Macoupin County, Illinois - Biographical sketches, 1879 (part 5 of 15)

son of A. J. Smalley, was a young man of brilliant promise, and at the time of his death had already acquired an excellent reputation at the Macoupin county bar. He was a bright student, and was educated at Shurtleff college, which he attended for five years. After leaving college, he entered the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He left this institution on account of the poor state of his health, and continued his legal studies in the office of Edwards, Stewart and Brown, a prominent law-firm of Springfield. On his admission to the bar; he opened an office at Carlinviile, and during the few years of his professional career built up a remunerative practice, and was looked upon as an able lawyer and one who gave great promise of future prominence. He was in partnership with Judge L. P. Peebles till the latter's election as county judge. He took an active interest in politics, and was a leading member of the democratic party in this county, and was well known and popular in every township. He was a candidate for legislative honors, and in 1869 was the democratic nominee for county judge. He was regarded by the older members of the profession as the most promising young man connected with the bar in this part of the state, and his death in November, 1875, of typhoid fever, cut short a career which gave every indication of great usefulness and honorable distinction. He left a wife (formerly Miss Fannie Carson of Woodburn) and two children.

James F. Cummings

JAMES F. CUMMINGS Was born at Antrim, New Hampshire, January 16th, 1835. His ancestors were old residents of New England. His father, Sam uel Cummings, removed to Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1845, and the next year to Lawrence, where he died in 1878. The subject of this sketch secured his education principally at Lowell and Lawrence. He graduated from the Lawrence High School at the age of seventeen, and after leaving school was overseer in the finishing department of the Bay State Mills. In November, 1855, he married Harriet M. Silver, who was born in Vermont, and soon afterward came to Bunker Hill, where he engaged in the carpentering and cabinetmaking business. Before the war he was capta'». of the Bunker Hill Guards, and on the breaking out of the rebellion this company volunteered and was mustered into service as Company F, of the 7th Illinois regiment. It was the fifth company accepted by the adjutant-general. He took with him 127 men to Springfield, all of whom, with one exception, were afterward in the Union army. The three months' term of enlistment expired at Mound City, Illinois, and the company re-enlisted for three years. In the summer of 1861 he was in Missouri and Kentucky, and at the capture of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in February, 1862. He was home sick for a few weeks, but returned to the army in time to take part in the battle of Pittsburg Landing. He soon afterward resigned on account of ill health. From 1867 to 1878 he was in the grain business at Bunker Hill. He has since been

_ real estate and loan agent and notary public. He has always been a republican in politics. He was president of the town council of Bunker Hill in 1872, and was mayor of the city from 1873 to 1877. He is the present clerk of Bunker Hill township.

Tuts gentleman, the present post-master at Bunker Hill, was born at Berwick on Tweed, Scotland, March 2d, 1844. His father, Fenwick Y. Hedley, was a minister of the Baptist church, and for some years the companion of the celebrated Father Matthew in his wonderful temperance campaigns, and with him traveled through England and Ireland, holding mass meetings, and inaugurating the great temperance crusade, which has become a part of history. From exposure incident to these arduous campaigns, he was taken seriously ill, and his death occurred in the year 1847. Susan Hunt, the mother of the subject of this biography, was born at Bristol, England. After the death of her first husband, by whom she had two children, of whom F. Y. Hedley was the oldest, she married Wilson W. Pattison, and in the year 1852 removed to America.

In 1854 the family settled at Carlinville. Mr. Hedley obtained his education partially in the public schools of St. Louis, and afterward at Blackburn University. In 1856 he began learning the trade of a printer, in the otlice of the Carlinville Democrat. He was thus employed at the commencement of the war of the rebellion. On the 24th of August, 1861, he enlisted ax private in company C. thirty-second Regiment, Illinois volunteers, commanded by Col. John Logan of Carlinville. His regiment was attached to the old Fourth Division of the army of the Tennessee, under General Grant, and subsequently to the Seventeenth Corps, on a different division of the army being adopted. He took part in the battle of Pittsburg Landing, and in the various engagements which marked the Tennessee river campaigns. He was also engaged with his regiment in the movement around Vicksburg.

His original term of enlistment was for three years, but in 1863 he re-enlisted as a veteran volunteer. In the famous Atlantic campaigns his regiment bore a conspicuous part everywhere, acquitting itself with credit. He served ax private till 1864, when he was promoted to be first lieutenant and adjutant. The famous march of Sherman to the sea, was the next important movement in which he took part.

Early in the year 1865, on the recommendation of his division commander, Gen. W. W. Belknap, afterwards Secretary of War, and Gen. Frank P. Blair, he was commissioned captain by the president, and assigned to staff duty as assistant adjutant general of the third brigade, fourth division, seventeenth corps. He acted as such during the campaigns in North Carolina, preceding the collapse of the Southern Confederacy, after which he participated in the grand review at Washington, immediately before the final disbandment of the army. e

After the close of the war his brigade was detached for duty on the Plains, the outbreak of Indian troubles causing serious apprehensions of danger in that quarter. The brigade was en route for Utah, but on reaching Fort Kearney was recalled, and directed to proceed to Springfield, Ilinois, there to be mustered-out of service, and on the 24th of October, 1865, he beeame again a private citizen, after more than four years continuous service.

He came to Bunker Hill January ist, 1866, and was engaged on the Union Gazette, which was first published at that date, and for the first number of which he composed the matter. In February, 1867, in connection with Dr. A. R. Sawyer, he became proprietor of the paper, and after Dr. Sawyer's death in May, 1868, the sole owner. The name was changed to the Bunker Hill Gazette. He has since been occupied in the active management of the journal, except during a brief period, when a lease was made to other parties. Under the direction of Mr. Hedley, the paper has been successful, and sustains an excellent reputation as a bright and lively local journal. On political questions, it has held to a fair and moderate course, though it does not disguise its preference for the, principles of the republiean party. During the agitation of the various matters connected with the building of the court-house the Gazette waged a relentless war against the frauds which were being practiced on the people of Macoupin county, and to its utmost ability, exposed the schemes of those interested in unjustly burdening the county with debt. The Gazette was fearless in speaking on this subject when others were silent, and the editor has since had the satisfaction of seeing his course vindicated by the sober, second thought of the people.

He has always been a republican in politics. He received his first appointment as post-master in 1872, and was reappointed by President Hayes in January, 1878. He was married September 16th, 1868, to Mary E. Harlan, daughter of Elijah Harlan, one of the oldest citizens of Bunker Hill. Of the five children, by this marriage, two daughters are living. Mrs. Hedley's death occurred May 16th, 1879.

Archelaus N. Yancey

Mr. Yancey is descended from an old Virginia family, which has been represented by several distinguished men in various parts of the south. His birth-place was Montpelier, in Orange county, Virginia. Montpelier was the residence of James Madison, and Mr. Yancey was born about a mile from the home of the ex-president, on part of the estate which formerly belonged to the Madison family. The Yanceys settled in Virginia while it was yet a British colony. Augustus Yancey, great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and among Mr. Yancey's earliest recollections are incidents connected with visits to Richmond with his grandfather, Charles Yancey, on business concerning the pension of the latter's father. Charles Yancey was a planter in Orange county, Virginia, and he, himself, had served in the war of 1812, receiving in one of the engagements in which he took part, a wound which made necessary the amputation of his arm. He was a prominent mason, and in 1822 was grand master of the state of Virginia, the highest office in the Masonic jurisdiction of the state. Mr. Yancey's father, James E. Yancey, married Mary I. Waller, whose ancestors had also for along period been residents of the old dominion. Her father, James Waller, was at one time, before railroads were built, largely engaged in the transportation business between Fredericks, burg and Richmond, Virginia.

Mr. Yancey was the oldest of nine children, and was born March 24th, 1844. When he was twelve years of age his father moved from Virginia to Oldham county, Kentucky. Mr. Yancey had commenced his education at the Hilton Academy in Orange county, Virginia, and after moving to Kentucky, attended an academy at Middletown, in that state, where he prepared for college. He entered Dartmouth college, New Hampshire, January, 1864. From an early period of his lite he had entertained the idea of becoming a lawyer, and for eighteen months before entering college had pursued his preparatory legal studies in the office of Nathaniel Wolf, a prominent lawyer of Louisville, Kentucky. Becoming anxious to commence active work in his chosen profession at as early a date as possible, he left Dartmouth college in the summer of 1865, and the succeeding fall entered the law school connected with the university of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, determined on securing a thorough legal education. He was a student at Ann Arbor for two years, and graduated March 27th, 1867, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. After his graduation he practiced for a brief period in Oldham county, Kentucky, and in the fall of 1867, came to Bunker Hill with the purpose of establishing himself in his profession. About the same time, October 1st, 1871, he married Miss Belle Bryan, of Oldham county, Kentucky. Mrs. Yancey is a native of Oldham county, and her ancestors were residents of Kentucky from an early period in the history of the state.

The remainder of Mr. Yancey's history is well known to the people of Macoupin county. He has resided at Bunker Hill, and in the practice of his profession in the courts of this county has acquired an excellent reputation as a lawyer. His practice has embraced all branches of the law, both cases before justices of the peace and intricate litigation before the supreme court of the state and the Federal courts, and in every instance he has proved himself a man of sound legal learning, successful in the management of his cases, ready in resources, and especially able in the presentation of a case to a jury. For several years he has been local attorney for the Indianapolis and St. Louis railroad in the counties of Macoupin and Madison. Like his ancestors, before him, he has been a democrat, and has given his unvarying support to the principles and candidates of that party. He has taken an active interest in politics, and has usually participated in the various political campaigns advocating the cause of democracy with an ability which has won him considerable reputation as a sound and logical speaker.

