Douglas County, Illinois - Biographical sketches, 1900 (part 5 of 5)

Wilson S. P.Urgett

Wilson S. Durgctt. a native of Sargent township, and a son of I. W. lUn-gelt, whose sketch is found on another page, was born December 23, 1S63. He was reared in Sargent township, where he continued to live until eight years ago, when he removed to his present farm two miles south of Camargo.

In 1886 he was marrieil to .Miss Kate May, .'1 daughter of Judge r.rown (see sketch). They have three children : Ray I'.rown, Hurley Sumner and Wayne Brenton.

W. S. IJurgett owns two hundred rnid ten acres of land, on which he li\'es, and is one of the intelligent and representative young business men of the county. In politics he is an enthusiastic Republican anil has served two years as township comiuitteeman.

Joseph B. Petty

Joseph Bra<lley Petty, one of the successful business men of Tuscola, engaged in merchandising ruid identified with several other enter- ]irises of the city, was born in Hendricks county, Indiana, .Augu.st 24, 1855, and is a son of .\athan and .Ann Mariah (Wood) Petty, the former born in Chatham county, Xorlli Carolin.-i, and the latter in Mercer count}-. Kentucky. Mr. Petty was engaged in farming for several years in Champaign county, and from 1884 to i8gi he resided at lantha, Mis.souri, where he was engaged in blacksmithing and hardware merchandising. In the latter year he returned to Illinois and settled in Tuscola.

In 1 88 1 he was united in marriage to Miss Priscilla Mars, of Champaign county. They have five boys : Earle Sliirley, Byron Talmage, Clara Marrs, Virgil Ira and William Nathan. He owns his own home and store buildings, is a hard working man, and is one of the honorable and representative citizens of Tuscola. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and of the Cnurt of Honor. Mrs. Petty, a lady of gootl intelligence and fine business tact, is a daughter of William and Mary Jane (Sutherland) Marrs, the former a native of Bourbon county, Kentucky, and the latter of Ohio. At the age of four years William Marrs, with his father, John Marrs, moved to SheH)y count}', Ohio, where William was raised. He moved to Macon county, Illinois, in 1859, and there engaged in agricultural pursuits. Priscilla Marrs taught school seven years in Champaign county, Illinois, then became Mrs. Petty. She has the agency and is field manager for the \'iavi Company for Douglas county, and has also the agency and field management for the Magnetic Shield Company, of Chicago, in her county. \'ia\'i is a purely vegetable compound, the outgrowth of a physician's prescription. To his years of e.xperimenting was added an incredible amount of patience and money, and Viavi in its present form is the result. It is virtually predigested food and is used with most perfect safety by the most delicate, young and old. This remedy is world famed, and is successfully used by every nation. The motto of the Viava wi>rker is "The higher ])hysical life of woman," and thus preserve the health of the race. Mrs. Petty has, in her si.x years' agency, done a business of over $4,600. She is thoroughly capable, and with ihe time that she has given to her special work she has lieen remarkably successful.

Samuel B. Logan

Samuel B. Logan, one of the very oldest of the pioneers now living in Douglas county, and the first .sherifif, was born near the village of Washington, Mason county, Kentucky, April 30, 18 16. He is a son of Joseph and Mary (Morris) Logan. The former was a nati\-e of Mason county and the latter of the state of New Jersey. John Logan (grandfather) was one of the early settlers from I'ennsylvania, and after his arrival in Kentucky he lived in a fort. Joseph Logan (father) was a soldier in the war of 181 2 and was in the Ijattle of the Thames. John Morris (grandfather) was a nati\-e of New Jersey and in the opinion of Mr. Logan was a soldier in the war of the Revolution. His father and mother, in 1S37, removed to Coles county and located within two miles of where Mr. Logan no^v resides. The first year his father raised a crop, renting his land of old Jacob Moore.

Samuel B. Logan enjoys the honor of having been the first sheriff of Douglas county, and has lived a long, honorable and beautiful life in his adopted county. In 1848 he was married to Miss Leah Fuller, a native of Virginia, whose death occurred in 1896. To this marriage were burn twelve children. Of this

George C. J.Effers

George C. Jeffers, iiienil)cr of liie firm of Bragg & Jefifers, engaged in general merchandising and hanking at Camargo, was horn in Adams county. Illinois, in 185S. and is a son of Samuel 1'. and Rachel (Orr) Jeffers. Samuel P. Jefifers was horn in Clermont county. Ohio. June 9, TS34. and is a son of Elijah and Hannah (Pine) Jeffers. natives of Clermont conntv, Ohio, and Xew Jersey respectively. Hannah Pine was a daughter of William Pine, who, an ori)lian, emigrated from England to this country and first settled in New Jersey, thence removing to Ohio and later to Pike countv. Illinois, where he died. He served in the war of 1S12. hllijah was a .son nf William Jefifers, a native of the north of Ireland. Samuel D. Jefifers came to Camargo township in 1869, from Adams county, this state, where he farmed up to within the past ten years, since which time he has kc])t the meat market at Camargo. On February 22, 1855, he was wedded to Rachel J. Orr, a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Orr. In the beginning I if 1865 he Vdluntcercd in the Forty-seventh illiuMis Infantry, and was in service till the close of the Civil war.

George C .Jeffers, after leasing school, taught for one year, and in 1879 became a clerk for .\. W. Bragg, in the latter's store at Camargo, in which capacity he continued till 1S93, when he became a jiartner. with onehalf interest, and the lnni name became P>ragg & Jeffers. The general .store and banking house of Bragg & Jeffers, containing two de- ])artments, carries a stock of general merchandise valued at about $20,000, requiring a corps of four clerks, and does an annual business of from $35,000 to $40,000. George C. Jefifers is a clear headed and able business man whose industry and comprehensive grasp of details has to a great extent made this one of the leading mercantile firms of central Illinois. In 1884 Mr. Jeffers married Miss Carrie, a daughter of \V. H. Hall, an old and highly respected citizen and merchant of (Tamargo.

William W. Reeves, of Tuscola, one of the youngest members in active practice at the Douglas county bar, was burn on a farm near X'illa Gro\e, Camargo township, Decemlier 25, 1870, and is a son of George R. Reeves. The latter, who was a native of Delaware county, Indiana, was born in 1836, and his death occurred in 1 88 1. He removed to Douglas county in 1865, and was engaged in farming up to the time of his decease. W. W'. Reeves' mother was before her marriage Miss Nancy E. Wilson. She was born near L'rbana, Ohio, and was a daughter of John O. Wilson, a native of Penn.sylvania, who emigrated in 1861 to Illinois, first locating near Paris, and later came to this county, where he died at the age of seventy-nine years. Elijah Reeves (grandfather) was born near Culpeper Court House, X'irginia, and snl)sef|uently emigrated to Ken- tucky. At one time he was the owner of quite a number of slaves, but later became convinced that slavery was wrong and freed them all in the year 1836 and moved to Indiana, a free state.

William W. Reeves remained on the farm until he had arrived at the age of seventeen years, when he entered Wesleyan College. He continued his studies in this institution until he had finished the sophomore year. In 1896 he commenced reading law in the office of John H. Chadwick, and was graduated from the Bloomington (Illinois) Law School in the class of '98. He was immediately admitted to the bar and opened an office in Tuscola. He is a member of the Masonic order and is a Knight of Pythias. In politics he is a Democrat and takes an acti\'e interest in the success of his party.

taught school for seven years in Douglas and Coles counties. In 1892 he was married to Miss Nellie I. Fancher, of Charleston, Illinois. They have one child, Paul Kenneth.

Mr. Avery is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Woodmen. He is a splendid news gatherer, a pungent writer and a young luan of splendid reputation.

