Bureau County, Illinois - Chapter 26, 1885

Chapter 26

act creating Bureau County provid- _1_ ed it should become a part of the Sixth Judicial Circuit, and that the court should have terms twice a year. Judge Daniel Stone, of Peoria, was the Presiding Judge, and he issued his proclamation convening the first court at Princeton, on the fourth Monday of June, 1838. Accordingly the court met on the day appointed, in the Hampshire Colony Church. Present: Daniel Stone, Judge; Cyrus Bryant, Clerk; Cyrus Langworthy, Sheriff; Edward Southwick, Circuit Attorney. Judge Stone had appointed Bryant, Clerk, the commission dated August 19, 1837. Joseph Duncan, Governor, issued Langworthy's commission as Sheriff, July 11, 1837. The first case on the docket was Jacob Galer vs. Richard Pearce, an attachment suit for 153 for lumber sold to Pearce and used in improving his property in Princeton, a building on Lot 159. Publication was made in the Peoria Register. Printer's fee $3.25. The second was an appeal from Judge Salisbury's court to the Circuit Court. It was Davis & Moon vs. James Peters, suit on a promissory note for $94, bearing 12 per cent interest. The third suit was Nichol & Osborn vs. Alfred Tomkins, appeal. William C. Reagan, N. H. Purple, and T. Lyle Dickey were the attorneys present at this court. The first indictment was for larceny against David Beaty. Then they indicted Thomas J. Cole for adultery. The criminal cases were continued under bonds.

term of the court was March 27, 1839; Thomas Ford, Judge, and Norman H. Purple, State's Attorney. It was in session three days and adjourned. In July, 1839, the court again convened, same officers, etc., of the preceding court. March 24, 1840, court again met, same officers and attorneys. April 5, 1841, Judge Ford reappointed Cyrus Bryant, Circuit Clerk. September, 1841, court again met, same officers and attorneys. April, 1842 , same again, except Seth B. Farwell, State's Attorney. September term, 1842, John D. Caton was the Presiding Judge; Stephen Smith, Sheriff; other officers the same. In May, 1842, Sheriff Langworthy appointed Samuel Jones Under Sheriff.

At the August election, 1842, Stephen Smith was elected Sheriff, Cyrus Bryant was again elected Circut Clerk, and appointed E. S. Phelps, Deputy. Henry Thomas was elected Coroner.

In August, 1842, Rudolph G-. Sauer applied for naturalization to the Circuit Court. He seems to have been the first in this line. Simon Kinney appears as an attorney in the circuit as early as 1842. October, 1843, Judge Caton again presiding, and Benjamin F. Fridley was State's Attorney. The same officers held the May term of the court, 1844, same at the September term. Same at the May term, 1845. September term, this year, same again. At the May term the same again, except Burton C. Cook appeared as State's Attorney. At the September term, 1846, B. F. Fridley again appears as Circuit Attorney. May, 1847, B. C. Cook again was State's Attorney. Same officers at the fall term, this year. At the May term, 1848, David Brown appeared as the Clerk, and at the fall term, 1848, Joseph V. Thompson appeared as Sheriff, the other officers same as previous court. R. T. Templeton was County Coroner. At the May term, 1849, Hugh Henderson was Judge; Justin H. Olds, Clerk; J. V. Thompson, Sheriff; B. C. Cook, State's Attorney. At the October term, this year, T. Lyle Dickey was Judge. May term, 1850, same officers. April term, 1851, E. M. Fisher was Sheriff, the other officers same as previous court. At the October term, 1851, J. O. Glover appeared as pro tern. State's Attorney. In 1852 the old officers were all present, and again at the September term. There was a term of the court in January, 1853, Judge E. S. Leland presiding; E. M. Fisher, Clerk; Osmyn Smith, Sheriff; W. H. L. Wallace. State's Attorney. At the March term the same. October term same again. January, 1854, the same again. October term, same. January term, 1855, Stephen G. Paddock was the Sheriff. At the June special term, 1855, Madison E. Hollister was Presiding Judge. Again October term. January term, 1856, same. October term same. January term, 1857, Hollister, Judge; E. M. Fisher, Clerk; Z. K. Waldron, Sheriff; W. Bushnell, State's Attorney. At the September term, 1857, Martin Ballou, Judge; Fisher, Clerk; Waldron, Sheriff; George W. Stipp, State's Attorney. January, 1858, same. April term, same. September term, same. January term, 1859, D. E. Norton was Sheriff. September term, 1859, Judge Hollister presiding. December, 1859, same. March, 1860, same. September, 1860, same. December term, 1860, Hollister, Judge; G. M. Eadcliffe, Clerk; David E. Norton, Sheriff. March, 1861, Daniel McDonald was Sheriff, and D. P. Jones, State's Attorney. August, same. December, same. March, 1862, same. August, same. March, 1863, same, except Silas Battey appeared as Sheriff. August, same. December, do. March, 1864, do. The August term, 1854, was postponed to September by Judge Hollister. December,