AmonG the enterprising and successful farmers of Bunker Hill township is 8. P. Sanner. He isa native of the state, and was born in Madison county, February 25th, 1856. He is descended from a family of German origin, IJfis great-grandfather on his father's side emigrated from Germany, and settled in Pennsylvania while that state was still subject to British rule. When the war of the Revolution broke out, and the colonies entered into their long and arduous struggle for independence, his ancestors were not unmindful of the duty they owed to their adopted country, and his grandfather enlisted and served in the army under Washington. His grandfather married a young lady named Hanna, to the various branches of which family in the West Mr. Sanner is in consequence related.

His father, Samuel Sanner, was born near the town of Northumberland, in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, in the year 1803. He learned the trade of a saddler. He married Barbara Paul, who was born in Preston county, Virginia, in the year 1810. Her father moved from Virginia to Pennsylvania. This marriage took place April 27th, 1827. Mr. Sanner's father worked at his trade at Northumberland, Pennsylvania, till his health beeame poor, when he removed to the West and purchased a farm in Madison county, cight miles south of Bunker Hill, where he lived till 1867, and then removed to Shelby county, Ilinois, where both he and his wife are now living, spending the closing years of a long and well-spent life. They celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage in April, 1877.

The birthplace of Samuel Paul Sanner, the subject of this sketch, was on his father's farm in Madison county, eight miles from Bunker Hill. He grew up in that vicinity with such opportunities for education as were common among the settlers of the West forty years ago. On the 8th of April, 1860, he married Margaret Calyin. Mrs. Sanner is also a native of Madison county, and was born ten miles south-east of Bunker Hill, November 13th, 1887. She is descended also from a Pennsylvania family. Her father, Philip S. Calvin, was born in Mercer county of that state, and when a young man emigrated to Indiana, and in Lawrenceburg married Jane Clarke. She was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and had two brothers who had been in the service during the war of 1812. One of them was surgeon of the United States frigate Guerriere, and was lost by the sinking of the vessel and was never heard from afterward. Another brother was one of the pioneer emigrants to Illinois, died in this state, and was buried on the banks of the Kaskaskia river. Philip S. Calvin settled in Bureau county, Illinois, in 1835; lived there till 1837, and then came to Madison county, where he died in 1867. Mrs. Sanner's mother is still living in Madison county, at the age of eighty-two years.

They resided in Madison county two years after their marriage. Mr. Sanner and his wife moved to Macoupin county, and on the 11th of March, 1862, settled on a tract of land consisting of one hundred and ten acres, which composes part of their present farm, in section 6 of township 7, range 8. At that time an old shanty, the only apology for shelter which the place offered, occupied a position just east of his present residence; the mud was knee-deep, and altogether their new home presented an uninviting and unsightly appearance, and gaye little promise of comfort or future development into the fine and valuable farm which the visitor to the spot may now see. Mr. Sanner's success is an illustration of what may be accomplished by intelligent farming, hard work, and untiring energy. His industry soon enabled him to get his farm into a better condition, and his example proves that the farmer on the prairies of Illinois can not only make a living out of the soil, but can reach a position where he will be in comfortable and independent circumstances. His farm has increa:cd in size from one hundred and ten to four hundred and twenty acres, and is situated in the corner of Bunker Hill, Hilyard and Brighton townships, part lying in each township. He has been engaged in general farming, and is a man of good business ability. From his father he inherited a taste for mechanical employments, and his natural genius in this direction has been of great service to him in carrying on the farm and keeping in repair the necessary agricultural implements. He has on the farm a workshop, blacksmith shop, and all the tools and materials for repairing the ordinary machinery used in farming, so that in case of an emergency occasioned by the breaking of any agricultural implement he is not compelled to resort to the services of a mechanic at a neighboring town, but can save considerable time and trouble by executing the repairs with his own hands. His faculty for invention is also of great benefit in devising simple and inexpensive means for performing various farming operations.

Mr. and Mrs. Sanner have been the parents of eight children, whose nan.es in the order of their ages are as follows: Jesse Frank, Anna Belle,

Lucy, Sophia, Samuel Clarke, Nellie, Harry, and Jacob Otto. All are living, with the exception of Samuel Clarke, whose death occurred September 8th, 1870.

He has taken an active interest in public affairs, such as should engage the attention of every intelligent and enterprising citizen, but has had no active participation in politics. His time has been taken up in the management of his farm and his own business affairs; he has, nevertheless, always been a republican. He was a boy when the agitation first began in regard to the slavery question ; and when party lines came to be closely drawn on this subject, and the bitter fight ensued between slavery and free-soil principles, he had no hesitation in connecting himself with the republican party, whose principles he has supported from that day to the present. Personally Mr. Sanner belongs to that class of men who make a country rich and prosperous. He believes in carrying modern notions into the business of farming, and in taking advantage of every valuable improvement and invention. This progressive spirit, coupled with a wise economy and sound business judgment, produces men who become the most valuable citizens, who do the most toward the upbuilding and improving of a country, and who are foremost in every enterprise intended to advance the material interests of the community. At the head of this sketch appear the portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Sanner. The reader will also observe a full-page illustration of their residence and farm, with the improvements which they expect to make within a short time.

George Harvey

Mr. Haryey's ancestors were residents of New England. Amos Harvey, his grandfather, was captain of a vessel which was lost in a storm and never heard from. He left three daughters and three sons, the youngest of whom, Solomon Harvey, was the father of the subject of this biography. Ife was born near Boston, and in Connecticut married Mary Stearns. The fiunily figures far back in the history of New England. Capt. John Stearns fought bravely in the revolutionary war. He purchased from the state of Connecticut fourteen hundred acres of land in the Western Reserye of Ohio, within the present limits of Medina county, and there settled his children. When Mr. Harvey's father and grandfather reached Cleveland in the year 1815, they found only three or four log houses. From Cleyeland the pioneers cut their way through a dense forest twenty. one mile south. Mr. Harvey's mother, at that time, with one or two possible exceptions, was the only white woman from her home west to the Pacific ocean. Mr. Harvey was born in Medina county, March 23d, 1817, and was the first white male child born in the township where the family resided.

He was raised in Medina county ; attended the common schools, and the preparatory department connected with Hudson College in Cuyahoga county, Ohio. At twenty-one he entered on an active business career which gradually developed into unexpected proportions. He had secured a little capital, with which he opened a store in Loudonyille, Richland county, Ohio, in 1837. A year afterwards, with a capital of a thousand dollars, he went to Cincinnati. He sold goods at various places in Indiana, and in 1841 established with Charles Woodruff in Cincinnati the auction house of Harvey & Woodruff! In 1842, at Indianapolis, he opened an auction and jobbing house in partnership with A. G. Morten, who afterward became his brother-in-law. March loth, 1848, he married Tabitha A. Morten, daughter of Henry Morten. She was born in Cincinnati. Her maternal grandfather was Col. John Armstrong, a colonel in the revolutionary war, who settled at Columbia, near Cincinnati. He was a man of considerable wealth, and owned large amounts of land in Ohio and Kentucky. Her father, Henry Morten, died near Cincinnati in 1837.

In 1844 Mr. Harvey resumed at Cincinnati the old partnership of Harvey & Woodruff, In 1848 he embarked in the jobbing business at St. Louis. In 1849, with Robert Stewart, he founded the auction and jobbing house of Harvey & Stewart. In 1851 this partnership was dissolved, and the firm of Harvey & Whedon, subsequently so well-known in St. Louis, was established. For sixteen years this firm transacted an auction and commission business amounting annually to eight hundred thousand or a million dollars. The war caused great activity in the auction and commission business in St. Louis. The annual profits were from twelve to sixteen thousand dollars. Sales were held regularly three times a week, and each time the counters were cleared to start again with a fresh and complete stock, During the war Mr. Harvey and his partner embarked largely in outside operations. They bought cotton, and established a store at Fort Pillow, Tennessee, under government permission, paying five per cent. commission for protection. Large quantities of gouds were sold to the soldiers and residents between the lines. At the capture of Fort Pillow by Gen. Forrest, a complete stock of goods and a steamboat fell into the hands of the rébels, and at one stroke they lost $41,600.

His farm residence north of Bunker Hill was purchased in 1862, and his family have since resided there. The firm of Harvey & Whedon was dissolved in 1868. Mr. Harvey was engaged in no active business till 1870, when the firm of Harvey & Tyler was established, and fitted up the old Centenary Methodist Church, at the corner of Fifth and Pine streets, St. Louis, for the general auction and commission business at an expense of ten thousand dollars. July 4th, 1871, Mr. Harvey suffered a stroke of paralysis in St. Louis. He was removed to Bunker Hill. After his recovery he found his eyesight somewhat impaired, and decided to altogether relinquish active business. His interest in the firm of Haryey & Tyler was sold to his former partner, E. H. Whedon. His children are Kate, the wife of Basil H. Dorsey ; May C., wife of 8. Pepper, cashier of the Surveyor of Customs' Office, St. Louis; and two sons, Charles M. and Willard B. Harvey. He has handled millions of dollars in money and property belonging to others, and to his credit it may be said that never an imputation of dishonesty rested on his character, nor ever has he failed to render to every man his exact due. Nature gave him a strong physical constitution, which enabled him to undergo hardship and exposure with immunity, and his energy and business qualities £tted him to undertake enterprises of more than ordinary magnitude. At Bunker Hill he has been engaged in farming and the raising of fine horses. His stables contain some excellent stock. He is the owner of Nino, at one time considered the most promising horse in America, but who unfortunately was injured while traveling by rail from St. Louis to the East.

