Effingham County, Illinois - Biographical sketches, 1883 (part 1 of 13)

Biographical sketches

Sehloswig, October 19, 1846. He was educated in the public schools of his Dative country. He came to the United States in 1864, and located in Tuscola, Douglas Co., HI., where he entered a drug store to learn the business, with Davis & Niles, and served three and one-half years as clerk. In the summer of 1868, he came to Effingham, and clerked in a drug store until June, 1869, when he bought a stock of drugs and medicines of Thomas D. Graddock, and has continued in the drug business ever since with good success. He was married, in 1871, to Miss O. M. Loomis, step-daughter of A. S. Moore.

REV. HERMANN JUNGMANN, rector, Effingham, was born in Westphalia, Germany, in the town of Ochtrup, October 1, 1846. He was educated in the Gymnasium at Miinster, which he left in his twenty-second year and entered the School of Philosophy at Roulers, remaining one year; then entered the American College at Louvain, Belgium, where he studied theology for three years. In the same year he left school, September, 1872, and came to America. He had received the order of Prisethood in December, 1871, at Malines, Belgium. He was first appointed rector of St. Andrew's Church, at Murfreesboro, 111., in October, 1872, where he continued until March, 1877, when he was appointed rector of St. Anthony's Chm-eh, at Effingham, 111. , of which church he has since been pastor.

A. B. KAGAY, deceased, died February 15, 1877, aged seventy-four years and five months. He was of German parentage, born in the State of Virginia September 17, 1802, and did not learn to speak English until he was ten years old. His parents emigrated during his infancy to Fairfield County, Ohio, where he was raised on a farm. His education was limited, yet was sufficient for all practical purposes. He was married, on the 17th day of August, 1826. In 1832, he emigrated to Findlay, Hancock Co., Ohio, where he engaged in the tanning business. He subsequently engaged in the mercantile business, but with indifferent success, and also carried on a harness and saddlery shop. In 1841, he emigrated to Ewington, 111., and engaged in the saddlery and harness business. In the fall of 1842, he was elected County Clerk, which office he filled for four years, being succeeded by Daniel Rinehart. In November, 1853, he was elected County Treasurer and Assessor, which offices he held until succeeded by G. "W. Barcus, in 1860. As Assessor, he was required to traverse the entire county and visit every resident to take his assessment of taxable property ; hence, no man at that time was so well acquainted with all the jDeople in ihe county as he. In 1S61, he was elected Justice of the Peace or Police Magistrate of the city of Effingham, and, in 18(55, he was elected Township Justice of the Peace which office he held until 1873. He also held the offices of School Director and Township Treasurer for a number of years. In 1830, he joined the Old School Predestinarian Baptist Church, and has ever since been an active member of that chui'ch. There was nothing he prized so much as attending his chm-ch meetings. In his opinion, when once formed, he was fixed and positive, and his attachment to his friends were ever constant and confiding. Being scrupulous and honest himself, he believed others to be the same, and was therefore often deceived and imposed upon. Kind to all, he was an affectionate husband and indulgent father, doing all in his power to rear his children to make goo 1 and useful members of society, by giving them as good an education as the educational fjicilities of the country then afforded. His fij-st wife died at Ewington in the fall of

1857, and he was married again, in September, 1859, to Ursolla Miller, a widow, who survives him. By his first wife he had five children - two sons and three daughters, of whom one son and two daughters survive.

BENJAMIN F. KAGAY, lawyer, Effingham, WHS born in Pleasant Township, Fairfield County, Ohio, February 27, 1831. His father. A. B. Kagay, died a few years ago at the age of seventy-four. His mother, Sarah (Hall) Kagay, was of Scotch-Irish parentage, and died while iu her tifty-foui-th year. Our subject was the recipient of a common-school education, perfected by his own after efforts. From his sixteenth to his twenty-second year, he was occupied in teaching, and in the meantime pi-osocuting the study of law, entering subsequently upon the active practice of his profession. He soon built up a large and remunerative business in this county, which has since engrossed his whole time and attention. He was President of the Board of Trustees of Effingham, and for three terms was the Supervisor of Douglas Township, this county. For two terms he was Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of Effingham County, and was also Chairman of the Building Committee of the Effingham County Court House. He was the first Mayor of the city of Effingham, serving two terms - 1867-68. He was a member of the Legislature of 1871 and 1872 filling the vacancy in the office occasioned by the death of David Leith. He was a member of the -firm of Cooper & Kaguy, and commenced practicing law in 1855. He was married, February 6, 1853, in Fayette County, 111., to Martha J. Starnes, and has had five children, three of whom are living - the oldest child, a daughter, is the wife of A. B. Judkins, of Springfield, 111., an accomplished mi;sician; Benjamin F. and Mattie. Our subject is now Police Magistrate of the city of Effihgham.

JOSEPH KAUFMANN was born in the vicinity of Green Creek May 29, 1850. He was educated at St. Joseph's College, Teuto^iolis, where he spent twelve months, and began teaching in Cumberland County, 111., in 1876, and taught seven months in jniblic schools at Lillyville, and, in 1878, he took charge of the Green Creek School which numbers from thirty-sis to forty pupils; both English and German languages are taught. Oiu- subject's mother is the daughter of Hermann H. Niman, who was born in Oldenburg, Germany, where he married Mary Selhorst, and had three sons and one daughter. Subject's wife, Anna Elizabeth, was eighteen years old when she came to this county, in 1838. Her father settled where his son, Clemens Niman, now lives; they bought out a little improvement, came and settled there some time in the spring of 1839. She only remembers a Mr. Stewart and Cohee in all this township at that time. She went to Hutchins' water mill, on the Wabash, seven miles, and carried a bushel of meal on her shoulder home. She mai-ried Mr. John F. Osterhaus, in about 1842, and settled, after marriage, where her son Henry Osterhaus now lives. Two children were born of this marriage, only one son survives, above mentioned. After about four years of married life, Mr. Osterhaus died, and subsequently she married Ferdinand Kaufmaan. He was born in Prussia, and came to this county between 1840 and 1850, and bought a fai-m, where Clemens Kaufmann now lives, where he died about 1860, leaving eight children, five of whom are yet; living, as follows: Ferdinand, in Shelby County, farmer; Sophia, wife of Henry Jansen, of this township; Catharine, married; Clemens, farmer, of this township, and Joseph.

ALFRED H. KELLY, County Sheriff, Effingham City, was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, May 17, 1837. He came to Illinois when four years old, his parents settling in what is now Summit Township in 1841. His father entered eighty acres in Blue Point, in the edge of the timber, which only had few settlements. He went tweny miles in those days to a raising, and broke prairie after night to avoid the flies. Om- subject received his education in a log schoolhouse. His first teacher was Sarah Spaulding. The schoolhouse was situated on the Johnny Brown farm. The father of our subject went to the Mexican war, and subject went to Cumberland County and lived four years with an uncle. His father died when he (subject) was twenty years of age, and our subject started in life for himself. He worked by the month and day for about three years, when he ran a threshing machine for about one or two years. He was married, in 1859, to Miss Elizabeth Burrell, a native of Fairfield County, Ohio, and afterward bought eighty acres of land, which he still owns, in Banner Township, where he is still farming, raising grain and stock He has always been connected with the Democratic pai'ty, and served as Supervisor of his township for five terms. He was elected Sherilf of Effingham County in November, 1880, and was renominated by the Democratic primary in April, 1882v for a term of four years to same office. He has two children living and two dead. His father, Hugh Dennis Kelly, was born in Ohio about 1S04. He was a stone mason by trade, but farmed in later years. He served with Judge Gillenwaters in the Mexican war. His health was permanently impaired by his service. He kept a hotel at Ewington for two years, and was book-keeper for a time for the Illinois Central Railroad. He died on the farm about 1858. Our subject has

HENRY B. KEPLEY, attorney at law, Effingham, was born on Limestone Creek, in Effingham County, 111., June 20, 1836. He was raised on a farm, and, until the age of eighteen years, was principally engaged in fai'ming pursuits. From childhood he was dependent vipoii his own efforts for support and education. He had great desire to attend school, but his circumstances were such that he could not do so, except occasionally, twenty or thirty days at a time, and consequently his early education was quite limited, though at an early age he became able to read. He had great fondness for reading, and, by the time he was ten years old, had read probably every book in the neighborhood, the number of which, however, was by no means great; but among which were the Bible, the Columbian Orator, the English Reader, Peter Parley's Tales, Horry's Life of Marion, Weem's Life of Washington, the latter of which had been bought for him, and which he had read and re-read, until he could repeat from memory page after page of it. One Friday afternoon at the close of school, the teacher, J. W. P. Davis, announced that he would give a reward to the pupil who, on the next Monday, at the opening of school, could recite the greatest number of sentences from some history or similar book. On Monday morning, when it came Henry's turn to recite, he handed to the teacher his "Weem's, " and continued to recite page after page, till finally the teacher interrupted him by saying: " You have undoubtedly recited enough to entitle you to the reward, and we will defer yoiu- reciting the rest of the book till some other day." When about thirteen years of age, he for the fii-st time attended Sunday school, at New Hope Church. Here, in con- testing for the prize oflfored for committing to memory and reciting the greatest number of chapters of the New Testament during the term, he committed to memory all of the Book of Matthew, except the first three chapters, all of the Book of Mark, and nearly all of the Book of Luke, gaining the prize - a small Testament, which, though of small value in UaOney, was by him highly prized as the token of his success. His success in such matters was attributable more to industry or persevering effort than to any special faculty From fifteen to eighteen years, of age, he was constantly employed as a hired hand, mostly at farm labors, but part of the time ontho Illinois Central Railroad, which was then being constructed through Eflingham County. The proceeds of these three years of labor, above necessary expenses, were invested in a hundred acres of land, which, in the fall of 1854, he sold for §500. He now decided to direct his attention to obtaining education, and to use the money he had got for his land in defraying his expenses while attending school. During the winter of 1 854-55, he attended the district school taught by Dr. Wborton at New Hope Church. During the spring and summer of 1855, he attended a private school at Mason, kept by A. W. Avery. In the winter following, he attended a school kept by Uriah McCoy, near "Watson. In March 4, 1856. at Georgetown, 111., he began teaching his first school, which lasted six months. In September, 1850, he went to Franklin College, at Franklin, Ind., which he attended one year. - His money being now exhausted, he could no longer attend college, much to his regret, as he had a great desire to continue his collegiate course till he graduated. But, as he was not able to do this because of the lack of means, he continued his studies privately while teaching school, which vocation he resumed after leaving college. In

