William Pope, of Springfield, Ill., served in the Navy, 1829-39. He married Eliza Douglass (1820-99), of St. Louis. Seven children were Henry (c1836-), Nathaniel (1839-1908), Maj. Douglass (1841-80), Cornelia (1843-1932), Capt. John (1846-1909)(West Point 1868), William (c1849-), and Lucretia Pope (1852-1938). Maj. Douglass Pope (1841-1880) married Augusta Sibley (1844-1932), and their children were Alice, (1875-1961), Augusta (1876-96), and Elsey Pope (c1878-). Cornelia Pope (1843-1932) married George Prentice Bowen (1835-80) who was Clerk of the U.S. District Court in Springfield, 1862-80, and their children were Cornelia Pope (1869-1941), Lucy (1873-1962), and Alice Houghton Bowen (1875-1908) who married Frank Lockwood Hatch (1869-1951), of Springfield.
William Pope's father, Judge Nathaniel Pope (Transylvania 1806), studied law in the office of his brother, John Pope. Having studied the French language, he emigrated to upper Louisiana in 1804, and remained at Ste. Genevieve, Mo. practicing law until 1809. He was appointed secretary of Illinois territory, 1809-16, by President Madison. In 1812, he served as an officer under his cousin Gov. Ninian Edwards on an expedition to Peoria Lake against the Indians who had become increasingly menacing after the declaration of war against Great Britain. He was elected delegate to Congress from Illinois territory, 1816-18, where Gov. John Reynolds said he did more important services for the people than any one man has done since in so short a time. Among other measures, he procured the extension of the northern boundary of the state from the southern bend of Lake Michigan to latitude 42 1/2 deg. N. which gave Illinois an outlet on Lake Michigan and control of the site of Chicago. When there were barely 35,000 people in the territory, he drew up the congressional resolution for the admission of Illinois as a state. After Illinois was admitted to the Union in 1818, he was appointed U.S. district court judge, 1819-50, by President Monroe. Pope County, Ill. was named to honor him.
See, Nathaniel Pope: 1784-1850: A Memoir, by Paul M. Angle (Ill. State Hist. Soc. 1937); Dumas Malone, Dictionary of American Biography (New York, 1935), VIII: 77-78. Cook County, Ill. was named for Daniel Pope Cook (1794-1827) who studied law under Governor John Pope in Lexington, Ky. and under Judge Nathaniel Pope in Illinois. He apparently was appreciative of the Popes and added Pope as his middle name.
See 1850, 1880 Census, Springfield, Ill.; James Houston Barr III, Lt. Colonel Nathaniel Pope, c1610-1660, of Virginia, Ancestor of Washington, Governors and Legislators, History of His Descendants (Louisville, Ky. 2018), 381-382.
William Pope's father, Judge Nathaniel Pope (Transylvania 1806), studied law in the office of his brother, John Pope. Having studied the French language, he emigrated to upper Louisiana in 1804, and remained at Ste. Genevieve, Mo. practicing law until 1809. He was appointed secretary of Illinois territory, 1809-16, by President Madison. In 1812, he served as an officer under his cousin Gov. Ninian Edwards on an expedition to Peoria Lake against the Indians who had become increasingly menacing after the declaration of war against Great Britain. He was elected delegate to Congress from Illinois territory, 1816-18, where Gov. John Reynolds said he did more important services for the people than any one man has done since in so short a time. Among other measures, he procured the extension of the northern boundary of the state from the southern bend of Lake Michigan to latitude 42 1/2 deg. N. which gave Illinois an outlet on Lake Michigan and control of the site of Chicago. When there were barely 35,000 people in the territory, he drew up the congressional resolution for the admission of Illinois as a state. After Illinois was admitted to the Union in 1818, he was appointed U.S. district court judge, 1819-50, by President Monroe. Pope County, Ill. was named to honor him.
See, Nathaniel Pope: 1784-1850: A Memoir, by Paul M. Angle (Ill. State Hist. Soc. 1937); Dumas Malone, Dictionary of American Biography (New York, 1935), VIII: 77-78. Cook County, Ill. was named for Daniel Pope Cook (1794-1827) who studied law under Governor John Pope in Lexington, Ky. and under Judge Nathaniel Pope in Illinois. He apparently was appreciative of the Popes and added Pope as his middle name.
See 1850, 1880 Census, Springfield, Ill.; James Houston Barr III, Lt. Colonel Nathaniel Pope, c1610-1660, of Virginia, Ancestor of Washington, Governors and Legislators, History of His Descendants (Louisville, Ky. 2018), 381-382.
