sentences:  Some of the early settlers were of the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers.They founded the settlement of Vermilion Grove in the south part of the county, one of the county's first settlements and the site of the county's second public school.The county has strong ties to Abraham Lincoln, who practiced law in Danville from 1841 to 1859 with Ward Hill Lamon; Lamon later served as Lincoln's bodyguard.