor of Illinois. In compiling this inventory of the archives of Cass County, the Survey has sought to locate, describe, and classify all extant county records and to make them more easily accessible to county officials. The general public and research workers. It is believed that this inventory will be useful as a guide to the archives wherein may be found so much important informa tion in the fields of history, sociology. Political science, and economics and that it will result in a greater interest in their preservation. While some historians have realized this for many years the general public has never been made aware of the intrinsic worth of this material. In the official documents of Cass County are found the materials of another chapter in the story of the coming into the Illinois wilderness of settlers who created a terri tory and the rudiments of a simple frontier govern ment, bought and sold land, built roads, established schools and later founded a state. 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.