Henry County, Illinois - The whole text, 1885 (part 24 of 31)

In Jacksonville, 111., on the 4th of March, 1841, the wedding of Mr. Brasel and Miss Mary Stout occurred. She was a daughter of Ezra and Fannie (Robinson) Stout, natives of Ohio. Here she was born, Nov. 25, 1825. Her parents came to Illinois in an early day and for several years lived here, then went to Oregon, where they died. Mrs. Brasel was the eldest of their it children; she has also become the mother of n children, five of whom are deceased. Those living are James D., Wiley L., Ezra S., Francis E., Olive E., Ida M. and Eddie K. The deceased are Frances L., Ann E., William H. and Robert J. Olive is the wife of Albert Krause, a farmer of Burns Township ; Ida M. is the widow of Elmer A. Anderson, and resides in Burns Township. Mr. and Mrs. B. are members of the Old-School Baptist Church. He has held some of the minor offices of his towhship and politically is a Democrat.

-fj.rederick Gunther, tile and brick manufacturer, residing in Kewanee Township, is prominently identified with the interests of the community. His native home is Germany, for in that country, on the 13th of June, 1832, he was born. When a young man he came to America, reaching our shores in August, 1855. He soon found his way West, and we find him directly at work at the mason's trade in Wethersfield Township. This trade he learned in Germany, where he served an apprenticeship of three years. He continued to work at his trade, also devoting some of his time to other occupations, until about 1867. At that date he started a brick-yard in Kewanee Township, west of the village. This he operated for two years, when he moved to his present location. In connection with his brick-yard lie is engaged in the manufacture of tile. In this line he carries on quite an extensive business. He has erected a good house upon his lot, which consists of nine acres of land, and is living in comfortable circumstances. He is a member of the Odd Fellows Order, and in politics is an independent.

Mr. Gunther was married in Wethersfield Township to Fredericka Brandt. She is also a native of Germany, and was a Christmas present to her purents in the year 1833. Mary, Frank and William are the names of the children born to Mr. and Mrs. Gunther. Mary is the wife of Emil F. Speigel, of Wethersfield Township, a sketch of whom is given in this volume.

ilson Fierce is a resident in the township of Cambridge, and is a farmer of section H§$^°" 33- He *s a native °f Athens Co., Ohio, ~^' and is of German descent, his grandfather, Christopher Fierce, having been born in that country. The former came thence to the United States and located in the State of Virginia. He there engaged in farming and reared his family, which included four sons and four daughters. He was married before he left his native land. His son, Conrad Fierce, was the father of the subject of this sketch. He was also a farmer, and passed his life in the same pursuit in which his father had done before him. Conrad Fierce, father of Wilson Fierce, died in the State of Indiana, April 4, 1840, aged 63. He was married in 1802, to Elizabeth Wilson. She was born in Loudoun Co., Va., and died Sept. 1, 1836, in Hamilton Co., Ind., at the age of 54. To her and her husband 12 children were born. William, Ebenezer, Frances and Wilson came to the West. Another brother, Clark Fierce, now deceased, settled in Jefferson Co., Iowa. A sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Hoddy, now deceased, went to Wapello Co., Iowa. Mrs. Margaret Dickinson, another sister, removed to Fall City, Richardson Co., Neb. Mrs. Frances Herrold, the eldest, is living in Victoiia, Knox Co, III., at the advanced age of 82 years. The others are not living.

whither his father had removed when he was seven years of age. The latter was a blacksmith, and there he followed that calling. He was married July 16, 1846, to Rebecca B. Grubbs, and she survived her marriage but a short time. Mr. Fierce was again married, to Charlotte Gibbs, who was born in Ohio, and died in Cambridge, Aug. 3, 187 1. She was the mother of 1 1 children. Eight of them are now living: Wellington, Sarah E., Margaret E., Francis E., Jessie M., Mrs. Nellie Dill, deceased, Mrs. Eva M. Dill and Ira E. Mr. Fierce contracted a third matrimonial alliance, with Mrs. Phietta Biggerstaff. She is the daughter of Simeon Gibbs. By her first marriage she became the mother of nine children. W. L. Day Fierce is the only child born since her second marriage.

Mr. Fierce is the owner of 160 acres of land. He came to Illinois in 1849 and settled at first in Knox County, where he lived 12 years. In 1862 he came to Henry County. He is an adherent of the Prohibition party, and has held various town offices. He and his wife are members of the United Brethren Church.

$Wiigust Furst, Jr., residing on section 26 of If, Kewanee Township, was born in Germany, '^r0a Oct. 13, 1840. His parents, August and Caroline Furst, were also natives of Germany, and emigrated to America in 1857. They located in Henry County, and she (die mother) died in Kewanee Township, in 1884. The father still survives.

August, Jr., came to the New World with his parents, and has resided in this county ever since. He is the possessor and proprietor of 450 acres of valu-' able land, which by his energy, industry and hard labor has been put in a good state of cultivation and improvement. Upon the same he has erected a fine residence, barn and outbuildings, and is a well known, respected and successful farmer.

Miss Augusta Baartz, daughter of Frederick and Mary Baartz, was the lady chosen to become the wife of our subject, Mr. August Furst, Jr., which event was celebrated on the 1 2th of March, 1863. Her parents came to America in the year 1856 and settled in this connty, where her father died Nov. 4,

1884. Her mother still survives. Mrs. Furst was born in Germany on the 1 ith of April, 1842, and she has become the mother of seven children, namely: Louisa A., Albert A., Ottila C, Caroline A., William F., Theodore and Mary L. The deceased are Louisa A., Theodore and Mary'L. '->

Mr. Furst has been School Director of his township, and he and his wife are members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. In his political faith Mr. F. affiliates with the Republicans.

V. Caldwell, the leading apiarist of Henry County, is a farmer in the township of Cambridge and is located on section 5. He was born Dec. 26, 1847, in the city of Philadelphia, and is the son of Edward and Anna (Hutchinson) Caldwell. His parents are natives of the Quaker City and are how living in Burns Township, in Henry County. They came to Illinois in the fall of 1856. They have four children: John V., Mrs. Sarah Howe, Mrs. Emma McCulloh and Mrs. A. R. King. The latter is the wife of the Judge of Delta Co., Col.

The Caldwell family is of Scotch origin and Irish birth, belonging to the class distinguished as "Scotch-Irish." The first ancestor, John Caldwell, came to the United States in 181 2. He located in Philadelphia, where he pursued his business as a dentist until his death. He married Ann Vollum, who was born in Philadelphia, and was a daughter of Edward and Rachel (Soper) Vollum. Her parents were natives of the part of the State of Maryland known as the Eastern Shore. That portion of that commonwealth for a long period of years had no municipal divisions. Her father and mother were respectively of Scotch and Welsh descent, and their married life covered a period of 80 years. Her father lived to be 106, and he had been for 80 years a member of the Methodist Church. The mother died at 99. She is the mother of four children, named James, Edward, John and Robert.

After the death of Mr. Caldwell his widow was again married to James Hutchinson and had three children. They were named William, Mary and Henry. She is yet living in Philadelphia and is 86 years of age. The mother of Mr. Caldwell, Ann (Hutchinson) Caldwell, was born in Philadelphia, and is a daughter of James and Anna (Scott) Hutclv inson. She is of Irish extraction.

Mr. Caldwell was brought up in Henry County and has passed his life principally in farming. Since 1879 he has devoted much time to the culture of bees. He is noted for his skill in that line of business and keeps 180 colonies. He ships the product of the hives chiefly to Boston. His farm contains 80 acres of land under good cultivation. He is an adherent of the Republican party and has served in the capacity of Collector. He is a member of the Order of Masonry and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

His marriage to Mary L. Funkhouser took place Dec. 24, 1873. Mrs. Caldwell was born March 30, 1854, in Beaver Co., Pa., and she is a daughter of Jacob and Hannah (Baldwin) Funkhouser. Her pa- lias M. Crane, a business man of Cambridge, has been connected with the development of Henry County since 1854, ^L when he settled in the township of Osco. He was born in Union Co., N. J., Sept. 3, 1827. He attained to the estate of manhood in the State of his nativity and on arriving at an age suitable to embark in active business he interested himself in farming.

Dec. 10, 1851, he was married to Louisa A. Miller. They have seven children, who are named Britton, Sarah, Josephine, Winfield, John A., Libbie and Etta.

On coming to this county Mr. Crane located on section 25, in the township of Osco, taking possession of a tract of land four miles southwest of the village of Cambridge. He followed the calling of a farmer there until his removal to Cambridge in 1883. He is the owner of 610 acres of land, which is chiefly situated in that township. For some years previous to the transfer of his residence and business relations to the place where he is now operating, he was extensively and successfully engaged in the business of a stockman. He has given much intelligent attention to the improvement of the stock on his estate and exhibits some fine Hereford cattle, including about 75 animals. Among other interests in which he has been successfully engaged for 20 years past, is the purchase of large quantities of broomcorn for shipment to the Eastern maikets.

In 1882 he embarked in a mercantile enterprise at Cambridge, and when his relations in that avenue were fairly under way he removed in the year named to that place. Mr. Crane is also engaged in raising stock in Phelps Co., Neb., where he is the owner of three sections of land and a large herd of cattle.

