CONTENTS. l‘AOE Reference Table................ ...................................7 Statistics.......i..............................................................7 35 5? History of County................................................................................10 § History of Townships...............................................................20 List of Patrons.......................................................31 Blair........... Baldwin...... County Map • Camptown ... Coultervillc . Chester....... Dozaville..... Edon ......... Eva ville- _Florence...................... I Illinois State.......... ........ Kaskaskia...................... Kampenville .................... Prairie Du Rocher............ , Preston......... ............... r Randolph .... Rock wood ... Ruraa......... Red Bud...... Shiloh Hill- SteelsvUle ... Tildon......... TOWNSHIP PLATS. Township 8, Range 5............................. 44 ^Sju “ 6............................ 6, “ 5.............................. “ 5, “ 5.....,........................ 4, " 5............................... “ 8, “ 6............................... 7, “ 6......... ...».............- 6, “ 6............................. Cia 4, 4‘ 0..................... “ 0, “ 7............................. 5, “ 7................................ 4, “ 7.............................. 6, “ 8............................... o “ 5,^ “ 8.............................. 4, “ 8.............................. C “ 5&G,“ 9 & 10....................... ILLUSTRATIONS. ;Brickey, J. & W.........................................64-05 Beattie, Dr.........................................................................70 . Beattie, Jacob B.........................................................77 ejfioyd, I). B................................................................................78 Vfioyd, S. .....................................................................................................80 Burke, J. K................................................................................................86 liegeman, August................................................................97 jfeoijnty Buildings..........................................................13 ”■ Craig, Wm. T..........................................................................................79 Clendinen, W. II............................................92 I Campbell, E. J.................. Chesnutwood,.!................. Douglas, John C............... Itouglas, Andrew............... Dickey, W. J.................... Douglas, J. J..................... Detrich »<: Hillin.............. Easdale, Hugh................... I Fleming, John.................. Fulton, David.................... Floreths, C. W.................. Fisher, Archibald.............. Gordon, Dr.'Win. A........... Gant, Robert.................... Gillis, Antionie.................. Gant, Alfred..................... Gibson, Win...................... Guebert, Wm................... Hoy, Thomas................... Hoy, James M.................. Hawken, Jacob.................. Ireland, A. T................... Klacman, Win................. Lewley, S. W.................... Leeper, Dr. A. K............... Liddv, John Daniel......... Liddv, James................... Lutheran Church............... McKeSvov, S. W............... Mathews Hugh................. Miller, Madison................ Murphy, G....................... vj Mini font, Wm.................... | McLaughlin, John............ Mathews, James B.............. Munford, James R.............. Mansker, Samuel................ Morrison, Judge John-------- McMillan, Wm. II............ Mudd, Wm....................... McKinney, Arthur............ McBride, John T............... Old Relics....................... Preston, R. H................... Parrot, Lewis................... Pautler, Joseph................. ■^^itaUllcr, P...................... lied Bud Brewery............ Roscow, John................... Roscow, £. T.................... Richards, Benjamin........... Richardson, George.......... Rickcnberg, Diedrich......... St. Charles Hotel............... St. Vrain, S...................... Stoller, Harmon R............ Schuckert, Wm................ Shannon, John R.............. Steele, Anthony................. Sauer, N. & W.................. Stahlltorg, Mrs. L. E.......... Simpson, Thomas A......... Schnoeker. Henry.............. Wiltshire, B..................... Wehrheiin, Mrs. Elizabeth.. Wright, J. R................... Young McIntyre............ 21 A • wf3 5 J/ BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. Adams, Samuel B...................... ................ 63 Bollinger, Geo............................................. *>4 Burch, Joshua G.........................................54 B Blais, Antoine..............................................54 B PACK Barlx?au, Henry............................................ 55 Brickey, John & William............................. 55 Beattie, Dr. A. B.......................................... 55 Bucb, Gottlieb........................... ................. 58 Berger, Emil.............................................. 59 Boyle, Wm................................................ 63 Burnett, Alexander (deceased)........................ 63 Bratney, John B......................................... 06 Bratney, Robert N........................ ...............70 A Beattie, Robert T.........................................70 A Burke, John K.............................................70 A Burgess, Lloyd D., M. D.................................70 B Borders, James J., Esq................................... 70 D Beattie, JacobB............................................73 B Boyd, John S............................................... 75 A Boyd, David B ..........................................75 B Cole, Hermon C. (deceased)........................— 46 Clarion, The Valley...................................... 50 Conner, W.S..............................................54 B Cox, Jolin M..................................*........... 62 Chesnutwood, Jonathau................................ 63 Clendinen, Wm. II.......................................70 B Crawford, James......................................... 70 C Chambers, Wm. G........................................75 B Craig, James................................................75 B Derousse, Louis (of Chester).......................... 51 Douglas, Andrew...............................*........ 51 Dickey, Alexander............-.........................70 B Detrich, Hon. John E.................................... 70 C Dickey, John, Esq.................................—• 73 B Douglas, A. T............................................ 03 Ed words, John L........................................ 51 Eeeles, James....................»......................... 63 Edmiston, Wm—...................................... 70 C Fisher, Archibald....................... ...........-..... 54 Faherty, James and Edmond......................... 59 Fahertv, Patrick....................................... 55 Fulton, David............................................. 70 C Faman. James, M. I)..................................73 A Flemming, John............................... ........73 B Gordon, Wm. A., M. IX ................................ 47 Gordon, Abram G......................................... 51 Gant, Alfred................................. ............ 51 Gwin, James................................................ 70 A Goddard, Reuben J....................................... 70 C Gerlach, Daniel................................. ..........73 B Hood, Alexander........................................ 50 Holloway, John N........................................ 50 Hargis, James H..........................................54 A Iluth, Matthias........................................... 55 Hoy, Bartholomew (deceased)....................... 59 Hecker, George F......................................... 62 Hodson, John, Esq........................................ 701) Holmes, Henry L..........................................701) Ireland, Martin............................................70 A Ireland, Archibald T.....................................70 A Johnson, J. Perry.......................................... 4< Jordon, Alfred C.......................................... 63 Jones, Captain Paul T...................................70 D Knapp, William......................................... 50 Ker, Henry.................................................54 B Lindsey, John II.......................................... 51 Louvier, John X..........................................54 B Liddv, Timothy (deceased)............................. 58 Lively, Amos P...........................................75 B Lceper, A. K., M. D......................................75 A McBride, John T.......................................... 46 Middendorf, John G..»................................... 51 Mudd, Wm..................................................54 A Mudd, William (of Union Precinct)................. 5S Meyer, John II.......................................... 62 Mohrs, Friedrich......................................... 62 Mansker, Samuel......................................... 70 B McQuihton, John C....................................... 70 C Morrison, Judge John.................................... 70 C Murphy, John..............................................70 D Mann, Samuel A..................................*...... 66 McFie, John R., Esq..................................73 A McIntyre, Daniel..........................................73 B Munford, David, Esq....................................73 B Mathews, Robert...........................-.............73 It Miehan, John, E^q.-.'.................................75 A Miller, Gen. Madison............................*.......75 A McMaster, Hon. Daniel R..............................75 A McDill, Win. K. (deceased)............................75 B Milligan, Samuel (deceased)...........................75 B Murphy, Wm.............................................. 54 Miller, Jacob............................................... 59 McClurken, Matthew.................................... 75 B Nevill, Harvey............................................ 50 Nixon, Wm. J.......................................... 54 O’Harra, Henry........................................... 55 Ohlwine, David.............................. ............ 58 Preston, Robert H....................................... 63 Pollock, Dr. J. T......................................... 50 Pautler, Paul........................................*...... 06 Penrod, Captain J. (deceased)........................ 59 Patterson, Reuben L..................................... 70 C Pollock, Wm. W..........................................70 A Phegley, Wrm.......*.......................................54 B Pinkerton, John ..........................................70 B Richardson, Dr. George................................. 54 Roberts, Hiram............................................54 A Roberts, I>. P...... ........................................54 A Ralls, Rawleigh........................................... 59 Roseow, John.............................................. 62 Robertson, Wm. (deceased).............................70 D Richards, Benjamin................................. .... 70 B Rust, Isaac..................-.............................. 70 B St. Vrain, Savinien...................................... 40 Shannon, John R...................*...................... 47 Schuchert, Wm............................................ 50 Spencer, Charles L............. ........................ 50 Seymour Edward.................................-...... 54 A Sehoeppel, Andrew.......................................54 A Simpson, James D......................................... 55 Stoehr, John...................................................— 55 Seely, Dr. W. J--......................................... 58 Schitlerdecker, Francis...........-...................... 62 Steele, Anthony......................................... 73 A Sprague, Albert X., Esq.................................75 A Tilmann, Charles.......................................... 54 A Temple, David.............................................70 B Taylor, James II ........................................ 75 B Taylor, John, Esq.................................. ......75 B Wiltshire, Beverly....................................... 47 Williams, Captain C. C................................. 51 Wright, John K........................................... 54 Wilson, George & James................................ G3 Wilson, Dr. J. M.......................................... 60 Wehrheim, John (deceased)......................... 06 Wehrheim, Philip........................................ 62 Wehrheim, Valentine G................-...............70 A Woodside, JolinJ..................................................75 B PORTRAITS. Andrew Borders and Wi Savinien St. Vrain....... J. R. Shannon............. Beverly Wiltshire.......... John Brickev............... Wm. Mudd................ J. T. McBride............. J. Chesnutwood ........... J. R. Burke................. Mrs. J. R. Burke.......... John Wehrheim........... Mr*. Elizabeth Wehrheii ..[Frontispiece]STATISTICS OF THE POPULATION OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, BY CIVIL TOWNSHIPS, WITH ABSTRACT OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS, Erc ftioha: oBnsrsxjs of 1870 1875. Roc Wine Hill........ Steele’s Mills.. Sparta............ Cou Bremen.. Blair— Fl Eva Baldwin .... Kaskaskia . Brewervill Ruma........ Red Bud.... NAMES OF PRECINCTS. B u- .§ • ~ 'V 0 5 Dc s>3 u "O < > < | 0 fc I S f Prairie du Rocher .................................................................................. Total............................................................................... 4458 20,859 147,387 196,782 5844 1415 >5.45* 7753 >4,432 Farm House .......... School House Church Milts Blacksmith Shop Cemeteries Roads Railroads REFERENCES. ................. ® Proposed Railroads Slone Quarries Lime Kilns Orchards Timber....................... Swamp ............. Creeks CoaljfT.KIKiV I \«, | mm VVf?-' -*>’ AH It ••"'aZSSSC^ VAtJMSGAt) Kii-oflr VU,j£v .’'£■£ iovis KJ.OKA ! SPHYSfr Il'M/ftY- | t * <*U JVicGHAF T< >N j AMH) H; j iVKIW I'tit: l-ff-O HVKWj I| aiJI’EAV rftJSlBK- P -^rnrvTj ■ ' 3S*i4 TOC : vjjLLE : ^AlH hK”n cOMPILEo [*V RIH’OlVDS.r :*VTlc STATK ;N\. EXAMIXATro.v, A,'W\y STATE AA'/> UCAGO npy«:Kj A1?T©« >llt AiV JD /Wl JBI? J£ «MT ■—^ P irBLX^HED BY i'jii41' i'-- JBICT-.MWK.M Si Si B0HE U> W. 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I'lHvs'n ■ tURK ;j G O t-OWTHfi ’ll-.iRXsu :^4i5<»vk .6^W>\ Ir< • 1N '< ' JSarfcuH •9»MS::Yt.' a^-TfctSj Ttfo r« I'lH'Vi r,U)t SwjjNtj :KASTKKS F<'iJii3UX.£ TOWNS. 24,368 Cl.: > Kr.VK. ’ ^jrk« y$Tl J I ■’•iiosHop/i 4^^uAttr»«V 31,003 31,336 30,901 30.8G6 20.932 28,330 28,231 26,768 ■. r.\i »•. 24,368 24,119 23.509 22,864 21,830 21,232 20.060 20.665 20,101 20.141 !' i!I.TJ-m The Cenius of the Stn.te, Official. I *60. 41,144 4,652 9,767 11,670 9,019 Adams....... Alexander.. Bond......... Boone........ Brown....... Bureau...... Calhoun,... Carroll...... Champaign 26,456 5,143 11,718 11,313 14,681 10,475 14,948 9.309 10,729 14,174 143,947 11,529 8.309 19,079 10,814 7,109 14,696 Clinton....... Coles........... Cook........... Crawford.... Cumberland DeKall........ Dewitt........ Douglas ...... Pupago. Fd6S, and established the mission of St. Mary, now the oldest settlement within the limits of the present commonwealth of Michigan, formed the purpose of its exploration. In company with Joliet, a fur-trader of Quebec, who had been designated by M. Talon, Iutendant of Canada, as chieftain of the exploring party, and five French voyageurs, Marquette, on the tenth of June, 1673, set out on the expedition. Crossing the water-shed dividing the Fox from the Wisconsin rivers, their two canoes were soon launched on the waters of the latter. Seven days after, on the seventeenth of June, they joyfully entered the broad current of the Mississippi. Stopping six days on the western bank, near the mouth of the Des Moines river, to enjoy the hospitalities of the Illinois Indians, the voyage was resumed, and after passing the perpendicular rocks above Alton, on whose lofty limestone front were p:iinted frightful representations of monsters, they suddenly came ujion the mouth of the Missouri, known by its Algonquin name of Pekitanoni, whose swift ami turbid current threatened to engulf their frail canoes. The site of St. Louis was an unbroken forest, and farther down, the fertile plain bordering the river, now embraced in Randolph County, where a few years after was to be founded the emporium of the French settlements in the Mississippi Valley, reposed in peaceful solitude, as early in July, the adventurers glided past it. They continued their voyage to a point some distance below the mouth of the Arkansas, and then retraced their course up the river, arriving at the Jesuit Mission at the head of Green Bay, late in September. Robert Cavalier de La Salle, whose illustrious name is more intimately connected with the exploration of the Mississippi than that of any other, was the next to descend the river, in the early part of the year 1682. At its mouth he erected a column, and decorating it with the arms of France, placed upon it tliu following inscription : LOUIS LE GRAND, KOI OE FRANCE ET OK NAVARRE, REGNE; LE NECVIEME AVRIL, 1682. Thus France, by right of discovery, lay claim to the Mississippi Valley, the fairest portion of the globe, an empire in extent, stretching from the Gulf to the Lakes, ami from the farthest sources of the Ohio to where the head waters of the Missouri are lost in the wild solitudes of the Rocky Mountains. La Salle bestowed upon the territory the name of Louisiana, in honor of tin- King of France, Louis XIV. The assertion has been made that on La Salle’s return up the river, in the summer of 16S2, a portion of the party were left behind, who founded the villages of Kaskaskia and C'ahokia, but the statement rests on no substantial foundation. THE FIR8T SETTLEMENTS IN ILLINOIS. The gentle and pious Marquette, devoted to his purpose of carrying the gospel to the Indians, had established a mission among the Illinois, in 1675, at their principal town on the river which still hears their name. This was at the present town of Utica, in La Salle County. In the presence of the whole tribe, by whom, it is recorded, he was received as a celestial visitor, he displayed the sacred pictures of the Virgin Mary, raised an altar, and said mass. On Easter Sunday, after celebrating the mystery of the Eucharist, he took possession of the land in the name of the Saviour of the world, and founded the “ Mission of the Immaculate Conception.’’ The town was called Kaskaskia, a name afterwards transferred to another locality. La Salle, while making preparations to descend the Mississippi, built a fort, on the Illinois river, below the Lake of Peoria, in February, 1680, and, in commemoration of his misfortunes, bestowed upon it the name of CreveeKBur, “ broken-hearted.” Traces of its embankments are yet discernible. This was the first military occupation of Illinois. There is no evidence, however, that settlement was begun there at that early date. On La Salle’s return from his exploration of the Mississippi, in 1682, he fortified “Starved Rock,” whose military advantages had previously attracted his attention. From its summit, which rises one hundred and twenty-five feet above the waters of the river, the valley of the Illinois spreads out before the eye in a landscape of rarest beauty. From three sides it is inaccessible. This stronghold received the name of the Fort of St. Louis. Twenty thousand allied Indians gathered around it on the fertile plains. The fort seems to have been abandoned soon after the year 1700. Marquette’s mission (1765), Crevecoeur (1680), and the Fort of St- Louis (1682), embrace, so far, all the attempts made toward effecting anything like a permanent settlement in the Illinois country. Of the second few traces remain. A line of fortifications may be faintly traced, and that is all. Starved Rock, on whose summit stood the fort of St. Louis, still raises its front above the plain, a prominent object of interest, in the Upjier Illinois Valley. The seed of civilization, planted by the Jesuit Marquette among the Illinois Indians, was destined to produce more enduring fruit. It was the germ of Kaskaskia, during the succeeding years of the French occupation—the metropolis of the Mississippi Valley. The southern Kaskaskia is merely the northern one transplanted. The Mission of the Immaculate Conception is the same. FOUNDING OF KASKASKIA. On the death of Marquette, he was succeeded by AlloiSez, and he by Father Gravier, who respectively had charge of the Mission on the Illinois river. Gravier is said to have l>een the first to reduce the principles of the Illinois language to rules. It was also he who succeeded in transferring Marquette’s Mission from the banks of the Illinois south to the spot where stands the modem town of Kaskaskia, and where it was destined to endure. The exact date is not known, but the removal was accomplished some time prior to the year 1090, though probably not earlier than 1685. Father Gravier was subsequently recalled to Mackinaw, and his place was supplied by Bineteau and Pinet. Cahokia has its founder in the latter. Me established a mission among the Tamaroas and Cahokias, and the village received its name from the latter tribe, as Kaskaskia had before taken its designation from the Kaskaskia Indians. Pinet proved an eloquent and successful minister, and his chapel was often insufficient to hold the crowds of savages who gathered to hear his words. Bineteau met with a fate similar to that which befell many another devoted priest in his heroic labors for the conversion of the savages. He accompanied the Kaskaskias on one of their annual hunts to the upper Missisippi, that his pastoral relations might not suffer intermission. His frame was poorly fitted to withstand the exposure. Parched by day on the burning prairie, chilled by heavy dews at night, now panting with thirst and again aching with cold, he at length fell a victim to a violent fever, and “ left his bones on the wilderness range of the buffaloes.” Pinet shortly afterwards followed his comrade. Father Gabriel Morest had previously arrived at Kaskaskia. He was a Jesuit. He had carried the emblem of his faith to the frozen regions of Hudson’s Bay, had been taken prisoner by the English, and upon his liberation returned to A merica, and joined the Kaskaskia Mission. After the deaths of Bineteau and Pinet, he had sole charge until joined by Father Mermet shortly after the opening of t he eighteenth century. The life of Moreflt at Kaskaskia was one of labor, and discouragement must sometimes have seized upon him. in his “Lettres Citricim* et Edifante*” he has bequeathed much valuable information in regard to the early condition of the Mission ami concerning the history of Kaskaskia. “ Our life,” he writes, “ is passed in roaming through thick woods,’in clambering over hills, in paddling the canoe across lakes and rivers, to catch a poor savage who Hies from us, and whom we can tame neither by teachings, nor caresses.” On Good Friday, 1711, Morest started from Kaskaskia to the Peorias, who desired the establishment of a new Mission. The second day he reached Cahokia. He gives the following record of his journey: “I departed, having nothing about me but my crucifix and breviary, being accompanied by only three savages who might abandon me from levity, or from fear of enemies might fly. The horror of these vast, uninhabited regions, where for twelve days not a single soul was met, almost took away all my courage. Here was a journey where there was no village, no bridge, no ferry no boat, no house, no beaten path; and over boundless prairies interspersed by rivulets and rivers, through forests and thickets filled with thorns and briers, and through marshes where we plunged sometimes to the girdle. At night repose was sought on the grass, or on the leaves, exposed to wind and rain, happy if by the side of some rivulet whose waters might quench our thirst. Our meals were prepared from such game as was killed on the way, or by roasting ears of com.” The devotion and piety of Mermet fully equalled those of his companion. He had assisted in collecting a village of Indians and Canadians, and had thus founded the first French port on the Ohio, or as the lower part of the river was then called, the Wabash. At the Kaskaskia mission his gentle virtues and fervid eloquence seem not to have been without their influence. “At early dawn his pupils came to church dressed neatly and modestly, each in a large deer-skin, or in a robe stitched together from several skins. After receiving lessons they chanted canticles; mass was then said in presence of all the Christians in the place, the French and the converts—the women on one side and the men on the other. From prayer and instruction the missionaries proceeded to visit the sick and admiuister medicine, and their skill as physicians did more than all the rest to win confidence. In the afternoon the cate- chism was taught iu the presence of the young and the old, when every one, without distinction of rank or age, answered the questions of the missionary. At evening all would assemble at the chapel for instruction, for prayer, and to chant the hymns of the church. On Sundays and festivals, even after vespers, a homily was pronounced ; at the close of the day parties would meet in houses to recite the chaplet in alternate choirs, and sing psalms until late at night. These psalms were often homilies with words set to familiar tunes. Saturday and Sunday were days apjx>inted for confession and communion, and every convert confessed once in a fortnight. The success of the mission was such that marriages of French immigrants were sometimes solemnized with the daughters of the Illinois according to the rites of the Catholic Church. The occupation of the country was a cantonment of Europeans among the native proprietors of the forests and the prairies.” * Father Charlevoix visited Illinois in 1721, and in his journal has the following concerning the missions at Cahokia and Kaskaskia : “We lay last night in the village of the Cahokias and Tamaroas, two Illinois tribes which have been united and compose no very numerous canton. This village (Cahokia) is situated on a very small river which runs from the east and has no water except in the spring. I was astonished that such a poor situation had been selected when there were so many good ones. But I was told the Mississippi washed the foot of the village when it was built-that iu three years it bad shifted its course half a league further west, and that they are now thinking of changing their habitation, which is no great aflair among these Indians.” “ Yesterday,” he continues, “ I arrived at Kaskaskia about nine o’clock. The Jesuits here have a very flourishing mission which has lately been divided into two, it being more convenient to have two cantons of Indians instead of one. The most numerous one is on the banks of the Mississippi, of which two Jesuits have the spiritual direction. Half a league below stands Fort Chartres, about the distance of a musket shot from the river. M. de Broisbrant commands here for the company to which the place belongs. The French are now beginning to settle the country between the fort and the first mission. Four leagues farther, and about a league from the river, is a large village, inhabited by the French, who arc almost all Canadians, and have a Jesuit for their curate. The second village of the Illinois lies farther up the country, at the distance of two leagues from the last, and is under the charge of a fourth Jesuit. “ The Indians at this place live much at their ease. A Fleming, who was a domestic of the Jesuits, has taught them how to sow wheat, which succeeds well. They have swine and black eattlc. The Illinois manure their ground after their fashion, and are very laborious. They likewise bring up poultry, which they sell to the French. Their women are very neat-handed and industrious. They spin the wool of the buffalo into threads as fine as can be made from that of the Fuglish sheep. Nay, sometimes, it might be taken for silk. Of this they manufacture fabrics which are dyed black, yellow and red, after which they are made into robes, which they sew together with the sinew* of the roebuck. They expose them to the sun for the space of three days and then heat them, and without difficulty draw out white threads of great fine- The Kaskaskia Indians numbered about two thousand warriors. The great obstacle in the way of their conversion was their great faith in their medicine men. Superstition held them in chains from which it was hard to disenthrall them. Father Morest, however, in his “ Lett res curieuses d cdifanies,” to which we have before alluded, says that “ Christianity has softened their savage natures, and they are now distinguished by their gentle and courteous manners, so that many of the French have intermarried with their daughters. Moreover, we find in them a spirit of docility and ardor for the practice of Christian virtue. The fervor with which these good neophytes frequent the church at the different times of service is admirable. They break oil'from their occupations, and run a long distance in order to arrive in time. They generally terminate the day by holding assemblies in their houses, where the men and the women, forming, as it were, two choirs, recite the rosary and sing spiritual hymns to a late hour of the night.” Kaskaskia, at this time, was not simply a mission station. It became a trading post of importance, and the traffic in fur particularly was carried on with great activity. In the absence of civil government, the Romish clergy acted as temporal rulers of the people as well as spiritual guides. A strong religious feeling characterized the community, imparted, to a great degree, by the enthusiasm of the zealous Jesuits. Under such influences as these, the French inhabitants were characterized by a spirit of justice, honesty, and charity, and lived at peace with themselves and the neighboring Indians. A court of law was unknown for nearly a century, and up to the time of Boisbriant there was no local government. The priests possessed the entire confidence of the community, and their authority happily settled, without the tardy delays and vexations of the courts, the minor difficulties which threatened the peace ol the settlement. Ol the families which formed part of the French populai tion in the early history of Kaskaskia, there is some uncertainty. There is. however, authority tor believing that the following were among the principa settlers: Bazyl La Chapelle, Michael Derouse (called St. Pierre), Jean BapH 1 ST O tistc St. Gerume Beauvais, Baptiste Montreal, Boucher De Montbrun, Charles Danie, FranttteCharlesville, Antoine Bicnvcnu, Louis Bruyat, Alexia Doza, Joseph Paget, rrix Pagi, Michael Antoven, Langlois De Lisle, La Dorroutte, and Noval. AS PART OF LOUISIANA. The settlements in Illinois had been a separate dependency of Canada. In 1711, together with the settlements on the Lower Mississippi, which bad been founded by D'Iberville and Bienville, they became united in a single province under the name of Louisiana, with the capital at Mobile. The exclusive control of the commerce of this region, whose boundless resources, it was believed, were to enrich France, was granted to Anthony Crozat, a merchant of great wealth. “ We permit him,” says the king in his letters patent, “ to search, open, and dig all mines, veins, minerals, precious stones, an«l pearls, and to transjKirt the proceeds thereof into any part of France for fifteen years.” La Motte Cadillac, who had now become royal Governor of Louisiana, was his partner. Hopes of obtaining great quantities of gold and silver animated the proprietor*, as well as agitated France. Two pieces of silver ore, left, at Kaskaskia by a traveler from Mexico, were exhibited to Cadillac as the produce of a mine in Illinois. Elated by this prospect of wealth, the Governor hurried up the river to find his anticipations fade away in disappointment. Iron ore, and the purest lead, were discovered in large quantities iu Missouri, but of gold and silver and precious stones not a trace was found. After Crozat had expended 425,000 livrea, and realized only 300,-000, he, in 1717, petitioned the king for the revocation of his charter. The white |M>pulation had slowly increased, and at the time of his departure it was estimated that the families comprising the Illinois settlements, now including those on the Wabash, numbered three bund ml and twenty souls. The commerce of Louisiana was next transferred to the Mississippi Company, instituted under the auspices of the notorious John Law. The wild excitement and visionary schemes which agitated France during Law’s connection with the Company of the West, and while at the head of the Bank of France, forms the most curious chapter in the annals of commercial speculations. These delusive dreams of wealth were based mainly upon the rejtorts of the fabulous riches of the Mississippi Valley. Attempts to colonize the country were conducted with careless prodigality. Three ships landed 800 emigrants in August, 1718, near Mobile, whence they were to make their way overland to the Mississippi. Bienville, on the banks of that river, had already selected the spot for the Capital of the new Empire, which, after the Regent of France, was named New Orleans. From among the emigrants, eighty convicts from the prisons of France, were sent to clear away the coppices which thickly studded the site. Three years after, in 1721, the place was yet a wilderness, overgrown with canebrakes, among which two hundred persons had encamped. Phillip Renault was created Director-General of the mines of the new counfry, and an expedition was organized to work them Renault left France in 1719, with two hundred mechanics and laborer*. Touching at San Domingo, he bought five hundred negro slaves, for working the mines. On reaching the Mississippi, he sailed to Illinois, the region in which gold and silver were supposed to abound. A few miles from Kaskaskia, in what is now the southwest corner of Monroe County, was the seat of his colony. The village which he founded received the name of St. Phillip’s. From this point various expeditions were sent, out in search of the precious metals. Drewry’s Creek, in Jackson County, was explored; St. Mary’s, in Randolph; Silver Creek, in Monroe; and various parts of St. Clair County, and other districts of Illinois. On Silver Creek, tradition has it, that considerable quantities of silver were discovered and sent to France, and from this the stream has its name. By the retrocession of the territory to the crown, Renault was left to prosecute the business of mining without means. Ilis operations proved a disastrous failure. FORT CHARTRES. Meanwhile war had sprung up between France and Spain, and to protect the Illinois settlements from incursions of Spanish cavalry across the Great Desert, it was thought advisable to establish a fort in the neighborhood of Kaskaskia. A Spanish expedition had, indeed, been fitted out at Santa Fe, but their guides, leading it by mistake to the Missouri Indians, instead of the Osages, enemies instead of friends, the whole party was massacred, with the exception of a priest, who escaped to relate the fate of his unfortunate comrades. Previous to this, La Salle, on the occasion of his visit to Paris, had shown the necessity of building a chain of forts from Canada to the Gulf, in order to seen re the territory to the crown of France. In 1720, Boisbriant was despatched to Illinois. He began the building of Fort Chartres, long the strongest fortress on the Western Continent, and of wide celebrity iu the subsequent history of Illinois. Fort Chartres stood on the east bank of tlia Mississippi, seventeen miles north west of Kaskaskia, and between three and four miles from the location of the present village of Prairie du Rocher. The Company of the West finally built their warehouses here. In 1721, on the division of Louisiana into seven districts, it became the headquarters of Boisbriant, the first local Governor of Illinois. Fort Chartres was the seat of the government of Illinois, not only while the French retained possession of the country, but after it passed under English control. When the fort was built, it stood about one mile distant from the river. In the year 1724 an inundation of the Mississippi washed away a . portion of bank iu front of the fort. Captain Philip Pitman visited Illinois in 1706. He was an engineer in the British army, and was sent to Illinois to make a survey of the forts, and report the condition of the country, which had recently passed under British control. He published in I/ondon, in 1770, a work entitled, “The Present State of the European Settlements on the Mississippi,” in which he gives an accurate description of Fort Chartres: “ Fort Chartres, when it belonged to France, was the seat of the government of the Illinois. The headquarters of the English commanding officer is now here, who, in fact, is the arbitrary governor of the country. The fort is an irregular quadrangle. The sides of the exterior polygon are four hundred and ninety feet. It is built of stone, and plastered over, and is only designed for defence against the Indians. The walls are two feet two inches thick, and are pierced with loopholes at regular distances, and with two port-holes for cannon in the facie*, and two in the flanks of each bastion. The ditch has never been finished. The entrance to the fort is through a very handsome rustic gate. Within the walls is a banquette raised three feet, for the men to stand on when they fire through the loopholes. The buildings within the fort are, a commandant's and commissary’s house, the magazine of stores, corps de garde, and two barracks. These occupy the square. Within the gorges of the bastion are a powder-magazine, a bake-house, and a prison, in the floor of which are four dungeons, ami in the upper, two rooms and an out-house belonging to the com- RY OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, IL mandant. The commandant’s house is thirty-two yards long and ten broad, and contains a kitchen, a dining-room, a bed-chamber, one small room, five closets for servants, and a cellar. The commissary's house is built on the same line as this, and its proportion and the distribution of its apartments are the same. Opposite these are the store-house, and the guard-house, each thirty yards long and eight broad. The former consists of two large store-rooms, (under which is a large vaulted cellar), a large room, a bed-chamber, and a closet for the store-keeper. The latter of a soldiers’ and officers’ guard-room, a chapel, a bed-chaml>er, a closet for the chaplain, and an artillery store-room. The lines of barracks have never been finished. They at present consist of two rooms each for officers, and three for soldiers. They are each twenty five feet square, and have betwixt a small passage.” Such was Fort Chartres, believed at the time to bo the most convenient and best-built stronghold in North America! Just before the French surrender, forty families lived in the neighboring village, in which stood a parish church, under the care of a Franciscan friar, and dedicated to St. Anne. At the time of the surrender to the English, all, with the exception of three or four families, abandoned their homes, and removed to the west bank of the Mississippi, preferring the government of La Belle France to the hated English rule, ignorant that by secret treaty the territory west of the Mississippi had been ceded to Spain, even before the transfer of the region eastward was made to the English. But the glory of the old fortress soon departed ! In 1756 nearly half a mile intervened between Fort Chartres and the bank of the Mississippi. A sand bar, however, was forming opposite, to which the river was fordable. Ten years later the current had cut the bank away to within eighty yards of the fort. The sand-bar had bccomc an island, covered with a thick growth of cottonwoods. The channel between it and the eastern bank was forty feet in depth. In the great freshet six years after, in 1772, iu which the American Bottom was inundated, the west walls and two of the Ixastions were swept away in the flood. It was abandoned by the British garrison, which took up its quarters in Fort Gage, on the bluff’ opposite Kaskaskia, which then became the seat of government. From this date itsdemolition proceeded rapidly. In 1820 ihesouth-east angle was still remaining. Only vestiges of the old Fortress can now be traced. Much of the stone was carried away, and used for building purposes elsewhere. Trees of stately growth cover the foundations. The river has retreated to its original channel, and is now a mile distant from the ruins. A growth of timber covcrs the intervening land, where less than a century ago swept the mighty current of the Father of Waters. UNDER FRENCH RULE. During the few years immediately succeeding the completion of Fort Chartres, prosperity prevailed in the settlements between the Kaska-dria and the Mississippi rivers. Prairie du Rocher, founded about the year 1722, received considerable accessions to its population. Among the earliest French settlers to make their homes here were Etienne Langlois, Jean Baptiste Blais, Jean Baptiste Barbeau, Antoine Lonvicr, and the La Compte and other families, whose descendants are still found in that locality. New settlements sprang up, and the older ones increased in population. At Kaskaskia, the Jesuits established a monastery, and founded a college. In 1725 the village became an incor|K»r-ated town, and the king, Louis XV., granted the inhabitants a commons. The Bottom land, extending upward along the Mississippi, unsurpassed for the richness of its soil, was in the process of being rapidly settled by the large number of new arrivals in the colony. Fort Chartres, the seat of government and the headquarters of the commandant of Upper Louisiana, attracted a wealthy, and for Illinois, a fashionable population. After having been fourteen years under the government of the Western Company, in April, 1732, the King issued a proclamation by which Louisiana was declared free to all his subjects, and all restrictions on commerce were removed. At this time many flourishing settlements had sprung up in Illinois, centering about Kaskaskia, and the inhabitants were said to be more exclusively devoted to agriculture than in any other of the French settlements in the West. M. D’Artaguette, in 1732, became commandant of Fort Chartres, and Governor of Upper Louisiana. Between New Orleans and Kaskaskia the country was yet a wilderness. Communication by way of the Mississippi was interrupted by the Chickasaws, allies of the English and enemies of France, whose cedar barks shooting boldly out into the current of the Mississippi, cut off the connection between the two colonies. It was in an attempt to subdue these that M. D'Artaguette, the commandant, lost his life. An officer arrived at Fort Chartres from M. Perrier, Governor-General at New Orleans, in the year 1836, summoning M. D'Artaguette, with his French soldiers, and all the Indians whom lie could induce to join him, to unite in an expedition against the enemy. With an army of fifty Frenchmen, and more than one thousand Indians, accompanied by Father Senat and the gallant Vincennes, commandant of the past on the W’abash, where now stands the city bearing his name, D'Artaguette stole cautiously in the Chickasaw country. His Indian allies were impatient, and the commander consented, against his better judgment, to an immediate attack. One fort was earned—another—and then in making the assault on the third, the young and intrepid D’Artaguette fell, at the head of his forces, pierced with wounds. The Indian allies made this reverse the signal for their flight. The Jesuit Senat might have fled, Vincennes might have saved his life, but both preferred to share the fate of their leader. The captives after, ward met death at the stake under the slow torments of fire. La Buisaoniere succeeded as commandant at Fort Chartres. In 1739 a second expedition was undertaken against the Chickasaw country. La Buis-soniere joined Bienville, then Governor-general of Louisiana, with a force of two hundred Frenchmen and three hundred Indians. The whole force under Bienville was twelve hundred French, and five hundred Indians and negroes. His men suffered greatly from malarial fevers and famine, and returned the following spring without conquering the Chickasaws, with whom afterward, however amicable relations were established. The period from 1710 to 1750 was one of great prosperity for the colonies. Cotton was introduced and cultivated. Regular cargoes of pork, flour, bacon, tallow, hides and leather, were floated down the Mississippi, and exported thence to France. French emigrants poured rapidly into the settlements. Canadians exchanged the cold rigors of their climate for the sunny atmosphere and rich soil of the new country. Peace and plenty blessed the settlements. I La Buissoniere was followed, in 1750, by Chevalier Macarty as Governor of Upper Louisiana, and Commandant of Fort Chartres. Peace was soon to be broken. The French and English war, which terminated in 1759 with the defeat of Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham, and the capture of Quebec, began with a struggle for the territory on the upper Ohio. Fort Chartres | was the depot of supplies and the place of rendezvous for the united forces of Louisiana, and several expeditions were fitted out and dispatched to the INOIS. scene of conflict on the border between the French and English settlements. But France was vanquished in the struggle, aud its result deprived her of her princely possessions east of the Mississippi. A POSSESSION OF GREAT BRITAIN. Bv the treaty of Fountainbleau, 1762, the vast possessions of France, east of the Mississippi, with the exception of the island of New Orleans, passed under British control. Fort Chartres and the other Illinois posts, were surrounded by an impenetrable barrier of hostile savages, friends to the French and enemies to the English, and the French officers were authorized to retain command until it was found possible for the English to take possession. M. Neyonde Villiers was commandant of Fort Chartres, and upon his retiring in 1764, St. Ange d'Bellerive took Upon himself the duties of that position. It was the time of Pontiac’s conspiracy, when the Indian tribe*, inflamed by the savage spirit of that warrior, were precipitating themselves on the English settlements from Canada to Carolina The French commandant of Fort Chartres was besieged for arms and ammunition to be used against the English. The French flag was still living over the Fort, and the fact of the territory having been ceiled to Great Britain was not generally known, except to those in authority. The commandant was visited by embassies from the Illinois, the Delawares, Shawnees and Miamis, and finally Pontiac himself, at the bead of four hundred warriors, entered the council hall. St. Ange d’Bellerive, unable to furnish arms, offered instead bis good-will. The reply was received with dissatisfaction. The Indians pitched their lodges about the Fort, and for a time an attack was seriously apprehended. Finally Pontiac dispatched a chosen band of warriors to New Orleans to obtain from the Governor there the assistance St- Ange refused to grant. Pontiac was killed a few years after. Disappointed by the failure of his plans against the English, he retired to the solitude of the forests. In the year 1769, he suddenly made his appearance in the neighborhood of St. Louis. Arrayed in the French uniform given him by the Marquis Montcalm a short time previous to the latter’s death on the Plains of Abraham, he visited St. Ange d’Bellerive, who at that time had removed from Fort Chartres to St. Louis, where he had become one of the principal inhabitants and commandant of the Spanish garrison. While at St. Louis, he crossed the Mississippi lo attend a social gathering of Indians at Cahokia. Becoming intoxicated he started to the neighboring woods, when an Indian of the Kaskaskia tribe, bribed by an English trader with a barrel of whiskey, stole up behind him, and buried a tomahawk in the brain of the renowned warrior. St. Ange procured the body, and buried it with all the honors of war near the fort under his command in St. Louis. The tramp of a great city now sweeps over his grave. Two attempts, on the part of the English, to take possession of Illinois ami Fort Chartres, bad been made by way of the Mississippi, but hostile Indians on the banks of the river had driven back the expeditions. Meantime a hundred Highlanders of the Forty-second Regiment, “ those veterans whose battle cry hawer, and his successor, Col. Reed, proved still worse. He held the office eighteen months, and during that time aroused the hatred of the settlements by his oppressive measures. Lieutenant Colonel Wilkins assumed command in 1763. Captain Pitman, to whose book on “The Present State of the European Settlements on the Mississippi ” reference has already been made, gives the following description of Kaskaskia, as it apjieared in 1766: I “ The village of Notre Dame de C'aseasquias is by far the most considerable I settlement in the country of the Illinois, as well from its number of inhabitants as from its advantageous situation. “ Mons. Paget was the first who introduced water mills in this country, and he constructed a very fine one on the river Cascasquias, which was both for grinding corn and sawing boards. It lies about one mile from the village. The mill proved fatal to him, being killed as he was working it, with two negroes, by a party of Cherokees, in the year 1764. “ The principal buildings are the church and the Jesuits’ house, which has a small chapel adjoining it; these, as well as some of the other houses in the village, are built of stone, and, considering this part of the world make a very good appearance. The Jesuits' plantation consisted of 240 arpents (an arpent is 85-100 of an acre) of cultivated land, a very good stock of cattle, and a brewery which was sold by the French commandant, after the country was ceded to the English, for the crown, in consequence of the suppression of the order. “ Mons. Beauvais was the purchaser, who is the richest of the Euglish subjects in this country; he keeps eighty slaves; lie furnishes 86,000 weight of flour to the King’s magazine, which was only part of the harvest he reaped in one year. Sixtv-live families reside in this village, besides merchants, otherK WASHINGTON w. COUNTY ’Jtwur KVAN.SYIi'l/i: _ il 19* ^rtsZT'r'— ■SSiSjr h*Sur.50/ \ a v i ;mw Tp 4 S i, -«nxaK!wvt *5; H ten* 15 JO t 'v-"#^V t1 Tp « S Showutff an outline of the County twd its Subdivisions into Co/u/ressiorud and CXvil T P., ageneral out tint1 of timber tot/ether with the locations of its Towns and Vithu/es, Post-Offices, f/mrches, .School ffousesJihriuns.Kotidx t[r.th Published by W. R.BRIXK&CV.M75 Dr ami bv£. J. Ckanibaiain.HISTORY OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ILLINOIS. casual people and slaves The fort which was burnt down in October, 17(16, Around this sprung up a cluster of cottages, the residence of each child and stood on the summit of a high rook opposite the village and on the opposite j grand-child,a« it married and became the head of a family. Notunfrequen j a dozen growing families, embracing three or four generations, surrounded the stood on the summit of a high rock opposite side of the river. It was an oblong quadrangle, of which the extreme polygon measured 290 by 251 feet. It was built of very thick square timber, and dovetailed at the angles. An officer and twenty soldiers are quartered in the village. The officer governs the inhabitants under the direction of the commandant at Fort Chartres. Here are also two companies of militia.” Of Prairie da Kochor, Pitman writes that “it is a small village, co..........„ , twemvtwo dwelling-houses, all of which are inhabited by as many families, kaskask.a), had been Withdrawn Illinois i the church at Fort j action, and the colonists were little disturbed by the rumors of war which j from the Atlantic coast. The French inhabitants were rather in sympa- I aged patriarch, to whom nil looked with reverence. CONQUEST BY CLARKE. On the breaking nut of the War of the Revolution, it is probable that the sitting of British garrison (removed in 1772 from Fort Chartres to !• ori. Gage, opposite i . «• ' » '----- —-.i-j---- nr:—rcraote from the theatre of Here is a little chapel, formerly a chapel of S'Try ZZrTtiTZrn tbv with the Americans than the English, but probably; undent! little the takes it. name frou, its situation, being built under a rock that runs parallel nature of the struggle- Hhuo.s belonged to the jurisdiction of V^mja with tho river Mississippi at a league distance, for forty miles up. Here is a George Rogers Clark who v,sued Kenluck, in 1 77 o seems to h.« c been the company of militia, the captain of which regulates the police of the village.” to comprehend the advantages winch would result from the CKeupat.onof In describing the distance from Fort Chartres, the author, doubtless^ refers | Minora by the Americans. He visited Virginia, where he laid his pi., to Little Village, which was a mile The writer goes on to describe “Saint Philippe” as: five miles from Fort Chartres on the road to Kaoqu sixteen houses and a small church standing; all of the inhabitants, except the captain of the militia, deserted in 17G5, and went to the 1* rench side (Missouri). The captain of the militia has about twenty slaves, a good stock of cattle, and a water mill for com and planks. The village stands on a very fine meadow about one mile from the Mississippi-” ived his instruc- small village about tions, January, 1778, and the following month set out for Pittsburg. Ilis There are about instructions were to raise seven companies of men, but he could only succeed in enlisting four, commanded by Captains Montgomery, Bowman, Helm, and Harrotl. On Com Island, opposite Louisville, on tbe Ohio, Clark announced his destination to the men. At the mouth of the Tennessee, a man named John Duff was encountered, with a party of hunters, who had recently visited Kaskaskia, and also brought the intelligence that one Rocheblate, a French authority we learn that the soil of tbe country is in general I Canadian, was in command at that point, that he kept tin- militia well drilled, rich and luxuriant It was favorably adapted to the production of all kinds of and that sentinels were |*.sted to watch for the “ Long Knives," as the Virgin- European grains, which grew side bv side with hops, hemp, flax, cotton and ians were called, of whom the inhabitants were in terror. Securing his boat, tobacco. European fruits arrived to great perfection. Of the wild gripes a near Fort Hutacro, (or Ma-sac}, Clark undertook the journey across the wine was made, very inebriating, and in color and taste much like the red country, one hundred and twenty miles, to Kaskaskia. It was accomplished wine of Provence. In the late wars, New Orleans anil the lower parts of with difficulty. On the afternoon of the fourth of July, 177S, the exhausted Louisiana were supplied with flour, beef, wines, hams, and other provisions, I band of invaders came to the vicinity of Kaskaskia, and concealed themselves from this country. At present, its commerce is mostly confined to the peltry in the hills to the east of the town. After dark Clark proceeded to the old and furs which are got in traffic from tho Indians; for which arc received in ferry-house, three-fourth, of a mile above the village, and at midnight ail turn such European commodities as are necessary to carry on that commerce J dressed his troops on tho banks of the river. lie divided his force into three and the support of its inhabitants.” ’ j parties. Two were to cross to the west side of the river, and enter the town 1 from different quarters. Tin: third, under the direction of Clark himself, was CHARACTER OF THE EARLY FRENCH SETTLERS. capture tho fort on the east side. Kaskaskia at that time was a village of The early French inhabitants were well adapted by their peculiar traits ot about two hundred and fifty houses. The British commander last in charge character for intercourse with their savage neighbors of the forest, with whom had instilled in the minds of the people tho impression that the Virginians, they lived on terms of peace and friendship. For this reason, the French otherwise the “ Long-Knives,” were a ferocious band of murderers, plunder- colonists almost entirely escaped the Indian hostilities by which the English fag houses, slaughtering women and children, and committing acts of the great- settlemows were repressed and weakened. The freest communication existed , ^ atrocity. Clark determined to take advantage of this, and so surprise the between the two races. They stood on a footing ot equality. The Indian was inhabitants by fear as to induce them to submit without resistance. Clark cordially received in the French village, and the Frenchman found a safe . effected an entrance to the fort without difficulty. Tbe other parties at a given restiug place in the lodge of the savage. In scenes of social pleasure, in expe-ditions to remote rivers and distant forests, in the ceremo the church, the red men were treated as brother*, and the accident of color was made as little a mark of distinction as possible. Frequent intermarriages of the French with tho Indians strongly cemented this union. For nearly a hundred years the French colonists enjoyed continual peace, while the English settlements on the Atlantic coast were in a state of almost constant danger from savage depredations. Lt was doubtless greatly owing to the peculiar facility with which the French temperament adapted itself to surroundings, and the natural address with which Frenchmen ingratiated themselves in the favor of the savages, that this happy condition of affairs existed. But something must be ascribed to the difference of character between the French and English in regard to their aggressiveness. The English colonists excited the jealousy and fear of the Indians by their rapid occupation of the country. New settlements were constantly being projected, and the white population pushed farther and farther into the wilderness. When the Indians saw their favorite haunts broken up, and their hunting grounds invaded, a natural feeling of distrust and jealousy led them to warfare against the English. With the French it was different. There was but little disposition to found new settlements, or occupy the wilderness. They were essentially a social people, and the solitary life of a pioneer in the forest was repugnant to their disposition. They lived in compact villages. Their houses were in close proximity. With abundant i narrow that the merry ignal entered Kaskaskia at the opposite extremities and with terrible outcries (1 exorcises of amj hideous noises, aroused the terrified inhabitants, who shrieked in their alarm, “The Long-Knives!” “The Long-Knives are here*” The panic-stricken townsmen delivered up their arms, and the victory was accomplished without the shedding of a drop of blood. M. Rocheblave, the British commandant, was unconscious of the presence of the enemy, till an officer of the detachmcnt entered his bed-chamber, and claimed him as a prisoner, in accordance with his original plan of conquering the inhabitants by terror, and then afterward winning their regard and gratitude by his clemency, Clark, the next day, withdrew his forces from the town, and sternly forbade all communication between it and his soldiers. Some of the principal militia officers, citizens of the town, were next pul in irons. The terror now reached its height. The priest, and a deputation of five or six elderly men of the village, called on Clark, and humbly requested permission to assemble in the church, to take leave of each other and commend their future lives to the protection of a merciful God, since they expected to be separated, perhaps never to meet again. Clark gruffly granted the privilege. The whole population convened at the church, and after remaining together a long time, the priest and a few others again waited upon the commander of the American forces, presenting thanks for the privilege they had enjoyed, and desiring to know what fate awaited them. Clark now determined to lift them from their despair, and win their gratitude by a show of mercy. “ What,” said lie; “do you take us for savages? Do you think Americans will strip women and children, anil take bread from for spacious streets, they yet made them .._.............._...... _ villagers could converse with ea.se across the street, each from his own cottage, their months? My countrymen disdain to make war on helpless innocence.17 j Hunting was a favorite pursuit, and the chief means of support. Ihcun- He further reminded them that the King of France, their former ruler, wua exaiupled richness of the soil yielded, with little labor, the additional sustenance an ajjy 0f ,j,e Americans, and now fighting their cause. lie told them to em-required- Their clothing was simple and inexpensive. Blue predominated brace the side they deemed best, and they should be respected in the enjoyment among the colors. The men in summer wore pantaloons of coarse blue cloth, of lheJr liher|v a|'ul rf|0 rights of property, and in winter, of buck skin. The women displayed as much taste with their The revulflion of fee|ing wa8 complete.' The good news spread throughout apparel a* their means would allow, and head-dresses, gay with ribbons, were the vi|jagc. The church bell rang a merry peal, and the delighted inhabitants frequently worn at balls and on festive occasions. Moccasins, often ornamented^ gathered at the chapel, where thanks were offered to God for their happy and with beads and shells, were worn by l>oth sexes. \N ith this simple mode ot unexpected deliverance. The loyalty of the inhabitants was assured, and ever life the French were content. Ambition failed to incite them to conquer the ^ after they remained faithful to the American cause. The French inhabitants wilderness, and push their settlements to unknown regions, and avarice was 0f Kaskaskia were readily reconciled to a change of government. In October, wanting to lead them to grasp after great possessions. The development of the 1778> tho Virginia Assembly erected the conquered territorv into tho County “ territorial paradise,” aa La Salle had called the region through which lie of i]iino;H. This County embraced all the region north-west of the Ohio, and passed on his first voyage down the Mississippi, was to be accomplished by flVe iargC States have since been formed from it. Colonel-Clark was appointed military commander of all the western territory, north and south of the Ohio, I and Colonel John Todd, one of Clark’s soldiers, avIio next to Clark had been j the first man to enter Fort Gage, was appointed lieutenant-commandantof Illi- I nois. In the spring of 1779, Colonel Todd visited Kaskaskia, and made arrangements for the organization of a temporary government. Many of the anothe A love of amusement and diversion marked the times of the early French settlement. Young and old engaged in the pursuit of pleasure with a zest unknown to a later civilization. The dance held its reign among the young, and at their entertainments could be seen the kindly countenance of the vil- lage priest, while aged parents viewed with unrestrained delight the innocent I FrcIlch inhabitants of Kaskaskia, Prairie du Bucher, and the other settlements, mirth of their children. Part of the male population, generally the younger | rcadilv ,ook (he oalh n|]egjance t0 Virginia. Colonel Todd was killed at men and voyageurs, were frequently absent on long and adventurous cipcdi- | |lle f.ln,ong batt|e of BUle LickSi in Kentucky, August, 1782, and Timothy de tions, exploring the sources of the farthest rivers or engaged in the seductive Montbnin, a Frenchman, succeeded him as commandant of Illinois County. ' perils of the fur trade among tribes of remote Indians. Their return to the Of ^ administrated but little is known, village, often after an absence of many months, was made the signal for a sea- son of general rejoicing and festivity. Wives welcomed back their husbands, j OTHER POINia OF EARLY INTEREST, sweethearts their lovers; the thrilling incidents of adventure were told to eager Prairie du Rocher was founded about 1722. Frenchmen by the name of listeners, and a ball, in which the whole village participated, was the usual Langlois, Blais, Barbeau, Louvier and La Compte, were among the first to crown to the excitement of the day. All were sincere Catholics, and the parish | settle in the village. Its situation was secluded, and the scenery in the neigh-priest was revered as the fountain of all wisdom aud goodness. Among his ' borhood, romantic. It stood at the foot of the Mississippi blufls, fourteen miles flock he exercised a wide influence, to which was owing in a large degree the above Kaskaskia. It was early a town of vigorous growth, and the centre of a peace and harmony which prevailed in the communities. The religious ser- ^ fine farming country. Traces of water mills may be still found in the vicinity, ! vices on the morning of the Sabbath were devoutly attended, and the remain- and there are other marks to show the activity and enterprise of its former der of the day was devoted to social intercourse and innocent pastime. A population. Btrong family feeling was common in the communities. Each settlement had The ravine which abruptly breaks the range of rocky blufls which overlook its patriarchal homestead, occupied by the oldest member of the family, the town, formed a natural mill site which could not help but attract the attention of the observing pioneer. The range of bluffs on one side of the ravine, following its course, describes an arc, and a natural ridge, starting from a point of the bluff on the opposite side, marks t he diftfftcter of the circle and reaches within two hundred feet of the bluff on the other side of the ravine. The Jesuits, at an early day, filled up the distance between the ridge and the bluff, and secured a fall of twenty feet of water. The mill-pond had an area of al>out two hundred acres. The stream of water coming through the bluff is fed by never-failing streams. At the foot of the bluffs, at a distance of about a mile above the town, a spring gushes out at the base of a perpendicular rock, which towers above two hundred feet in height. The aperture through which the water rose was formerly about six feet in diameter, and with a depth which could not be fathomed, but the orifice of late days has been filled with sticks and stones. In the side of the bluff, not far distant from the spring, is a cave, an object ot interest to the curious. Its entrance is sixty feet above the base of the rock, i3 almost round, and about six feet in diameter. Its interior chambers have only been partly explored. An old-time legend relates that at one time Spaniards hid valuable treasures within its dark recesses, but nothing of value has so far been unearthed. The Common Field and Commons of Prairie du Eocher were granted to the village in the year 1730, by Jean Baptiste St. Therse, nephew of Boisbriant, Governor of Louisiana, who obtained the title from the Koval Company ol the Indies. The church property was obtained from the same source, and the church was erected in the year 1734. It was constructed in the French style of architecture. Cedar posts were driven into the ground, and the interstices were filled in with stone and mortar. It stood against storm and flood for a century and a quarter, and at last gave way to a more modern and convenient structure. riley's mill. The first mill ever erected in Illinois probably occupied the site of Riley’s Mill, on the eastern side of the Okaw, near Kaskaskia. Prix Pagi (as the name is spelled in the deed of conveyance, though Reynolds and Peck, in referring to the same individual, both spell the name Paget) was the first of whom we have record to establish a mill at this point. He built a stone mill, and engaged in the manufacture of flour for the New Orleans and Mobile markets. He met his death at the hands of the Indians. The mill was attacked by a band of Kiekapoo Indians, and Pagi, with some negroes, was killed. One negro managed to escape by a back way, aud gave the alarm to the people of Kaskaskia. Pagi’s body was found cut to pieces, the head severed from it and thrown into the hopper. After the death of Pagi, the mill remained for a long time abandoned. The structure became a ruin, only the walls remaining. About 179*5, the tract of land came into the possession of General Edgar, who rebuilt the mill, and enlarged its facilities. The mill dam was repaired. At the time these repairs were iu de, Mrs. Edgar, and Dice, a negress employed in the family, planted some little cotton-wood scions in the fresh earth of the embankment, which long years ago grew to be stately trees. General Edgar kept the mill in operation for many years, and during this lime it did the milling for the pioneers over a large section of country. While still in General Edgar's possession, the mill ceased to operate, and remained idle for several years. Messrs. Feaman and Co. purchased it in 1832, when it was again put in running order. Daniel Riley became owner in 18-12. Mr. Riley, in 1855, began the erection of a steam-mill, which was afterward put in operation. Fort Gage.—The first fortification erected for the defence of Kaskaskia on the eastern bank of tbe Okaw was about 1736, at the time of war with the Chiekasaws, in the expedition against whom D'Artaguette, tbe commandant of Fort Chartres and Governor of Upper Louisiana, met his melancholy, but heroic fate. A fort was then built on the high hill opposite tbe town. Nothing concerning it is known beyond the fact of its construction. On the breaking out of the “Old French war,” in 1750, the fort was repaired and i occupied by a French garrison. The name of Garrison Hill was at that time < given to the bluff, and was retained in later days. In 17GG, ten years after its construction, the structure was destroyed by fire. The country at this time had fallen into the hands of the English, who built soon after the destruction ^ of the old one another fort on the same spot, and in honor of General Gage, tbe commander of the British armies in America, bestowed upon it the appellation of Fori Gagi-. Square timbers of immense size composed the structure. It was two hundred and ninety feet long by two hundred and fifty-one in width. The main building contained a magazine constructed of stone, a commandant’s chamber, and some smaller houses. Fort Chartres, having been partially swept away by the Mississippi, was abandoned in 1772, whereupon the Governor and British garrison removed to Fort Gage. At the time of the conquest by Clark, Governor Rocheblave occupied the Fort with a garrison of twenty soldiers. Four cannon guarded its approaches. Its surprise by Clark, on the night of the fourth of July, 1778, has been related elsewhere. At the time of its capture it was the headquarters of the British government in the West, and there the records of the territory, from the time of the English possession in 1763, were preserved. Madame Rocheblave, the wife of the Governor, when her husband was taken prisioner iu his chamber, concealed, or destroyed, the archives, so that land grants and valuable documents pertaining to the history of early times, were lost. While Colonel Clark remained at Kaskaskia, he occupied the fort. After peace was again restored, the fort was deserted. In 1801, Colonel Pike’s regiment occupied it for a short time. From this date it fell into decay. The walls crumbled and fell to the ground. Some of tho outlines—-the breastworks thrown up at the time of the Revolution, a hundred years ago, may yet be traced. On another page a representation is given as it appears at "present. MODERN KASKASKIA. Kaskaskia reached the zenith of its prosperity the early part of the present century. It enjoyed lor a long period the distinction of being chief settlement and commercial centre of the great West. Its business men commanded the trade of the whole Mississippi valley. Its streets were trod by men who afterward became famous in the State and the Nation. Its parlors were the resort of all the elegant and cultivated society of which the western wilderness then could boast. But time, “ which changes all things,” had destined it to decay. Trade sought other centres. It was no longer the seat of government for an empire. The men of business and of intellect sought other fields for their talents. The very elements conspired for its overthrow, the last blow to its prosperity being given by the flood of’44, from the effects of which the unfortunate town has never recovered. It is now an old and ruined village with the marks of decay deeply written on every feature. Previous to 1800, Kaskaskia was essentially a French village, with the manners and customs whirh for more than a hundred years had regulated the ,lives of the contented inhabitants of the town. The French style of architecture had been followed in the erection of the buildings. Rows of low, one-story houses lined the streets. The only brick house in the place had linen standing for half a century, and at the time of its erection, was the only brick house west of Pittsburg. The bricks in its walls were brought in llatl>ouls from Pittsburg. The population still remained largely French, but the leading position in society was taken by men of American blood, who inaugurated a new condition of affairs. General Edgar built a large mansion, and furnished it in costly style. A spacious and handsome edifice of stone was also erected bv William Morrison. From 1810 to 1820, Kaskaskia was the rendezvous of a large floating population. Emigration to Illinois had net in rapidly, and every emigrant directed his course to Kaskaskia, from which point he explored the country, and selected his location. The census of the town at that time showed a population of above seven thousand. A large amount of trade was carried on, and an air of bustle and activity pervaded the streets. About 1820, other towns began to spring up, Kakaskia was no longer a centre for emigrants, and quietly and gradually it lost its importance, and gave way to rival settle* merits. The flood of 181-1 injured it beyond repair. Many of its inhabitants left it on the occurrence of that disaster, and the town sank into a lethargic state from which it has never been aroused. It was the seat of government of Illinois territory from 1809 to the organization of the State government in 1818, and was capital of the State fora year, when it yielded the sceptre to Yandalia. The lirst newspaper in Illinois was established here in 1801) by Matthew Duncan, of Kentucky. He conducted it till 1816, when the paper was purchased by Robert Blackwell, and Daniel P. Cook. Several editors, who afterward became distinguished lawyers and statesmen, at different times had charge of its columns, among whom was Judge Sydney Breese. In the spring of the year 1825 Kaskaskia received a distinguished visitor in the person of the Marquis de La Fayette, the ally of the Americans in the struggle for independence. La Fayette reached the vicinity of St. Louis on the twenty-eighth of April, 1825. The steamboat Natchez, which had conveyed the General and his suite up the Mississippi, anchored that day atCaron-dolet, below St. Louis. The next morning he was escorted to St. Louis by Governor Clark, of Missouri, Governor Coles, of Illinois, Colonel Benton, and other distinguished men. An immense concourse of people had assembled at the wharf, and the party lauded amidst the booming of cannon, and the cheers of a vast multitude. On the succeeding Saturday, the thirtieth of April, General La Fayette and suite, accompanied by a large delegation of the prominent citizens of St. Louis, and Missouri, made a visit to Kaskaskia. The Natchez brought them down the river. A principal feature of the occasion w:is a reception at the mansion of General Edgar, where Governor Coles, on behalf of the people of Illinois, delivered an address of welcome, to which the illustrious guest responded in a feeling and happy vein. A general presentation of the citizens followed. The homes of several soldiers of the Revolution were aliout Kaskaskia. Some of these had fought under his eye at Brandywine and Yorktown. The scene is represented to have been most touching as these old veterans, bearing the scars of many a hard-fought field, pressed around La Fayette, and exchanged greetings with their old commander. The whole company then proceeded to the tavern, kept at that day by Colonel Sweet, where a bounteous collation was served. The ladies of Kaskaskia, with much taste and propriety, had decorated the dining hall with wreaths of laurel. A beautiful rainbow of roses and flower* spanned the table around which sat the hero and those who had gathered to do him honor. Among the toasts drank at the conclusion of the repast were these: “ Kaskaskia and Illinois; may their joint prosperity more and more evince the blessings of congenial industry and freedom.” This was oflered by La Governor Coles: “The inmate* of La Grange; let them not be anxious, for though their father is one thousand miles in the interior of America, be is yet in the midst of his aflectionate children.” By La Fayette’s son, George Washington La Fayette: “The grateful confidence of my father’s children and grandchildren, in the kindne&i of his American family toward him.” Governor Bond’s toast was as follows: “General La Fayette; may he live to see that liberty established in his native eountry which he helped to establish in bis adopted country.” When Governor Bond’s toast was given the General arose, and observed that the latter part of the toast—the liberty of his adopted country he would drink standing. After dinner the prominent citizens of Kaskaskia, with their distinguished guests, repaired to the large and commodious residence of William Morrison, where a grand ball crowned the occasion. An incident of the evening was an interesting interview between the General and an Indian squaw, whose father had served under La Fayette in the Revolutionary war. La Fayette had, at one time, written a letter to her father, which the Indian chief preserved with great care, ami on his death-bed, bequeathed to his daughter as the most precious legacy he could leave her. This, old and worn, she presented to the General, in identification of the relations which had existed between him and her father. The squaw had learned that La Fayette was to be at Kaskaskia. and had ridden from early morning, only to arrive in time to see the famous man of whom her father had so often spoken. At midnight, La Fayette and his party left the scene of festivity, and embarking on the steamboat, started on his route for Nashville, Tennessee. The Church.—A log church had Ixren erected on the first establishment of the mission. As early as 1714, a larger one of stone, said to have been remarkable “ for the grandeur and justness of its proportions,” was built at the expense of the French government, under Louis XIV. Divine worship was held in it until 1774, when another structure replaced it. This was taken down in 1801, in consequence of a fissure in the walls. The next building stood till 1838, when it was demolished, and in 1843, a brick edifice, one hundred by eighty-five feet, was built. The only relic of the old church torn down in 1774, is a large bell, cast in France in the year 1741. This bell has an interesting history. It was the first whose notes were ever heard in the Mississippi Valley, and for many years more than a century it announced the hours of worship to the devout residents of Kaskaskia. It was sent as a present to Louis Buyat, a prominent citizen of Kaskaskia at the time, and zealously interested in the church, by him to be given to the infant church in America. The following notes contain a record of the successive pastors who have administered to the church of the Immaculate Conception: In 1095 Father James Gravier and Father Bineteau were at Kaskaskia. After the departure of Father Gravier, Father Pinet was associated with Father Bineteau in the care of the mission. This appears, not from actual records, but from testimony of Father Gabriel Morest, who lived with them, and succeeded them. Father Gabriel Morest and Father John Mermet died here some time before 1727, and their remains, according to the records, were removed into the stone church. Father John Charles Guimoneau was subsequently Sujwrior of the mission, and Vicar-General to the Bishop of Quebec. With him lived Father De Beaubois, who assisted as Cure from 1719-1724. He was succeeded by Futile r i e Bo ilang* r, 1724-1785. Father Trulleau, 1735-1741. Father R. Tartarin, 1711-1746. Father Tartarin had been companion of the former. He died 1740, and was buried in the stone church. 1746-1759, the name of Father Watrin occurs. 1759-1764, Father Nubert. Father Watrin was Superior of the mission in 1762, and the name of Father De Guienne occurs in the same connection in 1750. life died at Kaskaskia. 1764-1768, Father S. L. Meurin. The names of Fathers Louis Yivier, Gagnon, M. J. Fonrre, also occur, and they were probably assistants of some of the later Fathers. The above are but a few of the Jesuits who lal>ored at the Kaskaskia mission while it was under the charge of the Society of Jesus. The Jesuits relinquished charge of the mission about 1763, and the spiritual wants of the people were supplied by clergymen from the Seminary of Quebec. Rev. Mr. Gibault succeeded Father Meurin in 1768, and remained till 1782. November, 1782—May, 1784, M. F. Bernard. August. 1784—May, 17S5, Rev. M. Paget. He arrived in August. May, 1785—June, 1786, Rev. M. De St. Pierre, of Ste. Genevieve. May, 1786-March, 1789, Rev. M. De la Valiniere. March, 1789—September, 1789, Rev. M. Ledru. Rev. Mr. Gibault returned in May, 1790, but remained only one year. May, 1791—February, 1792, no clergyman. Rev. M. De St. Pierre, a priest, stationed at Ste. Genevieve, occasionally attended. 1793-1795, Rev. M. G. Richard. 1795—1796, Rev. Mr. Janin. June 1798—1803, Rev. M. G. Richard (idem ob.). In this year Rev. Donatian Olivier was appointed pastor of Kaskaskia, a title which he retained till 1803, when he ceased to sign the records ns such. As general missionary, and Vicar-General of the Bishop of Baltimore, he j attended Kaskaskia till 1818. November, 1818—1822, Rev. Mr. Dcmoulin. 1822—1823, Rev. M. Brassac. He remained just one year.* May, 1824—November, 1824, Rev. Mr. Olivier. November, 1824, the Very Rev. Francis Celini paid a missionary visit, and in 1825 Rev. F. X. Dab men, the same. January, 1827—February, 1830, Very Rev. John Timon, V. G. May, 1830—December, 1831, Rev. Mr. V. Paillasson. January, 1832—August, 1832, Rev. V. Vauclooster, and subsequently Rev. Philip Borgna, visited the church. October, 1832—July, 1835, Rev. M. Condamine had pastoral charge. Succeeded by Rev. Benedict Roux, who remained till 1839. Succeeded by Rev. Iremeus St. Cyr, who remained till the summer of 1814, and was then obliged to retire on account of ill-health, engendered by suffering and exertion during the inundation of that year. In May, 1833, the Convent of tin* Ladies of Visitation was established at Kaskaskia. It was a colony from the parent house at Georgetown, District of Columbia. With the convent was the Menard Academy, patronized with much zeal and benevolence by Colonel Pierre Menard. A large and beautiful house was erected for the Academy, and, connected with it, buildings of an bumbler character served the pious recluses as a convent. During the eleven years of it* existence, it enjoyed a high reputation. The inundation of 18-14 compelled an abandonment of the convent. Two of the sisters had died while at Kaskaskia. The others, four in number, found a temporary refuge in the home of Col. Menard, and went to St. Louis, and there founded a popular institution. The value of the buildings, and other improvements, which they were forced to abandon, was estimated at thirty thousand dollars. EARLY AMERICAN SETTLERS. We have seen that the French population steadily declined from the year 1765, the date when the Illinois country passed under British control. The American arrivals in the territory were scarcely enough to counterbalance the departures of the French, and in 1800, the population of Illinois was pro-bably about the same in number as in 1765. Clark's expedition was of service in making known the advantages of the country, and a considerable proportion of the early American set tlers were former soldiers under his command. The Indian war, which waged from 1783 to 1795, retarded settlements to a great degree, but after its conclusion, immigrants flocked rapidly into the territory. The great majority of American families, among the earliest settlers of Illinois, made their home in what is now Monroe County. A colony composed of James Moore, Shadrach Bond, Robert Kidd, Larken Rutherford, and James Garrison, from Virginia and Maryland, crossed the Alleghanies, descended the Ohio, and readied Kaskaskia. Kidd and Rutherford had lieen soldiers under Clark. Moon? and a portion of the party settled at Belle* fontaine, just south of the present town of Waterloo, in Monroe County, while Bond and the rest made settlements in the Mississippi bottom, also in Monroe County. The rich alluvial formation skirting the eastern bank of the Mis sissippi received the name of the American Bottom, from the circumstance of the settlement there of these, and other American families. The district now embraced in Monroe County continued for some years to monoj»olize the great part of the settlements made by the American families which arrived in Illinois. Frequent settlements of American families were, however, made in Randolph County at an early date. A large number of men of enterprise and talents were attracted to the then commercial metropolis of the West, and located AT KASKASKIA. Among the distinguished men who have made Kaskaskia their residence, few have had a wider celebrity than General John Edgar. He was an Irishman by birth. He belonged to the British navy, and at the commencement of the Revolutionary War had command of a vessel on the lakes. 11 is wife was an American, whose heart was warmly enlisted in the success of the eolonists. She not only won over her husband to the American cause, but projected many plans by which British soldiers were induced to desert and join the ranks of the patriot army. On one occasion, she arranged a plan of escape to the American army of three soldiers, and was to furnish them with guns, uniform, and the necessary information for reaching the American camp. They visited the house during her absence, and her husband who, though still retaining his position in the British navy, was a confidant of her plans, supplied them with their outfit. They were unfortunately apprehended, and brought to the British camp, where they were compelled to divulge the names of those who luid aided them. Edgar was forced to fly. For a while he held a position in the American Army, and then sought a safer retreat at Kaskaskia, where ho arrived in 1784. His wife saved some twelve thousand dollars from the wreck of his confiscated property, and joined him in his western home. He here engaged extensively in business, acquired large tracts of land, and for many years was the wealthiest man in Illinois. He rebuilt the mill of M. Pagi, or Paget, which had fallen in ruins, and before the year 1800 manufactured large quantities of flour for the New Orleans market. He was the owner of a splendid mansion at Kaskaskia, the altode of hospitality, and the resort of the elite and the fashionable society which made gay Kaskaskia in the old days of its prosperity. Mrs. Edgar, a woman of rare grace and accomplishments, was the life of the social circle, and the acknowledged leader of fashion. In the elegantly furnished parlors of this stately old-time mansion, La Fayette, whose acquaintance and friendship General Edgar had formed i during his service in the American army, was sumptuously entertained in 1825, on the occasion of his visit to Illinois. A magnificent banquet and grand ball were given in honor of the distinguished guest. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar died without children. The names of some previous settlers deserve preservation. John Doyle had been a soldier in Colonel Clark’s expedition in 1778, and two or three years after settled in Illinois, lie resided with his family in or near Kaskaskia. He taught school. He understood the French, English and Indian languages, and was frequently employed as au interpreter. Toward the dose of the Revolutionary War, a Mr. IJoff, with his family and a few others, left Western Pennsylvania for Illinois. In ascending the Mississippi, near Grand Tower, a considerable portion of the party were massacred by the Indians. Among the victims were Mrs. Ilofl'andone of her sons i by a former huaband, Moredock. The remnant of the party reached Kaskaskia. Mr. llofii a few years after, was killed by the Indians on the road . between Prairie du Roeher and Kaskaskia. These barbarities on the part of , the Indians imbittercd John Moredock, a surviving son, who became a noted i Indian lighter and a prominent man of Monroe County, his residence having been in the American Bottom within the limits of that county. Ichabod and George Crane, in 1782, came to Kaskaskia, and after a residence there of some time, settled on the high laud west of the Kaskaskia river, on Camp’s Creek, as the stream was called in their honor. They afterward moved west of St. Louis. The Dodge family, afterward of prominence in the political history of Wisconsin and Iowa, resided in Kaskaskia from the close of the Revolution to the year 1790. Many families, which afterward settled in Monroe County and elsewhere, were for a time temporary residents of Kaskaskia. William Morrison made his home in Kaskaskia in 1790. He came from Philadelphia, and engaged extensively in business, and for years was the leader in all commercial operations carried on in Illinois ami Upper Louisiana. The firm of Bryant anil Morrison, the other member of which was his uncle, Guy Bryant, of Philadelphia, was long known as one of great wealth and high standing. Bryant wa* a resident of Philadelphia, and Morrison had control of all the business transactions in the Mississippi Valley. The main store, both wholesale and retail, was at Kaskaskia. From it the merchants of St. Louis, Ste. Genevieve, Cape Girardeau, and New Madrid, supplied themselves with goods. His trade extended from Kaskaskia around to Pittsburg, to New Orleans, Prairie du Chien, and the Rocky Mountains. He was a person of vast energy, and business faculties of a high order. For many years he carried on a heavy commerce on the Mississippi, between Kaskaskia and New Orleans. His boats were the largest and the best that, at that time, had ever floated the waters of the Mississippi. Forty or fifty boatmen were required to force them up against the strong current of the river, and four or five months were frequently occupied in making the voyage to New Orleans and return. The navigation of the Mississippi was fraught with danger, and his cargoes sometimes found a resting-place at the bottom of the river. Almost all the surplus products of the country, peltries, furs, lead, flour, hones and other articles, found a shipment to Pittsburg and New Orleans through his hands. He furnished, at a good prolit, large quantities of goods to the Indians and Indian traders. In the year 1801, he built a fine stone house at Kaskaskia, furnished it in an elegant manner, and here lived in princely style. This house, in its day, was the best in the country. In the war of 1812 with Great Britain, he obtained the contract for furnishing the treops of the western military district with rations, and executed the agreement not only with profit to himself, but to the satisfaction of all parties. He accumulated a large fortune, and died in April, 1837, and was buried in the old graveyard at Kaskaskia In 1798 Robert and James Morrison, brothers of William, arrived in Kaskaskia. Rolwrt lived in Kaskaskia till his death in 1842. He held various offices under the territorial government, in 1801 and several years after was Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, and filled several ]>ositions of trust with marked integrity and ability. He was kind and benevolent in his disposition, and popular in his manners. His second wife, whom he married in 1806, was a rare acquisition to the society of Kaskaskia. She was bom and rai ved in Baltimore. She was endowed with a strong and active intellect, and possessed much vigor and originality of thought. Her family was wealthy and respectable, and she received a thorough and finished education. In 1805, she accompanied her brother, Colonel Donaldson, to the west. He filled the office of commissioner to investigate land titles with his ofliec at St. Louis. After her marriage with Robert Morrison, her home was in Kaskaskia, where she occupied a commanding position in society. Her pen was never idle, and her productions possessed a high degree of merit. Her delight was in poetry. She was a constant contributor to the periodicals of the day. She remodeled in verse the Psalms of David, and presented the volume to the Philadelphia Presbytery, which thoroughly examined the work, and commended it for its excellencies. Her mind was as active in a field where the feminine taste less frequently delights to venture. She was thorough in the discussion of iwlitical questions, and it is said that many of the'political characters of Illinois were much benefited and enlightened by her articles on the political issues of the day in the newspapers of the times. Mrs. Morrison was first a member of the Presbyterian Church. She subsequently became a warm and zealous Roman Catholic, and by her influence ami force of character gained many converts to the church of her choice among the circle in which she moved Mrs. Morrison died at. Belleville, in the year 1843. Some of her sons have since become conspicuous in public life in Illinois. The celebrated John Rice Joiich took up his resident* iu Kaskaskia in 1790. He was a Welchman by birth. He had formerly lived in Philadel-J<1 A-m-v |nryr—*-- o r L anetrcsX M M '/v/tn T't'fur '.tie 7u>USC- M f’rsA-r.n.r /aa , Vs am farter kMi*. P - ¥ f e 1 fr0 f , rurr/m -. ^ Vrck//* f\4f> /; W ■ Wrtffivy *.4(0.. ore *° * ss do e ? ?p. 