Bureau County, Illinois - Biographical sketches, 1906 (part 18 of 28)

Frank C. Thackaberry, of this review, who was reared and educated in Pennsylvania, and, after completing the common school course, he learned and followed the milling business for four years. He then came to the middle west, for a consideration of the business outlook led him to believe that he might have better opportunities in this section of the country. For some time after his arrival in Bureau county he was engaged in mechanical pursuits, devoting four years to such work in this county and in California. For twenty years, however, his attention has been largely given to general farming and stock-raising, and he is now one of the prominent agriculturists and breeders of thoroughbred stock in Fairfield township. His home is pleasantly and conveniently located on section 9, and there he tills the soil, bringing forth good crops, while at the same time he is extensively engaged in breeding and raising thoroughbred Poland China hogs, shorthorn cattle and Oxford Down sheep. At the fair held in this county in 1906 he made five entries and carried off five ribbons, all being first premiums on the sheep which he exhibited. His (lock is headed by an undefeated buck that carried all first honors in Michigan from the time that he was placed on exhibition. Mr. Thackaberry also keeps about two hundred head of Poland China hogs and about fifty head of sheep, keeping only the highest grade stock. His farm is thoroughly orjuipped with all modern accessories and conveniences, his buildings being specially arranged for the care of his line stock, and tliroughout the county it is regarded as one of the model farms.

Mr. Thackaberry was married in 1882, before going to California, the lady of his choice being Miss Alvaretta Thackaberry, a daughter of Marcus Thackaberry, who is mentioned elsewhere in this volume. She was born in Fairiield township, and by her marriage has become the mother of five children, of whom two were born in California. Frank is now preparing for the ministry at Eureka (Illinois) College, and has been engaged in teaching, and filled a professorship at Big Rock, Illinois. Wayne died in 1893, at the ago of eight years. ]\I;iriiie V. is attending college in Do Knlb, Illinois. Harold, who was born in California, died in 1S93, when sixteen months old. Forrest G., who was born in Fairfield township, is at home. The family has resideil contitiuoiisly in Fairiield township since 1892, and in the intervening years Mr. Thackaberry has given undivided nH(M)tion to his stock-breeding and raising interests, which he has very successfully controlled, being recognized now as one of the leading stockmen of this part of the state. He has a new residence upon his farm, and it is a most splendidly improved place. Hihas served in various local offices, and was a candidate of the proliibition party for strife legislature, at which time he ma<le a good run. Socially he ii connected witli the Modern Woodmen of America and with the Mystic Workers. They are also mem- bfis of the Christian church, ^h: Thackaberry is public-spirited and recognizes the duties and obligations of citizenship and at the same time finds pleasure in aiding in support of the measures and movements which he dooms of benefit to the county. Ilis life is illustrative of the fact that prosperity and an honored name may be won simultaneously, for while gaining success in an active business career he has at the same time so directed his affairs that naught is said against his integrity and the methods which he pursues in conducting his business interests.

Sidney W. Scott

Sidney W. Scott, engaged in general farming and stock-raising in Neponset township, was born in Henry county, Illinois, August 29, 1857. His parents were Robert and Deborah (Dunfee) Scott. The father, a native of Jefferson county, Ohio, was born January 10, 1825, and is now living in Neponset. His parents were John and Nancy (Crouch) Scott, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Maryland. They died, however, in Jefferson county, Ohio. The greatgrandfather of our subject was James Scott.

Robert Scott had but meaner educational privileges, spending only six months in a schoolroom, but his desire for knowledge has been satisfied by constant reading and he has become a well informed man. He was reared in his native county and at the age of twenty-two years enlisted in the American army, serving for six months in the ^lexican war. He then returned to Ohio and lived for five and a half years in A\'ashington county. On the 31st of October. 1859, he married Deborah A. Dunfee, who was born at Torch, Athens county, Ohio, March 21, 1835, a daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Styles) Dunfee. They became residents of Illinois in October, 185-1, making the journey from Ohio by wagon and settling near Kewanee. There Mr. Scott followed farming for about three years, after which he removed to Neponset township, where he purchased one hundred and twenty acres which he afterward sold and then purchased three hundred and sixty acres of land, carrying on general farming and stock-raising. He continued actively in the business until 1880, when he retired with a handsome competence, gleaned from his labors as the years passed i)y. He has since enjoyed a well earned rest at his home in Neponset, where he is widely and favorably known. His political support was given the republican party until Grant's second term, since which time he has voted with the democracy. His life illustrates the fact that success may be achieved by determined and unfaltering diligence, for in that way Mr. Scott overcame all the difficulties and obstacles in his path and steadily worked ins way upward until prosperity rewarded him. The family numbers two sons and two daughters : Melvin 0. ;

Sidney W. Scott pursued his education in the public schools of Neponset and was reared to the work of the fields, early becoming familiar with all tlic duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist. At the age of twenty-one years he started in life on his own account as a farmer and in 1882 he bought one hundred and twenty acres of land. In 1888 he purchased one hundred and sixty acres and in 1897 made purchase of one hundred and twenty acres, while on the 2Sth of August, 190G, he became owner of three hundred and twenty acres of land in Manitoba, thirty-nine miles from Winnipeg, Canada. He has always carried on general farming and stock-raising and has been well known as a stock-buyer and feeder of cattle, feeding from eighty to one hundred head of cattle annually and sometimes as high as one hundred and fifty head per year. He also feeds about three carloads of hogs each year and in former years he engaged in raising sheep, keeping at one time from two hundred to two hundred and twenty-five head upon his place. His business interests have heen carefully conducted and he has become known as one of the leading stock-dealers of the county.

On the 2.3d of February, 1882, lh\ Scott was married of Miss Elizabeth BatdorlT, wlio was born in Neponset township, January 26, 18G1, a daughter of Michael and Sarah (Norton) Batdorff. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Scott have been born the following named children : Lucy, born March G, 1881 ; Robert A., June 4, 1886; Albert E., January 23, 1893 ; Nellie M.. September 28, 189-1 ; Blanche, September 28, 1S9G: and Yelma, August 10, 1898. They also lost one child in infancy.

In politics Mr. Scott is independent, voting for men and measures rather than party, but he has little time or opportunity for political work, preferring to give his attention to his business interests. He is justly regarded as one of the foremost farmers and stock-raisers of Neponset township, for his business has now reached extensive proportions and in its control he shows keen discernment and marked enterprise.

Edward H. Marriott

EDWARD H. MARRIOTT. Ivlward H. Marriott is projirietor of a meat market in La MoiHo, his native village. He was horn February 28, 1860, and is of English lineage. He was one of two children whose parents were Henry and Jane (Perry) Marriott, natives of England, who caiue to the United States in 1857 and settled in La Jloille town.ship. Bureau county, Illinois. The other child of the family died at the age of six years. The father is living at Kearney, Nebraska, but the mother passed away November 25, 1878.

The boyhood days of Edward II. Marriott were quietly passed, unmarked by any event of special importance. The duties of the schoolroom and the pleasures of the playground occupied liis attention, his education being acijuired in La Jloille. After leaving school he entered into the meat market business and has since continued in this line, being now proprietor of a good estalilishment of this character. It is well equipped in its various appointments for the care and preservation of meat and his shop is at all times neat and well conducted, so that he has a liberal patronage. His business methods are so strictly honorable and straightforward that he enjoys the confidence of the entire public and his trade is in consequence continually growing.

On the 17th of September, 1884, Mr. Marriott was married to Miss Sarah E. Lingel, of Sterling, Illinois, who was born in Pennsylvania, June 10, 1862, and was brought to Illinois when only two years of age by her parents, John and Frances (Finafrock) Lingel, who were likewise natives of the Keystone state, born in Franklin county. In their family were six children, of whom Mrs. Marriott was the youngest. Fler girlhood days were passed in this state and her education was acquired in the schools of Sterling. Three children have graced this marriage. Dare, Ned and Beth. The second son is now in the state of Washington, while the elder son and the daughter yet remain at home.

Mr. Marriott in his fraternal relations is connected with the Mystic \Yorkers lodge, No. 227, at La Moille, and since casting his first presidential ballot for Kutherford B. TIayes, of Ohio, he has been a stalwart republican in iiis political association. He owns in La iloille an attractive home and si.x acres of land, also a brick business block, in w-hich he conducts his market, and other property. He had no special advantages at the outset of his career, but he stands today among the leading business men of La Moille, having a good patronage, while in his township he is known as a man of kindly and genial disposition, whose deference for the opinions of others and whose genuine personal wortli have gained him the confidence and goodwill of a large circle of friends and acquaintances.

James S. Fuller

JAMES S. FULLER. James S. Fuller, engaged in general agricultural pursuits, who in former years gained more than local reputation as a school teacher and is now making a creditable record in farming circles, resides in Ohio township. His birth occurred in Geneseo, Illinois, on the 27tli of January, 1861, his parents being diaries and Catliarine (Brady) Fuller. The father was born in Ithica, New York, and came to Illinois in 1829 when all the northern .section of this slate was an almost uninhabited district, giving little promise of its present development and progress. He married Miss Brady, a native of Pennsylvania, and of tlieir family of nine children James S. was the si.xth in order of birth.