1864, Henry F. Eoyce, Clerk; Moses G. Loverin, Sheriff; Charles Blanchard, State's Attorney. Special term of the Circuit Court, March, 1865, same. August, same. December, same. March, 1866, same. Special term, June, same. August, same. December term, 1866, Edwin S. Leland, Judge. March term, 1867. Samuel L. Richmond, Judge; Nicholas C. Buswell, Sheriff; Henry F. Royce, Clerk. December term, Judge Leland presiding. Januarj, 1868, Daniel H. Smith was appointed Deputy Clerk, and Charles J. Peckham, Deputy Clerk. March term, 1869, Clark Gray was Clerk. He appointed Scott Chapman, Deputy. March, 1870, Atherton Clark was Sheriff; Judge Leland, presiding. September, 1870, same. December, same. March term, 1871, Martin Carse was Sheriff. September, same. December, same. March, 1872, same. August, same. October, the Clerk- elect was George W. Stone. He was commissioned by Gov. Palmer. Stone appointed Clark Gray his Deputy, and in December following he appointed D. H. Smith, Deputy. M. G. Loverin was re-elected Sheriff. He appointed Philo H. Zeigler, Deputy. March, 1873, Leland, Judge; Stone, Clerk, and Loverin, Sheriff. August, same. Mareh, 1874. same. August, same. December, 1874, Alexander Brandon appeared as Sheriff. March, 1875, Charles C. Warren was State's Attorney. August, same. December, 1875, same. March, 1876, Arthur A. Smith, Judge, presiding, having exchanged with Judge Leland. December, 1876, Judge Leland, presiding; Daniel H. Smith, Clerk; Alexander Brandon, Sheriff. March, 1877, same. December term, 1877, Francis Goodspeed, Judge. March, 1878, Josiah McRoberts, Judgo. August, 1879, same. December, 1879, Judge Goodspeed, presiding. March term, 1880, Judge G. W. Stipp, presiding.

October 9, 1880, Smith appointed Hubble, Deputy. December term, 1880, Judge Goodspeed, presiding. March, 1881, Judge Stipp, presiding. August, 1881, Judge Josiah Mc- Roberts, presiding. December, Judge Goodspeed. March, 1882, same. August, same. December, James H. Robinson, Sheriff; Judge Goodspeed, presiding. March, 1883, Judge Stipp held the term of court.

Judge Goodspeed Resigns. - Judge Francis Goodspeed had been in precarious health for some time, and in July, 1884, he resigned and the Governor, on August 1, 1884, appointed to the vacancy Charles Blanchard, of Ottawa, as one of the Judges of the present Ninth Judicial Circuit; August, 1883, Judge McRoberts; December, Judge Stipp.

B. M. Skinner was elected State's Attorney in 1876; served until 1880. In 1880 Charles C. Warren was again elected State's Attorney and served until November, 1884, when he removed to Iowa to engage in the practice of his profession.

The first attorney to locate in the county was Simon Kinney. In fact, he was living in Indiantown before the county was formed. A sketch of this remarkable family may be found in a preceding chapter.

