Rock Island County, Illinois - The whole text, 1885 (part 10 of 24)

The latter, the subject of this sketch, was born in New York city, Oct. 6, 1812. He lived at home until ten years of age, when he began to " work out," which he did for six years, when he engaged in team- j ing. This business he followed for about four years, when he was engaged for a time in running a dray in i New York city. After one year he returned to Orange 9 County, where he had previously lived, and bought a farm. Three years later he sold this and went to Yorkville, and was engaged on the tunnel at that (| place; and a year later was employed doing jobbing work on railroads, which business he followed until 1852. In the autumn of that year he came to Rock Island for the purpose of working on the bridge, which was being built over the Mississippi between that city and Davenport. Here he was engaged for three years, after which time he began to take contracts himself for building bridges in different sections of country. During this time he built the bridge over Rock River between South Moline Township and Coal Valley, in company with Elisha P. Reynolds, who is mentioned elsewhere in this work. He was in company with Mr. R. for about two years. About 1858 he settled in Coal Valley Township, where he purchased 240 acres of land, and where he now resides. He also owns, in company with E. P. Reynolds, a large tract of land elsewhere located. The aggregate number of acres which Mr. Evener now owns in Coal Valley and Black Hawk Townships is 400.

July 18, 1833, in Orange Co., N. Y., Mr. Evener was married to Rachel Weigant, who was a native of that county. By this marriage there have been ten children, - Rachel, George, Sarah, Charles and Alice, and five who are deceased.

eter King, a reliable citizen and energetic farmer of South Moline Township, residing |S3F"5? on section 2, is a native of Bavaria, in wo which country he was born Oct. iS, 1S15. He -fj\- lived in his native country until he had at- ' tained the age of 34 years, when, in 1S49, he emigrated to the United States and located in Pennsylvania, where he resided for some three months. Realizing that he could better his condition in the undeveloped regions of the West, he came to this county and settled in South Moline Township, where he has since resided. He is the owner of 195 acres of land in that township, the major portion of which is under an advanced state of cultivation. He has a good residence and substantial outbuildings, and is meeting with success in his chosen vocation.

native country, Bavaria, June 16, 1846, with Miss Margaret Zentgraf, a native of Bavaria, in which country she was born, May 9, 1823. They have been the parents of n children: John, Joseph, Leonard, Mary, Theresa, Amanda, Clara, Charles, Christian, Annie and William.

Mr. and Mrs. King, religiously, are members of the Catholic Church. In politics Mr. King votes with the Democratic party. He has held the office of School Director in his township, and is a respected and energetic citizen of the same.

v(2«^laniuel S. Forster, general farmer on section 29, Black Hawk Township, was born in Morris Co., N. J., May 4, 1S13. His father, Thomas, was a native of Ireland, of County Fermanagh. He was a weaver, teacher and clerk by occupations, and came to America in 1806. After residing in New Jersey some years, he went to Wayne Co., Pa., in 1824, where he died in 1833. The mother of Samuel S. was Margaret, nee Smith, a native of Nova Scotia, and moved thence in 1800 to New Jersey, where she was married. She had three children, the subject of this sketch being the eldest ; the other two were John S. and Mary J., both of whom now reside in Polk Co , Iowa.

Mr. Samuel S. Forster was in his 12th year when his parents removed to Wayne Co., Pa., where he resided until his marriage, which event occurred in the same county May 8, 1839, to Miss Olive E., daughter of Israel and Parthena (Pettibone) Chapman, natives respectively of New Hampshire and Vermont. Her parents were married in Manchester, that State, and afterward moved to Andes, Delaware Co.,N. Y., and after some years to Wayne Co., Pa. Mr. Chapman was a lumberman and farmer most of his life; was also a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and had been a Captain of a militia company during the War of 1812. Mrs. Forster was the fifth in order of birth of a family of 12 children, and was born in Andes, Delaware Co., N. Y.July 22, 181 1, received a good education, and for some time followed the occupation of a teacher in the public schools of her native Stale. Mr. and Mrs. Forster have had four children, two of whom are living: Thomas, who married Miss Cordelia Sherman, a native of Massachusetts, and now lives on a farm in Jasper Co., Iowa; and Mary J., who married William Joyce and now resides in Polk Co., Iowa, on a farm. The deceased were Emery and an unnamed infant.

Immediately after marriage Mr. Forster left Pennsylvania and settled in Allen Co., Ind , where he remained a resident 13 years; then, in 1854, he came to this county, settling where Reynolds now is, entering the land in 1851 and residing there until 1871, when he moved to Black Hawk Township. He is now the owner of 188 acres of good land, most of it under creditable improvement.

He and his wife are members of the United Brethren Church ; he has been Supervisor of Bowling Township, Justice of the Peace, etc., and in his views of political affairs he is a zealous National Greenbacker.

j ev. Charles Lincoln Morgan has been Pastor of the First Congregational Church of Moline since Nov. 1, 1881. He was y\%r born in East Boston, Mass., Jan. 31,1849, the youngest of the three children of David and Marianne L. (Peirce) Morgan. The eldest, Mrs. Lucy M. Godley, died in Minneapolis Minn., in 1880. The second, David L. Morgan, is a prominent business man of Rutland, Vt. His father was a graduate of Dartmouth College in 1835, and was admitted to the Bar in Boston, where he practiced law till 1856. For two years, 1854-6, the family resided at Waltham, Mass. In May, 1856, when Charles L. was seven years of age, his father removed with his family to Minnesota and settled in Minneapolis, then a town of about 400 inhabitants. Here he practiced his profession and was prominent in all the political and educational interests of the place until his death in 1871. Charles L. left the High School at the age of 14 nearly prepared for college. In 1864 he united on profession with the Plymouth Congregational Church. The same year he entered the postoffice, of which his father was

Postmaster during Lincoln's Administration, where he remained till the fall of 1865, when he became a clerk in the just opening dry-goods house of Wakefield & Plant. During the spring of 1867 a decision was reached to devote his life to the ministry, in accordance with which he left the dry-goods store and, having completed his preparations for college, entered Beloit College in Sept., 1867. Graduating from Beloit in 187 r, he received the appointment as Principal of the public schools at Cheyenne, Wyo. Ter.,for one year. He entered the Theological Department of Yale University in September, 1872, graduating from the same in May, 1875.

Invited by the South Church of Springfield, Mass., to take charge of their mission work in connection with Hope Chapel for one year, he accepted and began his ministry there in June, 1875. During the fall and winter there ensued a growing spiritual interest, which resulted in the organization of Hope Congregational Church, with a membership of Sr, on March 15, 1876. Mr. Morgan was ordained to the ministry and to the pastorate of Hope Church on the same day and by the same Council. In November of 1880, a call to the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church of Green Bay, Wis., was accepted. A year later a call was accepted to the First Congregational Church of Moline, 111., and removing thither the pastorate was begun which still continues. During the four years of this pastorate 113 have been received into the membership of the Church, 68 on confession of faith and 45 by letter. Repairs on the Church property have been made to the amount of $3,500. Two branch Sunday-schools have been conducted on the Bluff, for which a tasteful chapel is just completed at a cost of $3,000. Aside from his Church work in Moline Mr. Morgan has been a leader in the organization of the Society of Associated Charities, the Citizens' League for the Promomotion of Law and Order and the Young Men's Christian Association.

In politics Mr. Morgan is first of all a Prohibitionist, believing that the destruction of the liquor traffic is the pre-eminent duty of this generation ; and second, a Republican in the belief that through the constituency of that party the end of prohibition can soonest be attained.

On Sept. 14, 1876, Mr. Morgan was united in marriage with Miss Belle W. Merrill, born in Hinsdale, N. H., Oct. 31, 1849, the daughter of John B.

and Caroline (Walker) Merrill, of Beloit, Wis. Two children have been born to them, - Carl Merrill, who died April 11, 1883, at the age of three years, and Gertrude Lincoln, born Feb. 19, 1S44.

of Vermont, of New England ancestry, and a shoemaker by occupation. Rufus, Sr., was married in his native State, to Miss Susanna Smith, a native of New England. They were both of English extraction, and after marriage the elder Rufus followed his trade, until the date of his death.

Rufus Walker, Jr., the subject of this notice, was the youngest in order of birth of a family of 1 1 children, - seven sons and four daughters, - and vvasbut 12 days old when his father died. He continued to reside with his mother, receiving the advantages afforded by the common schools until her death, which event occurred when he was in his 16th year. Prior to that event, Mr. Walker had engaged to learn the trade of shoemaker, and after the death of his mother he worked at the same, in his native State, until he was 20 years old. At this age in life, he concluded to better his condition financially by coming West, and came to Edgington village, this county He afterwards engaged to act as clerk in the mercantile establishment of C. R. Ainsworth at Moline, and remained with that gentleman three and a half years. He then became the successor in the business, and conducted the store at that place for eight and a half years, meeting with moderate success. Selling out his store there, he went to Rock Island city, and, in company with C. E. Dodge, opened a merchant-tailoring and gents' furnishing establishment, under the firm name of Walker & Dodge, which copartnership existed for three years. On dissolution, Mr. Dodge became sole proprietor, and Mr. Walker, in company with a Mr. M. Wait, engaged in the construction of a portion of the Rock Island & for the road while in process of construction, which was for some six months. During the time he and Mr. Wait were operating for the road, they purchased 160 acres of land on section 36, Edgington Township, and 80 acres adjoining the same, located in Mercer County. On the 160-acre purchase they platted the present village of Reynolds, the original plat and subsequent additions comprising the entire original purchase, and established a grain and hay market at that place. Mr. Walker started the first store at Reynolds, which he kept in the depot. He and Mr. Wait continued to purchase grain at that point for two years. It was about this time that Mr. Walker became connected with Weyerhaeuser & Denkmann, in the lumber business at Reynolds. After about three years Mr. W. bought out the other two parties and became the sole proprietor of the business, which he has conducted with no small degree of success until the present time. Besides his various operations at Reynolds, Mr. Walker was for a time engaged with Mr. Wait in the live-stock business at Edgington, and has done considerable work in a commercial way, in different parts of the county. In 1879 Mr. Walker went to Iowa and Nebraska, and was engaged in furnishing supplies of food on a branch of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the Burlington & Missouri River Railroads, and lately for the railroad located in the central and southern part of the State of Nebraska. The business lasted for nine mo iths, during which time he had a store located on the railroad, which was burned, entailing a small loss. Mr. Walker has ten acres of village lots at Reynolds, on one of which stands his residence, a .two-story frame building. He and Mr. Wait started the Reynolds Cemetery, which is located in proximity to the village, on a gentle elevation overlooking the same, and is one among the beautiful burying-grounds in Rock Island County.

