Champaign County, Illinois - The whole text, 1891 (part 4 of 7)

Greencastle, Indiana, in November, 188.5. Emigrated with his parents to this city in the following April. He worked on his father's farm until he was of age. In is.5fj he engaged iu merchandising, which he followed until 1862, when he sold out the drug store of Busey & Miller to enter the service of his country. He obtained a commission from Gov. Yates, to recruit a company with which he went into camp at Kankakee, August 6, 1862. Was elected captain of company B, 76th Illinois volunteer infantry, and on the organization of the regiment was elected lieutenant-colonel. Aug. 22 went south to Columbus, Kentucky, then the base of supplies for Grant's army, at Corinth; thence to Bolivar, Tenn. Went with Grant to Coffeyville, Mississippi, garrisoned Holly Springs and regiment was rear guard on return. He became colonel of regiment in April, is;:;, and led his regiment to join Grant's army in rear ol' Vicksburg, and landed at Chickasaw Bayou, the night Grant drove the rebels into Yicksl)urg. His division being sent to Snyder's Bluff to guard the rear, the officers of the division circulated petition to Grant to send them to the front. Colonel liusey refused to sign it, stating that General Grant was iu conuuand and it was the duty of a brave sohlier to take any position assigned him, and not annoy the commanding general who was responsible for results; when chided by other officers he quietly remarked. "The 76th is ready to go when and where it is ordered anil will do the best it knows how, but I trust I have no officer willing to seek promotion by needlessly sacriticing a single man ;" three days later they were ordered to extreme left: the first night two of the loudest boasting regiments, most anxious for light, were surprised and routed with 114 men taken prisoners; the 76th turned out, prevented what might have been a general rout, advanced the line on river bank, afterwards took and held the most advanced position on the entire line until the surrender. He led his gallant regiment thence to Jackson, Miss., held the post of honor, the extreme right, during the siege. Colonel Busey was the first union officer in the city after the evacuation by the rebel troops. He won the gratitiule of citizens by his efforts in subduing fire and restraining the lawless. He refused promotion to Brigadier General, because he didn't want to leave his regiment. Later he was offered connnand of the post Natchez, and urged by citizens and soldiers to accept; thisjihe declined for same reason. His regiment was then attached to the Reserve Corps of Mississippi river. During this time he had led several expeditions into the country around. He and his regiment left ^Memphis, January 1st, ixc>r>. and was the first to report to General Canby, at New Orleans, of that vast araiy afterwards operating against Mobile. He went to Pensacola, Florida, thence to Tollard, Alabama, and thence down the country to Blakely, the last stronghold to Mobile, which was carried by assault, April !), after a hot siege of ten days. The oldi,76th Avas the first inside the works and suffered more loss than all the rest of the command. Col. Busey was the second man on the rebel works, urging his men to deeds of bravery, the other man was killed and the Colonel was wounded after an almost hand to hand confiict with three different men, each of whom was persuaded to "lay down." He was sent to the hospital at New Orleans, returned in June; thence he went to Texas, was nmstered for discharge at Galveston, and was discharged at Chicago, August G, lSC.5. He was afterwards commissioned as Brevet Brigadier General, on recommendation of Generals Andrews, Steel and General (iraiit, for gallantry in leailing his regiment in the assault on Fort Blakely.

So our readers will see lie is entitled to the appellation of "General," which we give him at the head of this article. At the close of the war he followed farming until the fall of 1S07. when he and his brother S. H. organized Busey Bros.' Bank. He afterwards bought out his brother's interest and associated with him his nephew, M. W. Busey, and the bank is known as Busey's Bank.

General Busey married late in life, but he is an exception to the rule in such cases, for he succeeded in winning an exceptionally excellent lady, to whom he was married Dec. 2.5. 1S77, at Delphi, In<liana. Mrs. Busey, who was Miss ;Mary E. Bowen, the daughter of a prominent citizen of Delphi, is still living and they have had born tothein twochildren, both girls. Marietta and Bertha. He has been thrice elected mayor of this city, which oHice he now holds, and discharges its duties with signal ability while he presides over one of the strongest and safest financial institutions of the county. A brave soldier, a public-spirited citizen, a business man of the strictest integrity, he has the respect and conhdence of all our people.

mother Nancy (Baskett) Webber. They brought young George to his western home at tlie age of three years, coming to Urbana in the fall of lS3o from Shelby countj-, Ky., and settled on the farm just east of town, upon wliich George G.. the subject of this sketch, with his family, now reside. He received an English education in the primitive schools of the time, and grew to manhood and will doubtless spend the years of his old age'on the spot where his infant feet were i)lanted fifty-three years ago.

Thirty-four years ago, to-wit, in I'^-Vi, he was united in marriage to Miss Martha E. McFarland, who is yet living at the age of lixty-six years. Following are the names of their children: Flora M., at home, Fannie, who is married to James Thorpe, foreman in the I.. B. and W. shops at Urbana", Laura, who is at home, Frank B.. married to Margaret McConnell and resides at Urbana. Harry E., married to Nellie Boysee, and a tinner in the L. E. and W. shops at Lima, Ohio, Mae, who died very suddenly a few years ago just as she was approaching womanhood, and Fred, the youngest, who is a fine nuisician, and resiiles at home. In fact the entire family are natural musicians. William T. Webber, the father of George, donated 20 acres upon which the city of Urbana was founded. He and Col. Isaac Busey giving to the county the land which comprises the original town of Urbana, the consideration being the location of the county seat at Urbana. William T. Webber was one of the most prominent of the pioneers an<l did much to buUd up the town and county. He died in 1S40. The mother of George died in 1860, having lived with George and family since the death of her luisband. Mr. Webber is a man of broad and charitable views and in his religious belief is a Universalist.

Politically Mr. Webber has clung to the political faith of his fathers and continues to be a democrat of stalwart principles, believing in the Jeffersonian ideas of democracy. He has engaged in farming and stockraising all the mature years of his life. He has kept up with the foremost of our farmers and stock raisers and is now residing on the old home farm where his parents lived and died, where he has seen this county gi'ow with his own growth until at the summit almost, of a successful life he can compare with much interest and describe very entertainingly the Champaign county of the present and the Champaign county of his boyhood days.

Mr. .Sduiers was burn at Kockford, Surry county. North Carolina, in ISir. His father was Waitman Somers. who came to this county in 1S41. His mother was Miss Caroline Durham, who died in North Carolina. His father settled north of Big Grove, on what is now section '22, Somer to wnship. James L., came in 1S43, and settled same place. He first married Miss Jemima Hamlin, who died soon after reaching this coun ty leaving no children. December 'ifith, 1844, he married Miss llosannah Adkins, daughter of Lewis Adkins, who settled in this county in 1832. His last wife survives him, and has always been a kind hearted Christian lady with whom he lived happily until his death. His children are: Mary, who married D. W. Stamey, of Rantoul township; Carrie, who married J. W. Stanley, residing just north of Champaign; Jennie and Ella, who reside at home with their mother on the old home place. Two of their children, Willie L., and James W., are dead.

He was first a whig, then a republican and was always a conscientious observer of the duties and obligations of a good citizen. He was assessor of Somer township for 13 years, supervisor six years and school treasurer eight years. He was filling the last two offices at the time of his death.

ing him altliough he had always been a republican: the regular republican nominee was elected becau^je of their large niaiority. During the canvass however, no aspersions were thrown u)>on the character of Mr. Somers. He was faithtul in every public trust. No man was more )>opiiIar in Somer than he. He had fairly w<»n the confidence and resv>ect of the pef>ple of all parties by his plain manners, good judgement, and sterling integrity.

He died Mar.-h 2. iss>, after an illness, from pneumonia, of only one week. His memory will be cherished by all who knew him, for his many noble traits of character.

I'lEV. William Muxhall. This gentleman, so well known to the i)ioneers of this county, was usually referred to as "Preacher Munhall." He was born May 80, isio, at Harrishurg. Pa. We are unable to obtain reliaiiie inforniulicm as to his early life before comuig to this county. He unite<l with the Protestant Methodist church in ls:J5, and began soon after to preach the Gospel. He had a personal magnetism that made his preaching effective and enabled him to accomplish a great deal of gooil, by this means. He was married to Miss Dorathy F. Jackson. March 5, LS^'t, at Brownsville, Pa. The children resulting fi-om tills union were Sylvanus C, married and residing at Watseka, Illinois; C. S., married and residing in Nebraska; William H., married and engaged on the Gazette, in Chami>aign, and JSanmel C, single and residiijg in Chicago. He came to Urbana in is.")4, i)reafhed a sermon or two here and attiacted the attention of Col. W. N. Coler and others by his logic and elo(juence: they made up a purse and employed him to preach for a year. At the close of this engagement he united with the M. E. church. He also served as jjastor of the Congregational church of Champaisrn for one or two years. He was a democrat of the old school type and knew well how to maintain his principles in argument. He was elected on that ticket for county treasurer and assessor in 18.55, and was reelected in l^^oT, serving four years. In the fore part of 1>>(')0 he bought out the Clarion, a newspaper owned by Munger it Knapjj. which he continued to publish under the name of Democrat and Patriot, until about 1XC,2. at which time he left this city and removed to Cleveland. Ohio, where he died March 9th. isfu. He was a man of strong impulses and of great abilities. His oratory was graced b\ the u<e of beautiful language, and an easy delivery, that with his tine talents enabled him to succeed admirably in that line. He matle many warm friends all over the county, anil could have succeeded always in politics, had he seen lit to engage in it.