No event of special importance occurred to vary the routine of farm life for James S. Fuller in his early boyhood days. He pursued his preliminary education in the public schools of Henry county and afterward enjoyed the advantage of instruction in the Northwestern Normal school at Geneseo, Illinois. When his student life was ended he became a teacher and for ten years followed that profession with excellent success, proving an able representative of the system of public instruction in this part of the state. He was an e.xcellent disciplinarian and, moreover, had the ability to impart clearly and concisely to others the knowledge that he had acquired. His entire attention is now given to general agricultural pursuits and lie owns eighty acres of land which was the old homestead property of Mrs. Fuller. The farm is now well improved, the lields being richly cultivated and divided into tracts of convenient size by well kept fences. The buildings are in good repair and everything about the place is indicative of the careful supervision and practical methods of the owner.

On the 3d of April, 1889, James S. Fuller was married to Miss Ella Haines, who was born in Bureau county, July 4, 1868. She, too, completed her education in Northwestern Normal at Geneseo, Illinois. Her parents were A. J. and Julia (Williams) Haines, natives of Maine and of Pennsylvania respectively. They became early pioneer residents of Bureau county, settling here in 1835, at which time they cast in their lot with the citizens of Ohio township. Both, however, are now deceased. In their family were four children, of whom Mrs. Haines is the third in order of birth. The marriage of our subject and his wife has been blessed with a son and ilaughter: Albert A., born Mav 14, 1894; and Mildred G., born March 30, 1900.

Kegarding it the duty as well as the jtrivilege of every .American citizen to support the political principles which he believes are most conducive to general good and the best government, he gives a loyal support to the republican party. Fraternally he is connected with lodge No. 61, Knights of the Globe, and he and his family are members of the Methodist church, in the work of whicli lie is interested, wiiile to its sujiport he contributes liberally. The family are now comfortably situated in life and Mr. Fuller is deserving of credit for what he lias accomplished in the business world. He had little assistance when he started out on his own account, but he realized that the e.s.sential qualities of succe.-is are close appliealiou, unfaltering jierseveranre and trustworthiness, and upon that foundation he has Imilded the superstructup' of lii'^ present pmsprrity. lie is an ad- vocate, too, of education and of all those things which promote esthetic,, intellectual and moral culture and his influence is ever on the side of the right, the true and the beautiful.

Le Roy Hudson Reed

Le Roy Hudson Reed, whose name is now on the roll of Bureau county's honored dead, was born in Perrv county, Ohio, July 13, 1841, and belonged to that class of citizens who are true and loyal to public interests and who in private life manifest many sterling traits of character. His father, the Rev. John Reed, was a native of Massachusetts and a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church. With his family he removed to Grant county, Wisconsin, in 185-1. and there lived for ten years, coming thence to Bureau county. Illinois,' in 18G4, where he spent his remaining days. His political views were in accord with republican principles.

Le Roy Hudson Reed was educated in the common schools and was reared amid the refining influences of a good Christian home, so that the seeds of honorable manhood were early planted in his mind through the training and teaching wliich he received under the parental roof. On the Tth of August, 18G6, he wedded Miss Sarah F. Britton, who was born in Mason county, Illinois, May 20, 184G. She was one of the eleven children of Deacon Andrew and Eunice (Benjamin) Britton. Iler mother was from Allegany county. New York, and lier father came to Bureau county from Mason county, Illinois, in 1850, accompanied by his family. He lived upon his farm until 1872, when he retired from active business life and took up his abode in Bradford. Both he and his wife liave now passed away. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Reed were born eight children, six daughters and two sons, all of whom are yet living. Adda E. married John M. Christman, a farmer and stockman living in Nevada, Iowa, and has one daughter. Stella is the wife of Ba.xter Sharp, a dentist of Mendota, Illinois, and has three sons. Cora Etta is the wife of George Smith, a farmer of Marshall county, Illinois, and they have one son and one daughter. Sarah Grace, Dorlesque J., M. Viola and Frank B. are all at homo; and Clark L., the youngest of the family, is attending college at Ames, Iowa. There is also an adopted son, Christopher King, who studied law in Chicago and has now practiced his profession for seven or eight years with offices in the New York Life Building in Chicago. Before taking up the profession of the law he taught school for several years and he is a young man of strong intellectual force and ability. He married Lottie Dutton. of Chicago, September 15. 1906.

lived upon the old home place. He had altogether three hundred and twenty acres in Milo township, where his widow now resides, and he improved the farm, making it a nice property equipped with all modern conveniences and accessories. It is located on section 31 and about three miles east of Bradford. The farm work is now conducted by their son Frank, who is e.xtensively engaged in the raising and feeding of cattle, horses and hogs and also buys and sells stock.

Politically ]\Ir. Reed was an earnest republican, believing firmly in the principles of the party. He served as school director and road commissioner and was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Bradford, of which he served as trustee for many years. He was deeply interested in the material, intellectual and moral progress of his community and he stood for all that is right and just in man's relations with his fellowmen and for all that tends to ameliorate the hard conditions of life for the more unfortunate ones of the world. His good qualities were so many and his friendships so sincere that he was well liked by all and his death, which occurred April 29, 1906, was the occasion of deep and widespread regret. His widow still resides upon the old homestead and has many friends in the community.

Thomas Earl Vaughn

Thomas Earl Vaughn, deceased, was a man whom to know was to respect and honor, and in Bureau township, where he had very wide acquaintance, his memory is cherished by many friends. He was born at New Bedford, Massachusetts, in July, 1833, a son of Stillman and Lucinda (Washburn) A^anghn, both of whom were natives of the old Bay state. On leaving New England they located in Zanesville, Ohio, and removed thence to Bureau county, Illinois, where they arrived when their son, Thomas E., was a young man of eighteen years. Tliis was about 1850 and through almost a half century he remained a resident of the county, identified with its agricultural interests.

On the 9th of November, 1855, Mr. Vaughn was united in nuirriage to Miss Lydia J. Hollingshead, a daughter of Thomas and Sarah Hollingshead. Her father's death occurred in this county and her mother passed away in the spring of 1891. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn was blessed with a family of twelve children: Lewis. John A., Nathan F., Julia A., Lillian M.. Thi>inas C Emma J., Fannie E., Maggie S., Earl S., Vorna V. and Nellie Ij. The daughters Lillian and Maggie, are now deceased.

As the years passed by Mr. Vaughn became the owner of a valuable farm property' comprising one hundred and sixty acres of land, in addition to which he owned fifty acres of timber land. This, however, did not comprise the extent of his acreage, for as his tinaucial resources iiicreaseil he made judicious iiivestiiiciUs in property and during his life time owned live hundred and thirty acres, being one of the large landholders of this part of the county. He also engaged in merchandising in the town of W-yanet for a number of years, dealing in hardware and clothing and afterward in groceries. He secured a liberal patronage in his store, owing to his earnest efforts to please his customers, his reasonable prices and his straightforward dealings. He w'as a man of good business capacity and of executive force and his labors resulted in the acquirement of a very handsome competence. He was always interested in matters relating to the general welfare and though he never sought or desired public office he kept well informed on issues of the day and generally gave his support to the republican party. He did not consider himself bound by party ties, however, and frequently cast an independent ballot. His religious faith was indicated by his membership in the Jlethodist church and was, moreover, evidenced by his daily life, his consideration for the rights of others and his honestj' and integrity under all conditions. He passed away February 9, 1899 in his sixty-sixth year and the community thereby lost one of its valued citizens, his neighbors a faithful friend and his family a devoted husband and father.

Mrs. Vaughn is also a devoted and zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal church. She still lives upon the old homestead and her son Lewis and daughter Emma J. are still living with her.

Darius Miller

DARIUS MILLER. Darius ^filler, first vice-president of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railway, with office in Chicago, was born in Princeton, Illinois, April 3, 1859. Almost his entire life has been devoted to railroad service, in which he has made steady progress, his ability gaining recognition in promotion which has made him consecutively stenographer in the general frciglit office of tlie Michigan Central railroad from November, 1877, until June, 1880 ; clerk in the general freight office of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern railway from June, 1880, until February, 1S81; chief clerk to the general manager of the I\Iemphis & Little Eock Railroad from February, 1881, until October, 1883 ; general freight and ticket agent of the same road from October 8, 1883, until June 1, 1887; general freight and passenger agent of the St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas railroad from June, 1887, until July, 1889; traffic manager of the same road from July 1, 1889, until December 15, 1890; traffic manager of the Queen & Crescent route from December 15, 1890, until May 20, 1893; traffic manager of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railway from May 20, 1893, to September 1, 1896; vice president of the same road from September 1, 1896, until November 15, 1898; second vice president of the Great Northern railway from November 15, 1898, to December 31, 1901; and on tlie 1st of January, 1902, he became first vice president of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railway. His rise has tiius been rapid to a position of i)rominence, making him one of the well known factors in railroad circles in the country.

Jonathan N. Pettigrew

Jonathan N. Pettigrcw is a retired farmer living on section 16, Milo township. He has followed the natural course of events in a busy life, for nature seems to have intended that man should enjoy a period of rest in his later years. In youth he is full of energy and hope and these later are tempered by sound judgment and business experience and when industry is well applied and when perseverance is unceasing he eventually earns a competence which in the evening of life permits him to enjoy a well earned rest. Such has been the record of Mr. Pettigrew, a most respected citizen of Milo township. He was born in Dearborn county, Indiana, December 19, 1834, a son of Nathan Pettigrew, who spent his later years in this county and here passed away. In the family were nine children, of whom there were seven sons, Jonathan N. being the youngest. He now has one sister living, Mary Frances, of Martinsville, Indiana.

Mr. Pettigrew of this review was educated in the common schools of his native state and also attended school for two winters after arriving in Illinois. He came to Bureau county in 1819 when a youth of sixteen years, arriving here with only fifteen cents in his pocket. His financial londition rendered immediate employment a necessity. He had driven across the country with one horse, an old buggy and a saddle horse, and after reaching his destination ho worked at anything that he could get to do that would yield him an honest living. Thus he made his start, carefully saving his earnings until in 1851 he had a sum sufficient to enable liim to purchase three eighty-acre tracts of land, for which he paid three hundred dollars. He has since lived upon the farm which at that time came into his possession. He now owns eighty acres where he resides, together with fifteen acres of timber land, and has a well developed farm property, his home being i)leasnntly and conveniently situated about five miles from Bradford. He has seen the country grow from a rough jirairic into one of the rich agricultural counties of the state and has done much toward making it what it is today.

Mr. Pettigrew was married to Miss Diana E, Blaisdell, of Peoria county, Illinois, who was l)om in Mercer county, this state. They had four ihildren: Jay, who married Jlrs. Towilliger, by whom he has a son and a daughter, and livi^ in Brad- ford, Illinois; Lou, who died in 1^04, leaving a wife and two children; Laura, the wife of Asa Lake of Stark county, Illinois; and Benjamin, who married a Miss Webster and lives upon his father's farm. He has one child.

Politically Mr. Pettigrew is a republican but has never had aspiration for office nor has he ever identified himself with fraternal organizations. He and his wife are yet very active and he is a selfmade man, deserving much credit for what he has accomplished. He has been both the architect and builder of his own fortunes and the result of his labors has been gratifving.

Oliver Wells McKenzie, who died on the 22d of -July, 1892, wa.s a citizen of sterling worth who for many years had resided upon his farm Just south of Yorktown in Fairfield township and who was honored and respected throughout the community and wherever he was known. Coming to this country at an early day, he demonstrated in his life record that success and an honorable name may be won simultaneously, for he started out in life empty handed and worked his way steadily upward until he was numbered among the prosperous residents of the county. Moreover, he was closely associated with many early events which have left their impress upon the development and upbuilding of the community.

A native of New York, Mr. McKenzie was born in Port Henry, March 8, 182.5, his parents being John and Betsy (Havens) McKenzie, who were likewise natives of that place. They came to the west accompanied by their family of nine children, including Hiram, Eliza, John, Oliver W., De Lafayette, Lyman, Louisa, Kobert and Chauncey. Of these Lyman, Robert and Chauncey are still living and the last two are residents of this county, while L;\anan makes his home in AVoodrufl, Kansas. The father purchased a farm near Yorktown in Fairfield township, constituting a part of the property now owned by his son Eobert. He devoted his remaining days to the arduous task of developing and improving a new farm on the frontier and here pa.sscd away July 3, 1857, at the age of sixty-three years, while his wife died on the .5th of March, 1^.51, at the age of fifty-eight years.

Oliver W. McKenzie, whose name introduces this record, accompanied the family on their removal westward to Bureau county in the spring of 1846. His education had been ac(juired in the schools of his native state and there he had learned the blacksmith's trade, which he followed prior to his marriage. He was the first blacksmith and storekeeper in Yorktown and thus he became closely associated with the early growth and improvement of the community and with the work of establishing its industrial and commercial status. Following his marriage he turned his attention to farming, settling on section 7, Fairfield township. He was a prosperous agriculturist and in addition to the tilling of the soil he was extensively engaged in raising cattle, horses and hogs. Whatever he undertook he carried forward to completion and his unfaltering perseverance and his diligence, which enabled him to overcome all the difficulties and obstacles in his path, at length gained him a place among the prosperous men of the county. He added to his original holdings until at one time he owned nearly seven hundred acres of land, of which one hundred and sixty acres was in Whiteside county, while the remainder was in Bureau county. He continued actively in business until about sixteen months prior to his demise and therefore his was a most useful, active life, while his business integrity also stood as one of the salient features in his career.

Mr. ]\IcKenzie was married in Princeton to Miss Emily Dow on the 20th of March, 1850. She was a sister of Benjamin F. Dow, who is mentioned elsewhere in this work, and for thirtyeight years she proved a faithful companion and helpmate to her husband on life's journey, at the end of which time she was called to laer final rest on the 5th of November, 1888, when fiftyeight years of age. Unto Mr. and ]\Irs. McKenzie were born six children, Eliza E., the eldest, born February 3, 1851, was married on the 13th of February, 1868, to William M. Brooks, who was born Aug^ist 27, 1846. near Cato, New York, and in 1859, when a youth of thirteen, accompanied his parents on their removal to Galesburg, Illinois. The family, however, was soon afterward established in Fairfield township. Bureau county, where the parents made their home until death. William M. Brooks was a son of Earl S. and Margaret (Jewell) Brooks, the former pa.^sing away February 27, 1883, at the age of seventy-six years, while the latter died on the 21st of .\pril, 1901, at the advanced age of eightyfour. Mr. and Jlrs. William ]\L Brooks now have three children. Clinton A., who was born March 12, 1872, and is now residing near Center Chapel in Fairfield township, was married March 25, 1894, to ^liss Nettie Bunker and has three children: Eva Dell, born September 6, 1895; De Wayne, born February 5. 1901 : and Clara W., who was born February 12. 1904. Glenn E. Brooks, born February 16, 1881, and now engaged in farming in Fairfield township, married iliss Lena Rowe on the 19th of March, 1902, and has one son, Gordon. Blanche JI. Brooks, born June 23, 1883, became the wife of Le Roy Darnell on the 27th of August, 1903. They reside just south of Yorktown and they have two children: Evelvn and Kenneth. Julius Adclbert McKenzie, born' July 14, 1853, died September 23, 1856. Raymond H., born November 30. 1854, and now living retired at Tampico, was married to Lovina

West and they have three chihlren: Le Roy, Fern and Clyde- William E., born October 20, 1856, died November 25, 1858. Oliver Wilson, born July 5, 1859, died July 3, 18C3 ; and one child, born September 27, 1861, died when only three weeks old.

Oliver W. McKenzie was always a stalwart democrat in his political faith but frequently cast an independent ballot at local elections. He was the tirst constable and also the first assessor in Fairfield township and was closely identified with public progress whether in office or out of it. He lived in the county in early days when its homes were largely pioneer cabins and when mucli of its land was uncleared and uncultivated. Ilis memory compassed the time when the houses were heated with fireplaces and lighted by candles and when the farm work was done with very crude machiner}" as compared to the improved agricultural implements of this day. However, he kept in touch with the trend of modern progress and at all times he stood for every interest that tended to benefit the county along material, intellectual and moral lines. He was always straightforward in his business transactions, considerate of his friends, kindly in manner and of unquestioned integrity of purpose, and thus he left behind him a record which is indeed worthv of emulation.

George Washington Hewitt is proprietor of the Hickory Grove farm, situated just at the corporation limits of the village of !Maulius. it comprises one hundred and eighty acres of land which is well improved and in the further development and cultivation of this place Mr. Hewitt spends his time and energies with the result that his labors are attended with good .success. He was tiorn in Orange, Oliio, October 9, 1840, a son of William and Roxena (MctcaU') Hewitt, wlio were originally from l^rassachusetts. Tlie father was a farmer by oct'upation and, emigrating westward in 1849, he passed through Bureau county. Later he returned to Cleveland, Ohio, but in 1852 he made a permanent settlement in this county. Here he engaged in fanning up to the time of his death, which occurred in 190.'?. He had for a number of years survived his wife.

George W. Hewitt was ed\icateil in the common schools of Bureau county and farmed with his father until after the outbreak of the Civil war, when he enlisted in defense of the Union, becoming a member of the Sixty-fourth Illinois Volunteer Infantry in 1862. Tlie regiment was mustered in at SpriTigfield, and lie parliiipated in the battles of Franklin, Lookout i^Iountain, Dalton. Resaca, Ackworth, Xew Hope Church, Kenesaw ^fountain and Marietta. He was also in tlie siege of Atlanta and in the battle of Peach Tree Creek. Sul)Si>quent to the capitnlation of .Vtbinta the regiment to which Mr. Hewitt belonged marched to Jonesboro and on to Savannah, then through South Carolina to Goldsboro, North Carolina, and to Raleigh. Later tliey proceeded to Wasiiinglon, D. C, where be participated in the grand review on the 23d of May, 1865. this being the most celebrated military pageant ever seen on the western hemisphere. The regiment was mustered out at Louisville, Kentucky, in June, 1865, and with a creditable military record Mr. Hewitt returned home.

He resumed farming in Bureau county and was thus engaged up to the time of his marriage, which was celebrated on the ITth of February, 1866, Miss Mary Martin, a daughter of James and Permelia Martin, becoming his wife. They have lost two children and have six living ciiildren : Nora, the wife of William Caskey, a resident farmer of Manlius township; Eva M., the wife of Fred A. Plumley, who follows farming in Manlius township; Elsa P., the wife of Franklin Dabler, an agriculturist of the same township; Allen D., who follows farming; Frank S., who married Gertrude Plumley, a farmer of Manlius township, and Stacy H., who is on the home farm and is attending school at Princeton.