February, 1859, he began the study of law, with the view of becoming a lawyer. Here again he encountered the difficulties arising from lack of money, as he had no means with which to defray the expenses of a regular course of law studies. In March, 1860, he passed a successful examination, and was admitted to the bar, and in May following he began the practice of law, in the meantime continuing to teach school and read law the same as before his admission to the bar, until November, 1862, at which time he came to Effingham and opened a law office, where he has since been in the active practice of his chosen profession. Whatever success Mr. Kepley has achieved has been the result of his great industry and untiring perseverance, and it gives to all young men an example well worthy of their strictest emulation. Having no influential friends to assist him in his advancement, he has at all times had to rely on his own efforts. As a lawyer, he stands deservedly high among his fellow-members, and is known as a faithful, earnest and hard-working advocate. Since arriving at the age of manhood, he has at all times taken an active part in public affairs in his county. As a citizen, he is public-spirited, broad in his views and progressive, and is an active worker in the temperance reform. On November 7, 1807, he was married to Ada H. Miser, of Effingham, and she is associated with him in his practice. '

ADA H. KEPLEY, attorney, Effingham (with H. B. Kepley), is the daughter of Henry Miser, and was born in Somerset, Perry Co., Ohio, February 11, 1847. In her thirteenth year, her parents removed to St. Louis, where she attended the Clay Grammar School, then taught by Dr. William T. Harris, and afterward attended the St. Louis High School for two years. In September, 1800, she came with her parents to Effing.

ham, 111., and was married, November 7, 1867 to Mr. Henry B. Kepley, a eketch of whom will be found elsewhere. In 18G8, she began the study of law with her husband, and, in September, 1869, she entered the Law Department of the University of Chicago, and graduated from it in 1870, and applied for a certificate to Mr. Charles Reed, who said he was willing personally to give certificates to the ladies to practice, but the law prevented them from entering the learned profession. Mr. and Mrs. Kepley prepared a bill in 1871 to allow women tiie right of admittance, which was presented by Capt. Ed Harlau, of Marshall, who was representing this Senatorial District in 1871-72. The bill was ably defended by such men in the Lower House as Judge J. B. Bi-adwell, of Chicago, and Mr. Reddick, of Ottawa, and others, and it passed and became a law during that session. Mi's. Kepley applied for admission to the bar at Springfield, and was admitted January 27, 1881. She was also commissioned Notary Public Avigust 20, 1881, and is now in regular practice of the profession. She is serving her third year as member of the Efi&n gham School Board, being the first lady elected to that body.

ANTHONY KREKE, contractor and builder, ElBngham, was born in Effingham, this county, February 16, 18-19, son of Arnold and Gertrude (Dreismann) Kreke, natives of Oldenbiu'g, Germany; he, a farmer, died in Effingham, this county, in 1852. where the mother died also. They had five children. Our subject received his schooling in Effingham, and began life as a farmer, and in 1861 learned the carj^enter's trade, which he has since followed, mostly in this county, and in which occupation he is a skilled workman. He was married, in Effingham, November 26, 1875, to Mary Goldstein, born March 31, 1855, in Missouri, daughter of Heury Goldstein, a native of Germany, and a soldier. Mr. and Mrs. Kreke have three children - Lizzie, born April 4, 1875; Joseph, July 26, 1878; and Anna, July 29, 1882: In religion, our subject is a Catholic, and is a Democrat in jioliticB.

JOHN H. I. LACY, American Express Agent, Effingham, is the son of Isaiah and Mary A. (Wright) Lacy, and was born in Clay County, 111. , September 16, 1833. His father died when he (subject) was ten months old, at which age he came to this county with his mother and grandfather, Jonathan Wright, who settled at Ewington, where subject lived with his mother until of age. There were no public schools when he was a boy, and his first teacher was Joe Wheeler, who taught about the fu-st school in Ewington. Our subject became a clerk for Dr. Hamilton L. Smith in his store at the age of nineteen, and was afterward a clerk in the store of Presley Funkhouser. At the age of twenty-one, he began the study of dentistry with Dr. Floyd, of Greenville, and traveled with him to different places for two years, remaining a few weeks in a place. Mr. Lacy begau the practice of dentistry at Ewiugton about 1856, where he remained until he removed to Effingham, in about 1858, and traveled in the surrounding country until the war broke out. He enlisted in the spring of 1861, at the first call for three-months men, and was First Lieutenant of the Effingham Guards, which was Company G of the Eleventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and ho served until the term expired, when he re-enlisted, in 1862, in the Ninety-eighth Illinois Infantry, and was Adjtttant of the regiment, and joined the Army of the Cumberland, remaining with the regiment until after the battle of Stone River, when he resigned and came home in 1863 on account of sickness in his family. In the spring of 1865, he re- joined the service as Major of the One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Illinois, and was mustered out at the close of the war at Springfield, 111. After the war, Mr. Lacy practiced dentistry for about two years. In 1867, he became agent of the American Express Company, and has conducted their agency ever since.

JOHN W. LACOCK, Depaty Postmaster, Effingham, was born in Gallatin County, Ky. , near the village of Patriot, Ind., in 1843. This town is situated just across the river. He is the eighth child of the family. His father's name was Joseph, and his mother's maiden name was Maria "Wetherbee, of Indiana. His father was of French origin, and is supposed to have been born in Pennsylvania or Ohio, at a date not known to subject. He was a school-teacher, which he followed from early life to the time of his death. His children were Mary, wife of Peter Lankins; she resides near the old homestead at Patriot, Ind.; Phcebe W., wife of James K. Reed, of Mason, 111.; James W.. a resident of Kentucky; Susan, wife of William Keneday, a resident of the old homestead in Patriot, Ind. ; Anna, wife of S. E. Herrick, of same place; Jane, wife of William G. DeHart, of same place. His mother was of Englisli descent, and was born in America. Both parents died while subject was young, soon after whi^h he went to Oldham County. Ky., where he engaged as errand boy in a store kept by Dr. E. W. Beckwith. While thus employed, he received such advantages of an education as the situation afforded. He remained there until 1859, when he returned to Patriot, Ind. , and entered a drug store as clerk for the same Dr. Beckwith, who had removed to that place in the meanwhile. He remained here until the breaking-out of the war, when, after two unsuccessful attempts, he finally succeeded in joining the Ninety-third Indiana Infantry, in which he served three years, during which time he participated in all the battles in which his regiment was engaged - lirst at Jackson approach to Vicksburg. At this tight, the regiment had been marching through a drenching rain, in consequence of which they were unable to discharge their guns, on which account they charged and took one of the enemy's batteries. He was appointed Deputy Postmaster in 1882. After his army service, he returned to Patriot, Ind. , where, in 1 866, he was married to Miss Mary Wright, of Quercus Grove, Ind. They have had five children, two of whom are deceased. Those living are EfHe and Pearl, and one not named. He is an Elder in the Presbyterian Church. In politics, a Republican. A member of Grand Army and Red Men, and was the first to establish the latter order in Illinois, being at that time Sachem of the Seminole Tribe. He also represented the State at the Grand Council held in Philadelphia in 1870. During his army service, he was a constant contributor to his home papers.

HENRY J. LAMPING, deceased, was born in Germany February 20, 1846, sun of Joseph and Friedericka (Vorwerk) Lamping, natives also of Germany, ho born September 27, 18 IS, she November 22, 1817. They are farmers in the old country, and are parents of four children - thi-ee sons and one daughter. Oiu- subject received his schooling in his native country, where he also learned the shoe-maker's trade, which he followed up to the time of his marriage, which occurred in Teutopolis, this coimty, June 27, 1871, when he married Catharina Uptmore, born February 11, 1850, in Teutopolis. daughter of Clemens and Elizabeth (Niehaus) Uptmore, natives of Germany. Our subject came to this county in 1866, and resided in Teutopolis until 187U, when he came to Effingham

City and opened a general store, with a stock consisting of groceries, queensware and dry goods, which business his widow now manages. Mi\ Lamping was a member of the Town Board of TeutopoUs. He was a member of the Catholic Church, and a Democrat in politics. He died September 11, 1882.

