Effingham County, Illinois - Chapter 27, 1883 (part 2 of 2)

County, Ohio, May 4, 1828. He entered the office of the Western Post at Somerset, Ohio, at the age of eleven, and at sixteen was a journeyman, and traveled over eighteen States as a " jour" printer, and has published thirteen papers. He came to Ewington, a " tramping jour " printer, in 1857, and found it the printer's El Dorado, finding employment on the Effingham Pioneer, then published by W. B. Cooper and Mr. Burton. Three months after his arrival, he gained control of the Pioneer, Mr. Cooper selling it out in shares, Mr. Filler buying the shares in a little time. He moved the paper to Effingham in the fall of 1860, and continued it here until the breaking-out of the war. Our subject had served in the Mexican war, having enlisted June 9, 1846, in the Third Ohio, and was made a Sergeant on the organization of the company served one year, and became Second Lieutenant in September, at Matamoras, Mexico. He returned in 1847 and raised a company in Perry County, Ohio, and was its Captain. It became the Fifth Ohio Regiment, under Col. Early, and saw active service from Vera Cruz to City of Mexico, retiu'ning to Cincinnati in 1848. The news of the tiring on Star of the West in Charleston Harbor was received here on Thursday, and Capt. Filler telegrajihed on Friday to Adjt. Gen. Mather that a company was ready for service, having only one secured, and. Tuesday morning, he left for Springfield with 102 of the largest and finest men in the company. This was in a strong Democratic county, and opposed to the war. His company went into camp at Springfield, and were assigned to the Eleventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and were on duty at Camp Hardin and Bird's Point, Mo. Our subject went in as a Captain and became Lieutenant Colonel of the regiment Col. Filler returned home a short time, and re-enlisted in the

Sixty-second Regiment, and was First Lieutenant, serving until August, 1863, when he resigned his command on account of continued illness, and located in St. Louis, where he was connected with the Globe- Democrat and other papers between two and three years. He had the cholera in St. Louis in 1800, when he returned to Effingham and engaged as a compositor for Haddock, of the Republican, for a few months. In February, 1867, ho went to Kinmundy, III., and started the Telegram, and continued it five months, and, in October, went to New Orleans, where he remained until spring, when he retm-ned and edited the Effingham Democrat, which was sold to Mr. Bradsby in 1868. He continued to aid for awhiJe in its publication, and, in the fall of 1869, he was nominated for County Clerk of Effingham County, where he has since served, being elected three times, without any opposition from the other party. He was married, in Ohio, in 1849, to Lavina A. Dille, of Fairfield County, Ohio. They have one daughter living.

W. I. N. FISHER, deceased, was a physician, born in Mifflin County, Penn. , August 31, 1814, son of George and Barbara (Shepard) Fisher, parents of five children - two sons and three daughters. Our subject received his education in his native county, and, at an early age, began teaching school, at the same time pursuing his own studies at every opportunity. He afterward traveled quite extensively in New York, made excursions on the lakes, and finally wont to Ohio and attended college at Cuyahoga Falls, that State. November 9, 1839, he removed to Terre Haute, InJ., where he continued his studies. He came to this State in 1841, and was married to Miss Sarah A. Turney, born in Coles County, this State, November 17, 1842. Our subject pursued his studies under Dr. Miller, and shortly commenced to practice himself. In March, 1844, he moved to Shelbyville, this State, where he followed his profession till 1848, when he came to this county, and, January 1, 1860, moved into Effingham City, where, tho war breaking out shortly afterward, he was active in foi'miug companies, and was himself a member of the Fifth Cavalry, Company L, and served nine months, when his health failed, compelling him to return home. He was County Superintendent of Schools, devoting his leisure moments to the study of the sciences of all branches, of which he was intelligibly conversant. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and m politics a Democrat; was also an honored member of the Masonic fraternity, and died January '28, 1873. Mrs. Fisher is still living in Effingham. They had one son, John G., born August 30,

1844. He came to Michigan with his parents when four years old, and residel in Almont, that State, where he learned the trade of jeweler with his father, and started in business for himself at the age of twenty-one, at Almont, and continued there until 1869, and then went to South Haven, Mich., where he remained until 1871, when he removed to Casey, 111. He was at the latter place until 1879, when he removed to Effingham, where he has since conducted a good business, located at {)resent in the post office lobby, where he carries a full stock of clocks, watches and jewelry. He has had twenty years of active experience in the business, and employs an able assistant. Our subject enlisted, in August, 1862, in the Fifth Michigan Cavalry, and served until tho close of the war, in the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac, under Kilpatrick and Sheridan. He was mustered out at Detroit, July 3, 1865.

MRS. MARY A. FLEMING, Effingham, is the daughter of Jonathan Wright, who was born in Trenton, N. J., November 20, 1790. He was the son of an English Quaker, who was the son of a distinguished nobleman, who came from England and was an intimate friend of William Penn, coming with one of the early colonies brought to New Jersey by Penn. The grandfather of Mrs. Fleming was David Wright, who married a Miss Elizabeth Cleaver, a lady of German parentage, of great wealth. He (David) owned an iron foundry in New Jersey, which burned and left him in moderate circumstances. He had six sons and three daughters. The oldest son became a merchant, and the next four learned trades, and the youngest son inherited the farm. Jonathan, the fourth son, father of our subject, under the stress of these reverses, and at the advice of his father, learned the trade of brick-layer in Philadelphia, Penn. An aunt, Jlrs. Theodosia Craig, was a sister of David Wright, and was very wealthy, and bequeathed to each of her nephews and nieces §1,000 each to those who came West, to be invested in Western lands; and Andrew Ridgeway, afterward a Quaker minister, and a cousin of the Wright brothers, was appointed agent to make these purchases. He selected the first prairie land he came to in this State, now known as Shipley's Prairie, in Wayne County, three miles south of Fairfield, 111. He bought these lands while this State was yet a Territory, and paid a miich higher price than it sold for soon after. The lands were bought in Mrs. Craig's name, and she deeded each one about half a section. Jonathan Wright and Andrew came in 1820, with their families, and settled on their lands, David Wright and the three Ridgeways having come in 1819. Jonathan brought subject, seven years old, and her sister Susan, three years old, who afterward married Mr. Thomas Loy. The father of Mrs. Fleming settled on his farm in Wayne County in 1820, and lived on his farm and worked at his trade about seven- years, when he moved to St. Louis and lived a year. There our subject and her sister Susan went to a private school, taught by Prof. Lovejoy, who was afterward mobbed for printing an Abolition paper. They returned to the farm in Wayne County after six months, and, in December, 1834, came to this county with their father, who settled in Ewington, where he bought forty acres adjoining the towQ, and which had a mill on it. He kept a hotel in Ewington, and was employed on the brick work of the State House at Vandalia, being a splendid workman. He was on a scaffold, when it fell from the second story, and he broke both ankles and received intei'nal injuries which caused his death two days afterward, before any of his family could reach him, and he was buried near Ewington. His death occurred in 1835. He married Hattie Hutchinson, of Trenton, N. J., November 7, 1812. She was born November 20, 1792, and died September 27, 1855. They had nine children - Mary A., subject; Hutchinson, died in New Jersey two years old; Susan, was the wife of Thomas Loy; George was for many years surveyor and farmer in this county; Henry H., farmer in this county (see sketch); Sarah E., wife of Mr. Burke, at Georgetown, 111.; Emma A., died aged seven years; William (see sketch); Helen A., now Mrs. Col. Funkhouser. The father was raised a Quaker, and was an honest, plain and unassuming man. Our subject, the eldest child of Jonathan Wright, was born in Trenton, N. J., August 23, 1813. She came to Wayne County, 111., when seven years old. Her first teacher was A. C. Mackay who afterward lived in Bond County. September 20, 1832, she married Isaiah Lacy, in

Wayne County, Hi. He was born in Louisville, Ky., March 1, 1809, and, after marriage, they settled in Maysville, Clay Co., 111., where they kept a hotel until his death, which occurred one year and ten months after their marriage He died July 8, 1834. They had one son, John H. I., born September 16, 1833, now of Effingham; and a daughter, Hattie B. , who died when three years old - December, 28, 1837. Our subject removed with her father to this county, and aided her mother in keeping a hotel at Ewington until her mam age with Samuel Fleming. He was born in Murfreesboro, Tenn. He came with his parents to Shelbyville, 111., when he was a boy, and he carried the mail for some years in this State, and went to Nashville, Tenn., for some years, but returned to this county, and was married December 4, 1842. After marriage, he kept a grocery store for a few year.s at Ewington, and also kept a hotel called the Fleming House, and he conducted a livery stable at Ewington until 1857, when he moved to Effingham, where tbey rented a hotel of Presley Funkhouser for a few years. He entered the army in 1861, as a Veterinary Surgeon. He built the present Fleming House in 1861, which has been enlarged by additions from year to year, until it contains thirty rooms and all the conveniences of a modern hotel. Of their children, Mary E. was born December 4, 1843, wife of D. C. Hasseltine; Sarah E., born July 31, 1845, wife of Sidney Wade, of Effingham; Samuel J., born February 13, 1848; Z. A., born June 16, 1851, was married in St. Loiiis, September 18, 1871, to Mr. George Farnsworth. Their first and only daughter's name was Zohatta, born June 7, 1872; HellenaH., born September 19. 1855, and died March 26, 1856; St. Clair W. and Eugene U., born March 18, 1857.

