ILLINOIS HISTORY
A MAGAZINE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
Volume 46 • Number 2 • February 1993
Printed by authority of the State of Illinois
Jim Edgar, Governor

CONTENTS 21   Grant of Illinois      John Y. Simon      Southern Illinois University, Carbondale 23    Galena's Grant      Molly Benstein      Geneva Community High School, Geneva 24    Grant's West Coast Years      Matt Beiermann      Civic Memorial High School, Bethalto 25    Ulysses S. Grant: Civil War General      Eugene Rinaldi      St. Luke School, River Forest 27    Grant in Springfield      Jeff Klemens      Southeast High School, Springfield 28    Ulysses S. Grant: Savior and Blunderer      Dan Kammler      Carbondale Community High School,      Carbondale 30    Ulysses S. Grant: A Humble Man      Kara R. Guzzo      Sonshine Academy Homeschool, Rockford 31    David Davis: The First Thirty Years      Marcy J. Brant      Dimmick Community Consolidated School,      LaSalle 33    David Davis: The Man and Political Ally      Danielle Daniels      Waterloo High School, Waterloo 34    Judge David Davis and the Eighth Circuit Court      Amy Kalbacken      Washington School, Peoria 35    Judge David Davis, Teacher and Friend of Lincoln      Meredith Hayes      Coultrap Middle School, Geneva 37    Lyman Trumbull      Lesley Piersall      New Hebron Christian School, Robinson 38    Lyman Trumbull in the Pullman Strike:    Did He Change His Position?      Emily Alitto      University of Chicago Laboratory Schools,      Chicago 39    Lyman Trumbull: Illinois' Extraordinary Legislator      Andrew S. Johnson      Belleville Township High School West, Belleville On the cover: Pictured from top left are David Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, and Lyman Trumbull, three of Illinois' most famous politicians.

ILLINOIS HISTORIC PRESERVATION AGENCY Director   Susan Mogerman Trustees   Julie Cellini   Pamela A. Daniels   Samuel Lilly   Frank J. Mason   Sally B. Schanbacher   Carol Stein Educational Services Section   Carl Oblinger, Head, Research and     Education   Keith A, Sculle, Educational Services    Coordinator Illinois History   Editor: Keith A. Sculle   Design and Layout: Cynthia A. Fuener ILLINOIS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY Executive Director   E. Duane Elbert Officers for 1992-93   John R. Power, President   Robert J. Klaus, President-Elect   William D. Winberg, Treasurer Directors: Roland Bauer, Mary Dean, Linda L. Hay, William A. Hensley, James T. Hickey, Thomas E. Leiter, Robert McColley, Patricia Mooney-Melvin, Barbara Posadas, Richard Pyatt, Marvin Strunk, Terence A. Tanner, F. John Taylor, Wendy Hamand Venet, Mark Wyman. Advisory Board Members: Leah Joy Axelrod, Tara Blazer, Janet Cornelius, James E. Davis, Carl J. Ekberg, Charlene Gill, James Grossman, John E. Hallwas, John Hoffmann, Carolyn I. Johnson, John Lamb, Floyd W. Marshall, Michael J. McNerney, Douglas K. Meyer, Catherine Welch O'Connor, Jo Ann Rayfield, Marc Savard, Marc S. Schulman, Len R. Small, Mark W. Sorensen, Richard Worthen. Illinois History (ISSN 0019-2058) is published four times during the school year, December, February, March and May, by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency in cooperation with the Illinois State Historical Society. Printed by authority of the State of Illinois (92185—9.1M—2-93). Second-class postage paid at Springfield, Illinois. Copyright, Illinois State Historical Society, 1993. Subscription rates: One copy is sent tree on request to all schools in Illinois. Additional school-use subscriptions are $1 per volume (four issues). All other subscriptions are $4 per volume. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Illinois History, Old State Capitol, Springfield, Illinois, 62701.

All photos unless otherwise credited are courtesy Illinois State Historical Library, Mary Michals, Iconographer.