AViLi-iAM J. Foot Was born at Mendon, Monroe county, N. Y., Sept. 10, 1817. He con\es of a long-lived family; his paternal grandfather. Charles. (whose ancestors came from Colchester, England, and founded the town of Colchester, Con- necticut.) was a soldier in the Rtivolutionary war and died at tiie advanced age of eishtyniue years. Tiie father of William J., also named Ciiarles, lived for one hundred and two years and seven months, and died in September, l^sM. He voted at all the presidential elections from Tiionias Jefferson to Garfield, and remembered all the electi<ms including tiiat of Washington the tirst time in 1789. Three of his brothers lived to be over ninety: another. E.' B. Foot, is still living at the age of eighty-one.

William J., the subject of this sketch, learned in Xew York the business of brick maker: he worked at this and upon the fami until 1842, when he sought to better his condition by starting for the west. He located at Medina, Ohio, where for thirteen years he worked at brick making and other occupations, eight years of which he carried on the business for himself.

He was married July 4. 1S44, to Lucy Maria Alcott, youngest daughter of Medad Aleott, whose ancestors for five generations are traced back to Thomas Alcott, who came over with Governor Winthrop in 10:30. His father, John Alcott, was Lord Chancellor of England under King Henry VII. Mrs. Foot is still living and will be sixty-nine years old Aug. lOth, 1886. She is a full cousin of A. Bronson Alcott, the Concord philosopher. The children of this union were: Julia R., who married M. W. Mathews, Eva A., Charles Bronson, Orlotf W., (who died at the age of ten years) and Franklin W.

Mr. Foot was a whig and cast his lii"st vote for W' illiani Henry Harrison in 1840. Later he became a republican and has voted an unscratched ticket ever since that party was born. He was coroner of Champaign county for two terms, and had served in Ohio for six years as deputy sheriff.

He came to Urbana in 185.5 and engaged in the manufacture of brick until 1871, since which time he has no* engaged in business on his own account. He made the brick for the court house, the iM. E. church, the old school building, (which burned) and for about all the brick buildings both in Urbana and Chanrpaign that were built prior to 1871. Willie not in the most robust health he has ambition and vigor enough to last him yet many years.

Richard Ali.kn. Iviciiani Allen was the son of Sanuiel and Phoebe Allen, natives of Dutctiess county,N. Y. He was born in Poughkee!>sie, same state. March 10, isi4. The family is of English origin and Quaker belief. In November 1834, Mr. Allen left New York on a sail-vessel for Savannah, Georgia, and from there, walked to Milledgeville. a distance of one hundred and tifty miles, and from the latter place on horseback to Columbus, one luuidred and tifty more. He then took charge of twenty live slaves, and escorted them to Montgomery, Alabama. The road ])assed through the Creek Indian reservation. At Montgomery, he engaged to drive stage from that city to Columbus. He soon after took a steamer down to Mobile, where he taught school three months. He returned to New York in June, 18:3.5, and the same year went west to Gallia county. Ohio. He there purchased ;3«0acresof heavily timbered land. He cleared up one luuidred acres and farmed it for twenty tln-ee years. The land being poor 'the profits arising therefrom were meagre. In 18.5S, he sold his farm and came to this county, and bought land in Somer township, where he still lives.

In 18:38, he was united in marriage with Miss MaryE., daughter of Col. Nial Nye. The following are the names of their children: Lewis, who is a resident of Emporia, Kan.; Sarah, who lives at home; Samuel, a resident of Fairbury, Neb. ; Ira H., of Urbana ; Joseph, who lives at Perry, Iowa. Part of the family worship in the Congrega tional church, and the others are Metho dists.

Politically Mr. Allen was a whig until that organization was abandoned, and since then has acted with the republican party. While Mr. Allen has not been an active politician, yet he is a man of strong and decided convictions. He believes tirnily in high protection for American industries and the party espousing those principles, receives his warm endorsement and vote.

Mr. Allen has represented his township for four years on the board of supervisors. He has been Justice of the Peace for ten years and at present holds that office. He is modest and unassuming in manner, but lias a will of his own and is not easily swerved fiom a position once taken. These characteristics are written plainly by oiu' artist in the splendid portrait above given.

Mr. Hrownlield was probably of Scotch- Irish descent. His father, Robert Browntield, at the time of the birth ot John, October 7th, 17S.5, lived in Washington county, Penn. The maiden name of the mother was Ramsey. Subseciuently. and in th" boyhood of John, the family removed to Harrison county, Ky., from which place tlieyremo\ed to this county in October. 1S32, tlie yeai- before the establisliment of the county, by law\ The father. Robert, is still remembered by the few remaining old settlers of lifty years ago. He was born June 4th, ITtiO. and lived to become a resident of tliis county, witli his son. He was a ."ioldier in the revolutionary war. He died in ISll. The mother died before the family left Kentucky. John Brownfield was married about 1S04, to Anna Clements, a sister of James Clements, another early settler. She was born in 1790 and died August 25th, 1S4.'), in the fellowship of the

Freewill Baptist church, of which she was long a consistent member. Mrs. Browntield is still remembered as a kind-hearted, charitable lady, devotedly attached to her children, of whom she had thirteen, most of whom long since joined her on the other shore. John Browntield volunteered under Col. Coleman in the war of 1S12 and spent several months in the Harrison camijaigus in the Maumee country, for which he received a government land warrant. Two years before their removal to this county, Mr. Browntield came here on a prospecting tour, and being pleased with the outlook, he bought out tlie improvements of one John Light, a squatter then living on Sec. 3.5, in Somer township, where his son. Thomas Browntield, now lives, and formally entered the laud at the land office at Palestine, on September 2, 1830. This Light is still remembered, by citizens, as one of the tirst pioneers of this county. He was possessed ot some learning, for he was among the first, if not the first, school teacher who taught in this county.

In 1831, about October 25th, the Brownfield family, tlestined to become so conspicuous in family names and in the affairs of the county, reached their new home ant I became domiciled. Near their cabin ran \ the Ft. Clark road, the only road that was more than a trail, leading tlirough the county. Their neig]il)ors were Pliillip Stanford, the Rhineheaits, John Light, William and Robert Trickle, James T. Roe. Isaac Busey, Matthew Busey. and a few others. No store was then in the county and the nearest market was Chicago, then, only a military post, or some of the Wabash towns. Mr. Brownfield was a blacksmith by trade and at once became a useful man in the connuunity. At that time the facilities for grinding grain in the settlement were limited to a hand mill owned by Roberta Trickle, made of a short section of a hollow log enclosing the "upper and the nether mill stones," capable of grinding one bushel an hour. This was brought from Butler's Point. Vermilion county. This deficiency Mr. Browiilield set about remedying. In 1835, by the aid of one Holmes, probably the first Methodist preacher who ever i>reached the gosi)el in the county, completed a horse grist mill near his home. This mill was capable of grinding from fifteen to twenty-five bushels of coin or wheat per hour. It was supplied with a bolting chest for bolting the flour, which was operated by hand. The machinery of this mill was so well constructed that a high velocity was given the stone. The larger wheel was twenty-four feet in diamter. The mill at once became very useful.

to the people, far and near, who came long distances to get their grain ground. In 1842 Mr. Brownfield commenced the erection of a saw and grist mill on the creek about three miles below Urbana, to be run by water power. The saw mill was completed in 1S43 and in 1844 the burr stones were removed to it from the liorse mill and there did duty until 1849 when they were probably superceded by Park's steam mill, in Urbana. The frame of the old horse mill still remains and is used by Thomas as a stable, while the burr-stones are still kept for the good they have done. Mr. Brownfield ran one of the first threshing machines brought to the county. He also for a time kept a small stock of groceries.

Under the constitution of 1818 the probate business was entrusted to an officer known as the Probate Justice of the Peace, who, as such, had jurisdiction in the settlement of estates, probate of wills, «fec. To this office John Brownfield was elected in 1841, and in it he served the people acceptably for one term of two years. If he ever made any errors in this office they were errors of the pen and neither ot the head nor heart. He also, for many years, served as a justice of the peace. Mr. Brownfield, as above stated, raised thirteen children, only five of whom, William, Joseph, Thomas, James C, and Susan McClatchy, are living. The three first named live in this county. One of his daughters, Mary Ann, married Andrew Stevenson, the first sheriff of this county. He was married a second time to Mrs. McElroy, who survived him a few years. John Brownfield died July 6th, 1863, and will long be remembered by citizens as a very original and anomalous character. Born and reared at a time and in a section of country when and where educational facilities were out of the question, he was conspicuous for his lack of book learning and as conspicuous for his strong«»comnion sense, which never deserted him in any emergency. Although without a knowledge of the world of mankind, beyond his limited line of observation, he was too shrewd and alert to be over-reachect by the most casuistic of sharpers. He would have proved himself equal to the ingenuousness of any of tlie modern confidence men, had they visited him in that day. His shrewdness in settling by the most peaceable of measures a threatened law suit, well illustrates his aptness in dealing with men. In his water mill above si)oken of he made use of a wiieel fashioned after one which somebody had patented, without thinking of infringing anyone's rights, others of the same patern being in use in the neighborhood. An agent H of the patentee came through the country looking after infringers upon his patent. He came to Urbana, one day, put up his team and enquired for Mr. Brownfield's mill and residence, and was told he was in town. The two soon met and the stranger made known his business. He said he was informed that Mr. B. had in use one of his patent wheels - that he had already settled like infringements (m his letters patent with so and so and was disposed to settle with him without suit. Mr. Brownfield said if he had infringed upon the rights of any one he was willing to pay, but from the stranger's description of his wheel, he doubted if his own wheel was any infringement. He invited the claimant to go with him to his mill and examine for himself. It was then near noon and it was agreed that the two should meet soon after dinner and together go to the mill, three miles away. After his dinner the stranger drove out with a sijirited team for Mr. Brownfield to pilot him to the mill, but he could not be found. After some further search he concluded to go alone and inspect the wheel. He soon reached the mill but found no wheel in it. The smoking embers of a bonfire near by plainly showed that the wheel and all evidence of its character, had been reduced to ashes. The evidence from which to base a suit was gone and the suit thus settled by peaceable means.