J. V. Thompson. - The birth, marriage, date of his coming and death are mentioned in a preceding chapter. Since writing the foregoing we learn the following additional interesting facts. Col. Thompson was one of the most genial and jovial men that ever came to the county. He and his first wife were natives of London. When twelve years old he was left an orphan, and was apprenticed to a shoemaker. He completed his trade, had owned his shop and had several journeymen working for him before he was twenty years of age. He came to this country, stopped in New York two years farming, and then came to Bureau County and became a farmer here, and so continued until elected Sheriff, as above mentioned. He was a Director in the old Grand Trunk Railway (now the Clinton Branch of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad), and held that position until the road was completed and became the property it is now. Col. Thompson was also Clerk, as before mentioned. He was very popular, not having a serious enemy in the world. He was an enthusiastic party man, but his enthusiasm greatly abated after Douglas' defeat - his political idol. Col. Thompson's death was startling and sudden. He was feeling unusually well and had driven to Tiskilwa, and there meeting some friends and when in the very act of telling some very amusing story he was stricken dead instantly of paralysis. By his first marriage he left two surviving children - Louis K. and George P. Lewis is the Supervisor of Walnut Township, and George P. is an eminent railroad man of Denver. By his last marriage there are three children: Mary S., of New York City, teacher of elocution, and Lucy, wife of Owen G. Lovejoy, of Princeton, and Joseph A., an attorney of New York City.

Cyrus Bryant, the first Circuit Clerk of the county, was one of the early settlers, and like all the Bryants, possessed a strong and original individuality. He was another of the brothers of our country's poet, William Cullen Bryant, and so far as we can learn, every one of the brothers and sisters of this family possessed a vein of genuine poetry, and were equally marked by a strong and vigorous common sense. Cyrus was noted for his sturdy independence, and in all the affairs of life he had the courage of his convictions. He had not the geniality of his younger brother, John H., and therefore it was only by the few who knew him best that he was fully credited with all the good that there was in his nature. He was quiet, modest and retiring in his nature, and to those who knew little of the sweet sunshine there was in bis nature he probably would appear austere in his manners. He loved the customs of his native Massachusetts with an unflagging devotion, and every year he would gather about him at his house a few congenial friends and talk and joke, eat apples, and drink cider and sing the old " 'f uge songs," and spend the day in jolly merriment - as hilarious as a swarm of schoolboys when just out of the school- room. And every year he kept up this old home custom till his death. None would be invited guests to these merry-makings except those who could sing, and from the quaint old song books of New England, of which Cyrus Bryant kept a goodly supply. These jolly old fellows would literally realize the aspirations of the poet on these occasions when he so sweetly sang:

The second lawyer to locate in Bureau County was Judge Martin Ballou, who is still among his old and many friends, hale and vigorous for one of his age; a man of quiet habits, retiring manners, and gentle in his movements; characteristics that have marked the whole course of his long life here. He has held office nearly continuously since his settlement in the county, and yet so modestly has he worn his official honors, including the judicial ermine of the Circuit Court, that but few, except those who had direct business with him in his official capacity, even knew that he was aught else than a sound lawyer and a modest citizen of the county.

Here he was admitted to practice. He studied in Mr. Field's office three years and then attended Cambridge Law School one term, and then came West. He was elected for this then new circuit of Bureau, Putnam and Marshall, 1857. His term expired June, 1861.

A lawyer named Sloan and H. O. Merriman (afterward of Peoria) had each been temporarily in the county. Merriman was from the State of New York, and he went from here to Peru and then to Peoria. Sloan went to Golconda, in southern Illinois, and was for some time Circuit Judge there. A brother of H. O. Merriman, Walter, came about this time, and after remaining a short time went to Galena.

A man named Alexander, from probably near Wheeling, came about this time. His father owned a great deal of land in Virginia and some in Illinois. He was very noisy, erratic, and somewhat reckless, and only remained a short time and left.

Among the early lawyers was a Judge W. A. Fraser. He had been a Judge of some of the United States Courts, probably in Wisconsin, in its Territorial days. A key to his whole character is the story of how he lost his Judgeship. In the town where he was located as Judge there were other attorneys ambitious for his seat, and taking advantage of circumstances, one day, they notified the President that Fraser was dead (drunk), but they omitted to fill in the parenthesis, and the result was the President appointed another man to the supposed vacancy. It was a serious practical joke on Judge Fraser, and one, when in his cups, he would tell over and over, from morn till night. He died in Princeton in 1858.

