On April 23, 1861, eleven days after Confederates bombarded Fort Sumter, Brush carried an American flag to the Union House in Carbondale and summoned "all lovers of their country" to a public meeting to support the Union. Carbondale was to be a nonalcoholic town. Should such use be made on the land, it was to revert to the City, then be sold, and the proceeds given to the schools. To shape the image of the new town, Brush and his partners inserted in the deeds of the town lots a provision that the lot was not to be used as a place for the sale of alcoholic beverages. He opened the town's first general store, sawmill, and grist mill and secured the Illinois Central freight house and woodshed contract. He named the new town Carbondale.Īfter persuading his partners to reserve four town lots for churches, Brush began to build a town. He purchased land in the middle of two stations planned for DeSoto and Makanda with the hope that he could persuade the railroad to build another station. In 1852, Brush learned that the Illinois Central Railroad would build a line through Jackson County. Brush held the offices of county clerk, circuit clerk, recorder, and probate judge between 18. Jenkins, came to Brownsville in Jackson County, and he came with them. In 1829, Brush's older sister Mary and her husband, Alexander M. Daniel Harmon Brush was born in Vergennes, Vermont, on April 15, 1813.
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