SAMUEL J. FLEMING, livery man, Effingham, was born in Ewington, this county, February 13, 1848. He came to Effingham when about tea years of age, at which time there was but one house on the west side of the Central Railroad, and he assisted his father in the stable. He was fireman on the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad during 1863-64. In 1865, he went into the livery business in Effingham, and has continued in that business ever since. In 1870. he began buying horses for the Southern markets, shipping from eight to ten carloads during the winter season, to Natchez, Miss. , consisting of from 200 to 300 head. For the last ten or twelve years, he has been interested in the development of trotters. Has owned and trained Bay Frank, 2:33; Dixie, 2:29, Rowdy Boy, and at present owns Maud W., a promising trotter, and Allie F., a pacer of jwomise also, and a number of others which have made good records. Oiu- subject is Superintendent of the Effingham County Fair Association. He was married, Februai-y 15, 1871, to Miss Belle "Wagner, daughter of Isaac Wagner, of Green Castle, lud. They have two children - a son and a daughter.

FREDERICK FLOOD, Superintendent of water supply Vandalia Railroad, Effingham, was born on the high seas and has been told that his birth occui-red on board an English man-of-war or transport on Briti.sh waters about 1829 or 1830. His father, Daniel, was a Captain of the Forty-second British Regiment on foot of Highlanders, all over six feet tall. His father was six feet four inches. His mother, who was a lady named Kate Cole, died when subject was very small, on the Plains of Abraham, whore she is buried. Subject was left in the care of a French nobleman called Sir Biongeon, and was taken to L'Islet, Quebec, Canada, where he was kept until about the age of twelve years, when he ran off and went to the city of Quebec, and there got aboard a vessel - steamer Alliance - and, being too little for the work, was put off near Three Rivers. He next stowed himself on board the ship George H. Thomas, and was not found until in mid ocean, and was taken to Liverpool and got the position of L'abin boy on another vessel and came back to the coast of Maine, United States, and stopped in the village of China, where he went to school, working two days in the week, and going to school four days in the week for two years. He then yielded to his desire for the ocean and went on a brig on an Arctic expedition commanded by Capt. Allen; went up Davis Strait to a point where, during part of the year, the sun never sets for several months. He returned to Liverpool and went to Africa, touching at Capo of Good Hope, Calcutta and Australia, and then he took a French transport to Algeria and again visited Sidney, Australia, and from there shipped to Boston, Mass., on the bark Iowa. He then left the sea and went to work on the repairs and construction of the Boston & Maine Railroad, and came West in 1853, where he worked on the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad for nineteen years, and was first located at Lebanon, 111., for about two years, Olney five years and Sandoval for twelve years, all this time on the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad as foreman of water supply. In 1872, he came to Effingham, and has since been foreman of water supply of the Vandalia Railroad, and has chai-ge of this department for 167.5 miles, which have sixteen tanks. He averages 100 miles travel per day. He was married in Maine - the first time to Harriet Ware, in about 1856. She died in about two years after their marriage, and he married a second time to Miss Zella H. Roy, of Caseyville, 111., Januaiy 31, 1860; had ten children by this marriage; six are living -

HaiTiet, wife of Frank Conway, of Topeka, Kan. ; Katie, Julia, John, Letty, Bonnie; four died in infancy; the three youngest were born in this county.

BENTON FORTNEY, druggist, Effingham, was born in Watson Township, Effingham County, on a farm, June 16, 1854; his parents moved to Effingham in the spring of 1855, where he has since resided. At the age of ten, he entered the old Effingham Gazette office, then published by Hays & Bo wen, and worked about two years as " devil." He then entered the employ of S. W. Little, and worked one year in his orchard. He then worked two years in McClellan & Nodine's brick yard, and in the spring of 1869, he entered the drug store of John Jones to learn the business, and remained there one year, and was afterward with Mr. Pape for five years, and. in the fall of 1876, ho made a tour west, visiting Texas, Colorado, Kansas, Arkansas and Missouri, remaining four months, when he returned and bought a stock of drugs at Windsor, Shelby Co., 111., and at once removed it to Shumway and conducted the drug business there seven months, when he sold out and came back to Effingham and took charge of the present store, then owned by W. W, Simpson, and run the store about six months, when he formed a partnership with J. W. Fuukhouser and opened a drug store at Prairie City, 111., which he run for seven months and sold out and returned to Effingham, entering the employ of S. W. Osgood as book-keeper for a short time. In December, 1879, he took charge of the present store for Hon. E. N. Rinehart, and has since conducted it for him, having entire charge of the business. Our subject was married, in May, 1880, to Miss Ella Van Dyke, of Majority Point, 111. ; they have one daughter.

Township, this county, March 18, 1835; he spent his youth on a farm, and lived on it until 1851, when he entered a store which his father started in Ewington, and remained there until 1857 as clerk. In 1857, he came to Eflingham and opened a store of his own. At that time the town had not over seventyfive people, and his was the third store started. He kept a general store until the war broke out. He enlisted August 2, 1861, in the Twenty-sixth Illinois Infantiy for three years, and he went out as Captain of Company A. His regiment was under Gen. Pope in Northern Missouri and his company and one other was in an engagement at Salt River Bridge. Capt. Funkhouser was detached from his regiment in January, 1862, and came home and raised and organized the Ninety-eighth Illinois Volunteer Infantry at Camp Centralia, and went out as Colonel of the regiment and joined the Department of the Ohio at Louisville, Ky., and was assigned to Gen. Dumont's forces. His regiment marched 1,050 miles in Kentucky and was in three engagements in that State - Perry ville, Elizabethtown, MuldroseHill and Hartsville, Tenn., and many other skirmishes. Subject was at Stone River and in a heavy skirmish at Hall's Hill, and McMinville, Deckard, Hoover's Gap, Winchester, Tenn., Harrison's Lauding and at Chickamauga, where he was wounded, September 20, 1863, by a minie ball, which passed through both thishs, fractui'ino' one femui*. He was taken from the field in his own ambulance, and taken to Chattanooga, from thence to Stevenson, Ala., and by rail to Nashville, where his wound was dressed on the fourth day. He remained in Nashville eight days, when he came home, where he remained until February, 1S64, when he rejoined his regiment at Chattanooga, Tenn., and was ordered from there back to Nashville, where he took charge of the cavalry depot, and in May following, he was ordered to Columbia, Tenn., and took command of the post and the line of defenses on the line of Chattanooga & Nashville Railroad, having charge of 0,000 men. He made application to take command of his old regiment, in June, 1864, but the army Surgeon declared him unfit for duty in the field or invalid corps, and, in July, 1864, he resigned and came home and has been in the mercantile business here ever since, except about four years, which he spent as contractor on the Springfield Branch of the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad. He helped to raise the subsidies along the line of the narrow gauge railroad in the county, and was President of it for three years during its building, and is still a Director. In 1882, he built and opened his present store, at the corner of Jefferson and Third streets,^ two-story brick, 45x60 feet on ground, double storeroom, occupied with general stock. Col. Funkhouser was married, in 1854, to Miss Helen A. Wright, daughter of Jonathan Wright, of this county; they have four children living. The Colonel and his wife were born on the same day, on the same section (34, of Summit Township). The father of our subject was Presley Funkhouser, born in Green County, Ky., November 30, 1811. moved to Saline County, ill., with his parents, in 1814, and from there to White County, in 1820, and to this county in 1829, where he farmed during his life. He was for many years Justice of the Peace and Associate Judge, and, in 1844, was elected to the Legislature and re-elected two terms. He was elected to the State Senate in 1860, and was a member on his fiftieth birthday, November 30, 1861. He was married, in Clay County, in 1829, to Nancy Bishop, and had thirteen children, of whom there are three sons and two daughters still livint'. The mother died March 14, 1873;

WILSON L. FUNKHOUSER, farmer, P. O. Effingham, was born on a farm in Summit Township, this county, February 14, 1841; he worked in a store and on a farm from boyhood; at fourteen, his father removed to Ewington, handling stock, buying and shipping to Chicago. At twenty-two years of age, our subject began farming the old homestead, which he still owns), and operated it himself until 1878, when he entered the employ of S. W. Osgood as general foreman of his busifless, having charge of the men working m the timber, and is still in the employ of Osgood & Kingman. He was married, in 1863, to Miss Carrie Sprinkle, daughter of Michael Sprinkle, of Watson Township; she was born in this county and her father is one of the earliest settlers here; they have six children living.