As stated above in this chapter, Gov. Thomas Ford held the courts here in 1839. The circuit was pretty much all northern Illinois, from Quincy to Chicago; and as late as 1849 this circuit was composed of the counties Peoria, Putnam, Bureau, LaSalle, Lee, Ogle, Kane, DeKalb and Marshall.

James Fancher came in 1846. He was an excellent young man. He died in 1848, aged twenty-eight years. Those who remember young Fancher speak of him in terms of warmest feeling. He was buried in the old Presbyterian grave- yard two miles south of Princeton on the old Moseley road. This old burying-ground has been neglected for years and the tombstone of Fancher' s grave lies prone upon the ground. Near Fancher's grave is the headstone of Eramus Pbelps, who was a bachelor who suicided by drowning in 1840. A large portion of those interred in this old ground were removed some years ago to Oakland Cemetery. The grounds are on the corner of the Arthur Bryant farm, and the people or the county authorities or some one interested in the dead should see that these few remaining ashes should be also transferred.

Charles L. Kelsey came to Princeton in 1844. He was born April 2, 1818, in Hartford, Conn., and died in Chicago, April 10, 1867. His father was William Kelsey, of England, and his mother was Elizabeth (Fowler) Kelsey, of Hartford. The Kelseys came to America over 200 years ago. Charles L. was noted for his warm and devoted attachment to Hon. Owen Lovejoy, and the circumstance that determined him to come to Princeton was hearing Mr. Lovejoy make a speech, and at once he made up his mind to come. During the lives of these two men this friendship was never dulled. Mr. Kelsey was admitted to the bar one year after coming to Princeton. He was noted for strength of mind and dry wit, the latter often serving him to unhorse an adversary or disarm such violent opponents as the early Abolitionists here encountered. As a presiding officer over a deliberative body or a meeting of the people he is yet frequently spoken of as a master. Mr. Kelsey married Elizabeth Benton, a daughter of Josiah Benton, noted as a very long-lived family, one of whom is now living and is over ninety years of age.

Mrs. Charles L. Kelsey is living in Princeton. She has two children; a son (Charles A.) is now in Texas; he studied law in the office of Milo Kendall; and a daughter with her.

Selby Doolittle came in 1845. He had studied law with Cooper & Glover in Ottawa. He died here in 1848. A large number of his relatives are in the county. Mr. Doolittle was gaining a fair practice.

Milo Kendall came in 1845 from Vermont, and except Judge Ballou is the oldest practitioner in the county. He studied law with Bartlett & Fletcher in Linden, Caledonia Co., Vt. From his first entry into the county to the present time he has commanded a full and lucrative share of the practice. Mr. Kendall is not only a big lawyer but is large every way, that is, both mentally and physically; dignified in carriage, genial and social in his intercourse with the world, he has won his way worthily to eminence and fortune (see biography).

early education and training in the law books was not very thorough, yet as a case lawyer he was strong and a hard working student. Like nearly all lawyers of that time, he mixed law and politics together, and as a stump speaker was strong enough to be a Democratic Elector for Buchanan in 1856. He resided in Princeton about twelve years and is now in Spirit Lake, Iowa. He went to California in 1849, and took his family with him, but returned and resumed his practice, and about the breaking out of the war he ! went to southern Illinois and engaged in fruit-raising. From this place he went to Chicago, then again to Princeton, and was for a time in the firm of Eccles & Kyle, and was then in partnership with K. E. Gibons, and then with John Scott and then with Richard Skinner.

John J. Long came in 1842. He was born September 8, 1841. Married Delia A. Sapp in 1873; the latter born October 21, 1846. They had two children.

J. I. Taylor located here in 1847, a native of Kentucky; married a daughter of Cyrus Langworthy. In person he was said to resemble Abraham Lincoln. Was noted as a strong jury lawyer, and could tell as good a story as Lincoln or anybody else. No man more enjoyed his boon companions. He was largely self-made and self-educated, and by strength of intellect and force of character won his way in life. He was possessed of much versatility of talent, as he made the tour of Europe and published a book of his observations and travels, and here, although without a particle of training as an author, he was much more successful than the average writers upon this somewhat hackneyed subject.

