Grundy County, Illinois - Chapter with an unread heading (no. 11 of those read), 1882 (part 4 of 4)

D. C. JACKSON, former, P. 0. Mazon, is a son of John and Elizabeth Jackson, of the State of New York, and was born in Schoiiarie County, N. Y., April 4, 1819, in which State lie was raised and educated. He was married, in 1844, to Miss Rhoda, daughter of James and Nancj' Brown ; she was born in 1823, and died in Albany County, N. Y., in April, 1846. The result of this union was one son, John, born August 4, 1845 ; killed at the battle of Cold Harbor. In 1865, Mr. Jackson came to Illinois and settled in Mazon Township, where he owns a farm of eightj' acres of land, worth S50 per acre, in Section 29. Subject was married to Mrs. Elizabeth Traver, widow of David Traver, August 27, 1865; she is a native of Schoharie County-, N. Y., born February 25, 1830. This union has blessed them with four children - Annie E., born February 6, 1867 ; Laura M., born July 3, 1872, died March 17, 1874; Frank, born April 10,1873; and Minnie B., born JIarch 25, 1875. The family are members of the Wauponsee Grove Congregational Church. Mr. Jackson is a Democrat.

J. C. KELTNER, grain, Mazon Center, was born near Dayton, Ohio, December 10, 1832. When he was quite j'oung, his parents, John and Nancy Keltner, removed to Indiana and settled in Elkhart County, where they lived until the time of their death, and where James C. was raised and received a common school education He came to Illinois and to Grundj' County in October, 1854, and engaged at his trade as carpenter and joiner, which he had acquired in Indiana, and at which he worked for ten years. He was married, in Grundy County, February 17, 1858, to Miss Sarah A., daughter of James and Elizabeth McKeen, of this county- ; she was born April 20, 1839, and is the mother of six children, two of wliom are deceased - Benjamin F., born Februarj' 17,1859; Columbus, July 8, 1862 ; Lulu M., June 18, 1864 : William C, Januar}' 2, 1866 ; James A., August?, 1870; andVenice, January 3, 1881. Mr. Keltner owns a farm of eighty acres, worth S50 an acre, in Section 23 of Mazon Township ; his residence is one mile east of Mazon Center. He is engaged in the grain trade at the village of Mazon, also in the stock business, in which he is associated with Charles H. Overocker.

PERRY F. LANDPHERE, farmer, P. O. Mazon, was born in Cayuga County, N. Y., April 23, 1834. He is a son of Silas and Nancy Landphere, of Cayuga County, N. Y., where his father died in 1837. His mother subsequently married a Mr. Hyslop, and is now living in Morris, this count}', and is sixty-six years old. Subject came with his mother and step-father to this county in 1845 ; they settled in the town of Vienna. !Mr. Landpliere was married, April 28, 18(J7, to Jliss Khoda Jackson, born in Guilderland, Albany Co., N. Y., September 15, 1849, and came to Illinois in March, 1867. They have lost one cliild in infancy, born February 21, 1874 ; the second child, Allen DeWitt, was born August 22, 1882. They liave two adopted children. Mr- Landphere owns a farm of 240 acres of valuable land in Sections 18 and 29 of Mazon Township and Section 11 of Vienna Tov^nship. They are members of the Congregational Church at Wauponsee Grove. In politicSj'he is Kepublican.

HIRAM MENAUGH, farmer, P. 0. Mazon. During the war of 1812, Mr. Menaugh's parents were living in the southern part of what is now Indiana, then Indiana Territory. They were compelled to flee into a fort, near Franlifort, Ky., for protection against the Indians, and in this fort our suljject was born December 25, 1812. In the year 1811, his brother. Col. John L. Menaugii, was captured by the Delaware Indians, and was afterward retaken from them at Vincennes, Ind.; he died in June, 1879, after serving the country in various capacities for manj' years. Hiram Menaugh was married, near Salem, Ind., October 4, 1832, to Miss Martha Patlock, who was born in South Carolina November 25, 181.3. Mr. and Mrs. Menaugh came to Grundy Count3- in the spring of 1844, when there were but few families in their township. They have a family of five ciiildren - Robert ; Elizabeth, married to Cliarles Nance ; James, who died October 11, 1878 ; Martha, born in Grundy County, married Henry Baird, died April 20, 187G ; and Ferriday, born in Grundy County, and married to William Howe, of this county. Mr. Menaugh owns a farm of eighty-eiglit acres, worth $55 an acre, in Section 27 of Mazon Township ; his residence is cue and one-half miles southeast of Mazon.

July 21, 1833, son of Hiram and Martha Menaugh. Tiiev came to Illinois in the .spring of 1844, and settled in Mazon Township, where they are still living. Robert was married July 24, 1 856, to Miss Harriet J., daughter of Daniel Rowen ; she was born in Ohio, December 4, 1833. Their family consists of nine children - Lora E , born August|l, 1857 ; 0. L., August 27, 1859; Laura A., March 17, 1861 ; Lida B., June 3, 1863; James M., March 12, 1865; Robert R., May 12, 18()7 ; Luella A., September 1, 1869 ; Hiram A , October 20, 1873 ; and Volany W., December 17, 1878. Mr. Menaugh owns a farm of 240 acres of improved land, worth $45 an acre, in Section 33 of Mazon Township. He is a Democrat

AUGUSTUS 0. MURRAY, grain and lumber, Mazon Center, was born February 9, 1832, in Oswego Count}', N. Y. Wlien he was three years old, his parents, Jonathan C. and Permelia M. Murray, removed to Illinois and settled in Mazon Township, Grundy County, seven years before the organization of the countj'. The father is remembered as one of the first men in the early enterprises of the county. He was drowned in the month of June, 1844 ; the mother died in Ottawa. 111., in February, 1870. Subject was married, October 18, 1852, to Miss Lydia A. Isham, of Vermont, born May 15, 1835. Thej' have a family of two sons and fire daughters - Louis R., born March 6, 1859, married to Sarah E. Riggall December 25, 1881 ; Ella L., born December IG, 1860, married to Fred Kingman December 31, 1879; Hettie P., born August 24, 1862 ; Frank A., July 10, 1864; Gertie E., September 4, 1868 ; Eva W., February 16, 1871 ; and Maud, May 22, 1876. Mr. Murray owns 430 acres of cultivated land in Sections 23, 25, 26 and 33 of Mazon, also 110 acres in Black Hawk County, Iowa. He is associated with O. H. Fuller in the grain and lumber ti'ade at Mazon Center, of whicli place he is a resident. Mrs. Murray is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of