Sangamon County, Illinois - The whole text, 1876 (part 18 of 31)

LUCIAN LAV ASS A, was born April, 1831, in Clermont county, Ohio, commenced the study of medicine with his father, at seventeen years of age, and graduated at Rush Medical College, Chicago, 111., in 1852. He practiced medicine with his father three years, and during that time he married Susan Shoup, of Logan county. She died, in 1854, leaving one child, SARAH ALICE. He then located in Lincoln, 111., and in 1855 married Sarah J. Shoup; she only lived ten weeks, and in the autumn of 1856 he married Hannah Wilson, of Lo^on county.

They have three children, viz: ANNIE M., MYRTIE j. and HANNAH E. The eldest child, Sarah Alice, married E. Spellman, and lives in Lincoln. Dr. L. L. Leeds has owned one horse thh'teen years, and kept a record of his travels, which has been 82,000 miles, to January, 1876. His name is Gray Bill, and he is yet able, ready and willing to travel, and he will probably yet make his 100,000 miles. Dr. L. L. Leeds continues in the practice of his profession, at Lincoln, Logan county, Illinois.

Dr. Peter T. Leeds moved from Mechanicsburg to Buffalo, Sangamon county, Illinois, August 19, 1859; remained in active practice until 1865, but has now partially withdrawn, and only attends to office business. He has been a successful practitioner, and is strictly a self-made man.

LEMON, JOHN I., born March 6, 1803, in Scott county, Kentucky, came to Sangamon county, arriving at Berlin in 1834 or '5. He was married near Washington, Tazewell county, to Ann Maria White. They made their home in Sangamon county until they had five living children. The family moved to Farmer City, and from there to El Paso, where three children were born. Their eldest children, JAMES D., WILLIAM U. and JOHN 7., Jun., were all born in Sangamon county, and were Union soldiers in Co. A, io7th 111. Inf.

LEMON, MARY ANN, sister to John I., was born Nov. 3, 1805, in Scott county, Ky., came to Sangamon county in 1835 or '6, married to William Hickman. See his name. They had one son, Euclid.

LEMON, ELIZA, sister to John I., born March 29, 1808, in Scott county, Ky., came to Sangamon county in 1835 or '6, married William Underwood. See his name. He died, and she married John Churchill. See his name.

visited the western States, and entered land in Sangamon county. He was married in Sangamon county, in 1826 or '7, to Mrs. Susan Bachus, whose maiden name was Pearce. She was born Sept. 19, 1799, near Nashville, Tenn. She had one child by her first marriage -

NANC T BA CHUS, born Oct. 28, 1823, and married Willard Mitchell. They had two living children. Mr. Mitchell was at one time employed on the Panama railroad, contracted disease, went to California, and died therein 1850. His widow married Benjamin Force, had three children, and lives in Athens, Menard county, Illinois.

LEVEL, JAMES M., was born Dec., 1817, in Pickaway county, Ohio. His parents died when he was a child, and he was brought to Sangamon county by Abel Powell. They arrived June 27, 1828. James M. Level was married Dec. 2, 1855, to Margaret Sawyers, who was born Nov. 3, 1830, in Fayette county, They had six children, two of whom died -

CLARA M., born May 28, 1866, live with their parents. James M. Level resides on the farm settled by Levi Cantrall in 1820. It is adjoining Cantrall on the southwest.

James M. Level remembers that about 1838 he helped to cut wheat with the oldfashioned sickle or reap-hook, tramped it out with horses, fanned the chaff out by two men taking a linen sheet and using it for a fan, while a third one stood on some elevated place, and poured the wheat and chaff down before the fan. This fanning operation cannot be described to a person who never saw it; and, therefore ought to be enacted at some Old Settlers' meeting. He then drove a four-horse team and hauled fifty bushels of the wheat to St. Louis, one hundred miles, and sold it for twenty-five cents per bushel. It required from ten to twelve days to make the trip.

LEVI, JOHN M., born about 1800, came to what is now Ball township, with his pai'ents, among the early settlers, and was married to Eliza J. Hurley. They had five children -

GRACIE J. married James Smith, had one child, FRANCIS A., and Mr. Smith died August 23, 1869, and his widow married Oct. 15, 1872, to John H. Hermon. See his name.

ELIZABETH married Joseph C. Dodds. They have two children, JOHN and IVY PEARL, and live in Ball township, Sangamon county. - Mrs. Eliza J. Levi died, and Mr. Levi married Fannie demons,, and he died Dec. 23, 1872. His widow lives in Rochester, Illinois.

LEWIS, JOHN R., was born in 1806 in Farmington, Connecticut. He studied medicine at New Haven, came West in 1831 or '2, and established himself in practice at Carlinville, 111. He returned to his native place, and was there married Nov. 16, 1835, to Mrs. Ruth Stanley, whose maiden name was Crampton. He brought his wife to Carlinville, ceased practicing medicine, and engaged in farming. Mrs. Ruth Lewis died Aug. 28, 1839, at Carlinville, leaving one child.

CHARLES H., born April 4, 1837, near Carlinville, brought up in Chatham, graduated in 1862 from the academical department of Yale college, and from the medical department of the same college in 1867. He spent the intermediate time in the army, and afterwards practiced a short time in Chatham. Dr. Charles H. Lewis was married April n, 1869, in Oswego, Kansas, to Imogene Lewis. They have two children, EDWARD H. and FLORENCE M., and reside near Cedar Vale, Chautauqua county, Kansas. Dr. Lewis is engaged in farming and the drug business.

Dr. John R. Lewis, soon after removing to Chatham, became acquainted with Miss Sarah M. Thompson, a native of Monson, Massachusetts, whose home in the West was with her brother-in-law, Rev. James A. Clark, in Fort Madison, Iowa, where Dr. Lewis and Miss Thompson were married Aug. 25, 1844, and at once came to Chatham. They had five children. Of the three living -

Dr. J. R. Lewis assisted in organizing the First Presbyterian church in Carlinville, and was one of the ruling Elders as long as he lived there. He was elected to the same office in the church at Chatham, and contiuued to discharge its duties to the end of his life. He died Aug. 5, 1858, in Chatham, where his widow and two sons now reside - 1876.

LEWIS, EDDIN, was born Dec. 23, 1803, in Caldwell county, Ky. He was there married, about 1825, to Winnifred Easley, who was born in the same county, March 10, 1806. They had two children in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon county, 111., in the fall of 1830, in what is now Ball township, where they had six children -

JAMES M., born May 27, 1828, in Caldwell county, Ky., married March 6, 1851, in Sangamon county, to Berrilla M. Lockridge. She died May 4, 1857, leaving one child, CYRUS E. James M. Lewis married August 30, 1860, to Mrs. Emily Ricks, whose maiden name was Simpson. She died April 20, 1864, leaving one child, LAURA BELLE, who resides with her uncle, Andrew Simpson, in Taylorville. James M. Lewis married Mary A. Clayton. She died June 20, 1868, leaving two children, JULIA M. and MANFORD S. T. M. Lewis was married August 30, 1869, to Jane Burris. They have one child, MINNIE ALICE, and reside five miles southeast of Auburn. James M. Lewis remembers one event connected with the deep snow, beginning in December, 1830. His father had just finished his first cabin, and moved into it, as the snow began falling. In building it he dug the earth out in front of the hearth and used it in forming the side walls to his fireplace. That hole under the floor was for keeping vegetables, but he had none. When the snow became quite deep, he found that he would certainly loose a fine litter of pigs unless he could find protection for them. He could think of no other place than his rude cellar. He raised a puncheon, dragged the sow in, and pitched her, with the pigs, down that cavity. The record shows that James M. was but two and a half years old, but the squealing of the hog almost frightened him into fits, making an impression on his mind that remains indelible. If all history was written it would be found that many of the best families and fortunes were built on as rude foundations as this incident implies.

JOHN W., born May 27, 1831, in Sangamon county, spent six years in California, returned home, started for Pikes Peak, and died at St. Joseph, Mo., in 1860 or '61.

MARGARET E., born in Sangamon county, married George F. Kessler, who was accidentally shot dead, while on a hunting excursion, in 1858. She married Sylvanus Wineman, who died July 29, 1875. She resides near Auburn.