The family have an attractive and pleasant home, for the Hickory Grove farm is conveniently situated on the eastern cilge of the town of JIanlius. The fields are highly cultivated and nearly the entire tract of one hundred and eighty acres is devoted to the cultivation of grain. Everything about the place is neat and thrifty in appearance and indicates the careful supervision of the owner. For thirty years Mr. Hewitt has been a school director and fraternally he is connected with the Grand .\rmy of the Republic, while politically be is a republican. The family attend the Weslcyan Methodist church and are widely and favorably known in the community where thev reside.

Dr. J. P. Butler, who in addition to faithfully |)erf(U-ming the duties connected with a large and growing medical and surgical practice is serving for the second term as mayor of Ladd, i)elongs to that cla«s of representative men whose business interests, though extensive and imj)ortant, do not exclude active participation in those interests alfecting the general welfare or in those movements which promote public progress, and as mayor of Ladd Dr. Butler is giving tangible evidence of his devotion to the public good.

\ native of New York, Dr. Butler was born in Onondaga e(umty September 10, 1S54, and is of Irish lineage. His fiither, Patrick Butler, was a native of Ireland, and when twenty-five years of age came to the United States, settling in the Empire stnte. Tic niiu-rii'd rulherine Bnnnon. also

Dr. Butler acquired his more specifically literary education in the public schools of Chittenango, New York, and on putting aside his te.xt-books engaged in farm work, and in other labor of various kinds, until 1883, when, ambitious to direct his energies into other channels demanding greater mentality, he took up the study of medicine and was graduated from Ilahnemann Medical College, of Chicago, in the class of 1890. After one year spent in practice in Michigan he came to Illinois and entered upon the active work of the profession in Ladd, where he has since remained. He is careful and accurate in the diagnosis of a case and seldom, if ever, at error in the administration of remedial agencies, and he keeps in touch with the most advanced thought of the profession through reading and investigation, so that he is continually broadening his knowledge and promoting his efficency.

In pubic affairs Dr. Butler has manifested a most commendable and public-spirited interest, and his re-election to the office of mayor is indicative of faithful, ])rompt and capable service during his first term. Fraternally he is connected.'^ with the Modern Woodmen, Knights of Pythias and Foresters. Happy in his home life, he was married in 1893, to Miss Catherine Lehman, a native of Putnam county, Illinois, and they now have two daughters: Mildred, born in October, 1894, and Florence, in Novemlier, 1895.

Dr. Butler, without special advantages in his youth, has gained a positiort of prominence in the coTumunity where he makes his home and in the profession to which he devotes his energies, and the innate strength of his character, his laudable ambition and strong determination are the concomitants which have led to this result. He has a wide acquaintance and his friends are many.

Colonel John Dunne

Colonel John Dunne, engaged in general farming and stock-raising, is also well known in other business connections, especially as an auctioneer and as general manager of the Empire Telephone Company, of which he is likewise one of the directors. He is a native of Kings county, Ireland, although in his infancy he was brought to the new world. His birth ocurred May 10, 1857, his parents being Michael and Julia (Ryan) D<inne, both of whom were natives of the Emerald isle, the former born in Kings county and the latter in West IMeath. It was in the year 1858 that Michael Dunne cro.ssed tlic Atlantic in a sailing vessel, which was six weeks and two days in makmg the voyage from Dublin to Quebec. He remained in Canada for a short time and then removed to Pierpont, a town situated on the Erie canal in New York. There he was employed for some time, after which he made his way to Buffalo by canal and on to Chicago by rail and thence to Peoria by the Illinois and ilichigan canal and the Ilinois river. When they were upon the Illinois river his son, ^Mathew, then a youth of sixteen years, fell overboard and was drowned. Mr. Dunne worked for the Peoria & Oquawka Railroad, being with the company for about one year, after which he was employed by the Bureau Valley Railroad, which is today a part of the Chicago & Rock Island Railroad system. When that line was graded he tiegan working for Peter W. Dunne as foreman of track-laying, and subsequently he was employed at Oak Hill and at Edwards Station by that company. In 1858, withdrawing from the railroad service, he turned his attention to farming near Edwards Station, in Peoria county, Illinois, where he rv,- mained until 1865, when he came to Macon township. Bureau count}-, and purchased a farm upon which he resided until his death on the 8th of August, 1890, when he was eighty years of age. His, wife also passed away in Macon township, heTT<death occurring November 21, 1890, wlj^ she was seventy-five years of age. He and his v^^J-family wet^ communicants of the Roman Catholic church, an^in politics he was a Jackson democrat, who^'strongly advocated the war, and was a stalwart champion of the Union cause. Unto him and his wife were born six children, of whom two died in infancy in Ireland, while four came w4th them to this country. Three of the number are now living. James, the eldest, was a volunteer of Company G, One Hundred and Eighth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served for three years and four months. He is now living in Quincy, in the Soldiers' Home, but for a number of years was a farmer of Macon township and sold his property to his brother John. Joseph, who was a member of the Eleventh Illinois Cavalry for nearly four years, is also living at the Soldiers' Home in Quincy.

Colonel Dunne was brought to the United States by his parents during his infancy and acquired a public school education. When twenty-two years of age he began farming on his own account in Macon township and is today carrying on general agricultural ])Tirsuits and stock-raising, having a few full-blooded Hereford cattle, known as the Daniel Webster stock. He is likewise general manager of the Empire Telephone Company, extending over Macon, Neponset, Concord, Wyanet, Milo and Wheatland townships, and also to Saratoga, Marshall county; Penn, Osnlon and Elmi ra. Stark county. The company owns all of the aliove lines and also has connecting lines whereby they can do business with Chicago and in fact have unlimited long distance service. At the present time ^fr. Dunne, as general manager, is rebuilding the Neponset exchange. The officers of this company are Cyrus Bocock. president; James A. Briggs, vice-president; John H. Draw- yer, secretary; Sidney W. Scott, treasurer, and John Dunne, general manager; and in connection with the othcers, George A. (.'ari)^- and John JIc- Clane are serving on the board of directors. Mr. ])unne is also a stockhohh-r in the Bradford Driving Park Association, of which he was formerly a director, and he has done railroad and other contracting and for a number of years has been well known as a leading auctioneer of this part of the state, crying many sales, in which connection he_ is popular as well as efhcient.

M2n the 9th of December, 1874, Colonel Dunne was married to Jliss Mary O'Connor, at Champaign, Illinois. She was born in Greenfield, Massachusetts, July 7, 1854, and is a daughter of Patrick and Katherine (Kane) O'Connor.'' Her father died in Ciiampaign county, Illinois, December 30, 1892, at the age of seventy-two years, while his wife passed away March ;?], 1891, at the age of si.\ty-fivc years. lie was born in Ireland and came to this country in 1848 on a sailing vessel, which was six w'eeks in completing the voyage between Limerick and Quebec. He proceeded thence to Greenfield, Massachusetts, where he followed farming for four years and then removed to Virginia, where he lived for about a year. On the expiration of that period he came to Illinois, settling at Briinticld, where he carried on farming on a tract of land of one hundred and sixty acres. lie spent his last five years as a retired farmer on the old homestead, leaving the. active work of the fields to others, while he enjoyed a period^of well earned rest. His [lolitical allegiance was given the democracy as advocatecT by Jackson and he held membership in the Roman Catholic church. He and his wife were married at Limerick, Ireland, May 3, 1848, and unto them were born seven children, three sons and four daughters, of wdiom three are now living, namely : Mrs. Dunne ; Patrick, who resides in Champaign cotuity, Illinois, and Johanna, the wife of ^lichacl Iturloy, a resident of Chicago.

Unto Colonel and ^Irs. Dunne have been born eight children, seven of whom survive: Katherine J., who was horn December 16, 1875, and is the wife of Joseph P. O'Brien, a resident of St. Joseph, Missouri; Ida G., born May 21, 1877; Josephine, who was born ]\Iay 1, 1879, and died in infancv; Mary A., horn March 31, 1881; Alice J., May 21, 1883; Michael J., April 14, 1885; Anna C.who was born February 27, 1888, and is a school teacher in her home district; and Nellie T., who was born March 15, 1891.

The family arc communicants of the Roman Catholic church. Mr. Dunne casts an independent ballot, and does not seek nor desire jiolitical preferment. He is well and popularly known throughout the county as Colonel Dunne and is a man of genial disposition, cordial manner and undoubted sincerity. He is now closely associated with varied business interests and his labors are largely of a character whicli prove not only a source of individual income, but also contribute to the business activity and enterprise of tiie community at large.

John Frederick Hohertz

Jolm Frederick Ilohertz, now a prosperous farmer of Clarion township, is a self-made man, who came empty handed to i\jnerica from Germany and has worked his way steadily upward by reason of liis business capability and laudable amliition. He was born in Prize, Poland, his father being Godfried Ilohertz. The motiier died when her son was only a year and a half old and he knows therefore nothing of her. The fatlier died in Germany.

Mr. Hoherlz of this review spent the first twenty years of his life in the old world, ac(|uiring his education and performing such labor as fell to his lot. In 1860, wlien a young man of twenty years, he determined to try liis fortune in the United States, having heard favorable reports concerning tiie opportunities afforded in the new world. Accordingly he made his way across the Atlantic and took up liis abode in Clarion township, Bureau countv, Illinois, where he worked by the month as a farm hand for five years. He was for two years in the employ of George Hatzler and one year with George Charlie and later he spent two years in the employ of Christian Betz in the village of La Moille.