Politically, Mr. Crane is in harmony with the Democratic party. While a resident of Osco Township, he was frequently called to serve in the various offices and discharged the duties confided to his care with honor and fidelity.

athaniel W. Tibbetts, engaged as a farmer on section 27, Kewanee Township, was born in Neponset Township, Bureau Co., 111., Nov. 14, 1845, and is a son of James P. 4^ and Julia A. (Sayles) Tibbetts, natives of Maine [ and New Hampshire respectively. They were married in Lowell, Mass., and soon afterward came to Heniy County and settled in Wethersfield Township. Later they removed to Neponset Township, in Bureau County, where the mother died Nov. 28, 1866. The father still survives. Of their union were born three children, as follows : Nathaniel W., our subject, James G., deceased, and John E.

Nathaniel W. remained at home until 21 years of age and received a fair education at the common schools. He then bought a farm in Knox County and engaged in agricultural pursuits, which he has since followed. At the latter place lie lived for about a year and a half, when he sold out and removed to Missouri, there making a purchase of another farm, upon which he remained but one year, selling on account of poor health. In 1870, he came into Henry County and located in Kewanee Township on a farm of 70 acres. The same he has put under excellent cultivation and improvement, and made it his permanent home, residing there ever since.

Mr. Tibbetts was married to Miss Mary R., daughter of the Rev. Henry S. and Hannah (Huff) Willey, natives of Vermont and Maine respectively. She was born Feb. 12, 1807. He was a Baptist minister (Free-Will), and preached for 42 years. He was born Feb. 4, 1800. At the time of his death he had settled in Hudson village, Me., and there died, July 5, 1872, as also did his wife, Nov. 18, 187 r. They had become the parents of nine children, viz. : Henry, .Hiram L., Elizabeth H., Lucena D., Henry S., B. Frank, Mary R., George 'W. M. and Eliza E. Mrs. Tibbetts was born in Dixmont, Me., March 16,

Mr. Tibbetts has been Assessor of Kewanee Township four years and Director in the Farmers' Insurance Company for several years. Politically, he is a Republican.

{ arlicle, resided at home until 20 years of age, when he went to work for his eldest living brother, Samuel, where he remained for four years. At the expiration of that time, 185 1, he emigrated to the United States, locating at Buffalo, N. Y. ; but in the spring following he came to Andover, Henry Co., 111. He afterward engaged to work on a farm near Galesburg, 111., at which he continued two years, working for Deacon Chambers; but, wishing to return again to Andover, he left his employment at the latter place and returned. Here he was married, September, 1856, to Miss Hannah M. Swanson, who was also a native of Sweden. She came to the United States in the emigration of her father's family, who settled in Illinois in 1852. (See sketch of J. V. Swanson.) The family of Mr. and Mrs. Samuelson now comprises seven children, including one deceased. Their names are: Albert, who is married, and lives on section 34, Western Township; Peter A., Edward, Victor, Oscar, Hannah and Minnie, deceased, died in infancy.

He afterward . purchased a 54-acre farm, and; still later increased his possessions to a total of 480 acres. His success as a farmer has been simply remarkable, as, when he arrived at Buffalo from his native country, he had not a single cent, and now he has the fine, large landed possessions referred to, which are well equipped with farm buildings, and in good agri- . cultural condition. ' These are the results of his own industry and economy.

f obert Boyd is one of the farmers of Henry County who has reached a prominent position as an agriculturist. He is the proprietor of 400 acres of land, finely situated, and in a valuable condition generally. He was torn April 5, 1839, in the city of Montreal) Canada. His ancestral stock is of English origin, and he is the son of James and Margaret (Rutherford) Boyd. In his infancy he was taken from the' Dominion to the State of New York, and- he remained in the Empire State until he was eight years of age. He was then brought West by a man named Benjamin Graham. The latter located in Henry County in the fall of 1848, in Ciocker's Grove. Mr. Boyd passed his early life in farm labor, receiving a compensation suited to the kind and quality of the work he was able to perform. He often received only his board, and his wages for a long time was only $8 a month. He was the object of the malice of the man who was his reputed protector, and he was crippled by the effects of his brutality. They parted company at the period when the fatherless child was r4. But he was industrious and honest, and found no difficulty in obtaining work suited to his condition, and managed to save his earning until, in 1864, he was able to buy 80 acres of land in Cambridge Township. To this he has added until he enjoys the repute ascribed to him at the beginning of this personal narration. Of the tract of 400 acres of which he is the owner rS4 acres is located adjoining to the village of Carabrige. Mr. Boyd is a Democrat is political persuasion. It should have been mentioned in the proper place that his mother, Margaret (Rutherford) Boyd, was a second time married and accompanied her hus band, Captain William J. H. Lee, of the British army, to India, in the service of England. She remained there 21 years. She returned to London, and at the date of this writing she is in the United States visiting her relatives. One of her sons is in the British service in India, and is acting in the capacity of a civil engineer.

Mr. Boyd was married to Mrs. Catherine (Blink) Diesch. By her first husband she had three children - Mary, Frank and Ellen. Three sons are included in the household of Mr. and Mrs. Boyd. They are named George H., Robert L. and Charles D. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd are connected in membership with the Methodist Church.

saac Pyle, engaged as a farmer on section 8, of Kewanee Township, is a son of Samuel and Frances A. (Howell) Pyle, natives of (j Pennsylvania and Virginia respectively. They married and settled in Muskingum Co., Ohio, where they remained until 1856, when they came to Henry County and located in this township. They remained at the latter place, making it their permanent home, at which place the father died, Feb. 12, 1863. The mother still survives, and resides on the old homestead. She and her husband became the parents of four children, viz. : James C, William W., Isaac and Samuel A.

Isaac, our subject, was born in Muskingum Co., Ohio, Aug. 24, 1833, and remained at home until 17 years of age, attending the district schools in the acquisition of an English education during the winter seasons and working on his father's farm in the summer. In October, 1856,3s stated above, Isaac came with his father into Henry County, and began at once in the work of agriculture, which he has successfully followed since. Locating on a tract of land, he began actively and energetically in the task of its improvement and cultivation, and by subsequent purchases is now the owner and proprietor of 260 acres of valuable land, his farm being one of the finest in his township. Besides his agricultural pursuits, he has been also engaged in the business of auctioneering, in company with C. J. T. Little ; was appointed Inspector of the Coal Mines in Henry

County in September, 1880, which position he still holds, and is sought for to settle various estates, and also chosen the guardian of many children.

In Vinton Co., Ohio, on the 16th of September, 1855, Mr. Pyle was united in the holy bonds of matrimony with Miss Caroline, daughter of Rezin and Nancy (Aikins) Ball, natives of Virginia and Ohio, respectively. They married and settled in Ohio, where they lived for- many years, and then emigrated to Nebraska, where they remained until they died, the mother on the 23d of May, 1863, and Mr. Ball Oct. T2, 1880. Of their union were born seven children, the record being as follows : William B., Eliphalet J., James W., Levi, Sarah A., Artemus M. and Caroline M. The latter, now Mrs. Pyle, was born in Muskingum Co., Ohio, July 19, 1837, and she and her husband have had their home brightened by the birth of eight children, six of whom survived: William M., Ulysses G., Bert M., John H, Nettie and May. The deceased are Charles E. and Alice C.

Mr Pyle is largely interested in educational matters, and takes a great interest in all matters of that nature, considering that to be the aim of his life. He has served his township in various ways, was Supervisor for four years and has been School Director for many years. Mr. and Mrs. Pyle are active and prominent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Politically speaking, Mr. P. is a Republican, and in his temperance views he is decided, although not a fanatic, as he is in favor of all measures to resist the great evil.

jpLlijan, A. South. Among the many wealthy and respected farmers of Henry County, is classed the subject of this sketch. His jjUji. home is on section 31, of Western Township, where he devotes his attention to raising stock and doing a general farming business. In the township of Dunkard, Greene Co., Pa., on the 8th day of February, 1827, he was born. His father, Elijah South, was also a native of the same township, and of slight German extraction, and by occupation a farmer. The early life of our subject was spent upon his farmer's farm, receiving such advantages for an education as was afforded in the community.

He was married in his native township to Miss Nancy Johnson, who was born and reared in the same neighborhood, and the daughter of a Pennsylvania carpenter and cabinet-maker. The grandparents of our subject on both sides were prominent members of the Quaker Church in Pennsylvania. The grandfather South was a soldier of the Revolutionary War, and an uncle of Elijah's served in the War of 1812. The elder South acquired a large property in Greene County, where both the father and mother of our subject died, at the ages of 83 and 74 respectively.

Elijah A. was the second of a family of eight children, four sons and four daughters, three each of whom are still living. Two of the sons occupy the homestead of the father and grandfather, and which was improved by them. Mr. South lived at home until he was 28 years of age, working on his father's farm, but doing business on his own account. At that age, on the 31st of August, 1854, and in Greene County, he was married to Sarah E., daughter of George and Mary (Bugess) Long, natives of the Keystone State, and prominent farmers in Greene County, where they died. In Prairie Township, of that county, Mrs. S. was born. She spent her younger life at home, attending the schools of her neighborhood. She died at her home in Osco Township, this county, Dec. 4, T865, leaving four children, - Mary A, wife of J. Marion Garland, of Monongalia County, W; Va.; L. G. S., a teacher, and resident of Park City, Montana Territory ; Dora, wife of Edward Stewart, farmer at Colona Township, this county; and Plumer W., residing at home.,

In 1864, Mr. South came to Illinois and located in Osco Township, where, in company with Eli Holland, he purchased 265 acres of land, which was at the time partly improved. There he resided for two and a half years, when he purchased 80 acres in another part of the township, which he improved and farmed until about 1867, when he sold it and moved to Edford Township, where he secured 200 'acres of partly improved land. This place was destined to be his home for about 15 years. In March, 1882, he came to Western Township, and purchased a 284- acre farm, upon which he now resides. This is one of the best improved farms in the county, and Mr. S. is one of the prominent and successful farmers and stock-raisers of the district. Besides the land he owns here, he has two improved farms in Rock

On Jan. 27, 1867, Mr. S. was married the second time, returning to his native county to consummate the ceremony. This time the -union was between himself and Miss Mary Summers, a native of Fayette Co., Pa. She had been reared and educated in that county, and lived at home until her marriage. Of this union three children have been born, one of, whom is deceased. They have been named in the order of birth, Sarah Charles and Guy, who died in infancy. Both Mr. and Mrs. S. are members of the Baptist Church, and the former is Trustee of his Church.

