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I am a member of the Kankakee Valley Genealogical Society. You may want to contact the society to obtain documents to verify the data I posted.
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http://www.kvgs.org/theakiki/tkkv7n3.txt
THE - A - KI - KI
"BEAUTIFUL LAND"
Quarterly Publication of
KANKAKEE VALLEY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
C/o Kankakee Public Library
304 S. Indiana Ave., Kankakee, Illinois, 60901
MOMENCE OF THE OLD FRONTIER
Continued from Vol. 7 No. 2
Reprinted from TALES OF AN OLD BORDER TOWN AND ALONG THE KANKAKEE by
Burt E. Burroughs, Copyrighted 1925
JOHN HADDON MAKES A KILLING
John Chamberlain, John Wertz and myself were elected three "Side
Judges" of Iroquois county. Our duties were similar to those of the
supervisors now. The county was badly in debt. Its debts were paid
by county orders, and men bought these at fifty cents on the dollar
and paid their taxes with them. We three decided to stop this, and
by our efforts made them worth par. We then got some money, and the
first thing we did was to put a roof on the court house. My colleagues
were opposed to the carving out of Kankakee county from Iroquois and
Will, and strenuously worked to retain the old boundaries, as I did
for the new. The people by their votes settled the matter in a way
satisfactory to me. It was a day's journey to the Middleport county-
seat. Lawyers from Joliet rode horseback to Middleport to try cases,
and Iroquois County lawyers rode to Joliet for the same purpose. My
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first tax receipt was for fifteen cents, being the taxes on my sole
property, a yoke of oxen. At this time the sheriff collected the taxes.
They were paid to him on the old Lowe farm, near the present East Court
street bridge over the Kankakee River. An overland trip to Joliet was
a day's journey, the first stage being as far as Coon Grove near Goodenow,
the second stage the Twelve-Mile Grove (twelve miles from Joliet), and
the third stage the Five-Mile grove. This was the route in dry roads
and weather. In wet times, we traveled by the way of Bourbonnais--the
first stage being at the tavern of Uncle Tommy DURHAM, at Bourbonnais
and the next at Wilmington.
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