Wi 1,1,1AM iNI. Stiawhax. The subject of the following sketch was a native of Kentiukv. He was born in Bourbon county, October *2il, 1808. He was the son of John and Margaret (McCune) Shawhan. John Shawhan emigrated from Penn- sylvania, to Ohio, and from there to Kentucky, before the Revolutionary war. Both l)areiits died tliere. William M. was raised uponth*^ farm, and spent the most of his life upon it and in his father's mill until he was past thirty years of age. He received but a limited education in the subscription schools of his native state, attending one school six weeks and another nineteen days. He remained in Bourbon county, until the fall of 1837, when he emigrated to Rush county, Indiana, and bought a farm in that heavily timbered region. Here he actively engaged in farm work, and soon accumulated sufficient to pay for several hundred acres of valuable land. At the same time he was deeply absorbed in church and school work. He gave largely of both time and money, beside donating land for church, district school, and seminary sites. The accident which resulted in the death of his eldest son in 1846, changed tiie whole current of his life. He left his faim and removed in 1848, to Falmouth, a little village near his home. Here he remained until the spring of 18.56, when he came to Champaign county, and settled on section 19, of what is now known as Raymond township. He had for some years been engaged in the cattle trade and was induced to come to this county by the superior facilities afforded at that time for feeding and grazing large herds. He did not continue in the business long, however, but contented himself with the care of small lots at home. Here he lived until his sudden death on May 2d, 187.5, in the church at Sidney. He had had an attack of heart disease about 20 years before. The second attack ended his life painlessly, and aside from his home, in the place he most loved to be, the church.

The second time in 1837, to Nancy Redmond. She still survives her husband and at present is a resident with her son James in Urbana. The names of the children in tiie order of their birth are as follows: John T., eldest born was accidentally killed in 1845; Charles R., is a farmer and a resident near Belvidere, Nebraska. He married Amand^ ClilTord; Daniel M., married Jane Carson. They reside in Pike county, Indiana; Joseph H., married Mary Thompson, and resides inCynthiana, Kentucky; Margaret A., married David Frame; after his death, she married William Higginbotham, of Chicago, she is now a resident of Champaign; Mary Helen, married Robert H. Myers, she died in 1865; George R., married Vista Brown, and is a resident of Urbana;

James R., took to wife Asenath Churchill and is also a resident of Urbana; William T., the >oungest of the family married Maud Piatt and is now a resident and ixjstmaster of Castleton, Nebraska.

William M. Shawhan united with the Christian chmch at Fairview, Indiana, when about forty years of age. He was an active worker, and soon became an elder in the congregation there. When he came to this country he soon found the congregations in Old St. Joseph, Hickory Grove. Sidney and Camargo. As in Indiana, his time and money assisted in building and e.stablisliing these churciies. Many old residents remen>- ber him well. On churches and schools he was an enthusiast, especially during the years immediately preceding the death of his eldest son. His knowledge of the Bible was wonderful. The New Testament lie knew nearly by heart.

Politically he was a democrat, though he had not cast a vote for about thirty years be fore his death. His last ballot was for the adoption of the Indiana Free School law. In Kentucky, he was a Captani of a militia company. In Illinois he served two years as supervisor of Raymond township. This was the only political office, he ever held. He was school treasurer of the township, almost continuously, from the organization of the first district until his death. He was physically a strong man, six feet, four inches high, with umscles able to endure almost any thing. Cradling wheat was pastime. From sunrise until the stars came out was a day, when he was in his prime. Few men could swing his scythe, as he always hung the point out so far from the snath. Eight and nine acres was a day's work. His mind was as vigorous as his body. His memory rarely failed, even to the minutest details. His will was strong and when once he had determined upon a course of action, he rarely changed. His judgment of men was seldom at fault. Few could impose upon him, and when they did, pity usually opened the way. He would do what he believed right, no matter who opposed. He did not build a grand fortune, but he secured a handsome competence, and left a name that his children and friends love to remember and honor.

Jonathan N. Howsek Was born in Clermont county, Ohio, October Ifitli, 1S'3L His i»arents were Cliristopher H. and Elizabetii (Hoover) Howser, wiio were botli natives of Maryland. Jonathan N. Howser the subject of this sketch, worked upon a far;a during his boylKjod days and later farmed in Clermont county, Ohio, for himself, for about ten years before coning to Champaign county, Illinois, in 1855. He was nr.irried to Margaret J. Dillmm, of Brown county, Ohio, by Z. M. Lansdowne. August 24th, l^^S, who came with hira to Illinois, and who has, by her wifely assistance, helped him in the arduous efforts in building his fortune in his western home. She was born March 19th, 1^26, and is still living to enjoy the fruits of their labor. The children of this marriage were as follows : Eliza Ellen, born July 2Sth, 1844, who married John H. Hudson, a farmer living in St. Joseph towusliip; Leoniilas H., born June 28th, IS46, who is also a farmer in same township; Robert C, born February 7th, 1849, also a farmer in Page county, Iowa ; Martlia Jane, who married J. D. Laughlin, a farmer now in Page county, Iowa; Clnlstopher Lincoln, who is married and farming in St. Joseph, and Caroline who died in infancy. Mr. Howser and his wife have been consistent and faithful members of the Cliristian church f(nty-two years and yet cling to the same faith. They settled upon section 31, in St. Joseph township, and now own the liome place a well improved farm of 240 acres, besides an 80 acre tract in Urbana township.

Mr. Howser held the ottice of higliway coniMiissioncr for three years, and it was under his supervision as such officer, that the iron bridge across the Salt Fork, near St. Joseph was built. In politics Mr. Howser is a true and tried republican. He is an unpretending modest man, and conunands by his record of honest endeavor and well regulated life the fullest confidence of our people among whom he lias lived so long.

Samuel D. Jones Was born in Liverpool, England, July 10, 1816. His pariiuts, David and Elizabeth Jones, resided however in Carnarvonshire, Wales. He was married February 22, 1844, in Festiugoe, Wales; his good wife, who is still living, is in her 6Sth year, and is a well preserved lady bidding fair to bear him company for many years to come. They have had two children; Lucy died in Vermont ; Catlierine, married Garrett N. Howard, wlio is now farming on section 28, in East Bend township, in this county. He was a soldier in the 125th regiment, Illinois, Vols. Mr. Jones and wife united with tlie Baptist church in 185R; the family on both sides were Baptists, tracing the same back to the time the Baptists first came to Wales. Mr. Jones and wife came to this country in 1850, and resided in Vermont for four years.. They then lived in the state of New York for about a year, and in 1><55, came to Illinois and settled in Kane county. In 18.58, Mr. Jones broke prairie on his farm in section 28, East Bend township, and. moved his family there in 18.59, where they still own a farm which they improved by their joint labors. Thev resided on the same until nine years ago he removed to Urbaiia, to take c-harge of the poor-house and farm of this county, wliich position he still holds and conducts in such a business like and economical manner that he will doubtless be retained as long as his services can be secured.

Mr. Jones is a republican, strong in the faith, though he has never sought ofiice, being content to be a faithful member in the ranks. The pjutiality of his neighbors called him to serve as town clerk for ten years and town trustee for seven years. At the time he opened up his farm, there were only forty or lifty votes in Brown and East Bend townships combined. Mr. Jcmes is a good representative of the hardy race of which he comes and of those peculiarly admirable traits of charactei' so generously shown by them. Industrious, honest and true in all the relations of life, he is fairly entitled to the success he has attained by a life of usefulness, and we sincerely hope a kind Providence may grant to him and his life partner a green old age and the comforts they have so righteously earned.

Brn.iamix p. Puathfu. The parents of Mr. Prather. were .James and Sophia I'rather, who came from Maryland, in their early years and were among the first settlers on the Ohio river. They settled at ("hilo, ("lerniont county, Ohio- The lirst we gather of the life of Benjamin P. Prather, is when at the age of tifteen years he was entrusted with the running of a ferryboat between ("incinnati, Ohio, and Newport, Ky. Here he learned to like the life of a .steamboatman; for from this beginning he continued to follow the riv«'r and was for twenty years onttie Ohioand Mississippi rivers as an engineer, lie wa.s married at Felicity, Ohio. September 15, 184(j, to Sli.ss Caroline M. Stevens, daughter of Silsby Stevens, of Vermont. She survives him and resides on the line farm in Sonier township, which their joint labors has rescued from the wild prairie and made it one of the most desirable farms and homes in the county. The following children were born to them: William T., Jessie, and Jennie P. Tate, (all three of whom are deceased:) Homer, was nmrried to Miss Jessie Marriott; she died in December 1877, and he now resides in Dowell, Edwards county, Kansas; Scott, was married to Miss Etta Haley, in November, 1881, and resides on his farm in Somer; Spees, was united in marriage to Miss Mary E. Nye, September ;i4, 1SH4, and resides at his father's old home in Somer. Mr. Prather and family moved to Champaign in June, 1856, where he engaged in the grain business with Mark Carley: he built the dwelling house on the corner of State and Hill streets in Champaign which afterwards was for many years the home of Daniel (iardner.

