McLean County, Illinois - Chapter 35: Miscellaneous, Continued, 1924 (part 3 of 8)

When Mr. Klemm first opened for business, he economized in expenses by sleeping in a room over the store and boarded at what was known as the St. Nicholas Hotel, afterwards the Butler. Some of his companions of those early days were Lyman Graham, E. H. Aldrich, Jacob Heldman and others, later prominent in Bloomington's business life. He bought a store building from A. Fitzwilliam and later the store adjacent to Mc- Conkey, and rebuilt as fast as possible. In the fire of 1900 the entire double store building was destroyed, but within seven months a new building was erected, modern in every respect. The wholesale department is located on North Center Street, between Jefferson and Monroe and which also shelters the overall and shirt factory. There is a branch in operation at Leroy. In 1920 the building to the west of the present retail store was taken on a long time lease and is known as the Annex, and in 1920 the Evans building, adjacent to the east, was purchased and eventually will be added to the store for housing additional departments.

The Klemm establishment, which compares favorably with the most extensive of any in a similar field in central Illinois, employs a force of 100 people in the retail department and an equal number in the wholesale department.

Mr. C. W. Klemm was united in marriage with Augusta Seibel, in the fall of 1874; she died 12 years later; by this marriage three children were born, now living, Mrs. Helen Howard, Mrs. Charles Agle and Carl H. Klemm. His second marriage was to Miss Emilia Bender, a native of Peoria, 111., who died June 7, 1921. To this union one child was born, Julius P., a sketch of whom appears in this volume.

Carl H. Klemm is at the head of the retail department of the father's business and Julius P. has charge of the wholesale. They have been thoroughly impregnated with the same high ideals of commercial integrity and acumen and will doubtless worthily maintain the establishment founded by their parent, and of which he is yet actively a part.

C. W. Klemm's career is unique in that his whole life is centered in his business. He has never thought it necessary to seek relaxation. His establishment has been paramount and his whole soul has been centered in its welfare. It has been his life work and now at the close of 50 years he has reason to feel proud of what he has accomplished. Satisfied customers and confidence, due to fair dealing, have been important factors in the success of the enterprise.

Dr. Charles P. Hanson, well known and successful osteopathic physician of Bloomington, is a native of McLean County. He was born at Gridley, July 31, 1877, and is the son of P. -M. and Amanda (Coon) Hanson.

P. M. Hanson and his wife were born in Ohio. They removed to Illinois in early life, where Mr. Hanson farmed for u number of years. He later became a merchant at Fifer, 111., and now resides at Normal, where he is engaged in the real estate and insurance business. His wife died

Aug. 29, 1923, and is buried at Kappa, 111. To Mr. and Mrs. Hanson seven children were born, as follows: Frank Owen, lives in White Place, Bloomington ; Dr. Charles P., the subject of this sketch; Herbert, lives on Linden Street, Normal ; William Cassel, lives in Washington, D. C. ; Archie M., lives at Lincoln, 111. ; Rachel Hodgkinson, lives at Normal ; and Dorothy Lynch, lives at Normal.

Dr. Charles P. Hanson received his education in the public and high schools of Gridley and attended Illinois Wesleyan University, and the University of Illinois, graduated from the American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Mo. Before taking up the study of osteopathy, Dr. Hanson taught school for several years. He received his degree from the American School of Osteopathy in June, 1910, and since that time has been located in Bloomington, where he has established a large practice.

On Sept. 28, 1910, Dr. Hanson was united in marriage to Miss Bernice Bright, a native of Normal, and the daughter of Reuben G. and Sarah (Dillon) Bright, natives of Illinois. Mr. Bright resides in Normal and his wife is deceased. Dr. and Mrs. Hanson have no children.

In politics Dr. Hanson is identified with the Republican party. He is trustee of the Illinois Osteopathic Association and a charter member and first president of the Bloomington Kiwanis Club. He belongs to the Masonic Lodge, Bloomington Consistory and Ansar Shrine. Dr. and Mrs. Hanson are members of the First Christian Church and are favorably known in McLean County. The family residence is at 1011 Broadway, Normal.

John T. Lillard has practiced law in Bloomington since 1874. He was born in Boyle County, near Danville, Ky., April 1, 1852, a son of Thomas Madison and Mary (Bright) Lillard. His education began under private tutors in the home of his parents, then after two years in the college preparatory, he entered Centre College, Danville, Ky., where he was graduated in 1872 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In June, 1906, he received from Illinois Wesleyan University the honorary degree of Master of Arts.

He settled in Bloomington in August, 1873. After some previous legal preparation he read law in the office of Williams and Burr, was admitted to practice in September, 1874, and has ever since been a member of the Bloomington Bar. His law offices are in the First National Bank Building. Since 1890 he has been the senior member of the law firm of Lillard and Williams.

Mr. Lillard was married in 1878 to Miss Sallie Elizabeth Williams, daughter of Robert E. Williams, a Bloomington lawyer. She died on May 8, 1907. In October, 1908, Mr. Lillard was married to his present wife, Sarah Davis Lillard, daughter of Judge David Davis, during his lifetime distinguished locally and nationally.

In 1889 Mr. Lillard with others organized the Union Gas and Electric Company, was its vice-president for seven years, and is still its attorney. In 1891 he organized the Manufactured Ice and Cold Storage Company, and was its president for 13 years. He with others organized the Kinloch-Bloomington Telephone Company and has ever since been its president. In addition to his profession he has other business interests.

He served as city attorney for two terms. He has been connected with the board of trustees of Illinois Wesleyan University, and the Board of Trustees of the Bloomington City Library. He and his wife are members of the First Christian Church of Bloomington.

N. B. Carson, County Recorder of Deeds in McLean County, was born near New Lexington, Ohio, May 2, 1856, and is a son of Hiram and Harriet (Bell) Carson.

The Carson family originally came from the North of Ireland and were among the early settlers of Virginia. James B. Carson, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in Philadelphia, in 1869, and was six years old at the time the Declaration of Independence was signed; he remembered distinctly of hearing the ringing of the Independence bell. He was a woodworker by trade and during the War of 1812 was employed by the government in the arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Va. He later moved his family to Brownsville, Pa., and after a short residence there to Muskingum County, Ohio, in 1833, where he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives.

Hiram Carson was a glass blower by trade and later engaged in farming. He came to Illinois with his family in 1872 and died in 1885. His wife died the same year and they are both buried at Bellflower, 111. She was the daughter of Nemihah Bell (formerly spelled Beall), a native of

Maryland, who was also employed by the government in the arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Va., as a gunsmith. He came to Ohio in 1819, settling in Muskingum County.

N. B. Carson was one of two children born to his parents. A brother, J. W., died near Burlington, Iowa, several years ago. Mr. Carson was 16 years of age when his family came to Illinois and settled in McLean County. He was reared on a farm and received his education in the public school. He followed farming until he was 25 years of age, and then engaged in the mercantile business at Delana, in West Township, McLean County. He was later in business at Bellflower and remained there until 1892 when he came to Bloomington. After being employed as a clerk he was elected coroner in 1896 and served in this capacity eight years. In 1904 he was elected county recorder of deeds and since that time has been elected five successive terms.

Mr. Carson was married on July 4, 1877, to Miss Hattie Eva Bradbury, a native of Indiana, and resident of Bellflower, 111. She was the daughter of William T. Bradbury, at one time supervisor of Bellflower and prominent in politics. Mrs. Carson died in 1886 and was buried in Bellflower. To that marriage four children were born, as follows: Charles T., lives in San Diego, Cal. ; Kate, deceased; Pearl, married Robert Carson, lives in Portland, Ore. ; and Bessie died in infancy. Mr. Carson was later married to Miss Anna Gibson Hardy, a native of Bellflower, and to that union one child was born, Robert H., who lives in Birmingham, Mich. Mrs. Carson died in 1906.

Mr. Carson is a Republican, a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and belongs to the Masonic Lodge. Because of his efficiency in office and his interest in public affairs, Mr. Carson is ranked among the substantial citizens of McLean County, and he merits the approval in which he is held in this community.

Bertram Adolph Franklin, a well known and successful attorney who is engaged in the practice of his profession at Bloomington, is a native of McLean County. He was born in Money Creek Township, Sept. 6, 1876, the son of Noah and Sarah Catherine (Spawr) Franklin, a sketch of whom appears in this history.

education in the public and high schools there. He then attended Morgan Park Academy near Chicago and was graduated from Eureka College in 1896, after which he attended Harvard University, finishing there in 1899. Mr. Franklin was also graduated from Wesleyan Law School in 1902, after which he began the practice of law at Lexington. After remaining there for three years he came to Bloomington and since 1909 has been associated with the firm of Oglevee and Franklin. Mr. Franklin has been identified with many of the important cases of McLean County and is a capable lawyer.

On Sept. 16, 1909, Mr. Franklin married Miss Mildred Sountag, a native of Plainfield, 111. She died Jan. 20, 1923, leaving one child, Mary Catherine, who was born Jan. 7, 1911.

On March 11, 1924, he was married to Elizabeth H. Hoblit, a native of Eureka, 111., the widow of E. M. Hoblit and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Harber, of Bloomington, 111., natives of Woodford County, 111. Mrs. Franklin has a daughter by her first marriage, Helen Hoblit, born June 6, 1910.

Rev. Edward Parrish Brand, D. D., a prominent Baptist minister of Normal, who has attained a marked degree of eminence as superintendent of the Illinois Baptist State Convention, is a native of West Virginia. He was born at Morgantown, Aug. 9, 1854, a son of Alexander W. and Sarah (Bussey) Brand, both natives of Virginia where they spent their lives.

