“MY BOYS BUILT THE EPISCOPALIAN [CHURCH]”:
LETTER ON PARIS, ILLINOIS, 1868

A substantive letter on circumstances in Paris, Illinois one year before it became a city. Born in Albany, New York, Isaac LaGrange, Sr. (1799–1881) moved to Paris, Illinois as early as the mid-1850s. Paris is the county seat and largest city of Edgar County, and in this 1868 letter LaGrange.....