In September 18.58, he moved It) his farm in Somer; at that time there were no improvements ni sight north or east of him and the eye rested upon a wild untamed i)rairi(i relieved only by the i>rairie flowers that bloomed in their season. Tlie howl the prairie wolf often dlsturbeil tiu-ir slumbers, and frequently the young lambs were carrietl from the barnyard by these denizens of the prairie. Prairit> lires lit up the heavens at times so that a book might be read by the light although it was miles away; it traveled before a high wind faster than the llee test horse.

Mr. Prather was a staunch and active republican all his mature life. He was a mend)er of the M. E. church and contributed freely to its support: he was among the tirst to donate liberally towards the Carley ChaptI near his farm.

He held the office of supervisor for Somer townsliip, for the years 18()9. '70 and '71, and was a useful and influential mend)er of the board. Mr. Prather died February ;iird, 18S.5, leaving a comfortable competency for his family and a cha:acter fcu' integrity and upright ((uiduct through lite that connuanded the admiration of all those who had the honor of his aciiuaintance.

A sket9h of the early settlers of Champaign county, would be incomplete without a sketch of J. B. Porterlield, of Sidney, Illinois. He IS a native of Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, and was born, August 10th, ISiJfi. His i>arents, Samuel and Nancy Porterfield, were natives of the same state. Mr. Porterlield was raised on the farm, but soon after obtaining his majority he abandoned it to engage in contracting on railroads, the latter being more congenial to his lastes. His tirst contract was on the Allegliany Valley R. K., in Pennsylvania. After the completion of that contract he came west to Illinois, and was engaged on the C, B. & Q. K. li. From 1857 to 1868, he was engaged oil the Illinois Central road, building fence and furnishing wood and ties. He constructed the Eureka Springs R. R. in Arkansas in ISSi. In 18S4 lie was instrumental in organizing the i»resent Sidney coal company, and iiV successfully sinking the tirst shaft ever sunk in Champaign county. Since 18.58, lie has carried on a large farm at Sidney, in addition to the various enterprises mentioned above.

Tiie date of his arrival in this county was in April 1857. lie stopped in West Urbana, now Champaign, and made that his home until his removal to liis farm. He was married at \Vf)rtiiingt(jn, Pa., May 4th, 184s, to Miss E. H. Blain, who is still living. John Blain the father of Mrs. Portertield. came to Sidney in 18(W, where he still resides at the advanced age of eighty four years. The subject of this sketch is the father of thirteen children, nine of whom are living.

none of the formulated platforms of any liarty. He is not bound by the ipse dixit of any political organization, but takes an independent position and votes for such measures and men as in his judgment will be for the best interests of the whole country. Would that there were more like him - men who could rise to the true dignity of American citizenship and divest their minds of partisan prejudice and vote as their best judgment dictates. A healthier, purer government for the people and by the people, would be the result. Mr. Portertield's political status is that of an independent republican.

He now resides at Sidney, and is one of the most enterprising citizens of that prosperous village. He is an ardent temperance man, and refuses to vote for any man in any party whose influence is not used on the side of temperance and good morals. Such men are needed to hold in check, the dangerous tendencies of our people and to furnish a model for tiie rising generation.

William S. Garman was born in Jackson township, Lebanon county, Penn., Jan. 30, 1826, where also his father, Sebastian Garman and his mother, Magdalana Stine, were born, whose great grand parents came from Germany. Their family consisted of six children, three boys and three girls; the boys being the oldest. The second son is the subject of this sketch. He has now two brotliois and nvo sisters living in the same county and state. He received a common school education and was put to tlie tailor trade at about lifteen years of age in Myerstown, lie was kept at his trade till he was eighteen. In the tall of 1W4, he and a boy about his age, named Wm. Kobinson, left tlieir homes in September, on foot, with all their effects tied up in a bandanna handlverchief , directing their steps towards the setting Sim. They came to Chambersburg and from thence on foot over tlie Alleghany mountains to Pittsburg, and from there to Cincinnati, by boat. He finally came to Dayton, where he remained working at his trade till the fall of '47. He then returned home and staid till the following spring, when the western fever came on him again and he returned to Ohio, and then to Indiana. He traveled over a greater i>ortion of the state and finally settled in Fayette county, and carried on business there the spring of 18.50, when he again started westward. He came to St. Louis, and from there to Ottawa, Illinois, thence to Peoria, and Bloomington, and linally landed at Urliana, 111 , April 20, 1850, where he was urged by the leading citizens to locate and open a tailor shop. No shop being liere he finally consented to stay awhile and he remains yet. It now became necessary to tind a place to open business, and buildings being scarce, only one painted house in the town and a good many log cabins. He linally found a cabin on East Main street, in whicli M. D. Harvey had a carpenter's bench where he did some repairing. He consented to vacate the cabin (which stood on the lot now occupied by Mr. Touliill's residence,) it was swept out and transformed into a tailor shop, with fashion plates tacked uji against the logs. The people being scarce, work proved to be the same. Board was chea]), he ])oarded with A. Bruer at the Urbaiia house for 61.35 per week. He spent most of the summer on the wide unoccupied prairies, hunting deer and wolves, but as fall grew near, trade increased, his customers came from Mahomet, Sadorus, Homer, Sidney, Salt Fork and the Big Grove. Fall also brought cool weatlier from which the cabin was not able to shield the inmates. When Mr. Lewis, then sheriff of the couiily, rented him an unoccupied room in the court house, where lu' remained till he built the lirst tailor shop in IJrbana, in tlie fall of 1851. In June 18.51, he was married to Miss Nancy Mc<Jraw, of FayetU^ county, liid. He has a daughter Zue E., who is married to Mr. Jno, B. Bennett and resides in Mc- I'lierson, Kansas. His tirst wife died in April I'nVI, and lie married a seconil time to Mrs. Louisa, a daugliter of Mr. Jno. Mc- Williams, born in Adams county, Peiin., Feb. 3, 183:2, and came to Urbana, in ]March 185(j. She was the widow T. J. Paul, who was in June l>i5S, thrown from a horse and killed. He raised four children by his second marriage. I. H., the eldest, who is now in Cairo, Illinois; J. C, second, now in Vancouver, British Columbia; Jno. C, tliird and Mae, the youngest who are at home. He became a member of the church when 16 years old and belongs to the M. E. church. He has been identified with the republican party since its organization, and was elected coroner in IsfjO, and served as tleputy sheriff for two years under Sheriff' N. M. Clark. He carried on the merchant tailoring business near Miss Downs' millinery store till 1862, when he left for California, for his liealth. On his return he bought a farm, one and three-fourths miles northeast of Urbana, where he has since resitted. He is one of our most industrious and successful farmers.

Jamks (r. Thompson. Mr. Thompson's father, George, came from Ireland, in his early life, and located in Otsego county, N. Y. Afterward a young girl named PeiH'Ioi)e Thornton went with her jiarents from hei native state of Rhode Island, to the same pounty. Here (ieorge Tliomiison learned to love her as she grew to woiiiauhood and married lii'r. .lames G. Thompson, the subject of this sketch, was born to them Noveml)er 28th, 1834. His early life was s])eni on the farm in New York state, until 1^46, wlieii be lef( the pa- rental roof and went to Rliode Island, where he taught school that winter, 1840-7, and the next spring engaged in the nursery business at East Greenwich. At the expiration of the lirst year the owner of the nursery went to California, leaving Mr. Thompson in charge of the business, where he continued to thus labor until 18.52. lie tlien went to New York, where having become enamored of the imrsery business he followed it until 18.56, when he came to Illinois, and located live miles southeast of Urbana, and has followed the nursery and fruit business ever since. He was married December 14th, 1853, at I'rovidence, K. 1., to Amanda S. Vinton. The young wife went with her husband to New York, and also came with him to Urbana. Her health soon after failed and she returned to Khode Island in the hope of improving it, but she died there, July 28th, 18(jO. The children of this mariiage were James Irving, born in 1854 and died December 26th, 1870. Mary E. O., born in 1828, died in 1860. Mr. Thompson wafe again married July 5, 1866, at Urbana, to Maggie C. Donovan. Of this marriage one child, Freddie E. was born October 25th, 1875, and is still living. Mr. Thompson joined the M. E. church, in Guilford, N. Y., in 184:5, and has remanied a Methodist from that day to the present. He enlisted in Co. G. 76th 111. Vol. Infty., in August 1862, and followed the fortunes of his regiment until December 20th, 1862,. when Van Dorn made his raid to Holly Springs, Miss., and burned the town, when* Mr. Thompson was captured by the rebels. He was sent to Benton Barracks, St. Louis, until exchanged in June, 1868, when he was transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps, Co. G, 5th regiment, and sent to Cainp Morton, at Indianapolis, to guard rebel prisoners there, where he remained until he w'as discharged July 5th, 186.5. Mr. Thompson is still engaged in his favorite business, that of conducting a nursery and fruit farm near this city, in which he is an eminent success. Politically he is a republican, and though not a politician, he is always to be depended upon to do his duty for the party which he believes is entitled to his support. Mr. Thompson is faithful in all the relations of life and bears a reputation for honesty in business, and integrity in all things which commands the highest regard of his feUowmen.