Mr. Walker was united in marriage Aug. 19, 1862, to Miss Jane Edgington, the accomplished daughter of John and Susannah (Crabs) Edgington, natives of Steubenville, Ohio. Her parents were married and came West about 1834, locating in Buffalo Prairie Township, this county, where they yet reside, and are classed as among the early settlers of the county. Mis. Walker was born in that township, Sept. 8, 1842, and she was reared on the parental homestead, educated in the common schools, residing with her parents until her marriage.

Mr. and Mrs. Walker are the parents of four children : John E., bom June 15, 1863, was educated at the schools of Rock Island city and at Morgan Park, near Chicago ; he is at present the railroad agent at Reynolds, which position he has held since August, 1883. Frank B., born Nov. 26, 1865, received his education at Rock Island and Racine, and resides at home; Rufus, Jr., born Feb. 27, 1875, and Susan E., April 13, 1S80, likewise resided at home.

Mr. and Mrs. Walker are both active members of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. W. having been Church Trustee and a liberal contributor to that denomination at Reynolds.

adison Bowles, a retired farmer, residing on section 17, Zuma Township, was born l'M> in Rockbridge Co., Va., March 28, 1814, \ " \ his parents being Isaac and Mary (Bagford) Vt Bowles. They were married April 16, 1798, and were the parents of 10 children - William A., Harriet, Constance C, James H., Thomas C, Matilda, Samuel, John W., Madison and Caroline, all born before 1817, and four of whom are still living - Samuel, John W., Madison and Caroline.

The father, Isaac Bowles, moved from Virginia, in 1 81 6, to Eaton, Ohio, and there he worked as the trade of a blacksmith for one year. He then, in 1818, moved to Indiana, bought a farm, and followed that vocation until 1831 on that place, and continued to farm in that county until 1837. He died in Louisiana, where he was stopping with his son in 1847. The mother died in Hampton Township, Rockland Co., at the residence of her son Samuel, in 1842.

The -subject of this biographical notice, Madison Bowles remained on the parental homestead until he had attained the age of 20 years. The school facilities in his county at that date were very limited, and together, with the labor that he was required to perform on the farm to assist in the maintenance of the family, kept him from receiving an education until after his 20th year, and in fact he never attended school but four days prior to that age. On arriving at the age named, he had saved sufficient means to pay for 20 days schooling, which he did and improved each shining moment of that precious time. This, together with the practical knowledge that he had obtained by his reading, constitute the education that he possesses. Soon after leaving home he engaged on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers as a fireman on a steamboat, and followed that occupation for one year.

In 1836 he went South, and took charge of a sugar plantation, and had fifty slaves under his authority to run the place. He afterward came North to Washington Co., Ind., and was there married to Miss Rebecca Bates, a native of Baltimore, Md., Nov. 16, 1837. In 1839 he engaged there in mercantile trade, and followed the same until 1853. He then sold out and came to Zuma Township, this county, and purchased 160 acres of land, on which he has resided until the present time. He has subsequently added to his original purchase, until he is now the proprietor of 370 acres of land. We give a full view of Mr. Bowles' farm, showing his son's residence, as well as much of the charming scenery as beheld from his home.

In 1S60 Mr. B. engaged in steamboating, and ran on the river for nine months, but it proving unprofitable he sold out at New Albany, and abandoned the river.

Mr. and Mrs. Bowles are the parents of six children. Their record is as follows : Donaldson C, born Nov. 12, 1838; Emmer E., Nov. 23, 1S40; Samuel M., Sept. 8, 1841 ; George W., July 4, 1845 ; Luella Feb. 8, 1854 ; and William H., born April 1, 1858. George Bowles was united in marriage to Miss Julia A. Warren, and the issue of their union is three children - Nellie, Albert and Hattie R. ; Luella F. married Samuel R. Bryan, of Zuma Township, and they have one child living, Frank M. S.

The family of sons are fine specimens of men physically, all being over six feet in height. Mr. Bowles is six feet, four inches in height. He has been very successful through life, and his accumulation of this world's goods is undoubtedly due to his own good judgment and indomitable energy and perseverance. Starting in the world without anything, and being compelled to labor for $3 per month, he has succeeded by hard work and economy in procuring a

Mr. Bowles is one of the pioneers of Rock Island County, and as such, as well as a highly respectable and honorable citizen, we give his portrait in this Album. As a fitting companion picture we also give that of his estimable wife.

esse Maxwell, proprietor of the Maxwell House, at Port Byron, is a pioneer of Rock Island County, and has been identified with its business interests in various ways since 1844. He was born Aug. 8, 18 17, in Greensburg, Westmoreland Co., Pa. His father, David Maxwell, was of Irish origin, and fa probably descended from progenitors who were born in Scotland and located in Ireland, as the name is essentially Scotch.

Mr. Maxwell was brought up on his father's farm to the age of 13, when he was placed under indentures to learn the trade of making boots and shoes. He served an apprenticeship of six years, and passed four years subsequent as a journeyman, according to the custom in those days, operating at various places. In 1840 he returned to his father's homestead, and established a line of business there, in which he was employed one and a half years. He went next to the seat of Westmoreland County, and worked at his trade there until his removal to Illinois. In 1844 he located at Rock Island, and established a shoe factory, which he conducted three years, his business in that line gradually increasing, until he employed an average of ten assistants. He closed his manufacturing in 1847, and bought 200 acres of land in Zuma Township, built a house of logs, of which he took possession, and entered upon the career of a pioneer agriculturist. His family were the occupants of the log cabin until 1857, when Mr. Maxwell built a commodious brick house. He continued the management of his farm until 1862, when he engaged in » buying grain and stock at Port Byron for shipment to Chicago. In 1866 he bought a stock of general v», merchandise, and passed five years in trade. In

187 1 he bought the hotel property known as the Port Byron House, which he managed personally until 1 88 1. In that year he rented the hotel, and on the 2d day of September, 1882, it was destroyed by fire. He then made an addition to the house, which he opened for a hotel, calling the establishment by his name. He has since conducted its affairs without intermission.

Mr. Maxwell was married Feb. 1, 1842, to Miss A. M. McCall. She was born Jan. 4, 1820, in Westmoreland Co., Pa. Their surviving children are named as follows : Mary J., Joseph A., Agnes B., Lizzie A., Thomas, Jesse Newton and Ida. John C. was born Nov. 4, 1842, in Greensburg, Pa., and he grew to manhood in Rock Island County. He enlisted in 1 86 1 in Co. E, 126th 111. Vol. Inf., and was in the military service of the United States three years and two months. After his return to his home he became interested with his father in mercantile business. He was married Sept. 19, 1870, to Emily Littlefield, and they have had one child, named Orissa. His death occurred March 9, 1872.

illiam Adams, a prominent farmer of English birth, residing on section 26, Coal Valley Township, is a son of William and Eliza (Tonkin) Adams, who were natives of England. They came to America in 1S54, located in Tennessee, where they lived until 1862, when they came to Galena, 111. They lived at that place only one year, when they came to Rock Island County, locating in Coal Valley Township. In 1866 they returned to Joe Daviess County, where both parents died - the mother Oct. 14, 1867, and the father in September, 1869. They had a family of six children, bearing the following names: John, William, James, Henry, Joseph and Eliza.

William, the second member of the family, was born in Cornwall, England, Feb. 2, 1838. His school privileges were very limited, never being able to attend any public or private school ; but on the other hand, when most children were ready and priv- ileged to enter school, he was at an early age - six years old - employed in the mine at Cornwall. He came to America with his parents, and lived under their charge until his marriage. He came to Rock Island County in the autumn of 1863, locating in Coal Valley Township, where he has since resided,

He was married in Tennessee, Dec. 3r, 1857, to Catherine, daughter of John and Kittie (Ferris) Tonkin, who were also natives of England, and the parents of a family of eight children, three of whom died in infancy. Those living are John, Susan, Catherine, Mary J. and Elizabeth A. Catherine was born in Cornwall, Nov. 12, 1839. To Mr. and Mrs. Adams have been born a family of 12 children, only five of whom are living, as follows: John H., Mary C, Eliza, Elizabeth A. and Ola M. Those they have laid away in the cold, mother earth are Susan, Margaret J., May B., Mary B., Edna, William and William J.