T. W. Boyer

J. W. Boyer, a well known farmer of Sargent township, and the jiresent census enumerator for the same, was born in the vicinity of Ashmore, Coles county, Illinois, on the i ith day of April, 1850. For twenty-five years he has been identified with the industrial growth of his township, and is well and favorably

J. L. Avery

J. L. Avery, editor and proprietor of the Areola Weekly Herald since April i, 1893, was born four and one-half miles southeast of Areola, in Coles county, Illinois, Noveml.ier 25, 1866. The Herald was founded in the 3'ear 1883 |by H. H. Moore, who conducted it until about the year 1891, when Willis S. Scales bought it and published it until he sold it to Mr. Avery. The paper is in a flourishing condition, strictly Democratic in politics and full of local news, with a circulation of about fifteen hundred.

J. L. Avery was educated in the common schools, the Areola high school, and took a known as an intelligent and upright citizen, teacher's course of two years. Afterward he He is the son of James and Susan (Mack)

Boyer, the former a native of X'irginia, ami tlic latter was born in Kentncky. As early as 1835 James Boyer came and settled with his father, Joseph, who was also born in X'irginia, and w ho settled in the neighborhood of Ashmore. Here Joseph Boyer became one of the lirst settlers and afterward went to Missouri, where he died. W'illiam Mack (maternal grandfather) was also one of the early settlers in the same vcinity. Janies Boyer (father) is at present residing in the state of Kansas, at the age of seventy-nine years, and his wife is still li\ing in the same year, of her age.

Jospeh Boyer was reared on a farm in Douglas county, where he received a very good common school education, anil went to W'estfield College four terms. His farm of two hundred and nineteen acres, which lies in the northeast part of the township, is well improved and valuable. Nearly ever since Mr. Bower's residence here he has served efficiently as school director, and in 1900 was appointed census enumerator of Sargent township. In 1875 he married Josie, daughter of William Hopkins (see further notice of the Hopkins family on another page), who was one of the pioneer settlers in this section of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Boyer have .seven children living: Mamie, Robert, Belva, Clinton, Maggie, James and Floyd.

Rev. J. V. Martix

lie was cducateil in the St. Francis College, Milwaukee; St. John's University, Minnesota, and .subscxjuently completed the six-years' divinity cour.se at the (Jrand Seminary. Abmtreal, Canada, where he was ordained DccemiK-r 18, 1886. Mis lirst charge was at .Springfield, Illinois, where he did hospital service for two months; from there he was transferred to Shipnian, laboring for two and a half years as the regular pastor ; thence to Neoga, where he remained two years, when, in 1891, he came to Areola. The church here was built about thirty-three years ago, with Father Manganas as first pastor. The present men)- bership of the church is about three huudrol, situated in the town and in the southwestern part of Douglas county. The church is out of debt and is in a prosperous condition.

William H. Fisher, a retired farmer and an e.x-soldier of the Civil war, came to Douglas county in 1877 and located on a farm two and a half miles southeast of Areola, which be purchased and resided on for four years, when he removed to Albany, Oregon. In J 882 he returned to Douglas county and located on a farm in Tuscola township, remaining here for two years. He then purchased a farm east of Galton, which he owned and resided upon for ten years, when, in 1893, he moved to Tuscola, where he at present resides.

Our subject was born in Ohio county, Indiana, January 7, 1839, and was a son of Andrew and Ehza (Hunter) Fisher, the former a native of Butler county, Ohio, and the latter of Switzerland county, Indiana. His paternal grandfather, Jacob Fisher, was a Pennsylvanian by birth. His maternal grandfather, John Hunter, was born in Ireland, and subsequently emigrated to Switzerland county. Indiana, and then to Ohio county, Indiana. Mr. Fisher's paternal great-grandfather was a Revolutionary soldier, and several other members of the Fisher family were in the Indian and other early wars.

William H. Fisher was reared in Jefferson county, Indiana, on a farm, and in August, 1862, he volunteered in the Eighty-third Indiana Infantry and served until the close of the war. He belonged to the Second Division, Fifteenth Army Corps, which was organized and commanded by Gen. Sherman, and later by Gen. Logan. He was in the battles of Chickasaw, Miss., Arkansas Post or Hindman, Jackson, Mississippi, was through the siege of Vicksburg, at Missionary Ridge and Atlanta ; also at Jones^boro, Bentonville, North Carolina, was with Sherman on his sweep to the sea, and was present at the grand review, Washington, at the close of the war.

In 1869 he was wedded to Miss Nancy J. Beatty, of Ohio county, Indiana. They had four children: James Edward, Rosanna B., Eliza B., and William Franklin, the latter deceased. Mrs. Fisher is the daughter of George and Rosanna (Smith) Beatty. Her father was a native of Pennsylvania, and her mother was born in Ohio county, Indiana.

Her grandfathers were Hugh Beatty and George Smith, who came from Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Fisher are members of the Presbyterian church ; he is also a memlier of the Grand Army of the Repul)lic, and Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

T. M. Richards, a leading merchant and grain buyer of Hayes, Illinois, was born in Douglas county, Illinois, August 7, 1864, and is a son of Thomas Y. Richards, who was a native of Hardin county, Kentucky, where he was born in 1818. The latter moved to this county in the 'forties and was engaged in farming. He was three times married and .was the father of nine chiklren, of whom all are dead excepting T. M. and G. R. Richards. His last wife was Hester A. Reat, and she was the moth-

T. M. Richards has been twice married, first, in January, 1889, to Miss Dove E. Donnals, daugiiter of R. T. Donnals, of Tuscola, IlHnois. She was born Decemlier 16, 1866, and died November 20, 1894. Their marriage was blessed with two children: Beryl E., born September 28, 1889, and Theodore T., born February 16, 1892. Our subject w^as again married, in October, 1897, to Mrs. Efifie ]\1. Doty, of Effingham county, her maiden name being Baker. She was married to \V. Doty in 1 89 1. He died December 3, 1893. They had one boy, Daniel I. Doty. Mr. and Mrs. Richards also ha\e two children: Ralph H., born August 4, 1898, and Lee M., born December 27, 1899. ^^^- Richards is the grain agent at Hayes for O. L. Parker, of Tuscola, and handles about three hundred thousand bushels of oats and corn yearly. He is a member of the Modern \Voodmen of America, and is a hustler.

James S. R Elder

James S. Reeder, postmaster at Garrett, to which position he was appointed in July, 1898, located in Bourbon in 1856. He is a .son of John A. and Mary B. (Harter) Reeder. John A. Reeder was l)orn in Ohio in 181 5 and died in 1891. David Harter (maternal grandfather) was a native of Virginia. James S. was in the Civil war as a private, enlisting in Company G, Seventy-ninth Illinois Regiment Volunteer Infantry. Going in in .August, 1862, he remained out for two years and ten months.

William S. Hammett

William S. Hammett, retired farmer residing in Tuscola, was born in Montgomery county, Virginia, December 9, 1823, and is a son of John Hammett (.see sketch of James R. Hammett). He came with his father from Bourbon county. Kentucky, in 1829. He was for many years a leading farmer of Camargo townshi]) and ]>niminent in the early affairs gaged in the livery business in Tuscola, and in of the county. burn in 1865. He was for several years en-

1899 removed to Hayes and became associated with his brother. In 1896 he was married to Miss Myrtle Johnson, a daughter of WilHam T. Johnson, of Tuscola. They have no children. George is known as a ball player all over central Illinois.

Stephen S. Henson

Stephen S. Henson, a highly respected citizen, belonging to the old school of gentlemen, and who is probably as well and favorably known as any man in the county, was born near Cynthiana, Harrison county, Kentucky, in October, 1827, and is a son of Gideon and Nancy Shumate. His father was a native of Virginia and his mother of Kentucky. The former emigrated from Kentucky to Vermillion county, near Indianola, in 1834, and, with his wife and children, located in the vicinity of Villa Grove, where he entered a large tract of land. His children were: George W. (see sketch), Stephen S., and two daughters, who were the wives of James Richards and Coleman Bright, respectively. All the children are now dead except Stephen S.

