Excerpt from Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society for the Year 1905: Sixth Annual Meeting of the Society; Spring eld, Ill;, Jan; 25 26, 1905 Section 1. The name of this Society shall be the Illinois State Historical Society. Section 2. The Objects for which it is formed are to excite and stimulate a general interest in the history of Illinois, to encourage historical research and investigation and secure its promulgation: to collect and preserve all forms of data in any way bearing upon the history of Illinois and its peoples. 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."