Excerpt from This Is McDonough County, Illinois: An Up-to-Date Historical Narrative With Country Map and Many Unique Aerial Photographs of Cities, Towns, Villages and Farmsteads This.is the seventh of a series of new - style county histories which will include all of the 192 counties in Illinois.and, ulti mately, all of the counties.in the United States. The project, specializing in aerial photographs of cities, towns, villages and farmsteads, is known as The American Aerial County History Series. In the preparation ofihis work (m1 mcdonough County, Illinois, the audnr and publisher hereby-acknowledge their gratitude, for advice and assistance generously given them, to mr.yloseph'wolf and Mrs. Ellen Chase of the Newberry Library, Chicago; to Mr. Herbert H. Hewitt, Mrs. Roberta Sutton and Miss Winifred Baum, all of the Chi cago Public Library, Chicago; and to various librarians, public offi cials, business executives-and private citizens of the city of Macomb Illinois. The author also wishes to express special acknowledgment to his wife, Marion Neville Drury, for research, editorial and proof reading assistance. 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.