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Tudor. ^WnsU'V rrwesl ~ oV '.V>\ VvxwcvwaX Vh'yhYx •AW SoU Z/o nr I HUA./WJ ,/. p pCri Vo//f)/nr\rLj\^ ; oO 73 y4 \sXJdlvTbS am S H; I ILjIL Located, in X. W.hXK U Ste H1)j. 7M 5 Formerlv culiedST}JBH%T. SatU/jOOftjto /Inchphia, and was there an acquaintance of Dr. Franklin, Dr. Rush, and other distinguished men. In 1787 he removed to Vincennes, and in 1790 to Kaskaskia. He has the honor of being the first lawyer that ever practiced in Illinois, and certainly in the brilliancy of his talents and the extent of his acquirements, be was well worthy to stand at the head of the Illinois bar. His mind was strong and active, and he was restless and energetic in disposition. Usually mild and amiable, lie was sometimes subject to fits of passion, and then his anger swept everything before it, “his words burning his victims, like drops of molten lead, on the naked skin.” He left Kaskaskia, iu 1802, and subsequently was United States Judge of the Indiana territory, and one of the conspicuous men of Missouri in the early days of the history of that State. He was a candidate for the United States Senate before the firat General Assembly of Missouri, but was defeated by Colonel Benton. By the same Legislature he was elected one of the judges of the Supreme Court of Missouri. His eldest son, Rice Jones, came to Kaskaskia in 1800. He had thoroughly mastered the profession of medicine at Philadelphia, and afterward that of law in Connecticut. He began practice at Kaskaskia with brilliant prospects* His intellect was strong and his mind well disciplined. His ambition was excessive, and in those days when party spirit raged around Kaskaskia with a violence that has never since been equaled, he engaged in politics, and his I talents and energy soon placed him at the head of his party. lie was elected a member of the Legislature of Indiana, which convened at Vincennes, and was prominently before the country. In the excited state of the times, a controversy sprang up between Jones and Shadrach Bond, tbe first Governor of the State of Illinois. A duel was agreed upon. The parties met on an island in the Mississippi, between Ste. Genevieve and Kaskaskia. When they had taken their positions, and the word was about to be given to fire, Jones’ pistol, having a hair trigger, went oil' by accident. Bond’s second claimed that it was Jones' fire, and that Bond might now fire at Jones, but Bond himself disdained to take the advantage, and the controversy was settled honorably to both parties. But the incident began a bitter quarrel between Jones and Dunlap, who had filled the position of second to Bond in the duel. One day, while Jones was standing in tho streets of Kaskaskia, leaning on the railing of a gallery, in conversation with a lady, Dunlap stole up behind him, and shot him dead with a pistol. The atrocious murder, which occurred in the year 1809, created the greatest excitement in the community. Dunlap escaped to Texas. Jones was only in his twenty-eighth year when his brilliant and promising career was thus suddenly terminated. Toward the close of the century three brothers, Pierre, Hypolite, and Francis Menard, settled in Kaskaskia. They were French in descent, born at Quebec, in Canada, and became conspicuous characters at Kaskaskia. Pierre, the oldest brother, established a store of Indian goods iu the town in the year 1790. He enjoyed the honest and sincere affections of the people, and among the Indians he was held in the highest esteem. It is said that, at any lime, an Indian would prefer giving Menard his peltry for nothing than to receive double value for it from a Long-Knife American. For many years he was Indian agent under the United States government, and acted in such an tip-right and honorable maimer as to win the confidence of both parties. No man excelled him for bis influence among the Indian tribes, and in many cases lie was appointed by the government to treat with the redskins. Menard was foremost in every enterprise during the pioneer history of Illinois. He was a member of tbe fir*t Legislatures ln>th of Indiana and Illinois, and was the first Lieutenant-Governor of the State. Before this he bad been a member of the first Legislative Council of the Illinois Legislature, in 1812, and was Speaker of that body. Ilis private life was adorned with every social and domestic virtue. He accumulated a princely fortune, but his liberality and benevolence were equal to his business enterprise. Menard County, in Central Illinois, was so named by the Legislature in his honor. He died in Kaskaskia in 1844, at the age of seventy-seven. In the year 1795, Francis and llypolite Menard followed their older brother to Kaskaskia. Francis l>eeamc a noted navigator of the Mississippi, and obtained a reputation for judgment and courage :is a boatman not surpassed by that of any other habitue of the river. Frequently amid storms, little less than hurricanes, Menard would unfurl his sails, and run before the wind for eighty or one hundred miles, before lie would land his vessel. On these occasions he would attire himself in his favorite capot, and red cap, invoke the favor of the Saviour, promise masses, and then take the helm in person, as solid and firm in his composure its the eternal blufls of the Mississippi past which he scudded before the gale. He was well-known at New Orleans. It is said that while on a trip to this latter city, one of his crew, a young Frenchman from Prairie du Rocher, became a little intoxicated, and liberated a cage of birds which a Spaniard of New Orleans had exposed for sale. Our young hero from Prairie du Rocher was soon under a guard of soldiers, and on his way to the calabwn«r. Menard was about to start on liis return trip up the river, and disliked leaving his man behind. He therefore marshalled his crew, marched to the place where the prisoner was in custody, and proffering payment for the birds, demanded the unfortunate youth from Prairie du Rocher, who by this time had recovered his sobriety. The boatmen cocked their guns, the authorities backed down, and Menard rescued his man in triumph, and marched away to the boat amid the cheers of the people. He died at Kaskaskia at a good old age. Hypolite Menard was a farmer in the point below Kaskaskia. He several times represented Randolph County in the General Assembly, and died deeply regretted, and leaving a large number of descendants. Shadrach Bond, the first Governor of Illinois, became a resident of Kaskaskia about 1814. He came to Illinois in the year 1794, and up to the date of his removal to Kaskaskia, lived in the American Bottom in what is now Monroe County, with bis uncle, Shadrach Bond, who had been a member of the earliest American colony to settle in Illinois. He made a large farm west of Kaskaskia, and his mansion is still one of the prominent features of the neighborhood. Bond possessed a jovial and convivial spirit, and was fond of rural sport, lie generally kept a large pack of hounds, and fox-hunting was a favorite enjoyment. His hounds and horn, and the voices of the hunters, were wont to make merry music on the morning air about Kaskaskia. He was commanding in person, and noble and dignified in bearing. He led an active public life, filled many responsible public positions, in all of which be acquitted himself well. While a delegate in Congress, in 1813, from the territory of Illinois, heVas largely influential in securing the passage of the act granting the citizens a pre-emption right to secure their improvements, a law which was of the utmost importance in securing the development and prosperity of Illinois. Bond was appointed Receiver of Public Monies at Kaskaskia, was chosen first Governor of the State without opposition, and at the expiration of his Governorship, liecatue Register of the Land Office at Kaskaskia. He died in 1830. Dr. George Fisher was one of the first physicians of Randolph County, and j a public man who had much to do with the early history of Illinois. He came to Kaskaskia from Virginia in 1798. He lived in the town till 1800, and then moved on a farm five or six miles above Kaskaskia, on the Prairie du Rocher road. He was first Sheriff of Randolph County, appointed on the organization of Indiana Territory. When Illinois Territory was organized, lie was elected a member of the first General Assembly, and was chosen Speaker of the House of Representatives. In 1818, he was clectcd a member of tin* Constitutional Convention, which framed the first Constitution of the State of Illinois. The neighborhood iu which he lived was widely known as “I)r. Fisher’s settlement.” Dr. Fisher died in 1820 on his farm at the foot of the bluff. In the year 1801, the small pox raged in St. Louis. Some few years after it reached the vicinity of Kaskaskia, but was principally confined to a “ house of refuge” erected by Dr. Fisher on his plantation at the foot of the bluff above Kaskaskia. Here the Doctor furnished a hospital, and almost the entire French population passed through the malady under his skillJul treatment. The citizens of Kaskaskia all summer kept up a guard at the outskirts of the village to prevent the contagion reaching the town. The American settlements were undisturbed by it. Dr. William L. Reynolds, of Bracken county, Kentucky, settled iu Kaskaskia in 1809. lie was a man of good professional education and ability, aud for a long time stood at the head of his profession. Dr. Truman Tuttle came to Kaskaskia in 1S02 as Surgeon in the United States army. After the removal of the United States troops, he remained at Kaskaskia and practiced medicine. As was also the case with Dr. Reynolds, he removed to Cahokia. Dr. James Rose also came from Kentucky to Kaskaskia, in the year 1805. He possessed some ability, and for a time enioyed a good practice. He was a little lame. He imbibed a great fondness for alcohol, and this was the cause of the ruin ol his prospects. He removed to Belleville. Reference has already been made to some of the early lights of the legal profession at Kaskaskia. Benjamin H. Doyle, John Rector, and James Hag-gin came to Kaskaskia (the first in 1805, the second in 1800, and the third iu i 1804) and began the practice of law. Doyle was made Attorney General, but | ail three afterward left the country. Haggin became a distinguished lawyer | of Kentucky. Nathaniel Pope came to Kaskaskia first in 1804, but settled down as a lawyer at Sie. Genevieve, Missouri. In the year 1808, lie returned to Illinois and , became a permanent resident of Kaskaskia. On the organization of Illinois Territory he received the appointment of Secretary, and in the absence of Governor Edwards issued the proclamation organizing the Territory. He afterward occupied several influential positions. On the admission of Illinois as a State, Pope was made Judge of the United Slates District Court, and held that office for more than thirty years. He removed from Kaskaskia to Alton | in 1844, where he died six years after. He was the father of General John Pope, who achieved some eminence in the war of the Rebellion, and who was bom in the American Bottom in Randolph county. General James Shields began his brilliant career as a school-teacher at Kaskaskia. He was an Irishman by birth, studied law, turned his attention to polities, represented the Legislature, and became Judge of the Circuit Court. In 1840 i he entered the Mexican war as Brigadier General of the Illinois volunteers, distinguished himself by his gallantry in several engagements, and on his return was elected to the United States Senate. ! Elias Kent Kane, another of the brilliant statesmen of Illinois, b^gau as a 1 voung lawyer in Kaskaskia about 1814. He was endowed with talents of a high order, and rapidly rose to an eminent position at the bar. After filling j minor public stations, be was sent to the United States Senate, where he achieved an enviable reputation. Judge Sidney Brcese also dates the commencement of bis long, useful, and illustrious public life from his residence at Kaskaskia. Here he began as a lawyer, and developed those qualities of mind which have placed him among the distinguished jurists of the State. He was several times a member of tbe Legislature, and served one or two sessions in the lower House of Congress. I In 1835, on the reorganization of the Judiciary of the State, be became the first Judge of the Circuit Court for the district in which Randolph county was embraced. While a United States Senator from Illinois, Iu- maintained an honorable position in that body, anil reflected credit on the State. He is now on the bench of the Supremo Court of Illinois. | Thus it will be seen that Kaskaskia has been the home of men who have become prominent in the polities of the State and the Nation. Some of the counties of Illinois wisely perpetuate the memories of the men, part of whose active life was spent at the first capital of the state. Shadrach Bond gave his name to Bond county. The name of Edgar is preserved in the county which bears that title. The first Territorial Governor has left his name to Edwards county. The young lawyer of Kaskaskia who afterwards rose to the , proud position of United States Senator is remembered in the name of Kane ' county. The fertile valleys aud prairies of Menard county commemorate a liberal and public-spirited merchant; an Indian trailer whose benevolence and kindness of heart were more than any desire for gain; while as long as Pope county exists, the name of the first Territorial Secretary will not be forgotten. AUOUT ELLIS GROVE. An American settlement was early formed in the neighborhood of where Ellis Grove now is. Some of these pioneers had been soldiers under Colonel | Clark. The improvements were made as early as 1780, and the names of the settlers were John Montgomery, Joseph Anderson, John Dodge, John Doyle, David Pagon, M. Augustus, James Curry, and Levi Teel. A few rude cabias were erected, and small farms placed under cultivation, but before 1790 1 the settlement was almost entirely broken up. The pioneers were much troubled by the Indians, and the danger at length became so great that most of the settlers moved back to more secure quarters. It is related that Curry and Teel having been overtaken by nightfall while hunting took quarters in an unoccupied house just erected by David Pagon. During the night they were attacked by a band of sixteen Piankashaw Indians. Teel wished to surrender but Curry proposed to hold his ground. While Teel was standing near the door the Indians thrust a spear through a hole in the door into his foot, and thus fastened him to the floor of the building. Reaching down bis hand to pull out tbe spear, another was run through his hand, and he found himself completely | disabled. The brave Curry mounted to the loft, and by successive shots ! broughi down a number of the attacking party, and the remainder crowded I dose to the house to avoid his destructive shots. Curry, thereupon, tumbled the weight-poles of the roof down upon their heads, killing the chief, and wounding a number of others. The Indians fled, leaving Curry master of the situation. Curry had been one of Clark's bravest soldiers, and was a man of fearless daring. In company with Joseph Anderson, he went out bunting. Neither ever returned, anil without iloubt they met their fate at the hands of the murderous savage*. In 1795 James Pillars, with his two sons, John aud Richard, arrived at Kas-ka-kia, and settled afterward on the farm formerly known a* the “Old Hughes Placo,” in section seventeen of township six-seven, a mile east of the present town of Ellis Grove. Mrs. Pillars had been the widow of Thomas Hughes, who came to Illinois iu the year 1783 to select a place with the view of bringing out his family. He fixed upon a location in the neighborhood of Ellis Grove, aud then returned to Kentucky for his family. A small party started for Illinois, but on crossing the Ohio river, they were attacked by Indians, and Hughes and three others were killed.. The balance of the party escaped to Kentucky, where Mrs. Hughes became Mrs. Pillars, and afterward removed to Kentucky, sis related above. James Hughes, her son by her first husband, became an important man in the pioneer settlement. He was a United States Ranger during the Indian troubles of 1812. He filled several public positions, was popular in his life-time, and died at Kaskaskia in 1842. John, Stace, Felix, and Henry Hughes were members of the same family. John Pillars firet lived in the near vicinity of Ellis Grove, but afterward located on the western side of the Opossumden Prairie, lie stood well in the community, and for a long term of years was Major of the militia. He died in 1851. Richard Pillars resided at several locations in the County, and at last lived on Mary’s River, near the Little Mill seat, and died there in 1844. One of the conspicuous and adventurous pioneers of Illinois settled permanently in the Ellis Grove region in the year 1797. This was Stacy McDonough, one of Clark’s soldiers in the expedition to the Wabash in 178G, a participant in the disastrous defeat of General St. Clair in 1791, and the hero of a hundred daring adventures among the savage red-skins. He had been bom in New Jersey about 1770, of Scotch descent. He was ext remely fond of the rifle, and most of his time was spent in hunting During the war of 1812 he carried the mail from St. Louis to Shawneetown. The service was a dangerous one on account of the hostility of the Indians. He was also, during the war, Captain of a mounted company to defend the frontiers. Activity and energy marked his life, and he became the chief pillar and most popular man of the new settlement. About the year after the arrival of McDonough, Jonathan Pettit arrived in the settlement. He built a mill on Nine Mile Creek, where the stream is crossed by the Chester and Evausville road. He was a ranger in the war of 1812. He was a man of industry and energy, and became a valuable acquisition to the colony. He had four sons, David, Henry, Jonathan, and Joseph. The old Pettit place was on section thirty-one, of township five, range seven. The settlement received another accession iu ISOO, or soon after, in Robert Reynolds. He left Tennessee with his family early in 1800, and after a residence of a few months in Kaskaskia, located in the neighborhood about Ellis Grove, already settled by Hughes, Pillars, and others. Robert Reynolds occupied the position of leading man in the settlement, but removed to the American Bottom, not far from St. Louis. His oldest, son was John Reynolds, about twelve years of age on coming to Illinois. He became a Judge of the Supreme Court, Member of Congress, a member of the Legislature, and Governor of the State. He was the author of Reynolds' “ Pioneer History of Illinois,” to which we arc- indebted for many facts concerning the early settlement of the country. In 1801 Joseph Heard settled on the blulf opposite Kaskaskia. A few years afterward he removed, and made a farm on Gravel Creek, north of Chester. Hugh Heard, his eldest son, settled on a farm two miles north of bis father. This place was long known as “ the old Heard farm.” George Franklin came to Illinois in company with Heart! in 1801, and settled on alarm in sectio.n twenty-two, of township six, range seven. After a few years he moved to what is now Perry County. William Roberts, in the year 1802, came from Lexington, Kentucky, ami located on a claim in section thirteen, of township six, range eight, west of Eliis Grove. In addition to farming, he traded extensively on the Mississippi, and was well known from Kaskaskia to New Orleans. He died in 1822. Thomas Roberts was his son. He was a young man when he accompanied his father to Illinois. He lived on a farm near his father. He was highly respected in the community, and was called upon to fill important public positions, among which was that of County Commissioner. He died in 1858, and left several sous, among whom is Daniel Preston Roberts, in whose biography, in another part of this work, may be found farther facts about the family. John and Ephraim Bilderback came to Illinois the same year, 1802. Ephraim settled on section thirteen, of township six, range eight. He gave close attention to farming. Ephraim was the father of William, Stuart, James, Charles, Franklin, Henry, Ephraim, Thomas, and John, all of whom became respectable citizens of Randolph County. John, the brother of Ephraim, was in the ranging service during the war of 1812, and died without children. Abijah Leavitt came to Illinois in 18U3, as a soldier of Colonel Pike’s division, which occupied Fort Gage. He obtained a discharge from the army, and settled on a farm not far from Garrison Hill, on a claim in section twenty-eight, of township six, range seven. Abijah Leavitt, his descendant, now occupies the place of original settlement. Alexander Barber, from Ohio, settled east of the Kaskaskia river near the Bilderbacks, in 1805. He became a leading character among the pioneer*. He was endowed with good natural abilities, and a vigorous constitution, lie was a farmer, but also built and managed several mills. Joseph Lively, in the year 1805, came from Abbeville, South Carolina, and settled the Seymour farm, on section tweuty eight, of township six, range seven, lie lived here till 1823, when he removed to the lower end of the Opossumden Prairie. He diet! in 1833, and left six sons, Amos, Shadrach, Enoch, Richard, James, and Reuben. Joseph was the brother of John Lively, who gave the name to the Lively Prairie. Other families settled at an early date in the neighborhood of Ellis Grove. James Lee came sometime before the year 1SW, and lived three miles cast of the village. Nancy Preston arrived in the vicinity about the year 1805. She came from Pennsylvania, and was a widow woman with three unmarried daughters. John l'ulton was among the earliest American settlers, and located soon afu-r 1800, on the summit of the bill south of Ellis Grove. The French hail made settlements iu the neighborhood prior to the arrival of the Anterior HORSE PRAIRIE, llte Horse Prairie, which includes one of the richest and most finely improved Motions of Randolph County, was so called from the great number of wild hors,- which at one time roamed over it. These horses bad escaped from the French village*, and lived on the prairie. It was also the scene of some of the earliest improvements made by American settlers within the limits of the County. The settlements were- made some time before the close of the last oentwry. Among the first arrivals were Samuel and Winder Kinney, ChanceRatcliff) Jarrot Brickey, Henry Levens, Robert McMahon, and tin- Gibbons, Teter and o', her families. At this date the country between Ilorse Creek and the Okaw w in almost entirely prairie, over which a few large troe* were scattered. Young timber began growing when the tiro, which had previously occurred every summer and autumn, no longer swept over the prairie. The settler* enumerated above had originally located about New Design in Monroe County. For a lime the settlement promised to become permanent and prosperous, but on account of troubles with the Indians and from other causes, it was almost entirely broken up within a few years. Jarrot Brickey, lienry Livens, and Robert McMahon remained, however in the settlement. Jarrot Brickey was a ranger in the warof 1812, and spent nearly half a century on the Ilorse Prairie. He was the father of Preston W. Brickey, and the grandfather of John and William Brickey, the proprietors of the Red Bud Mills. The home of Henrv livens was on Ilorse Creek in the lower end of the prairie. The name of Robert McMahon is connected with one of the most terrible Indian atrocities ever committed in Illinois. It occurred in 1795 while lie was a resident of wlmt was afterward known as the “Yankee Prairie." Four Indians attack .-d his house in daylight, and killed his wife and four of his children before his eyes. The de-ad bodies were laid on the cabin floor in a row, and McMahon himself and two of his daughters were earricd away in captivity. The murders occurred in December, and the weather at the time was excessively cold. On • of McMahon’s arms was tied behind his back, and the party struck oil' in a northeast course over the frozen ground. Prairie dti Loug creek was crossed no! far above its mouth. The encampment the first night was made on Richland creek about half a mile below the present city of Belleville. McMahon was tied down on Ills back with ropts so that he could neither move nor stir. His shoes, and most of his clothes were taken from him and put under the Indians, to prevent his getting them should he attempt to escape. In addition a belt, finely wrought with porcupine quills and small bells was put around him so that if lie stirred, the bells would ruttlc and give the alarm. A scanty por.ion of dried m at formed the supper for the almost famishing party. The next morning the Indians and their caplivcs pursued their course across Silver Creek, above the present town of Lebanon, and camped the second night near the sources of Sugar Creek. This night it snowed. During the night McMahon contrived, wlnn all were sound asleep, to slip oil' the cords from his arms and body. With his little clothing he covered the belt of bells so that they should make no noise, and was about rising quietly to escape, when one of the Indians raised hi* head, looked around, but lay down again without noticing anything Tiuusual. When the Indian was once asleep again, McMahon managed to steal quietly from the camp without his shoe*, hat and a principal part of his clothing. He was bare-footed, and almost naked on the snow. He slipped back to the camp, and tried to get his shoes, or a pair of the Indian's moccasins, but could obtain neither. Fitted out as he was he started in the night toward New Design as far as he could discover his course. The next night he slept beside a log with some dry leaves for cover, lie missed the New Design settlement, and found himself at Prairie du Rocher, where he first saw a white man. McMahon was in a deplorable condition when he reached the settlement. His feet and arms were partly frozen. His clot lit* were torn and tattered, and his skin and fiesh injured and torn in many places. For four days he had tasted little food, and he was almost exhausted with hunger. Meanwhile some days elapsed before the murder was discovered by the neighbors. A small dog, which had been much petted in the McMahon household, came frequently to the settlement of New Design, running backward and forward toward the residence of McMahon and whining piteously in a vain attempt to summon assistance to McMahon’s desolated cabin. But the faithful creature's appeals for aid were not understood, the. dead bodies were first discovered by chance by Mr. Judy, an old settler of the New Design neighborhood, who reported it to the settlement. The rugged pioneer is said to have shed tears when he recited the dismal intelligence to the neighbors. The citizens went out and gave a respectable burial to the dead, and the same evening a religious meeting was called, at the fort of James Lcmen, as a kind ol funeral devotion for the victims of Indian cruelty. It was just as this meeting closed, at nine or ten o’clock at night, that McMahon arrived at the house from Prairie du Roeher, to the surprise of the startled assembly. McMahon's dog was in the houst-% and at first did not recognize his master so great a change had his miseries and privations created in his appearance. As soon, however, as he saw McMahon’s face, and heard his voice, he leaped into his master's lap, almost wild with joy, while McMahon broke forth in lamentations at the murder of his family. His two daughters wore afterward ransomed from the Indians. McMahon himself, a few years after, married again. He located on the Ridge where it is now crossed by a road leading east from Red Bud to the Okaw, on the old Ralls place, now owned by Beverly Wiltshire, section 1*2, township -I, range 8. About 1795, Johnson J. Whiteside, and some others, laid oil a town on the western bank of the Okaw not far below the northern limits of Randolph county, and called it Washington. The town was begun in 1795, and according to Reynolds, occupied a beautiful situation on the high bluff'of the river, overlooking to the west much of the Horse Prairie. The inhabitants enclosed aud cultivated large fields of grain and raised stock to a considerable amount. The houses which composed the village were log cabins; but streets and other town notions were observed in building up the place. The Going families were conspicuous in the settlement of this town. The father, William Going, was a plain and quiet man except when excited with Utffia. He made bells to sell, and was in the habit of visiting courts and other places where the people came together in large numbers for the purpose of disposing of his wares. He would tie a dozen bells, or more, by cords to his waist, and then dressed in an old fox-skin cap with the tail falling gracefully behind, and other striking articles of costume, he was accustomed to dance for the amusement of the crowd. The old man ended his life at the town of Washington, and with many more of the pioneers of that neighborhood, lie- buried in the old graveyard north of that town. William Going, the son, was a different character. He was a man of fine natural talents, and a leader among his associates. His eye was clear and his nerves steady. He was celebrated as the best marksman of the day. As an incident of his skill in the use of a rille, it is said that Going, in the year 1807, at a distance of ninety yards, with a rest, put four balls into the same hole, near the centre of the target. The fifth bullet touched the same hole. Going died in Arkansas in the year 1830. Johu Pulliam was an early resident of Washington, settling there in 1799, afterward removing to Monroe county, and dying at last on another plantation on the Okaw river in SL Clair county. John Grosvenor was another old resident of Washington. By common consent the name of Washington had been dropped, and the settlement was known as Horse Prairie Town. Under this name the settlement de- clined, as the country in the Prairie began to be improved, and at last became extinct. THE IRISH 8F.TTLKMEXT. The men who comjMxed the Irish Settlement played a prominent part in the development of Randolph County, The colony embraced many men who became conspicuous in the history of the County. Its members founded families of vigorous and healthy growth, and a large number of the best men of Randolph County today trace their origin to the Irish immigrants from South Carolina. The settlement was formed east of the Okaw, with the mouth of Plum Creek as a centre, and spread over a large extent of territory east of the river. These colonists were of Irish blood, Presbyterian in their religious faith, who bad settled in South Carolina, principally in the Abbeville district, and afterward emigrated to Illinois, and were afterward known in Randolph County as “South Carolina Irish.” The settlement was founded about 1802. In that year James Patterson came from Abbeville, South Carolina, and permanently located near the mouth of Plum Creek in Township 5, Range 7. James Patterson was Justice of the Peace and County Commissioner, and bore an active part in the ranging service of 1812. John, Samuel, Reuben and James were his sons. The first settled in Hill Prairie, the second on Horse Prairie, and the third in Hcacock Prairie. Robert Huggins came from South Carolina in 1803, and located in the Irish settlement, hut afterward removed to the Opossumden Prairie. James Huggins, his son, settled in Flat Prairie about 1817, and made the first farm in that Prairie. The deseendiints of the Huggins lived afterward in Perry county. In the year 1804, the Irish settlement received numerous and valuable additions. John MeClinton, David Anderson, James Anderson, and Adam Hill, formed one colony, numbering with their families thirty one members. They arrived in the Irish Settlement on Christmas day of 180-1. John McClinton’s wife died a few weeks after the arrival of the Colonists, and Me Clinton himself died in a little more than a year. The sons, John, Samuel and William, were placed under the guardianship of Hill aud Anderson. David Anderson, or Colonel Anderson, as he afterward came to be called, was a leading spirit of the. community. He filled many positions of official trust, was a man of benevolence, and a firm friend of the church. His oldest daughter became the wife of Robert G. Shannon, and the mother of John R. Shannon, of Chester. Adam Hill settled on a farm in Township 5, Range 7, northeast of .Evansville, where he was occupied in farming till the time of his death. His sons were John, William, Adam, Robert, and Samuel. Another important colony of Irish settlers reached Randolph County the latter part of the year 1804. The leaders were Absalom Cox, James Thompson, Archibald Thompson, William McBride, and Robert McDonald. Absalom Cox was afterward made Captain of a militia company. He settled on a claim in Section 28, Township 4, Range 7. 1 Ie established the Ferry across the Okaw river known to this day as Cox's Ferry. John M. Cox, aud William Cox are now residents of the locality where their father first settled. John M. was two years old on coming to Illinois in 1804. James Thompson located on a farm in the Irish Settlement. Archibald Thompson, in the year 1812, moved two miles south of the present town of Evansville. His sons were Robert) William, Moses, Archibald, John, and James. William McBride formed a valuable member of the settlement. He died in 1818, and left three sons, Thomas, John and William. William was captain of a militia company in 1813, and once held the ofliee of County Commissioner. He was the father of John T. McBride, the present County Clerk of Randolph county. Robert McDonald settled near the Okaw below Cox's, in Township 4, Range 7. The family afterward moved away, and none of the descendants remain in the Bounty. Joseph Lively, in 1805, arrived from Abbeville, and settled south of Ellis Grove. His brother, John Lively, settled in the prairie northeast of the Irish Settlement, from which circumstance the prairie was called “ Lively Prairie.’* The next arrivals from South Carolina were George Wilson and Samuel Crozier. George Wilson settled near the forks of Plum Creek. From there he went to the mouth of Doza Creek. In the year 1812 he entered the ranging service, and at the conclusion of the war located in the old fort built about a mile east of the Okaw. In 1828 he moved on the Ileacock Prairie. His sons were John A. Wilson, once Sheriff of the County; William L. Wilson; Andrew Wilson; and James and George Wilson, now living just south of Baldwin. Samuel Crozier opened a farm on Nine Mile Creek, three miles south of Evansville. He was chosen a member of the Legislature in 1827, and died in 183*1. His son, John Crozier, settled in the Horse Prairie, on the site of Red Bud, in the year 1824. Johu Campbell came from Abbeville in 1807, and settled near the mouth of Nine Mile Creek. In 1820 he moved to a place four miles east of Evansville, where he died in 1827. John Taggart came from South Carolina, but settled in the Hannon neighborhood. In the year 1806, Robert Foster and John Anderson arrived in the Irish Settlement, having made the journey from Abbeville, South Carolina, on horseback. Foster, some time after his arrival, moved on Plum Creek, and there erected a steam distillery and horse-mill. Foster’s mill was the centre of attraction, and the place for all public gatherings, such as militia musters and the like. Some of his children were founders and residents of Sparta. John Anderson was the brother of Colonel David Anderson, near whom he settled and lived till his death. A. M. Henderson froqi South Carolina came also in the year 1808, and settled west of the Okaw, at Evansville. In the year 1808, William Harnett took up his residence in the Irish Settlement. He came from Kentucky and died ten years after his arrival in the colony. William M„ Alexander C., Samuel, Corrydon, and John Barnett were his sons. William was drowned in Plum Creek, only two miles from his I father's house, when returning from a campaign against the Indians in 1813. John Beattie came to the Irish Settlement in 1809. He was from Abbeville South Carolina. He is said to have been retired aud quiet, but a man of much force aud decision of character. His descendants still live in the County. In 1812, William Nelson, an Irishman by birth, came from Abbeville, South Carolina, but located in Township 1, Range 8, on Horse Creek. In the same year Hugh Leslie came from Abbeville, aud settled on Hill Prairie. In 1814, James and Samuel Thompson arrived at Kaskaskia from Abbeville. James taught school in Kaskaskia for three years, aud then located on a farm in Township 5, Range 7. He was a skillful surveyor, and for twenty years was employed in the United States surveying service. He filled the office of County surveyor for several terms. He was busy in his profession for many years, and he probably traversed every section of land in Randolph County. He commanded a company of militia in the Black Hawk war. He was appointed Judge of the Probate Court under the administration of Governor Reynolds, ami held that position for seventeen successive years. John P. Thom|won, who died in 1851, while in the Sheriff ’s office, wax his oldest son. Samuel Thompson, the brother of James, was also a surveyor of wide reputation. In 1817, Robert Mann opened a farm near the Irish Settlement. John, William, Robert, and Samuel Alexander, were his sons. Robert Bratney came from Tennessee to the Irish Settlement in 1820. He settled on Plum Creek. He was the father of John B., Robert Newton, and James C. Bratney, all well known citizens of Randolph Coftntv. In the histories of the townships will be found a rccord of the arrival and settlement of other early residents of the County. CIVIL ORGANIZATION. The history of Illiuois has been traced while a possession of France, and when under the British government; and the formation of Illinois as a County of Virginia has been noted. The several States afterward agreed, on the adoption of the Articles of Confederation, to cede their claims to the western lands to the General government. Virginia executed her deed of cessiou March the first, 1784. For several veers after there was an imperfect administration of law in Illinois. The French customs partly held force, and affairs were partly governed by the promulgations of the British commandants issued from Fort Chartres, and by the regulations which had subsequently been issued by the Virginia authorities. Uv the ordinance of 1787, all the territory northwest of the Ohio not constituted into one district, the laws to be administered by a governor and secretary, a court was constituted of three judges. A general assembly was pro-vided for, the members to be chosen by the people. General Arthur St Clair was selected, by Congress, as Governor of the northwestern territory. The s<-at of government was Marietta, Ohio. By the directions of President Washington, St. Clair visited Kaskaskia to carry out the orders of the former Congress relative to the lands of the French and Canadian inhabitants, whose laws ami customs in regard to the descent and conveyance of property were permitted to remain in force among them. In February, 1790, Governor St. Clair, and the Secretary, Winthrop Sargent, arrived at Kaskaskia. The territory within the present boundaries of Illinois, extending northward to the mouth of the Little Mackinaw Creek on the Illinois river, was organized into a County, named St. Clair, from the Governor. The County was divided into three judicial districts. A court of common pleas was established ; and three judges, John Edgar, of Kaskaskia; Jean Baptiste Barboau, of Prairie du Rocher, and John Do Moulin, of Cahokia, were appointed, each to hold court in, and for the district of his residence. William St. Clair, brother of the Governor, was appointed Clerk and Recorder of Deeds, and William Biggs, Sheriff of the new County. Provisions for the admistration of justice were established. As has been staled, such an institution as a court of law was unknown in the palmy days of the French rule. The first court of common law jurisdiction ever held in the Mississippi valley was convened at Fort Chartres on the sixth day of December, 1708. The court was established, and the seven judges appointed, by Colonel Wilkins, on assuming control in behalf of the British government, uudcr authority of a proclamation of General Gage. During St. Clair’s administration seventy-five statutes were adopted for the government of the territory, four-fifths of which were from the Pennsylvania laws, and a few from Massachusetts and Virginia. But at the time of the formation of Indiana territory, in the year 1S00, but one term of court having cognizance of crimes, had been held for five years in St. Clair and Randolph Counties, and the laws were but loosely administered. Reference has already been made to John Rice Jones as the first lawyer of Illinois. Isaac Darnielle, of Cahokia, wasthe second. Legal proceedings in thowe times were not characterized by the precision demanded at the present day. Governor Reynolds mentions seeing the records of a court at Prairie du Rocher, in which proceedings were brought against a negro for the “ murder” of a hog. The crime properly was malicious mischief for wantonly destroying a useful animal; but in the absence of a prosecuting attorney, the grand jury probably followed an indictment for murder, discovered in some law book, in bringing in the charge against the nil happy violator of the peace of society and the wilful buteherer of inoffensive domestic animals. In the year 1795, Governor St. ('lair divided St. Clair County. All south of a line running through the New Design settlement (in the present County of Monroe) was erected into the County of Randolph. In honor of Edmund Randolph, of Virginia, the new County received its name. Shadruch Bond, afterward the first Governor, was elected, from Illinois, a member of the Territorial Legislature which convened at Cincinnati, in January, 1799. In ISOO, the Territory of Indiana was formed, of which Illinois constituted a part, with the seat of government at Vincennes. About 1806, among other places in the West, Aaron Burr visited Kaskaskia in an endeavor to enlist men for his treasonable scheme against the government. In 1805, George Fisher was elected from Randolph County a member of the Territorial Legislature, and Pierre Menard was chosen member of the Legislative Council. By act of Congress, 1809, the Territory of Illinois was constituted. There was not an entire unanimity at Kaskaskia on the question of separation from Indiana, and the excitement ran high between the parties. It was in connection with the division of opinion on this issue that Rice Jones lost his life, an account of whose assassination is given elsewhere. Ninian Edwards was appointed Governor of the newly organized Territory, and the seat of government established at Kaskaskia. Nathaniel Pope, a relative of Edwards, received the appointment of Secretary. For nearly four years after the organization of the Territorial Government no legislature existed in Illinois. An election for representatives was held on the eighth, ninth, and tenth of October, 1812. Shadrach Bond, then a resident of St. Clair County, was elected the first Delegate to Congress from Illinois. Pierre Menard was chosen from Randolph County member of the Legislative Council, and George Fisher, of the House of Representatives. The Legislature convened at Kaskaskia on the twenty-fifth of November, 1812. The two bodies met in a large rough old building of uncut limestone, with steep roof, and gables of unpainted l>oards, which after the ruin and abandonment of Fort Chartres had served as headquarters of the military commandant. The first floor was fitted up for the representatives, and the small room above was used as the council-chamber. All the twelve members boarded with one family, and tradition has it, lodged in the same room. The Legislature convened annually at Kaskaskia, and held short sessions. In 1816, among others, the Counties of Monroe and Jackson were formed ; ami by the formation of subsequent counties Randolph was reduced to its present limits. In April, 1818, a bill providing for the admission of Illinois into the Union as a sovereign State was passed by Congress. A 'Convention to frame a Constitution assembled at Kaskaskia in the following July. Randolph CountyAlbc U’r n / e J?*t J£c/ // Ztr; ny V 1CL> t&F&tz fj/iWC Stcrl) ' V */.<). /' »■ *‘'Lio TnJ>yre o \y±±ji±-_' « Zf -UO /i r ^ ii y*9 ..j> r<>« x- ; > Oft.I.a.Us jVfjSjiotihjpuig AV j?//'‘y ' ■ p CX$J0O *//TJuvcs .90 r ,{ A( fiunpheit H'l/jon ¥o. - v /*> /,<*■ . 5); ■ ( &?Fa r/artdy P W rn r* Bt'o **• //- frs- tva\ MevvWavx ,9 5,7;.,, j. , o , W/V>j ci^4-/ii s ■ - -;IV ? ■ ^ - ■ 7*fl yi-. Jr.o v • s> T. 9 - 5^°A\nsU'V ' ~~T o\! ‘,\v.. Vy'wu’vy'A 'SVy’uYvawHISTORY OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ILLINOIS. was represented by George Fisher and Elias Kent Kane, Tin; Constitutional Convention met at the house of Jacob Fisher, which stood on the block bounded bv Chartres, Elm, Indian, and Persimmon Streets. The first election under the Constitution was held in September, 1818, and Shadraeh Itond was elected Governor, and Pierre Menard, Lieutenant-Governor. Illinois was now declared by Congress admitted to the Union as on equal footing in all respects with the "original StaU*. The Legislature again met at Kaskaskia in January, 1819. This was the last session ever held at Kaskaskia. Vandalia, the same year, was selected as Capital of the State. Kaskaskia remained the County-seat till the year 1848, when it was removed to Chester, several other localities competing unsuccessfully for the honor. Below is given the names of the persons who have filled the County offices from the formation of Randolph County: COURT OF COMMON PLEAS—ORGANIZED 1795. Names of Judges. Robert Reynolds, Nathaniel Hull, Antoine Louvier, John Gr John Edgar, William Morrison, Pierre Menard, Robert McMahon, George Fisher, John Heard, James Finney, Samuel Cochran. In 1809 the County (knirt, composed of justices of the Peace, three of whom were necessary to constitute a quorum, took the place of the Court ol Common Pleas, and the Justices' names an? as follows: Philip Fouke, Henry Levens, William Arundel, Samuel O’Melveney, John McFerren, Paul Ilarrelston, David Anderson, Archibald Thompson, John Phelps, Alexander Wilson, Robert Gaston. The Court of Common Pleas was again established iu 1811. Names vf Judy ex. | George Fisher, Archibald Thompson, Antoine L. Chenett, Miles Hotchkiss, Pierre La Compte. John McFerren, William Morrison, James Finney, David Anderson, Philip Fouke, SUPREME COURT. The Supreme Court of Illinois held its first session in Kaskaskia, in the year 1819. The following names of Judges appear on the records pertaining to Randolph County: Joseph Phillip*, Tlieophilus W. Smith, Richard M. Young, Samuel D. Lockwood, Thomas Reynolds, ] Thomas C. Browne. John Reynolds, CIRCUIT COURT. The Circuit Court was i*tablished in 1885, on the remodeling of the Judiciary of the State. The names of the Judges are given: 1835—Sidney Rreese, 1855—Sidney Brecse, 18*13—James Shields, 1858 - II. K. S. O’Melvenev, 1845—Gustavus Koemer, 18G0—Silas L. Bryan, l§49—W. II. Underwood, 1872—Am oh Watts. PRORATE COURT. The Probate Court was established under the first Constitution of the State. The first Probate Judge was Curtis Coon, and he held the office for ten years. Judge Hunt was his successor, but he remained in office but a short time. James Thompson followed Hunt, and for seventeen .successive yean* held the office. Under the Constitution of 1848, the County Judge was made ex-officio Judge of the Probate Court. Stanley Griswold, John Wamoek. 1815—W. C. Greenup, 1831—James Hughs, 1840—William Guthrie, 1845—James Quin, 1815—John M. Langlois, : GENERAL AND CIRCUIT COURTS. 1847—Charles Kane, 1849—E. Lavenworth (Deputy), 1850—Janies M. Ralls, 1800—Savinien St. Vrain. CLERKS OK THE COMMON PLEAS AND COUNTY COURTS. 1795—Robert Morrison, 1809—William C. Greenup, 1827—Miles A. Hotehkiss, 1832—James Hughs, 1838—A. J. Dickison, 1841—F. Maxwell, 1845—John W. GiHis, 1851—James M. Cole, 1853—Isaac H. Nelson, 1864—John A. Campbell [protan.), 1861—Joseph Schuessler, 1865—R. J. Harmer, 1869—John R. Shannon, 1873—John T. McBride. TUE COUNTV COMMISSIONERS’ COURT—ESTABLISHED 1819. 1S19—Curtis Coon, David Anderson, James Patterson. 1820—David Anderson, James Thompson, Miles Hotehkiss. 1822—Gabriel Jones, Francois Menard, John Miller. 1824—Arthur Parks, Josiali Betts, Franklin P. Owen. 1825—Arthur Parks, Josiah Betts, John C. Crosier. 1826—Arthur Parks, R. II. Fleming, Pierre R. Derouse. 1827—R. H. Fleming, Pierre R. Derouse, James S. Guthrie. 1828—James S. Guthrie, Thomas Roberts, Felix St. Vrain. 1830—Thomas Roberts, William G. Hizer, John Thompson. 1832—Thomas Roberts, William G. llizer, John G. Nelson. 1834—John G. Nelson, James Gillespie, James S. Guthrie. 1835—John G. Nelson, James Gillespie, Robert Clark. 1S36—James O’Harra, Gabriel Jones, William G. Hizer. 1S38—William G. Hizer, Samuel Douglas, Harvey Clendenin. 1839—William G. Hizer, Harvey Clendenin, Lawson Murphy. 1841—Harvey Clendenin, Lawson Murphy, Henry' O’Harra. 1842—Harvey Clendenin, Henry O’Harra, John Mann. 1844—John Mann, Edward Campbell, William McBride. From 1844 to 1S48 the records were destroyed by fire. By the Constitution of 1848 the County Commissioners’ Court was superseded by the County Commissioners’ Court, composed as tollows: 1849—John Campbell, County Judge. Reuben Bailey, Associate Justice. John Brewer, “ " 1853—William P. Haskin, County Judge. James Gillespie, Associate Justice. Samuel R^Adping, “ “ 1854—RicliarJB. Servant, County Judge. (To fill vacancy occasioned by the death of Judge IIask in.) 1857—John Campbell, County Judge. James Gillespie, Associate Justice. William Mudd, “ 11 1861—James M. Ralls, County Judge. Armstead Jones, Associate Justice. William Mudd, “ “ 1865—Harvey NeviU, County Judge. Martin Ireland, Associate Justice. Philip Wehrheim, “ “ 1869—Alexander Hood, County Judge. Philip Wehrheim, Associate Justice. John Wilson, By the new Constitution of 1870, a Board of County Commissioners, compost'd of three members, was created, and the office of County Judge rendered distinct. Alexander Hood acted as County Judge till 1873, when his place was filled by John II. Lindsey, the present incumbent. The first meeting of the Board of County Commissioners was held January, 1S74, constituted as follows: January, 1874.—Philip Wehrheim. December, 1874.—John Wilson. John Wilson. John Morrison. John Morrison. Patrick Faherty. GENERAL COURT. On the organization of the Territory of Illinois in 1809, a higher Court called the General Court, was established. The J udges appear to have been as follows: Jesse B. Thomas, William Sprigg, Obadiah Jones, John Reynolds, Alexander Stuart, | Daniel P. Cook, SHERIFFS OF RANDOLPH COUNTY. 1801—James Edgar, 1803—George Fisher, 1805—James Gilbreath, 1806—Benjamin Stevens, 1814—Henry Conner, 1821—Samuel C. Cristy, 1823—T. J. V. Owens, 1828—Ignatius Sprigg, 1838—John Campbell, 1848—John A. Wilson, 1850—John P. Thompson, 1852—Savinien St. Vrain, 1854— John Campbell, 1856—Savinien St. Vrain, 1858—Anthony Steele, I860—M. S. McCormack, 1862—John Campbell, 1864—John T. McBride, 1866—John R. Shannon, 1868—John T. McBride, 1870—M. S. McCormack, 1872—Beverly Wiltshire, 1874—Beverlv Wiltshire. COUNTY SURVEYORS. James Thompson, Joseph Noel, Samuel G. Thompson, Robert P. Thompson, Ferdinand Humphreys, J ames D. Thompson, Ezekiel W. Robbins, Morton S. Me A tee, James B. Parks, James D. Thompson. James Thompson, 1* RESENT COUNTY OFFICERS. Beverly Wiltshire........... .........Sheriff. Savinien St. Vrain......... ........Clerk Circuit Court. John T. McBride.......... ........Clerk County Court. John 11. Lindsey............ ........County Judge. John Wilson................. .........County Commissioner. John Morrison............... ......... “ “ Patrick Faherty........... James I). Thompson ...... .........Surveyor. William Swanwick......... .........Treasurer and Assessor. P. N. Holm................... .........County Superintendent of Schools. At the April term of the Board of County Commissioners for 1875, the County was divided into eighteen voting precincts as follows: Bremen, Blair, Baldwin, Brewerville, Chester, Coulterville, Central, Evansville, Florence, Kaskaskia, Prairie du Rocher, Red Bud, Rock wood, Sparta, Steele’s Mills, Tilden, Wine Hill, voting place at Raudolph. Blair. Baldwin. Brewerville. Coulterville. Chester Oak School House. Evansville. Florence. Kaskaskia. Prairie du Rocher. Red Bud. Ruma. Rockwood. Steele’s Mills. Tilden, Wine Hill. LAND TENURES. The early French settlers held the possession of their land in common. A tract of land was fixed upon for a Common Field in which all the inhabitants were interested. To each villager was assigned a portion, the size depending | upon the extent of his family. Fixed times wcre assigned for plowing, sowing, harvesting, and other agricultural operations. The lands were subject to the regulation of the villagers, and when the party in possesion became so negligent in the care of his portion sis to endanger the interests of the whole, his claim was forfeited. The land was usually granted to each villager in long and narrow strips, partly, it is said, from an old custom in I' ranee, and perhaps to ensure more efficient protection against Indians, or other foes, while engaged in the work of tilling the ground. A fence surrounded the whole enclosure, but the individual lots were not divided from each other. Beside the Common Field, another tract of land was laid oft* as the Commons. All the villagers had free aceess to this as a plaeeof pasturage for their stock. From this they also drew their supply of fuel. Individual grant* were likewise made. Under the French system, the lands were granted without any equivalent consideration in the way of money, the individuals satisfying the authorities that the lands were wanted for actual settlement, or for a purpose likely to benefit the community. The first grant of laud, which is preserved, is that made to Charles Danie, May the tenth, 1722. Ths French Grants at Kaskaskia extended from river to river, and at other places in the Bottom they commonly extended from the river to the bluff Grants of land were made for almost all of the American Bottom, from the upper limits of the Common Field of St. Phillip’s to the lower line of the Kaskaskia Common field, a distance of nearly thirty miles. The British commandants, who assumed the government, on the cession of the territory by France, exercised the privilege of making grants, subject to the approval of his Majesty, the King. Colonel Wilkins granted to some merchants of Philadelphia a magnificent domain of thirty thousand acres lying between the villages of Kaskaskia and Prairie du Rocher, much of it already covered by French grants previously made. For the better carrying out their plans, the British officers, and perhaps their grantees, destroyed to some extent the records of the ancient French grants at Kaskaskia, by which the regular claim of titles and conveyances was partly broken. This British grant of thirfy thousand acres, which had been assigned to John Edgar, was afterward patented by Governor St. Clair to Edgar and John Murray St. Clair, the Governor’s son, to whom Edgar had previously conveyed a moiety by deed. Although much fault was found with the transaction, a confirmation of the grant was secured from the United States government. When Virginia ceded Illinois, it was stipulated that the French and Canadian inhabitants, and other settlers, who had professed allegiance to Virginia, should have their titles confirmed to them. Congress afterward authorized thcGovernor to confirm the possessions and titles of the French to their land3; iu accordance with this agreement, Governor St. Clair, in 1790, issued a proclamation directing the inhabitants to exhibit their titles and claims to the lands which they held, in order to be confirmed in their possession. Where the instruments were found to be authentic, orders of survey were issued, the expense of which was borne by the parties who claimed ownership. The French inhabitants were in such poverty at this time that they were really una’jle to pay the expenses of the surveys, and a memorial signed by P. Gibault, the priest at Kaskaskia, ami eighty-seven others, was presented to Governor St. Clair, praying him to petition Congress for relief in the matter. In 1791 Congress directed that four hundred acres of land should be granted to the head of every family which had made improvements in Illinois prior to the year 1788. Before this, in 1788, Congress had also directed that a donation be given to each of the families then living at either of the villages of Kaskaskia, Prairie du Rocher, Cahokia, Fort Chartres, or St. Phillip’s. These were known as “ bead-right’’ claims. Many of the old grants were confirmed by Governor St. Clair, but a large number of claims still remained unadjusted. This circumstance proved a great hindrance to the country where these grant* were located. No one cared to buy lauds of which a clear title was not established by record and survey. As a remedy, Congress in 1804, passed a law establishing land offices at Kaskaskia, Vincennes and Detroit, for the sale of public lands, and constituting the registers and receivers a board of commissioners, to examine land claims, decide uj>on their validity, and report the matter to Congress. Michael Jones was appointed register, and E. Backus, receiver, of the land office at Kaskaskia. At an early date speculation became active in the land claims of different kinds; bead-rights, improvement rights, militia rights, and fraudulent claims were produced in great numbers. The French claims were partly unconfirmed, owing to the poverty of that people, and these were forced on the market with the others. The official report of the commissioners at Kaskaskia, made in 1S10, shows that eight hundred and ninety land claims were rejected as being illegal, or fraudulent. Three hundred and seventy were reported as being supported by perjury, and a considerable number were forged. There are fourteen names given of jH-rsons, both English and French, who made it a regular business to furnish sworn certificates, professing an intimate knowledge, in every case, of the settlers who had made certain improvements upon which claims were predicated, and when and where they were located. A Frenchman, clerk of the parish of Prairie du Rocher, “ without property and fond of liquor,” after having given some two hundred depositions in favor of three land claimant speculators, “ the report, “either by compensation, fear, absolution on any other terms, to declare t were false, and that in giving them he had a truth.” The report of the commissioners’ raised many doubts iu regard to the validity and propriety of a number of confirmations by the Governors, and much dissatisfaction among the claimants, and in consequence Congress, in 1812, passed an act for the revision of these land claims in the Kaskaskia district. The commissioners under this law were Michael Jones, John Caldwell, and Thomas Sloo. Facts damaging to persons who occupied positions of high respectability in the community, were disclosed. They reported that the English claim of thirty thousand acres confirmed by Governor St. Clair to John Edgar and the Governors son, John Murray St. Clair, was founded in neither law nor equity, that the patent was issued after the Governor's ,»wer ceased to exist, and the claim ought not to be confirmed. Congress, however, confirmed it. For a period ot several years, emigration was considerably retarded bv the delay in adjusting laud titles. The act of Congress, passed in 1813, granting the right of pre-emption to settles, was influential in bringing the public lands into market. Emigrants poured into the country, and improvements were rapidly made. PHYSICAL FEATURES. Randolph county is irregular iu outline. In shape it approaches a triangle. Monroe, St. Clair, and Washington counties bound it on the north • Perry and Jackson on the- east; and the Mississippi river and Monroe county on the It comprises about sixteen townships, or five hundred and as induced ” in the language of r the impossibility of obtaining i oath that the said depositions ■egard for something beyond the LHISTORY OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ILLINOIS. seventy-six square miles. From north to south, west of the centre of the county, flows the Kaskaskia, or Okaw, river, emptying in the Mississippi about ten miles al>ove the south line of the county. Horae Creek, and Nino mile Creek are tributaries of the Okaw, traversing the northern part of the county, the former flowing in a southeast, and latter in a southwest direction. The course of Mary’s river is through ihareastern, and southern, part of the County. It reaches the Mississippi four miles below the month of the Okaw. Its principal tributaries are the Little Mary, and Mill Creek. The surface presents considerable diversity. The northeastern portion i>i comparatively level, or gently rolling, but with undulations sufficient to aflbrd effectual surface drainage. About one-thin! of the County is of this character. Within this district is comprised all the prairie region. The prairies are small, with a loamy soil of a chocolate-brown color, underlaid with a yellow clay subsoil. Although the prairie lands do not |k»sohs the deep black soil common to the prairies in the central and northern parts of the State, they are, notwithstanding, very productive. Between the prairie region in the northeastern part of the County and the bottom lands of the Okaw and the Mississippi, there intervenes a bell of country broken and hilly, originally covered with timber. A considerable portion of the surface is still occupicd by the natural forests. The soil does not essentially differ from that of the adjacent prairies. There is the same yellow clay subsoil, having the appearance of possessing all the essential elements of a good soil, and which, when brought to the surface and subjected to atmospheric agencies, becomes quite productive. The alluvial deposit, known as the American Bottom, stretches upward ■along the Mississippi from the mouth of the Okaw. it has a length within the County of about twenty miles, with an average width of four miles, embracing an area of nearly one blind red square miles in extent. It is made up of sand and clay, deposited in part from the waters of the Mississippi during the periods of overflow, intermingled with a large percentage of vegetable mould, from the growth and deeomjHwition of vegetable matter growing upon the surface. It is one of the most productive tracts of alluvial soil found anywhere in the West. It comprises, beyond doubt, the most fertile land in the County. The only drawback 011 its value is the inundations to which it is subject from overflows of the Mississippi. Much of it is overflowed ouly when the waters of the Mississippi reach an extraordinary height, occurring on an average about once in seven years. Some jtorlions are flooded nearly every year, and no attempt is made at their cultivation. A gradual elevation of the swampy portions is, however, taking place from the accumulation of sedimentary deposit* left at each inundation, and in time the whole Bottom will become adapted to culture. The sandy soil, with its admixture of vegetable mould and clay, gives a richness and warmth, admirably fitting it for the production of com and the cereals in general. The soil of the uplands is more varied. In tolerably level districts, the organic matter orginaliy forming a component part of the soil, has been more generally retained, and a chocolate color predominates. Where the surface is broken and hilly, a great portion of the decomposed vegetable matter has been washed down into the valleys. Hero the soil is of a light brown, or buff color. The subsoil is generally a yellow clay, making a strong and productive soil, when brought to the surface. Where the surface is underlaid by the Chester standstonea and sandy shales, the soil is partly composed of sand, warm and dry, easily worked and very fertile. Along the river blufls, the soil is a rich sandy loam of great depth, preferable to any other in the County for the cultivation of fruit, particularly the vine. The general elevation of the uplands above the Mississippi is from three to four hundred feet. The growth of timber consists principally of black oak, while oak, scarlet oak, shell bark and, pig nut hickory, sugar maple, linden, black gum, persimmon, red, slippery aud white elm, black ash, red-bud, dogwood and sassafras. In the liottom lands, the timber in addition comprises a growth of sycamore, cottonwood, honey locust, haekberry, box-elder, sweet gum, white ash, swamp oak, burr oak, white and black walnut, pecan, and white maple. • GEOLOGY. The coal measures principally underlie the north-eastern and south-eastern portions of the County. The beds exposed comprise a fcries of micaceous sandstones, limestones, and shales, with two seams of bituminous coal. The thickness of the whole, including the conglomerate at the base, probably does not exceed two hundred and fifty feet. The western boundary of the coal measures enters the County from the south, in the western part of Township?, Range 5, and with a general trend novth-north-west, passes out of the County on the north, in the eastern part of Township 4, Range 7. The coal at Pope’s Bank, in .Section 21, Township 5, Range 5, about five miles south-east of Sparta, isde-posited in five distinct layers, measuring respectively sixteen, twelve, fifteen, sixteen, aud thirteen inches. The outcrop is on the west bank of Mary’s River, only about five feet above the river bed. This seam, (the Belleville), undoubtedly underlies all the highlands in the north-eastern portion of the County, and outcrops on all the small streams iu the vicinity of Sparta. It will probably lie found to underlie that town at a depth of not more than one hundred and twenty to two hundred feet. One mile west of Sparta, at Boyd’s coal bank, the coal is obtained by a shaft sunk to the depth of about fifty feet through the following beds: Clay and Gravel...................................................... 20 feel. Limestone................................................................. 2 “ Shale......................................................................... 15 “ Limestone................................................................. 5 “ Coal........................................................................... C “ At Wood's coal bank, a mile and a half north-east, the coal is six feet thick, at a depth of forty feet, and overlaid by bituminous shale and limestone. In the north-west quarter of Section 9, Township 5, Range 6, the coal is four feet to four feet six inches iu thickness, and overlaid by limestone. On the east side of Mary's River, the Belleville seam has been opened in several localities in the vicinity of Georgetown. In the vicinity of Section 14, Township 0, Range 5, the coal is found at a depth of from twenty-five to thirty feet, with a general thickness of six feet. Four miles south of Georgetown the outcrop appears in the bluffs of a branch of Cox’s Creek, where the coal has a thickness of about six feet. The upper, or Belleville seam, underlies about two and a half townships in tlie eastern and north-eastern portions of the County, comprising the eastern part of Township G, Range 5, and nearly the whole of Township 5, Range 5; the whole of Township 4, Range 5, and the eastern part of Township 4, Range G. Its outcrop erosses Mary’s River in Section 28, Township 5, Range 5, and from this point it trends off north-west to the north line of the County. The lower seam probably underlies a still greater surface. It seldom, however, exceeds two or three feet in thickness, and is less regularly developed. The yield of the upper seam may be safely estimated at six million tons of coal to every section of land which it underlies. The yield of the lower seam would be about two and a half million tons to the same area. Of the sub-carboniferous limestone series, the Chester Group is well developed. It exceeds in thickness-all other groups combined, attaining its greatest thickness in the southern part of the County. The entire river bluff) from a point altout two miles below the old village of Prairie du Rocher to the south line of the County, as also the blufls bordering the Okaw ltiver throughout its whole extent iu the County, is composed of this group. The following vertical section, taken from the State Geologist’s report, gives a general idea of the comparative thickness and relative position of the different members of this group: (1.) Gray compact siliceous limestone, No. 1................... 25 to 30 feet (2.) Shales and shalv sandstones, with fossil plants—siyHlarin, sliyiiuirui, Lepulodtndron, and Knorrhia, partially exposed........................................................ 80 to 90 “ (3.) Shaly limestone, No. 2........................................ 15 to 18 4< (4.) Massive brown sandstoue, presenting a speckled color when freshly broken......................................... 40 u (5.) Limestone, No. 3, upper bed at Chester.................... 40 to 50 “ (6.) Greeu and blue argillaceous shales, with plates of limestone............................................................ 45 to 70 « (7.) Arenaceous and argillaceous limestone, No. 4, sometimes replaced with green shale........................... 20 to 30 M (8.) Massive and shaly sandstone, speckled on a freshly broken surface.................................................. 15 to 20 “ (9.) Compact and granular gray limestone, No. 5, with intercalations of green, blue and purple shales, thickness about...................................................... 150 " (10.) Massive quartzose brown standalone....................... 120 “ 613 The river bluff'at Chester is formed principally of the middle portion of this group. Eastward from Chester to Georgetown the upper beds of the group are partially exposed in the blufls of the small streams beyond Mary’s River. In the vicinity of Rockwood, however, the most satisfactory section of them can be made. Professor Worlhen classes the formation, commonly known as the Ferruginous sandstone, with the Chester group, calling it the lower sandstone. Its best exposure occurs in the bluffs below Prairie du Rocher. Two miles below the village, it forms a perpendicular, wall-like clifT, extending down about four miles, with an elevation of from fifty to one hundred feet. It then dips below the surface, and the lower limestone of the Chester group succeeds it, a formation becoming better exposed as we approach the termination of the bluffs between the Mississippi and the Okaw, about six miles above Kaskaskia. At the end of the blufls the limestone escarpment rises one hundred and fifty feet above the level of the American Bottom, comprising probably the whole thickness of the lower limestone. The Chester group in Randolph County forms, by far, the most important development of the sub-carboniferous series in Southern Illinois, both on account of its thickness anil the extent of surface it occupies. Its outcrops are found over a belt of country from five to ten miles in width, extending from north-west to south-east through the whole extent of the County. Except a very small area in the vicinity of Prairie du Rocher, it underlies the entire surface from the western borders of the coal field to the blufls of the Mississippi. Exposures are met with 011 all the small streams of the uplands between Prairie du Rocher and Red Bud. The outcrop of the St. Isjuis Limestone in Randolph County is confined to a comparatively small area in the north-west pari of the County—the river blufls beginning with the line separating Handolph from Monroe County, where it forms a bold, perpendicular cliff, a hundred feet or more in height, down to a point two miles below the village of Prairie du Rochor, where it is succeeded by the Ferruginous, or Chester, sandstone. It is probable that the whole thickness of the bed, or at least two hundred feet of the upper part, is al»ovc the suriace, at a point just below the County line. The dip of the strata carries this whole thickness below the surface five miles farther down, at the place referred to above, two miles below Prairie du Rocher. At Prairie du Rocher, the massive gray limestones of this group rise one hundred feet above the level of the streets of the village. The St. Louis limestone furnishes an inexhaustible supply of superior building stone, also of limestone for lime. The limestone in the vicinity of Prairie du Rocher is not surpassed by any deposit in the Mississippi valley for the production of an excellent quality of lime. The Alton lime, which has a wide reputation for its superiority, is made of this same limestone. Some of the limestones of the Chester group are also used for the manufacture of lime, and afford a fair quality. On Gravel Creek and Nine Mile Creek, the No. 3 limestone has been successfully employed. The St. Louis limestone furnishes suitable material for the heaviest masonry, and can be used for the outside and foundation walls for dwellings, and for flag-stones. The lower Chester sandstone is an excellent free-stone, admitting of ready cutting and sawing when freshly quarried. It hardens on exposure. The other Chester sandstones can generally be used for building material and for flag-stones. The limestones of the Chester group also afford good material for building purposes. The lower limestone is adapted for laying foundation walls. The upper part of limestone No. 3 is granular and semi-crystalline, dresses easily, and makes a handsome cut-stone for caps and sills, and the outside walls of fine buildings. The building adjoining tin- Court House, used for the offices of the County and Circuit Clerk, has been constructed of this material. The two upper limestones furnish material for rough walls. In the northeastern and eastern parts of the County, over the coal measures, good building-stone is not so abundant, the limestones overlying the coal seams, frequently crumbling on exposure to the air. The coal seams are underlaid by beds of fire clay, though it is questionable whether of sufficiently pure quality for the manufacture of fire brick. Anywhere in the uplands, the sub-soil furnishes suitable clay for the manufacture of common brick. Five miles northeast of Chester are found inexhaustible l>eds of pure white glass sand. Within the city limits there also exist inexhaustible supplies of moulding sand, suitable for iron moulding purposes, and extensive banks of an excellent quality of fire clay. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS. The prairie lands are very productive. Without manure, they yield good crops of eorn, wheat, barley, oats and grass. Iu their productive qualities they compare favorably with the average prairie lands of the State. The broken and hilly region is well adapted to the growth of every kind of fruit suited to a temperate climate. Peaches, apples, pears, aud all the smaller fruits may be successfully cultivated, even where the lands are too hilly for the cultivation of cereals. The culture of the grape has already been Iwgun, and the manufacture of wines has met with encouraging success. The Concord, Delaware, and other like varieties are best cultivated. The Catawba has been found to be more liable to be aflected with mildew or rot than in locali ties farther north. The broken and hilly lands along the priucipal streams, the blufls bordering the Mississippi and Okaw rivers, the localities where the marly deposit known as a loess " has been more or less intermingled with the soil, are admirably adapted to the growth of the vine. Few other products yield more remunerative returns. Throughout the uplands of the County, wherever the surface is sufficiently level to be cultivated with the plow, the soil is found to yield good crops of corn, wheat, oats, barley, castor beans and tobacco. Even cotton may be grown When the season is favorable for maturing it. The rich lands of the American Bottom are unsurpassed for the heavy yield of products adapted for growth in the rich alluvial soil. Raising corn was the chief occupation of the settlers until about the year 1825. At that time cotton began to be planted. Cotton was raised largely in the vicinity of Sparta, then called Columbus. Several cotton gins were erected in that neighborhood. In 1830, about eighty bales, of a good quality, were exported from Smith’s Landing, now Chester. The production of cotton gradually decreased, and the raising of castor beans became an important interest to the farmers in some sections of the Countv. Several oil mills were erected for the manufacture of castor oil, which was shipped to eastern markets. About 1840, the Messrs. Cole, of Chester, began exporting flour to southern and eastern markets. The cultivation of wheat was thus induced, and this has now grown to be the staple crop of the County.tun///*!/ ‘to .ht/ft :jn wire) if’ . JCl Uv ■ W.y U ,*/. WoogsMr vrmu™ L-m „ s> *y-'S : t S ii'u /t. • y_ ■ A-utkvtis E/ x ftrnklj' ■/O ('rtnrfbr *JgsO Irvrn# .■; nrpi&ro u fc**wgfr , 9, .. fiostr,) f/rotnnh J’ l. ! l)icke\ j 40 ' ,r- £ Uick-c. ■jrrjet/t. \Hobf Clio. II, Ju/h •Vt nc/ifTi' L *0 h ■/* Woodst de •iti " JteiUiy I GO 'jeoHISTORY OF TOWNSHIPS. TOWNSHIP 4—RANGE 5. Township *1, Range 5, occupies the north-eastern corner of Randolph County, ft was one of (he latest settled portions of the county. Grand Cote Prairie, lies in the northern and eastern part of the township, and the greater part of Flat Prairie is also embraced within its boundaries. In the year 1820, David Cat heart and John Dickey Kittled in the lower end of Flat Prairie, within the limits of Township 4-5. In 1822, James Coulter, John McKelvcy, ami Alexander McKelvcy, settled in Grand Cote Prairie. Janies Dickey, Samui l Bovd, and James Strohan also came the same year, and located in the immediate vicinity. These settlements were rapidly followed up by others. The prairie, over which, previous to the arrival of the first settlers, herds of wild deer had roamed, was soon occupied by line farms and a thrifty population. In the year 1850, James Coulter had a portion of his land surveyed into town lots, and offered them for sale. This was thu foundation of the town of ( Vu i.tkk-ville. The town had a fine location, with a rich and fertile agricultural region surrounding it. Two churches were erected in the town in the years 1852 and 1853. Henry Taylor opened the first dry-goods store. The town is situated in a healthful locality, and the population of the township is principally composed of substantial and prosperous farmers. TOWNSHIP 4—RANGE 6. Nrarlv four-fifths of Township 4, Range 0, is prairie, land. The timber is in the southern part. The northern part is high and rolling prairie, forming a rich and beautiful agricultural region. The population is mostly of American and Irish descent. Many Scotch families are found in tin- eastern part of the township. The jjost-offices in the township are Houston, a station veare some miles south of the present town of Baldwin, and then located in Section 30,Township 4, Range 8. The Brickcv family were earlv settler* of the Horse Prairie. Jarrot Brickev, the grandfather of John and W illiam Brickey, came to the Prairie among the first pioneers. His son, Preston B. Brickey, lived in the upper part of the township, near the line dividing Randolph Irom Monroe County. Robert McMahon, the murder of whose tamily lias been eferred to, on coming to the Horse Prairie settled on what is now known lots. \ short time afterward it contained a store, oil mill, carding machine, foundrv and machine shop, and many other adjuncts of an ente rprising busi ness town The first wagon shop was established by W. R. Brown m 1839. For many years the shops of Eden supplied a large j>ortion of Southern Illinois with* wagons, carriages, and plows. Cairo and St. Loins railroad, and Jordan’s Grove in the northern part of the township. Jordan’s Gkovb, in section 8, has its name from the circumstance of a man named Jordan freezing to death in a grove in that neighborhood. Hill Prairie, in the northern and western part of the township, was so called from Nathaniel Hill, an early settler on the prairie. Hugh Leslie, who came from Abbeville, South Carolina, in the year 1812, was one ot the first settlers. He located in the southern part of the township. Samuel and Matthew Leslie, his sons, afterward lived on Hill Prairie. Alexander McKelvcy, Mark Wilson, and John McMillin, were residents of the township at an early date. Sarah Clark came from Georgia at an early period, and also settled in the township. TOWNSHIP 4—RANGE 7. The Okaw river runs through Township 4-7, and south direction, and the Cairo and St. Louis railroad in an east and west. The earliest settlements were made along the Okaw river. The western part of the township takes in a part of Horse Prairie, and Heacock Prairie, now commonly included in Hill Prairie, lies in the eastern part. West of tin- Okaw, in tin; Horse Prairie, some of the earliest settlements were made in the county. Here was founded the town of Washington, referred to elsewhere, which subsequently was known as IIorsb Prairie Town. Traces of the old settlements may still be found in the prairie, improvements which were once made and afterward abandoned. The town of Lafayette, on the river, ten miles above Evansville, was founded about 1836. The railroad bridge crosses the Okaw a mile and a half below the site of the town. Lafayette, at first, was a town of small importance, but when the Okaw came to be navigated, large quantities of grain were shipped from the place. A large share of the ilour manufactured at Red Bud was shipped from Lafayette a score of years ago. The lumber business was also carried on to some extent. Rawleigh and James M. Ralls ran a saw mill at this point for some years. Lately the town has fallen into decay, and lost the importance it once possessed. Ea3t of the Okaw, the Cox family were among the earliest pioneers. Absalom Cox came from Abbeville, South Carolina, and made his home on an old claim, No. 1041, obtaining the right to settle on it from General Edgar, of Kaskaakia. There was no settlement in the eastern side farther up the river. Absalom Cox established a ferry across the Okaw, known to this day as Cox’s Ferry, and in operation till recently. John M. Cox and \\ illiam Cox, residents still of that locality, are his sons. At the same time with Cox, William McBride and Robert McDonald settled along the river a short distance below. James Thompson located the same year in the township. Archibald Thompson, the son of Archibald Thompson, who came from South Carolina with the C’oxs and McDonalds, and located south of Evansville, moved on Heacock Prairie in 1822, and lived there till his death in 1850. George Wilson, who came to the Irish settlement from Abbeville, in 180G, in 1827 moved on Heacock Prairie, and lived there till his death in 1S57. George Wilson and James Wilson live near the place of the settlement of their lather, south of Baldwin. Samuel Douglas*, the father of Archibald T. Douglass, in 1819 entered eighty acres of land in Section 23, Township 4-7, and two years afterward, made his home there where he lived till 1851, when he moved to Evansville, and there died. John Adams, the father of Judge Samuel B. Adams, now of Baldwin, in 1822 bought land iu Section 20, west of the Okaw, and settled there. His death ocoured therein 1831. In 1822, James Bean, Thomas McBride, and James Red path, settled on Heacock Prairie. The same year Elisha, George, Charles, and Fortiss Heacock, made their home in that prairie, and from them it took the name by which it was afterward known. Their descendants long ago left the prairie. Families by the name of Snodgrass and Scudder were other old settlers. Judge William Mudd settled on the place lie now owns in 1840. Timothy Liddy located permanently on the farm on which he died in 1842, and Bartholomew Hoy settled on the Hoy farm about 1836. This farm was one of the old settled places in the township, and was first entered by a man named Griffin. The town of Baldwin was laid out in the year 1873, by the Cairo and St. Louis Railroad Company, on land donated by Samuel B. Adams, Robert II. Preston, and William Douglass, James Wilson, and William Bovle. The first house was built iu June of that year. The population now approaches three hundred. It contains Presbyterian, Southern Methodist, and Christian churches, two dry-goods stores, and other business establishments. TOWNSHIP 5, RANGE 6. Ralls’ Ridge, where the road leading from Red Bud to the Okaw now crosses p.,r( of Township 5, Range 6. is taken up with the Lively Prairie, lhe first it. William Nelson, an Irishman by birth, came from Abbeville, South t aro gctl|on|CTl wa8 lna^e |)V John Lively, and from that circumstance the Prairie lino, and settled on Horse Creek, over three miles south of Red Bud. He r^.jved its name. He made this settlement about the year 1805, and lived erected a distillerv. He was a man prominent in the community, and for a ()i( r(> ti,, ,|is in Section 4 has been the home of the Lively long term of veara Justice of the Peace and County Commissioner. He died in 1814. His descendants still live at Bed Bud, and in the township. Cheslcy Allen, from Virginia, settled in the lloive Prairie in 1809. About the same time, with Allen, came Rawleigh Ralls. He was born in Virginia, and on first coming to this section, he located in the edge of the timber on Prairie du Long Creek, a sjk>i now included in Monroe County. The family afterward moved to Kails’ Ridge, giving the name to that part of the towmdiip. Edward and John Ralls were his two sons. The latter filled the office of a preacher, and died iu 1857. Judge James M. Kalis, of Chester, =j®n. I Edward Ralls, iu the fall of 1819, settled on the place which Robert McMahon had improved, just north of where Rawleigh Ralls now lives. Rawleigh Ralls is the son of Edward Kails. In 1819 Edmond Faherty located in Section 21, Township 4, Range 8, on the southern edge of the Prairie. James and Edmond I Faherty, now of li. .I Bud, arc his sons. Shelton Evans anil Levi Simmons located permanently in the Horse Prairie in 1825. The members of the Lutheran church have erected a large and handsome structure in the Prairie. Many of the Germans in the Prairie are connected , with the Lutheran denomination. Among the members ol the church arc comprised a large number of the wealthy and leading families. ^ I t was founded | soon after the advent of the German population on the Prairie. The Rev. Mr. Erdmann has been pastor for a long term of years. The Germans began to populate the Prairie about 1S38. The Schnibers and Mohrs’ families were among the first arrivals, and were followed rapidly by others who have largely taken the place of the original American settlers. RED BUD, Which, with Sparta and Chester, divides the honor of l>eing one of the largest towns in the County, occupies a situation in the northern part of Township 4, Range 8, immediately south of the Monroe County line. The town is one ot recent growth, but of late years has made rapid strides in the way of advance- ; ment. A rich agricultural region surrounds it, it being the depot and ship- i ping point for all the fertile and wealthy Horse Prairie district. The popula-lion is largely composed of an enterprising German element, to whose efforts the growth and enterprise of the place is largely due. Its origin dates back i to the year 1844. Mr. Richmond D. Durfee that year erected the first house I on the ground whereon now stands the town. The following year he built a 1 store-house and began selling goods. About the same time .Samuel Crozier erected a dwelling which then stood south of the town, as it was afterwards built, but long since was included in it. The first sale of town lots was made j in 1847 by William Simmons, who owned part of the site of the town. In 1818, Mr. Durfee disposed of his lots at public auction. The town showed a healthy and vigorous growth from the start. Samuel Crozier readily found , purchasers for the lots which lie offered at public sale, and improvements began to be rapidly made. The first brick building erected was the school-house, in 1853. The town is now built chiefly of brick, and has a solid and substantial appearance. The population in 1874 was 1,730. Some of its stores do a business scarcely surpassed by any other mercantile establishments in the County. A flouring mill was built early in the history of the town. The Red Bud mills were built by a company about 1858, and in 1859 Messrs. John and William Brickcy became owners of the mills, and have since carried on a I large and prosperous business. Another .large (louring mill is in successful operation. The Red Bud brewery was built in 1858 by John II. Meyer. The name of Red Bud was given to the place from a growth of red bud timber which formerly covered part of the site of the town. It was incorj>o- I rated as a city in February, 1875, and Jacob Miller was chosen first Mayor at the election which took place in the following March. The place affords an instance of more rapid growth than any other town in the County, but it-* prosperity rest** upon substantial elements. The farming region surrounding it, that particularly embraced in the Horse Prairie lying to the south and east, is unsurpassed for its beauty and fertility. Some of the most industrious and j wealthy farmers of the County inhabit the surrounding region of country, and I the growth of the town and the development of the agricultural region snr- ] j rounding it have hitherto kept pace. The Cairo and St. Louis Railroad affords ready communication with St. Louis and points in Southern Illinois. | The* town occupies a beautiful position on a rising eminence of the Horse j | Prairie. TOWNSHIP 5—RANGE 5. | Samuel Nisret, from South Carolina, made a settlement a mile cast of Eden, in the year 1817. James Baird arrived in this township in 1819, and | settled a place three miles south of Sparta, afterward occupied by Alexander Wylie. He originallv came from South Carolina, but had lived in Kentucky. Inthe latter jiart of tlie year 1819, or the beginning of 1820, Alexander Alex- [inr«v till his death i..