Mr. Henson was about fifteen years old when he arrived in Douglas county. He has always been engaged in farming and at present owns a beautiful farm of two hundred and eighty acres, part of which is in Douglas county and part in Champaign. In 1853 'is ^^'^s united in marriage to Miss Nancy E. Williams, wdio was a native of Vermilion county, Illinois, and a daughter of Elijah Williams, an early settler in Vermilion county. Mrs. Henson was born in 1830 and died in 1893. Of t'^'s marriage there are seven children living : Franklin, who resides just across the road from his father ; Mantie, who is the wife of Dr. E. S. Smith, of Urbana; Lula, wife of Charles Amnion, of Carthage, Missouri; Ward, who resides east of Villa Grove on a farm ; Burt, deceased ; Flora, at home, and Kitty B., wife of S. W. Love, of Urbana, editor of the Daily Courier. Mr. Henson is a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Villa Grove, in the affairs of which he takes an active interest.

Coleman Bright

Coleman Bright came to Douglas county in 1850 and engaged in retail merchandising, and in about i860 removed to Tuscola and remained a member of the firm of Bright & Jones until his death on July 20. 1881.

W. Avery Howard

W. Avery Howard, who has recently become a partner in the broom corn business with W. H- Hancock, is a native of Fultonville, New York, and w-as born February 26, 1846. His early years were spent at Fort Hunter and later he engaged in the manufacture of brooms here with his uncle, E. Howard. In 1888 W. A. Howard withdrew and associated himself with Henry Herrick, of Amsterdam, New York, and acted in the capacity of super- intenclent of factory and broom corn ])urchaser. In iSc)4 he went to St. Louis and for tlirce years su])erintcn(lcd tlie broom corn Ijusiness for Cnpple's Wood and Willowware Company, tlie largest in tlie world. In August, 1898, he located in Tu.scola and engaged in the broom corn brokerage business.

He is a son of Silas and Julia A. ( Avery j Howard. In 1872 be was wedded to Miss Emma .\. Howe, a daughter of .Allen M. Howe, who resides in the town of Florida, Montgomery county. Xew York. Mr. Howard is a man of culture and education and the city of Tuscola has gained in him a representative citizen and a thorough student in business affairs.

N. S. ^binroe. of Arthur, and the wellknown road-machine manufacturer, is a native of Shelby county. Indiana, having been born eight miles from Shellnviile. the county seat, January 8. 1851. His parents were Andrew J. and Julia Ann (Huffman) Monroe, who were also natives of Shelby county, Indiana. His father was a farmer and came to Illinois in 1856 and settled in Richland county, thence in 1866 to Coles county, and three years ago moved to Areola, where he is living aretired life. .\. S. Monroe's grandfathers, Samuel Monroe and Jacob Huffman, were both Virginians by birth and were pioneer settlers in Shelby county, Indiana. His grandfather Monroe resided in Shelby ville sixty years. John Raynes (maternal great-grand father) was born in Maine. John Monroe (paternal great-grandfather) was boni in \'irginia and was engaged in the Metlmdist ministry for about sixty years, li\ing to be ninety-six years old; he also had se\eral brothers who were i)reachers in the Methodist church. N. S. Monroe grew upon the farm and received only a common-school education. He remo\ed to Douglas county and in 1876 he located on a farm in Bourbon township, where he continued to farm up till 1896. The farm upon which he resided he still owns ; it contains three hundred and seventeen acres.

Jn 1876 Mr, Monroe was married to Miss Martha A. Leggett. who was born in Terre Haute. Seven children have blessed their union: Charles W'.. Andrew J., Margaret M.. George \\'.. Julia E.. Ora B. and Alice J. He is a member of the Methodist church and the Masonic fraternity. In 1894 he founded his present road-machine manufactory at Arthur, and it promises to be one of the leading industries of its kind in the country. His building is 132x35 feet in size. The advantages of the Monroe road-machine when working on a ])ike are that }-ou do not have to put one horse in the ditch while cutting off a slmulder. as the bars extend out so that the team and machine can travel on the road. The fact that the Monroe road-machine will do so much more work than other machines with the same power lies simply in the construction of the machine. The bars acting against each other there is no wide draft and no power lost, and the machine will not slide into the ditch. The bars work independently <if llie upward and downward action I if the frame caused by the unex'enness of the road.

dated February 7, 1900, the following: "As a result we find that 'The Monroe Road Machine,' a product of N. S. Monroe, Arthur, Illinois, who is the patentee and manufacturer of this machine, is the best on the market. In an editorial like this it is impossible to give all the details of our recent investigation of this subject, but we wish to state that the above named machine is vastly superior to all other makes because it is made of the best material regardless of cost; it is constructed strictly on scientific and mechanical principles; is strong and durable and every machine sold by Mr. Monroe is fully guaranteed.

"This machine scrapes ten to twenty feet at a time, leaving a perfectly smooth road and one free from all ridges. It is a practical road machine for successful work on either dirt or gravel roads, and those who have used it pronounce 'The Monroe Road Machine' the finest that is on the market, while practical mechanics say it is the acme of perfection in this line of invention, and that any man of ordinary judgment can operate it with ease and safety and perform perfect work with it. Its efficiency, durability, simplicity and the cheap price at which it is put on the market certainly recommend this machine to all who desire to secure perfect roads.

"We advise our inquirers, or all interested readers, to write Mr. Monroe direct for further and detailed information. He is a gentleman well known for his business tact and enterprise, his commercial rating is of the highest order and all parties dealing with him can rest assured that he will make good every representation that he may make.

the Review, which is to give credit where credit is due in every investigation that we make for our readers, whose interests alone we seek to serve. The Monroe system of road work should be given careful investigation as it should be adopted to obtain the best results when the machine is used."

Jacob Moore

Jacob Moore, the pioneer of the family of Moores in the county, was a native of Kentucky. His wife, .\manda Rice, was also born in Kentucky. They came to Douglas county in the spring of 1834. In the same year he purchased from Sigler Lester forty acres of land, and afterward added about two thousand more. He died in i860, and his wife in 1863. They had ten children; the eldest of whom, William T. Moore, was born in Park county, Indiana, September 5, 1830.

Alvy J. Parke is one of the hustling, goahead, young business men of the county, located at Hindsboro, engaged in the grain and implement business, was born on a farm in .Sargent township March 11, 1876. and is a son of B. F. and Harriet (Wierman) Parke. Both of his parents were born in Champaign county, are living, and for the past year resided in Shdbv C(iiinty. Tennessee. j\Ir. Parke was reared to nianliood on tlic farm ami received Iiis education in the high scliool of Oakland. In I he married Miss Myrtle Lewis.

.\. J. Parke started up in his present Inisiness in Xovemher, 1898. and is doing an immense business solely on his own account. Last year he bought in the neighborhood of eighty thousand bushels of corn, besides other grain, and finds a market at Terre Haute, Indiana, lie has just completed a building 32x60 feet, and has it filled with the best grade of the Columbus, Ohio, buggies, the celebrated Mitchell wagon and farm machinery of all descriptions. .Mr. Parke's future in the business world seems unusually bright, and his characteristic push and his reputation for square dealing will undoubtedly bring him just results.

its first president, though he bad had banking experience since 1866. The ])resent capital of the bank is fifty thousand dollars, with a surplus of ten thousand dollars, and one hundred and twenty thousand dollars average deposits. Lender its ])resent management it is doing a llouri.shing business, and is one of the nicest substantial banking houses in central Illinois.

In 1892 our subject was married to Miss IHorence M. McMillan, of Areola. Mr. Beggs has many substantial and de\'otcd fi'iends and no young man is more favorably known throughout the county than he.