Ross Houck who died in 1867, was one of the substantial farmers of Bunker Hill township. He was born in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, March Ist, 1804. His grandfather emigrated from Germany to America at an early date, and settled in Pennsylvania. Mr. Houck was raised in Huntingdon county, and received an ordinary common-school and business education. When eighteen or nineteen years old he started west. He crossed the Allegheny mountains, and when he reached Zanesville, Ohio, had only twenty-five cents in his pocket. At Zanesville he learned the carpenter's trade and worked a couple of years. He was a young man of steady habits, and persevering and industrious disposition, and these qualities struck the attention of a gentleman who was engaged in selling books, who hired him as an agent. Mr. Houck for four years was in the employment of this gentleman, and then struck out in the business on his own account. His headquarters were at Cincinnati, where his books were published. He traveled through all the southern and western states settled at that time, looking after his agents and delivering the books. He accumulated considerable money in this business. He came to Madison county in this state in 1828, and lived mostly there for several years. On the 3d of May, 1832, he married Lucinda Ann Gonterman. Mrs. Houck was born in Christian county, Kentucky, November 27th, 1811. Her grandfather was one of the earliest settlers of Kentucky, in which state her father, Jacob Gonterman, was born, Her mother, whose maiden name was Hannah Stark, was from New Jersey. Jacob Gonterman emigrated from Kentucky to Illinois in 1816, and settled four miles east of Edwardsville.

After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Houck, spent one year in Pennsylvania, and in 1834 went to farming on Smooth prairie, in Madison county. They moved to Upper Alton in 1840, and lived there till 1846, and then moyed on the farm in Bunker Hill township, where Mr. Houck died, and where Mrs. Houck and other members of the family still reside. He had built on this place in 1845, a two-story brick house, which occupies a beautiful and commanding situation. Mr. Houck hada farm of three hundred acres, and eighty acres of timber. He also improved a section of valuable land three miles from Raymond in Montgomery county. He was a man of great industry and energy, of good business qualifications, and of a character for honesty and integrity beyond question. He was a democrat in politics. He died on the 26th of December, 1867. The seven children of Mr, and Mrs. Houck are all living. William R. the oldest son, is living near Raymond. Maria Ann, is the wife of George L. Williams, who is in the photographic business et Edwardsville. Julia M. is the wife of James Rider of Nilwood. Hannah P. married Daniel Richards, and is living near Raymond in Montgomery county. James Houck lives on the'oid homestead. Ellen is the wife of Edward Dorsey of Montgomery county. Mary E. married Blair McCambridge, and is living at Witt, Illinois.

Aistory Of Macoupin Counby, Tillinois

Ei. W. Hayes, who has been practicing law at Bunker Hill since 1867, is a native of Franklin county, Pennsylvania, and was born January 30th, 1837. His ancestors were Scotch-Irish. His great-grandfather, David Ifayes, emigrated from the north of Ireland and settled in Dauphin county, Pennsylyania, and from there, about the year 1790, removed to Franklin county. He had been a soldier in the war of the Revolution, He had six sons and two daughters, and of these Wilson Hayes was the grandfather of the subject of this biography. Wilson Hayes was the father of three sons and three daughters, the oldest of whom, Dayid Hayes (Mr. Hayes' father) was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in 1811; in 1836 he married Nancy Colwell, who was a native of the adjoining county of Cumberland, and belonged to the same Scotch-Irish stock, which settled in Pennsylvania at an early period, and has contributed not a little to the development and growth of that great commonwealth. By this marriage there were cight children, six sons and two daughters; all grew to manhood,and womanhood, and four are now residents of Macoupin and Madison counties, in this state. Edgar W. Hayes was the oldest of these children. His birthplace was the old house in Franklin county, to which his great-grandfather removed in 1790, and which has now been the home of the family for four generations.

After attending the ordinary common schools, he prepared for college at an academy at Shippensburg, and in the fall of 1855 entered the Sophomore class at Lafayette college, Easton, Pennsylvania. He graduated from this institution in the class of 1858. After his graduation he taught school in Franklin and Cumberland counties, Pennsylvania, and was so engaged at the time of the commencement of the war of the rebellion. In May, 1861, a few weeks after the first call for troops, he enlisted in company A, seventh regiment, Pennsylvania volunteer reserves. He subsequently received his discharge from the service by reason of disability. His health was seriously impaired for many months. He afterward served for a short time in the state militia on the invasion of Pennsylvania by Lee. He had begun reading law soon after leaving college, and in 1863 he resumed his studies, which had been interrupted by his enlistment in the army and his subsequent ill health in the office of R. P. McClure, a leading lawyer of Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. He was admitted as a member of the Cumberland county bar in August, 1865.

He had visited Ralls county, Missouri, in. 1859 and 1860, and directly after his admission to the bar, he went to that part of Missouri where he opened a law office the latter part of the year 1865. A visit to a brother in Madison county, of this state, in April, 1867, was the occasion of his learning of the advantages of Bunker Hill, at that time without a lawyer, as a place for the practice of the legal profession. He settled at once in Bunker Hill, where his promptness and fidelity to the interests of his clients and the ability and energy which he has displayed in the management of his professional business, have acquired for him a large and profitable practice. In politics he is a republican, and in religion a Presbyterian. In 1869 he varied the monotony of practice in the Macoupin county courts, by a visit to California on professional business, during which he met with an exciting adventure in the way of shipwreck. He was a passenger on the steamship " Golden City," which was wrecked on the Pacific coast, nine hundred miles south of San Francisco. On his returnfrom California he was, on the 13th of April, 1870, marriedto Margaret F. Heck, of Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, with whom he has since lived and by whom he has three children, one son and two daughters.

County, Lllinots The Mattoon Family

Is of Scotch origin, arid was one of the earliest to settle at Amherst, Massachusetts. The name of Eleazer Mattoon appears among the founders of the Congregational Church at Amherst in 1739. His grandson, GENERAL Exsenrzer Marroon was a man of conspicuous ability. He was born at Amherst, August 19th, 1755. At the breaking out of the Revolutionary war, he was a student at Dartmouth College, and in another year would have graduated. The patriotic president gave the members of the junior class their diplomas, and Ebenezer Mattoon, then twenty years of ave, entered the army. He was a lieutenant in Col. Wade's regiment, and afterward was promoted to major. He served with distinction under Gen. Gates at Saratoga, and in other battles. He was a delegate to the state convention held at Concord in 1776, though then, but twenty-one years old; and to the Constitutional Conventions of 1779 and 1820. He was elected representative in the legislature in 1781 and 1794. He served in the State senate 1795-6 ; he was presidential elector in 1796, 1821 and 1833, and was representative in Congress 1801-3. For'several years he was sheriff of the county of Hampshire, and for a long period Major General of the Massachusetts militia, and Adjutant General of the State, holding the latter positions at the time of Shay's Rebellion. His name was prominently mentioned in connection with the position of Governor of Massachusetts, when at the age of fifty-eight he became blind, a circumstance which terminated his distinguished public career. His other faculties, however, remained unimpaired till his death on the 11th of September, 1845, at the age of eightycight years. His portrait painted by the celebrated artist Trumbull, with whom he was on terms of intimate friendship, is now in possession of members of the family at Bunker Hill.

Mason Esenrvzer Marroon,.son of General Mattoon, came to Illinois in 1846, and died at Bunker Hill in 1868. He was born at Amherst, Massachusetis, September 29th, 1781. He was raised in his native town, and on reachins manhood went to farming. He married Lucena Mayo, who was born in Orange, Franklin county, Massachusetts, May 16th, 1787. In 1846 he sold his farm in Massachusetts and emigrated to Illinois. He resided one year in Sangamon county, and in 1847 purchased a farm north of Bunker ILill, where he resided till his death on the 28th of July, 1868. He had held the rank of major on his father's staff, in the Massachusetts militia, and by this title he was always known. He held the office of sheriff of Hampshire county, Massachusetts, and several terms represented the town of Amherst, in the Massachusetts legislature. His health after coming to Wlinois was not good, and he lived in quiet and retirement. His widow, Lucena Mayo Mattoon, died at Bunker Hill, February 23d, 1879, nearly ninety-two vears of age.

Of the ten children.of Major Mattoon, five reside in this state. Their names are as follows: Mrs. Fannie Parsons, now living in Smith county, Kansas; Mrs. Maria Hutchinson, widow of Dr. Levi Hutchinson, of Bunker Will; Mrs. Iumeline Sandford, widow of Ira Sandford, whose sons, S..N. and William M. Sandford, reside at Bunker Hill; Ebenezer Mattoon aud John Brooks Mattoon, of Bunker Hill; Mrs. Lucena Cowles, of Unionville, Lake county, Ohio; Benjamin M. Mattoon, of Collinsville, Connectieut; Mrs. Dorothea Vannevar, of Malden, Massachusetts; Mrs. Eliza A. Orme, of Bond county, Illinois and Eleazer Mattoon, of Topeka, Kansas. A remarkable longevity has characterized the family, the representatives of each gencration reaching an age considerably in excess of four-score years. Fach generation has also been identified with the Congregational church. During the time of the old whig party, the members of the family were amvny its strong adherents, and since its dissolution the surviving descendants have been republicans. The family was honorably identified with the history of Massachusetts, from which state its members have emigrated to the west. From one branch of the family, the town of Mattoon, in this

John A. Pettingill

Mr. PrrrrnciLu was born at Salisbury, New Hampshire, May 14, 1817. His great-grandfather, Andrew Pettingill, was born at Plaistow, New Hampshire, in 1742. He was in the Revolutionary war, and a lieutenant in the same company of which Israel Webster, the father of Daniel Webster, was captain. He was in the battle of Bennington, and about a week after that engagement returned home and died. His sword, which he carried at Bennington, is now in Mr. Pettingill's possession. Benjamin Pettingill, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born at Salisbury in April, 1770; he married Hannah Greeley, a second cousin to Horace Greeley; he was a man of superior natural business qualifications, and had gone to school in his boyhood days with Daniel Webster, who was also a native of Salisbury, He had sound judgment, and gave his children good opportunities for acquiring an education.