^^ Robert and Elizabeth (Hood) Stabler, both natives of England. Their family comprised four children, of whom John was the second in order of birth. He was born in England, July r, 1833, and his school advantages were quite limited, being employed on a farm when but nine years of age. On attaining his 20th year he went to Canada, at which place he remained but one year, and in the spring of 1854 came West, locating in Bureau Co., 111. In the latter place he settled, residing there until r874,when he came into Kewanee Township, this county, and made a purchase of 290 acres of land, upon which he has since been a resident. By his hard labor and industry he improved the same, and has on the place a fine brick residence, barn and other outbuildings, besides having increased his landed interests until he now is the proprietor of 390 acres of good valuable land. Besides the land owned in Illinois, he owns 480 acres of fine farming land in Lancaster Co., Neb. When Mr. S.. came to Bureau County he had but $40. He at once engaged to work out by the month, doing so for three years, obtaining $14 a month as a salary.

Mr. Stabler was married in Bureau County, March 14, i860, to Miss Emma Burch, a native of England. Of their union have been born six children, of whom the following is a record: May E-, George W., Fanny E., Robert L., Franklin J. and one who died in infancy. May E. is the wife of Wra. S. Lyle, and resides in Farragut, Iowa; George W. resides in Bureau Co., 111., and the remainder of the children live at home. Mrs. Stabler died in Bureau County, Dec. 16, 1870, and Mr. S. was again united in marriage, June 13, 1872, in Kewanee, to Tamar Peart, who was born in Cumberland, England, Oct. 22, 1839. When 16 years of age she came to live in Canada, at which place she remained for somewhat over nine years, then coming to the States.

Politically, Mr. S. affiliates with the Republican party. He has been School Trustee for eight years, School Director, etc., in his township.

bar mbrose Mathews, a retired farmer and respected citizen of Henry 'County, residing in the village of Wethersfield, is a son of Ambrose W. and Margaret (Connor) Mathews, the former a native of New Jersey and the latter of New York. The parents of Mr. Mathews of this notice were married and settled in New York, where, after a short residence, they removed to the Western Reserve, in Northern Ohio, from which State they emigrated to Illinois in 1845, settling in Wethersfield Township, this county, where they resided until their deaths, hers occurring May 8, 1857, and his June 16, T884. They reared to manhood and womanhood ten children, namely: Charles C, Henry, Nelson J., Uriah V., Enos T., Mary E., Amanda, Ambrose, William and Rosanna. Charles C, Henry, Nelson J. and Enos T. are deceased. Ambrose W., their father, was born Oct. 9, 1792, and his wife Aug. 17, 1790.

Ambrose, Jr., subject of this notice, was born in Seneca Co., N. Y., Nov. 20, 1831. He was but one year old when his parents removed to Ohio, where he resided with them until 1845. He received a good common-school education in the district schools and assisted his father in the labors of the farm until he arrived at the age of 19 years. At this age in life he was apprenticed to learn the shoemaker's trade, at which he worked for three years. He then came to this county, in 1845, and remained about five years, when he returned to Geauga Co., Ohio, and finished learning his trade. He then returned to this county and worked at his trade in Wethersfield and Kewanee until 1861. During this year he enlisted as a private in the 1 24th 111. Vol. Inf., and served until the close of the war. In 1863 he was promoted as Commissary Sergeant of the regiment, and served in that capacity during the remainder of his term of enlistment. He met with many narrow escapes, having received several shots through his clothes ; but during his entire service, and the battles in which he participated, he was never seriously wounded.

On receiving his discharge he returned to his old home in Wethersfield Township, where, throwing aside his uniform and accoutrements of war, he again entered upon the peaceful pursuits of life. He has since been engaged in agricultural labors, until about 1881, since which time he has followed various occupations. He is the inventor of a forcepump known as the " Little Giant," on which he has received a patent. He manufactured and sold these pumps for about four years, when he was obliged to give up the business on account of ill health.

Mr. Mathews was united in marriage in Wethersfield, Jan. 1, 1852, with Maria C. Cline, daughter of Daniel and Betsey (Crouse) Cline, natives of New York, in which State, Dutchess County, her father died, Sept. 14, 1837, the date of his birth being June iJY 19, 1797. Mrs. Cline came to Henry County with a ^ married daughter in 1844, and settled in Wethers- , X field Township, where she died June 8, r87i, the date of her birth being Aug. 22, 1800. She was the mother of four children - Jane A., George, Maria C. and Mary E. Maria C, wife of the subject of this sketch, was born in Dutchess Co., N. Y., March 16, 1828, and came to this county with her mother in 1844. Mr. and Mrs. Mathews are the parents of a family of five children, namely: Cora C, Edward, Rosa, Melva and John L. Cora C. is the wife of James Wiley, Jr., and resides in Wethersfield Township. Rosa married George Dustin, who resides in the same township. Edward and John L. are mechanics, and are employed in the manufacturing establishment of the Haxtun Steam Heater Company. They have buried one child, who died when about nine months old.

Mr. M. has held the office of Township Assessor almost continuously for about 12 years. He was the first Collector of Wethersfield Township after the W organization of the same, and has held the office of ^7 Constable, together with that of other minor offices, v^

£ p Religiously, he and his wife are members of the 1 ' Congregational Church of Kewanee. Politically, Mr. A M. is a believer in the principles advocated by the Republican party.

-'arius Storey, engaged as a farmer on sec- tion 4, Kewanee Township, was born in Oneida Co., N. Y., on the i8th of March, 1828. In 1847 he came West and located in %F in Kewanee Township, this county, where he made a purchase of land, upon which he began the task of its improvement and cultivation and has to day 125 acres of valuable land.

He was married in this county on the 14th of January, 185 r, the lady whom he chose to be his companion in life being Miss Nancy Dingman, a native of Canada. She has borne her husband four children, as follows : Elijah, Larmer, Jane and Josephine. (See sketch of Elijah elsewhere in this Album.) Mrs. Storey died Jan. 31, 1867, and Mr. S. formed a second matrimonial alliance April 25, 1867, with Elizabeth Schwyhart, who was born in Ohio, June 21, 1843. Of the late union has been born one child, Tessa.

Joseph H. Page is engaged as a general farm- |f er on section 8, Wethersfield Township, ^^ where he was born Sept. 24, 1839. His parents, Hazelton and Mary A. (Cook) Page, were natives of New England, coming to this township from the State of their nativity in 1838. Mrs. Page died May 19, 1850, and the father Nov. 9, 1881. Of their union were born five children, - Robert C, Joseph H., Mary E., Ann J. and Edgar O. Mary E. and Edgar O. are deceased. Ann J. is the wife of Thomas Daniels and resides in Cambridge.

of Wethersfield Township, and assisted his parents in the labors on the farm. He is now the owner of 160 acres of good tillable land in this county, upon which he has erected good buildings, and by his energy and industry has put the farm under excellent cultivation and improvement, this being his place of residence.

Mr. Page was united in marriage in this township, Henry County, Aug. 29, 1863, the lady whom he chose to be his wife being Miss Sarah R. Lester, daughter of Charles and Julia A. (Snyder) Lester. They came to Henry County from Cayauga Co., N. Y., about r842 and settled in Wethersfield Township, where the mother died, Jan. 9, 1859. The father died Feb. 14, 1876. They became the parents of seven children, namely: Jefferson, Sarah R., Champlin M., Parker J, Myron, Phebe A. and Charles. Sarah A., the wife of our subject, was born in Wethersfield Township, Aug. 29, 1845.

ohn H. Allen, druggist at Cambridge, was born Feb. 9, 1843, in Shelby ville, Ind. In ^"3" ancestral descent he is of Scotch-Irish origin, his earliest progenitor having been of that race. His grandfather, Isaac Allen, camt from Scotland to Virginia, and settled there and raised a family. One of them, John Allen, born in 1805, removed thence to Shelby County, Ind., where he was married to Martha Higbe'e. She was a native of the State of Kentucky, and was of German descent. Six of their nine children are now living. In the spring of 1850 John Allen. removed his family to Mason Co., 111., settling in Havana, where, the lives of his parents terminated.

Mr. Allen, of this sketch, was educated in Havana, and at the opening of the Rebellion enlisted in the nth 111. Cav., and served four years in the army. Since that time he has been engaged in different mercantile pursuits, for the last eight years of which he has been engaged in the drug business.

The marriage of Mr. Allen to Lovina Marty took place at Havana, 111., and their children are named Emma A., Mattie E., Hattie F., Clara M. and Eugene W. Mr. Allen is a Republican in political views and actions, and a member of the A. O. U. W. and Masonic Order.

ewis Hurd, a practicing physician, residing at Wethersfield, is one of the earliest settlers and one of the first medical practitioners in Henry County. He came to Illinois J/S in 1836, and after a stay of about one year's duration in that portion of Knox County now included in Stark County, he made a location in Henry County in the same township in which he is now a resident.

