William Donnegan was a prominent member of Springfield, Illinois. He is believed to have been a conductor on the Underground Railroad and was lynched during the 1908 Race Riot in Springfield. Donnegan was born in Kentucky around 1829. He had made a pre-Civil War trade of importing slaves from the South and hiring them out […]
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