John A. Pettingill was the youngest of thirteen children, of whom only one beside himself is now living; a brother, Moses Pettingill, resides at Peoria. He was raised at Salisbury. He had good educational advantages. The district schools of his native town were thorough, and there was besides at Salisbury a large and flourishing academy, which he attended. He was also for two terms a student in a seminary at New Hampton, New Hampshire. He came to Illinois in the fall of 1837, when twenty years old. After visiting Bunker Hill, he went to Peoria, and was a clerk in the store of his brother till April, 1839, when he returned to Bunker Hill. In 1839 he began improving a farm one mile north of Bunker Hill - the first farm ever opened on the prairie north of the town. He was first married to Abby A. Johnson, a native of Medford, Massachusetts, who died October 11th, 1854. His second marriage was in October, 1855, to Miss Kate Small, who was born at Wyndham, Maine. In 1847 he quit farming, and opened a store at Bunker Hill, which he carried on till the spring of 1849. That was the spring succeeding the remarkable discoveries of gold in California, and in March he started for the new El Dorado, in one of the earliest companies, to cross the plains. He reached California October 1st, 1849, but only remained till July, 1850, when he returned by the way of the Isthmus and New York. During 1850 and 1851 he built his present residence in Bunker Hill, and started a nursery and green-house. He was among the first to embark in this business in the county, and to him is due much of the improvement and beauty of Bunker Hill and the surrounding country. Nearly nine-tenths ef the trees now of mature growth in the town and vicinity were raised from the seed by Mr. Pettingill. He was first a whig in politics, and became a republican on the formation of that party. He has been a member of the Congregational éhurch at Bunker Hill since its organization, and in many ways has been closely identified with the town Few have such accurate information concerning the early history of Bunker Hill, or have been at more pains to preserve the incidents of the early scttling of this part of the county.

Edward H. Davis

THE ancestors of Max, Edward H. Davis came from Northumberland county, England, from which place three brothers of that name emigrated to America, Ephraim Davis, his grcat-great-grandtather, was born in 1697, and in 1720 settled at Concord (then called Pencook), New Hampshire, of which he was one of the original proprietors. His g¢randfather, David Davis, was a fifer in the American army during the Revolutionary war. His father, Robert Davis, was quartermaster-general of New Hampshire in 1834, and was post-master at Concord from 1839 to 1846. Mr. Davis was born at Concord, New Hampshire, February 25th, 1821. His mother's name before marriage was Eliza Hall. In 1836, when sixteen years old, he went to Savannah, Ga., and learned the trade of a watchmaker in that city. In 1839 he returned to New Hampshire, and soon afterward came to St. Louis, where he had an uncle living. He found some difficulty in getting employment at his trade, and his acquaintance with John Cayender, in whose company he had come West, and who had laid out the town of Bunker Hill, induced him to come to that part of Macoupin county and go to farming. He arrived at Bunker Hill in November, 1839. October 5th, 1840, at the house of John Cayender, in St. Louis, he married Jane H. Cavender, daughter of Charles Cavender, who became a resident of Bunker Hill township in the spring of 1838.

In 1840 he bought land on Dry Fork, in the present Gillespie township, and after living there one year remoyed to Bunker Hill, in which part of the county he has since resided. Since 1852 he has lived on a tract of land adjoining the corporate limits of Bunker Hill. He is widely known throughout the county, and has filled a number of public positions. For seven years he acted as deputy-sheriff - two years under Sheriff Henry Tappan, one under Seymour B. Wilcox, and four under James T. Pennington. He was appointed post-master at Bunker Hill by James K. Polk in 1845, and resigned after managing the office one year. Andrew Johnson appointed him post-master again in 1868, and he held the office until Grant's administration. From 1862 to 1867 he was deputy county assessor.

In politics he has always been a democrat, and has voted for every democratic candidate for President from the time he was first old enough to exercise the right of suffrage. He has twice been elected clerk of Bunker Hill township on the democratic ticket, though the township is strongly republican. He has twice been a candidate before the democratic county convention for the nomination of sheriff, and at the convention in 1876 was the leading candidate for twenty-one ballots. He has filled every official position he has occupied with fidelity and integrity, and has many friends in all parts of the county. He has nine children.

Samuel Smalley

Was born in Somerset county, New Jersey, August 1st, 1815. His ancestors came over from England in the ship Caledonia in 1716. They landed at Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and settled on the Short Hills, five or six miles south of Plainfield. His grandfather, David Smalley, was a farmer in Somerset county. His two older brothers were in the Continental army during the revolutionary war, and David Smalley himself was seeretary on the staff ofa general officer. One brother, Jacob Smalley, commanded a New Jersey company, and the other, Isaac Smalley, was an express rider, and carried dispatches between New York city and the American army up the Hudson. After the revolution David Smalley was county judge and justice of the peace in New Jersey. squire Smalley's father, David D. Smalley, was born September 30th, 1782, and was a soldier in the war of 1812 with the rank of captain. He marricd Mary Blackford, December 3d, 1807 ; she was a native also of Somerset county. The fourth of six children was Samuel Smalley. His mother died September 12th, 1822, and his father April 26th, 1828.

After his father's death he was obliged to earn his own living, and had a home with a merchant in Morris county till he was fourteen, and then began learning the hatter's trade at Plainfield. He came to Illinois in 1837, and engaged in the business of manufacturing hats at Jerseyville. Jn 1841 he settled in Macoupin county. September 20th, 1842, he married Mary Dodson, daughter of the Rev. Elijah Dodson. Her father was born in Clark county, Kentucky, in the year 1800; removed to Ohio, and married Nancy Gregg, and came to Illinois in 1822 or 1823; he was converted about 1826 ; united with the Baptist church, and soon afterward began preaching; for several years he was employed by the Home Missionary Society ; he first came to Macoupin county in April, 1835, and built the first house ever erected on the site of Woodburn, which place was his home till his death in 1859, though he preached in other places, and was pastor of the Baptist churches at Edwardsville, Belleville, Winchester, and Bunker Hill, and was widely known as a revivalist; his wife died in October, 1877. Mrs. Smalley was born in Crawford county, Llinois, in 1824.

Esquire Smalley has been farming in the neighborhood of Woodburn since 1842. He has filled several public positions; he first served two terms as constable in Bunker Hill township, and has filled the office of justice of the peace for sixteen years. In 1878, although a decided democrat, he was chosen a member of the Board of Supervisors in the strong republican township of Bunker Hill. He is well-versed in ordinary legal business, and has frequently appeared in the management of cases before justices of the peace courts. He has had six children.

Onx of the first settlers of Bunker Hill township was James Breden. He was born in the state of Virginia in October, 1784, and was the youngest of nine children, of whom five were brothers and four sisters. His father emi. grated to Virginia from Ireland. The particulars of the early family history are not known with exactness, but either his father or grandfather had been educated for the ministry of the Church of England. James Breden had very limited opportunities for getting an education. Schools in his boyhood days were few and of an inferior character, and what education he obtained was by his own efforts. He left Virginia when nineteen years of age and went to Tennessee. In that state he was married to a Miss Anderson. His home in Tennessee was White county, and he carried on a small farm and also made powder. The date of his coming to Illinois is not exactly known. On his emigration to this state he settled on Rattan's prairie, in Madison county, and resided there for several years. In March, 1827, he came to Macoupin county and settled on section 9 of the present Bunker Hill township. What is now Macoupin county was then all wild and unsettled, and James Breden was one of the earliest pioneers. He located at the head of Wood river. Along that stream the remains of Indian lodges were still in existence. At that time no surveys had been made of the country, and when the lines came to be run his little improvement was thrown into four different sections, viz: 9,10, 15, and 16. He subsequently entered the eighty acres in section 15, where his son, John F'. Breden now lives, and which is also tne house of his widow. He built a log house on this tract in which he lived till 1840, when he built the house in which he died, an illustration of which is shown on another page. His first wife died while he still lived in Madison county. In October, 1836, he married Mrs. Cynthia Ann Barrow, formerly Miss Cynthia A. Neaville.

Mrs. Breden was born in Knox county, east Tennessee, nine miles from Knoxville, in September, 1795. Her father, Enoch Neavyille, was a native of South Carolina, and moved to Wayne county, Kentucky, when Mrs. Breden was five years old. She married William Barrow in Kentucky, 1813, and in 1817 came to Illinois while it was yet under a territorial form of government. She and her husband lived for a short time at Shawneetown and afterwards in various other parts of the state, and in 1827 came to Macoupin county and settled on Dry Fork, near the Bunker Hill and Carlinville road. Her husband, William Barrow, enlisted in the Black Hawk war; was in the campaign against the Indians in 1831, and never returned. It is supposed that he was killed while absent some distance from his comrades.