----- ——---T . „ , -r since the settlement of the township. John Lively s sons were Reuben, James, Turner, William and Hugh P. The Lively family is related to John Lively, of Washington County, who with his wife and all the children but two, fell victims to Indian barbarity during the troubles which ensued after the breaking out of the war of 1812. One afternoon, the Indians attacked the house, brutal I v murdered everyone in it, and then set fire to the building, consuming with it”the warm and mangled corpse-. No one escaped to give all the particulars of the terrible tragedy. One of the sons, William Lively, then a small boy, was out at the time hunting horses. On his return toward the house, he saw'tlie flames and smoke rising from the cabin, and fearing it. to be the work of the Indians, he hastened to the neighbors, and gave the alarm. The crisped and charred remains of the family, smouldering in the ashes, told the terrible realitv. A little girl, Jane, was at a neighbor’s house, and thus also escaped the fate of her parents, ami brothers and sisters. She subsequently married William Caudle, of Randolph County. In the year 1S10, Andrew Borders arrived from Georgia in Randolph County. lie lived for a time with Robert Foster, and then located in Township 5-0. He was a young man on coming to Randolph County. He was a man of strong force of character, and became a leading man in the community. Samuel Crawford came from Tennessee to lhe Countv in 1816. In 1819, lie settled inthe lower end of the 0{>ossjTmden Prairie in this Township.1 He was made Justice of the Peace, was appointed Receiver of Public Monies in the land office at Kaskaskia, and served one session in the Legislature. James, Hugh, William, Stacy, and John were his sons. William Morris, from Ohio, settled in the Opossumdcn Prairie in 1817. Arthur Parks arrived from Kentucky in the spring of 1819, and in the fall brought his family which through the summer had remained in Kentucky. He made a farm in the eastern end of Lively Prairie, where he lived till bis death, which occurred in 1844. He was Justice of the Peace, and County Commissioner. James B. Parks, once Countv Surveyor, John, Arthur, and Alfred were his sons. He had eight sons in all. About the year 1820, the McDills, Thomas, William and John, settled in the neighborhood of Sparta. Thomas McDill made a farm a mile and a half west of where Sparta now stands, and William and John made improvements in the Flat Prairie. THE CITY OF SPARTA dates its existence from about the year 1829. The ground on which the town now stands was originally purchased by a Pennsylvanian, John Armour, in the year 1826. He built a small log house, and improved a small farm. Settlements were growing on every side, and Armour, being a man of enterprise, erected and put in operation a tread-mill. This may be called the nucleus of the town. Robert G. Shannon, the father of John R. Shannon, of Chester, had moved in the year 1823 to a point a mile south of the location of Sparta, and engaged there in the merchandizing business. On the construction of Armour’s mill, Mr. Shannon, in 1827, purchased a small quantity of Armour's land, and erected a small store-house near the mill. This was the first store in Sparta. The town now had a mill and a store. Armour accordingly laid off his land, and proceeded to dispose of the lots at public auction. Samuel Hill was the purchaser of the first lot, and paid for the same the sum of four dollars. This sale took place in the year 1829, and at this date the place began first to assume the character of a village. Jamep MeClurken, the same vcar, built a house on the hill southeast of the town. The. same year Lawson Murphy established a brickyard, and began the manufacture of bricks. Corn-hill Ballard began blacksiiiithing at about the same date, and Alexander Campbell engaged in the carpentering business. In the year 1829, several dwellings were built, and the future of the town seemed assured. Dr. Pyles opened a school in the spring of 1830. Dr. Joseph Farnan settled in the town the same year. William H. McDill opened a hotel in 1833. The year following, John A. Wilson, John Little, John Gray, Thomas Gaston and John W. Slade, moved into the town, and assisted its growth with their enterprise. Slade and MeClurken established the second store of the place. In 1836, William Rosborough became a citizen of the town. The town was incorporated in 1837, and was baptized with the name of Columbus. The first Boaitl of Town Trustees was composed of Dr. Joseph Farnan, Lawson Murphy, John A. Wilson, James A. Foster and John W. Slade. The ordinances of the village were maintained with strictness, anil the leading merchant, Robert G. Shannon, was fined one dollar for leaving his wagon in the street over night. This creditable act was the first business transaction of the Board. James MeClurken, in 1839, erected a steam grist the growth of the town. Previous to this, Mr. iship from Chester, South Carolina, and settled < ester, cc I farm a mile south of where Eden now is. He was the firyt settler of that p ' ticular district of country. John MeMillen, in 1820, came and settled the TOWNSHIP 4—RANGE 8. The Horse Prairie takes up the greater part of Township 4, Range 8. In the farming land in tlie County. It has been settled up larg by a numerous and thrifty German population, who have taken good adv neighborhood of Horse ( township, the country b of tlie richest * which runs through the southern part of tin and broken. The township comprises ' id up largely tage of the superior productiveness of the.soil, and the fineness of the location of the farms. In the south-western part of the township William McBride, the father of John T. McBride, was an early settler. He came with his father, also named William McBride, to the Irish settlement in 1804, lived for a few . ■ end of Flat Prairie, in Township 5, Range 5. The following year, Eben-ezer Alexander, from Chester, South Carolina, and James Anderson, from Pittsburg, were added to the settlement in the lower end of Flat Prairie. James Iluggins settled in Flat Prairie about the year 1817, and made the farm which was afterward known as the Ardtce MeMillen place. The first settlement at Eden, in the northern part of the township, was made in the year 1822 or 1823, by Rev. Samuel Wylie, who purchased and located there at that date. Adam Wylie and James Ford were the next to take up their residence in that locality. There were few settlers at that time in that vicinity. Rev. Mr. Wylie, at an early date, collected a congregation of the members of his church, the Associate Reformed, and held religious services in a house down where the grave-vard was afterward made. Many emigrants were induced to settle in this locality in order to enjoy the church privileges thus established. The country settled up rapidly in the vicinity. The congregation increased, and in the year 1833, a spacious brick church was erected. The congregation had divided; and three years after the erection of the first, another church was built. A few dwellings had been built around ; them, and the place Was called Eden. In 1837 the land was laid off into town mill, a huge stride i - _____—_______ MeClurken had putin operation a "cotton gin, which stood south of the u...... Nearly a half century ago considerable quantities of cotton were shipped from Randolph County. The same year, 1839, the (Jolumbm Herald was established by James Morrow. A year after it passed into the hands of John E. Detrich. In 1839, the name of the town had been changed from Columbus to Sparta, and Mr. Detrich accordingly changed the name of the paper to the Sparta Democrat, In 1840, James MeClurken put in operation an oil mill for the manufacture of castor oil. For many years, the manufacture of this oil, and l“ ->f considerable importance in the busi- the trade in castor beans, no* of the town. Great quantities of castor beans were raised by the farmers in the vicinity. Robert G. Shannon, and William Rosborough also erected oil mills. Dr. John Wier was a well-known, and early resident of the place. It may be mentioned that the first road through Sparta was begun years before the settlement of the town, by Alexander Borders and Hugh Leslie, who ; were engaged in hauling salt from along the Ohio river. They bent over the saplings when loaded with sleet in the winter, and thus formed a trail which gradually made a well defined and much traveled road, now leading directly through the city. _ Sparta, from its origin, was celebrated for the excellence of its schools, and in tins respect still maintains its superiority. The brick school-house, known lor many years as the Sparta Seminary, was built in 1838, and was then a ^ structure lar in advance of the times. The religious interests of Sparta have kept pace with the increase of it*educational advantages. In 1843, the members of the Associate Reformed Church began the construction of a spacious brickHISTORY OF TOWNSHIPS. edifice, and finished it three years later. The Associate Reformed Congregation had been organized some years previous. The Rev. William M. Graham was pastor, and he was succeeded by the Rev. David Me Dill, and he bv the Rev. John F. Stuart. A Methodist Church was organized in 184*2, and a church building erected in 1848. The Rev. Mr. McMurtrie was an early minister of this denomination. The Rev. II. S. Dcppe organized a Baptist Church in 1854, and a church building was erected the following year. Sparta was chartered as a city in the year 1858. John A. Wilson was chosen lirst Mayor. The population was 3000 in 1874. The city is surrounded by one of the most fertile and productive farming regions of southern Illinois. The Cairo and St. Louis railroad affords good railroad communications. The town is inhabited by an intelligent and progressive population, aud with its flouring mills, ample business establishments, and facilities for carrying on trade of every kind, it ranks among the leading cities of this section of Illinois. TOWNSHIP 5-RANGE 7. Township 5, Range 7, was the locality taken up by the Irish settlement, and notes of the arrival of most of the early settlers may be found in the County history. James Patterson was the first to arrive from South Carolina, aud located in this township on the site of the present town of Preston. John Fulton, in the same year, 1802, came from Tennessee, and chose a location in the same neighborhood. His sons, Thomas, David, and Cyrus, also located in the same neighborhood, and the two former died there. David Anderson, who arrived in 1804, made his home in Section 5, of this township, and James Anderson located in the same vicinity. Adam Hill arrived with the Andersens, and made a location north-east of Evansville, in Township 5-7. Archibald Thompson, the same year, 1804, came to this township, and his son William settled two miles ami a half south of Preston. In 1800, George Wilson, and Samuel Crozier, came to the Irish Settlement, and for a time lived in 5 7. John Campbell, a South Carolinian, from Abbeville, who settled near the mouth of Nine Mile Creek in 1807, died in 1827 on a farm which he subsequently made four miles east of Evansville. Robert Foster was another old settler from Abbeville. He built a horse mill, and ran a steam distillery on Plum Creek. When John Anderson arrived in 1808, he settled near the farm of his brother, Colonel Anderson, in the upper part of the township. William Barnett came to the township in 1808. John Beattie, on coming to the township in 1800, settled on the farm now occupied by Mr. R. X. Bratney, east of Preston. This farm, in Section 11, is one of the oldest in that part of the county. It contained the most noted spring of water anywhere in that part of tin- country, and this, probably, induced Mr. Beattie to settle in this vicinity. The arrival of James and Samuel Thompson has already been chronicled in the record of the Irish Settlement. The sons of the first still live in the eastern part of the township. William and John Allen settled in this township in 1814. They came from Ohio to Illinois, but originally lived in Georgia. William died at North’s Ferry, on the Kaskaskia river, a!tout the year 1810. John died in 1845, and hix son Aaron M. became a prominent merchant of Sparta. Robert M. Mann came to Randolph Countv in 1817. They left South Carolina about 1807, but stopped for ten years in Kentucky, having received tidings of Indian depredations in Illinois. On reaching Randolph County, the family located on Section 14, Township 5, Range 7, on the farm now occupied by Mr. Samuel A. Mann- At the lime of the settlement of the Mann family in that neighborhood, nearlv the whole country to the east was a wilderness. Robert Bratney came from Tennessee and settled iu "»-7 in 1820. He made a farm in section 2, about a mile north of Preston. The north-western part of Township 5, Range 7, is intersected by the Okaw river. Plum Creek also flows through that section of the township. The northern and western parts are broken and hilly. Pkkstox is situated in Section 10. James Patterson, the first to emigrate to the Irish Settlement from South Carolina, settled upon the site of the town in 1804. His farm was bought in 1810 by Washington Sterrit who lived upon it till 1820. It was then sold to John Rankin, and shortly after came into the possession of James Pollock, who in 1823 established a tan yard, ami for several years carried on an extensive business in that line. In 1833, a store was opened by Samuel B. Stranky. Two years after Messrs. Pollock ami Bratney opened a store, the second one to be established iu the place. James Pollock laid off his laud into town lots in 1830. The present store of John B. Bratney was established in 1857. The church at Preston has an interesting history. It was established by the Rev. S. Brown, of Kentucky, who visited the Irish Settlement, and organized a congregation. Rev. S. C rot hers subsequently ministered to the congregation. Rev. Samuel Wylie, in 1818, was regularly installed pastor. A church building was erected at that time, probably, the first Protestant Church in Illinois. It was built of logs, and was erected and finished for use in five days. The R v. Mr. Wylie was succeeded by the Rev. Alexander Porter. Next followed the Rev. S. P. McGraw. The Rev. John Reynolds hail charge from 1820 to 1821). 1831—1830, the Rev. S. C. Baldridge. The Rev. James McAuley in 1840 assumed pastoral charge. A large church edifice was erected in 1842. The Rev. M. M. Brown was pastor from 1849 to 1851, and in 1855 Rev. James W. Glenn became pastor of the church. The Associate Reformed Churches of Illinois date their origin from the Preston Church. TOWNSHIP 5—RANGE 8. The Lcvens family were among the earliest settlers of this township. Colonel Levens settled on Horse Creek, and made a farm on an old claim included in Sections 1 and 2. Paul llarrelston was another old settler. He located in 1802, on the west side of the Okaw, near the mouth of Camp’s Creek. For a short time he was Sheriff of the County. Samuel Crozier, in 1800, opened a farm on the east side of the Okaw, about three miles south of where Evansville now is. In 1808, a Mr. Henderson, from South Carolina, settled on a farm, on the Okaw nearly opposite Evansville. Township 5—8 was the seat of the O’Harra Settlement. The O’Harras first lived in Maryland, afterward in Kentucky, and came to Illinois in the latter part of 1817. Henry O’Harra, the father of James O’Harra, of Red Bud, in the winter of 1817—18, purchased the Walnut Ridge, a mile north of the present town of Rmua. The property contained a large number of fine springs. In the fall of 1818 the family moved on this property. James O'Harra is still a resident of that locality. The family were Catholics, and have always taken a deep interest in the welfare of the church. A large number of Irish Catholics settled in this neighborhood, among whom were the Mudds, the Simpsons, the Donahues. A church building was erected in 1853. Of late years the College of the Sacred Heart has been founded, and stands iu close proximity to the church. The building, a handsome edifice of brick, was erected through the liberality of the Catholic of the neighborhood. The school is now established on a sound basis. Amos Paxton was the first permanent settler of the neighborhood south of Ruma. He lived on the farm now owned by Thomas Simpson, four miles south of Ruma. Joseph and Thomas Orr settled in this vicinity, about one mile from Paxton, in 1818. They came from Virginia. Joseph was Major of a militia regiment. He was an early citizen of-Sparta, ami died there about 1850. Thomas moved to Pike countv in 1829. Benedict Horrel, the same year, came to the settlement. John Brewer made another addition to the settlement in 1818. He came from Kentucky, and brought with him six sons, Thomas, Felix, Vincent, George, Pius, and John. He located two miles southwest of Paxton. The Hull family arrival* also in 1818. Four brothers, Norton, Samuel, Lewis, and Thomas came from Kentucky. The Simpson family, of which there are several members in the township, came to the locality in 1838, having moved to Illinois from Kentucky in 1828, and siient ten years in Sangamore County before coming to Randolph. Henry Muud is another old resident of the southern part of the township. He is the son of James Mudd, who came to Illinois in 1818. Ri;ma, a town in the northern pari of the township on the old Belleville and Kaskaskia road, has sprung up within a few years. It contains a flouring-mill, several stores, and promises to become a point of some importance. The town of Evansville is situated on the west bank of the Okaw. Andrew White made a farm in this locality in 1811. This subsequently passed into the possession of Adam Henderson, and then into the hands of Levi North, who established a ferry across the river in*1820, known as North’s Ferry till the superior importance of the town caused the name to grow into disuse. North disposed of his interests to Eli Chappell, and he to Caldwell Evans, and thus it was that the name of Evansville originated. In 18.S4 the town consisted of M r. Evans’ tlwelling-house, the ferry, and a shop for repairing wagons, etc. This year Evans laid off the town into lots. In 1837, Mr. Evans put up a horse mill, and Paul Craddock, a cooper shop. Edmond Eceles came to the town about the year 1830. In connection with Joseph Bratney he established a lanyard. Mr. Evans erected a hotel about 18M7, and the following yei*r a saddlery shop was opened by William McNeal. In 1840, William and McKee O’Melvany brought to the town a stock of goods, and branched out in the mercantile business. But little improvement was then made till 1847, when Mr. Wehrheim erected a store-house, and began selling goods. In the latter pari of the year 1852, Jonathan Chesnut-wood, from Ohio arrived in the town, bringing with him an extensive slock of goods which he offered for sale. Mr. Che*nutwood has since been a prominent resilient of the town, and is the present representative of the County in the Legislature. John Wehrheim, for many years identified with the business interests of the place, as are his sons at present, erected the flouring mill, now operated by N. Sauer and Brother. A brewery was put in operation in 1857, which in times gone by was well known for the celebrated “ Evansville Beer.” The Okaw river affords water navigation. A packet plies up and down the stream when navigable, and the product of the flouring mill is thus shipped whenever possible. Evansville was at one time a candidate for the County seat, but Chester was retained at the election by which the question was decided. TOWNSHIP 5—RANGE 9. I Prairie 1>U Rocher is included in Township 5, Range 9. The early settlements were made by the French, both in the Bottom and on the bluffs 1 back from the river. Prairie du Rocher has probably seen less change than any other village in the County. Probably three-fourths of the population are still French, and in conversation use the French language. The proportion I of French is less it, the country surrounding the town. John N. Louvier, born in 1802, is the oldest resident of the town. In his recollection he says there were not more than a dozen houses in the village. The population now is not more than three hundred. There are four stores, five groceries, and several blacksmith shops, wagon-making establishments, etc. The Catholic ! | Church of St. Joseph is the only one in the town. It is said that there was | never but one Protestant sermon preached in the place, and that this was by I a colored Baptist preacher. One of the features of the town is the flouring mill of Frank Brickey, established here in 1858. J Of the American families to settle in the high lands in this township, the Mudds were among the most prominent. Thomas Mudd came from Kentucky in 1818, with seven sons, some of whom had families on coming to Illinois. , The names of these sons were James, Francis, Edward, Joseph, Felix, John and Thomas. One of these brothers, John, is yet living. All settled on the high lands in the prairie back from Prairie du Rocher, whence they diverged j to other sections of the County. The Mudd family is numerous, ami has always occupied a respectable position in the County. A considerable part of Township 5-9 is taken up with the Commons of Prairie i dn Rocher, which extend back on the bluff a distance of three miles from the ■ village. Half these Commons were sold in the year 1852. TOWNSHIP 0—RANGE 5. To John Steele belongs the honor of making the first permanent settlement in Township 0, Range 5, and in the neighborhood of Georgetown. He came from Tennessee in 1807, and located near where Steelesville now stands, then a wild and unoccupied region of country. George, Archibald, James, John, and Thomas Steele were his sons, and from them are descended the numerous family of Steeles now living in the County. Archibald Steele improved a farm the father of Anthon; r, 1808, this township re-werman. His natural cn-vments well filled him for pioneer life in the wilderness. He was an excellent marksman, and excelled in almost every trade. He first settled three miles south of the the town of Steelesville. After living there a short lime he opened up the farm afterward occupied by Archibald Steele, and subsequently settled west of Steelesville, on the farm long and familiarly known as the " old Bowcrman place.” He had four sons, Jonathan, Jesse, Michael, and William. Richard Rohbison, who came from South Carolina in 1808 and settled near Kaskaskia, soon after moved into Township 0, Range o. He raised a large imily of children. His sons were John, Joseph, Richard, James, Shadracli, ii, Thomas, and Jefferson. James White arrived in 1808, and settled st of Steelesville, half a mile north of where the road leading iile and a half southwest of Steelesville, steele, once Sheriff of the County. The i :eived another pioneer in the person of Jacob Bowerman. ’ pioneer life Willis to Chester crosses Mary's river. Augi the towuship. In 1815, Alexander G: by John Mi F:trl:iud. Hi, s-.n, Alexander till the time of his death. He was drowned lioy tied to his back, while trying Davis was also an early settle settled on the farm afterward owned ston, lived on the same plain; the Mary’s river with a negro stream. John Layneof Ten-settled near Georgetown in 1810, and the same year Cornelius Adkins made a settlement in the township, in the lower end of Short’s prairie, where he lived many years. The same year Emanuel Canaday arrived from Tennessee and located In the Steele neighborhood. In 1817, Colonel Gabriel Jones, from Adair County, Kentucky, settled a mile west of Steelesville. His farm was widely known as the “ old Colonel Jones place.” He was Colonel in the Black Hawk war, and filled several offices of trust and honor. He afterward removed to Chester. Eli Short in 1819, emigrated from Kentucky, and made an improvement on the edge of the prairie which bean* his name. He had been a soldier in the war of 1812, aud at the battle of Tippceanoe received a wound which troubled him throughout his life. He was a man of pielv of character, and began preaching and continued to attend to the ministration's of the sacred office till his death. Ills sons were Abraham, Denard, John and Jefferson, the latter three of whom came with their father to Illinois. Adonijah Ball was another of the old settlera of this township. In 1819 he made a settlement on Rock Castle Creek, in a neighborhood where no one had vet penetrated. Ilis son, Franklin Ball, became a man of some prominence. John Thomison, who in 1820 had located four miles west of Sparta, towards the close of his life spent his days with his children on Short’s prairie in this township. George Thomi-son, once a merchant al Steelesville, his son, died in Moultrie County. Joseph Lively in 1824 moved to the farm in the western part of the town- j ship afterward owned by Judge John Campbell. He left several children. Alexander Campbell came from Tennessee in 1819. He remained a few years in ' the Irish sett lenient, and then removed to a farm in Township .>5. His residence was in the western part of the township. Some of his sons became prominent citizens, among whom were Edward, a County Commissioner, and then John, Sheriff and Judge of the County Court for a long term of years. George Steele was tin: original proprietor of Steelesville. The old name of the town, Georgetown, was in his honor. He located on the land on which the town now stands in 1810. In the year 1812 a fort, or bloek house, was erected here, for the protection of the settlers from the Kickapoo Indians, who sided with the British against the Americans in the hostilities which that year arose between the two nations. During the whole of one season, the I settlers in the vicinity lived in this fort, and never left its walls except when well prepared for the attacks of the red-skins. In 18*25 Mr. Steele erected a 1 tread mill, the machinery of which was driven by oxen. This was the foundation of the town. A store was next established by Colonel Gabriel Jones, who brought the first stock of goods to the town. In i827, at the time of the open- I ins of the store, a post-office was also established under the name of “ Steele’s Mills,” by which the post-office is still known. The place was first called Georgetown, and afterward Steelesville by act of Legislature. In 1832 the town was surveyed, and ihe lots disposed of at public auction. Captain Rogers, Colonel Jones, Dr. Jones, Robert Jones, and Tanner Briggs were among the purchasers. The first brick building in the town was erected in 1838-39 by Mr. Steele. Rev. Eli Short organized a church in 1834. The Baptist churcli of Steelesville was organized by the Rev. J. Ii. Alcott in 1838. Steelesville is now a prosperous town. It contains a flouring and woolen mill, and a considerable number of business* houses. The school-house, built in 1874, is a handsome and commodious edifice, an ornament to the place. There are Methodist, Missionary Baptist, Presbyteria TOWNSHIP 0—RANGE 0. Robert Tindall, of Chester County, South Carolina, seems to have made the first permanent settlement in Township 0, Range 0. He came to Randolph County in the year 1802, and settled on what has been known as the Fleming farm, five miles north-east of Chester, in Section 32, Township 6, Range 0. At this place he began the erection of a water-mill on a small stream flowing through the farm. Before its completion, however, it was washed away by freshets. lie then built a horse-mill near his residence, and this served the neighbors round about for some years, and was a great inducement to settlers to locate in that neighborhood. In 1804, John Lacy arrived, also from South Caroliua, and settled on the farm known as the “ Major Adair plaee.” What was known as the “Harmon Settlement,” embraced the western part of the township extending over the line into Township 0, Range 7. Michael Harmon, an emigrant from Tennessee, was the founder of this settlement. He explored the country around Kaskaskia, and finally concluded to settle in the district of country where his descendants still reside. He had seven sons. Michael Harmon died soon after coming to Illinois, hut his descendants made a thrifty settlement in the part of the County he had selected as a residence. William Fowler came to the Hannon neighborhood in 1810, from South Carolina. He had been a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Ilis death occurred in 1840, and he left descendants residing in the County. John Taggart came to the Harmon Settlement. He came to Kaskaskia from South Carolina in 1807. He became a Ranger, and after his discharge, settled down in the Harmon neighborhood, nine miles north of Chester. He was the father of Amos, and the grandfather of John L. Taggart. Daniel Taggart, the brother of John, came from South Carolina the same year, was a ranger, aud afterward located on a farm near his brother. James McFarland came to the township in 1817. In 1825, David Hathom located in the southern end of the Opossuroden Prairie, where he died. IIis sons were Samuel, James, Thomas, David, and William. Part of the northern portion of this township is prairie land. Gravel (.’reek traverses it from north to south. The only town which it contains is Randolph. The post-office established here is called Bremen. This town was laid ofl iu 1842 by a Mr. Capman. The growth of the place was slow. In 1855 a small grocery establishment, kept by John Wood, composed the town. A few farmhouses stood, however, in the vicinity. In 1850 Isaac Lchnherr erected a store iu Randolph, and the next winter the post-office of Bremen was established. About 1840 the German Lutherans built a church near the town, and another Lutheran church was organized in 1849. The population of the township is in good part German. TOWNSHIP 6—RANGE 7. Township G, Rang* 7, was the scene of some of the earliest American Settlements made in Randolph County. The arrival of the different pioneers in the region about Ellis Grove has already been noted at length iu the County history. A considerable part of the township is taken up with old claims, the most of which are the locations of the early settlements. The south-western comer of the township, adjacent to Kaskaskia. contains many interesting points. Here the ruins of Fort Gage are still visible. Riley’s Mill marks the spot where, perhaps, the first mill iu the Mississippi Valley was constructed. Some of the improvements made, date hack to the previous century. Some of the early rugged pioneers, like Stacy McDonough, made settlements in this township, when their scanty improvements marked the verge of civilization. THE TOWN OF ELLIS GROVE may be said to have been founded in the year 1852. It answers to three different names. The town is popularly known as Ellis Grove, so-called from the proprietor. This is the name of the post-office. When Mr. Ellis laid off' the town into lots, the name of Florence was bestowed upon it. In addition, the place has tha local soubriquet of “ Dryburg.” This name arose from the following circumstance: When Mr. Ellis raised his store at the beginning of the building of the town, the men who had congregated to assist in the raising, found it impossible to procure any of the usual stimulants which (in those days) were accustomed to circulate on such occasions. From this fact the name of Dryburg was bestowed upon the infant town, and has since closely adhered to it. though it may be presumed that the difficulty which gave rise to the appellation has long since been removed. In 1852, George Ellis purchased from Mrs. Hunt, the land on which the town was built. The same year he erected a house, and opened a store A post-office was also established, and Mr. Ellis appointed Postmaster. A Union church was built the same year, and a school-house had previously been erected. In 1855 the Baptists built a large church. In 1857 Mr. Ellis' store was destroyed by tire, and he removed from the place. Dr. Richardson was the first physician to come to the place. The town has an elevated situation. The country adjacent was originally covered by a heavy growth of timber, and the soil is fertile, and finely udapted to farming. Diamond Cross, a post-office in the eastern part, of the township, is a small settlement consisting of a store, blacksmith shop, and a few other houses. The Chester and Preston road passes through the village. It is surrounded by a rich and beautiful farming region, several of the wealthy an rj'r. ’;?//// Alll&ojj/ I &;,,*. /y* : ? s ^A#5»|5,6f - fht TTl.t jdtk*-' \- • V W'///y| gujlkm r""' H/r r mot/ " \'¥Q ffurA rnn.. 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M r rt rj\ Sc tutor he r ' [>/■ to 't nut’/>' 70 0 >r,t o W/ 7sy> u Vvinir/lj 9//T J///U.HWZ Ksfatf j j, I ^7? ^ i> | WLso 7i «; !lMet mil- /, ^ cEd/rns VriMer t/Vf/cr ma nn /ov.^hi\> e —^anae V1 - o? \\T.^ Yy\\\c\^ vvV ^Voy'vvVv vvw 1 ^ »^.*S 4 ■ Q ■ 5> utto' a . j ITu'fcHIMJQ Vo y-|f>jauf« j'^3; t s Le ~7' - 9 ■ j >j -3* -.5 vt55jl I) rtf-i fHISTORY OF TOWNSHIPS. manentlv located on the prairie in Section 2. .Tames Gillespie settled on Section 2, in the latter part of the year 1825. He was a prominent man in his neighborhood in his* life time, and from him Gillespie prairie, about a mile ami a half in length bv that much in width, received its name. John B. Burke, the father of John K. and Thomas C. Burke, arrived with hi* family m March, 1827. The Burkes, as also the Gillespies and Gwins, came from Sumner Countv, Tennessee. Benjamin Brown was also an early settler in the Bradley neighborhood. In 1823 the Bilderhackssettled in the southern part of the township. Ephraim Bilderback landed at Kaskaskia, in November, 1801. He settled thm* miles north of Kaskaskia. He had nine noun, William, James, Stuart, John, Thomas, Friend, Henry, Ephraim, and Charles. The last settled near what is now 1 took wood, about 1819. He located on Section 31, Township 7, Range 5, in the spring of 1823, where his son William II. Bilderback, has lived ever since. The first entry of land in the township was made in 1817, bv John Crenshaw, in Section 11. Richard Jones entered hind iu Section I, in 1818; Adam Storm, in Section 1, 1818; Thomas Roberts, in Section 31, 1818; and John J. Henry, in Section 11, 1810. Shiloh and Wine Hill are the only post-ofliees in the township. Among the old settler,* not alreadv mentioned was John Stearns, who came from Tennessee, about 1821, and settled in Section 3. lie afterward laid out the town of Libert)-, on the Mississippi river. In Sections 22 and 27, half a mile south and west of the residence of John K. Burke, is a wild and romantic hollow containing many objects of interest. It is traversed by the Piney Fork, of Mill Creek. On the sandstone rock which forms the side of the glen, there have been cut representations of men and wild animals—horses, foxes, bears, and turtles and snakes. There are also other figures of strange character. These figures are cut in the rock, and remain in the same condition as that in which they were discovered on the advent of the first white settlors. They were doubtless made by some tribe of Indians, at some indefinite period iu the past. All the figures point in one direction, aud it is supposed that they were made on the occasion of some Indian tribe leaving the country to take up their abode in distant regions, and that the direction of the characters indicates the course in which the travelers joumeved. A large number of mounds in the vicinity, built by the Indians or some pre-histonc race, shows that this district of country was one e inhabited by a large population, 'flic Piney Fork of Mill Creek is so called from the fact that the bluff bordering the stream bears for some distance a growth of northern pines, the only ones known to exist in this part of Illinois. TOWNSHIP 7, RANGE 6. Township 7, Range 6, contains no prairie land, and no town nor post-office. Part of the City of Chester is. however, embraced iu it. Mary's river traverses the township, entering the northeast corner, and runing diagonally through it. The Chester and Tamaroa railroad passes also through the township. The population is largely composed of Polanders and Germans, and there are also several prominent families of Scotch descent. An early settlement was made about 1802 by Benjamin Crane who settled about four miles above the mouth of Mary's river, on, or near, Section 24. Crane had seven sons, Benjamin, Squire, William. James, Joel, Lewis, and John. They settled the country around the month of Mary's river, and gave the name to Crane’s island in the Mississippi. John Crane lived on flu- island till his death in 1850. Isaac Rust is now one of the oldest settlers living in the township. He was born in Maine, and after a life of several years on the ocean, came to Kaskaskia, in the year 1819. He here followed his occupation of a wagon maker. Hi-followed the sea for a year again, and then returned to Kaskaskia. In 1830, he bought and moved on the farm on which he now lives east of Chester. Martin Smith came to Randolph County in 1820. His son, John S. Smith, some years after improved a farm two miles cast of Chester, and there lived many'years. In 1820 John and Samuel Cochran came to the County, and hot I/settled in Township 7, Range 6. John Cochran settled on a farm near the mouth of Mary’s ri ver, and Andrew two miles and a half east of Chester, on the plank road. Both moved to Hancock County about the year 1830. John, previous to his leaving the County, had settled on the farm east of Chester afterward occupied by Isaac Rust. The first of the Douglases to come to Randolph Countv and Township 7, Range <1, was Lot Douglas, who came in 1831. Andrew Douglas arrived with his father’s family twelve years after. The Adams family is an old family of the township. The township, though broken up by hills and valleys, contains some finely improved farms. TOWNSHIP 7—RANGE 7. Tire northwestern comer of Township 7, Range 7, lies in the neighborhood of Kaskaskia, and was the scene of some early French settlements. One of the first settlements in the eastern part of t he township was made by Samuel Cochran, who located uj>on the huiq long known as the Ilnskin farm in the northeastern part of the township. There was no other settlement at that time in the neighborhood. He was influential and popular, filled several offices, and died in Jackson County in 1824, leaving several children. J oseph Heard was an early settler of the township. He arrived in Kaskaskia in 1801. After a residence of a few years on Garrison Hill, he opened a farm on Gravel Creek, about two miles and a half north of Chester, the farm afterward owned by Mr. Joseph B. Holmes. His son, Hugh Heard, settled two miles further north, and his place was long known as the “Old Heard farm.” John Clendi-nen came to Illinois in 1808, from Green County, Kentucky. He settled on a piece of land, which was formerly known as the “ Porter place,” and is now an addition to the City of Chester. His descendants now live in the southern part of the County. Curtis Conn arrived in Kaskaskia about the year 181». He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and had spent several years in heavy commercial transactions in the West Indies. In 1818 he bought a farm in Township 7—7, and settled about two miles from Chester. He was several vears Judge of the Probate Court. Another Massachusetts man, Ania.su Aldrich, came to Kaskaskia in 1818, and after residing there a few years located on a farm north of Chester, a pioneer in that particular section of country. George Stratton settled in the American Bottom in 1819. Soon afterwards he bought the land on which the part of Chester lying on the hill j is built. The Buena Vista addition is embraced in what was formerly his farm. CHESTER, the county seat of Randolph County, dates its history from the year 1829. The vicinity was early fixed upon as the site of a town. As early as 1819, a company composed of’ Major William Oliver, David Brown, W. Bart, Daniel D. Smith and others, was organized at Cincinnati, Ohio, for the purpose of purchasing the lands at the junction of the Mississippi and Kaskaskia rivers, 1 with the intention of building there the future metropolis of Illinois. Mr. Smith came to Illinois as agent of the company, and bought a large tract of land near the mouth of the Okaw. The new settlement was to War the name of Portland. The year after, Benjamin A. Porter, under a contract from the proprietors, erected a number of dwellings, and built a steam mill. But the projected “ metropolis ” was destined never to l>e an accomplished fact. A few years left only traces of its existence. The land on which Chester now stands was entered by John McFerren in 1818. In 1S29, Samuel Smith. James L. Lamb, and Thomas Mather, purchased the land from Jacob Meyer, into whose possession it had come. The first house in the town was built by Samuel Smith, in the summer of 1829. The same year Mr. Smith began the erection of a mill, which, however, was abandoned before its completion. In November, 1830, Mather, Lamb Co., merchants of Kaskaskia, built a slaughter house and engaged in slaughtering and packing beef. The same year’ Mr. S. B. Opdyke, acting for Messrs. Mather, Lamb & Co., built a store-house and began a merchandising business. In the following spring, 1831, Samuel Smith laid off that part of his land below Wall street into town lots, and Mather, Lamb & Co., laid off a few lots alwve that street. The name of Chester was given to the town by Mrs. Jane Smith, who was a native of Chester, England. The population at this time was composed of S. B. Ojnlyke, Elias JUeeder, Samuel Perry, and the families of Samuel Smith, Seth Alien, and R. B. Servant. Seth Allen, in 1831, established a cooper shop, which he conducted for several years. R. B. Servant, in 1830, built a mill for the manufacture of Castor Oil. For several years this was one of the institutions of the place, and gave the aspiring town an air of commercial importance. A blacksmith shop was built in 1831 by Silas Leland. Amizi Andrews, in 1835, built the first brick house, which unfortunately was demolished by a passing steaml>oat, in 1844. It was about this time that the germ of the Presbyterian Church of Chester was planted by the Rev. Mr. Matthews. In 1840, the name of the Presbyterian Church was changed from the Kaskaskia to the Chester Presbyterian Church, and Rev. C. C. Riggs became permanent pastor. Rev. Mr. Peters, of Waterloo, organized a Baptist Church, perhaps, earlier than 1842. In 1840, the Rev. H. Hatton founded a Methodist Church with six communicants. A German Methodist Church was organized in 1848. The Associate Reformed Church dates from the year 1843. An Episcopal congregation was formed in 1844, and in 1852 a church structure was completed, having been begun four years previous. The First Lutheran Church of Chester was organized in the early part of 1849, by Rev. Mr. Buttcrman. Father Peren came from Kaskaskia in 1819, and collecting the members of the Catholic Church, performed the rites of the Catholic faitl. A church building was erected in 1852. On the death of Father Peren, Father Repies succeeded to the charge of the church. The first physician to locate in Chester, was Dr. liar bee, who located in the town in 1833, but diet! shortly afterward. Dr. Ferris, a prominent physician of Chester for several years, came to the town in 1835. Dr. Jefferson came from Virginia iu 1834. A saw and grist mill was built by Messrs. Cole, in 1837. At the same time a ferry boat, driven by horse jjower, supplanted the Hat boat which had previously afforded a connection with the Missouri side of the river. The horse boats gave way in turn to the steam ferry boats iu 1849. In 1848, Chester became the county scat of Randolph Comity, and the growth and improvement of the town has nincc been steady. The town lias fine advantages for nianufaetnmig purposes, which doubtless will be improved some time in the future. 1 lie .Mississippi river otters excellent facilities in the way of transportation and the ciiv lying on the river midway between the coal fields of Illinois, and the iron mines of Missouri, has every requisite toward becoming the mat of a large and profitable iron manufacturing interest It is now, already the largest town on the Mississippi between St. Louis and Cairo. KASKASKIA POINT. The American Bottom Mow Kaskaskia, embraced between the Okaw and the Mississippi rivers is known as Kaskaskia Point. It is included in lown-ships 7—7, and 7—8 This is the lower extremity of the American Bottom, which stretches along the Mississippi to Alton, something like a hundred miles above, forming perhaps the finest body of alluvial land in the West, surpassing for the richness of iu soil and the nearness of its location to the great markets, any other equally fertile tract of country on the western continent. The Common Field of Kaskaskia takes up a considerable part of the Point. The fee simple to the land is still in the possession of the city, but has been leased out to farmers, and though in cultivation parts of it for almost two centuries, still yields abundant crops. The town of Doxovijlt.E has recently been made on the Mississippi, and has already become a considerable trading point. The Point is taken up with productive farms. A ferry at the mouth of the Okaw brings Chester within easy access. TOWNSHIP 8—RANGE 5. The southern extremitv of Randolph County is contained in the fractional part of Township 8, Range 5. The settlement of the township dates back to the vear 1805, when John Hickman built a house on the river at the point where Rockwood is now situated. The spot occupied by this building is now swept over by the current of the Mississippi. John Mansker, about 1807, built a cabin at the head of the island opposite the town, and opened a farm there and engaged in raising stock. Samuel Mansker built the first house within the limits of the present town of Rockwood, and James McCormack opened the first store. A man by the name of Emsley Jones settled in this part of Randolph County about the year 1804. I hiring a quarrel between Jones and a neighbor named Reed, the latter was killed. Jones was hung at Kaskaskia, and this was the first execution on the gallows in Randolph County. Alexander Earlier sett let! two miles north of K<*kwood about the year 1825. He had previously lived about twenty years in the neighborhood of Kaskas-kia. James Clendinen who had come from Kentucky, in 1808, and settled above Chester removed from there in the year 1837, and located on Section 5, of Township 8, Range 5. His son, John 11. Clendinen, still lives in that neighborhood, and his grandson, W. 11. Clendinen, is now a merchant of Rockwood. Land was entered in this township as early as 1814, by William Bilderback. some years previous to the removal of the Bilderback family to this part of the county. Rockwood was formerly known as Liberty. John Steans purchased the land in 1832, and laid off town lots in the upper j art of the town. About four years after, (.'apt. W. B. Charles, James Dean, Dr. Manning, Harvey Clendinen, Samuel Barber, Thomas Frazier, and E. («. Hall settled in the town and gave a decided impetus to its growth. Mansker, Clendinen ami Barber, dealt heavily in grain and produce, and at this time ihere was probablv more corn shipped from Liberty than from any other point in the county. The town was also formerly one of the largest wood markets on the Mississippi river. The town was incorporated in 1837. The first board of town trustees consisted of William Ii. Charles, Nathaniel Manning, John D. Stearns, John Stearns, and Jacob Parks. In 1856 the flouring mill was set in operation. The town is situated along the Mississippi, and bold, eragged bluffs rise from the rear of the town confining it to a narrow strip along the river. The country adjoining is wild and broken. The town and post-office are both called Rockwood. The first i>ost-officc was called Jones' Creek, and was changed to Rockwood 1863, or 1864. TOWNSHIP 8—RANGE 6. The northeast part of Township 8, Range 6, lies in Randolph County. The first jwrmanent settlement was made bv Samuel Mansker. About 1812, or 1813, his father, John Mansker, removed from the island opposite Rockwood, and located on Section 10, Township 8, Range 6. The sj«)t on which the family settled has long since been swallowed by the Mississippi. Samuel Mansker still lives in the immediate vicinity. The Mansker family came from Tennessee in 1804, and first located on the Missouri side of the river in ibis township, opposite to where Samuel Mansker now lives. After living there two or three years the family located at the head of the island, opposite Rockwood, still in Township 8, Range 0. They afterward settled on Section 10, as stated above. Off from the river, the country is hilly and rough. A line strip of bottom land lines the river iu the township.A PORTION OF OUR PATRONS. TOWNSHIP 8, South. RANGE 5, West. Armstrong, R. W. Brown, C. Barber, A. Barber, Ezekiel Clendenin, C. C. Clendenin, Wm, H. Clendenin, John Carradice, D. Cornelson, Edward Clendenin, John H. Douglas, S. H., Jr. Sec. 8 Rockwood Sec. 6 Rockwood BUSINESS. NATIVITY. ) Co. Farmer I.and Agent Police Magistrate General Trader Kentucky j 185S Randolph Co.. III. 1S53 Jackson, Ills. 1842 Randolph Co.. III. 1827 iStone Cutter “ 1S47 Gen’l Merchant & Druggist ” 1836 Gen’l Merchant & Milliner “ 1821 Miller |On the Water TS74 Proprietor of Tin Shop Germany 1869 Farmer Randolph Co„ 111. 1816 Proprietor of Cooper Shop I “ 1S40 Douglas, S. H., Sr. Harward, J. P. Harry, W. G. Holland, George W. Jones, Samuel F. Jeffry, William M. Keeton, J. T. Larose, S. H. Richards, Benjamin Van Meter, H. M. Wagner, P. J. Rockwood Rockwood Sec. 8 Rockwood Sec. 6 BUSINESS. NATIVITY. Proprietor of Hotel Randolph Co., 111. Furniture, Coffins & N. Carolina Manuf.& Dir. Boots& Shoes Pennsylvania Farmer [Tennessee Merchant & Postmaster Kentucky Prop, of Oak Hill Nursery Ohio Farmer Kentucky Clerk and Book-keeper Louisiana Gen’l Merchant & Druggist England (Farmer Kentucky General Druggist Pennsylvania 1853 1863 township 7, south. :ra.nq:e 5, west. NAME. POST-OFFICE. RESIDENCE. BUSINESS. NATIVITY. When Came to Co._ NAME. POST-OFFICE. RESIDENCE. ' BUSINESS. NATIVITY. When to Co. Bauer, Geo. Bradley, Sec. 1 Farmer Bavaria 1858 Jones, J. P. Rockwood jSec. 28 Farmer Pennsylvania •«39 Burke, T. C. Shiloh Hill Shiloh Hill Prop, of Boarding House Rowan, N.C. .827 Johnson, William L. Wine Hill “ 17 Tennessee 18.46 Burke, John K. Sec. 23 Farmer Tennessee 1827 Johnson, John C. •* “ 18 “ 1846 Crain, John L. 1 Rockwood “ 29 Blacksmith and Horseshoer Randolph Co., III. ■85s Kothe, Henry Shiloh Hill “ 10 Germany 1S57 Criley, Cyrus “ “ 29 Farmer Jackson, Ills. 1850 Knop, John F. Wine Hill 7 “ 1848 Oriley, David Shiloh Hill Shiloh Hill Carpenter and Builder Pennsylvania 1S35 Kessel, Julius Shiloh Hill ** 21 “ 1856 Cross, W. A. “ Carriage and Wagon Shop Jackson, Ills. 1S71 Meierhoff, C. H. Wine Hill “ 9 1866 Campbell, William F. “ Physician and Surgeon Randolph Co., 111. 183s Mundt, H. 4< 17 “ 1866 Dudenbostel, August Wine Hill Sec. 5 Gen’l Merc’ht & Postmaster Germany ■see Morgan, Wm. H. Shiloh Hill Shiloh Hill School Teacher Kenton, Ky. 1851 Dean, Win. C. Shiloh Hill Shiloh Hill General Merchant & Trader Randolph Co-, 111. .s38 Parkhill, Hamilton Sec. 11 Farmer Randolph Co., III. 1S42 Emery, Robert Rockwood Sec. 30 Farmer and Blacksmith England •849 Pistor, John Wine Hill “ 8 Germany 1850 Emerson, Robert S. “ 29 Farmer and Cooper Randolph Co.. III. .S38 Rodewald, Heinrich “ 8 1856 Eicklemann, John H. Shiloh Hill " 3 Germany 1846 Rieckenberg, D. “ “ 8 1843 Glasford, Reuben Wine Hill “ 4 Ohio 1832 Rubach, H. “ 2 “ << 1870 Gwin, James Shiloh Hill “ IO u Randolph Co., HI. 1821 Sheldon, Denison Shiloh Hill “ 12 Ticonderoga, N. V 1857 Glasford, George W. Wine Hill 4 “ Indiana .s57 Shaw, H. Rockwood “ 29 Blacksmith and Horseshoer Ireland 1874 Holloman, T. J. Shiloh Hill It 22 Randolph Co, III 1844 Sheldon, Denison Shiloh Hill Farmer and Stock Raiser Ticondcroga, N. Y >857 Hornberger, Rev. J. F Wine Hill " 5 7 Minister Evan. Luth. Ch. Germany .847 Troue, Christopher Wine Hill “ 9 “ Germany 1870 Helmers, Heinrich “ Farmer 1846 Thompson, Andrew “ “ 16 **■ Denmark 1848 Habermann, C. H. *< “ 17 lt •• 1867 Wolters, Conrad, Jr. “ 4 Germany 1866 Husband, Joseph Rockwood “ 19 “ 21 “ and School Teacher Randolph Co., 111. 18:51 Wolters, William u 3 1866 Ireland, Martin Wine Hill *‘ Carpenter & Ex-SEJP Scott Co., Ky. 1837 Welge, H. “ 5 “ 1848 Ireland, A. T. Rockwood “ 29 ** and Blacksmith Tennessee 1838 Wilson, Johnson Rockwood “ 34 “ Randolph Co., III. 1838 TOWNSHIP 6, SOUTH. RANGE 5, WEST. NAME. POST-OFFICE. RESIDENCE. BUSINESS. NATIVITY. When to3® NAME. POST-OFFICE. RESIDENCE. BUSINESS. NATIVITY. tz to Co. Burns, Deidrich Steel’s Mills Sec. 20 Farmer Germany i860 McKinze, Z. T. Percy Sec. 11 Saddle and Harness Maker Perry Co.,Ills. 1872 Brown, S. N. “ Steelville General Blacksmithing Sumner,Tenn 1853 Nolte, William Steel’ Mills Steelville D’ler in Furniture & Coffins Prussia 1S54 Bollinger, Henry Prop. Hotel and Saloon Switzerland ‘853 Neuhaus, Friedrich Sec. 17 Farmer Germany i860 Brandhorst, Frederick “ Wagon Maker Germany 1854 Neuhaus, Henry “ “ 18 1 “ 1868 Blair, Wm. M. Proprietor of Saw Mill Tennessee 1868 Ohlau, Heinrich “ 7 “ Germany 1869 Beck, Phillip “ Carpenter and Builder Germany i857 Oliver, Chas. Y. Steelville Dry Goods, Grocer's, Boots, Randolph Co. 1840 Brown, David Percy Sec. 11 Farmer and Grain Dealer Randolph Co., 11!. 1828 Pohlmann, Henry Sec. 21 Farmer [Shoes, "civ*'1 Germany 1852 Bergfeld, William B. Percy “ 1 “ “ Philada., Pa. 1842 Prange, Heinrich Wine Hill “ 29 Hanover i860 Begemann, August Steel’s Mills “ 19 Germany 1847 Rurede, William Steel’ Mills 4 “ Ger. >S4J Cain, James ** “ 3 Pennsylvania 1856 Rury, Henry Percy Steel' “ 24 Randolph Co. 1848 Dorl, Theodore Steelville Blacksmith and Horseshoe* Germany Gen’l Merch’t & Grain D’l’r Loudon Co., , 1867 Ray, Mrs. E. S. Mills Steelville Retired Capitalist St. Louis, Mo. S73 Jay, C. F. “ “ 18 it Pennsylvania 1856 Steelville Public School u Jones, Joseph Percy “ 23 “ Pro]). Coal Mines Wales lS59 H it Jenkins, James H. Steel’s Mills Steelville “ and Constable Perry Co.,Ills. 1852 K U “ Knapp, George J. “ A8*D‘ f“r Prussia *855 Stephens, Wm. II. “ Sec. 34 Farmer ' Kenton Co., Ky. ■ 851 Keller, J. ** Physician and Surgeon St. Louis, Mo. 1867 Scheele, H. “ 25 u Germany 1869 Letnond, Mrs. Jane Sec. 34 Farmer Clinton, 0. >854 Steele, Thomas “ 16 Randolph Co., III. 1822 Lickiss, T. A. Steelville Dir.in Groceries, Hardware Randolph Co.. III. 1849 Soering, Fritz “ 6 * ! ** Germany 1871 McIntyre, Julia A. Sparta Sec. 6 Farmer [and Queensware Troy, N. Y. 1866 Taggart, Silas 44 35 Randolph Co, III. 1S43 Morrison, Robert Steel’s Mills “ 2 Ireland 1844 Thies, John ** “ 7 ' “ Germany 185S Mann, John A. Steelville Druggist Randolph Co. i839 Thi.es, John H. ** Steelville Manuf. of Woolen Goods .850 Malone, James M. Gen’l Merch’t & Postmaster Perry Co.,Ills. *834 Thomson, G. T. “ Physician Christian Co., Ky. 1872 Maasberg, Friedrich “ “ M"ker’UDd DM,cr ,£l Germany *854 Vesper, Charles “ “ Saloon Keeper Germany 1872 Morrison, John Sec. 9 Farmer & Co. Commissioner Londonderry, Ire. 1844 Vorderbriegge, F. Sec. 4 Farmer “ 1864 Miller, Madison Percy “ 14 “ and Prop. Coal Mines Pennsylvania 1871 Winzer, C. F. S. *>* Steelville Fire & Life Insurance & “ 1866 Monteith, J. C. Percy “ 24 u Henry Co.„Tcnn. 1836 Wiese, August n “ Wagon Maker, ?or“Vrmimr*mo.MS “ 1867 Martin, James Percy “ x3 u WilcoxCo,Ga 1863 Witbart, Ferdinand Sec. 36 Farmer 1S54 Meierhoff, Jno. H. Steel’s Mills “ 28 Germany 1856 Weberling, Henry u « 36 “ >857 Meierhoff, William Wine Hill “ 33 “ 1856 Wolters, H. 28 u 1867 McCoy, W. P. Steel’s Mills “ 10 a Pennsylvania 1859 :3.<5 /t?<> S JJf-yurei*1" a W$B W.1 }[t>r/<‘rr>£ £ SO fi. Jiit t /f-» re/3** tj*yl f .*>/. / /'/ / // ® ® <$*■$&*> . sea I Lem rff// /ffo s? ''''■" • ,?c gRW/;««a^‘ 1%' *»V A -■ iraf*- | JhllrrtfJ l)n rt \/ t e *f. Hr win \,/f* ,/. C\© ®<. linal/or^A j>nvTisU'V & j*°uAt' . 'V(*sl - ^ ^ /fane1’ — ^"\>V \V’>X. Vvww xyAX 1NU'\’VA\v\\\■ ■-{/',.< jr. <$ gun 1 ^STT '>•> /,V //,■-// JP«*« W£t fff" C/tftt?, // ?e rf/u'JtS’tn /t)0 fc* . _ slftf/rrif ' ir/t tJ/f 1& /f*" f far fan /’u//•,•/'/| 'wai. rts I/"' /!,>•/>’r )uw- \hctirf ■ /C-ll'Oi && /!*'>/■ WM ficfjt/W, Win Jfr>/rrt flS V/uviin .i’. K- _ . L. T> ^ > \ <, ^ v" r>' , i *"is * ■* Vi, 3 ICiE J1U* ,}<•//// / yj/'~ N<* »f V“ ‘.V& \Y\\h\\va\ "SVyuYvaw » 7' /. ^ y // c o u j\t t y Wo sift TOWNSHIP 5, SOUTH. RAJSTGrE 5, WEST. Alexander, John R. Anderson, James B. Bannister, Ormsby R. Benson, Lewis A. Baird, Daniel Davis, Antwine Dobbins, Theophilus A. Ervin, David Fulton, John M. Fulton, David Finley, J. F. Gillis, Antwine Gillis, John B. Hughs, John M. Kitchen, W. G. Maxwell, James McNight, John Moffat, Thomas Miller, Charles R. [Sparta Marissa, sc*; ” Sparta I RESIDENCE. BUSINESS. NATIVITY. ass to Co. Farmer and Stock Dealer Randolph Co., 111. 1839 lEden “ and School Teacher! ■* .825 1854 “ and Stock Raiser jPerryCo.,111. 1842 “ Scotland IS73 “ 18 tl [Mines Missouri 1863 " 8 “ Prop’r Eden Coal Randolph Co., III. 1832 “ 30 “ and Stock Dealer Ireland 1858 “ “ “ jPerryCo.,111. 1846 : “ 5 “ ** “ New York >834 Sec. 28 Farmer and Coal Miner 1824 “ 28 “ and Stock Dealer 1844 29 << tt a Tennessee 1825 “ 20 n it tt Ohio 1869 “ 6 Nurseryman Randolph Co., II. 1820 “ 6 Brick maker Ireland 1840 “ 2 L Foreman Pole’s Coal MinesiScotland 1873 “ 9 Farmer and Stock Raiser New York *827 Morrison, Daniel Sparta Sec. 30 Michan, John Eden Malone, John A. Sec. 7 McMillan, Matthew Eden McMillan, Wm. H. “ Sec. 5 McConachie, David.Jr. “ “ 8 McConachie, R. & W. “ Wm. McIntyre, James “ 29 McIntyre, David •* “ 36 McClinton, John tt 11 11 Neilson, John D. “ “ 22 Patterson, John “ 25 Fillers, Peter W. “ “ 19 Sprague, Albert N. t, Eden Smiley, W. J. Sec. 32 Snodgrass, Reuben Steele’s Mills Steele, Merit “ 34 Stewart, Archy “ 3<> Steele, Anthony “ 35 BUSINESS. Farmer and Stock Dealer |Attorney-at-Law Dealer in Produce Farmer and Stock Dealer “ “ Raiser “ “ Dealer Miller and Lumber Dealer Farmer and Stock Raiser “ “ Dealer Att’y-at-Law & Notary Pub. I Clergyman ! Farmer and Stock Dealer NATIVITY. ffi: to Co. Ireland 1842 Phi lad’a, Pa. 1S37 Randolph Co., III. 1S37 “ 1824 S. Carolina 1819 Ireland i»S9 j8s9 i8s9 1866 Randolph Co., IU. 1822 Scotland 'S39 Ireland i860 Randolph Co* III. 18^2 Brooklyn, N Y 1842 Randolph Co.. IU. 18s0 “ 1821 41 1829 “ 1843 “ 1815 TOWNSHIP 4, South. RANGE 5, West. Anderson, James Tilden ,Sec. 17 Anderson, John “ 16 Aitken, James 1 tt " 16 Alexander, Henry “ “ 9 Becklev, Eli Coulterville Coulterville Bloys, M. D. Beattie, Jacob B. | Sparta Sec. 33 Boyd, Samuel L. Tilden “ 17 Boyd, Robert, “ 17 Boyd, John S. 1 “ tt x - Brown, Joseph Coulterville “ 3 Beattie, James II., Sr. Sparta “ 22 Childs, C. Y. Coulterville Coulterville Craig, Robert Sparta Sec. 32 Crawford, James 1 “ a 2l Craig, James a 32 Campbell, Mary Ann Coulterville “ 3 De Mier, John R. ; u Coulterville Dickev, William Joseph Sparta Sec. 31 Dickey, Alexander S. Coulterville Coulterville Elliott, R. B. “ Easdale, Hugh Tilden Sec. 16 Edmiston, William, Jr “ 5 Faris, James M. Coulterville Coulterville Foster, David A. Sparta Sec. 31 Gordon Bros. 1Coulterville Coulterville Hunter, Robert 1 “ “ Hayes, Isaac II. Sparta Sec. 32 Harwell, David W. “ *3 BUSINESS. NATIVITY. Ss to Co._ Farmer and Stock Raiser Scotland ■S43 “ and Stone Cutter >843 “ and Stock Raiser 1849 a tt n Randolph Co., HI. '*55 tt a ti England •859 Saddle and Harness Maker S. Carolina ■874 Farmer and Stock Raiser Randolph Co., 111. 1843 n a a S. Carolina 1S25 tt a tt Randolph Co., 111. ■843 tt tt a “ .842 tt (( “ “ ■833 Agt. for Musical Instruments “ .852 Physician and Surgeon Balt.Co., Mil •853 Farmer and Stock Raiser Randolph Co., 111. 'S43 a it a Scotland 1838 a a a “ 1832 a t a tt ’Randolph Co., 111. 1S17 R.R. Agt. and Manufacturer Missouri 1870 Farmer and Stock Raiser tt ■837 Mcht and Real Estate Randolph Co., 111. .S30 Lumber and Grain Dealer Ohio ■853 Farmer and Stock Raiser Scotland 1840 Grain Dealer Tennessee 1832 Past. Reform. Presby’n Ch Indiana >873 Farmer and Stork Raiser Randolph Co., Ill 1822 Prop. Coulterville Mills Indiana 1874 Past.R. P. Ch.General Synoc Pennsylvania ■873 Farmer and Stock Raiser .Saratoga Co., N. \ «833 « « << iRandolph Co., IU. 1846 NAME. •OST-OFFICE RESIDENCE. Hemphill, W. W. Sparta Sec. 20 Jones, Paul '1'. Kennedy, John Tilden Coulterville “ 5 Sec. 2 Lee per, A. K. Coulterville Long, Zachariah Tilden tt Lindsay, Thos. B. Sec. 9 Lock heart. James 1 Coulterville Coulterville Milligan, W. A. “ Munford, James R. “ “ Munford, David a Morton, Andrew Sparta Sec. 19 Murphy, John (Tilden “ 5 Munford, William Coulterville “ *5 Mathews, Robert Tilden “ 4 Marlow, A. Coulterville Coulterville McIntyre, Daniel I “ Sec. 7 McLaughlin, John I ** “ 16 McFie, John R. *t Coulterville Pinkerton, John Tilden Sec. 4 Robertson, Robert Sparta “ 29 Robertson, R. L. “ 29 Strahn, James Tilden Sec. 8 Trefts, M. G. Coulterville Coulterville Woodside, 1. T- tt Wisely, R. K. ! “ Watt, James Tilden Sec. 5 Wilson, Hugh Sparta “ 21 Wirts, S. H. Coulterville Coulterville Young, George Tilden Sec. 5 BUSINESS. Farmer and Stock Raiser Blacksmith Farmer and Stock Raiser Physician and Surgeon Stove and Tin Dealer Farmer and Stock Raiser Druggist, ‘",0!:;*■ Farmer and Stock Raiser !Justice of the Peace Farmer and Carpenter “ and Stock Raiser Physician and Surgeon Attorney-at-Law 'Farmer and Stock Raiser Wagon Manufacturer Farmer and Stock Raiser 'Merchant “ “ (Merchant and Postmaster Farmer and Stock Raiser Dentist Merchant NATIVITY. Ss to Co. Ireland 1874 JacksonCoIll. 1841 Randolph Co., 111. 1847 Pennsylvania 1859 Illinois 1849 Randolph Co., Ill ■835 Ireland Randolph Co.. IU. 1840 tt 1848 S. Carolina 1819 Ireland 1858 Ireland IS48 S. Carolina 1819 Ireland ■838 Virginia >858 Scotland '839 Ireland 1849 Randolph Co.. 111. 1848 S. Carolina 1844 Scotland 1849 Raddolph Co., IU. 1849 tt [Gtman.T 1850 Wurtemburg, 1S58 Kentucky 1829 Wash.Co.,III. 1852 Scotland i860 *857 Ont.Co., N.Y 1865 Scotland 1817 TOWNSHIP 8, South. RANGE 6, West. NAME. POST-OFFICE- RESIDENCE. BUSINESS. NATIVITY. Cam" to Co. NAME. POST-OFFICE. RESIDENCE. BUSINESS. NATIVITY. When Came to Co. Barn field, John J. Barnfield, Martha Caudle, John Gray, William B. Hindman, Alex., Sr. Rockwood Sec. 1 “ 1 12 Farmer 1 “ Kentucky Randolph Co., S. Carolina Kentucky 1841 11. 1848 1823 >833 1806 Hindman, Alex., Jr. Lowe, James A. Mansker, Samuel, Spinner, Eliza Rockwood Sec. 1 a << 12 tt . it 2 tt j it j Farmer ** and Constable Rand Iph Co., 111. (Virginia Kentucky 1835 *857 1804 ^33 * TOWNSHIP 7, South. RANGE 6, Wkst. NAME. POST-OFFICE. RESIDENCE. BUSINESS. NATIVITY. When Came to Co. NAME. POST-OFFICE. RESIDENCE. BUSINESS. NATIVITY. When Came to Co. Chester Bremen Chester Allison, George Allison, Ebenezer Bilderback, F. George Rockwood Bilderback, E. P. Brammer, Wilhelm Biermann, Fritz Cole, Mrs. Ellen Clore, William Clore, Franklin Craig, James P. Craig, William J. Craig, Robert Crisler, Thomas J. Douglas, Helen C. Draves, Frederick Douglas, J. J. Douglas, Andrew Douglass, Adam Full ford, Thomas Figiel, Bartomi Floreth, Conrad Wm. j “ Grah, Hermann u Grah, F. “ Gray, Emberson “ Gerike, Friederich “ Grott, Valentine “ Grenawalt, William I Rockwood Farmer and Miller “ and Stock Raiser Rockwood Chester and Stock Raiser and Stock Raiser and Vineyard 'Scotland Randolph Co., Ill Germany Randolph Co., 111. New York Kentucky Scotland Glasgow,Scot. Randolph Co., III.. Scotland Germany Randolph Co., III. Scotland ; England Germany Kentucky Germany ’Randolph Co., 111. lS 1858 1865 1852 1824 1869 1852 1841 ■«35 1*35 >S45 IS4O 1840 *833 1843 1849 1849 1843 I83O 1842 I867 1862 1847 1847 1841 1845 I865 Gant, Robert Hindman, Jas. H. Hartenberger,- Hersehbach,- Hahn, Elizabeth Heine. Henry Ilollman, Ezekiel T. Ilarkness, George Kettler, Mary Knapp, Charles Lipscomb, G. W. Lintner, Charles Marquardt, Henry Postman, Stephen Pinkerton, D. J. Rust, Isaac Robison, Joseph Stone, Henry Smith, Henry C. Smith, James A. Schrader, Julius ' ] Sternberg, Henry ’r Schrader, Friedrich Sounenberg, H. Schemonack, Jacob Wood, John M. Woolshock, Wm. (Chester Rockwood Chester Bremen Wine Hill Chester Wine Hill Chester * (Farmer Randolph Co., Ill “ and Wagon Maker Maine u Germany Sur. 732 Sec. e and Stock Raiser Sur. 544 Sec. 2 “ 3 St. Louis, Mo. Germany 'Randolph Co., 111. ■: Scotland ! Germany Kentucky Germany and Stock Raiser “ Prussia Ohio and Wagon Maker Maine Randolph Co., IU. Kentucky Randolph Co., III. Scotland and Vineyard .Germany 1832 1S19 1843 1853 1833 1853 1850 1840 1849 1S43 i860 1850 *857 1854 1843 1819 1832 1848 1S39 Wine Hill Chester Rockwood Chester 1848 “ 1848 Bohemia '1850 {Tennessee 1848 i Poland 11855TOWNSHIP 6, South. R^NGKE 6, West. NAME. POST-OFFICE. RESIDENCE. BUSINESS. NATIVITY. 85 to Co. NAME.. POST-OFFICE. RESIDENCE. BUSINESS. NATIVITY. When Came to Co. IJtickmann, William Bremen Randolph I>ry Good*. Growrir-, I loot* ana Shoos, H#t« anil t lapn Farmer and Prop, of Saloon Germany IS55 Lindhorst, Charles Bremen Sec. 25 Carpenter and Builder Germany 1867 Buchmann, Heinrich 14 “ 11 1S60 Lively, William C. ** “ 25 Farmer Randolph Co., 111. 1830 Biermann, H. Steels’ Mills Sec. 13 Rando.phCo., niluol*. 1846 Lohrding, Fritz Randolph Uoot*BDJ “ 1840 Crislcr, Silas Blair “ 7 ** 1845 Meyer, Louis “ Sec. 22 Farmer Hanover,Ger. is.n Carlile, Mary Chester “ 31 Scotland 1848 Niemeyer, Wilhelm u “ 24 “ “ 1868 Campbell, J. P. Steels’ Mills “ 12 “ 1844 Pennekamp, F. M. “ “ 27 Pastor Evan. Luth. Church Germany 1862 Detmer, Henry Bremen “ 34 tl I8SI Runga, F. “ “ 17 Farmer ** 1HS6 Damenbrink Blair “ 14 Germany 1874 Rockwell, Ephraim Chester “ 19 “ and Carpenter Randolph Co., III. 1831 Dierking, Henry “ “ 8 1861 Rainey, W. T. Blair “ 3 St. Clair, Ills. 1867 Ebers, William Bremen . “ 26 t( Hanover 1846 Schnreker, Henry Sternberg, Friedrich Bremen “ 27 “ Germany 1848 Fleming, John Chester “ 29 “ and Stock Raiser Scotland 1840 Blair “ *5 “ Hanover,Ger. 1S4S Grefe,* Heinrich Bremen 11 14 Hanover,Ger. 186S 'l’rede, Henry Bremen “ 33 Holstein,Ger. 1847 Heitmann, Diedrich “ “ 22 Farmer and Stock Raiser Hanover 1S43 Triefte, Henry T. “ Randolph Wagon Mkr. & Gen. Repairs Germany 1849 Harris, Francis “ “ 26 “ 1845 Thies, Henry ** il Farmer “ 1847 Hiob, T. Friedrich “ Randolph “ and Blacksmith Germany 1853 Tegtmeyer, Charles u Sec. 26 Pastor Evan. Luth. Church .8S. Heine, Fred. 11 Sec. 27 “ Cigar Maker “ St. Louis, Mo. 1870 Uchtman, Fritz Blair “ 11 Farmer Hanover,Ger. 1S74 Hillermann, Friedrich Chester Germany 1854 Wilson, Samuel H. Steels’ Mills ** 12 “ Jackson Co., III. 1872 Harmon, John, Jr. “ “ 29 Randolph Co,, IlUftOl*. 1813 Wilson, James M. Blair il 2 Carpenter and Builder Randolph Co.. III. I848 Hawthorn, David M. Blair “ 11 “ Township Treasurer ■■ 1844 Wilson, John Bremen “ 25 Farmer & Co. Commissioner Denmark I848 Harding, Joseph A. Steels’ Mills “ 24 “ 1849 Winkelmann, Jacob " 32 Hanover,Ger. 1857 Jansen, Fritz Bremen “ 23 “ 1853 Wilson, H. M. Blair “ I a1 Randolph Co., Ill 1821 Kcenemann, E. H. “ “ 36 Louisiana Germany 1851 Wilson, A. M. DiamondCross “ 7 “ & Justice of Peace. New York I836 Knoke, Heinrich “ “ 26 “ 1842 CITY OF S3?A.RrI\A. NAME. POST-OFFICE. RESIDENCE. BUSINESS. NATIVITY. &s to Co. NAME. POST-OFFICE. RESIDENCE. BUSINESS. NATIVITY. l&S to Co. Alexander, Thomas F. Sparta Sparta Gen’llns. & Collection Agt. Randolph Co.. in. 1838 Miller, James A. Sparta Sparta Dealer in Fine Horses Randolph Co., Ill 1838 Burgess, Dr. L. G. 1 “ Physician and Surgeon Maryland 1S62 Miller, John F. “ Blacksmith a <• i8S0 Brown, W. J. Miller Randolph Co.. III. 1S51 Milne. James “ Miller Scotland 1SO3 Borders & Boyle “ Bankers [& Postmaster “ “ McGuire, Leroy J. “ Farmer and Carpenter S. Carolina i8S8 Chambers, Wm. G. “ 1 “ Book, Station’y, Wall Paper “ “ 1830 McDill, John “ 1 “ Farmer and Miller Randolph Co., III. 1824 Carson, Gideon K. “ Blacksmith & Wagon Manf. Ireland 1359 McCormack, M. S. ' << Saloon Keeper Tenn. I84I Dickie, James “ 1 Farmer and Miller Scotland 18SS McQuiston, ). W. & Co. “ ** Prop. Broadway Hotel Randolph CO., 111. I85O Dickey, William John ** Manf. Plows & Agr. Imple’tsiRandolph Co„ 111 1832 Perkins & Orr “ “ Livery and Stock Dealers << a urr 1*3 Dickey, J. W. D. 1 “ Dealer in Agr. Implements' “ “ 18^6 Perkins, Elias “ “ Blacksmith & Wagon Maker “ “ 1*34 Detrich, John E. “ {t Dealer in Real Estate Penna. lS39 Richmond, Robt. J. Farmer and Stock Dealer Perry Co., Ill i860 Foster, Joseph H. “ Livery Stable Sparta, 111. 1852 Rosborough, Robt. IL Prop. Pope Coal Mines Randolph Co., III. >837 1‘oster, Milton 4t Insurance & Real Estate Randolph Co., 111 *$39 Sproul, I'. M. Dealer in Drv Goods Scotland ■854 Finley, Thomas H. Dealer in Stoves & Tinware “ “ 1841 Sproul, James “ «* 184S Gardner, Samuel W. “ Lumber Clerk “ “ 1853 Skelly, James L. Restaurant and Painter Randolph Co.. III. 1836 Goddard, R. J. “ Atty-at-Law & State’s A tty. “ “ 1845 Temple, J. M. Allegh’y, Pa. ■ 8S6 lones, Gen. J. B. |Attorney-at-Law “ “ 1841 Taylor, S. Lovejoy Editor Sparta Plain Dealer Randolph Co., III. I848 Murphy, W. P. “ lAttorney-at-Law 1 cnn. 1828 Taylor & Little Livery and Feed Stable “ “ t. Isai Moore, R. 1\ ** Sewing Machine Agent Kentucky 1874 Whipp & Sanders Dealer in Stoves & Tinware \rirginia 1841 Mellert, Joseph Manuf. Tobacco & Cigars Germany >857 Wilson, Joseph L. “ Farmer Randolph Co., Ill _L*34 TOWNSHIP 5, South. RANGE 6, West. NAME. POST-OFFICE. RESIDENCE. BUSINESS. NATIVITY. K: to Co. NAME. POST-OFFICE. RESIDENCE. BUSINESS. NATIVITY. When Camo to Co, Adams, C. W. Sparta See. 22 Carpenter and Builder Randolph Co., III. 1851 Lawfer, Peter Preston Sec. 17 Farmer and Stock Raiser Germany 1865 Beatty, John M. “ *7 Farmer & Justice of Peace a tt 1819 Lott, Silas W. Sparta “ 4 “ “ “ Penna. ^59 Baldridge, J. F. “ 29 “ and Stock Raiser Perry Co., 111. 1871 Lively, Amos P. “ 15 a tt a Randolph Co., HI, 1829 Boyd, David B. “ 2 (i *0(1 Prnprivior II®jd Cos) Mine S. Carolina 1829 Lemon, Jacob “ tt tt it New Jersey *839 Blair, J. M. Blair “ 3° li and Stock Dealer Ireland 1842 Moore, Francis n “ 29 ti tt a Ireland 1841 Couch, F. C. Sparta “ 8 11 “ “ Raises Randolph Co., 111. 1851 Moreland, James “ “ 3 a tt a Randolph Col, 111. 1838 Foster, William n tc 2 a it a a a a 1820 McDougall, Joseph “ 5 a a tt tt tt 1851 Gordon, James B. Blair “ 32 Indiana 1819 Maddox, N. D. “ n Illinois 1S71 Gerlach, Daniel Sparta “ 9 Bl’ksmith & Wagon Maker Germany 1856 Morris, Samuel C. Blair “ 35 Proprietor Coal Mines Randolph Co., III. 1S44 Galloway, James ** a 21 Farmer and Stock Dealer Scotland 1850 Morrow, John B. Sparta “ '3 Farmer and Stock Raiser '833 Holmes, Henry L. “ a 21 tt a a New Jersey i860 McDill, Nathan B. “ 23 a tt n Ohio 1844 Higgins, Josiah H. Blair Blair Carpenter and Builder Missouri 1851 Norman, I.. H. « 17 n n a Tenn. 1865 Hair, John B. Sparta Sec. 4 Farmer and Stock Raiser Randolph Co. 1829 Temple, John “ 10 a tt ti Penna. 1820 Hatcher, J. D. Sen. “ “ 31 Carpenter and J. of Peace. Cape Olrirdwu, Mo. 1867 Temple, William G. “ 4 tt tt tt tt ^55 Harmon, Jacob Blair li 35 Farmer and Stock Raiser Randolph Co., III.* 1847 Temple, David “ 3 tl it it Kaudolph Co., 111. 1821 Kapp, John Sparta “ 6 a a a Saxony 1868 Wier, James B. “ tt tt tt. S. Carolina 1820 Kealy, James tl 2 tt tt a Ireland 1850 Wilson, John B. “ 9 Foreman Coal Mines Scotland 1858 Lesley, J. C. Lockard, Joseph M. “ 13 t( xo :: Penna. I.S50 1856 Wier, James N. “ 10 Farmer and Stock Raiser S. Carolina 1819 TOWNSHIP 4, SOUTH. RANGE 6, WEST. NAME. POST-OFFICE. RESIDENCE. BUSINESS. NATIVITY. It. NAME. POST-OFFICE RESIDENCE. BUSINESS. NATIVITY. When Came to Co. Andrews, John Tilden Sec. 12 Farmer Scotland <855 Mathews, James Jordans’ Grove'Sec. 8 Farmer Ireland 1840 Allen, Wm. N. Sparta “ 34 tt Randolph Co. 1849 Mathews, Thomas.W. a a “ 6 St. Louis, Mo. 1861 Allen, J. H. “ 33 (t a a 1834 Mathews, J. B. MirUta, 8i. Clair Co. “ 5 Taruitr and Grower of Swcel Potato Plants Ireland 1840 Allen, James W. tt “ 33 tt and Stock Dealer Green Co., III. 1821 McLessley, J. Houston “ 28 Farmer and Stock Raiser Randolph Co. 1838 Arnett, R. L. tt “ 14 “ Randolph Co. 1848 McMaster, J. W. Jordans’Grove « 7 tt a it 1838 Boyle, Thomas Marina, SL CUtr Co “ 10 tt Ireland 1S52 McMurdo, Mrs. Harriet Houston “ tt 21 tt tt tt i835 Borders, James J. Jordans’ Grove “ 5 tl Illinois 1818 McNulty, James “ 28 tt a tt 1842 Cathcart, Wm. J. S. Sparta “ 14 tt S. Carolina 1849 McMaster, D. R. Sparta “ 16 n ti it tt a i835 Cook, Jacob “ 23 “ New York 1868 McKelvey, S. W. “ 36 n a tt a a 1829 Dickinson, John Jordans’ Grove “ 16 tt England 1868 Oliver, Mrs. Julia Ann Jordans’Grove “ 8 tt tt 1831 Despain, James H. Preston “ 3° “ Kentucky 1865 Patterson, R. L. Sparta “ 23 u tt tt 1814 Fellers, John G. Sparta “ 34 a tt n Tenn. 1850 Pollock, T. M. Jordans’ Grove “ 6 “ a a 1849 Foster, Edwards t( “ 34 tt tt a Randolph Co. 1844 Palmerton, V. T. Sparta “ ,4 Ohio 1865 Fulton, R. Houston “ 14 U it 1841 Redpath, James H. Baldwin “ 18 tt Randolph Co. *835 Gray, R. J. Houston Dry Goo4«. Grccerlei, B«.u aad Siioe* u it 1854 Redpath, A. M. Jordans’ Grove “ 18 tt 1S37 Hetherington, George *t Sec. 28 Farmer S. Carolina •833 Rush, Lewis Sparta “ 35 tt Scotland 1864 Hetherington, Sam’l. “ 28 tt Randolph Co. 1S35 Reid, David J. “ 26 Ireland 1856 Houston, W. A. “ “ 22 tt >848 Rodgers, S. F. \\ 27 11 tt *843 Hetherington, Wm. “ “ 16 tt S. Carolina 1832 Ritchie, John C. MarUa* at Clair Co tt S. Carolina *837 Holmes, William G. Baldwin “ 19 t( and Stock Raiser Randolph Co. 1866 Stokes, W. J. Sparta “ 36 tt Ohio 1854 Lynn, Mrs. Mary J. Jordans’ Grove “ 9 At Home 1823 Short, Thomas Jordans’ Grove “ 18 tt Scotland 1831 Linn, John A. Sparta “ 9 Farmer S. Carolina 1870 Smith, W. J. Sparta 11 tt Randolph Co. 1850 Lessley, Samuel W. Houston “ 20 tt and Stock Raiser Randolph Co. 1848 Schaefer, Francis Houston tt 20 tt Bohemia 1869 Lyons, Archy Jordans’ Grove “ 6 {t Ireland 1842 Tweed, David Sparta “ 36 tt Ireland 1841 Mathews, H. Mutum Si. Clair Co.,111. “ 5 tt Penna. 1848 Thompson, Joseph “ 36 tt 1855 Morrison, Wm. J. Jordans’ Grove “ 17 tt 1859 Wood, William t* “ 36 it “ “ Scotland 1854 Mann, Elwood Sparta “ x3 “ and Teacher Randolph Co. 1852 Yeoman, David Martina St Olalr Co “ 5 tt “ 1845 Morrison, James K. P. Houston “ Penna. 1858 ^VmviisU'V *_t 7 South ' /TjTw i- __ „ • 7 cv O \\<>.nI tinng*s - — o\‘ ,VA Vvww vy vvX > f ■i'hbtn i'/v - 'turns m__ M/rrj- P. I'OhiTireirn lli r/if GO IfrjrfT,ip/i K inc/ts Located in Tps. #.S.R’sSh6W. (FORMERLY NAMED 'LIBERTY') ~~y7j •/ .i\. m*a\ :yjvjjv WA7E.RCITY OF CHESTER. NAME. POST-OFFICE. RES10ENCE. Anderson, Chas. C. Chester Adams, Robert Adams, Alfred Bode, Henry Brown, James N. Brinkmann, Friedrich Bear, Joseph Bauman, John F. Bueckman, Frederick Baronowsky, Joseph Baker, Peter W. Cole, H. C. & Co. County, Randolph County, Randolph County, Randolph County, Randolph County, Randolph Collier, W. W. Cox, A. M. City of Chester City of Chester City of Chester Chaplin, James Canine, R. H. Comley, Wm. Derousse, Louis Dudenbostel, Louis Dannenbrink, W. H. Douglas, James T. Detrich, Robert G. Decker, Hermann Edwards, John L. Feaman, Mrs. Mary Floreth & Weinrich Gordon, Wm. A. Gollon, Francis Guaegv, Jacob Gousmann, Frank Gilster, Louis H. Grott, Johan Gibson, William Hoff, N. Howorth & Burns Hartman, Henry Herschbach, Henry Huerstmann, C. H. Holmes, John B. Hillin, John W. Holbrook, E. E. Harmer, R. J. Hilton, S. Johnson, Perry J. Knapp, Wm. Knapp, P. C. BUSINESS. NATIVITY. Chester Survey 537 Chester Sec. 10 Chester Sec. 11 Chester Sec. 10 Chester Sec. 11 Chester When to Co. Saloon Keeper Randolph Co. 1832 (Farmer and Cooper Scotland 1842 Liv’y,F'd & Sale Stable (h5^ Randolph Co. 1S49 Farmer and Stock Raiser Germany *847 General Insurance Agent Randolph Co. 1843 Carpenter,Bidr. &Undertkr Prussia 1848 Gen’l Mdse.& Lumber Dir. Switzerland 1838 euw •“* Prussia 1851 •Hanover 1850 Foundry & Machine Shop Kaskaskia, 111. 1839 Newspaper Man Canada 1849 Millers and Bankers Randolph Co. 1845 Harness & Saddle Manuf’r First-class Saloon Incorporated first City Charter granted Jan Missouri Randolph Co. Scotland Miller Resident Dentist Farmer and Stock Raiser Real Estate Dealer Deputy County Clerk Saloon Keeper and Hotel Deputy County Surveyor Deputy County Clerk Farmer and Stock Raiser Capitalist (Near Coart Hoi . Prop’tress St. Charles Hotel Randolph Co. Hardware, uip*^uuF<,tm,ns Germany Physician iRossCo., O Eating House and Saloon Poland “ “ “ Germany Black Smith and Iron Dealer Prussia Gen’l Mdse, and Tailoring Hanover Farmer and Stock Raiser Harness and Saddle Manufr I Farmer and Gen’l Trader Prop, of Chester Marble Wks England Gen’l For’dg & Com. M’cht Germany Wagon Manufacturer St. Louis, Mo. Custom and M’cht Miller Germany Merchant Miller Penna. Carriage Manufacturer Conn. Druggist Chester, 111. Prop, of Abstracts of Titles England St. Charles Hotel MonroeCo,IU. Attorney-at-law Kentucky Editor Tribune Randolph Co. Germany _ Kaskaskia, III. Randolph Co. Germany Randolph Co. Germany Penna. Prussia Penna. France ■873 1840 -«35 >*55 1872 I87O 1829 l8l6 iSf>o >836 1836 1844 1849 1843 1828 ^842 1859 1856 >855 >857 1854 1859 1849 1868 ! 1847 ; 1857 1860 1830 1869 1850 i8841 1836 1851 1866 1838 1849 1851 1854 1829 1862 1841 1845 >837 1826 1S36 1869 1848 1853 1845 ■837 1822 i860 i860 1S49 '857 184s •857 1840 1863 1862 1835 *855 1852 i8.m 1857 .871 ■857 ■857 ■857 •833 '837 1S40 LS37 STTBITRRS CITY OF CHESTER.-TOWNSHIP 7, SOUTH. RANGE 7, West. NAME. POST-OFFICE. RESIDENCE. BUSINESS. NATIVITY. It to Co. NAME. POST-OFFICE. RESIDENCE. BUSINESS. NATIVITY. Ss to Co. Burch, Wm. R. Kaskaskia Commons Farmer Kentucky 1840 Havnes, John Kaskaskia Commons Farmer Texas 1856 Buatte, W. B. Survey 216 “ Randolph Co.. Ill 1848 Long, John A. “ u “ and Cooper Missouri 1874 Dci'ousse, A. B. 1 “ Commons “ “ 'S35 Menne, Anthony ** u «* 1868 Finn, William “ n a England >835 Monks, Thomas Kaskaskia “ Maryland 1S42 Gendren, John B. “ Sur. 191 " Randolph Co., Ill 1823 Rauch, Chas. F. “ Commons ** Randolph Co., 111. Greenwell, Edward 1 .. “ Commons | “ UnionCo,Ky. 1871 Welch, James fS Kentucky 1852 TOWNSHIP 7, SOUTH. EAiS’Cffi 8, WEST. NAME. POST-OFFICE RESIDENCE BUSINESS. NATIVITY. When to Co. NAME. POST-OFFICE. RESIDENCE. BUSINESS. NATIVITY. When Came Allen, George W. Kaskaskia Commons Farmer Randolph Co., III. 1844 Gillenburg, Jacob Kaskaskia Commons Farmer 'Germany Burch, |. G. Sur. 239 (t Kentucky 4 1840 Gendron, Louis C. Sur. 2. No. 22 .832 1865 Bumor, Perry M. “ Dozoville Blacksmith Illinois 1874 Hylton, M. B. Commons Virginia Darling, Darius “ Carpenter and Builder N. Hampshire 1872 Koen, Jacob “ Sur. 2. No. 24 Dozo, Wm. Sur. 205 tarmer Randolph" Co., 111. 1830 Mead, Wm. Dozoville Dobbs, W. K. “ 188 1 ** Alabama *833 Mead, Daniel ** 1S74 1S72 1869 1867 1872 Derousse, H. A. Commons “ Randolph Co., Ill 1846 Neal, James “ Commons Derousse, H. P. Sur. 2. No. 24 “ it it 1827 Rigdan, L. S. Sur. 2. No. 48 |FayetteCo,Ill. Farliegh, G. A. Dozoville “ & School Teacher Missouri *873 Stout, Aaron “ Dozoville Gagnon, Joseph Greenwell, R, F. Sur. 205 Dozoville Wagon Maker Canada Union City 1868 1871 Whelen, J. B. & Bro. St. Marysville Commons “ & Landing KeepersjKentucky TOWNSI-IIP 6, South. RANGE 7, West. NATIVITY. NAME. Bean, J. J. DiamondCross Sec. 23 Barlow, William Chester “ 35 Beare, John, Jr. Ellis Grove “ 18 Barth, John, Jr. t* <« Ellis Grove Beare, Joseph, Jr. “ “ U II Bollinger, Geo. tt (* Sec. 17 Bean, David C. Chester “ 25 Crisler, John M. “ “ 36 Conrad, Jacob Ellis Grove “ 3 Cullen, John Chester ei 11 Dudenbaster, Fred. Ellis Grove Ellis Grovt Dappe, Conrad Sec. 17 Feaman, Georgiana « it “ 20 Feaman, Charles A. 11 n Finley, James a a 4 Fowler, J. N. DiamondCross “ *3 Griswold, Maria Chester 34 Farmer and Broom Maker “ “ Clock Maker Farmer and Merchant “ “ Stock Raiser General Blacksmithing Farmer & “ Ohio I Conn. !Randolph Co. Buffalo, N. Y. ' Randolph Co., 111. 1 Ohio Randolph Co. Germany Randolph Co., III. Germany iVirginia Randolph Co. 1844 1840 1849 I1856 1849 1836 1843 1824 j*S53 *843 11866 1846 1844 iS4i 1848 184. ■s5o Glasgow, William H. Gant, 'Phomas Grannemann, Louis Gant, Alfred Geener, Andrew Heard, James Hill, James Hughes, Felix Hargis, William Hughes, H. W. Kult, Leonard Leming, James B. Leavitt, Abijah Leavitt, Geo. W. Leavitt, E. Leavitt, Ichabod Murphy, Wm. DiamondCross Chester DiamondCross Ellis Grove Chester DiamondCross Chester Ellis Grove Kaskaskia Ellis Grove Chester Sec. 11 24 13 14 25 26 17 7 1 7 25 29 4 Sur. 532 Sec. 29 Farmer and Mad Contractor Randolph Co., in. Germany “ “ Stock Raiser BooneCo.Ky. Germany Randolph Co. New York Randolph Co. Germany Randolph Co. to Co. 1842 1S40 i860 >825 .s5. >833 1857 1845 1846 ,849 ■873 1841 1827 1813 .85. 1852 1S43NAME. POST-OFFICE. RESIDENCE. BUSINESS. NATIVITY. & to Co. NAME. POST-OFFICE. RESIDENCE. BUSINESS. NATIVITY. Whne Came to Co. Matney, Franklin Chester Sec. 25 Farmer and Stock Raiser Illinois 1858 Stirnanman, Peter Kaskaskia Sur. 531 Miller Randolph Co. 1829 Maxwell, Robert “ ^5 Scotland 1842 Stirnanman, Jacob u “ 532 Farmer “ “ 1834 Mann, W. H. “ 26 Indiana 1827 Stirnanman, A. Sec. 29 a tt i8}6 Menard, E. Kaskaskia Sur. 552 “ Randolph Co. Schoeppel, John Ellis Grove Ellis Grove Prop. Florence Hotel Bavaria 'S39 McDonough, Thos. Ellis Grove “ 687 “ tt tt .82^ Seymour, Henry E. Sec. 20 Farmer Hartford Co.. Conn. 18>4 Nixon, W. J. DiamondCross Sec. 14 “ Ohio 1844 Schultz, “ 8 “ Germany 1S47 Peters. F. C. Ellis Grove Ellis Grove Prop. Ellis Grove Hotel Germany 1849 Spurgeon, Robt. M. 0 7 Justice of the Peace Indiana 1850 Rehmann, Henry Chester Sec. 26 Fa rmer 1865 Sulser, John Jr. “ 9 Millwright and Farmer 3tSmoaCo K, IS40 Richardson, George Ellis Grove Ellis Grove Physician and Surgeon England 1858 Seymour, Geo. D. “ *5 Connecticut ISS4 Roberts, D. P. tt 830 1827 McKenzie, William R. “ “ Physician and Surgeon Nova Scotia 1870 1862 McFadden, Charles “ “ Farmer St. Louis, Mo. 1852 1827 Morrison, Mrs. E. H. “ 11 Retired Capitalist Itun-lolph On., Illinoln 1843 Menard, P. H. “ Commission Agent Peoria, Ills. 1871 1858 Miller, William “ Blacksmith M issouri .8O5 *855 Needham, John “ Commission Agent Canada 1872 1856 Pape, Gustavus “ “ Merchant Germany 1830 1827 Paschall, Edward “ Farmer Randolph Co. 1838 1836 Regenfuss, C. “ ‘ ‘ jSchool Teacher Germany 1874 1836 Ranch, F. E. “ Retired Farmer 1847 >854 Stephenson, A. A. “ “ Constable and Farmer Randolph Co., IIIItkoiK 1S44 1847 Utelzger, Rev. “ iCatholic Priest Germany »S73 TOWNSHIP 5, SOUTH. It AJSTGE 7, WEST. NAME. POST-OFFICE. RESIDENCE. BUSINESS. NATIVITY. 1 Adelman, Francis Jos. Preston Sec. 4 Farmer and Stock Grower i Germany 1 Buckley, H. C. Ellis Grove ,f 28 tt tt Kentucky Berger, William Preston “ 11 “ “ jlowa 1 Bertholl, Jacob Evansville “ 7 ** !gu cuirCo-.llllooU. Been, J. A. Preston “ 4 “ t’>n )"Iii*i Oj Illino't 1 Been, E. M. “ “ 4 “ and Surveyor i , Bratney, R. N. “ “ 11 and Stock Raiser “ j Campbell, James C. Evansville it 2I “ “ 1 Randolph Co. Collins, James Preston “ 4 “ ** Belmont, O. Illinois Dodge, J. B. “ “ 27 Farmer Druin, Richard Preston “ Kentucky Dahlen, John “ I “ ** New York Doolittle, George D. “ Sec. 5 u and Stock Raiser ^ 0hU> Doolittle, R. N. L. *« “ 5 Carriage Maker New York Dyer, David Evansville “ 3° Farmer and Stock Raiser Randolph Co.. Illtniilt ■ GreeneCo.Ky Despain, Jessie H. Preston “ 11 a tt Evens, Julia “ 1 tt a MonroeCo,Ill Hagedorn, John Evansville “ 32 Farmer Germany Hachmann, H'r7<«ad Preston “ 5 “ and Stock Raisers North Germ’ y [ Haier, William Evansville “ 31 “ “ R-dolph Co.. Iiunol. • Hachmann, H. and P. Preston “ 5 tt a North Germ’y • Hull, Chas. Brewersville “ 6 “ “ Missouri Huite, George Preston “ 6 a a St. ciolr Co., Illinois Hogue, A. Evansville “ 3° a tt New York 1 Hill, John J. " 5 it a 1st. Clatr Co.. Illinois Johnson, William Preston “ “ Missouri | Jacko, Charlie Chester “ 16 a tt Illinois Kuehn, Francis A. Preston “ 15 ** and Bricklayer Baden, Ger’y H Kuhn, G. W. ** Preston Blacksmith 1st. Clair Co.. Illlooi., « Kuhn, Phillip “ ** Farmer “ t Kelly, Wm. “ Sec. 10 ** Jncknoo Co.. IlllMoU. t Kopp, J110. “ " 28 “ and Stock Grower St. Clair Co.. III100U. i Kiefler, E. F. “ 22 a a New York i Lively, J. A. Preston “ and Stock Raiser Missouri .. Lawson, Louisa “ Sec. 5 “ ........“ Randolph Co.. tlllnoU. S toCo. 1872 i»53 »3> 835 8,9 1852 1S72 1838 1831 1874 1828 1870 .870 ■873 1874 1820 NAME. POST-OFFICE. RESIDENCE. ‘ BUSINESS. NATIVITY. Meyer, Herman Evansville Sec. 18 Brlc* and Cl,Ur. Bulld*r Germany Mann, S. A. Preston “ 14 Farmer and Stock Grower Kentucky Mann, C. P. Sparta “ “ Haodolpb Co . llliooi-. Mann, J. C. Preston “ 10 “ Mann, James Evansville “ 21 u Stock Grower Kentucky Meier, John George Preston Preston Carpenter Germany McCormick, William J. Ellis Grove Sec. 34 Farmer and Stock Raiser (*nd«.'|>ti Co.. llltnoii. McCormick, A. A. “ “ 34 “ u Pump, Henrv' Evansville Sec. 33 a a Pollock, W. W. Preston “ >5 tt tt Pollock, F. C. “ “ 10 ** Pautler, Alvies Evansville “ 19 “ Stock Raiser France Rheir.hart, Charles Preston “ and Machinist Germany Reinhart, William “ IO Proprietor Saw Mill Illinois Royer, John “ 5 Farmer and Stock Raiser Randolpb Co.. Illlnoi*. Stork, John Evansville “ 8 tt a Germany Storcic, Lorenz Preston “ 24 Schmellemire, Elizabeth “ 3 tt tt “ Stahlmann, Matthew “ 4 a tt Soellner, John “ Preston n a “ Schwartz, Francis ** Sec. 24 “ and Grape Grower Bavaria Thompson, R. P. Sparta “ 25 “ and Surveyor naodolpb Co.. Illtnol*. Thompson, J. D. Preston “ 14 County Surveyor Thompson, R. H. “ “ 1 Farmer and Stock Raiser Thompson, John H. Evansville “ 20 “ Thompson, John B. Preston “ 13 “ Wiley, W. U. tl “ x9 tt tt “ Wright, John K. “ “ 26 Farmer Virginia Wright, A. C. Ellis Grove “ 34 “ “ Wiltshire, C. H. Preston Preston Blacksmith “ Wiley, J. T. “ ** Farmer Kan.U4|>h Co.. lUimrL. Walster, Martin “ Sec. 9 “ and Stock Raiser St. Clair C*.,'1ltinot>. Wiley, James L. “ “ *5 Wiley, William “ “ >5 tt tt Wiley, Samuel u “ 15 tt t* “ toCo 1S69 1S17 '837 >857 1846 1870 ■845 >83. 1828 1S32 1S34 .847 1544 1545 .831 ■855 ‘859 lS53 1865 1872 '833 >837 1S3. 1840 >845 1821 1856 1843 1844 r840 1850 '857 1850 1842 T()\VNrsilli> 4, South. itAINTGrE 7, West. NAME. POST-OFFICE. RESIDENCE. BUSINESS. NATIVITY. a to Co. NAME. POST-OFFICE. RESIDENCE. BUSINESS. NATIVITY. When to Co. Adams, Samuel B. Baldwin Sec. 26 Farmer 1820 Enzenauer, Chas. Red Bud Sec. 18 Farmer Germany i860 Black, Martha A. tt I2 “ Illinois 1849 Frazier, Samuel, fr. Baldwin Baldwin General Trader Indiana Burnett, Mrs. Alem’da Jordan’sGrove u 11 “ N. Carolina 1839 Griebel, Frank “ Sec. 27 Farmer Missouri 1869 Burnett, Andrew “ 1 “ Ireland >840 Hoy, Thomas S. Red Bud “ l9 “ Randolph Co. 1836 Bowen, Absalom Baldwin “ 33 UadUon {.M 1860 Hov, J. M. “ 18 1842 Boyd, Chas. Preston “ 26 “ and Stock Grower Randolph Co iiunol. 1S47 Hickman, Geo. W. Baldwin Baldwin Pilntii* Graining and Paper IU..gln( New Jersey 1S67 Buch, Gotlieb Red Bud “ 19 “ Germany 1S47 Henderson, Joseph R. “ Sec. 21 Farmer Randolph Co. 1852 Buch, Friedrich 11 “ 18 “ 1847 Holmes, Jno. E. “ tt 2l “ Missouri 1S66 Boyle, Wm. Baldwin “ 11 “ Ireland 1S42 Holt, Mary C. Houston “ 25 Wife of B. Holt 1861 Been, Reuben L. “ 26 11 Randolph Co t|||n«l. ■83s Holden, Frederick Baldwin “ 2 Farmer Randolph Co. 1837 Been, John '1'. “ 19 “ 1840 Hays, George Jordan’sGrove 12 “ S. Carolina 1848 Cox, William, Sr. “ 21 Randolph Co. 1808 Humphrey, J. D. Baldwin Baldwin Contractor and Builder Tennessee Cox, Tohn M. “ “ 21 S. Carolina 1804 Henry, Zachariah “ Carpenter ■87 s Cox, fohn P. “ Sur. 1044 “ Randolph Co. •834 Henry, David “ Family Groceries 1870 Canada, Marshall “ Baldwin Contractor and Builder Virginia 1869 Hamann, John W. “ Sec. jo Farmer Germany Douglas, John A. “ Private Boarding House Randolph Co. 1S18 Jordan, A. C. ** “ >3 Crain Lumber Co*) and A* Imp .8vS Dauer, Andrew “ Manuf’r Boots and Shoes Bavaria 186S Klopper, Wilhelm Red Bud “ 18 Farmer Germany i,8,|6 Davis, Wm. II. Sec. 11 Farmer and Blacksmith New Jersey 1847 Knewitz, William Baldwin “ 27 Prop’r Saw Mill .87, Dick, William Preston “ 35 “ Randolph Co. 1838 Klapper, C. Red Bud <4 8 Farmer Germany “ ISS2 Douglas, William M. Baldwin Baldwin Saloon Keeper Illinois 1843 Lamb, August Jordan’sGrove “ 1 Carpenter ■855i L.S' It /' TtfA a. Mxi/ li>*’mu ■ x, T { l^g /•f/i 5 bTL ./ v,> f t * ate & it I’olio o /.»« I * tflJ S T ftS’ V V* —:• '■»/ Xi.im..)'T- - V s-/= -*r Shttpf I -/fl -/I ///£<> .*• 11 n s.s' ■ to s ..v // u /tvrn c I tzo 1 yrhuh, max* 60 J John , Schuhitne tm li?-, 1 /L<7. cvmJ^ i *2/} «-1V® ® 1 J* tCjriuse W.yjlve Xolkpr »?& f0 stop\ C ctTTtj) belT; T /» o mp s o 7i Hnnnlejt J _P Yh om 'p s /v /«T ^ Thoihj i/ri m.AS^ftt g r« 1/ /i q Sr to zKiescT' . : /ir r /o/- ^ yr Hector 91 . »r * f'ump // r II ,;r , v r,yr-. ‘ «/' /0A - * :c ji/i*/ V /// • 6'?fA»2/' ^ .$ tn r}c .ToJJt-J)&naliA 40 fi ■i . /r - . -'- -,' ., V'- ' Thompson 60 • Srl) \V(Q-f Maxwell ■ to '■ ~rr~ WDmbU -f*tirk- ■lav'' in ./. ,1 • lir"s r 6i -^*0 ^ yiio'^a !^> (B»,-| j,>s\yXr/* h^'.t5sm5 ;V}X: , 7 5 J».i' M'yli I J f A *« ^ ^ " t 1=! 1 Thr^nflsoji ’'*«*W*a ' I A' r t lr It'll-*... ,• s t/«(tf/i,W,’ti'r > „ •'■>*■■ ■/» ■ . ' r-.^g ,r f1- iir: : ? .7 JL Th umps&tK 'Y*h- ° ■■•*,;/ J tt i1 nit K o pp. S'™y v ' , ■ c © i v?.; "-A-q-- !. JSred' jfru em cm U-"' A' 7- J ? ¥ f m * | W^:^§| , t r5 ^ A tTjFXHT?! 1 MiComagk,' 5tti i ® IJ vrr ‘10 ■’ 11 -I U rfirdbclt# stUbt :■)[■* ■»> \ ■m’j V y-XGr VeiiJrnjirr/i'i', KU , ■■-' ■ ■■ • ,V‘ 'OWTVeT Hi) iioseh, ■ C ff © :p If"'// ko;, !j * Mr t) r t (V Cor>un'rk 140 b/’otitj w - JWnsU'V Lr0^* ^T^Vosi- oV ,V.^ VvuxcxyA UcVv?i\a\\ Uoy rt . ' • Uo •»./<'.>', ■/ :■ 1j i e)f'c 7’ f v t hu ll J.., ■" oi^" )V\ X^ gi'rpviii p • " ' ,W/ VHjS punnp = ^ ' ''L= Wintlt'viich tt* MjL__e Unhu* . " 'i-Etcd eAl’oitU n C| >*' r. II.1/. > 2 j c 't.ytecelesUohM J3 ( ( U 7711) (i nn* 7 18.0 * hr cl r. r V 1_ OIL i- *^4-■ If) /> 0 71c! •> 31 r V A-X .\l‘liei- T hompson NAME. POST-OFFICE. RESIDENCE. BUSINESS. Liddy, James Red Bud Sec. 30 Farmer Laufer, Henrv Baldwin “ 35 44 Lenning, Joshua “ Baldwin “■ Love, Amos K. “ Sec. 15 44 Liddy, John A. & D. G. Red Bud “ 3° “ Lawson, Joshua J. Baldwin “ 26 “ Lemming, Joseph “ 10 Munt, John Preston “ 36 Mathews, Robert 44 “ 36 “ Mann, William C. Sparta 36 Mudd, William Red Bud “ 3° 44 and Stock Raiser Mehring, Heinrich “ “ -6 “ Marshall, C. F. Baldwin Baldwin Physician and Surgeon McGee, R. Sec. 21 Farmer McBride, William Risdon, 81c£nty “ 5 44 Nelson, Geo. W. Baldwin Baldwin Hotel 1st class accommod. Park, James “ 44 Farmer Preston, Alfred L. 14 Sec. 11 44 Preston. R. 11. Baldwin Justice of the Peace Petzingcr. Adam “ Sec. 22 Farmer NATIVITY. K to Co. St. Louis 1842 Germany 1865 New Jersey 1858 \ irginia 1872 Randolph Co. ?>. cV. Iwa >845 New lersey 1847 St. Chas., Mo. i860 Ireland 1843 Randolph Co. 1829 Kentucky i8i8 Germany IS65 Randolph Co. 1840 \ irginia 1858 Randolph Co *835 Illinois 1832 Ireland IS48 Illinois 1849 New Jersey >839 Germany 1868 NAME. Rhodes, 0. H. Spitz, Conrad Short, John Spath, J. A. Stewart, J. L. Snodgrass, F. M. Scudder, Chas. Thompson, E. J. Thompson, James A. Thompson, W. T. Van Pelt, A. J. Vogt, Friedrich Wilson, William M. Wilson, A. VV. Wiley, W. L. Welding, Heinrich Watson, Janies D. Young, Wm. G. Yagle, Edward Baldwin Risdon Baldwin Red Bud Baldwin Red Bud Sparta Baldwin Baldwin Sec. 3 Baldwin Sec. ii Baldwin Sec. 19 Baldwin Sec. 25 Baldwin Sec. 26 “ 17 Baldwin BUSINESS. Physician and Surgeon j Farmer Livery and Feed Stable Dry Goods and Groceries Plasterer I Butcher Farmer Groceries and Provisions Farmer Groceries and Provisions Farmer Dry Goods and Groceries Proprietor of Hotel Hotel Keeper Farmer NATIVITY. Sec. 6 Tp. 4-7 Sparta 44 Baldwin) Ornamental Plasterer ISec. 26 Farmer New York Germany Illinois Germany Indiana Tennessee Randolph Co. Illinois Randolph Co. 1874 1850 1842 1855 1818 1850 Indiana 1871 Germany 1857 Illinois 1841 Randolph Co- 1848 1848 1865 1854 1846 Germany Scotland Missouri Germany 1868 1874 1874 TOWNSHIP 6, South. RANGE 8, West. NAME. POST-OFFICF. i RESIDENCE. BUSINESS. NATIVITY. $ame NAME, to Co. POST OFFiCE. RESIDENCE. BUSINESS. NATIVITY. & 10 Co. Bowers. Franklin Brewersville Survey 360 Farmer JacksonCo,Ill 183S Hargis, J. H. Ellis Grove Sec. 7 Farmer 1’ennessee 1847 Bielefeld, Henry 363 Germany i St;2 Joes, Mrs. Jane Sur. 440 “ Randolph Co. 1823 Beiter, E. Ellis Grove “ 7S9 44 1858 Jaccoby, Peter Brewersville " 360 Germany 1867 Cavanaugh, Ed. Kaskaskia “ 246 Randolph Co., Ill 1835 Kerr, James A. Ellis Grove “ 44' Pennsylvania I87I Cavanaugh, John B. 44 | “ 246 1850 Lanham, Walter Brewersville •' 360 Kentucky I864 Cavanaugh, Michael I’. 44 277 1846 Mudd, William ** “ 5°' Randolph Co., III. I827 Caliott. Elie 44 | “ 278 Missouri 1874 Novall, Antoine Kaskaskia “ 280 “ “ I8,V> Durbin. Richard Brewersville 360 Kentucky 186s Phegley, William Brewersville “ 5OT ! Kentucky '834 Denninger, George Ellis Grove 1 “ 440 Germany 1848 1 Phegley, N. B. “ “ 476 BrownCo, 111. 1845 Fisher, Archibald, Sr. Sec. 12 Knox, Ienn. 1804 Phegley, John “ 474 Icxas 1844 Fisher, William 'Survey 696 Randolph Co. 1839 Russell, John Francis Kaskaskia “ 276 I* ranee 18^8 Frick, Alois Brewersville 362 Germany 1869 Roots, George “ “ 478 England 1847 Gayar, Nicholes Ellis Grove 441 Randolph Co.. III. 1855 Steinburg, John “ “ 279 Germany 18S4 Harmon, George 44 441 44 1841 Schneider, Phillip Ellis Grove 44 440 Illinois 18S7 Horrell, John Thomas Brewersville 44 360 4t 1853 Tilmann, Cftas. Kaskaskia 44 476 Germany 18^6 Huey, loseph 44 361 Pennsylvania 1852 Whelen, D. L. Brewersville “ 360 “ Tennessee 1863 Hahn, Joseph ** “ 501 44 and Miller V irginia 1857 || Wills, Cynthia Kaskaskia “ 646 Randolph Co., III. 1817 Horrell, Bernard '1'. “ ' 5oi 1 “ Missouri 1S58 II Young, Andrew Evansville Sec. 1 “ C Jermany 1854 TOWNSHIP 5, South. RANGE 8, West. NAME, POST-OFFICE. RESIDENCE. BUSINESS. NATIVITY. When lo Co._ NAME. POST-OFFICE. RESIDENCE. BUSINESS. NATIVITY. as to Co. Baumbaner, Peter Evansville Evansville Machine & Blksniith Shop Germany 1857 Lark, T. V. Ruma Ruma Physician and Surgeon St Clair Co., 111. 