Mr. Adams has served as School Director for 15 years, and as Assessor for about three years. In politics he is identified with the Republican party. Socially, Mr. A. is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and his son John H. is a member of the same order.

eorge E. Barth, M. D., residing at 409 ilifijH Twenty-third Street, and one of the leading physicians of Rock Island, was born ^ in Chicago, 111., May 18, 1848. He was taken by his parents when six years of age to Tennessee, where he attended the common schools until the breaking out of the war in 1861, when the family moved to St. Louis, where they continued to reside until 1S67. It was in that city that the Doctor began the study of medicine, reading only one year, however, before the family moved to Louisville, Ky., he accompanying them. He renewed his studies in that city, in 1869, graduated from the Kentucky School of Medicine, when he hung out his shingle in Louisville, and began the practice of his chosen profession. After a short time he removed to New Albany, Ind., where he remained for five years, engaged in his professional duties. He then

After completing the course of lectures at the-,'. University, he practiced for a short time at Monte- T zuma when, in the winter of 1876-7, he came tOig Rock Island, where he has engaged in the prosecution of his professional calling ever since, having a large and lucrative practice. He belongs to the regular school of physicians, is a hard student and takes great pride in the successful practice of the profession he has chosen for his life work.

Dr. Barth was united in marriage with Miss Lillie Murphy, a native of Rock Island, June r3, 1882. They have one daughter - Bessie May Barth.

jircyi ^ is a native of Albion's Isle. His parents,! |is(a^ Andrew and Sarah (James) Corns, were also ; natives of England. They had a family of^ three children, only one of whom, the subject ^ of this sketch, lived to manhood. He was born in Croxton, England, Nov. 29, 1821, and received his education in the common schools. He lived in his native country till in the summer of 1851, when he emigrated to America. He soon afterward located in Mercer Co., 111., where he carried on the butchering business for four years. He then moved to \ Camden Mills (Milan), where he continued in the ( same business, and kept a hotel, known as "Corns Hotel." In 1859 he removed to Coal Valley, engaging as a butcher until 1868, when he settled on his farm in Coal Valley Township. He then owned r, 000 acres of land in that township; he now owns but 250 acres in this county, 5 1 acres in Henry County, and 160 in Iowa. All his land in this county, except about 10 acres, is in a good state of cultivation.

Mr. Corns was married in England, April 14, 185 1, to Harriet E., daughter of James and Ann (Myatt) ^. Hall. She was born in England, May 12, 1830. j\ Mr. and Mrs. C. are the parents of five children, (&\ viz.: Sarah E., Thomas M., John S., Harriet A. M.^ and George H. A. ; the latter died when 17 months old. Mr. Corns has held the offices of Justice of the Peace, Notary Public, Assessor, School Trustee and Director. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, being a Knight Templar. In his political views he is identified with the Democracy. Mr. and Mrs. C. are members of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Corn's house and everything it contained was burned sicen writing this sketch.

»l illiam S. Parks, Jr., a member of the firm of Parks Bros., extensive farmers and stock-raisers, of Edgington Township, and who resides on section 15, was born in Edgington, May 20, 1S44. His father, Henry H. Parks, a fanner, formerly of Franklin Co., Ohio, came to Illinois in the fall of 1838, and located on a farm in the township of Edgington. Sketches of both Henry H., the father of the subject of this sketch, and John Parks, his brother and partner, are given elsewhere in this work.

Our subject was reared and educated in his native township, and lived with his parents until his marriage. This important event in his life look place Oct. 7, 1S75, in Worthington, Franklin Co., Ohio. Miss Ella Fairchild, a daughter of an Ohio farmer, was the lad}' who joined her fortunes with his to make the voyage of life together. She was born near Dayton, Ohio, Aug. 8, rS40. Her parents died when she was but a mere child, and shortly afterwards she was taken by her foster parents, O. C. and Lucy A. (Clarke) Fairchild, natives of New York, with whom she made her home until her marriage. Their home was brightened for a short time by a son, Harry, who died at the early age of three years.

Desiring to locate permanently after his marriage, Mr. Parks joined with his brother, John H., and purchased a farm of 640 acres on sections 15 and 27. William S. has 320 acres on section 15, where he has a palatial residence and a large and elegant barn. These are shown in the view on the opposite page. They are accompanied by a view of his brother Tohn H.'s residence and surroundings, making a fine page view. He and his brother are among the most extensive stock-raisers of the county, and are well known in this respect throughout this part cf the State. Both Mr. and Mrs. Parks are members of the Presbyterian Church at Edgington. Politically, Mr. Parks is a Republican.

Castleton of Braemar, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, May 5, 1845. His father, Charles Stuart; was a native of the same shire, of a long line of Scotch ancestry, and was probably a direct descendant of the Stuart family of Scottish note.

He was married in his native country, to Miss Jane Mcintosh, a native of the same country. He was a carpenter for the Earl of Fife while a resident of that country. The family emigrated to America about 1863, settling in Huron County, Province of J Ontario. At that date the family comprised nine 1 children. After the family settled in Ontario, the - father engaged in the occupation of farming, and afterward came to Reynolds, this county, about 1880, \ and lived with his son, subject of this notice, until his death, which occurred in 1883, he then being in his Soth year. The mother of Dr. F. is yet living, and resides with him, aged 75 years.

Dr. Stuart lived with his parents in Ontario two years after they had settled there, having received a good education in the old city of Aberdeen, Scotland. On attaining his 20th year he engaged in the study of medicine, under the instruction of Dr. Elliott, of Orilla, Simcoe Co., Ontario, with whom he remained one year. He then entered the medical department of the university of Toronto, Canada, and graduated at the same in 1874. He afterward went to Chicago and "took a special course of study in surgery and physical diagnosis. Previous to this, however, he '§/ had entered the medical department of the Michigan State University at Ann Arbor in 1876, and completed his medical studies at Rush Medical College at Chicago in the fall of 1877. Heat once located at Reynolds, and engaged in the practice of his profession, and has since made that place his home and continued his practice until the present time. By strict attention to business he has built up a splendid practice, the same extending over the southern part of Rock Island County and the northern part of Mercer. He has been a very successful practitioner, and has won the respect of the citizens by his treatment of intricate cases without regard to remuneration. In 1882 he purchased the drug-store of I. H. Hazlett, at Reynolds, and has since conducted the same. Dr. Stuart is the proprietor of seven lots in the village, on one of which he has erected a beautiful residence.

Dr. Stuart was united in marriage, Aug. 9, 187 1, in Mercer County, this State, with Miss Elizabeth Guthrie, born in Hamilton, Canada, Jan. 3, 1851. She was reared and educated in her native city, and came with her parents, Andrew and Susan (Thompson) Guthrie, to Aledo, Mercer County, this State, where her parents at present reside. They are the parents of four children, one of whom, Charles, born July 22, 1872, died Dec. 26, 1S75. Those living are Mary E., born Sept. 3, 1874; S. Anna, born Feb. 24, 1878, and Jean A., born Nov. 4, 1882.

Religiously, Mr. and Mrs. Stuart are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Reynolds. Socially, the Doctor is a member of the Order of A. F. & A. M., and in politics he is identified with the Republican 1 arty.

Jfeon J. Webb, Station Agent at Rapids City, fegMgl^, to which place he came in 1876, was born '(jjy " in Rock Co., Wis., Dec. 29, 1852, his paj/M<V rents being William J. and Eunice W. (Wat- * son) Webb, natives of New York. The parents * moved from the latter State to Wisconsin in 1847, where the father purchased a farm containing 40 acres, and afterwards increased his landed interests until he was the proprietor of 240 acres in that State, and on which he resided until the date of his death, which occurred in April, 1S76.

Don J., subject of this sketch, remained under parental instruction and care until he attained the age of majority. His earlier years were passed on the farm and in the acquisition of a good education, having had the advantages afforded by the Evansville Seminary, which institution he attended for four years. He then attended Bryant & Stratton's Business College at Janesville, Wis., for two years, where he completed a thorough business course of study. Leaving commercial college, he came to Savanna, Carroll Co., 111., where, for two years, he was engaged in learning telegraphy and railroading. He then accepted a position as station agent at Rapids City, in 1876, where he has since continued in the employ of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad.

Mr. Webb was united in marriage to Miss Clara E. Mitchell, a native of Rapids City, Aug. 29, 1876. She was born in June, 1861, and has borne Mr. Webb two children, - Willie M., born Aug. 29, 1877 ; Dwight J., born Oct. 2, 1879. Politically, Mr. Webb is a believer in the principles advocated by the Democratic party. Religiously, he attends the Episcopal Church, and socially he is a member of the Order of Masonry, belonging to the Knights Templars and is also a member of the I. O. O. F. and A. O. U. W.,and is a representative influential citizen of Rapids City.

ichard S. Silvis, of the firm of Silvis Bros., dealers in coal at Hampton, came to Hampton Township in 1854. He was born in Jefferson Co., Pa., Nov. 21, 1837. His younger days were passed on the farm, performing such labor as was common to farmer's sons of the time and locality in which he resided, and attending the common schools of his native county, receiving a good English education.

The parents of Mr. Silvis of this sketch were John and Elizabeth (Coon) Silvis, natives of Pennsylvania. The father came to Rock Island in 1854 with his family, and settled in Pleasant Valley, Hampton Township. Richard S. Silvis, subject of this biographical notice, was 24 years of age when he left the parental homestead. At that age, he went forth to fight the battles of life single-handed and alone, and the first work that he did for his own individual benefit was that of breaking prairie. He continued at that vocation, alternating the same with labor on the farm for eight years, after which he purchased a farm of his own, containing 65 acres. Subsequently he added to his original purchase until at present he is the proprietor of 340 acres. He also owns, in partnership with his brother, 300 acres in Hampton Township, the major portion of it being coal land. His homestead is situated on sections 32 and 33.

