Mob Trial and Execution
ID: IL1841062901
Name(s) of People Lynched: John Driscoll and William Driscoll
Number of People Lynched: 2
Race: White
Gender: Male
Lynching Date(s): 1841-06-29
Year Marker Erected: 1971
Erected by: Ogle County Historical Society
City: Oregon
County: Ogle
State: Illinois
Marker Text: 200 yards north of here, a granite boulder bears this inscription “John and William Driscoll executed here June 29, 1841,” These two men, father and son, were tried by 500 aroused citizens and then executed by a firing squad of one hundred eleven men. “Doctors and scholars, ministers and deacons regarded this terrible example of lynch law as a public necessity.”
Sources: https://www.hmdb.org