Hitt, Elisha B.

Born: 1808-XX-XX Bourbon County, Kentucky

Died: 1881-04-17 Jacksonville, Illinois

Flourished: 1839 to 1865 Scott County, Illinois

Elisha B. Hitt, farmer, moved to Illinois in 1835, settling ten miles west of Jacksonville in a part of Morgan County that ultimately became Scott County. Politically, Hitt was a Democrat, and after running unsuccessfully to represent Scott County in the Illinois House of Representatives in 1846, he was elected to that office in 1856 and reelected in 1858. At the time of the 1860 census, Hitt owned real estate valued at $29,240 and possessed $18,005 in personal property. In 1865 Hitt moved closer to Jacksonville and engaged in a livery business in that city. He married Sarah Parker and the pair had children. Hitt was a member of a Methodist Episcopal congregation.

Newton Bateman and Paul Selby, eds., Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Morgan County, ed. by William F. Short (Chicago: Munsell, 1906), 2:855; Charles M. Eames, comp., Historic Morgan and Classic Jacksonville (Jacksonville, IL: Daily Journal Steam Job Printing, 1885), 172; Theodore C. Pease, ed., Illinois Election Returns, 1818-1848, vol. 18 of Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library (Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1923), 422, 520; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Scott County, IL, 88; Daily Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 8 November 1856, 2:4; The Weekly Pantagraph (Bloomington, IL), 3 November 1858, 2:4; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Scott County, IL, 236; Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 21 April 1881, 2:1; Gravestone, Diamond Grove Cemetery, Jacksonville, IL.