Dr. Hurd is the son of Dr. Thomas B. and Anna (Shepard) Hurd, and was born in Hamilton, Madison Co., N. Y., Aug. 19. 181 1. His parents were natives of Connecticut, where they were married and first settled. Later, they removed to Madison Co., N. Y., and the death of the father transpired there, about 1838. The mother died in the same place at a later date. Their children were named Hepzibah, Thomas B., Orrin S., Lewis and Anna.

Dr. Hurd was educated primarily in the common schools of his native county, and was the assistant of his father in the cultivation of the medicinal herbs the latter used in his professional labors, as he belonged to the Thompsonian school. This association was his first instigation to enter the profession which he has followed incidentally since he was 19 years of age. He acquired a practical knowledge of the medicinal virtues of plants and had the benefit of the experience of his father. At r5 he entered Hamilton Academy, which he attended until he was 19. He went to Buffalo, N. Y., in 1830, where he began to practice to some extent. But he was practically unknown arid dependent on his own efforts wholly. He is and has been all his life an expert with tools, and while securing a start in Buffalo he secured a maintenance at first by his work as a carpenter until he acquired sufficient practice to preclude his labor as a craftsman. At the end of four years, he went to Lorain Co., Ohio, on a visit, and while there decided to join a party who were coming to Illinois. The transit over the intervening country was made with horses and a wagon.

Dr. Hurd arrived in Knox County in 1836, and was not at the time the possessor of a whole dollar. He found an opportunity to teach in a family of Kentuckians, not one of whom knew a letter of the alphabet. This helped him to a home, and he worked as a carpenter to supply himself with necessary funds. Accident placed a complicated case of illness in his charge, and his success established his claims as a physician.

The attractions of the lady he afterwards married brought him to Wethersfield, and he became an inmate of the family of her father, Abner B. Little. The house was a pioneer's log cabin with one room. The " parlor " was partitioned from the general space by blankets, and comprised about four feet square of territory. In this the " sparking" was carried on to a final consummation, and the marriage was the first in Henry County. Dr. Hurd and his wife removed to the Little homestead and assumed charge of the parents. The place was comparatively new and Dr. Hurd operated as farmer, carpenter and physician. He bought rails to enclose 15 acres, and he built the fence by moonlight and midnight, as his duties through the day absorbed all the time that the general community was out of bed. After the lapse of two years, he removed to a claim of 160 acres he had made in another part of the town. He broke 15 acres, which he fenced after dark in the method known in that period as ditching, the results being a sod fence. He also built a log house, and after he had harvested his crop he found his title was defective and abandoned the claim. He removed to the village of Wethersfield, where he owned ten acres, and built a frame house. His health was at that time seriously impaired by the extraordinary labors he had undergone. Later, he sold his property in Wethersfield and removed to Iowa City, Iowa, with the intention of practicing his profession, but he returned to Wethersfield on account of ill health.

In 1842 he went to Chicago, where he engaged in practice. As he belonged to no regular school, his business was restricted and his patrons were sometimes located at remote points. This gave him an opportunity to add other business, and he canvassed Cook County in the interests of the American Bible

Society. He was also the first canvasser for the Western Citizen, the first anti-slavery journal published in Chicago, and which was established by S. C. Eastman. In 1852 the First Congregational Church of Chicago was organized. It was principally the outgrowth of the efforts of Philo Carpenter, and Dr. Hurd and his wife were among the little company who were its founders. They swelled the number to 30 members. The meetings were held in a school-house, in "Carpenter's Addition, " until the growth of the society warranted the erection of a church and the engagement of a regular pastor.

Dr. Hurd was the first delegate from Chicago to the first State Anti-Slavery Convention of Illinois, which was held at Alton. His father-in-law, Abner B. Little, cast the first anti-slavery vote in Wethers-, field. He cast the second.

After a residence of nearly 1 1 years in Chicago, Dr. Hurd went to Springfield, Mass., where he oper- /*» ated successfully as a physician four years, and in \ 1858 he came again to Wethersfield. Two years J later he went to Ann Arboi, Mich., for the purpose of obtaining for his children the advantages of the C3- educational facilities of that place. Meanwhile, the *9§ war came on, and in 1861 he went to the field as a r=a volunteer physician, under the auspices of Hon. \^ Austin Blair, Michigan's "War Governor. " In 1864 he returned to Wethersfield and engaged actively in medical practice until 1877. He is- the owner of a farm in Wethersfield Township and resides in the village.

The marriage of Dr. Hurd and Caroline W. Little was solemnized Aug. 22, 1837. Mrs. Hurd was born in Hollis, N. H, Sept. 15, 1821, and came, in 1836, with her parents, Abner B. and Nancy (Tenney) Little, to Henry County. (See sketch of R. Augustus Little.) Seven children were born to Dr. and Mrs. Hurd and have all passed to the realms of the hereafcer. Anna Caroline was the third child born in the township of Wethersfield. She was born Aug. 13, 1838; Lewis Gardner was born Oct. 3, 1840; Julius Augustus, July 6, 1842; Anna Caroline (second), Jan. 1, 1848; Eliza Orinette, July 18, 1849 ; William Little, April 17, 1852 ; Edwin Henry Nevin, July 1, [854. The oldest son enlisted. at 20, in 1861, in Co. D, 4th Mich. Vol. Inf., and died in Washington, D. March 15, r862, of typhoid pneumonia. He was one of the band of students who enlisted from the University of Michigan.

Dr. Hurd is a Republican in political connection. , The portraits of himself and wife appear on other pages of this work. The days are not far away when all the pioneers of Henry County will have entered the land .which lies forever beyond the front- - iers of this earth. That time will affix the full value to the reminiscences and portraits of that class who bore the burden of the period of first things.

the son of Francis and Mary (Boyle) Walsh. The parents were also natives of the Emerald Isle, and there the mother died. She had borne six children: Francis, Patrick, James, Thomas, Catherine and Mary. The three younger sons came to the United States. James and Thomas came hither in 1853. The latter settled on Long Island, where he remained seven years. He then removed to the city of New York, and was a resident there five years ; his brother is a citizen there still. , In March, 1864, he came to Henry County, and in the ensuing years was married to Melinda Funk. He at once engaged in farming, to which he dovoted himself with the thrifty energy of the country of his nativity, and conducted his operations with marked success. He first hired to work by the month,, and then rented until he was in a position to buy a farm for himself, on which he pursued the same wise methods of management, and is now the owner of 400 acres of land, all in excellent agricultural condition. Mr. Walsh is also the owner of i,6oo acres of railroad land in Nebraska, for which he is paying with great rapidity, and will soon hold a clear title to a splendid estate.

insert by way of introductory. He was born at La Fayette, 111., May 2r, 1848, and was the only son and youngest of four children of Harry and Harriet (Wright) Hayes, natives of the State of New York.

The subject of our sketch was reared upon a farm, and at the district schools acquired a fair English education. Though decidedly of a mechanical turn of mind, he followed agriculture up to the year 1881, at which time he sold out his farm in Wethersfield Township, to which he had removed from Stark County in 1876, and in company with a Mr. Perkins engaged in his present business. Mr. Perkins retired from the firm in January, 1883, since which time Mr. Hayes has conducted the business alone. He employs about his shop from 12 to 15 men, keeps on the road from one to three drummers, and sells from J>35 ,000 to $50,000 worth of his own manufactured wares annually. The Kewanee Force Pump, of which he is the patentee, is probably the greatest success of the kind in the world. With an ordinary farm pump, operated by one hand, he is able to throw a solid stream of water to the top of a three-story building. Though it is hardly yet upon the market, the indications are that he will sell over 1 ,000 the first year of their manufacture.

Mr. Hayes takes no part in politics, but attends strictly to business, and bids fair to become one of the leading manufacturers of a town noted for its thrift and enterprise in that direction.

He was married at Toulon, 111., Jan. 17, 187 1, to Miss Matilda J. Dack, daughter of John Dack, deceased, and has born to him five children : Ralph W., Albert L., Forrest, Fred D. and Percy. Both Mr. and Mrs. Hayes are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

acob Messmore, Jr., engaged as a farmer on section 4, Kewanee Township, is a son '*"*- of Jacob and Margaret (White) Messmore, natives of Pennsylvania. They came to It Henry County in 1852, and settled in this township, where they always remained, and their family comprised ten children, of whom Jacob, Jr , was the fourth in order of birth. He was born in Wayne Co., Ohio, Aug. 28, 1840, and was but 12 ,years old when his parents came into Henry County, and has remained a resident of the same ever since, with the exception of three years during the war, when he enlisted in the cause for the Union ; the date being Aug. 9, 1862, in the 124th 111. Vol. Inf., and served his country faithfully for three years, coming home uninjured. Mr. Messmore is the owner and proprietor of 145 acres in this county, which is good, improved land.

He was united in marriage in Cambridge, 111., April 4, 1864, the lady chosen to share his joys and sorrows, successes and reverses, being Miss Rebecca J. Gochenour, who was born in Ohio, May T9, T846 ; and of this union has been born one child - Emma P. Mr. M. has held the offices of School Director and Highway Commissioner, in his township, and politically is identified with the Republican party.

Scott Brown, stock dealer, residing at Osco, Osco Township, is a son of John and R Sarah (Kirkpatrick) Brown, his father being niP> a natiVe of Chester Co., Pa., and his mother of Ohio. After marriage, they settled in Ohio, and soon thereafter removed to Fulton County, this State. His father was engaged in farming in the latter county for a time and the family moved to this county and settled in Osco Township, where he followed his chosen vocation, that of agriculture, until the date of his death, Oct. 4, 1881. His wife survives him at the venerable age of 82 years, and is still a resident of Osco Township. Their children were five in number, - T. Scott, George C, John G., Mary L. and James M.

