Rock Island County, Illinois - The whole text, 1885 (part 7 of 24)

ev. T. R. Johnson, a minister of the Presbyterian Church, at Edgington, this county, was born in Strattonville, Clarion Co., Pa., Feb. 12, 1S37. His father, Job, was a merchant tailor by vocation, and a native of Armstrong Co., Pa., and of Scotch ancestry. The grandfather of our subject was a farmer and settled in East Pennsylvania, where he was married, and then removed to West Pennsylvania, and therelived until his death, which occurred in Armstrong County about 1850. The father of the subject of this notice was married in Armstrong County, to Miss Margaret Ray, who was born in the same county and was also of Scotch and Welsh d< and of American parentage. The parents reared a family in Clarion County, of four children, two of whom are deceased. Sarah married W. L. Johnson, and resided in Clarion County on a farm until the date of her death ; Edward G. died of small-pox while in the army, at Philadelphia: he was a member of Co. K, Second Pa. Cav., Capt. Steele, and died in March, 1862, having served about five months, and at the date of his death was a Corporal ; William J. enlisted in the 156th Pa. Vol. Inf., and after serving for some time was mortally wounded, in the battle of the Wilderness, and died in the hospital at Washington, D. C, having served one year and ten months at Washington College, Washington Co., Pa., at which institution he graduated in the class of 1 He entered the Western Theological Seminary, at Allegheny City, Pa., in the fall of./ 862, and graduated at that institution in 1865. He was then licensed to preach the gospel, and came immediately to Illinois and took charge of a Church at Edgington village in 1865, over which he has p ver since. He has also conducted services al Plea ml I'-idge, and temporarily has preached at other localities.

Rev. Mr. Johnson formed a matrimonial alliance Oct. r2, 1865, at Clarion, with Miss Mar A. Sloan, a native of Pennsylvania, being born in Clarion County, Feb. 28, 1838. She is the accomplished daughter of Samuel and Eliza (Sloan) Sloan. She was reared at home and educated at Glade Run Seminary, and began teaching when 16 years of age, which she followed and attended school until her marriage. They became the parents of six children, one of whom is deceased : William W. is a te. and resides at home ; Samuel S., Sarah E., Merle M. ;md Lewis A. are the surviving children, and one died in infancy. Mrs. J. is a member of the same Church of which her husband is a minister. He occupies the parsonage at Edgington, and has been connected with the school interest of the township since he came here, and at present is School Treasurer of the same. Politically, he is a Republican.

15* 1824, and is the son of Henry and Keziah (Newton) Williams. He lost his parents in early youth and was left in limited circumstances, with younger brothers and sisters to care for. He succeeded in securing an academic education, and at the age of 20 years went to Boston, where he was employed as clerk in a dry-goods establishment. He was subsequently engaged as assistant cashier of the Boston & Worcester Railway Co., in the freight department, and was soon promoted cashier of the same. He continued in the service of the railway company about six years.

Sarah J. Taft, daughter of Timothy S. Taft. Mrs. Williams was born in Heath, Mass. Soon after his marriage, Mr. Williams formed a partnership with his father-in-law . in the commission and produce business, which connection continued two years. He then came to Moline, 111., in the summer of 1854, in accordance with an agreement made at Barre, Mass., with Messrs. White and Heald. He was chosen the business manager for the firm of Williams, Heald & Co., of which he was the senior partner. (See history of the company in the industries of Moline.) Mr. Williams was possessed of correct ideas of business and good executive ability, the exercise of which, aided ably by his industrious and capable partners, soon placed the business on a prosperous footing; and as years have rolled by he has had the satisfaction of seeing, as a result of their joint efforts, a mass of towering brick structures on the site where he first built the little wooden shop 31 years ago, where five men were employed, and now from 75 to 100 men aie required to do the work. Starting with a capital of $2,500, they now have a capital stock of $50,000, with a surplus of as much more.

Mr. Williams retired from business in 1883, and went to Florida with his family, where he spent the winter. He purchased property in that State, and has made that his winter ho.ne, while he spends his summers at Moline. Mr. and Mrs. Williams have had nine children, four of whom died in infancy. The five surviving sons are, Frank H., the Vice- President of the Williams, White & Co. Iron Works ; he married Lillian A. Strode and resides at Moline ; the second son, Alfred H., is in Florida ; the third. John J., is book-keeper in the office of Williams, White & Co. ; the younger ones, Harry T. and Parker M., are students. Mr. Williams was a warm anti-slavery man, when that subject was of general public interest. He supported Martin Van Buren on the Free-Soil ticket and has subsequently voted with the Republican party.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Williams have been professors of religion since early youth. They became members of the Congregational Church and have been identified with that society continuously since. Mr. Williams has been a Deacon of the Church for the past ten years. He has been identified with the growth and development of Moline, of which the business he aided in establishing and so successfully conducting has been an important factor. While he has always given a generous support to all worthy public enterprises, Mr. Williams has devoted his attention strictly to his business, and has never allowed his name to be used in connection with public office.

^§m ^Aharles Laflin> a general farmer of EdgingiJiJ^gJy ton Township, and one of the prominent, Ijp," ^ enterprising men of his section of the #9 county, as well as an early settler, was born (K Jan. 16, 1820. His father, Parley Laflin, I was a native of Dutchess Co., N. Y., and by occupation a farmer. After his marriage he moved to Cherry Valley, Otsego Co., N. Y., where our subject was born. The origin of the Laflin family in America was the coming of Charles and Winthrop Laflin to this continent. The former was the grandfather of our subject, and both were born in Dublin, Ireland. All the Laflins in this country who spell the name as this family do, are said to be the descendants of these two brothers.

The father of our subject was married to Esther Benedict, a native of Connecticut and of New England ancestry and parentage, and connected directly with a Puritan family. After the birth of Charles, their eldest child, they removed to the Western Reserve in Ohio, where they located upon a farm. Afterwards they removed to New York, Chautauqua County, where they resided until Charles arrived at the age of 14; from there his parents moved to Warren Co., Pa, from there back to Chautauqua County, to the town of Carroll. When he came of age, in April, 1840, they came West, settling in Rock Island County. Having lost his first wife, who died at Carroll, N. Y., the elder Laflin was married again at that place. On coming to this county, he purchased a farm in Edgington Township, where he lived until his death, which occurred May 13, r85o, at the age of 52 years.

Our subject lived at home, working on the farm and attending the district schools and a school at Mayville, the county seat of Chautauqua County, until he came West. He was married to Miss Margaret Hazlitt, daughter of Alexander and Sarah (Mackay) Hazlitt, May 23, 1844, at her home. Her parents were formerly farmers of New Jersey, and were of Scotch-Irish descent though born in the State of New Jersey. Mrs. Laflin was born in Warren Co., N. J., May 6, 1819, and was 18 years of age when the family came West. They stopped for one year in La Salle Co., 111., and then came on to Rock Island County, where they arrived in 1S39. They located in Edgington Township, on a farm of 160 acres. Three years later, Aug. 24, 1842, the mother died, at the age of 37 years. The father died Dec. 2, 1849, in Edgington Township.

After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Laflin settled on a farm, and have since devoted their energies to the quiet and pleasant occupation of farming. He has an excellent farm of 160 acres on section 31, all well improved, and also 40 acres of timber land. Mrs. Laflin is a member of the Presbyterian Church at Edgington, and Mr. L. has served as Justice of the Peace for six years, and also as Assessor and School Director. He is a member of the A. F. & A. M. at Edgington, and has been Master of his lodge (Keeney Lodge, No. 223,) for several years. Politically, he is a Democrat.

There have been born to Mr. and Mrs. L., five children, as follows : Alexander, deceased ; Mary E., wife of I. H. Hazlitt; Sarah E., wife of Wm. D. Crabs; Edgar, who married a daughter of Joseph Lloyd; and Edith, residing at home.

^Fjffia|SEb,harles F. Hernenway, cashier of the Moline National Bank, also of the Moline Mfa ^ Savings Bank, son of Luke E. and Jane E. (Marsh) Hernenway, was born at Grand de Tour, Ogle Co., 111., Nov. 1,1846. The family removed to Moline in 1855, where they have since resided, and where the subject of this sketch acquired such education as was possible before he was 15 years of age. Leaving home in 186 1 , he landed directly at Lansing, Iowa, where he was employed as a clerk in the postoffice until the fall of 1862. When in the 15th year of his age, he enrolled as a private soldier in Co. B, 27th Iowa Vol. Inf., and served to the close of the war, being mustered out as Corporal in May, 1865. At enlistment he was the youngest soldier in the corps to which he was attached, and it is doubtful whether there were in the whole United States Army a younger soldier in the ranks and bearing a musket. He spent the first year with his regiment doing duty and undergoing the hardships incident to the life of an ordinary soldier. The second year he did detail duty as a clerk for Gen. Hurlbut, at the headquarters of the 1 6th Army Corps, and the last year filled a similar position at the headquarters of the Department of the Mississippi.

Returning from the army, he at once entered the First National Bank of Moline as book-keeper and remained until the organization of the Manufacturers'Bank of Moline in May, 1869. With this institution he accepted the position of assistant cashier, from which he was promoted to the position of cashier in January, 1876. In addition to his banking interests, he is Vice-President of the Moline Malleable Iron Company, member of the firm of Gould, Walker & Hernenway, general insurance agency, and treasurer of the Moline Central Street Railway Company. He has held the office of Notary Public for 16 years, is a member of the Board of Commissioners, Riverside Cemetery, has served the city three years as Alderman, and for four terms as Treasurer, of which office he is the present incumbent. Whatever the office - either public or private - the administration of Mr. Hernenway has been uniformly of the highest character. A man of exemplary habits, a cool head and strong executive ability, he is ranked as one among the best business men and financiers in a city noted for its commercial and financial genius.

