“Illinois History” Student Historian. Published by the Ill. State Historical Society. Vol 23 No 1 October 1969. Report of Regional Meetings of the Historian Students. The founder of the Illinois State Historical Society; A Bloody No Man’s Land – an Island in the Mississippi Tiver by St. Louis; Civil War in Hancock County; When Daniel Webster Goofed; Slavery in Illinois; 1836; A Big Year for Elgin; Batavia Institute; Pinkerton’s Palace (Onarga, Ill.) “Wild Bill” of Troy Grove; Illinois. Little Germany. Percy Lavon Julian, a chemist; “Clown in the Cannon”. List of Contest Winners. Sold at Ice Cream Social on 08/19/1978.