JUDGE T. J. GILLENWATERS, retired, P. O. Effingham, whose portrait appears in this work, was the seveath son of a family of ten children, three boys and three girls older and three younger. Ho was born on the 5th day of March, 1805, in Hawkins County, Tenn. On the father's side of English descent, and on the mother's of Irish parentage. His father, Thomas Gillenwaters, was born on the 3d of February, 1771, and he married P»lly Wilkins, of the Wilkins family of Sjiarta, S. C, on the 5th day of August, 1794. The grandfathers, Gillenwaters and Wilkins, were here, partakers in the American Revolution, aud diu-ing that war a fort was established on the Wilkins farm in South Carolina. Judge Gillenwaters grew up a f ai-mer boy on his father's farm, and at ten years of age went to his iirst school, a log schoolhouse with a dirt floor three miles from hia father's residence. Here he learned his alphabet, and between ten and nineteen years of age, he got the sum total of his education in school. The entire time thus snatched from his young life of hard farm work was aboixt six months. The only things taught in the school was to read, write and cii^her; no grammar, no geography, no anything else. The diligence he here used is well indicated by the fact that he progressed in his arithmetic to the double rule of three, and in this school that was the graduating point. His mind thirsted for knowledge, and when he had passed the limits of this country cabin his eagerness to go on is made manifest by his proposition to his father, namely, that if he would thon send him to school for three years, he would waive any and all claims iipon him for all future time: not only this, but that when he had the advantage the three years of school, he would commence life for himself and soon repay the outlay thus incurred. His father's reply to this told the story : " I wish I coxild, son, but you are a good stout boy now, and I am not able to. either spare you or the money to educate you." This ended the ambitious boy's hopes in that direction. When fifteen years old - sixty-two years ago - he joined the Methodist Church, and commenced that Christian, though just and liberal life, that has characterized him ever since. His father and mother were members of that church, and to his mother - that sweetest name that ever came from human lips - he attributes all this, the best blessing of his life. Although his father was a man of broad and just judgment and libreal views - a man that loved his family and was kind and gentle always - yet it was not that mother's tender love and care that twines in such eternal affection and love around the child's heart. An incident of his child life tells this better than we can: It was the occasion of his first oath. He had been talking to a schoolmate, and before aware himself what he was saying, the mild oath was out; it shocked his cousin, his listener, as well as himself. His cousin told the boy's mother about it. His mother looked at him as a pained expression passed over her face. The boy cried and begged his mother's pardon and beseeched her not to tell his father. She took him tenderly in her arms, forgave him and promised not to " tell father," only asking that if she did all this he would never swear again. He made the promise, and to this day has kept it sacred. His j'outhful days were given tu that ceaseless round of toil that attends farm life, having but few playmates or associates except his brothers and sisters. He grew up to the fullest requirement of that command that man shall earn his bread by the sweat of his brow. It was in this respect, perhaps, that his education suffered the most - that is, the absence of that variety of young associates and the leisure to mix with and receive and give that best part of youth's education, that comes of contact of young mind with other minds of near the same age. But he was fortunate in the home influences that surrounded him. The patient kindness and indulgence of his father is told in the circumstance that the Judge can now recall but a single time when his father punished him. This was for disobedience in going to swim in a pond near the house, after strict orders had been given not to do so. The great temptation was not resisted, and the old gentleman happening to catch him in the act, broke off the tii'st twigs within reach and accelerated the lad's movements toward home. The punishment was not severe, but, at the moment, was well calculated to frighten a child not accustomed to the lash. On the 27th day of November, 1827, he was married to Dinah Farnsworth, in Green County, Tenn. He formed her acquaintance in the summer of that year as he was returning from a visit to relatives in South Carolina. He had stopped at the Farnsworth mansion for breakfast. When he beheld the girl, he made some excuse to stay until after dinner, and by dinner time he concluded to stay till next day, and before that time had expired he was in doubts as to whether he would ever go home again. He stayed a week and started a " markin school," but says : " I didn't charge her anything." He commenced housekeeping at once after marriage, in a house on his father's farm that he had built the year before. There were two rooms in the house. Here he lived one year and farmed, and here the oldest child, Jane was born. On the 3d of March, 1829, he took the now little family, moved to near Brennenberg, Meade County, Ky. , where they stopped and raised a crop, and in the fall sold it and moved to Vermillion County, Ind. While here, the second child, Mellissa, was born, March 29, 1830. In 1831, moved to Coles County, 111., and improved a small farm eight miles south of Charleston, near the village of Farmington. Here the third child, Malinda, was born, March 1, 1832. He raised two crops here and on the 9th of March, 1833, moved to EiSngham County and purchased the Fancher farm, just this side of Ewington and here he lived and farmed and milled and helped build churches and schoolhouses and worked and prospered and gathered around him family and friends for the next twenty years. His restless desire for changes that so marked the first few years of his married life was over, and in his new home he had settled down to a contented and an industrious life. In this farm home, where he resided for twenty years, except two years in Ewington, his other children were born, namely, George Thomas Gillenwaters, October 31, 1833 ; Elizabeth, January 18, 183G; Dinah, April