On the 4th of February, 1866, Mr. Hohertz was united in marriage to Miss Hannah^ l^nauer, wiio wa.s born July 24. 18 15, and was an adopted daughter of John Knauer; who lived in La Moille townsliip. This marriage has been blessed with six children: Samuel J., John F., Amiel F.. Willie A., Mrs. Molly Keller and Mrs. Rosie Rapp. The daughters are now living in La Moille.

In the years in which he was employed by others :Mr. Hohertz carefully saved his earnings and when he had secured sutlicient capital he made investment ill land and began fanning on his own account. As his financial resources were further increased he added to his original holdings and now owns one hundred and seventy-five acres of good land in Clarion township, constituting a valuable farm, which he has brought under a high state of cultivation. He now has a beautiful home and the shade trees which adorn the place were planted bv his own hand. He and his two sons work the farm together and this property is the visible evidence of his life of industry and thrift. He certainly deserves much credit for what he has accomplished, for he arrived in America with practically nothing and worked most diligently and industriouslv in order to gain a start. Now he is enabled to "enjov the comforts and some of the luxuries of life,"his farm bringing to him a good annual income. In his political views he is an earnest republican and is thoroughly in sympathy with the principles of the party. For two years he served as road cominissioiier, but has never been active as a politician in the sense of office seeking. Both he and iiis wife are nieiiiliers of the Lutheran church.

John F. Hohertz, son of Frederick and Hannah (Knauer) Hohertz, acquired his education in the district schools of Clarion township. He was born April 7, 1869, and is living upon his father's farm. His brother, William .V. Hohertz, was born in 1873 and likewise obtained his education in the public schools. Putting aside their text-books, they became associated with their father in his fanning operations and are now his active assistants in carrying on the home place, both being recognized as young men of good business ability and Hjarked enterprise.

families of the county and has resided in this part of the state from pioneer times, so that he has witnessed its development from a frontier district into one of the best farming sections of this great commonwealth.

George W. Hensel

GEORGE W. HENSEL George W. Hensel now owns and occupies what is known as the old Hensel farm in Dover township. His father, James Hensel, was born in Pennsylvania, June 24, 1807, and came to Bureau county in 1853, reaching his destination on the 2d of October. He traveled by rail to La Salle county and then walked across the country to this county. He was married twice, his first wife being Lydia Fockler, who was born in 1805. His second wife, who bore the maiden name of Mary Frease, was born in Pennsylvania, July 11, 1823. By the first marriage there were six children: Philip, SiTuon, Henry, Enoch, Sarah and Elias. The seven children born of the second marriage are John, Madison, George, Cyrus, Harvey E., Eliza and Elsie.

George W. Hensel acquired his education in the district schools of the county. He can remember the trip to Hlinois, which was made by wagon from Ohio. The father came ahead of his wife and children and jiaid for the farm. Several families made the trip together, there being ten in the party. George W. Hensel, who was then a little lad, was reared to farm life, early becoming familiar with the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist, and from his early youth was his father's assistant on the home place. The father prospered in his businer^s affairs and became the owner of nine hundred and seventy-six acres of land. He moved to Princeton in 1886 and died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Sarah Remsburg. May 17, 1899. In 1900, when the property was divided, George W. H(>nsel came into possession of the old homestead, comprising two hundred and seventeen and a half acres, which was originally the Sylvester Rrigham farm, taken up by him in 1828.

Religiously Mr. Hensel belongs to the Congregational church and, an independent voter, he is a warm admirer of President Roosevelt. He represents one of the old and prominent pioneer

Timothy Rhyne

Timothy Rhyne, a farmer and stock-raiser residing on section 32, Selby township. Bureau county, where he owns a well improved farm of three hundred and twenty-seven acres, was born in this county, June 13, 1857, and is a son of John C. and Russena (Searl) Rhyne. The father was born in Zanesville, Ohio, where he was reared to the age of nine years, and then left home and went south, following the river for a number of years. When about twenty or twenty-one years of age he went to Hennepin, Illinois, locating in Leepertown township, where he made his home for many j'ears. About 1870 he removed to Selby township. Bureau county, which continued to be his home until ho was called to his final rest in August, 1881, when he had reached the age of fifty years. He was a democrat in his jiolitical views, and served as supervisor of Leepertown township before removing to this county, for several years. He was a member of the Christian church. His wife, Russena (Searl) Rhyne, was a native of Ohio, and when a child accompanied her parents on their removal to Bureau county. They located on a farm in Selby township, a part of which is now owned l)y tlu' subject of this review. Her death occurred in July, 1891, when she had reached the age of about fifty-seven years. In the family of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Rhyne were five children, of whom one daughter died in infancy, the others being Mrs. .\lvaretta E. Ring, a resident of Tiskilwa: Timothy, the subject of this review; Mrs. Mary .V. Inland, residing on a farm in Leepertown township: and John \.. who is nuirried and carries on farming near Tiskilwa.

Timothy Rhyne was reared in much the usual manner of farm lads, and received his education in the Ridge school of Selby township. xVfter putting aside his text-books he engaged in farming on his own account in Selby township, where he is now the owner of three hundred and twenty-seven acres of well improved land, on which are found all modei-n improvements and accessories. He is also engaged in stock-raising, and finds this a veiT profitable business.

Mr. Rhyne was married in 1879 to Miss Lillie B. Smith, a native of Bureau county and a daughter of W. R. and Susanna (Ilartzell) Smith, residents of Selby township. Unto Mr. and Mrs. h'hyne have been born eight children, one of whom, I>illian, the fourth in order of birth, died August 18, 1902, at the age of fifteen years. Those surviving are: Myrtle, at home: Gertrude, the wife of Kelly Richardson, residing in Nebraska, who

In his political views Mr. Rhyue is a deiiioerat, and for twelve years served as roatl coiniiiissiouer, oil the e.xpi ration of which period he resigned the oltice. In liis religious faith he is a Ooiigrcgationalist, attending services at Bureau and at Ridge. A native of Bureau county, Mr. Rhyne has spent his entire life here, anil has, by the careful supervision of his business interests, become one of the prosperous and inlluential residents of his township, where he is held in high regard, not only in his own vicinity, but throughout the entire county.

Louis H. H. Oberschelp is identified with the industrial interests of Greenville township as a manufacturer of tile and brick and is an enterprising business man, watchful of opportunities and energetic in all that he undertakes. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, October 6, 1853, a son of Herman H. and Hannah (Niderloman) Oberschelp, in whose family were three children, but the youngest died in infancy. Gottlieb H. is a brick and tile manufacturer of Princeton. Both parents were natives of Prussia, Germany, and the mother died Avhen our subject was quite young. The father was born August 20, 1820, and came to the United States in 1848. landing in New Orleans. Two years later he removed to St. Louis, where he was first married, and in 1S5G came to Bureau county, taking up his residence in Princeton. He was again married April 2D, 1859, his second nnion being with Katherine Dremann, by whom he had seven children, namely: Herman and ]\rina, who died young; Annie, now the wife of John Harrison, a brick and tile manufacturer of Mineral; William, also a resident of Mineral; .lolin, who was killed on the railroad at Marysville, Kansas: ^Fary, wife of Fred Uthoff, of Princeton: and Henry, a brick and tile manufacturer of Ohio, Illinois.

Louis H. H. Oberschelp acquired his education in the public schools of Princeton, where he resided until ]SSO, when at the age of twenty-seven years he took up his abode in New Bedford. Here he established a bi'iek and tile factory and has since conducted the business, having a well equipped plant supplied with the latest improved machinery for carrying on work of this kinil. He owns thirty-six acres of choice land on section 33, Greenville township, whereon stands his brick and tile factory. In addition to this he also has four hiindred and eighty acres in Tunica county, Mississippi, valued at twentv-five dollars per acre.

On the 2.!th of October. 1878, Mr. (Oberschelp was united in marriage to Miss .Vnnie M. Bringcr. who was born in Burlington, Iowa, March 15,

1855, and they became the parents of two children: Edward II., born November 6, 1881; and Maud L., September 3, 1883. Mr. Oberschelp and his family are members of the Evangelical Lutheran church and his political allegiance is given to the democracy, while fraternally he is connected with the Modern Woodmen camp. No. 16C. He has served as school trustee for si.x years and is now acting as supervisor of Greenville township for fifteen years consecutively, his long continuance in office being unmistakable proof of his fidelity, capability and the trust reposed in him by his f(>llow townsmen. He is numbered among the prominent and inlluential residents of Greenville township, who is deeply interested in the work of improvements and upbuilding here and withholds his support from no movement which he believes will prove beneficial to the county. At the same time ho is carefully conducting his business interests. He had only a small inheritance when he started out in life, but he has worked hard and by good management has become one of the men of affluence in his community. His is one of the largest tile factories in the county and the output is unsurpassed in quality, so that the product finds a ready sale on the market. His chief attention is given to his manufacturing interests and in this connection he has met with well merited success.

William Jjouis Golding, a well known farmer and stock-raiser of Wyanot townshi|), who has also been active and infiucntial in community affairs, having been honored through election to various local offices, was born September 13, 1860, about two miles south of Wyanet. The parents were Edward and Sarah Golding, who were born in England, living near Cambridge. Emigrating to America, Edward Golding landed in New York city July (i, 1854, and took up his al)ode in Bureau county upon the farm which he now owns on section 28, Wyanet township, the same montli. The first few years after his arrival were spent in working by the month as a farm hand and in the winter of 1854-5 he was employed at farm labor at thirteen dollars per month. He is still living, being now in his eighty-second year. In the family were seven children. si.\ of whom yet survive.