George C. is a resident of Osco Township, this county; John G. resides near Marshalltown, Iowa, where he is engaged in farming; Mary L. was united in marriage to W. L. Hitchcock, who resides in Greenfield, Iowa ; James M. follows the occupation of a farmer in Osco Township.

T. Scott Brown, subject of this notice, was born in Farmington Township, Fulton County, this State, June 7, 1835. He received a fair education in the district schools of his native county and there resided until the spring of i860, when he removed to this county. On arrival here he rented his father's farm, which he cultivated for about two years. In August, 1862, Mr. Brown, whose name heads this notice, enlisted in the 103dm. Vol. Inf., and served his coun try until January, 1865. In the skirmish near Columbia, S. C, he received a serious wound from a minie ball in his right arm, in consequence of which he was compelled to have that member amputated at the shoulder. He enlisted as a private and was promoted First Sergeant. John G. Brown, brother of Mr. Brown of this notice, was also a soldier in the war for the Union, having enlisted in the fall of 1861, in the 55th, 111. Vol. Inf., and served his country until the close of the war.

Mr. Brown of this sketch has held the minor offices of his township, and politically is a believer in and a supporter of the principles of the Republican party. He is a gentleman respected for his straightforwardness and fair dealings with his fellow man.

|| M. Dorr, residing at Galva, where he is JS engaged in the jewelry business, was ^ born in Columbia Co., N. Y., May 25, 1832. The name Dorr seems to be a corruption of the name De Orr. La Fayette, on his last visit to America, called on an uncle of our subject, Elisha Dorr, and asked him where the Dorrs originated. He told him tradition said from England. La Fayette replied that it was not an English name, but that it was undoubtedly from Normandy, a province of France, as the name was common there! There is but one family of Dorrs known in America: .hence they all sprang from the same family.

Matthew Dorr, grandfather of the subject of this notice, resided in Columbia Co., N. ¥., wher,e he was engaged as a woolen manufacturer, and where, at Dansville, that Slate, he died. He was the father of five children, namely : Abraham, Samuel, Matthew, Jr. (the father of the subject of this notice), Phebe and Sybil. Matthew Dorr, Jr., father of our subject, was born in New York, and died in 1869, in Bureau County, this State, aged 83 years. He was formerly Judge of the Columbia County Court, New York, later a woolen manufacturer, and also a soldier in the War of 181 2. He was Postmaster ten years and Justice of the Peace eight years while in Bureau County, Illinois. He was married to Ann B. Mudge, Jan. 29, 181 r. She died at Neponset, Bureau County, this State, in November, 1872, aged 79 years. They were the parents of 12 children, - Adeline S.,

Byron M. Dorr, of whom we write, was educated principally at Knox College, this State, and during the two years prior to his majority, was engaged in the active labors of the farm. He enlisted in Co. A, 42d Reg. 111. Vol. Inf., as a private, but, the company not being received under the first call of 6,000 by the Governor, he re-enlisted as musician and served nearly eight months, when the regiment bands were discharged by order of Major-General Hallock, and brigade bands formed. After this he returned to Kewanee, and, his health having been greatly impaired, he engaged to learn .the jewelry business at that place. He mastered the same and then went to Neponset, Bureau County, where he engaged in business and continued until r869, when he came to Galva and again engaged in the same business. Mr. Dorr, ever since he came to Galva, has continued in the jewelry business and at present has a first-class store, with a good and constantly increasing trade. He has also been engaged as teacher of a band at different times, and is widely known as a musician of fine ability. Politically, he is a believer in and a supporter of the principles of the Greenback party.

Mr. Djrr was united in marriage at Kewanee, Nov. 16, 1856, with Emma M. Maunder, born in the town of Martock, Somerset, England, in 1833, and who emigrated to the United States in 1854. Religiously, Mrs. Dorr is a member of the Congregational Church.

?ames Lyle, farmer on section 25, Kewanee '$ Township, was born in Bureau Co., 111., July 13, r8so, and is a son of William and Margaret Lyle, natives of Scotland. He (the father) came to America about 1844, and the mother four years later. They first settled in Bureau Co., 111., and from there removed into Henry County in the year 1852, locating in Kewanee Township permanently. The father died at the latter place, Dec. 21, 1878. They had a family of nine children, of whom James, our subject, is the eldest.

in the district schools of this county, where he was reared. As a business man he has been reasonably successful, and today owns an excellent farm of 85 acres, and Mrs. William Lyle, his mother, owns 154 acres. Mr. L. has been prominent in promoting the welfare of the community in which he resides, and in educational matters also takes a deep interest. He has served as Director of his school district, and politically he is a Republican. Socially, he is connected with the Order of Odd Fellows.

At Kewanee, Sept. 7, 1881, Mr. Lyle was married to Margaret Price. This lady was born in Wales on Christmas Day of the year 1858. Two children have been born into their home, to whom they have given these names : Stella and Ernest.

i'nn Moon, widow of the late Thomas Moon, 1 who was born in 1813, resided on sec. 29, MW&? Annawan Township, for many years, and was well known and respected throughout the community. Mrs. M. was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1825, and five years later came to America with her parents, landing in New York. Thence they proceeded to Chicago, where they remained but one week; then they went to Jacksonville, where they remained until 1847, about 17 years. At that time they came to Annawan Township, this county, and became one of the earliest families who settled in this section of the county. Mrs. Moon has since then resided in the abovenamed township, and for the last 21 years has lived upon her present estate.

On the 1 2th of August, 1847, she was married to Mr. Moon, who was also born in Yorkshire, England, and three years prior to their marriage had come to America. He was an energetic, successful farmer, and when he died, in 1878, left a farm of 420 acres, all under good cultivation and improved with good dwellings and barns. Mr. Moon died Aug. 27, 1878. They had become the parents of the following-named eight children: Anna, born Feb. 3, 1849; George, Feb. 6, 185 1 ; John, March 5, 1853 ; Thomas H., Aug. 23, 1855; James W., May it, 1858; Rachel, Jan. 5, 1861; Joseph H., Jan. 21, 1864; and Chales E., Aug. 9, 1867. Mrs. Moon resides on the old homestead, and is apt. Norman H. Pratt, Postmaster at Ke- SpH wanee, a position to which he was ap- W' pointed by President Johnson, in May, K 1867, re-appointed twice by Gen. Grant, once |\ by " 'Squire " Hayes, and lastly by President Arthur. The Captain was born at Binghamton, N. Y., Dec. 10, 1825, and was fourth in order of birth of three sons and five daughters of Maverick and Samantha (Hyde) Pratt, natives of Connecticut, descended from the English, and dating their ancestry upon the Continent back to the first half of the seventeenth century. From Binghamton Mr. Pratt removed to Peoria Co., 111., in 1835, and from there to Wethersfield, Henry Co., in 1846. Here he bought a farm now occupied by a part of the town of Kewanee, and upon which he and his wife spent principally the rest of their lives. The old gentleman died in 1868, at the age of 73, and his wife five years earlier, at the age of 63. His three sons were in the Union army, and two of them - the oldest and the youngest - laid down their lives in front of Vicksburg. The first, Julius A., was First Lieutenant of Co. A, 124th III. Inf., and was killed by a musket shot in June, 1863, and the latter, James B., died from disease about the same time.

In August, 1862, in company with anothor gentleman, the subject of this sketch raised a company of volunteers, and on Sept. 10 following it was mustered into service as Co. F, 124th 111. Vol. Inf., Mr. Pratt being First Lieutenant. At Vicksburg, Aug. 7, 1863, he was promoted Captain of the company, a position which he held when mustered out of service, Aug. 15, 1865, at the city of Chicago.

His discharge, which bears date Aug. 15, 1865, shows that he led his company in Gen. Grant's Tallahatchie expedition, December, 1862; at Port Gibson, May 1, 1863; at Raymond, Miss., May 12, 1863; at Jackson, Miss., May 14, 1863 ; at Champion Hills, May 16, 1863; at Vicksburg, May 18 to July 4, 1863; on the Monroe (La.) expedition, in August, 1863; at Benton and Yazoo, May, 1864; on Sherman's Meridian Expedition, February, 1864; at the siege of Spanish Fort, Ala., March 27 to April 9, 1865, and on Gen. Canby's expedition against Mobile and Montgomery in 1865. When the war was over he returned to Kewanee and engaged in the insurance business, and later on in the grain business, which he left to accept the Postmastership.

His early education was limited to such as could be had at the common schools of his boyhood days, alternating the seasons of farming and attendance upon the district school. In 1847 he abandoned the farm and went to New Orleans, where he clerked in a drug store for two or three years, a business he followed afterwards at Peoria.

The Captain is identified with no particular Church, though he is a good Mason, a strict regard to whose principles constitutes the highest religion and affords no excuse for hypocrisy.

li'-enry Wright, deceased, formerly a resident Ji of Cornwall Township, was a native of New York, in which State he was born Jan. 12, 1828. He was a farmer by occupation, and followed the same until his enlistment in the war for the Union. Mr. W. served his country in Co. A, 151st 111. Inf., for about a year, when he returned home to this country to die. Consumption had seized upon him during his time of service, and April 8, 1877, he passed away to the land of the hereafter, leaving a wife and eight children.

