Richmond, C.W., and H.F. Vallette:

$400 · Offered by William Reese Company

A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF DU PAGE, ILLINOIS; CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT AND PRESENT ADVANTAGES, A SEPARATE HISTORY OF THE SEVERAL TOWNS...WITH THE NAMES AND SOME ACCOUNT OF THE ... The first Du Page county history, including an invaluable account of the county's earliest organizations, schools, agricultural productions and settlers, as well as some interesting anecdotes regarding the Black Hawk war, violence between settlers and Native Americans in the county, old claim feuds, and other scrapes and incidents in the history of the county. Richmond was a schoolteacher and Vallette was a lawyer. The plate depicts the Naperville Academy.

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