W. L. Golding of this review attended the .Sunny Knoll school located a mile and a half south of the village of Wyanet. There his education was acquired entirely save for one term spent as a student in the high school in Wyanet. He lived the active, free life of a farmer boy and laid the foundation for his future career upon his father's homestead through tiie actual experience which he had in the work of the fields. Ili.s education completed, hr tinned his attention to farming and stock-raising. He now resides in the southeast part of the village of Wyanet on the T. Clark Hays farm on section 21, Wyanet township, and in the year 1901 he purchased the farm known as the Manrose place on sections 21 and 22 of the same township. He follows diversified farming, raising corn, oats, timothy, clover and alfalfa, and he also engages to some extent in the live stock business, raising horses, cattle and hogs. He, however, makes a specialty of hogs, annually raising from three to five hundred for the market.

On the 2d of March, 1893, Mr. Golding was married to Miss Mable Hays, a daughter of T. Clark Haj's, and in 1902 he was called upon to mourn the loss of his wife, who passed away on the 29th of August of that j'ear, after a happy married life of about nine years. She left two daughters. Hazel and liable Alice, aged respectively twelve and three years.

Mr. Golding has been called to fill various positions of public trust. He has served as town clerk and assessor and has also been a school director, and at intervals for nine years has been clerk and president of the school board. In politics he has always been a republican, never faltering in his allegiance to the party because he believes its principles are most conducive to good government. In his business interests he is now prospering and is the owner of one hundred and fifty-six acres of good land near Wyanet in addition to which he is farming the quarter section belonging to his father-in-law, which adjoins the village.

GEORGE G. McMAXIS. George G. McManis, who became a resident of Bureau county in the fall of 1843 and is therefore numbered among its pioneer residents, since which time he has been an interested witness of the changes which luive occurred as the work of development has been carried forward, is now engaged in bridge contracting and building, to which enterprise he has directed his labors since 1870. His birth occurred in Clinton county, Ohio, in 1831. He is a son of George and Louisa (Mc- Ilwane) McManis, the former a native of Kentucky, being born in that state in 1S04. and the latter of Ohio. Coming to Bureau county at an early epoch in its development, the father established his home some distance southeast of Princeton in the fall of 1843. He had previously, however, visited the county and had entered a claim in Arispie township in 183G, to which he brought the family seven years later. There he carried on general farming, placing a wild and unimproved tract of land under a higli state of cultivation and thus transforming it into a valuable farm. In connection with the work of tilling the soil he was also active in the ministry of the Christian church and preached for many years in this county. He also figured in political service, filling the office of county judge for one term. In later years he removed to Kansas and finally to Texas, where he died in 1S88 at the age of eighty-four years. His wife, who was born in 1804, passed away in Kansas in 1873. They were people of the highest respectability, enjoying in large measure the friendship and goodwill of those with whom they were associated. The father gave his early political allegiance to the whig party and upon its dissolution joined the ranks of the new republican party. In the family were five sons and one daughter who came to Bureau county, while two had died in Ohio. All are now deceased with the exception of George G. I^IcManis and his brother William, who resides in Texas. The latter, after active military service, returned from the army as major in the Ninth Illinois Cavalry.

George G. McManis received rather meager educational privileges but had the benefit of one term's instruction in Smith's private school at Princeton. He resided upon the home farm until about twenty-five years of age and was an able assistant in the work of field and meadow, early becoming familiar with all the duties and labors consequent upon the development and cultivation of a farm. He spent three years in Livingston county and since that time has resided in Princeton and in Bureau county. Prior to 1870 he followed both farming and blacksmithing, but since that year he has been engaged in contracting for the building of bridges. He has built many bridges, mostly on public highways, and at the present time is associated with his son. C. J. McManis, the firm being known as Mcilanis & Son. He has handled a great many bridge contracts in the past thirty-five or thirty-six years and altogether his business has been an extensive, important and profitable one. He does excellent work in this connection and in this line of building activity is well known.

Mr. Mc]\Ianis was married in Livingston county, Illinois, in 1S.58, and by this union had three children: Clark, who is now postmaster of Prince-t ton; William, who is filling the office of deputy circuit clerk ; and Harry, who is assistant postmaster. The three sons are representative young business men and have been successful in their chosen fields of labor.

In his political views Mr. McManis'is a stalwart republican. He cast his first presidential ballot for Fillmore in 1852 and in 1856 supported John C. Fremont, since which time he has never failed to give his political allegiance to the candidates at the head of the republican ticket. Reading and investigation have kept him thoroughly informed concerning the political questions of the day and his citizenship is characterized bv the utmost devotion to the general good. Fraternally he is a member of the IVIasonic order and has attained the Knight Templar degree in Temple commandery of Princeton, while his religious faith is indicated by hifi memt)ership in the Christian church. His residciuo in the county covers a period of almost two-thirds of a century, as in boyhood days he arrived here and since that time has been a factor in its progress, and has wrought for the present prosperity and advanced conditions which today exist in this part of the state.

James E. rorterlicKl, president of the Miller- Devlin Lumber Company, of Spring Valley, and of the Tohica Lumber & Hardware Company, of Toluca, was l)0i-n near Dover, in Bureau count}', October 9, 1849. His parents were James and and Eliza (Brigham) Porterfield, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of New Hampshire. The father came to this county in 1836, casting in his lot with the pioneer settlers and was engaged in farming in the vicinity of Dover until 1883, when he removed to Greenwood county, Kansas, where he resided until his death, which occurred in 189.'), when he was eighty-one years of age. He had long survived his wife, who died in this county at the age of forty-three years. Mr. Porterfield figured prominently in connection with the early history of the county, leaving the impress of his individuality upon many events of historic importance. He was a friend of Owen Lovejoy, and was active in taking care of the slaves who, prior to the war. fled from their hard taskmasters of the south and sought freedom in Canada. He a zealous and enthusiastic anti-slavery man, doing everything in his power to further opposition to the cause of slavery, his home being a station on the famous underground railroad.

James E. Porterfield, whose name introduces this record, enjoyed the benefits of the educational privileges afforded in Dover Academy, and after completing his own studies taught for four years in the schools of Bureau county. He afterward engaged in farming near Spring Valley, but in 1889 withdrew from agricultural pursuits and turned his attention to iiiercliandising in the town. He carried on that business for two years, after which he became a lumber dealer in 1891 and has continued in this line of trade to the present time. He is now president of the Toluca Lumber & Hardware Company, of Toluca, and also of the Afiller-Devlin Lumber Company, of Spring Valley, and is secretary of the Devlin Coal Company at Toluca. His business interests are thus extensive and important and in their control he displays keen discernment, marked sagacity and unfaltering diligence and perseverance - qualities which are essential factors in the honorable acquirement of success.

In 1872 Mr. Porterfield was united in marriage to ^liss Tcedora Miller, a daughter of Henry J. ]\filler. one of the most prominent and respected citizens of Bureau county. They have two daughters: P'dna M., who was born November 14, 1873, and is the wile of 0. A. Brown, of Toluca; and Ada Lois, who was born September 13, 1881, and is the wife of Harry E. Trovillo, of Topeka, Kansas.

Mr. and Mrs. Porterfield hold membership in the Congregational church, taking an active part in its work and doing all in their power to promote its growth and extend its influence. Jlr. Porterfield is acting as one of the trustees and deacons of the church and gives his political support to the republican party. He has made steady advancement in his business career and each step wliicli he has taken has been a forward one, bringing him a broader outlook and wider opportunities. He has utilized his advantages and as the years have gone by has gained for himself a place among the substantial, enterprising and successful business men of his native county.

William Bohm

William Bohm, a lifelong farmer, who now owns and cultivates three hundred and fifteen acres on sections 13 and 23, W;ijnut township. Bureau county, has made nearly all of the improvements upon this place. He built his own home, has added other commodious and substantial buildings and set out nearly all of the trees, which add so much to the value and attractive apjiearance of the place. That he started out in life emptyhanded and is now a prosperous citizen makes him worthy of the proud American title of a "selfmade man."

Born in Germany, December 1, 1856, Mr. Bohm is a son of Jolm and JIary (Wolf) Bohm, who were likewise natives of that country. They came to America with their three children, Joe, Jlinnie and William, and after living in Chicago for two years the wife and mother died. The father afterward removed to Depue, Illinois, and his last years were spent in Manlius township, Bureau county, where his death occurcd in 1886.

William Bohm was educated in the schools of bis native country and has always followed farming as a source of livelihood. He was nutrried at the age of twenty-six years, to Christina IvUefson, who was born in Germany. Ajiril 11, 1864, and at the age of seven years was brought to America by her parents, who settled in Princeton, where they still reside. The father was n baker by trade but is now living retired. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Bohm were born eleven children, three of whom died in infancy, of these, Minnie, being but finir months old at the time of her demise. Those living are Edward, John, William, Emma, Arthur, Carl, Jennie and Lester.