Mr. Silvis formed a matrimonial alliance with Miss Louisa Castell in 1862. She is the accomplished daughter of James Castell, and was born in Rock Island County, Nov. 29, 1S40. The issue of their union has been four children, - Isabelle C, born Aug. 19, 1S63; Thomas S., bora Aug. 29, 1865 ; Charles L., born Sept. 7, 1869, and Mary E., born May 13, 1876. Isabelle C. married Charles F. Stephens, and they are the parents of two children, - Frank and Louisa.

Politically, Mr. Silvis is a believer in and supporter of the principles of the Democratic party. At present he is Road Commissioner, and has held the office of School Director for 1 2 years. He is one of the progressive farmers of Rock Island County, and his accumulation of this world's goods is attributable to his indomitable energy, perseverance, and good judgment. Religiously, he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

"ared Marshall, deceased, formerly a farmer j|£ of Cordova Township, is the youngest son of John and Charity (Golden) Marshall, and was born in Hopewell. Hunterdon Co., N. J., July 8, 1832. He was ten years of age when his mother with the family emigrated to this State, locating in Coe Township. He made his home with his mother and worked upon the farm until the time of his marriage, which occurred Dec. 29, 1852, when he wedded Miss Amanda Rockwell, daughter of Justus and Sally (Perkins) Rockwell. She was born in Chester, Randolph Co., 111. Her father was a native of Connecticut, and both her parents were early settlers in that county. At the time of his marriage he purchased land on section 2, Coe Township, and upon it built at first a small frame house, but four years afterward a larger frame structure, which he occupied. He improved the farm and resided there until 1867, when he sold it and went to Missouri, locating in Cedar County. He* bought there a farm five miles from Virgil City, and' after residing upon it two years he sold and returned, to Cordova, where he bought a farm adjoining the village. Soon afterward, in company with his brother, £ William G., he engaged in buying grain, in which he continued until his death, which occurred July 21, 1876.

Mr. Marshall had nine children, six of whom are living, namely: Anna, the wife of Walter Pidcock, and living in Cordova; Emma, who is now the wife of William Cool and resides in Cordova ; Albert S., who is engaged in mercantile business in the same village; J. Grant, Lewis D. and Grace A.

I C ohn Zollinger, Postmaster at Port Byron, ^ is a native of Pennsylvania, having been / born in Carlisle, Cumberland Co., that * State, April 29, 1847. His parents, John and ,| Mary A. (Harman) Zollinger, were also natives c of Pennsylvania, the former of Lebanon, Leba non County, and of German descent grandparents of the subject of this biographical notice were natives of Switzerland, and were among the earliest settlers in Pennsylvania ; and Jacob Zollinger, the grandfather, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, belonging to Wayne's Light Brigade.

The father of John Zollinger, our subject, was a homeopathic physician and practiced considerably in Carlisle, Cumberland Co., Pa., besides being en- 3 gaged in farming, at which our subject worked to a *j considerable extent, alternating his labors with attendance at the public schools in acquisition of an education.

Our subject enlisted in Co. E, 29th Pa. Vol. Inf., and served until the close of the war in the Army of the Potomac, in which he received a severe scalp wound, participating in the siege of Petersburg in July, 1864. He took part in all the important battles from the time of his enlistment until the close of the war. After his discharge he returned home and engaged at house-painting and paper-hanging as an occupation, in which he continued until 1870, then came to Port Byron, arriving on the iSth of March

JrL of the same year, and worked at his trade for a short % time. Then, in company with F. S. Gates, he ens' gaged in the lumber trade, and continued in the \ same for five years, when he sold out. In iSyShe I was commissioned Postmaster, which position he has '- held since, besides running a grocery, in which he has been engaged for years.

June 4, r87i, Mr. Zollinger formed a matrimonial alliance with Miss Mary J. Moore, daughter of George and Harriet (Dodge) Moore, and of their union have been born four children, namely: Gracie L., Jennie 4 H., Clara J. and Nellie.

) I'Ej'fL oster Armstrong, general farmer, section Ijjp 34, Bowling Township, was born Feb. 26, ^ 1853. His parents were Christopher and Margaret A. (Foster) Armstrong. (See sketch of Thomas Armstrong.) He was reared at home and educated in the public schools until 3 his marriage, Dec. 7, 1876, in Pre-emption Tovvnr^ ship, Mercer Co., 111., to Miss Mary Sweeney, who ' was born in Clinton, Iowa, Jan. 4, 1857. Her parents, Moses and Margaret (Little) Sweeney, were natives of the State of Pennsylvania and of Ireland respectively, were married in Rock Island and settled in Clinton Co., Iowa. She was very young when her mother died ; and her father is yet living, at Clinton, where he is following his trade as carpenter. After the death of her mother she was adopted i: in the family of her uncle, David Little, was reared p by them and educated in the district schools.

After his marriage, Mr. Armstrong located on an 80-acre farm on section 34, Bowling Township, and g> has since made this his permanent home. He is now the proprietor of 260 acres of land, most of A* which is well improved, and the place is well supplied with good farm buildings. Mr. A. is a pro- ( gressive farmer and a prominent citizen. He has acceptably filled a number of local offices in his township, among them that of Justice of the Peace.

van B. Beers, President of the Moline Stove Company, was born in Lancaster, Pa., July 18, 1842, and is the son of Jo- !§!£. seph and Priscilla (Bricker) Beers. When 14 years of age (December, 18 - -), he went to California, where he was engaged in mining and other business. He was in the habit of spending the dry seasons (when mining work was suspended in California) in Virginia City, Nev., in which place he learned the molder's trade.

In November, 18 - he was prevailed upon by a party of some 14 of his friends to join them in an expedition to the southeastern limits of the United States, and with them he went down to Nicaragua, and on their arrival they joined and formed a part of the filibustering forces under Gen. Walker, for the capture of that country He remained there until March of the following year, the forces moving about to San George, New Granada, Virgin Bay, etc.; and he took part in various irregular conflicts, during which time over 4,000 of Walker's men were killed or died. The mob (for it was little else) lived almost entirely by raids upon the surrounding country subsisting upon bananas and other fruits, often being entirely out of food ; and as they had no camp equipage of any kind, they were compelled to camp out under the stars, and in all kinds of weather. The men were armed with all kinds of weapons, the best they could capture or pick up, and no special discipline was maintained. It was a sort of free-for-all affair. Finally, the men began to melt away, and "Gen." Walker was left without a command. He left that section, always a turbulent spirit, and was finally captured and shot, while filibustering in Honduras.

and out of employment, and finally they all stole on board the steamer " Golden Gate," and, hiding themselves as " stow-aways," they quietly remained out of sight on board until the vessel reached its destination, and they landed in California.

In November, 1863, he enlisted in the United States volunteer service for the late war, as a private of Co. C, 7th Cal. Vol. Inf., and served in the Department of the Pacific till April, 1866. On receiving his discharge, Mr. Beers went to Philadelphia, and from there came to Moline, 111., in the fall of 1867, and engaged as molder in the shops of Williams, White & Co., of this city, until 1874, when he formed a partnership with Mr. Joshua Norrish in the manufacture of stoves, under the firm name of E. B. Beers & Co. They continued in this business under the above name until July, tSSi, when it was regularly incorporated under the title of the " Moline Stove Company." Mr. Beers was elected President of the company on its organization, and has continued to fill that position to this date. (See history of this enterprise elsewhere in this work.)

Mr. Beers was united in marriage at Le Claire, Iowa, in 1869, to Miss Josephine Bates. Mrs. Beers died in November, 1S70, leaving an infant daughter, Emma. Mr. Beers was married the second time, in December, 1873, at Cambridge, 111., to Miss Sarah Sims, who was bom in Cazenovia, N. Y.

.r ohn W. Stark, D. D. S., is a graduate of the Iowa City University, and stands deservedly high in the profession he ornaments. He began the practice of dental surjT gery at Woodstock, 111., in 1864, and has since \ devoted his time to it. He was born at Flanders, New Jersey, Feb. 24, 183S, and was brought by his parents, Aaron D. and Nancy (Case) Stark, to Alden, McHenry Co., 111., when about eleven years of age. At the common schools and Woodstock Academy, lie acquired a pretty thorough education, and from the age of 20 to 25 years was employed as teacher in the public schools.

he practiced dentistry several years, coming to Rock Island in 1870. He is a prominent member of the I. O. O. F. and the A. O. U. W., having filled successively the official chairs in both organizations, and is at present Commander of the Uniform degree in the Camp of the first named order, and of the Select Knights of the " Workmen." He is also a member of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows and Representative to the Grand Lodge of the A. O. U. W.

