Electronic but not free -- Marshall and Putnam counties, Illinois

At Wholly Genes Archive CD Books USA offers for $14.95 a download of the unindexed but now every-word-searchable book:

Ellsworth, Spencer. Records of the Olden Time; or Fifty Years on the Prairies Embracing Sketches of the Discovery, Exploration, and Settlement of the Country, the Organization of the Counties of Putnam and Marshall... Lacon, Ill. : Home Journal Steam Printing Establishment, 1880. 754 pages.

Don't bother with my summary when you can read one from Barbara Vines Little, CG.

Illinois Harvest in Knox, Stark, and Marshall Counties

More digital images of books about downstate from Illinois Harvest:

Portrait and Biographical Album of Knox County, Illinois. Chicago: Biographical Publishing Co., 1886. 1108 pages.

Toulon's 125th Anniversary Historical Booklet, 1841-1966. Toulon?: n.p., 1966. 44 pages. Stark County.

Tomlinson, M. Maxine, ed. Old Sandy Remembers: Evans Township. Wenona?: n.p., 1968. 131 pages. (Don't miss the Marshall County Sesquicentennial Place Mat!)

Yates City: A Time To Remember, 1776-1976. S.l.: s.n., 1976? 45 pages. Knox County