Mr. Hernenway was united in marriage at Moline, Nov. 4, 1869, to Miss Mary E. Harrold, and they are the parents of five children, namely : Martha J., Clara, deceased, Frances B., Harrold and Joe M.

jLon. Joseph W. Lloyd, general farmer and stock-raiser, residing on section 16, Edgington Township, is a native of Pennsylvania, having been born in Erie County, that State, May 10, 1S1S. His father, Aaron Lloyd, was the son of Benijah Lloyd, who, with his two brothers, settled in the United States at an early day, and from whom the origin of the Lloyd family in this country is traced. They came from Wales, and the three settled in three different States, Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey, the grandfather, Benijah, locating in the latter State.

They were farmers by vocation, and the grandfather of our subject was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. The father of Joseph W. was born in March, 1775. He had been taught the trade of a tailor in Newark, N. J., and was there united in marriage to Miss Margaret Lindsey. She was born in that State, and was the daughter of an Englishman, who was a farmer by occupation. Her mother was a German lady. After marriage the parents of Mr. Lloyd of this sketch lived for a while in " York " State, and then removed to Pennsylvania, where the subject of this notice was born, as stated. He was the youngest in order of birth of a family of ten sons and two daughters, only one of whom besides himself survive, Horace, a farmer, residing in Erie Co., Pa.

Mr. Lloyd, subject of this biographical notice, was reared and educated in his native county, living on the parental homestead until he attained the age of 20 years. The following year he came West, to this State, locating in Millersburg, Mercer County, where he followed his trade, that of tailor, from (838 to 1849. He was united in marriage at Millersburg, May 15, 1844, with Miss Eunice Beardsley, daughter of Rev. Elisha and Caroline (Marvin) Beardsley, natives of Genesee Co., N. Y. The father was a minister in the Unitarian Church, and he and his wife were both of English descent, and were united in marriage in Genesee County, the birthplace of Mrs. Lloyd, where she was born Feb. 9, 1824. She lived in her native State with her parents, being educated in Chautauqua County, until she attained the age of 18 years, when the family moved to Millersburg, where they resided for some time, and then came to Rock Island city, where they both died, the death of the mother occurring in 1869, and that of the father in 1882, aged 86 years. Mrs. L. began teaching in the public schools of her native State, when she was a young lady, and when she came West ceased to follow her profession, and was soon afterward married.

Eight children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd, seven of whom are living, namely : Emma C, born April 17, 1845, resides at home; Jasper, born Oct. 15, 1849, deceased; Lovina J., born July 23, 185 1 ; she married Addison Rush; Milo, born Dec. 3, 1853, was united in marriage with Miss Lettie L. Bopes; Asenath, born May 21, 1856; she married Cornelius D.Baker; Eunice, born Aug. 14,

1859, married Edgar Laflin; Luella, born Aug. n, 1S61, married James W. Titterington ; Walter J., born May 5, 1864, works the homestead, and is unmarried. Lovina, Asenath and Eunice M. were all teachers in the public schools of this county prior to their marriage.

After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd came to Rock Island County, and purchased So acres of raw prairie land, on which they located, and at once entered vigorously and energetically upon its improvement and cultivation. They are now the owners of 224 acres of land in the township, all of which is in an advanced state of cultivation, and on which they have a magnificent residence, good barn and substantial outbuildings. Mr. Lloyd also owns 160 acres of land in Gage Co., Neb., and also 40 acres of timber land in Andalusia Township. Politically, Mr. Lloyd is a believer in and a supporter of the principles of the Republican party. In 1865 he was elected Representative from this county to the State Legislature, serving one term. Previous to that he was Supervisor three terms, and has served one term since, likewise serving in other minor offices.

Louisa Seaberg, and was born in Sweden, March 8, ^38. He learned the cabinetmaking trade in the city of Guttenberg, and subsequently worked at pipe-organ making 11 He came to America in 1865, arriving in this country on the 24th of July, of that year, coming direct to Princeton, 111., where he was employed at cabinet-making till Christmas time, when he went to Chicago. Arriving in the latter place, he engaged with Pilch Bros. & Co., organ-builders, and remained with them two years. Returning then to Princeton, he engaged in the furniture business with G. Larson, and that connection lasted two years, when he sold out. Mr. Seaberg then worked at sash and blind making three years, after which he returned to his former trade, pipe-organ building, and engaged with the Western Cottage Organ Company, at Mendota, where he continued for six years.

when he returned to the States, in September. Mr. Seaberg spent the winter at Mendota, and in the spring made a trip to the Indian Territory, but was gone only a few months when he returned to Illinois, and formed a partnership with Mr. Peter Colseth, of Moline, in the manufacture of cabinet organs at that place. They began in a small way, and succeeded in building up an important business, operating now as an incorporated company, known as the Moline Cabinet Organ Company, of which an extended sketch is given under the head of industries of Moline, elsewhere in this work.

Mr. Seaberg was united in marriage at Princeton, 111., Sept. 8, 1869, with Miss Louisa Johnson, daughter of John and Annie (Hakanson) Johnson. Mrs. Seaberg was born in Sweden, and came to America when two years of age. They are the parents of six children, namely: Olive U. E., born June 27, 1870; Amelia E. P., born Sept. 16, 1871; Lydia L. \\\, born Sept. 9, 1875 ; Theodora P. C, born May 22, 1878; Gothfried S. E., June 14, 1880; Esther V. C, March 31, 1882.

f ewis Wilson, a prosperous farmer and reli- _t able citizen of this county, residing on jaWr section 8, Rural Township, is a son of vjj~ William and Rachel (Mills) Wilson, natives (IS of Kentucky. The father,, as born March 8, { 1791, a.nd the mother Aug. 13, 1792. They were married, and settled in Champaign Co., Ohio, and about three years later removed to Greene County, that State, where they resided until the fall of 1828, when they removed to Montgomery Co., Ind. The parents continued to reside in the latter State until the fall of 1853, when they came to this county, and located in what is now Rural Township, where they resided until their deaths, that of the father occurring in October, 1856, and that of the mother in June, 1S73. Their family comprised 12 children, namely : Lewis, Jacob M., Mary, Susan, Lydia, George, Hannah, Adam, John, Owen, Moses, and one who died in infancy.

was born in Champaign Co., Ohio, Feb. 23, 181 1. His education was received at an old log schoolhouse in his native county, and his early life was spent on the parental homestead, performing such labor as is common to farmers' sons. He continued to reside at home until he was 24 years of age, when he was united in marriage with Miss Sarah Thompson, a native of Indiana and of Irish ancestry. That event occurred April 2, 1835, and she became the mother of four children, by Mr. Wilson, namely: Mary, Rachel, George, and Lydia Lovia. Rachel is the only surviving child, and is the wife of Charles Simmons, a resident of Rural Township. Mrs. Wilson died June 2r, 1842.

Mr. Wilson formed a second matrimonial alliance June 30, 1844, with Miss Minerva Tipton, a native of Tennessee, of French ancestry, in which State she was born Nov. 1, 1823. Of the latter union four children have been born: John W., Sarah, Jacob and Owen D. Jacob is deceased ; John W. resides in Oregon ; and Owen D. and Sarah reside in Nebraska, the latter being the wife of Joseph M. Piersol. Mrs. Wilson died June 29, 1852, and Mr. Wilson was married a third time Sept. 25, 1856, the lady of his choice being Catherine Simmons, a native of Germany.

She came to America with her parents when five years old, and lived in Pennsylvania and Ohio many years. Peter and Catherine E. Simmons, her parents, came to this county in 1850, and two years later located in Rural Township, where they died, the father Aug. 10, 1875, and the mother Aug. 23, 1874, - the former at the age of 82 years, and the latter at 79 years. Mrs. \V. was born July 30, 1828. Their home has been blessed with eight children, who bear the following names: Henry P., Catherine L., James R., Maria L., Lewis E., Charles C, Jacob S. and Charlotte H. Catherine is the wife of George Stewart, a farmer of Rural Township ; Maria L., the wife of Charles Carlson, a resident of Dakota.

Mr. Wilson is the owner of 240 acres of land in Rural Township, 150 of which is in a tillable condition. He also owns 320 acres in Nebraska. Mr. Wilson has served as Justice of the Peace for nine years, and represented his township on the Board of Supervisors for five years. His political sentiments are Democratic. Religiously he is a member of the Baptist Church, while Mrs. W. is connected with the Presbyterian Church. As a highly respected representative of the agricultural element of the county, and a pioneer well and favorably known, the portrait of Mr. Wilson is presented in this work. He is a worthy representative of a worthy class.

ev. Henry Oliver Lindeblad, Pastor of the Swedish Lutheran Church of Moline ' since 1879, was born in Tanuras Socken, Bohus Lan, Sweden, March 7, 1S45. He aid the foundation of his education at the Gymnasium of Gottenburg, and emigrated to America in 1866. He came at once to Paxton, 111., where he entered the Augustana College and Theological Seminary as a student, took a three-years course and graduated in the class of 1S69. He was then sent as a home missionary to Campello and Boston, Mass., where he spent two years and organized the now existing Swedish Congregation in the latter city. He was next Pastor at Chandler's Valley, Warren Co., Pa., where he labored nine years, or until 1879, when he accepted a call from the Swedish Lutheran Church of Moline, since which time he has served as Pastor of this Church, with marked ability and satisfaction to the congregation.