Dr. Brand was educated in the public schools, and a private school in Pennsylvania, in the State Normal and State University of West Virginia. He then spent two years at Newton Theological Seminary, Massachusetts. In 1878 he was licensed to preach, being ordained at Zoar, W. Va., Oct. 30, 1880. During the time he was attending the university he was engaged in preaching at some of the Baptist churches in Monongahela County, W. Va. Before he became superintendent of the Baptist State Convention he had been pastor of the following churches : Taylortown and Sugar Grove, Green County, Pa., 1885-1886; Madisonville (Cincinnati), Ohio, 1886-1890; Orion and Alpha, 111., 1890-1891; Atchison, Kan., 1891- 1892, and Cambridge, Alpha and Orion, 111., 1892-1898.

In June, 1906, Ewing College, Illinois, conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity and Shurtleff College also in 1915 conferred upon him the same degree.

In addition to his work as superintendent he was editor and publisher of the Illinois Baptist Annual from 1898 to 1921 and published the Illinois Baptist Bulletin from 1909-1922. He has also found time to manage a farm near his home.

Since he began his career as a minister he has always made it a rule to preach a sermon every Sabbath day, wherever he may be. As a pulpit orator he has attained considerable distinction. He has done work in the line of his calling in seven different states of the Union and has traveled in 30 states and in foreign countries. Some time ago he let it be known that he desired to give up the work of superintendent on Jan. 1, 1922, and at the following state convention his request was granted but he was unanimously elected to another position for life which involves lighter duties, including the writing of a Baptist history to which he is now devoting about half of his time.

In 1885 Dr. Brand was married to Miss Vienna Moore, a daughter of Joseph and Sarah Moore of Point Marion, Pa., and to this union were born the following children: Sylvia Pearl, born Sept. 22, 1886, died Oct. 18, 1891 ; Sarah Hazel, born Nov. 26, 1888, married Oswald Carl Yeager, of Danville, 111., and they have two children, Elizabeth Ann, born Aug. 8, 1914, and Philip Edward, born Oct. 2, 1916; Lila Marjorie, born Aug. 9, 1894, a teacher and Mildred Dorothy, born Feb. 21, 1896, married Lyndon Rutledge Wilson and they reside at Tuscon, Ariz. They have one child, Margaret Anna, born July 29, 1921.

Dr. Brand's work in the capacity of superintendent of the Illinois Baptist State Convention has been carefully reviewed by President George M. Potter of Shurtleff College, in an article which appeared in the Baptist Standard, Oct. 18, 1919, under the title of "A Kingdom Highway Builder," which in part is as follows :

''Twenty-one years ago the Illinois Baptist State Convention for the third time offered its superintendency of State Convention work to E. P. Brand, then pastor of the Alpha and Orion churches in Henry County. The work of the convention was in a discouraging situation. The superintendent had resigned, there was no great amount of funds, the churches were not enthusiastic about the work and altogether it was a most uninviting offer. Nevertheless it was accepted and for twenty-one years E. P.

Brand and the Baptist State Convention of Illinois have been inseparable in the minds not only of the Baptists of this one state but also of the Baptists of all the states in the central Mississippi valley.

"With keen foresight and consecrated judgment he has laid out certain lines along which Baptist work is to be developed. He has spied out the land, has had a vision of the future and with able leadership has led the Baptist hosts of the state to catch the vision and to give themselves to the realization of certain definite plans.

"He has stressed evangelistic campaigns, encouraged churches to develop the evangelistic gifts of their pastors, and to employ the most consecrated and efficient evangelists. He has sought to bring to the state splendid men to carry on state-wide campaigns and he has always met the offers of the national societies by securing abundant funds with which to place evangelists in the field and to carry on the campaign for the conversion and spiritual development of men and women. It is the writer's opinion that Dr. Brand himself must think this phase of his work one of the most satisfying and outstanding of his numerous activities.

"When Doctor Brand undertook the state work the trust funds of the convention was small. He set himself resolutely to increase these funds and the endowment has gradually grown to such an extent that it is now more than $106,000. More than any other leader before him in the state, he has succeeded in interesting men and women of means in this phase of convention work and many large gifts which are to come in the future will no doubt be traced to his influence. In this connection too our superintendent has made the convention the conservator of Baptist property and the friend of all needy Baptist churches. The starting of Baptist work in some localities and the chance to carry on such work in many others has been due to Doctor Brand's help and counsel.

"When the affairs of Shurtleff College were at their lowest and many of its best friends were confused and doubtful about the outcome it was Doctor Brand who called for a committee of the board of trustees of the institution to meet with the state board of the convention at its session in Bloomington. Out of this meeting came the decision which resulted in the action of the state convention at its meeting in Elgin in 1911 whereby Shurtleff College became the college of the state convention recognized as the Baptist State College of Illinois.

"He also brought about the building and establishment of our Baptist work at the State University of Illinois. With his active enthusiasm he threw a representative of the state convention into the canvass and secured the present grounds lying in a strategic location. A few years later the state convention authorized the building of a church edifice and pastor's home and Doctor Brand was directed to employ a man to push the campaign for funds and a few months later about $40,000 was raised and the work immediately begun.

"No summary of Doctor Brand's work for the Baptists of Illinois can be complete, for who can count the days and nights spent on trains, in carriages, in automobiles, as he traveled over our boundless prairies? He has been a veritable builder of highways for the kingdom of Jesus Christ and these five great trunk lines stand out pre-eminent as roads over which he has led the Baptist host toward greater things: constant evangelistic endeavor ; greater financial strength to the convention ; denominational education of our young people; care of them while they are being educated at our state university, and strong cooperation between our great metropolis and the rest of the state; from these great highways Doctor Brand is even now laying out branch lines."

J. Heber Hudson. - A position that is unique in the community, and a work which is peculiarly interesting and beneficial alike to the city and county is that of J. H. Hudson, secretary of the Bloomington Association of Commerce. This position he has filled and this work he has carried on for ten years, a record in that particular line which has no equal in Illinois and perhaps but few anywhere in the country.

While Mr. Hudson is not a native of McLean County, he has spent most of his life in this state and county. He was a native of Wisconsin, being born at the town of Milton, in that state, on Jan. 16, 1872. He is the son of Lewis B. and Alice A. (Gilbert) Hudson. His parents were both natives of the state of New York, but they located in Wisconsin after their marriage and remained there until the year 1881, when they removed to Bloomington.

The subject of our sketch was then a lad of only nine years of age, and the city to which he then came with his parents has since that time been constantly his home. The parents removed to Aurora, 111., in 1892, but Heber remained in Bloomington. The father died in Aurora in 1915, and the widow lived there for many years afterward, her death occurring early in the year 1924. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Hudson were the parents of seven children, but two of whom are now living, they being J. H. Hudson of Bloomington and Mrs. John J. Trauten of Aurora, 111.

J. H. Hudson attended the public schools of Bloomington, and when it came time for him to start out in life on his own hook he secured work as a cash and delivery boy for a store. Later he took up the work of a commercial traveler, being employed by the firm of Seibel Bros., wholesale milliners of Bloomington. He was on the road for that firm continuously for 28 years and had a very wide circle of business friends throughout his territory.

In 1914, Mr. Hudson was offered the position of secretary of the Bloomington Commercial Club, now known as the Association of Commerce. He was chosen from a large field of applicants, and the remarkable record he has since made showed the wisdom of the choice. The Commercial Club was then a comparatively small organization, with meager equipment and practically no working force aside from the secretary himself. With the accession of Mr. Hudson to the position of executive secretary, the club took on new life. Its membership was increased several hundred per cent, its offices enlarged and moved to larger quarters three times in succession, and new branches of work for the good of the city and county were added from year to year. One of the most notable achievements of the Association first accomplished was the formation of the Better Farming Association, now known as the McLean County Farm Bureau, which was sponsored by the Commercial Club and had offices with it until the Farm Bureau became so large and robust a child that it left its home nest and established permanent headquarters in a building which it had leased. This project has done more to cement good relations between the city and rural population of the county than anything else. It is impossible within the limits of this sketch to outline all the accomplishments of the Association of Commerce in the ten years in which Mr. Hudson has been secretary, but these are given more in detail in the chapter of the general history in this work which is devoted to that subject. The Association of Commerce now occupies two floors of the B. S. Green building, and its office force consists of fourteen people. It is a general clearing house for community activities. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have passed through its office in the last decade all expanded in the interest of the general good of the city and county. The success and growth of the Association in this period has been due in large part to the universal confidence which its membership has in its secretary.

In 1894, Mr. Hudson was married to Miss Carrie Scott, a native of Bloomington, and a daughter of Benjamin F. Scott. To Mr. and Mrs. Hudson two children have been born, as follows: Gladys, married A. V. Padou, lives in Indianapolis ; and Heber S., an attorney of Bloomington. He received his education in the public and high schools of Bloomington and after attending Illinois Wesleyan University was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1922. He has charge of the credit department of the W. H. Roland Co.

J. H. Hudson is a Republican, a member of the Second Presbyterian Church, and belongs to the Masonic Lodge and Consistory of Bloomington. He belongs to the Rotary Club, the Young Mens' Club, the Bloomington Club, and the Maplewood Country Club. He is secretary-treasurer of Post L of the Travelers' Protective Association, the post having a membership of more than 800. He is also a member of Bloomington Council of the United Commercial Travelers, the National Union and the Court of Honor. Mr. Hudson has served as president of the Illinois Commercial Secretaries' Association and is a director of the National Association of Commercial Secretaries. He is universally regarded as one of the substantial and highly esteemed citizens of McLean County.

H. K. Hoblit, vice-president of the First National Bank of Bloomington, is a well-known citizen of McLean County. He was born in Springfield, 111., Aug. 10, 1882, and is a son of A. B. and Anna (Keys) Hoblit.

A. B. Hoblit was born in Canton, 111., and his wife was born in Springfield, 111. He was a leading banker of Illinois for many years and in 1878 organized the State Bank of Bloomington. Previous to that time he had organized the Farmers National Bank at Pekin, 111., and was cashier there for two years. Mr. and Mrs. Hoblit were the parents of two children, as follows: Edward, died in 1921, was married to Elizabeth Harbor, who lives in Bloomington; and H. K., the subject of this sketch. Mrs. Hoblit died when H. K. Hoblit was a child and her husband was later married to Sarah Coolidge, who now resides in Bloomington. A. B. Hoblit died in June, 1920.

