Excerpt from Souvenir Centennial History of the First Presbyterian Church, Belleville, Illinois: 1839-December 14th-1939 In the year 1814 Samuel I. Mills made a missionary tour with Daniel Smith, as his associate, passing through the Territories of Indiana and Illinois to St. Louis, that village not containing more than two thousand inhabitants at that time, and Illinois Territory not more than fifteen thousand souls, with not one Presbyterian minister stationed. Or laboring within its bounds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.