Mr. Lindeblad was chosen a member of the Board of- Directors of the Augustana College and Theological Seminary of Rock Island, and has served as such since 1880. He is also a member of the Library Board, and is a member of the Central Board of Missions of the Augustana Synod. While a resident of Pennsylvania, he served as a member of the Board of Education.

Mr. Lindeblad was united in marriage, at Princeton, 111., Jan. 30, 1868, to Miss Christina Pierson, daughter of Martin and Elsa Pierson. Mrs. Lindeblad was born in Skane, Sweden, Nov. 30, 1839. They have six children, four boys and two girls : Alma E. E. C, born July 18, 1870, at Campello, Mass.; A. Gothold E., born at Chandler's Valley, Pa., April 6, 1872, died May 1, 1881 ; I. Luther E., born March 8, 1874; Esther E. Th., born Aug. 17, 1876; Alvin S. N., born March 15, 1879; and Carl G. T., born Sept. 27, 1881. The youngest was born at Moline, 111., but the others, with the exception of the eldest, were born at Chandler's Valley, Pa.

The Rev. Mr. Lindeblad is Pastor of one of the most important Churches in the West. The church edifice is the largest of all in Rock Island County, and the largest of all of the denomination in the State. The membership numbers 1,100 communicants. Mr. Lindeblad is a gentleman of thorough culture, fluent and entertaining in his discourse, modest and unassuming in his manner, and genial and affable in social intercourse, while his natural kindness of heart makes him easily accessible to those in trouble or distress. It is no flattery to tell the truth, and it is only truth to say that Mr. Lindeblad is held in the highest esteem and warm, friendly regard, not only by his own people, but by his fellow citizens in general.

John L. Devore was an artisan in his native State, and in 1822 he removed his family to Licking Co., Ohio, where he bought a tract of timber land. He put his estate under excellent improvements, and it was his home and field of operation until about ten years before his death. His wife also died in Licking Co., Ohio. Mr. Devore was a child of four years when his parents emigrated to the Ohio forest, and he had only the prescribed privileges of the son of a pioneer, including little familiarity with books, and affording corresponding necessity and opportunity for the acquisition of mental culture by observation, from which conditions, it may be remarked in passing, has arisen the best element of humanity on which Western institutions have been founded.

At 15 he obtained the consent of his parents to endeavor to make his way in the world unaided. He obtained employment in the vicinity of his home, and during the first year of his independent existence he earned $3 a month, together with his board. Until he was 22 he worked on a farm summers and attended school winters. In 1839 he accepted a proffered situation in a grocery at Akron, Summit Co., Ohio, and officiated in that capacity for two years. He then went South, and obtained employment in the service of the Lower Mississippi, filling the position of an assistant clerk on a steamboat. He passed two years in that capacity, coming thence in 1844 to Illinois. He bought 80 acres of wild land, composed in part of timber and prairie, in Sharon, Henry County, of which he was the owner and proprietor for two years. His next remove was to Rock Island County in 1846, where he became by purchase the owner of a farm on section 7 > of township 18 north, range 3 east, of Government land, now designated as Brewster & Hill's farm.

Until 1849 he was occupied in the prosecution of his agricultural interests. In that year he became interested in the glowing rumors concerning the possibilities afforded by the resources of the Pacific coast, and in company with a party of adventurous spirits, numbering about 70, he set out for Oregon. The company, with 24 wagons and 72 yoke of oxen, left Illinois May 1, and journeyed across the continent, and arrived at Fort Vancouver, Oregon, Oct. 18, 1849. Mr. Devore obtained employment as a umberman, at Milwaukee, Oregon, and was engaged until the first of March, 1850, in cross-cutting sawlogs, hauling and drawing them to mill, receiving a compensation of $5 per day for his labor. At the date above named he went to San Francisco, whence he proceeded to Sacramento, shortly afterward going there by steamer. From there he went by land route to Bird's Valley, El Dorado County, where he operated some time as a miner, but without satisfactory results. He then embarked in mercantile operations, establishing a store at Bird's Valley, and ^) dealing in the general supplies required by the min- ^» ing community. After a few months he associated with himself in his business a man named Jonas Barber, a former resident of Port Byron, 111. After a joint management, covering a period of ten months, they sold their business interests and relations, with the intention of returning toward the East.

They took passage from San Francisco, and proceeded on the Pacific Ocean to Realjo, in Central America, whence they went by land to the city of Leon, in the State of the same name. They proceeded to Granada, crossed Lake Nicaragua to Fort San Carlos, whence they traveled on the San Juan River to San Juan de Nicaragua. They sailed thence on the English war steamer " Tay," to Chagres, on the Isthmus of Panama. At that port they embarked on the United States steamer " Philadelphia " for New Orleans. They came up to the city of St. Louis on the same steamer, whence they journeyed by stage to Sharon in Henry County. This was in 185 1.

Mr. Devore came thence to Port Byron, and, January 2r, in partnership with A. J. Brown, he established a mercantile enterprise under the firm style of Brown & Devore. In 1863 the impaired health of Mr. Brown necessitated a change in their business relations, and the senior partner withdrew. Mr. Devore pushed the enterprise singly, and in the same year founded his banking business. He admitted W. J. Shepherd to an interest in 1866, and their associations continued until the death of Mr. Shepherd, in 187 1. Mr. Devore severed his connection with commercial affairs in 1877, since which time he has devoted his time to his banking interests exclusively. His abilities as a financier are of a superior character, and his entire business career at Port Byron is such as to result in permanent benefit to the general public. At the outset he was the possessor of a cash capital of $800, from which he has built his present substantial fortune.

Mr. Devore was united in marriage in October, 1844, with Eliza Beardslee. She was born in Jersey, Licking Co., Ohio, and is the daughter of Charles and Rebecca (Ayres) Beardslee. Her parents were born in Sussex County, State of New Jersey, and were pioneers of the township of Jersey. Later, they removed to Henry Co., 111., the father buying a farm in the township of Sharon, which was the homestead until the death of the father, after which the mother moved to Rock Island. She died in Geneseo, this State. Rose E., wife of Hon. J. W. Simonson, of Port Byron, is the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Devore.

' of 1838 and located at Peoria, where he resided until the spring of 1S46, when he removed to Moline. On coming to this place, he engaged in the manufacture of fanning-mills, in company with his brother Alonzo, under the firm name of Wm. A. & Alonzo Nourse. They were among the first manufacturers in Moline, shipping their goods at one time throughout the greater portion of the Mississippi Valley. Mr. Nourse also engaged in merchandising. He sold out his fanning-mill business in* 1852, but continued in mercantile business until the commercial crisis of 1857, when he closed out. In 1859 he commenced improving his home on the bluffs where he now resides, and began by planting trees, and gradually developed an extensive nursery business. In 1865 he began erecting "green houses, and combined the business of florist with that of nurseryman. He has devoted special pains to his green-houses, and extended their capacity until they now embrace an area of 5,000 feet of glass, well stocked with a fine variety of plants and shrubs. The houses are said to excel anything in this line either in Rock Island Co., 111., or in Scott Co., Iowa. He is selling out his nursery stock, and will in the future give the green-houses his undivided attention.

Mr. Nourse was married at Peoria, 111., in September, 1844, to Miss Sarah F. Pettengill, a niece of Moses Pettengill, of Peoria. Mrs. Nourse was born in Salisbury, N. H., and is a lineal descendant of the family of Daniel Webster, her grandfather being a cousin of the great statesman. They have one child living, a daughter, Mary F., wife of John H. Porter, the job printer of Moline. Mrs. Nourse died in August, 1881, being killed in the great wind-storm of that season. Mr. Nourse was a positive anti-slavery man in slavery times, and since then has been a Republican. In addition to his being a true patriot, he has been a consistent temperance man since 1836, never having from that day to the present time used ardent spirits, tea, coffee or tobacco. His health, in consequence of his temperate habits, is excellent, and now, at the age of 65, he is vigorous as a man of 40. Mr. Nourse attributes his mental and physical condition to his belief and practice in hygiene, which includes regular habits. He is also a pronounced spiritualist.

IE,. enry F. Thomas. On Jan. I' subject of this sketch was born at South Weymouth, Mas?. During his boyhood he attended school in his native town, and then settled down to learn the trade of shoemakmg, at which he worked for several years, but finally, ( as his health was by no means good, he was accus- ^ ' tomed for several seasons to go out mackerel-fishing, /K attending to that almost wholly summers and making shoes winters. His parents were John and Mai\' (Stetson) Thomas.

Our subject was united in marriage Sept 10, 1835, J; with Miss Alice Hayward, who still survives and resides at Hampton. In 1837 Mr. Thomas came West and settled in Tazewell Co., 111., working at his trade there until 1848, when he removed and permanently located at Hampton, 111., and in that town, and at Valley City on the opposite side of the Mississippi, he engaged in the dry-goods business until 1865, when he was elected County Treasurer of Rock Island County, serving as such through the term of two years, when he was re-elected to that responsible office, thus holding the same from 1863 to 1869, when he opened a shoe store in Moline, 111., in company with his son-in-law, Theo. D. Wheelock, continuing in that business until 1878. He then removed his store to Hampton, and continued in that line up to the time of his death.

