captain. He had to explain to the other passengers that the religious services on board were due to the presence of this company of missionaries. Metamora was settled by a company from Gilmanton, N. H.

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HE most famous was that of the Yale Band that went from New Haven to Jacksonville in 1829. The other lines indicate how the respective communities East and West are interrelated.

Pittsfield is connected with Pittsfield, Mass., as Kewanee is with Wethersfield, Ct., and Stonington with Stonington, Ct. Quincy, the county seat of Adams County, has direct affiliations with New

England. Old Guilford, Ct., helped to give character to Mendon by contributing eighteen members to the church organized there in 1833, on whose cornerstone is the inscription, "The First Congregational church to be organized in Illinois." The founder, Col. John Chittenden, was a man of such force of character that up to the present time "Founder's Day" is still observed annually on Feb. 20. The church with the parish nine miles wide is one of the strongest of country and village churches in the West. Many of its leading citizens are descendants of the original settlers, among them being the Bentons, Bradleys, Fowlers, Dudleys, Baldwins and Frisbies. Hillsboro, Ill., owes much to John Tillson and his wife, one born in Halifax, Mass., and the other in Kingston, Mass. In the early thirties he was one of the State Fund Commissioners who had to do with the building of the railroads. He was a founder of Hillsboro Academy and a trustee of Illinois College.

In 1834, Dr. Jeremiah Hall Lyford, a young physician from Dartmouth College, and his bride, Mary Ann Lyford of Canterbury, N. H., settled in Ravenna, O. In two years, hearing of land grants in Illinois, they traveled to Port Byron. This community was fast settled by New Englanders. Nathaniel Belcher, George S. Moore, the Dodges,

all from Vermont, George Holmes, his wife and seven daughters of Lunenburg, Vt., came by lake steamers to Chicago and drove across the state to Port Byron in 1844. Nathaniel Dorrance, F. S. Yates, Warren Wilcox, the Durfees, are all names of New Englanders whose enterprise and thrift built flourishing churches and endowed the Port Byron Academy under the leadership of Rev. Almer Harper and his son, Prof. E. T. Harper.

The state of Maine contributed a colony of its sterling citizens to the founding of Rockton in Winnebago County in the beautiful Rock River Valley. The group led by Ira Hersey went forth in 1837, taking a rather circuitous route via Philadelphia, Pittsburg and Cincinnati.

Of course, Chicago teems with influential men and women whose ancestry runs straight back to New England. Mrs. Mathews says in her, "Expansion of New England": "Chicago was from the beginning a favorite goal for New Englanders, and its largest banking and mercantile houses are the work of Connecticut and Massachusetts men like Marshall Field. The first president of the First National Bank was born in Norfolk, Ct., but had spent his boyhood in New York. The early directors came from the following towns: Hanson, Danvers and Groton, Mass.; Sharon, Ct.; Winchester, Gilsum and

Newport, N. H.; Rutland and Swanton Falls, Vt.; Machias, Me."

Jeremiah Porter, a Williams graduate, born in Hadley, Mass., in 1804, started immediately after his ordination to the ministry in 1831 as a missionary to the military port at Sault Sainte Marie. When Major Fowle was sent with troops to build a pier and cut the sandbar at Fort Dearborn, now the city of Chicago, he asked Mr. Porter to go with him. The young minister preached his first sermon in the carpenter's shop of the fort in 1833 and three months later organized the first church of Chicago, many of whose members had been born in New England. Their house of worship, dedicated the following January, when the mercury was 29 degrees below zero, cost $600. This beloved pioneer, who reached the venerable age of 90, lived to greet the Columbian Exposition. "To no other man in the world," writes J. B. Clark, "could that event, with its brilliant throngs and its marvelous products of human achievement, have had the same personal interest as to Dr. Porter. From the White City of 1892 to rude Fort Dearborn and its carpenter shop— what a retrospect for the memory of one man! . . Few men have personally witnessed so much fruit from so humble a seed, and fewer still have had a more honorable part in so rich a harvest."

HOSE industry, integrity and enterprise made him the leading merchant of Chicago, and one of its most generous and blic-spirited citizens.