When Mr. Bohm was married and began farming on his own account he i)orrowed fifty dollars. The end of the second year found him in debt to the extent of seven hundreil dollars, owing to his purcha.'ie of horses, tools anil other needed supplies for the farm work. That: he lived frugally and was industrious in the earlier years is indicated by the fact that he is now the owner of three hundred and fifteen acres of valuable laud on sections 13 and 23, Walnut township, and though the necessity for continued arduous labor is no more, he is still a diligent man, personally superintendinp- his farming interests. He raises corn and hay and feeds some hogs, and the products of the farm bring him a good financial return annually. He now has fine buildings upon his place, which is one of the best farms of the township. He paid thirty dollars per acre for one quarter section of his land and eight years ago he gave fifty-five dollars per acre for a quarter section on section 23 - today worth more than double that price. Mr. Boh 111 affiliates with the Princeton lodge of Odd Fellows, but has given his attention mostly to his farming interests and his perseverance and persistency is indicative of his life of thrift, enterprise and carefully directed labor.

William Martin Johnson

William Martin Johnson, a veteran of the Civil war, now engaged in genera! farming and stockraising, was born in Licking county, Ohio, October 22, 1843. His parents were Lemuel and Sarah (Eobinson) Johnson. The father was a farmer and carpenter. Born in Virginia, he afterward became a resident of Licking county, Ohio, where he resided until liis son William was about two and a half years of age, when he brought the family to Illinois, establishing his home in Bureau county in 184G.

Mr. Johnson of this review has therefore spent almost his entire life in Bureau county. He was here reared, while his education was acquired in the country schools, and during the periods of vacation his time and energies were devoted to farm labor. After jnitting aside his text-books he continued to assist in the operation of the home farm until 18G I, when he enlisted as a member of Company K, Fifty-seventh Illinois Regiment, in defense of the Union cause. He was then only twenty years of age. At Chicago he was mustered in and was sent first to Louisville, Kentucky. He took part in a number of important military movements and engagements, participating in the battles of Athens, Alabama, Resaca and Rome, Georgia, Chattahoochee, the siege of Atlanta, and the engagements at Altoona Pass and Peach Tree Creek. With his regiment he then went to Rome, where ho remained until llu; evacuation of Atlanta and later he proceeded to Jonesboro and on to Savannah, Georgia. He went with his regiment through South Carolina, northward to Goldsboro and to Raleigh, North Carolina, thence to Petersburg, Virginia, and on to Washington, where the close of the war was fittingly celebrated in a splendid military pageant known as the grand review, in which he participated on the 23d of May, 1865. The regiment afterward proceeded to Louisville, Kentucky, where he was mustered out on the 27th of June and on the 27th of July he was honorably discharged at Chicago. Thus ended his military service in defense of the Union, during which he made a creditable record by his valor and loyalty.

When the war was over Mr. Johnson returned to Bureau county, where he has since been engaged in farming and stock-raising and he is today a leading representative of the agricultural interests of this locality. He has a good tract of land which he has brought under a high state of cultivation and has placed thereon many modern and substantial improvements.

On the 15th of November, 18(JG, Mr. Johnson was united in marriage to Miss Minnie Kentz, a daughter of Henry Kentz, whose father was a farmer and lived in Concord township, Bureau county. They had three sons and a daughter: Henry Oscar, who was born September 9, 1871, and is now engaged in farming in this county; Lemuel Andrews, who was born August 2, 1876, and is a railroad contractor in Wyoming; Frank Bennett, who was born February 27, 1880, and was killed at a railroad crossing March 28, 1905 ; and Lula Belle, who was educated in the country schools and in Buda and is still at home with her parents.

In his political views Mr. Johnson is a stalwart republican and has many times Ijeen a delegate to the county and senatorial conventions of his party, in the work and success of which he is deeply interested because he believes its principles are most conducive to good government. He has been honored with various local offices by his fellow towTismen, who recognize his worth and alnlity and who thus manifest their confidence in him. He has been school director for twenty years and at the present writing, in 1900, is holding the office of road coiimiissioner, in which capacity he has served for three terms or a total of nine years. He was also overseer of the roads for about twenty years and officially and as a private citizen has done much to improve the public highways. He holds membership in the First Baptist church of Buda and is a member of Emery post. No. 198, G. A. R. of Buda, of which he has been officer of the day for many years. In matters of citizenship he is always as loyal in days of peace as he was in times of war and has a deep rooted attachment for the stars and stripes.

Nicholas Iieinze

NICHOLAS IIEINZE. Nicholas Ileinze, who in matters of citizenship as well as in his business career has demonstrated his right to the confidence and esteem which are \miformly accorded him by his fellow townsmen, is now living in Ohio township, having for twenty- two years made his home upon his present farm, which comprises eighty acres. He was born in Lee county, Illinois, December 17, 1870, and his parents, Andrew and Margaret (Eichorn) Heinze, were natives of Germany. In a family of four children he is the youngest. The mother was twice married, her first husband being John Sheller, who died leaving a daughter, Anna Sheller.

In the Bureau county public schools Nicholas Heinze obtained his education and after putting aside his text-books he began farming on his own account, and has since followed that pursuit. He not only raises grain and hay, but also cattle and hogs for the market. His father died nine years ago, on the 30th of June, 1897, since which time Mr. Heinze of this review has had charge of the home farm, caring for his mother and sister. The place comprises eighty acres of land and it has been his home for twenty-two years. The fields are now under a high state of cultivation and return good crops. The equipments are all modern and everything about the place is indicative of the care and supervision of a practical, progressive owner. His political views find evidence in the support which he gives to the republican party. The family belong to the German Lutheran church and are highly esteemed socially. Friends and neighbors s^peak of Mr. Heinze in terms of high praise and warm regard by reason of his genuine personal worth and the excellent traits of character which he has displayed in assuming the care of the home property, thus providing for his mother and sister. He deserves all the success that has come to him and will undoubtedly win a still larger measure of properity in the future, for he possesses those traits which ever lead to advancement and enable the individual to pass upon life's highway others who perhaps started out more advantageously than himself.

Henry Fahs, numbered among the wide-awake and enterprising young farmers of Ohio township, is now engaged in operating and managing a place of one hundred and twenty acres. He is numbered among Bureau county's native sons, his birth having occurred within its borders on the 2d of August, 1880. His parents were Fred and Mary Fahs, natives of Germany, who came to America at an early day and established their home in this county. As the years passed their marriage was blessed with a family of eight children.

Henry Fahs, the sixth in order of birth, was reared in the usual manner of farmer lads and his education was largely acquired in the public schools of Lee county, although in the scliool of experience he has learned many practical and valuable lessons. He was early trained to farm work and came to a realization of the value of thrift and industry as factors in the achievement of success. He is now manager of an excellent farm of one hundred and twenty acres in Ohio townsliip and his early training in the fields lias stood liim in good stead as the years have gone by. Mr. Fahs was united in marriage to Miss Lena Spohn, who was born in Lee county, Illinois, November 14, 1880. 'J'he wedding was celebrated December 12, 1899, and has been blessed with two children : Fred W., born November 18, 1902 ; and Louis F., born May 27, 1905. Mrs, Fahs' parents were John and Mary (Houck) Spohn, the former a native of Germany and the latter of Buffalo, New York. In the family were twelve children, the father having been married twice, and five were born of the first marriage and seven by the second marriage.

Mr. Fahs in his religious faith is connected with the German Lutheran church, while his wife is a communicant of the Roman Catholic church. His political support is given the republican party, but he has neither time nor inclination for public ofSce, finding that his business affairs make continuous deniands upon his energies. He is steadily progressing and it will probably not be long before lie is in possession of a farm of his own. He is a good citizen, worthy of the confidence of friends and neighbors, and has made a creditable record for one of his years.

Wilbur H. Fate

Wilbur H. Fate, who follows farming on section 30, Milo township, was born in this tt)wnship September 21, 1859. His father, Johnson M. Fate, now deceased, was born near Deavertown, Ohio, in 1835 and came to Illinois in 1846, settling in Milo township about a mile and a half east of the farm on which our subject now resides. He wedded Mary Jane Reed from Ohio, a sister of L. H. Reed, of Milo township, and the three children born of this union are: Wilbur H. ; John R., who is living in Bradford; and Francis A., wlio is a Congregational minister and resides in Middlefield, Massachusetts. The death of the father occurred March 16, 1900, while his wife passed away in 1901.

Wilbur H, Fate is indebted to the commonschool systcni of Milo township for tlie early educational privileges which lie enjoyed and which were supplemented by study in Wcslcyan University at Abingdon, Illinois. Later he was graduated from Evergreen City Business College at Bloomington, this state, in 1880. His training for the work of the fields was received under his father's direction, for at an early age he took his place behind the jijow and did other work connected with the devclopiiient of the fields. He has always carried on farming and stock-raising and now feeds many cattle and hogs annually. His landed possessions comprise one hundred and fifty acres of 6ue land where he now lives, and he also owns another tract of one hundred and twenty acres. He has one of the best and finest homes to be found in Jlilo township and it is surrounded by beautiful shade trees, every one of which has been planted by him, together with the shrubs and flowers about the farm, rendering this one of the most attractive and pleasing features in the landscape. There are also good barns upon the place and everything is in excellent shape, the farm being well improved I'nd the fields carefully cultivated.

Mr. Fate was married to Miss Anna J. Foster, of Bradford, a daughter of Charles Foster, and they now have four children, Mamie, who is a graduate of the Bradford high school and is continuing her education in Evanston; Lena, Ivan and Grace, all yet at home. The parents and children are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Bradford and occupy an enviable position in social circles where true worth and intelligence are received as the passports into good society. Politically Mr. Fate is a republican and has served as school director for fourti'cn years, while for many years he was road commissioner. He belongs to the Modern Woodmen camp and in all life's relations is found true to every trust and upholds a high standard of conduct by a life which is indicative of manly principles whicli permeate it.

