Sidney Breese

Sidney Breese, a distinguished jurist of early Illinois, settled at Kaskaskia prior to 1818. He, as clerk of the Supreme Court of the State, published the first reports of the court’s proceedings. A volume of these reports, issued in 1831 at Kaskaskia, is looked upon as the first book published in Illinois. Breese later became a Judge of the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois.