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The name Sterling was chosen to honor Major James Sterling, who distinguished himself in the area during the Blackhawk War in 1832. On February 16, 1857, Sterling was incorporated as a city by state law. On July 18, 1856, Abraham Lincoln visited Sterling to speak at a rally for the presidential candidate John C. Fremont. He spent the night at ...
On election day, 4 November 1856, Republican nominee John Wood won the election by a margin of 4,287 votes against his foremost opponent Democratic nominee Richard Jones Hamilton, thereby gaining Republican control over the office of lieutenant governor. Wood was sworn in as the 13th lieutenant governor of Illinois on 3 January 1857. [1]
She married John Bigler around 1847 in Mount Sterling, Illinois. They had one daughter, Virginia. In 1849 they joined the Gold Rush travelling by oxcart from Mount Sterling to Sacramento. [1] The Bigler home in Sacramento was a popular social center. After two gubernatorial terms, John was appointed United States Minister to Chile, from 1857 to ...
The 1856 United States presidential election in Illinois took place on November 4, 1856, as part of the 1856 United States presidential election. Voters chose 11 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College , who voted for president and vice president .
The 1856 Illinois gubernatorial election was the eleventh election for this office. Democratic governor Joel Aldrich Matteson did not seek re-election. Former Democratic Congressman William Henry Bissell was nominated by the newly formed Republican Party at the Bloomington Convention .
In 1856 he married Isabella Annetta Mason, called Belle, who had moved to Chicago from Sterling, Illinois and had been a student of John’s when he was a Sunday school teacher. They had a daughter Cora in 1857 and a son Mason in 1860. Cora died in 1861, probably one of the many child victims of the unsanitary water sources in Chicago at that time.
1856 Illinois elections (8 P) Pages in category "1856 in Illinois" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
Wood was elected to seven one-year terms as mayor of Quincy 1844–1848, 1852–53 and 1856) and to the Illinois state senate in 1850. Earlier a Whig, Wood became a Republican and was elected Illinois' first Republican Lieutenant Governor of Illinois in 1856. [ 14 ]