1872 Becker, Adam 44 General Blacksmith Shop “ 1867 Mudd, Henry, Sen. 44 Sec. 29 Farmer Randolph Co. 1820 Braum, John “ Carpenter and Joiner “ ■857 Mudd, James H. Brewersville 44 30 14 *835 Boyle. Samuel L Ruma Sec. 29 Farmer and School Teacher Virginia ■so. Mayer, George Joseph Evansville Evansville Boot and Shoe Maker Germany 1867 Blais, Charles Brewersville Sur. 501 “ Randolph Co. 1845 Meyer, Joseph 44 44 Hotel and Bar Room Alsace 1856 Blais, James M. 44 “ 5°‘ “ “ 1841 Meyerott, Henry G. 44 44 Wag Mkr. anil Police Mte. Germany 1S53 Berth oil, Francis Evansville Sec. 25 Si Clair Co.. III. 1874 McBride, Thomas J. P’iedu Rocher Sec. 7 Farmer Randolph Co., III. ■835 1848 Bertholl, George 44 “ 25 Architect and Builder Germany ■S53 O’Hara, Charles Ruma “ 5 “ Crozier. Samuel T. 44 Evansville Justice of Peace and Real Est. Agent Randolph Co.. III. 1S3S Oppermann, J. Louis 44 Ruma Saloon and Hotel St. Louis 1869 Cragan, Thomas A. “ Sec. 14 Farmer “ 1840 Pautler, Paulus Evansville Evansville First Class Hotel <$: Bar Rm. Alsace 1852 Cragan, Frank 44 “ 14 “ 1845 Pautler, Joseph 44 Sur. 443 Farmer 1856 Cragan, Robert E. “ “ I4. “ “ 1846 Rabe, Charles Ruma Sec. 11 “ Randolph Co., III. >850 .838 ■857 >853 1838 Clusc, Rev. William Evansville Pres t College Sacred Heart Germany 1872 Simpson, Alfred L. " 20 Sangamon Co., 111. Chestnutwood, J. Brewersville General Business Ohio 1852 Simpson, George P. 44 •< 17 “ and Teacher Randolph Co., III. Conner, William S. Dowling, James Sur. 501 Farmer Randolph Co. 1815 Shea, James “ 5 Ireland Ruma Sec. 5 Evansville Ohio 1841 Simpson, James D. 44 “ 20 Kentucky Grayson, Ky. Eccles, James Evansville Land Dealer Evansville,111. 1846 Simpson, Thos. A. 14 “ 5 4. Fendenberg, Franz L. Ruma Ruma General Store Germany 1869 Schwarz, Joseph Evansville Evansville I I'd ware, Stoves & Tinware Missouri 1837 1866 Faherty, Patrick “ Conolj C«m^tMtoner^J.n 1 L Randolph Co.. 111. 1840 Sauer, N and W. 44 “ Flour, PI Mill & Lumb. Yd. MonroeCo,IIl Grosse, Nicholas Evansville Sec. 36 Farmer France 1832 Simeon Chas. H. Ruma Sec. 29 Farmer Kentucky Randolph Co., III. >855 1S50 1852 1S47 Homann, Rudolph lt Evansville Physician and Surgeon Germany ‘854 Wehrheim, George Evansville Evansville General Store Heck, Metart Ruma Ruma General Blacksmith “ isos Wehrheim, Louis 44 Ag’t for Agricultural Imp. Farmer Heifer, George Evansville Evansville Saloon Keeper Lorraine 1861 Wehrheim, V. Sur. 6*7 it Heltel, Jacob “ Sec. 24 Farmer Germany 1855 Wunderlich, Martin Sec. 13 Germany Hardisty, John W. “ Sur. 645 '• and Stock Dealer Kentucky 1840 j Wolff, William 44 “ 24 1852 1866 Hovell, Benedict J. Ruma Sec. 18 Randolph Co., Ill, >833 Walter, Edward <* Evansville « Alsace Tennessee Heilmann, Mrs. Phillip Prairie du Roc. \\ 19 “ Germany 1856 Williamson, Wm.G. 44 Ferryman and Farmer 1872 1830 1858 Kruse, Henry L. Kuma 44 lO - “ — >857 Wagner, J. A. ---- “ Store Keeper and Mechanic Germany TOWNSHIP 4, RANGE 8. Allen, Minor Adams, John R. Adelmann, Theo. Busch, Fred. Brase, William Bcgmann and Blair Brunner, John Brickey, John Berger, Emil Beattie, A. B. Bauer, Joseph L. Eraser, Conrad Carl, George Erdmann, Friedrich Eberhardt, William Rise, Friedrich Eggerding, Henry- Red Bud Ruma Red Bud Baldwin i Red Bud Sec. 3 Sec. 35 Red Bud Red Bud Sec. 14 Red Bud Sec. 11 Prin. Public Schools Saloon Keeper Farmer Cooper Mcht. Miller Beer Brewer Physician and Surgeon Fanner Pastor S. Trinity Church Nurseryman and Dealer in Fn.it Tre Furniture Store Farmer NATIVITY. <&: to Co. Illinois 1824 Randolph Co., 111. 1821 Germany 1842 1845 1847 .846 Germany 184s Randolph Co., Ill 1S1S Germany 1858 Randolph Cc., Ill 1834 New York 1874 Germany 1842 44 1862 ■8S3 1865 “ <848 18,2 Faherty, Edmund, Jr. Red Bud Frank, John B. ' Ruma Fuchs, A. Jameson, Jr. Red Bud Faherty, Edmund “ Faherty, James “ Gatelmann, Christoph. t( Guebert, Henry E. “ Guebert, Christian “ Guebert, William tr Gucker, D. R. “ Grimm, Phillip “ Guebert, William ** Heck, Valentine « Hitzmann. Fred. 44 Huth, Adam “ Heining, Henry “ Hanebutt, F. Ruma Red Bud Ruma Red Bud Red Bud Sec. 13 Red Bud BUSINESS Farmer Boots and Shoes NATIVITY. y/btn to Co. Randolph Co., III. 1846 Germany 1S66 Demist, Fi™ Fuchi & ftrocniii£ Staten Island 1S74 Farmer, Livery & Feed Stab. Rudolph o>.. in ,82', Farmer « i82j Farmer and Machine Agt. Germany 1846 “ “ 1851 Baker Farmer Randolph Co. Germany Wagon Maker Farmer :S»le»niau H Huth Ancnt Prop. Store Building AUMti»oe Hotel Saloon & Auction er Germany MonroeCo,Ill ‘85° 1850 1852 1855 1849 1856 *854 1S71 •855 1844TOWNSHIP 4, RANGE 8-CONTINUED. NAME. POST-OFFICE. RESIDENCE. Hecker, Geo. F. Red Bud Red Bud Iiuth, Math. “ Hugle, Anton 44 “ Jakle, Joseph Koch, Friederich ** Sec. 20 Kardell, P. “ Red Bud Kaufmann, H. C. 44 Kettler, G. V. 44 Liefer, Louis “ Sec. 16 Liefer, Diedrich “ “ IO Long, Chas. A. “ Red Bud Leonhardt and Fischer 11 Landholt, John “ Mudd, John B. •• Murphey, Geo. Red Bud Red Bud Mudd, W. T. << Moehrs, Friedrich “ Sec. 26 Milne, Harry “ Red Bud Meyer, John H “ Miller, Jacob “ Nelson, William Rum a Sec. 32 O'Hara, Henrv Red Bud Red Bud Offerding, Daniel “ Ohlwine, David “ Sec. 10 Ofierding, Phillip 44 Red Bud Outon, Wm. M. 11 “ Penrod, Capt. J. “ Sec. 12 Phillips, Theodore “ Red Bud Penningroth, Schrieber & Co “ ** Ratx, Geo. “ Ratz, Henry “ Printer and Notary Public Germany Merchant Ilesse Ilann. Architect and Brick Maker j Baden Saloon Keeper lSt. Louis, Mo. I'armer Germany Prop. Planters’ House “ Com. Merchant « Bar and Saloon Keeper Farmer St. ClairCo,IU Germany Carriage Manufacturer Missouri Merchant Millers Germany Physician and Surgeon « Livery Sale & Feed Stable Randolph Co., in. Engineer and Saloon Keeper! New York Saw™ ntHulh Bra^ud Agol for ka|uUph Co> Farmer Germany Miller, Prop, of Hotel 'Scotland Hotel,Bar and Saloon Keep. Germany Auctioneer & Lumber Dir. Prussia Farmer Randolph Co., III. Lumber Mcht. and Ex. Agt. Maryland Hotel and Saloon Germany Farmer Ohio Bar and Saloon Keeper MonroeCo,Ill Farmer and Carpenter Tennessee Retired Kentucky Money Loaner and Dealer in Real Est. Germany General Merchants Prussia Grocery and Liquor Store Germany 'Com. Mcht. & Stock Dealer “ 1851 1842 >855 1865 1865 1870 1844 1844 1873 1874 1863 1836 1874 *843 i839 1862 1S57 1869 1S3S 1817 1841 1839 *«55 1841 1811 1869 1869 1861 1S52 NAME. Rabe, Friedrich Ronald, Ernst C. Roscow, Edw. T. Roscow, John Roepke, Friedrich Rathert, Fred. Rau, Benedick Schaller, Fred. Schwaertzelt, Carl A. Stellhorn, Friedrich Simpson, James H. Schlierholtz, C. A. M Schuck, Wm. Seeley, W. J. Stedingk Schifferdciker, Francis Schribner, Chas. Smith, J. Mat. Schmidt, Henry W. Sachsenmeyer, Theo. Schrieber. Chas. W. Seeliger, Joseph Stoehr, Joseph Schlicher, Peter Voges, Conrad Wicklein, Andrew Wicklein, Peter Wehrheim, Phillip, Sr. Wey, Peter Yunge, Ernest Waterloo Red Bud Red Bud Sec. 25 Sec. 24 41 16 Waterloo Red Bud Sec. 13 “ 24 Red Bud Sec. 7 Red Bud |Sec. 36 BUSINESS. NATIVITY. j Farm. & Dealer in Agl. Imp. Germany i 11 and Cooper Prussia 1 « »*i Imp< j MonroeCo,IU 1 “ and Stock Raiser England i Deal, in Wines, Liq. & Gro. Germany 1 Merchant Tailor Westphalia i Stoves and Tinware MonroeCo,Ill i Past. Evan. Luth. St. John Church. [Germany 1 Engineer “ 1 Farmer fi i | “ Randolph Co., 111. 1 ’ Germany Westch'terCo.K V. Germany Gcnci.il Blacksmith and Horseshoer Physician and Surgeon Teacher of Luth. Trinity School Farmer “ and Store Keeper City Marshal & Dep. Sheriff St- ClairCo.Ill i Surveyor .Dolphin, Pa. Saddle and Harness Maker St. Louis, Mo. Farmer and Saloon Keeper Germany Shoemaker 1 “ J. P. and Notary Public “ Farmer “ Pro. Slafic Line, bcL Red Bud & Chc*icr|SaXOn y ;Farmer Germany Watchmaker and Jeweler Switzerland [Farmer Germany TOWNSHIP 5, South. RA.KTGE i) & 10. West. NAME. POST-OFFICE. RESIDENCE. BUSINESS. NATIVITY. Andre, Maurice P’iedu Rocher P. du Rocher Physician an) Ker, Henry Sur. 665 Farmer Germany 1854 Koenigseckess, Joseph “ 608 “ France ,832 Klebolt, Anton Brewersville Brewersville Germany 185. Louvier, Eugene P’iedu Rocher Sur. 342 Randolph Co., III. 1S2S Louvier, H. |. “ 342 “ 4 1S29 Louvier, V. 44 1S47 Louvier, Jno., Sen. P. du Rocher 44 1809 Lauham, John D. Brewersville Sur. 363 Kentucky ■S33 Medcalf, Edward P’iedu Rocher “ 1 44 “ 1S47 Merand, A. “ P. du Rocher Post Master and J. P. I -ouisiana 1846 Mudd, John E. tl Lot 25, Com. Farmer Randolph Co., III. ■855 Mudd, Vincent “ Lot 69, “ “ * '839 Mudd, Thomas L. *• Lot 52, “ " >857 Mudd, Thomas |. Lot 70, “ 44 4* 1864 Miller, Q. J. 44 Sec. 12 “ MonroeCo,IU i860 Mudd, James T. “ Lot 39, Com. Randolph Co. 1841 Mudd, Ichabod Brewersville Survey 362 44 “ 111. 1868 Qualls, William J. P’ ie du RocherSec. 30 44 Iowa I856 Raisbeck, Richard “ Lot 18, Com. 44 England 1832 Snook, W. Brewersville Brewersville Merchant Randolph Co.. III. ‘843 Smith, Capt. John F. “ Farm, and Ret’d fr. the Riv. Kentucky I863 Sprigg, Amanda E. P’iedu Rocher P. du Rocher Retired Merchant Randolph C<>., III. I858 Unger, P. W. “ Merchant Kaskaskia 1847 Wiggington, Charles Brewersville Brewersville Farmer Ohio 1866 Waring, Mrs. Ann P’iedu Rocher P. du Rocher Prop’r of Hotel and Saloon Monroe Co.Ill 1866 Wright, Mary “ Lot 108, Com. Farmer England 184S Weber, John Fort Chatres Warehouse Keeper Germany 1867 Wilson, James G. Sur. 665 Farmer Is. 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SI Mur/d ■P; ‘i Jame.r Juifth rao 9t---ITT * ;?(; : 1 ,/ofl n /ira/y'^\Jo\vnslviY ^TWpsI ^ - oV \Y>\ Vy'\\h\y«v\ 'NVyuYvawBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Of Ci ti ^ens of RncLo 1 jjI1 ^ (} lln^ y» Illinois. HERMON C. COLE (Deceased). Success is the creature of energy and tact. Men may sometimes blunder into fame or fortune, but, unless they possess sterling qualities, the sequel to their lives is apt to prove that they were unworthily intrusted with great advantages. Opportunities come to every man, but only a few seize upon them, and rise with tnem to success. It is uot because their opportunities are greater, but that they jJbssess the qualities which in all ages have been recognized as masters of success, and bv which they are enabled to take advantage ol that “-tide in tlie affairs of men Which,taken at tbe flood, leads on to fortune : Neglected, all tlie voyage of their lives Is bound in shallows and in miseries." These truths, which have been happily expressed in the saying that “every man is the architect of his own fortune,” are, perhaps, nowhere more decidedly manifest than in the business activity of new countries. It is there that energy, enterprise, and administrative ability come to the front. The field lies open to every one alike, and the highest success is reached by tbe man of greatest enterprise and strongest pur|x»se. Such a man was the late Hermon Camp Cole. As a business man he was known prominently, not only through Southern Illinois, but elsewhere; and while by ids enterprise he built up an extensive business, and acquired an ample fortune, he at the same time developed the resources of a large section of country, and was of material aid in promoting the interests of Randolph County. He was a native of Ovid, Seneca County, New York, where he was born on the 9th of Mav, 1813. The family with which he was connected was of F.ng-lish and Welsh descent, and its first members came to America at a peri«>d early in the history of the colonies. The family had its home in New York State for several generations, and was well represented in die army of the patriots during the struggle of the thirteen colonies for their independence. Nathan Cole, the father of Hermon C. Cole, was bora in Dutchess County, New York, March the 7th, of the year 1783, and afterward moved to Seneca County. His second wife, the mother of Hermon C. Cole, was Sarah Scott. She wa-boru at Ridgefield, Connecticut, in the year 171)0, and was four years old when her family moved to Orange County, where they located within twenty miles of New York Citv. Her father, Gideon Scott, in the year 1.801, moved to Seneca County. This part of New York was then a wilderness. Hut few settlements had been made. There were no roads—only cow-path* led through the forest, with marked trees here and there along the route to point the way. Nathan Cole and Sarah Scott were married in the year 1807. They became the parents of seven sous. Hermon C. was the third. Six of these were Inmi in New York, and one in St. Lmis. These children were Abner B.; BurtS.; Hermon C-; Oliver; James Monroe; James Madison, and Nathan. The last named is now a prominent merchant of St. Louis, and was formerly Mayor of that city. In the year 1821, Nathan Cole and his family left New York and came to St. Louis. This city was then a place of comparatively small importance. Nathan Cole engaged actively in business in St. Louis and Mast St. Louis i then known as Ulinotstown), and was the first regular pork-packer inthe Mississippi Valley. He died at Chatter iu 1840. Hermon C. Cole was eight years of age when the family took up its residence in St. Louis. His education he received principally «n the city, but when eighteen or nineteen, he was a student for three months at .Shurtlell College, at Alton. He began active biiflinen for himself as a merchant in a small way in East St. Louis, l ie was then about twenty years of age. He began without capital. In 1837, the whole family came to Cheater. Here his father, Nathan Cole, erected a flouring mill, the first ever established in the town, while H. C. opened a store, and engaged in the merchandising business. Chester had only been founded a few years previously, ami the building of the mill market! a new era in its prosj>erity. Additional improvements in the mill were made two years after, and the exportation of flour to the southern markets was begun. About 1840, Hermon C. Cole became interested in the mill as partner of Abner Cole. Having adopted the milling business, he prosecuted it with great energy and activity, and in the course of a few years the brands of the establishment became of the highest repute, not only in the West, but also through other section* of the United States. Wheat was little grown in Randolph Countv at the time of the establishment of the mill at < .'hester. Its cultivation, under the encouragement given by the Messrs. ('ole, gradually increased, until it became the staple crop of the County. In June, 1844, Mr. Cole was married to Miss Emily Cox, of Stamford, Connecticut. After he became interested in the mill, he continued the mercantile business, which remained in his hands till the year 1807, when he disposed of il to William Schuchert. Mr. Cole subsequently became sole proprietor of the mill by purchase of the interest of his brother Abner. A few years since he took into copartnership with him his two sons, Charles B. and Zachary T. Cole, and extended his business by opening, in connection with the already large milling interests, the banking house of II. C. Cole & Co. Mr. Cole’s first wife died in October, 1839. February, 1802, he was married the second time to Mrs. Sarah J. Flannigan. lie had in all eleven children, six by the first and five by the second wife. Their names are Charles B., Zachary T., Alice E., Henry C., Eunice E., Edward E.; and bv the second marriage Cora V., Grace, Hermon, Newell, and Nathan. Mr. Cole ended his long and active life on the twentieth of October, 1874, at his residence iu Lp* per Alton, Illinois. Typhoid Pneumonia was the immediate cause of his death. The business of the firm is now carried on by the sons, Charles B. ('ole, Zachary T. Cole, and Henry ervice of Minard & Sire, a leading firm of that place. In the tatter part of 1829 he found his way back to Kaskaskia. His first .marriage occurred on the twenty-second of February, 1830, to Miss Virginia Minard, the daughter of Hypolitc Minard, who bore a conspicuous part in the early history of Randolph County. Directly after his marriage, Mr. St. Vrain undertook the management of a saw mill, and was thus I occupied some ten or twelve years. Up to this time he had paid but little at-lention to politics, though In* was a member of the Whig party, and had voted for Henry Clay in 1836, the first time he was candidate for the Presidency. During his residence in Kaskaskia, he had, however, made many friends, and was popular wherever known. It was mainly through their persuasions that he was induced, to offer himself as a candidate for the office of Treasurer of Randolph County. This was in 1842. Mr. St. Vrain was elected to the position, and in 1843 entered on its duties. The work of assessing the county was all done by Mr. St. Vrain liimsalf. Now fifteen to twentv persons are occupied in performing the same duties. At the expiration of nis two years’ term as Treasurer and Assessor, Mr. St. Vrain remained in private life till 1850, when he was elected Sheriff' to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John P. Thompson. Mr. St. Vrain had proved himself so popular and efficient in the discharge of the duties belonging to that position, that in 1852 he was elected Sheriff' of the county. Under the old constitution, a Sheriff was ineligible to a second term immediately succeeding one in which he had been in office, and accordingly at the conclusion of his term, Mr. St. Vrain surrendered the office and devoted his attention to farming. In 1856, he was, however, again elected SherifT. For the last fourteen years. Mr. St. Vrain has filled the office of Circuit Clerk. He was first elected to this position in 1800, and has since continual to hold it. Mr. St. Vrain’s first wife, Virginia Minard, departed this life in the year 1853. Four years after, in 1857, Ids second marriage occurred. The maiden name of the lady was Virginia Guthrie, a native of Kentucky, but who was a resident of Randolph County at the time of the celebration'of the marriage. By the first wife there were nine children, of whom three are now living, John T*, William, and Julia. The latter is the wife of Lille Perry, of St. Louis. One of the sons, Edmond St. Vrain, died in 1873. He had been elected Asses- SOI- and Treasurer of Randolph County, and was widely and popularly known throughout the County ot lhe time of his death. By the second wile . Ir. . t. Vrain lias been tlie father of eight children, of whom Minnie, Savinien, and 'behave stat"f'that Mr. St. Vrain, in hi* early lift-, was connected with the Whitt party. He retained his connection with that oircanizaliou for a number of vears. and then, like a large proportion of the old \\ lugs, he found his way into the Democratic party. Mr. St. Vrain has since continued a Democrat, and holds the entire confidence of that party in Randolph County, tor his first office of Assessor and Treasurer, he ran as an independent candidate, but to the various offices to which he has since been elected, he has been the regular nominee of the Democratic conventions. ..... The length of lime for which Mr. St. Yrain has occupied public positions, speaks plainly enough of his fidelity as a public officer and of his popularity-with the people. He has attended closely to the duties of his position, and during his service of over fourteen years, has seldom been absent a week at a time from the Clerk’s office. He came to Randolph County when a young man not vet having attained his majority, anti .luring his whole life since, much of which has been sjient in positions of public trust, his actions have l>oen open to public scrutiny and criticism, and the result has been that lie has received commendation oil all sides for the qualities which mark his private and social relations, as well as those which have been noteworthy in his public career. JOHN T. McBRIDE. Few counties possess a set of officials so fiopular as those of Randolph. The persons who fill the County offices, beside being men of honor and integrity, are gentlemen, whose social feelings and generous instincts have won them a warm place in the affections of the people of the County. None will gainsay that this is true of John T. McBride, who is now serving his first term as County Clerk, and who had previously filled for two terms tlie office of Sheriff, and for a like period of time the position of Treasurer and Assessor. The family, with which Mr. McBride is connected by descent, is one of the oldest in Randolph County outside of lhe descendants of the early French settlers. On his fathers side he isof Scotch-Irish blood. His grandfather was born and raised in the north of Ireland, whence lie emigrated to America, and settled in South Carolina. He had previously been married in Ireland. His family was made up of several children, of whom the youngest was William McBride, the father of John T. McBride. William McBride was born in South Carolina about the year 1784, anti there received a moderate education, and there also he afterward married. About 1804 the family, including Mr. McBride’s grandfather, whose name was also William McBride, emigrated to Illinois. The journey from South Carolina was made by wagon, and the family settled at first a few miles south of the present town of Baldwin. There w.-re at that time only a comparatively small number of American families in the territory embraced in Randolph County, by far the larger proportion of the early settlers being of French origin. After a residence of some years south of Baldwin, the family moved to the west side of the Kaskaskia river, and located on Section thirty, of Township four. Range t ight. William McBride, the grandfather, is spoken of as a valuable constituent of the Irish settlement. His life was one of industry, and lie lived iu a manner which rendered him a favorite in the community. Though somewhat advanced in years on coming to Illinois, he endured well lhe hardships of western pioneer life and died in 1818. William McBride, the father, was also a man of considerable standing in the communitv. He was Captain of a militia company in 1813. On the death of his first wife, whom he had married in South Carolina, William McBride was the second time united in the bonds of matrimony, to Miss Eliza Nelson. She was the mother of John'!’. McBride. The Nelson family is of English origin. They settled at an early date in America, in the old Abbeville district of South Carolina, and some of the members of the family participated in tlie Revolutionary war. William McBride had ten children, an equal number of boys and girls, and of these three bovs and four girls are living at the time of this writing. John T. McBride was the youngest of the boys, and next to the youngest child, having only a sister younger than himself. He was born on the place of the early settlement of the family, Section thirty, of Township four—eight, within one hundred yards of the Monroe County line. The date of his birth was the fifth of October, 1838. His father owned a farm, and Mr. McBride was brought up as a farmer. The schools in the neighborhood were of an average character, and iu these he received the principal part of his education, supplementing, however, the instruction he received at school with subsequent careful reading and study. In the year 1850 his father died. Mr. McBride was then a young man of eighteen, and he remained on the farm, and attended to its management, his older brothers with one exception having married and moved away. He was still on the homestead farm at the time of his marriage, which was celebrated on the twenty-first of April, 1859. The bride was Miss Mary Wilson, whose father was one ot the early residents of Randolph Counlv. Gilbert Wilson was a man of original character. Among his traits was a‘peculiar fondness for hunting which he followed with great zeal and much success. The last wild horse killed m Randolph County fell from a shot of Gilbert Wilson’s rifle. After his marriage Mr. McBride retained possession of the old homestead, where lie continued to farm, though the succeeding fall he was so afflicted with rheumatism that he was unable to engage in active employment. His wife died in December, 1861. ' In the fall of I860 Mr. McBride had been elected Assessor and Treasurer for Randolph County. This position he filled for two terms of two vears each, and in the discharge of its duties lie acquitted himself with credit. At the fa I election of 1864, Mr. McBride’s name was presented as a candidate for the ..fhee_ofhher.ll, to which he was elected. By the provisions of the old constitution, Mr. McBride was ineligible to serve a second term immediately succeeding the l.rst hut in 1868 he was again a candidate, and was again tZ* ' . 'Il Pn, which hc ably filled for the term or two additional W r 1. I .r"\ ■ °? e?‘>’,red j.n 1871, and this and the following rear, VUB-I 'J r™ bua'“<» a flail's. At the fall elections of ISTS'Mr. wIn!!., h,i7 ^*“1 y c'1r the term of four vears, the office with whose duties he IB at present occupied. His majority of over fifteen hundredBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF CITIZENS OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ILLINOIS. is sufficient evidence of his popularity throughout the county, and of the esteem in which he is held as an efficient and faithful public officer. Mr. McBride’s second marriage took place on the fourth of March, 1873. Mary C. Smith was the former name of his wife. She was bom and raised in Chester, and was the daughter of the late Davis Smith. Mrs. McBride's family was originally from Tennessee. Mr. McBride has two children, one by his first, and one by his second wife. Mr. McBride has l»een a steadfast Democrat in politics, aud has always taken an active interest in public ailairs. His honesty and integrity of character form the basis of his popularity. He is a man who#never betrayed a trust. He has been loyal to the interests of the County, to his party, ami to every confidence reposed in him. For two terms he was Mayor of the City of Chester, and few citizens of the County have enjoyed higher marks of the popular esteem. DR. WILLIAM A. GORDON. AMONG the physicians of Randolph County none are more deserving of mention in the list of biographic* included in this work than Dr. (Jordon, of Chester. He has now probably been in active practice for a longer term of years than any other physician of the County, and in reputation for professional skill and the success which has attended his labors, he stands in the j first rank of his profession. He has been a resident of flu; Countv since the ■ year 1813, and of Chester since 1848. The family with which Dr. Gordon is connected by descent is of Switch origin. His ancestors emigrated from Scotland to America at an early period, and settled in Pennsylvania. Iu this State his grandfather, William Gordon by name, wan born and raised. The subsequent part of his life he lived in the northwestern part of Pennsylvania in the country adjacent to Lake Erie. Dr. (Jordon’s father, Alexander Gordon, was also bom in Pennsylvania, and lived there till he wag a young man, when he removed to Ross County, Ohio, and there married Margery Boggs, like her husband, a native of the Keystone State Alexander Gordon carried on in Ohio the business of farmer and mer chant. By his first wife he had five children, three sons and two daughters. Three are now living. His wife died, and he was twice subsequently married. Of the children mentioned al»ove, William A., the subject ot this biography, was the third in the order of his birth. He was born near Chillicothc, Ross County, Ohio, on the twenty-second day of January, 1820. In this vicinity his early life was spent. The public schools in the neighborhood of his father’s home, of a character of moderate excellence for that early day, furnished the means of obtaining his early education. He developed a ready mind, and manifested such an inclination for study that lie was afterward sent to Granville College, in Licking County, Ohio, and the Ohio State University, at Athens. In these institutions he pursued select courses of study, lie left school at the age of twenty, and the two years following had charge of a set of books belonging to a mercantile establishment. Ilis leisure hours he devoted to the study of medicine, to which his natural disjiosition inclined him, and which he had already determined to adopt as a profession. He read medicine under a regular physician of Ross County, and merely held his place in the store in order to enable him to obtain means for the prosecution of his studies. In the year 1841 his father also came West, and located on the Platte purchase, now the site of the city of St. Jo., Missouri. The next year, 1842, Dr. Gordon also removed to Missouri, and spent a year in the vicinity of where St. Jo. now is, then a wild and uncultivated tract of country. In April, 1843, he left the Platte purchase, finding the country unattractive and the climate uncongenial, and came to Randolph County, Illinois, where a brother-in-law, Dr. James C. Junk, was employed in the practice of medicine. I)r. Gordon at once entered his office, reviewed his previous medical studies, and made still farther preparation with a view of entering on the practice of medicine at an early day. He remained eighteen months with Dr. Junk, and then, in the year 1845, began his medical practice with Dr. John Ashby Jones, of Georgetown. His marriage occurred the same year, on tin* twenty-sixth of October, 1845. His wife was Miss Adeline S. Jones, the daughter of Dr. John Ashby Jones, with whom Dr. Gordon was engaged in the practice of medicine. Mrs. Gordon was born iu Jefferson County, Kentucky, and came to Randolph County when eleven years of age. Dr. Gordon continued at Georgetown till April, 1848, when he removed to Chester, and there regularly established himself as a physician. Since then he has been a resident of Chester, where he has built up a large medical practice, aud acquired an extended reputation as a skillful physician. In 1853, in order to gain a thorough understanding of his art, he visited St. Louis, and attended the sessions of the St. Louis Medical College, a diploma from which institution he received in March, 1854. On the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion in 18(51 Dr. Gordon left Chester to fill the position of surgeon in the army. He was commissioned as Surgeon of the Thirtieth Illinois Infantry, his commission dating August twenty-seventh of that year. The regiment entered into active service in August, 1801, and continued in the field till October, 18G4. It participated in many severe engagements, at which Dr. Gordon was present and did good service in his capacity of regimental surgeon. The regiment formed part of McClcrnand's brigade. In November, 1801, was fouglit the battle of Belmont, in which the Thirtieth bore a leading part. The rebel position was carried and the victory seemed complete, when a heavy rebel force was thrown across the Mississippi from Columbus, while at the same time batteries opened on the Illinois troops from the opposite shore. A retreat became necessary, and the Union forces were compelled to fight their way back to the boats through superior numbers and with heavy loss. Dr. Gordon was taken prisoner, and for seven months was confined" at the South, at Memphis and Tuscaloosa. In May, 18(52, an exchange was effected with the Major of the Fifty-first Tennessee Regiment, and Dr. Gordon resumed his old post. We only mention a charge of disaffection toward the government brought against the Doctor in the following July in order to show how completely lie was vindicated from it. The charge was founded on an untrustworthy statement made to General Ha Heck by a Colonel who had been Dr. Gordon’s compauion in prison. Dr. Gordon was home for five or six months. On a general petition of his regiment, and a recommendation from Governor Yates, he was restored to his position by President Lincoln, without loss of pav or allowance, and in March, 1803, rejoined his regiment, the charge having been proved to be without foundation. On the fourteenth of the following May Dr. (Jordon’s regiment took part in the battle of Jackson, Mississippi, and a day or two after distinguished itself at the engagement of Champion Hills. Dr. Gordon was present at the siege of Vicksburg, and took part in the battles of Atlanta and Jonesboro. Dr. Gordon returned to Chester in October, 1804, and at once resumed the active practice of his profession. Ilis valuable experience obtained while in the army gave him increased qualifications for the discharge of his professional duties. Dr. Gordon, in his political principles, was originally attached to the old Whig party. His liri-t vote for President was cast in 1844, for Henry Clay, the champion of “ internal improvements and protection to home industry.” He continued a Whig as long as that, party was in existence. In 1800 he voted for Douglas for President, and has since been a member of the Democratic party. While taking an interest in political issues. Dr. Gordon has never creased to be a patriot, and his devotion to the Union is sufficiently attested by his arduous labors in the field, receiving a compensation much less than could be obtained from his home practice. Dr. Gordon lias had ten children, of whom eight are now living. Nellie, the oldest daughter, is the wife of Dr. William R. McKenzie, of Kaskaskia. The oldest of the family, Ivlward A. Gordon, has chosen the profession of his father. He pursued his preparatory medical studies at home, and in 1872 graduated from the same medical school as his father, the St. Louis Medical University. He begun practice in Yolo county, California, in the Sacramento valley, where he has met with marked success in establishing himself as a physician. Dr. Gordon is not of those who have entered on the practice of medicine for the mere sake of the gain to be derived from it. lie is thoroughly imbued with a love of his profession, which, with natural ability and thorough preparation for his work, has proved the secret of his succets*. JOHN R. SHANNON. Tub lives of few citizens of Randolph County have been so eventful as that of Mr. John R. Shannon, of Chester, and few families can trace back their ancestry to an earlier date in the settlement of the County. The Shannon family is of Irish origin, and of Presbyterian antecedents, and j occupied a good position in the County Antrim, in the north of Ireland. Here I John Shannon, the grandfather of the subject of this biography, was a subs tan- 1 tial farmer. The family early manifested its patriotism ami a dislike of oppressive authority. When the unfortunate rebellion of 1798 broke out, John Shannon joined the forces under Robert Emmet, and held the position of Captain in the insurgent army. On the failure of that disastrous movement, Captain Shannon, along with others who had actively participated in the cause of the rebels, stood in danger of his life. An armed force was sent to seize him at his home. He was successful, however, in maintaining his eonccaltucnt, and that night made his way to the sea-coast, where he embarked on a vessel bound for Charleston, South Carolina. A year afterward his wife and two sons joined him in America. Captain Shannon .settled down in the Abbeville district of South Carolina as a planter. He lived on a plantation adjoining that of the ancestors of John C. Calhoun, and remained in South Carolina till the time of his death, lie raised a family of five children, of whom the father of John R. Shannon, Robert G. Shannon, was the third, born in the Abbeville district, South Carolina, in the year 1800. About the year 1818, some months previous to the admission of the State into the Union, quite a large colony emigrated from South Carolina to Illinois. Among these colonists was Robert G. Shannon, then in his eighteenth year, whose former life had l>een spent in South Carolina, where his family occupied a very respectable position in society. Soon after coining to Randolph County, I his mother’s family, with whom he had come iu company, returned to the South, this time to Mississippi and Alabama, while Robert remained behind and engaged in teaching school. This occupation he followed for two or three winters iu Randolph County, after which he engaged in the New Orleans trade, making several trips down tin: Mississippi in a keel-boat, a pursuit for which he was fitted by a like experience in South Carolina, on the Savannah River. On coming of age he re-visited South Carolina and that part of Alabama where his mother had made her home. He here secured some property to which he had fallen heir from his father, and likewise traded to some extent on the Tombigbee River. In the year 1822 Mr. Shannon’s father returned to Illinois, and the year following was married to Mary Anderson, the oldest daughter of Colonel David Anderson, who in his life-time was a prominent man in Randolph County. Colonel Anderson had come to Illinois from the Abbeville district, of South Carolina, toward the close of the year 1804. This colony, which arrived at the Irish Settlement, at the mouth of Plum Creek, on Christmas day, numbered thirtv-oue members, and comprised the families of David Anderson, James Anderson, John McClinton, and Adam Hill. David Anderson, who afterwards obtained the title of Colonel, settled on the Kaskaskia River, about a mile above the mouth of Plum Creek, and became a leading and popular man iu the community from the time of his arrival. He was a strong, athletic man, of bcnevolenee and kindness of disposition, a warm friend of religious enterprises, lie was known as a man of integrity and ability, and was often called upon to fill responsible public jwsitions. For neveral years, under the territorial government, he was one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, whose jurisdiction was something of the same nature as that of our present County Court. As Colonel of the militia he was a favorite. He was of the same Irish stock as the paternal branch of Mr. Shannon’s ancestors, and the family had lived in the same district of country in the north of Ireland. The Andersons had emigrated to South Carolina at a period previous to the Revolutionary war, in which struggle some of the members of the family took part on the side of the colonists. Directly after his marriage, Robert G. Shannon moved to a point a mile south of where the town of Sparta now stands, and engaged there in the busi ness of a merchant. In the year 1827 he moved to the site of Sparta, having purchased acounleof acres of land now occupying the centre of the town. The town was originally laid out by John Armour, the proprietor, and the place received the name of Columbus. Mr. Shannon continued a citizen of the town till his death, which took place in the year 1849. The first|KJflt-officeestablished here bore the name of Shannon’s Store, and Mr. Shannon was for a long time Postmaster. For many years he was the only merchant doing business in that section of the country, and it was no uncommon thing for him to have customers from points seventy live to one hundred miles distant, in the region now embraced iu Washington, Perry, St. Clair, Franklin and Jackson Counties. Robert G. Shannon had nine children, of whom John R. Shannon was the oldest son and second child. He was born on the twenty-eighth of December, 1820, on his father's first location a mile south of the present town of Sparta. The next year the family moved to Sparta, and the next youngest sister, Nancy Amanda, who afterward married Dr. C. W. Dunning, now of Cairo, was the first child born in the village. Of the nine children, John R. Shannon is the only one now living. His early education, Mr. Shannon received in Sparta, as the little village subsequently came to be called. In 1845, when in his nineteenth year, he entered Shurtlelf College, at Alton, and for three years attended its sessions. He left that institution in 1848, and the year following occurred his father’s death. Mr. Shannon took charge of his father's business at Sparta, and for three years carried on the store. In the fall of 1810 he was united in marriage to Lorette M. Hamlin, of Salem, Illinois. His wife, by whom he had one child, since deceased, died in tin- year 1851. The next year, 1852, Mr. Shannon quit the mercantile business at Sparta, and in the fall set out for California, which at that time was attracting large numbers of emigrants. By reason of a detention of several weeks on tin* Isthmus of Panama, he was seized with the Panama fever, and was unable to euter upon any active employment for six months after his arrival iu California. As soon as strong enough he engaged in mining for gold, and as a miner and occasionally as clerk, he passed three years. For the last three years and a half of his stay on the Pacific slope, he was a fanner in Butte County, in the valley of Feather River, a tributary to the Sacramento. He look quite an active interest in politic-*, and iu the year 1855 was a candidate for Assessor and Treasurer of Sierra County, of which he was then a resident. The Know-Nothing excitement, however, which that year swept everything before it, defeated him. An interesting episode was his connection with Walker’s famous Niearauga expedition. He enlisted in Walker's forces, and took part in raising a company of men, but the vigilance of the authorities succeeded in preventing the departure of the filibusters, and Mr. Shannon and his comrades were thus saved the disasters of the unfortunate campaign. The year 1859 found Mr. Shannon back at his old home in Randolph County. Heserved as Assistant United State) Marshall in 1800, and in this cajwicitv took the census of Randolph County. The succeeding year he performed the duties of Deputy Sheriff. In the spring of 1802, he established, at Chester, the Picket Giwrd, a Democratic weekly newspaper. Mr. Shannon had previously had considerable cxjierience in the editorial profession. He had tilled the position of editor of the Register, a paper published at Sparta in 1S49, and had also managed the publication of the Prairie Democrat, a campaign paper published at the same place in 1852. Ho continued at the head of the Pictet Guard (ill the year 1805, when he severed his connection with the paper, and went back to Sparta, where for a year lie was proprietor of the Shannon House. In November, 1800, he was elected Sheriff of Randolph County, having previously been clerk in the office under Sheriff McBride. In the year 1808, Mr. Shannon received an honor, which bears testimony i alike to his standing and worth as a citizen, and his popularity in the party 1 on whose principles he has founded his political faith. He received the nomination at the hands of the Democratic State Convention, as State Auditor. With the whole Democratic State ticket, he was defeated. The opposing candidate was General Lippincott with whom Mr. Shannon had been personally acquainted in the days of his California experience. In the fall of 1809, he was elected County Clerk, an office which he filled for four years. Mr. Shannon’s second marriage was celebrated in May,*1802. His second wife was formerly Miss Alice Jones, a native of Wayne County, Illinois. Three children have blessed this union. Mr. Shannon’s life has been one of activity and adventure, and a hundred noteworthy incidents in his career might be mentioned to which our limited space will hardly allow us to refer, in addition to Wing a strong, vigorous, and perspicuous writer, he possesses no mean abilities as a popular sj>eaker. A fearless determination marks his character. In his private relations, he is social and genial, with a constant willingness to oblige and accommodate. His reputation for integrity, ami for being a man of his word has never failed him. Such qualities always attach friends to any man, and form a sufficient reason for Mr. Shannon’s popularity in Randolph County. BEVERLY WILTSHIRE. Ix referring to those who have gained honorable positions among the residents of this part of Illinois, it has frequently been our lot to allude to those who claim their lineage from the proud old State of Virginia. To men of this class the West owes much of her development and growth. The Stale which furnished the immortal Washington, and so many oi the men prominent in the early history of the Republic that she acquired the title of being “ Mother of the Presidents,” also gave some of her vigorous blood to the settlement of the great Western country. Her sons poured into Kentucky after the Revolution, and after a stay there of some years broke the barrier of the Ohio and scattered over the Illinois country, and* even pushed beyond the Mississippi, so that a great number of the substantial citizens of Southern Hlinois date their ancestry originally back to the Old Dominion. This is the ease with Beverly Wiltshire, one of the popular men of Randolph County, who for the last ten years has been connected with the Sheriff’s office, for six years as Deputy and for the last four as Sheriff. He is now serving his second term iu that office. The family with which Mr. Wiltshire is connected had its origin in England, from which country Mr. Wiltshire’s grandfather emigrated to Virginia at a period subsequent to the Revolutionary war He had a family consisting of several children, of whom Benjamin Wiltshire, the father of Beverly W ilt-shire, was about the third child in the order of his birth. The home of the family was in Jefferson County, Virginia, and here Benjamin Wiltshire was born, and here he married Margaret Feaman. The Feaman family were of Pennsylvania Gennan descent, and moved from Pennsylvania to Virginia, where occurred the marriage referred to above, at She’pardstown, Jefferson County, in the year 1820. Margaret Feaman was a sister of Captain Jacob Feaman, who several years previously had emigrated to I llinois and settled in Handolph County, where he was widely and popularly known. It was principally by reason of his connection with Captain Feaman as a brother-in-law that Benjamin Wiltshire and his family afterward came to Randolph County. Benjamin Wiltsliire was a blacksmith by trade, in the year 1839 he made up his mind to remove West, and that year visited Illinois to see the country, and to search out a location for his family. The next year, 1840, he brought out his family. Beverly was at this time a boy often years of age. The journey was made partly by water and partly by land, and in the latter part of the summer of 1840 the family arrived in Randolph County aud settled at the old village of Kaskaskia, where Benjamin Wiltshire took up his trade of a blacksmith. Beverly Wiltshire was the second child of a family numbering four sons and two daughters. The daughlers are dead, but the sons are now living in Randolph County. Beverly was born in Shepardstown, Jefferson County, Virginia, on the twelfth of February, 1830, and was consequently past the age of ten years when his father's family left Virginia for Illinois. The county in which lie was born was one of the northernmost of Virginia, lying on the Potomac river, and embracing Harper’s Ferry. Here in his early years Beverly Wiltshire attended school, and learned to read and write. He went but little to school after his arrival in Illinois. The family remained something less than four years at Kaskaskia. They left the place just previous to the high water of 18-14, and mOved to Preston, where Mr. Wiltshire’s father died iu the year 1849. When seventeen, Mr. Wiltshire became apprenticed to the cooper’s trade at Sparta. He subsequently followed the occupation of a cooper for al>out eighteen years. He worked as a journeyman, and as foreman and boss at different places in Randolph County and elsewhere during this period. On the eighth day of October, 180*J, he was united in marriage to Mary Cox, the daughter of Thomas Cox. Miss Cox was bom and raised in Randolph County. Her grandfather, Absalom Cox, was one of the early American settlers of the Illinois country. He was one of a party of emigrants who arrived in Randolph County from Abbeville, South Carolina, in the year 1804. In later years he was elected Captain of a militia company. He was an important member of the community, and lived a useful life. He died on the farm on which he settled. He established a ferry across the Kaskaskia river, which stillbears the name of Cox’s Ferry, and in the neighborhood of which many of his descendants still reside. Mr. Wiltshire was living in Red Bud, when, in the fall of 1800, he received the appointment of Deputy Sheriff under John R. Shannon, then recently elected Sheriff of Randolph*County. Mr. Wiltshire’s services in this capacity were acceptable to the people of the County, and he held the position for six years under Mr. Shannon, M. S. McCormack and John T. McBride,successive Sheriffs of Randolph County. Mr. Wiltshire had proved himself so popular, that in the year 1872 his name was presented as a candidate for Sheriff, to which office he was chosen at the November election, beating both a Republican and an Independent Democratic candidate. In 1874 he was again a candidate for the office, and was again chosen above his competitors. Each lime he ran as the regular nominee of the Democratic convention. He is now occupying the second term of his office, the duties of which he’hus discharged j in a highly creditable manner. He has always been a Democrat in polities, | and has regularly east his vote for the candidates of that party, to the success of which he has contributed his part in Randolph County. Mr. Wiltshire is a man of considerable influence throughout the County, the secret of which, perhaps, lies in his social qualities aud In his reputation as a man entitled to the confidence of the community. He is a self-iuade man iu the emphatic sense of that word. The educational advantages which he enjoyed were not of a very liberal character. He left Virginia at an age so young that his education was merely begun, and after coming to Illinois his opportunities were so few that he was compelled to rely mainly on hts own eflbrts for the book knowledge he acquired. His bread was afterward earned bv daily labor. Many a man has risen from occupations as ordinary as that of Mr. Wiltshire's to high positions in the nation. From the shoemaker’s bench, the carjientcr’s shop, the blacksmith's anvil, the tailor’s tabic, men have gone up to the Senate, and even to the Presidential chair. The higher jiosition* in society are constantly filled up from those who began in the lower walks of life. Mr. Wiltshire began at the lowest round of the ladder. He was without the influence of money, family, or influential friends. All these he has acquired by his own industry and exertions, and has succeeded in raising himself to a position largely in advance of that occupied in his younger days. _ Sheriff Wiltshire is a man of social and genial disposition, free and open in his manners, and this element of his character contributes not a little to his popularity. He is on go<»d terms with every one, has no enemies, is well known as a man reliable for his honesty aud integrity of character, and hence on all sides is recognized sis one of the rising men of the county. He is still comparatively young, and an active future lies before him. J. PERRY' JOHNSON. Tub Randolph County bar has no lawyer of higher standing among its members than the Hon. J. Perry Johnson. Covington, Kentucky was his birthplace, and the date October the thirty-first, 1835. His family, which was of Scotch-Irish descent, lived first in Maine, moved thence to Ohio, and afterward to Kentucky. In 1830, his father removed to St. Clair county, Illinois. In 1845, Mr. Johnson, when nine years old, came to Monroe County for the purpose of attending school at Waterloo. His education was finished at St. Louis, where he attended school from eighteen to twenty, and where lie also began the study of law. 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In the spring of 1849, Mr. Sehuchert took up his residence in the city of St. Louis. He continued here but a short time. In June of the same year, he returned to Germany for the purpose of bringing over his brother, John F. The money to make this trip, Mr. Schuehert had saved himself out of wages of ten dollars a month. He returned from Germany in November, 1849, found his way to Chester, and there entered as clerk in the store of John O’Neil. Mr. Schuehert held that position till the spring of 1852, and then went to California, where the gold mining excitement was then at its height. During the six years of his stay in California, he was employed as a clerk in a hotel at Marysville, on the Yuba river. The year 1858 marked his return to Illinois. He engaged his services as clerk in the store of the late H. C. Cole, who was then carrying on a merchandising business in connection with his mill. He continued with Mr. Cole nine years, till 1867? and then bought out Mr. Cole’s interest in the store, and took charge of it himself. From that time he has been engaged in the mercantile business, and has carried it on with considerable Success, aud is widely known as one of the most enterprising, liberal, and public-spirited merchants of Randolph County. He still retains the old .stand at Cole’s Mills, where he has built up a large trade. Mr. Schucherl’s marriage was celebrated in April, I860. His wife was formerly Miss L. F. Castllaw, who was born iu Tennessee, but was living in Randolph County at the time of the marriage. Mr. Schuehert is a Republican l all respccts he is a worthy member of the community, and by close attention to his affairs, and careful management, he has won his present standing as a business man. His life exemplifies the results of industry and enterprise. He landed in the country without capital, a boy in h‘ tcenth year, and aided only by his own habits of thrift, economy, and prise, has gained the place he now occupies among the substantial and influential citizens of the community. From Cincinnati ho went to Memphis, in the year 1858, and filled the posi-tion of foreman of the Memphis Jsulletin till the spring ol 1861, when the breaking out of the civil war between the North and South threw both sections into a slate of feverish excileinent. Mr. Spencer took Ins place* with the Confederate armv, and acted as newspaper correspondent for Memphis papers. He was ostensibly connected with the Lynchburg (\ irgima) Artillery. He was present at 'the first battle of Hull Run, on the twenty-hrvt of July, 1861, and sent reports of tin* battle to the various newspapers with which Iu- was connected. He was in Virginia al>out a year, and in this time took p irt in the various campaigns, and was a witness of all the principal battles. From the theatre of war in Virginia, he went to Pensacola, and was present at the evacuation of Bragg in the summer of 1862. From here he made his way back to Memphis, and arrived in the city five days before its capture by the Union forces. At Memphis he resumed his position as foreman of the Bulletin. From Memphis Mr. Spencer went to Washington, D. C, and was stationed in that city nearly a year, employed on Forney’s Chronicle. He was m \\ asbmg-ton at the time of its investment by Juhal Early’s force*. A few months were then spent in the oil regions of Western Pennsylvania, lie was there at the time of the assassination of President Lincoln in the spring of 1865. Mr. Spencer afterward spent six months in visiting his family and Ins ear y friends, from whom he had been separated several years. He was subsequently at Washington; in the year 1866 was employed at Philadelphia on the 1 ublic Ledger; and from Philadelphia returned again to Memphis, and in that city filled the position of foreman of the Memphis Post. In November, of the year 1869, he came to Chester and took charge of the Valley CUrion. With Mr. Spencer’s record as editor and proprietor of the Clarion, the people of Randolph County are already well acquainted. He is a newspaper man ot experience and ability, and under his management the paper has prospered, and acquired a high standing and wide influence in the County. Mr.Speueer, himself, is a man of decided convictions, liberal in his general views, and Democratic in his political faith. His wife was formerly Celeste L. Rice, a native of Allegany County, New York. THE VALLEY CLARION. When the civil war broke out in 1861, the newspapers of Randolph County all espoused the cause of the administration of Mr. Lincoln, ami the Democratic party were left without a local organ. To fill this vacancy, John R. Shannon and Robert M. McHenry established at Chester the Egyptian Picket Guard, the first number of which was issued oil the twenty second day of May, 1862. The paper became at once an exponent of the extremest Democratic views of the North, and became very popular with its friends, and bitterly inimical to those who disagreed with its doctrines. In the spring of 1863 Mr. McHenry, whose health had given way, withdrew from the paper, and went to California. Mr. Shannon remained sole editor of the paper. In 186-1 John T. McBride, Esq., became the proprietor and publisher, Mr. Shannon being retained as editor. In July, 1804, the press and office was attacked by a mob of relumed soldiers, and demolished. In August fed lowing, the publication of the paper was resumed, and continued iu the hands of McBride as publisher, and Shannon as editor, until in 1865, Mr. William H. Toy conducted the paper from that date until the fall of 1867. R. M. McHenry, one of its originators, having returned from California, then obtained the office, and dropped the name of Picket Guard, and gave to the paper the name of the Valley Clarion. Mr. McHenry was an able writer, and i a young man of more than ordinary intellectual ability. His death from consumption in June, 1868, severed his connection with the Clarion, and Robert j G. Detrick, Esq., became editor and publisher until the end of the volume, j Mr. William J. Armour then became editor, and conducted the pajier for one year. On the ninth of November, 1869, Charles L. Spencer, Esq., became editor , and proprietor, and has continued in the control of its columns from that day to the present. Mr. Spencer has been instrumental in making the Clarion one of the most popular and influential papers of Southern Illinois. It is the organ of the Democracy of the County, aud has an extended circulation. The first sixteen years of his life were spent in South Carolina, and he obtained his earlv education in the schools ol Chester. Ihe family arrival in Randolph Comity, having exchanged their home in South Carolina for Illinois in the month of December, 1845. For two years, the family lived on Hill prairie iu the northern part of the County, and then located five miles west of Sparta, where John Hood entered public land. He still lives at the same ! l Alexander Hood lived at home till lie was of age, and was employed in work on the farm. His education and study of law is a story of his own efforts. On reaching his majority, he determined to make law his profession. During the first five vears he spent in Illinois, lie had gone to school but little, and Mr. Hood felt the necessity for a more thorough education. He began his preparatory studies by entering as a student the Academy at Sparta, and for two years was iu attendance upon its sessions. The money to pay his expenses was earned by his own labor. From Sparta, he went to Ann Harbor, and for two more years was a member of the law school connected with the University of Michigan. He had intended taking the regular classical course, but afterward devoted his attention wholly to the study of his profession, graduating from the law department of the I niversity in March, 1861, and receiving his degree of Bachelor of Law. On his graduation, he at once returned to Randolph County, and taught school during the winter of 1861-62, at the same time giving some little attention to law practice. Iu the summer of 1862. he tilled the office of Deputy Asseswr, and in the succeeding October, was regularly admitted to the bar of Illinois. He first opened an office at Sparta, but located at Chester in the fall of 1863. Judge Ilood has since been a resident of the County seat, and has made constant advancement iu his standing as a member of the bar. Ihe first year he was a partner of Judge Snyder, a well-known and distinguished lawyer of Belleville. He then continued the practice of law by himself- For one term he filled the position of County Judge, having l>eon elected to that office in the fall of 1869. At different periods he lias also acted as City Attorney of Chester, two or three limes, by appointment of the Board of Aldermen. He was elected to the office by the people in March, 1875. At this latter date, Mr. Hood also associated himself in partnership with Mr. Abram G. Gordon, a graduate of McKendreO College. The firm, under the name of “Hood and Gordon,” are enjoying a large and rapidly increasing professional business. Air. Hood’s marriage occurred in May, 1854, to Eliza J. Hunter, of Indiana, by birth, but raised in Randolph County. Her ancestors were from North Carolina. Judge Hood has always been Democratic in his political antecedents, and in Randolph County has taken an active part in the work of that party. He is well known throughout the County as an earnest advocate of Democratic principles, and has done his share in most of the political canvasses. His tastes as a lawyer led him to the practice of criminal law, though his ability extends to every branch of tho legal profession. In personal character, Judge Hood is a man of liberal and generous disposition, of fine social qualities, gifted with a mind naturally acute, and with energy and perseverance. Physically, lie is a fine specimen of manhood, nearly six feet in height, looking much younger than he really is, and with a robust and vigorous constitution capable of enduring any amount of labor. Mr. Hood has won his way to his present standing at the bar by his own efforts, unaided ide influence or adventitious combination of circumstances. JOHN X. HOLLOWAY. CHARLES L. SPENCER. The editor of the Valley Clarion, Mr. Charles L. Spencer, was born in Angelica, Allegany County, iTew York, on the eighteenth of April, 1839. George Spencer, also a native of New York Slate, was his father. The Spencers in America are a branch of an old English family. Mr. Silencer’s grandfather emigrated from England to America, in the year 1795, and settled in Washington County, New York. Charles L. Spencer was the oldest of a family of six children. He began the lift- of a printer at an early age. When only eleven years old, he entered the office of the Allegany County Advocate, where lie worked some time. He left home at the age of fifteen, and began a nomadic life, iu the Course of which he Worked on newspajiers iu the large cities of several States, including Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Part of the time was also spent in Canada. For four or five years he was stationed at Cincinnati, and during his stay here, worked for a leading publishing house, and on the Cincinnati Enquirer. DR J. T. POLLOCK. Du. Pollock, one of* the old established and popular physicians of Randolph County, began practice in the year 1S55. He Is a native of the County, having been born at Sparla, in September, 1829. His family, both on his father's and mother's side, were old residents of the County. His father’s name was Robert Pollock, who was from Beaver County, Pennsylvania, and came to St. Louis about the year 1818. He subsequently located in the town of Sparta, and there followed the occupations of tanner and butcher. He married Hannah Thompson, the daughter of John Thompson, and a member of a family among the earliest to settle in Randolph County, coming to the Irish Settlement iu the year 1804. Dr. Pollock's history begins with that of Sparta, which, in the early part of its history, was known as Columbus. The town had just been founded, and at the time of Dr. Pollock’s birth ils future was largely a matter of conjecture. His father died when the subject of this biography was two or three months old. His mother subsequently married William McDill. The Doctor was brought up in the town of Sparla, and there received his earlv education. Although Sparta was at that time a small and unpretentious village, its schools wen:- of an excellent character, and surpassed those of some of the other older settled places. In this respect the town has well maintained its reputation. Dr. Pollock consequently enjoyed the advantages of good instruction. Having completed his education at the schools of the town, he began the study of medicine, in the winter of 1848-49, with old Dr. Joseph Farnan, who had located at Sparta in 1880 and was a leading physician of that section of the country for many years. He read medicine with Dr. Farnan for two or three years, and then in ihe fall of 1851 went to St. Louis, with the purpose of attending lectures at the St. Louis Medical School. He attended the full courses of lectures, and thoroughly prepared himself for the successful practice of his profession. He afterward received a diploma from this institution. In 1853 he sustained a misfortune, which for the time impeded his progress, and prevented him from entering on his medical practice. He lost his eyesight, and for two or three years was unable to do anything by reason of this affliction. For two years, from 1853 lo 1855, he was in St. Louis under treatment for his eyes. The efforts of the physicians in charge of the case proved successful; his vision was restored in its natural strength and clearness, and in 1855 Dr. Pollock began the practice of medicine at Sparta, iu connection with Dr. Farnan, his old preceptor. Of Dr. Pollock’s career as a physician, it is only necessary to say that it has been one of uniform success, lie largely combines the qualities requisite for the skillful and popular practitioner of medicine. He remained in Sparla till y 1857, when he took up his residence at Chester, where he has since l>een en- - gaged with the active duties of the medical profession. The year after coming - to Chester, 1858, he was married to M. F. Warren, a resident of Chester at the time of flu- marriage, and a native of Illinois, much of whose previous life before coming to Chester had been spent in the South. This union was broken iu January, 1S73, by the death of Mrs. Pollock. There were three children by the marriage, of whom two are now living. Dr. Pollock possesses decided convictions on most of the questions at. issue before the people, and lias been a Democrat in ]>olitics. His attention has, however, been strictly confined to the duties of his profession, in which he has proved himself capable and successful. ALEXANDER IIOOD. Alexander Hood has been a member of the Randolph County bar since 1862, engaged subsequent to that date as an attorney, serving one term as Judge of the County Court. His father, John Hood, was lM>rn in the north of Ireland in the vear 1801 and at the age of seventeen emigrated to America, and settled in South Carolina. He here married Sarah ft. Burns, a native of South Carolina but de- AM ono the members of the Randolph County Bar, is Mr. John N. Holloway, a native of Indiana, and a resident of Randolph County since the year 1872. The Holloway family is of English origin. At a period long before the Involution, two brothers of that name came from England to America, and from these all the Holloways of the United States are now descended. Mr. Holloway’s father, Joseph Holloway, was born and raised in Delaware. When a boy he came to Ohio, and there married, about the year 1824, Sallie W. Timmons, a native of Ross County, Ohio. In the year 1832, Mr. Holloway removed with his family to Tipj>ecanoe County, Indiana, where he lived till tbe time of his death. John N. Holloway was. the eighth of a family of eleven children, and was born in Tippecanoe County, on the ninth of March. 1839. Tie was raised on a farm. In his seventeenth year he left home, and became a student in the Indiana Asbury University, of Greencastle, Indiana. He was five years at college. He graduated in the regular classical course in the summer of 1862, receiving the degree of A. B., and three vears after that of A.M. After leaving college he taught school for four years in Indiana, and then in 1866 in consequence of failing health, went to Kansas. He here executed a work which stands a worthy testimonial to his industry and literary ability. In the same year of his coming to Kansas he began a History of the Slate, which he published two years after, in 1868. It is a large volume of nearly seven hum! red pages, the only general history of the State ever published, and wa* received with favor on the part of the leading men and prominent journals of the country. After the publication of the work, Mr. Holloway came East with the view of issuing a revised edition. He was advised by his publishers lo delay the matter for a time, and meanwhile accepted a jKwition as principal of a school in Illinois. He subsequently taught at several points iu the State, studying law during the time, and in August, 1872, came to Chester as principal of the public schools of the city. He has since been a resident of Chester. In 1874, he was admitted to the bar. Some time previous to this, he had formed a law partnership with Mr. J. Perry Johnson, though his name did not appear in the firm until after his admission as an attorney. The firm, now known as “ Johnson■&_ Holloway,’” conduct one of the largest law businesses in this section of Illinois. Mr. Holloway was married July the first, 1862, to Miss Etta Hall, of West Lebanon, Indiana. The Holloway family were Whigs and Republicans, and Mr. Holloway himself has been’warmly attached to the principles of the Republican party. WILLIAM KNAPP, Editor of the Chester Tribune. William Knapp, the present editor and proprietor of the Chester Tribune, was bom near the city of Chester. January 27th, 1853. His father was a farmer by occupation, and located in that section in the year 1844. During his early childhood he attended the district school, and after the removal of his parents to Chester, in 1864, the city schools, where he acquired an average education. During the winter of I860-66, and the following spring and summer, he was in attendance at the Western Educational Institute, now Western Wesleyan College at Warrenton, Missouri, where he graduated with honors, oemg the most advanced of his class. Returning home, he studied some of the more advanced branches under Profe*«or Morrison, of the Chester High School, and in May, 18<»8, entered the office of the Randolphi County Democrat, now defunct, where he learned the business which he now follows*. Here he remained until July, 1870, when he went to work in the job department of the tieuex'iuc Advocate, remaining four months. Next we find him employed as a compositor in the office of the St. Loui* Republican, for four months, and then as salesman in the grocery store of Sehellhammer & Brother, St. Louis, until October 18,1. Upon Ins return home, he engaged as clerk in his father's 1 iahing busi ness* until be started in the newspaper and pub- Fomiing a co-partnership with Charles 1J. Wassvll, under the linn name of SIk’lIi-’ "", c *S«lwtli of October, 1872, the Chester l'rib™e was Mtiblulictl as a six-column folio, and n> published as such until the purchase •L"‘clls lnt<'«*t. February twemy-first, 187-1, when tfie paper u' i j present size, five-column quarto. Thu Tribune is published SS "1l,;r '.T'""- “ d°ll!>K I"-1- y™. »» unflinching sup-SSHnii™ I' VPP" j!c:,n 1>ar,l>' *<“'onal, State, Congressional and I.egisla-.!«■!; .. \r ,r0,"'t.v elections advocates the claims of the best men for Measures,” is its motto. nna. lie nere marnea oaran .-s. minis, a native ot South Carolina but tie- Willi- r . -------- •’ . .Juuuo. scended from the same Scotch-Irish stock as the Hoods. This marriage wis f iL '-nappwas married to Miss Mamie L. Derousse, daughter of Squire productive of ten children. The second child, and the oldest son, was Alexan- fh.if nf , V°*U!r> Januar.v twenty-ninth, 1S73. A daughter was tinder Hood, born at Chester, South Carolina, on the twenty-fourth day of J’uly, tho ninth * i «7i'!!!!i!L!!U0v)5Wl,.iei,ce 5^- .?e co0«hement his wife died April the ninth i Vi*'”‘•'"’Tr c°,‘50een a resident of the vicinity since the year 1843, and of the town itself since the year 1855. The Ed words family, with which he is connected, is of English ancestry, and had their home in the City of Philadelphia more than a century ago. The early members of the family followed the sea, a fact which may also be stated of some of his mother’s relatives. His grandfather, both on his father’s and on his mother’s side, was a seafaring man. Both were sea captains, and both lost their lives on the ocean. John J. Ed words, bom in the City of Philadelphia, in the year 1792, was the father of the subject of this sketch, lie was an only son." He adopted the profession of medicine, studied for a physician in Philadelphia, then the centre of medical knowledge and instruction, and afterward practiced in that citv. His marriage took place about the vear 1812, in the City of Philadelphia, to Eliza Gregory, a memlier of a family prominent, at that time in Pennsylvania j>olitics. There were two children, .John L., and a daughter, Julia M John L. Ed w ords was born at New Orleans, Louisiana, on the sixteenth of June, 182-1, while his mother was on a visit to that city. His father lived in Philadelphia till bis deatlt^ which happened in the year 1828, and John L. was raised in the Quaker City and there received his education, for obtaining which good facilities were afforded him. He was a young man of nineteen, when he came to Illinois, settled near Chester, and engaged in farming on the tract of land now occupied as the county farm. He bought this farm in 1845, but subsequently sold it, having lived on it for ten years. In the year 1847, he was married to Mrs. Josephine Brazeau, the maiden name of whom was Widen. Mrs. Ed words’ birthplace was Kaskaskia, and she was a member of an old French family of that place, and the daughter of Raphael Widen. Her father was a prominent man in his life time, lie filled several important public stations, and enjoyed to a high degree the confidence of tlie people, lie was several times a representative in the Legislature, and once State Senator. Mr. Edwords, in the year 1855, quit farming, and removed to Chester where he began the drug business, and at the same time carried on a trade in lumber. He continued in these occupations till tin* year 1808, when he disposed of the drug business to Mr. L. W. Morrison, and of the luml>er business to G. II. Tate. He is at present engaged in no aclive pursuit, with the exception of occupying the position of a capitalist, and of attending to his own business interests. We have recited the main facts of Mr. Edwords' career, and have only to mention that lie came to Randolph County without means, and that his wealth has been accumulated mainly by his own shrewdness, industry, and energy. He is one of tlie solid men of Chester, Cautious and careful in his business habits, and a progressive citizen. Henry W., Clarence Edgar, and Guy Joseph, are the names of his three children living. One is deceased. Politically, Mr. Rdwords was an Old Line Whig, and his father was also conneeUrd with that party. He continued a Whig till that organization was numl>ered “among the things that were,1' and then Mr. Edwords became a Republican. He is, however, lilwral in his political views. As a business man. Mr. Edwords possesses some excellent capabilities. Few capitalists have made investments on which they have stood a smaller proportion of losses, and while he occupied the position of an active business man, he was enterprising and reliable, and was active in promoting the growth of Chester. Mr. Edwords has also been a conspicuous member of the Masonic Order. For several terms, he was honored with the position of Master of Cheater Lodge, No. 72, and of Randolph Council, No. 44. He was one of the earliest members of the Masonic Fraternity about Chester, and has always taken a deep interest in its welfare and progress. JOHN G. MIDDENDORF. Mr. Midi>esik)BF, the present Mayor of the city of Chester, has been a resident of Randolph County since the year 1851. lie was born at the town of Badbergen, Hanover, August eighth, 1824. He was the seventh of a family of nine children. From the ages of six to fourteen he attended school iu his native town. He then learned the trade of a tailor, at which he worked till twenty-one. On reaching his majority he determined to emigrate to America, and in company with an older brother lauded at New Orleans in December of the year 1845. The two years during which he lived in New Orleans he was employed as a journeyman tailor. In the year 1847 M r. Middendorf was seized with the yellow fever, and on his recovery came to St. Louis, where he also worked at his trade. March the sixth, 1851*, he arrived in Chester, bringing with him the goods for opening a store. lie had visited the place the previous year, and bought the lots on which his store and residence now stand. A family groccrv store, which he ojiened, was the first regular store ever started on the’ hill. f>uring the same summer, 1851, Mr. Middendorf laid in a stock of dry goods, and began business as a general merchant. From a small beginning he has acquired a large and profitable trade. August the first, 1851, he was married to Mina Triefte, a native of Germany, who came to America three years before her marriage. Eleven children, four of whom are now living, have resulted from this union. When Mr. Middendorf came to America he was in debt twenty-five dollars, having borrowed the money to pav his passage across the Atlantic. Ills industrious efforts have succeeded in building up a comfortable competence, and he has acquired an extended reputation as a steady and reliable business man. For several years he was an Alderman, and in 1874 was elected Mayor of the city of Chester. LOUIS DEROUSSE, (of Chester.) The settlement of the Derousse family iu Illinois was coincident with the founding of Kaskaskia. The year 1080. as near as can be ascertained, was the date of the emigration of the family from France and their coming to Illinois. In France the home of the family was in the village of St, Pierre, and from this circumstance the early members of the family in Illinois were known as St. Pierre Derousse. From this first representative of the Dcrousses, who came to Illinois from France bv way of Canada, is descended the most numerous French family in the State of Illinois, if not in the whole Mississippi Valley. It numbers about eightv voters in Randolph County alone. The Derotisse’family has borne an active part in the historv of the American Bottom around Kaskaskia for nearly two hundred years, and have proved themselves of vigorous and hardy stock. They have multiplied and increased, while other French families, once "prominent, have dwindled away and become nearly extinct. Louis Derousse is the son of Pierre K. Derotisse. The maiden name of his mother, whose family came from Canada, was Pelagic Richard. Mr. Derousse was born at Kaskaskia, August the twenty-eighth, 1810. At sixteen he was bound as an apprentice to the cabinet-making business, and worked at that till he was twenty-one. lie was elected Constable. The position of Deputy Sheriff he filled for eighteen years under Sheriffs Campbell and Steele. He was married in November, 1842, to Elizabeth Unger, a member of a wealthy family of Kaskaskia, of Pennsylvania German descent. After he was married he was engaged ex teusivclv in the wood business at Kaskaskia Landing, on the Mississippi. In 1852 Mr. Derousse went to California, and there spent a year. His first wife having died iu February, 1800, he was married in April, 1803, to Mary Manger, who was Itorn in New Jersey, but of French blood. By his first wife Mr. Derousse had nine children, of whom four are living. There have been | <-!ii!«Ir*-ri bv tin- s.-omd marriage. In March. 1870, Mr. Derousse moved to Chester, of which place he is now a resident, lie had previously, in the year 1865, removed to Belleville with the intention of making his home in that city, but he afterward disposed of the fine property he had purchased at that place and returned to Kaskaskia. Mr. De- roussc has been engaged in numerous business enterprises, and owns a large amount of property at Chester and in the American Bottom. He is a prominent business man of the County, and a citizen widely known and respected. CAPTAIN C. C. WILLIAMS. Captain Wuxi a MS is a native of Missouri. He is descended front an old Virginia family. Hi-* grandfather, Callaway Williams, was one of the early emigrants from Virginia to Kentucky. Of his five children, the youngest son was'Caleb Callaway Williams, who is said to have been the second white child born in Kentucky after it became a state. His birth occurred in Boone’s Old Fort, where the family were living at the time. Caleb Callaway Williams subsequently married Elizabeth Woodland, a native of the suite of Massachusetts. There were twelve children by this marriage, six boys and six girls. The youngest of all was C. C. Williams, the subject of this biography, born about three miles east of the present city of Warren ton, Missouri, on the sixteenth of January, 1820. His parents hail moved to Missouri, about the year 1817, and located in the city of St. Louis. After living in St. Louis and St. Louis county for about two years, the family look up their residence in what is now Warren County, Missouri, where, as has been stated, Captain Williams was bom. When eighteen he left home, and for two years was employed iu a glass factory in St. Louis. In 1840 he went on the river, which in different capacities he has followed ever since. His first employment was as diver on a wrecking boat, lie was connected with the wrecking bout for eleven years, during which time James B. Eads, the builder of the St. Louis Bridge, and projector of the jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi, was part owner, and captain of the boat. In a few years Mr. Williams became manager, and one-sixth proprietor. In 1857 he severed his connection with the boat, and came to Chester, where he bought the ferry. Previous to this date he bail been married to Malinda, the daughter of J iidge IIarvy N<• v ill, of Chester. This marri:ige was celebrated May the second, 1854. In’1802, he volunteered iu the 80th Illinois Regiment, and held a commission as Captain of Company D. The spring of 1863, he resigned, and came back to Chester. From 1805 to 1871, he was again on the river in charge of the wrecking boat, owned by the Salvor Wrecking Company. He now is proprietor of the ferry at Chester, which he carries on to the great convenience and satisfaction of the public. ABRAM (t. GORDON. Among the younger and rising members of the Randolph County bar is Mr. Abram G. Gordon. He was admitted to the bar in May, 1871, and is now practicing law at Chester, a partner of Judge Hood. Mr. Gordon was born in Randolph County. His family is of Scotch and Dutch descent, and Mr. Gordon was born in the neighborhood of Percy, on the sixth day of November, 1849. The vicinity where he was bom furnished the means of his early schooling. When about eighteen he entered the scientific department of McKendree College, at Lebanon, Illinois. He remained three years in tha,t institution, during the last two of which he pursued the study of law in connection with his other studies. He graduated at McKen-dree in June, 1871, receiving his degrees in both the scientific and law departments. He at once returned to Randolph County. On his admission to the bar he ojK’ned an office at Steelesvilie, and there practiced his profession till the spring of 1874, when he moved to Chester, and has since been engaged in the practice of law at the County-seat. In March, 2875, he l>egan his present partnership with Judge Hood, and the new firm, “ Hood and Gordon,” have received a fair proportion of the law business of the County. Clara J. Short, a native of Randolph County, became his wife in November, 1872, ami there has been one child by this marriage. Iu his political faith,as it may be remarked of most of the public men of Randolph County, Mr. Gordon is a Democrat. 1 le was selected as the first Prosecuting Attorney of Randolph County, after the creation of that office, the duties of which he discharged for a period of several months. Although a lawyer of comparatively few years’ standing, Mr. Gordon has already gained a promising place at the bar. 11 is private character is above reproach, and his relations cordial with his friends and acquaintances. His habits of close application, his extended general knowledge, and previous scholastic training, have given him an intimate acquaintance with the law, while his natural talents fit him (nr a high professional rank. JOHN H. LINDSEY. The present County Judge of Randolph County is a Virginian by birth, and has lived permanently in the County since the year 1857. He was born in Wythe County, Virginia, February, 1833, the son of Jesse Lindsey and his wife Catherine, whose maiden name was Kelley. The Lindsey family is of Scotch origin, and his mother was of Irish descent. Judge Lindsey’s education was received in Virginia. Up to the age of twenty he had attended only the common schools, which were of a very ordinary character. In the year 1852 he made his first visit to Illinois, and remained two years in Randolph County at work on a farm near Ellis Grove. On returning to Virginia in 185-1, lie embraced an opportunity of attending for a year the Hillsville Academy, a school of excellent reputation in the adjoining County of Carroll. For the two remaining years of his stay in Virginia he was principally engaged in teaching school. On the twenty-sixth of November, 1850, he was married to Margaret A. Mitchell, the daughter of John B. Mitchell, Esq., a prominent resident of Hillsville. Judge Lindsey had made her acquaintance while a student in the academy at that place. In August, 1857, Mr. Lindsey removed to Randolph County. He located at Ellis Grove, where he took charge of a school. lie was principally engaged in teaching till 1872. He came to Chester in 1803, and two years afterward removed to Kaskaskia, where he continued six years in charge of the public school. In 1871 he again took up his residence in Chester, and taught school for one year. In 1872 he was elected Justice of the Peace, and at the same time took up the study of law. In November of 1873, he was chosen County Judge, a position which he at present occupies. Judge Lindsey has two children, is a staunch Democrat in politics, and has administered the duties of his office in a highly creditable and satisfactory manner. ANDREW DOUGLAS. Tun name of Douglas belongs to one of the most ancient and powerful noble families of Scotland. According to one tradition the family is descended from one Theobald, a Fleming, to whom Arnold, abbot of Kelso, made a grant of lands on the Douglas, or Blackwater, in ILanarkshire, about the middle of the twelfth century. Another story relates that their progenitor was an unknown chief who, as a reward for success in battle, received lands in the same locality about the year 770. The host historians, however, trace the record back no farther than to William de Douglas, about 1175-1213. From him in direct descent comes the men who have made the name of Douglas illustrious. “The good Sir James” Douglas fought with Bruce at Bannockburn. where he commanded a portion of the Scottish army. After Bruce’h death, he was intrusted with the duty of carrying the king’s heart to the Holy Land, and on the way fell in a combat with the Saracens. Then follow a long list of illustrious names. The power of the family became so great in Scotland about the time of the fifteenth century that a proverb was current to the eflect that, “Noman may touch a Douglas, nor a Douglas’s man; for if he do, he is sure to come bv the waur.” There arose several divisions of the Douglas family, among which the Angus branch was celebrated. In its members certain privileges were vested—one, the right in ancient times to cast the first vote in parliament, another to lead the vanguard in battle, ami also to bear the crown in public solemnities. The right to bear the Scottish crown in its coat of arms was retained by the family to the present century. The history of the family has been written out at great length, and covers nearly the entire period of Scottish history. The family has held various titles, conferred at different periods for valor in the field of battle, or services in time of peace; ami in lineage has been connected with the throne itself. The Douglases were popularly divided into two branches, the Black and the Red Douglases, both of whom figure conspicuously in Scottish history. Mr. Andrew Douglas, whose name appears at the head of this sketch, is descended from the latter branch, or the Red Douglases, who, in distinction from tlie others were a more }>eaceful and agricultural people. Few families can claim the same distinguished lineage, and trace their ancestry back to a period so remote as the Douglases’. Springing up at a wild and romantic period in early Scottish history, the line is descended through a succession of bold, powerful, and warlike chiefs who were connected with every hard-fought battle whose blood ever dyed the Scottish heather. The vitality of the family has been maintained in a wonderful degree, _ln later days history bears out the assertion that its members have become eminent in science, law and statesmanship; while a large number who l*ear the name of Douglas have become among the most thrifty and industrious of the people of the United States. Andrew Douglas, the subject of this biography, was Itom in Roxburgshire, Scotland, within five miles of the boundary line between Scotland and England. It was in this locality that the famous battle of Chevy Chase was fought between Earl Douglas and Lord Percy, an account of which is handed down in an old English ballad. Percy, of Northumberland, had vowed to hunt for three days in the Scottish border, without asking leave of Earl Douglas, the rightful lord of the soil. Douglas did not fail to resent the insult, and the ballad goes on to relate the hunt of Percy, and the slaughter of the deer, till Lo, yonder doth Earl Douglas come, His men in armor bright; Full twenty hundred Scottish spears All marching in their sight; Earl Douglas on his milk-white steed, Most like a baron bold, Rode foremost of his company, Whose armor shone like gold. The English archers bent Lheir bows, Their hearts were good and true; At the first flight of arrows sent. Full fourscore Scots they slew. They closed full fast on every side, No slackness was there found; Anti many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground. This fight did last from break of day Till setting of the sun; For when they rang the evening bell, The battle scarce was done. Of fifteen hundred Englishmen, Went home but fifty-three; The rest were slain in Chevy-Chase, Under the greenwood tree. Andrew Douglas was the son of James Douglas, and his wifp Jeannette Lowrie. The Lowries i. whose family name Is familiar from the old Scotch song of Annie Ixuirie) were a Lowland family and a hardy and vigorous race of |»cople. Mr. Douglas was born on the sixteenth of July, 1818. lie obtained a common education in the schools of the neighborhood of his birthplace. He was sent to school from six to twelve years of age, but after that ]>eriod was never in a school-house iu his life for the purpose of receiving instruction. Six children, three boys and three girls, composed the family. His father was a farmer and miller. He remained at home, and was employed on the farm till twenty-five, and at that age he resolved toemigratc to America. The whole family accordingly left Scotland and touched the shores of America, at New York City, in the year 1843. They at once came to Randolph County, where an uncle, Lot Douglas, hail moved twelve years previously. The family first located near the school-house in Mr. Douglas’ present neighbor-hood, on rented land now belonging to James Adams. In July, 1848, Mr. Douglas was married to Eliza Craig, the daughter of John Craig, one of the old settlers of the township. Mrs. Douglas is also of Scotch descent. She was born at Paisley, Scotland, on the thirteenth of May, 1829, and came to America in the year 1840. Immediately after his marriage, Mr. Douglas moved on property, which he had bought in Section five, Township 7-6. In 1840, he had nought one hundred and twenty acres of land, and after that entered additional tracts lying in the neighborhood. When Mr. Douglas moved here in 1849, directly succeeding his marriage, the land was in a state of uncultivation. He cut down the first tree on the site of his present residence, and put up a log cabin which forms part of the house which lie now inhabits. Mr. Douglas’ start was made with but little capital, lie has been one of the enterprising and progressive farmers of the neighborhood, and his industry has assisted materially in the development of the section of country in which he lives. Ills homestead farm is composed of three hundred and sixty acres, and iu all he owns about eight hundred acres of land in Randolph County. Economy and industry have been the elements of his success. A lithographic view of his residence and finely improved farm is shown on another page. He is a man of moral worth, and inherits some of that stability of character which pre-eminently marks the Scotch race. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas have had nine children, of whom five are now living, whose names are John C., Eliza S., Andrew, Sarah, and May. On coming to America, Mr. Douglas attached himself to the Whig party. At the presidential election which occurred the year after his arrival, 1844, he voted for Henry Clay. Mr. Douglas was a member of the Whig party till the close of its career. On tlie commencement of the agitation of the slavery question, he arrayed himself promptly on the side of freedom, voting for Fremont in 1850, ami forming one of the earliest members of the Republican organization in Randolph County. ALFRED GANT. In Boone County, Kentucky, on the fourteenth of July, 1820, was bom Alfred Gant, the son of Robert (rant, and his wife Maria, whose maiden name was Shaver. On the Gant side, the family is of English origin. Alfred Gant’s grandfather, William Gant, was a native of England, and emigrated to America at a time, probably, previous to the Revolutionary War. He became one of the pioneer settlers of Kentucky, and located in Boone County when it was yet a wild and uncultivated region. 1 lere Robert Gant was born, and on reaching years of maturity, married Maria Shaver. She was the daughter of John Shaver, a German, who came to America at a period previous to the struggle of the colonies for their independence, iu which conflict he took part as a soldier in the patriot army. Robert Gant's residence in "Kentucky, was in Boone County within a short distance of the Ohio river, and seven miles below the City of Cincinnati. Here Alfred Gant was bom in the year 1820, as has been stated above. In the year 1824, when Alfred was about four years old, his father left Kentucky to take up his residence in Illinois. The family was made up of fifteen children, of whom the oldest was Alfred, the subject of this biography. Robert Gant, the father, was without property. All his effects were put in a flat boat and floated down the Ohio to Shawneetown. Robert Gant walked from this point across the country to Randolph County, where lived a brother-in-law, Silas Crisler, from whom a team was obtained! and the family thus brought to Randolph County. On coming to Randolph County the family settled about a mile east of the present residence of Mr. Gant. Silas Crisler, whose name has been mentioned al>ove, was a preacher of the Baptist denomination, and came to Randolph County from Boone County, Kentucky, about the year 1818. After living two or three years in this neighborhood, the Gant family moved to a point a short distance south of where Alfred Gant now lives. The schools in the neighborhood were poor, ami the children did not possess many advantages in the way of obtaining instruction. Subscription schools held in log school-houses, afforded the only educational facilities. Mr. Gant's father, though poor himself, sent his children lo school as much as possible, determined that whatever else they might lack, he would give them, as far as hePKl^'Y - /, ocrc/ec/. / // SA'Sec//7*6)5C; \ Settle 600/Y./o //s/c// /ro ,t Afoi,,fi(r, / // r/z/’S/r frrrs/rr/r Y/. /j. 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Ilia wife was Martha Milligan, whose ancestors were early settlers of Randolph County. Her grandfather was Stacy McDonough, one of the conspicuous and leading pioneers of Illinois. Ho was a soldier in the Kentucky militia, and was in many expeditions against the Indians. He nerved under Colonel (.-lark in an expedition to the Wabash, in 1780, and in 1797 located in Illinois, lie was in the disastrous defeat of General St. Clair, in 1791, and saved himself only as by a miracle from the carnage which ensued on that occasion. In 1793 he commanded a boat on the Ohio, and while passing down the stream was shot in the shoulder by some savages lurking in ambush on the shore, receiving a wound from which he never entirely recovered. During tbe war of 1812, lie carried the mail from St. Louis, by way of Kaskaskia, to Shawneetown, and though the route was beset by dangers from hostile Indians,'he made his t rips with regularity. He was elected Captain of a ranging company, a position which he tilled with ability and popularity. After his marriage, Mr. Gant bought eighty acres of land for three hundred dollars, and began farming on his own account. He lived on this place a year, and then exchanged it for the farm on which he now resides. It was in the year 1847 that Mr. Gant lookup his residence on his present farm, on the Chester and Preston road, a mile north of Diamond Cross. Mr. Gant has since l*een engaged in farming, and has been one of the most thrifty and enterprising agriculturalists in the section in which he lives. His attention has been devoted to general farming, and iu carrying on the pursuit, he has not hesitated to avail himself of the latest inventions and improvements whereby labor has been made easy, ami farm work facilitated. His plan has been to save the labor of man, wherever machinery might be substituted. He inherited habits of industry, enterprise, and economy, staid close at home, and attended to his uflairs." In consequence his circumstances bettered, year by year. His surplus funds he invested in land. It was his custom never to let land lie in timber, but he always cleared it and raised crops from it. There are now about one thousand acres of which he has the fee-simple, besides being the lessee for a term of fifty years of about one hundred and seventy-five acres of the Kaskaskia commons. The home farm is composed of four hundred and twenty acres. He owns four hundred and twenty-three acres in the American Bottom below the old town of Kaskaskia, and about two hundred acres in Pulaski County, Indiana. Mr. Gant started out iu life as a Whig. Afterward, o Whig partv, he became connected with the Republican with it early in the formation of that party. Sir. Gan very liberal views, and except when questions of na been at stake, has left himself free to vote for the best tive of the political proelivites of the candidates. For a score of years Mr. Gant has also been connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he* has been a consistent and useful member. Mr. and Mrs. Gant have had a large family of children, eleven in all, of whom ten, five sons and five daughters are now living. Their names in the order of their births are Mary Ann, John, Darius, Sarah, Nancy, Maria, Arietta, James, Robert, and Alfred G. The oldest daughter is the wife of Andrew Warren, a fanner of Kaskaskia Point. John also lives in the Point below Kaskaskia, and is employed in farming. Sarah, married John J. Harmon, of Diamond Cross; and the other children are at home. The record of Mr. Gant furnishes abundant illustration of what may be accomplished by a life of industry, and points to the opportunities for advancement which are open to every citizen of this country. The family came from Kentucky to Illinois without means. Alfred Gant began his career without capital. Land was cheap, and that, at least, could be obtained. Industry and good management did the rest, and Mr. Gant has kept on until he now occupies a high position among the farming community of Randolph County. Mr. Gant is a man who has never been bound down by narrow, selfish, and contracted views. Liberality has formed one of the conspicuous elements of his character. He has aimed to do things on i>, broad and comprehensive basis, and, as a consequence, has reaped wider results than some who have hesitated to venture so far, or have been less prompt in taking progressive sic]*. For the advancement of the farming interests of his section, no one has done more. He exercises an old time hospitality, and the stranger is made welcome to his roof and board. On another page, among our lithographic, illustrations, may be seen a view of his farm and residence. WILLIAM I. NIXON. WIX LI AM I. Nixon has been a resident of Randolph County since 1844. He is the son of Robert Nixon, a native of Ireland, and of his wife, Sarah, whose maiden name was Wilson. He was bom on the third of April, 1813, on the spot where now stands Walnut Hill College within the limits of the present city of Cincinnati. Mr. Nixon’s grandfather, James Nixon, was a sailor, who had traveled the world over. In the Irish Rebellion he was unwilling to join either side, and sometime about 1795 emigrated to the t'nited States, with which country In-had become acquainted in his voyages. Settling at first inJLancaster County, Pennsylvania, lie afterward removed to Washington County, of the same State, where Robert Nixon married Sarah Wilson. Directly after his marriage, about the year 1808, Robert Nixon moved to Hamilton County, Ohio, and located in the suburbs of the city of Cincinnati, then a small settlement. Here William I. Nixon, as has been stated, was bom. When five or six years old his father removed to Preble County, Ohio, where William was brought up. He worked on his father’s farm till thirty-one years of age. At this time, in 1844, Mr. Nixon removed to Randolph County, where an older brother had located five years before. He settled on the place where he now lives, entering the first year eighty acres of land at the government price. The year after his coming to Illinois, he married Lucretia Stipe, who had been bom and raised in Virginia, and who had come to Randolph County within & few months of Mr. Nixon. Mr. and Mrs. Nixon have had ten children, of whom four daughters are married. During his long residence in the County, Mr. Nixon has been favorably known as an industrious and good citizen. WILLIAM MURPIIY. Ireland is well-represented in Randolph County, by persons born themselves on the soil of the Emerald Isle, and who afterwards emigrated to America, or by those who have sprung from Irish descent, their ancestors having sought a home across the Atlantic at an earlier date. A large portion of the population of Randolph County is thus connected. This class embraces a large number of intelligent citizens and good farmers. Among them is William Murphy, of Township (>-7, who dates his residence in the County from the year 1843. ' William Murphy is the son of Daniel Murphy, and Mary, his wife, whose maiden name was Carrol. He was bom on the twenty-seventh of Deceml>er, of the year 1836, in the County Cork, Ireland. Four children two boys and two girls, made up his father's family, and William was the second child. About the year 1841, Daniel Murphy emigrated with his family to America. William was then a boy of five. New Orleans was the point the family first reached on crossing the Atlantic. After living there a short time they proceeded to St. Louis; and in the year 1843, as related above, they came to Randolph County, and made a location in the Opossumden prairie. It was at this place that William was first initiated into the mysteries of book learning, and was taught how to read. His father bought a farm, and William was brought up on that. After living about six years in the Opossumden prairie, his father moved to the farm, in the year 1849, now owned by Mr. Murphy, in Section two of Township 6-7. At that time he bought there eighty acres of land. Daniel Murphy lived there during the rest of his life. His death occurred in the year 1855. Mr. Murphy's mother had died eight years previously, in the year 1847. On the death of his father he took charge of the farm. He was the oldest son, and the sisters were unmarried. On the death of his younger brother, the homestead farm fell into his possession, and he has lived upon it up to the date of this writing. Mr. Murphy was two years under twenty-one when he set out farming on his own account. To say the least, he has been successful in the pursuit. Industry, enterprise, and good management have marked his career, and the result is that he occupies a position far in advance of the one he held twenty years ago. Over a thousand acres of land are in his ownership. Four hundred lie in the homestead farm, aud three hundred and forty in the Kaskaskia point of the American Bottom. The remainder is situated in the neighborhood of his residence. _ Mr. Morphv was married in September, 1S07, to Ann Eliza Nixon, the daughter of J*. R. Nixon. Mrs. Murphy is a native of the State of Indiana. There have Ih-ou two children by this marriage, both of whom are living. Mr. Morphy’s political principles have made him a supporter of the old and tried doctrines of tho Democratic parly. He has always acted in concert with the Democratic organization, and supported its candidates. Mr. Murphy is still in the prime of life and the vigor of his years. He has achieved a success with which few of the farmers of the County have been favored at his age. I le had been brought up to habits of industry, was taught that economy and enterprise constitute the only sure road to wealth, and his record is a good illustration of what may In* accomplished by any one who possesses the same inherent qualities—courage to undertake designs, and perseverance to carry them through. JOHN K. WRIGHT. The agricultural interests of Township 5-7 are largely represented by John K. Wright, a resident of the County since the year 1843. Mr. \Y right settled in the locality where he now lives when that section of country was comparatively undeveloped. He has taken a leading part in the improvements of the neighborhood, and from a young man beginning life without capital of any kind, and fighting his way by hard knocks, ne has become a well-to-do farmer, and an enterprising citizen. Mr. Wright was born in the State of Virginia. His ancestry is partly Irish and partly German. One of his great-grandfathers was born in Germany', and another in Ireland. His parents inhabited a region of country in the south-west part of Virginia, now embraced in Wythe and Grayson Counties. His father was Stephen Wright, who was born in Virginia, aud there married Margaret Kel lev. There were twelve children in the family, and John K. was the oldest, with the exception of one child who died before his birth. John K. Wright was bom on the twenty-second of July, 1824. He lived in Virginia till he was ten or eleven yearsold. That part of the State was rugged and mountainous, the land was all taken up, and difficult to be obtained bv a man of small means, and in addition, was poorly adapted to farming. That part of the Old Dominion has furnished a considerable number of emigrants to Illinois who have settled, in various parts of the State, and become large fanners, and valuable citizens. Stephen Wright also made up his mind to move with his family to a new country where more promising advantages might be found. At this time John K. bad gone to school some little in Virginia, but had acquired no knowledge of any importance. The family came first to Preble County, Ohio, and lived there till the year 1843. It was in this locality that the principal part of Mr. Wright’s education was received. The family was poor, John K. was the oldest son, and he was consequently obliged to stay at home and help his father on the farm, and thus missed a good part of his education. The family were not able to buy land in Ohio, and lived there on a rented farm- September, 1813, the Wrights left Ohio for Illinois. After about six weeks’ journey, they lauded in Randolph County on the fifteenth of October of that year, and halted at a spot three miles south of where Mr. Wright now lives. Some six or seven years previous, Stephen Wright bad entered land iu Township 5-7, and the family moved on that. John K. Wright was a young man in his twentieth year when he came to Randolph County. Whatever else might be lacking, he had been brought up to hard work and industrious habits. He was without money or cash capital of any kind, but he was naturally endowed with energy, and possessed a physical constitution capable of undergoing any amount of labor. He embraced every means of bettering his condition. He rented land, raised wheat, tramped it out on the floor, invested his monev {whenever he could get hold of any) in stock, and thus made his start in tfie world. October the twelfth, 18-18, he was married to Lucinda Boyd, who was born in Randolph County. At tlie time he was married, Mr. Wright owned no land, but the same year his savings amounted to enough to buy and enter one hundred and twenty acres, which forms part of the property which he now owns. In 1849 he moved on the place where he now lives, on the Chester and Preston road, in the lower part of Township 5 -7. After he had once made a In-ginning, Mr. Wright purchased additional land, and put himself in better shape to carry on farming. He gave his attention also to outside business, followed trading and teaming, and was willing to turn his hand to anything by which he could manage lo better his circumstances. His ellbris have been successful, and Mr. Wright is now one of the most extensive farmers in his part of the County. He owns five hundred arid eighty acres of land in Randolph County, all embraced in tbe township in which lie lives,—5-7, and two hundred acres beside in Perry County. He is a careful and thrifty agriculturist. His buildings arc in good condition, his land well fenced, and his farms a picture of neatness and good order. On another page of this book appears a lithographic illustration of his homestead farm, in Sections twenty-six and twenty-seven, Township 5-7. Mr. Wright has reached his present place by his own hard-earned labor. He has been :i man of stout and vigorous constitution, his health through life has been good, and for hard work no one in the County could surpass John K. Wright. Of the eleven children of Mr. and Mrs. Wright eight are uow living. Elizabeth V., the oldest daughter, is the wife of Newton Hawthorn. Then follow Margaret Ann, William K., George Washington, James Andrew Jackson, John W., Joseph Luther, and Ida Clementine. Mr. Wright was a Democrat all his life. On the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion, he manifested his Union principles by warmly supporting the government in its efforts to put down treason. Since then he has generally supported the candidates of the Republican party, but maintains an independent position in regard to his On hia return to America the spring following hi» marriage, he moved on a f.™ i. iSointof Ihe American Bottom below Koskaskm, where he lived [m“,ed«,l!7i,i" wife, wi.iel, tawptad in the fall of .he »**, year, 1865. Dr. Richardson then returned again to the vicinity of Wlw ^rove, has .Since lived and been engaged in the active praetiw of rood me. He was Ktu-^gSf InhnT UlS;in the neighborhood of^EUia Grove. In the vear 1869 the Doctor took up his residence m the Milage of Ellis Grove. At that time he built his present commodious and tasteful residence, one of the neatest in that section of country. Here Dr. Richardson has built up a good practice, and established a valua-l,le reputation as a physician of intelligence, ability, and skill. He has two children bv his second wife, Annie E. and Clara \ . lie has always been in-clined lo ihe support of the political principles net forth by the Democratic party, and has acted with that organisation since Ins residence m Randolph ARCHIBALD FISHER. Tub oldest settler in Florence precinct in the vicinity of Ellis Grove is Mr, Archibald Fisher, one of tlu- few surviving pioneers ol the American families who first made their homes in Randolph ( ounty. Mr. Fisher's life dates almost back lo the opening of Ihe century, lie was bom on the twelfth day of August. 1*01, in Knox County, Last 1 ««<. His grandfather's name was also Archibald 1''slier. He was a Scotchman, who emigrated to America some time before the Revolutionary war. He first settled in South Caroli.....and afterward removed to I . nnessee, where he was among the earlv residents of that state. Archibald fisher, the grandfather, was married four times, and had a numerous family of children, of whom one was William Fisher, who married in Tennessee Ann White. This marriage occurred about the vear 1800. The young couple lived m Tennessee till 1S04, when they removed to Randolph County, Illinois. One child had been ls>m - ..... Wsis Archibald Fisher, who had received his grand- Randolph County, the Fishers settled four or five miles »ve, on a farm formerly known as the Miller place, now occupied by John K. Wright. Archibald was then three years of age. The country was wild near their place of settlement. The nearest neighbors, the greater part of whom were French, were four and five miles away. The first school Archibald attended was in the year 1810. His father and neighbors feeling the necessity of making some provision for the education of their children, joined together and sent to the Obi Tennessee. This father’s name. On their ar northeast of Ellis G , named Alcom, .»v«.<>c to the neighborhood and opened a school. Here men and women grown came to this school from a distance of six or seven miles. The French inhabitants receive* 1 their education from the parish priest, and the Americans were comjM;lled to manage their school affairs by themselves. The families in this neighborhood bail no trouble with the Indians, and the inhabitants were not put to the trouble of erecting a blockhouse. Archibald Fisher was married on the seventeenth of February, 1830, to Nancv Bollinger, who had come to Randolph County a couple of years before from Tennessee, where she was bom in the neighborhood of Nashville. Mr. Fisher learned the trade of a wagon-wright, and worked at that and fanning. When he left his father's farm, in 1832, il was to settle on the place where lie still lives. Here his life has been spent for a jn-riod of time now approaching half a century, engaged in the quiet and peaceful vocation of a fanner, universally esteemed and resected by the community. His wife, his companion for more than forty years died in 1S70, after she had bome him ten children— Diana, Louisiana, Sarah, Martha Jane, William, Archibald, Jacob, James Luther, Elizabeth, and Nancy. The oldest daughter married and removed to Texas. William and Jacob are married and live on the homestead farm. Elizabeth is t he wife of R. M. Spurgeon, and Nancy married Robert Greenville, who lives in the Kaskaskia Point. Mr. Fisher, though seventy-four years of age, is still hale, active and hearty, and wears quite a youthful appearance in consideration of his years. In addition to being one of the oldest settlers, he is also one of the oldest Democrats in the County, his attachment t>< the Democratic party having been life-long. He voted the Democratic presidential ticket in 1828. For many years he was connected with the religious organizations of the neighborhood. He was first a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, and was a member of the Metho-*■*—1 isli congregation of that denomination existed Dr. GEORGE RICHARDSON. The only practicing physician in the neighborhood of Ellis Grove, in Randolph County, is Dr. George Richardson. lie is an Englishman by birth. He first took up his residence in the County in the year 1858, and since then has been busily engaged with the duties of his profession. Dr. Richardson is a native of Atherton, a small town of Warwickshire, England, where he was born on the twenty fourth of June, 1835. He received his earlv education in the schools of his native town. His tastes inclined him naturally to the study of medicine, and he began his preparation for that profession under Dr. Riehings, with whom he cnme to America in the year 1850. Roth his parents had diet! at a period previous to this. George was then a lad of fifteen. Dr. Riehings settled in Winnebago County, Illinois, ten mites from Rockford, and Dr. Richardson remained with him till 1858. During this time he diligently pursued his medical studies, and after amply fitting himself for the profession, he began practice with Dr. Riehings, his preceptor. He attended the Rush Medical College of Chicago during the years 1856 and 1857. Dr. Richardson was on the look-out for a field where he might successfully establish himself as a physician, and accordingly, in the year 1858, he catue to Randolph County, and located a mile and a half south-east of Ellis Grove. Here he began practice, and soon succeeded in introducing himself to the favor of the community. He remained at first about three years, and then in 1861 re-visited England, from which he returned, however, in a few months. He again located in Randolph County, and resumed his practice. A second visit to England occurred in 1863. This time he was married. The ceremony was ! ]K>rformed on the twenty-sixth of January, 1864, and the maiden name of his 1 wife was Ann R rook or, of Chelsea, London. GEORGE BOLLINGER. Tub ancestors of George Bollinger were among the earlv residents of Randolph County. His father came about the year 1828, but bis mother’s family emigrated to Illinois as early as the year 1S03. His father, Daniel Bollinger, was a native of Tennessee, bom in the neighborhood of Nashville, in the year 1810. lie was a young man of eighteen when he came with his father's family to Randolph County, about the year 1828. The Bollingers were a numerous and well-known family in Tennessee. Part of the family settled in Missouri. The brothers of the grandfather of George Bollinger emigrated to this latter State. Bollinger County, in southeastern Missouri, was so named in honor of the Bollinger family, many of whose descendants still live in that section of the State. On coming to Randolph County, Ihe Bollingers settled a mile south of the present town of Ellis Grove. Daniel Bollinger was twice married, but by his first wife had no children. His second wife was Mary J eavitt, the daughter of Abijah Leavitt, one of the earliest American residents . : Randolph County. Abijah Leavitt first came to Randolph County as a soldier in Colonel Pike’s regiment, which occupied Fort Gage on the hill opposite Kaskaskia, where vestiges of the old fortifications may yet be traced. lie obtained his discharge from the army, and made a farm some distance back from the Garrison, where his son now lives. He was a quiet and industrious citizen, who enjoyed the esteem of all his neighbors. Daniel Bollinger had six children by his second marriage. The oldest was George, bom on the sixth day of February, 1836, a mile south of Ellis Grove, on the place of his father’s settlement on first coming to Randolph County. The boys of that day were in possession of educational advantages far inferior to the present. George wits sent to the suliseription schools, common in the neighborhood, and held for about three months in each year. His father was a farmer, and George at an early age was accustomed to'assist in labor on the farm. He lived at home until the time he was married. This event happened in March, 1862, and his wife was Miss II. < . Hunt, a native of Randolph County, born and raised near the present village of Ellis Grove. Mr. Hoi linger then engaged in farming on his own account, and has since continued in that occupation, at which he has been successful. In 1873 he opened a store at Ellis Grove, and has also l»een occupied in carrying on thi< eighborhood. While of the active business men of the i Ellis Grove, he has kept up farming, anti owns over three hundred and fifty acres of land, lying in the vicinity of •Jlis Grove. Since March, 1874, he has also held the position of Postmaster, Horence being the name of the post-office, though the village is still familiarly known by its old name of Ellis Grove. He has four children, the fruits of his muMa-f\?01n-V,,i-'VerU!’ Mar>’ I,]a- and Maud. Two besides are dead. hue Mr. Bollinger has occupied a somewhat independent position in politic*, generally exercising his own judgment in selecting the candidates for office on whom to bestow his sufl rage, he has still been a Republican, voting for Abraham Lincoln for President, in 1860. Mr. Bollinger's active life has been spent entirely in Monroe County. Though he is vet a comparatively young man he has witnessed a great improvement in the country with which he has been familiar since boyhood. Mr. Bollinger has taken a leading part in every oca enterprise, and contributed his portion toward the general progress of the neighborhood. He is generous and liberal in bis disposition, and favorably known m the community with which he has so long been identified.BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF CITIZENS OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ILLINOIS. JAMES II. HAHGIS. James H. JIarois is a TramessMB by birlli. Tin- family spiani* orieinallv from England. William Hargis, the grandfather of James II Hands emigrated from England shortly after the year 1790, and located in the central part of the pate of Tennessee, one of the pioneers of that region. A wild and unc ultivated country surrounded him. 11 in nearest neighbor was twenty miles away, and in thin solitary and romantic situation, he endured all the hardships of pioneer life, and raised a family of children. John Hargis, the father of James H. Hargis, was born here in the year 1794, and is still living in Tennessee, eighty years old. He married Pamela I his, also a native of I hat State, who is still living, also near the age of four-score. John Hargis and his wife had a large family of children, of whom James II. Hams was the seventh. , n £e w2?lbom.i,l County, Tennessee, on the twenty-fourth of September, 1824. The neighborhood had improved somewhat from the time his grandfather hrst settled there; farms had been made, houses built and the population largely increased, but as far as schools were concerned, the community was about as well of! as the average of western settlements fortv and fifty vears ago Mr. Hargis is one of those who was blessed with little Schooling'. \\ period of six weeks embraces the sum total of all the instruction he ever received within the walls of a school-house. His knowledge and education were nearly all obtained by his own unaided eflbrts, much of it after lie was married He lived on his father’s farm till lie came to Illinois. In 1845, on the sixth dav of March, he was married to Melissa Delia Ann Cragon, who was born and raised in lennessee within three miles of her husband. It was two vears after he was married that he made up his mind to emigrate to Illinois, believing that there better facilities were offered for a farmer to get along in the world. ln_ the year 1847, he accordingly came lo Randolph County. He began, as his means allowed him, which at that lime were small and limited. The tir-t year lie rented land. The next year he hired out on a farm. In 1849 he bought sixty acres of land two miles west of Ellis Grove having obtained means sufficient to justify him in making that investment! Mr. Hargis kept on farming, and bv hard work and good management his worldly affaire prospered, and he was able to secure a better fooling. In the succeeding year, the spring of I860, he bought the property on which he now live* which at that time was composed of eightv two acres’ of land. He has since increased the land in his possession loa much larger amount, adding pieces of land from time to time asopportunities to purchase offered themselves. The farm on which he lives is conqtosed of one hundred acres. In all, he has the ownership of between four and five hundred acres, the greater part of which lies in the Okaw bottom. The seven children of Mr. Hargis were named William A., John Harvey, Pamela Elizalieth, (deceased), Sarah Jane, Charles Jefferson, Pamela Eme-line, and Noah Franklin. The two oldest sons arc married and live in ihc neighborhood, and the oldest daughter is also married, and a resident of Ellis Grove. Mr. Hargis began his political life as an Old Line Whig, voting for Harrison in the memorable campaign of 1840, when a resident of Tennessee. On the decay of the Whig party, he followed many of the ablest men of that organization into the Democratic party, and has since been connected wiih it. Mr. Hargis’ career in Randolph County is an evidence of what may be done by industry and energy, qualities without which success is seldom* achieved, lie began life with nothing, but has uowobtnined tin honorable position among the substantial farmers of Randolph County. any other section. Then, as now, one of the leading establishments of the kind was the widely known Seth Thomas works, of Plymouth. Here Mr. Seymour found employment when he became twenty-one- He remained about eight years, including one year in which he worked at Terry’s establishment, ami became thoroughly conversant with that business. About the year 1830 Mr. Seymour began business for himself, undertaking I he manufacture of clocks, with the different processes of whose construction he had become thoroughly familiar. He located his works at Unionvilie, Connecticut, a small settlement at that time, but now grown to be a manufacturing point of considerable importance. About the same time he was married to Miss Harriet A. Johnson, of Bristol. He carried on the clock business with success till the year 1838, when a disastrous fire swept aw: caused great financial loss to the partners. It wax then that Mr. .Seymour determined to remove West. An older brother, Elisha Seymour, had come to Randolph County about the year 1822, and settled on the place where Edward Seymour now lives. A tannery was formerly established at this place, with whose management Elisha Seymour was connected. For some years after his removal to Illinois Edward Seymour wa« engaged iu settling up the affairs of the clock business, and attending to other interests. He lived in Randolph County till the year 1840. At this time the news of the discovery of gold in California reached Illinois. I he fabulous reports of fortunes to be gained in the new El Dorado drew away j large numbers of daring and adventurous men to the Pacific slope. Among i these were Edward and Elisha Seymour. They left Randolph County in April, 1849, and taking the overland route across the Plains and through the Rocky Mountains, did not rettch California till the next December. Mr. Seymour went to work at mining gold as soon as he arrived at the mines, lie was principally engaged in this occupation during his stay in California, carrying it on with varying success, sometimes reaping a rich reward for his labor ana i sometimes falling far liehind his excuses. The brothers kept in each other's ( company till May, 1851, when by a sad accident the older brother, Elisha, was drowned iu the Salmon river near its mouth. He had volunteered to ferrv over a Spaniard during a dangerous stage of the river, and in doing this, though I a skillful oarsman and an expert swimmer, he met his death. •nths Mr. Seymour turned his face* homeward. In the winter of made ihe journey, sailing from San Francisco, crossing the :ima, and landing in New York. For some time after his redd home iu Connecticut, and on his recovery came on at a point nearly a mile north of where Ellis Grove now is. Here he united with his occupation of tailor that of a fanner, and living a peaceful and industrious life, died in 1858. John, Andrew, Martin, and Frederick Schoeppel are his sons, all living in the neighborhood of Ellis Grove. A daughter, Elizabeth, is now the wife of William Albright* The Schoeppel family, on their first arrival in Illinois, were in very moderate circumstances. It cost something in those (lavs of subscription schools to send children to school, and Mr. Schoeppel's father was too poor to send his Ijovh to school to much extent. Andrew went to a German school a month and a half, and five months to an English school. This comprehended all his education under the instruction of a teacher, but he studied at home and ac-rks, and quired knowledge fitting him for the transaction of all ordinary business. In the year 1858. at Inc time of his father’s death, Andrew bought a farm joining the one on which he now lives. He resided here till the time of the war, 1863, when he was drafted into military service. He then sold his farm and bought a smaller one a mile north of Ellis Grove. After being on it a he bought the one he now owns. Mr. Schoeppel is now in the possession -five acres of land, lying near his present residence, farmer and trader. He has embraced every oppor-lanees, and in the main has prospered. • hundred and sev He has been successful tunity of bettering his < he hai i threet i threshi machine and been busy at that, irried. His first marriage occurred when he was twenty-four. His wife was Wilhelrnina Begem an, and she died about ten months after the celebration of the nuptials. His second wife was Catherine Kistner, whom he married iu June, 1802, about two yean? after the death of his first wife. She dieel on the twenty-fifth of May, 1866. He married his present wife, Elizabeth Iluppert, in 1868. Mr. Schoeppel has three hildren living, Martin Douglas, ftenry, and Louise. The boy econd wife, and the last by the third. Mr. Schoeppel has been a Democrat in polities. For many ►eon a member of the German Methodist Church, and has be stimahle members of the community. by the 1Sol-1852 he Isthmus of P? CHARLES TILMANN. Of the far md thrifty farmers of Randolph (’ounty, • Hiram Rolierls, whose farm lie> just with the HIRAM ROBERT! Numbered among'the old resident: living in the vicinity of Ellis Grove, north of the town. He first came to the County years of age, and has since resided in the Count years which were spent on the Pacific coast. Mr. Roberts was born in Ohio, at Columbus, the capital of the Slate*, on the twenty-first day of February, 1821. His father, James Roberts, was a native of New Jersey. He married Margaret Murphy in the city of New York, and soon afte*r moved to Ohio, where he arrived about the year 1820. He was a wugon-maker by trade, aud followed that occupation at Columbus. He had a family of eleven children, of whom Hiram was the fourth in the order of his birth. When Hiram was about five years old the family removed to Michigan, and lived there seven years. Here Mr. Roberts was first sent to school, and learned to read and write. The family subsequently removed to Tazewell County, Illinois, where his father followed his trade of a wagon-maker at Washington, a town in the northern part of the County. In the year 1839 the Roberts family moved to Randolph County, and located iu the neighborhood of Ellis Grove*. Hiram was then about fifteen. He went to school at odd times and infrequent intervals on till near twenty. His father lived on a farm after coming to Randolph County, and Mr. Roberts was brought up on that. He lived at home until he was twenty-five years of age. In 1849 the excitement consequent upon the discovery of gold m California spread through Illinois, and Mr. Roberts, in e-ompany with a large number of ambitious and adventurous young men in various sections of the State, set out i to try their fortunes on the Pacific slo|K\ In April, 1850, lie started overland, and the party arrived in California the following August. The first work he j did was at mining gold, at which he made fair wages, and kept it up for four : or five months. The remainder of the time he was in California he was employed on a pack train, and traversed the greater part of what is now the upper I part of the State of California and southern Oregon, a region which at that | time had been but little visited by civilized man. Those early days of California history were marked by many adventures and hardships. The Indians on all sides surrounded the wild and rugged routes traveled by the pack trains, and a hundred dangers menaced the pioneers. Mr. Roberts was in Colonel (afterward General) Kearney's camp at the time he was attacked by the Rogue River Indians. After a stay of two years iu California Mr. Roberts concluded to return East. He left California in August, 1853, one of a party of thirteen. Seven were left behind at the South Pass of the Rocky Mountains, and the remaining six came on through to St. Jo. and St. Louis. Soon after Mr. Roberts’ return to Raudolpb County he bought the farm on which he now lives, at Ellis Grove, and where he has since been successfully engaged as a farmer. He was married on the twenty-fourth of May, 1855, to Margaret Wright. Mrs. Roberts was the daughter of Isaac Wright, who came to Randolph County in 1844. She was bom in Grayson County, Virginia, in the year 1833. Four children have resulted from this marriage—Rachel, Eliza, Marv, and Hiram. His land lies all in one body, four hundred acres, just north of Ellis Grove. He was first a Whig, and then became a Republican on the formation of that party. Mr. Roberts is one of the well-to-do and prosperous members of the farming community of Randolph County. He has met with some misfortunes, but his general course has been one of prosperity aud nentioned, had married Sarah McDonough, the daughter of Si.. . .. McDonough, one of the early pioneers of Illinois and Randolph ( ounty. Mr. Seymour has since been a resident of Randolph County, and has been engaged in farming. He live* on the old place formerly occupied by his brother. As a farmer he has been successful, and lie* now has the ownership of three hundred acres of land in Randolph, and that much more in Washington County. Mrs. Seymour departed this life iu September, 1872, after a married life of forty-three years. This union was blessed with two children, George D. aud Henry E., both of whom are living iu the County. In his early life Mr. Seymour's political principles attach'd him to the Whig party. On‘the decay aud final dissolution of that organization, and the- rise of the Republican party, he became a Republican, and as such has since continued to act. His life has been quiet, but One honorable to himself, and of benefit to the community. D. P. ROBERTS. The close of the last, or the opening of the present century, marks the date of the emigration of Wiliam Roberts to Illinois from Lexington, Kentucky. He was accompanied by his son, Thomas Roberts, who had not then reached his majority. William Roberts was the grandfather and Thomas Roberts the father of D. P. Roberts, the subject of this sketch. On making a permanent " ” * ‘ ach other on the east icrs of the Okaw Bottom we present the name of Charles Tilmann as one worthy to be represented in the biographical sketches of the substantial citizens of Randolph County. He has lived at his present place of residence, in Township six. Range eight, since August, 1836. He is of German birth. His native place was the town of Arnsberg, Westphalia, Prussia, and he was the son of Anton T. Tilmann, and his wife, Mary Magdalene, whose maiden name was An thee. There were five children in the family, of whom Charles was the third. He was bom on the twenty-fourth of May* 1824. The first eleven years of M r. Tilmanu’s life were spent in Germany. At seven years of age he began his attendance on school in his native town of Arnsberg. Nothing of peculiar importance happened in his life till the year 1836, when his father emigrated with his family to America. In the summer of that vear they sailed from Bremen, and in due course of time landed at the* city of New York. < Anton Pape, who had been a neighbor of the Til-manns in Germany, had made his home in America two years before this, and had settled in Randolph County, on the old Adkins place, one of the oldest places in Township six-eight. It was through this influence that theTilmanns Randolph County in the latter pari of the enmmerof 1836, and Ivoughl one bund ml and I on the Okaw Rive 1848, twelve yearn the \ r previ of land in Claim number 283,Survey 476, lying r. nere Anton Tilmann settled, and lived till he died, in after his coming to Randolph County. His wife had died settlement, William and Thomas Roberts located side of the Kaskaskia river, and not far from the to William Roberts, the grandfather, openeel a fan ploying himself as a farmer he became a trader d. Charles Tilmann only went to school three months after his arrival in America. This was in the winter of 1842, when he went to Kaskaskia, and remained there three months, during which time he was attending school. He worked at home on the farm, and in 1848, as we have before mentioned, his father died. Mr. Tilmann was then twenty-four years of age, a young man of industrious habits, and he bought out the other heirs, and continued on the old homestead farm. February twenty-fifth, 1851, lie was married to Henrietta Pape*, who was bom in Germany, at the little village of llirsehberg, near Arnsberg, the dav of her re. Mrs. Tilmann was six years old on In- daughter of Casper Anton Pape, whose name appears aoove in tin- sketch. Mrs. Tilmann’s father died in October, 1851, and her mother iu November, 1859. Gusiavus Pape, a merchant of Kaskaskia, is her brother, aud a sister is the wife of Henry Lortz. Mr. Tilmann has since been successfully engaged in farming, lie has carried on the pursuit with intelligence and faithfulness, and by industry, economy and good management has raised himself to an honorable position among the farmers of Randolph County. In 1858 he Isxight one hundreel acres additional to his land, ana in 1867 sixty more, so that he now owns two hundred and eighty acres of land, one of the choicest farm in the Okaw Bottom, whose soil is among the richest iu the County. Mr. and Mrs. Tilmann have four children, Tberesc, Henry, Charles, and Louise. Mr. Tilmann’s brothers are both dead. Of his sisters, one, Mrs. Mittler, is a widow, whose home is with Mr. Tilmann, while Marv is the wife of August. Leisse*, of S:. Louis. The first President Mr. Tilmann voted for for Lewis Cass, in 1848. He subsequently became a Republican on the f that party, and was among the early Republicans who voted for f remont in 1856. He vote*! also for Lincoln, but since the war lie has principally acted with the opposition party, and occupied an independent posi- foundatio: WILLIAM MUDD. EDWARD SEYMOUR. Connecticut, “ The Land of Steady Habits,” was the birth-place of Edward Seymour, one of the old residents of Randolph County. He was bom at Farmington, in Hartford County, on the twenty-ninth of March, 1801. The family was one which for a long time had been resident in Connecticut. His fathers name was Luther Sevmour and his mothers name* Rebecca, her maiden name having been Curtis, fiis father's family consisted of five children, of whom Mr. Seymour was the second. •Mr. Seymour's father was a carpenter and joiner. His education he received in” Connecticut, his opportunities consisting of the ordinary common school instruction afforded by the Connecticut common school system. In the year 1815 bin father died, before Edward had reached his fifteenth year. He was then apprenticed to the trade of a house joiner. For five years lie was an apprentice to this btuutuvs, which he learned thoroughly, but never followed to any great extent. Connecticut has long been celebrated for the manufacture of clocks, wooden and otherwise, which the citizens of that Slate sc*em to have been able to turn out with greater facility and excellent* than the residents of inguished honor of being a member of the convention which framed the first constitution for the State of Illinois. In the latter part of his life he was a devout Christian, and contributed liberally of his means toward the sup* I>ort of the church. His son, Daniel Preston Roberts, was bom on the thirtieth of November, 1816, near Kaskaskia. In this neighborhoe>d he was brought up, anti received his education, the most of which he obtained in the Catholic schools of Kaskaskia. When between twenty and twentv-oue he left home and went lo Wisconsin, and for ten months was there engaged as clerk in a store. On leaving Wisconsin he turned his attention to the wood business in Jackson County, but after he was here a year aud a half his prospects were seriously injured by high water in the river, which everywhere created devastation along the Mississippi, and Mr. Roberts came back to Randolph County. Remaining a short time at home, for the period of a year he assumed the management of the ferry across the Okaw. About 1842 he began the study of law, and was admitted to the bar. After practicing, however, a short time at Kaskaskia, then the county seat, he ejuit the profession for quieter and more satisfactory pursuits. At the breaking out of the Mexican war Mr. Roberts volunteered in a regiment formed at Perry ville, Missouri. He was chosen Lieutenant of one of the companies. The regiment reached Fort Leavenworth, where it was disbanded, after being a short tune in the service, on Account of the impossibility of pro- I curing provisions by reason of a low stage of the Missouri river. In the spring of 1853 Mr. Roberts received the appointment of Register in the laud office at I Kaskaskia. He held this position till the public lands were disposed of aud the office removed to the capital of the State. Under Mr. Roberts' administration the books were closed up, and the accounts forwarded to the department at Washington. The latter part of Mr. Roberts' life he has devoted himself exclusively to farming. He began this pursuit near Kaskaskia, and after occupying several locations bought the place lie now owns in the year 1866. Ilis farm, situated a mile and a half west of Ellis Grove, is composed of four hundred acres of land, lying in one body and extending down into the Okaw Bottom. The farm is finely situated, and highly productive. Mr. Roberts’ residence occupies an elevated point of land, and commands an extensive view of the surrounding country. Mr. Roberts’ first marriage took place in the year 1853, to Louisiana Fisher, who died in March, 1870. Mr. Roberts was married the second time 1 in February, 1871, to Mrs. Maria Caudle, whose maiden name had been Ritchey. His political convictions Mr. Roberts inherited from his ancestors. Both his father and grandfather were Democrats, prominent members of the party in their day, and Mr. Roberts has adhered to the same school of political belief. Personally, Mr. Roberts is a man of genial sympathies and enlightened views. The stranger is made welcome at his fireside, and he dispenses with a liberal band an old-fashioned hospitality. ANDREW SCHOEPPEL. Andrew Schoeppel came to Raudolpb County in the year 1839, when five years old. He is a native of Germany. His birth-place was the town of Bai- reith, in Bavaria, Germany. His father’s name was John George Schoeppel. i Andrew was born on the fourteenth of January, 1835. There were live eiiil- ■ dren in the family, who grew up, and Andrew was the second of these. In the teenth day of September, 1827, on the old homestead farm on the Bellevill. fall of 1839 his father left Germany with his family to make his home iu and Kaskaskia road. He received as good a common school education the America. They landed in New Orleans. It was the intention to go to Jeff’er- circumstances of those .lays allowed. He remained at home working on the son City, Missouri, and settle somewhere in that locality, but in ascending the farm till he became of age. when he resolved quit farming and learn the Mississippi the boat was frozen up in the river opposite Kaskaskia. This in carpenter’s trade, a plan which he carried out. When about tw ntv-two or eideut occasioned them to land at Kaskaskia, and once in the town, the family twenty-three, he visited Texas and spoilt one winter in that country He came determined to remain in that section of the country. ' j back to Illinois, and for six or seven years followed his trade, working princi- •rking a couple of pally in Randolph County, though part of the time he was employed elsewhere » ki„«r.n, one of the old residents of Randolph County, living near the line dividing Townships six-eight and five-eight, was born and raised in Randolph County. Both his father and mother were Kentuckians by birth, but had been residents of Randolph County since the year 1823. His family was of Scotch and English descent, Scotch on his father's, and English on his mother’s side. The name of Mr. Mudd’s grandfather was Thomas Mudd. Thomas Mudd emigrated to America at a period early in the history of the colonies, and settled in the State of Maryland. He was a young man on coming to the United States, and he married in Marylaud. There were several sons by this marriage, and the third was Francis Mudd, who was born about the vear 1795, id who became the father of William Mudd, the subject of this writing. loved from Kentucky, and settled on the high- lands Mudd aud his sons n o the prairie back of Prairie du Rocher, and the family and descendants have since filled a very respectable position among the citizens of Randolph County. Francis was born in Maryland, but his father’s family moved from that State to Kentucky while lie was vet a boy. In Kentucky they liyed principally in Washington and Spencer < 'omities. At the time of the breaking out of the war of .1812, Francis Mudd volunteered in the forces opposed to the British invaders. Among the other services which he rendered, he was in the battle of New Orleans, taking an honorable part in that memorable engagement, Randolph, County, Illi- under Geueral Jackson In the year 1820 Francis Mudd was married to L years after this marriage he removed with his wife nois. aud settled on the old Belleville and Ka-kaskia road, ten miles from Kas kaskia. He resided here, living the quiet life of a farmer, and respected by his neighbors,rill his death, which took place iu the year 1863. Francis Mudd had in all a family of twelve children, equally divided between boys and girls. Six of these are now living, two of the sons and four daughters. •hildren was William Mudd, who was born on the fif- Mr. Schoeppel’s father was a tailor by trad< months at Kaskaskia he moved out in the country back of the bluff and settled I In September, 1*8-BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF CITIZENS OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ILLINOIS.BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF CITIZENS OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ILLINOIS. HENRY BARBEAU. An old French family, one of the first to take part in the settlement of Prairie du Rocher, is represented by Henry Barbeau, substantial farmer living two miles southwest ot Prairie du Rocher. Jean Baptiste Barbeau is the first of the family whose name appears in connection with the history 01 Prairie du Rocher. Ue was an emigrant from Canada, and was one of the founders of tin-town. He was the head of numerous descendants, who have always held respectable positions in the community. He had four sons, Andrew, Antoine, Baptiste and Henry. Antoine Barbeau married Nancy Drury, a member of an American family. She was bom and raised in the American Bottom, in Monroe County below Harrisonville. He was a farmer, ami lived at tlie foot of the blufll below Bar beau Creek, about two miles and a half from Prairie du Rocher. Barbeau Creek received its name from members of the Barlx-au family. Antoine Barbeau lived here till the time of his death, which happe ned in March, 1845. He took a leading part in the Indian warfare in the early history of the colony, lie had in all twelve children, of whom eight were living at ‘the time of his death. Only three now survive. These are Mary Ixmise, who is the wife of John N. Louvier, of Prairie du Rocher, Lucy, who married John Crane, and who is now a resident of Cincinnati, Ohio, ami Henry, the fifth child, the subject of this biography, who was horn on the thirty-first of March, 1828. Henry Barbeau was born at the old homestead at the foot of the bluff, near Barbeau (. reek. There were no public schools at that dav, and he gained his education in the subscription schools laid at various places. He went, to school a little on the hill near the present residence of William Pheglev, but most of the time in Prairie du Rocher. He staid at home and worked the farm. He was seventeen years old when his father died. The familv h it the old place in 1848, and moved a mile from Prairie du Roelu r. His mother died in 1S50, and the following year Mr. Barbeau began work for himself. In October of the same yiar, 1851, he was married to Josephine 'IV bo, also connected with one of the old French families, which had resided for many years in Randolph County. Mrs. Barbeau was bom in July, 1834. I mmediately after his marriage Mr. Barbeau rented land and began farming. He lived on rented land for about four years, from 1851 to 1855. He had nothing when he began, but he managed the farm as best he could, used all the economy possible, and in 1855 had accumulated enough money to buy forty acrcs of lain! in Prairie du Rocher. The next year, 1856, he bought one hundred acres of land, which forms i>art of his present property. For this piece he paid five hundred dollars. The land was uncultivated, there were no improvements on the property, and no clearings had been made. Mr. Barbeau at once went to work to clear and improve it, and soon brought a good portion under cultivation. In 1S57 lie moved on the place, where he has since resided. Ho purchased sixty additional acres in 1864, and is now in possession of over three hundred acres in the neighborhood of Prairie du Rocher. Mr. Barbeau has always been a successful farmer, bringing to the work an amount of industry, intelligence and determination, which have succeeded in accomplishing their object. He was naturally possessed of a good constitution, bad been sick but little, and has always l>een capable of performing a large amount of hard work. Of the children which have resulted from the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Barbeau, eight are living. Their names in the order of their births arc Marv, Lucy, Henry, Judith, Louise, Amy, William, and John. Mary, the oldest daughter, is now the wife of Baptiste Louvier, living above Prairie du Rocher. In his political faith Mr Barbeau has been firmly attached to the Democratic party, following in this respect the example set. by his fathers before him. Mr. Barbeau is still in the vigor of life, hut has already accomplished what older men might well be proud of. The French population, which at one time comprised nearly the whole of the residents in the American Bottom in Randolph County, accumulated but little money or property, and hence the representatives in this generation of the old families such as those which bear the name of Barbeau, Blais, and Louvier, were compelled to l»egin their careers relying mainlv on their own resources. Such was the case with Henry BarlM.au, but already, by industry and intelligence, he has secured an honorable place among the well-to-do farmers of Randolph County. JAMES D. SIMPSON. The Simpsons iu the vicinity of Ruma, Randolph County, arc representatives of an old family which took part in the first settling of the State of Maryland. The family originally resided in England, and the branch from which the subject of our biography is descended was attached to the Catholic faith. On account of religious persecutions the Simpsons joined Lord Baltimore’s colony, which began the settlement of Maryland in the year 1634. They re ceivcd from the King a grant of thirteen hundred acres of land, located in what is now St. Mary’s County, Maryland, where the family lived for several successive generations. Mr. Simpson’s grandfather was named Joseph Simpson, and he look part in the Revolutionary war as one of the Maryland “ minute men," a body of volunteers who held themselves ready to repel invasion or take the field against the enemy at a moment's notice. Joseph Simpson married a lady named Montgomery, of French descent- Toward the close of the Revolutionary war there was born by this marriage James M. Simpson, who became the father of James D. Simpson. James M. Simpson received his early education in Maryland, and lived there till he was fifteen years of age, when his father moved to Kentucky, and settled in Washington County, near Beardstown. That part of the State was just then settling up. There were no schools, no teachers could be obtained, and young Simpson entered on the career of a school-master, which he followed for some time. James M. Simpson was married at the age of twenty-four to Mary Boone, and afterward followed farming and carpentering. His first wife died, having borne him five children. His second wife was Monica MeAtee, a native of Maryland. This marriage occurred January the eighth, 1815. By the second wife eight children grew to maturity. The second was James D". Simpson, now of Randolph County. He was bora in Grayson County, Kentucky, Septend>cr 11, 1821. In tlie year 1828 Mr. Simpson’s father moved to Illinois, and locateel ten miles south of Springfield, on Sugar Creek, in Sangamon County. Here Mr. Simpson first went to school. He was seven years old at the time of the removal of the family from Kentucky. That district of Illinois was at that time but sparsely settled, and the greater part of his education Mr. Simpson received from his father. In the year 1838 the family came to Randolph County. His father located on the farm adjoining the one on which Mr. Simpson now lives. He worked at home until twenty-two, when he bought a small tract of land and began farming for himself. In September, 18-17, he was married to Eliza Mudd, the daughter of James Mudd, an early settler of Randolph County. Mr. Simpson has since lived in the same neighborhood, and has been actively engaged in farming. He owns six hundred acres of land in the vicinity of where he lives. Mr. and Mrs. Simpson have had nine children, all of whom with one exception are living. On all subjects Mr. Simpson occupies an independent position, and is one of tbe best citizens of the section where for many years he lias resided. PATRICK FAIIERTY. The youngest man who ever held the office of County Commissioner in Randolph County iH Patrick Faherty, of Ruma. He is native born in Randolph County. His father was John Faherty, and his grandfather Edmond Faherty, who came to Randolph County in the year 1818. The family originally sprang from Ireland, emigrating thence to Maryland. John Faherty was born in Kentucky, in the year 1814, and was four years old on coming to Randolph County, where his father settled in the southern edge of the Horse Prairie. At twenty-five in the year 18S9, he married Mary Ann Flaherty, born in Nelson County, Kentucky. The oldest child by this marriage was Patrick Faherty, born January the thirty first, 1840. He was raised, where he was horn, in the southern border of the Horse Prairie, where his grandfather had settled on coming to the country. At the age of sixteen lie went to St. Louis and for a year attended the College of the Christian Brothers in that city. He lived on the old homestead, engaged in farming, till 1868. His father had died when Mr. Faherty was ten years old. He was married first in 1800 to Ann Roscow, and after the death of bis first wife, to Ann O’Neill. He lias lived in Ruma since 1868. In November, 1871, he was elected Justice of the Peace, and still holds that position. In 1874, his name was presented by the Democratic convention as a candidate for the office of County Commissioner. To this responsible position he was chosen, and at present is occupied with its duties. JOHN AND WILLIAM BRICKEY. Ox another page among our lithographic illustrations, may be seen a view of the “ Red Hud Mills,” the owners of which are John and William Brickey. The Messrs. Brickey have been old residents of the section of country about Red Bud. For the bust sixteen years they have Wen proprietors of the Red Bud Mills, and few men in the County have a higher business reputation, or occupy a better standing in the community. Their grandfather was Jarrot Brickey, who was born in Virginia, anil at an early day moved to Kentucky, among the first settlers of that region. On coming to Illinois lie first located in the New Design settlement, in Monroe County. He afterward removed to a new settlement which had just been formed on the Hone Prairie. For a time this settlement promised to become permanent and lasting, but it was harasscel by Indians, anil nearly all the settlers left it. The settlement was almost entirely broken up before the year 1800, the only families which remained permanently being those of Robert McMahon, Henry Levons, and Jarrot Brickey. The latter is represented as being one of the sturely, staunch pioneers, wito braved the dangers of Indian massacres and midnight assassinations. He liveel an industrious and res{>ectcd citizen of Horse Prairie for nearly half a century, was a Ranger in the war of 1812, and during his life-time was prominent in all those scenes which marked the pioneer history of Randolph County. His son, Preston B. Brickey, the father of John and William Brickey, located half a mile north of Red Bn I, near the line dividing Randolph from Monroe Counties. Preston B. Brickey was in the volunteer service in the Illinois territory during the war of 1812, and was principally cm ploy eel against the Indians. In the year 1816, he married Millie Ralls, the daughter of Rawleigh Ralls, who came from Virginia to Randolph County in the year 1S09. By this marriage there were nine children, six sons and three daughters. All are now living with the exception of two of the sons. The schools in those days were not remarkable for their excellence. Only subscription schools were held, and the prices charged for tuition rendered it difficult for schools to be maintained for any considerable length of time, of which the children of poor parents could take advantage. John Brickey never went to school more than thirty days in any one year, and was forced to rely mainly on his own endeavors for his opportunities for intellectual advancement, as was also the ease with his brother William. John Brickey, the oldest son, was born on the twenty-second day of February, 1818, half a mile north of the present town of Red Bud. William Brickey was bom nearly three years after, on the thirtieth of January, 1821, at the same place- where John was born, or near there. Preston B. Brickey, their father, was a farmer, a pursuit which he carried on with success, owning, at the lime of his death, which happened on the seventh of January, 1848. about a thousand acres of land. The boys were brought up as farmers, and as soon as they could be of any service were in the habit of assisting in labor on the farm. They were thus trained to habits of industry, independence, and self-reliance, qualities which were of service in after years. John Brickey lived at home till he was altout twenty-one years of age, ami then went to St. Clair County, and started a small store at a place called Smithton, now Georgetown. He remained there two or three years, employee) iu the mercantile business, and then lor a couple of years more was employed in fanning in the same vicinity. In the fall of 1847 he moved on a farm in Monroe County, east of Renl Bud. llis marriage had taken place some five years previous to this, in the year 1842, to Elizabeth McGuire, who had been raised in St. Clair County, and was living thereat the time of her marriage. After fifteen years of wedded life, Mrs. Brickey died while her husband was still living on the farm iu Monroe County. This was in the year 1857. The marriage had resulted in five children, two sons and three daughters. Four are now living, and their name* are Margaret, Preston B., Susan, and Thomas, A couple of years after his wife's death, Sir. Brickey moved to Red Bud. The same facts are true in regard to the early life of William Brickey as of his brother. He was brought up as a farmer, and followcel that occupation till the year 1858. Till 1854 he was occupied in farming in Monroe County. In that year he moved to St. Clair County, and was a resident there for four years, l ie was first married in St. Clair County to Rebecca Smith, who was born and raised in that County. Since 185!) both the brothers have resided at Red Bud. They here purchased the (louring mill which had been erected by a company, the year previous. The two brothers, John and William, entered into a partnership, which has since been ke*pt up. The Messrs. Brickey have carried on the milling business with success, and their mill is one of the old established places of business in Randolph County while its proprie-tors are known as enterprising, substantial, and liberal busine-ss men. They are widely known throughout a large section of country as men of strict honesty, integrity, and fair dealing. Both the brothers have been members of the Democratic party, and throughout their lives have lieen unswerving in their loyalty to the principles of that organization, which they have believed to be the only system of political faith by which a Republican government erould be successfully and safely maintained. The Messrs. Brickey have been closely identified with the interests of Reel Bud and the adjacent section of country. Both were born in the vicinity; their ancestors date back to the earliest settlement of the country on the part of the Americans, and they themselves have done much by their enterprise toward the development of the town, and the encouragement of the* farming interests of the contiguous territory. MATTHIAS HUTH. Matthias Hl-th is one of the leading business men and enterprising merchants of Reel Bud, of which place he has been a resident since the year 1864. Mr. Iluth, in company with a large numbe*r of the most respectable and substantial citizens of his part of Randolph County, is of German descent. Ilis birthplace was the town of Bieber, in He?sse, Germany, where he was born on the thirteenth of March, 1825. He was the .son of Aelam Hutli, and his wife Margaret, whose maiden name was Weigenel. There were three children in tlie family, of whom Matthias was the youngest. At the age of six lie began to go to school, and continueel his education in the schools of his native town till he left Germany. In the year 1836, when eleven years old, his father emigrated with the family to America. Landing in Baltimore, the family came directly west to Monroe County, Illinois, and settled about three miles north of the town of Re-el Bud. Here Adam Iluth bought eighty acres of land. Matthias went to school for some time after coming to Monroe County, attending a school at Prairieelu Long, five miles from his father's home. At the age of fifteen lie went lo the blacksmith’s trade, and worked at that till he thoroughly mastered the oceu-pation, which, with farming, he followed for some years after. In March, 1847, he was married to Hannah Melirs, who was also a native of Germany, lx>rn iu Hanover, and who came to America when six or seven years old. After his marriage, Mr. Huth entered eighty acres of land on Horse Prairie, moved on it, and began the work of improving it. He soon had part of it under cultivation. He subsequently purchased additional land, till his farm was composed of two hundred and sixty acres. In 1864 he moved to Reel Bud, and. in company with Fred. Pinningroth and Charles Schreiber, bought out a store, and began the merchandizing business. This partnership was continued up till 1872, when Mr. Huth bought out the interest of the other two members of the firm, and now carries on the business in connection with his brother. Mr. and Mrs. Huth have had ten (10) children, of whom five are living. Charles^ Frederick, August, Anna and Rosa. Mr. Huth has always been a Republican in politics, and still continues his attachment to that party. For one term he filled the office of Assessor and Treasurer of Randolph County. He still owns the farm on Horse Prairie, three miles east of Reel Bud. Ho is one of the popular merchants of Reel Bud, and his store is favorably known throughout a large- section of country. Hi; began life without capital, and has reached his present position by industry, perseverance and honest effort, qualities which mark the self-made man. JOHN STOEHR. its and prominent citizens of Randolph County in the John Stoehr. He lived for some years in Monroe County, near the Randolph County line*, taking up his residence there in the year 1843, and moving into the town of Re-el Bud in 1857. John Stoehr was lorn near the city of Fricdenstadt, in the Kingdom of Wurtemhurg, Germany, on the twenty-ninth e»f January, 1825. His father, whose name was also John Stoehr, was a farmer. The maiden name of his mother was Barbara Langle. There we're only three children in the family, of whom Jcdin was the oldest and the only son. His two sisters both are-living, the one in Ohio and the other in Reel Bud, the latter the wife of Mr. John J. Ilelver. The first eight years of Mr. Stoehr’s life were spent in Germany. All the schooling he received was in this period. In the year 1833 the family emigrated to America, landing in the city of Baltimore on the fourth day of July. The anniversary of national independence was being cclebiatcel in the city. The shipping in the harbor was covered with Hags, the streets were gay with banners, the noise of cannon mingled with the hundred lesser sounds brought into requisition to assist in celebrating “the glorious Fourth,'’ and young Stoehr gained a most favorable impression of American institutions. After a week's stay in Baltimore, the family journeved by wagon to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where a boat was taken which carried them down the Ohio to Cincinnati. After stopping a few weeks in Cincinnati, the family settled in Dark County, Ohio. The new country did not seem to agree very well with the health ot' Mr. Stoehrs father. Almo-t immediately after coming to Ohio, he was taken sick. He was first seized with fever and ague, other diseases followed, anti he died in the spring of 1837, four ve-ars after leaving Germany. The sickness of Mr. Stoehr’s father left the family without support. John began working for himself at the early age of eight years. He found employ ment in a brick-yard at Dayton for three summers, every fall taking home his earnings to his father. After his father died he ran one summer on the river as a cabin boy on a steamboat, on one occasion ascending the Missouri as far as the Yellowstone region. In the fall of 183S he went to Cincinnati for the purjKwe of learning the carpenter’s trade. 11<- served a regular term of apprenticeship for three years. The rigorous circumstances which compelled Mr. Stoehr to devote his early years to labor, shut oil; at the same time, all advantages in the way of obtaining instruction. All the schooling he enjoyed was that which he received in Germany before coining to America. He. however, felt the need of securing an English education, lie Insight books, studied nights, and thus acquired a knowledge of English which became of great service to him in after years. In the year 1841, just after finishing his trade, he left Cincinnati for St. Louis, and worked at the* carpenter’s trade in the latter citv and vicinity for about, two years. in the year 1813 Mr. Stoehr came to Monroe County, and settled on a piece of land one and one-half miles north-west of the present town of lied Bud. On the fiftex-iith of June, 1844, he was married to Magdalen Rahn, who, like her husband, was born in Germany. One child has resulted from this marriage. After the occurrence of this event he followed fanning and carpentering together, but finally gave up the latter occupation and devoted his attention entirely to farming. Ilis farm, which was composed of about two hundred and forty acres, lay in the eorner of Monroe County, a mile and a half to the north-west of Red Bud. In the- spring of 1857, he left the farm and moved into lied Bud, which had then grown to be a place of about one hundred in habitants. In the fall of 1865, he began the brewery business at Re*l Bud in partnership with Mr. John II. Meyer. This business, after being successfully carried on for two years, was sold out. For several years Mr. Stoehr had also been acting as the agent of several insurance companies at Red Bud. In 1868 he was elected Police- Magistrate, and has since occupied this position, performing its duties in a manner highly creditable to himself and satisfactory to those who have entrusted him with their business. Mr. Stoehr is a man widely known throughout the community, and has received many evidences of the popular confidence. For fifteen years he was School Trustee of his township, and was a Director of the Cairo and St. Louis Railroad, under appointment of the Governor of the State. He still exercises his duties as Police Magistrate, and the adjudication of the cases which have been brought before him has been accomplished with great impartiality ond correctness of judgment. During lib long term of service the charge of prejudice and self-interest was never brought against him. Mr. Stoehr haa been an earnest and devoted Republican in politics. He began his political career with a connection with the Democratic party, voting for Polk in 1844, but all bis life in sentiment he has been an anti-slavcrv and free-soil man. He was one of the founders of the Republican party in the vicinity of Red Bud. He voted the Free Soil ticket a* early as 1854, cast his ballot for Fremont in 1856, in the days when Republicans were few in number, and has since remained firm in his adherence to the Republican party, the triumph of whose principles he has witnessed. Dr. A. B. BEATTIE. Doctor Beattie, who for the last seventeen vears has been successfully engaged in the practice of medicine at Red Bud, is a native of Randolph County. Ilis ancestors were early settlers of the County. They came from South Carolina, where they had settled previous to the Revolutionary His father, John Beattie, was a young man when he came to Randolph County with his father’s family, in the year 1808. He served in the war of 1812. In 1818, he married Elixabeth Mann, whose family had arrived in the County from Kentucky the same year. He settled on a farm on the Lively Prairie, southwest of Sparta,■where he lived comfortably until his death, which occurred at the ripe age of eightv-four. Dr. Beattie was born on the farm on Lively Prairie, in the year 1834. He received a classical education. After leaving college, two years were spent in the field as surveyor and civil engineer. He graduated in medicine from the St. Louis Medical College in 1859. In the same year he located at Red Bud, and married Miss Ada Poston, a daughter of Doctor Poston, at that time a prominent physician of Randolph County, and afterward of St. Louis. In 1861, Doctor Beattie was commissioned as Surgeon of the Forty-ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteers, and saw good service in the field. On his return to Randolph County, he resumed his practice at Red Bud. Doctor Beattie has proved a popular and successful physician. He began his practice amid considerable competition, but of the five or six physicians who occupied the field on his first establishing himself at Red Bud, Doctor Beattie is now the only survivor. HENRY O’HARRA. The eddest resident in Randolph County in the immediate vicinity of Red Bud is Mr. Henry O'Harra, who has lived in the County since the year 1818. The O’Harra family originally lived in Maryland, moved from there to Kentucky, and came to Illinois in the year 1817. The grandfather of Mr. O'Harra, also Henry O’Harra by name, was an Irishman by birth. On emigrating to America, he settled in Frederick County, Maryland. lie married in the State of Maryland a woman of English descent, by whom he had a family of six children. Of these, Henry, the father of the subject of this biography, was the youngest child. This Henry O'Harra lived the greater part of his life in Maryland. He married Margaret Brown, also a native of that State. There were ten children by this marriage, of whom the seventh was Henry O'Harra, whose name stands at the head of this sketch, and who is now an honored resident of Reel Bud. All these children, with one exception, were born in Frederick County, Maryland. In the year 1811, the O'Harra family moved from Maryland to Nelson County, Kentucky. Ileury was then between four and five years old, his birth liaviug oecured in Frederick County, Maryland, on the eighteenth of July, of the year 1806. The family lived six years in Kentucky. Henry was sent to school, and received the greater part of his schooling while his father's familyBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF CITIZENS OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ILLINOIS.BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF CITIZENS OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ILLINOIS. lira, ana taking such an interest in public affairs as was proper to a citizen of Ins standing in the community, lie was yet no extremist, and was always willing to respect the views of others. He never acted from the impetuoi ' pulse of the moment. His mind was reflective. Everything was given i consideration, and his actions were always regulated bv principle, He ne’ said or did an extreme thing. It may be supposed that a 111a pered in disposition would be happy in his family relai given due never i-tem- pere.1 m disposition would Ik happy in his family relation*. Such was the case. *ew men have more worthily occupied tin* jxwition of head of a household.. lie was kind ami indulgent, considerate and a fleet innate, provident and devoted; so that while his loss is deeply felt and truly mourned*, the tears with which ho was lamented were mingled with no unkind thoughts or harsh memories but were purely those of gratitude and love. BARTHOLOMEW HOY (Deceased.) Bartholomew IIoy located in the Ilorsc Prairie when there were less than a dozen families living on the Prairie. His death occurred in 1870. During his life-time lie was a well known resident of that, part of Randolph County, and was warmly esteemed for his many good qualities as a neighbor and a citizen His sons are still living in the neighborhood, and are numbered among the enterprising and progressive citizens of the Howe Prairie. Bartholomew Hoy was :i native of the County Sligo, Ireland, where he was born two or three years before the close of the last eeniurv. The familv of which he was a member occupied a good social position in that part of Ireland, and Mr. Hoy had all the opportunities for acquiring a good education. His early lile was spent in Ireland. When a young man he came to America lie landed at Montreal, Canada, in May of the vear 1822. On coming to this country he adapted a commercial life, and followed it with success for some years. lie dealt in silks and line goods, traveling through Canada and tin: Lnited States, and disposing of his goods in trade to the better class of customers. Iwelve years were spent in this way, during which he joumeved over Canada, and the Eastern States. He subsequently made Missouri and the upper part of Illinois the lield of his operations. The spring of 1835, became to Randolph County, where he took out a license for selling goods, and traveled over the County for something like :i vear. He was pleased with the country, and determined to make it his home. * In June, ISM, he was married to Julia Whalen. Miss Whalen had been born in the State of Maryland about the year 1811. When three months old her father, James Whalen, emigrated from Maryland to Kentucky, and in the year 1818 came on to Illinois, where he located in tbeO’Harra settlement. For some time after his marriage, Mr. Hov continued in the line of his old business. He kept store in Prairie du Roeher, but not liking the locality on account of the fever and ague to which he had become subject, about seven months from the time he was married lie bought a quarter section of laud which was his home till the time of his death. Mrs. Hoy, his widow, still resides on this property. This tract was among the old settled places of Randolph County, and the original patent had been granted to a man named Griflin. From the date of his removal to the Horse Prairie, Mr. Hoy was engaged in farming, a pursuit to which he found himself well adapted. ’ He subsequently entered another one hundred and sixty acres of land, bought and sold land at diftcrent times, and at one time owned between four and five hundred acres. Bartholomew I Joy was a hard-working, industrious, and energetic man. He was shrewd in his business transactions, but always honest, lie possessed a faculty for accumulating money, but was liberal almost to a fault. Had he possessed the calculating economy and rigid regard for his own interests, displayed so commonly on the part of business men of a certain class, his savings would have placed him among the foremost business men of his section. He was charitable and benevolent in his disposition, and his heart always opened to the distresses of others. A leading element of his character was his strong religious belief. He was a devout Catholic, and took a deep interest in the welfare and prosperity of the church. His death took place on the eighth day of October, 1870. His widow and a family of eight children were left to mourn his lo^s. The children were Thomas, Mary, Bridget, James, Patrick, Agnes, John, and Isabella. All are now living with the exception of Bridget. Thomas Hoy, the oldest son, occupies the old homestead. He was born on the seventeenth of October, 1837. He was raised on the farm. His early education he received at Belleville, and at Notre Dame College, Indiana. For four or live years after leaving school, he was engaged in various occupations in Indiana and Central Illinois. Two years he was farming in Christian County of this State. He came bftck to Randolph County, and in 18(14 took charge of the homestead farm, which has since been under his management. He owns about one hundred and seventy live acres of land. Mr. Hoy is a successful farmer. He is a man of more than ordinary intelligence, and forms a worthy member of the community. James Hoy, the fourth child and second son, was born on the eighth day of November, 1812. He lived at home till nineteen, attending school anti working on the farm. He then left Randolph County, and was employed on a farm in Bond, and afterward in Christian County. He next went to Springfield, and went to school in the neighborhood during the winter of 1801-62. In August, 1862, he enlisted in the 11.4th Regiment of Illinois Volunteers. He served three years in the field. His regiment was employed in Tennessee and Mississippi. The first engagement of importance was that of Jackson, Mississippi. .Mr. Hoy was present at the siege of Vicksburg. In the fall of 1803, he was detailed for service to Battery JO., First Illinois Artillery, with which he was connected about a year, and then returned to his regiment. At the battle of Tupelow he was wounded. From July, 1803, lie was with General A. J. Smith’s corps; was at the siege of Spanish Fort at Mobile; and was mustered out at Springfield in August, 18C5, after the close of the war. lie returned to Randolph County, and soon afterward moved on the farm (of one hundred and seventy-live acres) which he now occupies. The winter of 1807-08 and the succeeding summer and fall, Mr. Hoy attended a Commercial College in St. Louis. Two or three years were then spent in traveling in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Iowa, and northern Illinois and Tennessee. In 1871 he visited Texas, and was there two years. In the early part of 1873, he came to Randolph County, driving a team the whole distance of six hundred and fifty miles from Texas to Illinois. This journey was accomplished in January and February of that year. On coming home he settled down in Randolph County, and in May*of the same year was married to Margaret Faherty. He is now a farmer. Both the brothers have followed in the political faith of their father, who was a Democrat, but liberal in his views, and always willing to respect the opinions of others. The sons are known as men of intelligence, and as citizens of enterprise and public spirit. RAWLEIGH RALLS. South-east of Red Bud, running about a mile from the Okaw, and parallel with it, is Ralls Ridge, one of the highest points of land in Randolph County. It. has its name from the Ralls familv, who settled on it at an early date, and have since made it their place of residence. The Ralls' claim to be of \V elsh descent. They emigrated to Virginia at a period which runs back prior to the Revolutionary war. Their home in the Old Dominion was in Stafford County, where the family owned a large tract of land, and held a good position in the Virginia society of that day. Rawleigh Ralls was also the name of the grandfather of the subject of this biography. He was bom in Virginia, in 1762, and the statement is made on good authority that he served in the latter part of the Revolutionary war. He married Mary Hansbury, a lady through whose veins flowed French blood. She was bom in the year 176*1. Her two brothers were also soldiers in the struggle which took place oil tin- part of the Colonies for their independence. One was sent to Kaskaskia as a bearer of despatches, or on some similar business, and was killed bv the Indians on the Ohio river while making the journey. The other was taken prisoner by the British early in the struggle, was carried to England, and never found his way back to Virginia. Rawleigh Ralls also served in Wavne’s expedition against the Indians, in which he acquitted himself with ereefit. ... In the year 18(H), Rawleigh Ralls came to Randolph County with a lanuly at that time consisting of three sons and five daughters. He had left \ irginia some years previously and located in Tennessee. The place of his first settle- ment, on coming to Randolph County, was in the edge of the timber, on Prairie du Long Creek, about four miles northeast of the present town of Red Bud. '1 he spot is now included in Monroe County, but is only about three-fourths of a mile from the County line. The oldest son of Rawleigh Ralls, was Edward Halls, born at Dumfries, the County seat of St a fiord County, Virginia, on the eleventh day of January, of the year 1789. John Ralls, a pioneer preacher, who died in 1857, was his brother.