Judge Samuel Richmond came here in 1850. He was in the practice here about five years and then went to Lacon, Marshall Co. He was elected Circuit Judge, and died about 1873.

About the same time came JohnM. Grimes from Belmont, Ohio. He remained here ten years and then removed to Chicago, and practiced there quite successfully about five years and died. His body was brought to Princeton for burial. His family now reside here. He was known for one of the jolliest, best fellows in the world, and was noted for telling some of the most comical anecdotes on himself.

John Porter, Jr. was from Pennsylvania; came 1854. Remained here six years and i then returned to his native State. He enlisted in the army and was taken prisoner at Harper's Ferry. After he came out of the army he went to Springfield, Mass. , and engaged in the general insurance business. Quitting this he again came to Princeton. He is now traveling and lecturing on temperance.

In the winter of 1856-57 the bar of Princeton consisted of Milton T. Peters, J. I. Taylor, George W. Stipp, Milo Kendall, Judge M. Ballou, Levi North, C. L. Kelsey, Charles J. Peckham, William M. Zearing, C. P. Allen, Joseph S. Williams, J. M. Grimes, William A. Fraser, J. Porter and George O. Ide.

J. J. Herron was a native of Cumberland County, Penn. Was a graduate of Jefferson College. He came to Princeton in 1862, and entered into partnership with J. I. Taylor. He is now often spoken of as one of the most forcible lawyers ever in the county. He was twice elected to the State Legislature, in 1876 and 1878. He died in February, 1878, in Princeton. His widow, two sons and three daughters reside here.

was some time in partnership with Milton T.Peters. He was from Chicago; was noted for great assiduity and had fair success in his cases. He raised a regiment, had it stolen from him, and quit the army and located in Lacon and formed a partnership with Judge Richmond.

George O. Ide came from Springfield, Mass., in 1856. He commenced life here a school teacher; was one year in the Circuit Clerk's office. He had prepared himself for the prac- j tice of law before coming West. In 1857 he formed a partnership with Milo Kendall. ' This lasted fourteen years. He then went to Chicago and entered into partnership with S. G. Paddock, where he is still in the practice. A man of excellent attainments, a close and industrious student, very strong and emphatic in his opinions, and was regarded as one of the best chancery lawyers in the circuit

About the same time came G. Gilbert Gibons from Pennsylvania. He remained here until 1875, and then went to Chicago, where he continued in the practice until his death, two years ago. He was of German descent, and a fine lawyer. He was nervous, quick, genial, clever and able, and his entire acquaintance are ready to certify that he was the most companionable of men. His success in Chicago was complete, and his death just upon the threshold of his great promise was extremely sad.

Another Princeton lawyer who went to Chicago was "William M. Zeariug. He was a Bureau County boy. His family lived near Dover, and he was a clerk in a store, and between times in compounding pills he borrowed Blackstone of Milo Kendall and read law. He was admitted to the practice, but his tastes were for speculation in real estate. He went to Chicago and made a fortune in that growing city.

Charles Baldwin came in 1857. He at once took a prominent position in the county, and soon was also a prominent politician. His personal popularity was great. He was elected to the Legislature and the State Senate, and as a legislator he was honored with the important position of Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. He soon became a prominent business man, and his important business and political affairs absorbed his entire time to the exclusion of his law practice. He was a college graduate, dignified and elegant in bearing and devoted to his business affairs. His widow and four children are residents of Princeton.

Lyman Kendall studied with his uncle, Milo Kendall. He was licensed by the Supreme Court of Illinois, and located in Des Moines, and from there to Port McHenry, where he died, aged twenty-nine years. He was regarded here and in Iowa, where he practiced law, as the most brilliant and profound young lawyer at the bar. He married Miss Anna Morris, daughter of Isaac Norris, who with her young son now makes her home with her father.