Henry F. died at Hampton on Tuesday, 10:30 a. m., April, 12, 1 88 1, lung trouble being the cause of his death. He was one of the most pleasant and popular men, and his death caused wide-spread sorrow among his large circle of friends. His family consisted of Alice A., who was born July 14. 1836, and died in 1847 ; Mary L., born Nov. 30, 1838, and was

Herbert E., the youngest of the family, attended school at Hampton, 111., until he was 14 years of age. Leaving the latter place, he began at Moline, where he attended for two years, then going to Rock Island for one year. At intervals during that time he worked in his father's shoe store, and for four years after leaving school he remained as clerk in the store. In 1878 he accepted a position as clerk in the office of what is now the Moline Scale Company, where he still remains; and by faithful service and strict attention to his duties, together with practical aptitude for business, he has gained a place as member of the company and a director in the concern, where he now acts as deputy in charge of the business during the absence of Major Grout, the president, who is away most of the time at his farm in Vermont.

J heodore M. Jones, photographer, corner 15th Street and Fourth Avenue, Moline, established business here in 1878. He is a native of T5utler Co., Ohio, and was born T Aug. 23, 1849. His parents were Paul B. and I Martha A. (Brant) Jones. He came with his parents to Illinois when seven years of age and resided in Knox County until 1864, when they removed to Davenport, Iowa. His father was a photographer and he learned the art in his father's gallery.

In 1870 he began business for himself at Davenport, Iowa, where his establishment was totally consumed by fire Aug. 31, 1871. He immediately rebuilt and resumed business, and remained in Davenport until 1875, when he removed to Marion, Iowa, and conducted a gallery at that place from 1875 to 1878. In June of that year he established his present business at Moline and has carried it on continuously since. Mr. Jones has a well equipped gallery and has won the reputation of being an artist skilled in his profession. His work has given very general satisfaction, and is spoken of with great praise by a community well qualified to judge of its merits. A large number of the portraits in this work are from photographs taken by Mr. Jones.

Mr. Jones formed a matrimonial alliance in Davenport, Iowa, Sept. 25, 187 1, with Miss Mary E. Rice, daughter of Dr. J. E. Rice. Mrs. Jones was born in Knox Co., 111. They have become the parents of four children, namely : Archie H., born March 3, 1873; Harry B., born May 19, 1875; Bessie M., born Aug. 19, 1879; and Theo B., born Sept. 8, 1884. Mr. Jones is a Republican.

jenry Ashdown, a farmer of Coe Township, has been a resident of the county since August, 1856. In 1857 he bought a farm US in company with his brother Mark, in Canoe \ Creek Township, upon section 8. It was uncultivated, and they were not in circumstances to await the work of improvement ; and they rented a farm in the vicinity, which they conducted three years, and at the same time placed their own property in condition for farming. In i860 Mr. Ashdown bought the interest of his brother and took possession of the place, where he prosecuted his agricultural interests until 1878, when he leased that place and removed to Coe Township and bought the western half of the northeast quarter of section 17. On this he has since resided and has improved it by the addition of valuable buildings.

Mr. Ashdown was born Aug. 24, 1829, in the county of Kent, England. He is the sixth son of Edward and Annie (Bakurst) Ashdown, and his parents were natives of the same part of England. The senior Ashdown and the two sons who have been named already, came in 184 1 to the United States, and at first settled in the State of New York, where they remained 14 months. At the end of that time they went back to England and remained in their native country until 1850, in which year the two sons returned to America. They located in the State of New York, and were residents there for three years. Henry started in January, 1854, for California, going to the Pacific coast by the isthmus and arriving there in February following. Mr. Ashdown mined for gold in Tullama two years and four months. In June, 1856, he returned to the Empire State, and in August of the same year he came to Illinois, where he has since lived.

Mr. Ashdown was married in i860, to Nancy Day. She was born in Hunterdon Co., N. J., Dec. 10, 1837, and came to Illinois in 1850, settling in Canoe Creek Township. She had one child by a former marriage, named Lucinda, who is now the wife of James McRoberts. Four children were born of her marriage to Mr. Ashdown, of whom there are three living - Edward, May and Stella. The mother died in 1870. Mr. Ashdown was a second time married in 1872, to Hannah Cain, daughter of John and Anna Cain and widow of Rodney McMurphy. Mr. and Mrs. Ashdown have one child, Annie. Mrs. A. is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

The farm of Mr. Ashdown is considered one of the best in the township of Coe, and he is regarded as one of the most successful farmers in the county, and credited with having the best buildings.

Alanson Sinnet), was born in Granville, Ohio, May 22, 1834, and at the age of 22 years came to Rock Island. The college established at his native town afforded ample opportunity for his education, and the duties of farm life developed his muscles, so that when he came to a new country he was not lacking in the essential prerequisites to success. Soon after arriving at Rock Island, he embarked in the ice business and followed it about 25 years. In company with his father in 1857 he bought a 55-acre tract of land adjacent to the town of Rock Island, and later on laid it out in town lots, and platted it as " Sinnet's Addition to Rock Island." The natural appreciation in the value of this property, the product of the stone quarries discovered thereon, and the immense profits derived from the ice business, has enabled him to acquire a comfortable competency.

Mr. Sinnet was one of the prime movers in pushing to completion the Moline & Rock Island Horse Railway, large interests in which he held until the year 1S82. In addition to valuable real estate in Rock Island, consisting of- vacant city lots and tenement buildings, he owns 10,000 acres of fertile prairie land in one body in Nebraska. He was chosen Alderman from his Ward in 1S83, and re-elected in 1885. He has been a member of the School Board ever since 1880., and at this writing (June, 1885) is the presiding officer of that body.

Mr. Sinnet formed a matrimonial alliance in Peoria, 111., in the fall of 1861, with Miss Jennie Mc- Laughlin, a native of Pennsylvania, and has had born to him three children, namely: Jesse K., Julia May and Mary F., the latter of whom died in February, 1873, at the age of about four years. Mr. Sinnet is a member of the Baptist Church, with membership at Moline, and Mrs. Sinnet is a member of the Central Presbyterian Church, Rock Island. In politics he has been a Republican since the organization of the party.

enry H. Parks, a resident on section 15, Edgington Township, was born in Worthington, Franklin Co., Ohio, July 25, 1818. His father, Jonathan Parks, was born in the Green Mountain State, of New England ancestry and largely of English descent, and he spelled his name without the final s, Henry H. Parks, subject of this notice, being the individual to add the sibilant letter to his name, thereby making it " Parks " instead of " Park."

Mr. Parks, of this notice, came West in 183S, settling in Edgington Township. He had no money, and was in a land of strangers, with nothing but a firm determination and an energetic disposition to aid him in making his way in a new and undeveloped country. After three years of hard labor, he concluded that to procure a competency it was better that he should have a partner to share his joys and sorrows, his successes and reverses, and consequently chose Martha Gingles, with whom he was united in marriage. She was born in Washington

After marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Parks rented land, which he cultivated for himself. It was not long before they had accumulated sufficient, by economy and energetic effort, to purchase 40 acres of land in Edgington Township, and on which they- located, and threw their united effort into the task of its cultivation and improvement. The same disposition and effort which enabled them to purchase their first 40 acres of land had enabled them in a short time to purchase 160 acres more, which at that time cost the insignificant sum of $110, but which- to-day is worth $60 per acre. Mr. Parks has 100 acres of land at the present writing in his own name, having deeded nearly all his possessions to his children.

The wife and mother, who had labored so earnestly with her husband to secure a competency, and had shared with him the trials and toils of a pioneer life in a new and undeveloped country, died in Rock Island city, while temporarily at that place being treated for a cancer on the breast, Dec. 28, 1876. She had borne to Mr. Parks four children : Martha A., born Feb. 1, 1 841, married David Montgomery; John H., born July iS, 1843; William S., May 20, 1845; and James J., Jan. 10, 1S52. All are married and are respected and enterprising citizens of the county. The youngest son is a lawyer; the others are engaged in farming.

Religiously, Mr. and Mrs. Parks were for some time membeis of the Methodist Episcopal Church Politically, he is identified with the Republican party. He has held the offices of Commissioner of Highways and Overseer of the Poor in his township.

Joseph L. Allen, farmer, residing on section 32, Rural Township, is a son of Es- :S3'"t" '* bond and Rebecca (Jones) Allen, who were natives of the States of New York and ~^C Virginia respectively. His father came to i Mercer County, this State, about 1846, and a year later to this county, settling in Rural Township, where he married and reared his children. His marriage took place Dec. 31, 1848, and he had a family of eight children, namely: Joseph L.,. James E.,

The subject of this sketch was born in Rural Township, this county, Nov. 7, 1849; was reared to manhood here, and has always lived in this township, engaged in fanning. He is a member of the Catholic Church, and in his political principles is a Democrat.

He was married in Rock Island, Feb. 20, 1871, to Ellen Kelly, who was born in Pennsylvania, Feb. 22, 1850. They have seven children, viz. : May R. C, Katie T., Edward J., Bernard A., Anna G., Clara C. and Raymond J.

fWjl? illiam S. Mack, Superintendent of the Moline Public Schools, eldest son of William W. and Sarah J. (Stuart) Mack, was born at St. Johnsbury, Vt., April 23, 1854. His father, who died in 1879, at the age of 50 years, was for 24 successive years superintendent of the car department of the Connecticut & Passumpsic Railway, and was for the last two years of his life superintendent of the packing department of the Howe Scale Works, at Rutland, Vt.

The subject of this sketch improved the advantages offered by the public-school system of his native place, until about 16 years of age, at which time he came West, stopping at Aurora, 111., until the fall of 187S. From 1870 to 1874 inclusive he attended the High and Normal Schools of Aurora, and, having graduated thereat, was at once tendered the Principalship of the Brady School, a position he accepted and filled with the highest credit to himself for four years.