^ Edward Balls was consequently a young man of twenty oncoming to Illinois. In the year 1811, he married Jane Hill, the daughter of Adam Hill, who came to Randolph County in the year 1804, settled not far from the present town of Evansville, ami was one of the founders of the Irish settlement. Miss Hill had been born at Abbeville, South Carolina, in the year 1790. Her family was of Irish descent. Edward Ralls first began farming near his fatligr, in the edge of Horse Prairie. He had in all eight children, of whom an equal number were boys and girls. The only one of the tons now living is Rawleigh Ralls, the third child. There are two of the daughters now livine;—— Mary, the wife of John A. Wilson, of S]>arta ; and Amelia, who married \\ illiam Foster, and also lives near Spar:a. Rawleigh Kails was horn on the twenty-second day of April, of the year 1810. He was three years old when his father, Edward Ralls, moved to Missouri, and located in the Boone’s Lick settlement, now in Howard County, Missouri. The fall of the same year his father, not liking Missouri as well as Illinois, moved back to Randolph County, and settled on the farm north of where Mr. Ralls now lives, liis farm, situated on Ralls Kidge, where it is crossed by the road leading east from Red Bud to the Okaw, is one of the historic points in the Horse Prairie. It was first settled by Robert McMahon, whose lamilv had previously been murdered by the Indians, an incident which is recorded in the history of the County. At this place Mr. Ralls was raised. A school was usually held every winter in the settlement, which gave tolerably good advantages considering the slate of the country. Mr. Ralls was married on the tenth of September, 1846, to Julia Permelia Burr. Mrs. Ralls was born at Kaskaskia, on the fourth of August, 1821. She was the daughter of Chauncey S. Burr. The home of the family was formerly at Farmington, Connecticut. Mr. Burr emigrated to Kaskaskia in the year 1817, having a short time previously married Permelia \eomans. On coming to Kaskaskia, he kept a hotel there for five years, and then moved on a farm on Heacock Prairie, in St. Clair County, a mile north of the Randolph County line. Directly after his marriage, Mr. Ralls moved on the place on Rail’s Ridge, which has since been his home. For some years, in connection with his brother, James M., he was engaged in the management of a saw mill at the old town of Lafayette, on the Okaw river. Of late years his attention has been entirely occupied with farming. Four of the five children of Mr. and Mrs. Ralls are now living. Angeline, Permelia J., Mary Adeline, and Edward Chauncey. Angeline is now the wife of James D. Watson, who lives in the neighborhood ; and Permelia, of Nehcmiah J. Shepherd, now a resident of St. Louis. Mr. Ralls’ father, Edward Ralls, died October the nineteenth, 1851. His mother, Jane Hill, was deceased, April the third, 1S04. His grandfather, Rawleigh Ralls, departed this life the sixth day of May, 1828; and his grandmother, Mary llrm>bury, on the twenty-fourth day of November, 1836. The two latter are buried in the old grave-yard, in Monroe County, a short distance above the Countv line, where repose the remains of some of the pioneers of the neighborhood. The Ralls family have always been Democratic in politics. In this respect, Mr. Ralls has followed the traditions of his ancestors. He voted for Van Buren in 1840, and has attended every important election since, always voting the Democratic ticket. Mr. Ralls is now one of the oldest residents in the neighborhood of Red Bud. He has lived on his present farm for thirty years, and in the immediate vicinity for several years over half a century. During this period, Mr. Ralls has been a citizen of high standing in the community, known as a man of generous impulses, and of honor and integrity. There is, probably, no prettier location in Randolph County than the farms on the Ridge, near the residence of Mr. Ralls. The soil is not surpassed in fertility, and a finer prospect seldom greets the eye than the view looking out toward the west of the Horse Prairie, with its rich fields and thickly clustered im- C APT A IN J. PENROD, (deceased.) The best years of Captain Penrod’s life were spent on the Mississippi river, and his career was one of activity and adventure. For a long period he was connected with steamboating on the Mississippi. He begun his river life on a flat-boat, Ix'fore the advent of steam as app.ied to water communication, and worked his way steadily from post to post till he finally became pilot of some of the finest boats that ever plowed the waters of the Mississippi. In the old days of steamboating, before railroads had reduced this means of communication to its present minor importance, Captain Penrod was widely known on the river, and filled trustworthy and responsible jstsitions. His steamboat life ended some years ago. For the last live years of his life his home had been on Ralls’ Ridge, southeast of Red Bud, where he died, in the month of August, 1875. The family from which Captain Penrod was descended was connected with the Penn family which settled Pennsylvania. His father’s name was Samuel Penrod, and the maiden name of his mother was Jane KimmeJ. Captain Penrod was born at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on the seventh of June of the year 181o. He was the eighth of a family of eleven children. When a few months eld, the family removed to what is now LTnion County, Illinois, near the town of Jonesboro. After residing three or four years at that place, his father moved down to the Mississippi river, opened a farm, and laid off the towns of Hamburg and Bainbridge on opposite sides of the river. When about six or eight years old his parents died, and Jonathan (for such was Cap- Red Bud February, 1875, and the first Mayor was clccted d Jonathan fo Penrod's Christian name) was sent to Kaskaskia, and received a home i the family of Henrv Will of that place. Here Captain Penrod went to school. The six mouths’ schooling with which he was favored at this time constituted the first educational advantages he had ever enjoyed. Shortly after, his father’s cousin, David Wright, went to New Mexico, and vonng Penrod, then a boy of about a dozen years of age, accompanied him. He was in New Mexico about a year. Wright carried on an active trade with the Indians, and Captain Penrod was made useful, as he himself was accustomed to relate in after years, in speaking of his life in New Mexico, in “ whipping the bugs out of the deer-skins.” Following the Red river on his return home, Wright disposed of his peltry in New Orleans, and then Penrod and himself came back to Kaskaskia. Not long after, when about fifteen, ho began his career of boating, a pursuit which he followed for thirty-five years. At the time lie began his river life, he was residing with Governor Bond, whose mansion to the west of Kaskaskia is still one of the features of the American Bottom which has survived, with least change, the ravages of time. On his first flat-boat trip he started from Governor Bond’s house. While following flat-boating, he sometimes remained at New Orleans during the winter, and at other times returned to Kaskaskia. He thus acquired that knowledge of the river of so much service to him in his after years. He began steam-boating as a deck-hand. He was then a young man of twenty-two or twenty-three. His first trip was made on the old’ Liberator, a boat well known in the early days of steamboating On the Mississippi. Captain Penrod served four years in such a capacity, and then followed his promotion as pilot. He learned the business, and acquired that intimate knowledge of the river essential to a successful pilot while on the deck. Captain Penrod for many years followed the river as Captain and pilot, sometimes filling one position, and sometimes the other. He ran the Mississippi from St. Louis to New Orleans; the Ohio as far up as Louisville and Cincinnati; and up the Missouri to Council Blufls. During this time he had many thrilling adventures, and his experience partook of the interesting character common to the river in those days, lie was pilot of the Robert Burns, when she burnt about fifty miles above New Orleans. No lives were lost, for Captain Penrod at once seized the wheel and landed the boat, at the same time saving the life of the Captain. When the Ben. Shererd, from Nashville, was burned in 1837, in the reach above Fort Adams, fifteen miles from the mouth of Red river, Captain Penrod was on the old St. Louis in Black Hawk Bend, about five miles above, from which the flames of the | burning boat could be distinctly seen. This was one of the most terrible catastrophes that ever occurred on the Mississippi, and over one hundred lives were lost. In the year 1858 Captain Penrod made the trip up from New Or-i leans as pilot of the Pennsylvania. Through a vague apprehension of danger, he refused to make the return trip, but resolved to remain in St. Louis and there await his family. The event proved the wisdom of his course. A short time after the Pennsylvania was burned and sunk at Ship Island, and the persou whom Captain Penrod had procured to fill his place as pilot of the ljoat, [ lost his life, together with over a hundred of the passengers. During the late war, I he served ten months as pilot on the ram V indicator and other government boats, and was at Vicksburg at the time of its surrender. In the old days when steam-boating was at its prime, Captain Penrod was widely known on the river, lie was pilot of some of the finest boats that ever ran the Mississippi. He | sank two boats in his time, and was on another when it burned to the water’s edge. I In the beginning of the vear 1883, Captain Penrod was married to Mary A. Anderson, of Baltimore. Mrs, Penrod died in September, 1809. After the year 1858, Captain Penrod lived principally in St. Louis. From 1870 the Captain lived with his niece, the widow of James Ralls (deceased), on Ralls’ Ridge, in Randolph County. He died suddenly on Wednesday, the twenty-fifth of August, 1875. He was a man of many admirable traits of character, i and his death was lamented by friends : nd relatives. JACOB MILLER, I The first Mayor of Red Bud, under its incorporation as a city, deserves men-I tion among the biographies of the citizens of Randolph C< was incorporated as a city in February, 1875, and the ' | in the following March. Jacoii Mit.t.ku was chosen. Mr. Miller was born at the town of Neuborn, a village of the northern part of Germany, on the nineteenth day of March, of the year 1829. Jacob Miller was the name of his father. His mother’s name before marriage was Ann Mary Hermel. There were eight children in the family, of whom Jacob wa$ the fifth. When he was four years old, his father removed with the family to America. This was in the summer of 1833. Landing in New York, "the family proceeded to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and lived litre four years. Here Jacob went to school, and received the first elements of his education. In the year 1837 the family moved west, and came to Monroe County, Illinois, and located five miles south of the town of Waterloo, where Mr. Miller’s father bought a piece of land, and settled down as a farmer. Mr. Miller went to school after coming to Monroe County, and was brought up on the farm. His father died when Jacob was about twenty years old. After his father’s death Mr. Miller bought the old homestead, and carried on farming. Cn the eleventh of December, 1852, he was married to Elizabeth Guekel, who had been born at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. After this event, Mr. Miller continued farming. During eight years he filled the position of constable in Monroe County, and for two years also kept a store at Burksvillc. In the year 1867, Mr. Miller moved to Red Bud, in Randolph County, j where he was apjiointed constable. In November, 1 SOS, he was elected to till i the same office. In March. 1875, he was chosen Mayor of Red Bud, which | bad recently been incorporated as a city. At present Mr. Miller is also en-j gaged in the lumber business at the same place. Mr. and Mr>. Miller have had two children. Mr. Miller has always been a Democrat in politics, voting that ticket ever since he began to cast a ballot. He was. however, elected to his position of Mayor, not as the candidate of any particular party, but was supported alike l»v’men of all political proclivities. Mr. Miller has been a | worthy citizen in the community in which he lives, and is held in eonsidera-I lion for his many good qualities. EMIL BERGER Emil Berger has l>een a resident of Red Bud for sixteen years. He was born at Sasbach, a village of Baden, Germany, on thethiru enth of January, of the year 1S32. lie was the son of Valentine Berger, and the name of his mother before marriage was Caroline Eison. There were eight children in his father's family, of whom the oldest was Emil. After attending school for some years at Sasbaeli, at the age of sixteen lie went to the brewer's trade. In the year 1851, when nineteen years old, he | emigrated to America with the idea of trying his fortunes beyond the Atlantic. He came to Philadelphia, and for six years was a resident of that city. I hiring this time he was engaged in the brewery business; at first in the employment of Other parlies, and afterward carrying on the business for himself. In the year 1S57 he left Philadelphia, and came to St. I ouls, and worked for three years as foreman in a brewery in that city, lie left St. Lmis in the year 1859, and took up his residence at Red Bud, in Randolph County. lie here began the brewery business on his own account, which he has since carried on with success, giving it his personal supervision up to July, 1875, since which time lie has rented out the establishment. Mr. Berger was married in the city of St. Louis, in 1857, to Christina Veick, who was born, like her husband, in Germany. He has had two children, Jacob and Matilda. Mr. Berger began his political career with a vote for James Buchanan for President, in 1850. He subsequently became a Republican, and still continues a member of that party. Mr. Berger’s life has been one of interest since coming to this country. Arriving in America before he had attained his majority, soon afterward lie possessed a capital of some thousand dollars with which to engage in business. This was subsequently lost by unfortunate ventures, and Mr. Berger was compelled to begin life again. His present nosit ion lie has readied by his own efibrts and energy, lie has bee-n one of the leading and enterprising citizens of lied Bud. The brewery business has occupied his attention nearly all of his life, and in this he has been as successful as bis thorough knowledge of the business deserves. Mr. Berger is known as a man of social and genial disposition, and is popular among a large circle of friends and acquaintances. JAMES AND EDMOND FAHERTY. The Faherty family is among the oldest of Randolph County, and was one of the first to permanently settle in the Horse Prairie. The fami.ies now living in this region of country are few in number, who were settlers of the Prairie at the time of the* coming of the Fahertys. The family is of Irish descent, and the first member to come to this country was Edmond Faherty, who was born in Ireland about the year 1775. Hw early life was spent in Ireland, and at the age of nineteen he emigrated to America. He landed at Baltimore, and for several years resided in the neighborhood of that city. He was married in Maryland, in the vicinity of Baltimore, about the year 1806 or 1807. His wife was Mary Tewcll, a native of the‘State of Maryland. He lived in Maryland for some years after his marriage. and here the two oldest children, Patrick and Bridget, were born. Edmond Faherty afterward emigrated to Kentucky, and located in Nelson Countv, where he lived for several years. His father-in-law, Patrick Tewcll, accompanied him. Here Bartholomew, John, Marv, and Michael Faherty, were bom. Edmond Faherty had in all eight children. Only three are now’living. These are James and Edmond, whose names appear at the head of this biography, and Mary, who is the wife of Nicholas Walsh, and lives in the State of Wisconsin. Toward the close of the vear 1818 Edmond Faherty left Nelson County, Kentucky, and set out for Illinois, in company with five other families. A flatboat was loaded with their household goods, and a few other necessary articles, and the families floated down the Ohio river to Cairo without any serious mishap to mark their journey. From this point Edmond Faherty, in company with another family, proceeded up the Mississippi. They pushed their little craft upward against the stream, and ascended as far as Cape Girardeau, where ice impeded their further progress. Mr. Faherty then hired a team and conveyed his family to Ste. Genevieve. On New dear's day of 1819 the Fahcr-tvs crossed the Mississippi to Randolph County. They s'pent the remainder of the winter with a friend in the American Bottom below Prairie du Roeher on Gov. Edwards' farm, and in March Mr. Faherty entered land in Soction 21, of Township 4, Range 8. He put up a round log house as a rough accommodation for his family, and at once moved on the property and began to break the prairie. His location was on the southern edge of ilie Horse Prairie. TheBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF CITIZENS OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ILLINOIS. country waB then in a wild and unsettled condition. Only a few improvements had been made by previous settlers, The nearest neighbor, William Nelson, was two miles away. An Indian trail, leading from Vinccunes to Prairie du Rochor, was the only road made at that time over the Prairie, which was covered with grans, growing in places in the fall of the year to an extraordinary height. Edmond Faherty farmed bore till his death, which occurred on the second day of February, of the vear 1846. lit- was a worthy man, of many estimable traits of character, and during his life time was a good citizen ami a valued member of the pioneer community. Mary Faherty, his widow, ended her days November the seventh, 1863. Jamks Fahkrty was born February the fifth of the year 1821, the first child of Edmond and Mary I’aherty born after the coming of the family to Kandolph County. Edmond Faherty. the youngest child of the family, was born July the eighth, 1823. The births of both occurred on the old homestead, two miles south of Red Bud, the place of the first settlement of the family on coining to the Ilorse Prairie. The neighborhood in which they were brought up was poorly supplied at that day with educational advantages, and the schooling whieh the Fahortys received was of necessity confined in its character. Both were brought up to work on the farm. After their father’s death, which occurred in 18*16. as stated above, the homestead fell into their possession, and they managed the farm in partnership. James was married on the seventh dav of February, 1853, to Maria Hammond, the daughter of James Hammond. Miss Hammond was bom in Ohio, and is of English descent. In 1817 the two brothers had bought two hundred acres of land in Section 21, adjoining their father’s old estate, and after his marriage James moved on this property, where he resided three years. Ediuond continued to live on the old homestead. In January, 1807, James moved to the American Bottom west of K ask ask i a, where he lived till 1861). and then moved back to the old homestead. He moved on the farm which he at present occupies in 1871, having built his residence die previous year. Mr. Faherty has been engaged in farming all his life, and is a worthv representative of the agricultural interests of Kandolph Conntv. He has six children who are living: Emily, Henry F., Jerome A., John V, George A., and Charles A. Emily, the oldest daughter, is the wife of Richard Grace, of Jacksonville, Illinois. Edmond continued to live on the old homestead till the death of his mo-her in 1863, and some time after that event he became a resident of Red Bud. Previous to this, about the year 1855, in company with John McQuillan, he ftarted a small stage line to run between Red Bud and Belleville, the first stage line that ever ran regularly out of Red Bud. He retained an interest in this till September, 1871. He ha* also Wen engaged in the livery business in connection with the stage line. Since 1872 he has also been interested in the carriage shujw at Red Bud, and the firm is now known as Faherty A: Long. The homestead farm is still in his possession. Mr. Faherty, in the fall of I860, was nominated and elected by the Democratic party as a representative in the State Legislature. He was a member of that body during the trying times that followed the breaking out of the civil war, and discharged the duties of his responsible position in a patriotic and conscientious manner. Mr. Faherty has I bought two hundred and ninety acres of land in Randolph County, about two miles southwest of Red Bud. Here he has been employed in farming ever | since, and has an excellent farm of three hundred and ten acres. Since coming to Randolph County his attention has been directed wholly to fanning. During the first part of his life, in the old days of the Whig and Democratic parties, Mr. Wehrheim was a Democrat. On the rise of the Republican party, however, his anti-slavery convictions and his sense of the danger to be apprehended from the growth of the slave power, led him to unite with the Republicans. He was one of the earliest members of that organization m this section, voting the Republican ticket, when only six votes were cast for ! it in Red Bud precinct. He cast his ballot for Fremont in 1856, and afterward for Lincoln, Grant and other Republican nominees. In the year I860, Mr. Wehrheim was elected Associate Judge of Randolph County, lie ran for the office as a candidate of the Republicans, and his i>opularity is sufficiently attested and the high regard in which he was held by those who knew him most thoroughly, by the fact that he was elected though the County was strongly Democratic, lie was re-elected to the same position in 1869, and again in t 1873. At this time the constitution of the Board was changed by a new law, I and the Judges drew lots to determine the length of their respective terms. By ibis arrangement Judge Wehrheim’s term expired in one year, but (luring his nine yean? service he won a popular reputation as a public officer of ability and integrity. which now forms part of Prussia. Her* Friedrich Mohr* was born on the eleventh day of November, 1820, the second son of Henry and llonne Mohrs. There were four children in the family. Heim- wont to school in Germany till 1838, when the family came to America. The Schriebera and Henry Byer i the jseL the City of New York, they traveled to St. Louis by way of the da vs, before the construction of j i. i. ...........j II... St. Louis the family c on to Randolph County, and Henry Mohrs, the father, entered eighty aens of laud which forms part of the farm now owned by Friednch Mohrs. No Germans at that dale had settled on the Horse Prairie. 1 he country was wild and ‘mined unmarried. He is genial in his disposition, and liberal i prising as a business man. Both of the brothers have been meinl Democratic party, and are citizens of public spirit and enterprise. JOHN ROSCOW. Mn. Roscow is of English birth. He was bom near Preston, in Lancashire, England, on the twenty-ninth of Julv, 1837, the son of James Roscow, by his wife Maria, whose family name was Palmer. In 1810, when John was three years old, the family emigrated to America. After a short residence in St. Louis, they located on Prairie du Round, in Monroe County. Here John resided tiil he was thirteen, and here also he began his education. His father then moved with the family to Randolph County, and located a mile south of the present town of Red Bud. The village had been started only a short time previous. Mr. Roscow went to school in an old log school-house which stood west of the infant town, and in which many of the tnen now prominent in this section of the country received their education. The building was a low log structure- One log had been left out to form an aperture for the admission of light, and a huge fire place occupied one entire end of the building. When about sixteen or seventeen, Mr. Roscow had better advantages at the College of the Christian Brothers in St. Louis, which he attended for two sessions. When home he partly managed the farm, while his father was busy in his occupation of stone-mason. At about the age of eighteen, he thought of learning a trade, and worked for three months at the milling business. He, however, concluded that on the whole, he would like farming best, to which accordingly lie has mainly devoted his attention. He was married on the fourteenth of February, 1859, to Mary Ann Mudd, the daughter of Edward Mudd, an old resident of Randolph County. Mr. Roscow then bought eighty acres of timber a mile south of Ruma, cleared it, and began farming for himself. After living here about six years, he moved on the farm where the family had first settled on coming to Randolph County, and farmed it jointly with his brother. The land was afterward divided between the brothers, and in 1869 Mr. Roscow sold his share. About this time Mr. Roscow carried on the business of a sione-muson with his father, and with a partner contracted for the construction of buildings. They macadamized the streets now meeting at the square in Red Bud, and took an active part in putting through other public, improvements. In the winter of 1869-7(1 Mr. Roscow was a salesman in a store at Red Bud. The spring of 1870, he bought and moved on his present farm. One hundred and twenty acres (of the one hundred and seventy which he owns), tire under cultivation. Elsewhere is represented a lithographic view of his residence. In Ids religious belief, Mr. Roscow is an earnest Catholic. While living near Ruma, he was active in securing the establishment of the College of the Sacred Heart, near St. Patrick’s Church, southwest of Ruma. He was one of the advocates of the founding of the school, and of the erection of the buildings by the people of that locality, foreseeing that such an institution must be of great advantage to the community at large'. Mr. Roscow was a member of the first building committee, and for two years occupied that position, during which he personally superintended the construction of part of the edifice now used by the College. He saw the school established on a firm basis. the year 1849, and for lifti joining Counties of Monroe Frankfort on the Main, < 1806. His father, John Wehrheim by nai PHILIP WEHRHEIM. KIM has been a resident of Randolph County i his mother before marriage ’ s to that dale had lived r. Mr. Wehrheim was bom in > the twenty-second day of May, . farmer, and tlie i i Gromet. The children in the family c in number, all boys. Philip was the oldest. The names of the younger brothers were John, Christian, Jacob, Conrad, and Valentine. After leaving school Philip learned the cooper’s trade which he followed as long as he lived in Germany. He was married in Germany in the year 1827, and his wife was Ursula Metzger. In the year 1831, the whole family emigrated to America, his father and mother, and all bis brothers. Leaving Germany in February, 1834, the family landed at New Orleans in the following June. From there they made their way to St. Louis, and after a few weeks’ stay in that city, settled on Prairie du Long, in Monroe County, Illinois, where John Wehrheim, the father, bought a small farm. Mr. Wehrheim followed the cooper’s trade for some years after coming to Monroe County. In the year 1837, he bought almut one hundred acres of land in St. Clair County, and moved on this property, following at the same time the occupations of cooper and farmer. It was during his residence here, in the year 1846, that his wife died. Mr. Wehrheim was again married in 1847 to Thilita Q. Blu, who was bom in the state of Ohio, but who was living in St. Clair County at the time of the marriage. Mr. Wehrheim had twelve children by his first wife*, and has had twelve by the second. Twelve, three by the first, and nine by the second, wife, are now living, and their names in the order of their age* are Philip, Catherine, Mary, Sarah, Eliza, Louis, Amelia, William, Emil, Leaiulcr, Josephine, and Sophia. In the vear 1819, Mr. Wehrheim sold bus farm in St. Clair County, and * FRANCIS SCIIIFFJBRDECKER. Francis Schifkkrdeckkr, a farmer near Red Bud, was born at the village I of Heinstadt, Baden, on the 13th of December, 1829. Ilis father was Joseph 1 Schiflerdccker, a farmer and land owner, and his mother was named Teresa Bopp before marriage. Francis was the fifth of nine children. In his fourth vear the family came to America. They landed at Baltimore in October of the year 1833, and settled in York County, Pennsylvania, where Francis began his education, attending a common school for six months. After living four vears in York Countv. the family moved to Cumberland, Maryland. This was in the year 1837, and in 1840 the family started West to obtain if possible a homestead of their own. In June of that year the Sellillerdeckers arrived in Monroe County, Illinois, and Mr. Schiflerdecker’s father bought land three miles south of Bu’rksville, on the old Kaskaskia road. One hundred and twenty acres were purchased, and three years afterward two hundred and forty additional, making in all three hundred and sixty acres. Mr. Schiflerdccker was not eleven years of ags till the December following the arrival of the family in Monroe County, but he went to school only for a brief period. One winter he attended School in the neighborhood of where his father lived, and another at Waterloo, the County seat. He worked at home on the farm till he was about twenty-two. After leaving home he was in a store at Waterloo, and there remained six months. In the year 1852 his father died. Two years after this occurrence he bought out the interest of the other heirs, and began farming on his own account on I the homestead, the principal management of which had been entrusted to him after his father's death. On the 20th of January, 1854, he was married to Lidwena Wagner, also a native of the Duchy of Baden. Mr. Schiflerdccker kept at farming till the spring of 1864, when he engaged in the mercantile business at Burksville in partnership with Mr. Paul C. Brey, now the popular County clerk of Monroe County. In the fall of 1864 lie sold his farm south of Burks'ville. December, 18*55, he wound up the merchandising business at | Burksville, and the following year bought a farm of two hundred acres, two miles southeast of Red Bud. Here Mr. Schiflerdccker has since been engaged in farming, a pursuit which he has followed with success. Ilis first wife died, on the 8th of February, 1868, and the following December he was married to Lidwena La forge, a lady of French descent, bom in St. Clair County. Mr. Schiflerdccker had seven children bv bis first wife, one of whom is deceased, and has three by his present marriage. Mr. Schiflerdecker has been a Democrat in politics, and an intelligent and industrious farmer. JOHN II MEYER. John II. Mkvkr is one of the widely known residents of Red Bud, where lie- has lived since the year 1858. He was born at Kuteuhausen, in Prussia, on the tenth day of February, 1828. His fathers name was also John 11. Meyer. Elizal>eth Sclnenbaun was his mother’s name before marriage. He attended school at the village of Kntenhnnsen, and at the Citv of Minden. At the early age of sixteeu he set out for America, unaccompanied by friends or family, determined to try what fortune had in store for him in the new country. He landed in New Orleans in the month of November, 1S44, with only a five franc piece in his pocket. Directly after his arrival he was taken sick, and was carried to a hospital, where he remained two weeks. He was yet ignorant of the English language, and while in the hospital was tumble to understand a won! spoken to him. While in New Orleans he earned about six dollars, and part of this he employed in paying lor steamboat fare to Si. Is>uis. At St. Louis he became an apprentice to a bricklayer, binding himself bv a written contract to work three years for fifty cents a day. Ilis time was taken up in thoroughly learning the trade, after which be worked three more years i as a journeyman bricklayer at good wages. In 1851 he started a retail gro-| eery store in St. Louis, and carried it on for six years. He then, in company with a partner, started a brewery in St. Louis. The capital to carry on tins business he had made in the grocery trade. Alter a year’s, experience tw a brewer in St. Louis, he sold his interest iu the establishment to his partner, j and in November, 1858, came to Red Bud, where he had acquaintances resi- Red Bud was a small town at that time; but Mr. Meyer (bought it offered sufficient advantages for the location of a brewery, there being none at (hat time nearer than St. Is>uia and Belleville. lie accordingly built the brewery now owned by Mr. Berger, and ran it till the breaking out of the war, when Mr. Meyer volunteered in the Seventh Illinois Cavalry. He went out as Second Lieutenant of Company M. The regiment went into active service in die fall of 1861. Mr. Meyer took part in the capture of New Madrid and Island No. 10. The battle of Corinth was the first one of any magnitude in which he participated. He continued with the regiment till the fall of 1862, when he sent in his resignation, and returned home to attend to private business matters. In connection with John Strelir, he managed the brewery at Red Bud, but in 1866 sold out the establishment, and for a time followed bis old trade of bricklaying. In the year 1870.’Mr. Meyer received the appointment of Deputy United States Marshall, and iu that capacity he took the census of Randolph County. For three years following he performed the duties of Deputy Assessor. In 1872, at the hands of the Liberal-Democratic Convention, he received the nomination as member of the State Board of Equalization. In the fall of 1873 he was elected Justice of the Peace, and still holds that office. In the fall of 1874 lie ran as an independent candidate for Sheriff; but the regular Democratic candidate secured the election. Mr. Meyer was one of the early Repub-licam about Red Bud. In 1856, then in St. Louis, he voted for Fremont, and retained his attachment to the Republican party till the inception of the Liberal movement in 1872. For many years he was one of the leading and enthusiastic members of the Republican 1'arty about Red Bud. Mr. Meyer was married on the twentieth of January, 1849, to Mary Man* uncultivated. The Prairie was covered with gnu#, which sometimes grew to the height of a dozen feet, and herds of wild deer roamed through the timber and over the prairies. The family at firet located in the timber, and much hard work was required to put the land under cultivation. For several years after coming to the country there were no schools near, and Mr. Mohrs afterward attended school at Prairie du Round, seven miles and a half from his father’s house. He only went to school at rare intervals, and did not receive much of an English education. His father kept him close •it work He was still living at home when he was married, on the twenty-fourth of December, 1861. His wife was Christine Ricke, who was also bom at Imbshausen, Prussia. Mr. Mohrs still lived on the homestead, and managed the farm! Several years after his marriage, Ills father died, and Mr. Mohrs came into the possession of the homestead farm where he now resides, lie has been a successful farmer, and has the ownership of about four hundred and fifty acres of land. On coming to the country the family had no money except enough to enter eighty acres of land. Mr/Mohrs has always been a hard-working and industrious farmer, having been trained to such habits from bis youth up, and what lie has made has resulted from such a course. Mr. Mohrs is the father of ten children, and all are living but one. Caroline, Anna, Frederick, Henry, August, Charles, Hannah, Herman, Ferdinand, and Eda, are their names. Caroline married Louis Breamer, a farmer of the same neighborhood. Mr. Mohrs has usually voted the Democratic ticket. The family are members of the Lutheran church on Ilorse Prairie. The Mohrs were soon followed by other German families, till now the Horse Prairie is occupied by a thrifty population principally of that class. As pioneers of the German population ‘this section of Randolph County the name of Mohrs deserves to be perpetuated. GEORGE F. HECKER. For the last six years Mr. ITecker has filled the office* of Justice of the Peace and Notary Public at Bed Bud. He was bom at the city of Nicheim in Westphalia, Germany, on the seventeenth of September, 1833. He was the son of George Hecker. His mother’s maiden name before marriage was Magdalena Schlueter. Mr. IIecker’8 education was completed at the gymnasium at Munster, Westphalia. He left school at the age of twenty, aiuf immediately after embarked for Ame for the f....... after spending about eight months iu the Crescent City he proceeded to Henry County, Missouri, where his parents, who had arrived in America iu June, 1855, had bought a farm and located. Mr. Heckcr here spent two years in farming. On the death of his father, lie left the farm iu the charge of a brother, and came to St. Louis, where for three years he was clerk in one of the newspaper offices of the city. He left this employment in the summer of 1861 to enlist in the United States service in the war for the suppression of the rebellion. He was enrolled iu the Forty-third Illinois Regiment, at that time stationed at St. Louis, in August, 1861, and the following February took the field. Mr. Hecker served till the close of the war, enlisting as a private and coming out as- a Lieutenant. He participated in several serious engagements, among which were the battle of Shiloh, the siege of Corinth, luka, and Bolivar, Tennessee. At this last place the regiment lay a year and recruited. Mr. Hooker was at Vicksburg when that stronghold surrenderd in July, 1863. The regiment was then ordered to Arkansas, and was the first of the United States troops to take possession of Little Rock, the state capiial. During their stay here the regiment was sent south to Louisiana, from which, however, the Union forces were compel led to retreat on the defeat of General Banks. Mr. Hecker was still in Arkansas at the close of the war, and was mustered out of service on the day of the assassination of President Lincoln. He had been married in August, 1864, to Ilcnardina Oppcnnann. Mr. Hecker had made her acquaintance before the war, and was married at St. Ixmis at the date mentioned above when home on recruiting service. Miss Oppcnnann was bom in Germany, and came to America when a child. For two years after the war Mr. Hecker followed farming on a farm belonging to his father-In-law in Monroe County, and in 1867 became a resident of Red Bud. In 1869 he was elected Justice of the Peace, and a!>out the same time received the appointment of Notary Public from the Governor. Mr. Hecker is the lather of three children. lie is a member of the Republican party, and his name was presented by the Republicans of Randolph County as a candidate for Circuit Clerk, but lie of course failed of an election, the County being strongly Democratic. JOHN M. COX. 1*k\v men have lived a longer period in Randolph County than John M. Cox. He is one of the earliest and oldest settlers. His recollection carries him back nearly to the opening of the present century, and almost the entire part of Ins life he has spent in the immediate vicinity of his present residence, on the banks of the Okaw, in Township 4 7. He is a relic of the good old tunes when set tiers were scarce in Randolph County, when deer roamed over the prairies, and when men were taken for what they were worth, and gained their places in society by their shrewdness, their skill in bunting, anel their readiness in the use of the rifle. John M. Cox is the son of Absalom Cox and Jane McBride. Both were born in South Carolina, but their parents were from Ireland. Their marriage was celebrated in South Carolina, and there the three oldest of a family of eight, children were born. John M. was born at Abbeville, South Carolina, January the eleventh, 1802. In the year 1804, when John M. was two years old the Cox family emigrated to Illinois. They came in company with James and Archibald Ihompson William McBride, Robert McDonald, and several others. The < ox s settled at once, stopping only a few days in Kaskaskia, on ,‘1 | r!?* 0,1 ]*?, , . ? obtaining the right to settle there from General Ldgar.of Kaskaskia- 1 his was the spot where Cox’s Ferry was afterward established. W illiam McBride and Robert McDonald settled at the same time on the river, a short distance bcloW. There was no settlement at the time 11*r*ml- lh° r*UT' a,le"" -voarH Absalom Cox established a ferry across 10 llm. - “ Cox> Ferry, ami i„ operation till recently. .. . > vuas rerry, aim in operation t a.,Kl influential member of the pioneer set-pany, and served in T. —....., "" aim oiuuemiai mcniner emom. He was selected as Captain of a militia company, ana Served in he war with Great Britain in 1813-1815. He was a liangcr, an,I scoured the border country to protect it airainst th«» Tnrti-nw 11.. . .. .1 r...........1 • .1. derfelt, who was bom at the village of Fahlsdorf, , _________ America the year before she was married, when she was eighteen vears old. Mr. and Mrs. Meyer have had seven children, l our, John H., Mary, Anna, and Frederick, are living. Mr. Meyer is now the popular proprietor of the City Hotel at Red Bud, of which In- took charge in March, 1875. He is well known for his genial and social qualities. FRIEDRICH MOHRS. Friedrich Mohrs is particularly worthy of mention in this work 51s belonging to one of the earliest German families to settle on the Horse Prairie in Randolph County. The Mohrs' family emigrated to America in the year 1838. Their home in Germany was at Imlxhausen, in the Kingdom of Hanover, Jie was a lianger, and scoured the b&sti.’,1;"sar Indiana-Ucdiortant election afterward. He had a family of nine children, five sons and four daughters. I All of the sons, and two of the daughters are still living. The sixth child was George Wilson, born in the old fort referred to above, on the 11th of December of the year 1814. He probably never went to school more than five or six months in his life. He was fourteen years of age when the family moved upon Heacock, now Hill prairie. He was married April, 1841, to a distant relative, Mary Wilson. Five of the eleven children resulting from this union died when young, and six are now living. Their names are Susan, the wife of Thomas McBride, Robert F., George R., William II., Samuel D., and Martha Jane. For two years Mr. Wilson filled the position of Treasurer of Randolph County. James Wilson, the eighth child of George and Susannah Wilson, was born August the thirty-first, 1820, also in the old fort east of the Okaw. His advantages for obtaining an education were similar to those of his brother, and he was principally raised on the farm in Township 4-7, where he has lived since he was eight years old. August the Oth, 1840, he was married to Janey S. McBride. Immediately after, he built a house and settled on Section 14, Township 4-7, the site where now stands the town of Baldwin. Here James Wilson has the honor of making the first improvement. William M., Andrew W.t Warren M., Susan, Elizabeth, Thomas J., and Stephen A. I)., are the children of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson now living. For twenty-two or twenty-three years, Mr. Wilson lived where Baldwin is now built, and in the spring of 1803, he moved back to the old homestead where he now lives. Both the brothers arc Democratic in politics, Presbvterian in their religious belief, substantial farmers, and worthy members of society. A. T. DOUGLASS. John Douglass, of Abbeville, South Carolina, was the grandfather of A rchibald T. Douglass, who r.-sidos at present a short distance south of Baldwin, in Randolph County. The Douglass family originated in Scotland. Samuel Douglass, who was bom at Abbeville, South Carolina, in the year 1790, was the son of John Douglass, and the father of the subject of this biography. Samuel Douglass' father died when Samuel was a mere boy, and his mother afterward married George Wilson, the father of George and James Wilson, who also live south of Baldwin. In the year 1800, a company of five families left Abbeville, with Illinois as j their destination. Among these were the families of George Wilson and John i Anderson. On reaching Illinois Territory they located on the public lands in j the Irish settlement. Samuel Douglass was then a boy of ten or eleven years. On coming to Randolph County, he embraced every opportunity of attending school, but at that early period of the settlement of the country, educational advantages were exceedingly limited. He acquired a good education for the times, was an intelligent man, and held a good position in society. In 1817, lie was married to Mary Thompson, the daughter of Archibald Thompson, an early and respected settler of the County. Samuel Douglass was a farmer. During the latter part of the war of 1812— 1815, he entered the military service, and was employed for some time among the Rangers. After bis marriage he entered eighty acres of land in Section 23, Township 4-7, and two years afterward moved on this properly. He lived here the quiet and useful life of a farmer till about 1851, when he moved to Evansville, and there died in the year 1856. In his life-time he was connected with the Presbyterian Church, and was a just man and a good citizen. For several years lie served as Justice, of the Peace, and for one term filled the office of County Commissioner. He bad a family of eleven children, six daughters and five sons. Eight are now living. The second of the children was Archibald T. Douglass, who was born April the nineteenth, 1820, five miles south of his present place of residence. W hen two yean old his father moved to the place now owned by Mr. Douglass. In this neighborhood he was brought up. He attended the winter schools held in log school-house^, as he bad opportunity, and acquired a good substantial education. In the year 1840, he married Eleanor G. McBride. Mr. Douglass then went to farming in the neighborhood of where he now lives, and has lived in this vicinity ever since, with the exception of two years when he resided at Liberty, in the southern part of the County. In the year 1852, lie moved on the old homestead, formerly occupied by his father. Mr. Douglass has had seven children, of whom six are now living. These are Elizabeth J , the wife of Absalom Cox, William M., Mary, who married Charles Carr, Amanda, the wife of John Moore, Samuel F., and Margaret, the wife of Mr. Ferguraon, of Baldwin. William M., the oldest son, is one of the enterprising and active citizens of Baldwin. Mr. Douglass' father was a Whig, and Mr. Douglass first began his j>olilical life in connection with that party. He voted for Clay in 1844. He afterward became a Democrat, and remains a steadfast supporter of the principles of that organization. He has taken an active interest in public affairs. Mr. Douglass is now one of the oldest residents of the section of country in the neighborhood of Baldwin. The country was thinly populated on his first coming to this locality, ami the various changes and improvements that have been made he has watched with interest, and in many of them has taken a leading part. WILLIAM BOYLE. In August, 1842, when about five years old, William Boyle came to Randolph County. He was the son of John Boyle and Martha McKinley, and was the youngest of a family of nine children. His father bought land in Township 4-7. He went to school only one day in the old country, and most of his education was received from his older brother, Thomas, who for many years taught school in the vicinity. In November, 1859, lie was married to Matilda Kirkpatrick, who was born in Ireland in the same County as her husband, Antrim. Mr. Boyle’s birth occurred January sixteenth, 1837. He is now a substantial farmer north of Baldwin, owning over four hundred acres of land. His eight children are all living. He is attached in his religious belief to the United Presbyterian Church, and is a Republican in politics, as are nearly all the members of that denomination. ALFRED C. JORDAN. Sm Robert Jordan, who emigrated from England about the year 1040, was the first of the Jordan family to come to America, lie settled what is now Cape Elizabeth, near Portland, Maine. He was a minister of the Church of England, and brought over to this country a sprinkling bowl and pitcher used iu the church services, which, with other articles of family history, are nowin the possession of Bowdoin College, at Brunswick, Maine. The Jordans continued to live in the same locality, and members of the family still own the place of original settlement. A numerous and influential body of descendants has sprung from Sir Robert Jordan, and there are now few families in the country who trace their ancestry back to an earlier date, Sir Robert having come to America only twenty years after the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth. The Jordans took a conspicuous part in the early settlement of Maine. They were active in the Indian wars, and sixteen male members of the family were massacred at one time by the savages, on the spot where now stands the city of Portland. They also distinguished themselves iu the French war, and the war of the Revolution, and well-authenticated instances of their bravery are still on record. Alfred C. Jordan is the son of Abijah Jordan and Charity Plummer. His mother was also a member of an old New England family. He was born on the ninth day of April, 1835, at Bowdoin, Maine. His father was farmer and shipwright. After receiving a common-school ami academic education, he learned the trade of a ship-carpenter, and at the age of nineteen, made a voyage to Liverpool as carpenter of a ship. When ho bad reached the age of twenty-two, he resolved to make his home in the West. He first settled^down at St. Anthony, Minnesota, and there engaged in milling. After a residence of two years iu this locality, he came to St, IxMjis, and subsequently found his way to Randolph County, where he worked at the carpenter’s trade in the neighborhood of where fie now lives. The dale of his arrival in Randolph County was the first day of June, 1858. He was employed as a carpenter for about two years, and then on the fifth of August, 1800, he was married to Mrs. Sarah Ewing. Her maiden name had been Moore. After this event, Mr. Jordan settled down on the farm which he now occupies, in Section 13, of Township 4-7. He here has a farm of two hundred and twenty acres. Mr. Jordan followed farming exclusively up to the year 1873, when in addition he engaged in the lumber business,at Baldwin, a town which at that time had been recently formed on the Cairo and St. Louis railroad. To Mr. Jordan belongs the honor of shipping the first load of lumber, and putting up the first building ever erected in Baldwin. It is now used by Mr. Jordan as a warehouse. He is at present engaged in the grain, flour, and coal business, which he has carried on with success. Mr. and Mrs. Jordan have had seven children, Samuel and John, Emma and Lizzie [now deceased), Robert. Herbert and Lizzie. Mr. Jordan was raised a Democrat, but became a Republican on the rise of that party. He has been one of the active business men of Baldwin, and has assisted largely in the development of the town. ALEXANDER BURNETT (deceased). At the time of the death of ALEXANDER Burnett, in February, 1868, he was one of the foremost citizens of the northern part of Randolph Couniv. He was born iu the County Armagh, Ireland, February the first, 1813, ami came to America with his father when thirteen years of age, settling in South Carolina. October, 1835, he was married to Martha J. Parsons, of English descent, boru in Anson County, North Carolina. In 1839, Mr. Burnett came to Randolph County, and entered land in Township 4-7. He engaged in fanning, and some three or four years afterward opened a store, which, in connection with farming, he carried on till the time of his death. The precinct in which he lived was known for several years as Burnett's precinct. He was a man of excellent business capacity, of popular manners, and honest and upright. The old homestead is still occupied by his family. JONATHAN CHESNUTWOOD. The Hon. Jonathan Chestiutwood, the present representative iu the State Legislature for the district comprising the Counties of Monroe, Randolph, and Perry, is now among the oldest residents of Evansville. He has been a prominent business man in the history of the town, and has taken an active part in its improvement and growth. Throughout the County, he is known as a public man of sincerity and integrity. Mr. Chesnutwood is born of mingled English and Irish stock. His father, Samuel Chesnutwood, was of English ancestry, though born iu America. The family settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and there Samuel Chesnutwood married Hanuali Hughs, a lady of Irish parentage, but Pennsylvania birth. This marriagetook place about the year 1796. The home of the family was in Pennsylvania till some time about the year 1811. when Samuel Chesnutwood removed with his family to Ohio, ami settled near Canton, iu Stark County. Previous to this, during the residence of the family in Pennsylvania, several children bad been born. In Ohio, on the 25th of November, the year 1825, occurred the birth of Jonathan Chesnutwood, the subject of this biograph''- Stark County had been a comparatively wild and unsettled part of Ohio at the time his father had first taken up his residence in it, but by 1825, when Jonathan was bom, the youngest child of the family, it was tolerably well improved. There were eight brothel’s and sisters older than himself. The neighborhood schools furnished ordinary means for obtaining an early education. The quick perception and ready memory of the voung student enabled him to make the most of these advantages, and toward the close of the year 1847, he went to Marietta, and was in attendance upon the sessions of the college at that place. He remained here three years, during which time his attention was devoted to the pursuit of classical and scientific studies. After leaving college, he visited Lawrence County, in Southern Ohio, and entered there in partnership with his brother. The firm here ran a furnace, and carried on a general merchandising trade. Mr. Chesnutwood had especial charge of the store, but also assisted in the management of the furnace. This partnership was closed up in the year 1852, and the latter pari of the same year forms the date of Mr. Chesnutwood’s first coming lo Randolph County. The locality of Evansville had been recommended to him as a good place for selling goods. Mr. Chesnutwood accordingly settled at Evansville, then a place of insignificant proportions. He brought with him a large stock of goods which he intended to dispose of, and then probably return to Ohio. The , town oflered, however, so many advantages as a business point, that Mr. Chesnutwood concluded to remain. He carried on for some years an extensive mercantile business. His store was the only one in the place, and attracted customers from a large district of country, while his stock of goods may be said to have been the finest and most complete ai that time anywhere in the County. It may be supposed that Mr. Chesnutwood made a good store-keeper. He was social and popular in his manners, enterprising in bis disposition, liberal in bin dealings, and accurate and reliable in his business habits. He continued in the mercantile business till 1802, the period of the late civil war between North and South, when ho disposed of his store and stock of goods to other parties. It was while he was engaged in the store that his marriage took place. The event was celebrated on the lOtli of January, 1856, at Dresden, Navarro County, Texas, where the relatives of Mrs. Chesnutwood still principally reside. The bride was Amanda Hart/ell, a native of Stark County, Ohio, and the sister of the Hon. William Hartzell, the present Member of Congress for the district in which Randolph County is embraced. Mr. Chesnuiwood*8attention was directed toward the legal profession while a student at college in Ohio. He read law there for a period of about two years, but never applied for admission to the bar by reason of his lime being "taken up with other business pursuits. While engaged in the real estate business, since closing up the store, Mr. Chesnutwood has at intervals continued bis legal studies. From his lir*t residence in the County he has taken an active part in political affairs. His first vote for President was cist for Taylor, a Whig candidate, but subsequent to this he has, on all occasions, supported the candidates of the Democratic party, with whose principles lie has warmly sympathized, and towards whose success he has labored. In the fall of 1874, his name was presented as the Democratic candidate for the Slate Legislature, and he was elected to represent, with his colleague, the Hon. Joseph W. Rickert, of Monroe, the Counties of Randolph, Monroe, and Perry. In the Legislature, Mr. Chcstnutwood performed his part with credit. He was always found iu his place, and Secured the passage of bills of local importance to Randolph County. Mr. Chesnutwood is a citizen of public spirit and enterprise, and Evansville owes to him much of its progress in the way of improvements, lie became a resident of the place when its importance was far less than at present, and iu its development he has taken a leading part. But, while interested in local enterprises, Mr. Chesnutwood is a man whose attention has been claimed by a wider range of subjects. The honest administration of the affairs of the County has found in him a warm friend. He has not hesitated to oppose error. Naturally warm in his sympathies, and outspoken in his views, he has maintained a manly and decided position on questions of State and national politics, and whoever else might hesitate and debate. Jonathan Chesnutwood has always had his convictions of the right, and has always acted in accordance with them. JAMES ECCLES. Mr. Eccles, though a young man, is one of the oldest residents of Evansville, having been born and raised in that neighborhood. His birth took place May the eighth, 1840, and his father was Edmond Eccles.PA I D F 0 RlHH ] RED It ILUD15Edmond Eccles wan an Englishman by birth, :i native of the Township of Dil worth, Longridge, near Preston, in the County of Lancashire, England. He was born the seventh of May, 1806. His father, and the grandfather of James Eccles, wa« Seth Eccles, :i farmer of that locality, whose family was composed of several children. Edmond Eccles received a fair, common-school education, and when a lad apprenticed himself to a currier, who*; trade he learned and followed while he lived in hi* native country. At the age of about twenty-six, he was married to Lucy Gamer, who had been born and raised in the same section of country with himself. Edmond Eccles was twe-ntv-seven vear# old, when, with his wife and one child, Seth, which had been bom in England, and was four or five weeks old at the time of leaving that country, he emigrated to America, in the hope of bettering his fortunes in the western world. Landing at New Orleans, he came at once to St. J-ouis, and from there proceeded to Monroe County, Illinois, where he had a brother living on Prairie du Long, who had come over from England some years previously. After living a while in Monroe County, Edmond Eccles went to Belleville, and there followed his trade of a currier. His next move was to lake up bis residence in Randolph County. He found employment at the old tan yard of Elisha Sevmour (where Edward Seymour now lives), two,miles below Ellis Grove. His next stopping place was at Preston, where he worked for James Pollock After a residence there of a few months, he came to Evansville about the year 1835. Evansville was then a placcof small pretensions. It had recently been laid off into town lots bv the proprietor, Cadwell Evans, and only two or three families, at the time of Mr. Eccles' arrival, composed the village. Edmond Eccles lived in the place till his death. For several years he was prominently identified with the interests of the town, ami carried on the tan ning business in connection with Joseph Bratney. About 1850, however, he gave up this pursuit. He had received a good common education in England, was gifted by nature with fine abilities, and came to be recognized as one of the leading and most intelligent members of the community. For more than a quarter of a century he filled the office of magistrate. A ready perception, a careful memory, and long experience, had made him familiar with the law, and he was frequently called upon to practice in the proceedings before the neighboring justices, lie had come to Evansville a man of no means, but afterward accumulated considerable property. His first wife, the mother of James Eccles, died in July, 1853, and he was twice subsequently married. Edmond Eccles, himself, departed this life on the twenty-seventh of May, 1873. In his time he was an active member of the community, and just before his death lie had been elected Police Magistrate of Evansville. lie was a man benevolent in his disjjosition, always ready to do a favor, or oblige a friend. His business habits were excellent,'he was fond of reading, reflective in the tendencies of his mind, modest and unassuming in deportment. His knowledge of the law was thorough, as far as its practice is concerned in the lower courts. James Eccles, the sixth child, was born, as has been stated, at Evansville, in Mav, 1846. The public schools of his town gave him his educational advantage*. He was married October the fifth, 1869. His wife was formerly Mary E. Smith, a native of Randolph Couutv. Mr. Eccles was elected constable in March, 1S67, and has filled that position subsequent to that date. Of his three children, two are now living. As was his father, Mr. Eccles is a Democrat in politics. He has perhaps now lived in Evansville louger than ny other resident of the place, and has bor bo'r, and a public spirited citizen. ' the reputation of a good neigh- PAUL PAUTLER. Thk popular proprietor of Pautlers Hotel at Evansville is one of the oldest German residents of that neighborhood. He was born at the village of Prem-melbach, in the canton of Soulz, Alsace, on the eighteenth of March of the year 1834. His birth-place, Alsace, then belonged to France, but is now a part of Germany. Josenh Fautler was the name of his father, and Margaret Weckerle the name of his mother. He was the fifth of a family of eight children, besides having some half-brothers and sisters. In Alsace, Mr. Pautlcr acquired the greater part of his education. He went to school but little after coming to America, though lie crossed the Atlantic at the early age of thirteen. His father was a farmer and land-owner in Alsace. The Pautlers emigrated to America in 1847, landing in New York in November of that year. The family at once took up their residence in Erie County, in the western part of the State of New York. Mr. PauIter’s father here engaged in farming, and also in running a saw-mill. As has been stated, Mr. Paulter went to school in New York State but little. lie was only two months in attendance on an English school, and bis proficiency, as far a-s a knowledge of English is concerned, has been picket! up by himself while attending to other duties. The year 1851, dates the coming of Mr. Pautler to Randolph County. An older sister, Margaret, had married Nicholas Gross, and removed to Randolph County, and located in the neighborhood of Evansville. Mr. Pautler, with a vounger brother, accompanied them. He was now seventeen years of age._ He "worked on a farm for Mr. Gros« till he was twenty-one. In the year 1855, he bought fiftv acres of land, one-eighth of Survey 442, Claim 1395. He moved on this and began farming on his own account. He returned to New York in December, 1857, on a visit to bis sisten*, and while there he married Rosine Daniel, a native of Erie County, New York, but of German descent, like her husband. Her sineoston; had had their home in the French province of Loili-ringen. In the succeeding April, Mr. Pautler brought back with him to Illinois his wife, moved on his farm, and continued the pursuit of agriculture. His father had come on to Randolph County in the year 1856, and lived there till the time of his death in January, 1873. Mr. Pautler bought additional land, was thrifty in his management and every change in his circumstances was for the better. Mr. Pautler left the farm in Randolph County in the year 1863, and moved back to Eric County, New York. He remained here, however, only eighteen, months, and during this time was engaged in the manufacture of liquor. In the year 1S65 he again returned to Randolph County. This time he located at Evansville. He opened a hotel in 1866, of which he has since lieen proprietor. He is a man of progressive tendencies, and in 1874 he erected a fine brick structure to serve as a hotel, an illustration of which appears in another part of this work. Pautlers Hotel is one of the best managed in the County, and a favorite stopping-placc for the traveling public. Ample feet! stables are attached to the establishment, and here may be found the best of accommodations “ for man and beast/' The hospitable landlord leaves nothing undone for the comfort of his guests. The children of Mr. Fautler are equally divided into boys and girls, and all are living, heartv and vigorous as their parents Cornelius Daniel, Mary Margaret, Rasa Linda, Joseph Franz, Clara Catherine, Mary Christina, John Edward, and Albert Joseph, arc their names. He has been a Democrat, voted for Douglas in 1860, and for the general ticket of the Democratic party at elections subsequent to that date. Mr. Pautler is one of the substantial men of Evansville, and is a person who stands high iu the general good opinion of the community. DR. J. M. WILSON. The great-grandfather of Dr. Wilson, of Evansville, one of the rising j>hv-sicians of Randolph County, was Murray Wilson, an Englishman by birth, who came to America, settled in New York, and took part in the Revolutionary war. His grandfather, Alexander Murray Wilson, was born in New York, and was a soldier in the war of 1812. He was of a mechanical turn of mind, and to him belongs the credit of making the first invention to cut grass, or grain, by machinery. Dr. Wilson's father, also Alexander Murray Wilson, by name, was born in the State of New York. He came to the western country in the year 1838, and first settled in the Lively Prairie. In 1842 he married Susan \oung, She was from Pennsylvania, and the daughter of John Young, who came to I llinois among the early settlers, and served in the Black Hawk war. After his marriage, M r. Wilson bought land south of the Lively Prairie, where lie now lives. He was in the Federal army from 1861 to 1S65, from the beginning to the close of the Rebellion. He entered the service as a Lieutenant, and bv promotion readied the rank of Major. The third of a family of twelve child- ren was Julius Murrav Wilson, whose nanu appears at the heado_f this sketch, lie was bom on the eighteenth day of February, ol the year 1847. Dr. Wilson was brought up on his father's farm in Township 6-6. A district school, of an average character in point of excellence, furnished the opportunities for his early education. When about twenty, he left home, and went to Champaign I'niv’ersity, at Champaign, Illinois, with the intention ol remaining there about two years, ami completing a thorough course of education. Alter a stay, however, of about six weeks, he was taken sick and compelled to return to Randolph County. Previous to this, it may be mentioned, lie had been engaged in teaching school, first at Appleton, Cape Girardeau County. Missouri, and afterward in Randolph Countv. After returning from Champaign University, Mr. Wilson engaged in business with Aaron Allen, of Sparta, and for about a year was emploved in selling dry goods. The science of Medicine had early presented its attractions to Dr. \\ ilson.it mind, and after leaving Allen he came to the determination to fit himself for a physician. In the vear 1870, he accordingly went to Bond County, and there read medicine under a physician with whom he had previously been acquainted, lie remained hereabout a vear, closely occupied with the piweeution ot his medical studies. The fall of 1871, lie had proposed going to St. Louis, and there attending a course of lectures at the medical schools of that city. *‘CN however, accepted a situation as teacher of a school, and passed the winter ol 1871-72 in Madison County, where, while holding his position as teacher, he. at the same time, enjoyed excellent advantages in the way of continuing his work at medicine. In 1872 he went to Cincinnati, attended lectures at the Ohio Medical College of that city, in 1873 stood his examination, and in due course graduated from the institution, and received his diploma. Soon after. Dr. Wilson located at Evansville, where he has since been occupied with his duties as a physician. Though the Doctor has been established at Evansville for only a comparatively short period, he has, nevertheless, met with unusual success in his practice, and ranks among the rising physicians of the County. Energy and perseverance are elements ot his character. He unites with these, good judgment, a thorough understanding ot his profession, and popular and agreeable manners—qualities which in a fair field will always carry the day. JOHN WEHRHEIM (deceased.) As a business man. it can never be said that John Welirheiin lacked energy and enterprise. His life was one of activity. His business transactions reached proportions of more than ordinary magnitude, and his record is valuable in snowing how much may be accomplished by a shrewd, earnest, and careful hard-working man. His life closed November the twenty-third, 1872, on his farm two miles south of Evansville. His sons are now among the most active and respected business men of that neighborhood. John Wehrheim was the son of John and Mary Wehrheim, and was bom on the sixth day of January, of the year 1814, at a small village in Germany, near Frankfort on-the-Main. The family name of his mother was Gromert. Six children, all boys, composed the family. These were Philip, John, Christian, Jacob. Conrad, and Valentine. The early part, of John Wehrheim’s life was spent in Germany. His father was a farmer ami cooper, and a man in common life. After gothg to school till about the age of fifteen, John Wehrheim undertook to learn the trade of a nailsmitb. lie followed this occupation as long as he lived in Germany. Following the tide of emigration which at that period was beginning to flow steadily across the Atlantic from Germany to America, his father's family, iu the year 1834. left their native land to seek a homo for themselves across the ocean. They left Germany in February, 1834, and landed the following June at New Orleans, but without stopping there, proceeded at once to St. Louin, and afterward settled iu Monroe County, on Prairie du Long, near Freedom. Nearly all the members of the family were here engaged for the time in the coopering business. John learned the trade with his brother Philip, and was working at it at the time be was married. This event transpired on the eleventh day of Octol>er, 1841, and his wife was Elizabeth Radish. She was born in Germany on the twenty-fourth of October, 1826, and was less than a year old when she came with her parents to America. It may lie remarked, as an instance of the dangers and uiscomforts to which emigrants in those days were subject on their passage across the ocean, that the vessel, in which her family embarked, was ninety-one days in making the voyage. The Radish family first settled in Pennsylvania, lived there six years, and on coming West, located in St Clair County, seven miles cast of Belleville, where they lived another six years. One of Mrs. Wehrheim’s sisters married and moved to Belleville when only a few houses composed that place. Mrs. Wehrheim’s family subsequently became residents of Prairie du Long, and she was about fifteen at the time of her marriage with Mr. Wehrheim. For the first two years of their married life, they lived on Prairie du Round, where Mr. Wehrheim carried on the coopering business, and in connection with it, farming. When Mr. Wehrheim first earne to Randolph County, he settled two miles west of Red Bud, on the place now owned by hi* brother, Judge Philip Wehrheim. During his residence here be carried on the cooper's trade extensively, employing at times from six to eight men. He sold his farm near Red Bud to his brother Philip, and iu 1854 removed to Evansville. Mr. Wehrheim here began an extended and prosperous business career, and till the time of his death was a conspicuous and foremost man of the neighborhood. In partnership with Mr. Evans, the original proprietor of the town, he built the flouring-mills, which have since formed one of the institutions of the place, and probably have contributed more to its prosperity than any other branch of industry. At the same time he still continued to carry on the cooper's trade. For several years Mr. Wehrheim run the mill, for the first in connection with Mr. Evans, and afterward on his own account, he having bought out Mr. Evans’ interest, lie once sold the mill, but it afterward came back into his possession. While Mr. Wehrheim was owner, in the spring of 1864, the mill was destroyed by fire. Its destruction entailed a considerable , loss. It was filled to overflowing, at the time, with wheat, and the insurance of nine thousand dollars was not sufficient to cover the loss of the building. Mr. Wehrheim re-built the mill, but about 1866 disposed of the property to Philip Sauer and his sons, who have since remained the proprietors, and prosperously conducted the business. About the year 1857, Mr. Wehrheim had moved on the farm south of Evansville, which was his place of residence from that time to his death, and which is now occupied by his family. While living here he still continued his business at Evansville. He also carried on a store at that place, and was otherwise conspicuously concerned in the business interests of the town. His store at Evansville, like the mill, was burned. This he also re-built, and retained in it an interest till his death. After selling the mill, Mr. Wehrheim engaged almost wholly in farming. His home farm contained in the neighborhood of six hundred acres, and be owned several tracts beside, making in all nearly nine hundred. Mr. Wehrheim was possessed of a strong, vigorous, and robust constitution, which stood well the constant strain on his physical and mental powers, brought on by his heavy cares and his laborious life as a business man. Some three years before his death his health, however, became impaired, and his death finally resulted on the twenty-third day of Novendier, of the year 1872. Nine children were bom to Mr. and Mrs. Wehrheim. The oldest, Catherine, and the youngest, Henry, are deceased. The others are Valentine, Marvj George, bin is, John, Willie, and Elizabeth. The oldest son, Valentine, married Mina Slruckmann, of St. Louis, and now manages the homestead farm and is known as a young man of excellent qualities. Marv is the wife of Stephen Thummcl. George married Augusta Dittmann, anil is a thriving merchant of Evansville. Louis married Elizabeth Beare, and John, Sophia Shape. The other children are at home, Willie farming for himself. Of Mr. Wehrheim it maybe said that he was a man of independence of character, radical in his views, forming his opinions with little reference to the influence of others, and once having taken a stand on any important question, he was fearless in keeping it, and regardless of all opposition. He was temperate in his habits, and benevolent and kind in his disposition. As to his politics, he was a strong and active Republican, an advanced thinker on the questions of the day, and an earnest advocate of his political convictions. Iu seasons when political excitement ran high, lie was outspoken and earnest in maintaining his position, from which he could be moved neither by the persuasions of friends, or the threats of enemies. But it was as a persevering and energetic business man that Mr. Wehrheim was deserving of the highest credit. lie U.1M11 life with as small exudations as any man. After he wasroamed, he imi.lv Hour barrels anil hauled them to Belleville, only obtaining twenty cents apiece for the barrel*. Bin lie was economical In his habits, watched lint opportunities, expanded his business whenever he could do so lo advantage, was accustomed to drive his business, and not suffer that to drive him, and the consequence was that he accumulated a handsome competence. More than one man in Randolph County got his first start at business in the employment of John Wehrheim. He frequently employed thirty men at a time, and ran two flat-boats on the river, which were busy taking oil flour and bringing in wheat. Mrs. Wehrheim did her part in assisting her husband, and their portraits appear together on another page of this work. There will also be found a view of the farm. JOHN B. BRATNEY. Prestos has no business man longer or more intimately identified with her interests than John B. Bratney. His family was connected with the early settlement of the neighborhood, ami Mr. Bratney, himself, has spent almost his entire life in the town of Preston, or the immediate vicinity. He is descended from a family in all probability of Irish descent, which crossed the Atlantic and made their home in America, previous to the time when the Revolution severed the relations between the thirteen colonics and the mother country. Mr. Bratnev’s grandfather, Robert Bratney, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. and did good service in the work of securing the independence of the*colonies. He afterward settled in Tennessee, and removed from that State to Illinois in the year 1820. One son accompanied him to Illinois, Joseph Bratney, the father of John B. Bratney. Joseph Bratney had been a soldier in the war of 1812, and served under General Jackson. On coming to Randolph County, the family located on Little Plum Creek, just al>ove its mouth, and entered there a half section ol land. The marriage of Joseph Bratney to Eleanor Beattie took place in the year 1822, or 1823." There were four children, Henrietta, who married Samuel Alexander Mann; John B. Bratney, Robert N., and James C. The oldest son, John B. Bratnev, was born on the twenty-fifth of February, of the year 1827, on the homestead farm originally entered by the family on their first arrival in Illinois. It was situated in Section 2, Township 5-7, about a mile north of the present town of Preston. John B. Bratney was only eight or nine years old when his mother died. His tuber subsequently remarried ; but Johii B. went to live with an uncle, Charles Beattie, who resided about a mile east of Preston, on one of the oldest settled places in the Township. Here he spent his youth, and received his education. When the Mexican war broke out in the vear 1816, Mr. Bratnev offered his services. He was not, however, permitted to take part in the brilliant campaigns of the American army. The company in which he volunteered was not accepted, the quota having already been filled. In November, 1848, Mr. Bratney went t<> New Orleans for the purpose of engaging in business there. In July of the following year he returned to Randolph County. About two years after he was married to Mary Jane Grower, whose family had been among the early residents of Randolph County. Mr. Bratney then went to farming for himself, on land originally Delonging to his father, on which he hud built a house the winter previous to his marriage. He moved here in May, but eleven months after the wedding ceremonies, his wife died. His sister kept house for him till the time of her own marriage, and then Mr. Bratney went to live with Dr. Poston, whose residence was about a mile and a half east of Preston, on the old Crozier farm. He lived with Dr. Poston up to the time of his second marriage. His second wife was Margaret Thompson, the daughter of Robert and Mary Thompson, pioneers of Randolph County. Mr. Bratney then again engaged actively in farming, in which occupation he continued till the year 1860. Mr. Bratney’s mercantile operations were begun in the fall of 1857, when, in company with his brother, James C. Bratney, he put up a store in Preston, and begun there the merchandizing business, in which lie has been engaged for nearly twenty years. The firm continued as at first for only about a year, when R. C. Mann bought out the interest of his brother, and became a partner in the concern. This partnership lasted, however, but for a short time, and Mr. Bratney has since conducted the business alone. He still occupies the old stand in Preston, and is one of the oldest, as he has been one of the most popular, merchants in Randolph County. His business ojierations have not been confined to Prc-ston alone. In June, 1870, he established a store at Evansville. He bought a building, stocked it with goods, and commenced a business which ran on till the spring of 1875, when he sold out the stock of goods, and closed up the store. During this period Mr. Bmtney also carried on the store at Preston, the place of bis residence. Mr. Bratney became a resident of Preston about 1S60, ami has since been one of the prominent and enterprising citizens of that place. He owus three hundred and seventy-six acres of land in the neighborhood. For two or three years after he began store-keeping, Mr. Bratney also carried on farming, but be has since rented bis land. About the year 1S04, Mr. Bratney was called upon to sustain a loss in the death of his second wife. October, 1868, was the date of his third marriage. The former name of his present wife was Mary W. Pollock, the daughter of James and Anne E. Pollock, bom in the village of Preston. Her ancestors lived in Pennsylvania. The maiden name of her mother was Conway, and her marriage with Mr. Bratney occurred in St. Louis. Her father was one of the earliest residents of Preston, and there carried on the tanning business for many years. Mr. Bratney in a man well known throughout Randolph County, and is justly held to be one of the representative men of the section. When about twenty-five, he was elected Justice of the Peace, and he held that office for eight consecutive years. On the organization of School Township 5-7, he was its first treasurer. He received the appointment of Postmaster in the year 1858, and has exercised that office subsequent to that date. As far jus his politics an' concerned, Mr. Bratney was brought up a Whig, and his first presidential ballot ha cast for General Taylor, in 1848. He continued to vote the \\ lug ticket, as long as that party continued in active life. He afterward became a Republican. Mr. Bratney has been a useful and honored resident of the neighborhood with which, for his whole life, he lias been associated. His career was begun with nothing to relv upon but his own industry and perseverance. Gifted with good business qualifications, he has made "his wav by his own efforts. J SAMUEL A. MANN. Of the old settlers of Township 5-7, Samuel Ai.kxandek Mann carries his residence back to a date as early as any. His father eame to Randolph C ounty in the year 1817, when Samuel A. was in his third vear. He comes from a family of Irish descent. His ancestors lived in the A'bbcville District of South Carolina at a period prior to the Revolutionary war, and his father, Robert M. Mann, was born there about the year 1771, and there also, on the twenty-first day of April, 1795, married Marv Houston. Robert B. Mann left South Carolina with 'his family about the vear 1807, intending to make his home in Illinois. On reaching' Kentucky, the familv, however, received tidings of Indian depredations in Illinois, and so settled in Logan County, Kentucky. Here they remained till 1817, when they reached Randolph County. The family numbered eight children. Their names in the order of their births were John, William M., Elizabeth Ann, Agnes II., Robert, Jane A., Albina and Samuel Alexander. The first five were born in South Carolina, and the others in Kentucky. They reached Randolph County late ni the faH of 181», and the father at once entered land in Section 14, township,.-,. Robert M. Mann lived here the remainder of bis life. He died December, 1855, at the patriarchal age of eighty-four. The homestead BO^Samuel V^M inn " ” east ISrV8lon> i* occupied by the youngest Samuel A Mann was born in Logan County, Kentucky, February thetweu-K locauon of the family, on coming to Randolph County, .s."n the olllakirta of the settlement?. The whole country to the vast was a —..... Schools were kept only at rare intervals, and then in old h>E structures, without windows, and sometimes without a lloor. Under these cir-; ? v" broudrt up on a farm. August the twentieth. 1885, " *N“^ Fr“sIr- , Mr' Ma,m lacking a few mouth! •V‘Wle' fought his wife home to the homestead farm which at mat time he was managing.GAGE L' OLD CONVENT nftST BtLL MlSSISS)PPI I/ALLEY RUINS KASKA5KI A ’Tf fe. '**»%*$,% ■•/«**«*%$*< •^H*' 'F kaskashia from fort gage MENARDS HOUSE OPPOSITE KASKASHIA :, it tec.. ^yff7” KASKASKIA HOUSE.STI LL STANDING. AN OLO SETTLER FIRST COUNTY COURT HOUSE GEN.EDGAR'S OLD RESIDENCE FIRST STATE HOUSE OF ILLINOIS RUINS EDGAR HOUSE PUBLISH>0 BY U.K. BRINK 8CO KASKASK/A , the oldest town in the state and the first capital of Illinois. SKiTCHED 9Y OUR SPECIAL ARTISTS BUCKINGHAM Q SMITH.■ • • -.c. • ____ •' ■ V'f w^rrtdyse: a M/jpwss rfio* T*£ f/ ■skjUL. 3 DEVON fi£22fc£ RURAL HILL FARM. Property of S.W.MtKEi )£c736. T.4.R.6. near Sparta . Randolph Co. III.LINDEN FARM . Propzhty of S.W.LESSLEY. Sec. 20 T.4.R.6. BandolphCo.Ill.Residence of Dr. BEATTIE, Red Bud,Randolph Co.ILLs. K pu.se .&< Miller Place — Residence & Coal Mines of Gen! MADISON MILLER, Randolph Co,ILL.BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF CITIZENS OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ILLINOIS. 1S49, and Mr. Mann was "again married in March, 1850, o Henrietta Bratney. A short time before his father's death ho bought the interest of the other heirs, and obtained entire possession of the homestead property. IIis second wife died in 1861. Mr. Minin's third marrime took l.lace in April, 1863. He ha. had eleven children, seven bvThe fi", ami four by the second wife M.x children, three by the lirst, and three bv the second marriage are now living. The three oldest children are married, have fami-lies, and live in Lawrence County in southwest Missouri. Mr. Mann has been a life long Democrat. He began his political career with a vote for Martin \ anI Buren for President in ls»i, and has ever since continued to support the candidates of that party. 1 ROBERT N. BRATNEY. Robert Xkwtos Brats kv is one of the oldest and best citizens of Township 5-7, of which he has been a resident since his birth, which the record places as having occurred m the year 1829. 1820 is the date of his family coming to Randolph Countv, and matters of interest relative to the early history ot the Bratneys may be found in the biography of John B. Bratney, published elsewhere m this work. * Robert Newton Bratney the second son and third child of Joseph Bratnev r" ir°r ““‘“S "“S bom on the nineteenth of April of the year 1329. In 1881, Ins mother’s death took place, and at the tender age of two years Robert was confided to the care of his uncle, Charles Beattie, who lived on the old Beattie form, a nule east of Preston, a tract of land which in due course eame into the possession of Mr. Bratnev himself. This was his residence ‘ during h is youth and early manhood. He was trained to useful labor on the farm; and received his education in an old log school-house, with fence rails for benches—rude promise enough of mental culture as far as external appearances were concerned, hut offering some meagre opportunity of picking up the j element** of an education. He was married in December, 1S53, to Margaret Hill, but his wife died the rebruary succeeding the marriage. At the time of his union with Miss Hill he moved to Preston, but after the death of his wife made his home again with Mr. Beattie, and for about three years followed teaming and trading His second marriage took place about the year 1857, to Elizabeth X., the daiighter oi John Beattie. After his marriage he .settled down on his father’s old place north of 1 reston, put up some buildings, and went to farming on his own account. He continued to reside here till 18(54, when he muved on the farm made vacant by the death of his uncle, Charles Beattie, built the house in which he now lives, and began farming. His second wife, having died in April, 1804, two years afterward, in April, 1860, Mr. Bratney was married to Ada E. Burr, the daughter of Chauncey Burr, an old settler of Randolph County, who alter a residence in Kaskaskia settled in the Heacock prairie, in the southern edge of St. Clair County. Mr. Bratney has had three children all of whom are deceased. These children were bv his second wife. The oldest was Ella M., a girl lovely in character and disposition, a favorite with even-one who knew her, who died November the thirtieth, 1872, at cheageof eleven years and two months. Mr. Bratney now owns the Beattie farm, one of the oldest settled places of Township 5- 7. It was settled by John Beattie in the year 1809. This farm contains the most noted spring of water anywhere iu that section of the County, a circumstance which doubtless 1*1 to the selection of that particular piece of land by the original settler. In his polities Mr. Bratney has always been a Republican, and has alwavs acted in accordance with what he thought best for the best interest*'of humanity and the country. All his life he has been connected with the United Presbyterians at I Preston. He is benevolent in his disposition. He is one of the active supporters of the United Presbyterian church, and is a warm friend of the Sabbath-School cause, and other religious and charitable undertakings. His life, has been quiet and unobtrusive, but wherever he is known he bears the character of a useful man and an excellent citizen. KOBERT T. BEATTIE. The family with which Kobert T. Beattie is connected is one of the oldest i in Township 5-7. IIis grandfather was John Beattie, who came from South Carolina, 1809, and settled the farm in Section Eleven, now owned by Mr. R. Newton Bratney. The oldest of John Beattie’s sons was also named John Beattie, and he became the father of Robert T. Beattie, by his wife Elizabeth, whose maiden name was Mann. Robert T. Beattie was born on the Lively Prairie, October the 4th, 1828. The spring of 1845, he was married to Martha Anderson, the daughter of John Anderson. Directly after his marriage, he moved on the farm he now owns in .Section Nine, Township 5-7. Mr. Beattie is a good farmer, aud one of the steady and substantial citizens of his township. WILLIAM W. POLLOCK. Mr. Pollock’s father was one of the early settlers of Preston. The family, which was of Irish descent, had its home iu Pennsylvania, where James Pollock, the father of William W. Pollock, was born near Newcastle, October the nineteenth, 1790. In the year 1818, he settled in St. Louis, and there followed his trade of a tanner, and there also married Ann E. Conway, who was born on the twenty-second of September, 1803. The marriage occurred on the nineteenth of December, 1822. Mr. Pollock lirst came to Randolph County about the year 1821. He bought of John Rankin, in 1824, the tract of land now occupied by the town of Preston, originally entered by James Patterson in 1814. lie established a tan-vard, which he managed for several years. He died October, 1867. James Pollock had twelve children. William Wallace Pollock w:is the third son, and was born on the tenth of July of the year 1832. Ho learned his father’s business of a tanner, ami worked at that till he was twenty-one. When he reached his majority, he undertook the management of his father's farm. In the year 1864, on the twenty-seventh of October, he was married to Mary J. Burns, a native of the Union District of South Carolina, who came to Randolph County, about the year 1S50, when sixteen years of age. After this marriage Mr. Pollock moved on the farm where he now resides, just outside of Preston. Mr. Pollock has here been a farmer, and a substantial citizen of the community. One child, Effie Etta, has resulted from their marriage. Mr. Pollock’s farm is a valuable tract of two hundred acres adjoining the town of Preston. Mr. Pollock was one of the early members of the Republican party in Randolph County, and voted for Fremont in 1856. For a number of years he has been connected with the United Presbyterian church at Preston. 