William Pope, of Springfield, Ill., served in the Navy, 1829-39. He married Eliza Douglass (1820-99), of St. Louis. Seven children were Henry (c1836-), Nathaniel (1839-1908), Maj. Douglass (1841-80), Cornelia (1843-1932), Capt. John (1846-1909)(West Point 1868), William (c1849-), and Lucretia Pope (1852-1938). Maj. Douglass Pope (1841-1880) married Augusta Sibley (1844-1932), and their children were Alice, (1875-1961), Augusta (1876-96), and Elsey Pope (c1878-). Cornelia Pope (1843-1932) married George Prentice Bowen (1835-80) who was Clerk of the U.S. District Court in Springfield, 1862-80, and their children were Cornelia Pope (1869-1941), Lucy (1873-1962), and Alice Houghton Bowen (1875-1908) who married Frank Lockwood Hatch (1869-1951), of Springfield.
William Pope's father, Judge Nathaniel Pope (Transylvania 1806), studied law in the office of his brother, John Pope. Having studied the French language, he emigrated to upper Louisiana in 1804, and remained at Ste. Genevieve, Mo. practicing law until 1809. He was appointed secretary of Illinois territory, 1809-16, by President Madison. In 1812, he served as an officer under his cousin Gov. Ninian Edwards on an expedition to Peoria Lake against the Indians who had become increasingly menacing after the declaration of war against Great Britain. He was elected delegate to Congress from Illinois territory, 1816-18, where Gov. John Reynolds said he did more important services for the people than any one man has done since in so short a time. Among other measures, he procured the extension of the northern boundary of the state from the southern bend of Lake Michigan to latitude 42 1/2 deg. N. which gave Illinois an outlet on Lake Michigan and control of the site of Chicago. When there were barely 35,000 people in the territory, he drew up the congressional resolution for the admission of Illinois as a state. After Illinois was admitted to the Union in 1818, he was appointed U.S. district court judge, 1819-50, by President Monroe. Pope County, Ill. was named to honor him.
See, Nathaniel Pope: 1784-1850: A Memoir, by Paul M. Angle (Ill. State Hist. Soc. 1937); Dumas Malone, Dictionary of American Biography (New York, 1935), VIII: 77-78. Cook County, Ill. was named for Daniel Pope Cook (1794-1827) who studied law under Governor John Pope in Lexington, Ky. and under Judge Nathaniel Pope in Illinois. He apparently was appreciative of the Popes and added Pope as his middle name.
See 1850, 1880 Census, Springfield, Ill.; James Houston Barr III, Lt. Colonel Nathaniel Pope, c1610-1660, of Virginia, Ancestor of Washington, Governors and Legislators, History of His Descendants (Louisville, Ky. 2018), 381-382.
William Pope's father, Judge Nathaniel Pope (Transylvania 1806), studied law in the office of his brother, John Pope. Having studied the French language, he emigrated to upper Louisiana in 1804, and remained at Ste. Genevieve, Mo. practicing law until 1809. He was appointed secretary of Illinois territory, 1809-16, by President Madison. In 1812, he served as an officer under his cousin Gov. Ninian Edwards on an expedition to Peoria Lake against the Indians who had become increasingly menacing after the declaration of war against Great Britain. He was elected delegate to Congress from Illinois territory, 1816-18, where Gov. John Reynolds said he did more important services for the people than any one man has done since in so short a time. Among other measures, he procured the extension of the northern boundary of the state from the southern bend of Lake Michigan to latitude 42 1/2 deg. N. which gave Illinois an outlet on Lake Michigan and control of the site of Chicago. When there were barely 35,000 people in the territory, he drew up the congressional resolution for the admission of Illinois as a state. After Illinois was admitted to the Union in 1818, he was appointed U.S. district court judge, 1819-50, by President Monroe. Pope County, Ill. was named to honor him.
See, Nathaniel Pope: 1784-1850: A Memoir, by Paul M. Angle (Ill. State Hist. Soc. 1937); Dumas Malone, Dictionary of American Biography (New York, 1935), VIII: 77-78. Cook County, Ill. was named for Daniel Pope Cook (1794-1827) who studied law under Governor John Pope in Lexington, Ky. and under Judge Nathaniel Pope in Illinois. He apparently was appreciative of the Popes and added Pope as his middle name.
See 1850, 1880 Census, Springfield, Ill.; James Houston Barr III, Lt. Colonel Nathaniel Pope, c1610-1660, of Virginia, Ancestor of Washington, Governors and Legislators, History of His Descendants (Louisville, Ky. 2018), 381-382.
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