1. George Cadwell was an American pioneer, politician, and physician from Connecticut.
23 Facts About George Cadwell
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George Cadwell left with Lyon to Kentucky, but then settled in the Indiana Territory after a dispute about slavery.
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George Cadwell served in the government of Madison County, then was elected to the Illinois Senate when the state was founded in 1818.
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George Cadwell served three two-year terms, then resumed the practice of medicine.
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George Cadwell attended school in Hartford, Connecticut, and then studied medicine in Rutland, Vermont.
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George Cadwell married Pamelia Lyon, the daughter of Matthew Lyon in 1797.
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George Cadwell settled with her family in Fair Haven, Vermont.
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George Cadwell helped her father publish The Scourge of Aristocracy and Repository of Important Political Truth, a paper attacking US president John Adams.
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Messinger and George Cadwell left Lyon in 1802 to settle in the Indiana Territory.
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George Cadwell purchased 200 acres opposite Gaboret Island on the Mississippi River, about 9.5 miles north of Cahokia, in what is St Clair County, Illinois.
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George Cadwell was appointed a justice of the peace for St Clair County on July 9,1809.
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When Madison County, Illinois Territory was created in 1812, which included his farm, George Cadwell was named a justice for that county.
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George Cadwell then moved to Edwardsville after purchasing land from Thomas Kirkpatrick.
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George Cadwell was re-elected in 1820 and moved near what is Lynnville, at the time still a part of Madison County.
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George Cadwell was considered a representative of the new Pike County.
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The land was largely timbered and George Cadwell harvested sugar and syrup until the 1850s.
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George Cadwell platted part of his claim as the town of Quincy, hoping to secure the location of the county seat.
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George Cadwell spent the rest of his practicing medicine as the first physician in Morgan County.
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George Cadwell built the first frame house in the county and created the Morganian Society, an anti-slavery group.
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George Cadwell was named the first postmaster in the county.
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George Cadwell had two sons and eight daughters; both sons died before adulthood.
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George Cadwell died in Morgan County on August 1,1826, and was buried in Diamond Grove Cemetery in Jacksonville.
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George Cadwell was the great-grandfather of state senator Epler Cadwell Mills.