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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
| 3 | Representatives are pleased to congratulate the residents of | ||||||
| 4 | Newman as they celebrate the sesquicentennial of their | ||||||
| 5 | community; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, Eli Thomas, Isaac Howard, Elijah Gaston, and | ||||||
| 7 | Joseph Skinner were the first to purchase land in Section 31, | ||||||
| 8 | Township 16 North, Range 14 West from the United States | ||||||
| 9 | government, said section then lying in Coles County and | ||||||
| 10 | destined to become part of Newman; and
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| 11 | WHEREAS, The Illinois and Indiana Central Railway Company | ||||||
| 12 | was founded on December 31, 1852 with the intent of running a | ||||||
| 13 | line from Indianapolis to Springfield; it was completed in | ||||||
| 14 | 1873; and
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| 15 | WHEREAS, Joseph Skinner sold 120 acres to the Illinois and | ||||||
| 16 | Indiana Central Railway on November 10, 1853 and Isaac Howard | ||||||
| 17 | sold 240 acres from the center of section 31 to Benjamin | ||||||
| 18 | Franklin Newman, minister and commissioner of the Illinois | ||||||
| 19 | Central Land Company, on November 23, 1857; Mr. Newman had the | ||||||
| 20 | town bearing his name surveyed and platted on November 26, 1857 | ||||||
| 21 | by Thomas Lytle; and
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| 1 | WHEREAS, Mr. Newman sold the town land to the Central | ||||||
| 2 | Illinois Land Company, led by John Mathers of Jacksonville for | ||||||
| 3 | further development on October 2, 1858; the company controlled | ||||||
| 4 | the sale of town lots until 1864, when it turned all unsold | ||||||
| 5 | property over to Mr. Mathers; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, The citizens of Newman and other parts of the | ||||||
| 7 | northern section of Coles County desired a seat of government | ||||||
| 8 | closer to their homes and wanted independence from Coles | ||||||
| 9 | County, so they separated and formed Douglas County in 1859, | ||||||
| 10 | named after Stephen A. Douglas, senator and future presidential | ||||||
| 11 | candidate from Illinois; the town was incorporated as a village | ||||||
| 12 | on May 17, 1876; and as a city on Feb, 20. 1895; therefore, be | ||||||
| 13 | it
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| 14 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 15 | NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
| 16 | congratulate the residents of Newman as they celebrate their | ||||||
| 17 | sesquicentennial and offer them our best as they continue to | ||||||
| 18 | grow as a community; and be it further
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| 19 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 20 | presented to the people of Newman as a symbol of our respect.
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