Marion W.Vtson Jesse R. Beggs

Jesse R. Beggs, president of the First National Bank of Areola, doubtless enjoys the distinction of being the youngest national bank president in the state. He has occupied this important ])()sition since the death of his father, whom he succeeded in February, 1895. He was born in Areola, August 19, 1868, and was educated in the public schools of the village. His father, James Beggs. was born in Clark county, near Charlestown, the old county seat. He came to .Areola in 1858, where he followed a most successful business career up to the time of his death. 1 lis wife was .\manda Brentlinger, who was also born in the same town. On the organizaticjn of the liank. in 1S74, be was chi.)sen

Marion \\'atson, of Arthur, after reading law under the instruction of William H. W'lrttaker, of Sullivan, was admitted to practice law before the supreme court of the state in 1896. He was born on a farm near Bloomfield, Greene county, Indiana, October 29, 1864. His education w'as received in the common schools, and he afterward attended a short term at the normal at Danville, Indiana. He remained on the farm in his native county until 1883, when he came to Illinois, locating in Douglas county, and spent two seasons as a common work hand on the farm, working one winter during this time for his board and attending school. Subsefpiently he taught school for six years in the county. In 1892 Mr. Watson succeeded W. H. H. Reeder in tlie insurance and real estate business, since which lime he has been very su^'cessfullv engaged in this business in connection

On September 5, 1892, he was united in marriage with Miss Ivy J., daughter of James and Belle Gamron, of Edgar county, Illinois. They have four children : Esther Marie, Ralph Waldo, Gladys and Grace.

Marion Watson is the son of Dale and Ouintilla (Payne) Watson, who were probably born in Virginia. Dale came to Indiana with his father, John Watson, and they were among the early settlers of Greene cc uuty. His maternal grandfather, William Fayne, was a native of North Carolina.

Mr. Watson has served one term as presitlent of the village board of Arthur ; served a part of a term as justice of the peace, ond one term as assessor of Bourbon township, and is a member and trustee of the Baptist church. Mr. Watson has fought his own way to the front over many obstacles, and occupies at present an enviable and honorable position among his professional brethren of the county, having the confidence of the entire community in which he lives. In political opinion he is a stanch believer in the tenets and principles of the regular Democracy as laid down in the Chicago platform of 1896.

Samuel W. Smiley

Samuel W. Smiley, grain buyer at West Ridge, and member of the firm of Smiley & Watson (B. T. Watson, of Bourbon), is one of the wide-awake and energetic business men of the county. He came to Douglas county in 1889, and located in Bourbon township, where he was engaged in business. Subsequently he and B. T. Watson formed their partnership, and Mr. Smiley located at West Ridge. This firm bought at this place from July i to November 10, 1899 130,000 bushels of corn and oats.

Samuel W. Smiley was born at Greencastle, Indiana, February 11, 1855, and is the son of Jonathan and Mary (Warner) Smiley. They are both dead. Mr. Smiley's parents removed from Greencastle to Stanford, Kentucky, where he was principally reared and educated. In 1876 he was married to Miss Elizabeth Hester Hasbarger, and six children have been born to their marriage. Mr. Smiley's grandfather, Jonathan Smiley, was a native Virginian ; his maternal grandfather was Samuel Warner. Mr. Smiley is postmaster at West Ridge, owns one Iiundred and sixty acres of land in Camargo township, and is rapidly coming to the front as one of Douglas county's most successful business men.

William E. Atwell

\\'illiam E. Atwell was born in Bracken county, Kentucky, in the year A. D. 183 1, and there grew to man's estate, when he moved to a farm in Pendleton county in the same state. He wedded Miss Nancy Barrett, of near C3'nthiana. Slie died in June, 1897. They had twelve clTildren, all of whom are living and doing well in the world. Mr. Atwell is a son of William and Ursla (Fields) Atwell, who were natives of old Virginia. His grand- fathers wore llui;li Atwcll ;in(l Lfl)an Fiekls. tlie foniior horn in Virginia and the hitler in North Carolina. Mr. .\t\vell. who is a warm liearted gentleman, lor wliich his state is noted, has for se\-eral years niaile his home wilii one of his (hiughters, Mrs. Elizaheth I\l. Wyeth. in her heautiful country seat in (iarrett township.

Charles A. Hawkins

Charles A. Hawkins, the ])resent gentlemanly county clerk, was horn in Pickaway county, Ohio, May 25, i860, and is a son of William and Sarah (Hard) Hawkins, natives of the same state. His father died in 1866. Mr. Hawkins was principally educated at Dan- \ille. Indiana, and spent two and a half years teaching. He served his township (Newman) as tax collector and supervisor, and in November, 1898, was elected county clerk.

On October 7, 1884, Mr. Hawkins married Louisa J. Curtis, of Newman, and they ha\e four children: Claude A., Opal B., Pearl L. and Jay M.. Our subject is a Mason and a Knight of Pythias and is active in Republican politics.

Alexander McNeill, farmer, was a .son of Alexander and Nancy (Montgomery) Mc- Neill, and was born in Ireland March 10, 1808. The first twenty-six years of his life he spent in his native land. In 1834 he emigrated to

America, l.nnding in l'hil;idcl]>hia. Thence, two months later, went to I'.-iris. llourbon county. Kentucky, where, u])on letters of introduction from his uncles in the old country, he obtained a situation as clerk in a cotton establishment. .\fter a year he accepted a position as clerk in a dry goods store at Owensxille, Bath county, Kentucky, where he remained si.x years, then sold goods on his own account in the same town, having been saving and diligent during his seven years' clerkshi]), which enabled him to engage in business for himself. Owing to ill health, after about four years in mercantile liursuits. he bought a large farm in Batii county, Kentucky, and began farming, which has been his principal pursuit since. It is proper to here note the causes which induced his removal from Kentucky to Illinois. Soon after coming to America he became a Whig, then a Republican and the breaking out of the Civil war found him a Union man. Bath county, his home, was the constant scene of guerrilla warfare, and men like Mr. McNeill lived in a state of constant jeopardy. In 1863 his home was in\aded by a party of fifteen men, whose enmity Mr. McNeill had incurred by his outspoken, patriotic sentiments. The inmates w-ere overpowered, Mr. McNeill shot three times in difTerent ]iarts of the body and left for dead. His wife was shot once through the feet, and the child in the nurse's arms had a bullet sent through its clothing. In ,consefpience of this and the intoleration of free speech, in i8(')4 he sold his farm of five hundred and sixty-six acres and came to Douglas county and located on the large farm where he afterward resided, then little develo])ed, but later linel}' improved, with large two-story resilience and surrounding adormnents. January

30, 1844, he married Miss Minerva lies, of Bath county, Kentucky, an intelligent Christian lady, to whose encouragement and frugality Mr. McNeill largely attributed his success. Mr. and Mrs. McNeill were members of the Methodist church, and had the confidence and esteem of all who knew them.

Kimball Glassco

Kimball Glassco was born November 19, i<Sicj. in Hardin county, Kentucky, three miles from the birthplace of Lincoln. His father, Enoch Glassco, a farmer, moved to Coles county, Illinois, in 1828, and there died in 1835 ; his wife was Rachel Carlton. The family of Enoch Glassco was the sixth that settled in Coles county, and located there while yet the Indians were quite numerous and wolves present by the thousand, and to reach a mill they had to go twenty-eight miles. Kimball Glassco had no school advantages for four years after coming t(_i Illinois ; then, with but few books, such as could be borrowed, he attended a subscription school and hoed corn to pay tuition. His clothing was one pair of shoes a year, made out of home-tannetl leather, buckskin pants and linsey shirt. When Kimball was si.xteen years old his father died; then he worked out by the month for three years to support the family, he Ijeing the eldest son at liDme. He then learned brickmaking and plastering, worked at contracting and building seventeen years in Charleston, then went into mercantile business in Charleston for four years, then went to .farming, owning one thousand acres of land. In 1862 he moved to Greencastle, Indiana, tij educate his children. His sons enlisting in the war of 1865, he returned to Douglas county, Illinois, and again engaged in farming. He was married February I, 1844, to Margaret Reat; she died December 26, 1880. His second wife was Hester Richards, formerly Hester Reat, sister of his first wife. Mr. Glassco was well accjuainted with the Lincoln family, and often went to the grist mill belonging to Tom Lincoln, the father of Abe. He knew Abe from the time he was three years old and sat on juries in cases Lincoln was trying. Although Mr. Glassco was a life-long Democrat, he alwa}-s \-oted for Lincoln when that lamented martyr was a candidate for office.