Mr. W. was united in marriage with Miss Annis, the accomplished daughter of Oliver Root, Jan. 12, 1850, in this county. She is a native of Ohio, in which State she was born Aug. 17, 1832. Her father was a native of Vermont, where he was born Jan. 21, 1792, and is at present living in Munson Township, this county, and enjoys good health. He married Miss Mary Thomas in 1817, a native of Athens, Ohio. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Wright are as follows: William H, born Nov. 17, 185 1 ; Mary C, born Oct. 24, 1853; Frank E., born Feb. 4, 1857 ; Ida E., born March 18, 1859 ;' Clarence, Aug. 18, 1861 ; Alice, May 12, 1865 ; Arthur, April 19, 1867 ; and Louisa, June 25, 187 1.

Mrs. W. is a member of the Free Methodist Church, and a consistent, active Christian woman. She carries on the home farm with the assistance of her children, and is meeting with success in life.

ames C. Smiley, M. D., a distinguished physician and surgeon of Kewanee, re- "y moved from Deerfield, Ind., to Cambridge, Henry Co., 111., in the year 1855, and five years later began the practice of medicine. In 1865 he moved to Kewanee, and at once, by his skill as a physician and his deportment as a gentleman and a scholar, took rank among the foremost of his profession.

He was born at Winchester, Va., Sept. 14, 1832, and was the son of the Rev. Walter Smiley, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, his mother being before marriage Miss Susan Kraus. His parents were descendants respectively from the Scotch and German. He was nine years of age when his father died, arid but nine when he set out in the world to make a living for himself. He attended pretty regularly the common schools of his neighborhood during his youth.

His first employment was as a clerk in a mercantile establishment at Deerfield, Ind., and from that time he dates the beginning of his medicinal studies. Dr. McAfee, of Deerfield, Ind., was his first preceptor, and under, him Dr. Smiley studied and practiced medicine for several years. After coming back to Illinois he entered Rush Medical College, Chicago, in i860.

Rev. Mr. Smiley left his family, consisting of a widow arid nine children, in anything but independent circumstances, and the result was, the sons from that time forward had not only themselves to lookout for, but also had the care and support of their mother and sisters. Young as he was, if he did but little for the rest of the family in the beginning of their' trials, he relieved them from any care upon his acconnt, by proceeding to earn* his own livelihood, and thenceforward he has acquired what of this world's goods he has, and has had, by his individual effort and industry.

store in Kewanee, thereby adding to his income and enabling him to have his prescriptions filled by druggists who understand their business, and upon whom he can safely rely for drugs chemically pure.

He belongs to the Masonic fraternity, votes the Democratic ticket, attends strictly to his own business, treats everybody politely and enjoys the respect and confidence of the community in which he resides.

Sept. 23, i"8s3, the Doctor was married in Jay Co., Ind., to Miss Mary Ellen Cook, a native of Ohio, and of the two children born of their union, we make ! the following notice : Frank M., graduate of Rush { Medical College, and for the past two years a promising young M. D. of Brooklyn, L. I., and Florence, now the accomplished wife of Mr. L. P. Kraus, a druggist of Beatrice, Neb.

ames P. Heaps. While traveling through Pj' Henry County, the biographical writer of the Album met but few active business men who were born in the county. The vast majority of those who are to-day tilling the soil, raising the stock, or engaged in business or commercial enterprises, or are members of any of the professions, were born without he borders of Henry County. James P. Heaps, the subject of this narrative, however, was born upon section 32, Annawan Township, and is to-day living in the same house in which he was born, and cultivating the soil surrounding it. He is the son of the well-known pioneer, William G. Heaps, and was born on the 1 6th of January, 1856. The only educational advantages enjoyed by him were those afforded by the district schools in the neighborhood. He is, however, a good business man and a- successful farmer.

James P. was married on the roth of January, 1878, by the Rev. George M. Lewis, of the Baptist Church, to Miss Sarah E. Pettitt. Like her husband, she is also a native of Henry County, and they are perhaps the only couple living in that county as man and wife who were born and reared upon the same section. She is the daughter of Samuel Pettitt, a well-known farmer of Annawan Township, whose biography is given on another page in this volume. Mrs. Heaps was born July 29, 1856, and is the

Mr. Heaps has the old farm under excellent cultivation, and has upon it a good, substantial dwelling, with convenient out-buildings. He is thoroughly imbued with the progressive idea that the most profitable grade of stock to raise, as well as decidedly the most pleasant to handle, are the best and higher grades. He is breeding some Short-horn Durham, of full blood, which are recorded in the "Herd Book." His horses are of the Clyde and Norman breed, while his hogs are Poland-China, and his fowls are pure-blooded Plymouth Rocks. Politically, he is a Republican.

enry Shanahan. The subject of this personal sketch and one of the well-to-do and representative men of Henry County is Mr. Henry Shanahan, a resident of section 5, of Wethersfield Township, where he is engaged extensively in farming. He was born in Maryland, Jan. 15, 1808, and is a son of James and Elizabeth (Lucas) Shanahan, natives of Maryland, and in which State the father died. The mother died in Ohio. Their family consisted of five children, - Willoughby, Henry, James, Michael and Henrietta.

Henry, at an early age, having been deprived of a father, went to live with an uncle, with whom he remained until he attained the age of 21 years. In the meantime they had moved to Ohio, and our subject engaged to work out by the month, which he continued for three years. At the expiration of that time he rented a farm and remained in Ohio until r864, when he moved into Henry County, and settled in Wethersfield Township, at which place he has since resided, with the exception of two years spent in Nebraska. He is the proprietor and owner of 103 acres of good tillable land, which he has put under excellent cultivation by his industry, energy and hard labor.

Mr. Shanahan formed a matrimonial alliance in Pickaway Co., Ohio, Sept. 6, 1832, the lady whom he had chosen to be his helpmeet being Miss Jane, daughter of Nathan and Elizabeth (Hopkins) Frame, natives of Delaware. She was born in Pickaway Co., Ohio, Oct. r2, r8i2. They first settled in Pickaway

Co., Ohio, and resided there until their deaths. Of their union were born seven children, - Smith, Robert, Eliza, Jane, Painter, Lydia and Ruth.

euben B. Burn, a farmer on section 20, Atkinson Township, is a native of the State of New York, where he was born March 24, 1823. His parents were William and Margaret Burn. His father was born in Forgan, Scotland, and his mother in the State of New York. Mr. Burn was brought up to the business of a farmer, and lived in his native State until 12 years of age, when he went to Ohio.

He was married there April 9, 1846, to Miss Helen M. Shelton.' She was born Dec. 13, 1827, in the town of Park, Bradford Co., Pa., and is the daughter of James Shelton. He was born in Connecticut, April 16, 1800, and died July 22, 1841. Her mother, Clarissa M. (Hurd) Shelton, was born April 8, 1805, and was married July 2, 1823. Mrs. Burn is the second in order of birth of their three children : Charles E. was born May 3, T824; Esther L. was born July 19, 1836; Leonard Clarke was born in 1846 ; the latter is the son of the second husband of the mother of Mrs. Burn, who died in 1846. After his death she married a man named Young, who died Jan. 9, 1850. She is still living and is 80 years old. Mr. and Mrs Burn have had three children : Clarissa was born Jan. 18, 1847; Reuben -A. was born Dec. 15, 1852; William W. was born Sept. 8, 1858 ; Clarissa is deceased.

place consists of good grades of horses and cattle. He is in sympathy with the Republican party in political sentiment, and, in religious views,_is an adherent of the Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Burn is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

lexander Murchison, one of the influential citizens and progressive farmers of this ^ county, residing upon section 13, Wethersfield Township, is a native of Scotland, having been born in Rosshire, that country, July 7, 1831. The parents of Mr. Murchison, Alexander and Ann (McKinzie) Murchison., emigrated to the United States in 1849 and settled in Stark County, this State, where they continued to reside until their deaths. Their family comprised three children, namely: Alexander, Jr., Jane and Donald. Jane became the wife of John McRae, and died in Stark County, and Donald is a resident of the same county. Alexander, whose biographical sketch we write, was reared on the farm, receiving the advantages afforded by the common schools. Arriving at the age of 17 years, he left the parental roof-tree and worked out by the month for five years. At the expiration of that time he engaged in breaking prairie and running a threshing-machine, which occupation he followed conjointly for several years and until the breaking out of the war. Previous to the beginning of the war he assisted in the organization of a rifle company in Stark County, and when the first call for troops was made they offered their services to the Government, but were too late to be accepted. Afterward this company was attached to the 19th 111. Vol. Inf., and Mr. M. was commissioned Second Lieutenant, having held the same position in the original rifle company. He was afterward promoted First Lieutenant and subsequently Captain, serving something over three years in the army. At the battle of Chickamauga he received an injury in the hand by a piece of shell, which laid him up only for a short time, and he was in command of his company the following day.

After the war was over and the cause for which Captain Murchison fought was victorious, he returned to Stark County, where he had purchased a farm, and at once entered vigorously and energetically upon the task of its improvement and continued- to reside there for two years. In 1867 Mr. Murchison removed to Henry County and settled in Wethersfield Township, where he purchased a farm of 80 acres of land, on which he moved with his family, erected a fine residence, barn and other necessary outbuildings, and where he is at present residing. He has by laborious toil and economy increased his landed interests in the county until he is at present the owner of 240 acres in this and Stark Counties, all of which is under an advanced state of cultivation. His farm presents a. fine appearance, and is indicative of good judgment and energy on the part of its proprietor.