The gentlemen at the head of the educational interests of Moline, being anxious to place their many excellent schools under the supervision of some one not only possessing the necessary qualifications in points of learning, but also some one with known executive ability, were led to correspond with Mr. Mack. The proposition made to Mr. Mack being acceptable, he came to Moline in the fall of 1878, and was at once installed in the position he has since so successfully filled. With the exception of his duty as Secretary of the Public Library of Moline, a position he has been filling since July,

18S2, the schools receive his entire attention. The progress of education in the Moline schools for the past seven years reflects much credit upon the good judgment of the gentlemen of the educational bureau, and attests fully the eminent fitness of their superintendent.

Mr. Mack was united in matrimony at Aurora, Tuly 3, 1877, with Miss S. Lottie Allen, a daughter of E. R. Allen, Esq., one of the pioneers of that place, and she has borne him one child, named Marion A.

IjlBi eorge Pearsall, a prominent citizen of Coe :1Mijlif Township, has been a resident of Rock -Asp1 Island County since 1S54. He was born ^*^ in Leeds County, District of Tohnstown, Ont., fan. 16, 1825, and he is the son of Jeremiah S. and Ann (Chatterton) Pearsall. His father was a native of the State of New York, and his mother was born in Canada. He was 13 years of age when his parents removed to the Empire State and settled in St. Lawrence County. The family remained there two years and then made another transfer, to Monroe County, in the same State, where the son resided until he had attained to the age and privileges of manhood. He was 12 years old when he became self-sustaining, by accepting a position in a cloth-mill, where he worked through the seasons of spring and fall and attended school during the remainder of the year. He passed his time alternately in those ways until he attained his majority. He then obtained a situation as a clerk in a dry-goods store in the city of Rochester, N. Y., and continued in the same employment until he was 27.

In November, 185 1, he started for California, traveling to the land of gold by way of the isthmus. He went to Johnstown and engaged in mining in the region known as the Central Mines, and later he went to Coloma, where he was similarly interested. He went to other portions of the State, and altogether he spent three years on the Pacific coast. He returned to New York, reaching that city at a date which made the time complete.

He remained in the metropolis three weeks and then made his way to Rock Island County and bought 320 acres of land, which is situated on the southwest of section 24 and the northwest of section

25, on which no improvements had been made. He built a house on section 24 and gave his undivided attention to agricultural pursuits. In May, 1S77, while he was prospecting for coal on his farm, when the shaft had reached a depth of 66 feet from the surface, a vein of mineral water was struck and a stream six inches in diameter ascended with great force, rising 22 feet in the air. The spring is located on the southeast part of his land, which lies on section 25. The flow continuing, the proprietor, in 1879, built a large frame house on his farm near a beautiful grove situated on the eastern slope of a hill, and his place has become a popular resort for people who wish to drink and bathe in the water and enjoy a quiet country retreat. The place is known as "The Fountain."

Mr. Pearsall was married in March, 1855, to Sarah J. Pearsall, and they have sevjn children, - George B. and Jerry D. (twins), Minerva, William R., Fred, Luther and Jane. Mrs. Pearsall is the daughter of William C. and Jane (Elingham) Pearsall. She and her husband are members of the Congregational Church at Port Byron. The latter is a Republican in political views.

Jeremiah S. Pearsall came to Rock Island County in 1856 and bought a piece of land of his son, on which he was for some time resident before the death of his wife. After that event he went to Port Byron, where he lived two years, and went thence to Ottumwa, Iowa, and is resident at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Edward McDermott.

when he established the Western Plowman, a monthly home and farm paper, 20 pages quarto, which has a circulation of 20,000 copies. Mr. Warr has also had charge of the extensive advertising business of the Moline Plow Company. He is a Republican and has served two terms as Alderman from the Fifth Ward.

Mr. Warr was united in marriage at Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. 17, 1866, to Miss Harriet M. Smith, daughter of John G. Smith. Mrs. Warr was born at Orange, Ohio, and they have become the parents of five children, namely : Bertha M., Percy B., Wilbur E., Archie J. and Eli M.

Mr. Warr was a soldier of the late war; he enlisted in the spring of 1863, as a member of Co. G, 87th Ohio Inf. Four months after entering the service he was captured with his entire regiment at Harper's Ferry. He accepted a parole with his comrades and was released under promise not to serve again until exchanged. As he was not exchanged during his term of enlistment, he did not re-enter the service.

-'HlijV- ^ was brought here when quite young, and yjt* reared, when there were very few pioneers J{> scattered over Northern Illinois. He was born in Columbia Co., Pa., April 2, 1S32. His father, George Bopes, was a native of Kentucky, where his parents were also born. He went to Pennsylvania, where he was married to Miss Sarah Bocher, a native of the Keystone State and of German ancestry. She was the mother of six children, our subject being the youngest. His father came West as early as 1836, and located an unimproved farm in Edgington Township. He was not spared to see the wonderful transformation that has taken place in this country. He died in 1838, and was the second person interested in the Dunlap Grove buryingground. The facilities for marking the resting place of the departed of that early day were very limited, and the changes of time are such that, as with Moses, it can be said of the elder Bopes, " his sepulcher is not known to this day."

mother was again married, to Jesse Willets, formerly of Mercer Co., 111., where he was one of the old residents, and who is a member of a very prominent family in that county. His mother did not survive the hardships and privations of a pioneer life very long, for when our subject was about 1 1 years old she died. Daniel afterwards lived in this county, working as a general laborer for some time. In 1854, Jan. 26, he was married, in Edgington, to Miss Lydia A. Lewis. She was born in Ohio, March 20, 1830, and was a daughter of Nathan and Catherine Weaver, formerly from Pennsylvania. Her father was a molder in the Pennsylvania iron furnaces. Mrs. B. was 14 years of age when her father came West, and located on a farm in Edgington Township. To Mr. and Mrs. Bopes have been born eight children, two of whom are deceased. The following is the record of their family : Ketter L. is married and resides on a farm in Edington Tp. ; Jessie V. married Charles Laflin and resides in the Indian Territory; Thomas was married to Miss Laura Neff, and they reside in Andalusia Township, this county; Clella is the wife of Frank Laflin ; Isaac N. resides at home ; Sallie is deceased; and Nellie resides at home.

After marriage Mr. B. settled on a farm in Buffalo Prairie Township, this county, and in 1861 he purchased 250 acres of land on section 6, of Edgington Township, where he now lives. This was almost all wild land at that time, being but slightly improved. He yet owns the whole estate, and has it under excellent improvement. He has a good, large residence, and fine farm buildings. On religious subjects he is a free-thinker. Take him all in all, he is a man of large parts and deep penetration.

orenzo E. Fish has been a member of the Board of Education of Moline, 111., since the year 1883, and since the commencement of the year 1885 has been serving his second term as its Secretary. His first identity with the educational institutions of this place was as Janitor of the Public Schools, a position he held for six years. That his progress, step by step, from the humblest walks of life into positions of trust and honor has been the result of individual merit upon his own part, will be seen by a perusal of this brief history of his life.

Mr. Fish, eldest son in a family of seven children of Rev. Erasmus D. and Cynthia (Russell) Fish, of Massachusetts, was born in Franklin County, that State, Jan. 21, 1837. His paternal grandfather was in the Revolutionary War; and a brother, Rev. R. D. Fish, was a soldier in the war for the Union and was taken prisoner at Vicksburg. His father would have been a soldier, as he was a very patriotic and public-spirited man, but his health would not permit. At the schools of his native place, Lorenzo acquired the rudiments of an English education, which was supplemented by a course at a commercial college. At the age of 22, he accepted employment in a minor official capacity in a reformatory school in New York city, a position he held at the outbreak of the American Rebellion. Dec. 6> 1861, he enrolled in the First N. Y. Vol. Eng'rs and went immediately to the front. His first furlough was dated in 1863, and indorsed in red ink, "Complimentary on account of good conduct in the field." In February, 1S64, he veteranized, and soon afterward took his second furlough home. It was a long distance from Jacksonville, Fla., to Rowe, Mass., but as the records disclose that Lorenzo E. Fish was married at the latter place, April 6, 1864, to Miss Lucy A. Starr, it may be reasonably presumed that a very good line of communication had been established between the two points, and also that the " Veteran " had not allowed much grass to grow under his feet.

In June, 1864, he was appointed a Hospital Steward of the United States Army and afterwards was assigned to the 32d United States (colored) Infantry. A year later he was commissioned Second Lieutenant, with which rank he was mustered out at Philadelphia, Aug. 29, 1865. He brought his family to Moline in November, 1867, and here he has since resided. He has served the city eight years as Constable, and four years as Marshal. Was President of the Board of Associated Charities of Moline, in 1884, and in 18S5 is their Secretary and manager. He is a Deacon and Treasurer of the Baptist Church (to which his wife and two daughters also belong), and is Superintendent of the Sunday-school, member of the Baptist State Board of Missions, and State Sabbath-school Executive Committee. He is a member of the A. O. U. W. ; the Modern Woodmen of America, of which he is a member of the head

Mr. Fish is at present engaged in the fire, life and accident insurance business in Rock Island County; office in Moline. Eudora, his daughter, now 18 years old, assists him in his office.