H. K. Hoblit was educated in the public schools at Bloomington and was engaged as a collector for the State Bank there. After many promotions he was made president of the bank in 1920 and the following year when the bank was consolidated with the First National Bank, Mr. Hoblit was made vice-president. He is also vice-president of the First Trust & Savings Bank and of the First Title & Savings Company.

In 1904, Mr. Hoblit was married to Miss Florence Herrick, a native of Oak Park, 111., and daughter of D. C. Herrick. Mr. Herrick came to Bloomington after the fire here in 1900 and became a leading merchant. He sold his business in 1923 and now lives retired in Chicago. One child was born to Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Hoblit, Barbara, born in 1913.

Mr. Hoblit is a Republican and a member of the Masonic Lodge and the Consistory of Bloomington. He also belongs to the Elks. Mr. Hoblit inherited the banking ability of his grandfather, Isaac Keyes, who organized the Farmers National Bank of Springfield, 111. Mr. Keys was appointed Provost Marshal under President Lincoln.

James Frank Gillespie. - Rising by his own efforts from surroundings that called for the best that was in him, James Frank Gillespie has established himself in a secure place among the successful attorneys of McLean County, to which he came thirty-two years ago. He is a native of Virginia, a state which is called the mother of presidents and from whose bosom have come scores of men who have achieved renown for themselves and reflected credit upon the land of their nativity. Mr. Gillespie is now right in the prime of his professional career. He is located in the county seat, Bloomington, and has offices in the Livingston building.

Mr. Gillespie was born at White Sulphur Springs, Va., on April 18, 1869, and is the son of James and Henrietta Laurestine Gillespie. The Gillespie family were early settlers of Pennsylvania, but they later moved to Virginia, where James Gillespie was born and where the family lived their entire lives. The father was a prosperous farmer of the Old Dominion. He died in April, 1905, and the mother of our subject died on Feb. 15, 1923.

James Frank Gillespie was reared and grew to young manhood ir> his native state, where he secured his early education. He graduated from the normal school at Concord, Va., and then attended and gra<ki- ated from the Central Normal School at Danville, Ind. He started out as so many other aspiring youth have done, by earning his first money in teaching school, first in the public schools of West Virginia, and afterward became principal of the high school at White Sulphur Springs, Va., in the years 1890 and 1891. Meantime he had studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1892 at Charleston, W. Va.

Being now equipped to start on his professional career, Mr. Gillespie decided to come to the middle west, and he chose McLean county as the place to locate and begin the practice of his profession.

Without fame or prestige of any kind, he began to work faithfully in the daily business of his legal practice, and gradually built up for himself the reputation for professional ability and integrity which is his today. For a quarter of a century, with only brief intervals when he was more energetically engaged in political activities, Mr. Gillespie has stead ily forged ahead. He has been successful in every branch of his practice, but it is mainly for his ability and conscientious devotion to his clients as a trial lawyer that he has made his reputation. Few men in the history of the McLean County bar have been so effective in their jury pleadings. His reputation in this line is more than local, and he is known throughout Central Illinois and the whole state.

Mr. Gillespie served a term in the Legislature from the Twenty-sixth senatorial district, and made a good record in the house. He is now (1924) the nominee of the Democratic party for congress for the Seventeenth Illinois congressional district. For many years he has been one of the reliable leaders of the Democratic party in the county and state, and his speeches in every recent campaign always being effective and magnetic. Mr. Gillespie is a student of economic questions from the non-partisan standpoint. He is fond of the best literature and is versed in the writings of famous men of many ages. Being himself owner of farm land* in McLean county, he has always been interested in legislfiti.cn that relates to agriculture and its allied interests.

Mr. Gillespie was married on June 10, 1896, to Miss Laura Sharp, a native of Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, W. Va. She was reared and educated in that county, graduating from the public and normal school?, and was for some years a teacher in the public schools. Mr. and Mrs. Gillespie have one daughter, Lucile, a graduate of the University of Chicago, who resides at home. The daughter is a teacher of mathematics in the Bloomington high school.

Park C. Gillespie, now living retired at Normal, is a substantial citizen and a member of one of the early prominent pioneer families of McLean County. He was born at Bloomington, July 12, 1867, the son of Christian J. and Theresa J. (Gregory) Gillespie.

Christian Gillespie was born April 15, 1842, in Pennsylvania, and came to Illinois with his parents when he was five years old. The Gillespie family settled on a farm in Twin Grove Township and were among the earliest settlers of McLean County. Christian Gillespie became the owner of 540 acres of land in Chenoa Township where he moved after his marriage, which occurred Nov. 10, 1865, and at the time of his death was a leading stockman of the county. He died Nov. 23, 1908, and his wife died July 13, 1920. Park C. Gillespie, the subject of this sketch, was their only child.

Park C. Gillespie received his education in the district schools and started life farming on his father's farm in Chenoa Township. He became the owner of 540 acres of land in that township and 800 acres in Kansas. For many years Mr. Gillespie was a successful farmer and was a breeder of registered stock. He was also an extensive grain farmer.

On Jan. 13, 1893, Mr. Gillespie was married to Miss Freda Reichardt, a native of New York City, born Jan. 24, 1873, and the daughter of John Reichardt, a native of Germany and an early settler of New York. Mr. Reichardt was a Republican and a member of the Lutheran Church. Mrs. Gillespie had the following brothers and sisters : Bessie, deceased ; Frank, Pontiac, 111., and Dora, lives in New York. To Park C. and Freda (Reichardt) Gillespie the following children were born: Herbert, farmer, lives in Chenoa Township; Howard, twin brother of Herbert, engaged in the insurance business at Chenoa ; Christian J., extensive farmer, a sketch of whom appears in these volumes; Grace, deceased; May, deceased; and Frank, World War veteran, a sketch of whom also appears in this history. Mr. and Mrs. Gillespie have five grandchildren, as follows: Ruth, Bettie Jean, Margaret, Hannah, Esther and Herbert.

Park C. Gillespie is identified with the Republican party in politics and served as mayor of Chenoa for a number of years. During his term as mayor Mr. Gillespie was instrumental in having the streets of Chenoa paved and in the enforcing of prohibition. He was a member of the school board for ten years and was a member of the school building comt

Park C. Gillespie

Mr. Gillespie is a member of the Methodist Church and belongs to the Masonic lodge, and has held every office in the lodge with the exception of 33rd degree. He and his wife now live retired at 912 Fell Avenue, Normal. Mr. Gillespie is a progressive and public spirited man and ranks as one' of the leading citizens of McLean County.

Clinton B. Hughes, a prominent attorney of Bloomington, was born in Clayton County, Iowa, July 16, 1878, the son of Ambrose M. and Ida E. (Hale) Hughes.

Ambrose M. Hughes was born in Lycoming County, Pa., Jan. 9, 1855. He taught school in early life and followed farming later in Iowa, where his parents had moved in 1860. He purchased land near Strawberry Point, Iowa, and now lives at Ames, Iowa. He has figured prominently in local affairs and held various public offices. Mr. Hughes married Ida E. Hale, who was born in Maine, Dec. 20, 1857. To this union ten children were born, as follows: Clinton B., the subject of this sketch; Eva, married R. V. Cooper, lives at San Bernardino, Cal. ; James R., died April 1, 1923, at Springfield, 111. ; Mrs. Peter Anderson, lives at Ames, Iowa, served as a Red Cross nurse during the World War; Harriet, a librarian in the Masonic library, Cedar Rapids, Iowa ; Cassie Fleihler, lives at Strawberry Point, Iowa; Andrew, a veteran of the World War, having served over seas with the Rainbow Division, and he lives at Ames, Iowa; Mrs. Mary Baxter, lives at Lovell, Okla. ; Amos, also a veteran of the World War, having served with the Third Division, and Howard, lives at Ames, Iowa.

Clinton B. Hughes spent his boyhood on his father's farm at Strawberry Point, Iowa, and received his education in the schools there, and was graduated from the law department in the University of Iowa in 1900. He began the practice of law at Strawberry Point in 1901, but the following year removed to Arlington, Iowa, where he practiced his profession until 1908. He then went to West Union, Iowa, where he was elected county attorney in 1911, and was re-elected in 1913 which office he held until coming to Bloomington, 111., on Jan. 1, 1916. He has built up a splendid practice and ranks as one of the leading lawyers of McLean County. His offices are in the Griesheim building. During the World War Mr. Hughes was a member of the Council of Defense and chairman of Four-Minute speakers. He took an active part in all war work.

In March, 1902, Mr. Hughes was married to Miss Anna Opperman, a native of Iowa, and a daughter of Henry and Mary (Kramer) Opperman. Mr. Opperman followed farming for many years near Strawberry Point, Iowa, and died in March, 1913. His widow resides in Iowa. Mrs. Hughes died Jan. 3, 1904, leaving two children, Flora M., born December, 1902, and Donald M., born in December, 1903. On Dec. 22, 1905, Mr. Hughes was married to Miss Magdalena Opperman, a sister of his first wife and to this union the following children have been born: Harold A., born in November, 1906; Helen, born January, 1908; Theodore, born August, 1909; Paul, born in 1911; Dorothy Jane, born in 1919; and Clinton B., born in 1921. The three older children are students at Illinois Wesleyan University, and the others attend school in Bloomington.

Mr. Hughes served as assistant attorney general of Illinois for two years. He is a Republican, a member of the Methodist Church, and belongs to the Masonic bodies and Bloomington Consistory and the Modern Woodmen of America. Mr. Hughes is widely and favorably known throughout McLean County as a capable lawyer.