Cai.vin Keei) Mokehouse. Just after the war of 1812, on the rirst ship that was chartered for the United States, after that war, William Morehouse took passage across the broad ocean for the land of liberty and plenty. He was from Dublin, Ireland. Although William was unmindful of the fact, and in fact, knew it not, Catharine Kline took passage upon the same vessel. During the passage, those on board naturally cultivated sociability. While thus on the ocean wave William met the young lady, for the first time, that was destined soon to become his wife, and later the mother of the subject of this sketch. She was born in Maryland and was the niece of Christian Kline, who carried on the business of Harper's Ferry and had charge of the government works that made all the guns the government used during the war of 1812. The couple settled at Baltimore, where. May 25, 1827, Calvin K. Morehouse was born to them. The parents, when Calvin was a babe, removed to Cincinnati in 18;J8, when it was only an Indian town and trading post. They went back to their Baltimore home in 1829 and in 18:^0 again removed to Cincinnati. In 18.3:3 they removed to the Wabash country. In 18.50 Calvin II. came to Urbana and inspected the country. In 18.52 he bought land here, and in 185:3 removed here with his young wife, wlumi he had married in 1852. Her name was Rebecca J. Wimp and she is still living. They settled in Somer township and hare carried on farming operations extensively ever since. The children born to them are Kossuth B., who resides and farms in same township, Jennie ])., who marrietl

Mr. Sparks and resides in northorn Iowa, Clara B., who resides in Elgin, 111., and Flora, who married Mr. (irinK and resides in Sonier township. Mrs. Morehonse helongs to the M. E. oluuch and is a laithlnl member of the same. Mr. Morehonse was bronght up a democrat and cast his Inst vote for James liiichanan for president, ni lim He subsequently voted for Douglas in I860, for McLellan in 1«&4, Seymour in 1808. In 18T2 he voted liis last democratic ticket in voting for Horace Greeley. He became imbued with the idea that the government had the power, and that it was its duty, to furnish the money of tlie people m the shape of greenbacks and not deputize national banks to issue money for it at an enormous protit. He became, in otlier words, an enthusiastic greenbacker, and it was through his influence and energy that the greenback party got a strong foothold in this county. He is a good reasoner and an easy conversationalist, and being well posted upon the financial history of this and other governments he has ably maintained his position in politics. He voted for Peter Cooper in 1876, for Weaver in 1880, and for Sutler in 1884, and still clings, to the greenback labor party, confident that he is right and believing that his party has forced the old parties to do many things they would not otherwise have done, which is, doubtless, true. He has been supervisor of his township from I860 to 1863, and from 1866 to 1868, both inclusive and was again elected in 1882, ami has since served in that cajiacity, and still holds the position, serving now on his twelfth term. He was one of the most active and influential members of the board of supervisors in securing the location of the State University at Urbana. He was one of the committee that hatl the matter in charge and to his efforts are largely due the success of the enterprise whU-h has been of so much benefit to our c(mnty. He is a fair, lumest and faithful legislator for the people. Enterprising and public spirited, he is not pieayiinish and small like some who seek to make a record of economy, yet he is always to be feared by those who would unjustly get the peophi's money from the county treasury. Mr. Morehouse was educated in the log cabin school house of the pioneer days, with greased paper and slab seats. He lived on that primitive diet of the early days, corn bread and sassafras tea. It was in this kind of an eilucational institution in Montgomery county, Indiana, that he competed with Hon. Joseph E. McDonald,of thatstate,for the best record in the multiplication table, for it was there that they were schoolmates t<)gether. Mr. Morehonse lives with his faithful helpmeet on a farm in Somer, which they have i)laced in a high state of improvement, and no where are more hospitable and courteous people to be found than at Ins moilel home.

Eldkk Gkraiu) W. Hii.ky. This reverend gentleman and most eflicient minister of the Gospel was born September 2, 1813, in Clermont county. Ohio. His parents were John W. and Sarah (Connery) Kiley. Sh(utly after his birth his parents removed to Harriscm county. Kentucky, bat when he was six years of age they returned to Clermont county, where he remained with them until the summer of 183:1 He was converted during the winter or spring of 1833 at Bethel, Ohio, under the preaching of Rev. Aaron Sargent and became at once an active member of the church. In June, 1833, he was married to Miss Bethire McClain, and soon after, accompanied by his parents, he came to Illinois and settled at Bloomlield. He and his wife united with the church at Blooinfield, of which his father, who 'J.as a Baptist minister, had the pastoral charge. In November, IS:^'., at the age of twenty-three years, the church gave him license to preach the Gospel. For forty-five years, with untiring industry and righteous enthusiasm, he followed this high calling with a success that, of itself, is a proud monument to his memory. The country was new, population sparse and settlements distixnt from each other; this made the labor of his calling very different in chara.'ter fn.m that of the present day. He was regularly ordained to the Gospel ministry at the call of the Bloomtield church, August 13, is:«, and became pastor of that church, giving them half his time while the other half was spent at other points. He had only received, at this time the education he could get in the primitive schools of that day, and he soon felt keenly the want of a higher culture and more thorough education. In January, 1837, he rode on horseback from Bloomtield to Alton to attend Shurtlelf college, which was then, and is now, conducted by the Baptist denomination; but finding tiie expense too great for his limited means, he abandoned it and returned home the same month.

Elder lliley learned the cabinet maker's trade and he worked at this at Bloomfield, giving all his leisure time to studying such helps as he could jirocure until the fall of 18.3S, wlien lie took his wife in a buggy and drove to Ohio to enter Granville college, still harboring an earnest desire for a collegiate education ; before arrangements were completed he received a call to the church at Falnumth, Kentucky, at which place there was a good school and he thought for a time of accepting it, but his Bloomfield brethren were so earnest in their desire for his labors there that he came back from Ohio and became their pastor, and remained there for twelve years. We can form some idea of the immense labor he performed, in these early years, and the gratifying success which attended his ministrations by quoting from a memorandum which he made during his labors there, as follows: "During the whole of my ministry 1 have traveled on an average about 1200 miles per year - seven yearsmaking 8400 miles, preached 200 sermons per year, or 1400 sermons, fifty of which have been funerals, constructed nine churches, ordained three ministers, attended nineteen associations and three conventions. 1 received during the seven years from churches aliout seventy-five dollars per year. I paid out of this about twenty-five dollars for benevolent purposes; built three good meeting houses."

In the fall of 1848 he removed to Paris, Edgar county, Illinois, and took charge of the church, meantime supplying the Bloomfield church once a month. In the winter of Is.'iS lie closed his labors at Paris, accepted the pastorati! of the Baptist church, of Urbana, and removed here in January, 18.59 ; he remained as pastor for eleven years, leaving it with a membership of nearly three hundred in 1870, to take charge of the church in Champaign, where he undertook the erection of a new meeting house ; he raised the funds, suiM!rintended the work and la- bored untiringly till it was completed; at its dedication tlie church was indebted to him six hundred dollars on salary, all of which, on the day of dedication, he gave to the church. In 1872, having built the church in Champaign, he returned to the Urbana church and preached lor them for two years; from here he went to the South Street church, at Indianapolis, Ind., and preached two years, thence again to Paris where he remained until 1879, at which time he came back to Urbana to spend the remainer of his days. Though sixty-six years old he could not be idle and continued to labor, one year at Tolono and afterwards supplying Bourbon and Fairmount, having an appointment at the latter place the Sabbath following his death, which occurred August 18, 1881, at his home in Urbana.

His widow still survives him and resides in this city. His children are Ninian A., who married Ennna D. Porter, and is in the dry goods business here, and Ozias G., who married Frances Busey, and is in the jewelry business in Champaign. Five daughters were also born to them, but they died in youth.

Mr. Kiley was formerly a Douglas democrat, but the war issues coming up he became an ardent republican. He was appointed U. S. revenue assessor by President Lincoln in 1863, which office he held until the forepart of Andrew Johnson's term, when he gave way to the democrat that the new president appointed to succeed him.

Though this good man is gone from among us his influence and high example is felt, today, and doubtless will be for years to come. Over the entire Bloomfield district the work of Elder Kiley is visible. Scarcely a church organization in it but his labors have helped to build up; scarcely a church spire in it but his hand, nerved by the grace of God, has helped to point toward heayen. Countless christians, almost, have felt the cheering solace of his kindly interest in their eternal welfare, and who shall say how far down the years to come the seed he sowed in the vineyard of his Master shall spring up in the hearts of those that come after him. He was a pure and noble man, whose highest ambition was to benefit his fellow men. Liberal in his charities, generous in his donations, of time and money, to the cause he served, kind to all with whom he came in contact, affable in demeanor, charitable towards the weaknesses of men, warmed by true christian love and upheld by an unfaltering faith,who shall measure the extent of his usefulness during his long and intensely active life?

Was born July 7, 184!2, at Huron, Wayne county, N. Y. He came to Urbana at the aK<' ot eighteen, in October IbKiO, to seelc his lortvnie. He looked for it on a farm near Tolono, husking corn during the fall and winter until March 12, 1861, when he began clerking for Ingersoll & Cutcheon, in their dry goods store in Urbana. While this latter occupation was more congenial to his tastes and ideas of life, yet he was destined for other and more serious duties. He was among the lirst to register his name upon the roll of soldiei's that went early in the war to defend the flag, so unrighteously attacked by treason. This occurred in June 1861. He joined the company of Captain Boyden, Co. K., 2.'-.th 111. lleg't, 111. Vol. Inf't'y. He left for the front in August 1801 ; h(! followed the fortunes of the regiment until October 1802, when he was discharged for disability, the exposure and hardshijis JMiing too great for the young patriot. He then clerked again for Ingersoll it ("utcheon until the spring of 1808, when he went south with Cutcheon A (Jriggs and remaiiK'd with them until May 18(J4. During the siiort time he had been in Urbana he had met Miss Nelli(! Griggs, the daughter of Hon. C. R. (4riggs. He was stricken with her gentle manners and winning charms and permitted his adniinition to ripen into love. Tlie result may be safely guessed. The young lady return(!d it with interest and the liai>py and line looking couple were made one May lit, 1804. He and his young wife soon after locate<l on a farm near Philo and farmed there lor two years. He worked on the I., B. iV: W. K. \\. lor two y»'ars as insi>ector.

