The Reeves Gang and Early Putnam County Outlaws
The excerpt details a historical sketch of land pirates and thieves in the Putnam area from the end of the Black Hawk War to June 1848. It centers on the Reeves family, McJimpsey, Dowdall, and associates who sheltered a growing gang in timbered Spring Creek valley. It notes rumors of ties to both settlers and hostile Indians and lists numerous gang members and associates who used Reeves and related homesteads as bases for stolen goods and illicit activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican
Putnam
Sinke
Reeves
McJimpsey
Dowdall
Lan
James Tansquery
John Hoskins
Spring Creek
Henry
Jobo Reeves
George Reeves
Senachwine Valley
Leonora Reeves
John's
John Reeves
Henry Precinct
John McKimpney
George Dowdall
McJimpney
Uriah Heap
Lan Dowdall
Lee County
Charles Oliver
Daggett McDowell
Rockford
MacJimpsey
Notable Regulator Bridge Eludes Vigilants in Reeves House
The article recounts Reeves and McJimpsey hosting suspects labeled as prospectors while a gang of horse thieves and murderers operated across several states. Bridge, a chief regulator, fled to Reeves's road house to avoid capture after being exposed by neighbors and later aided by a hidden retreat, with Vigilants closing in.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mc Jimpsey
Breves
Reeves
McKimpney
Lacon
Henry
McJimpsey
Reeves Place
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Todiana
Illinois
Iowa
Missouri
Arkansas
Indian Territory
Texas
Wisconsin
Jobo $ Yoskina
Meno
Raoche
Bridge
Othat
Iisa
Ogle County
Sto
John Campbell
David and
Taylor Driscoll
Chandy
Regulators
Driscolls
Chaney
Hettie
Reeves's
Reeves and gangsters haunt an 1830s Illinois county
The narrator recalls arrest actions against Cameron Reeves and his circle in Ogle and Winnebago counties. He details robberies, trials, and near lynching by Regulators, with Reeves coordinating thieves like Birch Craig Fox Oliver and McDowell. A Fourth of July ball shows their bold presence, and a later election ends with a horse and gear stolen from the polling area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heeves
Ogle
Reeves
Athin House
Bin
Bridge
Fox
Birch
Oliver
McDowell
Mulford
Winnebago County
Iowa
Driscolla
Audhewift
Campbell Bridge
Peravg
Cameron Reeves
George
Vesey
Canti R Taliaferro
Tazewell
Peoria
Tazewell County
Cam
Craig
Jobo Hoskins’s
Birch Sod Craig
Mr Hosking
Ers Birch
Hosking
F W_ Booll, Esq
Hoskins
Banishment and crimes of the Reeves c ang in Illinois history
The writer recalls the Reeves gang crimes across Marshall Putnam Bureau and Stark counties from 1838 to 1848. Recounted are thefts periodic arrests and trials, the expulsion of Reeves and family, and the burning of the hacienda as material for future history from The Republican editor J Enton Bonham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cameron
Presto Reeves
Sme
Jimpsey
George
Marshall
Putnam
Bureau
Stark
Peoria County
Reeves Cang
Reeves
Republican
Illinois
JentAn Bonham
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West Lith
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Meier
James H. Malone
Chicago Veterinary College
Camp House
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Chicago
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A.B. Wilson's
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Omcoover
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D. V
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Heorla
Willy “al ‘Menry
Thoropubligan Omice
Ngdon
Heacro Convent Poorls
Undercliff Hotel
Lake Senachwine
W. M. Lincoln
Sealine
G. A. Bangs
the Republican
Ant
Carrica
J. E. W. Morgan
Court House
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Limos
Sfusto
Wilber C. Moon Tienry
H. Kinnear
F Forrest
Kinnear & Forrest
Kinnear
Forpee Se
Benry
Grovor Burt, Borror
Henry, Ilinois
Henry, III
Reeves Gang
Prairies
Lilinell and
West
U. S. Gov't Report
Hood
W. B. Atlerton
Passaic City
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Brookmont
William
Houster Boy
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More
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Andrew Jackson
Iyy Simonton
Lon
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Dutchman
Hubert McGregor
Edminster
Milo
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Putinam
Strokel
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Joseph Bogner
Melick
G M Clark
Henry James McCune
Groora
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All Forton
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Cimer
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Barty
Minenk
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Percheron Sq
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