SAMUEL, born Sept. 17, 1840, in Sangamon county. He was married Feb. 7, 1861, in Auburn, to Emma Wheeler. Mr. Lewis enlisted August 9, 1862, for three years, in %Co. B, ii4th 111. Inf., and was commissioned ist Lieutenant of his company in April, 1865. He was wounded and captured at the battle of Guntown, Miss., June 10, 1864, was taken to Andersonville prison, and enjoyed its hospitalities for ten months; sent to Vicksburg for exchange, where he first heard of the assassination of President Lincoln. He had a silver ring, with a quarter dollar gold piece set in it. By giving that to the rebel guard he was permitted to escape before the time for exchange. He was honorably discharged at Camp Butler, August 12, 1865. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis have five children, EDITH M., MARY B., FREDERICK L., MAGGIE J. and JAMES H., and reside in Auburn. Mr. Lewis is a merchant there, and President of the Auburn Bank.

ED WARD H. was married Nov. 4, 1869, to Margaret Whetstone. She died Feb. 8, 1872, leaving one child, CHARLES D. E. H. Lewis lives in Auburn.

PERMELIA P., married Jan. 7, 1864, to James A. Ogg, who was born Oct. 9, 1842, in Madison county, Ky. He enlisted for three years, March 29, 1862, in Co. F, i2th 111. Cav., served until Apr. 2, 1865, when he was honorably discharged. Mr. and Mrs. Ogg have three children, JAMES F., WILLIAM A. and MARY E., and live in Auburn, Illinois.

Eddin Lewis was an energetic farmer and business man. He was one of the earliest men engaged in buying and droving fat hogs and cattle, and packing pork in Sangamon county.

LEWIS, LARKIN, brother to Eddin Lewis, was born in Caldwell county, Ky., married there to Elizabeth Welch. They had three children in Kentucky, and she died there, May 17, 1835. He moved with his children to Sangamon county, in 1838 or '9, and was married, Feb. 28, 1856, to Mrs. Permelia A. Lewis, whose maiden name was Fletcher. They had two children. Of his children -

Elizabeth

Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis, the mother of Eddin, Larkin, William, Nancy, Mary Morgan and John, died in 1857, in Ball township, in the seventy-fifth year of her age.

LEWIS, OBED, was bom April 25, 1812, in Chester county, Penn. He came to Springfield, 111., in 1838, was married, Sept. 23, 1851, to Cordelia M. lies. They have three children -

From 1839 to 1868 Mr. Lewis was engaged in manufacturing carriages and wagons. He served the city as alderman, from 1862 to 1864, and from 1868 to 1873. He was elected mayor, in April, 1874, serving a term of one year. Obed Lewis and family reside in Springfield.

LEWIS, SAMUEL, born Feb. 1 6, 1767, in Pennsylvania, about sixteen miles above Philadelphia, on the Delaware river. He crossed the Allegheny mountains on horseback five times, and was married on the Kanawha river, West Virginia, about 1799, to Sally Floro, who was born there in 1785. They moved in 1814, to St. Francis county, Mo., and from there to Sangamon county, 111., arriving May, 1830, in what is now Cotton Hill township. They had children in West Virginia, in Missouri, and in Sangamon county, making a total of fifteen. In June, 1844, Mr. Lewis moved his family to Delaware county, Iowa. Mrs. Sally Lewis died there in 1847, ag£d sixty-two years. Her mother lived to be one hundred and six years of age, and was living at Strawberry, Texas, at the time of her daughter's death. Samuel Lewis died in Iowa, Aug. 9, 1867, being in his one hundred and first year. His mother lived to be one hundred and fourteen years old. Of their fifteen children, six only are living - four of them in Iowa. One only resides in Illinois, the seventh child.

ALFRED, born March 26, -1823, in St. Francis county, Missouri, raised in Sangamon county, married March 14, 1850, in Loami, to Eliza J. Abell, a granddaughter of Adam Barger. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis had nine children in Sangamon county, four of whom died young. SARAH S., MARIA A., JOHN S., LOUISA F. and CORNELIA E. J. live with their parents. Alfred Lewis made his home in Sangamon county, near Breckinridge mill, until the fall of 1872, when he moved to Taylorville for the purpose of educating his children, and now resides there. He carries the first month's wages he ever earned in his pocket to the present time. It is in the shape of a watch.