As Mr. Fish has exerted a good influence and a liberal beneficence through so many and varied channels, and has thus done far more good by his " right hand " than his " left hand " knows anything of, it is no more than fit and proper that a portrait of his facial features should accompany the foregoing brief biographical outline.

||p(|'(|! lexander Ashdown, of Canoe ( 'reek Tom 11- ship, is a citizen of this country by adop- 83 tion. He is one of the substantial and reliable men of the county, and he has the double satisfaction of knowing that whatever of success he has won has been the result of his own efforts, aided only by his hands that were willing to labor, showing that the firm health which most of humanity live to realize is the best possible capital on which to found a career of usefulness.

He was born in the County of Kent, England, April 21, 1824, and is the son of Edward and Nancy Ashdown. He was reared to manhood in his native land, on the farm on which his ancestors had labored for years before him, and in which their children could only claim the right to labor as fruitlessly as their sires. He also worked for a time as a bricklayer, and he continued his residence there until 1857. He left the city of London June 20, taking passage on a sailing vessel, the " James R. Keeler," and he landed at the port of New York after a passage of 45 days.

Mr. Ashdown came at once to Rock Island County and located in Canoe Creek Township. He rented various tracts of land for a period of seven years, and he then bought a farm on section 8. A small frame house had been built on it and about 70 acres broken. The place presents a greatly improved appearance, as the proprietor has erected a good set of buildings and planted a considerable number of fruit-trees. In addition to his moneyless condition on his arrival in the township, he was $75 in debt, and he often contrasts his situation then with that of the present.

He was married in 1850 to Charlotte Martin. She is a native of Kentshire hills, in old England, where she was born May 22, 1831. They have eight children living: George lives in Wyoming Territory, located in Sun Dance, Crook Co., Wyoming; Eliza is the wife of Joseph Robinson, and they live in the township of Coe; Henry is a resident of Hillsdale; Alfred is a resident of the same place; Fannie married William G. McConnell, and they live in the same township as the parents ; Clara, Katie and Emma are names of the other children. Politically, Mr. A. is a Democrat.

Graham Post, No. 312, Grand Army of the Republic, was born in Lyndon, Whiteside Co., 111., April 12, 1845. His parents, Robert i> G. and Hannah (Clark) Clendenin, natives of Pennf| sylvania and New York, and probably of Scotch-Irish and German extraction respectively, reared at that place three sons, the subject of this biographical noitice being second in the order of their birth. In 1859 the family removed to Morrison, 111., where Mr. Clendenin made his home until 1873. At the public \i schools of his native State, he received a fair Eng- | lish education, which formed but the nucleus of the wide range of his learning and information at the time of which we write.

In April, 1864, he enrolled in the service of the United States as First Sergeant of Co. B, 140th 111. Inf., and served to the expiration of his term, something over five months, "and was mustered out with the rank of Sergeant-Major. Returning from the army, he entered the banking house of Smith & Co., afterwards the First National Bank of Morrison, 111., as clerk, which position he abandoned in February, 1865, to accept the Second Lieutenancy of Co. A, 108th United States (Colored) Infantry. This regiment was mustered out of the service at Vicksburg, in March, 1866, by order of the Secretary of War,

Mr. Clendenin having been advanced to the rank of First Lieutenant. Returning again to Morrison, he clerked in S. T. Harding's drug-store for one year, when, in company with A. H. Martin, he bought Mr. Harding out, and conducted the business about seven years. In 1873 he came to Moline, where he has since been engaged in the drug trade.

Col. Clendenin has been twice married ; first at Morrison, 111., in 1867, to Miss Rachel E. Gridley, who died Oct. 15, 1 877, leaving three children : Robert G., Frank J. and Mabel H.; and second, in May, 1879, also at Morrison, to Mrs. Laura E. Mayo. The only child born to this union, Ward O., died at the early age of one year.

The subject of this sketch is deservedly one of the most popular men of Moline. He was first called to the Illinois National Guards in 1877 as Second Lieutenant, and between that time and May 17, 1S82, when he was commissioned Colonel of the Sixth Regiment, he held every intermediate commission in the line. He was elected Commander of Graham Post, G. A. R., Jan. 1, 1885. He votes the Republican ticket from principle, and, in company with his wife, attends the Congregational Church as a religious duty.

lames Edgington, one of the reliable citif zens and energetic farmers of Edgington * Township, is a resident on section 32 of He is the oldest born citizen T|£ of Rock Island County, south of Rock River, \ his birth having taken place March 20, 1835. He is the son of John Edgington, a native of Jefferson Co., Ohio, where he was born July 4, 18 10. His mother, nee Susan Crabs, was also a native of Jefferson County, in which county she was married, and shortly afterwards emigrated to this State, settling in Edgington Precinct, which, when divided into townships, embraced what is now Buffalo Prairie. He helped make up the first jury in the County Court, and they are both yet living in Buffalo Prairie Township.

James Edgington, subject of this biographical notice, is the oldest in order of birth of a family of nine children, - three sons and six daughters. One son and two daughters are deceased. He was educated in this county, and at Geneseo, Henry

County, and was employed on his father's farm until the date of his marriage. That event occurred in Coe Township, this county, April 4, 1861, and the lady of his choice was Miss Lucy Schriver, who was born in Pennsylvania Feb. 10, 1834, and was young when her parents came to this county. Her father was a cabinet-maker, and she was educated in the public schools of her native State, residing at home until her marriage with Mr. Edgington. She is the mother of two children by Mr. Edgington, one of whom is deceased. The surviving child, Lewis N., was bom April 26, 1867, reared at home and educated in the schools here and at Hopkinton, Iowa.

Mr. and Mrs. Edgington, after marriage, settled on a farm of 200 acres, which Mr. E. had previously purchased, and on which they have constantly resided until the present time. They have a good residence on their farm, together with substantial outbuildings, and the land is in an advanced state of cultivation. Mr. Edgington is one of the energetic and progressive farmers of this township, and his prosperity is due to his own individual effort, pluck and perseverance, combined with the help of his wife. She is an active member of the Presbyterian Church. Politically, Mr. Edgington is a supporter of the tenets of the Democratic party. He has held the position of School Director in his township for some 15 years.

eorge B. Hull, senior partner of Hull Bros., 1,630 Third Avenue, Moline, merchants, dealers in general merchandise and carpets. This house was established in 1868 by H. J. Hull. The present partnership, existing under the name of Hull Bros., was formed in This is one of the leading mercantile houses of Moline, and carries an average stock of $30,000 value.

George B. Hull, the subject of this biographical notice, was born in Fairfield County, Conn., in June, 1837, and is the son of John and E. T. (Jennings) Hull. He removed to Orleans Co., N. Y., in childhood, and in 1850 to La Grange Co., Ind. He was engaged in mercantile business at Lima, Ind., 14

Mr. G. B. Hull formed his matrimonial union at Lima, Ind., in January, 1863, with Miss Lucy Rossman, and they have had two children, namely: Jennie R. and Mattie J. Mr. and Mrs. Hull and family are members of the Episcopal Church, and in political sentiment Mr. Hull is a Republican.

lathaniel Dorrance, a substantial citizen of Port Byron, was born July 15, 1817, in "* Plainfield, Windham Co., Conn. The family on the paternal side are of Irish ancestry, and first settled in Rhode Island prior to the Revolutionary War. Alexander Dorrance, father of our subject, was a native of Rhode Island, and married Nancy Cole, a native of Connecticut. They settled on a farm, where the father died when the son was ten years of age, and the latter lived on the farm with his mother two years after that event. His mother then rented the farm, on which was a mortgage, and went to Willimantic, where the children were employed in the cotton mills, and they earned sufficient money to liquidate the indebtedness on the homestead property.

At the age of 17, Mr. Dorrance went to work for a farmer near Willimantic, earning the means to go to Chautauqua County, N. Y. On his arrival there he obtained employment on a farm by the month, and subsequently engaged in lumbering, in which vocation he received a monthly remuneration of $io, which was afterwards raised to $13, through his unremitting efforts in the interests of his employer. He remained in Chautauqua County 20 months, and in the early spring of 1837 turned his face Westward to secure for himself the benefits of the boundless resources foreshadowed in the. glowing reports from that region. He made the journey to the West by the Allegheny, Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, proceeding up the Illinois to the mouth of Spoon River, whence he journeyed on foot to Port Byron, a distance of more than a hundred miles. His first job was with a farmer, planting corn. He then began to operate as a contractor, and his first engagement in that capacity was the building of a cellar under the

' Port Byron Hotel. He continued his operations in '; that line of business until 1848, when, in company . with T. C. Temple, he built a steam saw-mill, and embarked in the lumber trade. They continued their interests as lumbermen until the fall of 1850, when they extended the capacity of their establishment and attached the apparatus of a gristmill. These were the first saw and grist mills at Port Byron.

Mr. Dorrance sold his interests in the spring of 1852, preparatory to a change of base. On the 29th of March, of that year, with a company of eight and an equipment of five yoke of oxen, four horses and three wagons, he started for Oregon, landing there Aug. 20, at a point 30 miles from Salem. From there he went south 150 miles, to Jacksonville, where they devoted themselves vigorously to milling. The snows and severities of winter set in at an earlier -. date than was anticipated, and the depleted condition of their stores necessitated their retreat from the mines, where 50 pounds of flour commanded $75 and salt sold for $5 per pound. Mr. Dorrance intended to proceed homeward, but no steamer was ready to leave, and he obtained employment for about two weeks, chopping wood at a dollar a day. The profits of this enterprise did not add material to his surplus capital, as he paid one dollar for his board. At the end of two weeks he obtained a situation in which he received a compensation of $t a day and his board, and he discharged the duties of that place for a month. He was then employed to nurse a sick man and passed a month in that position, earning $5 daily. He was engaged in the same capacity two weeks subsequently, receiving a daily remuneration of $10. His next enterprise was in the vocation of a contractor, to build a highway through a piece of timber, and he so managed his relations that he earned an average of nearly $20 per day.