James Breden was a man who was actively interested in public affairs, and was known by everybody in Macoupin county as "Squire Breden." He was a man of good judgment and considerable natural abilities. He was the first justice of the peace elected in the township, and filled that office for twenty-four years. He made a very faithful and satisfactory magistrate, and always endeavored to do strict justice between man and man. It is said that of all the cases he ever tried, no judgment that he himself rendered was ever reversed by the circuit court. He was also elected associate county judge, and for four years ably and conscientiously performed the duties of that office. In his politics he was a democrat, and took 2 deep interest in the success of that party. He was a strong admirer and supporter of Stephen A. Douglas. His personal character was excellent, and he had those oldfashioned, honest and manly traits which were peculiar to the early pioneers of that state. He had been identified with the history of the county from its first settlement, and had many warm and strong friends. He died March 10th, 1863.

He had in all, eight children, of whom four are now living. Wiley Breden, the oldest son, resides at Woodburn. Dorcas married Charles McPeak, and is now living in Maquoketa, Iowa. John F. Breden, the youngest son, lives on the old homestead farm. Maria is the wife of William C. Vaucom, of Woodburn. Mrs. Breden is still living, and is now one of the oldest settlers of Macoupin county, having been in the county since 1827. She is in her eighty-fifth year, but is still hearty and vigorous, and performs her household duties with a sprightliness which would not be disereditable to a girl of sixteen. She remembers, with great distinctnesss, incidents which occurred eighty years ago.

John C. Payne

Mr. Paynzg is a native of the state of Kentucky, and was born at Lexington, on the 2d of February, 1831. His grandfather was from Virginia, and settled in Kentucky, in the vicinity of Lexington, at an early date. His father was Sandford K. Payne, and his mother's maiden name was Frances Cragg. His father was born near Lexington, and his mother in Woodford county, Kentucky. When Mr. Payne was seven or eight years of age, his father moved to Shelbyville, Kentucky, and there purchased a farm, and carried on a hotel and livery stable. The death of his mother occurred in February, 1841, and Mr. Payne lived one winter with an uncle near Louisville, Kentucky. The family subsequently lived in Yazoo City, Mississippi, where his father married again, and carried on a plantation and raised cotton. His sister, Nancy, having married Basil H. Dorsey, he came with her to Illinois in 1841, and lived with her in Dorchester township, and afterward went back to Mississippi. His father moved to Milliken's Bend, Madison Parish, Louisiana, and Mr. Payne lived there till 1848, when he came to Macoupin county, where he has been living ever since. In 1849, he bought land, which now comprises part of his present farm, two miles north-west of Bunker Hill. He built a house and went to farming, his father coming to this state and living with him. April 30th, 1854, he married Eliza Cherry, daughter of Elijah Cherry. She was born in Tennessee, and before coming to Illinois had lived in Missouri.

When he commenced farming, he had but scanty means, and was obliged to rely on his own industry and economy to get along as best he could. His only capital which he had to begin with was a pony, which he traded off, and thus gradually secured money with which to buy his first twenty acres of land. He was successful in farming and trading, and as he obtained command of more money invested it in land. He is now the owner of one of the best stocked farms in Macoupin county, composed of three hundred and twenty-one acres, and haying an attractive location in Bunker Hill township. This land he bought in several different pieces, and he has for it nine different deeds. His present residence is the town of Bunker Hill, where, since August Ist, 1878, he has been engaged in the livery business, as proprietor of the Monument House stables. His farm is carried on by his oldest son. He has fovr children: Sandford K. Payne, Thomas Payne, Emma Payne, and Lizzie Payne. All his life he has been a member of the democratic party, although his father was a whig. He is a man who is well known in the southern part of the county. He is one of those substantial citizens who began at the lowest round of the ladder, and have worked their way to a position of comfortable independence by a life of industry and economy, and have commanded the respect of the community by the practice of strict honesty, the prompt payment of their obligations, and the exercise of a genial good nature.

A vorMeEr resident of Bunker Hill, was born at Madison, Morris county, New Jersey, September 20th, 1808; he was raised in New Jersey. April 29th, 1832, he married Sarah B. Smalley, who was born near Plainfield, New Jersey, December 7th, 1810. In 1840 he and his wife emigrated to Illinois, reaching Jerseyville the spring of that year, and the next fall settling in Bunker Hill township, Macoupin county. He improved several farms in the neighborhood of Bunker Hill and Woodburn ; at one time was post-master at Woodburn ; moved to the town of Bunker Hill about 1856, and in 1859 to the location where he died, and where his widow now resides, east of Bunker Hill. He died October 25th, 1870. He was a man of considerable energy and great industry, and did much to improve the country, haying brought into cultivation a number of farms. He experienced religion in 1843, and was an active and zealous member of the Methodist church. He was superintendent of Sunday-schools at Jerseyville, Woodburn, and Bunker Hill, and was an exhorter and class-leader. He was always willing to do what he could to advance the cause of Christianity, and frequently addressed large assemblies at revival meetings and other religious occasions. An illustration of his former residence is shown on another page.

Jackson Sisson

JACKSON SISSON Was born in Culpepper county, Virginia, Oct. 17th, 1517, and has lived in Macoupin county since 1837. His father's name was Abner Sisson. The family were among the early settlers of Virginia, and lived there before the Revolutionary war. His father and grandfather were large farmers, and men of substantial means. His grandfather embarked largely in speculation and lost a portion of his wealth. The finances of the country were in a disordered condition after the Revolutionary war, and fortunes were easily lost. Mr. Sisson has heard his uncle say that after the Revolution was ended, he paid as much as sixty thousand dollars in the depreciated currency of the times to buy a bushel of salt. When the subject of this biography was about four years old his father moved with the family to Jefferson county, Kentucky, and settled on Pennsylvania run, a few miles from Louisville. His father died about a year after going to Kentucky. Mr. Sisson was principally raised in Kentucky. In those days children attended school about three months, in the winter, and then forgot all they knew the next summer. In 1837 the family came to Illinois, arriving in Macoupin county November Ist, and settling on the farm, on which has since been built the principal part of the town of Gillespie. They bought 640 acres of unimproved land at two dollars and a half an acre. Mr. Sisson was then twenty years old. He and his brother, John Sisson, was living in Jersey county, and went to work to improve this land. He was married February 1st, 1849, to Mrs. Nannie C. Dorsey, widow of Basil H. Dorsey. Her maiden name was Nannie C. Payne; she was born in Fayette county, Kentucky, two miles from Ashland, the birth-place of Henry Clay, July 28th, 1824, and was the daughter of Sandford K. Payne. She first came to Illinois in 1844, when nineteen years old. Mr. Sisson was farming in Gillespie township till the fall of 1849, and then moved on his present farm in section ten of Bunker Hill township, a mile and a half north-west of Bunker Hill, When he moved on this farm, which now consists of 150 acres, only eighteen acres were improved. He has been living there from that time to the present. He has six children now living. Their names are as follows: Edward A.; Fannie C. now the wife of William Roberts; T. Abner, Monroe G., John W. and Silas B. Mr. Sisson was first a whig in politics, and an admirer of Henry Clay, as were most persons who lived in Kentucky. He first voted for Harrison in 1840. When the whig organization went to pieces he became a democrat, and votes with that party. He is one of the old citizens of the southern part of Macoupin county, and a man of quiet and unassuming disposition, who is content with being a farmer, and has never aspired to fill a public office.

William O. Jencks

Wituiam O. Jencks, who has been a resident of Bunker Hill for the last quarter of a century, was born in Providence county, Rhode Island, September 19th, 1824. His forefathers had been living in Rhode Island from the first settling of that country. His ancestry is traced back to Joseph Jencks, who was governor of Rhode Island under the British crown. His grandfather, Samuel Jencks, and his maternal grandfather, James Tyler, were soldiers in the Revolutionary war, and served faithfully in the memorable struggle of the colonies for their independence. His grandfather, Tyler, was one of the party who disguised themselves as Indians and threw overboard the tea in Boston harbor. His father's name was Joseph Jencks, and his mother's maiden name Esther Tyler. His father was the founder of the Smithville seminary at Scituate, Rhode Island. When he started this school it was called the Pond Factory academy, and has since grown to be a large and flourishing institution. His father was principal of it till his death, on the 3d of August, 1827. William O. Jencks was the youngest of ten children. He has one brother and three sisters living, all residing within a short distance of their early home. He was nearly three years old when his father died. He obtained a good education in the common schools and at the Smithville seminary. He mastered the trade of a carriage maker in all its branches. In early life he suffered much from weakness and delicacy of constitution. He lived in Windham county, Connecticut, from 1845 to 1847. The latter year he came west. From Chicago he went to St. Louis, and there took a boat up the Mississippi to St. Paul, in Minnesota territory. All that country was then wild and unscttled. At St. Paul he put up the second store ever built in that town, and sold ready-made clothing for the Boston and Iowa Trading company, of which he was one of the members. Not finding much improvement in his health while in that business, he determined to try what life among the Indians would do for his benefit. He had learned the Indian language with the Sioux about St. Paul, ard in the spring of 1849 went off with Big Six and his band to the plains, on a buffalo hunt. He was absent all summer, and returned to St. Paul the following October. The succeeding winter was also spent in hunting and camping with the Indians. He learned the Indian language completely and spoke it almost as fiuently as the savages themselves. He kept on good terms with the Indians, and managed to spend a few months as pleasantly as could be expected of a civilized man. He returned to St. Louis Christmas eve, 1849. His health had become better and his consti~ tution stronger. He found employment in a carriage shop in St. Louis, where, with the exception of a few months spent in traveling in Kansas and Texas, he worked till 1854. In October, 1854, he came to Woodburn, and the following Christmas, went to Bunker Hill, where he has since lived. January 8th, 1857, he was married to Martha Lewellen, daughter of Green Lewellen. She was born in Bedford county, Virginia. After he was married he erected a shop in Bunker Hill and has carried on the carriage making business ever since. In 1870 he also engaged in the livery business.

cessful in business. On the incorporation of Bunker Hill he was appointed the first collector and constable. For four years, from 1869 to 1873, heaa Ss filled the office of justice of the peace. He was clected magistrate three times, but only qualified onee. He was once a democrat in politics, but became dissatisfied with the cause of the party in regard to the admission into the Union of Kansas and Nebraska. He was opposed to the extension of slavery in 'the territories, and became a republican, and in 1856 voted for Gen. I'remont for president. When the rebellion broke out he volunteered and enlisted in company F seventh Illinois regiment. He was first lieutenant of his company. Since 1868 he has been a member of the Bunker Hill Methodist church, and has been one of the leading members of that denomination in Bunker Mill, serving as class leader and trustee and holding other official positions. Ie has four children living and four dead. He has been actively interested in the order of Odd Fellows, and for nine years has been representative in the grand lodge of Ttinois.