Miss Nellie E. Parham, librarian at the Withers Public Library of Bloomington for just a quarter of a century, has been an influential force in the city for that time. Miss Parham comes from English ancestry, for her grandparents on her father's side were both residents of England prior to their coming to America in 1830. Her paternal grandfather and grandmother were Thomas and Anna (Bristol) Parham, who had resided in Tisbury, England, until their emigration to the United States. Her maternal grandparents were Willard and Piany (Roberts) Doolittle, whose family came early to America and later made their home in New York. Miss Parham's father was Alford Bristol Parham, and he was born in northern Indiana. Her mother was Arvilla Berthea Doolitle, who was born in New York, but whose family came to northern Indiana when she was eight years of age.

Nellie E. Parham was the eldest of three children, and was born near the town of Lima, Ind., now known as Howe. She was graduated from high school at Lima, attended a private school one year, and then spent one year at the Indiana State Normal. She engaged in teaching for a period, first at Elkhart, Ind., and later at Beatrice, Nebr. She entered the University of Illinois and took a library course of training there in 1897-99. She went first to the library of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, where she remained from May till October, when she came to Bloomington. Miss Parham has had charge of the Withers Library continuously since coming here. She has filled the position with exceptional ability and general satisfaction to the library board and the general public. She has seen many changes in the library, chief of which was its expansion to include the use of the entire building, the upper story of which was leased and occupied by the Bloomington Club when Miss Parham came here.

Aside from her work as librarian, in which she comes in contact with many groups of the citizens, Miss Parham has always been active in movements for the betterment of the community in other ways. She is an active member of the Woman's Club and of the Four O'Clock History Club. She is a director and interested worker for the Day Nursery, and many other civic organizations have felt her energetic co-operation.

Frederick C. Bohrer and his wife were natives of Rhenish, Bavaria, and left that country when they were children. Their families settled near Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio, and Mr. and Mrs. Bohrer came to McLean County in 1855, where they spent the remainder of their lives. They are now deceased. There were five children, as follows : George, was a prominent farmer of Normal Township for many years, well known politician and served as a member of the board of supervisors, and died Sept. 30, 1910, at the age of 55 years; Louisa B., married Jacob N. Hilton, and died Sept. 23, 1922; Mary E., died July 5, 1917; Louis, farmer, lives in Dry Grove Township, and Jacob A., the subject of this sketch.

Jacob A. Bohrer spent his boyhood days on his father's farm and attended the district schools. He entered the high school department at Normal University in 1887 and the following fall attended Williams College at Williamstown, Mass., from which he was graduated in 1891. Mr. Bohrer was made a member of the Phi Delta Theta and the Phi Beta Kappa fraternities during his junior year at college, and after his grad- uation returned to Bloomington and taught Latin, Greek, German and American history in the high school department of Normal University for four years. While teaching there Mr. Bohrer studied law for two years and was graduated from that department in June, 1896, and admitted to the bar. He was appointed assistant state attorney under R. L. Fleming and served five years. In 1901, Mr. Bohrer was appointed postmaster by President McKinley and re-appointed by the late President Roosevelt and ex-President Taft. He served as postmaster of Bloomington for 121/i years, which is the longest record held by any one in that office at Bloomington. Mr. Bohrer served as chairman of the McLean , County Republican Central Committee for five years and on Feb. 1, 1914, at the expiration of his term, engaged in the practice of law, being associated with Governor Fifer. This partnership continued until Feb. 1, 1922, when Mr. Bohrer became associated with Judge Riley in the practice of law. They do a general practice and are widely known throughout McLean County.

Mr. Bohrer was married May 5, 1898, to Miss Florence Fifer, a daughter of Governor Fifer, and to this union two children have been born, as follows: Joseph Fifer Bohrer, attends the law school at Chicago University; and Gertrude Bohrer, a student in the journalism department of the University of Wisconsin. Miss Bohrer attended Dana Hall at Wellesley, Mass., and her brother is a graduate of Chicago University.

In politics Mr. Bohrer has always been identified with the Republican party and he is a member of the Unitarian Church. He is a reliable and excellent citizen of Bloomington.

Hal Marot Stone, attorney of Bloomington, is well known throughout the community as a successful man in his profession. He was born in Mason County, 111., July 31, 1877, the son of Claudius L. and Mary Gertrude (Marot) Stone.

Claudius L. Stone was a native of Menard County, 111., born Sept. 18, 1845, and the son of William A. Stone, who came to Illinois in 1832. William A. Stone was a captain during the Mexican war and died at the age of 87 years. He was a native of Kentucky and lived in Pennsylvania before moving to Illinois. Mary Gertrude (Marot) Stone was a native of Ohio and came to Illinois with her parents when she was a young girl.

The Marot family originally came from France and settled in Pennsylvania and August Marot, Mrs. Stone's father, was among the first of the Pennsylvania Quakers to settle in Illinois. Mrs. Stone died in 1884 from injuries received when a cyclone struck this section of Illinois. A child, Inez, was killed in her mother's arms during the cyclone. Hal Marot Stone, the subject of this sketch, has three brothers: William E., attorney, Mason County, 111. ; Arthur L., traveling salesman, lives at Peoria, 111., and Clyde E., supreme court judge of Illinois, lives at Peoria.

Hal Marot Stone spent his boyhood in Mason County and attended the district schools and high school. He then taught school for six years, four years of which were spent in Menard County. Mr. Stone attended summer school at Valparaiso and the state university at Champaign, 111., being graduated from the law department there in 1903. He then came to Bloomington and began the practice of law alone, but soon became associated with Everett W. Ogelvee. The firm was known as Stone and Ogelvee until 1909 when Mr. Stone was appointed Master of Chancery and the firm was then known as Stone, Ogelvee and Franklin. Later Mr. Stone withdrew and practiced alone for about a year and in 1915 the firm of Stone and Dick was organized with offices in the Peoples Bank Building. On Aug. 1, 1923, Mr. Dick withdrew to become vice-president of the Peoples Bank and his place was taken by C. C. Taylor, the firm name now being Stone and Taylor. It is one of the well known law firms of Bloomington and has an extensive business in McLean County.

On Nov. 11, 1903, Mr. Stone married Miss Mildred Ann Burrill, a daughter of Thomas J. Burrill, a well known educator of Illinois. Mrs. Stone died Jan. 27, 1913, leaving one child, Mary Helen, at home. Mr. Stone was married on Jan. 24, 1916, to Miss Olive May Mellon, a native of Peoria. To this union three children have been born, as follows: Betty Jane, Hal, Jr., and Suzanne.

Mr. Stone has been an instructor in the law department of Illinois Wesleyan University since 1906 and now teaches equity, real property, contracts and evidence. He served as president of the Bloomington Club from 1914 to 1916 and he is a member of the Bloomington Country Club. Mr. Stone is a member of the Phi Kappa Sigma, the Phi Delta Phi and the Theta Kappa Nu fraternities. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church and belongs to the Masonic Lodge No. 43, Bloomington Lodge, and is both a York and Scottish Rite Mason. He belongs to the Jesse Fell Lodge Knights of Pythias, the Modern Woodmen of America No. 110, and is a member of the State Bar Association and three country clubs. During the World war Mr. Stone served as county food administrator. He is a progressive man in his profession, a citizen of great public spirit, and a man known to his community for his high ideals of civic pride and public service.

D. G. Fitzgerrell, president of the First National Bank of Normal, is among the leading and influential citizens of McLean County. He was born in Jefferson County, 111., near Mt. Vernon, Feb. 10, 1868, and is a son of James Jackson and Sarah M. (Whitlow) Fitzgerrell.

James Jackson Fitzgerrell was a native of Virginia and was reared and educated in Gibson County, Indiana. He came to Illinois at a very early date, about 1839, when he was 25 years of age. He settled in Jefferson County where he purchased land from the government. Mr. Fitzgerrell was a stockman and also followed farming. He was a Democrat and took a keen interest in politics but never held office. He died in 1889 at the age of 75 years. His wife, a native of Franklin County, 111., died in 1903. They are both buried near an extinct town, Fitzgerrell, in Jefferson County. D. G. Fitzgerrell, the subject of this sketch, is one of a family of eight children.

Mr. Fitzgerrell was reared on his father's farm in Jefferson County and attended the district school. At the age of 16 years he attended Ewing College, at Ewing, III, from which he was graduated in 1886. After engaging in the hardware business for a time at Marion, III, he removed to Mt. Vernon, III, where he served as assistant postmaster during President Cleveland's second administration. After traveling a short time he engaged in the banking business at Ewing, and came to Normal on Oct. 1, 1916. Mr. Fitzgerrell has served as president of the First National Bank of Normal since 1916.

On May 25, 1887, Mr. Fitzgerrell was united in marriage with Miss Pauline Goddard, a native of Marion, 111. They have three children: M. G., associated in business with Swift & Company in St. Louis; J. A., associated with the New York Life Insurance Company at Peoria, 111., and Katherine, a junior at Illinois State Normal University.

He is also a 33rd degree Mason. He is a Democrat. Mr. Fitzgerrell and his family hold membership in the First Methodist Church of Normal and are widely known in McLean County.

The First National Bank of Normal was organized Nov. 1, 1893, with John C. Aldrich, as president. Colonel Smith was vice president until his death, and was then succeeded by his son, Dudley Smith, Jr. The present officers are: D. G. Fitzgerrell, president; Dudley C. Smith, Jr., vice president; William H. Odell, cashier, and T. H. Keys, assistant cashier. The directors are: D. G. Fitzgerrell, Dudley C. Smith, Jr., 0. L. Manchester, David Davis and W. L. McKnight. The present resources are about $750,000.00, and the assets have almost doubled since Mr. Fitzgerrell became president. The present bank building was designed and built by Mr. Fitzgerrell in 1918, and is modern throughout. It is located at the corners of Broadway and North Street, and is one of the leading banking institutions in McLean County.

