Meeting of Sangamon County citizens is held at court house to consider common schools and elect delegates to state education convention, Vandalia, December 5, 1834. Edmund Roberts presides and Henry E. Dummer is secretary. Resolution of Dan Stone favoring common schools is adopted and 11 delegates selected: Lincoln, Stone, Roberts, Stuart, Logan, John Dawson, William Carpenter, J. M. Early, C. R. Matheny, George Forquer, and E. D. Taylor.Sangamo Journal, 29 November 1834.