John N. Outcelt

John N. Outcelt was born March 4, 1839, in Muskingum county, Ohio, his father, John, l)eing a farmer and a native of Pennsylvania. His grandfather, Jacob Outcelt, came to the United States from Scotland and settled in FJedford county. Pennsylvania. His mother was Mary McClain, of Bedford county, in tlie same state. He was the 3roungest child, and at sixteen left home, came to Illinois and for two years sold lightning rods and saved his earnings, with which he paid tuition and other expenses in attending school (ine vear in St. Louis. Up to the time of leaving home he had constantly attended school. After leaving the St. Louis school he sold tombstones for a St. Louis firm for three years, then worked on a farm cm I'ort llanisun prairie, iKirtli of Terre Haute, for a short time and in July, 1861, came to Douglas county. In February, 1862, lie went to St. Louis, enlisted in Company I, Iwrst Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and in 1864 veteranized. I'ivc mcuilhs after veteranizing he went into Company F, Thirteenth Missruri Ca\alry, and in December, 1864, was promoted to a lieutenancy and assigned to Company L, same regiment. After the surrender of Lee Mr. Outcelt went on an Indian campaign into Colorado and New- Mexico. He received his fmal discharge from the service in June, 1866. \l the battle at Independence, Missouri, he, with four companions, une.xpectedly ran on to a masked battery of three cannons and eight or ten confederate soldiers, wdiich they succeeded in capturing, being immediately re-enforccd. iMir this service he was promoted. At the close of the war he returned to Douglas county and farmed three years. He then was appointed deputy county clerk, wdiich position he held up to 1880, and was then appointed clerk for a term of four years. He was formerly a Democrat, but at the fall of Fort Sumter became a Republican. He was a Mason and a member of the Christian church.

James R. Hamiuett, named for his father, W'hosc full history and plate is f)n another page, was burn in Camargo township, Douglas ciiunl}-. illiudis, December 26, A. D. 1870. He was ]irincip.illy educateil in the Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois, where he remained three years. In 1897 he married Miss Conchita Kelley, of the state of Chihuahua, Ale.xico. They ha\e two lovely babies: Helen and I'lanche. Jimmie and his famil)- li\e ha])]iily in their beautifid home, which constitutes a part of the old homestead.

Thomas S. Wyatt

Thomas S. W'yatt, e.x-sherifY of Douglas county, was born in Todd county, Kentucky, Jamiary 13, 1838. His father, Needham W'yatt, a blacksmith, was born in Tennessee. Thoiuas W'yatt, the father of Needham, was l)orn in North Carolina ; was a Revolutionary soldier, and was at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis. The mother of Thomas S. Wyatt was Mrs. Martha A. (Mann) Wyatt, sister of Rev. \\'illiam W^. Mann, a prominent member of the Methodist church of Kentucky. Thoiuas S. W'yatt's early life was spent in his father's lilacksmith shop. He received but ten months' schooling, yet became a fair scholar through studious habits. At the age of nineteen years he l)egan lousiness for himself as a carpenter, which trade he followed for two years in Muhlenlnirg county, Kentucky; he next followed farming; then, in 1865, came to this county and built a blacksmith shop seven miles northeast of Camargo, which he conducted until 1880, when he was elected sheriff. In 1882 he was re-elected by a majority of six hundred and fortv. He had ])reviously, while engaged in his trade, been a justice of the peace for nine years. In youth he united with the Methodist church; has been a class leader and Sunday school superintendent, and was licensed as a preacher in 1875, since when he has preached often. He organized a society in Jordan schoolhouse, Camargo township, which society afterward huilt a large church, wherein he preached his first sermon. He is a Mason and a Repul)- lican, and \oted for Abraham Lincoln in Kentucky. December 30, 1857, he married Cascinda Smith, of Muhlenburg county, Kentucky.

James H. Howe

James H. Howe was born June i, 1832, in Bourbon county, Kentucky. April 5, 1838, he came with his mother to Vermilion county, Illinois ; he was reared and educated in Vermilion and Champaign counties. In his youthful days he traveled considerably, and, in 1854, came to Douglas county ; two years later he bought the Williams farm, which he improved and afterward sold. He was largely engaged in the live stock business, handling as high as one hundred thousand dollars in a year. In the spring of 1882 he was elected justice of the peace and was also highway commissioner. He was married in 1857 *« Eliza J. Lester, who was horn in Garrett township.

John C. Barnes

from Cul])eper county, Virginia, to Indiana in 1800. McGannon Barnes, father of John C, was born in Jefferson county, while his wife, Rebecca Pouts, was a native of Clark county, Indiana. John C. Barnes was the eldest in a family of ten children ; he was given a thorough educational training, attending first the common schools, then Hanover Academy in Jefferson county, Indiana, and in 1855 graduated from Scott's Commercial College, Indianapolis. At twenty years of age he began for himself, clerking in a store and post office at Hanover four years. April 24, i860, he married Mrs. Elizabeth Coombs. After marriage he took a course of lectures at the Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati. In 1866 he came to Douglas county, first landing at the present site of Hindsboro, then a waste prairie, but went direct to Coles county; after a year there he bought a farm three miles west of Hindsboro, which he improved and superintended in connection with his practice of medicine until 1883, when he sold out, came to Hindsboro and engaged in keeping a lumber yard in connection with his practice. He is a member of the Ma-, sonic lodge, of Areola, and Odd Fellows lodge. No. 571, of Hindsboro. Politically, he is a Democrat and in 1882 was candidate for Congress on the Greenback ticket; he was a member of the convention at Indianapolis that nominated Benjamin F. Butler for president in 1884. He stands high socially and is one in whose opinions the community has great confidence. His charity and generosity are marked traits of his character. Mrs. Barnes was born and reared in Clark county, Indiana, and is a daughter of Absalom and Nancy Bower. Her grandfatJier, .Adam, was born on the ocean while his parents were enroute for America from

Germany in 1754. Her father came to Indiana from North Carohna w itli ]iis parents in 1806. Mrs. Barnes was eihicatecl at tlic seminary atr Washington. Indiana, and remained at home until her marriage to Jesse Coomlis. a farmer of Clark county. Indiana, who died Decemher S, 1S53. After the death of h.er iiushand she attended and taught school until 1855, when she hegan the study of medicine for which, from early childhood, she had a natural inclination and talent. After ])reparatory study in the office of Dr. Joseph Hosteller, she attended lectures at and graduated from the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati in 1857. then settled in Clark county, where she practiced till her marriage to Dr. Barnes. Since coming to Illinois she lias constantly practiced until quite recentl}- and has an eminent standing professiiinally and socially.

James S. Reeder

James S. Reeder was horn March 4. 1840, in Darke county. Ohio, and came with liis l)arents in 1856 to this locality, where he engaged in farming. He enlisted August. 1862. in Company G. Seventy-ninth Illinois Infantry, and served three years. At the hattle of Stone River. Decemher 31, 1862, he was wounded and taken ])risoner: after being in the enemy's lines twenty-seven days he was exchanged, and jjarticipated in the battles of Liberty Gap and Chickamauga : at the latter, September 19, 1863, he was captinxd and taken to Richmcmd prison, thence to .Ander.sonville, Charle.ston, South Carolina, and Florence, making .seventeen nicinths in all s])ent in prison. At the close of the war he returned and engaged in farming. He was married December 2, 1865, to I\Iary M. Kell_\'. who was born in \\ inchester, Indiana. He resides in .Arthur.