WILLIAM A. LAYTON, dealer in agricultural implements, Effingham, was born in Knos County, 111., February 29, 1848, and moved to Bishop Township, this county, in 1852, where he lived about one year. His father, "William Layton, became, a foreman on the Illinois Central Kailroad, and mo-Jed to Mason with his family and worked on the railroad construction during four years, superintending the grading, etc. Subject lived at Mason but a year, when he moved to what is known as the old patch on north side of Wabash, between Mason and Watson, for three years, and kept boarders When the road was completed, his father moved back to a farm in Bishop Township, and bought the 160 acres where Wm. Endebrook now lives. Our subject received his education at Bishop Point, in a log schoolhouse with paper window lights, with lire-jilace across the end of the house. At the ago of sixteen, he began buying stock for Zion Frost and S. D. Dole, and bought in this and Jasper Counties for six years. He was married, in 1869, to Miss Annie Downs, of Paris, Edgar County, and settled in Nelson Township, Moultrie Co., 111., where he remained until 1872, engaged in farming, and, in the latter part of 1872 and 1873, he carried mail from Sullivan to Decatur, before the railroad was built. His wife died in the fall of 1872. He took a trip West in 1875, -as far as Fort Benton, D. T., in search of health and adventm-e, spending the summer there. He farmed in 1876, and in 1877 he began selling goods for Mr. Tedrick, at Teutopolis, for eighteen months, when he moved stock to Effingham, and continued until 1880. In 1881, ho formed a partnership with Mr. J. E. Tedrick, under the iirm name of Tedrick & Layton, and they have conducted a prosperous business in agricultui-al implements, with warerooms on Washington street. Our subject was married a second time, in 1879, to Miss Mary E. Funk, daughter of J. R. Funk, of this county. They have one daughter living. The father is stiil living, at Wheeler, Jas]3er Co., III., engaged as section foreman on the narrow-gauge railroad.

DR. JOHN LE CRONE. Few of thepioneers of Effingham County have a history of more general merit than Dr. John Le Crone; coming here in an early day, and during his long residence no one has identified himself more with the county's general progress and advancement than has Dr. Le Crone. To the genial and healthful influences of such characters does the county owe its present advanced condition. Dr. Le Crone was born in Fayette County, Penn., December 12, 1816, where he spent his boyhood with his parents on a farm, enjoying only the common school advantages of that day. He had a natural inclination for study, however, and what little opportunities he had were employed to good advantage. In 1832, he. with his parents, removed to Fairfield County, Ohio, where he resided with his parents for twelve ye.irs. The bent of his mind was for a more thorough and finished education than was afforded by the common schools, and, at the age of seventeen, he entered Marietta College, enduring a great many privations to enjoy the collegiate instructions. He remained in college for two years, recuperating his de plenished purse by teaching school at all available intervals. At the end of two years, financial embarrassments compelled him to entirely relinquish college life, and, as a means of replenishing his finances, he again resorted to the schooh-oom. The close of an other year fouud him with a sufficient surphis and a maturity of years to begin to cast about for a permanent trade or profession, the rush of years and press of business considerations having compelled him to give up the cherished ambition of his life - that of a thorough classical education. The practice of medicine was his adopted profession, and, at the age of twenty, he entered the office of Drs. Hyde & Evans, at Kushville, Ohio, where he prosecuted his study at intervals until 184'2, relying on pedagoging in the winter to support him in his professional studies. In 1842, he was admitted to practice, and began his professional career at Geneva, Ohio, remaining there two years. During the fall of 1844, he came to Effingham County, locating with his father in a small cabin on the James Turner farm, near Watson. In the spring of 1845, he removed to and took up his residence at Ewington, then the most important point in this section of the State, and began a practice inhiii profession which made Di'. Le Crone's name a tower cf strength and a fountain of hope to the afflicted of this and adjoining counties. At the time of his location at Ewington, there were but two other physicians in the county - Dr. J. M. Long, now of California, and Dr. 0. F. Falley, now of Wisconsin; and as both these gentlemen have long since removed from the county, they leave to Dr. Jlie Crone the proud distinction of being the oldest resident physiciaa of the county. In those days, good physicians were few, and a man of Dr. Le Crone's reputation had a practice that covered a great many miles in circumference. It embraced Shelby, Fayette, Clay and Jasper Counties, and frequently included trips over swollen streams and impassable roads of a week's duration. It required a strong and vigorous constitution to prosecute a practice of that kind without falling a victim to its hardships, and the present excellent preservation of the Doctor's health evidences the fact that he had the constitution to combat the privations. When, in 1859, the county seat was moved to Effingham, the Doctor followed in the course of the empire, and, in the spring of 1801, came -tb Effingham to reside, where he has been since, except three months in the summer of 1864, when he served as Assistant Surgeon of the One Hundu«d and Thirty-iifth Illinois Regin*tot. During his twenty-two years' residence in Effingham, he has steadfastly stood at the head of his profession, and nothing but advancing years is now compelling him to relinquish the professional standing he has so honorably occupied for so many years. Dr. Le Crone stands high in general public esteem, but it is with his professional associates that his highest esteem lies, especially with the young practitioners, who have need of the advice of riper experience. Possessing a nature that was a stranger to jealousy, he naturally labored for the elevation of his profession. To the young reader and the beginner his counsel was always free and open, and many young physicians in this county can testify to the assistance he has given them. In their professional infancy, they have often needed wise counsel, and they always found Dr. Le Crone's strong arm stretched forth to sustain them. He is a member of the State Medical Society, and for many years of the Esculapian Society, the oldest organization in the State. In 1836, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Allen, of Virginia, by whom he had eleven children, nine of whom are now living. As might be supposed, Dr. Le Crone's long and honorable career has placed him high in public estimation. For three different terms he was called to the Mayor's chair of the prosperous little city of Effingham, when public emergencies demanded the services of clean hands and a conscientious mind, and the large majorities by which he was always elected are sufficient attestations of his ujwight and pure public chai-acter. Dr. Le Crone shows his superiority of character by the fact that he still occupies a first place in the society, the culture and the civilization of to-day. Most pioneers of his prominence only held that prominence for a short period - while brute force can keep them in the van. They are always submerged and swept out of sight by the riper civilization that always follows in the pathway made by their sturdy blows - by their brawn and muscle. Not so with Dr. Le Crone. He j^ossessed a constitution to be prominent in all pioneer hardships and privations, and he also possessed the culture and learning necessary to assimilate himself with the civilization that followed, and occupy a prominent position in all the successive steps of development. He was prominent when prominence consisted of a good shot and a brave spirit; and he is prominent now, when, to be prominent, it is necessary to cast aside these attributes of the pioneer, and take on the habiliments of the polished and learned gentleman. To the steady, constant and healthful inlluence of such characters does society owe its condition ; and to no one does Effingham County owe more for its present greatness than it owes to Dr. John Tie Crone. CAPT. A. W. LE CRONE, attorney, Effingham, is the son of Dr. John Le Crone. He was born October 5, 1839, in Fairfield County, Ohio, and came with his parents to this county in 1844, and spent his youth in Ewington, where he received his education, except one year spent in the normal school at Bloomington, 111., at its opening, in the fall of 1S57. He began the study of law in the winter of 1858, with William B. Cooper, at Ewington, and was admitted to practice in May, 1860, and began practice at Ewington as partner of W. B. Cooper and William J. Stevenson, until he enlisted, April 21, 1861, in Company G, Eleventh Illinois Infantry, for three months, and served as Orderly Sergeant. At the re-organization of the' company for three years, he was elected Captain of the company, but the Surgeon refused to pass him on account of a fractured bone. His partner, Stevenson, enlisting at this time, he went home to look after the interests of his firm in August, 1861. In July,

1862, he, with Judge Wyatt Cook, raised a company, which became Company F, of the Ninety-eighth Illinois Mounted Infantry. Our subject was elected Captain at the organization of the company, and led the company in several engagements with Anderson's squadron and Morgan's command. They were at Hoover's (lap, and a number of other engagements, until December 24,

1863, when he was sent back from Huntsville, Ala., to Nashville, Tenn., on account of continued sickness, and received his resignation papers February 7, 1864, while on duty at the Court Martial. He came to Bowling Green, Ky. , where he married Elizabeth C. Collett in February, 1864, and came home, where he remained until August, 1864, then retm-ned^to Bowling Green, Ky., and immediately accepted a position as Quartermaster's Agent at««Srashville, Tenu., remaining until August, 1865, when he returned to Effingham. In March, 1866, he returned again to Bowling Green, where he was Chief Clerk in the Revenue Assessor's office, Third District of Kentucky, for four years, when his health failed, necessitating a retirement from active business for over a year. In the fall of 1871, he opened a law office at Bowling Green, and practiced there until 1876, with good sue- cess, when health again gave vray. He has been practicing in Effingham since 1876. His wife died at Bowling Green, Ky., in August, 1873. She bore him three children, one of whom died in 1S7S, of yellow fever. Our subject mari-ied, in 1877, to Miss Lizzie B. Wood, of this county. In addition to his law practice, Capt, Le Orone is a member of the firm of Le Crone & Worman, real estate agents, abstracters and loan brokers.

GEORGE M. LE CRONE, insurance atrent. Effingham, is the son of Dr. John Le Crone, and was born in Ewington,this county, December 23, 1853. At the age of seven years, his father moved to Effingham, and our subject went to the public schools of the city until 1S70, spending his summer vacations at different kinds of labor in the city and on the farm. In the fall of 1870, he entered the State Normal University at Normal. 111., from which he graduated in June. 1873. He then taught a district school in this county for a year, and, in 1875, became the Principal of the Effingham East Side School, serving as such for a year. He then accepted the position of Deputy Circuit Clerk, and was for two years thus engaged. In January, 1878. he purchased a half-interest in the Effingham Democrat, and for three years was a joint editor with John Hoeny, Sr., of that paper, and continued with his successor, Mr. Scott, until October 1, 1881. He sold out and escaped the horrors of jom-- nalism for a brief but happy period, and for a time kept books for Osgood & Kingman. In December, iSSl, he, with C. F. Coleman, started the Altamont Neivs, and has since been one of its proprietors. October, 1882, he formed a copartnership with N. D. Clutter, and under the firm name of Clutter & LeCrone, has conducted real estate, insurance and loan agencies. Our subject was married, in 1879, to Miss Frances K. Nitcher, of Effingham.

