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The following record is worthy of reproduction: “The. settlement of Bruce Township was commenced in 1831. George
Basore, a native of Virginia, after clearing farms in the forests of Alabama and Indiana, moved to the fertile
State of Illinois and settled on section 24 in Bruce Township, in 1831. He was a typical frontiersman. The family
manufactured all their clothing and most of their farming implements. It was an independent way of living, and
one highly necessary at that time. Mr. Basore died in 1860, having married, for his second wife, the widow of John
Wood."
Among the others who settled in the township in the '30s may be mentioned William Morgan, Gayler Hayes, John Morgan,
John and David Sotter, Norton Mackey, Rush and Benjamin Mackey, Norton Gunn, William Reddick, Reuben Hackett, William
Donnell, Isaac Painter and William Bronson.
Bruce Township was organized in the spring of 1850, and Samuel Mackey was elected the first township supervisor.
In this progressive township is situated the City of Streator.
FROM:
History of LaSalle County, Illinois
By: Michael Cyprian O'Byron
The Lewis Pullishing Company
Chicago and New York
1924
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