J. B. Rigney, M. D., was born in Paoli, Orange county, Indiana, and is the son of AVilliam H. Rigney. who held the offices of sheriff, treasurer and collector. At about the age of si.xteen he. with his family, moved to Terre Haute. Indiana, and for three years resided on a farm. Finding rural pursuits distasteful, he turned his attention to medicine. He cominenced his studies under Dr. James H. Sherwood and continued with him for three years, when he went to Chicago and attended the Rush Medical College, from wdiich he graduated in 1863. He then enlisted as ho.spital steward, serving until January, 1866, when he returned and practiced medicine eleven miles south of Terre Haute, and in 1867 came to Arthur, where he has since resided. In 1868 he married Miss Ora F. McDonald, of Mattoon.

John Wiiitaker

John W'hitaker was born in \'igo county. Iniliana, March 12. 1833. and is the son of William and I'".lizal)eth (Taylor) Whitaker, who were nati\cs of Kentuckv. His father was burn in 1803 and died in 1846. John Wiiitaker came to Douglas county in 1856, located on section 13, Bourbon township, where he bought a farm of eighty acres, on which he lived five years ; this property he then sold and purchased eighty acres later on. At present he owns in all two hundred and forty acres ; this' farm he has improved with buildings at a cost of about two thousand dollars. He has been township commissioner for about five years. In i860 he married Hannah Davis, who was born in Vigo county, Indiana. She died and he subsequently married Mrs. Yeager, of Areola. In 1898 they commenced the construction of the Douglas hotel and on April 19, 1899. it was swung open to the general pul;)lic. This hotel is by far the l)est in every way of all other public inns in the countv.

William B. Chandler

William B. Chandler, a well-known stock l)uyer of the county and a resident of Bourbon township, was born in Douglas county, Illinois, March 6, 1852. He is a son of Lemuel Chandler (for the ancestry of the family, see sketch.) When yet a boy, William B. Chandler entered the Uni\-ersity of Illinois at Champaign and was graduated therefrom with a degree of B. S. in the class of 1876. In 1885 he served in the capacity of clerk to the Indian commission at Yankton and continued in this capacity for four years. He then went to Puelilo, Colorado, where he engaged successfully in the practice of law for three years. On account of the sickness of his father and business interests at home, he returned in 1892,

In 1883 Mr. Chandler was united in marriage to Miss Belle Augusta Bailey, of Tuscola. They have no children. Our subject is a Democrat in politics and the only office he ever held was that of town clerk of Bourbon township soon after he reached the age of manhood. Mr. Chandler is well and favorably known throughout the county, is a man of good business ability and devoted ti/ the highest and Ijcst interests of Douglas countians.

W. D. Reed, the assessor of Bowdre township, was Ijorn on the okl Reed homestead in the same township March 14, 1852, and is a son of the gallant B. Frank Reed, who fell at the battle of Chickamauga, and for whom the G. A. R. Post at Tuscola is named, and whose portrait adorns this page. He was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, and emigrated with his father, Daniel, to Edgar county, wdien he was but eight years old. Daniel Reed founded the old tavern or road house at Hickory Grove between Newman and Indianola. He volunteered in the Civil war and became captain of Company D, First Illinois Regiment. He was united in marriage to Catherine, a daughter of William Barnett, who lived in Camargo and was one of the early settlers.

\\'. D. Reed has been assessor of Bowdre township continuously for five years. He was married in 1874 to Ida L., a daughter of J. H. Bagley. They ha\-e had five children, of whom \\'ar(l, Clark. Fred and Mary are living, and Mand is dead. Mr. Recti is a stanch Denmcrat in politics, as was alst) his father, C'aptain Reed.

William Rrian. Sr.. was horn May 6, 1806, ip Ross county. Ohio, and in 1837 he came to Coles, now Douglas, county ; he entered ahout one thousand acres of land when coming here, and has owned as high as three thousand acres. He had learned the blacksmith's trade in Ohio, and followed it ahout twenty years here. On one occasion, when shoeing a Methodist preacher's horse, he nailed the shoes on with the toecorks behind. The preacher remonstrated with him for doing so ; his reply was, "The devil takes after these Methodist preachers, and I thought I would make him take the back track."' He was married October i, 1829. to Anna Lewis, who was born in Pike county, Ohio, May 4. 1805. They had nine children, six of whom are here named: Thomas. James, Mary (wife of R. E. H. Westfall), William T.. Taylor W. and Samuel. His death occurred a few years since.

Johx W. King

John W. King,' of Newman, who has for several years lieen ])rominent in the politics of the county, and ;U jiresent is associated with tlie Newman bank, was born in P>oin-bon cnuntv, Kentucky, October 13. 1841. He is a son of

David .\. and Jane Elizabeth ( .Mitchell) King, who were nati\es of Clark and Montgomery counties, Kentuck}-, respectively. His father, who was born in 1818, followed the occupation of farming, removed from Kentucky to Champaign county, Illinois, in 1855, '"^"'l there his death occiu'red in 1896. His mother died in 1882, aged fifty 3'ears. His paternal grandfather, Robert Cass King, was a native of Virginia, and his maternal grandfather, John W. Mitchell, was also born in Virginia, in Culpeper county.

John W. King was reared on his father's farm and attended the public schools of the neighborhood. In 1862 he joined Company G, Seventy-second Illinois Volunteers, as a private, and served three years and four months, part of the time as a ntJii-commissioned officer. .\fter the war he entered the state normal school, where he remained for three years. Leaving there he attended Bryant & Stratton's Business College'at Chicago, where he remained one year. He then taught school for some years in Champaign county, wdien, in 1872, he came to Newman, and for three years held the principalshij) of the Newman schools. In 1875 he was elected to the office of county superintendent to fill a vacancy, which he held up to the next general election in 1877, when he was re-elected and .served up till 1S81. In April of the latter year he resigned to accept the appointment of postmaster of Newman, which position he held under the administrations of both Garfield and Arthur. .\t the expiration of his term he accepted the position of bookkeeper in the Newni;in I 'auk. which position he held up till 1S90. In th.it _\'ear he was elected county clerk, and was re-elected in 1894, serving in that oftice up until 1898. when he re-entered tlie Newman Bank. In 1872 Mr. King was united in marriage to Miss Kate C. Fry, of near Champaign. They have five children : Blanche, Earl G., Katie \V., Roscoe \V. and Harry T. Mr. King has been collector of Newman township some four or five terms ; is a member of nearly all the secret societies, is trustee of the Methodist Episcopal church at Newman, and a stanch Republican in politics. Both as a soldier, officer and citizen Mr. King has been faithful in the discharge of his regular duties and the performance of any special work assigned to him.

Thomas W. Roberts

Thomas W. Roberts, the bright young lawyer of Tuscola, attorney for the I. D. & W. R. R. Co. and city attorney, has from the humble walks of life pressed his way to the front and to-day stands among the leading and most successful lawyers at the bar.

Thomas \V. Roberts was born in Owensburg, Green county, Indiana, May i, 1866. and soon thereafter came with his parents to Douglas county, and located at Camargo, where young Robert attended school until sixteen years of age. In 1882 his father removed to Tuscola, and there the young man learned the tinner's trade. But that was only a means to an end, and in 1886 he was appointed to a clerkship in the treasury department at Washington, where he worked day time and attended school at night, and for four years continued in the preparatory department of Georgetown University, after which he took a four-years' course in the law department of the same institution and was graduated in 1892. Mr. Roberts was at once admitted to the bar of Illinois, and entered upon his chosen profession, becoming the partner of the late C. W. Woolverton (see sketch), with whom he continued until the death of his associate in 1895, since which time Mr. Roberts has continued in the practice alone. He is attorney for the I. D. & W. R. R. Co. in Illinois, attorney for the Corn Belt Building & Loan Association, attorney for the bank of Baughman, Bragg &«Co. and this along with his other practice makes him a very busy man.