WILLIAM C. LECRONE, traveling salesman, Effingham, was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, August 1. 1837. He was seven years old when his father. Dr. John Lecrone, moved with his family to this county. In 1854, he went to Vaudalia as a clerk in a store for one year, then returned to Effingham in 1S56 and took charge of a dry goods store here, for Thomas Ewing, of Princeton, Ind. This was the fu-st general dry goods store in Effingham. He closed the business in the winter of 1855-50. He returned for a year to Vandalia, 111., afterward coming back to Effingham, and sold goods for Ham - ilton L. Smith VTutil he moved his stock to Mattoon. He began reading medicine in March, 1857, but discontinued it in the fall of that same year. In the scaring of 1S58, he sold fruit trees in this and adjoining counties until October, 1858. In May, 1858, he married Miss E. E. Kagay. They have five children living - Emma K., Anna, Sarah E., John W. and Nellie J. In 1859, he entered the employ of Presley Fuukhouser, where he continued as clerk and collector until the war broke out. He enlisted in the first company that was formed in this county, iinder Capt. Filler. They were a part of the Eleventh Illiuois, and served until expiration of his term. On his rebiu-n, he entered the employ of Murray & Moffitt until 186?, when he entered the employ of the Government as Chief Clerk of a Brigade in the Quartermaster's Department from November, 1862, to August, 1865. He was in Chicago from the fall of 1865 to 1866. He was appointed, in May, 1866, Assistant Assessor of Internal Revenue, and acted in that capacity until Augast. 1868. He was employed by a construction company on the Vandalia Railroad until January, 1869. In February of that year, he entered the Circuit Clerk's office as Deputy, and in 1872 was electod to the ofiSce of Circuit Clerk, and served until December, 1880, being re-elected in 1870. Since January, 1881, be has been employed as traveling salesman in this State for Culver, Pago, Hoyne & Co., Chicago.

THOMAS D. LEITH, baggageman, Effingham, was born in Mason Township, Effingham County, October 11, 1855, son of David and Amanda HVilson) Leith. He became a clerk in the freight office of the Vandalia Eailroad at Effingham in 1876, remaining in that capacity for two years. In 1878, he was appointed baggageman of the Vandalia and the Illinois Central Railroads at this place, and has served in that capacity ever since. His father, David Leith, was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, and came with his family about 1840 and settled in Mason Township, where he engaged in farming and cattle-raising.

SAMUEL W. LITTLE, retired, Lincoln, Neb., was born in Butler County, Penn., September 6, 1818. He passed his youth in Pennsylvania. At the age of sixteen, he learned the trade of glass-blowing in Pittsburgh, Penn. He left Pittsburgh at the age of nineteen, and followed the Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri Rivers as second cook on steamboats for a year, when he became cook on a Government snag-boat to go up the Missouri River. He i-emainedon the river until 1839, when he left St. Louis for Pittsburgh, and there engaged to go to Keene, N. H., where he worked at his trade for about nine months; afterward worked in New Jersey at his trade, and, in June, 1840, went to Pittsburgh, when the tariff was removed from glass, and all manufactories were stopped, and he shipped to New Orleans, on a coal boat, and from there he went to Natchez and formed a partnership with his brother in the lumber and sand business, which they continued until 1841, when he returned to Pittsburgh, and, with D. B. Alexander, bought a flat-boat, and began the manufacture of tinware, on the boat, on the river, and sold to the river cities by wholesale and retail. This was the first boat of the kind ever on the river, and made two trips a year each way. He sold the boat in New Orleans in 1843, and went to Rome, Ga. , where he opened a store and kept it six months, when he had a boat built and went trading by river from Rome, Ga. , to Mobile, Ala., and again 'sold his boat and returned to Pittsburgh in 1844, where they fitted out another trading boat, Mr. Little buying out Alexander at Shawneetown, 111. At Cairo, 111., he employed a man to make and give exhibitions of lampwork and fancy glass blowing. They gave daily and nightly exhibitions, on the boat. where they stopped, and at Memphis hired a hall and gave exhibitions with great success, and sold out at Yazoo City in 1845, and returned to Cincinnati, Ohio, and, with a man named Laird, put up glass works. He went to Pittsburgh, Penn., and married, in October, 1845. His glass works proved a failwe, and, with hie family, spent the winter at Zanesville, Ohio, and the summer at Pittsburgh, Penn,, worliing at his trade. In the fall of 184(3, in company with others, he started a glass factory at Cincinnati, Ohio, with same result as at fii'st. He sold a pet bear to get rdoney enougli to get out of the city. He then worked at his trade in Wheeling, W, Va. , for three years, and, with his old partner, with $1,900, came to Green Castle, Ind. , where they engaged in the hardware, glassware, and stove and tinware business, and in four years made over $13,500. In 1853, when it was known that the Illinois Central and the Atlantic & Mississippi Railroads would cross in this vicinitj^ our subject and Mr. Alexander came here and bought 305 acres of land here, on which the town is built. Our subject moved here in 1856, and lived here until 1867, when he went to West Virginia, but returned in 1868, and again resided here till 1871. In October of that year, he moved to Lincoln, Neb., where he is still residing.

JOHN J. LOER, telegrapher and City Treasurer, was born in Alton, Madison Co., 111., December 16, 1851. He grew up in Alton, and was educated there. At the age of eighteen, he began to learn telegraphy in the office of the Western Union at Alton, and in 1867 he became operator at Delhi, 111., on the Chicago & Alton Railroad, for a short time, when he went to Alton for sis months. In November, 1868, he engaged his services to the Vandalia Railroad, and was two years night operator in its office at East St. Louis, Mo. He came to Effingham December 22, 1870, and has been day operator in the "Van" office here ever since. He was elected City Treasurer of Effingham on the Republican ticket in April, ISSl, and served two terms. He was married, September 14, 1876, to Miss Kate Wortman, of Effingham.

DAVID W. LOY, deceased, was the son of Thomas and Susan (Wright) Loy. and was born in Watson Township, this county. May 6, 1837. He remained at home until eighteen years of aj;e, when he became a clerk for Col. J. J. Funkhouser, in Effingham. He remained with him for some years. He ran a saw mill at Ewington for several years, and invested his means in lots in Effingham, and erected houses on them. During this period, he built some of the first business houses of the place. He was a contractor on the Vandalia Railroad, and graded a mile of it in this county. Dui'ing the last seven years of his life, he was gradually going down with consumption, and died in June, 1877. He was married, July 1 7, 1878, to Mrs. Emma J. Freece, and by her had two children - Estella and Jarvis V.

FERDINAND W. LOY, attorney at law, Effingham City, was born in Watson Township, this county, March 10, 1859, son of Thomas M. and Susan (Wright) Loy. Our subject was raised on a farm, where he lived until fifteen years of age, when he came to Effingham and attended the public schools. He began teaching in 1876, and continued foiu: winter terms of six months. In 1878, he began the study of law under Hon. E. N. Rinehart, and continued about one year, when ho entered the Law Department of the Northern Indiana Normal School, from which he graduated in June, 1881, and was admitted to the practice of law in Indiana in May, 1881, and, in February, 1882, to the Illinois bar He located in Effingham and formed a partnership with William B. Wright, under the firm of Loy & Wright, and they are located in Wright's Building.

JOHN LUNDRY, grocer, Effingham, born in Phillipsburg, Miami Co., Ohio, April 9, 1841. He learned the wagon-maker's trade with his father from boyhood. Came to Illinois with his father in 1860, and worked at trade until late war. He enlisted iu fall of 1861, aud served until fall of 1865. He enlisted in the Sixty-first Illinois Volunteer Infantry, Company H, for three years. He served under Grant and Sherman. He was in the battle of Shiloh and other engagements. He was Orderly Sergeant. He was in active service in Ai'my of Tennessee until three years expired, then came to Cincinnati, Ohio, and re-enlisted in the One Hundred and Ninety-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served under Gen. Hancock until close of war, when he joined his father at Mattoon, 111., and bought his shop in 1867, when father moved to Iowa. He ran wagon shop at Mattoon until 1870, when he sold out and went to Lockport, Ind., where he engaged in carpentering until 1872, when he moved to

Effingham, 111., and engaged in carpentering for six jeara as contractor, when he again became a partner with his father in wagon shop until September, 18S2, when he formed a partnership with John M. Johnson, and, under the firm name of Jjundry & Johnson, opened a grocery on Railroad street, and has since continued fair business in groceries and provisions. Married, in 1860, to Miss Nancy J. Haskell, of Mattoon, 111. Has five children living - Lulu, Leonard, Jessie, William, Eva.