His wife, Melcena A., to whom he was married at Marengo, 111., Sept. 4, 1861, was the accomplished daughter of the Rev. Leander S. Walker (deceased), of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was born at Rockford, 111. Their only two children were buried in infancy. The Doctor's parents died - his father in 185S, aged about 45 years, and his mother in 1880, aged about 65 years. Both Dr. and Mrs. Stark are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

j ffijikharles F. Schafer, a farmer residing on L_3f section 5, Zuma Township, was born in p?*5 Wurtemberg, Germany, March 4, i82r. : ' He emigrated to the United States in 1847, *-"<' and for three years was engaged in the voca- tion of a farmer in Huntingdon Co., Pa. In 1850 he came to Zuma Township and bought 40 acres of land, on which he located and where he has continued to reside until the present time. He subsequently added to his original purchase 46 acres in Coe Township, and by still later purchases added 335 acres more in the same township. On coming to the county in 1850, he located on his land and entered vigorously and energetically upon its improvement and cultivation, and by economy and good judgment has secured a competency. He has a line residence, good barns and outbuildings, and his farm is under a good state of cultivation. Politically, he is identified with the Democratic party, and religiously, he and his wife are both members of the Lutheran Church.

mtry, with Miss Barbara Shock, a native of Germany, and they are the parents of nine children, - Margaret, born Nov. 14, 1 S45 ; Christina, Dec, 25, 1S46; Luther, Dec. 4, 184S; Louisa, Sept. 29, 1850; Man, Feb. 3,1853; Joseph, ^M ay, 26, 1861; Catherine, April 22, 1863 ; Charles, Oct. 18, 1865: and John, Oct. 12, 1867. Louisa married George Behlmeier, and they have five children, - George, Charles, Joseph, Frank and Clara. Mary married John Sehwegler, and they are the parents of three children, - Anna, Louisa and Frederick. Catherine married Charles Hafer, and one child has been bom of their marriage, - Bertha. Christina married Arthur Mead, and they have two children, - Katie and Alfred. Luther married Nanny Hinderer.

lP3Uaellarias Einfeldt, a farmer of South Mo- 'i|| " line Township, where he owns a farm of -jifS}1' T7° acres, is a son of Christian and Maria

'ity<^ (Schlotfclt) Einfeldt, who were natives of J V Germany. They had a family of ten children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the third. He was born in Germany, Nov. 8, 1845, and 20 years later came to America, soon finding his way to Moline. Here he engaged in farming, and before long had purchased the present farm, on section 25, most of which is under excellent cultivation. We take pleasure in presenting a view* of his residence, barns and other surroundings in connection with this sketch.

Our subject was united in marriage in South Moline Township, April 14, 1SS1, with Miss Nannie Henry, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Lee) Henry, who were natives of Pennsylvania and Virginia respectively. They had a family of eight children, of whom Mrs. Einfeldt is the second. She was born in Ross Co., Ohio, April 7, 1846, and is the mother of two children, - Zacharias H. and Elizabeth G.

Politically, Mr. E. is a believer in the principles of the Republican party, and, though, nevei seeking any public station, he has served his district as Road Commissioner four terms.

class of German people we find scattered over the Northwest. Coming to America when a young man, without means, social influence or other assistance, he has, almost before he reaches the prime of his life, become a well-to-do and influential farmer. This speaks well for both the country and the man; for the country in that it affords such splendid opportunities, and for Mr. Einfeldt that he possessed the energy, ability and will to improve them. As a representative of this commendable class of people we place the portrait of Mr. Einfeldt in this Album, on the page facing this sketch.

11 ames Van Horn, residing in Cordova, was jlllkr born in Beaver County, Pa., June 29, r S17, " and is a son of Samuel and Mary A. (Swagegear) Van Horn, natives of Pennsylvania, and of Holland and German extraction. When Mr. Van Horn was eight years of age, his father moved to Columbia County, Ohio. He was a millwright by trade, and worked at that occupation, building mills in that section of the county. He bought an old mill there, that was entirely out of gear and refitted it, and the subject of this sketch operated the same for a time, before he had attained his majority. When Mr. Van Horn had arrived at the age of majority, he commenced the study of medicine with Dr- Fisher, of East Fairfield, Ohio. He attended the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati and followed the curriculum of that institution, at which he graduated. He first commenced the practice of his profes'sion at North Liberty, Mercer Co., Pa., in partnership with Dr. Kirkpatrick, with whom he remained one and a half years. The partnership was then dissolved and Dr. Van Horn went to Centervdle, Butler County, and hung out a shingle, where he remained several years, and by strict attention to his business built up a good and well paying patronage. From the latter place he went to Tarentum, Allegheny Co., Pa., and followed the practice of his profession there, until failing health compelled him to retire. In the spring of 1S52, he emigrated to Iowa, and settled in LeClaire, Scott County, but did not resume his practice. He bought property there and erected a house, where he resided until 1876. During that year he came to this county and located on sections 29 and 30, Cordova Township, where he purchased 147 acres of land, and entered vigorously and energetically on the task of its improvement and cultivation. He has erected on his farm a brick house, together with a frame barn and other necessary buildings, and has his land under an advanced state of cultivation. He also has an apple orchard, together with other small fruit, and his residence may truly be said to be one of the pleasant homes so numerous in Rock Island County.

Dr. Van Horn formed a matrimonial alliance in Centreville, Pa., March r6, 1842, with Miss Gertrude A. Freeman. She was born in Fayette County, Pa., Dec. 11, 1825, and died Oct. 12, 1880, and was the daughter of Elias and Deborah (Crane) Freeman.

J'Ffjl'C eorge Hillier, farmer, residing on section ^tliyfl 24> Coal Valley Township, is the second -^te*-" child of a family of ten children, born to ' y^ > George and Sarah (Stevens) Hillier. His parnatives of England, but

Our subject was born in Gloucestershire, England, Jan. 20, 1822. He came to America with his parents in 1827. At that time they located in Nova Scotia. In r852 he came to Rock Island County and located in Coal Valley Township. Here he was employed in mining, which business he was largely engaged in up to about 1882. He has made extensive shipments of coal to Davenport, la. At present he is the owner of 89 acres of land in Rock Island County, besides other tracts. Also owner of store, corner of Orleans and Eagle Streets, Rock Island.

Mr. Hillier formed a matrimonial alliance in Nova Scotia, on the 3d day of December, 1845; Miss Flora McDonald, daughter of Coll and Sarah (McClennon) McDonald, was the bride. She is of Scotch birth, and the mother of eight children, whom they have given the following names in the order of their birth : George, Henry, Charles W., Sarah, Alexander, Tanjore, Matilda and Amelia. Alexander and Tanjore are deceased.

Mr. Hillier has served his township as School Director, Supervisor and Road Commissioner. He is an active, enterprising farmer, and a respected citizen. He finds his political home with the Democratic party. Socially, he is a member of Everts Commandery, No. 18, Knights Templars.

; I'p^cnry Dovman, of Moline, was born in Holstein, Germany, Jan. 12, 1833, and attendf§r "'* ec* sc'100' there until about 1 6 years of age ; labored on a farm for a time, then in a grocery at Hamburg, then for a carpenter there, and finally left for the " land of golden opportunity," arriving at Davenport, Iowa, June 6, 1S55, where he worked about the city and on farms in the vicinity until May, t86i, when he came to Moline; at this point he first was employed in a saw-mill gDj for a year, for J. S. Keator, then took a job as sec- = tion hand on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific ^ Railroad and worked in that capacity four years ; during the succeeding four years he had charge of a gang of men in the employ of the Government on Rock Island. In 1870 he entered the employment of the Moline Wagon Company, having charge of the shipping, "warehouse and lumber-yard, the latter for eight years, and the former position he has held continuously for 15 years, which is proof of his faithful ability.

Fritz Dorman, father of Henry, was born at Holstein, Jan. 2S, 1811, and died April 23, 1876; and Catharina Dorman (Henry's mother) was born also in Holstein, Sept. 15, 181 1, and died in Moline, May 1870. Mrs. Dorman's father, Engert Struve, died when she was six months old, and her mother, Elizabeth Struve, died when she was three years old ; her maiden name was Roehl. Mrs. Dorman was born at Holstein, Nov. 3, 1833. The daughter, Annie, became the wife of Theodore Hasse, and died leaving three daughters.

Mr. Dorman is a Republican in politics, is active as a Druid and a Turner. Both he and Mrs. D. are liberal in their religious views. He is greatly desirous that his children receive a good education and spares no necessary expense in promoting that end, making it a point that they should attend both the English and German schools. He considers the school-house to be of far greater value to the country than the church.

red A. Burgston, of the firm of F. A. Burgston & Co., dealers in dry goods and carpets, corner of Third Avenue and 17th Street, Moline. This firm is composed of F. A. Burgston and Charles H. Deere, and established business in January, 1883, and carries an average stock of $20,000.

The subject of our sketch is a son of Joseph Burgston, and was born in Sweden, March 28, 1856. In 1865 he emigrated to the United States with his parents, and located at Geneseo, 111., until 1870, when he came to Moline. His education was acquired in the city schools and in 1875 he engaged as clerk with Hull Bros., general merchants. Mr. Burgston continued with Hull Bros, eight years (1883), when he formed the existing partnership with Charles H. Deere.

22, 1837. Mr. and Mrs. Burgston have one child, a son, Glenn J , born Oct. 8, 1883. Mrs. Burgston is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. B. is a Republican, having voted with that party since attaining majority.

W¥\ (f \ B illiam Sears, of the firm of Sears' Sons, I'P^TTu ml"ers an(^ proprietors of the Island j1S*£n * Mills, located on the north side of Rock -Jftfcgy River, near the village of Milan. He is the "Ml" second son and fourth child of David B. and \f Delilah (Caldwell) Sears, natives of New York State and New Jersey respectively. The father was of New England parentage. His ancestry in this country dates back to Richard Sears, who settled at Yarmouth, Mass., about 1636. The family is large and is scattered throughout the United States. An effort is now being made to trace the genealogy back to their forefathers, which shows that the family is connected with some of the best people of New England. The father of our subject, David Sears, was separated from the main branch of the family during the Indian troubles in Ohio, where he had gone with his father, Joseph Sears, when eight years of age. David was brought up on a farm, and came to Gallatin Co., 111., previous to his marriage to Miss Melinda Stokes, who died in that county after she had become the mother of six children, only one of whom survived, Mrs. Sarah C. Eastman, now a resident of Chicago. The parents of our subject were married in the same county, and two children, Margaret and Mary, both deceased, were born before they came to Moline, 111. This removal occurred in 1835. He purchased a large tract of land and became one of the prominent citizens of the county. A more extended notice of David B. Sears is given elsewhere in this volume.

