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Clinton County, Illinois History and Genealogy Featuring Coal Mining

Clinton County is a county located in the central part of the state of Illinois.       38.61° N 89.42° W As of 2006, the population was 36,633         Clinton County was organized in 1824 out of Washington, Fayette, and Bond Counties. It i s named in honor of the seventh Governor of New York State, DeWitt Clinton, who helped build the Erie Canal.         Clinton County has fifteen townships :             Breese, Brookside, Carlyle, Clement, East Fork, Germantown, Irishtown, Lake, Looking Glass, Meridian, Saint Rose, Santa Fe, Sugar Creek, Wade, Wheatfield

 

Clinton County, Illinois Coal Mining

Biographies               David H. Conwel                   Coal buiness in Carlyle               Robert S. M. Donne                   Director & one of originators of the Future Coal Mining Company of Breese               Joseph Hanke                   Trenton Coal Mine No. 1               William F. Hofsommer                   President , Director, Stockholder of the Breese Future Coal Mining Company               Henry Hummert                   Superintendent of the Breese Future Coal Mining Company               Theo Klutho, Sr.                   President of the Future Coal Mine Company               Robert McCaw     1883 - 1906                   Coal Miner, Trenton Mine, West; Breese Trenton Coal Company         Coal Mines             including History and Fatalities

 

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