NICHOLAS LUNDRY, wagon- manufacturer, Effingham, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, August 30, 1810, and lived in that State until 1860. At the age of sixteen, he learned the trade of wagon-maker in Dayton, Ohio, where he worked for seventeen years - served four years as apprentice, and then worked as journeyman for a year; then bought the shop and ran it until 1860. He came.to Cumberland County, 111., in the fall of 1860, and bought a saw-mill there, which he ran about three years, then moved to Mattoon, 111., where he rented a shop and ran it for some three years, and went to Iowa in 1860 and opened a wagon shop in Marshalltown, Iowa, which he ran until November, 1877, when he came to Effingham, 111. He bought the present shop on Railroad street of Mr. Lilly, and has usually employed three assistants - one blacksmith, and, with himself, three in wood shop - and turns out about sixty wagons per year; also a repair business. His work finds a ready market at home. The material is carefully selected, and the work has a good reputation. He was married, in Miami County, Ohio, May 1, 1833, to Eliza Fry, who was raised in Stark County, Ohio. They have two sons and two daughters living. He is a Republican in politics.

on a farm in Tennessee, and was educated first in Union Academy, Wilson County, same State. At the age of twenty, he came to Illinois and entered Marion Academy, where he remained two years, and then taught in the public schools of Saline County, 111., four years, and entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 185-1:. His first pastoral work was in the Du Quoin Circuit, being a member of the Southei-n Illinois Conference. He was afterward at Centi'alia, Cairo, Carbondale, Chester and Mt. Vernon. In the fall of 1861, he enlisted in the Forty-eighth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, as" Chaplain, and remained one year, when he resigned on account of lost health. On his return, he joined the St. Louis Conference, and was stationed in Jefferson City, Mo., and while there he served two years as Chaplain of the Missouri State Senate, and two years as Chaplain of Missouri Penitentiary. He re-entered the Southern Illinois Conference in 1874, and was pastor at Harrisburg, Hawthorne, Shawneetowu, Enfield, and is on his third year as pastor of the Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church at Effingham. He united with the church at the age of fourteen, and entered the ministry at twenty-six. He married, in 18r*2, Miss Sarah Lovina Jones, of Raleigh, 111., and five children are living of this marriajre. His wife died July 12, 1879. He married a second time, Mrs Lucy J. Hartgrove, of Shawneetown. 111. , and by her has one son. DR. J. G. McCOY was the second child of I Samuel and Mary T. (George) McCoy, and was born in the village of Smithfield, Jefferson Co., Ohio, on the 13th day of March, 1836. When fom-teen years of age, his parents changed their residence to New Philadelphia, Ohio, near which place the subject grew to his manhood. At the ase of seventeen, he commenced his own independent ca- reer, and taught school for three months each year, and the other nine months attended college at Mt. Union, Stark County. He studied medicine with an uncle in New Philadelphia dtiring 1855 and 1856. In the year 1857, with his parents, he removed to Wayne County, 111., and here ho resumed his profession of teaching, but added to it the practice of medicine. The breaking-out of the late war found him thus peacefully occupied, but, recognizing his country's call as above all else, he dropped the ferule and " throwed physic to the dogs,", and at once, in company with A. J. Judy, raised a company of soldiers, eighty-seven in number, forty-eight of them his immediate neighbors. This was Company K, Sixty-first Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He was elected First Lieutenant, but, after six months' service, was made Captain, and continued to command the company during the war. the regiment bearing a conspicuous part in the Shiloh, Gun Town, siege of Vicksburg and its capture, Little Keck campaign, as well as the Red River expedition, etc. Fully one-half of the original company had been either killed in battle or died of wounds and disease. At the close of the war. Dr. McCoy fixed his residence at Effingham, 111. In 1875, he purchased an interest in the woolen-mills at this place, which, by his energy and business capacity, he soon increased from a little concern of $5,- 000 a year to an establishment doing an annual business of $100,000, running a constant force of over thirty employes. The total destruction of this mill by fire in October. ISSl, was a sevei-e affliction to the city and her valuable industries. Dr. McCoy was man-ied, in 1859, to Xietitia M. Lock, of Grayville, 111. Twelve children have been born to them, ten of whom are now living - seven daughters and three sons. The Doctor has been a consistent Republican in politics, but always more of a temperance man than politician. He, with a few friends, organized and successfully carried through the temperance cause in Wayne County, and today he prides himself more in his temperance work and efforts than all else he has ever accomplished of a public nature. His whole life and purpose has been that of an enthusiastic prohibitionist. In good or in evil report, his piu'pose or energy has never flagged in the cause.

HENRY MERZ, deceased, was born in Menzikon, Switzerland, in 183(3. He came to the United States in 1856, and lived four years in Indiana, working on a farm, then went back to Switzerland and brought the rest of his father's family over in 1860. He came to this county in 1860, where he established a cigar factory and ran it until his death. He married Martha Schwarz, of Madison County, 111., in 1861, and left six childi'en living.

JOHN MERZ, tobacconist, was born in the town of Menzikon, Switzerland. March 4, 1846. At the age of fom-teen, he came with his parents to the United States, and settled in Madison County, 111., and subject lived with them on a farm about three years. He began at the age of ten, or earlier, to learn cigar-making, in a factory in the town of Menzikon, Switzerland, where he worked at this trade about four years. He came to 'Effingham County in 1867, and worked with his brother Henry until his death, in 1875, oiu- subject carrying on the business for the widow of his brother about four years. In May, 1870, he bought her interest, and has since continued in the manufacture of cigars. His factory employs three assistant journeymen, and, with his own labor, turns out from 100,000 to 125,000 cigars per year. His factory is No. 6 in the Thirteenth Collection District, is located on Jefferson street, and he turns out at present eeveu brands. His manufactured goods find a ready sale in this and neighboring towns. He also runs a t jbacco store in connection with the factory.

BENJAMIN B. MINOR, grain - dealer, Effingham City, was born in Seneca County, N. Y., October 20, 1840, and was raised on a farm. At the age of twenty he came West, first in 1860, and taught one term of school, and then retui'ned, and came again in 1862 and located at Champaign, 111., remaining in that county about five years. In September, 1867, he came to Effingham, in the employ of E. & I. Jennings, of Mattoon, 111., and took charge of the present warehouse on the Central Railroad tracks. He bought grain for them, and, at the end of twenty -two months, formed a partnership with his former employers, under the style of Jennings & Minor, which has lasted ever since. This comjjany buy and ship grain, and deal in coal. They have warehouses at six points in this county - Effingham, Montrose, Altamont, Moccasin, Shumway and Deitrich. They also have two warehouses in Shelby County, at Cowden and Strasburg. In the months of July and August of 1882, they handled 75,000 bushels of grain. They have nine men in their employ. The business is entirely under the personal supervision of Mi: Minor. Our subject taught school four years in New York State and three years in Illinois, commencing to teach at the age of sixteen. He was married, in 1866, to Alice J. Page, daughter of Ur. S. K. Page, of Champaign, 111. They have five children living.

GEORGE C. MITCHELL, grocer, Effingham, was born in Turner, Me., February 14, 1848. He received a common-school education, and entered a store at the age of twelve years. At the age of seventeen, he came West and located in Ottawa, 111., just after the war, where he became clerk in a retail grocery store or two years, and came from there to Champaign, 111., and made Champaign his headquarters until 1871, first entering the law office of J. S. Lothrop, where he studied Jaw for six months, but did not like the confinement, and became abrakeman on the Illinois Central, and in six months became conductor of a train running from Champaign to Centralia during 1869 and 1870. He was next baggage-master on the I., B. & W. for about seven months. From the spring of 1871 to the fall' of 1872, he ran a train on the Missouri Pacific from St. Louis to Jefferson City, when he entered the employ of the Vandalia Railroad, and was conductor and yardmaster until 1876, with headquarters at Effingham, 111. He ran a train on the Wabash Railroad for a year, and resided at Springfield, III. In 1877, he rented the Fleming House at Effingham, and ran it fifteen months. He was, while in the hotel business, elected Secretary of the Springfield, Effingham & South - Eastern Railroad, and, in connection with his other duties, took charge of a store at Palestine, 111., and ran that four months, when the road passed into the hands of a Receiver, when he went to Champaign and again entered the law office of his brother-in-law for three months, when he returned to Effingham and became a salesman for Col. I'unkhouser for a short time. June 11, 1880, he bought a general stock of goods of J. E. Tedi'ick, and has since conducted a good business in the dry goods and grocery trade at the old Grange stand. In March, 1881, he established a branch store near Neoga, which he ran seven mojiths, with large sales to rail men on the narrow gauge line. May, 1881, he started a store at Holliday, and another in June at Beck's Creek, near Cowden, and both of these are still in active operation. He employs from four to ten persons. He was married.

ALEXANDER S. MOFFITT, grocer, Efliagham, was born in Waj'ne County, 111., October 12, 1827. He received his education in the common schools. He lived on a farm in Wayne County until he came to this county, in 1856. He stopped at Ewington from December, 1850, to April, 1857, when he settled in Effingham, which had at that time about ten families, and there is only one man living in the city now that was here at that time. He enrolled about twenty-five pupils, only a few of whom are now left in the county - Byron Whitfield and Mrs. Dr. Thompson - the only two in town. Subject next taught six mouths at Ewington, and returned here in .1 860. He was elected County Siuweyor in about 1860 or 1861, and served until he entered the army. He enlisted in August, 1862, in, Company K, Ninety-eighth Illinois Regiment, Col. Funkhouser. This portion of the town was laid out that spring by Little & Alexander, and was bristling with the stakes of the surveyor and along Jefferson street there Was willow waist high. There were only two stores. Subject taught school for eighteen months, six months each year, in a little frame house of two rooms. He lived in one end and taught in the other. It stood at the northeast corner of the court house square. It was a public school, and he received S33 per month. Our subject went in as First Lieutenant, and was promoted to the Captaincy of Company K at the death of Capt. Kelley, who was killed in a railroad accident in Bridgeport, 111. The Ninety eighth was a part of the Army of the Cumberland. Capt. Moffitt remained with the regiment until July, 1863, when he resigned on account of continued ill health, and after his return was elected County Surveyor and served in that office altogether about ten years, and made surveys in every township in the county, and has tramped over three-fourths of the sections of the county. He bought city property in 1863. In March, 1881, he engaged in the grocery business on Jefferson street, and has since continued, having a good trade. He was married, in Wayne County, 111., in 1853, to Mary Gash, who died January 5, 1859, leaving no children. He remarried, December, 1861, Mary C. Funk, of this county. Two children are living of this marriage. Mr. Moffitt has always been a Democrat. In addition to holding the Surveyor's office for ten years, he was Deputy Sheriff two years under Huram Mansfield and Master in Chancery for six years of this county. He lias also served as Alderman five terms.