The family of Mr. Sears consisted of eight children, three daughters, deceased, two already mentioned, and Jane, who died at Moline. Those living are David, who was born in Moline, March 21, 1838, where he was reared and educated; the principal part of his time was spent in his father's mills. He was married at Minneapolis, Minn., March 19, 1858, to Miss Mary Stinson, a lady who was born in Huron

Co., Ohio, March 7, 1838, and was brought West with her father when a young lady. She is now the mother of five children, - Lila M., Hugh R., Harriet D., John D. and Vester. The two former are well educated. The first named is a teacher of art drawing ; David is now the senior member of the firm of Sears' Sons, and resides in Rock Island Township.

William Sears, our subject, was born at Moline, Nov. 18, 1840, and was educated there, and in i860 began to learn the miller's trade. On the 1st of January, 1S64, he wis married, at Moline. After this event he, with his father and brothers, formed a co-partnership to carry on the milling business. Our subject succeeded Mr. Norris as Postmaster at Sears' postoffice in 1878, and has since held the position.

Mr. and Mrs. Sears are the parents of four children, one of whom is deceased, Ernst. Those living are William, C. Barton and Benjamin L. The family attend the Presbyterian Church, and politically, all are Republicans.

George W., the sixth child of the family, was born at Moline, Nov. 23, 1842. He was reared under the influences of the home and educated at Moline, where he went to school until 18 years of age, when he enlisted in the first call for troops early in April, 1861, in Co. C, Second Iowa Inf., firmed at Davenport. He was afterward transferred to the 27th 111. and made Commissary Sergeant. Just before his discharge he was transferred to the Ninth Illinois Mounted Infantry. He was honorably discharged in May, 1865, having served a little more than four years. He was fortunate in being neither wounded nor imprisoned, although in some of the hardestfought battles of the war, such as Murfreesboro, Stone River, siege of Nashville, and all through the Atlanta campaign. Afier his return home, he became connected with his brothers in the milling business. April 7, 1S73. he was married, at Milan, to Miss Lizzie Huyett, who was born in Williamsburg, Pa., Nov. 23, 1850. She was brought to Milan when a small child. She is the dauglrer of Dr. Jos. Huyett, a well-known physician of this county, where she was educated. Joseph H., Clara and George L. are the names of their'three children. The family attend the Presbyterian Church, with which Mr. S. is connected. He is serving as School Director at present.

She was educated in North Granville, N. Y., and now resides in the town of Sears. Henry H., the youngest member of the family, was born Oct. 18, 1850; was educated in the schools of Moline, at the business college at Davenport, and worked with his father in the erection of mills and water-powers. Sept. 16, 1875, he was married, at the city of Rock Island, to Miss Kate M., daughter of William and Agenora (Holt) Gilmore. Her parents were natives respectively of Pennsylvania and Maine; by occupation her father was a carpenter and contractor. Her parents were married in this State and located in Rock Island city, where Mrs. S., of this sketch, was born June 21, 1S54. She completed her education at the Platteville (Wis.) Seminary. She has become the mother of two children, - Agenora H. and Charles E.

Since his marriage Mr. Sears has been principally engaged in fanning and in keeping the books for his brothers at the mill. This mill, now bearing the name of " Island Mill," is a solid limestone structure, with basement and four stories, 51x61 feet, with full patent-roller attachments. The power is shed by the river, and the mill has a capacity of 300 barrels per day.

ra Weatherhead, deceased, formerly a farm er residing on section 27, Hampton Township, was born in Guilford, Windham Co., Vt., July 27, 1809, and came to this county July 1, 1839, when within a few days of his 30th year. His parents were Abel and Ruth (Davis) Weatherhead.

Mr. Weatherhead, subject of this biographical notice, was an inmate of the parental household, receiving the advantages of the common school of his native county, and performing such labor as is common to farmers' sons, until he attained the age of majority. On becoming his " own man " he engaged to labor in a knife manufactory in his native State, and labored at that occupation for six years. At this age in life, realizing that better inducements were offered in the West for acquiring a competency, he came to this county and purchased land. Coming at an early date in the history of this county, he is undoubtedly classed as one of the pioneers; and remaining here until his death, he aided in no small degree by his labor and his means in the development of the county. At the date of his death he owned 1,000 acres of land. Politically, he was a Democrat. His accumulations were acquired by honest, straightforward, energetic effort, and he left his wife and children well provided with a fine home and good surroundings.

Mr. Weatherhead formed a matrimonial alliance with Mrs. Jane M. Wells, Oct. 26, 1849. She was the daughter of Daniel McNeil, and was born in Detroit, Mich., Nov. 3, 1821. Four children have been born of their union, namely : Drury A., born July 23, 1849; Ellen O., born Aug. 23, 185 1; Kate L., March 14, 1857, and Ona E., March 4, iS6r. Drury married Adaline DeWoolf, and they have three children, - -Greta, Ira and Louisa. Ellen married Alphonzo Gates, and they have one daughter, - Ona J. Kate L. married Leander Gates, and they have one daughter, - -Edna G. Ona married Albert Smith, and resides in California. Mrs. Weatherhead now resides on the old homestead and manages the farm, being a lady of rare business qualifications, as well as possessing commendable literary attainments. She is well preserved and good for many years of active life yet.

.'form H. Loding, a farmer residing on section 11, South Moline Township, is a son of Hans and Elseby Loding, who were na- - , tives of Germany, in which country they both died. John H. was born in the native country of his parents Oct. 2, 1843. He remained in Germany until about 22 years of age, when, as thousands of others have done, he came to the shores of America, where he might enjoy greater opportunities and better advantages for making a living and accumulating something for his family.

He was employed for a time on a railroad in Iowa as a section hand. He lived in that State for a few months, when he came to Rock Island County and was employed in the mines of this and Henry Counties for 11 years. He then bought 80 acres of land in South Moline Township, section 11, where he has since resided.

Mr. Loding was married in Moline, Sept. 12, 1872, to Miss Luella Smith, daughter of Joseph and Catherine Smith, and who was born in the same township, March 14, 1856. Their home has been blessed with a family of six children, one of whom died in infancy. Those living are : Charles A., born Nov. 10, 1873: Elmer F., Dei;. 11, 1875; Stanwood YY\, Nov. 23, 1877 ; Clyde O., born Oct. 8, 1880; Emory M., born Feb. 10, 1884. Mr. L. is politically identified with the Republican party.

County, 111., Oct. 17, 1813, on the Wabash River, 15 miles south of Vincennes, Ind. Mr. George Goble, father of Benjamin, was born in Kentucky, married Miss Nancy Arnold, also a native of that State. They were of Irish ancestry. Both of Benjamin's grandfathers were soldiers in the Revolutionary War, one of them a captain. The subject of this biographical outline was the oldest of 5 ten children, and is the only one now 'living! When peace was declared between the United States and Great Britain, in 1815, his father moved with his family into Clay County, this State, settling upon the Little Wabash River; in the spring of 1826 they removed to the American Bottom, near St. Louis, Mo. ; the next year they went across the river and located five miles north of St. Louis ; then they lived one year on the Merrimac River, south of that city; and in May, 1829, they came to this county and settled near the site of Moline, that is, about one mile east. The senior Goble died the succeeding fall, leaving his soil Benjamin, then 17 years of age, practically at the head of the family, which then consisted of the r3 widowed mother and five children. He "took up" a small piece of land and made some improvements upon it, but, owing to the changes made by our Government in its treaties with the Indians, with reference to reservations, etc., he lost his claim. When the Black Hawk War broke out in 1 83 1 , he and his few neighbors had to garrison themselves in Fort Armstrong, on the southern point of Rock Island. There they had to remain a month or two in each of the twoyears, 1831 and 1832, enduring many and severe hardships, in order to keep themselves secure from Indian hostilities. They had, of course, to lose their little crops, stock of domestic animals, etc. After the death of his father, Mr. Goble remained with his mother until about a year after he was married, on the island of Lowell, now better known as " Little Island," in a small cabin 15x16 feet square. His marriage occurred Aug. 22, 1833, to Miss Barbara, daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth VandrefT, of , Pennsylvania ancestry. Mrs. G. was born about A 18 1 6, and was but a child when her parents moved = to Ohio ; a few years later they settled near Rock ; Island and Moline, this county. In the spring of 1 1834, Mr. G. made a claim of 108 acres between these two points, which was then wild and unbroken, with more Indians than whites in the vicinity ; that place is now known as the "Brooks place." Some 1 years afterward he sold there and removed to "Rock Bottom," near the junction of the Rock River with the Mississippi ; and, after residing at several other places for short periods, he went to Henry County and purchased 500 acres of land, where he resided until May, 1869, when he traveled around in the farther West, but, finding no place that better suited him, he returned to this county. He, however, looked about for two months, without unloading his wagon, for a suitable location, and then settled on a farm on Big Island, near Rock Island, and lived there until February, 1882, when he retired from active farm labor, came to Milan, and purchased a fine piece of property, where lie now resides.