O. A. Kyle, well known veterinary surgeon of Bloomington and proprietor of a veterinary hospital at 406 North Center Street, is a native of Illinois. He was born in Madison County, 111., Nov. 1, 1874, the son of William F. and Mary (MacLilley) Kyle.

William F. Kyle was a native of Ohio and an early settler of Madison County, 111., where his wife was born. They both died in Madison County. Mr. Kyle was a veterinary surgeon for many years and was well known. To William F. and Mary (MacLilley) Kyle 10 children were born, eight of whom are now living, as follows: William C, veterinary surgeon at Pocahontas, 111. ; N. W., veterinary surgeon at Colfax, 111. ; A. H., veterinary surgeon at Highland, 111. ; M. H., veterinary surgeon at Chatsworth, 111.; O. A., the subject of this sketch; J. C, engaged in the real estate business at Colfax, 111. ; Emma, married Eugene Forester, lives at Bloomington, and Bertha, married Ed Herrin, now deceased. A. H. Kyle has a son, Wilbur Kyle, who is also a veterinary surgeon, and another son, Raymond, who practices dentistry at Breeze, 111.

O. A. Kyle spent his boyhood days in Madison County, III, and attended the public and high schools at Highland. He then entered Chicago Veterinary College, from which he was graduated in 1901. Dr. Kyle practiced with his brother, N. W. Kyle, for two years at Colfax, 111., and came to Bloomington in 1902, and became associated with Dr. Alverson. After two years he engaged in business for himself and in 1914 opened a veterinary hospital at Bloomington. Dr. Kyle has facilities for treating all kinds of domestic animals and his hospital is among the finest of its kind in the state. He also carries on a general practice besides his hospital work.

David Felmley, president of the Illinois State Normal University, was born in Somerset County, New Jersey, April 24, 1857. He was bereft of his father when but a child of three and his early education was thus left to his mother. When David was eleven his mother decided to move to Illinois and settled in Pike County, where his boyhood and much of his youth was spent.

At an early age, David Felmley evinced a decided intellectual tendency, and his mother had the foresight to keep him liberally supplied with books and instructive periodical literature. As he approached manhood, David became an insatiate reader, and had the ability to digest and assimilate much of the information and facts which he had so eagerly devoured. An employee of his mother, who was somewhat of a naturalist, persuaded the boy to stress natural science, especially in the direction of botany, while his fondness for mathematics was encouraged by an early teacher.

In 1872 young Felmley realized his ambition to enter college and became a student at Blackburn University at Carlinville, remaining there three years. He went from that budding institution to the University of Michigan, completing in three years the four-year college course. After leaving college in 1881 he taught a country school at Virden, then for ten years he served at Carrollton as principal of the high school and as superintendent of schools. He received a call to the chair of mathematics at the Illinois State Normal University at Normal in 1890. Ten years of faithful and efficient work in that department brought him into such favorable repute with the State Board of Education that in August, 1900, he was elected president to succeed Dr. Arnold Tompkins, who had been selected as a successor of President John W. Cook, who, had resigned the year

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In the twenty-four years of the incumbency of President Felmley he has enlarged the scope of the institution and increased its usefulness. The school year has been lengthened to twelve months. The regular faculty has grown from 21 teachers to 82. The normal department has been raised to the grade of a teachers' college ; the annual enrollment of normal students increased from 800 to more than 4000. New departments have been established for the training of special teachers and supervisors of Art, Music, Manual Training, Home Economics, Agriculture, Commercial Branches and Physical Education. The State Normal University now ranks among the half-dozen leading teachers' colleges of the United States.

President Felmley has through his long career been an active figure upon the platform. He has delivered hundreds of educational addresses in Illinois and other states on commencement occasions and before assemblages of teachers and friends of education. He has also been a frequent contributor to educational periodicals. He has been one of the authors of the State Course of Study, having written the mathematical curriculum in that publication.

President Felmley received the degree of LL. D. from the University of Illinois in 1905, and L. H. D. from Blackburn University in 1906. He is a charter member of the College Alumni Club of Bloomington, and of the Rotary Club. He is in point of attendance the oldest member of the Illinois State Teachers' Association and of the Illinois Schoolmasters' Club. He served upon the Illinois Educational Commission in 1911-1913. He is now a member of the National Educational Council and was elected the first president of the National Council of Normal School Presidents.

President Felmley is temperamentally a progressive. He would summon before the bar of reason every theory, doctrine, practice, or institution in state or church, in school or in society, and oblige it to slough off its outworn and useless features. Accordingly he has been a consistent and persistent advocate of spelling reform, of tax reform, of the substitution of studies in natural science and social science for the dead languages in the high school curriculum. He has always taken a keen interest in economic questions, and in former years made many addresses upon political and economic questions. Here, as in other fields, he showed his sympathy with the progressive tendencies of the time.

extensive acquirements in almost every field of knowledge. He enjoys a reputation for accurate scholarship and for that reason was chosen a member of the board of pronunciation for the Standard Dictionary. He has served for 15 years as one of the forty members of the Simplified Spelling Board.

In 1887 Mr. Felmley was married to Miss Auta Stout of Carrollton, 111. Their three children are Mrs. A. B. Meek of Carrollton, 111., Mildred Felmley, a teacher in the Bloomington High School, and John B. Felmley, a construction engineer, now employed at Ottawa, 111.

Julius Schausten, owner and proprietor of the Bloomington Soft Water Laundry, is one of the well known and highly respected business men of this city. He was born in Bloomington, Aug. 1, 1864, and is the son of William and Phillipine (Schlegel) Schausten.

William Schausten was a native of Germany and came to America when a young man, locating in Chicago. Several years later he removed to Bloomington and from there went to Clintonville, 111. Later, however, he returned to Bloomington, where he spent the remainder of his life. Mr. Schausten served throughout the Civil war with an Illinois company. Mr. and Mrs. Schausten, now deceased, were the parents of the following children: Julius, the subject of this sketch; Ida, the widow of J. P. Hooley, lives in Bloomington; Herman, a plumber, lives in Bloomington, married Ella Irwin, and William, married Lillian Moore, lives in Bloomington.

Julius Schausten was reared and educated in Bloomington and has been engaged in the laundry business since 1902. The Bloomington Soft Water Laundry is located at 407-411 South Madison Street in a modern brick building, 150x115 feet. The building was built in 1902 and is equipped with up-to-date machinery. Mr. Schausten employs about 50 persons, several of whom have been with him for many years. His business is confined to Bloomington and is among the leading business enterprises of the city, and Mr. Schausten has won a reputation for fairness both to his customers and employes.

On Dec. 25, 1896, Mr. Schausten was married to Miss Ida Schneider, a native of Bloomington and the daughter of C. C. Schneider. They have no children.

Milton R. Livingston, a member of the firm of A. Livingston & Sons, is one of the well known and successful business men of McLean County. He was born in Bloomington, Oct. 29, 1872, and is a son of Aaron and Hannah (Eliel) Livingston.

Aaron Livingston was born in Germany and came to this country in 1858, locating at Cincinnati, Ohio. Later he went to Fort Leavenworth. Kans., and at the outbreak of the Civil war enlisted in Company I, Second Regiment, Kansas Volunteer Infantry, and served for four years as a corporal. Mr. Livingston came to Bloomington in 1865 where he had cousins living, and the following year he engaged in the dry goods business there. He was actively connected with this business until 1896^ when he retired. He died in 1903.

A. Livingston & Sons is the oldest business establishment in Bloomington and since its organization has been in the same location where it was founded in the spring of 1866. It was originally a dry goods store, but has been enlarged from year to year until it now carries a complete line of women's wearing apparel, house furnishings, victrolas, etc. There are 175 persons employed in their store and it occupies a fine four story brick building on the south side of the square.

Milton R. Livingston received his education in the public schools at Bloomington and when he was a boy worked in his father's store after school and during vacations. When he and his brothers reached the age of 21 years they were taken in as members of the firm, the name of which was then changed to A. Livingston & Sons.

On Oct. 2, 1907, Mr. Livingston was married to Miss Florence Griesheim, a native of Bloomington, and to this union two children have been born, A. Edward and William G.

Mr. Livingston is president of the Bloomington Association of Commerce and has been a director since its organization. He has served as state president of the Illinois Retail Dry Goods Association and is a member of the Masonic lodge, being a 32nd degree Mason, and a member of the Consistory and Shrine. He is also a member of the Bloomington Club

During the World war Mr. Livingston was very active in the Red Cross work and the Liberty Loan drives. He was also head of the Commercial Economy Administration of several counties in central Illinois.

Cliff Guild, registrar, bursar and secretary of the board of trustees of Illinois Wesleyan University at Bloomington, was born in Watseka, 111., Nov. 21, 1868, the son of Edward W. and Amanda (Foster) Guild.

Edward W. Guild was a native of Lowell, Mass., and came to Illinois with his parents in 1838. They settled first in Pike County, then in Henry County, and in 1863 moved to Watseka. Mr. Guild was a merchant for many years and during the latter part of his life engaged in farming in Iroquois County, 111. He and his wife are now deceased. Mrs. Guild was born near Columbus, Ohio, and came to Illinois with her parents when she was very young, and they settled in Marshall County.

Cliff Guild spent his boyhood days on his father's farm and attended the district schools and high school at Watseka. He also was graduated from Grand Prairie Seminary at Onarga, 111., and afterward attended Hedding College at Abingdon, 111., from which institution he was graduated in 1892 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. He received his Master's degree at the same institution in 1895 and three years later took post graduate work at the University of Chicago. Mr. Guild was a member of the Hedding College Academy faculty as instructor in mathematics for three years and in 1893 was elected to the chair of mathematics in Hedding College, which position he resigned in the early part of 1900, after which he returned to Watseka and engaged in the lumber business with his brothers. In 1903 Mr. Guild was re-elected to his former position at Hedding College and remained another year, then returning again to the lumber business on account of his brother's failing health. On Jan. 2, 1905, he was elected to succeed Dr. DeMott, deceased, as the head of the mathematics department in Illinois Wesleyan University. He held that position until June, 1920, when he became secretary of the board of trustees of Illinois Wesleyan University and bursar and registrar of the institution, which position he still holds.