Lyman Kendall was born in Barnett, Vt., August, 1840. He came West when quite young, and was reared in the family of his uncle, Milo. He was educated in the common schools of Princeton. After his sad death, his partner, Mr. McHenry, in conversation with Milo Kendall, told him that young K. was the best office lawyer he ever knew; that his court papers were as nearly perfect as it was possible to make them, and that his briefs in the Superior Courts were so complete a presentation of the case that there was nothing more needed on the final trial. In the prime of his useful and brilliant young life he was stricken down, leaving an

Judge G. W. Stipp, whose complete biography appears elsewhere, is one of the present Circuit Judges, and among the oldest members of the bar now in Princeton. On the bench or at the bar, he is everywhere recognized for his integrity and great abilities.

James S. Eckels, of the present firm of Eckels & Kyle, is a native of Cumberland County, Penn. Graduated in Jefferson College, August 3. 1853. He was reared on one of the stony farms of Pennsylvania, where he faithfully toiled until nearly twentyone years of age. After graduating, he taught school, and read some law. He taught in an academy in Ins native State; and in February, 1857, graduated in the Albany, N. Y., law school. Located in Princeton, June 16, 1857. He would impress the stranger as a man of books, cultured, and a life- long student, a brain-worker. He is recognized by his brethren of the bar as a ripe scholar, able lawyer, of the finest social and companionable qualities. Twice he has been a candidate for Congress in a largely Republican district, and his personal strength has always sent him ahead of the ticket in the race. His Democracy and temperance have always been his strong political characteristics.

John T. Kyle was born in Mifflintown, Penn. He graduated in Jefferson College in 1854, and in 1856 graduated in the Eaton Law School. He came to Princeton in company with James S. Eckels, and the two have been continuously in partnership.

Hon. Owen Lovejoy was a licensed attorney, but was so little known in this capacity that this will be news to some of his own acquaintances. He read law at home, and about the time he quit ministrations of the church and entered political life he was licensed an attorney.

Owen G. Lovejoy, his son, is now one of the members of the Princeton bar. He entered Milo Kendall's office as a student in 1870. At that time Kendall & Ide were partners in the practice. Mr. Lovejoy was licensed to practice in 1873, and is now a partner with his preceptor, Mr. Kendall. Although Mr. Lovejoy is comparatively young in the practice, he is already recognized by all the bar as a sound lawyer, and the most industrious student in the county, and, as his abilities are of a high order, it is only a question of time when he will take his place at the head of his profession.

W. A. Johnson is the sole representative in North Princeton of the profession since W. L. Henderson has moved away. He is on the threshold of his professional life, and already has received a generous recognition at the hands of his fellow-lawyers and the public. We have no hesitation in predicting for him a useful and successful career in his chosen profession.

C. C. Warren has twice been State's Attorney for Bureau County, being first elected in 1872 and again in 1880. His present term is about to expire, and he will at once remove to Iowa, and go into the practice there. He studied law under Blackwell & Walker (Judge), and began practice in Eushville. He went to California, and was there eleven years, and located in Princeton in 1870. He is everywhere recognized as one of the ablest attorneys ever in the county.

for the county. He and his jounger brother, George, are one of the best firms in the county, and their large and lucrative practice is and will continue to grow (see biography).

The following is the present bar in Princeton: Judge M. Ballou, Milo Kendall, James Eckels, John T. Kyle, John Scott, Richard M. and George Skinner, H. M. Trimble, Capt. E. B. Gibons, Owen G. Lovejoy, W. A. Johnson, M. U. Trimble, Judge S. M. Knox, Judge G. W. Stipp, W. W. Stipp, T. 0. Clark, J. S. Williams.

Judge Knox has retired from the practice, and is a real estate dealer. He was County Judge in 1861. Gradually changed to a real estate operator, and has handled a large quantity of the Union Pacific Eailroad lands. His success here has been rather phenomenal, and he has now acquired quite a fortune. A gentleman noted for suavity of manners and strong and versatile talents, and in every way deserves the success in life that has crowned his efforts.

