In 1811, William McHenry served in the Illinois militia during Tecumseh's War, which culminated in the Battle of Tippecanoe in the Indiana Territory. In the War of 1812, he participated in the attack on the Indian village at Peoria, which was allied with the British.
After the war, he was a delegate to the Illinois Constitutional Convention in 1818, which led to statehood in 1819. Then he was elected to the first Illinois House of Representatives.
During the Blackhawk War in 1832, he was a major of the Mounted Spies. He became ill during the campaigning and was mustered out at age 61. Immediately, he was elected to the Illinois Senate.
He died in 1835 in a boarding house in Vandalia, Illinois, which was then the capital of Illinois.
When McHenry County was formed in 1836 out of Cook (Chicago) and LaSalle counties and it was named after him.
What's In a Name. --Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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