In 1870 he formed a copartnership with M. Lowenstern in the dry goods business, and was engaged in same business nearly all the time until 1880, when he went to Norwalk, Ohio, as a paymaster and contractor of tlie Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad. In this position he was very successful and accumulated a comfortable fortune. In May, 1884, he resigneil the (jttlce to open a coal mine at Sherodsville, Carroll Co., Ohio, where he is now mining five hundred tons of the dusky diamonds daily.

The children surviving are: Maud E. and King ]{., both at home with their parents at Norwalk, Ohio. He is a radical republican in politics and votes the ticket just as it is printed. Mr. Graham is a successfiU business man and gives his best energies to it, but he enjoys a hunt and a few days of recreation annually. He tells a story admirably and is a royal entertainer at his always hospitable home where he is ably seconde<l by his accomi)lished wife.

The !Siuis are of Scotch descent and were decende<l from the Bruce'.s, of Scotland and having taken part in tlie.Stnartcause, which was lost, they came to this country as refugees, about the time of the revolutionary war, their large estates in Scotland having beei\ conliscated. The three brothers settled in the colonies.

ary war, and afterwards settled in what is now Frederick eounty, Maryland. Antliony Sim, son of Col. Josei)li Sim, settled in Frederick eounty, ]V[ary!and. at the same time. He left two sons, .Josepli W. and Thomas Sim. Joseph removed to Ohio in the spring of ISol and settled in Knox county, near Mt. Vernon. He was thc^ father of Judge Josei)ii W. Sim, the suhject of this sketch and of live other sons and five daughters; four sons ate dead and one daugnter. A daughter of Col. Josejih Sim was the mother of John Nelson, once chief justice of tiie United States supreme court and minister to France.

Judge Sim's jiarents, Joseph W. and Kitturah (Mercer) Sim, came to this county in th(^ spring of 1S54 and settled on the farm now owned by Isaac Downs, one and a half miles east of this city. Joseph W., the subject of this sketch, liad preceded them, arriving here in Novenilier, is.>5, and settling at Url)aiia. He had, at his old home, in his boyhood, received a good education by working on tlie farm, upon which he was raised and going to school in the winter. Tliis, with one school year spent at the Fredericktown (Ohio) Academy was the opportunity he improved to secure an education. Later, lie taught school in winter and farmed in sunnuer.

Upon arrival at Urbana, in the fall of 180:5, he became the principal of the Urbana school for one term. In the spring of 18.54 he commenced the study of law, entering the ottic.e of Col. W. N. Coler at that time practicing law in Urbana; he; stutlied for two years and was then examined by a committee consisting of Hon. O. L. Davis, Hon. Leonard Swett and Ward H. Lamon. The late Ex-Senator and Ex-Sui)reme Court Judge David Davis was then circuit judge and he reconuuended the young man to the supreme court of this state for admission to the bar to practice law. He was admitted, and at once formed a paitncrsliip with Col. W. Nf. Coler, under the lirm name of Coler ife Sim, which continued for about two years when J. C. Sheldon was admitted to the lirm and the name was then Coler, Sim e'er Sheldon. In lsr)S Mr. Sim withdrew from the lirm and practiced law alone about a year, when Hon. J. O. Cunningham proposed a partnership which was accepted, he having just graduated from a law college at Cleveland, O. The lirm was known as Sim &, Cumiingham. He continiu^d thus to practice with gooil success until IHfifi or 7, tlie conlinement began to tell upon his health; he accordingly withdrew from the i)racticc and engaged in farming, having prior thereto purcha.sed the farm now owned by E. A.

Shaw and Fred I'ell, one half mile south of llrbana. He continued fanning and stock raising until the fall of 1873, when he was elected judge of the county court of Champaign county, in which position he ably served the people for one term of four years but declined to be a candidate for renomination, and entered again into the active practice of the law, in which he is still engaged. His long experience at the bar and upon the bench, together wifcli his studious habits and good reasfming faculties, make him a safe coimselor in the business affairs of those who contemplate submitting their claims to the courts.

Judge Sim was mayor of the city for two terms, from June 1864 to June 1866, during which time he negotiated and consummated the building of the Urbana street railroad.

He was married June 2.5, 18.57, at Urbana, to Sarah A., daughter of the late Col. M. W. Busey (whose portrait and biography apl)ears elsewhere) ; she is still living and has bornehim the following children: Cora A., who married John A. McClurg and resides in Urbana; Kitturah E., Mary E. and Anna, who reside at home.

Politically, Judge Sim was in his early manhood a whig and was in his youth imbued with abolition ideas. He cast his first vote for Gen. Winlield Scott. At about the time of his arrival in this county the late Senator Stephen A. Douglas introduced in congress his great state sovereignty uleas in the dis- (Hissiou of the famous Kansas-Nebraska bill. The young man of whom we write took a deep interest in the proceedings of that congress, joined and heartily supported the republican party then formed. Hi the campaign of 1856 he was a pronounced Fremont man and canvassed the county for the rel)ublican tick(^t, laboring earnestly for its success. He has been an unswerving remiblican ever since.

He has a beautiful home on Green street in this city, to which he retires from business cares and enjoys its comforts surroimded by an interesting family who are diligent in making it attractive and pleasant for him.

John M. Spp:>X'ER Was born in Alleghany county, N. Y., Sept. 5, 1827. His parents were Mr. and Mrs. Asa A. Spencer. At tlie age of ten years John M., came with his parents to Tracy, Ohio, and afterwards in the fall of 1S59, he removed to this coxuity and settled in Crittenden township, where his life work was done. He was married at Tracy, Ohio, November 3S, 18.5.5, to CjTena Merry, who is still living; and resides on the old home place with their children, James C, and Sheridan Spencer, who are both grown to man's estate. He was converted and joined the M. E. cliurch in 1857. He followed blacksmithing in Ohio, before coming west for ab(mt ten years. When he came here he brought with him twenty cows and made cheese for several years together with his farming operations. Later he engaged extensively in feeding and shipping cattle, which he found prolitable.

He used to chase the deer over the prairie on horseback; he frequently swam the Embarrass river to go to church. He was an uncompromising republican ; he held the office of supervisor for Crittenden during the year isfi4, but he did not seek ollice; he was always, however, to be relied upon to do gootl, honest work for the party of liis clioiee. He was atllicted with paralysis for over seven years prior to his deatli, wiiich occurred at his liome, September 22, 18S.5. He was a man of decided views and strong convictions, but he was charitable towards those holding different opinions, and by his coiuteous treatment of all, won tin; love and respect of all who knew him. He was a faitiiful laborer in his church and was an untiring worker in the cause of Sunday schools. He believed that tiie children who were imbued with religious ideas would more certainly liud tlie fold than those whose early impressions were made by more worldly teachings. His deeds on earth were prompted by a pure heart and guided by a well balanced mind. He will long be remembered by the peopleof Crittenden township for his many virtues and acts of kindness.

This old settler, jirinter and journalist, was born November 19th, 18:^, at Honesdale, Wayne county. Pa. His fath(»r was Dr. Jacob F. Snyder, well known to the old settlers of Urbanaand vicinity. His mother was Miss Asenath H. Strong. His father died March 28rd, 1862, and his mother, January 26th, 1880.

Frank. M. Snyder came with his father and family, October 17th. 18.50, from Terre Haute, Indiana, to make their future home: he had, in February 18.50, beguii to learn the printer's trade. When W. N. Coler and H. K. Davis started the Urhana Ihiion, Mr. Snyder was employed, and set the tirst type for a newspaper, in IJrbana. He has followed the business as joinneyman, e<litor or publisher, almost continuously ever since. He edited and imblislied the Urbana Kepublican (afterward merged into the Champaign County Hkhai-d) for ten years. Later, he published the Bulletin from April 1st, 1879 to April 1st, 1880. Mr. Snyder met with many disasters in the newspaper business; in 1S71, his office was consumed by fire; in 1874, he suircied Rioat loss by fire, and in 1878 lie was burned ont the third time; he arose each time from the ashes and continued to imblish a newsjiaper all the same. In 18S2 he took a position as compositor, on the Hekali) and holds tlie position now.

He was married .June ;31st, ISdO, to Miss Clara Goodsiieed, who is still living and has borne him the t'oilowintr children: Frank H., married and residing in Chamjiaign; Charles L., now pressman in the 11i;i:ai,I) ofiice; (ieorge N., (deceased); Annelta Loiuse, AiniaMay, Callie Asenath, Edward and Fred Grant; all those living, exceiit Frank S., reside at home with their parents.