He has had 1 1 children, ro of whom are yet living, all hale and hearty. The family have called a physician but once, and they attribute their extraordinary health mainly to their abstinence from intoxicating liquors, tobacco, tea, coffee, etc.

ared L. Cool, a farmer of Cordova Township, and a pioneer of 1838 of Rock Island County, was bom Feb. 1, 1S10, in Hunterdon Co., N. J. He is the oldest son of William and Elizabeth (Larison) Cool. When he was T4 his father died, and after that event he went to Pennington, in his native State, to accept a position as a clerk in a mercantile establishment, where he was employed two years. He went thence to New Brunswick, in the same State, and learned the trade of a cedar-cooper. He served between four and five years, and after he had completed his indentures he operated one year as a " jour " in the State of New York. ' He then returned to New Brunswick, and not long after to Princeton, where he established his business in his own interest, which he managed there one year, and went thence to Trenton. At that place he entered into the prosecution of the same business and continued its management there until 1S38. In company with the family, which the good sense, energy and affection of his mother had kept together after the death of the father, he started for Illinois. The journey was made overland with teams, and they were on the route 54 days, cooking and camping on the way. They reached Cordova July 16, 1S38. After his arrival in Rock Island County he engaged in agricultural pursuits in company with his brothers, three in number. The association then formed with his brother next older continued until March, 1884, when the latter died, at 72 years of age.

Mr. Cool was married in Princeton, N. J., Nov. 5, 1832, to Margaret Smith, a native of the place where she was married, and where she was born, June 26, 1814. To Mr. and Mrs. Cool five children have been born, in the order in which their names are given: Jonathan S., R. Condit, Sarah, wife of J. J. Johnson, of Cordova, Mary, married James B. Bailey, of Cordova, and Edward.

Mr. and Mrs. Cool celebrated their golden wedding Nov. 5, 1882, at which their five children were present and 14 grandchildren. There was one greatgrandchild also present, and a large number of other relatives and friends. 'I he presents were numerous, valuable and beautiful.

Mrs. Cool died March 22, 1884. Hers was the first death in the family, and she had lived with her husband nearly 52 years. She was a member of the Baptist Church of Cordova, to which the husband also belongs. The youngest son, Edward, is the manager of the homestead. He was married March 31, 1873, to Libbie Vanderburgh. She was born in Green Co., N. Y.

In politics Mr. Cool is a Democrat. He cast his first vote for Andrew Jackson in 1832, and since that time he has adhered to the party of his first choice.

HI eorge Gibson, iron-molder, Moline, was born on Christmas Day in the year 1829, at a small hamlet called Brown's Buildings, '*f - Northumberland, County of Durham, England, his father being George Gibson, and his mother's maiden name Miss Jane Usher, both descending from old English families.

George Gibson, of whom we are writing, was married Jan. 3, 1854, to Miss Isabel Wheatley, at Lamesly Church, Eighteen Banks, England (near where he was born), on the domains of Lord Ravensworth, near New-Castle-upon-Tyne. She was born at Windy Nook in 1832. Their children are Jane A., born Nov. 21, 1854, died March 16, 1862; Robert L., born Aug. 1, 1856; Samuel, born Aug. 24, 1858; Isabelle, born Sept. 9, i860; Jane A., born May 4, 1863, died Nov. 2, 1869; George, born Sept. 2, 1864; John S., born May 10, 1867; Gawen W., born Jan. iS, 1870; William E.,born Feb. 23, 1872. The daughter, Isabelle, was married Aug. 25, 188-, to Clyde Mann.

Mr. George Gibson attended school until eight years of age, then learned the trade of shoemaker and worked at that until he was about 17 years of age, when he quit that occupation and learned the trade of iron-molder, at which he worked until he came to .America in 1866, and drifted out to Chicago for a short season. He next went to Beloit, Wis., where he worked at his trade, part of the time as a regular laborer and also as foreman, until 1878, when he came to Moline. He immediately took charge of the large foundry of Deere & Co., as foreman, where the working force under him, in the busy season, was 50 hands. Here he remained, attentive to his work, but in the meantime has purchased a fine farm of 160 acres in Antelope Co., Neb., which he is constantly improving, making a home ready for his old age.

In political opinion, Mr. Gibson is a Republican, and is a member of the lodge of Modern Woodmen. His wife is a member of the Congregational Church.

- Henry Redecker, brick manufacturer, of |£ South Rock Island, was born in Germany, Dec. 17, 1829. His father, Benjamin Henry Redecker, was a native of Hanover, Germany, where he was a farmer, and where, also, he passed his life, dying when our subject was 12 years of age. His mother, Elizabeth (Moffmann) Redecker, was also a native of Hanover, where she died in 1863. Our subject was educated in his native tongue, and after the death of his father continued to reside with his mother for four years, when he hired out as a general laborer on a farm. In 1854 he came to America, locating first in Louisville, Ky., near where he engaged as a farm laborer, and six months later came to Rock Island City. After his arrival here, he continued the farmer's work until 1869, when he determined to try the experiment of conducting a farm for himself, which he did for three years. After that period he began to follow teaming at Rock Island, which he continued from 1 86 1 to 1864. He then went to Virginia City, Montana, but remained in the mountains but a short time, when he returned to Rock Island, and soon moved to South Rock Island, where, in 1872, he began to make brick, having bought five acres of ground on Old Sixth Avenue, in 1866. Since 1872 he has followed the brick business, with a fair degree of success. He turns out on an average about 350,000 brick annually. He manufactures an excellent arti- cle, and is ranked among the prominent brick men of the county. Besides his brick-yard, he owns a house and lot in Rock Island, and 40 acres of land in Black Hawk Township.

In 1 85 9 our subject was married, in the city of Rock Island, to Miss Victoria Brainier, who was born in Bridenburg, Germany, April 24, 1S39 Her father was a rake-maker by occupation, and he died when she was 14 years of age, and when iS years old she came with some friends to America. Her mother is still living in Germany. Mrs. R. lived at Rock Island until her marriage. She is the mother of 1 r children, three of whom are deceased. Those living are Christiana, Bernhardt, Lizzie, Victoria D., Henry W., Emma M., Clara and Ella G. The deceased are Fred, Minnie and Frank.

:r;'f (ij .antes F. Robinson, Cashier of the Rock llr-_jJ,\ - Island National Hank, only son of Captain ''** T. J. and Mrs. A. A. Robinson, was born in Rock Island County, Feb. 27, 1849. He spent the principal part of his early life at school, graduating from the Northwestern University, -Evanston, 111 , in the class of 1872.

Immediately after leaving school, the subject of this sketch began his business career as a "messenger" in the Rock Island National Bank. In the spring of the year following he was advanced to the position of assistant cashier of that institution, and before the end of the year, 1873, the bank's manager found it expedient to elevate him to the cashiership. In addition to his banking interests he is largely identified with other enterprises. He is Treasurer of the Rock Island County Brush Electric Light Company, and a director in the Rock Island & Milan Street Railway Company. He has served the city one term, 1881-1S83, as its Treasurer; is present Treasurer of the Royal Arch Chapter in Masonry ; Junior Warden of the Commandery ; Past Chancelor Commander of the Knights of Pythias, and Receiver of Black Hawk Lodge, A. O. U. W.

f i'K", on. John Barge, native of Armstrong Co., TMEMk Pa., sixth child in a family of r6 reared to y\jT men and women by their parents, John and tyS Jane (Elliott) Barge, who were Pennsylvanians by birth, and German and Scotch respectively by blood, was born May 1, 1816. The family removed to Ashland County, Ohio, in 1832, and afterward into Wayne County, that State, where John Barge, Sr., died in 1S50, at the age of about 76 years. The widow, with a number of her children, removed to Rock Island in 185 1.

The subject of this sketch was educated at the common schools, and at the Ashland (Ohio) Academy, and began life for himself as an educator - in fact he taught in the public schools to earn money witli which to carry him through his academic course. He taught in the Ohio schools till about 24 years old, and returned to his native county. For two years there he taught public schools, and then took charge as Principal in the Kittanning Academy, to which he devoted eight consecutive years.

In 1S52 he visited Rock Island, and while here located some land warrants. He remained but a short time, however, and returned to Pennsylvania, where he resumed his profession, and taught until 1855. In that year he returned West, and taught school in Davenport, Iowa, until 1S56. From Davenport he removed to Dixon, 111., and there taught two years; the following two years found him employed in the Rock Island schools. In i860 he went to Macomb, 111., where the public schools furnished him employment about three years. In 1863, in company with two other gentlemen, he took charge of the Macomb College, then very near a defunct institution, infused into it new life, placed it squarely upon its feet, and conducted it successfully for five years.

While at Macomb he was twice elected School Superintendent of McDonough County, and was discharging the duties of that office when failing health forced him to change his location and business.

Leaving his unexpired term of office to be filled out by a deputy, he came to Rock Island, and for two years made a business of physical recuperation. In 1870 he was elected Assessor of Rock Island City and Township, and re-elected to the same position in [871. In 1872-3 he held the City Clerk's office by election, and from 1S74 to 1877 kept books for the Rock Island Gas Co. At this writing (July, 1885) he is filling the office of Assessor for the fifth time, the last three terms having been given him in immediate succession.

'The record of Mr. Barge's life needs no elaboration at the hands of the writer of this sketch. His popularity as a citizen is proven by his almost unprecedented official preferment. His life as an educator of youth is without spot or blemish; and when, in the fulness of time, he shall be gathered unto his fathers, those alone who live after him will be the losers, for unto such as he are all the promises of One who taught the lessons of faith, hope and charity, and laid down the Golden Rule.