A. S. MOORE, livery, Effingham, was born in Chester County, Penn., Jan. 27, 1824. He came West about 1830, and settled in Trumbull County, Ohio, and lived in Ohio about fifteen or sixteen years, when he moved to Butler County, Ky., where he lived seven years, and run a saw-mill on the Green River at Lock No. 4 for about five years. He came to Illinois in 1852, and settled in this county, entering 160 acres of land in jjrairie, on the north side of Blue Mound, Mound Township, and put up the first house that was erected on the prairie, and farmed there until 1863, when he moved to Effingham and engaged in the livery business, in which he has been engaged for nineteen years, with fair success. He has built two stables, and conducts a good livery business, his present stable being located on Banker street. He was married to Mrs. Mary E. Loomis March 17, 1857, m Stark County, Ohio, by Rev. Leiter. As before stated, he moved to Blue Mound, this county, on the Big Prairie, where the roads ran through the tall prairie gi'ass and the wolves came to the door, and the wild deor grazed in the field, and a few log cabins dotted the prairie. Mrs. Moore taught school in Fayette County, at 116 per month, in a log cabin. Our subject broke prairie with three horses, in the spring, and run a threshing machine after harvest. In 1861, a son was born - Clella G., and, January 1, 1862, Mr. Moore moved to Effingham, where he had a house and stable built. He kept a hotel, which was called the Union House, and also a livery stable. Mr. Moore would drive out from fifteen to twenty men each week to look at the Illinois Central Railroad lands, the agent, M. Hoffman, making the Union House his stopping place, would telegraph ahead to Mr. Moore to have meals and wagon ready to feed and convey the amount of men that would arrive, which at one time was thirty-one. Mr. Hofi'man, Andrews or Vally would accompany them. Mr. Moore did a thriving business outside of his livery. He would be up in the early morning, hauling sand and loading cars for shipment, and he filled several contracts in Mattoon,Tuscola and other towns. Mrs. Moore kept boarders, and many can vouch the good meals served by her, as she was called a first-class cook and made her house a pleasant home for all who stopped with her. Our subject enlarged his stable as business increased, and has followed the livery business since. He also built a new stable called the City Livery Stable. His residence is on the corner of Railroad and Franklin avenue.

AV. H. MOORE, livery, Effingham, was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, in 18i3. His parents moved to Butler County, Ky., when he was in his second year, where he lived until he was ten years old. His father, Samuel Moore, died while on a journey here, near Owensburg, Ky., and the mother of our subject came on with two wagons and ten children. The eldest son, A. S. Moore, came first and entered land in what is now Mound Township, and the family settled on the prairie tear Blue Mound in March, 1853. The mother died six months after she came here, and the children lived together as a family until 1861, when our subject started for himself, going to Hancock County, 111., and worked by the month there until 1865. In the fall of that year, he went to Kansas, and the following summer was employed as teamster for several mouths in a wagon train, driving from Fort Riley to Fort Dodge. He came to Olney, 111., in the winter of 1866, and remained there until July, 1867, when he began the erection of a stable in Effingham, in partnership with his brother Samuel. It was opened for business on September 25, 1867, and the business has been conducted ever since, iinder the firm name of Samuel Moore & Bro. They made additions to their original stable until its present size is 150x50 feet, having thirty stalls, and they do a livery, feed and sale business, having a full line of livery outfit, including twelve horses.

JOHN MORHINNERS, miller, Effingham, was born in Clinton County, this State, March 14, 1846, son of Francis and Mary (Waschefort) Morhinners, natives of Oldenburg, Germany, he born in 1807 and she in 1812. They are both living in Teutopolis, this county, are farmers and the parents of four children - three sons and one daughter. The mother is a sister of J. F. Waschefort, who was one of the founders of the German Colony at Teutopolis, this county, mention of which has been made in the historical portion of this work. Our subject received his schooling in his native county, under the disadvantage of the schoolhouse being four or five miles distant. He began life as a clerk and for ten years was engaged in that capacity in the employ of Mr. J. F. Wasche- fort, in a general store at Teutopolis, this county. Our subject was married, September 21, 1S75,- to Miss Catharine Wegmau, born in this county in 1851, daughter of J. W. and Catharine (Lobmeyer) Wegman, natives of Germany. The father is living in Teutopolis, this county; the mother died in this county in 187(5. In 1877, our subject accepted a clerkship in the Excelsior Mills of Effingham, in whose employ he has since remained. He is an Alderman of Effingham, and as such is serving his second term. He has two children - ^Louis, born September 23, 1879, and William, born April 26, 1882. Our subject is a member of the Catholic Church, and in politics is a Democrat.

JOHN N. MURPHY, Constable, Effingham, was born in Scioto County, Ohio, October 24, 1828; he came West when six years old. His father emigrated to Vermillion County, 111., in 1834, and subject lived on the farm until some six years since. His father came to Effingham County, 111., and settled near the site of Elliottstown in what is now Bishop Township, about 1840. He bought his claim, consistint; of a cabin and about forty acres, fenced, and afterward entered 120 acres on the same site, now owned Viy William Underbrook and Tedrick. Our subject went to school in the old log house on the east part of his father's farm, for two winters, to his brother, William H. Miu-phy, and three winters to another teacher at the same place. Oiu" suliject bought a Mexican land warrant, which he laid on 160 acres in what is novF Watson Township, and improved it from a wild state and lived on it until about 1868, when he sold it and moved near Effingham. He has been actively associated with the interests of the Democratic party, and has served on the Board of Supervisors, while in Bishop Township, two terms. He served four years as Constable in the old Teutopolis Precinct, and nine years as Con stable of Douglas Township, which he is still serving in a Constabulary capacity. His father, David Mm-phy, was born in Old Virginia, and came to Scioto County, Ohio, when young and married Catharine Williams, a native of Virginia, and they were parents of ten children, six sons and four daughters; only three sons are living at this date (1882) - John N., George W., of Cass County, 111., and David P., also in Cass County, 111. The father died in Bishop Township, this county, in 1844, in his seventy-seventh year, and his wife at the age of seventy-eight, in the same place.

J. P. NELSON, Effingham, is the son of Jacob and Nancy (Watkins) Nelson, and was born in Warren Coiinty, Tenn., December 3, 1827. He came to White County, 111., with his parents, when one yea^ old, and they stopped at White County one year, and. in 1829, settled in what is now West or Mound Township, on Limestone Creek, in the fall of 1829. His father lived there a year, when he removed to the place where Calvin Mitchell now lives, in Jackson Township, and cut the first " stick " there. He improved the place, and snme years afterward entered the land and cleared those bottoms of heavy timber, making a large farm. He (father) died in this county in 1856. Our subject, when he grew up to be a boy of about ten, went to a school taught by James White on the old Houston place, on Big Creek. The school taught by Mr. White was the first taught in that neighborhood. Subject went to these schools quite regularly from the year 1840, as he was crippled by a fall at the age of ten. He continued to attend school until eighteen, and then taught two terms in his home school. lie left this county at the age of twenty, and settled in Fayette County, 111., and engaged in selling, having a countrystore in the northeastern part of the county for about three years. He returned to his father's farm and worked two years, then learned the cabinet trade and worked at it about five years, and afterward engaged in selling goods in Greenland, Fayette Co., 111., for twelve years, and, at the opening of the Springfield & Illinois Southeastern Railroad, he removed to Beeoher City and engaged in merchandising there two years. He met with reverses at Beecher City in 1874, including the lo.ss of his house by fire. He hao been engaged at various pursuits since, and has resided in the county, with the exception of one year. He was married, in 1850, to Miss Luvesta Miller. They have six children, all living - Nancy U., wife of Henry Musser; Franklin P. ; Mary E., wife of William Lane; Thena E., wife of Henry Tresh; Benjamift M. ; and Laura L., wife of William Garner.

LAWRENCE NEWTON, photographer, EflSngham, was born in Chenango County, N. Y., June 22, 1840. He lived in his native State until 1861, when he removed to Owatonna, Minn., and in 1S61, he began to learn photography in that place, and ran a gallery there until 1864, when he returned to bis old home in Bainbridge, N. Y., and conducted a gallery there, with the exception of three years, until 1877. - He was also connected with the State Military service for nine years, as leader of a regimental baud belonging to the Forty-third New York National Guards. In the spring of 1877, he came to Effingham and established a gallery on Jefferson street, and has conducted it with good success ever since. He has been leader of the Effingham Cornet Band for the past three years, and also musical director in the First Presbyterian Church and Sabbath school of Effingham.