5, 1838; Livonia, March 25, 1841, and Amanda, August 7, 1843. His wife died November 1, 1844, leaving him a household of young children, the youngest being only a little past one year old. On the 80th day of September, 1846, he married his present wife, a Mrs. Ann Jackson, n^e Evans, of Macoupin County, 111. He was elected Justice of the Peace in 1836, and afterward was twice re-elected to the same office. Was elected a member of the County Commissioners' Court in 1842, and was re-elected to the same office in 1850. In 1858, he was elected Associate Judge of the County Court, and continued to hold this office until, by the adoption of township organization, the office ceased to exist. In 1862, he was elected City Treasurer of the city of Effingham, and, at the expiration of the term, was re-elected. At the expiration of his term of office as City Treasurer, there was $532 cash of the city money in his hands, which was turned over to his successor, Sam Moffitt and his receipt in full given for the same. Was twice elected Supervisor for the city of Effingham, from which office he retired in the spring of 1882. He had been elected a Lieutenant of a militia compan}' in Tennessee when a very young man, and his commission bore the sign manual of Gov. Carroll, of. Tennessee. Here was a long life of honor and trust, and we need attempt no higher eulogy of his official life than to state the simple truth, that in all his life there was never the shadow of a shade of stain upon his official integrity and unflinching honesty. He held these trusts most sacred, and turned them over to his successors in better condition than when he took them. He never was an office-seeker, and more than once when his friends had made up a ticket with his name for some leading county office, he has ordered his name taken off and some other name substituted. He would convince his friends that this was for the best, and they would acquiesce and follow his instructions. Judge Gillenwaters has been a con sistent Democrat all his life. He was born in the " State of Andrew Jackson," and his nature partook largely of the east of the old hero. Any one familiar with the portrait of " Old Hickory " will be reminded of them the moment he looks at the portrait of the Judge in this work. There is a semblance in person as marked as is the character of the two men. In 1845, he built a saw-mill, waterpower, on Salt Creek. After operating this a little more than a year, he wont soldiering to Mexico, and during his absence John F. Waschefort purchased it. In 1850, he built a horse-power mill, and brought the first circular saw to the county. This also was near Ewingrton. After running; this about three years, it was sold to W. J. Hankins, and then he erected a steam mill just west of Ewington. In April, 1859, he moved to the town of Effingham and opened a hotel in the house now occupied by himself and family as a residence. In this, as in most of his undertakings, he prospered, and, in 1864, he built the large brick hotel on the public square, and the brick business house adjoining the same. Here he kept a public house until the spring of the year 1882, when he leased the establishment to its present jiroprietors, and thus at one and the same time he retired from business and public and official life, and has rested at last in cheery old asre from his loncf, laborious and active labors. The history of Effingham County and the biography of Judge Gillenwaters are very much one and the same thing. His coming hero and the existence of the county were coeval events. To much of its growth and prosperity it is indebted to him. He has been one of its humblest laborers and wisest counselors. He has been a Western man ia the broad pense of that term; he has realized the wants of the people and with strong brain and hand he has supplied that demand most generously and unsparingly. And now, when the race is nearly run, and the afternoon of life wanes, to see this venerable, white-haired couple, as hand in hand they pass along toward the twilight and the journey's end, receiving the love, reverence and respect of all, is a picture indeed that many loving hearts will wish may never fade. SYLVESTER F. GILMOEE, attorney and County Judge, Effingham, was born in Putman County, Ind., August 17, 1837; he was educated at Hanover College, Indiana, and began the study of law in 1858, at Green , Castle, Ind., with Col. John A. Matson, and, after reading with him about two years, entered the Law Department of the Indiana Asbury University, from which he graduated in March, 1860, and began the practice of law in Carmi, 111., continuing there until 1862, when he returned to his old home in Indiana and enlisted, in 1863, in the Seventyeighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and joined a portion of the Army of the Tennessee, and was stationed at Uniontown, Ky. , and took part in engagements near Morgantield, Ky. , and at Uniontown, at which latter place the whole command was captured, late in 1863, and was paroled and sent home, subject returning to Green Castle, Ind., remaining until 1867. In September of that year he came to Effingham and has been in active practice here since. In 1873, he formed a partnership with Mr. White Jind the firm has for nine years been Gilmore & White. He was elected, in 1869, County Superintendent of Schools, and served four years. He was nominated for County Judge by the Democratic convention in April, 1882. Mr. Gilmore was married, in April, 1860, at Green Castle, to Miss Julia A. Matkin; they have four children - Clarence, Mary, Willie and Thomas. Mrs. Gilmore died June 12, 1881. WILLIAM L. GOODELL, M. D., Effingham, is the eldest sou of Dr. William S. and Catharine (Rerrick) Goodell, and was born in Richland County, Ohio, September 28, 1844; he was taught by his parents at home with the exception of two terms in the public schools, and afterward entered college. When about nine years old, he came with his parents to Illinois and they located at Kansas, Edgar Co., 111., where his father was a merchant and a physician. Our subject entered Marshall College in 1S5S, his pai'ents having removed to Marshall, Clark Co., 111., in that year, to educate their children. Omsubject remained in college until October, 1800. In September, 1861, he began the study of medicine with his father, and studied and practiced with him until the latter's death. He entered the Medical Department of Michigan University, at Ann Arbor, in October, 1861, and attended two full courses there, and, in 1865, he entered Rush Medical College, Chicago, from which he graduated in 1866 and located and practiced over a year in Coles County, 111. In 1868, he came to Effingham and has practiced here ever since. He was associated with his father almost to the time of his father's death. He has been a member of the Illinois State Medical Society since 1875, and is a member of the Esculapian Society of the Wabash Valley. He was a delegate to the International Medical Congress, held in Philadelphia, Penn., in 1876. He was also a delegate to the' American Medical Association, held in Atlanta, Ga., in 1877. He joined the Centennial Medical Society of Southern Illinois in 1880. His father, William Sherman Goodell, M. D., was born at Weathersfield, Windsor Co., Vt., A. D. 1815. He studied medicine with Dr. Stone, of Lyndon, Vt. , at- tended medical leetures at Cleveland, two full courses at the University of Michigan, and one course at Rush Medical College, Chicago. Practiced his profession more than forty years, and was master of it in all its various departments. The Doctor stood very high in his profession, having a large practice and was very successful. He was a member of Esculapian Medical Society of the Wabash Valley. The Doctor's scientific attainments, literary lore and classical refinement, coupled with his wondrous conversational power, rendered him a favorite among original thinkers and investigators. The Doctor was a perfect grammarian, and in the olden time has had teachers come thirty miles to have him analyze and parse complex sentences and decide disputes amongst grammarians. Could solve any mathematical problem and wrote an arithmetic, but it was never published. He was known to his friends and his enemies as an unshaken, honest Democrat of the " Jackson " type, and, although eminent as a politician, he could never be induced to accept an office. During the hot campaign of 1860, he discussed the political issues of the day with Mr. Lincoln. Was the personal friend of Hon. J. C. Robinson, Judge John Scholfield, Hon. C. L. Vallandigham, Judge Stephen A. Douglas and was a correspondent of Gov. H. A. Wise. The Doctor married Catharine Herrick (daughter of Judge Herrick), of De Kalb County, Ind., in A. D. 1840; they had three children, viz., William L. Goodell, M. D., Catharine J. Goodell and F. Wise Goodell, M. D. In April, 1867, the Doctor saw the certain development of Elfingham City and County, BO moved with his family (who are yet residents of the city). He built two large and substantial brick dwellings in the northem part of the city. He was a Master Mason. After a long and useful life the Doctor passed quietly to that undiscovered country from " whose bourn no traveler returns," November 20, 1877, of pneumonia, caused by exposure while engaged in his profession.

FRANK WISE GOODELL, M. D., EflSngham, was born in Marshall, Clark Co., 111., March 1, 1858; at the age of sixteen, he began the study of medicine with his father, and studied in his office and practiced with him, and afterward, with his older brother. Dr. William L. Goodell, in Effingham, as student, and afterward as partner. He was a student in the Louisville Medical College and the Indiana Medical College, at Indianapolis, and was considered the most popular student in his respective classes, being personally acquainted with every student and professor. He was the youngest student in the Louisville school and Vice President of thw Sydenham Medical Society. He was nominated for the office of Coroner at the Democratic Primary Convention, held April 4, 1882, by over 1,200 majority.

H. GORRELL, carpenter, Effingham, was born in Knox County, Ohio, January 7, 1829, son of Joseph and Mary (Van Cleaf) Gorrell, he, a farmer, born in Maryland, and died in 1873, near Columbus, Ohio; she, born in New Jersey and died in Knox County, Ohio, in 1852. They were the parents of eleven children, three of whom are living. Our subject received his education in his native State, and was engaged in farming until he became twenty-one years of age. He was married, November 1, 1849, in Knox County, Ohio, to Miss Sarah Kirkpatrick, born in Harrison County, same State, February 22, 1829, daughter of John M. and Nancy (Guthrie) Kirkpatrick. Mr. and Mrs. Gorrell have had six children, two of whom are living - Elcaneh and Clementine. Those deceased are Ransom, Arvilla, Clara and Alva. Our subject has worked at his trade of carpentering since coming to this county. He has been in the employ of the Vandalia Railroad Company for nine years, where he has Superintended a forc6 of workmen. Our subject's son, Elcaneh, lives in Newton, Jasper County, this State, and is editor of the Jasper County Times, a Republican paper. He is also Lieutenant of the " Newton Guards," State Militia, Company B. He married Ella Brown, the daughter of Attorney D. B. Brown, of Newton. Our subject's daughter, Clementine, is the wife of Mr. W. H. Beaver, a salesman in J. V. Farwell & Co.'s wholesale dry goods house, Chicago; they have one boy - Frank Earl, born January 15, 1882. Our subject and wife are members of the Methodist Church. He is an I. O. O. F., Dallas Lodge, No. 85. In politics, he is a Democrat.

A. A. GRAVENHORST, editor of the Effingham Volkshlatt, son of Theodore and Sophia (Oehker) Gravenhorst, was born in the village of Neuhaus, in the Kingdom of Hanover, now Prussia, March 8, 1839. He was educated at the Gymnasium, at Lunenburg, Hanover, and nearly completed a course in modern languages, preparatory to entering the university. He left school at seventeen and spent two years at agricultural pursuits. In 1858, being nineteen years of age, he came to the United States and located near Chicago, 111. , and for two years worked on a farm in Cook County. In 1860, he came to Teutopolis, this county, with little in the way of surplus capital. He entered the employ of Mi". \\ aschefort, remaining about six months. He enlisted, in 1864, in the Forty-second Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served until the close of the war. He was at Franklin, Tenn., Nashville and other minor engagements. He returned in July, 1865, and, in 1867, went into business here for himself and has continued prosperously ever since. In June, 1878, he started the first German paper ever published in the county, and enlarged and improved it to a six-column quarto, in October, 1882, and called it the Effingham Volksblatt. He married Miss Bai-bara Blattner, January 4, 1871; they have four children living.