Jams T. Pennington

JAMS T. PENNINGTON Was born at Liberty Corner, Somerset county, New Jersey, May 26th, 1818. The Pennington family has descended from two brothers, who emigrated from Scotland to New Jersey. Ilis grandfather, John Pennington, was a licutenant in one of the New Jersey regiments during the revolutionary war. is father was Ilijah Pennington, and his mother, Martha Todd. When seventeen, he became an apprentice at the ecarpenter's trade. He came to Illinois in the spring of 1839. After working at Brighton, Alton, andin Jersey county, in 1841 he settled on his present farm. August, 1841, he married Cynthia Bullman, also a native of Somerset county, New Jersey. Le has been a democrat in politics. Soon after coming to the county he was clected justice of the peace; but after holding the office a year, he resigned. [In 1860 he was elected representative in the legislature, and was a member of that body during the exciting period of the opening of the war of the rebellion. All the different measures for the raising of troops and the furnishing of supplies received his hearty support, as did all other measures looking to the suppression of the rebellion. In 1871 he was chosen the first member of the Board of Supervisors from Bunker Hill township.

He was elected sheriff of Macoupin county in 1872, and was re-elected in 1874. He has five children living, and two who died in infancy. He is well-known throughout the county, and his genial and social manners have made him hosts of friends.

Mr. Brennen, one of the enterprising farmers of Bunker Hill township, was born near Marburgh, Hesse Cassel, Germany, March 29th, 1836; son of John Benner and Mary Urbach. In the spring of 1848, his father emigrated with the family from Germany to America. Crossing the Atlantic, they landed at New Orleans, and came up the Mississippi and Ohio to Louisville, Kentucky. After living in that city one year, the family moved to New Albany, Indiana, and two ycars afterward back to Louisville. Mr. Benner was the third of a family of five children. He was twelve years old when he came to this country. Ile had gone to school quite rezularly in Germany, but in America attended an Mnglish school less than two months in the city of Louisville. While in Louisville, he learned the trade of a butcher with his brother. He moved to Utica, Indiana, in 1853, and was employed in a mill and lime-kiln till 1856, when he embarked in the butehering business on his own account. May 19th, 1857, he marricd Charlotte W. Bartels, who is a native of Germany, and came to America in 1852. He commenced business with buv little capital, having just cnough money with which to purchase vsingle cow. By industry and economy, he managed to succeed, and having accumulated sufficient money, determined to buy a farm and go to farming. He came to Macoupin county in December, 1864, and bought the farm which he now owns, in sectious twenty and twenty-two, Bunker Hill township. Ife owns three hundred and twenty acres of and. His children are: Mary W., Charles C., 8. Theodore, Mllen, Lydia, mma, William J., and Annie. He was a democrat till during the war of the rebellion, when he became a republican. Ile has been an enterprising farmer, and a man who won success by his own industry. Ife and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church at Fostersburg, in Madison county.

ILIS township is located in the north-west part of the county, and is bounded on the north by Scottville, on the west by Greene county, on the south by Western Mound, and on the east by South Palmyra township. It has a very rich, clay soil, and in the western portion, along Taylor ercek, is covered with a heavy growth of timber. The eastern and south-eastern part was at one time covered with oak and cotton-wood timber, much of which land has been changed into fine productive farms. In the northern portion it is mostly prairie land, excepting the extreme north-west corner, which is rough and broken.

The entire township is well drained by Solomou's, Joc's, Taylor's and Watts' creeks and their tributaries. Joe's creek reccived its nume from a circumstance concerning a bear killing, many years ago, by Joseph Elliott and Joseph TTodges.

Iirst Settlements - Mr. Joseph Illiott, a squatter, was the first white inhabitant of Barr township. He settled on section 21, in the year 1828 or 29, and built a log cabin and cultivated some land, which improyements he sold in 1850 to William Handlin.

sJohn Markham settled here in 1830; a Mr. Kennedy, Silas Drum, and the Wiggins in 1855. Benj. Barr and Ifugh Barr - in honor of whom the township is named - James L. Steidley, Hampton Bates, John Barnett, John

The First Marriage in the township was John Rummons to Mrs, Fanny Markham. The ceremony was performed by John Barnett, justice of the peace.

The first church was built by the Methodist denomination on section 20, and was called the " Asbury Chapel." Charles Maxficld and wife, and Nathan Henderson and wife, were the first members, and were from the " Hermitage Socicty," in Greene county.

The following were the first who joined on probation : - Samuel Mees and wife, J. B. Steidley and wife, Joha Ifenderson and wife, Dayid Henderson and wife, and William Taggert and wife.

name from the Barr family. It was laid out by James B. Steidley in 1865. Benjamin R. Barr kept a store at this point, and was also post-master at an early day. This was the first store in the township.

There is a blacksmith shop owned by Fred. Ershig, and a shoe shop by George Webber. There are two physicians, Dr. J. W. Mason and Dr. J. G. Reed, which comprise the business men of the place.

The oldest settlers now living in the township are R. J. and J. L. Metcalf, who came from Kentucky to the county in 1835; J. W. Henderson, who settled here in 1833, and George O. Solomon, who came in 1834.

The first land entries are as follows: - John W. Stubbs, November 1st, 1827, 40 acres in section 26; Wm. Arnold, May 13th, 1829, 80 acres in section 5; Eli J. Butcher, May 13th, 1829, 84 acres in section 11.

Nathaniel A. Nighbert

was born in England. His father was born in Virginia, October 27th, 1789 ; in the year 1810 he married Nancy Albright, who was born in Virginia in May, 1795. Nathaniel A. Nighbert was the youngest of nine children by this marriage, and was born in Bottetourt county, Virginia, September 29th, 1827. The family moved from Virginia in 1834 to Claiborne county, East Tennessee, where they lived six years, and in the fall of 1840 came on to Illinois, settling in Scottville township. His mother had died on the 9th of June, 1831, when he was less than four years old. His father in February, 1832, married as his second wife Sarah Dorothy, but had no children by this second marriage. His father died in the fall of 1865.

His birth-place was a rough and rocky part of Virginia, and his boyhood days in East Tennessee were spent in Powell's Valley near the Cumberland mountains, a rough and broken country interspersed, however, with fertile and productive valleys. During the six years the family lived in Tennessee he acquired the greater part of his education attending a subscription school held in an old log school-house. The teacher was as old-fashioned as the building, and a hickory rod about four feet long seemed to be an indispensable adjunct to the successful running of the school, and was brought in frequent requisition. He was thirteen years old when he came to Macoupin county, and from that time on he went to school but little, but worked out by the month, and gaye his wages to his father. In the spring of 1850 he went to California, paying the firm of Ballenger & Mitchell fifty dollars for the privilege of going along and assisting with a drove of cattle. He left home on the 23d of March, drove the cattle across the plains, standing guard nights, and reached California August 10th. After a stay of five months in the mining regions, he started for home again, reaching Macoupin county in exactly a year from the time he set out. Though his experience at mining was short, he was more than ordinarily successful, and brought home about one thousand dollars, nearly all of which he made the last two months of his stay. September 11th, 1851, he married Margaret A. Crum, a native of Morgan county, and daughter of Gordon Crum, an old settler of Barr township.

The money he brought from California he invested in land, purchasing 110 acres in section 4, Barr township, at eleven dollars an acre. After farming on that section five years, he sold his land, and bought another farm in section 35, Scottville township, where he resided till 1874, when he moved to his present farm in Barr township. He owns 648 acres of land, eighty of which lies in Scottville township. He has had seven children. George Gordon, James David, Joseph W., Louie S., Ada B., and Erasmus M.; Ella, the fifth child, died when an infant.

In his politics Mr. Nighbert was a member of the old whig party, and cast his first vote for president for General Taylor in 1848. When the whig party went into a state of dissolution, he became a republican, and has since supported that party, though he has not been a strict party man, and has felt himself free in local elections to vote for the best man for the office. He has never followed anything but farming, and has been content to lead the quiet life of a private citizen. He has commanded the respect of every one who has known him for his personal honesty and integrit¥, and has been a liberal, enterprising and progressive citizen.

