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1857 Galesburg area city directory
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| Title | 1857 Galesburg area city directory |
| Description | Listing of non-white individuals extracted from the 1857 Galesburg area city directory. About eight individuals are listed and their places of residence are described. |
| Subject | Census
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| Time Period | 1850s |
| Publisher | Chicago : Henry N. McEvoy |
| Date Created (original) | 1857 |
| Type | Text
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| Format | pdf |
| Identifier | Special Collections F549 .G15 1857 |
| Language | eng |
| Rights | See http://library.knox.edu/digitalcollections/rightsinfo.htm |
| Collection | Struggle and Progress-African Americans in Knox County, Illinois (Knox College) |
| Date Digital | 2012-12-17 |
| Transcript | City directories listed the race individuals if they were non-white. The following information about non-white individuals in Galesburg and the surrounding area was transcribed from Galesburg, Monmouth, Knoxville and Abingdon Directories, Henry N. McEvoy, Robert Fergus, Book & Job Printer, Chicago, 1857.
[Abbreviations from original text have been replaced with fuller spellings of the words.]
[Anything not part of the original text is added in brackets [ ] by the transcriber. This includes information and observations.]
Galesburg [Knox County]
[A note on page 30 indicates the population being "about 6000."]
• Love, Caesar, (colored) house Kellogg north of Ferris
• McGill, Arthur, (colored) farmer, east of City
• Paine, John H., (colored) hairdresser, Main east of Public Square house at corner West and Simmons
• Turner, Washington, (colored) laborer, Tompkins west of Academy
• Westfall, Widow of J. (colored) Brooks
[Under the section CHURCHES AND PASTORS the entry below is listed. The Reverend Woodfork is not among the Galesburg or Monmouth entries.]
• Colored Methodist Episcopal [Church] - Rev. A. Woodfork, Pastor, at the School-house on Monmouth Road
Monmouth [Warren County]
• Miller, Chapman, (colored) washer, East north of railroad
• Morris, George, (colored) barber, under McMillian House
Abingdon [Knox County]
No non-whites listed.
Knoxville [Knox County]
[A note on page 129 estimates the population to be 2500.]
• Smith, Samuel, (colored) hair dresser, corner Main and Broad way, up stairs
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| Filename | City_directory_1857.pdf |
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