Union County, Illinois, Political and Social Actors in the 19th Century, by last name. Data compiled by Jane Adams, Carbondale, Illinois To access .htm files: Last Name begins with A | B | C | D | E | F-G | H | I-J-K | L-M | N-O-P-Q | R | S | T-Z In the 1980s, while conducting ethnographic and historical research in Union County, Illinois, I combed the newspapers and public records for information about the people of Union County, Illinois. This data base contains that data. It was originally entered into DBaseII, on a Kaypro computer (CPM). It was translated to a Paradox data base, then to an Excel database. I have corrected the spacing errors that inevitably happen when transtranslating one data base to another. Some entry errors remain. Some entries were largely illegible; these are noted. The entire data base is 859 KB in Excel, 2.748 MB as Excel-generated htm file. I have, therefore, sorted the file by name and broken it down alphabetically for easier loading. The file contains 7091 discrete entries, from 1817 to 1900. Data include county commissioners, members of the petit jury, road commissioners, election commissioners, other county offices, bonding agents, some I.O.O.F. and Masonic trustees, trustees of some churches, and records of all available farmer associations and other publicly recorded associations. The data base includes the source of each entry. The data were entered in the following categories: Year, Month & Day, Name, Office (or Organization), Source, and a miscellaneous, untitled, column. A few records contain general information or notations, but almost all records are of individuals. The files posted here are organized by last name. I would appreciate hearing from people who find this data base useful. Please contact me at jadams@siu.edu. I have written two books and several articles based on my Union County research. The books are: The Transformation of Rural Life: Southern Illinois 1890-1990 (University of North Carolina Press, 1994) "All Anybody Ever Wanted of Me Was to Work:" The Memoirs of Edith Bradley Rendleman (Southern Illinois University Press, 1996). More information is available on my website: http://www.siu.edu/~anthro/adams/