McLean County IL Articles ********************************************************************* File contributed to the McLean County ILGenWeb Project Copyright © 2007 to present, all rights reserved. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format without the written consent of the author, ilmcleanvcc@gmail.com. File Submitted by: Cheryl Rothwell, email: historysleuth@gmail.com Source: Courier & Republic, Buffalo, NY, Wednesday, August 24, 1870 ********************************************************************* The Bloomington Pantagraph says that Col. Merriam, candidate for congress in the eighth district of Illinois, has facilities for visiting at least four of the counties of district, such as few candidates for congress ever had. He lives at the junction of McLean, Tazewell and Logan counties, and near the corner of DeWitt. His farm is in McLean, Tazewell and Logan; his dwelling is in Tazewell, his barn in Logan, and the bulk of his crop is raised in McLean. He eats in one county, feeds his horse in another, plows with him in a third, goes to church in a fourth, and will go to congress from all of them.