J. N. GROVES, physician and surgeon, Effingham City, was born in Perry County, Ohio, February 21, 1841. He came to Illinois at the age of fom-teen, and his parents first settled in Crawford County. At the age of fifteen years, he entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, where he spent about three years. He returned to Illinois and began the study of medicine, in 1858, with Dr. S. M. Meeker, of Hardinsville, 111., and, in the fall of 1860, he entered the Chicago Medical College, in which he spent a winter and summer term. In July, 1861, he settled in Watson, this county, where he began to practice, which he continued until 1862. when ho enlisted in the Ninetj^-eighth Illinois Mounted Infantry, as private in Company F, Capt. Le Crone, and was made Hospital Steward at once, and, in 1863, he was made First Assistant Surgeon of the Ninetyeighth Regiment. Dr. Groves was detailed to accompany, as Surgeon, the Fourth Michigan Cavalry, in quest of Jefif Davis, and was present at his capture. He remained until the close of the war, in July, 1865, when he returned to Effingham and foi-med a partnership with Dr. John Le Crone, of this city, and practiced here until October, 1865, when he entered the Rush Medical College at Chicago, from which he graduated January 24, 1866, and returned to Effingham for a year, when he moved to Freemanton, just before the Vandalia road was built, and when the station was located at Altamont, he located and remained there until 1880, when he moved to Effingham. In September, 1880 he established the Effingham Surgical Institute and Eye and Ear Infirmary, in connection with Dr. L. J. Schifi'erstein, an oculist and aurist. Dr. Groves and his associate are in charge of the Mercy Hospital at Effingham. He is Surgeon-in-chief of the Springfield, Effingham & Southeastern Railway, and local surgeon of the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad. He has built up a very large practice and eatablishod an enviable reputation as a surgeon.

J. N. GWIN, lawyer, Effingham, whose portrait appears in this work, first breathed the vital air in Crawfprd County, 111., near where Robinson, the county capital, was shortly afterward located. His parents, John W. and Lucindes Gwin, obeyed the admonition " to get married and go West." They moved from Virginia to said county in 1830. when that region was almost a wilderness, the wolves and deer being almost the sole occupants of the praii-ie. Here the subject of this biography was reared, being the fourth child of his parents, but the oldest now living. He was brought up on a farm and accustomed to a life of toil. Having received a liberal education by going to the country schools, some three miles distant, for three or four months of each winter, diuring the time he worked on the farm. At the solicitation of some friends, his father sent him to an academy at Marshall, 111., in 1857, then in successful operation under the control of the M. E. Church, where he remained one year. The year spent at the academy created such a desire for knowledge in the young man that his father sent him to McKendree College, in 1858, where he entered the classical course and remained two j^ears. from which institution, in 1860, he went to the Indiana Asbury University, at Green Castle, Ind., for the purpose of studying German and French, where he remained one year, returning to McKendree College; he remained one year, graduating in the classical course, in the ever memorable class of June 19, 1802, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. His father died a few days after the completion of his collegiate course, and he was left to commence life on his own resources; he taught school successfully for one year, then read law for a year with Judge Kitchell, at Olney, 111.; served one year in the army, in the Fifth Indiana Cavalry; was on detached duty as Clerk of the General Court Martial, at Pulaski, Tenn. , during the summer of 18B5- Was mustered out of the service with his regiment after the expiration of the war, and immediately entered the Cincinnati Law School, in October, 1805. at which institution he graduated in 1866, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In June, 1805, the degree of Master of Arts was conferred on him by McKendree College. Was admitted to the bar at Mt. Vernon, in June, 1866. and commenced the practice of the law at Effingham August 1 of the same year, where he has ever since resided and practiced his chosen profession. Was the candidate for Presi dential elector on the Liberal Republican ticket for the Fifteenth Congressional District in 1872. Elected Mayor of the city of Effingham in 1877, overcoming a Democratic majority of over one hundred, being the only one on the ticket that had any opposition that was elected, which position he held for two years, acquitting himself with the almost universal declaration that he made the best Mayor Effingham ever had. He is a gentleman of excellent exemplary habits for one of his profession; he neither chews, smokes nor uses intoxicating drinks of any kind except for medicinal purposes. Dxu'ing his collegiate course of five years, so staid and rigid were his conscientious convictions of right that he never received a demerit mark, un- excused absence from recitation or private reproof, being the only one in his class that had a perfect record. Knowing the advantages of a religious and educational training, he has ever since manifested a great interest in the Sabbath and week day schools, and, as Secretary of the Board of Education, he has been untiring in 'his efforts to secure none but lirst-class teachers in the public schools of the city of Effingham. Sixteen years ago, he arrived at Effingham without a dollar that he could call his own, and among entire strangers, liut by leading a life of sobriety, economy and industry, he has accumulated some property, and now, with his aged mother, occupies the most beautiful home in the city of Effingham. In politics, he was a Republican from boyhood, making an active canvass for Abraham Lincoln in 1860, with which party he continued to act until 1876, when he joined the National party, and was sent as a delegate from Illinois to the National Convention at Indianapolis, that nominated Peter Cooper for President; in 1880, was a delegate to the National Convention at Chicago that nominated Gen. Weaver as a candidate for President. He is one of the oldest members, in point of membership, of Dallas Lodge, No. 85, I. O. O. F. He has also taken all the degrees in White Hall Lodge, No. 134, and Encampment at Effingham. Is a mem ber of Gates Post, No. 88, of the Grand Army of the Republic, and was one of its charter members.

HENRY G. H.\BING, agent Adams Express Company, insurance and real estate, Effingham, was born near the town of Essen, Oldenburg, Germany, January 13, 1837. His parents died in Germany, and, in 184:4, subject, then seven years old, came to the United States with his grandfather, Casper Waschefort, who settled in Teutopolis, this county, and subject lived in the village imtil

1854, when he went to Evansville, Ind. , where he was clerk in a general store for three years, and, in 1857, returned to Teutopolis and clerked for his uncle, John F. Waschefort. three years, and, in 1860, came to Effingham, and the same year Mr. Waschefort opened a store here, which Mr. Habing ran for three years, and in 1863 opened a general store of his own, which he ran until 1866, when he sold it and engaged with Thomas D. Craddook in the banking business, the firm of Craddock & Habing conducting a private bank until 1873, when the partnership was dissolved and subject continued by himself until 1876. In 1876, Mr. Habing engaged in the insurance business, which he has continued with good success. In addition, he became the first agent of the Wabash Railroad, in 1879, and is still its agent. Also became agent of the Adams and Pacific Express Companies in 1881. He was agent of the American Express Company at Effingham from 1860 to 1866. He was elected on the Independent ticket, in 1867, and served two years as County Treasurer, and again elected in 1873, on the Democratic ticket as County Treasurer for one term. He was Mayor of Effingham in 1875, and the same year Chairman of the Board of Supervisors; served several terms in other offices of trust, as Alderman, Trustee and School Treasurer. RUFUS C. HARRAH, State's Attorney, Effingham City, was born in Putnam County. Ind., October 10, 1840. He came with his father to Jasper County, 111., in 1858, and lived on a farm. He was educated at Westfield College, Illinois, which he left in 1870 and taught school two years, in Putnam County, Ind. March 10, 1872, he came to Effingham and studied law with J. N. Gwin, and was admitted to the bar June 18, 1874, and has been practicing here since. He was Police Magistrate of Effingham from 1873 to

1881. He was elected State's A.ttorney for this eouuty in 18S0, for four years, by the Democratic party. His parents still live in Jasper County, 111., where his father has followed the life-long occupation of farming. His father, Daniel F. Harrah, was born in Montgomery County, Ky., and came to Indiana about 1835. He was the son of Daniel Harrah, a boldier of the war of 1812. Our subject was married, in 1873, to Mrs. Ellen Warren, of Jasper County, 111. They have two children living. GEORGE HARVEY, farmer, P. O. Effingham, was born in Schuylkill County, Penn., January 18, 1832, son of Isaac and Sarah (Wunder) Harvey, he, born in Berks County, Penn., in 1800, was a blacksmith and died in Schuylkill County, same State, in 1874; she was also a native of Berks County, Penn., born in 1802, and died in Schuylkill County, same State, in July, 1853. They were the parents of fifteen children, ten of whom are living. Our subject received his education in his native county, and was engaged in farming till 1866, when he went to work in the coal mines of his State, in which occupation he was engaged imtil 1879, at which time he came to Illinois and purchased a farm of 500 acres in this county, paying $18 per acre. His place is adjoining to the city limits of Effingham, and includes 120 acres of timber land. He carries on general farming. Our subject was married, in his native county, August 12, 1853, to Miss Mary N. JJentler, born in the same county, daughter of Jacob Dentler, born in Lewisburg, Union Co., Penn. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey have nine children living - Theodore H., Isaac A., Charles, Anna Maria, Esther, George, Samuel, Richard and Bessie. Mrs. Harvey is a member of the Church of the United Brethren. He is an I. O. O. F., Pine Grove Lodge, No. 1-18, and is also a member of the Encampment. In politics, he is a Republican.