Effingham, is the son of John and Brigita (Karthofif) Nolte, and was born in the city of Merchede, Provinca of Westphalia, Prussia, December 3, 1819. At the age of thirteen, he was apprenticed to learn the carpenter and cabinet-maker's trade, serving two years and nine months, and afterward worked four years as a journeyman in various German States, He came to the United States in 1839, and worked at carpentering in New Orleans and Vicksburg, Miss. , and Little Rock, Ark, and wont to St. Louis, in 1840, but returned in the winter to New Orleans. In 1841, he permanently located in St. Louis, where he worked as a journeyman until 1847, when he became a contractor, architect and builder in the same city, and continued until 1852. In January of that year, he made a contract with the building committee of the St. Peter's congregation, at Teutopolis, to build their church. The Building Committee was composed of Joseph Cogler, pastor, John F. Waschefort, John Fecthrup, John Osthoff and Joseph Bergman. His contract was to furn'sh the pine lumber and to do the wood work on the church and superintend the brick work, and he came in April, 1852, and completed the church in that and the following year, and remained to do other work in Teutopolis imtil 1855, when ho returned to St. Louis, where he worked for the Government, i building the post office and the old custom house. He also built the Visitation Convent on Cass avenue, James Clements' residence, on Cassaveniie,Widows' and Infants' Asylum, on Tenth and O'Falion streets, St. Joseph's Half Orphan Asylum and other prominent buildings. He remained in St. Louis until July, 1863, when he retm-ned to Effingham and kept a general store for about two years, during which time he ei-ected some buildings. He continued as contractor and builder until

1873. He took a contract to build St. Anthony's Catholic Church, which he completed in 1874. He has served one year in the City Council of Effingham and one year as Supervisor, and, in 1873, was elected Justice of the Peace, and has served in that office ever since, beincf elected and re-elected three times. During the last nine years, he has drawn architectural plans for buildings, several public and private buildings in this and other counties, and has also conducted an insurance business. He was married, in St. Louis, Mo. , in 1842, to Miss Fredericke Bolleu, who died in 1849, leaving two sons and a daughter - Heniy C. , Charles H., who died in Effingham July 10, 1881, and an infant daughter, who died ten days after her mother. Our subject remarried, in November, 1849, Miss Catharine Earnhardt. They had ten children, five of whom died in infancy, two sons and three daughters, living, as follows - Mary, wife of Frank Kreke, of this county; Josephine, Caroline, Lawrence and Frank. The parents of the subject came to St. Louis in 1841, and both died in that city.

HENRY C. NOLTE, grocer, Effingham, son of Caspar Nolte, was born in St. Louis, Mo., July 8, 1845; he was educated in St. Louis and St. Vincent's College, at Cape Girardeau, Mo., where he spent four years. At the age of eighteen, he began as clerk in a commission house, Memphis, Tenn. , for four years, and retm'ned to St. Louis for a year. In 1809, he came to Effingham, and entered the employ of F. A. Von Gassy, in grocery, on the same site of H. C. Nolte & Co.'s grocery, over seven years. In March, 1878, subject, with his father-in-law, John Hoeny, bought the present grocery, which has been run by Mi\ Nolte under the fii-m name of H. C. Nolte & Co., and is enjoying a prosperous trade. Subject was married, in the fall of 1873, to Miss M. E., daughter of John

GERHARD OSTHOFF, farmer, P. O. Effingham, was born in Westjshalia, Germany, January 24, 1817, son of J. H. and Maria C. (Zurtorf) Osthoif, natives, also, of Germany, he, born in 1770, and died in his native land in 1847; she born in 1780, and died in the land, of her birth in 1866. They were the parents of eight children, three sons and live daughters. Our subject received his education in Germany, where ho was also married, September 24, 1848, to Clara Grosze Streinen, born in Germany in 1822, daughter of Bernhard Groszen Streinen, also a native of Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Osthoff had eleven children, six of whom are living - John, Frank, Bernhard, "Wilhelmina, Elizabeth and Anna. Our subject served two years' active service in the German Army. He came to the United States in 1848, landed in New Orleans. He resided three years in Cincinnati, Ohio, and then came to this county, where he purchased ninety acres of slightly improved land for $170. He now has 260 acres of good land, about 100 acres being in timber. He carries on general farming with the assistance of his two sons. He is a member of the Catholic Church, and in politics a Democrat.

BARNEY OVERBECK, clerk, Effingham, was born in this county November 27, 1850, sou of George and Elizabeth (Berghause) Overbeck, natives of Hanover, Germany; he was a farmer, born in 1806, and died in Teutopolis Township, this county, in 1873; she, born in 1816, and is still living in Teutopolis Township, this county; she is the mother of eight children, four of whom are livitig. Our subject received some schooling in Teutopolis, but experience has been his main teacher. He learned the shoe-maker's trade in Teutopolis, which he followed till he became nineteen years of age, when he went to Kansas City, Mo., and worked in a shop, afterward becoming a partner in the business. He sold out and walked to Baxter Springs, Cherokee Co., Kan,, a distance of 165 miles, and worked there, afterward starting a store, which he sold to W. Crawford, for whom he worked about a year. He then traveled through the Indian Territories, trading with the Indians and buying hides and pelts, which occupation he followed for a year and a half. He retiu'ned home in the year of his father's death, and visited his friends and relatives. In August, 1873, he returned to the West, and was for six months engaged in the grocery business in Baxter Springs, Kan., after which he moved to Joplin, Mo., where he remained about a year, a fire destroying his store December 16, 1874, when he returned to Kansas, and, in company with "Buffalo Bill," and another man, went to Ai-kansas, retm-ning to Baxter Springs, and from there to this county, and has since resided here. Anecdotes of his travels with " Buffalo Bill " were published in many Western .papers at the time. He has been corresjiondent of the Effingham Democrat, and, in 1879, was Chief of the Fire Department. He has filled many offices, including that of Constable, Deputy Sheriff, Tax Collector and Assessor. Mr. Overbeck was married, in Effingham. September 23, 1879, to Maggie Bushue, born in Ohio, daughter of Mike and Barbara Bushue, natives also of Ohio. Our subject is a member of the Catholic Chiu'ch, and in politics is a Democrat.

HENRY C. PAINTER, editor, Effingham, was born in Spencer, Ind., March 8, 18-45. His fatlier, David Painter, died when our subject was a child of but three years. He lived with his mother, Elizabeth Painter, until he was thirteen j-ears of age, when, in the spring of 1859, he apprenticed himself to learn the printing business with J. F. Earner, editor of the Omen County Journal, published at Sjjencer, in which vocation he remained three years as an apprentice, receiving the first year only his board and clothes, and for the third his board and §100. He was First Sergeant in Company H, One Hundred and Thirty-seventh Indiana Volunteers, for the period of 100 days, after the exjiiration of which time he re-enlisted, for one year, in Cpmpany B, One Hundred and Fortyninth Indiana Volunteers, or diu'ing the war. and was mustered out of the service, at Indianapolis, Ind., in the fall of 1865, the war having terminated. Returning to his old home at Spencer, he engaged in the " art preservative " until the spring of 1866, when he concluded to take the advice of Horace Greeley, and accordingly " went West." Arriving at Pana, 111., he there found his old preceptor, Mr. Harner, publishing the Pana Orient, and succeeded in securing a situation with him for a time, and for almost two years divided his time by working for Ben Winters, who was editing the Taylorville Press. In June, 1868, he again returned to his old home in Indiana and purchased material and established the Independent, at Gosport, Ind., issuing the first number on the 20th day of August, and the same evening, with grip in hand, started for Pana, 111., where, on the 23d day of June, 1868, he was married to Miss Amanda Eskridge, and returned to Indiana, where he continued the publication of the Independent for four years. He then sold his office and material, and, in March, 1873, went to Illinois and spent some time in selecting a congenial field for a location, finally locating in Effingham, where he purchased the Effingham -Re/)K6//ca«, in October, where, he still successfully holds the fort. David Painter, father of our subject, was a miller by occupation. He was born June 12, 1799, and died at Staunton, Va. The mother of our subject, who still survives at the ripe old age of eighty-two yetors, is residing with him, who is the youngest child of a family of nine children, three only of whom are now living^George, a farmer, residing in Crawford County, Kan., and Eliza E., widowed wife of George E. Allison, a resident of Denver, Colo. Mrs. Painter's maiden name before marriage with David Painter was Elizabeth Mowery; she was born in Augusta County, Va., July 21, 1801, five miles from Staunton. Our subject's wife was born in Sussex County, Del., April 28, 1842. Her father was Oakley Eskridge, and her mother, before marriage, was Miss Mary Griflith; she was born in Maryland, and Mr. Eskridge in Delaware. Mr. Painter is a member of the Methodist Chm-ch; in politics, a Republican, and also an I. O. O. F.

JOSEPH PARTRIDGE, proprietor of the Pacific House, Effingham, was born in Meade County, Ky.. July 26, 1832. He lived there until he was thirteen years old, when he removed with his parents to Evansville, Ind., where he lived in 1861. In November of that year, he removed to Cairo, 111. , where he lived during the war. acting as agent of the American Express Company. He was route agent of the Merchants' Union and American Express Companies, with headquarters at St. Joseph, Mo., for three years. In 1868, he engaged in the hotel business, at Richmond and Lexington Junction. Mo., and kept a railroad eating-house for a year. He was nest proprietor of a railroad eating-house at Jewett, 111., on t'ue Vandalia line, for twentyone mouths. In 1872, he came here and leased the Effingham Hotel, which he ran six years with good success. In November, 1878, he b.ought of D. Schmidt the Pacific House, which consists of two buildings, the main one located on Banker street, near the Vandalia & Illinois Central depot. It is a thi-ee and a half story brick, 63x45, and contains thirtyfom- rooms, thirty-two of which are fitted with all the modern conveniences, including three sample rooms. The other building is a two-storv brick, at the crossing of the Vandalia and Central roads, and has a diningrooni, lunch-room and sixteen sleeping-rooms. Mr. Partridge gives employment to twentyone persons, and a transfer wagon is run to the Wabash road. The main building was erected about 1868, at a cost of S15,600, and the other building was erected in 1880, by Mr. Partridge, at a cost of |6,000.