11 is father, James Pollock, owned the whole tract of land on which Preston now stands, and laid off the town. He was a man of great industry and energy, foremost in every public enterprise. In his religious belief ho was a Covenanter in bin early years, and during the latter part of his life he was a member of the United Presbyterian church at Preston. VALENTINE G. WEHRHEIM. Ik the men who have fought the battles of their country, and received honorable wounds in her service, deserve public recognition, a place in this work belongs to Valentine G. Wehrheim, of Preston, an old soldier in the Mexi- Elsewhere will be found the biographies of John and Philip Wehrheim, to which the reader is referred for matters in conncction with tin- early family history. Valentine G. Wehrheim was born on the sixteenth of July, of the year 1826, in the County of St. Clair. John W. and Mary Wehrheim were the names of his parents. His mother’s maiden name was Gromeri. Their residence in .St. Clair County was near the line dividing St. Clair and Monroe, and Valentine went to school in the latter County. His father dying when he was thirteen, Mr. Wehrheim went to live with his brother John, who was then carrying on the coopering business in Prairie du Round in Monroe County. Every opportunity was embraced for obtaining an education. At the age of seventeen he went to St. Louis, and attended an academy in that city for nine months. After leaving school, he was clerk in a furniture store in St. Louis, a position which he held for about two years. lie was living in St. Louis at the time of the breaking out of the war with Mexico. On the twenty-fourth of May, 1846, he volunteered in Company I, ot the Second Illinois Regiment. The men left for Mexico about the lirst of June. On arriving at the seat of war, the first engagement of anv importance in which he participated was the battle of Buena Vista, which was fought on the twenty-second and twenty-third days of February, 1847. Mr. Wehrheim took part in this engagement, one of tiie hardest of the war. He was in the battle all day of the twenty-second, and fought the following day till between lour and five o’clock in the afternoon, when he was struck by a musket-ball fired by the Mexicans. The ball struck him iu the chest, penetrated the liody, and passed out near the spine. He was carried to the hospital, and there lay for five months. The battle of Buena Vista was one of the severest of the Mexican campaigns. Mr. Wehrheim’s regiment consisted of eight hundred men on going into the battle, and it came out with eighty killed and a large number wounded. he whole regiment was sent home after Mr. Wehrheim was five months in the hospital. On returning to Illinois, he kept store at Evansville for five years. He then taught school at Evansville and near Preston for about two years. In 1854 he first began to sutler from the efiects of the wound received at Buena Vista. Ilia Bight and hearing became affected. He became totally blind in the year 1856. He visited St. Louis, and for several years was under the treatment of eminent physicians: but their skill was found to be without avail. In I860 he took up his residence in Preston. He began drawing a pension in July, 1848, which was increased in 1860 by a special act of Congress, and again subsequently. In June, 1848, he was married to Eliza, the 1 daughter of Robert Thompson, bv whom he has had six children, of whom five are now living. Although the United States government has been liberal in making provision for his wants, the amount winch he receives is but small compensation for the injuries he suffered in the wars of his country, and in the defence of her liberties. JOHN K. BURKE. The Burkes come from Irish stock. John K. Burke is one of the largest farmers and earliest settlers in the southeastern part of Randolph County. His grandfather's name was Thomas Burke, and he emigrated from Ireland to America some time antecedent to the Revolutionary war. lie finally settled in North Carolina; not, however, until he had married in Pennsylvania Mary Irwin, a member of a large aud inlluential family at that period of Pennsylvania history. Henry, William, and John B. Burke, were the three children that resulted from this marriage. The youngest of these, John Ii. Burke, was born in Iredell Countv, North Carolina, on the tenth of January, of the year 1789. He was brought up in North Carolina, and there married Jane Cowan, who was also a native of the old North State, but was born in Rowan County. The date of her birth was August, 1795. Her family was of Scotch descent, and her father was a resident of North Carolina previous to the breaking out of the seven years’ war which resulted in the independence of the colonies. He served in the Continental army throughout the entire war. The marriage of John B. Burke and Jane Cowan took place in the latter part of the year 1.816, and about three years after, in August, 1819, they left North Carolina, and removed to Tennessee. One child, Thomas ( ' , had at that time been born. The second child, John K. Burke, was born after the family had entered the limits of the State, but before they had settled down in any permanent location. His birthplace was a little town in the eastern part of the State, on the waters of the Tennessee river, now known as Danville. IIis father had stopped here for a short time to follow his trade of a blacksmith, and John K. Burke was bom on the seventeenth of January, of the year 1820. Shortly after, Mr. Burke’s father settled in Sumner County, Tennessee, thirty miles east of Nashville, where he carried on his business of a blacksmith. In 1827 he removed to Illinois. Leaving Tennessee in February of that year, he arrived in Randolph County on the second day of the following month. Four children at that time constituted the family". John B. Burke entered eighty acres of land in Section twenty-two, Township 7-5, and under-j took farming. He lived upon the land which he here improved, till the time 1 of his death, which took place in September, 1869. Mr. B died previous to this in August, 1851, at t' visitation, of which disease she fell a victim. Mr. Burke was in his seventh year when he came to Ulinois. His education | had been begun in Tennessee. His father was one of the early residents of the section of Randolph County, in which be settled, and the schools iu the 1 neighborhood were consequently not established on a very good basis, and supplied scanty educational advantages. Most of Mr. Burke’s education was gained by application on his own account outside of his school studies. He was raised at home on the farm, and one lessou of value which he learned was the worth of downright hard work. At twenty-one, he was married. This j event took place the twenty-fourth of June, 18-11, and his wife was Elizabeth 1 A. Gillespie, whose family was also among the early settlers of that part of Randolph County. The Gillespies have much the same family history sis the Burkes. The family springs from an Irish source. They were old residents of Rowan County, North Carolina, the same locality with Mr. Burke's ancestors, emigrated from there to Sumner County, Tennessee, and thence to Randolph County, Illinois. Mrs. Burke’s fathers name was James Gillespie, and the j maiden name of her mother, Mary Vance. By her graudmother, whose family name was Geene, she is connected with stock of the same character. James Gillespie was born, April the sixteenth, 1795. He went to Tennessee when twelve yeara old, and lived in Sumner County till November, 1825, when 1 he came to Randolph County, and permanently located on Section two of Township 7-5, where he died forty years after, at the age of three-score and ten. He was a prominent man in the community, and held a respected and ; influential position. Beside filling subordinate offices, his name appears on the records as judge for several terms of the County Court. He took a warm interest in public affairs, and was a strong Democrat in politics, and a leading member of that party. He had been a soldier in the war of 1812, aud was in several important engagements with the Tennessee troops under General Coffee. Directly after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Burke came to the spot where their subsequent lives have been spent. This is iu Section twenty-three, Township 7-5. Mr. Burke had here obtained possession of forty acres of land, entirely without improvements. He settled down on this, and began his active and successful career as a farmer. His industry was his only dependence. Part of his land was soon under cultivation. Mr. Burke has grown to be one of the largest and most successful farmers in his section of Randolph County. He owns six hundred and nineteen acres of land (part of which lies in Jackson County) in his own right, beside an interest in other extensive tracts. Three hundred acres of his farm is under cultivation, and is among the best land iu the southern part of the County. Thirteen children, of whom ten are now living, have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Burke. In the order of their births, their names are Mary J., Lucinda Carrie, Abner G., Elizabeth C., James S., Josephine C., Nellie E., M. Belle, John B., Ella C., Albert B., Effie A., and George M. The oldest daughter died in childhood. Carrie died at the age of twenty-three, a year after her marriage. She was the wife of James W. McQuiston. After her marriage she moved to Kansas, and died in Cherokee County of that State, in August, 1866. Belle died of typhoid fever, in December, 1874, in the twentieth year of her age. She was a girl of studious habits, and with a strong love for music and literature. Her death, iu the bloom of early womanhood, was an event which caused not only sorrow and sadness to the immediate circle of friends and relatives. but to a large number of acquaintances. Two other daughters, Elizabeth and Josephine, are married, and live in Randolph County. Mr. Burke has Wen joined in his political principles to the Democratic party. He was bred in that school, and as far as has been consistent with his notions of what was for the best good of the country, he has supported Democratic candidates, lie, however, rather stands upon an independent platform. He is liberal and patriotic in his views, selecting the candidates for his suffrage according to their fitness, in his best judgment, for the office. Mr. Burke has been long and honorably connected with the march of improvement in his part of the County. His present position in society is due to his own efforts. He is a man of extended general information, and he illustrates the fact that the life of the farmer is not necessarily divorced, a3 baa sometimes been asserted, from the higher avenues of intelligence and thought, and that, though he be a tiller of the soil, he may yet possess the sound accomplishments of an j educated man. MARTIN IRELAND. Judge Martin Ireland came to Randolph County in the summer of 1837. He is the son of John Ireland and Ann Carnes, his wife, and was born in Scott County, Kentucky, on the 18th of October, 1811. John Ireland was a native of Ireland, and a resident of the County Down. On his emigration to America, he located first in Pennsylvania, and enlisted in the Pennsylvania troops which formed part of the’patriot army in the struggle of the colonies for their independence. He was a man who possessed a strong love for liberty and popular institutions, and it was on account of disaffection towards the British Government that he was compelled to leave Ireland. About 1796, he settled in Scott County, Kentucky. His second wife, whom he married here, was Ann Carnes, also of Irish parentage, and who was born on the ocean while her parents were crossing from Ireland to America. Martin Ireland was the youngest child. His early life was spent in Kentucky. At eighteen he indentured himself as an apprentice to the carpenter’s trade, and learned that business in Frankfort, Kentucky. At twenty-two lie had learned the trade, aud thenceforth followed the business of a journeyman and master carpenter till his removal to Illinois in 1837. In January, 1835, he married Mary Short. She was born in Kentucky, but on her father’s side came from a Delaware family, and on her mother's was of Virginia descent. July, 1S37, marks his coming to Randolph County. Directly after his arrival he entered forty acres of land in Section Twenty, Township 7-5. In this neighborhood he now resides. Mr. Ireland was first a Whig in politics. His first vote for President was cast for Henry Clay at the time he was a candidate in 1832. In 1860, he united with the Republicans, voting for Lincoln. Mr. Ireland has interested himself in matters affecting the general progress aud improvement of the community. lie has served as a school officer almost constantly since 1840. For eight years he filled the office of Justice of the Peace. On the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion, he enlisted under the first call for three years' troops, and was enrolled as a member of the 22d Illinois Infantry. His regiment served principally in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Georgia,"and west of the Mississippi river. He was in several important engagements among which were the battles ot Corinth. Mississippi, Stone River, Chickamauga. Dalton, Resaca, Adairsville, and Dallas. At both the battles of Stone River and Chickamauga he was wounded. He came home in July, 1864, after three years of hard service, as First Lieutenant of his company. Few families can present as good a record as that of Mr. Ireland. IIis four sons also served in the Union army. The oldest, John, enlisted in the 154th Illinois, and died at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, while in the service. Thomas was a member of the 30th Illinois, served over four years, and took part in Sherman's march to the sea. William served in the 22d Illinois over three years. He received a wound at the battle of Stone River, from which he is still sutiering. Peter served in the last year of the war as a member of the 154th Regiment. On returning to Randolph County^ Mr. Ireland directed his attention again to farming. He subsequently received the nomination at the hands of the Republican party as Associate Judge of the County. To this position he was elected, and served his term to the satisfaction of the people. JAMES GWIN. Township 7-5 had among its earliest settlers William Gwiu. the father of James Gwin. William Gwin came to Randolph County in the vear 1816, and permanently located on the prairie, now known as Gillespie Prairie, in Section 2, of Township 7-5. I he fact is noticeable that most of the early settlers of this section of the County were of Irish descent, and came to Illinois immediately from Sumner County, Tennessee. Such is the record of the Gwins. The family emigrated from Ireland to America, and settled in South Carolina. This was some time before 1775. ^ They afterward removed to Sumner County, Tennessee, and in the year 1815 left this latter locality for Illinois. William Gwin halted temporarily in Jackson County, aud then made a.permanent location in Randolph, as mentioned above. The wife of William Gwin was Frances Canaday. The home of the Cana-davs was originally in North Carolina, and at a subsequent date they moved to Tennessee and took up their residence in Sumner County, where the marriage of William Gwin and Frances Canaday took place." Mr. Gwin was, perliaps, the earliest settler of that part of Township 7-5 included in Randolph County. The country was wild and uncultivated at the time of his taking up his residence in it, and the cabin which he erected and the improvements lie made, were the first permanent signs of civilization and settlement. William Gwin entered.laiid, and followed farming all his life. He ended his days in the year 1848. Up to that date he lived on the place of his first settlement on coming to the County. William Gwin had a family of eleven children. The fourth was Janies Gwin, born in Randolph County, on the eighth of January, 1822. He grew to years ol maturity on his father’s farm. The schools of that day were few and poorly taught, and the children of the neighborhood were left much to their own inclinations as to their getting an education. The homestead farm came into Mr. Gwin’s possession in the year 1847. The succeeding year his father died. The same year, 1848, also marks his marriage. On tbe twenty-eighth ot December he was united in the bonds of matrimony to Cynthia Ann V owiel, a native ot Wayne County. Mr. Gwin has since been employed as a fanner. His wife died in 1872, and Mr. Gwin was the second time married to Mrs. Emily Burke, formerly Brown, a native of Perry Countv. Mr. Gwin has had two children bv his second wife. He has been one of the enterprising farmers of his section, and owns a farm of two hundred acres. Since September, 1S72, his health has not been good, in consequence of serious injuries sustained by a fall, though bv nature he was gifted with a vigorous constitution. He belongs to the Democratic partv. Mr. Gwin’s whole life has been sjKjnt in the locality of which he is still a resident. IIis father bore an honorable part in the early settling of the Township, and Mr. Gwin, himself, has watched the development and growth of the country, in the improvement of which he has borne an active part. To William Gwin must be accorded the credit of using good judgment in the selection of a location; io\- the region ot country in the immediate vicinity of his place of settlement is one of die finest agricultural districts to be found in the southern part ot the County. Ol the privations and inconveniences endured by the early settlers, the present generation knows but little. The children are reaping the fruits of the seed sown by their fathers. Of the pioneers in different sectious of the County, the name of William Gwin is well worthy of being preserved in this work. ARCHIBALD T. IRELAND. Archibald T. Ireland is a Tennessean by birth. He was born in Bedford County of that state on the twenty-third day of February, of the vear 1823. His father was named Archibald Ireland. The name of his mother before marriage was Mary Sowell. IIis father came to Tennessee from Maryland. On his father’s aide, his grandmother was of French blood. The Sowells came to Tennessee from South Carolina. Archibald Ireland and Mary Sowell were married in Tennessee. There was a family of seven children, of whom Archibald T. was the fourth. The father, who was a blacksmith, followed his trade in Tennessee, and finally died in Hickman Countv of that state, in the year 1833. About two years alter the death of her husband, Mrs. Ireland removed with the children to \\ a-hington County, Illinois. The family subsequently visited the state of Arkansas, with the intention of making a permanent settlement, but after a short stay returned to Illinois, and made their home in Randolph County in 1839. The first ten years of Archibald T. Ireland’s life were spent m lennessee. He began his schooling there, and managed to learn to read and write. This comprised the principal part of his education, as far as any70 b BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF CITIZENS OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ILLINOIS. instruction was concerned that he received at public schools, as he went to school scarcely three months after coming to Illinois. He was sixteen when the family came to Chester, and was then the oldest son at home. The family were in very moderate circumstances, and Mr. Ireland was early charged with the responsibility <>f doing lii.s share toward the support of the family and of earning his own living. The first summer after coming to Cheater, he chopped cord wood, and after that managed the farm which his mother had rented of the late Hermon C. Cole. lie was two years on this farm. Being the oldest son, the care of the family devolved on him. One fruit of these responsibilities was that he was trained to habits of independence and self-reliance. For one winter he worked in a blacksmith shop in Chester, and the next summer again undertook farming, lie was thus employed for four years in the neighborhood of Chester. By his marriage. Mr. Ireland is connected with the family of one of the earliest pioneers of Randolph County. His wife was Mary Pillars. Janies Pillars was from Kentucky, and came to Randolph County in the year 1795, ami settled about a mile east of Ellis Grove. His wife was Mrs. Hughs, who by her lirst husband was the mother of James Hughs, a man prominent among the early American set tiers of the County, and who left several sons. John and Richard Pillars were the sons of James Pillars. The lirst held the position of Major of the militia, and died in 1851, on his farm on the western side of the Opoasumden prairie. Richard Pillars died on Mary’s river, in 1844. Mr. Ireland’s wife is a descendant of the Pillars’ family. Mr. Ireland was married on the fourteenth of July, 1S42. Two years after-ward he went to work at the blacksmith’s trade, which he followed a year and a half at Chester. He then lived a year on a rented farm six miles north of Chester; remained two years in the edge of Opossumdenprairie; and then regularly apprenticed him“elf at Chester to the blacksmith’s trade, which lie has since followed. In 1855 lie moved to Section twenty-nine. Township 7—•>. In addition lo carrying on the blacksmith business lie owns nearly three hundred and fifty aeri-s of land, part of which lies in Jackson County. The only daughter living is the wife of Alexander Bell. Mr. Ireland has enjoyed the confidence and respect of the residents of his section of the County, and is regarded as a man of liberal, unprejudiced, and independent mind. He has filled the office of Justice of the Peace. Few men have had a more unpromising start in life, and for what he is, Mr. Ireland is indebted to himseli- SAMUEL MANSKER. A likk of four-score years cannot fail to be full of eventful incidents, and especially is this true of the career of Samuel M anskkr, born in Kentucky in 1795, his family pioneers of Missouri in 1804, and a few years later settlers of Randolph County, Illinois. Jasper Mansker was a wealthy and prominent citizen of Tennessee, of the last century, and lived in the neighborhood of Nashville. John Mansker, his nephew, was the father of Samuel Mansker. He married Margaret Robinson, and directly after settled on Bear Grass Creek, near Louisville, Kentucky, lie served in General Arthur St. Clair’s campaign against the Indians, and was in his disastrous and memorable defeat, where he saved himself, as by a miracle, from the dreadful carnage. He was wounded in seven different places. The next year lie had recovered sufficiently to join General Wayne in his expedition against the savages, from which he returned in safety. Samuel Mansker, the third child and oldest son, was born on the sixteenth of December, 1795, on Bear Grass Creek, a few miles from Louisville, Kentucky. When four years old, his father moved to Tennessee, and in 18U4 came on to Missouri, and settled iu what was then Ste. Genevieve County, on the Mississippi directly opposite where Mr. Mansker now live-. With one exception, there was then no settlement within eight miles. About three years afterward, the family moved across the Mississippi, and located on the island opposite Rockwood, where a cabin was erected at the head ot the island. About 1812 the Manskers made another settlement on Section 10, Township 8-0. The place where the first improvements were made is now swept over by the current of the Mississippi. Samuel Mansker was a young man of seventeen when he first came to this locality, where his long and eventful life subsequent to that period has been principally spent. lie has followed farming, , .. . las c on the old home place, superintending his largeproperty. In addition to his ;e occurred November the Aid ISoS,to I. ml' 1 b orphuncd children, giving them home, a the gran£*il,au^tw Colone! Gabriel \ ; , |ho fillllCT|r ,„ve wluwe filial affection has often been DAVID TEMPLE. Mi:. Trmplk's grandfather, John Temple, was a Scotchman, ? oung man enlisted into the English army, in order to get passage 2 being 110 other means of reaching here at that time, which i A mcrica, ALEXANDER DICKEY. Mu. Pk kkv was born in South Carolina in 1795. Not liking the syste and influences of human si; lie would seize the first cor Western Territory, at that inglv when about twenty-thr. iper age, there being no other means of reaching here at that time, w men was jus. ing y wnen aoo.u m.. -...- ■ ^^ -, ,, the beginning of the Revolutionary war. In accordance with his original pur- Smith, John and James and John. Arthur James ami Alexander 1 pose, he deserted the British army ot the first convenient opportunity, and t|icjr *jst,.re Margaret (whom he afterward inarrled 1. Jane and if 1 made his wav to the lines of the American forces, and served with fidelity the turned his face towards the north-west and in 1818*aik-i\ laiutca \> ________nined that : ^ . >nt opportunity of making his way to the North already attracting some emigration. Accord-if age, in company with his brothers, '• ■ • ’er Hair, with d Rachel, he .......cd within the patriot cause till Hie close of the war. lie afterward* settled near Pilt-Imrg, Ihni'to of Randolph County. After his marriage to Mis* I (air, he settled down Pa., and was ill a short time appointed captain in the Slate militia, and served ,0 farm life in Township 4-5, entering a large bo.lv of land principally located with distinction in the Indian wars that soon followed, lie lived and died in Seeli.ms 3:1, :I4. In ISM he built a grist null, operated bv l.orse-power, Pennsylvania, and raised a familv of five sons and two daughters. Two only ,|„, tjr^t mill of the kind ever erected ill the County. I he people came to this of these, William, Mr. Temple’s'father, and Kobcrt, came out West, and they mj|l from distances of thirty and forty miles, and would wait tor (lavs lor their now both reside in this County. The other children, John, Samuel, Joseph, ■« mrn at the hopper.” This was the most noted point within the eastern part and the daughters, remained in Pennsylvania, where they died, each at a good f)f the County, and “ Dickey’s Mills ” were as well known among the pcop e of old age. ' three or four counties, a* are any of the great manufacturing establishments to Mr. Temple’s father was bom September 10th, 1780. He was twice married the people of a single County at the present day. In 1845 an “ I p and • • —• • - ..........1 •' second down” »av was attached and was supplanted in 1848 by a circular’ saw. ..._________________ ___first wife was Miss Margaret Patterson, and the was Miss Sarah Love. There were three children raised of the first marriage, Eliza, Robert, and John; ami eight of the second, David. Sarah, Mary A-. Jane, Margaret, Melinda, Tabitha, and Martha, all bo _____________t . .. I County, where .......still residents, viz.: David, John, Mary, the wife of Samuel J. Rogers, and Melinda, the wife of John P. Hair. Robert, Jane, the wife of Benjamin Cook, and Martha, the wife of Robert Preston, reside in Perry County. Sarah L., t he wife of Charles Preston, and Margaret, the wife of John Preston, though residents at the time, of Pi mothers of both these sets of children He, aud all his children, early became members of the Presbyterian Church, in some of its branches. Mr. Temple, our subject, was born June 19th, 1821, in Township 5-5, where his father at first settled on coming to this County. In about two years after this date, the family moved to the Township where Mr. Temple now resides, 5-6. JL..V— .v ■ ■__.... .reeled a large brick dwelling-house, the largest of : . within the County at that time, which largely added to the popularity of this already popular neighborhood. 'Phis now became a real business center and social focus where the traveler stopped in his journey, and where the neighbors, not on any particular business, met by common consent to have a “ social chat” on the current topics and news of the day. From ten to fifteen people could 1m: .seen here on any day besides a number of farm hands. Here also was .......... ...... ... Randolph. The gathered sick people and invalids iu order to receive medical treatment of a dead, but Mr. Temple is still sur- physician established at this place. To all Mr. Dickey extended a hearty ' the il for all he made j away from his door J hospitality of that d.r i around the family hearth. He never turned insupplied, nor the hungry unfed. The charily proverbial, and M r. I )icke; ... this form by hundreds ot dollars, nor did he think at the time that ■e than did his duty towards his fcliow-men. Notwithstanding that he .......... liberal, still he prospered, and as he gave away his substance the Ivord Temple was married to Miss Sarah McClure, daughter of Dr. McClure, increased it. and when he died in 1860 he left behind him a fine estate of some formerly of South Carolina, and a native of Ireland. By this wife lie has had | stiO acres of good lands. Mr. Dickey was a safe business man, never making eight children, seven living, viz.: Joseph, Nancy, the wife of Edward Foster, ventures. wa« very retired iu his disposition, ami preferred the quiet of his James W . David L., Samuel J., Melinda and Margaret T. Joseph is residing „wft family circle* to the noise and hustle of public gatherings. Though unin Washington County, engaged in farming. James is studying medicine in demonstrative he was always true to his friends and faithful to the cause oft ruth St. Louis. These are bright, intelligent children, well educated, and nearly all and right. He early professed faith in Christ, and was ever afterwards a zealous members of the Church. Mr. Temple has all his life been a plain, straight- member of the “Seceder” branch of the Presbyterian Church, now known as urd farmer, and now owns a very good farm, where he lives. He never tj,e Reformed Presbyterians. In his early youth lie had very few educational s a party r Dit. Buis i politic* till the late war, and then joined the Republican advantages, but though his book knowledge was limited, he had ion principle? LLOYD D. BURGESS, M. D. s descended from an old Maryland family, who < on with I i of that period a knowledge of the present day who are valued on account of their literary linments.* He was a soldier of the war of 1S12, and after coming to Illinois isted in the protection of the frontier while settlements from the frequent Indian raids with which they were in continual danger at that day, though the Indians regarded him as a friend, and often partook of his hospitality. Fully appreciating the importance of an earlv education he did what he could to confer upon his family the best education available. By the help of his amiable and energetic wife lie succeeded in rearing up a family who have largely inherited the virtues of their parents, and who are well known for their Hat-boating and trading, and has been one of the most active bn the southern part of the County. He ia one of the largest land-own County, the number of his acres footing up to thirteen hundred. BENJAMIN RICHARDS. Mu. Richards has been a resident of Rockwood since the year 1850. He was born at Staffordshire, England, on the eighth of July, 182S. His parents were Samuel and Arabella Richarus. Ilis mother’s maiden name was Price. In 1840 the family emigrated to America, and settled in New York State, where they lived ten years in Rockland County, on the Hudson River. Mr. Richards received the main part of his education at Havereiraw, on the Hudson. where he lived till he was twenty-two. After leaving school he worked at the employment of his father, who was foreman of the sheet-iron rolling department of the iron works at Ha verst raw. The family came to Illinois in the year 1850, and made their home in Jackson County. Here his parents died, his mother in 1866,and his father eight vears later. Mr. Richards was here, engaged in farming. In 1856, on the building of the mill at Rockwood, Mr. Richards moved to that place, having been elected secretary of the company owning the mill. Two or three years subsequently he was made superintendent, and assumed flic entire management. On quitting his connection with the mill, which was done on its passing into other hands, Mr. Richards embarked in the mercantile business with Mr. W. H. Clendinen. This partnership is still maintained, and the firm carry on a large business, tlicir stock embracing a full assortment of dry goods, groceries, queensware, drugs, agricultural implements, and everything apt to be called for in a farming community. Mr. Richards was married September the fourteenth, 1858, to Margaret A. Clendinen, the daughter of John 11. Clendinen. Eight of their nine children are living. Mr. Richards is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and is a good citizen, and one of the best business men of Rockwood. from England with the first colonists whom Lord Baltimore established near the beautiful Chesai>eake. Joseph Burgess, the Doctor’s great-grandfather, with seven of his sons, served their country a« soldiers in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. One of these was Michael, the Doctor's grandfather, who, after the war, settled in what is now Howard County, _ . where he married a Miss Elizabeth Warfield. Here was born and raised respectability and business-like qualities. Thomas, the Doctor’s father, who rose to considerable political prominence in All those surviving live within the corporate limits of the city of Sparta, that State. He represented the people a number of times in the Stale Legi>- William and Janies are extensively engaged in the sale of agricultural irn lature, besides filling a number of other offices of trust. He and two of iiis plcments and all kinds of farm-machinery, and do the heaviest trade of am brothers, Capt. Roderick and Bazil, were soldiers during the wur of 1812. He . house of the kind in Southern Illinois. Sarah married Mr. Thomas Sproul, married a Miss Honor Dorsey, by whom he raised seven children, six living, j and Rachel married Mr. Jana's Sproul, partners in the dry goods firm of Sproul viz., Mrs. Alcinda M. (Edward) Day and Mrs. Jane (Charles) Hipsley, of and Bro., the largest dry goods house* ot Sparta. Margaret is tin d., Dr. Thomas and Joseph (a merchant) of Nashville, Washington County, s., Lloyd of Sparta, Randolph County, and Win. \\\. Esq., engaged iu the practice of law at Orange Court House, Ya. Mr. Burgess was born, raised and educated in Maryland, where also he studied medicine at the University of Maryland, located at Baltimore, a Stale Institution of national reputation. Immediately after graduating, lie moved to Illinois, and practiced a short time with his brother Thomas at Nashville, and then came on to Randolph County, and located at Sparta, where he arrived in the fall of 1862. He has resided here ever since, building up a large and lucrative practice. Sept. 6th, 1S66. he married Miss Sallie C. McDonald, of the City of St. w kkIs house ot Sparta. Margaret is the wife of Mr. John McNight, well known in his community a* a brick manufacturer. Alexander died in Sparta some two years ago. and his family yet reside in Eliza J., died a short time after reaching the age of maturity*. The Ivouis, where her mother and a brother, Robert £ reside. Mrs. Burgess’ ancestry is of Scotch-I * nently in the military history of that country. h dc prominent lawyt cent, and figured promi- mother of the* survived her husbn The Christian name of Mr. Dickey’s father is now forgotten. He was a native of South Carolina, and his ancestry were from Ireland. He was in the “Continental” army during the whole of the Revolutionary war, first serving out his own time ami then that of his brother, who was killed in hattle a short time after his enlistment. He never applied for a pension, declaring that he fought for the liberties of his country and posterity, and that having secured isidei ;1 himself amply paid for his personal toils and s His pension, therefore, has never been drawn, and is yet due to hisdes upon the requisite proof necessary towards establishing identity, «&c. endants ISAAC RUST. Mu. Rust is one of the few remaining first settlers of this County, and of the soldiers of our last war with Great Britain, commonly known in history as that of 1812. He wjis born in Lincoln County, Me., November 9th, 1795. He was only about seventeen when he entered the United States service, and served j brought up and educated IV____ in guarding the coasts, to prevent the enemy from effecting a landing. After | her of years. On the breaking out of the R< the high seas, and joined the Continental forces, and JOHN PINKERTON. Tub Pinkp.ktox family, of which the subject of this sketch is a descendant, of Irish extraction. Mr. Pinkertons grandfather, James Pinkerton, was ,-captain, and served in this capacity a l a merchant n In Sumpter throughout the ensuing struggle, and w all theway up the Mississippi , the southern campaigns as conducted by Si *is. He ....... WILLIAM II. CLENDINEN. William II. Ci.eximnks, uowoneof the prominent business men of Rock-wood, is connected with one of the old families of the County. James Clendinen, ;i Kentuckian and the grandfather of William II. Clendinen, came to Randolph County in the year ISOS, and settled in Township 6-7. al>out half a mile west of Diamond < toss. John Clendinen, his great-grandfather, was a Revolutionary soldier. James Clendinen married Margaret Heard. Joseph Heard was the first one of this family to come lo Illinois. He first settled on Garrison Ilill, near Kaskaskia, in the year 1801. In 1837, James Clendinen moved with his family to Township 8 5, and settled on Section 5. One of his sons was John H. Clendinen, who is still living, and i* a well-known and widely respected citizen of that part of the County. John 11. Clendinen married Mary E. Vickers, and by this union was born William 11. Clendinen, the subject of this biography, on the 10th of January, I83t>. He was brought up in * the neighborhood of Rockwood, his father living two miles north of that place. His early education was acquired in the country schools of the vicinity. At sixteen, he visited Chester, and was there at school for :i year. The succeeding two years, when seventeen and eighteen, he taught school not far from Chester, lie was absent one year in Cincinnati, attending a commercial college of that city. Ilis mercantile life began in the year 1856, when he entered the store of Hermon C. Cole A: Co., of Chester, as clerk, a positic he c une to Rockwood. Mr. Clendinen has been in bi: 1857. At that date he entered tin store of J. P. Mann, in the capacity of a salesman. I le kept this position only for a year, and in 1858, formed a partnership with Mr. S. T. Jones, and carried on the mercantile business for two years and a half. The interest of Mr. Jones was purchased in 1861, by Benjamin Richards, and the business of ihe concern has since been carried on under the firm name of “ Richards and Clendinen.” The store does t he largest business in Rockwood, and its trade takes in a large section of country in Randolph and Jackson Counties. lary War, he left the sea, itafV officer with General participant in nearly all and Marion; and many 'bicaicd. and at the close of the war lie devoted his time to teaching, and taught both in South Carolina and Tennessee, aud finally diet I in the latter State at the good old age of eighty-two. lie belonged to the O. S. Presbyterian C hurch, ami through all the vicissitudes through which he passed, both ileportment. the close of the war, lie “shipped,” and spent and by his efliciencv rose to the position of first 1819 fie left the sea'at New Orleans, and came a on a barge, to this County ; a trip which consumed about three remained here till 1824, and then, yielding to his old love of the sea, he spent some two years more on the " briny deep.” He then returned to this County and settled at Kaskaskia, where he lived till 1836, at which time lie moved to where he now lives, near Chester. In 1826, March 16th, he was joined in marriage to Miss Annis D. Cochran. He spent many happy years with this wife, who was finally smitten with palsy, of which she died in 1&66, after a lingering sickness of six years. They had eleven children in all, of whom there were raised six daughters and two*sons, viz.: GeorgeS., Mrs. Rebecca (Lemuel) Brown, Mrs. Cordelia (Samuel) Taylor, Mrs. Sarah (David J.) Pinkerton, Samuel B., Mrs. Ellen (Nicholas) Beare, Mrs. Eliza (Alex.) Lehhead, and Mrs. Emma (Henry) Gousman. All are now dead, with the exception of Sarah and Eliza. On acco itit of his known integrity, on the organization of his Township (7-6), in 1829, Mr. Rust was elected to the office of School Treasurer, a posi- ........r„, w tion he has since continued to hold. Indeed, it is thought that while father had settled. He finally wei Rust lives, that it is nol proper that any one else should hold this office, in which he has been an incumbent beyond the memory of the present generation. Iu his community he is looked up to as a kind of'go-belwecu among neigli- 1831.' He never married a second time, but spem Ihe remainder 01 ms uavs hors for the settlement of^troubles, and as an arbiter of disputes. among his children. He and his wife both lived and died in the fellowship i gentleman widely known for his many ■ of the soldiers of the iiform, consistent, Christiai cn children, p, was a native of South Carolina, and he ther After the birth of six children, he emigrated t icoIn County, seventy-live miles > id land, He raised a family of *s John, Mr. Pinlierton’s fathei married Miss Sarah Gilmore, Middle Tennessee, and settled i ........... the Citv of Nashville. While there the family circle was further increased bv thebn-lb of five chihlren. He made a visit to Randolph County in 1844. J his was the year of the great rainfall in the Mississippi v alley, anil not being favorably impressed with the appearance of the country, he returned south, and spent several years iu the State of Mississippi, where some of his children had settled. He finally went to Texas, where he died the year after In- landed inJhat Slate, at the home .of his youngest daughter, Mrs.’ Sarah Aker. His wife preceded him to the grave by a number of years, dying in Tennessee in i arhiti In his politics he is a Republican, and a strong belie the freedom and equality of all men before the civil law Since the death of his beloved wife, Mr. Rust has continued in his widowed state, remaining true to his first love. His companion, most of his children, and the greater portion of his early associates and old friends, have already j down to the tomb, and in his ease, the beautiful lines “ The mossy marbles rest On the lips he ofV has prest In their bloom ; And the names he loved to hi Have been carved for many i On the tomb,” most appropriate. He has been very prosperou the doctrine of of the Presbyterian Chart...... manly and patriotic qualities, and was*honored* ! Mr. Pinkerton, our subject, was born in South Carolina, Feb. 21st, 1811, and was between four and five year* old when the familv went lo Tennowcc. lie was married in that State to Miss l)ovey llughev, bv whom he had four children prior to accompanying his lather lo this County in 13JJ. Liking Ihe appearance of the country, he determined to remain, and has ever since been a citizen of Randolph County. In 1848 he had the misfortune lo lose his wife. UieI companion of Ins youth, who died Wfore becoming the mother of anv ad-rl I. ?- jMie ',vas a consistent Christian, a member of the Presbvte-bri^l.Tmil ii 11 lov,nK and faithful wife, who for manv vear* Whitened the homo of her husband, »nd participated in his earlv toils'and cares. In IMG Mr. Pinkerton married Ins second wife, Mrs. Mary McKane.and the daughter of James McMillan, one of the earlv kcmIcm of this County. This excellent lady died in the fall of 1873, and Mr.* Pinkerton is again left com pan ion less, after having buried two excellent Christian wives. He* has the win fort, however, of living amidst a number of dutiful and hiving children, the support and comfort of his old age. The youngest, James M.. is married! and lives with him on the home farm. Another sou, Wm. H., by the first wife, is married and settled in Perry County. Luther, also, of the 'first wife's children, settled in Johnson County, Kansas. Isaac, the eldest, went to California in 1852, and has spent his life since in the West, and is now a resident of Wyoming Territory. Another daughter, Minerva, the wife of Alexander McMillan, resides with her husband in Conltervillc. Miss Sarah is at home with her father. On coming to this State, Mr. Pinkerton bought seventy-four acres of raw land, where he now lives. This he improved, and has sine. K McMaster, Mrs. Mary, (Dr.) Ewing. Miss Nettie, and Albert. Mary and husband reside in Minnesota, and the others are at home, or settled near by the old homestead. Miss Bella, a beautiful daughter, died at the age of twelve, and two others in infancy. Their parents have taken a commendable pride in tin- education of these children—those who arrived at the proper age; and have thrown around them also, all those relining and sweet home influences, essential in the formation of a solid and virtuous character, and they now have the gratification of contemplating their entire living family as members with them of the United Presbyterian Church. Mr. Fulton’s parents wore married in Ireland, where they had four children before starting for America They raised two sons and as many daughters. John for a number of vears was captain of a steamer, plying the Ohio river. He afterwards settled down to the banking business in Ripley, Brown County, Ohio. The daughters died in this State before l#»ng married. The father of these died in Perry County, in 1840, and Mr. Fulton is left the only survive of the family. Mrs. Fulton’s parents were both natives of the State of New York, and were married at the home of the bride, in Schenectady County, and in 1835 arrived in this County. They raised a family of nine children, six daughters anil three sons, all of whom married and had families. John, Mrs. Fulton, Robert J., Margaret, the wife of William Alexander, Peter, Janette, the wife of A. R. McKelvey, Eleanor, the wife of John McKelvey, Martha, the wife of James McKelvey, and Sarah, the wife of Isaac Hayes.' These all settled in this County, except. Eleanor and Martha, who reside in Perry < !ounty. Robert and John died in .Jackson County. The Wilsons are also from Scotland. Mrs. Fulton’s grandparents, John Wilson and Margaret, formerly a MissSpear, were both natives of that country, and came to Saratoga County, New York, when they were small—in a very early day. In that section of the State her father grew up to manhood, anil when our last war with Great Britain broke out, he tendered his services to his country and became a soldier of the war of 1812. JOIIN C. McQUISTON. In giving the history of many of the old settlers of Randolph County, it is but proper to devote a portion of our pages to a notice of Mr. McQuiston, one of our old settlers, well known these many years among the people. His grandfather, William McQuiston, came over to this country from Ireland, a short time before the Revolutionary war. When the war broke out he joined the patriotic cause, and served Ins country as an old Continental soldier, till the successful conclusion of the war. He lived, till the lime of his death, in South Carolina. His widow, formerly Miss Jane Chestnut, with her family made her way to Kentucky, and after residing there for a number of years, moved to Ohio, where she arrived about 1S30, In 1839, with a part of her family she arrived in this County, and died here, and her remains rest in the Hopewell grave-yard, about three miles south of Sparta. She was a lady of great personal fortitude, was well acquainted with General Marion, and when a young woman, on one occasion, rode alone, eighteen miles in the night, to warn the American camp of threatened danger from the British troops. James McQuiston's father was born in Chester District, Smith Carolina. He was married in Kentucky, to Miss Elizabeth Cunningham, and arrived in this County with his mother, whom he accompanied lo Ohio, in 1839. He continued to reside in this County until his death. Most of the lime he was engaged in farming, but toward the close of his life he retired from business, and spent his last days in Sparta. He had only one brother, William, of the State of Mississippi, and who was appointed Marshall of Aberdeen District of that State, by Gen. Zachary Taylor, through the influence of his intimate friend of Kentucky, Hon. John J. Crittenden. Two of Mr. McQuiston’s children, Elizabeth, the wife of Samuel Blair, and Martha, the wife of William Blair, reside in Perry County. Mary, the wife of James Brown, reside.* iu Kansas. Thc.only other son, James W., is a Merchant of Joplvn, Mo. Mr. McQuiston, the subject of this sketch, was born in the town of Elkton, Todd County, Kentucky, May 20th, 1825, and was therefore, about fourteen when he arrived in Randolph, where he has lived ever since, with the exception of seven years spent in St. Louis, in the wholesale house of George R. Pegram & Co. lie was Deputy Sheriff’ two years, under Anthonv Steele, about ’57 and ’58. Since living in Sparta, he has served both as City Marshall and City Clerk. In these positions he proved himself honest, and gave a good account of every dollar of money entrusted to his care, lie was married in this County, to Miss Rebecca McNabney, daughter of another old settler. Two children, James W. and Edward E., constitute the fruits of this union. They are now engaged in conducting the Broadway Hotel, one of the largest and best kept public houses of the County. REUBEN L. PATTERSON. Mu. Patterson is one of the few remaining old pioneer natives of this County. He was born April 26th, 1814, in the town of Preston. When lie was a small boy of some five or six summers his father moved into the limits of Township 5—6. Here father and mother both died in 1820 and near where the city of Sparta now stands. When in his fifteenth year Mr. Patterson commenced a course of study at Monroe, Butler County, Ohio, he was there some three years and spent one session during the time at the college at Oxford. Though he did not remain long enough in school to graduate, yet by earnest study he made himself a good English scholar and attained considerable progress in Latin and Greek, lie returned home and commenced the study of medicine under Or. Betts ol Kaskaskia, where he remained a year. He then read a year under Dr. hirnan ot Sparta. The following year he returned to Kaskaskia and practiced a year with Dr. Hotckiw. He was then united in marriage to Miss Aletlie McNulty and located near where Marissa now stands. He practiced one season in this community, when he determined to abandon the profession and give his attention to farming. lie accordingly l*>ught a small farm within the same settlement, on which In- lived some four years, then sold and bought in Hill Prairie. He was there several years and then again sold and bought a farm alHHil two miles south of Plum Creek (in his Township) where he remained till he removed to his present farm in 1870. He has had a family of ten children. Five sons and one daughter are all that are now living, Viz.: James II., Lewis M., JolinC., Samuel W., Reuben L., and Miss Alethe J., all married except the daughter, and all residents of this County but John, who resides in Missouri. James, Mr. Patterson's father, was born in South Carolina. He came to this County about the year 1800, and was one of its early rangers against the Indians. He was also a soldier in the war of 1812. He was married first in South Carolina to a Miss Bo«gs. This companion accompanied him to this County, where she died, llis second wife was Miss Bethiah Lacy, of this County, of a prominent and well-known family. Her father, Col. Lacy, was •me ot the old settlers of the County, and one of her brothers, John, early represented this District in the Slate Legislature. The Patterson family are descended from Ireland. Mr. Patterson’s grandfather came from that country in time to serve his country as a continental 1 soldier, thus assisting to lay the foundation of that liberty which his numerous and respectable posterity have since enjoyed. WM. EDMI8TON. Mu. Edmiston traces his history back to one of the old families of Vir-i ginia. His grandfather, Robert Ed mist on, it, is -supposed, was both born and raised in that State. Towards the latter part of his life he removed with his family to Tennessee. He married a Miss Susan Hannah aud raised a familv ot five children, four sons and a daughter, viz.: William, John, David, Alexander and Mrs. Polly (Andrew) McCurdy. William, the oldest, Mr. Fdmiston’s father, was born in Virginia, February 8th, 1795. He was sixteen when the family moved to Tennessee, where he was raised and married to I Miss Sarah A skins. During the war of 1812, he entered the United States service, as a volunteer and is now one of the few remaining soldiers of that I war. Iu 1832 he left Tennessee and came to this County, where he has resided ever since, lie has raised six children, Albert, of Lyon County, Kansas, Polly (deceased/, who married Thomas Paul, William, our subject, Rufus, also of Lyon Countv, Kansas, James, of Washington Countv, and Mrs. Sarah I David I Hannah, of the same County. Those who are now living are nil well to do in life, honorable, industrious and upright citizens. The mother ofthese died in 1833, the year after the family came to this State. The father is still living aud resides with his son William, of the town of Tilden. Mr. Ed mis ton was born in Tennessee, March 21st, 1823. He came with his parents to Illinois in 1832, and has since been a resident of this County. He was raised on the farm and was fully inured to hard work during his youthful days. 1844, February 29th, he was joined in marriage to Miss Nancy Lindsay, daughter of Thomas Lindsay, an early settler of the County. Her mother was a Miss June Sindian, whose parents were both earlv settlers of Randolph. Mr. Kdmiston has been very prosperous. He has accumulated a very fine farm, which he has divided up among his children, and is now (Established in Tilden, devoting his attention to the grain trade, and is well known as one of the wealthy business men of his section of the country. Mr. Edmiston and lady have been blessed in their connubial relations with five children, all li ving, and all married with the exception of Charles F. Each of the three other sons, James II., William T.. and John II. are farmers of i Township 4—5, and are known as honorable and enterprising young men. I The daughter, Jane and husband, Alexander Beckett, reside in the same I township. It is very probable, that the name Kdmiston was originally spelled Edmondson. They are of Scotch nationality, and the ancestry were in this country j during the days of the colonies, but what part they took in the early history of the nation, further than they were always patriots, cannot now be ascertained. JAMES CRAWFORD. Mr. Craw for t> is a native of Scotland. His father was a poor man, but very industrious, and a devoted lover of literature. He took great care in surrounding his family with literary influences, aud in training them up in tin1 fear of I heir Creator. Mr. Crawford early evinced a marked love for books, and made history a special study. In the course of his reading he familiarized himself with the history of this country. He became, in consequence, attached to the principles and ideas of our popular institutions, and resolved, the first favorable opportunity, to visit the United States, in order to become familiar personally with the practical workings of our mode of government. When about twentv-five years of age he carried this resolution into effect. He landed at New York City, came down the Ohio River, and arrived in this County in 1838. He was accompanied in this journey by two brothers, Brice and Benjamin. After spending two years working by contract, railroad grading, he bought land in Township 4-5, and settled down to farm life. In June, 1810, he was joined in marriage to Miss Marion Garven, with whom lie was well acquainted, and to whom he had plighted his faith in their native land. At his solicitation she came to this country, and they were married in this County. Her mother was formerly Miss Margaret Stephenson. She soon followed this daughter to her home in ibis County, and lived with her till removed to another mode of being, dying at a good old age. Mr. Crawford has really been a citizen of this County since 1838. At that time there were very few settlers within his community, principally from the Southern States, and mostly settled along in the skirts of timber and close to I the creeks. The prairies, then clothed with rich, wild verdure, and strange, beautiful flowers, long since passed away under the heavy tread of civilization, was very little occupied. He built his home in a charming skirt of the prairie, and began the work of cultivation and improvement. On his way to Illinois he was told by many that it was an extensive, marshy grave-yard, and that the deadly miasmas would soon shatter his health, and consign him to an early tomb. He found it instead almost an Eden of beauty, and has always enjoyed here good health till he underwent the exposures and hardships of soldier life during the late Civil War. He went out in the fall, of 1861, as a Union soldier in Company F, Tenth Missouri Infantry—a regiment made up of a number of ' companies left over after the quota required from Illinois had been made up. i He was elected First. Lieutenant of his company, aud went into active service, i His health soon became so seriously impaired as to render his resiguatiou I absolutely necessary, after which he was honorably discharged, when he re-I turned home to his family. Mr. Crawford has made for his family a beautiful and attractive home, | placed on the shelves of his library a fine assortment of valuable and instructive books, and has gathered around him all the refining and entertainiug in-I fluences essential in rendering his home happy. His faithful wife Is still I living to cheer his declining days, and has always been, as she is yet. a ray of light to chase away the shadows that may threaten the family hearth. They are both members of the Presbyterian Church, in which he is an elder, and I entertain liberal feelings towards Christians of other denominations. They have only one son, William J., a young man of fine intelligence, and a member of the same church .os his parents. He married Alice Scout, formerly of BellevioWj Eaton County, Michigan, and the daughter of Major Scout, an officer of the United States service during the war of 1812. Mr. Crawford’s father was named William. He married Miss Ellen Beverage, also a native of Scotland. He had by this wife fourteen children, ten i sons and four daughters, all raised excepting one. They were well-educated, and all lovers of literature. He died in the old country, and his wife and surviving children all camt* to this country. She died in this County at the residence of her daughter Margaret, the wife of James Craig, a weli-known rofession in Sparta, and by a close application to his books and business, he ins built up a large and paying practice. In 1870, he was appointed Prosecuting Attorney of the Common Pleas Court at Sparta, an office abolished by the New Constitution. In Nov. 1872, he was elected to the office of State’s Attorney for Randolph County, a position he still holds. Mr. Goddard’s father, William B., arrived in this County when an infant, as j early as 1819. He died some two months ago, in the little town of Evans, Colorado, where ho had gone for the benefit ol his declining health, lie was married in this County, near Kaskaskia, to Miss Eliza Hawthorne, daughter of James Hawthorne, one of the old pioneers of Randolph, aud a very prominent and leading citizen, and who occupied, at various times, a number of public offices. He was intimately connected with all the enterprises looking toward the improvement and development of the County and its resources. A fter his marriage, Mr. Goddard moved to the vicinity of Sparta, which was his home at the time of his death. During his life he followed at different times the occupations of farmer, merchant, builder aud architect, and was an acting Justice of the Peace about twenty years. For many years he was a prominent member of the Presbyterian Church, in which he was noted for his devotion and exemplary piety. He was not very successful in the accumulation of property, but was nevertheless a very fair liver, his mind running more in the direction of religion, literature and books. He took great pride in his family, whom he devotedly loved, and nothing gave him greater pleasure than : the prosecution of plans promoting their advancement in intellectual, social and moral culture. He gave his children that which is of infinitely more value than property, viz.: a good education and proper ideas of the true ends and duties of life. James II., is a practising physician of Witcluta, Kansas. The younger brother, Albert, formerly of The Main Dealer, is at present employed in the i law office of hi.s brother, and is engaged in study for the legal profession. One sister, Eveline L., the wife of Myron Camp, resides with her husband, near Wichita, Kansas. The other sister, Miss Sarah E., resides in Sparta, and is engaged in the business of teaching. Mr. Goddard’s grandfather, William Goddard, was an early settler of Kentucky, and was a soldier in the U. S. service, during the war of 1812. and was afterwards employed as a ranger, in the defense of the early white settlements ot Illinois, against the Indians, and was finally killed in a skirmish with the savages, near tin- old Indian town of Cahokia, near where the city of Belleville now stands. He was a fearless and very brave man. and did much in holding in check the incursions of the red-men, in their depredations on the whites. It is a matter of regret that more has not been preserved concerning the history and exploits of this hardy and daring old pioneer. It Is not now known in what State he was bom. His honored progenitor was an old Continental soldier, and faithfully served his country through its struggles for independence and freedom. He was an Englishman by birth, and came to this coun-try only a short lime Ik;fore the breaking out of the war. The Hawthorne family are of Scotch origin, and derived the name from a shrub of thick undergrowth in the mountainous regions of Scotland, where the old Scots were in the habit of retreating, when vanquished on the plains during their wars with tin* Danes. The name of the shrub was given to this family during the wars i referred to, and who took a leading part in the military doings of that people. They early embraced the Protestant doctrine, and were among those perse-cuted for conscience’ sake. The family finally settled in the northern part of Ireland, and some of them found their way to this country, in time to assist in the defense of its freedom and independence. JUDGE JOHN MORRISON. i Mr. Morrison was born in Ireland, and in the County of Derry in 1822. In his sixteenth year he left his native country, and came to the United States of America, landing at the City of Philadelphia. He soon came on to Randolph County, Illinois, and settled himself down at Georgetown, now Steelville, and has remained in this community ever since, engaged most of the time in the honorable avocation of tilling the soil. He was married about 1845 lo Miss Mahala Steele, sister of Anthony Steele, and daughter of Archibald Steele, old settlers of the County. This lady died some seven years ago, leaving seven children, six now living, viz. Mrs. Matilda (Wm.) McCoy, Mrs. Elizabeth i Wm. Tate, Mrs. Mary J. (John L.) Hart, Mrs. Nancy 12. (Franklin I Pair, Archibald and John II. The eldest, James, was accidentally, killed about llit; age of twenty-two. These children all live near the old homestead, and are known as honorable and useful citizens and members of the socinl community. Air. Morrison has never been an aspirant for office nor political preferment, preferring the domestic enjoyment of his own fireside and the society of his neighbors to the harassing cares of public station, and he has held the office of County Commissioner for the last two years, Himply at the earnest solicitation of his many friends. In the discharge of his official duties it is well known that he has been prompt, faithful and efficient; but for this he craves no honor, having merely l>erformed his duty towards the people. In business he has been prosperous to a fair extent, considering that he now owns a beautiful homestead of three hundred and sixty acres of finely improved land ; all the result of his honest toils and good management, together with the increased value of real estate as the country has been settled and developed. When lie arrived in this community, he was a poor boy, far away from home and friends, and had only $2.o0 in his possession, lie hired out at once to Mr. Geo. Steele at £13 per month, and assisted while working for this i gentleman in the erection (if the first brick building put up in Georgetown. This building is yet standing, and is owned by Mr. Ira Jenkins. Politically, the Judge is a Democrat. While the Old Whig Party had an existence, he was a factor of that party ; but after its dissolution, he did not follow the majority of the Whigs into the folds of Republicanism, but preferred i the sound and time-honored principles of tried Democracy. During the late civil war he stood with Douglass and Crittenden as the exponents of the true doctrines of the Constitution and the Union growing out of it. The Judge has had excellent health ever since he has been in the State; and during the last thirteen years he has not had a doctor to visit his family professionally. HON. JOHN K. DETRIGH. ITon. John E. Dktrich was born of a parentage in only medium circumstances, had in his early years no very favored opportunities, but inherited a full amount of natural energy and will and power, and has pushed his way bravely upward in life. The’date of his nativity was June 7th, 1820, and the place, Mifllinburg, Union County, Pennsylvania. In the spring of 1839 he arrived in Sparta, then called Columbus, and assisted in the publication and management of the Columbus Herald, the first newspaper published in this place. The following year he became both editor and proprietor, changing the name of this sheet to the SjKH'ta JJanocrat, the town having changed its name during the time. The paper was conducted in the interests of the Democratic party, during the campaign between Van Buren and Harrison, and through its influence principally, Randolph County changed its political complexion from Whiggery to Democracy.Mr. petrich embarked in the mercantile business in 1851, gave it his personal attention several vean», and had the business conducted up to 1865. In 1850 he was elected to the Lower House of the State Legislature, anil took his seat the first Monday in Januarv of 1851. In 1852 he was elected to the State Senate for the District, including the Counties of Randolph, Perry, Jackson and Washington. In 1858 he was returned to the Lower House, still continuing to be the standard bearer of the colors of the Democratic parly. During the month of April, 1861, he volunteered into the United State* service; was elected Captain of the company that he had been instrumental in raising, and went into active service immediately on the equipment of his regiment. His first engagement was the battle of Bellmont, Mo., which was also the first battle of General Grant during our late civil war. He was afterwards in quite a number of actions, among which was that of Island No. 10. He resigned in the spring of 1S62, on account of declining health, and returned home to Sparta. In May of the same year he accepted of Abraham Lincoln the appointment of Commissioner of the Board of Enrollment for the then Twelfth Congressional District, with headquarters at Alton. He resigned this position in 1804, and in 1869 was made Collector of Internal Revenue, with ollice at Alton. In 1873 he also resigned this position and returned home, where lie is at the present time with his family. Mr. Detrieh in not now, nor has he ever been, an office-seeker. He has merely accepted office and position as they have come to him by the force of j circumstances and through the direct influence of friends. Had he been willing to enter into the political arena, armed and equipped with all the chicanery of the professional office-seeker, he might have continued in public ! station all his life, since his advent into the State Legislature. He acts, however, on the principle, that the office should seek the man, rather than that the man should seek the office. This course is commendable, and the people would not be far wrong should they decide to support no man for office who, unsolicited, demands it at their hands. Mr. Detrieh has at hand no accurate information concerning the history of his family, farther back than his own parents, owing to the fact that they died when he was quite young. After their demise he was taken to lie raised by an uncle, a brother of his mother, John I\ Gutelius. His father was of German and his mother of French descent, and they each represented families which were in this country very early—during the limes when the Slates were British colonies, but what part they took in the great war of the nation is not now known, more than that they were patriotic and strongly attached to the principles of free government ami our system of liberal institutions. CAPTAIN PAUL T. JONES. Mr. Jones is a native of Jackson Countv, Illinois. He was born there, November 21st, 1834. IIis father, Andrew, died when Mr. Jones was seven years old, after which his wife with her small family moved to this County, and here the Captain has resided ever since with the exception of the lime that was spent in the Union Army during the late civil war. He enlisted in the 18th Illinois Infantry Volunteers, in 1861, and was in the United States’ service during the whole war. He was only wounded once, while engaged in the pursuit of the rebel General Price. At the close of the war he was honorably discharged, when he returned to his home in this County. He went into the army as a private, was elected 1st Sergeant of his company, and in about a year was elected as its Captain, and commanded it till the close of his three years'enlistment. He re-enlisted in the 17th Illinois Cavalry, Illinois Volunteers, John L. Beverage, present Governor of this State, being Colonel. While in the service Captain Jones experienced some hard fighting. He was in the battles of Fort Donaldson, Pittsburg Landing, Little Rock, the Siege of Vicksburg and besides a number of engagements of less note. When lie returned to this (bounty he resumed the business of blacksmithing, a trade he learned in his young davs in Jackson County, and at which he has worked as a business all his life, tie has worked in this County, at Sparta and Coulter-ville, and i* now established at the little enterprising town of Tilden. He was married in 1867 to Mis-* Mary A. Laird, daughter of Isaac A. Laird, one of the oldest living citizns of this County, having come into it as early as 1808, and who now resides in the City of Sparta. Mr. Jones’ ancestry were early in this country, at least some little time before the separation of the Colonies from the mother country, though much of their early history is obscure and some of ii entirely lost. Mr. Jones' grandfather was also named Andrew, and was a native of South Carolina. He came very early to this County, but not being altogether pleased with his surroundings, he stopped only a short time and then settled in Jackson County, where he spent bis last days. Mr. Jones’ father was a young man when he came with his parents to this County. He also settled in Jackson County, and there married Miss Martha Marshall, daughter of William Marshall by his wife, formerly Annie Kane. Mr. Marshall was a relation of Dr. Marshall, an old settler and a very prominent physician of this County in bye-gone days. After the death of her husband Mr. Jones’ mother married a second time to Mr. George Brown, once a highly respected and well-known old settler of this County, and also a soldier of the war of 1812. He died in 1873, and his widow now resides in Coulterville. She had four children by her first husband, three of whom were raised, viz.: Andrew, who went to Texas in 1858, James M., a resident of Coulterville, and the Captain. JOHN MURPHY. Mit. Murphy was bom in Ireland and came to this country in the fall of 1840. He sell led near where Daniel McIntyre now lives, and where he bought a farm partly improved, comprising one hundred and twenty acres, and where he lived some five years, marrying in the meantime Miss Mary Smith, daughter of John Smith, also a native of Ireland. When Mr. Murphy sold this farm, he again bought where he now lives. ea3t of Tilden, about a quarter of a mile. Mr. Murphy is one of the independent farmers of this part of the County. He commenced iu this country with little or no capital, and has bv his own industry been enabled to purchase and pay for two nice farms, situate near Tilden. He has a family of seven children: John, Annie, Mary, Jane, Thomas, Robert and Grace, besides two dead. Unfortunately, the.early records of Mr. Murphy’s family have been lost. His father’s name was John, and his mother was formerly Miss Jane Conner. They raised nine children, five of whom came to this country, viz: Alexander, Neal, Margaret, the wife of George McCarthy, Catharine, the wife of John McIntyre, and Isabella. Margaret and husband settled in the State of New York, Alexander and Neal reside in Washington County, and the others in this County. Mr. Murphy’s ancestry were originally from Scotland. They afterwards settled in the northern part of Ireland. They were Protestants by religious profession, and were known iu the old world as an honorable, uj>-right family. Mr. Murphy is a member of the Presbyterian Church, also his amiable ladv. He is a lover of the principles of civil and religious liberty, and is devotedly attached to the popular institutions of this country. Politically, he is a Ri JOHN HODSON, ESQ. Mu. Hudson was born in Liverpool, England, February 3d, 1827. At the age of thirteen he met with an accident which made it necessary to amputate a part of his right leg. Though painful and serious, this loss proved a blessing in disguise, by turning his attention more directly to books and literature, ami was the real cause in shaping his subsequent life. He soon became qualified to do business, and for several years made himself useful in the ship broker establishments of William Quail and Thomas C. Dutton, where he proved himself honest, capable and trustworthy. Wishing a larger sphere of action, and being already impressed favorably with the institutions of this country, he determined to come to the United States. In 1850 he reached New Orleans with letters of recommendation from friends and former employers, expecting lo go into business there, but not being favorably impressed with the Crescent City as a place of residence, he determined to pass up the Mississippi River and prospect in St. Louis. While making tins trip, through an unforeseen circumstance, involving humane as well as gallant conduct, he was induced to make a detour by way of Sparta, where intimate friends were at once made, and through whose influence he was persuaded to remain m this place, at least for the time being. Liking the town, the society ami the surrounding country, lie determined to make a permanent location. He at applied for papers of naturalization, which n ■" .................................................. finally made over in 1854. Mr. Hodson has been closely identified with the interests, growth and business of Sparta ever since his naturalization. He commenced business here at first as clerk in the factory of James Mc-Clurkin. In the fall of the same year (1850) he made a business engagement with William Rosborough A: Co., where he remained as clerk in their drygoods-establishment nearly live years. He next engaged_with Mr. A- M. Allen, with whom he remained in all some ten the employment of the Dickey Bros., with win From 1850 to 18-39 he acted as City Assessor. From 1851 to 1853 he was town clerk. In 1862 he was elected City Marshall, held the position about a year and a half, when he resigned on account of sickness. In the spring of 1875 he was elected Police Justice, and so far he has ably filled this position, and his decisions have lieeu characterized with fairness and a good knowledge of the law. July 17th, 1851, he was united in wedlock with Miss Jane McDill, the daughter of William K. McDill, one of the early and highly respected citizens of this County. None of Mr. Hudson's family have come to this country. His parents, William and Mary, both died in Liverpool. He had one brother, W illiam, and four sisters, Mary J., Hannah, Ann and Elizabeth. At the latest intelligence. Hannah was the only survivor in the old country. In business Mr. Hodson has not neglected the cause of religion, and he and his highly respected and accomplished lady are both members of the U. P. Church. WM. ROBERTSON (deceased). A MONO the old settlers of Township 4— 5, none are more deserving of remembrance then the gentleman whose name heads this history. He took a prominent and an active part in the social and material development of his section of the County. He was a native of Scotland, grew up to manhood then, and inherited the firm, sterling, moral and intellectual qualities, characteristic of the Scotch as a people. When a young man, in company with William Craig, another early settler of this County, lie left the land of his nativity and set sail for the United States. After sloping a short time in New York, he and bis friend went to Canada, but not being favorably impressed with that Province they returned to the States, aud came all the way from the East iu a spring wagon, and landed in this County in 1835. Here Mr. Robertson hired out about two years to Mr. William Hayes, and turned the proceeds of his labor into the entry of 160 acres of land in Flat Prairie. A short time afterwards lie married Jane, the daughter of John McMillan, also an old and highly respected citizen of Randolph County. This wife only lived a short time, and left behind her no living issue. Mr. Kober Ison again married. Miss Margaret Legette, a native of Scotland, being the objcct of bis choice. This marriage was celebrated October 4th, 1848. She. is the daughter of William Legette by his wife, formerly Margaret Austin, both natives of Scotland. By this lady Mr. Robertson had three children, onlv one of whom is living, viz.: Robert L., now residing on the home farm, aud having in his care the interests and happiness of his mother, now far advanced in life and one of the venerable hulii>s of the community. Mr. Robertson died in Scotland, September 23d, 1872, in the 61st year of his life. For several years previous his health had been delicate, and he was induced to travel as a means of recuperation. Turning his attention to his old native home and country, he determined once more to visit its shores and gaze on the faces of old-time friends and relatives. He was taken seriously ill while crossing the ocean. He sank rapidly after reaching his destination, and spent his last hours at the residence of his sister, Mrs. Margaret Young. He left this world in full hope of the promised salvation in Christ, and his last moments were blessed with on assuring peace. He early connected himself with the Presbyterian Church, and always, in all circumstances lived a consistent Christian, and was at the time of Iiih death as he had been many years before a member of a congregation of this order at Sparta. As a man, he was firm in his principles, as a husband faithful and affectionate, as a citizen upright, as a Christian devoted and as a member of society, rather quiet, though very sociable with his family and most intimate friends. He was liberal with his means, and always gave when in his judgment it was necessary or beneficial. He was opposed to all manner of speculations, and confined himself, as a means of support, entirely to the cultivation of the soil. He was prosperous, and though he did not make money very fast, ho made it very surely, and year after year found him *till in letter circumstances, till at the time of his death he was rightly regarded as being wealthy. A slight addition has been made to the farm since his death, and it now embraces 405 acres, and is a choice piece of land and in good cultivation. It is well improved and is well stocked. Mr. Robertson’s father bore the Christian name of William. He also was a native of Scotland, where he lived and died, and where he raised a family of four sons and three daughters. Robert is a resident of this County. John yet resides in Scotland, and James when last heard «»f, was in Australia. Janette and Elizabeth both died in their native country, the former, the wife of Jno. Anderson and the latter the wife of James Grey. We notice that young Mr. Robertson, son of the subject of this sketch, is bringing his lands up in all points into a first-class stock farm. We notice here a fine flock of Merino Sheep and some nice thorough bred short horns. He is Vice-President of the Wool Growers’ Association for the 18th District, has been making partly on his own account anil partly to establish precedent experiments with fine breeds of sheep. So far he has realized profits beyond his expectations, on all his investments iu this line, which goes to show, that in this industry, yet pretty much untried in Randolph County, the people may yet realize a very profitable business. HENRY L. HOLMES. Without doubt, religion is the most potential influence among all the social elements in the formation of personal character, in giving tone to public morals and in shaping the forms and in infusing cast into civil institutions. Nothing can be more detrimental to the interest of State, than perverted forms of the Christian religion, and false systems of church government; as a radical error in a prevailing church, invariably finds its way into the affairs of political government, and stamps its impress there. Monarchy in the government ecclesiastical paves the way for monarchy in civil afiairs- Give the people freedom and liberty religiously, and they will invariably demand it civilly. When Christ constituted his Church, lie gave to it a simple democratic form of government. Each local church was constituted a separate, independent local hotly, the members thereof, electing by vote, their own officers, receiving and dismissing members, and in the same manner transacting all the business appertaining to it, as an independent organized assemblage. During the days of the inspired Apostles, no ecclesiastical system of associated churches for the purpose of prosecuting measures involving discipline and the propagation of the gospel, existed. The only organization known at that time, was that which pertained solely and exclusively to the local churches as such, and the only influences which bound the various churches together as co-operative bodies, were a similar faith, a common hope, a mutual fellowship and a common work. The Papal Hierarchy, which grew out of an apostacy from the simple doctrines and forms of government of the Primitive Churcli, about the year A. I). 251, was the first instance of a superior organized power, consisting of a number of local churches blended into a system, known after the advent of the Son of Man. But even after this Hierarchy had been made a State Church, by the Emperor Constantine, all the influences it could bring to bear, aided as it was, by the weight of the patronage and sword of the State, failed signally to pull all the churches into its puissant wake. A large number of the congregations of Italy, Egypt and Asia Minor, held to a separate communion, and the original forms of ecclesiasticism. They were persecuted under the name of Novatians, and finally, in tlifc 4th century, by the edict of Hono- i finally dropped, and they have »w known and honored as one the davs of the rius and Theodosius, under the penalties of confiscation and death, were ex- PeTheyrretreatetl into the valleys of Piedmont, and there, and in other countries they maintained an existence and a succession, under the various names of Waldenses, Albigcnses, Paterines. Vaudois and Anabaptists, down to the time of the Lutheran Reformation of the 16th century, when they were alike persecuted, both bv Roman Catholics and Protestants. At that time, they were eomraonlv known under the stigmatized title of Ana baptists, or Rebap. there. They found an asylum in Holland, and were at a later date tolerated in England, and when the colonies were planted in America, they came to this country, in order to enjoy that freedom of conscience so persistently denied them in the old world, flic prefix “a ” ■" since been known simply as Baptists, a _ of the leading denominations of the United States, rrr Apostles to the present time, they have preserved a succession of congregations and the whole truth as at “first delivered to the saints.” Their fundamental doctrines are summed up in the following tenets: Is:. The indeiiendence of their churches; 2d. A democratic form of government for each congregation; 3d. That none but those regenerated have a right to church membership; 4th. That the ordinances of the New Testament are to be restricted to those embraced within the jurisdiction of the Church; 5th. That civil government has no right to attempt the regulation of religious questions, and that the Church has no right to dictate in civil affairs; 6th. That moral suasion is the only legitimate power in the*hands of Christians to influence the belief and conduct of others; 7th. That the immersion in water of a proper candidate, in the name of the Trinity, is the only gospel baptism, and that an olwervance of this ordinance is a prerequisite of subsequent Church fellowship; and 8th. That the observance of any external ordinance is not essential to salvation. For the profession and observance of these plain Scriptural doctrines, the Baptists have suffered persecution anil martyrdom in nearly all the countries of the old world, from the beginning of the 4th, down to the close of the 17th century. Though often persecuted, they have never, in all their past history, persecuted others, but have held to the first principles of the gospel, with a tenacity that no opposition has ever been able to shake. They have not even escaped proscription and maltreatment in this country. They were fined and imprisoned by the Episcopal Church of the Colony of Virginia, and were whipped, imprisoned, and fined in the Colony of Massachusetts, by the Puritan Congregationalism. Among the last to receive corporal punish ment for conscience' sake in this country, was Obadiah Holmes, a Baptist minister from England, who was whipped by a civil officer, in the streets of Bos ton, under the requisition of the Puritan Church. His oflen the denial of infant baptism, and a want of reverence to the Puritan establishment. Forty stripes, save one, were laid on the old minister’s bared shoulders, and | then he was cast into prison as a culprit till his fine should Im? paid. He was I the honored ancestor of the subject of this sketch, and a prouder parentage ! could not be claimed. Though this persecuted and saintly man did not live to see the doctrines for which he suffered, vindicated, still his posterity not only have been made the recipients of the blessings for which he struggled, but have the proud satisfaction of knowing that they have been incorporated into the very constitution of the nation itself. The perfectly correct internal and external economy of the Baptist Church, fitted it in the highest degree to exert a salutary influence on this country in the incipient stages of its development, and lo it the nation is indebted for its first conceptions and example of civil and religious freedom, in a State founded on the basis of religious equality among the various religious denominations, and a total disassoeiation of Church and State. Under the conjoint labors of Roger Williams and John Clark, another Baptist minister from England, a charter was secured from the King,and the plantations of Providence and Newport became a Colony, where the great doctrines of our nation were first put into practical operation, by statute and political organization. The influence of this single Colony, stumped its impress on the statesmen of that day, and after the inde|>endence of this country from the English Crown, the other Colonies followed in its wake; and, to-day, the Baptist denomination should receive the honor, as it is the author of the freedom and liberal institutions of the United States of America. It would not Only be a work of pleasure to the writer, but a matter of interest, to trace from their illustrious predecessor, the history of the Holmes family down to the present, but, for lack of necessary material, we will have to pass over the interval elapsing from Obadiah to Joseph Holmes, Mr. Holmes' grandfather, who we first hear of as a patriot soldier of the Revolutionary war, fight in)' in the defense of the same principles for which his ancestor was whipped in Boston. After the close of the war, he continued to reside in New Jersey, where he diet! in Monmouth County. He lived and died in the fellowship of the same Church iu which his predecessors suffered, and led a quiet and peaceable life, and handed over to his children the heritage of a good name and the principles of a pure and tried faith. These were three sons and a daughter, viz. Jonathan. Elisha, John and Mary, who became the wife of Mr. Hendrick Longstreet. These all lived and died jn the same faith in Monmouth Co., N. J. Elislui, Mr. Holmes’ father, was three- times married, and raised eight children, viz., Mrs. Eleanor (Christopher) Probasco, John S., Mary J., Ann, Jonathan I., Henry L., Mrs. Catharine (Daniel I.) Schenck, and Obadiah. Mr. Holmes’ mother was formerly Miss Jane Van Dorn. He was raised up to the estate of manhood in his native State, and was also there married to Miss Marv E. Leming. In the Spring of 1861 he came to this County. In 1863 lie bought a forty acre tract of land, a part of his present farm in Township 5-6, paying for it $25 per acre. He put the entire tract in wheat the fall of the same year, and realized from the crop a sum sufficient to cover the purchase-price of the land and all the expenses of improvements. This is a good comment on the wheat-producing Qualities of the soil of this County. He has since purchased additional lands, until now his possessions include something over five hundred acres, thus ranking with the large farmers of his County. Mr. Holmes is the only one of his family who has come out to the West, as it was once termed. The others of his fainilv who are living still reside in the East, and are all connected with the same Church in which their forefathers walked before them. Mrs. Holmes' family are also early settlers of this country. Her greatgrandfather, Thos. Leming, was an old Continental soldier, and’ spent the latter part ot his life at least in Monmouth Co., N. J. He raised a family of seven children, four sons and three daughter*. One of these sons, Ezekiel, was her grandfather. He was twice married. His second wife was a Miss Rebecca v? i* i wife, formerly Miss Catharine Shepherd, was born Garrett, Airs. Holmes father, now a citizen of this County. His natal dav was .Mav 9th, 180o, Monmouth Co., Jersey State. He there married Miss Huldali Maine* by whom he had two children. Henry, the son, marrried Miss Elizabeth Woolev, came to this County in 1858, and died here about two vears afterwards. Mr. U-ming came out to this Slate in 1859, and settled where Mr. Holmes now resides. On leaving New Jersey, he disposed of a small larm, troni which he realized sufficient means to secure one hundred and sixty acres, where he now lives. He is spending the evening of life in peace and comfort, and he and us aged companion walk hand in hand down the declivity of time toward the mystic stream that divides the land of promise from the wilderness of mortal existence; and though its earthlv margin mav be sterile and damp, the bright flowers of immortality fringe it's other shores’ and ie sweet music of Paradise sounds across the vasty deep, and echoes glad anthems of promised deliverance. They have both for manv vears been faithful SUrc;,V in whiSh eoiumimion their forefathers have niru.... ,w tjie recollections of their JAMES J. BORDERS, ESQ. ele“«nl8 of SUCK'S!, are about the same in any branch of business, “ “aln.|y of * well-directed determination wielded in connection iihvjiv* KMwii* a“d judicious economy. True a certain amount of judgment is nSr?? ,1 Y ,h“ ?