ALPHEUS J. HASBROUCK, Effingham, watchman, was born in Kingston, Ulster Co., N. Y., March 1, 1826, son of Jacob and Arietta (Schoonmaker) Hasbrouck, he, born in Kingston, N. Y,, April 2, 1800, was a student under Dr. Mott, and afterward a physician, died in Seneca County, N. Y. ; she was of Holland . descent, born in 1802, and died in New York State in August, 1882. The history of the Hasbrouck family is interesting as well as somewhat peculiar. Our subject's ancestors (as far back as the history can be traced) were two Frenchmen, who, in Coligny's time, during the early persecution of Protestants in France, fled to Holland, where they took refuge among the Huguenots, and afterward emigrated to America, sailing from England for Boston, in April, 1675, thence to New York and from there to Esopu8 (now Kingston, N. Y. ), arriving in the latter place in July of the same year. One of the brothers, Joseph, remained In Esopus, while the other, Jacob, settled in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and both intermarried with the French and Hollanders. Oiu- subject's greatgrandfather and Mrs. Hasbrouck's great greatgrandfather were first cousins, so the two families, though at intervals, would be quite distant from each other, time w'culd bring them together again. Our subject's grandfather was a Captain in the Revolutionary war and a Colonel in the war of 1812. In the great civil war, there were eighteen representatives of the family in the army, ranking from a private to a General. Our subject is the descendant of the oldest child in each generation, with one exception. The first child in each generation happened to be a boy. In early life our subject was a farmer. He was married, in Seneca County, N. Y., October 8, 1851, to Miss Mary Ann Hasbrouck, born in Kingston, N. Y. , May 5, 1829, daughter of Louis and Mai'garet (Van

Vleck) Hasbroiick, he, born in New Paltz, now Poughkeepsie, N. Y.. in 1797; she, born in the same phice and year as her husband. Our subject has six children living and two deceased. Those living are Louise, Mary, Josephine, Frank Calvin, Louis and Viola. Mary is a teacher on the west side school of Effingham. Mr. Hasbrouck came to Effingham in 1S70, and has since resided here. He had previously filled a number of offices in Mattoon, Coles County, this State, being at one time Mayor of that city and President of four societies, and also Superintendent of Sabbath school. He takes great interest in educational matters. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and is also an I. O. O. F. He has been in the employ of the Yandalia Railroad Company for most of the past eleven years. In religion, he is a Presbyterian, and in j)olitics a Republican.

CHARLES G. HARTMANN, wool dealer and merchant, Effingham, was born in the city of Neustadt, near Stolpen, Saxon}', Germany, March 10, 1824;. His father was a weaver in Neustadt, and subject learned the trade with him when a boy and traveled sis years as a journeyman in Germany. He came to the United States in 1850, and lirst settled in South Bend, Ind., where he lived two years, when he removed to Shelby County, 111., and established himself in the weaving business in Shelby vi He, and, in May, 1804, he came to Effingham, where he engaged in buying wool, weaving and dealing in woolen goods. He carries a full line of woolen fabrics of all kinds and deals in wool generally, handling the bulk of the wool produced in the county. He is a member of the School Board and is serving his second yt^ar. His father, John G. Hartmann, married Julia Kretschmar, by which marriage there were ten chikh-en, of whom oui' subject is the seventh child; six of the family are yet living. Our subject was married, in 1847, to Paulina Grahmaun. They have five children - Matilda, married John Simow, of Effingham; Bertha, married to Henry Rawe, of Christian County, 111. ; Emma, at home; Charles A. and Henry, both in Chicago.

ANTON J. HENNING, butcher, Effingham, was born on the Atlantic Ocean, October 8, 1854, son of Charlie and Theresa (Vogt) Honning, natives of Germany; he, a miller, came to the United States in 1854, was a farmer in this country, and died near St. Louis; she died in Effingham June ^9, 1880. They were the parents of seven children, five sons and two daughters. Our subject's schooling consisted of four winters' attendance at school in Moni'oe County, this State, and six months' study at Teutopolis, this county. He was engaged in farming till seventeen years of age, afterward working some in the employ of the Vandalia Railroad Company. He opened a butcher shop in 1870, which was destroyed by fire on March 5, 1879, after which ho rebuilt on the same place. He was married, in Effingham, July 2, 1878, to Miss Anna Ungrum, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 2, 1855, daughter of George and Marguerita (Tiepen) Ungrum, natives of Germany; he died in this county, and she is still living here. Mr. and Mrs. Henning have two children - Rosa and Lizzie. Our subject has lived in Effingbam for the past twelve years. He is a member of the Catholic Church and in politics a Democrat.

LOUIS HILL, retired, P. O. Effingham, was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, March 4, 1817; came to the United States in 1829. His parents first stopped in New York City about two years, when they moved to Pittsburgh, Penn, and our subject learned the trade of tinner in Deuisonstown, Westmore- land Co. ,Penn., where he served three years' apprenticeship. He then started a tinshop for himself in Allegheny County, Penn., which he ran about three years, and afterward ran a shop in Cambridge, Guernsey Co., Ohio, about four years, when he sold out and came to Illinois, in 1851, and bought prairie farm in Jackson Township, this county, entering 240 acres of it, and remained on the farm till the spring of 1881; he had acquired ahalf-section of land, which he placed in a good state of cultivation and kept up good buildings. Mr. Hill came to Ei3fingham in the spring of 1881, to enjoy the rest which his toils have richly earned him. He was married, the first time, in March, 1840, to Miss Amanda Whiteman; five children were born of this marriage, all of whom are dead, except one daughter - Geomima, wife of Lorenzo Ward, of Cumberland County, 111.; she was born May 18, 1855. Our subject's first wife died in January, 1874. His second marriage occurred June 15, 1874. when he wedded Miss Catharine Wade, of Perry County, Ohio. Three of Mi-. Hill's children died young - one daughter, Sarah Jane, died in 1877; she was born in 1841. and man-ied John Corral, and left six children, five of whom are still living.