Richard J. Metcalf

One of the old settlers and leading citizens of Barr township, is a Kentuckian by birth. His great-grandfather emigrated from England to America. His grandfather, William Metcalf, was born in this country, and was living in North Carolina at the time of the revolutionary war. The home of the family in North Carolina was near Guilford Court House, and at the battle fought there during the revolution between the American and British armies the noise of the cannon could be plainly heard. William Metcalf was one of the early pioneers of Kentucky, emigrating there in the time of Daniel Boone, and taking part in the romantic adventures and incidents which marked the first settlement of that state. He was accustomed to relate that he was in the town of Frankfort (now the capital of the state) when he could walk over the site of the whole town on the logs which had been recently felled. His home at different times was in Franklin, Shelby, and Christian counties, and his death took place at the house of his son-inlaw, in Hopkins county, Kentucky.

The name of Mr. Metcalf's father was also William Metcalf, He was born in North Caroliaa, December 24th, 1774, and was twelve years old when the family emigrated to Kentucky in 1786. He grew up to manhood among rough pioneer times, and had little chance for obtaining an education. He married Elizabeth Jones, who was born in Virginia on the 15th of January, 1780, and was a daughter of Richard Jones. The Jones family came from Virginia to Kentucky about the year 1786. Mr. Metcalf's father was a man of considerable enterprise and energy. When about twenty-one years of age, about the year 1795 or 1796, he visited Missouri, which territory then belonged to the government of Spain. His journey was made by horseback from Louisville to St. Louis by way of Vincennes, Indiana. There was no settlement between Louisville and Vincennes, nor between Vincennes and St. Louis. At Vincennes he was obliged to swim the Wabash river; his horse swam so low, and had such difficulty in crossing the stream that, although unable to swim himself, he threw himself in the water, and holding fast to the horse's mane succeeded in gaining the opposite bank in safety. St. Louis was then a small village, inhabited only by a French population, who had little idea that the town would ever become the great metropolis to which it has since grown. He was unable to speak French; there was not at that time an American in the town; and it may be imagined that he had some difficulty in holding communication with the inhabitants. He considered that the place would become a town of some importance, and surveyed and marked out lands west of St. Louis, intending to return and make a permanent settlement. These lands are now included in the city limits. He went back to Kentucky and never carried out his intention of making Missouri his home. After his marriage he lived in Christian and Hopkins counties, Kentucky; and removed to Illinois in the spring of 1835 and settled in section thirty-one of Barr township, where he died November 28th, 1858. He had been a man of iron constitution, and was eighty-four years old at his death. He was very industrious and energetic ; a good farmer, and cautious and able in his business transactions. He began life with no capital, and by industry and good management accumulated a handsome competence. The twelye hundred acres of land of which he was the owner he divided among his children previous to his death. He was a member of the Baptist church, and universally esteemed as a man of reliability and integrity, a good neighbor and a useful citizen. Mr. Metcalf's mother died January 22d, 1852.

The birthplace of Richard Jones Metcalf was in Hopkins county, Kentucky. He was born August 1st, 1817, and was the next to the youngest of a family of nine children. The school-louses in which he went to school in

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Kentucky in his boyhood days were built of logs, a crack along the sides of the building of more than ordinary magnitude letting in sufficient light to answer for a window; the fire-place occupied an entire end of the building ; the benches were made of poplar logs split open, with the flat side hewed, and the writing desk along the wall of the room was made in the same manner. After coming to this state he attended school two or three months at Fayette, in Greene county. He was between seventeen and eighteen when the family moved to Hlinois. Two of his brothers-in-law had travelled over Illinois in the fall of 1834, and for advantages of location and cheapness of land determined on Macoupin county as the best place in which to settle. His father at first bought two hundred acres, and entered one hundred and sixty in section thirty-one in Barr township, and afterward bought additional land. Mr. Metcalf lived with his father till his marriage, which occurred September 6th, 1838. His wife was Miss Mary J. Buchanan, who was born within fiye miles of Paris, in Bourbon county, Kentucky, in 1819. Her mother was Charlotte C. Burbage, who was born within ten miles of Snow Hill, on the eastern shore of Maryland, and came to Bourbon county, Kentucky, in 1817. Her grandfather on her father's side was John Buchanan, from Lancaster county, Pennsylvania; he married a young woman belonging to a Quaker family in Pennsylvania, and moved to Virginia, and died there ; his second wife was a Miss Rector.

In the spring of 1839 Mr. Metcalf began farming for himself on the place which has since been his home. At that date there were but few settlements in Barr township; his post-office address was Carrollton, and he has now lived in that part of the county as long as almost any other resident. The house in which he now lives was partly built in 1836, and has been the home of himself and wife from the time they were married. Some additions have since been made to the original structure. An illustration of the residenee is shown on another page. He owns 460 acres of land, all of which lic in section thirty-one in Barr township, with the exception of forty acres in Greene county. Mr. and Mrs. Metcalf have had ten children: Josephine A., the cldest daughter, is the wife of L. M. Peebles, of Chestertield ; Narcissa C. married E. A. Belknap, who is the owner of a dry goods store at Greenfield ; the next children, Livonia E. and James B. died when infants ; CGcoorge LB, is now carrying on a grocery and provision store at Greenfield ; John M. died in 1869 at the age of nineteen years ; Eleanora married A. C. Ellis, a farmer of Greene county ; Richard L. is farming in Barr township ; [bert IX. is in partnership with George B. in the grocery and provision business at Greenfield ; Ralph, the youngest son, still resides at home.

In his politics, like his father before him, he was a member of the old whig party, and his first vote for President was cast for General Harrison in 1840. Although raised in a slaye-holding state, he was opposed to the schemes of the Southern politicians for the extension of slavery into the territories, and when the whig party went to pieces, and the republican party was formed, he had no hesitation in joining the latter organization as the party of freedom, intelligence, and good government, and has since been one of the leading republicans of his part of the county. During his long residence in Barr township he has maintained the reputation of a liberal, enterprising and progressive citizen, and a man whose private character has been above reproach or suspicion. His life has been spent as a farmer. His next older brother, John M. Metcalf, attended college at Princeton, Kentucky, and for a long number of years was a prominent physician at Waverly, in Morgan county. His father gave Mr. Metealf an opportunity of going to college, but he preferred the pursuit of agriculture to a professional career. He has had no desire to fill public oftice or occupy political station, but in 1872 and again in 1874 was chosen a member of the Board of Supervisors from Barr township. From his experience during a brief visit to their hospitable home, the writer of this sketch can speak of Mrs. Metcalf as one of the model housekeepers of Macoupin county. Although burdened with as much domestic care as falls to the lot of most women, she has found time to gratify

@ considerable attention to faney work, in which, though self-taught, she excels; her handiwork has excited admiration at several fairs and exhibitions, where almost invariably it has been awarded a preher tastes by deyotin

Isaac Haven

ISAAC HAVEN Was born in Addison county, Vermont, September 15th, 1801. His grandfather was a Scotchman, who settled in Massachusetts. His father, William Hayen, was living in Massachusetts during the Revolutionary war, and was in the battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill, being among the first to enlist in the American army. He married as his second wife Mrs. Lucy Shephard, whose maiden name was Chiles, and settled in Addison county, Vermont.

Isaac Haven was the youngest of four children. April, 1828, he married Mercy, daughter of Robert Young, a native of Addison county. From 1828 to 1843 he was farming in Vermont, and then emigrated to Illinois. A series of unfortunate circumstances had deprived him of his property, and he came to this state involved in debt. He rented a farm of William P. Burroughs, in Greene county, near Greenfield, and on settling down on this had only twenty cents in money, and if he had disposed of all his ayailable property, would have lacked six hundred dollars of having enough to meet his obligations back in Vermont. He went to work with industry and energy to alter this state of affairs. He succeeded, and in 1849 he bought four hundred acres of land partly in Greene and partly in Macoupin county, on which there were no buildings, and of which only thirty or forty acres were under cultivation. This is part of his present farm. He paid every obligation, and increased his farm to 886 acres. His wife died August 17th, 1870. She was a woman of great energy, industrious and persevering, and part of the competence which Mr. Haven secured was due to her superior business management and attention to domestic and household affairs. Among her other accomplishments was the art of making an excellent quality of cheese, which commanded a readv sale from Jacksonville to St. Louis. Their children were four in number. William Haven, the present editor of the Greenfield Argus; Mary Jane, wife of James French of Greene county ; Robert B., now farming with his father; and Henry, who died in infancy in Ohio while the family were moving to Llinois.

Mr. Haven voted for Gen. Jackson for president in 182+; was afterward a whig, and on the formation of the republican party became a republican. Since 1868 he has been a member of the Methodist church. His natural constitution has been strong and robust; he has stood a great deal of labor and exposure; and with the exception of a few weeks in recent years he has never been confined to his bed by sickness. He is a man who has commanded the respect of every one who has known him, and he has been a useful citizen. A page illustration of his farm and residence is shown elsewhere.

James L. Metcalf

Wuo has lived in Barr township since 1835, was born in Hopkins county, Kentucky, May 31st, 1820. He was the youngest of a family of nine children of William Metcalf and Elizabeth Jones. The first fifteen years of his life were spent in Kentucky. His father emigrated with the family to Ilinois in the spring of 1835, and settled on section 31 of township 11, range 9, on the same spot where now stands the residence of the subject of this sketch. A log house weather-boarded with clap boards had been. previously built at this place by John Markham, one of the pioneer settlers of Barr township. This improvement was purchased, and his father and mother lived there till they died, the former in November, 1858, and the latter in January, 1852. Both are now buried in a private burying ground on Mr. Metcalf's farm. His father was a man of considerable industry and business ability, and became the owner of twelve hundred acres of land.