«“% is possessed in a sufficient degree by almost rnn L to become at least independent livers. The real rea- fan IT many men jail m attaining a competency in point of wealth is n, Jl t ^m LiSTl^irm -• a. W '' £isgg Douglasdale Farm. Property of ANDREW DOUGLAS, Sec.5. Tp. 7. R. 6. Randolph Co. Illloaned at ten per cent,, would amount of itself within twenty years to within a fraction of $100.00 interest compounded. Let the same young man in each of the following years, say up to the age of forty, add to the original capital only §25 per year, and these amounts compounded annually would roll up into a capital alnuxst astonishing to the unthinking, an amount that would be ample to all the necessities of :i modest and virtuous old age. In this we have only spoken of one form of investment. There are various other ways in this young and rapidly growing country of investing means, so that really a larger increase may be realized on investments than in putting money into a savings hank, or in ioaning out and compounding its interest; and the great reason why so many of our young men struggle along in very moderate circumstances is that they do not save their money, hut spend it iu fast living: while those who have learned the true wisdom of this life, instead of squandering their funds, appropriate them to interest-bearing purposes. If our education is deficient in any one single thing to-day, more than in another, the particular defect is in a failure upon the part of parents and teachers to instil into the minds of the rising generation the principles and methods of domestic economy. Many confound economy with stinginess, and vainly suppose that in spending money | lavishly, ami with no well-defined laudable purpose in view, that they are acting genteelly and magnanimously. Nothing can be farther from the truth than this. The young man who has but little regard for his own means will soon become liberal and untrustworthy with that of others, and will soon descend from his vaunted liberal position, and become a veritable spendthrift, and when this point is once reached, profligacy and crime are generally not far distant. If one is not faithful to himself, it is not reasonable to suppose that he will long continue faithful iu trust to others. It is most certainly one of the first duties of life to make a judicious disposal of the means which we are enabled to earn bv either the exercise of the mind or of the muscles in their control of the objects of the physical world around us, and we can cam-on a greater and a more extended liberality in ca«es where it is needed by a practice, in connection with it, of the most rigid economy. The sons of the old pioneer settlers of this State uot only learned these lessons from tin- lip-* of their honored sire;*, but also from the very character of their surroundings. Of the modem luxuries of life, they were totally ignorant. Money was scarce, and what they could raise to sell no more than procured the most absolute necessaries, and parents ami children well knew what it was to do without certain conveniences, and at times to be sadly cratn|>ed by want. Such were the surroundings of Mr. Borders, during his youthful years, ami under such circumstances he received his firet practical lessons of life, which have in after years borne him the fruits of success and wealth. He was bom July second, 1818, while Illinois was yet unadmitted into the Federal Union, and has spent the whole of his life in Randolph, his native County. In his boyhood his time was employed in working on the farm in spring and summer, and improving such chances after schooling as the sparsely settled condition of the country a I that day permitted. His first teacher was Mr. John Armor, then engaged" in teaching a term near Sparta, a town which he afterwards laid off under the name of Columbus. Mr. Armor was one of the first settlers of that part of the County, and materially assisted in giving to it its first impetus by way of settlement and improvements. When Mr. Borders reached the age of manhood, lie had a fine physical constitution, was strongly attached to his parents, and did not go oil’ in a tangent, like many young men, to enjoy legal and new-found liberties, but stayed at home, assisted in the management of the estate, which by that time had become quite large, and aided in various ways to make easy the burdens of life for his parents, that they might enjov in quiet the fruits of their many years of toil. To the subject of marriage lie gave the attention of the mature faculties of an experienced mind, not marrying till near the age of thirty-five. The object of his choice, Miss Marv A. Richie, was an old acquaintance, raised within his own immediate neighborhood, and whom he had intimately known from her earliest girlhood. This marriage has been not only abundantly blessed with all those family amenities and filial reverences necessary to Unhappiness and usefulness of a household, but with a large degree of success in the accumulation of property. The nuptials were celebrated Feb. 22d, 18o I, at the house of the brides parents, William and Sarah Richie, old and highly respected citizens of this County. On reaching manhood, Mr. Borders' father deeded him one hundred and sixty acres of laud, which he immediately improved, and then purchased an additional eightv-acre tract. This body of land he afterwards sold for SI,000, which lie invested in real estate elsewhere, including an eighty where he now lives, and which, on account of its fine location, he then determined some day to make the nucleus of his home. This site lies within a half a mile of the northern line of the County in Township 4—6, and was chosen fora homestead on account, of its richness of soil, fine drainage and beautiful prospect. When the proprietor commenced the work of improvement here, there was not a dwelling-house of any kind within sight, and the wild prairie grass waved in rich abundance, as high in places as a man’s head when traveling horseback. It is now all under fence and improved, and everywhere fine family mansions greet the eye where once rolled before the breeze a rich sea of wil'd verdure. This is certainly one of the best, as well as one of the most beautiful sections of the County and country that the writer has vet seen. When Mr. Borders and his wife commenced housekeeping, they determined to adopt as a ride, “ never to allow their expenditures to exceed their incomes;*’ and it was but a few years under the operations of this principle, till their ' — a-----id in real estate; s have increased, has always transacted business, viz., rather than contend with the contentious, either to concede or give away an inconsiderable amount. In the spring of 1S74, in company with Mr. John C. Boyle, he bought out the private bank of S. P. Smith, in Sparta. They have enlarged the business, built a new and commodious banking house within this city—the only one in it—and are now doing a large business. This is quite an item to this^section of the country, not onlv being a secure place to leave deposits, but also it forms a commercial centre for tin- many large farmers in this part of Randolph County. This sketch would hardly be complete, without mentioning in this connection, some reminiscences ot' Mr. Borders’ father, Major Andrew, once one of the most prominent citizens of this County, lie was born in South Carolina, March 12th. 1793. When quite young, his parents moved to Georgia, where he was raised to manhood, and where he was married to Miss Martha Clark. Iu 1816. he arrived, with his small family, within the Territory of Illinois, and made a settlement near where Sparta now stands, and on the place originally occupied, he continued to live, till the day of his death, Jan. 1st, 186-1. He raised three sons and six daughters—six survivors; and all, with the exception of M. W., a citizen of Marissa, St. Clair County, are residents of this County. Their names are as follows: James J., Mrs. Sarah E. Mcllwain, Mrs. Rachel Burns, Mrs. Martha Allen, and Mrs. Minerva Lott. They are all well-to-do in life, and are well known as honorable and upright citizens. Mr. Borders was, in his day, the most successful and influential farmer and trader of his County, and he had, as a result of his foresight aud industry, accumulated a property up to the time of his death, which was at that time, valued at about •'*'100,000. This was a grand achievement for that day, and especially remarkable, when it is taken into consideration, that when he arrived in Illinois and settled down upon a claim of raw wild land, he had, after paying the expenses of his trip hither, only remaining in money, one silver fifiy-cent piece. Me had some property iu the way of household furniture and teams, but no money. He began on a claim which he entered as soon as the lands market, and made his first money here in farming. early and deep interest in the settlement and devclo] advanced money on nearly all occasions to settlers, I terest, according to the circumstances of the borro' lil>cnil with his money, and easy in his terms, he i And though the titles of the landi section of the State, wa there never occurred a cn Indeed, the people came his ha of the County, and Doth with and without i liver, and, although he was lever lost but little in this f the first settlers of this after the i which any one was wronged out of a farthing, egard their lands us safe to them with the titles in Jus name, as in their own, and it is but just to the memory of the noble dead, to add, that by his indulgence and kindly aid, more poor people were helped to secure homes for themselves and children, than through the instrumentality of any other one man of Haudolph County, and, it is pleasant to record, that in those days, men considered a verbal promise as sacred as a written obligation, and that no one was countenanced who seized on an occasion to close out liis neighbor, simply because he had the legal right to do it. Even at the time of his death, Mr. Borders held the titles of many people’s lands in bis own name, and we add, that his executor, the son, whose name stands at the head of this history, both on his own account, and in the spirit and at the request of his honored parent, gave time and chance, until every title was made good to its rightful owner. Mr. Borders was a man of great force of character, strong physical mould, and capable of a great amount of l>odily endurance. lie was very sympathetic, aud ever had an ear to listen to the story of the poor and the unfortunate. He dearly loved his wife and family, and was by them warmly loved iu return. He was always true to his friends and the cause of the truth, and never flinched from a painful responsibility, when it was really necessary. As a citizen, he was moral ami upright, as a friend, sincere and frank, and as a companion, social and candid. He died honored and lamented by a large circle of friends and amid the affection of his children. His wife, a noble, energetic, Christian lady, preceded her husband to the grave some three years. She proved, through her whole life, an amiable, upright and faithful woman in every relation she assumed, and did her dutv well, before going to her reward. When Major Borders arrived in this County, he brought with him four slaves. He treated them with humanity and kindness, and, unlike some others, he did not sell them South. It must be remembered, that while Illinois was a Territory, slavery was tolerated, and at the adoption of its Constitution in 1818, former slaves were indentured, and their children were born in a State of freedom. Many took the advantage of selling their slaves South, and converted the proceeds of their sale into real estate. This the Major refused to do, but kept his former servants around him, that they might not only enjoy their freedom, but that he might give them the benefit of his own counsel and oversight, until they either left his supervision of their own accord, or died in the course of nature. JOHN R. McFIE, ESQ. Mu. Me Fir’s parents w mother, whose maiden country of their nativity, country where they arrive touched first at Chicago, both born in Scotland. His father, John, aud his lie was Flizabeth Borland, were married in the id had seven children before embarking for this in 184f>. They came by way of the Lakes, and <1 then made their way to southern Illinois, and only enough enough to mane i the embrace of i that i aud farm after farm have been added, until they amply supply their own needs the balance of their days, but each of their children independent after their parents sleep ii death. We notice that Mr. Borders is pursuing a course with his uently judicious. I le is learning them to work, thus not only making them self-supporting within themselves, should occasion require it, but also impressing early ujxui their minds the important truth, that mnnwil labor is honorable, a lesson worthy the requisite amount of physical discipline required to learn it in the way of muscular exercise, to say nothing of the attainment of a healthy, firm, physical constitution. There is no denying the fact that a majority of the great men of the nation are those who have come up from the ranks of the common laborer. The reason is palpable: idleness in youth saps the very foundations of true manhood, not only by weakening the faculties, but by throwing around the sensitive, young and impressible, a cordon of influences which inevitably drag them down through the various grades of fashionable follies into the whirlpools of crimes and wickedness. It is an old saving, that “ the idle head is the devil’s workshop,” and the adage though a littfe uncouth is strictly true. If parents would see their children occupy high, honorable and virtuous positions in after life, they must not neglect to take them through the preliminaries, and teach them not only the lessons, but the art, of some legitimate business involving a certain amount of manual lals.>r. The teinniation, true, is great, when the parents have accumulated wealth, to screen tiieir offspring from the hardships and toils through which they | themselves have passed; but they should allow the weightier consideration of their children’s after-welfare to prevail, remembering that “ tIn-re is no excellent*' without great labor." Farmers’ sons may seem a little uncouth in certain circles of society ; there may for the time being be dust ou his boots and hay seed on his hat; but there is a time in the future when their strong superior mental strength, - 1 1—1 -1 -,:i- —-1-------—11 id their hardy bodilv endurance will enable thei i of life to easily pass by the luxurious and enervated voluptuary, and stand on the heights of science while others have not Inul the fortitude and strength to scale the hill of knowledge. Mr. Borders has never sought political or official honors, confining himself to farming and the real estate business, and we believe, in fact, has never held but one office, viz., that of Justice of the Peace, which he accepted more to accommodate his neighbors than through any other consideration. He was elected to this otlice iu 18o7, ami held it four consecutive terms, or sixteen years, and during this time never had but one appeal taken from bis docket, and in this ease the judgment was sustained in the court above. While acting as a magistrate, he used his utmost influence to keep his neighbors out of litigation among themselves, and many are the instances in which the contending parties through his mediation threw down their legal bludgeons, and settled their differences iu the spirit of neighborly concession and compromise. His advice always was in accordance with the principle upon which he himself settled in Washington County. After a res id civ they came to this County and located near Coulterville. Mr. McFie received in Scotland a finished education, and followed teaching several years before coming to this country, and also a number of yearn after becoming a citizen of Illinois. He died at his residence near Coulterville, August 7th, 1862, after a lingering sickness of four years. He was a devout member of the Reformed Presbyterian Church. He possessed fine natural abilities, and bore an untarnished reputation. His last long sickness made a heavy drain on the small amount of means he had accumulated, and his family were left in straitened circumstances. Two children were added to the family circle after coming to this country, viz: William and the subject of this sketch. The mother and two children, John R. and Elizal>eth, relict of Francis Selfridge, are residents of Coulterville. William, the only other surviving member, lives at present in Colorado. Both these sons served in the Union army during the late rebellion of the Southern States. William volunteered into the service in 1861, and was in the army three years. John enlisted in 18(54, and served till the close I of the war. He volunteered into the 30th Illinois Infantry, Co. E, and was finally made regimental P. M. He was with General Sherman in his cele- j brated march lo the sea, from Kenesaw mountains to the Atlantic. Mr. McFie’s early inclinations led him to adopt the law a3 a profession, and he commenced a course of legal reading at the age of twenty-two, under J. B. Jones, Esq., of Sparta, now of St. Louis, l ie completed his studies with this gentleman, and was duly admitted to the bar in April, 1870. He at once established a practice in Coulterville, where he has resided ever since, and is now regarded by his friends as a rising man, both at the bar and in |>olitics. i Mr. McFie is self-made. When he commenced the Study of the law he bad to borrow money to defray the incidental expenses, board, etc. He has already amassed a nice property, and is just entering, we have no doubt, on a course of prosperity. We noticed that he was the strongest candidate, with one exception, for the Slate legislature in the Republican convention of 1874 for the nomination of a minority candidate. ANTHONY STEELE. Mr. Steele is one of the very few old citizens still living, who was born in this County when Illinois was a territory. His natal day was September 20th, 1815, four years before the State was admitted into the Federal Union, and his birth-place was Section sixteen, at the old homestead of his father, near the site of Stcelville, a town named in memory of the family. He grew up to manhood in this community, and had very few educational advantages, but supplied early deficiency bv a diligent use of such books as could be procured at that day. Often in his boyhood days has he gathered bark from fences and old logs with which to make a light to guide his reading at nights; and on Sundays, and at such times as not employed in labor ou the farm, he might always have been found poring over the contents of some useful and instruc- tive book. When he reached the age of manhood lie had a mind well stored with valuable information, wrote a beautiful hand-writing, and he was elected to the office of Constable, being about the only vonng man of his settlement well qualified for the dut ies of this office. He held this position some thirteen years in succession, as long as he could be prevailed on to accept it. He remained at home with his parents, employed in his official duties and in conducting his father's farm up to the time or his marriage to Miss Catharine McMurdoe in 1843. In 1814 he located on his present farm, in Township o-o, then a raw tract of land where the prairie grass waved in wild luxuriance as high as the head of the horseman wlio traversed it. Here he has since lived, improved anti prospered. This farm now embraces something over 100 acres, and is a choice location, good drainage, water and soil. He owns another farm near Georgetown or Stcelville, and various other tracts, making his lauded possessions in all a fraction over 1,600 acres. He has devoted his lime principally to farming, though he has done considerable in the live stock trade, especially in young cattle. In 18lo death entered his household and carried to the grave his beloved wife. She was the daughter of James McMurdoe, one of the old and highly respected settlers of this County, and who is yet living near the city of Sparta. She was an excellent wife, a true lady, and left behind her as the pledge of her plighted love one son, now a young man of fine business qualities, and employed as Mail agent on the St. Louis and Cairo Railroad. Mr. Steele’s second and present wife was Miss Nancy Thompson, daughter of Samuel G. Thompson, a well-known gentleman who served this County a number of years as its official surveyor. By this lady he has had seven children-five living, viz: Mrs. Mary A.. (William J.) Crawford, of Coulterville, Miss Emily J., Abner, Miss Carrie and Miss Idella. Two died in infancy, viz : Martha and Flizabeth. Mr. Steele has occupied a prominent and leading position among the people without striving for it, ever since he reached his legal majority. He has never sought office, but at the solicitation of his many friends he has accepted a number of positions, simply because the requirements of the community seemed to demand it. For the last thirty years he has been either school trustee, treasurer or director. In 1858 he was elected to the office of Sheriff, aud served the County in this capacity one term, and made for the people an excellent and careful officer. He was the nominee on the Independent ticket, and beat the regular Democratic nominee by a handsome majority. During the lato civil war he was assistant enrolling officer for the County, and in 1870 lie received the appointment of Census Commissioner, and associated with himself in this work, Mr. John Myers, of Red Bud. In the various positions which he has filled he has always proven himself honest, capable and efficient, and not a breath of suspicion has ever been blown against his name, either in public or private life. Though now about sixty years old, he is hale and hearty, has a clear mind, and nerves as steady as lead, and there are very few, if any, of our very fine penmen who can write so beautiful and legible a hand. Mr. Steele’s ancestors were early and prominent actors, not only in connection with the affairs of this County, but in the events connected with the history of the State aud the nation itself. His grandfather, Captain John Steele, was in thcold Continental army anil commanded a company under the immediate command of General George Washington himself. He was commissioned to the captaincy by Governor Rutledge, of Virginia, and was in all the principal battles of the revolutionary war. from Bunker Hill to York town, and distinguished himself on many occasions for his bravery and gallant bearing. After the close of the war he went to Tennessee, staid several years near Knoxville, then lived a short time near Nashville, and finally arrived in this County with his family in 1798. He hail expected to go on to Missouri, but not liking the system and influences of human slavery he determined to remain in Randolph County. He was an uncompromising opponent of slavery in all its social aspects, and not only fought for the principles of free government and personal liberty, but made a practical application of them to all men. Five of his sons, George, Archibald, (the father of our subject,) James, John and Thomas, were soldiers in the war of 1812, were early rangers against the Indians in this State, and cast just five votes for Illinois to become a free State at the adoption of its constitution in 1818. Archibald, Mr. Steele’s father, was born in Tennessee, near Knoxville, was there raised to manhood, and came with his father and family to this County in 1798. After remaining a short time near Kaskaskia he came with the family and settled near where Georgetown was afterwards laid olf, about the beginning of the present century, and where lie assisted in building a fort for the protection of the small settlements against the Indians. He afterward married Miss Elisabeth Flack, daughter of John Flack, the second white settler of Perry County, his predecessor being a Mr. Buckoo Cox. By this wife he raised a family of eleven children. There were six sons, who "all live in this County, with the exception of Jefferson, who is dead. Their nanus are Anthony, Riland, Merritt, Jasper and Lindsav. The last mentioned was a soldier in the Union army during the late rebellion. Three daughters are yet surviving and reside in the County, viz: Mrs. Lucinda llill, Mrs. Minerva Kocn, and Mrs. Harriett McMurdoe, and three are dead, viz: Flizabeth, Mrs. The Steele family came to this country from Ireland, though they date their history back to Scotland, among those who were there persecuted for conscience’ sake. At the beginning of the settlement ami colonization of this country, they turned their attention to America, and here found an asylum securing religious and political privileges not to be enjoyed in the old world. It cannot now be definitely determined at. what precise* time they arrived here, but it must have been, from known facts, very early. They have always been a patriotic, moral and liberty-loving people, ami as fur back as information reaches, have been marshalled against the system of slavery. To an extent. Mr. Steele has walked in the traditional footprints of his fathers, and has been one of the strong pillars in support of the Union and the principles of freedom within his County during the dark days of the rebellion. Originally be was a Whig,and when this party dissolved, he went with the Free Soilers and finally with the Republicans. He has, we believe, Iwjen one of the delegates of this County to all the State conventions of this latter party since it has had an existence.^ He was largely instrumental in the nomination of that tine statesman ot Illinois, Governor Yates, and gave his undivided influence toward his election. Mr. Steele has raised up a family in the highest respectability, and brought up also a number of orphaned children, and those who may call ai his home will find in him and his estimable ladv true specimens of old-taslitoned generosity and hospitality of by-gone times.’ JAMES FARNAN, M. D. Dk. Faunan’s ancestry runs back in its history to Ireland. There his people were known and respected as one of the old families of the Emerald isle. His grandtather, James Farnan, lived and died in the County of Westmeath where his ancestors had lived and died before him. There also, John, the Doctors father, was born, raised and married to Miss Annie Beatagh. I here they resided, and had a familv of seven children, four sons and three daughters, before they came to ibis country, where they arrived about 1838, and m this County, after which another daughter was added to the family circle. The Doctor’s mother died in this County, and his lather is still living, and is now a resident of Butte Countv, California, where also resides Joseph his second son. The youngest, Mrs. Nellie Schuyler, lives in L<>lorado, and Mrs. Margaret I l ineman has for the last twenty years made her home in fct. Louis, where another sister, Mr-. Bridget M. Leavv, died a short time ago. Annie, the youngest but one, died in this County.' Patrick died when quite young, and John is living in the citv of New Orleans. One ot Mr. f arnan s uncles, Dr. Joseph Farnan, preceded his brother to this country, arriving in this County about 1830. He had studied medicine in the old conn r\ , ant when he settled here he soon built up a large practice, and was i an<1 .^e“t!f,c physicians of Southern I llinois. After h« »eukmcnl here In- .named Mm Mary A. Miller, bv whom He robed quite a laree family, some ot whom yet reside in the Countv. lie is still remcm->L'l *1 ,n.‘ul.v ,ul our a<-ttlerx as a gentleman whose many Christian qualities and professional merits entitled him to their warmest affection and veneration.BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF CITIZENS OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ILLINOIS. iny friends and a very large circle of acquaintances lie died here among hisn in 1861. f, Vm ‘J1' s"l,jcct«r »"* "ketch, is the only one left of his immediate family in the County. He was born in Ireland, Navau, County of Meath Januarv18th, 1830, and washout eight yean, of age when his parent* arrived here. W hen fourteen he left home, and spent about three years on the Irish sea*, aboard of a man-of-war. He returned home in 1840 and went to Cati-lornia. lie returned again to this County in the winter of 1851 and 1852, attended medical lectures at the St. Louis .Medical College, and there graduated m his profeaflioninthe spring of 18-53. He located in thecity of Sparta, where he has s.,ico resided, employed in the duties of his practice. On the breaking out ot the late civil war, he entered the limtcd States service a-* captain of a company of the Fifth Illinois Cavalry. He was afterwards promo cd to the office ol Major of Ins regiment, served till the close of the war. havinz experienced a good deal of active and hard service, having b *en with General Grant at Vicksburg, and afterwards with McPherson, Logan and Sherman. He has been tw—-------1 " * married. His first wife — —- •***•;'1,11,1 wue was ^Hss Harriet McDill, daughter of David McDill, I>. D., formerly of this county, and later of Bulled County Ohio. This marriage was celebrated on December 27th, 1853, and this lady died rebruary 22d, 1872. His second and present wife was formerly Miss Henrietta Gass, daughter of John Gais, of St. Louis. There were five children, the fruits of the lirst marriage, viz : Lydia, (died) Ilarrv Annie, Frank and David. ’ ; daniel McIntyre. Mr. McIntyre, as many others of his township, is a Scotchman by birth. In company with his father, John McIntyre, lie arrived in this Countv in 1839. They were lollowed the ensuing year by the remainder of the familv. A selection was made, ami a home founded within the limits of Township 4-6 near where Mr. McIntyre now live*. He was twelve years old when he first reached Randolph County, and he remained with his parents on the farm till about twenty-three years old, at which time he was married to Miss Elizabeth Ed-m is ton, daughter of John Edmiston, an old settler of this Countv, from Tennessee. Immediately after his marriage lie began to farm as a renter, and at ** end of two years he borrowed money and bought a forty acre tract, now a ■ and commenced the work l a small scale, but did settled, and was there married to Miss Janette McKelvey, daughter of Charles and Mary : Hunter) McKelvey, also of South Carolina, and old settlers of this County. After bis marriage Mr. Munford became a citizen of Township 4-5 in which he had previously bought land, about two miles west of the present nourishing little town of Coulterville, where he still owns a farm and on which he resided till the fall of 1S74, at which time he moved to tills town. He has spent his life as a farmer, a business to which lie was raised. At present he is an acting Justice of the Peace, and is serving his fourth | term in this office. He has never sought office, but iu a few instances has at the solicitation of friends accepted positions of trust. His chances of an education when young were of the most meager character, there being then no such system as that of the present common schools of the j State. Altogether lie did not, during his minority, get an attendance at such ' schools as were then in use, of more than two years’ time. He has, however, in after life made good to a large extent, early deficiencies, by an industrious perusal of books, being naturally a lover of literature. He was brought up under tin- inlluence of the old Covenanter Presbyterian Church, now known as that of the Reformed Presbyterian, with which hoearly j became connected, and in which he rose to the position of ruling elder. At a j later period he became identified with the United Presbyterians, and has for a j i number of years filled a similar position in litis denomination. Though de- ' j prived of literary privileges, during his youth, he was nevertheless highly j favored with a religions education, which in his case was strengthened by the j pious example of devout parents, who were members of the same chureh’wilh which he lnmsclt was early related, and in which his father also filled the posi- I I tion of ruling elder. Mr. Munford and lady have given their family both good literary and re- 1 ligious opportunities, and have bequeathed them along with a nice property, i a bright example of Christian principles, and domestic peace and purity of j social intercourse and deportment Their two only surviving children, James R. and Miss Lydia L. are both consistent members of the United Presbyterian Church, and the former is married and settled on the farm formerly occupied j / his parents. Mr. Munford1 by his parents. ■■PMfisTaiH country immediately after the last eral difierent teams. ;i live slock by buying young n to the settlers as their rein of the hauling and break-c-teams, which were, always part of his large farm, on which he of improvement. For several years he farmed extensive business in breaking prairie, running at While iu this business he began his first trading i Kittle, breaking them to the yoke, and selling the quircmeiits demanded. Formerly the principal p ing in this country was performed by means of o in good demand. In this business Mr. McIntyre made his first money and ... this business he also took his first lessons as a trader, in which capacity he afterwards became quite prominent in his part of the County. At a later period in his history lie enlarged his farming facilities, purchased additional lands and put up an oil press for the utilization of the Castor bean market, which is yet in operation, and which has been quite a benefit to the people of this community. In his business transactions, Mr. McIntyre has regarded the wants of the poorer class of bis immediate neighborhood, as’much and often even more than his own immediate interests, and many are the instances in which he has paid wages to the newly when there was really no need of the labor performed. We wish that it could be said of every citizen, what can be truthfully recorded of Mr. McIntyre, viz.: that he has been a blessing to his neighborhood. In the home place he has about 280 acres. It is well stocked and improved, and he owns about as much more in other parts of the County. Mr. McIntyre's father, as already stated, settled in Township 4-6, on his arrival in this County. He opened a farm on which he lived till removed from this sphere of existence by death. Feb. 3d, 1865. He became a member of the Presbyterian Church in Scotland, and was a faithful follower of the Saviour all his life. He carried the principles of Christianity into all his business transactions, and with the aid of his estimable Christian companion succeeded in rearing up a family who have followed the examples set for them by their pious ancestors, and who have all bccome useful citizens and faithful members of the church. They raised four children, all born in the old country. Two of the brothel’s, John and Thomas, reside in Township 4-6. Daniel resides in Township 4-5, and the only sister, the wife of Alexander Thompson, died in Perry County some twenty-nine years ago. The mother of these is still living on the old homestead of her husband, now far advanced in life (78), and is waiting to cross over the mystic stream to join the dear dead gone before. The McIntyre family date their history far back in Scotland. They with all those of that nation whose name begin its orthography with “ Me,” belonged to the Highland Clans. They early embraced the religious ideas of the Reformers of the 16th century, and their descendants have generally if not invariably walked in the ecclesiastical footsteps of their fathers. DANIEL GERLACH. A MONO the several countries which have contributed to the population of this country, Germany stands second to none, and our citizens derived from this source are among the most thrifty, loyal and patriotic. To that class of native-born Americans disposed to sneer at foreign birth we have to say that those who have made tliis their home by adoption, are citizens by choice and not by accident. They are warmly attached to our institutions, and if our ship of State ever goes down on the rocks of social and sectional prejudice they will be the last to desert her decks, as was evidenced during our late civil war when thousands of our German population rallied to the national standards and poured out their blood in sacrifice to Federal Unity, while thousands of native-born Americans were striving to trample under foot the Starry Hag of united freedom, and to pull into pieces the government planned and planted by our forefathers at the expense of all save honor, that was near and dear in life. Among those who have left their native soil, all the dear associations ol family and home, in order to live under a Republican form of government, stands the name of Mr. Gerlach. He was born September 9th, 1835, in Bavaria, Germanv. In the spring of 1853, he left behind him father, mother, brothers, and sisters, and native land. He set sail lor the United States, thus gratifying a long cherished wish, nursed up from early boyhood. He came by way of New Orleans and up the Mississippi River, and after stopping a short time with relatives at- Carondelet, Mo., he came on to Waterloo, Monroe County, and there commenced to work at his trade, that ot black-smithing. He remained there three years, and then settled where he now resides, in Township 5-6. He immediately went to work at his trade, and improving with that peculiar zeal common to his people, and like them he has prospered. He now owns a farm of 110 acre*, also a seven acre lot adjoining on which stands his residence and shops. In the fall ot 1856, October 28th, he was joined in marriage to Miss Annie C. Banm, of Monroe County, daughter of Jno. and Julia (Gerlach) Baum, old settlers from Germany in this section of the State. Mr. Baum was formerly a well-to-do farmer of that County when he died, and where his widow yet resides. Mr. Gerlach has an interesting family of children, and has only lost one, the eighth, by death. He is well-circumstanced, and we presume that he may be regarded as a fixture within his community. Mr. Gerlach is the only one of his family who has come to America. Ills father, Daniel, and his mother, formerly .Miss Catherine Berg, still live in Bavaria with their other children. DAVID MUNFORD, Esq. Mr. Ml sfori) was born in South Carolina December 18th, 1815, and came with his parents to this County in December, 1819. The family located and entered linde in Township 5-5. Here Mr. Munford'* father died m the win-ter of 1812 IIis wife, Mr. Munford's mother, formerly Miss Mary Uttlicurt, daughter of David Cathcart, a native of Ireland and an early settler of lown-ship 4-5, is yet living, now in her S7th year, and resides with her son, William, a leading farmer of this section of the County. Mr. Munford was raised to manhood in the township where his parents lirst both natives of Ireland. They came to this —jmpt made by their native Isle for independence, and but a short time after we had obtained ours in this country. He came alone direct to South Carolina, and she in company with her parents came to the same State, a short time afterwards, by way of Pennsylvania. They became acquainted and were married in the Palmetto State. He was however twice married. By his lirst wife, formerly Miss Janette McMillan, he bad six children—all dead save two; Mrs. Mary’Patterson of Oregon and Matthew of Perry County. Robert died of cholera in Cincinnati in 1832, where he was engaged in teaching at the lime. The eldest son, John, died about 1863, in Indiana, He sent four sons into the Union Army during the late civil war. Margaret, the wife of Alexander McKelvey, died in South Carolina, and Janette, the wife of William McDill, died in this County some ten or twelve years ago. There were two children of the second marriage, viz., the subject of this sketch and William, also a resident of this County. | The Munford family were among the early Scotch families who embraced I the sentiments and doctrines as expounded by the religious reformers of the 1 sixteenth century. With others they were finally driven by persecution for conscience’ sake into the northern part of Ireland, and from thence made their way to the United States of America. JOHN DICKEY, Esq. j The Dickey family are originally from Ireland. Mr. Dickey’s grandfather, Robert U., and three of his brothers, John, George and David", were old con- I linental soldiers during the American Revolution. Robert spent the principal part of his life in Pennsylvania but died in the western part of Virginia j about 1836. He raised seven children, four sons and three daughters. John, j Mr. Dickey’s father, was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and there married Miss Jane Humphrey, the daughter of Kobert Humphrey, another old I Continental soldier. He became the lather of four children, Martha, Jane, Ann and John. He was a soldier of the war of 1812, and lived and died in 1 the Key Stone stale. Mr. Dickey, his only son, was born in the same County 1 as his father, March 24th, 1S03. He was married while a citizen of his native state to Miss Jane Treusdall of Virginia, and the daughter of John Treusdall, another old soldier of the war of 1812. When about 35 years old Mr. Dickey moved to Logan County, Ohio, remained there some fifteen years, and then came on to Randolph County, Illinois. He followed farm- j ing till about twoyears ago, when he moved to Sparta in order to better accommodate himself with an office, having been about that time elected as one of , the two precinct Justices of the Peace. His first presidential vote was cast for General Jackson at the time he ran for the second term. After this lie j supported the Whig ticket while that party had an existence. When the J Republican party came into being he connected himself with its interests, and I has been ever faithful to its principles and regular nominees. He has raised a family of five respectable children, viz.: Mrs. Sarah I. {Ja. S.), Elliott, I Janies A., William, Joseph N., Milton W., and all living in this County, excepting James, who resides in Logan County, Ohio. As an officer Mr. | Dickey is proving himself capable and punctual. He has had an experience which if written up in detail, would make a volume, and through his past JOHN FLEMMING. Among the several countries which have contributed from time to time to our population, Scotland stands conspicuous. From her chores we have received an industrious, moral, patrio’-ic and stable element. That country stands prominent among the nations for its Christianity, morals, and the superior intelligence of its people. Its perennial grandeur, lofty mountains, beautiful plains, lovely lakes and picturesque sceuerv, constituted a fit amphitheatre for the severe struggles and moral achievements secured there after the dawn of the Religious Reformation of the 16th century, and stereotyped the great religious truths so thoroughly learned upon the minds of her impressible people. Immediately after securing religion, the Scots naturally and logically looked towards political freedom, which they secured only to such an extent, as to sharpen their desires for just such liberty, as is enjoyed by the people of this country, and it is but natural, that as soon as our system of government was perfected, that a Scotch immigration should at once’set in, and that too of the best society of that country. All along, from the times of the old colonies up to the times of the present date, we have been receiving new accessions from that source, and to-day, our common country can boast of its Scotch citizenship as being one of its most law-abiding, patriotic elements. This State likely has shared as liberally as any other, in the distribution of the emigration from Scotland, and no County in the State, comes in for a larger share than Randolph; none within its limits have made, within the same time, a better impress, in the way of material, and social developments, as is witnessed by the many fine farms, residences and school-houses and churches which they have caused to be opened and erected within the last thirty years. The first immigrants arrived in this County, about 1830.. Mr. Flemming, his father and family, came in 1840. The family, all told, at that time, embraced, the father, James, the mother, formerly Miss Elizabeth Patten, three sons and two daughters, viz.': William, Christina, who afterwards married AmosTigert, James, John and Elizabeth, who subsequently became Mrs. Harvey Conat. Two of these, Janies ami Christina, afterwards died in this County, after having each resided in it a number of years. The others are all citizens of it yet, and are well circumstanced, honorable and upright members of society. Mr. Flemming’s father, when he came to this County, bought a farm of some 200 acres, near the old town of Randolph, and in 1841, the farm on which his son John, our subject, now resides, and he owned both these at the time of his death, in 1857. lie was a man of considerable wealth in the old country, and was, for a number of years, a large lime merchant, near Glasgow. He did an extensive business there, and did not come to the United States in order to better hi* condition financially, but simply on account of his strong attachment to republican principles, and his love of popular government. He was one of those independent thinkers, who accepted no man s conclusions, without an examination by himself of Ihe premises from which they were professed to be drawn. He was as firm as the hills in his principles, and allowed nothing to come between his own conceptions of truth and the evidence in the case pending for judgment. He lived and died in the fellowship of the Presbyterian Church, also his wife, who departed this life in 1865. She was born in Mavis Bank, near Paisley, Ranfrewshirc, Scotland. In early life she consecrated herself to the Saviour, and ever after, lived a model Christian, proved herself a noble mother and faithful wife, and many are the lessons of instruction and wisdom still remembered by her surviving children, that she early dropped into their young minds, to bring forth the fruit in after years, of gathering her entire family into the folds of tlie Church. that is spotless aud a conscience ROBERT MATIIEWS. Mb. Mathews was born in Ireland, May 5th, 1814, and resided i his r tive country till 1836, when, attracted by the superior advantages and liberal institutions of this country, he left his home for America. He landed in New York City in the spring of the same year. He spent about two years near the City of Philadelphia, aud then continued his journey to Randolph County, where he arrived, May 16th, 1838. Up lo the spring of 1840, he was variously employed in difierent kinds of farm labor, working both bv the month and by the job. He saved up some money by this means, and bought 120 acres of school land, of the 16th Section, Township 4-5. lie entered in connection with this, a 40 acre tract, and commenced improvements the same year, 1840. He remained on this farm some fifteen years, when he sold and bought of Mr. Archibald McDill, now of Sparta, 100 acres at $3.00 per acre, situate near the town of Tilden. In connection with this, he entered two 40 acre tracts. He lived on this property till some six years ago, when he sold, aud bought the farm where he now lives, a mile east of this town. This farm comprises about , 160 acres of good and finely improved laud, and is as well located, and is as desirable a situation, considering its size, as any within the County. This pro- | pcrty is the clear earnings growing out of the industry aud perseverance of its | owner. He came to this country a stranger, and with no capital, but a pair of willing hands. Mr. Mathews has filled a prominent place within his commu- 1 nity, is liberal with his means, and has contributed considerable towards the inlerests of the growing little town of Tilden. He was married to Miss Rebecca Boyd, daughter of one of the old and highly respected citizens of this County, Aug. 4th, 1842. This union has been blessed with seven children, five living, three sons and two daughters, viz.: I Mrs. Nancy J., (Robt.,) James, Thomas M., Robert J., Miss Mary E., and William G. Influenced by the representations of his sou, Mr. Mathews’ father, 1 Thomas, with the principal part of his family left Ireland and came to this 1 country, arriving in 1S40, by way of New Orleans. One sister, Nancy, the wife of John Tweed, remained in the old countrv. The other children, eight in number, viz.: Thomas, James, William J., Joseph, Hugh, Adam, Jennie and Alexander, accompanied their parents to the United States. The father of these was born in Ireland, and was there married to their mother, formerly Miss Nancy Ross. They both died in this County, he in 1874, at the age of 93, and she in 1864, or near that time. They were both members of what is , known as the Old Light Covenanter Church, a branch of the Presbyterian de-nomination, having become counocted with this order in the old country. They raised up their children to fear Ihe Lord, as the first great truth of life, then placed before them an example of piety mid virtue worthy of their imitation, and they all early became members of the same Church, aud have led exemplary Christian lives, and have made reputable patriotic and trustworthy 1 citizens. Mr. Flemming, the subject of this history, was born in Scotland, April 5th, 1830, and in the Shire of Ranfrew, near Glasgow. He was, therefore, only a little past the age of ten when he reached this country. He has made this County his home ever since he came into it, in 1S40. He was married to Miss Mary Craig, daughter of John and Sarah (Curry) Craig, March 31st, 1859. After his marriage, they settled down on the farm where they still reside, the old homestead, formerly occupied by his father. This farm is now quite a fine estate, and includes something over 400 acres of very productive land, splendidly drained and supplied with abundant and nev.er ceasing springs. The family residence is one of the finest of the County, and stands on one of the most romantic and beautiful sites in this region of the State. It is located on a hill, where, according to tradition, there once stood an Indian village, and the many evidences still remaining, in the form of flint, arrow-heads, stone hatchets, and brokc-n utensils of domestic design, fully attest the truth of the traditional story. For a page view of these premises, we refer the reader to our lithographic department, where a satisfactory representation has been generously placed by the proprietor. Mrs. Flemming’s people, the Craigs, are also from the same part of Scotland, lrom which came the Flemming family. Her parents also came over in 1840, ami settled in this County. She was born in Scotland, and was about three years old when she arrived in this country. Her father was in good circumstances in Scotland, and came here because lie preferred libera? government and free institutions. _ He followed farming in this County, up to the lime of his death. Two of his sons, Robert and William, still reside in the County, and are well-known citizens; also five daughters, viz.: Mrs. Elizabeth, (Andrew,) Douglass, Mrs. Jane, (William) McAdams, Mrs. Sarah (Arthur), McKinney, Mrs. Janette, (Martin) Kirkwood, and Mrs. Flemming, all wealthy and well-known’throughout the County. Robert Craig, one of Mrs. Flemming's uncles, when a young man, left Scotland, and settled in Russia. He built a large manufacturing business near St. Petersburgh, and became finally one of the wealthiest merchants of that JACOB B. BEATTIE. Mr. Beattie was born in Allegheny County, Pa., June 24th, 1818. In the lall of 1820 his father and family loft Pittsburg in a small family emigrant boat, and started down the Ohio River for the' then far west. They landed at Shawneetown, Jan. 1st, 1821, and came on immediately bv wagon to this County, and made a settlement where Mr. Beattie now resides. Here Mr. Beattie’s father, James 11., lived till removed by death May 18tb, 1846. He was born near Newburg, New York, left there with his father and family when in the twentieth year of his age, and settled with them iu Allegheny Co., Pa. He was there married to Miss Hannah Burklicart, by whom he raised only one heir, viz., the subject of this sketch. Just before starting west he married his second wife, formerly Miss Margaret Black, who accompanied her husband through l<> Illinois, and after proving herself an excellent wife for many years, sho died in this County in 1840. She left behind her three living children—two vet surviving, viz., Francis H. and Robert T., both of this County. Mr. Beattie, on coming to this section of the State, settled down on a tract of land previously secured by his father, opened a farm, and made about the first improvements in Township 4—5. He was a strict member of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, a man who had a marked individuality of character, firm principles, and was an industrious, hard-working former. Mr. Beattie, our subject, was only two years old when the familv reached Shawneetown, and has spent therefore the principal part of his life in Illinois, having continued a citizen of this County from the time he came into it. He has seen this country come up from almost a wilderness condition to its present high state of civilization aud improvement, and has contributed his full share towards its cultivated transformation. During his earlv youth he had few educational advantages, worked hard on the farm, and being the eldest of the children, next to his father, the greatest amount of responsibility towards conducting the farm and supporting the family rested on his shoulders. February 9th, 1854, he was joined in marriage lo Mi*s Elizabeth McMillan, ii native of Scotland, and a lady of many merits, who has made her husband a laithful companion, and has been a kind mother to their six surviving children, born in the following order: Mary J., James II., John A., Jacob I,. Wm. M., and Hannah E. The eldest, also, named Hannah E., died when about eight years of age. Mr. Beattie has accumulated a Cue property, comprising a farm of two hundred and forty acres, very finely improved, well drained, and a rich soil. Mr. Beattie became connected with the Reformed Presbyterian Church in 1843, and continued in its fellowship till about 1870, when he l>ecame identified with the United Presbyterian Church, and he and his ladv both at present hold membership in a congregation of this order at Sparta.KIT M A Lorn/erf ut Sees JZJLJ3 Tl US See -fJtyS TfflS Scale, 5~00/%.t/j / r'jrx/h Originally called COLT’MBfS Lomlettr m Sec s f&6' TSS R’s .mo irofSrd PAf Gomp' led /tor// Officuil ffecord.i rmrl personal ejnti tn t nations 7>y E ■ T Chxomirertty&n, Satfa oflO ff. fo one ineJt BOZAVILLE Loc in. S'lir /96 Cf'JOi .iOOff-to inch. /A' - '‘A’. Kami'KWilm; locate*,inWWVfSEbSeclZ T.GR5H' n Scale. 500 ft to / Oictv. EVAXSVIIjLK LaMout iiv 036 (>y C Evans Zoavtcd in'Secs )$*M To SH SW Sca t* SOOfiio H1742V fa rts o f blocks Ml'colored' are- so IcUd o ff but not recorded Map of Located in Sections 4&-<) T.4R8. , 9ca tr .',00/7 lo / inch E. J • Chamberlain. r,\rPolitically, Mr. Beattie is n Republican. Formerly lie was a Democrat, and acted in connection with this party till after the election of James K. Polk lo the Presidency of the United States. He then supported the Free Soil ticket up to the time of the organization of the Republican Party, and has since acted in support of its principles. The Beattie family runs ita history hack to Ireland. Mr. Beattie’s greatgrandfather came over to this country some time before the Revolutionary War. He died in the State of New York, where Francis, Mr. Beattie’s grandfather, was bom, and who came out from Pennsylvania to Illinois on horseback in 1810, and purchased about a section of land, paid the entrance money on a quarter section more, then returned home to Pennsylvania in the same manner that he came. It was on this property that Mr. Beattie’s father settled on coming to this County. The Beatties have formed an element of Protestantism as far back as the records and traditions of the family extend, and they have generally found membership in some of the branches of the Presbyterian denomination. ALBERT N. SPRAGUE, Esq. Mu. SphaquE is one of the self-made men of Illinois, and has worked his way up from a plow-boy on the farm to an honorable footing among the lawyers of this section of the State, lie was born March 1st, 1841, in the city of Brooklyn, N. Y. About 1813 his parents moved to Perry County, Illinois. There Mr. Sprague’s mother died, in 1852, after which his father married a second time, and survived till 1864. Although Mr. Sprague’s early literary advantages were limited to the old pioneer schools of former days, and therefore not of the very best quality, he nevertheless made good use of his time, and such educational facilities, sis were then furnished, and by the time he had reached the age of eighteen, he had mastered the common branches then taught in the district schools, and was thereby qualified to become a teacher. He taught some five years, availing himself in the mean time, of the advantages of the old Presbyterian Academy, formerly established at Sparta; and pushed up his studies till he became a very good Latin and English scholar. During his literary studies he chanced to come into the possession of a law book, road it, took a fancy for the profession, and resolved to study the law at once. He accordingly commenced a course of legal reading under Mr. Lewis Hammack, of Pickney ville, a leading lawyer of that place, completed the necessary course of reading under that gentleman, and was duly admitted to the Bar in 1S6S. He barely commenced a practice at that place when he was induced to locate at Sparta, of this County, where he has since resided, and where he has already built up a lucrative practice. Mr. Sprague is yet a young man, is a diligent student, of untiring industry, and has before him a promising future. In the fall of 1862 he chose as ;i life- partner, Miss Nancy Brown, the daughter of Joseph Brown, a well and favorably known old settler of this section of the County. M r. Spragtie has been enabled to create around him pleasant circumstances, and as he is profitably situated, it is to be presumed that his community may claim him as a fixture. The Spragues trace their history back to Plymouth Rock. They were among the pilgrims landed there by the May Flower in 16'20. Mr. Sprague's great-grandfather, Jethro, was a native of Massachusetts. lie spent his last days in the territory of Maine, and there Mr. Sprague’s grandfather was born anil raised, also his father, Averill, who raised a family of eight children by his two wives. Ilis first wife, Mr. Sprague's mother, was Miss Mary A. Brittain, and his second, was Miss Sarah 'lhomas, who died in Perry County, in 1862, and by whom he had two children. It would be a pleasure if the necessary materials were accessible, to trace this old family in its branches and meandering# back to the time when the ancestry landed on this Continent, but unluckily, as in the cases of moat American families, the record* have either been lo=t or carelessly preserved, and we have only a faint outline left- They have uot only been an intellectual but an honorable people, and some of their names have appeared in literary and official circles. JOHN MICHAN, Esq. Mr. Mich as was bom November 1st, 1822, in the city of Philadelphia. His parents were in moderate circumstauees. Ilis father was there employed for a number of wars as clerk and assistant in the wholesale house of Seal, Burnett ami Withers. In this famous old city, still lo be more famous on account of the Centennial of 1876, Mr. Michan spent the early days of his youth in attendance at the public schools and in imbuing his mind during its early aspirations, with the historical associations and national traditions, which hang around the Quaker city as the central theatre where the drama of the American Revolution was played and where ihe voice of Independence first, rang out on the ears of the listening nations, in the form of the immortal Declaration. In the spring of 1837, he came with his parents to Washington County, Illinois, where he taught a term of school ihe following summer. Not liking the sedentary features of the school-room, he determined to choose a more active and unrestructed kind of business, and in pursuance of this object rnadea point of SjKirta, then a small village known under the historic name, Columbus, where lie arrived in the early part of 1838. _ Here he was variously employed till the spring of 1852, in general mechanical work, a business for which he early evinced a marked genius, and in which lie had considerable experience before leaving Philadelphia. Here also he chose as a life partner, Miss Margaret Alexander, daughter of A. and Sarah (McDill) Alexander, old settlers of this County. This marriage was celebrated January 21st,_ 1845. Yielding to a natural desire for adventure, Mr. Michan determined to try his fortunes on the Pacific Slope, and accordingly in the spring of 1852, iu company with a band of hardy emigrants for the land of Gold, he commenced an overland journey towards the coast of the Pacific. Within live months they arrived in Oregon city without mishap or particular peril. He spent about two years in Oregon and California, most of the time in the former state, lie then returned to his family in Sparta, having made a trip rich in experience and profitable in dollar* and cents. Immediately on his return to Randolph Countv Jie determined to pul into effect a resolution formed in Oregon, to study the law; and accordingly bought a few of the most necessary books, and a set of mechanics’ tools with which to earn a support while engage*! in his studies, and dcvoled all his leisure time lo legal reading. In about three years he acquired sufficient knowledge of the law to qualify him for the practice, and he was accordingly duly admitted to the Bar of the*2d (now the 23d) judicial district, in 1859. He soon rose to distinction in his profession and has built up a large and lucrative practice extending over four Counties. In 1862 he was appointed Master in Chancery for his County, a position he held till 1861, when ho resigned on account, of the increase of professional business. In 1868 he was elected Stale’s Attorney for his district, on the Republican ticket, and overcame a majority of 1400 Democratic votes, and was elected by a clear majority of furty-two votes. A higher compliment could not have been paid to Mr. Michan’s standing a3 a gentleman and a lawyer. From his earliest recollections Mr. Michan was anti-slaverv in his feelings and sentiments, aud as a consequence when the two great parties of the country came into direct collision on this question, he took sides with the Republican party, and he stood identified with its interests till after the close of the war. In 1*872, feeling lhat this party had undertaken to do too much, that its leading men manifested too little regard for the strict requirements of the Federal Constitution, that it had on account of its most unprecedented successes drawn into itself a vast amount of political corruption, and that it had already really accomplished its true mission, lie left this organization and supported Horace Greeley for the Presidency and has since pursued a line of action known as Liberal Republicans Mr. Michan is a self-made man, has attained to a profound knowledge of the law, is a good speaker, a cogent, close reasoner, and the able advocates of Southern Illinois recognize in him a “foeman worthy of their steel.” Mr. Michan’s father, John, and his mother, formerly Miss Jane McKame. were Ih>iIi natives of Ireland, where they were married, though they both trawl their ancestry back to Scotland. They arrived in Philadelphia in 1820. One-child, William, was born in the Emerald Isle, and was an infant when they reached Philadelphia, lie was accidentally killed in that city while engaged , a- clerk in a wholesale establishment. The family circle was further in this country by the birth of five additional children, viz.: the subject ot this sketch, Mrs. Eliza Press of this County .Thomas, who fill in the I nion Service during ihe late civil war, aud two who died in infancy. The father of these died in Washington County, in 185-1. He acquired after coming to Illinois a good farm, which he conducted up to the time of his death. Ilis wife survived him some eighteen years. Their remains res-, side by side in the gravc-yard connected with the house of worship owned bv a congregation of the Covenanters, in Elk Horn Prairie, in which denomination they had fellowship for a great many years, having connected themselves with it while living in Ireland. A. K. LEEPER. M. D. The Doctor was born in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, Nov. 26th, 1832, was raised and educated within his native County, and commenced the study of medicine at the old aud renowned University of Pennsylvania in 1856, where he graduated in 1859. 1 le commenced a practice in the City of Chester iu the spring of the same year, remained there a year, then located at Pinckney ville, Perry Co., where ho stopped six months. He next moved to Coulterville, the place of his present residence. In addition to a large practice, he conducts a farm of one hundred and thirty acres, lying within the corporate limits of this town, which is handsomely improved, a view of which is shown among our Illustrations. He was married in Sparta in 1861 to Miss Martha Rose borough, daughter ot' Win. Roseborougli, an old settler of this place, and a leading citizen of this section of the County. They have three children, viz., Mary E., Eloise and Willie R. Mr. Leeper’s ancestry date back in their history to the north of Ireland, and were very likely among the Protestant exihs who left Scotland for conscience’ sake. It is not now definitely known at what precise time the Doctor's grandfather, James L., came to this country. Very probably, however, he arrived in America before the independence of the Stairs from the British Crown. 1 le was at least in Pennsylvania a short time after this event, and several of his sons served in the United States Army during the war of 1812. Hugh, the Doctor’s father, was bom in Pennsylvania, was there married to Mks Esther Harper, by whom he raised eight sons and four daughters. Four of these sons graduated at Jefferson College, viz.. Hugh, Joseph, William and John E., each of whom became ministers of the Presbyterian Church. _ Samuel Harper, the Doctor’s grandfather, through the maternal line, wan also from the northern part of Ireland, and was also among the proscribed on account of religious faith who left Scotland, lie came to Pennsylvania, and spent his last days in Beaver County. The descendants of both these family lines have continued faithful to the principles for which their ancestry were persecuted, and have found membership within some of the branches of the old, time-honored and orthodox Presbyterian Church. GEN. MADISON MILLER. Gen. Millek was born in Mercer County, Pa., Feb. 6th, 1813. He was raised up lo manhood in the City of St. Louis. At the early age of thirteen, j he began life for himself in the city, a poor boy, withont friends to a^ist his | first endeavor towards place and business. For a time, he employed himself i in running errands am! in doing such odd jobs as chance threw in his way. He finally reached a clerkship in a leading business house, from which he worked | his way up to a commercial footing among the merchants of the city, lie followed the dry goixls business in St. Ixuiis, in Jefferson County, and in Monroe County, Illinois, till the breaking out of the Mexican war, when he enlisted into the United States Service as a private. During the war, for gallant conduct on the battle-field, he was made captain of a company, which he commanded till the cessation of hostilities, lie returned to Waterloo, Monroe County, and after remaining there a short time, he established a steam ferry, • between Caroudolet, Mo., and the shore of Illinois, thu first of the kind *n these points, residing in the meantime, at Carondolct, Mo. His health _______failed, and in 1849, he joined a baud of emigrants for the great Eldorado of America, and after a teclious journey of eighty-three days, he landed iu California. He remained in that Stale, mining, and merchandizing, till 1852 Resigning the position of Judge of a Court of Record, lie returned home at this date, and made St. Louis his home, till he moved to this County, in 1872. At the breaking out of the late civil war, he raised a company at Carondolct, (now South St. Louis,) was elected as its captain, (1st Mo. Inft.. Blair’s Reg., I and went immediately into active service and took part in the actions of Boouesville and Wilson’s Creek. Just prior to the battle of Pittsburg Landing, he was appointed colonel of the 18th Mo. infantry. During this engagement he commanded the 2d Brigade, Prentiss' Division, and was taken [iris oner. [For gallant conduct on his part during this fight, he was afterwards commissioned Brigadier General.] lie was held a prisoner of war about six months, and during that time, was one of the three commissioners appointed by the Confederate Government, to negotiate an exchange of prisoners, and finally secured the object sought. After his exchange, he resumed the command of his regiment, and served in its command till failing health necessitated his resignation, when he returned to his home, in St. Louis, in the spring of 1865. He was afterwards appointed military commander of the S. E. District of Missouri, but he soon again loat his health, resigned, and returned home. General Miller, not only has a varied and extensive experience in military affaire, but has figured pretty extensively in politics as well. While a resident at Carondolct, lie fitcpped from the mayoralty of that place into the Lower House of the Legislature of Missouri, where he was returned a second time. After the war, he was elected to the State Senate, Governor Fletcher being in the gubernatorial chair at the time. He aided in the re-organization of the State, and was chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, and iu other respects contributed help iu bringing law and order out of the social chaos and insubordination consequent on the war. He has hail some experience in the great railroad interests of the country, and was president of the company that built the Iron Mountain Railroad. He was afterward appointed FuudCom-missioner, on behalf of the State, during the building of the Missouri Pacific Railroad. Mr. Miller was married to Miss Margaret E. Fletcher, daughter of Clermont Fletcher, and sister of Governor Fletcher, of Missouri. By this lady he had six children, three of whom are now living, viz.: Col. M. El wood, Miss Dora B. and Miss M. Lulu, all at home in this County. The General himself, not only has a patriotic record, but his ancestry before him have been distinguished for their jMitriotie and martial spirit His grandfather, John Miller, came over from Germany and settled in tin- Colony of New Jersey, not a great while before the Revolutionary war. He afterwards joined the Continental forces, and was killed at the memorable battle of Princeton. After his arrival in this country, he married a lady by the name of Margaret Campbell, a native of Scotland. They raised a familvof six children, viz.: John, Ellen, who becainc the wife of Hugh Merideth, Mary, the wife of Mr. Dull, Margaret, James and Peter. These principally settled in and around Philadelphia, where they were known as among the leading wealthy families of lhat State. James, Mr. Miller’s father, was born in Philadelphia County, Pa., Feb. 26th, 1767. He emigrated to Illinois, and settled in Edwardsville, Madison Countv, in 1821, and after remaining there a short time, he settled in St. Louis, where he spent his last days. In 1802 he was married to Miss Ann Ling, daughter of John I-ang, of Cumberland County, Pa., and a Scotchman by birth. The fruits of this union were three sons and two daughters, two of whom are yet living, viz.: the subject of this sketch and Mrs. Emilv, Jae.j Stein. James died in New Orleans, and Thomas.), and Margaret, in St. I,ouis. The lather of these, died in the same city, in 1825, and their mother, in 1832. He was an old soldier of our last British war, kuown as that of 1812, was once a leading official of the Keystone State, where he occupied a high social position among the people. of his nativity. . He h»» been twice marriedL Hi*, first wifo, Mira Anna Col- ■11, me youngest all imam <■* wife was Miss Mattie Fulton, daughter of Davul 1 niton, < first settlers of Township 4-6 of this County. During hi, minority Mr. JIcMast« rwsdvod an onlmary common school education surli a> was generally conferred on the ntoneei bojs of that dav. More or lU he ha* been in public life since be reached the age of manhood. At the age of twentv-onc he was elected to the office of rownahm Trustee, a position lie filled till he moved to Sparta in 186/. W lulo there he was made Mayor of the city, an office he resigned on his return to the farm in 18. 0. In the fall of the same year he was elccted to the Mate Legislature, and was a member of what has since been known as the -Long legislature This was the liiNt Legislature under the new const tin lion of the State in addition to the glying I ordin'arv “ession, comprehended one adjourned and two called sessions, during which fie served on the committees of corporations, claims and agriculture. He docs not claim for himself any brilliant distinction, but it is well known to his constituency that he left behind him a record, which includes active discharge of duties, faithful constancy to his work, and an enlightened comprehension of the wants of ihe people and an lioneat effort to secure the passage of such laws as were demanded bv the public good. In the fall of 1872 he was elected to the State Hoard of Equalization for the Eighteenth Congressional District Hi- term will not expire till 1876. It is rather a singular coincidence that each of the members of this Board for Southern Illinois has a name l>c"inning with “Me.” McNutt, of the 15th; McCabe, of the 19th; McMaster, of the 18th ; and McCalla of the 16th District. These Mc’s have proved themselves indefatigable workers in the interests ot this section of the State, and have done more toward securing a fair and equitable aswess-m 'lit for the people of Southern Illinois than any other gentlemen who have as vet served in this particular capacity. While in Sparta, Mr. McMaster built, in company with a brother-in-law, John C. Boyle, a large steam flouring mill, which was afterwards burned down, entailing a loss of about $10,000 lo each of the owiiers. 1 his was a serious loss to the town as well as the owners, but we notice that the mill has since been rebuilt under the proprietorship of Mr. Boyle, and that Mr. Me-Master has, bv a successful course :ls an agriculturalist, fully indemnified himself of this serious drawback. In addition to farming on an extended scale, he has done something toward the introduction of fine stock within his community. He has been successful to rather an unusual degree, considering his chances at the beginning, and the heavy loss incurred by the burning of his mill. He is now out of debt, and is the possessor of the rise of 500 acres of fine farm land, well improved aud well stocked. The McMaster family were from Ireland to this country, though they trace their ancestry back to Scotland. They anciently formed a part of the Protestant element, which, on meeting persecution within their own country for conscience' sake, settled in the northern counties of Ireland, and many of whom crossed the Atlantic and settled in this country during the times of the colonies. Among these were James McMaster. Mr. McMaster’s grandfather, who settled in South Carolina immediately on the close of the revolutionary war. His brothers preceded him to America, two of whom served in the Continental army. One of these was hung by the Tories, for no other reason than that he was a patriot soldier, and the other was, for a similar reason, starved to death on board a British prison ship. James McMaster lived and died in South Carolina. He raise*! two sons, and as many daughters, only one of whom, James, Mr. McMaster’s father, came to Illinois. Hugh died when young in South Carolina. The daughters, Mrs. Henry aud Mrs. Hood, both died also iu their native State. James arrived iu Randolph County, Illinois, in 1831. He was married in his native State to Miss Mary Wright, now far advanced in life, and still living on the old homestead provided by her deceased husband. After settling in Illinois he followed the business of farming, to which he had been brought up, and secured a home embracing some 300 acres, quite a large farm for that time, and on which lie resided till 1870, the year of his demise, at the age of 73. Ho raised seven children—three sons and four daugh-iors, viz: John, D. R., Mrs. J. C. Boyle, of Sparta, who are residents of this county. James, the eldest brother, who resides in Nashville, Washington Countv, and who is ono of the three representatives of the District, including that County, in the State Legislature; Jane, the wife of Francis White, a lumber merchant of Marissa, St. Clair County; Nancy, (dec’d.,) the wife of John White ; and Mary, (dec’d.,) the wife of Charles Cathcart. Mr. McMaster was a good husband, an industrious citizen, a kind father, and a conscientious, devout Christian. For many years he was a member of the Seceding branch of the Presbyterian Church, more recently and popularly known as the Associate Presbyterian. He died in this faith, and left behind him an example of early hospitality and unfeigned piety, well worthy our remembrance and imitation. JOHN S. BOYD. Mr. Boyd was born in this County, July 5th, 1S42. He has lived in this County all his life, following the honest avocation of farming, in which he has been successful to an average degree, owning a good farm, well improved, a part of the old homestead of his father, lying in Township 4-5. Mr. Boyd has never married, but has devoted his time to the care of his aged mother. Ilis faiher, Samuel, was horn in Ireland, October 10th, 1777. His lather, \\ illiarn ^ Boyd, left Ireland with his wife and two children, and came to the United Slates, a short time after their independence, landing at the city pf Charleston. He made a location afterwards in Lawrence District. Here Mr. Boyd’s father was married to Miss Nancy Vemer, by whom he had nine children, all born in that State. When war was declared against the British in 1812, lie enlisted in the service of his government. He joined a cavalry regiment and served through the whole struggle, including ihe famous battle of New Orleans. In 1825, he arrived with his family in this County. He settled in Township l-o, and at once commenced improving a farm. Here his wife died in ol ?i He afterwards married Miss Margaret Skelly, daughter of William Skellv by his wile, formerly Miss Jane Blackstock, both natives of South Carolina. By this wife he had six children. The two sons, William V. and ,'rT?U.,c‘ on l,arts of ,l,c oM homestead. The daughters, Mrs. Sarah • M«-«* Itnohel (Robert S.) Aitkeu, and Mrs. Margaret L. (William II.) Ldmiston. reside in Lyon Countv, Kansas. There were nine children by the first wife, including a son, Samuel L.,a well known old settler of this section of the County. Tiio daughters were all raised up to womanhood, and were all married with the exception of Sarah. Margaret married Samuel Williams; Eliza, Isaac Brown; Agnes, William Monroe; Jane, Alexander Smith; Mary, John Strahan; Abigail, John Gibson; and Rebecca, Robert Mathews. ’Ihev principally located in this County, and were highly respected citizens. I When Mr. Boyd came to this County, lie at once secured a large body of land, after the improvement of which lie traded considerably in live stock, and was regarded the largest farmer and trader of that time in his part of Ran-uu pn county, iu* did not much himself personally to develop the country, wit was instrumental in encouraging others to locate* around him in order to forma settlement, that schools and churches might be established and sustained. . Vugh a prosperous business man, he never neglected the interests V.ul *•’ SSoIK6 of his neighbors. He was a member of the old becedtt grand, of the lV.bytorian Church, lie wu a quiet penuucnt, Irat had ™-.*t i,rmno» „f principle* and a quick, ,«ne 2¥‘. 18*>. amnl a lat^e circle of friends, whom he Tlio ¥tnv#1 r ’ i •” |l,a,utance and life of uniform rectitude and puriiv. . i-1 Ji m ,-Un y • un°‘, Kr ol from wh«'cc they made their wav to this country. ,r;. %';a > sccom 1 wife, was horn June 14th, 1802, in South birthday’ District, i.nd has therefore now passed her seventy-seventh 1S23- u« mother died iu this County July of health'and p"rom!«s to Tve yet numy"^™’ IVi'!'UiS’ l'nj0J'“ “ ^ -...... u quick, penetrating judg- large circle of friends, whom he HON. DANIEL R. MoMASTER. Mu. McMastek was born within the township of hiH present residence, (4-6,) August 14th, 1835, and with the exception ol about three years spent in the milling business in Sparta, has resided all his life near the old homestead75 b BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF CITIZENS OF RANDOLPH COUNTY. ILLINOIS. WILLIAM G. CHAMBERS. late Civil War, and \ ' «'i_?.ra m.Town,hiP *-«. Of thin County, November 6lh. raxag.im.-nt fought......................... „. . , „ ',a “ «“ "roandwl '’.v "» accidental discharge of Jane Liklv, di«l last Spring near ftmnrfeld M “S?- >>“. , 8—A <&* i» St- Lol awne tJ2* J, and M killed at the battle of Bellmont, Missouri, the first General Grant of this war. The eldest sister, Mrs. Missouri. The eldest brother, .......................40, and Mrs. Sarah Field died to the present date in Washington County, subject, was bom in the town of Sparta Angus! 20th, Bang rendered a cripple for life, he determined to devote his attention more 1 me fifteen vca OxctnRively to hooks At the age -of nineteen lie w qualified to teach, a 1 Mr. MeClurken,' w2“in 18X0ft"* l° T* iT11'" 1Wr Tau\m ",ov"*1 ,0 1823’ h« re-id.-! within the immediate comrnunitv S hk 3 1 I™ K1"1,0'1 ?w.lm:L>u:r |lll'ler Mr. Lincoln'. wnce, and i* the oldest native eilizeu of this town. Dar'ing hia vouth he adm.n.rtn.ttoI. He was removed at thy beginning of that of Mr. Johnson, employed with hi. father in conducting the farm, running the cotton gin, » reaprointed under the rame President, and with thu .light exception in manufacturing eaator oil. In 1839 he ' ...... ‘ ;;'Xn.....wci", T" 1"'"."■‘i'1’ lnM ""gM exception *n manutactnring ca-tor oil. In 1S39 he was employed with hi* father ^ fenf . l 'l f r f Pre!Willt date. Ho has made the people a mng a saw-mill. Two ream taler he engaged with his brother in-la uTff’i 6 ! • i a.ccur:"c P"'1 prompt- Gardener, in running a flouring mill. In IM2, in company wil - Mr. * iGun >r._ i. i.* i " • • i • ----- j -r- wimuJB, iu luiiiiuiti it uuunuK iu.ui. in i.O'j'A, in company with a number of ,l J.rrl.V r\ f t .V^t £1* f' ™arnafeMia® Bejlc Tenant, the gentlemen, he built in Sjwrta the large llouring mills now under the manage-daughter of James Fenant, bv his wife, formerly Miss Ellen McCormic, who ! men! of perry Barker. Iu 1800 he took change of the woolen mills of this “5jS. this Count* from i Tennessee in 1814. town, then the property of his brother Thomas, where he has remained in , Mr- Chambers father, was Imrn in South Carolina, August 20ih, busings ever since, and now owns thwe valuable and most popular r-:"- 1^8b. lie was an old veteran of the war of 1X12 nnd \r.- 1...,,.. .........:..,i r>.. i.; . r._. e___ South Carol i Hopper. In 182 v —v,_____0—D ...v........ ____—. « . which consisted at that time of his wife and four daughters, two by each wife ami Clara." „ . r anda Wilwu, of Perry County, and WILLIAM K. McDILL, (DECEASED.) MfiyMcDllL was born in South Carolina, in 1797, near the City of Colum- everal children, and there ; an old veteran of the \var of 1812, and was twice married in Mr. MeClurken ha* been twice married. Bv his first wife, formerly M llis second wife, Mr. Chambers’ mother, was Miss Jane , Catharine Peep, he had one child, Emma, His second wife, once Mips He lie emigrated to this County, bringing his family with him, ! Gaston, is yet living, and has liorn her husband three children: Mary, James Mrs. Lut of these are yet living, ^ Mary Osborne, own sister to Mr. Chambers, of Sparta.’ The l_____, ......... f"rtbcr "'creased after settlement in this County by the birth of bia. In‘1818,“in company with his father and family, he arriVed ... .... . ... r- . f o' tn<«i ".'>r»ber four sons and one daugh- County, and made a settlement in Township 4-5. He here married Mil 1 hebe E. Lewis, David L„ W llllam G., Thomas A., and Joseph Janett Munford, in 1823, and settled down to farm life, , T., all residing i ad teaching, during mi' r> [ 7ilhiV l^u *mmediate vicinity of Sparta, fhree of these, the fall and winter seasons. He continued to reside on the place first settled^ Thomas, David and Joseph, were soldiers of the Lmon army during the late till the time of his death, May 12th, 1839. He was a devout and zealous •, and each received honorary commissions for bravery and gallant bearing on the field of battle. The father of these died in 1840, on the home place, first settled on coming j South Carolina he worked at the tailor’s trade, a ^ iily mastered. Farming was hia principal business after he came to Illinois. He was a splendid “axeman,” and excelled in the art of dressing timbers with the old “ broad-axe,” and, therefore, his services were indispensable iu his community in the event of a house or bam raising. Though he did not become wealthy lie attained the object sought, a competence to the County. While business which he thoroughly mastered. Farming s of a good nature, cheerful, kind and hopeful. His wife survived him a number of years, dying in ISM. She was a member of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, and was a devoted Christian, wife and mother. Mr. Chambers' grandfather, David Chambers, and hia wife Mary, were both natives of Ireland, and arrived in this country during the old times effects of exposure of the colonies. They settled in South Carolina, where they reared up their ' ” " family in respectability, and there died at a good old age. jameb ii.Taylor. Mr. Taylor has been lor the last twenty years one of the leading dry-goods merchants of the City of Sparta, where he is yet engaged in the same business. He is too well known in business and social circles to need any notoriety from ........................ the pen of the Atlas hi.-torian ; but as a brief notice of himself and family will date theforcfatl11 rs of tIie'pr^ent gcneratii be interesting to the people of Randolph County, we cheerfully devote a jtor- United States. Tliev were here hoi tion of our page* to this end. He was born iu Lincoln County, Tennessee, struggles of the Coloni.-s for indepei April 25th, 1825, and was only about s:”------• - - '• ......... member of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, and died in the full assurance of a blessed immortality. He lived a life, characterized by a strict regard for the moral requirements of the Bible, a Christian humility, and a'warm, generous disposition towards his friends, and the people in general. In his habits he was quiet and rather retired, but was an independent thinker, aud very firm in his principles. His wife survived him quite a number of years—dying in 1865. She was also connected with the same Church jis her husband, and died in hope, within its fellowship. She was a lady of very mild disposition, quiet in her habits, and a devoted, fond mother to her children and husband. They had a family of seven children raised to maturity, viz.: John, James, Robert, Janette, Mary, Thomas and Margaret. John and Koliert reside in Sparta, where, for several years they have been engaged in conducting the large merchant. llouring mill of McCutcheon. Gordon cV Co. James died from the fl while doing duty as a union soldier, during the Thomas resides on the old homestead. Mary died while single, in 1849. Janette, the wife of John Iloilson, resides with her husband, in Sparta; and Margaret and husband, John Breckenridge, reside in Township 5-5 of this County. Mr. MeDill’s mol her. formerly Miss Jane Bell, died in S. Carolina. His father, John, as already remarked, came with him to this County, where he died, in 1824. McDills arc of Irish descent. It is not now known, at what precise ithin the limits of the bear their part in the independence from the British Crown, and Mi * ot age when, with his parents, MeOilPs father was a Continental soldier, and served his country during nearly ived within the limits of Randolph County, lie has resided h< since, has grown up with the country, become identified with its interests, Crospered apace with its progress, and is now one of the solid and reliable usiness gentlemen of his section of the County. He chose in his earlier years kept up the timo-honored principles of their predi as a life-partner Miss Isabelle McDill, a daughter of Archibald McDill, a' gen- have been distinguished on account of their morality, tleman who came from Ohio to this County in 1843. This lady is still living zenship in general. - to brighten her husband’s home, that she has been materially instrumental in r JOHN J WOODSIDE creating, and over which she ha^presided as wife and mother these many years. Mlt. WOOB»tt.B i. a native of Kentucky. He' the whole seven years of hostilities. After the war, he continued to re* South Carolina, till the time of his coming to Illinois. This family early em-t:ed the Protestant faith, and the succeeding generations have generally |jg| " -s. As a family, they lustry, and good citi- .. ... • t i t- tcr of William and James Morrow, of this County. Tin- Boyd tatijr. Boyd, alter the death of the mother of these children, was again married ticulariv in building up a congregation of the Reformed Presbyterians, of South Carolina to Miss Mary Wright. One daughter was the result of thr which denomination he w 1851, a town he took a prominent He finally died in Sparta, Jan. 8th, union, viz: Mary, the wife of Samuel McKee, residing eight miles south ofSparta. irt iu building up. He was a soldier in Mr. Boyd always voted with the Democratic party t ill the issue of union or ..... nf 181” and took ©art in the famous battle of New Orleans. He raised disunion was forced on the country, when he became identified with the Re-eitfhi children ”bv one^'ife who sun ived him a number of years. Two of publican party, with which he has since acted. Religiously, he and his family, “ »- ..^,11 . i\f__ijm___________ a nrf lwiflp.nts of this «c f«i* «ii* recollections reach, have been Presbyterians. ■ died in Township 5—6, Januarv 11th, 184S, also his these, Mr. MeClurken and Mrs. Florence A. Gardener, arc residents of ibis far back as County One sister lives in Clav Countv, and Janies in Washington Countv. Mr. Boyds Thomas was Major of the Thirtv-third Illinois Infantry Volunteers during the second wife in 1867. The first companion died in South Carolina. JAMES CRAIG. Mr. Craig was born in Scotland, Jan. 13th, 1804, v hood, and in 1833, he landed in the United States of America. After stopping a short time in the State of New York, he came on to Randolph County. He worked one summer for William Hayes, in Flat Prairie, and in the fall of the same year, he entered the home place where he now lives, in Township 4-5. This lie improved to some extent, then returned to Scotland, in 1839 and while there was joined in marriage to Miss Margaret Crawford. JIc returned to his home in this County, in the spring of 1840, where he has lived continuously ever since. This farm now embraces 2S0 acres, is a good soil, anil is well improved. Mr. Craig has raised a nice, respectable family, and there are three children now living, viz.: Robert J., William C. and Mrs. Elizabeth B. (Jonas) Covey, all of ibis section of the County. Religiously, Mr. Craig is a Presbyterian, also his wife and family, and his ancestry, as far back as present information extends. His father, Robert, was also a native of Scotland. He married there, Mrs. Carswell, formerly a Miss Stevenson. She had one child, now Mrs. Walt, by her first husband. She has raised five children by her second husband, viz.’: The eldest, John, died abouc the age of nineteen. Robert is known as a leading business gentleman, of the City of Glasgow. William and Mrs. Elizabeth (Robt.) Young, died in Perrv County. Ills.FARM RESIDENCE: OF WILLIAM M UN FORD , SEC. IS TA.R.5. RANDOLPH CO. ILL 'E RESIDENCE' or JOHN M? LAUGH LI N , FARMER 8 STOCK RAISER , SEC. 16 .T.4.R.5. RAN DOLRES.fyJAS B. MATTHEWS, GROWER OF SWEET POTATOES AND PLANTS, SEC. S. TAR,6. MARISSA. RANDOLPH CO. ILL, DR Y GOODS & GROCER Y STORE OF YOUNG & Mc INTYRE, TILDEN, RANDOLPH CO. ILL FARM RESIDENCE OF JAS. ft MLHVFPRO-. SEC. 10, T 4, R. 5, RANDOLPH CO. ILL J, ■ HIM........................................... | ~FARM~fiES/DENCE OF JACOB B. BEATTIE^'^' SEC. 33, T.4.R.5, RANDOLPH CO ILL. 3 ’ Farm residence of w*Joseph SEC.88.T.4-.R.S, RANDOLPH CO. ILL.. Y M 4i*v •**> » ■¥■ & ■&> m -I *.-•*,:: ' ... ^ ^ ^ ^ JSs> ■, Farm views of D BBOYD , sec.z t.5.r.6./zMile west ofSparta RANDOLPH CO. ILL. Res.of Dr.A.K.Leeper , Coulterville , Randolph, Co. /llinoisF/^rm Residence and other views on the property of William j. CRAIG, sec.8-9 tj.r.6. Randolph CoJllFarm residence of S.L.BOYD ,Sec.l7.T.4,R.5, Randolph Co,Illinois. {iii'i ini^ilii fOA..Oal$ JOAWheai /2A.M7iaxt 20 A .Wiscit \\\ \\w\w ,\ i v\ ^ \\\\\ \\%^v\\^v>,XNN\ vs \\s\sCn\ $ £'*> $t> 0'V }%Wcfrn..\ kk\ JOA jntea/ & M.eci&ww. !■ mw \ V\\ \S \\ \ V \\\v fc\\\\\\\\\^ -„-.n..... m /S'+A .\rhcttf?r jji-znr:. t- • 1 ■ ixWv'M UyMWkU Mr- .'AHMiWAMtoZ r1; //■/:/ / / / //! mmiA Sec.16. T.4.R.5. Randolph Co. Illinois.RESIDENCE OF HARM ANN RUDOLPH STOLLE. CHESTER. RANDOLPH CO. ILL __ RESIDENCE OF WM SCHUCHERT, CHESTER , RANDOLPH CO.ILL TWO LOTS FOR SALEipipfe RESIDENCE 8 OFFICE OF D* WILLIAM A GORDON , CHESTER , RANDOLPH CO. ILL. lIlaGfiBxJW THE RESIDENCE OF JOHN R .SHANNON , CHLSTLR , RANDOLPH CO. ILLINOIS.WASHINGTON HALL Pf?OPCf?ryQF W^KIAEMAN. CHESTER.) LL ■ RED BUD BREWERY. PROPERTY OP EMIL BERG ER .REDBUD. RAN D OLPH CO ILL FARM RESIDENCF OF ROBERT GANT, SEC.6.77. R.6. RANDOLPH CO. ILL €t_f" VOALE FARM, PROPERTY OF J. J. DOUGLAS, Sfr S T 7. F? 6. RANDOLPH CO. I LLRandolph Co.III. View of’PRAIRIE GROVE FARM" Property of JOHN a DAN'L LIDDY Seal «> /1 i ti WtM View of Farm Residence of JAMES LIDDY ,Sec.30,Town4.Range 7. Randolph Co. 111it l$25 VmjTAT "rFf£Zjfs~ . Afe [160 ACRE FARM in JACKSON C0.SEC.?3 Pla-tof Shiloh Farm (120 Acres) on 9ec.l4-. Residence and Farms of J.K.BURKE on Sec. 14.& 23 T.7 R.5 W.Randolph and Jackson Counties, IllinoisttSSB O-'-l.'vto-rt Farm Residence.Tenant Houses and other scenes on and adjoining the Property of SAMUEL MANSKER Sec.2“T8 R 6~W. Randolph Co.ill mois. ,'SSW«»KS.«-RANDOLPH CO. ILL. FARM RESIDENCE OF JAS.M. HOY , SEC. 18. 7.4. R.7. RANDOLPH CO. ILL /:sidence of Robert reston,Baldwin,Randolph Co. Ill i OF B.WILTSHII FARM RESIDENCE OF ANTIONIE GlLLIS ,SEC.28.T.5.R S.RANDOLPH CO ILL. FARM RESIDENCE OF ANTHONY STEELE, SEC 35.T.5.R.5.E. RANDOLPH CO. ILLTheFarm Residence and otherSeenesonthe Property of WM H.M? MILLAN, Sec.5.T.5.R. 5.W. 1 mile East of Sparta.Randolph Co. III../ V ! •• • JUi-'>W*oW "** ’ -A U " s ' , k%. : -,w: ^ y - ffCSfOEHCC FWOMLTHE SOUTH EAST SMITH BMMMnwaaBgjiL'j^^ariaiw ,. .......... ....... ., ...„. ty-c^v:, SOM&sSZfrJ. p;-v:{>r^: . ; i r.> -) \ “P-—..........iuum «f Hf ■nk.vi. ~ 1111 .......'ti Residence & Workshops or A. T. IRELAND, Sec.29. T 7. R.5.W. Randolph County, Illinois :-f*CHE S T BR® tfeftlAGK IV'ORKvS etbich a HILL iff CARRIAGE FACTORY**, DETRICH & HILLIN. C H ESTE R, ILL ..OPPOSI T E COURT HOUSEV RES.OF ARTHUR MCKINNEY. CHESTER.ILL i#**i RES.AND SCENES ON THE FARM ~0F ARCHIBALD FISHER, SEC.IZ T.P. R.8. RANDOLPH CO.ILL.Farms and Residence#. ALFRED GAN T, Sec H.Town 6,Range7, Randolph Co. IllkJS’/r. Res.of J.CHESNUTWOOD,Evansvilie,III. _ CHESNUTWOO D Residence Ha loon of LEWIS PAROTT, Red Bud, Randolph Co.llls.Farm Residence of W*1 GU E BE RT , Sec.4, T. 4, R.8, Randolph Co. III.'OPJJOHN TMCBRIDES RESIDENCE IN CHESTER® Farm 0/J50Jms/mG IN COURSE OF OPENING^ KASKASKIA RIVER NE.COR&T.6.S.R.8.W, Res. of THO? A.SIMPSON, Near Ruma . Randolph Co.Illinois THOS.A. SIMPSONICE HOUSE RES. AND HOTEL OF P.PAUTLER, EVANSVILLE. RANDOLPH CO. ILL FIRST CLASS ACCOMODATIONS FINE LIQUORS A C/GARS AT THE BAR FEED STABLE IN CONNECTION V/lTH THE HOTEL -\\Vl \ KSm i.Yx >NWoYA W^.l'o'k'Z.'KV'b^ 1 Vo. WVMVWbKW WLm\ S^WyiXVft, SS-C, Z1 -\ lo,H ^.?.KH^Q\.?V\ C,Q. \VV ■w 3s» M- ~ m, •» H • . -V f, V' Residence. Farm & Vineyard of DIED-RICH RICKEN BERG,Sec. 5.T.7, R.5, Randolph Co.!ld& ORIG,NALCV CALLED Cote AP LI X'ortlv g-bant jn*r7BTT J.OCUST J.OGUS'T CHESTMUjg T/l urch Squari EREeBE S3 ~S&S0 1)1 See. 16. T6, S.R.S.W •X.E.lon S.V. srf: U i.i +-SipMLffiLSgl IT JO! P -rim, ^ J'OtS / 5 TACK VT Cor. af 'KWM i Sue 19 T. 7.11.0', i4H 4 tali' H6 vT*r 4&a/ fea> j ofMW.y+SeaM- \ 4ft a/ Cola \ SquarA row CTmste? S(fuan ■2\ an'dki: IS! S lAr^a j errcRSQj I0s0is S.48°R■HMj