The Hancock-Henderson Quill, Inc.
Driving through Terre Haute, Illinois, today one would never dream that it once was a trading metropolis.
In fact, 1882 there were several dry goods, grocery and notion stores as well as a drug store, restaurant, wagon and blacksmith shops and other general businesses.
Dr. E.H.Trask, Dr. B.F. Hamilton and Dr. W.K. Smith plied their trade in the village and Geo. J. Morgan and C.R.Gittings saw that justice was done.
Of secret societies, the town had a flourishing lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows which had been organized in Raritan in 1876, but moved to Terre Haute in 1879.
1882 History of Henderson County