His opportunities for going to school while he lived in Kentucky were not good enough to give him much of a chance to get a thorough education. After coming to Illinois, he attended sehool at Fayette, about two miles distant in Greene county, and subsequently, when the settlements became numerous enough, some schools were started in the neighborhood where he lived. As soon as he became twenty-one years of age, he went to farming for himself. His marriage occurred in May, 1848, to Eliza Peter. Her father's name was Simon Peter. Mrs. Metcalf was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and was living in Greene county, Illinois, at the time she was married. Mr. Metcalf has since been farming in Barr township, and is living on the old homestead farm where his father first settled on coming to the state. His place has been his home ever since he first came to Macoupin county. Fora period of forty-four years he has lived on the same spot, a circumstance which can be said of comparatively few men in Macoupin county. He owns three hundred acres of land lying in sections 30 and 31 of Barr township. He erected in 1872 a handsome frame-dwelling, which, with its surroundings, makes one of the most attractive farm-residences in that part of the county. He has had eight children. The oldest daughter, Albina E., died when just reaching the age of womanhood. Leonora S. is now the wife of Dr. Clement of Brighton. Harriet L. married Dr. Frank

Martin of Greenfield. Edward P., the oldest son, is now carrying on the mercantile business at Greenfield. The other children, whose names are Minnie, Emma, Irene and Charles, still live at home.

When Mr. Metcalf first became old enough to take any part in politics, he identified himse!f with the old whig party. Henry Clay, the pride of every man who was born in Kentucky, received his first vote for president when the great champion of whig principles made his last unsuccessful race for the presidency against James K. Polk in 1844. He remained a whig until the dissolution of that party, and then on its organization joined the republican party, with which he has since been connected. He is not, however, 2 man whose tastes have led him to take an active part in political work. With no ambition to occupy public office or take a conspicuous part in public «affairs, he has been contented to occupy his time with the management of his farm and his own private business. He is one of the oldest settlers of this part of the ccunty, and during his residence in it his course of conduct as 2 private citizen has been such as to command the respect of the community. In the accompanying biographical sketch of his brother, Richard J. Metcalf, may be found the particulars of the interesting history of his father and grandfather.

William J. Slaughter

Was born in Greene county, Illinois, August 6th, 1840. His ancestors were Germans who settled in Virginia previous to the Revolutionary war, in which his great-grandfather was an officer. His grandfather served in the war of 1812, and died on the Lakes. His father, John W. Slaughter, was born in Tennessee; settled in Greene county, Illinois, about 1830 ; married Susan Landiss; moved on a farm in section 32, Barr township in 1852; and is now merchandizing and farming at Stonington, Christian county. Mr. Slaughter attended school in Barr township and Jerseyville. He went into the photograph business when sixteen years of age, and followed it for a number of years in Greene county. He subsequently went to Kansas, and took part in the troubles which preceded the admission of that state into the union, and also spent four years with different Indian tribes. He returned to Illinois in the spring of 1868, and afterward enlisted in the 133d Illinois regiment, under Col. Phillips, raised for a hundred days' service, and was stationed at Rock Island, guarding rebel prisoners. He went into the photograph and jewelry business at Greenfield, and followed carpentering and house building at the same place. In 1871 he settled where he now lives in Barr township, and in addition to farming, carries on a general blacksmith and repair shop. His first wife was Caroline Dial, whom he marricd in Iansas, and who died in a few months afterward. December 26th, 1867, he married Mrs. Rebecca A. Wilhite. She was born in Fulton county, Illinois, February 8th, 1838. Her father, Dr. W. A. Dunn, was a Virginian, who settled in Fulton county in 1836. She married Charles Wilhite, September 4th, 1856, and settled in Barr township. Tfer husband enlisted in 1862, in the 91st Illinois regiment; was captured by the rebel guerrilla, General Morgan, at Elizabethtown ; was stationed at Vicksburg, and Carrollton, Louisiana ; Brownsville, Texas, and took part in the operations against Mobile. While in the trenches before Spanish Fort, he was shot by a rebel sharpshooter April 6th, 1865; was removed to a hospital at New Orleans and died there April 28th. Mrs. Slaughter had four children by her first marriage; John William, who died in 1873; Martha Elizabeth, who died when an infant; Jennie L. and Charles Samuel. Mr. and Mrs. Slaughter have three children; Ada Blanche, Minnie E. and Frank Leroy. Mr. Slaughter is a republican. He possesses mechanical genius of a high order, and is master of several trades.

Robert R. Cooper

Mr. Coorer, who has been a resident of Barr township for the last twenty-five years, was born in Christian county, Kentucky, January 22d, 1828, His father, Edward L. Cooper, was born in Virginia, and after he was grown moyed to Kentucky and married Miss Mary Perry, who was also a native of Virginia. The family moved to Illinois in 1836, and settled in Greene county, eight miles north-east of Carrollton. Robert R. Cooper was the fourth of a family of eight children. He lived in Christian county, Kentucky, till about eight years of age, attending for a short time a school, distant three miles from his father's farm. The part of Greene county to which his father came was an old settlement, and he went to school in a frame building half a mile from his father's residence. He lived at home till nearly twenty-three years of age, and then (in December, 1850) married Miss Amarine Parks, a native of Tennessee, daughter of John Parks, an old settler of Barr township. Mr. Cooper was farming in Greene county till 1855, and then settled on the farm he now owns, in section seventeen of Barr township. . He is known as an enterprising and substantial farmer. His farm consists of 445 acres, lying in one body in section seventeen, with the exception of thirty-five acres in section sixteen, and on it are fine improvements. His first wife died in June, 1869. November, 1870, he married Lizzie Ridings of Greene county, whose death occurred in February, 1872. His present wife, whom he married in August, 1872, was formerly Miss Mary Bacon, who was born in Tennessee and came to Illinois when a child. He has eight children living, three by his first marriage, one by his second, and four by his third. Their names in the order of their births are as follows: Henry E., Lucy B., Adrian E., Frank, Ella D., Freddie, Edgar and Charles. Mr. Cooper was originally a whig, but like many of the members of that party, he became a republican when the question of the extension of slavery intc the territories became a conspicuous issue. He has never taken an active part in politics nor has aspired to official position or public station. For twenty-six years, he has been a member of the United Baptist church, and is now connected with Goshen church, in the east part of Barr township.

Mr. Hennerson isa native of this state, and was born in Greene county, January 6th, 1831. His ancestors were early settlers of Virginia, and for many years resided in Berkeley county. His father, David Henderson, was born in Berkeley county, Virginia, about the year 1807, and was married there to Hannah Steidley. In the year 1830, a short time after this marriage, he emigrated to Illinois and settled in the neighborhood of Whitehall. The family were among the pioneer settlers of that part of Greene county. In the fall of 1832 his father moved to Macoupin county and settled on scetion 80 of township 11, range 9. Mr. Henderson's uncle, John Henderson, came to the township at the same time and settled on section 20. These were the first two settlements made in the southwest part of Barr township. His father and mother lived where they settled nearly forty years and then moved to Greenfield and afterward to Montgomery county, where they new reside. Mr. Henderson was less than two years old when he came to Macoupin county. His education was obtained in the schools in the neighborhood of his home. When he was twenty-one years of age he began farming on his own account. In November, 1855, he married Sarah J. Kidd, daughter of Benjamin Kidd. Mrs. Henderson was born in Peoria county, Illinois, and moved from there to Barr township.

After his marriage Mr. Henderson purchased land in section 16 where he lived about five years, and in 1860 moved to his present residence, in section 29. In 1864, during the late war, he served between five and six months in the 133d Illinois regiment, and was stationed at Rock Island guarding rebel prisoners. His brother, John H. Henderson, served throughout the war ; enlisted as sergeant of company D. of the 14th Illinois regiment, and was taken prisoner near Atlanta, Georgia, while on detached service, guarding a bridge outside the lines; he died while ina rebel prison at Columbia, South Carolina. At the time of his capture he was first lieutenant, commanding his company, and was commissioned as captain while in prison. Mr. Henderson was one of the early members of the republican party in Macoupin county. When the agitation concerning slavery arose on the question of the admission of Kansas and Nebraska into the Union he was one of those who opposed the southern schemes for the extension of slavery into the territories, and one of the seven men in Barr township, who, in 1856, voted for Gen. Fremont as the republican candidate for president. He and his wife are members of the Methodist church.

HIS township is bounded on the north by Carlinyille, east by Honey Point, south by Gillespie and west by Polk township. It derived its name from the large Mound situated near the center of the township, from the summit of which, a fine view

Pioncer settlers.* - About the year 1828, Theodorus Davis, jun., settled in the Macoupin bottom, on the line of the present Carlinville and Alton road, and was the first settler in the township. Mr. Dayis was then a young man just starting in life, having recently married a daughter of Joseph Hodge, of Hodge's creck.

In July, 1829, came John Moore, and settled with his family, consisting of his wife and three children. He located on a piece of land some three miles south-west of Carlinville. He has been dead some years. His widow still survives in the person of Mrs. Ann Hall. In the fall of 1830, David Gimlin settled on land, near where Harrison Hall's farm now is, some three miles south-west from Carlinville. Mr. Gimlin was also a Baptist preacher, and preached the first sermon in the township. Probably, the first parties married in Brushy Mound, were William Flinan and Edith Gimlin, at the residence of David Gimlin, the bride's father, on the 17th of January, 1833, which occasion was marked by the usual pioneer festivities and hospitality.