Though technically not a Marion citizen, it would be remiss not to recount the life of John A. Logan. He was a Williamson County Circuit Clerk, prosecuting attorney, practicing lawyer in the County courthouse and an influential civil war military leader and political figure in the Democratic party of this county for decades and therefore shaped the course of Marion, Illinois and Williamson County history. Continue reading
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John was born in Connecticut February 24, 1821. He came while a child to Indiana and in 1840 moved to Williamson County. He was a cabinet maker by trade and on April 27, 1845 married Emily A. McCoy. Continue reading
Robert M. Hundley
According to census records, Robert was born in Tennessee in 1821. Milo Erwin in his history of Williamson County recalls him, “Colonel Robert M. Hundley came into this county in 1838, Continue reading