Mr. Roberts is a son of Henry Clay and Anna Elizabeth (Sleet) Roberts, both natives of Kentucky. Henry Clay Roberts came to Douglas county in 1870, and here resided for some years ; later he removed to South Dakota, where he at present lives. He was a member of the Ninety-seventh Regiment, Indiana, in the Civil war, volunteered in 1861, and was mustered out in 1865. Thomas Roberts (grandfather) was one of the early Virginia settlers in Boone county, Kentucky, as was his grandfather Sleet.

In June, 1888, Mr. Roberts wedded Mrs. Jennie Sharp, a daughter of R. H. B. Madison, of Tuscola. Two children have blessed their union : Irene Elizabeth and Ralph Henry. In Masonry he is a Knight Templar, a stanch Democrat in politics, and is popular and influential in the county.

Washington D. Boyce

Caniargo townsliip in February, 1882. He was among tlie first settlers in that township, where he entered forty acres of land. He establislied the first blacksmith shop at the vdlage of -Mbany.

Robert AIcKaig is one of the pioneer settlers of Tuscola township, who came in 1857. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church and highly respected in their neighborhood.

J. T. Butler

"J. T. Butler, of this city, secretary and manager of the Corn Belt National & Loan Association, had recei\C(l intelligence from his brother in California, that he had struck a gold mine of unparalleled richness, and that our fellow citizen was a half owner in the new wonder.

"The editor knowing that Mr. Butler was a man who shunned notoriety and would be loth tf) give out information that would bring him into such ])roniinence as an article of this kind necessarily will, approached him on the subject. He was at first disinclined to talk on the subject, but learning that it had become generally known throughout the city, he consented to make a statement, in order that the public might get the facts and facts only. As

Mr. Butler is a man of unimpeachable character and known to be a truthful and conser\ative man, we have the fullest confidence in his statement .

"The following facts have been given us by Mr. Butler, and his host of friends in this city are happy to know that he has suddenly become, or will soon become, the wealthiest man not only in Tuscola, but probably in the state of Illinois.

"He states that he has a brtjther. Dr. Thomas Butler, a prominent and reputable physician of San Diego, who has been in the gold regions of that and other states for thirteen years, and who has always prospected more or less. About three months ago his brother visited the great Dewey mine in what is known as the "Grapevine" district, sixty miles east of San Diego. This range of mountains is probably a spur of the San Barnadino range and are called the Vulcan mountains. The Dewey mine is a late discovery and was recently capitalized at one million dollars. It is regarded as a wonder."

William T. Brian

William T. Brian, one of the old and favorably known citizens and a member of one of the ])ioneer families of the county, was born in 1845 in Douglas county, and is a son of William and Anna Lewis Brian, who were born in the same county. William Brian (father) located in what is known now as the Brian neighborhood in about the year 1843, where he entered a large tract of land at one dollar and twenty-five cents an acre, and adding to that later considerably more at thirteen dollars per acre. At the time of his death, in 1888, at the age of eighty-one years, he was one of the biggest land owners in the count3^ Lewis Brian was his paternal grandfather. His maternal grantl father, John Lewis, settled in the same neighborhood, from Ohio, in an early day antl is buried at the Hickory Withe cemetery. William T. Brian was married in 1868 to Miss Sarah Bundy, a daughter of Caleb Bundy. The latter was born in North Carolina and settled early in Douglas county, three miles north and one-half mile west of Tuscola. Mr. and Mrs. Brian have one child, a daughter, Ellanor, who is the wife of John Lathrop. Mr. Brian owns at present eight hundred and sixty-two acres of land, lying in one body, and is one of the biggest tax payers in the county. He is a stanch free-silver Democrat and is universally respected by all who know him.

Oliver H. Parker

Oliver H. Parker, grain buyer at Hayes and Humboldt, and a son of Lines L. Par!:cr, of Bowdre township, was born in Vermilion county, Illinois, in the year A. D. i860. He resides with his family in Tuscola. In 1881 he was married to Miss Angle Wallace, a daughter of Joseph and Mary Ann (Breezley) Wallace. Joseph Wallace was a pioneer settler in Bowdre townshii). To Mr. and Mrs. Parker were l)orn four children: Burt I., Fred Earle, Minnie Pearle and Everett Dewey. Mr. Parker is one of the substantial business men of the county.

Thomas Cruzan

Thomas Cruzan was born in Douglas county January 15, 1836, and is a son of the two oldest citizens now living in the county who were born in it. He is a son of Robert Cruzan and Jane Crawford, who settled earlv in the Brown neighborhood, coming from In diana. Our subject owns two hundred and lortv acres of land.

Among the oldest residents of Douglas county, is Caleb Garrett, of Tuscola. His ancestors early matle their home in America, his father's great-grandfather. John Garrett by name, and an Englishman by birth, having settled in Virginia. He had a son, John Garrett, and a grandson. Welcome Garrett, who was the grandfather of the subject of our sketch. Welcome Garrett was born in \'irginia, and when a 3'oung man moved to Surr}- county. North Carolina. He served in Tennessee during the Indian wars prior to the Rexolution. He married Phoebe Sumner, a Pennsylvanian by birth. The Garretts were a strong, vigorous race of men. Joshua Garrett, a brother to Welcome, was killed at the battle of Brandywine, during the Re\olutionary war. Lewis, another brother, was shot by the Tories liefore enlisting. William was with Marion in South Carolina through the war, and after the conclusion of the struggle died of disease contracted in the service. This William Garrett was a man of pow- erful l)uil(l and of great strength. He weiglied two luindred and forty pounds, and was called the strongest man in the state of North Carolina.

Welcome Garrett became a member of the society t)f Friends. In 1824 he moved to Wayne county. Indiana. lie died in Hamilton county of that state, at the age of eighty-four. Isom (jarrctt. Caleb Garrett's father, and the son of Welcome Garrett was born in Surry county, North Carolina, in 1796. In 1814 he married Mary I'uckett. and the same year moverl to Clermont county, Ohio, .\fter a resideuce tliere of a year he went to Clinton county, Ohio. where his son Caleb was born. In 1819 he moved to Randolph county, Indiana, and in 1823 to Vigo county of the same state, where he lived till his removal to Illinois, with the exception of part of the year 1839, when he resided in Texas.

The date of Caleb Garrett's birth, in Clinton county. Ohio, was the i6th of July, 181 6. He was conseciuently seven years old when the family moved to Vigo county, Indiana, in the vicinity of Terre Haute. His early opportunities for securing an education were very limited. One of the schools which he attended was about three miles and a half from his father's residence near Honey Creek bridge. Here school was sometimes kept for three months in the year, an unusually long period at that day. Another school was afterward established nearer home under the care of Joel Butler, of the state of New York, which for a time afforded excellent advantages. The next school he attended was taught by one Joel Thayer, an excellent teacher, but so confirmed and inebriate that the children soon discontinued attendance on his instruction. His father was a man of considerable education, and under his care he learned rapidly. .According to Isom Garrett, his father, tjbedience to his parents was one of his marked tr;iits. His ninthcr died in 1830, and for a period of nine years succeeding this event, the father and the sons, Caleb and Nathan, kept house for them.seh'es, and did their own ctx)king, besides attending to their usual occupations. During part of this period Mr. Garrett was in the employment of Chauncey Rose, of Terre Haute, and now one of the wealthiest and most liberal citizens of Indiana. He drove an o.x team for Lucius H. Scott, now of Philadelphia. He dropped corn for twentyfive cents a day, and split rails at from twentyfi\'e to thirty cents a huntlred, averaging one hundred and fifty for a usual day's work. For a long time he worked for a wealthy Scotchman, William Walker, at six dollars a month. At twenty-one he was probably the strongest man in all the country round. Although full of life, he had no intemperate habits. He was a favorite in the community. "He could do as big day's work as anyone," says his father, "and at a country frolic could play a tune on the fiddle second to none."

