Northeast of this site on Elkhart Hill is Oglehurst, the home and burial place of Richard J. Oglesby (1824-1899), the only three-time Governor of Illinois (1864-1872-1884). He was also a U.S. Senator and a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln, and he moved to Elkhart in 1890. On Elkhart Hill to the south was also the home of John Dean Gillett. A New Englander, Gillett (1819-1883) came to Logan County in 1838, and his cattle-raising operations led to his being known as the "Cattle King of the World." He owned 16,000 acres of land at his death. Captain Adam H. Bogardus (1833-1913), the third of these famous men buried here, was known as "Wing shot champion of the world." Bogardus toured with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show.