Clayton C. Pervier

Clayton C. Pervier, whose influence has been far-reaching and his labors beneficial in the lines of agricultural and political activity in Bureau county, stands at all times for advancement. His position is never an equivocal one and he is not a theorist nor an idealist, but utilizes practical methods that produce results, so that his opinions carry weight and his ideas are carefully considered, whether expressed upon some subject bearing upon the farming interests or the great political questions which affect the state at large.

Mr. Pervier is one of Bureau county's native sons, his birth having occurred in Mineral townstip, March 4. 1857. He is a son of the Rev. Sylvester Lane Pervier, whose liistory is found on another page. His boyhood days were spent at home and he attended the luihlic schools until sixteen years of age, when he continued his studies under Professor George B. Harrington, at Annawan. He also began teaching about the same time, following the profession in Kewanee township, Henry county. He taught in the winter months, attended school in the spring and fall and worked on the farm in the summer, so that the year was a busy one, with few idle hours. He continued to engage in teaching through the winter seasons for sixteen years and he followed fanning on the old homestead until 1RS7, when he came to his present home. In the meantime, in l^jT.j, he iiad entered the University of Illinois, at Urbana, where he remained as a student for two years, and then when his funds were exhausted he returned to the farm. His education was thus acquired under some difficulty, but he has embraced every opportunity for extending his knowledge and has been a broad reader. He is a practical farmer and is prominently identified witii the agricultural interests of tiie state, keeping in close touch with the work of the experiment station and the United States department of agriculture. He has been three times chosen president of the Bureau County Farmers Institute and is now secretary of that organization. He is also a state farmers' institute lecturer, in wliich connection he is widely knovm throughout Illinois, and that he is a popular speaker on the themes which he handles is indicated by the fact that he is frequently recalled to the places where he has once lectured. A practical demonstration of his theories and proof of his opinions is found on his own farm, which is a splendidly improved jjropcrty, on which the work is carried forward along modern scientific lines with results that are most admirable and desirable. He received from the governor of Illinois appointment as delegate to the Fai-mers' National congress in October, 1906, held in Rock Island. He had received similar appointments twice before but the long distance of the convention city from his home prevented his attending.

On the 16th of March, 1881, Mr. Pervier was married to Miss Jessie M. Curtis, who was born in Concord township and is a daughter of James M. Curtis, whose sketch appears on another page of this volume. She is a graduate of the Sheffield high school. Unto them have been born five children : Raymond C, Edgar M., Mabel Inez, Carrie May and Helen P., all at home. The parents are members of the Unitarian church and Mr. Pervier belongs 1o .\mes lodge. No. 142, A. F. & A. M. ; Princeton chapter. No. 28, R. A. M. ; and Princeton conimandery, No. 20, K. T.

Mr. Pervier has been a factor in republican politics in this county for more than a quarter of a century and has ever stood firm in support of those ])rinci])les which seem host to conserve the public good. He has ever been opposed to misrule in political office or corruption of any sort in the political field and his political integrity is unquestioned. He has been a delegate to every county convention, with one exception, since he attained his majority and has been three times honored with the chairmanship. He has also been a tleiegate to district and state conventions and has been a member of the county central committee for twenty years. Various local offices have been conferred upon him. He has been school trustee, assessor and collector and for six years represented Concord township on the board of supervisors, being first chosen to the office in

1894. He acted as chairnian during the last year of liis service, 1900, and then declined reelection as supervisor. (Jn the 14th of August, 1906, at Galva he was nominated as the republican candidate for the general assembly, and his past record is an indication of what his service will be if he is elected to the office. He stands in support of the well known principles of the party, believes in meeting the is.-iues squarely and fairly and in working for the interests of the state at large. His patriotism and public spirit are undeniably strong features in his life record, and aside from his political service he is a man of acknowledged worth in state and county, whose labors have been of direct and permanent benefit in agricultural circles.

Sylvester L. Pervier was brought up in the hill country of New Hampshire and enjoyed the educational advantages of rura' life amid rugged mountains, lonely valleys, flowing streams and green fields and forests. Born at .\ndover, in 1816, tlie common schools, whose sessions were from six weeks' to three months' duration each j-ear, furnis-hed him with the rudiments of learning. At the age of si.xteen he bought his time of his father and went into business for himself. Though meeting with encouraging success he soon returned home to help the family through a financial striiggle.

As he came to know hiuiself he found hungerings that business did not satisfy. Life to him had larger meaning than bread alone. Soul wants pressed him. Ho heard the call of religion to come up higher. Knowledge, virtue, truth, urged their demands upon him. Peneiiated with such sentiments he looked around for a fitting field of activity. It was but natural tliat lie should find it in the ministry, though painfully aware of lack of adequate preparation. Still he spoke to edification, inspired enthusiasm, and his hearers, regarding such oualilies as ample proof of his being called to God to preach, gave him their entire approval. His father rejoiced that his first born was willing to dedicate himself to the Lord.

At the age of twenty-two Mr. Pervier went to western New York to begin lis active labors as a minister, at the same time taking up a course of reading and study to better fit him for his chosen woik. In Shelby, Orleans county, he planted a chinch to which he ministered some years and which still preserves itfc identity.

There, on the 7th of February, 1813, Rev. Per- was united in marriage with Philena Covell, of Ogden, Monroe county. New York, who was born May 30, 1830, and is a daughter of Edward and Polly (Oilman) Covell, both natives of Vermont. Mrs. Pervier still survives her husband at the advanced age of eighty- si.\ years. Later he became a missionary at Janesvike. Wisconsin, enduring not only the hardships and privations incident to a new country, but much from lack of funds being furnished by the missionary board. Thence he moved to Henry, Hlinois, taking charge of a church for which he preached four years, meantime superintending the building of its chapel. Leaving Henry he located in l'roj)hetstown, Hlinois, again taking up missionary work, depending entirely upon voluntary contributions for support.

With much misgiving he finally retired from active service in the field, devoting him.self thereafter fo the maintenance of a home. Though his farm life contin\ied forty year.« he never quite lost sight of his calling as a minister. He ever bore about with him some gospel of good news. His was no stereotyped message. Tt changed as wants change, as light came, as truth wa« revealed. He was familiar with nature, with actual things, with common facts. He thought much, observing the trend of things. Pie was a doubter, but all the more a briiever. When in the progress of his thought (he faith and methods of the popular church seemed no longer trtie and useful, they were displaced by others responding more to his reason. The verities as represented by the sermon on the mount he accepted ever; built his character upon them, taught them at home and abroad. But the draperies of religion - its forms, philosophies, methods - he believed must change with the ever changing world. February 7, 1803, the forly-ninfh anniversary of his jnarriage, pneumonia claimed him fcr its victim. Quietly, peacefully and with full atsurance of a future life he passed away, leaving his wife and four children to venerate his memory. Mr. and Mrs. Pervier became the parents of five children, but lost one child in infancy who was born Mtv 25, 1860, and died May 27, 1860. The surviving members of the family are: Melvin E., who was born in New York, May 2S, 1845 ; Myron C, who was born in Janesville, Wisconsin, December bl, 1847; Donna I., who was born in this county, January 29, 1855, and is engaged in teaching school; and Clayton C, who was born March 4, 1857, and is a farmer. His sketch appears elsewhere in this work.

^fclvin E. Pervier, the eldoi-t of the family, was educated at Henry. Hlinois. and in the country schools. He has devoted bis entire time to farming and stock-raising and he now resides and carries on the old family homestead in Jlineral township. In 1870 he went to Kansas, settling near Greenleaf, where he carried on general agricultural pursuits, and while there he served as school director. In 1879 he sold his interests in Kansas and removed to California, where he engaged in fruit raising for seven years, remaining on the Pacific coast until 1891, when he returned to Mineral township, where he has lived continuously since, being now accounted one of the leading and successful agriculturists of this part of

Melvin E. Pervier was married to Miss C. Anna llorgan, of Kansas, a daughter of Joel Morgan. The wedding was celebrated in 1868 and the death of the wife occurred in 1879, many friends, beside her family mcurnmg her loss.

In his fraternal relations Mr. Pervier is a Mason, holding membership in the Blue lodge, and he held the otKce of junior warden while in California. He has served as assessor for three years and is now highway commissioner of Mineral township. His interest in community affairs is deep and sincere and is manifest through tangible co-operation in those measures and movements which are of benefit to the cimimunitv.

Eli R. Mathis

Eli E. Mathis, numbered among the pioneer residents of Princeton, located there in 1840, when the city was a mere village, and was identified with its growth and development throughout his remaining days. He figured in business circles as a dealer in groceries and dry goods and he also worked at the carpenter's trade. He was widely recognized as a man of enterprise and unfaltering determination, whose business methods would ever bear the closest investigation and scrutiny.

A native of Oliio, Mr. Mathis was born in Urbana, Champaign county, on the 14th of Jam:ary, 1823. His parents were Jeremiah and Either (Moss) Mathis, the former a native of New Jersey and the latter of the Buckeye state. Jeremiah Mathis removed to Urbana, Ohio, at an early period in its development and there worked at the carpenter's trade until he came to the west. His wife died in Urbana wlien their son Eli was but eight years of age and father and sons afterward came to Illinois together in 1840, settling in Princeton, where the former worked at the carpenter's trade until his death on the 30th of April, 1863.