John Scott is one of the rising lawyers of this bar. He is active, indefatigable, and of varied talents. At the bar, in the literary societies, on the stump, or in the columns of the county paper, he is equally at home in all of them. And to all these many pastimes he is a farmer as well, and here he again is full of push, pluck and vim. An argument in court, a lecture or essay in a society, a pungent political or polemical article in the local paper, or a speech from the hustings, either or all at once, are ever ready to hand with John Scott. And from the zest with which he encounters them all, we judge that busy action is the pleasure of his life (see biography).

Col. T. J. Henderson, the present and for the past eight years a Member of Congress, came from Stark County. He has again just been re-elected to Congress, where it now looks as though he had a lease at will. His power and popularity are fully attested, not only by his neighbors, but by the people of the district in the overwhelming majorities they always give him at elections (see biography).

Judge Jesse Emmerson, of Buda, has long been one of the leading members of the bar. He came to the county when a boy, with his family, who are among the old and leading people of the county. In 1873 he was elected County Judge, a position he filled with eminent ability. His popularity and influence are fully attested by the fact that he has always been a Democrat, and yet was elected to the most prominent office in the county against an overwhelming political majority. As a lawyer, able, honest and just, he worthily stands at the head of the profession. In social and private life he is yet more widely and better known, and universally respected. When the writer first met Judge Emmerson it was an easy matter to understand the secret of his popularity and fair fame among all the people. He found him an open, genial, social and perfect gentleman. His pleasant greeting, his frank and manly manners, his broad and pleasant face, lit with warmth and kindness, could not be mistaken. They are the open sesame to the world's warm respect and abiding confidence.

many men that his duties required him to interview in Bureau County. Among so many, to find but two ill-bred human porcupines is a little remarkable; because every where there is a class of men that neither clothes nor money will change from the twolegged hogs that they were originally made. In some places are more, of course, than in others. Having found but two in the" whole county, it is palpable that there is a very small crop here. These lonely boors should be carefully kept alive, as a contrast for the rising generation to contemplate the wide difference between gentility and meanness.

Harry Fulton was at one time a lawyer in Tiskilwa. He died there some years ago. Also, at one time in Tiskilwa, was a lawyer named Flagg. He was from Bloomington. He soon left the county. Judge C. C. Wilson was once in Tiskilwa. He was appointed by Grant, Chief Justice of Utah.

At Lamoille was a lawyer named Hemingway. He continued to practice until he died in that place. C. H. Bryant was for some time in this place, and went to California.

Presidential Electors. - In. the Illinois list of Presidential Electors who at different times have cast the vote of the State for President, the first was Milton T. Peters, in 1856; the vote was given to James Buchanan. In 1868 Thomas J. Henderson was an elector from the county. The vote was for Grant.

Representatives.- - The Representatives in the State Legislature in the sessions of 1838- 40 were "William H. Henderson, Putnam and Bureau Counties.

1840 - John Hamlin, Senator, was the representative from the counties of Peoria, Putnam, Marshall, Bureau and Stark. W. H. Henderson was again the Representative.

1842-44 - John H. Bryant and Cyrus Langworthy, Representatives. Mr. Bryant represented Peoria, Stark and Bureau. Mr. Langworthy represented Bureau and Stark. This came of the complications in redistricting the State, and Mr. Bryant was the " member at large." In this assembly W. W. Thompson was the Senator.

1864 - W. C. Stacy, of Princeton, was a member of the lower House. He has gone to Iowa. He was again elected. Stephen G. Paddock was Clerk of the House in 1866-68. In the sessions of 1868-70 James H. Paddock, Third Assistant Secretary of the Senate.

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1870-72 - Senator L. D. Whiting, who was re-elected 1874, 1878 and 1882, and is the present member. He has earned the title of the " Father of the Senate."

Congress - John T. Stuart, first Member. John Wentworth represented the district from 1843 to 1845; his first term. Again from 1845 to 1847; then 1847 to 1849. Jesse O. Norton was the Member from 1853 to 1855, and again from 1855 to 1857.

May 20, 1864, Ebon C. Ingersoll entered Congress to fill the vacancy caused by Lovejoy's death. Ingersoll was then elected the three succeeding terms.

Bradford N. Stevens, of Tiskilwa, was elected in 1870, and served two years. The only Democrat ever elected in the district. He defeated E. C. Ingersoll.