Flower by Lafayette, Jefferson, Cobbett, the Abbé Gaultier, Count de Lasteyrie, Madam O'Connor, D. In connection with this History was received a numerous collection of autograph letters written to Mr. This valuable and interesting manuscript was a contribution to the Society by the author, George Flower, who was then seventy-four years of age, and residing at Mount Vernon, Posey County, Indiana. President of the Chicago Historical Society.ĪT a regular meeting of the Chicago Historical Society, held on the 18th day of September, 1860, there was presented to the Society, through its Secretary, a manuscript History of the English Colony, founded by Morris Birkbeck and George Flower, in Edwards County, Illinois, in 1817-18.
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I desire to add to the thanks of the Society my own, not only for this liberal act, but for the example which I hope and believe will be the beginning of a series of contributions through the agency of our Society, to the history of our State and the North-West. Your generosity enables us to publish a manuscript which would long ago have been given to the public, had not the means and resources of this Society been crippled by the Great Fire of 1871. For this act of liberality and appreciation of a valuable and extremely interesting contribution to the history of our State, you are entitled to the thanks, not only of our Society, but of all lovers and students of history. I will cheerfully defray the expense.ĭear Sir: - I have received your note of the 30th of August, authorizing the publication at your expense of the History of the English Settlement in Edwards County in 1817-18, by GEORGE FLOWER. Flower, who so generously presented it to the Society, I think it should be published. In the interest of the history of the State, and in justice to the memory of Mr. It is replete with incidents in the lives of Governor Edward Coles, Morris Birkbeck, George Flower, and others of that noble band who fought out the battle of freedom in our State in 1823-4. From a cursory examination of it myself, and what is said of it by those who have carefully read it, I am satisfied it is a valuable contribution to the history of our State.
ARNOLD, President of the Chicago Historical Society.ĭear Sir: - Twenty-two years ago there was presented to our Society a manuscript History of the English Settlement in Edwards County in this State, from its commencement in 1817, by GEORGE FLOWER.