DAVID PHILIPS, carpenter, Effingham, was born in Circleville, Pickaway Co., Ohio, May 19, 1826, son of James and Elizabeth (Wolf) Philips, he born in Anne Arundel County, Md. , in 1 780, was a farmer and died in 1850 in Parke County, Ind. He was in the war of 1812. The mother of ouJ subject was born in Chester County, Penn., in 1795, and died in Edgar County, this State. They were the parents of nine children, six sons and three daughters. Our subject received some schooling in Parke County, Ind., but is mainly self-educated. He worked on his fathers' farm till he became twenty.one years of ago. He learned the carpenter trade in his native State, and worked at it for three years, afterward clerking for five years in Edgar, this State, during which time he also contracted for the Illinois Central Railroad Company. He was married, in Edgar, this State, in September, 1854, to Miss Margaret Love, born in Edgar County, this State, in 1835, daughter of John and Ellen (Watson) Love, natives of Ohio. Mr. Philips had five children by this wife - Elizabeth E., Maria Bell, Anna, Horace G. and Charles F. Mrs. Philips died in March, 1859. Oiu- subject's second marriage occurred December 2, 1865, in Montezuma, Ind. Ho wedded Mrs. Clara A. (McDonald) Halladay, born May 6, 1826, in Parke County, Ind., daughter of Jacob and Betsey (Taylor) McDonald, natives, respectively, of New Jersey and New York. Our subject has one boy by his second wife - Frank. In August, 1862, Mr. Philips enlisted in the Eighty-tifth Indiana Infantry, Company B, Capt. Brooks. He was First Lieutenant, and toward the close of the war he took sick and returned home and took up carpentering, which he has followed ever since. In early life, after working three years at carpentering, he met with an accident by falling a distance of thirty feet with a scaffold, from which he received injuries which rendered him unable to follow his trade, and so for three years he taught school. He came to Effingham in 1867, and has since resided here. Mi-s. Philips had six children by her first husband. In religion, our subject is a Universalist. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Montezuma Lodge. No. 59. In politics, he is a Republican, and was a strong Abolitionist.

HERMAN REAGELMAN, merchant, Effingham City, was born in the city of Darfeld. Prussia, February 3, 1836. At the age of fifteen, he began to work at the stonemason's trade, and at nineteen became a contractor on the public works for the King of Prussia, building turnpikes in Westphalia until 1867, and worked as high as 180 hands. In November, 1867, he landed at Baltimore, Md. , and came direct to St. Louis, Mo., where he followed excavation of cellars and other contract work for about four months, and came to Teutopolis in the spring of 1868, and his first contract was on the convent, for stone work, and, after working there about two years, he came to Effingham and built the stone work on both of the mills here, and the round-house and shops of the Vandalia Railroad. In 1870, he bought his present business block on Jefferson street, of

S. W. Little, and, one year afterward, bought the Farmers' Home, on Center street, and, for one and a half years, conducted business there, and in 1871 a fire destroyed his house on Jefferson street, with a net loss of $1,000. After rebuilding, Mr. Reagelman began business himself, and is at present carrying a good trade in groceries and liquors. In 1875, he bought the Cedar Park, consisting of five acres, at the terminus of Jefferson street, a portion of which is devoted to pleasure grounds, and is a beautiful summer resort, shaded with evergreens, and with a seating capacity for several hundred persons, a music and speaker's stand, and large dancing floor. Other parts of Cedar Park are devoted to fruit and grape culture. Our subject was married. May 2, 1871, to Miss Anna B. H. Hille, of this county. They have four daughters and one son living, Lizzie, Annie, Laura, Katie, Joseph, and one deceased. He is a Democrat in politics. Mrs. Reagelman is a daughter of B. H. Hille, of Teutopolis, where she was born.

FREDERICK REINH.'\.RT, butcher, Effintrham, the son of Courod and Lena (Bloom) Reinharb, was born in Hessen, Germany, March 9, 1837. At the age of three years, he came with his father's family to America, who settled on a farm in St. Clair County, 111. In this occupation the subject of this sketch spent his boyhood, only alternating the labors of the farm with such brief terms of the neighborhood schools as offered chances for gaining a little rudimentary learning. His father having died when Mr. Reinhart was nine years old, his mother married a second time, to Mr. Henry Culp, and he continued to assist about the farm until the age of eighteen. Dm-ing these years of his minority, however, his brain was not idle, and the hard toil of his willing hands by no means exhausted his energies or extinguished his ambition. Nerved by the desire for something worth living for; though poor, yet possessed with the riches of hardihood, frugality, and the Dutch characteristics of indomitable energy and perseverance, he made a start in life, and, notwithstanding the fact that he was shorn of all he possessed by tire, he has at the present time, and is conducting, two of the principal meat markets in Effingham - one on Fayette and one on Jefferson street. In connection with his regular city trade, he packs and supplies other smaller dealers throughout the county. These facts establish Mr. Reiphart's reputation for energy and business capacity better than any fulsome phrases of adulation could possibly do. They mark him as a peer amongst his fellowmen, and fully justify the high esteem placed upon him by the business community in which he lives. March 9, 1857, he was joined in marriage to Miss Anna Burgmaim, of Madison County, 111. The result of this happy union was nine children born to them as follows: CaiTie, wife of John Shay; they were married December 7, 1879, and have one child, Terrence; Edward, Matilda, Robert, Emma, Fred and William. Those not named died in infancy. Mr. Reinhart is a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge; in politics, conservative Democrat. Mrs. Reinhart was the only child of her father's family. She was born in Germany in 1840.

OTTO REUTLINGER, saloon, and coal agent, Effingham, was born at Frankfort-onthe-Main, Germany, April 14, 1833, son of Johan Jacob and Katharina (Rullmann) Reutlinger, natives of Germany, where they also died. He was born in 1795, and was the father of eight children, three of whom are residing in this country. In 1813, the father was a volunteer in the Prussian service when that country was engaged in warfare against Napoleon. Our subject received hi-^ education in his native town, where he also learned the jeweler's trade, afterward opening a store of his own. He was married, November 17, 1SG4, to Miss Eliza Schott, born in Germany June 11, 1841, daughter of Ger hard and Emily (Knatz) Schott, natives also of that country. Mr. and Mrs. Reutlinger have ten children - Carl, Gerhard, John, Otto, Anna, Greta, Lulu, Emilie, Adolph and Nellie. Our subject came to the United States in 1880, and resided one year in Highland, Madison County, this State. He is a member of the Lutheran Chiu-ch, and in politics is an Independent.

HON. ERASTUS N. RINEHART. attorney at law, Effingham, was bora in Watson Township, this county, March 1, 1847. His father's family moved to Ewington when sub ject was small, and the father bought a prai rie farm about two miles south of Effingham, and subject, with three brothers, opened this farm, and reduced it from wild prairie to cultivation. In 1869, he entered McKendree College, at Lebanon, 111. , and remained there two school years. He began the study of law in 1871, and studied about eighteen montliB with Cooper & Kagay, and was admitted to the bar in February, 1871, and has practiced law here ever since, first as partner with John C. White for a year, and afterward with W. H. Gilmore for three years, and since then by himself. He was City Attorney in 1872, and was elected, on the Democratic ticket, in 1878, to the State Senate, from the Thirty-third Senatorial District, for four years, and was renominated August 3, 1882, at Windsor, for a second term. He was appointed, by the Circuit Court, Master in Chancery, in 1880, and is still serving. His father was Daniel Rinehart, born in Fairfield County, Ohio, in 1812. He married Barbara Kagay February 9, 1839. He came to this county in 1841, and was soon afterward elect- ed Justice of hhe Peace, serving until 1844. He first settled in Watson Township; entered the farm now owned by Michael Sprinkle. He moved to Ewington, being elected County Clerk of Effingham County, and served one term, and was defeated by Thomas M. Lioy for a second term, and while Loy served his term, he kept a store and ran a pork packing house. He was then again elected County Clerk, and served in all eighteen years, serving until 1809, being nominated and elected last time without opposition. He died January 8, 1877, on his farm, where his widow still lives. ~ He also served as Treasurer and Assessor of the county in 1844. In 1849 and 1850, he was a merchant. He had six children - four sons and two daughters, all of whom are living but the oldest daughter. He was a member of the Melhodist Episcopal Church, and in politics was a life-long Democrat.

HANLEY R. ROBBERTS, grocer, Effingham City, was born in Decatm- County, near Greensburg, Ind., April 19, 1834. He was raised on a farm in Indiana, and received a common-school education. He came to Illinois the first time in 1831, and lived in Fayette County for ten years, on a farm, and was eno-aged in farming near St. Elmo at the outbreak of the war. He went to Greensburg, Ind., where he bought a stock of goods, and engaged in merchandising two years there, and then came to Altamont, this county, in 1863, and, with his father-in-law, Joel Blakely, built a livery stable in Altamont, which, in the fall of same j^ear, they traded for a farm near Mason, this county, which he conducted for about two years, then exchanged it for a hardware stock of goods at Richmond, lud., and brought the stock to Mason, 111., at once, and dealt in hardware for about five years,^ when, on account of his wife's failing health, he traveled through the Western States of

Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska, and returned to Effingham in November, 1880, and has since eniTaged in the grocery business here. He is at present located on Railroad street, where he has a good trade in groceries and provisions. He was married, July 2, 1805, to Mary Elizabeth Blakely, a daughter of Joel Blakely. of Fayette County, 111. Mr. and Mrs. Robberts have three children living - Sarah J., Mabel, Louis R.