Mr. Barge has been a consistent member of tlte Presbyterian Church ever since he was 19 years of age. He was married Feb. 14, 1847, at Kittanning, Pa., to Miss Euphemia Kelly, daughter of the Hon. Meek Kelly, deceased, and a native of Indiana Co., Pa. They have one child, Effie, living, and have buried two, James C. and John M.

erman S. Keator, President of the J. S. '- Keator Lumber Company, President of the Mississippi Valley Insurance Company, and Director of the Moline National Bank, was born in Delaware County, N. Y., Nov. 1, 1822, and is the son of Samuel S. and Jane A. (Newkirk) Keator. His ancestors were of the old New York Knickerbocker origin.

J. S. passed his boyhood in his native county, and when 13 years of age removed with his parents to Honesdale, Pa , and two years later began his business career as a merchant's clerk. On reaching manhood he engaged in mercantile business and lumbering. Twenty-two years of prosperous business in the East placed Mr. Keator in possession of a goodly capital, with which, in 1856, he set out for the West, seeking a field of investment in which he hoped to build a fortune. By the advice of friends he steered clear of an old acquaintance in Chicago, the late Hon. William B. Ogden, who was then an enthusiastic "boomer" of the infant city, but since of such marvelous growth. He was advised not to listen to Ogden's eloquent word pictures of Chicago's probable brilliant future, for fear he would be persuaded to sink his money in that "slough of despond " and lose it. The appearance of Chicago at first sight, at that time, was such as to justify the unfavorable opinion his friends had of the place, for it was little better than a frog-pond. So he passed by that place, and came on West to the Mississippi, and located at Moline. He engaged in the lumber business at that place, Nov. r, 1856, purchasing large tracts of pine' lands on the Black and Chippewa Rivers of Wisconsin, at a very low figure. His ample means enabled him to safely weather the great financial storm of 1857. He manufactured lumber at Moline successfully, and during the flush times of the war, and the rapidity with which the West built up during the few succeeding years, he made money - "hand over fist." In 1869 he built a saw -mill at < Rock Island, known as Keator & Company's Mill. He consolidated with the Annawalt & Denkman Company and formed the Rock Island Manufacturing Company, of which he was a Director. His son, Samuel, was Secretary and Treasurer of the company.

Mr. Keator was the first President of the First National Bank of Moline ; was elected and served as a member of the City Council of Moline for eight years; assisted in buiiding the Moline & Rock Island Street Railway, of which company he was President and general manager for two years. In 1877 he built the Keator House at Moline, which is the only first-class hotel in the city. He is the present owner of the building.

His Moline saw-mill and yards were destroyed by fire in 1870, by which he lost $75,000. He immediately set to work to rebuild, and within four months from the date of the fire had the mill again in operation. He pushed his lumber business, as he did everything with which he was connected, until in August, 1883, he had a stock of eight million feet of seasoned lumber in his yards. At that time the second great disaster of his business career occurred, when fire again swept the premises clean, including saw-mills, planing-mills, and his immense stock of lumber. His loss at this time aggregated $250,000, on which there was only an insurance of $90,000. He certainly was well provided with resources, or he must have gone down under such a terrible blow. He owned at the time, besides his mills, 30,000 acres of pine land, on the Black and Chippewa Rivers, an interest in a cattle ranch in Texas of 82,000 acres, the company of which he is President, besides owning an individual tract of 20,000 acres in that State. He still owns $20,000 acres of pine land on the waters of the Black and Chippewa Rivers, and is also extensively interested in farming land in Illinois. He has one farm of 800 acres in Henry County, and one ot 160 acres, and still another of 120 acres, all well improved. He also has a half interest in a 10,000-acre tract in the Sioux Valley, near Watertown, Dak., which is crossed by the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, and is the site of a station. His City property in Moline and Rock Island is also widely extensive.

Mr. Keator has rebuilt the saw-mill at Moline, on the most improved and modern plan, and now has one of the most important and extensive mills on the Mississippi River. He is also interested in an extensive saw-mill and lumber business at Davenport, having the celebrated Simon Paige Mill under lease.

Mr. Keator was married in Durham, Green Co., N. Y., in 1846, to Miss Mary Baldwin, daughter of Dennis Baldwin. Four children were born to them, as follows : Samuel J., the eldest, was born at Honesdale, Pa., and is Vice-President of the J. S. Keator Lumber Company, and resides at Rock Island; Benjamin C. is Secretary of the J. S. Keator Lumber Company, and lives at Moline; Frederick W. is an attorney at Chicago; he is a graduate of Yale College and of Yale Law School; Edward B. is employed in his father's Moline business. Mrs. Keator died in May, 1857, in Pennsylvania. Mr. Keator was married again in February, i860, at Fayetteville, N. Y., to Miss Sarah Yelverton. She was born in Onondaga Co., N. Y., and is the mother of two children, Mary F. and Frank Y. Mrs. Keator is a member cf the Congregational Church.

Mr. Keator was formerly a member of the old Whig party, and voted for Henry Clay. He was one of the organizers of the Republican party, and in 1856 voted for Fremont, and has since continued an earnest supporter of that party at each succeeding national election. He is one of the most energetic and enterprising business men of Western Illinois, and his operations, as the above record shows, extend over many years, and over a wide scope of territory, and are an honorable, worthy record, and one his posterity may well be proud of. His portrait is given on a preceding page in close proximity.

V6& ijj \ illiam Clarke, engaged in farming and iy|||fl]|f stock-raising, and residing on section 33, ^r$~\ Bowling Township, was born in County Js£3> Fermanagh, Ireland, in the spring of 1831, s in which county he was also married, in November, 1S53, to Miss Eliza Gauley, who was born there about 1S33.

After his marriage Mr. Clarke emigrated to America, locating first in the Province of New Brunswick, Canada East ; and two years subsequently he came on to this State and rented land in Mercer County. In 1866 he purchased 55 acres of land in Bowling Township, this county, where he has since resided and where he now owns a quarter-section, most of which is in a fine state of improvement.

The children of Mr. and Mrs. C. are : Robert and Sarah E., married, David B., in Iowa, William A., Eliza A., Jane H. and Maggie J. The family attend the Episcopal and Methodist Episcopal Churches. Mr. C. has been a School Director for eight years, and in his political views he is a stanch Republican.

He was born in Westmoreland His parents, Alex- - ander and Sybilla (Kern) Craig were natives of Pennsylvania, where they resided and reared the subject of this notice until he attained the age of 15 years.

assisting the fatlier in the maintenance of the family and attending the common schools, and also spent two years at Elders Ridge Academy, in Indiana Co., Pa., where he received a good English education. At 17 years of age he enlisted in a three-months regiment of Pennsylvania militia and went to Ohio, where he was engaged in guarding the fords on the Ohio River between Wheeling and Pittsburg, and had the pleasure of assisting in the capture of John Morgan. After the expiration of his term of service he enlisted in Co. K, 53d Pa. Vol. Inf., and from January, 1864, until the close of the war was an active participant in all the battles in which his company was engaged. He received a slight wound at Spottsylvania, and during the first day's fighting at Petersburg was again wounded and captured March 31, 1865. He served in Gen. Hancock's corps.

Dr. Craig studied medicine in Columbia, Pa., and subsequently matriculated at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and, after following the curriculum of the same, graduated and received a diploma on March 12, 1S69. He then came to Rock Island, in April, 1869, and engaged in the practice of his profession, and has followed the same with signal success.

The marriage of Dr. Craig to Miss Nellie Cleland occurred Aug. 4, 1874. She was the daughter of Rev. Samuel and Ellen Cleland and was a native of Rock Island, in which place she was born. Three children have been born of their union, namely : George G., Nellie and Alexander. Dr. Craig resigned as City Physician to accept the appointment of Commissioner of Health for the city of Rock Island. As Health Commissioner Dr. Craig first met with some opposition in carrying forward his plans in regard to the proper method of placing Rock Island in a good sanitary condition. After the authorities and citizens came to understand, however, and with the hearty co-operation of the Rock Island Union and Argus, his plans for the general health of the city were readily adopted by the authorities and endorsed by the good citizens. The Doctor's plan may be most succinctly stated in one word, Cleanliness, - of course, with the necessary adjuncts of a thorough system of draining and a constant general removal of all decomposing matter from the city. This has been heretofore either buried or thrown on the surface. Another great benefit derived from his plan was the establishment of abattoir, which was done largely through the efforts of Dr. Craig. By the following statistics the reader will readily observe the substantial benefit derived from the adoption of Dr. Craig's ideas in regard to the sanitary measures of the city:

Year. Deaths. Ratio Per 1,000

It has been observed by those competent to judge that the inhabitants of the city, since the beginning of 1883, are saving annually in expenditure for physicians' fees and medicine at least $20,000, besides a large saving which would otherwise result from a loss of time.

As an illustration of economical management, we mention the year 1882, when small-pox was quite prevalent in Illinois. In Rock Island there were 15 cases, representing eight different outbreaks in as many different localities. In no instance did the disease spread from any house after being discovered. The total cost of each case, including city and county expenses, was $45.22. This included medical attendance, quarantining, vaccination, disinfecting, etc. As compared with Mcliue, the neighboring city, where they had 20 cases, the cost was $8,000. In Joliet, 111., 30 cases cost $12,000, or $400 a case in each city. This of itself will attest the economy and rare executive and medical ability brought into requisition for the city's benefit at a critical time.

Dr. Craig held the position of City Physician for a period of 12 years, a fact of i* self which is sufficient to demonstrate the high esteem in which he is held by the citizens, not only as a practitioner, but as a genial, social and straightforward, honest and fair dealing man. Socially, he is a member of the Order of Masonry and ot the A. O. U. VV. Politically, he is a Republican. His residence is located on 18th Street and 7th Avenue.