Editing Ogle County, Illinois (section)

==History==
Ogle County was formed in 1836 out of [[Jo Daviess County, Illinois|Jo Daviess]] and [[LaSalle County, Illinois|LaSalle]] counties, and named in honor of Captain [[Joseph Ogle]], a veteran of the [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]] who settled in Illinois in 1785. Ogle County government was organized in 1837; before that time it remained assigned to Jo Daviess County for legislative, taxation, and judicial matters.<ref>White, Jesse.  ''Origin and Evolution of Illinois Counties.'' State of Illinois, March 2010, 9.  [http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/publications/pdf_publications/ipub15.pdf]</ref> In 1839, part of Ogle County was partitioned off to form [[Lee County, Illinois|Lee County]].

Ogle County was a [[New England]] settlement. The founders of [[Oregon, Illinois|Oregon]] and [[Rochelle, Illinois|Rochelle]] arrived from [[New England]]; they were "[[Yankee]]s", descendants of [[English American|English]] [[Puritans]] who had settled [[New England]] in the 1600s. They were part of a wave of farmers who migrated into the [[Northwest Territory]] in the early 1800s, their trek eased by completion of the [[Erie Canal]] in 1825. They found virgin forest and wild prairie, and quickly laid out farms, constructed roads, erected government buildings and established post routes. They brought a passion for education and strong [[abolitionism]]. They were members of the [[Congregationalist Church|Congregationalist]] or [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopalian]] Church. Culturally Ogle County, like much of northern [[Illinois]] would maintain values similar to those of New England.<ref>The History of Ogle County, Illinois: Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., a Biographical Directory of Its Citizens, War Record of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Illinois, p. 326</ref><ref>The Early History of Northern Illinois by Charles Knapp Carpenter, Ogle County Federation of Women's Clubs, 1948</ref>

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File:Ogle County Illinois 1836.png|Ogle County between 1836 and 1839
File:Ogle County Illinois 1839.png|Ogle County after 1839, when Lee County was formed
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