Henderson County Circuit Court

City: Oquawka

County: Henderson

State: Illinois

Upon the creation of Henderson County, Illinois in 1841, The Illinois General Assembly placed it in the Fifth Judicial Circuit. The first term of the Henderson County Circuit Court was held in Oquawka on May 28, 1841. Stephen A. Douglas presided as judge. It remained in the Fifth Judicial Circuit until 1851, when the General Assembly moved it to the new Fifteenth Judicial Circuit. In 1859, the General Assembly assigned it to the Tenth Judicial Circuit.

History of Mercer County (Chicago: H. H. Hill, 1882), 865, 883; An Act to Establish Circuit Courts; "An Act to Establish the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Judicial Circuits, and for Other Purposes," 12 February 1851, General Laws of Illinois (1851), 82; "An Act to Fix the Time of Holding Courts in the Tenth Judicial Circuit," 16 February 1859, Laws of Illinois (1859), 58-59.