In 1854 he set out on his return to Port Byron, coming by way of the water route via the isthmus to the port of New York. He arrived at Port Byron in December of that year, where he established a per- : manent citizenship. He has since devoted his abilities to the management of his private business. He JA? is the most extensive owner of real estate at Port Byron, and has built and owns a number of business blocks and dwellings at that place, some of which have come into his possession by purchase. He is also the owner of 400 acres of land, which comprises tracts of farming, timber and pasture land, the larger part being in Coe Township.

In 1855, Mr. Dorrance married Harriet, widow of George S. Morse and daughter of John Dodge. Hattie, their only child, born Oct. 29, 1857, married H. C. Stevens and removed to Colorado. She died Nov. 19, 1883, after giving birth to two children, one of whom is now deceased. The name of the one living is Clarence Stevens, an inmate of his grandfather's home.

Mrs. Dorrance had five children by her former marriage, all living but one. Both Mr. and Mrs. Dorrance are members of the Congregational Church. He is Republican in politics, having cast his first vote for Wm. H. Harrison, in i86t. He joined the Republican party in 1856, and since that time has continued steadfast in his early political principles.

Mr. Dorrance is among the pioneers of Rock Island County. He has lived here continuously since May, 1837, except the short time he was absent on the Pai ific coast.

His father-in-law, John Dodge, was a native of Massachusetts, and Mrs. Dorrance was born in Vermont in 1815. She came West with her uncle, Silas Marshall, in the spring of 1837, and settled in Rock Island County, in Port Byron, where she has since resided. Her uncle was the first landlord of the "Port Byron Hotel."

ouis P. Youngren, of the Moline Cabinet- Organ Company, and a resident of that city, was born in Sweden, Aug. 10, 1832, and is a son of Peter and Carrie Youngren. Mr. Youngren served a regular apprenticeship to the painter and grainer's trade in his native country, where he continued to follow that occupation until 1864. At this period in his life's history he realized that better inducements were offered in the United States for the procuring of a competency than in his native land, and concluded to emigrate, which he did, landing at Quebec, Canada. Soon afterwards he came to Chicago, via the Great Lakes and railway. Going from the latter place to Indiana, he worked at his trade for a time, then returned to this State, and spent some time at Galesburg and Geneseo. In 1865, Mr. Youngren came to Moline and Rock Island. He engaged with the Buford & Co. Plow Manufactory of Rock Island. A few months later he became an employe of Deere & Co.'s manufactory at Moline, in the painting department, and continued with that company from 1866 to 1881, during which time, except a few years, he was foreman of the paint department. In i88r Mr. Youngren purchased an interest in the Moline Cabinet-Organ Company, and assumed charge of the finishing department of those works, which position he has filled continuously since. Mr. Youngren is a thorough master of his business, as the fine finish of the large number of organs which have passed through his hands testify.

Mr. Youngren was united in marriage Nov. 1, 1868, at Moline, this county, with Miss Sophia Peterson, the accomplished daughter of Andrew Peterson. Mrs. Youngren was born in Sweden, and emigrated to the land of possibilities with her parents when she was three years of age. Seven children have been born of their union, three boys and four girls, six of whom survive. The record is as follows : Berdena C, born Feb. 24, 1870; Franz O., Nov. 6, 1872; Alben O., Nov. 16, 1874; Hilda J., May 13, 1877; Hannah S., Nov. 26, 1879; Anna L., Jan. 22, 1882, and died in childhood ; Reuben L., born Oct. 24, r884.

Religiously, Mr. and Mrs. Youngren are both members of the Swedish Lutheran Church. Mr. Youngren has always voted with the Republican since obtaining citizenship in 1869.

^-harles L. Gould, residing on section 32, Edgington Township, and engaged in i\fef' v general farming and stock-raising, was born Jan. 14, 1854, in Indiana. He was but r/tf a small child when his parents emigrated to ( Iowa, settling at Muscatine, where he was reared and educated. His father died when he was eight years of age, and necessarily many hardships fell to his lot. Shortly after this sad event he was taken to rear by Jacob Caster, of Muscatine, who kept him until he was 14 years of age. From that time on he has earned his own living; and, though

Our subject was married Feb. 19, 1879, in Edgington Township, to Miss Sophia Titterington. Mrs. G. was born and reared in this township, and her parents, who are well-known pioneers here, are still living, in this township. Mr. and Mrs. Gould have been blest with three children - Moses R., Charles L. and Emma M After Mr. Gould's marriage he lived for a year on a farm in Iowa ; he then came to Edgington Township, and purchased a farm of 220 acres on section 32, all of which is improved and under excellent cultivation. Mrs. Gould is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and politically Mr. Gould is a sound Republican.

uther H. Barker, manufacturer of Bean's Celebrated Double-Acting Stone Force Pump, No. 387, Eleventh Street, Moline, established his present business in 1874. He was born in Mori ah, Essex Co., N. Y., Aug. 29, 1822, and is the son of Gardner and Harriet L. (Lyon) Barker. He was brought up on a farm until he attained the age of 20, when he went to Pittsfield, Mass., and engaged in the manufacture of woolen goods, with an older brother.

He formed a matrimonial alliance in Essex Co., N. Y., Sept. 19, 1844, with Miss Martha Cook. She was born in Essex Co., N. Y. Mr. Barker and his brother were burned out at Pittsfield, but rebuilt and continued the business ; but shortly after the fire the subject of this sketch sold out and returned to his old home in New York. Mr. and Mrs. Barker were the parents of two children : Maria was the wife of C. P. Curtis, of Moline, and died in October, 1883. Charles was for many years a forwarding freight agent at Omaha, but mysteriously disappeared from the Harper House, of Rock Island, in July, 1875; and, although earnest efforts have been made by his friends to find him, his fate is still a mystery. The closest scrutiny of the circumstances reveal no cause for his disappearance. Mrs. Barker died in New York, Dec. 26, 1849.

where he spent one year and a half, and returned to the States overland, via the city of Mexico and New Orleans. He came to Illinois and made his home in Peoria one year. He then returned to Pittsfield, Mass., and engaged ir buying wool, which business he pursued in Massachusetts, Vermont and New York.

He was again married in Essex Co., N. Y.,Nov. 9, iS54, to Miss Sarah A. Allen, daughter of C. C. Allen. She was born at Whitehall, N. Y., and she and her husband were the parents of two children: Luther D., now an employe of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway; and the daughter, Sarah L., is a teacher in the city schools. Immediately after his last marriage (December, 1854) Mr. Barker removed to Peoria, II!., where he was engaged in the grain trade till May 20, 1855, when he came to Moline, and was appointed agent at this place for the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway, and of all lines interested over that route. He was also appointed express agent for all express companies doing business here. He held his position as station and express agent for 20 years, or until 1875, "'hen he resigned it to engage in the pump business, which lie has carried on successfully to this date. Mr. Barker is not pushing the pump trade, as his time is partially occupied in the care of his tenement houses and business blocks, which he has leased. He owns the State right for the Bean patent force pump, and has agencies which he supplies in various counties. Mr. Barker was one of the city "fathers" in an early day, and in religious views is liberal. In political sentiment he is a staunch Democrat.

pfe of England, he was brought to this country ,-^ by his father when quite young, and was \ reared and educated here. His father, Thomas Titterington, was a native of Yorkshire, England, and by occupation a weaver. He was there married to Mary Greenwood, who died when* Charles was but one year old, he being the youngest of a family of seven children. After the death of his mother, his father, with the children, six of whom were living, came to America and settled in Ross Co., Ohio, on a farm, where he remained for many years, and where Charles lived until he was 19 years of age.

Our subject was born in Yorkshire, Eng., Jan. 2, i8r4, and, as above stated, was brought to this country by his father, and was reared and educated in Ohio. In 1835, he came to what is now Will Co., 111., where he engaged in farming on shares for two years. Soon after his removal to that county, his brother Moses joined him there and remained a few months. The two brothers came to Rock Island County and bought 240 acres of land in Edgington Township, the purchase being completed in March, 1835. The country at that time was undeveloped, and Mr. T. began early the following spring to break the sod. He afterwards secured considerable property in this county, amounting to 830 acres altogether, part of which was in Buffalo Prairie Township. He afterwards sold part of his estate and now owns 354 acres, most of which is improved and all under fence, except 54 acres of timber. In 1870 he built one of the most commodious and desirable houses in the township. He raises, buys and feeds, and sells large herds of stock; indeed, he is one of the large and prominent stock-dealers in the county.

In the city of Rock Island, on Dec. 20, 1838, Mr. Titterington was united in marriage with Miss Sophie Eberhardt, daughter of Charles and Nancy (Kerwood) Eberhardt. Her parents were natives of Maryland and New Jersey respectively, and were of New England parentage, and the father of German descent. By occupation he was a glass-blower; both parents died in this township, the father at the home of his daughter, Mrs. T., in December, 1878, and the mother on the old homestead, in 1861. Mrs. Titterington was bom in Greene Co., Pa., June 28, 1820. She came West with her parents in 1835, after having spent some years in New York, near Geneva. Her parents settled in Edgington Township, becoming pioneers of this section of the State. She is the mother of eight children, who are widely separated, being in five different States. They are all married, and three, Charles, Maria and Frederick, live in Illinois; David and Thomas reside in Iowa; Milton lives in Douglas Co., Kan,; Emma resides in Gage Co., Neb.; Anna lives in Minnesota, being

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Mr. Ti::erington is a member of the Methodist E - ropal Church, and has served as Steward. Mrs. T. is an active member of the Pres .n Church.

