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Joseph Lawrence Bowman (c. 1752 – 15 August 1779) was an American frontiersmen and military officer who fought during the American Revolutionary War.He was second-in-command during Colonel George Rogers Clark's 1778 military campaign to capture the Illinois Country, in which Clark and his men seized the key British-controlled towns of Kaskaskia, Cahokia, and Vincennes.
Prescott E. Bloom, Illinois state senator [3] Nancy Brinker, founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure; Chief of Protocol of the United States; U.S. Ambassador to Hungary; Jefferson R. Boulware, Illinois state representative and lawyer [4] Robert L. Burhans, Illinois state legislator and lawyer [5] John Edward Cassidy, Illinois Attorney General
Knox would later become a county in Indiana and is unrelated to the current Knox County in Illinois, while St. Clair would become the oldest county in Illinois. 15 counties had been created by the time Illinois achieved statehood in 1818. The last county, Ford County, was created in 1859.
Henry Woods "Woody" Bowman (December 31, 1941 – July 10, 2015) was an American politician and educator. Born in Ravenna, Ohio , Bowman received his bachelor's degree in economic and physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology , his master's degree in public administration and his doctorate in economics from Syracuse University .
John C. Black (1839–1915), U.S. congressman from Illinois; received the Medal of Honor for his actions as a Union Army lieutenant colonel and regimental commander at the Battle of Prairie Grove during the American Civil War. Member of Olive Branch Lodge No. 38, Danville, Illinois, and grand orator of the Grand Lodge of Illinois from 1894 to ...
James Aldrich, U.S. Congressman, Illinois 1st Congressional District (1893–97) William Aldrich, U.S. Congressman, Illinois 1st Congressional District (1877–83) George Bangs, Railway Mail Service; George Bell Jr., United States Army Major General who commanded the 33rd Infantry Division in World War I; John Lourie Beveridge, Illinois ...