JOHN HOENY, Sk.. editor and publisher Effingham Times, was born iu the town of Euehnda, District Melsungen, Hesse-Cassel, Aug. 27, 1824. He received his education in the parochial school of his native place, and in the village of Waldau. His father was a damask weaver, and after leaving school subject worked at that for a few years. He also received lessons from a private teacher, and prosecuted his studies until the age of eighteen. February 2, 1842, he landed at New Orleans, La., and from there came to Leitchfield. Ky. He engaged in farming and in the meantime pursued the study of English with the closest application. He took private lessons of Volentine Yates, and in three years taught English himself. He was man-ied, April 2, 1840, to Miss Aldegundis Bozarth. of Grayson County, Ky. After being engaged in agricultural pui-suits for three years, he began teaching English schools, both public and private, and that was his almost exclusive work until the spring of 1861. In the winter of 1851, he came to Illinois, locating at Old Ewington, and first taught a school in Sprinkle neighborhood, near Watson, then went to Teutojwlis, where he taught in a Catholic parish school for three years, when he came to Effingham and clerked in the first general store in Effingham, and afterward kept a boarding-house here and was also the first Postmaster. In the fall of 1855 or 1856, he moved to Waterloo, 111., where he remained one year, then went to St. Clair County, where he taught for six yeai-s; then returned, in 1861, and bought the Effingham Gazette, of Mr. Rose, and ran this and its successor, the Democrat, continuously until October, 1881, with the txception of the year 1869. February, 1882, he started the Effingham Times, which now enjoys a large circulation. Since coming to this country Mr. Hoeny has acted with the Democracy in political affairs. He served on the old Village Board of Trustees of Effingham, and served as Mayor of Effingham for two years, 1879 and 1881. Mr. Hoeny is the father of twelve children, six sons and six daughters; six are living, as follows: Mary Elizabeth (Mrs. H. C. Nolte;; Anna T. , wife of J. B. Costigan; John, Jr.; Archibald A., Eugene F. G. and Rose F. Of those deceased, all died young, except the oldest son - Martin W., who served in the Sixty-second Illinois Volunteer Infantry, in the regimental band, during the war, and died April 8, 1872, of consumption, which he

NATHA.NIEL B. HODSDON. Superintendent of Schools, Effingham, was born in Bethel, Oxford Co., Me., August 26, 1833; he received his education in the common schools of Maine, and iu Gould's Academy, at Bethel, Me., and began teaching at the age of twentytwo in his native State, and in 1856 entered the Bridgewater State Normal School, Massachusetts, and spent two years there, graduating in February, 1858. In August, 1858, he came to Carmi, "White Co., 111., where he had charge of the schools four years. In August, 1862, he resigned his position to enlist in the Eighty-seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served thi-ee years in Company F. He entered as Second Lieutenant and during the last years had command of Company F as First Lieutenant. He was in the siege and captiire of Vicksburg and the Red River expedition and other engagements on the Mississippi River; was mustered out at Springfield, 111., in July, 1805. His health was so impaired that Mr. Hodsdon did not resume teaching until 1874, when he became Principal of ihe schools at Carmi, 111., and remained as Superintendent there four years, and next became Principal of the public schools at Metropolis, 111., for two years, and, September, 1881, he svas made Professor of Enorlish literatui'e in the Christian Collegiate Institute at Metropolis, IU. where he taught one year, when he resigned to accept the Superintendency of the Effingham schools in Juno, 1882, and is now filling that position. He was married, in 186], to Miss Mary F. Chaplin, of Maine, who died in 1874, when he married, December 30, 1875, Miss Flora Pollard, of Evansville, Ind., daughter of the late Dr. William Pollard, of Cynthiana, Ind. The father of our subject was James Hodsdon, who served as private iu the war of 1812 and who was a farmer. He i-esided at Bethel, Me., until his death. The mother of our subject was Esther Bartlett, who had eight cliildren, of which subject is the youngest and the only surviver.

JOHN F. HOMANN, lock and gun smith, Effingham, was born in Hanover, Germany, Oct. 7, 1805, son of Johan F. and Henriette (Neavohner) Homann, he, a wagon and pump maker, born in 1768, in Germany, where he died in 1836; she was born and died in Germany also. They were the parents of three children - one son and two daughters. Our subject received his schooling in his native country, where he also learned his trade, in which he was engaged in various places in Germany and Switzerland. He was married, in N«ukirchen, Hanover, Germany, December 31, 1836, to Anna Maria Vallera, born in Bremen, Germany, December 28, 180U, daughter of Henry and Marguerita (Delves) Vallers, natives of Bremen, Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Homann have three children - Friederich Adolph, Wilhelm Henry and Dena. The two sons are married and have farms in Moccasin Township, this county. The daughter is liv- - ing at home. Our subject came to the United States in 1845, and lived six years in St. Louis, Mo., twelve years in Washington County, this State, and in 1865 came to Effingham, where he hais since worked at his trade of lock and gun smith. He is an excellent mechanic and a fine old gentleman, respected by all who know him. He is a member of the Lutheran Church and in politics a Repiiblican.

IT. M. HUTCHINS, farmer, P. O. Effingham, was born in Shelby County, 111., June 9, 1855, son of M. and Susan (Carter) Hutch - ins, natives of Tennessee; he, born May 1, 1816, is a farmer in Douglas Tovmshij); she, born August 13, 1816, and died in Douglas

Township June 20, 1881. They had twelve children, four of whom are living. Our subject received his education in his native county, and made a start in life as a farmer. He came to this county in 1872, at which time his father purchased 213 acres of land, at $10 per acre, which is now owned by our subject, who engages in general farming. He was married, in Douglas Township, August 19, 1881, to Tomana Rose Clark, born March 11, 1861, in this State. Mr. and Mrs. Hutcbins have one child - -Michael, born September 5, 1882. In religion, our subject is a Baptist, and in politics, a Democrat.

CAPT. WILLIAM H. HYDEN, merchant. Effingham, whs born in Vigo County, Ind., near the State line. March 10, 1831. At the age of fourteen, he was bound out to learn the tanner's trade, in Vigo County, and served three years, and at nineteen he went to Indianapolis, Ind., and for two years was in the employ of the Madison Railroad Company, as brakeman on a passenger train. He worked in a saw-mill in Marion County for three years, and farmed one year, when he began the manufactui'e of brick near Indianapolis, in which he continued till the war broke out. He enlisted in Company F, of the First Indiana Cavalry, in June, 1861, for three years, or dui'iug the war. Company F was transferred in the spring of 1SG2 to the Third Indiana Cavalry. He was in the Army of the Potomac for two and onehalf years, under command of Gen. Pleasonton. He served two years and seven months as Second Sergeant of Company F, Third Indiana Cavalry, and, including skirmishes, took part in thirty-nine engagements, the most important of which were Poolaville. Frederick City,Middletown, South Mountain, Antietam, mouth of the Monocacy, Charleston and Barnsville Ford. He fought twelve days in Amosville, Fredericksbm-g, in January, 1803,

Beverly's Ford, Chancellorsville, Dumfries, Warrenton, Spottsylvania, Aldie, Middlebury, Snicker's Gap and Upperville. He was wounded three times, first at Beverly's Ford, by a saber. His horse was shot in the fall of 1864, below Pulaski. Tenn., and our subject was crippled by the fall of the animal. He received a gunshot wound at A.ldie, through the right foot, in 1863, just before the battle of Gettysbu.rg. He came home on a leave of absence and was commissioned Second Lieutenant of the Ninth Indiana Cavalry, by Gov. Morton, and January 1, 1861, he was commissiohed Captain of Company H, Ninth Cavalry, One Hundi-ed and Twenty-first Regiment, having raised and drilled the majority of the men in the Ninth Cavalry. He went out and served till the close of the war as Captain of Company H, being assigned to the Army of the Cumberland. After the war, Capt. Hyden resvimed the manufacture of brick, at Indianajjolis, until the winter of 1807, when he removed to Effingham County and farmed here until 1871. In that year, he engaged in the merchandising, and kept a general stock for seven years at Elliottstown, 111. August, 1881, he came to Effingham, and was employed until March, 1882, as a salesman by Col. Funkhouser. March 8, 1882, he opened a general store on the north side of the public square, which he has since conducted with good success. He was first married, June 16, 1854, to Miss Margaret A. Leeper, of Acton, Marion Co., Ind. They had three children. His wife died in August, 1872. He remarried. Miss Sarah Creech, of this county, January 12, 1874. They have three children by this marriage.

JOHN GEORGE HYNE]\L\N, baker and confectioner, Effingham, was born in Baden- Baden, Germany, August 11, 1850. He left school at the age of seventeen. having completed a college course at the city of Constanz. He learned tlie confectionery trade with an uncle in the city of Reichstadt. serving three years, when at the age of twenty, he enlisted in the German Army as volunteer in the Sanitary Corps, remaining until February 1, 1871, when he was exciised from service for disability, and he came to the United States, leaving May 16. 1871, landing at New York City, where he was pastry cook and confectioner for a year and six months; then he went to Cincinnati. Ohio, where ho followed the same ocoui)ation for three years. In November, 1876, he came to EfSngham, and was afterward, for a few months, at St. Louis, Mo. July 1, 1877, he opened his present establishment on Jefferson street, conducting a restaurant, confectionery and bakery with good success, the different branches of the business employing from live to six persons. He was married, in 1877, to Miss Louisa Heer, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Three children were born of this marriage, and two of our subject's last marriage. His father, Joseph George Hyneman was born in Baden, Germany, and graduated from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He joined the Revolution of 1848, and espoused the cause of the people, and was captm-ed and cast into prison in Reichstadt, but was afterward pardoped by the Duke and restored to the oiiice of Attorney and rose to the rank of a Judge.