On June 28, 1894, Mr. Guild married Miss Hattie C. Cross, a native of Chicago, who came to Illinois with her parents when she was a young girl. She is the daughter of Michael and Kate (Mitchinson) Cross, both natives of England. Mr. Cross is deceased and his widow lives at Brewster, Minn. Mrs. Guild was educated in the public schools and attended Grand Prairie Seminary and was graduated in the same class at Hedding College with her husband. She taught school for several terms before her marriage. To Mr. and Mrs. Guild two children have been born, as follows: Helen, a graduate of Illinois Wesleyan University, now married to Elmer R. Baum, lives in Bloomington, 111., and Doris, a member of the class of 1924 at Illinois Wesleyan University.

Mr. Guild is a member of the Arts and Crafts Lodge, A. F. and A. M., and the College Alumni Club of Bloomington. He belongs to the Methodist Church and is a 32nd degree Mason and a member of the Phi Kappa Phi fraternity. Mr. Guild is a man of energy, vision and ambition, and an invaluable asset to the institution with which he is connected and to the community.

Campbell Holton, president of the Campbell Holton & Company, is a leading business man of McLean County. He was born at Vincennes, Ind., Aug. 11, 1866, and is a son of Rev. Thomas Tilghman and Ellen Margaret (Campbell) Holton. A sketch of Reverend Thomas T. Holton and his family appears elsewhere in this volume.

Campbell Holton received his education in the public schools and was graduated from high school at Lincoln, 111., in 1882. When he was 16 years old he was employed in the grocery store of C. E. Ross. Six years later a partnership was formed with Mr. Reynolds, which was known as Holton & Reynolds. In 1895 Mr. Holton came to Bloomington and was associated with the Humphreys & Co., until 1907.

Campbell Holton & Company was organized in 1907 and incorporated for $100,000 cash paid in. Over 90 per cent of this stock was owned by practical men who became actively engaged in the development of the business. With only a few exceptions these men are the active managers, assisted by others who are receiving managerial education in the different departments. The company was organized to distribute in the most economical manner possible the entire line of food products and from the small beginning in 1907 it has developed a distribution which places it among the leading concerns of its kind in the central west. Originallylocated in the uptown district the company moved to its present track location after a fire in 1911, and in this location has every facility for the quick and economical handling of its merchandise. Under this roof there are coffee roasters, sugar grinding, nut roasting, cereal and coffee packing machinery, all of the most modern type. Cold storage rooms and up to date handling and shipping equipment enables the company to give the very best service.

The growth of the company has been steady year by years. Its proprietary brands, namely, "Happy Hour," "Camel" and "Red Mill" are now household words in thousands of homes.

Campbell Holton was married to Miss Adelaide May Blake, a native of Clinton, 111., born in 1867, and the daughter of J. H. and Susan (Ford) Blake, natives of Ireland. Mr. Blake was a well known dry goods merchant at Clinton, 111., for many years. He died in 1913 and his wife died in 1905. To Mr. and Mrs. Holton two children have been born: Campbell Blake, born in 1894, associated in business with his father, and Ellen Margaret, born in 1904.

Mr. Holton and his family are members of the Christian Church. He belongs to the Masonic lodge and Consistory of Bloomington and the Shrine at Peoria.

C. A. Stephenson, secretary and credit manager of the Campbell Holton Company of Bloomington, is well and favorably known throughout McLean County. He was born at Heyworth, 111., June 25, 1874, and is a son of George and Sarah Marie (VanOrdstraud) Stephenson.

George Stephenson was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1837. The Stephenson family originally came from England. Mr. Stephenson was an early settler of Heyworth, 111., and was a carpenter and cabinet maker by trade. He made coffins for many years and later engaged in the undertaking business. Later, however, he became a building contractor and constructed many of the early wooden bridges and buildings at Heyworth. In 1886 he removed to Normal and engaged in business there. He now resides at Palms, Cal, and is 86 years of age. His wife was a native of Washington County, Pa. She came west with her brothers, Isaac and John Van Ordstraud, who were large landowners of McLean County. She died at Normal, Aug. 31, 1911, at the age of 63 years. Mr. and Mrs. Stephenson were the parents of seven children, as follows: Nonie J., married 0. B. Balch, lives at Oak Park, 111. ; Oakley V., lives at Palms, Cal. ; Anna M., married Louis H. Haney, lives at East Orange, N. J. ; Will, lives in Chicago; C. A., the subject of this sketch; J. R., lives in Cleveland, and Robert, died in infancy.

C. A. Stephenson lived in Heyworth until he was 12 years of age when his people moved to Normal. After attending the public and high schools of Normal, he taught school west of Heyworth for one year. He then was employed as bookkeeper and salesman by the W. W. Marmon Company, a wholesale drug house. After being in the employ of this company for six years he was employed as bookkeeper by the Keiser- VanLeer Company for four years. His next position was that of office manager for the G. H. Reed Company, where he remained four years. Mr. Stephenson has been associated with the Campbell Holton Company since the time of its organization in 1907.

The Campbell Holton Company is one of the leading business enterprises of Bloomington. It was organized with a $100,000 capital which has since been increased to $400,000. There are 20 traveling men who represent the firm within a radius of 60 miles from Bloomington.

Mr. Stephenson was married on Sept. 6, 1899, to Miss Amy B. Jenkins, a native of Vermont, 111., and the daughter of Milton Jenkins. Mr. Jenkins is a pioneer resident of Fulton County, III, and resides at Vermont. His wife died May 15, 1908. To Mr. and Mrs. Stephenson five children have been born, as follows : Louise, lives in Chicago ; Beatrice, lives in Chicago ; Charles, Jr. ; Cassaline Ann and Raymond Rubert.

Mr. Stephenson is a director of the Bloomington Country Club, a Director of the Association of Commerce, and is a member of the board of education. He belongs to the Christian Church and is a 32nd degree Mason. Mr. Stephenson is an alert business man and is accounted one of the substantial citizens of Bloomington.

Oliver W. Dimlap, president of the Dunlap Manufacturing Company of Blooming-ton, represents a family fittingly assigned a conspicuous place among the manufacturing agencies of McLean County. He is a native son of Bloomington Township, and was born in District No. 4, in 1866, the son of Elizer and Lucinda N. Dunlap.

In 1865 Elizer Dunlap, a native of Champaign County, Ohio, arrived in McLean County, locating on a small farm just south of the town of Bloomnigton, the improvement of which became incidental to quite an extensive trade in timber and lumber. Mr. Dunlap was a broad minded and ambitious man, and was destined to fill a much larger place in the business world of Bloomington, being one of the organizers and promoters of the Bloomington Pressed Brick Company, with which he was connected at the time of his death, in January, 1902. He was a staunch Prohibitionist, and a man of high moral purpose and character.

Oliver W. Dunlap was educated in the country and city schools, and eventually took a course at the Evergreen City Business College in Bloomington. He was interested in his father's wood business for several years, and in 1886 entered into partnership in the brick business with William M. Cannon, under the firm name of Dunlap and Cannon, operating the yard formerly conducted by Heafer and McGregor. Mr. Dunlap learned brick making in his characteristic, thorough and enthusiastic way, and continued in the above business until the fall of 1891. In 1892 he and his father considered the plan of establishing a brick manufactory, and after thorough investigation, in the fall of that year, purchased the required machinery. In the spring of 1893 the originators were ready for business and began to manufacture by the dry-pressed process. The company was then incorporated. In 1896 Mr. Dunlap invented the Perfect Clay Screen, which was sold throughout the world and in 1911 he gave up his interest in the brick business and founded the Oil of Gladness Mop, or the Dunlap Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, of which he is president. Mr. Dunlap's residence is located at 609 West Jefferson Street, Bloomington.

On Oct. 12, 1898, Mr. Dunlap married Miss Maude D. Coates, a native of Valparaiso, Ind., and the daughter of the late Dr. H. C. and Emiline S. Coates. They have no children.

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John W. Rodgers, president of the Liberty State Bank, is a prominent citizen of Bloomington. He was born at Lafayette, Ind., Oct. 5, 1851, and is the son of Joseph and Eliza (Tolman) Rodgers.

Joseph Rodgers was born in Merriot, Somersetshire, England, in 1823, and his wife was a native of New Hampshire, born in 1830. He came to the United States in 1843 and located in Detroit, Mich., where he was married. Later the Rodgers family moved to Lafayette, Ind., and from there to Attica, Ind., where Mr. Rodgers conducted a grocery business He died in 1909, and his wife died in 1880. Mr. and Mrs. Rodgers were the parents of 13 children, six of whom grew to maturity, as follows: William, was killed in 1866 on the Chicago & Alton Railroad, at Brighton crossing; Edwin, married Lottie Havens, and died in Hanford, Cal., in 1917; John W., the subject of this sketch; Lew J., a grocer, lives in Bloomington, and is married to Margaret Dwyer; Frank T., married Margaret Mahoney and died in 1908, and Robert L., a grocer in Bloomington, married Elizabeth Bell.

John W. Rodgers was educated in Indiana and after finishing his schooling was engaged as a shoe clerk in Attica, Ind. In xMay, 1881, he removed to Bloomington, 111., where he engaged in the shoe business on Main street. Mr. Rodgers' business, known as the John W. Rodgers Shoe Company, of which he is president, has been in the same location for 43 years. He also is president of the Gerhart Shoe Company, which is operated by his son at 116 North Center street, Bloomington.

On May 5, 1919, the Liberty State Bank of Bloomington was organized with the following officers : John W. Rodgers, as president ; Philip Wood, vice-president ; P. A. Johnson, cashier, and Russell Schearer, assistant cashier. The bank was organized with a capital stock of $100,000.00 and a surplus of $25,000.00. Before removing to its new building at 119 North Main street, in July, 1923, it was located at 206 West Jefferson street.