Mr. Snyder was reared a demoeiat and cast his lirst vote for James Buchanan and his second lor Stei)hen A Douglas, in 1860; h(! remained a democrat until 1><(W, when the war issues came and he left his home and the democratic party at the same time and entered the army in Co. B, 7>th Regiment 111. A^)l. Infty, in July, and served three years. He particii)ated in the siege of Vicksburg, battles of Jackson, Mobile, and other minor engagements in which his gallant regiment took i)ait. He did a soldier's duty for his country and returned home in October, lb'6.5, somewhat broken down in health, but continued his former imrsuits, surmounting ditticultics and disasters, as befor(! reeiteil, tliat would htive discouraged a man with less determination and courage than he jiossessed. He v. David Gay was his successor in the publication of the Kel)ublican, having been his partner from June until September l'>;78\

He is prominent in Odd Fellowship, and has passed the chairs in both the Subordinate Lodge and in the Encampment. He has been secretary of tht^ Lodge No. i:59, and scribe of Encampment No. 9>. also adjutant of Post 121), G. A. K., many years, and tlie records he has kei)t speak for him as a careful, painstakimr and correct otlicer. A conscientious christian, a bright and true Odd Fellow, an industrious and competent workman in his chosen calling, a staunch republican, a good citizen and neighbor, he has the coiitidence and respect of the entire community.

William H. Jaqi ks. Mr. Jaijues was born February 8th, ISriii. in Geauga county, Ohio, then known as New Connecticut or Western Picserve. But little is known of his father, Henry Ja<iues, who was born in the city of New York, in 1789, of French parentage, and was apprenticed to a shoemaker in Hartford, Connecticut, in 180B. He married Elizabeth Porter, in 1814, and settled in Munsoii, Geauga county, Ohio, in 1819, and built a "log cabin" in the midst of a dense forest. He died in February, 1829, leaving a widow and family of seven small children, four of whom are still living, the mother having died in 1880, at the advanced age of eighty-three years. W. H. Jaques, the subject of this sketch, settled in Joliet, Hlinois, in 1845, and worked at his tratle, (a practical tinner). He married Eliza P.Dunham, in 1846. Two children, a son and daughter, were the fruits of this union. J. H. Jaques, the son, is still living and resides in Tolono, in this county, with whom his father, AVilliam H., makes his home, his wife and daughter having died in Joliet, in 18.52. When the gold fever was raging, Mr. Jaques became infected and crossed the plains in 18.50, and worked with varying success in the hill sides and gulches, mountain tojis and valleys, river banks and river beds, for two years; he returned to Joliet in July 18.52 having accumulated little money but a great deal of experience. He came to Urbana in October, 18.52 and established the first stove store and tin slioj); he manufactured the lirst tin ware ever made in Champaign county. He exhibited tinware of his own make at the lirst fair ever lield in tlie county. He was married to Sarali A. Whipple in P^ebniary, 1854; she died May 1st, 1857. He then sold out liis business to Sutton Brothers and in 18.59 returned with ins mother and ciiildren to Oliio. He enlisted in 1802, as a private in 10.3rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served until tlie close of the war. He returned to Chauii)ait?n county, ui 1806, located in Tolono, and engaged in tlie sale of hardware, stoves, agricultural implements, and in the manufacture of tinware. Mr. Jaques has never sought or held any office, but was a whig of the Clay and Webster stamp. He believed then as he does now that it was the duty of the government to levy a tariff with a view of protecting home industries. He early imbibed a hatred of American slavery and when the republican party was organized to check its progress he eagerly joined its ranks, and is to-day as he himself exjiresses it, a "dyed in the wool" republican, because that party advocates his ideas of protection to American labor, and meets his views upon other questions as well. Mr. Jaques can always be lelied upon in business matters as well as politics. You always know where to lind him. Quiet in his demeanor, charitable where there is any just claim, truthful, honorable, and reliable, he is a good type of the successful business men of the west.

th(! age of 'iri years in 1842, Barnard bid farewell to the green shores of his native land and crossed the Ocean to the new world. He had received very little education, but he i)o.ssessed natural talents of a high order and had self reliance and courage which made him successful in his new home in the west. Upon his arrival in the United States he sought the waiting hospitality of his cousin, Patrick Kelley at Lancaster, Pennsylvania. This cousin soon learned to place implicit conhdence in the young Irishman that had sought his home for his abode in this far olf land, and learned ere long to jtrize tlie ability of Barnard to assist him in his extensive business. He employed Barnard to go to the west, buy and drive large droves of cattle to the eastern market, at that time coniiuing his buying to the stat« of Ohio. This Barnard did for his cousin for about a year wlien he manifested such aptness in trading, such energy and push as a dealer and drover that Patiick took him in partnership with himself and another cousin named James McKenna. During the partnership Barnard made a number of trijis to Illinois and was struck with the splendid outlook in Chami»aign county, for farming and stock raising. In 18.50, he located permanently in this eoiinfy and entered among other lands the farm three miles northwest of Champaign, on the Bloomington road, known in later years as the Clevenger farm. For several years he leased this and other farms, but linaily settled upon this one and jdaced it in a high state of cultivation; he sold it in 1868 to the Clevengers and moved to tlie section, two and a half miles south of Champaign, upon which he resided the remainder of his day.s. Mr. Kelley entered lartre tracts of land in this county, and also large bodies in Iowa. It is l)elieved that he has owned more land here and in Iowa, than any man that ever lived in the county. At the time of his death he had (lisp()sed of all his lands, but about 1,000 acres. John Campbell (brother of Archa Campooll) and In; were in partnership in their land transactions and cattle business in 1851, and for a few years thereafter. He continued pretty much all his life to deal extensively in cattle. During the war he bought a great many mules for the government, and dealt largely in them for several years.

In his later years he saw the necessity for pure breeds of line horses and was the lirst man in the county to go to Kentucky and buy the hnest strains of trotting stock, jtaying for the very best horses obtainable the highest price. At our county fairs, he was always an e.Nlen.sive exhibitor and thus cultivated among the peoi)le a desire for good stock. Mr. Kelley accumulated a large fortune by investing in lands, dealing in stock, farming and stock raising and did as much as any man towards placing this county in its present advanced position, with reference to tine stock of all classes.

In politics, he was an ardent democrat, and his strong common sense made him a wise conselor among the leaders. He was never married, but no man had a higher regard for good women than he. Having no family of his own he took great pleasure in helping all his relatives, both here and back in Ireland. He frequently sent back large sums of money to Ireland to his sisters. He died Jiuie 21, 1884, at his home south of Cliampaign.

Mr. Kelley had many admirable traits of cliaracter, prominent among which was his innate honesty. He set up a iiigh standard of honesty for himself, and guaged the actions of mankind by it. If they fell below it, he had no use for them. No fine spun theories or specious reasoning could drive him away from what he deemed and instinctively knew to be right. He despised special pleas for a wrong and had no patience with men who by artitice, chicanery, or devious ways accomplished their ends. Right, he believed, needed no defender as it wronged no one. His friendships were not lightly formed, but when once made there were no lengths that he would not go to aid in strengthening tlie bonds. If they were broken it was never a fault of his. Few men have ever lived in the county who gave away so much in cliarity. He was always giving, though so quietly and unostentatiously, that his intimate friends even did not know it. Many a poor man has cause to bless Mr. Kelley for gifts that came to him at an opportune moment. After they were made he did not like to be reminded of them. He despised that kind of charity that proclaimed itself from the housetops calling mankind to witness its good deeds. He gave often, perhaps unworthily at times, but he could not help it. His generous nature and kind, warm heart responded to every kind of ''harity. To give did him gootl. He was never happier than wiien he was assisting some one poorer than himself. Beneath a rough exterior, a face bronzed by long exposure in an out door life, a souiewliat harsh voice and abrupt manner, there was a nature so kindly gentle, so honest and trusting, tiiat a child could lead, and yet so strong that no antagonism could drive. When he trusted and gave ills confidence he did it implicitly fully and unconditionally.

the church he was liberal and gave largely of his means. In fact he was for many years the chief supporter of the Catholic church in this county.

county, Ohio. He was engaged in his native state much as other boys of his age, until he came to this city in 1863. From the time of his ariival here until 1865 he labored hard to get a good education, going to school in the winter and working upon a farm in the summer. He succeeded in getting a fair English education. Febiuary 18, 1865, although only past tiftcen years of age, he -enlisted in company A, 154th regiment Illinois volunteer infantry, and served one year. It is believed he was the youngest of the soldiers that went from this county to the war. Soon after his return from the army, the war being over, he started again in the paths of peace.

In the spring of 1866 he took a position as clerk in William Sim's drug store in Urbana and remained there two and a half years. Here he learned thoroughly the drug and prescription business, and afterwards clerked for one year at H. Swannell's, in Champaign. He then took charge of a drug store in same city for 'Neil. Sim &Bro. for a short time; then he bought grain for J. Bacon for two years, at the close of which engagement he went with It. A. Harvey to Tolono, where he has been ever since engaged in the drug and grocery business. He is one of our most careful and competent business men.

Miss Sarah Littler, daugliter of the late Samuel Littler, of Urbana. To them have been born six bright, beautiful children, viz: Ernest, Nellie, Mabel, Ira, Mae and Maud. She is a member of the M. E. cluirch and has been for years a member of the ciioir. Though in delicate health for some years, yet she has that ambition and rare domestic traits that enables her to maintain a neat and tastv home.

Politically Mr. McNichols is a republican, having grown up in that faith. His service in tlie army strengtiiened it and his mature judgment, formed by close observation of men and the course of political parties, lias given a still more stalwart character to his political belief. He does not, of course, carry his politics into his business, nor on the other hand does he allow his business to influence his politics. He is a prominent member of the Knights of Honor of this state and is now holding the office of Dictator for the second term.