WILLIAM H. JACKSON, grocer, Effingham, was born in Marion County, Ky. , April 5, 1844. He was raised in Lebanon, where he served an apprenticeship at blacksmi thing. He enlisted at eighteen in Morgan's Cavalry and served ijntil 1863, when he was captured at Buffington, Ohio, and was held as prisoner of war at Camp Morton and Camp Douglas, from which he escaped in November, 1863. He located in Wisconsin at the close of the war and came to Effingham in 1869. He was hotel clerk in the old Moore House for some years, and engaged in the retail grocery business hero about 1872, and has been in that business ever since, except three years, which he spent in different parts of Texas to recuperate his health. His location is on Jefferson street, where he does a prosperous business in groceries and queensware. He served as City Clerk of Effingham for three terms. In politics, he is a Democrat. He was married, October 8, 1873, to Miss Amanda Myers, daughter of W. T. Myers, of this county.

ANTHONY BERNARD JANSEN, farmer, P. O. Effingham, was born in Oldenburg, Germany, February 20, 1822. He was twelve years old when he came to America. He lived two years in Schuylkill C<junty, Penn. ; at the age of fom'teen, was apprenticed to learn the carpenter's trade, in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he served five years, and afterward working as a journeyman for a short time, he came here in 1840 on a visit to his parents, then went back to complete his term of service with a contractor named Baldwin. Subject came in 1841 to stay, ana went to work on a farm for John B. Brummer, on Green Creek, and in April, 1842, he married Elizabeth, the only daughter of his employer, and farmed with his father-in-law for about ten years. In about 1850, he bought 160 acres in two tracts of well-improved land here; about three years later moved here, and has lived on it ever since. At the time he came here, there was considerable Congress land, which afterward became railroad lands. Of this land Mr. Jansen bought several tracts. He has 227 acres here, besides the 160 acres formerly belonging to the estate of Brummer. He has been very successful in raising both grain and stock. He has eight children living and three deceased - John Bernard, died when young; Anthony Bernard, died when four- teen years and seven months old; Henry Joseph, farmer in Cumberland County, 111. ; Mary Margaret, died after marriage to Ferdinand Kaufmann; John William, living in Clinton County, 111. ; John Hem-y, farmer in this county; Elizabeth, wife of Bernard Husmann, of Shelby County, 111.; Margaret Malama, wife of Clemens Kaufmann; Anna Helena; Catharine Philomina; Francis Anthony, who is at home. The father of Mrs. Jansen was born in the Kingdom of Hanover, July "28, 1796. He learned the trade of weaving and worked at it. He maiTied Margaret Suer, and had but one child. He came to America in 1839, and settled here on Christmas of that year. Our subject's father was Francis Anthony Jansen, born in Oldenburg, Germany, where he learned the carpenter's trade, but followed farming and also herring fishing in the North Sea for many years and was ship carpenter on sailing vessels bound for distant ports, and sometimes worked at his trade in shipyards in Holland. In 1834, he came to the United States on the same vessel with Clemens Uptmore, and brought his wife and family of three children, one having come to this country two years previous. He worked in the coal mines of Pennsylvania, and at his trade in Cincinnati, Ohio, until 1839, when he came to Illinios and settled near Teutopolis, adjoining the place where H. H. Huels now lives. He lived there for some years with his son-inlaw, where his wife died in 1841. He afterward made his home with his son-in-law, H. H. Wempe, who moved to St. Clair County, 111., where the father died in 1862, in his eighty- eighth year. He was the father of fom- children, who grew to maturity - Bernard Henry, who is a lawyer in Cincinnati, Ohio; Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Buckmann, dead; Catharine Alexandrina, wife of Henry Wempe, dead; subject and one who was the

BERNARD JANSON, wagon manufacturer, Effingham, was born in Schleswig- Holstein, Germany, February 14, 1843, and was educated in his native country. He learned the trade of wagon and carriage making in his native town, at] wbich he worked for six years. March 8, 1863, he reached the United States, landing at New York; he went direct to Chicago, 111., where he worked in the large wagon factory of Peter Schuttler, one year, when he entered the employ of the Government as blacksmith and horseshoer, at Nashville and Chattanooga, until September, 1865, when he came to Effingham, and in October, 1865, located here permanently. He bought the present lot. then covered with hazel-brush, and built a small shop on the old National road, and for about two years conducted a generalblacksmthing business in a small shop, and, in 1867, built his present wagon shop, which he has enlarged by several additional buildings until the present shop and factory are 100x34, a two-story frame, with three floors, with large sheds, 100x16 for storing and seasoning lumber. Since 1867, he has tui-ned his entire attention to the manufacture of wagons, and employs six hands in the various departments of the business, with an average, during the last five years, of 100 wagons per year. These vehicles find a market principally in Effingham and adjoining counties. He has also manufactured spring wagons and buggies. His vehicles are constructed of the best material and workmanship, and compares favorably with the best. His machinery is propelled by a twelve-horse engine. He was maiTied, in 1875, to Catharine Bremer. of Sigel, 111., and has two daughters living and one dead.

JAMES H. JOHNSTON, dealer in books and stationery, Effingham, was born in Effingham County, 111., in the town of Freemanton December 8, 1843, only son of William and Melcenia E. (Saslay) Johnston. The father was born in Scotland and came to the United States when thirty years old and located at Gallipolis, Ohio, about 1835, and farmed in Gallia County, Ohio, for about live years, and came to Freemanton about 1841 or 1842, where he opened a store, beginning on about $50. He was one of the first Postmasters of Freemanton and kept a hotel known as the " Travelers' Rest," for many years. He was a strong temperance man, and never drank or kept bar. and was one of the three men of his township who voted for Gen. Fremont in 1856. He was a Missionary Baptist, but his house was the home of ministers of all denominations. About 1858, he sold out his store and property, and removed to Cumberland County, 111., where he resided until his death, in 1SG3. He married in Ohio, and had seven childi-en, all living - Margaret A, wife of William C. Wright, of Effingham; James H., subject; Ellen B., wife of George Phipps, of Cumberland County; Melcenia M. , wife of J. A. McCandlish, Sheriff of Cumberland County, 111.; Lucy V., wife of Mr. N. B. Hollsapple, of Cumberland County, 111. ; Sophroua, wife of William Wharf, insurance agent at Oluey, 111. ; Rose, wife of James Reed, Jamesville, 111. The mother remarried L. D. Gloyd.of Summit Township, still living. Subject was educated in the schools of this and Cumberland Counties. Subject enlisted in December, 1861, and was discharged in October, 1862, on account of disability. He belonged to Company K, Sixty-third Volunteer Infantry, and was taken ill soon after enlistment. He was married, in 1871, to Miss Fannie Hawley, daughter of Rev. N. Hawley, of the M. E. Church. Wife died in 1873 at Olney, III. At the close of the war, he went into business at Charleston, 111., where he remained for eighteen months. In 1873, he went into the insurance and real estate business at Olney, 111., for a few months. In 1877, he became Deputy Postmaster under W. C. Wright for foiu- years. In June, 1881, he engaged in the book and fancy goods trade in Effingham, and has since conducted a prosperous business on Jefferson street.

JUDGE JOSEPH B. JONES, County Judce, Effinsrham, was born in Coshocton County, Ohio, April 22, 1835; he was raised on a farm and came to Illinois in 1856, on foot and alone, locating in Crawford County, where he taught school in the winter of 1856-57, and in the spring of 1857, came to Effingham County, where he farmed during the summer and taught a winter school in Crawford County, 111., and returned, in 1858, to Ohio, for eight months, and, in February, 1850, returned to this county and located at Freemanton, where he engaged in farming and trading in stock until 1860, when he was appointed Deputy Sheriff of this county and acted nearly four years, and during that time helj)ed to move the county's books to the new county seat, dm'iug the holidays of 1860 -61. He next engaged his services to C. H. McCormick & Bro. , of Chicago, and sold reapers and mowers here for about live years. In April, 1869, he was elected Justice of the Peace, or Police Magistrate of the city of Effingham and served four years. November 4, 1873, he was elected County Judge of Effingham, and re-elected in November, 1877, for a term of four years, and, under an amendment of the constitution, his term of office was extended to December, 1882, and at that time he will have served nine years.