On Jan. 13, 1876, Mr. Rodgers was united in marriage with Miss Ophelia F. Hosier, a daughter of Benjamin and Lydia (Scheibley) Hosier, natives of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Rodgers was born in Fountain County, Ind. To Mr. and Mrs. Rodgers three children have been born, as follows: Robert C, born in 1878, engaged in the shoe business at Bloomington, married Margaret O'Neil, the daughter of William O'Neil, and they have two children, Florence and Catherine; John W., Jr., born in 1885, a shoe merchant of Bloomington, married Alice Hulva, a daughter of Frank Hulva, and they have one child, John W., III. ; and Harry H., born in 1889, a shoe merchant in Bloomington, married Jane Smith, a daughter of G. Smith, of Bloomington, and they have two children, Bradford and Myra Jane.

Mr. Rodgers was appointed superintendent of the Illinois Soldiers' Orphans' Home by Governor Lowden and served in this capacity from Dec. 15, 1917, until June 6, 1921. He is a Republican, and was a candidate for mayor of Bloomington in 1914, but was defeated by E. E. Jones. He has served four years in the city council as alderman of the Fourth Ward and has also served on the county board of Supervisors for six years. He was chairman the year of the erection of the Soldiers' monument which stands in Miller Park, and formally dedicated the same. His name is engraved on the bronze tablet as chairman. December, 1916, he was elected presidential elector to vote for Hughes and Fairbanks. Wilson and Marshall defeated them. Mr. Rodgers is a member of the First Presbyterian Church, is a 32nd degree Mason, and belongs to No. 77 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, was trustee for 15 years, assisted in building the I. 0. 0. F. Temple on Jefferson street in 1900. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias, and the Red Men. He has an extensive acquaintance in McLean County and stands high in the community.

Enoch Brock, who has been successfully engaged in the practice of law at Bloomington since 1886, when he was admitted to the bar, is a native of Grainger County, Tenn. He was born Sept. 17, 1855, the son of James and Rachel (Akins) Brock.

James Brock was born in Grainger County, Tenn., and he was of Scotch descent, his parents having come from Scotland to Maryland. They later moved to Virginia and later to North Carolina, and finally to Tennessee. His wife was of English descent and her ancestors were early settlers of Tennessee. On Jan. 4, 1861, Mr. and Mrs. James Brock moved their family to McLean County, III, making the trip by rail. They settled on a farm and Mr. Brock became a leading farmer and stockman of the county. He died March 20, 1909, at LeRoy, and his wife died Sept. 18, 1910, at LeRoy. They are both buried in Oak Grove Cemetery east of LeRoy. Enoch Brock, the subject of this sketch, is one of three

Enoch Brock was reared on his father's farm and remembers manyincidents of the Civil War days. He received his education in the district schools and attended Illinois Wesleyan University at Bloomington, from which he was graduated in the law department in 1886. Since that time Mr. Brock has engaged in practice at Bloomington and he is widely known throughout the county.

On Sept. 20, 1876, Enoch Brock married Miss Mattie Crumbaugh, a native of LeRoy, and the daughter of Montgomery and Mary (West) Crumbaugh, the former a native of Kentucky and an early settler of McLean County in 1840. Mary West was the daughter of Henry West, also a native of Kentucky and early settler of McLean County, after whom the township, West Township, is named. To Enoch and Mattie (Crumbaugh) Brock three children have been born, as follows: Letta, now the wife of Edward C. Stone, editor of the Washington Post on Markets, Washington, D. C. ; Mabel, married William Y. Mickle, professor in the John B. Stetson University of DeLand, Fla., and Bernice, married M. F. Ainsworth, seed dealer and farmer of Mason City, 111.

Mr. Brock is a member of the Phi Delta Phi law fraternity. He is a Democrat. He is a man who is highly esteemed in the community and he is a reliable and substantial citizen of Bloomington.

Ralph Spafford, managing officer of the Illinois Soldiers' Orphans' Home at Normal and former sheriff of McLean County, is a native of Illinois. He was born in DeWitt County, July 17, 1874, and is the son of Ira J. and Jane (Smith) Spafford.

Ira J. Spafford was a native of Ontario, Canada, and settled in DeWitt County, 111., when he was a young man. During the latter fifties he removed to McLean County but later returned to DeWitt County. After four years, however, he returned to McLean County and lived in Bloomington the remainder of his life. Mr. Spafford was general agent for the Howe Scales Company in Illinois for 43 years. He died in 1916, and his widow lives in Bloomington. Mr. and Mrs. Spafford were the parents of five children, three of whom are now living, as follows: Fred H., lives

Ralph Spafford was reared and educated in Bloomington and when he was a young man learned photography and photo engraving which he followed successfully in Bloomington until 1915. He then became chief deputy sheriff under Sheriff George Fletcher, and was elected sheriff in 1918, which office he held for two and one-half years. He resigned to accept his present position.

Mr. Spafford was married on Sept. 23, 1897, to Edna Still McElhiney, a native of Bloomington. They have five children as follows: Louise, a graduate of Illinois State Normal University, teaches in the Pekin public schools, Pekin, 111. ; Paul, a student in University High School at Normal ; Ira, Arthur and Lewis, all students.

Mr. Spafford has always been a Republican. He served as president of the Illinois State Photographers' Association, and is secretary and president of the National Photographers' Association. He is a member of the First Methodist Church and belongs to the Elks lodge and the Modern Woodmen of America. He is a 32nd degree Mason and charter member of the Bloomington Consistory and a member of the Mahomet Shrine of Peoria. Mr. Spafford is a dependable citizen and is well known in McLean County.

Orson L. Manchester, the Dean of the Illinois State Normal University, and former Mayor of Normal, is a native of Illinois. He was born in Lake County, Feb. 19, 1864, and is a son of John P. and Sylvia (Demmon) Manchester, the former a native of New York and the latter of Ohio.

In boyhood Orson L. Manchester attended the public schools of Waukegan and after finishing high school spent one year teaching. He then entered Dartmouth College, finishing the course there in 1886. While pursuing his studies at Dartmouth he taught in New England village high schools for five terms. On completing his education he was engaged in teaching at Billerica, Mass., and at Sing Sing, N. Y., and subsequently located at Joliet, 111., where he occupied the position of high school principal for more than three years. In 1891 Mr. Manchester was called to Normal, III, where he was principal of the State High School until 1895. When the high school department of the State Normal University was discontinued in 1895, he assumed the position as professor of Economics and Foreign Languages. He holds the degrees of A. B. and A. M. from Dartmouth, and that of LL.D. from Illinois Wesleyan University.

On July 10, 1891, Prof. Manchester was united in marriage at Joliet, 111., with Miss Kitty Buck, who was born near that city, the daughter of George and Martha Buck. To this union one child was born, who died in infancy, the mother also dying at this time. Mr. Manchester was married a second time in Warrensburg, 111., on Dec. 25, 1895, to Miss Flora Thompson, a native of that place, and the daughter of George and Mary (Langston) Thompson. To this union have been born five children, namely: Miriam, Margaret, Charlotte and Gertrude, twins, and a boy, who died in infancy.

On political issues Mr. Manchester votes independently. He served as mayor of Normal for ten years, having been elected originally on a reform issue after a somewhat remarkable campaign. He has served as president of the Normal Improvement Association. Socially and professionally Mr. Manchester is among the leading and influential citizens of Normal. He has been president of the Central Division of the Illinois State Teachers Association, and is at present president of the whole State Association, a body having approximately thirty thousand members.

Judge Lawrence Weldon, one of the most distinguished men who ever honored the McLean County bar, was an intimate friend of Lincoln and Douglas, and for many years a member of the Federal Court of Claims at Washington. He died while engaged in his official duties connected with that high judicial position, death occurring on April 10, 1905, after an illness of only a few days. Indeed, so short was the notice of his serious illness that his son and daughter, Lincoln H. Weldon of Bloomington, Mrs. Claiborne Hanna of Peoria, had started to Washington but "had not yet reached there when the end came. He was at the Hotel Hamilton in Washington when death came, this being the same hotel in wh!ch Gen. John McNulta, another distinguished citizen of McLean County, had died eight years previously. Judge Weldon had been in fair health up to a week prior to his death, when he was seized with a derangement of the liver and bowels, which seemed to yield to treatment and hopes for his recovery was entertained until only three days before death came.

Lawrence Weldon was born in Zanesville, Ohio, on Aug. 9, 1829. He was educated in the common schools of Madison County, at London Academy, and at Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, although he did not graduate from the latter institution. He studied law under Judge Richard A. Harrison and was admitted to the bar in Ohio in 1854. In December of the same year he was married to Miss Mary Jane Howard. He was clerk in the office of the secretary of state in Ohio in 1852 and 1853. In the latter year Judge Weldon removed to Clinton, 111., and established himself in the practice of law.

While a young lawyer in Clinton, Judge Weldon first met Abraham Lincoln, who was then riding the circuit of the old Eighth judicial district, of which David Davis of Bloomington was one of the judges. Judge Weldon was the last survivor of that famous group of men who rode the circuit and practiced law in the dozen or more counties of central Illinois at the same time with Lincoln. He knew Lincoln intimately, and in his later life Judge Weldon related many incidents illustrating the character of the great martyred president in the years before he became known to fame. He recalled the fact that Stephen A. Douglas was the man who introduced him to Lincoln. In a Chautauqua lecture in his later years, Judge Weldon told the story of the introduction. They were at a hotel together, and Douglas asked Lincoln to have a drink with him, that being an ordinary courtesy in those days. Lincoln declined, and Douglas asked rather tauntingly: "Are you temperance"? meaning to ask if he was a total abstainer. Lincoln replied: "I don't know about that, but I don't drink."

