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History of St. Clair County, IL

Read this book from 1881 - History of St. Clair County, Illinois (free)

Note: there are MANY biographies of people in St. Clair county in this book and I would like to have them transcribed and added to this website. You can download the book from the link above if you would like to help with this transcription project and send to me to create the web pages on this website.

Here are the scanned index of the bios below which tells you the page number the bio appears on:

  1. Index Part 1
  2. Index Part 2
  3. Index Part 3
  4. Index Part 4
  5. Index Part 5
  6. Index Part 6
  7. Index Part 7
  8. Index Part 8


The following history of St. Clair County, Illinois
is taken from the Centennial History of McKendree College
- 1928
, written by Prof. W. C. Walton.

  • CHAPTER I - Under French Rule
  • CHAPTER II - Under British Rule
  • CHAPTER III - The Transition to American Rule
  • CHAPTER IV - Settlers of the Early Period
  • CHAPTER V - Early American Settlers of St. Clair County


  • See also precinct histories transcribed from History of St. Clair County, Illinois (Brink, McDonough, and Co., 1881) on the St. Clair County Genealogical Society (SCCGS) web site. These histories also include early settlers and notes about mills, railroads, rivers, groceries, saloons, coal mines, and defunct towns. Precinct areas of the county preceded township governing bodies.


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