Mr. Murchison was married in Elmira Township, Stark County, this State, July 3, 1866, to Margaret N. Weed, daughter of Rev. N. C. and Jane (Campbell) Weed, natives of North Carolina and Pennsylvania, respectively. Her father was a minister of the United Presbyterian Church, and he *and his wife at present reside with their daughter and sonin-law, Mr. and Mrs. Murchison, of this sketch. Their children were it in number, - Eliza J., Robert C, John M , Nathaniel R., James C, Margaret N., Caroline M., Frances A., Andrew B., Elizabeth B. and Alice C. B. Margaret N , wife of the subject of this notice, was born in Indiana Co., Pa., Nov. 2, 1840. Mr. and Mrs. M. are the parents of three children, - A. Clarence, Lorena A. C. and Fannie C. J. Mr. Murchison has held the office of School Director in his school district for many years. His wife is a member of the United Presbyterian Church, and Mr. M. of the Baptist Church. Politically, he is a believer in the principles of the Republican party.

"ames Riley, a citizen of Atkinson, is a Up farmer of the township of the same name, E^3^** and is the proprietor of a fine and valuable farm of 280 acres on sections 1 1 and 34. Mr. jU Riley was born July 30, 1824, in Licking Co., Ohio. In 1834 he came to Illinois with his parents. They settled in Bureau County, near the location of the present town of Sheffield. The precise locality was partly entered by Mr. Riley himself, who; in 1847, obtained a soldier's warrant. The document was a warrant to a soldier of the Mexican War. It was laid on the land referred to. Mr. Riley has been a resident of the State from the age of 10. He came from Bureau to Henry County in 1854, and engaged- in farming. In 1880 he removed to the village where he is now living. His land is in the best condition for prosperous farming, and is fitted with good and valuable fixtures of the latest and most improved character.

In May, 1848, his marriage to Sarah Dunbar took place, and they became the parents of five daughters and three sons : Jemima was born May 2 1 , 1 85 r , and died Jan. 28, 1874; Mary E. died in infancy ; William was born Oct. 4, 1854; Hiram, Aug. 25, 1856; Ellery, Jan. 25, 1861 ; Ls.ura, Sept. 2, 1865 ; Alice, Aug. 14, 1871; Nettie, born March 1, 1874, died April 1, following. Three of the children are married. The mother was born in Ohio, June 1, 1828. William was married to Elizabeth Schwabb, Feb. 24, 1875 ; Jemima was married to Benjamin McCloud, March 4, 1867 ; Ellery was married to Lottie Webster, Sept. 2, 1848 ; Laura was married to Victor McCollough Sept. 25, 1880.

}: obert Broadtaent, engaged in farming on section 24, Cornwall Township, is the owner of 400 acres of land. He was born "> \W Aug. 24, 1829, in Yorkshire, England. His father, James Broadbent, was a native of England, in which country he resided until his death, in 1867 ; his wife followed him in 1881.

The gentleman whose name heads this article was married May 7, 1881, to Mrs. Jane (Winter) Gasp. She is also a native of England, having been born in Lincolnshire, that country, in 1843. She has been twice married. By Mr. Modd, her first husband, she had two children - George and Sarah Ann. By Mr. Gash, she has two children - Edward and James. She has borne her present husband two children, viz.: Hannah E. and Erwin.

Mr. Broadbent is the owner of 80 acres of land on section 24, 80 acres on section 19, and 80 acres on section 18, Annawan Township; also 80 acres on section 13, and 80 acres on section 14-, Cornwall Township, making his total landed interest in the county 400 acres. Mr. Broadbent is a self-made man. He emigrated to the United States, in 1855, from his native country, and came to Bureau Co., this State, and his financial condition at that time was such that he was compelled to work by the month at various occupations for a livelihood. He continued to labor in that manner for three years, putting.by his savings, and hoping and trusting for better times in the future. Better times came, and after the expiration of three years, during which time he had labored for others, he rented land and cultivated the same for his own individual profit for four years. At this time of his life's history he was enabled by his economy in the past to purchase 80 acres of land, to which he has been adding from time to time'until he is at present the proprietor of the fine estate already referred to. In addition to the cultivation of his land, he is and has been for some time engaged in raising a good grade of Shorthorn cattle, and is meetingTvith success m-both departments of his. farm life.

dam Dunlap, a retired farmer of Phenix if! Township, resident on section 28, settled in Henry County in 1854. He was born Dec. 18, 1833, in Wayne Co., Ohio, and is the second son of William and Nancy (Finley) Dunlap. His parents were pioneers of the part of the Buckeye State where the son was born, and there the father bought a timber farm and cleared it. He was its owner and proprietor until his death, which took place Feb. 14, 1852. Hjs wife died nine days earlier, on the fifth of the same month, and they were both buried in the same grave.

Mr. Dunlap passed the years of his minority on the farm where he was born, and he received his education in the district schools. His home was with his parents until he became wholly orphaned by their deaths. He spent two years subsequent in his native county, and in the year already mentioned he came to Henry County. He was at first employed as a farm assistant, and followed that means of obtaining a livelihood until the winter of 1862. In August of that year he entered the military service of the United States. He enlisted in Co. K, 112th 111. Reg. Vol. Inf., and he continued in the service until the end of the war. He received his discharge , in July, 1865, and. returned to Henry County.

He was married Aug '10, 1865, to Mrs. Melinda (Bartlett) Merriman, widow of Edward Merriman. She was born in Onondaga Co., N. Y;, May 26, 1813. After their marriage they settled on the place which has since been their home, and which they own. The farm includes 140 acres, situated on sections 27 and 28 and^sections 21 and 22. The estate is in the finest condition for profitable agriculture, and for the past few years has been rented by its proprietor.

Mr. Dunlap has been prominent in the public affairs of the township; and has discharged 1 he duties of his citizenship in official positions. He has been Assessor nine years, acted as Supervisor one year, and hasbeen Justice of the Peace three years. He has also officiated as Commissioner of Highways two terms - six years. Politically, he is a Democrat.

The parents of Mrs. Dunlap removed from' the State of New York, when she was 19 years of age, to Michigan. She was married in that State to Edward Merriman, who was also a native of the Empire State. Their marriage took place March 4, 1832. Mr. Merriman bought a farm in Wayne County, and they were there engaged in farming until 1838, when they removed to Henry County, driving through with their teams, and bringing with them their household belongings. Ten days were consumed in the journey, and on arrivaL Mr. Merriman entered land on sections 27 and 28 and also on. section 25 in Phenix Township. He built a log house on the section last named, which his family occupied two years. He then built another log house on section 27; m which he pa sed the remaining' years of his life, and devoted his energies to the improvement of his fine estate. He died Feb. 14, 1858, leaving a widow and six children. William, the oldest, lives in Phenix Township. Louisa is the wife of Jay Stafford. Charles is a citizen of Blairstown, Benton Co., Iowa. Minerva lives in Geneseo. Catharine L. died in her second year. Hortense B. is the wife of Abraham Phelps, of Green Co., Iowa. Gilbert lives in the township of Phenix.

Mrs. Dunlap, who, with her husband and family-, came into the county at a very early day, very graphically describes her arrival, and relates some inter- esting early history. She also gives some glimpses of the hardships endured by these early pioneers and especially by the women. We prefer to give the narrative in her own language. At that time she was Mrs. Merriman, the wife of Edward Merriman :

"In 1838 my husband and myself," she says, "thought we would leave Michigan and go into Illinois, and see that wonderful river we had heard so much about, known as Green River. It was talked about a great deal at that time, and was really twice as large in ink, or to read about it, as it really was. We had two small children when we set out for Illinois. On the 13th of October we arrived at the residence of the late Liberty Stimpson. Here we received a cordial welcome, and stopped for three weeks. We then removed to the new residence of R. Cherry in Hanna Township. The next spring we moved back to Phenix Township, and settled on the bank of a big slough in the eastern part of the township, in a house with another family. My husband had built the body of a poor log house, and when we moved up there we set our beds in that part of the house. When the storm came from the West the rain poured down on us in bed, and we didn't get up, for it was of no use. There were no gable ends, no floors, no fire-place, no doors, no chimney, and I had no stove, and a serious question confronted me, Where was I to do my work ? At the north side of the house I built a little room about five feet wide and eight feet long. I built it just high enough so that my husband could walk in and not bump his head, I built a nice little fire-place in it. I put it up with sod, and I prepared the sod myself. I did my work in that small room until cold weather set in. By that time my husband had a pretty large field fenced, and a crop of com raised, the gables of the cabin in, the floor laid, and a sod chimney built, but no doors nor windows. When corn-gathering time came he had no place to put his crop, so he stored it in that house, and left me out about four feet from the hearth across the room to set my bed in and do my woik.

" About that time, the late William P. Cullen, of Geneseo, with another gentleman, got lost one night, while traveling in a one-horse buggy. They came to my house and stayed over night, and were well pleased to see five little children sleeping together all in one bed. It reminded him, he said, of so Some of these children were mine and part of them my neighbors'. I enjoyed myself during that period as well as I ever did before. I had one near neighbor, and I was satisfied. I constructed two one-legged bedsteads and a table out of what was called ' shakes,' and had no others for about five years.

