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Carthage is a city in and the county seat of Hancock County, Illinois, United States. [3] Its population was 2,490 as of the 2020 census. [ 4 ] Carthage is best known for being the site of the 1844 murder of Joseph Smith , who founded the Latter Day Saint movement .
Mary Davidson (January 26, 1872 – December 8, 1941) was an American newspaper editor and politician. Davidson was born in Carthage, Illinois. Davidson received her master's degree in journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. She was the editor and publisher of the Carthage Republican newspaper. Davidson was involved ...
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
This is a list of newspapers in Illinois. This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008) Daily newspapers. The Beacon-News – Aurora;
Upon arrival in Carthage, almost immediately the Smith brothers were charged with treason against the State of Illinois for declaring martial law in Nauvoo, by a warrant founded upon the oaths of A. O. Norton and Augustine Spencer. At a preliminary hearing that afternoon, the Council members were released on $500 bonds, pending later trial.
In 1844, Smith was killed by a mob in Carthage, Illinois, while in jail awaiting trial on charges of inciting a riot for ordering the destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor, a newspaper critical of Smith that accused him of practicing polygamy, and for treason against the State of Illinois for calling out the Nauvoo Legion contrary to the orders ...
Hancock County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 17,620. [1] Its county seat is Carthage, [2] and its largest city is Hamilton. The county is composed of rural towns with many farmers. Hancock County is part of the Fort Madison-Keokuk, IA-IL-MO Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Carthage Township is one of twenty-four townships in Hancock County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2020 census, its population was 2,947 and it contained 1,466 housing units. As of the 2020 census, its population was 2,947 and it contained 1,466 housing units.