In the period from 1834 to 1839 he made several trips down the river on a flat boat, and thus became well acquainted with the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. The greater part of one winter he remained in New Orleans. On a return trip at one time with Captain Shallcross, of Louisville, he was stuck in the ice near Paducah, Kentucky, and the men were reduced to two crackers a day. On this same trip, in coming home, he walked from Evansville to Terre Haute through snow eighteen inches in depth Out of the forty boatmen who started at the same time, only Mr. Garrett and a companion succeeded in going through, the otliers falling behind and giving it up before they had gone far.

In 1840, on the day succeeding the exciting presidential campaign of that year in which Mr. Garratt voted for General William Henry Harrison, he took a steamer for New Orleans on his way to Texas. The steamer stuck fast in the rapids below Terre Haute, the pilot became intoxicated, and Mr. Garrett, in company with two other young men bound for points south, procured a rough spring wagon in which they journeyed from Mt. Carmel to E\-ansville on the Ohio river, when the three took a steamer and continued their voyage. One of his companions left him to go up to the Cuinberland and the other up the Tennessee river. At New Orleans he secured a passage on a steamship for Galveston, Texas. When out on the Gulf of Mexico the vessel encountered a terrific gale, and for seventy-two hours the ship and crew were in danger of going to the bottom. At Galveston a steamer was taken for Houston. But the steamer stuck fast on the bar, and for a day or two the passengers had time to amuse themselves by fishing in the shallow water for oysters. Mr. Garrett was aiming to make his way first to Independence, in Washington, county. To this point he traveled on foot, with the exception of thirty or forty miles before reaching the town, when he had opportunity of riding. At Independence he obtained a mustang pony, and continued his journey to Austin City. The route led two hundred miles through a frontier country inhabited by hostile Indians, At Austin City, on his arrival, the Congress of the Republic of Texas was in session. Texas had then achieved its independence from Mexico, and formed a separate republic, of which Lamar was president. Sam Houston was one of the prominent members of the Congress. Mr. Garrett remained several weeks in that section of the country, and was frequently in attendance on the sessions of the Congress, on one of which occasions he heard Houston deliver his speech on sectionizing and selling the lands of the Cherokee Indians. Mainly for the purpose of seeing the country, he joined a surveying party, and was absent for .some time on the exposed frontier. On his return a company was organized for a buffalo hunt and general exploring expedition, which Mr. Garrett joined, still animated by a desire to see something further of frontier life before he should leave Texas. The partv consisted of nine men and two boys. They were attacketl by a party of Indians, between thirty and fifty in number. The horse of a young man named Osburn was shot under him, the rider having received a spear wound in the back. The unfortunate man, after being knocked insensible with his own gun by the Indians, was scalped within sight of the remainder of the party, and left for dead on the field. He was afterward rescued, anrl finally recovered from his wound. The whole party effected their escape to a block-house.

Mr. Garrett's visit to Texas had for its end an object different from any yet described in a record of these incidents. On the 20th of December, 1840, he had been married to Irene Puckett, a native of Vigo county, Indiana, but who at that time resided on the Colorado river, twelve miles below Austin City. He had pre-

Mr. Garrett now engaged in fanning and stock raising, at first renting a farm five miles south of Terre Haute. He was soon called upon, howexer. to discharge other duties. In August, 1842. he was chosen to represent the county of Vigo in the Indiana Legislature. He took his scat in I )ecemher. i84_', and served the following winter. The next year he was re-elected, and served another session, performing his duties with credit to himself and satisfaction to his constituents. He was only twenty-si.x at the time of his first election. Like his father hefore him. Mr. Garrett was a Whig, and it was as a candidate of the Whig party that he was elected to the Indiana Legislature. At the conclusion of his second term of office he declined a re-election, and devoted himself more assiduously than e\er to fariuing and stock raising. He hought a small farm si.x miles south of Terre Haute, hut sold it after making im])rij\ements upon it. He continued to reside in Indiana till 1849. His business operations were attended with success. He desired to invest his lie had \isited Illinois in com])an\' with three others in the f;dl of i8_^3. lie tra\ersed the state from Ldgar county to the Mississippi, ])assing through Sadorus (jrove, Si)ringfield and Bcardstown, to Ouincy. His course was then nj) llie river for a consiclerahle distance, when, leaving it. he joinneyed southeast to the Illinois, and thence through Springfield hy the old Springfield trace, across the Okaw, through what is now Douglas county by the Wayne stand, to Paris in Edgar county, and thence to Terre Haute. There were no settlements on the route tra\-eled through I)ouglas county except at the -Shaw stand.

1846 Mr. Garrett bought one hundred and sixty acres of land near William Brian's in what is now Douglas county. The next spring he caiue out with an ox team and began impro\ing it. in 1849 '""^ removed with his family to Douglas county for the purpose of making a permanent residence. He had previously been accustomed to driving cattle from Indiana, and herding them in Douglas county. He located on section three, of township fifteen, range .seven. He devoted his whole attention to farming and stock raising. In 1856 he and his wife revisited Texas. They were absent about three months, during which they traveled extensively over the northeastern part of the state. His farm of eight hundred and sixty acres, on wliich he lived till recently, was sold in May, 1875. He now resides in Tuscola, For two or three years following 1868 he was in the grocery business at Tuscola in partnership with Mr. John M. Maris.

tliat ever convened in Douglas county. In 1854 he was elected justice of the peace and held that office until his resignation. On the organization of the county into townships, Mr. Garrett was chosen a memher of the board of supervisors from Garrett township. His public trusts he has discharged with fidelity, and few citizens of the county have gained a larger share of the popular esteem.

William H. Fulton

William H. Fulton located in the village of Camargo in 1852, began merchandising in a small way, and is now the oldest merchant in active business in the county. He was born at Clinton, Indiana, August 17, 1827, and is one of the well-known and respectable citizens of the village.

James Gillogly

James Gillogly, dry goods and general merchant at Newman, is a native of Pennsylvania, where he was reared on a farm and accpiired a common school education. He followed farming in Pennsylvania and Illinois until the war, when he enlisted in Company D, Twenty-first Regiment Illinois Infantry, under General then Colonel) Grant. He was wounded at the battle of Stone River, Tennessee, having a leg broken, and was discharged soon after. He then engaged in merchandising at Jacksonville, Ryerson's Station and Ninevah, Pennsylvania, thence coming to Illinois and locating at Newman, where he has since been engaged ill his present business. Mr. Gillogly occupies a fine brick st(3re room, 30x70 feet, centrally located and well stocked with the best goods, and is doing a Inisiness of twenty-five thousand to thirty thousand dollars yearly. He was married to Miss H. L. Atkinson, and six children have blessed their union: J. C, H. B., Emma J., Lotta, Benton (deceased), and Lewis (deceased). Mr. and Airs. Gillogly are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, and he belongs to the Alasonic fraternity and the I. O. O. F.

A. Taylor

A. Taylor, real estate dealer at Newman and a man universally popular anil esteemed by everybody around Newman, was born in Tippecanoe county, Indiana, April 8, 1836, where he was reared and educated. He has been a resident in Xewiuan since 1876 and has negotiated many important real estate deals in Douglas and adjoining counties. In 1856 he w-edded Miss Alice Beezley, of Indiana. They had three children : A. A. ; Charley, who is the present census enumerator of Newman township, and Belle. They are highly respected and counted among Newman's best people.