In 1861 Mr. Lincoln appointed Judge Weldon U. S. District Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois. He was elected to the legislature for the session of 1861. In the year 1867 he removed from Clinton to Bloomington and soon established himself in a good law practice with General John McNulta as a partner. For a time he was a law partner with the late Judge Reuben M. Benjamin. In the year 1883, Judge Weldon was appointed by President Chester A. Arthur as a member of the United States Court of Claims at Washington. The judge removed to Washington so far as his official position was concerned, although he retained his home in Bloomington until the time of his death. His home was at 407 East Grove Street.

In his honor one of the streets of Bloomington was named Weldon Street. During his residence in Washington while he occupied the judgeship of the Court of Claims, he was a favorite in many of the capital's social circles. His amiable nature, ready wit, and his eloquence on occasion, made him much respected and beloved in his circle of acquaintances.

At the time of his death, feeling tributes were paid in published statements by former Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson, by former Governor Joseph W. Fifer, by Senator Cullom, by Col. Vespasian Warner, then commissioner of pensions in Washington, and many others in public life. Mr. Stephenson said that the position Judge Weldon occupied was second in importance only to a position on the supreme bench of the United States. He filled it with eminent distinction, Gov. Fifer recalled the fact that Judge Weldon was of the younger of the group of men who had associated with Lincoln in his days as a lawyer, this group including David Davis, Jesse W. Fell, Isaac Funk, William H. Hanna, Asahel Gridley, William W. Orme, Leonard Swett, Ward H. Lamon and others. Senator Shelby Cullom spoke of Judge Weldon as "one of the most lovable and faithful of men, as well as one of the most brilliant and charming."

At his bedside in Washington at the time of his death were Mrs. Weldon, Colonel and Mrs. Vespasian Warner. Governor Fifer and Senator Cullom called at the house shortly before the end came.

Mrs. Weldon, the widow, survived her husband until the year 1910, and the daughter, Mrs. Hanna of Peoria, died in 1911. The son, Lincoln H. Weldon, of Bloomington, is the only surviving member of the immediate family at present.

The funeral of Judge Weldon was a notable one for its gathering of persons of prominence in Central Illinois and elsewhere. The body reached Bloomington on April 14, and the service was held at the Second Presbyterian Church. Rev. Henry E. Denlinger, the pastor, delivered a feeling eulogy. The burial was in the family lot of the Bloomington Cemetery.

On April 17, 1905, the Court of Claims held a special memorial service at its court room in Washington in honor of Judge Weldon. The room was filled with a distinguished company, including many close personal friends of Judge Weldon. Justice Nott presided. Among the distinguished Illinoisans present were Senator Cullom, Gov. Fifer of the interstate commerce commission, and Pension Commissioner Vespasian Warner. Hon. J. G. Thompson, of Illinois, assistant attorney of the court of claims, offered a resolution on the death of Judge Weldon and moved its adoption. Addresses in favor of the resolution were made by- Justice Nott, by Gov. Fifer, Hon. Frank W. Hackett, former assistant secretary of the navy; Hon. F. W. Collins of Nebraska, representative of the department of justice; Hon. L. G. Pradt, assistant attorney of the court of claims; St. Claire Brookes, W. H. Robinson and Mr. J. Hubley Ashton. The resolution was adopted and spread upon the minutes of the Court of Claims.

Rev. Thomas Tilghman Holton. - The ancestors of Mr. Holton were Virginians of pre-Revolutionary stock. William Holton, the grandfather, migrated from Farquler County to Mason County, Ky. He was at the battle of Tippecanoe and through the War of 1812. He was a member of the first legislative body of Kentucky with Henry Clay and Felix Grundy. William B. Holton, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Minerva, Mason County, Ky. The mother was Sallie Price Tilghman, who was born in Albermarle County, Va. Her mother's name was Lewis. As a young girl she was often invited with other young folk to the home of Thomas Jefferson on Monticello, near Charlottesville. While she was still in her teens her father, Jacob Tilghman, took his family to Wilson County, Tenn., and settled near the Hermitage, about 14 miles east of Nashville. The Jackson family were very friendly and again Miss Tilghman was often a guest in the family of an ex-president. William Holton, Sr., having bought a farm on Stone River, Tenn., sent his son to look after it. While thus engaged he met Miss Tilghman and in due time a marriage was consummated. They resided in Wilson County, near the Hermitage, until six children were born to them. About this time William Holton, Sr., suggested that as many of the family as were willing buy a tract of land in Brown County, Ohio, near Aberdeen, and fronting on the Ohio River. Dr. E. G. Holton and William B. joined their father in this move. The city of Maysville, on the Kentucky side, was not far away. Here the family for the most part attended church and Sunday school. Here Thomas Tilghman Holton, the ninth of thirteen children, was born, Nov. 17, 1839.

There was a school house on Three Mile Creek at a reasonable distance where Rev. Holton attended school until prepared to enter Hill Seminary at Aberdeen. When not at school he worked on the farm.

One of the leading crop was tobacco. He early learned to swim, fish and handle a boat. Toward the close of his 15th year he entered the Southwestern Normal School of Ohio, located at Lebanon, under the supervision of Prof. Alfred Holbrook, a peer of Horace Mann and Henry Barnard. With a certificate graded 100 he took the principalship of Genntown school, near Lebanon, while not yet 17 years of age. He was allowed a lady assistant and a salary of $33.33 a month. He boarded with Jesse B. Corwin for $2.50 per week. The following year he again attended the normal school. In October 1858, he became a student in Bethany College, Virginia, and continued four years. Alexander Campbell was the distinguished president. Mr. Holton was the valedictorian of his class. He was soon after graduation called to a professorship in Jefferson College, Jeffersontown, Ky., 12 miles from Louisville. Early in 1864 he established an academy in Falmouth, Ky. He had been preaching more or less in connection with his teaching, and in 1866 concluded to devote his whole time to the Christian ministry and receiving a call to the church in Vincennes, Ind., he responded at once. In 1868 he was called to a pastorate in Springfield, 111., and has been in central Illinois ever since. While in the capital city he acted with other ministers as chaplain of a session of the legislature and the constitutional convention. After this he was pastor in Berlin- and principal of the public school. The next move was to Lincoln, 111., where Rev. Holton had a long pastorate and his home for many years. When no longer the local pastor, with Lincoln as his center, he served churches at Pekin, Atlanta, Broadwell, Emden, Bethel, Delavan, Old Union, Hallville, and Waynesville. While a citizen in Lincoln he clerked two years in Danley's book store, seven months in Dustin's bank, some time in Wright's grocery store and eight years as clerk of the circuit court of Logan County.

It has been said by some of Rev. Holton's friends that during much of his life he has done two men's work. In the early 90's he moved to Tallula and served the church there for four years, then moving to DeLand where he was pastor for four years. In 1907 he bought a home in Bloomington for a permanent residence. He goes right on in his ministerial work here and there as he has calls.

Rev. Holton was married to Miss Ellen Margaret Campbell, a daughter of Archibald and Ann (Carr) Campbell, who came to America from Newry, County Down, Ireland, when Mrs. Holton was a child. The marriage took place in the old Bethany Church, Nov. 18, 1862, and the cere- mony was performed by the president of Bethany College, Alexander Campbell. Six children blessed this union, as follows : Helen King, was born in Falmouth, Ky. ; Campbell, born in Vincennes, Ind. ; Pauline, born in Springfield, 111. ; Mary and Annie, born in Berlin, 111., and Bettie, born in Lincoln, 111. Mrs. Holton died April 8, 1922. Bettie Holton married W. H. Armstrong of Mechanicsburg, 111., and she died in 1905. Helen (Holton) Lucas resides with her father in Bloomington. Pauline relict of D. G. Evans, resides in Rocky Ford, Colo. Mary, relict of R. B. Ruh, resides at Tallula, 111. Annie, married Frank McConnell, resides at Mc- Connell Place, near Lincoln, 111. Campbell Holton, a well known and successful business man of Bloomington, resides on North McLean Street, next door to his father.

Besides his church relationship Rev. Holton is a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, Knights of Pythias and the Masonic lodge. He is a worthy member of his community and is highly esteemed throughout McLean County.

W. W. Whitmore, attorney, is among McLean County's most prominent and influential citizens. He was born near Gardner, 111., July 14, 1870, and is the son of Benjamin F. and Matilda (Shelly) Whitmore.

Benjamin F. Whitmore was born in Hagerstown, Md., and his wife was a native of Bucks County, Pa. He was a farmer and lived in Ohio for several years before coming to Grundy County, 111. He died in 1918 and his wife died in 1922. Mr. and Mrs. Whitmore were the parents of three children, as follows: Nathaniel P., born in 1867, a veterinary surgeon, died in 1913; W. W., the subject of this sketch; and Iva Jane, died at the age of two years.

W. W. Whitmore received his education in the public schools and was graduated from the literary and law schools of Illinois Wesleyan University in 1894 and 1895. He was admitted to the bar in 1894, and practiced his profession at Peoria, 111., from Oct. 1, 1895, until July, 1903. Mr. Whitmore was city attorney of Peoria from 1901 to 1902. He has been located in Bloomington since July, 1903.

On Jan. 20, 1909, Mr. Whitmore was married to Miss Stella Eldred, a native of Gardner, 111., and a daughter of Eli and Mary (Renne) Eldred, the former a native of Illinois and the latter of New York. Mr. Eldred was a leading merchant in Gardner for many years and is now living retired. His wife died in 1906. Mr. and Mrs. Whitmore have no children. Mr. Whitmore is a Republican, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and is a 32nd degree Mason, Knight Templar and belongs to the Knights of Pythias. His law office is located in the Livingston building.

Charles L. Capen, lawyer and dean of Illinois Wesleyan University, is a prominent and influential citizen of McLean County. He was born at Union Springs, Cayuga County, N. Y., Jan. 31, 1845, the son of Luman W. and Eliza (Munger) Capen.