The Centennial Meeting of the Society, April 17-18, 1918,
and of the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the
Society, Springfield, Illinois, May 15, 1918

[Printed by authority of the State of Illinois.]

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.

ILLINOIS STATE JOURNAL Co., STATE PRINTERS.

1919

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CONTENTS.

Officers of the Society.

Editorial Note

Constitution of the Illinois State Historical Society..

An Appeal to the Historical Society and the General Public..

PART I.-RECORD OF OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS, ANNUAL

- Annual Meeting, 1918.

Business Meeting

MEETING, 1918.

Dr. John H. Finley, Letter to the Historical Society.

PAGE.

5

7

8

11

15

16-26

27

PART II.-ADDRESSES AT THE CENTENNIAL MEETING OF THE ILLI-

NOIS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, THE ILLINOIS CEN-

TENNIAL COMMISSION COOPERATING,

APRIL 17-18, 1918.

Edgar A. Bancroft. "Illinois-The Land of Men," Centennial Address. .31a

H. J. Eckenrode. "Virginia in the Making of Illinois"..
31

Allen Johnson. "Illinois in the Democratic Movement of the Century".. 38

Elbert Jay Benton. Establishing the American Colonial System in the

Old Northwest

Charles W. Moores.

Clarence W. Alvord.

M. Louis Aubert.

47

The Interest Indiana Holds in Historic Illinois.... 64

"The Centennial History of Illinois".

"A Message from France".

74

83

PART III.-CONTRIBUTIONS TO STATE HISTORY.

Andrew H. Mills, A. M. "A Hundred Years of Sunday School History in

Illinois, 1818-1918," a Mosaic..

93

Index

..197

List of Publications of the Illinois State Historical Society and Library

following Index.

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