KiTFUS A. Hakvey Was born August 30, 184.5, at Urbana, Illinois. His father and mother were Moses 1). Harvey and Olive (Towner) Harvey, early pioneers of the county, and settled at Urbana in 1839, coming from Oiiif*. Kufus received a good education in tiie sciiools of Urbana, which were tiien as tliey are now, equal to any in the state.

Although l)ut nineteen years old and rather small for one of his age, lie succeeded in being accepted in the army of the union, having made two etforts to get in the army prior tiiereto. March 1.5, isr)4, lie enlisted in

He was in the grocery business in L^rbana after his return under linn name of Tiernan & Harvey, and later he clerked for F. Schweizer in the clothing busine.ss. He read law one year with Somers & Black, and one year with Sheldon & Jaques, but did not enter tlie practice. In lS7i he engaged with A. W. McNichols in drug and grocei-y business in Tolono, in which he is still engaged. Soon after he started in business at Tolono a young lady named Miss Lucia M. Vaughn, came there to teach in tlie public schools of that thriving village. Her vivacity, culture and reflned manner naturally attracted the young l)achelor's attention, although he had almost become ]iroof against woman's charms. Soon there sprang up a mutual regard which grew to genuine love, and the result was that they were married in 1874. They have had boin to them three children, Guy, Ada and Lola. Mr. Harvey is not a member of any church, but his habits are steady and he has always kept those injunctions which a strict morality inijioses on all good citizens. Although he was brought u)) in the strictest democratic faith the agitation of the slavery (piestion and his experience iu the army made of him an unflinching reiniblican. He has been a member of the school board four years and is nowthe president of the board of trustees of Tolono. He was a charter member of the Tolono Post, G. A. K., was its lirst commander and served two terms. In IS^o he started a branch store at Pesotum under the management of S. M. Harvey, his brotlier, wliere they did an extensive business for several years in the way of general merchandise and in buying grain for Buckingham, of Chicago. He is one of the most successful business men in the county. Mc'Niciioi.s & Hakvey.

As before stated this lirni commenced business in Tolono in 1S72. At that time P. Richards, now cashier of the First National Bank, of Urbana, was t^ngaged there in a similar business, that of (hugs and groceries. He was well established and popular, and the young men found in him a coin])etitor that was not to be ignored. They gave their personal attiMition to the details of the business and it was not long until they had won their share of it. They were sharp, shrewd, and were of the stuft" of which successful business men are made and the result has been that their establishment has long been the leading one in the town of Tolono, anil is a very bee-hive of business from morninij; until night every business day in the vear. Thcv have made a <rrand sue- cess and are making money as fast as it can be made in a legitimate way. They are public-spirited and take a front seat In all matters where the public interest is at stake.

Mathias L. Dunlap was oorn September 21, 1814, at Canajoharie, N. Y. His parents were William I. and Margaret Dunlap, who were farmers in moderate circumstances. At the age of sixteen he chose to make a living for himself. He accepted a clerkship in a store at five dollars per month, which position he hekl until November, 18:^, at which time he concluded to go west and join his father's family, who had removed to Troy Grove, Illinois, near Ottawa. He arrived at Chicago in December and taught school at Troy Grove during the winter. The next sununer he clerked in the dry goods store of O. H. Thompson, Chicago, and during his spare time he completed the study of surveying. He became bookkeeper for Hugnin & Brown, ccmtractors on the Illinois and Michigan Canal, and in Augu.st, 18:39, located on the prairie sixteen miles we^t of Chicago, at that time a wilderness. During the next ten years he spent a part of his time in surveying; he surveyed the west half of Cook county and the greater part of DuPage.

He was married to Emeline Pierce, January 7, 1839. The surviving children of this marriage are: II. J. Dunlap, editor of the Gazette, Champaign; Capt. Oscar Dunlap, of Grand View, Dakota; Merton, the county clerk of Ford county, Illinois; Albert, grain dealer at Savoy ; Ernest, a farmer near Savoy; Henry, proprietor of Rural Home fruit farm; Mrs. C. H. Kisser, of Davenport, Iowa, and Mrs. R. G. Risser, of Kankakee, Illinois. Mr. Dunlap took an active part in politics all his life. Formerly he was a democrat and later a "Free Soiler," and when the republican party was organized he united with it and never deserted its ranks. His children are all republicans and do good work for the party at every election. He was postmaster and justice of the peace at his home in Cook county for many years; he was elected to the legislature in 18.54 and was one of the leaders in getting the free school bill passed that winter. He was a member of the first board of supervisors of Cook county after township organization was adopted. He removed to this county in 18.56, and located on the farm south of Champaign, and continued in the nursery business, which he had begun in 184.5. He I»lanted a large orchard and disproved the idea that fruit could not be grown upon the prairie. In September, 1853, he began writing for the press under the name of Rural, and for twenty-two years was the agricultural editor of the Chicago Tribune. His writings became familiar to all reading farmers, both east and west, and had a beneficial effect on agriculture. He was editor of the Illinois Farmer from 1860 to 1865 and at one time had a controlling interest in the Champaign Union. He was tendered the position of Commissioner of Agriculture by President Lincoln, soon after the latter's election in 1860, but was obliged to decline it on account of private business.

The location of the Illinois Industrial University (now the University of Illinois) at this place was due as much to his influence and labor as to any other man, and he always insisted that the school should remain a purely agricultural college. He was a member of the first board of trustees of the University.

Commencing life in the backwoods of New York with only six months schooling, he mastered the higher mathematics, became a leader in every community in which he resided, raised a large family, gave all his ciiildren a practical business education and at the time of his death had acquired a competency for his children. He died February 14, 1875, at his home near Savoy.

His widow, Mrs. Emeline Dunlap, is now sixty-eight years old and still resides at the old home. She is a woman of great ability and was of much assistance to her husband during his eventful and useful life. She is yet well preserved and will doubtless live to a good old age, beloved by her children, honored and admired by all who know her.

John lloughtou ^vas born in Derbyshire, England, on the 5th of April, 1819. At the age of thirteen and a half was jilaced as an apprentice to his uncle, Samuel Koughton, a blacksmith, who resided nine miles from the city of Leicester, and served witliout wages, seven years and a half, or until twenty-one years of age, having to suffer a deprivation of all school facilities after his thlrteentli year. Whatever educati(m he has acquired has been the sole result of reading and study during and after his appreutlcesiilp, after the expiration of which, followed his trade in Euderby, Thurlaston and Bosworth, in Leicestershire, Stavely in Derbysiilre andTinsley Park, near Sheffield in Yorkshire, from which place he emigrated to America. After a voyage of thirty days he landed at the city of New York, early in the month of May, ISoO. First settled at Cuyahoga Falls, in Suunnit county, Ohio, where he followed his trade; next, at Old Forge, near Akron, in the same county; then at I'lketon, in Pike county, where lie remained mitll the time of his removal to Illinois.

Ills parents were Gervase and Ann Itouirhton, whose maiden name was Pinnn. H(^ was a millwright and engineer by occuliatlon. In the year ISol he was killed by accidentally falling l)etween the arms of the fly wheel of a stationary engine while in motion, at the Staveley iron works, in Derbyshire. Soon after, Ann Houghton, with tlie rest of her family, followed her son Joini to the United States and made her home with him, first in Ohio, and afterward in

Urbana and Hant(ml, III. During the war she returned to Ohio and died at the home of her daughter, Lydla, in the city of Jackson, Jackson county.

He tirst settled at Urbana, early in the spring of 1854. At first followed his trade, in partneiship with Pemhnikc B. Palmer: afterward, in connection witii John G. Gritlitli. engaged in the grocery business until in November. 1S55, he tiled his declaration for l>ie-em]ition on the N. E. (jr. of Stc. 27. T. 22, K. 9, in this county. In 1861, removed to the Big Grove. In 1802, enlisted in Co. G, TC.th 111. Vol. Infty, under Captain Joseph J'ark. Having served three years, at the end of the war again returned to Urbana; was engaged here two years, and in 1807 went back to, and commenced improvement anew, of the old irc-emptloi. in Ludlow townshi)>. Was married on the 8th of November, 1842, at Market Bosworth, in Leicestershire, to Miss Eliza Gilbert, youngest daughter of Mr. John (Gilbert, a tanner, who resided at Thurlaston In the above county. Throughout her married life, Mrs. Roughton has been distinguished as possessing, in a large degree, all those finalities of head and heart so essential in a good wife, motheiand friend. To her habits of frugality and industry may be attributed, to some extent, the building up and the jieriJetuation of an elaborate and ideasant home. Mr. and Mrs. Roughton iiave been the parents of nine children, four sous and the tiaughters, of whom only one, Renben, is now living. Reuben, the third-born of the family, contented and liap|iy. ever remains beneath the paternal roof. Equals he may have, but none ever excelled lilm as a filial and dutiful son. His Indomitable energv as well as his cultivated taste are abundantly manifested by the arrangement of home surroundings. He married Ella, oldest daughter of Elislia N. and Julia A. Gennng, wlu) were among the earliest settlers of north Champaign county. They have three children.

The religious element, ever in the ascendancy, he became in early life a nu'uiber of the Wesleyan Methodist church. At the age of eighteen became an accredited local preacher and in that denomination continued in that cai)aclty for twelve years. Being unable, however, to reconcile the liiL'h and exalted views he entertained of (ioil with (as he then belleveil) the scriptural doctrine of eternal life in torment, was driven t« Inlidelity, but was soon redeemed from so cheerless a condition of mind by being brought in contact with the benign Intluence of Universalism. in the year 18.59 he became a member of that church, and expects t^) remain there until his latest hour.