Soon after the latter event, he went to Mason County, in the State of his nativity, and obtained employment on a farm, in which variety of occupation he was engaged until 1S50. He then came to Illinois, traveling on the Mississippi River to Cordova, re he landed April 5. He followed farming for two vears at that point, and in 1852 came to Port Byron, for the purpose of learning the trade of a wagon-maker. After an apprenticeship of two years he opened a shop for the manufacture of custom orders for wagons, and also conducted a repair shop. Dec. 9. i86r, he enlisted in Co. H, 5 1st Regt. 111. Inf., as a private. He went to the front with his command, in the capacity of Orderly Sergeant, June 15. 1863, was made Second Lieutenant and held that rank until the battle of Chickamauga. He was wounded in the latter battle, and after he fell he lay between the contending lines and the battle was fought over him, and, with other wounded soldiers, he fell into the hands of the rebels. He, with others, were kept in hospitals, and in ten days were exchanged for an equal number of wounded Confederates, and reached the camp Oct. 1st, and went into the hospital at Chattanooga, and then to Nashville, and then made application for leave of absence, which after considerable delay was granted. He returned home, and after the expiration of his leave

Retaining to Port Byron, he engaged in the g eery business, in which he has continued to the present. He is, at the present writing, associated with his son. Cassius C, and their stock includes groceries, hardware, etc.

He was married Nov. 9, 1S54, to Flora A. Van Order. She was born in Essex Co., X. Y. They have eight children living: Ella, wife of W. W. Pearsall, resides in Coe Township : Cassius C. is the oldest son; Lincoln and Lucy are twins: Philip Sheridan, Flora. Mary and Henry G. are the names of the younger children, who are yet beneath the parental roof-tree.

oses Titterington. retired farmer, residing on section 7, Edgington Township, 1 was born in Yorkshire, England, Sept. 24. 1S10. His parents were Thomas and Mary (Greenwood) Titterington, natives of England. (For further mention of his parents see sketch of Charles Titterington.) Our subject was seven years of age when his father came to America. They landed at Philadelphia, July 4, iSt;, then coming to Ross Co., Ohio, where Moses was reared, and enjoyed very limited advantages for an education. In 1835 they came to Illinois, and became pioneers in Will County, and again removed to Rock Island County, where they selected about 240 acres of wild land in one of the best portions of the county, being in the west line of Edgington Township. Upon this our subject has since lived, having during the meantime acquired more than 700 acres of good land. He has been very generous to his children, providing almost all of them with a start in life.

Our subject was married March 25, 1841, to Miss Anna Dunlap, daughter of Joseph Dunlap. (See sketch.) She was born in Steuben ville, Jefferson Co., Ohio, Nov. 17, 1822, and it was in that State where she attended school. Her parents came to Illinois in 1835, where they were early pioneers, and here she was reared. She is the mother of nine children, two of whom are deceased. The following is their record : Mary resides at home ; Christina is the wife of James Venable (see sketch) ; Marshal P. is married and resides on the homestead ; George resides at home; Sophie is the wife of C. M. Gould (see sketch) ; Joseph is deceased ; John is living at home ; Margaret is deceased, and Moses resides at home.

Mr. and Mrs. Titterington are members of the Presbyterian Church, and the former is a Republican in his political views. He is one of the leading, active and enterprising men of his township, and has the respect and esteem of the entire communij t.

Jnjv. at 413 Fifteenth Street. The subject of our sketch was born at Rock Island, Oct. 15, 1842, and is the son of Charles and Mary (Gorham) Knox. He received an academic education. His father was the pioneer undertaker of Rock Island, having established his business in 1841 and continued until this day, covering a period of 44 years. Edwin B. received a thorough and early training in this line of business under the tutorship of his father, which laid the foundation of his success in later years, when he adopted the vocation as a business. From i860 to 1863 he enlisted in the late war, as a member of Co. G, 140th 111. Vol. Inf. (100- day service). He served the term of enlistment and returned to Rock Island, where he engaged in the manufacture of brooms, which business he continued until the spring of 1.864, when he re-enlisted, and was appointed Orderly Sergeant of Co. G, 47th 111. Vol. Inf., and served until the close of the war. On his return from the army he resumed the broom business. A year and a half later he began housepainting, a calling which he pursued some years. He was also engaged in farming four years near Rock River, but sold his farm and moved to Moline in 1874, where he engaged in the undertaking business, since which time he has led all competitors in his line. His establishment is filled with all modern appliances known to the art, using two fine hearses, one of which is of the finest style in use. His instruments and appliances for embalming are complete. In fact his establishment is most complete in all its appointments, and his business has developed to very satisfactory proportions.

Mr. Knox formed a matrimonial alliance at Rock Island, Sept. 15, 1867, with Miss Lizzie Van Harren. She was born in East St. Louis, 111., March 15, 1852. The issue of their union is two children, a son and a daughter, namely, Amy and Luther C.

Mr. Knox has served five years in the City Council as Alderman from the Third Ward, and was chosen Mayor in the spring of 1883, for the years 1883 and 1884. During the two years of his administration the affairs of the city were managed economically and judiciously. He is a Republican in political opinion. Mrs. Knox is a member of the Congregational Church.

Not only do the publishers of this work, but also will the public of Rock Island County generally, take great pleasure in having Mr. Knox's portrait in this Album.

fUl^on. Albert S. Coe, deceased, in whose I honor the township of Coe is named, was a pioneer of Rock Island County, of 1840. He was born Oct. 1,1817, m Monroe Co., N. Y., and was the third son of Simeon Maltby ' I and Mary (Miles) Coe. His parents were both natives of the State of Kentucky, and were also pioneers of Monroe Co., N. Y., where they lived until 1838, when they removed to the county of Whiteside, in Illinois, and settled near Sterling. There the parents both died.

Mr. Coe lived at home with his parents until the time of his first marriage, and about the date of that event he bought a farm near Sterling, of which he was the owner and occupant until his removal to the county of Rock Island at the time already referred to. He sold his property in Whiteside County and bought a tract of wild land in township 21 north, range 2 east : the same now bears his name. The improvements consisted of a few acres broken. He at once entered into the preparations necessary to the business of a nurseryman and commenced planting trees, establishing the " Bluffs Nursery." He set out an area of 100 acres in trees and shrubs and other plants necessary to an extensive business of that character, in which he continued to operate until the time of his death, which took place Oct. 17, 1869. Meanwhile he had erected all the buildings common to a well equipped homestead, which he had fitted with the comforts of an Eastern home. He was one of the leading horticulturists of the county, particularly in the northern part.

He was first married to Arethusa Barnett, the date of whose death is not known. Mr. Coe was a second time united in marriage, with Lucy C. Hollister, Feb. 26, 1856. She is the daughter of Edmund and Emma L. (Hall) Hollister, of whom an extended sketch is given elsewhere in this work. Mr. and Mrs. Coe had six children, of whom three are now (18S5) living. The survivors are named Edmund H., Emma L. and Simeon F. By the first marriage there are two children : George is a resident of Dakota and Florence lives at Sterling. Mrs. Coe is a member of the Congregational Church, to which Mr. Coe also belonged. He was an active and energetic man, and always prominent in the promotion of the public interests. He held various offices of trust and officiated as Supervisor several terms. In 1867 he was elected to represent his District in the Legislature of Illinois on the Republican ticket. He is a Republican in his politics, and an active man in public affairs. In politics he was a representative man and was recognized by his party, particularly in local politics, which is shown by the number of local offices he has held.

He has edited the most prominent religious papers published in the Swedish Lutheran Church for the past 30 years. At present he edits the weekly " Angus tana och Missionaren."

|; ev. T. N. Hasselquist, D. D., of Moline, President of the Augustana College and Theological Seminary, and Professor of Homiletics and Pastoral Theology in the same institution, was born in Sweden, March 2, 1816, and is a graduate of the University of Lund. The subject of our sketch was a Pastor in Sweden from 1839 to 1852, when he emigrated to America. In the new country he was also Pastor, in Galesburg, 111., from 1852 until 1863, when he became President of the Augustana College and Theological Seminary at Paxton.Ill., until 1875, and, after its removal to Rock Island, President to date.

The grandfather of Mr. Ziegler on the father's side was born in York Co., Pa., and his grandfather on his mother's side, Mr. Bear, was born in Berks Co., Pa. Mr. Ziegler, whose sketch we write, grew to manhood in his native town. His father was a farmer by occupation, owning a farm in that county, and David alternated his labors on the farm by attendance at the common schools until he attained the age of 15 years, when he engaged to learn the tailor's trade. He served three years with one man in West Pennsborough Township, when he went to Carlisle, and served a year and a half with another gentleman at his trade. He then visited Ohio and Western Pennsylvania, where he remained working at his trade for two years, when he returned to Carlisle, and again worked at his trade there for some time. He then opened a shop in.Centerville, Cumberland County, where he carried on his business one year and then went to Franklin County, that State, where he carried on the same business in Fayetteville, that county, one year. He next returned to Cumberland County, and was engaged at his trade in his native town for three years ; then, in 1851, he went to Blairsville, Indiana Co., Pa., and followed the same business there until 1855.