" The fall referred to above, there were plenty of blackberries two miles away. When my neighbor and I wanted some berries, we would take our waterpails after dinner and walk to that grove and fill them. I had a child eight months old, and I would f fill my bucket with my baby in my arms and walk home} and I counted that no hardship. I was then 25 years of age, stout and hearty ; and work was no dread to me."

ames Knox Blish, attorney and counselor at law, Kewanee, 111., was born at Wethersfield, Henry Co., 111., May 2, 1843. (For parentage, etc.,, see sketch of Hon. C. C. Blish, this volume.) He grew to manhood upon his father's farm, alternating the summers and winters with the duties incident to farm life and attendance at the winter schools. However, the High School at Kewanee and the Wethersfield " and Kewanee union schools afforded the youth of this vicinity what may be fairly considered rare opportunities for those days and in a Western State ; " so, at the age of 1 8, young Blish was prepared to enter college with more than ordinary primary and preparatory training. He chose the Michigan State University, at Ann Arbor, for his alma mater, and at that institution graduated as a Bachelor of Arts in the class of 1866.

It may surprise a few of the many readers of this sketch to learn that the dignified and successful young attorney, as they know him, once in life essayed the role of theatrical manager, if indeed he did not don the buskin and the tinsel. But such is the fact. And why not? It was probably this experience that inspired within him the determination to succeed at the forum, even though the mimic world did not prove what his fancy painted it. It was at Leavenworth Kan., that young Blish, soon after leaving college, engaged for a time in the theatrical business ; with what success does not appear. Returning to Kewanee, we find that he settled down to farming for a short time,-going, in the meantime to Chicago - how many times cannot be remembered, even if it were essential. But, anyway, he was there on Christmas Day, 1867, and was married to Miss Mary E. McManus, a lovely and accomplished young lady, who was born at Sherburne, N. Y. In 1869 Mr. Blish quit farming and purchased an interest in a blankbook establishment at Council Bluffs, Iowa, and gave that his attention something like two years, when he sold out and accepted employment with the blankbook manufacturer, J. W. Middleton, of Chicago. He held this position until the great fire, when he returned home, and with the late Judge Howe began in earnest the study of law. This was the real .beginning of his career. He was admitted to the Bar in 1874 and began practice at once. From that day his success was_assured, and when his final biography is written, if he mistakes not, it will contain a life worthy of emulation.

In 1876 he led the " forlorn hope " as the Democratic candidate for the Legislature, resulting, as it only could in a town so overwhelmingly Republican, but in no wise to the discredit of Mr. Blish. He was admited to practice in the Federal Courts June 23, 1877 ; and as his hands are full of business his profession receives his entire attention. Mr. Blish is interested in the First National Bank and the Haxtun Heater Company, and is the attorney of both of these corporations, and is also President of the Kewanee Agricultural Fair Association.

s-sik Wilson Lovejoy, of Annawan, has been a g resident of Henry County since 1882. He came to Sheffield, Bureau Co., 111., in September, 1879, and entered the employ of Marple Brothers as an assistant in their mercantile establishment. He remained in their service three years, and in the year stated came to Annawan. He obtained the position of head clerk with S. N. Barker and is still occupying the situation.

was brought Up under the care and authority of his parents, working on the farm -through the-seasons for the business of agriculture and in the winters attending the district school. He was married Nov. 28, 1881, in Bureau County, to Alice Halliday. She was born in the State of New York, Sept 22, 1861. She died Aug. 22, 1884, and left two children, - Everett A. and Clara C. An infant daughter died soon after birth. Mr. Lovejoy formed a second matrimonial alliance, June 17, 1885, with Gertrude Mc- Uermond. Mrs. Lovejoy was born in Henry County, April 14, 1867.

Ion. Charles C. Wilson,, a distinguished at- Js torney and counselor at law at Kewanee, was born at North Wrentham, Mass., Sept. 18, T829, and was the eldest of five sons and one daughter, and has one sister older than himself, the progeny of Enoch and Abigail (Richardson) Wilson. The father was also a native of North Wrentham, and the mother of Portland, Me., and oTold Puritan ancestry.

Enoch Wilson's father was Jared Wilson, who is known in history as a soldier of the Revolution, in which service he, with several others from Wrentham, was a man picked for the Marquis de La Fayette's Corps of Light Infantry. He was present at the laying of the corner-stone of Bunker Hill Monument, among the venerable men so eloquently addressed by Daniel Webster. In that battle Jared Wilson's father, Samuel Wilson, of Dover, was also a soldier. Enoch Wilson, the Judge's father, died in his native town in 1858, at the age of 69 years, and Abigail R. Wilson at the home of one of her sons at Creston, Iowa, in 1884, at the age of 84 years.

Of the four brothers of our subject we learn the following facts; and, though the province of this work is not to trace the various branches of any family, we feel justified in encroaching somewhat upon space. The youngest brother of C. C. is an attorney at Creston, Iowa, while the other three are all physicians and surgeons of -more or less distinction! One of them is located at Havana, Cuba, another at Osceola, Iowa, and a third at Creston, Iowa.

of Massachusetts and in an academic course. In 1850 . h£_cam.e.tQ Illinois, and in Stark County purchased six quarter-sections of land, which he sold in 1854, -and began reading law. From 1856 to 1858 he was in his native State, attending lectures at the Harvard Law School, and in 1859 returned to Illinois to be admitted to the Bar. He began practice in Bureau County, but in i860 removed into Kewanee, where he has since made his home. His first public service in this county was as District Attorney for the Fifth Judicial District from 1864 to 1868.

In 1868 President Johnson appointed him Chief Justice of Utah, and from that time to 1870 he presided with ability and to the entire satisfaction of the Bar of that Territory and credit to himself; but, differing somewhat with General Grant as to the Executive's right to dictate to the Judiciary, he, in August of 1870, resigned and came home. Judge Wilson has always been characteristic for his public Spirit, and in his profession occupies a high standpoint. For several years he was president of the Kewanee Manufacturing Company, and was one of the three men who organized the Anderson Steam Heater Company, now known as the Haxtun Steam Heater Company.

He is a Republican of the most pronounced type, a speaker of rare force and ability, fully abreast with the times in all public affairs, and is strongly spoken of as the probable successor of General T. J. Henderson in Congress.

Judge Wilson was married at Wrentham, Mass., Jan. 20, 1850, to Miss Maria N. Benhani, a native of Vermont, and has had born to him seven children : Jennie M., Abbie E., Mrs. S. P. Samuelson, of New Windsor, 111. ; Laura M., Charles E., Cora A., George F. and Edward H.

P. Taylor, M. D., of Woodhull, one of the most successful practicing physicians on the eye, was born July 1, 1834, in the State of Pennsylvania. His parents, Michael and Sally (Persing) Taylor, were natives also of that State, but removed from there to Morrow Co., Ohio, in 1844, and in 185 1 came West, settling in Monmouth, Warren Co., 111. In 1852, they removed to Clover Township, this county, where the senior

Dr. Taylor, by his own efforts in private study, attained a thorough education. In i86r, he commenced to study medicine in Carlisle, Clinton Co., 111., and in 1864 graduated at the St. Louis Medical College. Immediately after he was appointed Acting Assistant Surgeon in the U. S. Navy, for 18 months, holding the position of a staff officer until the close of the war. The Doctor is a fine oculist, having made the study and treatment of the eye a specialty. He is also the proprietor of a drug store in the village of Woodhull, in which place he has been a resident since the war closed. He has just completed a fine residence in the village, at a cost of $3,000.

He is also the proprietor of 120 acres of land in Clover Township, this county, and a half section in Kansas. He is a Democrat in his political principles, is a member of the G. A. R., and, though not a member of any religious denomination, is liberal to all sects and especially to all the public enterprises tending to the comfort or improvement of humanity.

Mr. Taylor was married in 1865 to Miss Ellen Russell, a native of St. Louis, Mo., and their five children are, - Porter E., Sophie M., Sallie B., Mollie and Eddy D.

illiam Arnett, a farmer on section 6, Loraine Township, is one of the most prom- KT"" inent agriculturists in Henry County. He '} is the seventh son of Lewis and Clara Arnett, and was born in Warren Co., Pa., May 3, 1831. His parents removed to Henry County when he was six years of age. They settled in the township of Loraine and there he grew to the estate of manhood, attending the common schools and working on the farm after he arrived at a suitable age. He lived with his parents until he was 20 years of age, and after that he was in the family of his brother Joseph one year.

In 1832, he started for California in company with a party numbering 84 persons, with a train of ox teams. They started on the 19th of April, and reached Albany, in Oregon, on the first day of September following. The first work in which Mr. Arnett was engaged was in splitting rails on a ranch, and he then obtained a situation as cook on a ranch, for which service he received five dollars a day. - Finding that he could earn more money splitting rails by the job, he abandoned the vocation of cook for that of the latter, and worked in the employ of the same man. La'e in the fall of that year he went to California and engaged in mining at the place known as "Sailors' Diggins," where th-j first gold was discovered by Marshall in T848, who recently died in the extremest poverty (in 1885). After spending three months in that business without success, and with theonly result of his having spent all his money, he returned to Oregon. Arriving there, he interested himself in .the management of a ferry across the Kalapoo River, which he continued to operate six weeks. At the end of that time his brother joined him, and they returned to California. There they engaged in the business of packing goods from Crescent City to the various mining camps in the mountains, their transportation trains being composed of mules.. In this they were occupied until the early spring of 1857.

In that season they sailed from San Francisco for home across the Isthmus, coming thence to the city of New York. On his arrival at home Mr. Arnett bought 30 yokes of oxen and engaged in breaking prairie. In the autumn of the same year he bought 250 acres of land in a part of Loraine Township, on the south half of section 6, township 18, range 4. The place had scarcely known the hand of improvement and the proprietor has placed it all in excellent condition. He has made additional purchases until he has 373 acres, on the same section. Mr. Arnett is a skillful farmer, and in addition to general farming he raises a large amount of finely graded stock.