LEWIS, MARIA, sister to Alfred, born April 6, 1815, married in Missouri to William Cooper. He died Sept., 1836, in Sangamon county, leaving four children, two of whom are living in Benton county, Mo. His widow married Hamilton McCoy. See his name.

LEWIS, LEVI D., born Aug. 26, 1801, near Morristown, N. J. Eliza Sutton was born Feb. 4, 1804, at the same place. They were there .married Aug. 13, 1823, and had six children, one of whom died, aged five years. The family moved to Springfield, 111., in Nov., 1835, where they had one child. Of their six children -

WILLIAM C. B., born Sept. u, 1824, in New Jersey, went as musician in an Illinois regiment, to the Mexican war, returned, and died Oct. 6, 1847, in Springfield.

SARAH, born July 30, 1826, near Morristown, N. J., married in Springfield to Reuben Coon, who was born July 22, 1821, in New Jersey. They had eight children in Springfield, one of whom died young. LEVI L., born June n, 1849, married in Springfield, Jan. 8, 1872, to Mary J. Tully, who was born Jan. 8, 1855, at Little Rock, Arkansas. Mr. L. L. Coon is engaged in the manufacture of boots and shoes, in Springfield. ANN ELIZA, born July 27, 1851, married in Springfield, Feb. 25, 1873, to William H. Billington, who was born March 31, 1849, in Shrewsbury, England. They have one child, LINA MAY, and reside in Springfield. Mr. Billington is conductor on the T. W. & W. railroad. FRANKLIN P., born May 12, 1853, is farming. CHARLEY, LINA, SUSAN and GEORGE reside with their mother. Mr. Reuben Coon was for several years engaged in the leather trade, and the manufacture of boots and shoes. He died, Nov. 7, 1871, and his widow and children reside in Springfield, Illinois.

JAMES S., born Feb. 10, 1837, in Springfield, was married March 27, 1862, to Mary A. Smith, in Monmouth, Warren county, 111., and reside there.

Levi D. Lewis was connected with his brothers, Joseph and Thomas, in the boot and shoe business for several years. In 1849 he went to California, and died there Feb. 24, 1850. Mrs. Eliza Lewis resides with her daughter, Mrs. Coon, in Springfield.

LEWIS, THOMAS, born July 9, 1808, near Baskingridge, Somerset county, New Jersey, was married at New Brunswick, N. J., April 4, 1832, to Margaret A. VanNorstrand, who was born in Somerset county, N. J., Oct. 4, 1810. In July, 1836, Mr. Lewis took a trip West, with the view of selecting a future home. After passing through Indiana, Illinois and Missouri, he selected Springfield, 111., and returned to New Jersey for his family, consisting of his wife and two children. They started West June 9, 1837, *n company with Mr. Lewis' two brothers, John and Eliphalet C., with their families; his sister, Susan A., and his brother-in law, C. VanNostrand, in all twentyseven persons. They arrived in Springfield Aug. i, 1837. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis had five children; one died in infancy. Of the others -

Lewis C., Stella, Albert T.

ADALINE, born Sept. 12, 1833, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, married in Springfield March, 1858, to Stephen D. Ay res, who was born May 20, 1829, in Trumansburg, N. J. They have six children living. WILLIAM J., NETTIE, LEWIS C., STELLA, ALBERT T. and OLIVE. S. D. Ayres and family reside in Cairo, Illinois.

Sarah M., Edward P., Owen

WILLIAM T., born Sept. 25, 1836, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, was married April 20, 1862, in Macon county, 111., to Sarah C. Sprouse, who was born April 20, 1843. They have six children living - CHARLES A., SARAH M., EDWARD P., OWEN, STELLA A. and ANNIE. W. T. Lewis and family reside in Chilicothe, Missouri.

Lewis had nine widowed sisters-in-law, and eight are still living. His brothers, Eliphalet C. and John, settled in Warren county, 111., and died there. Thomas Lewis has been an active, energetic business man all his life. He lived in Springfield until 1875, when he moved to Cairo, 111., where he now resides - 1876.

LEWIS, SUSAN, born April 19, 1814, in New Jersey, the only sister of Thomas Lewis, was married in Springfield, 111., to Henry VanHoff. See his name. Mr. VanHhff died, and his widow married Rev. J. G. Bergen. See his name.

Ljghtfoot, Henry

LJGHTFOOT, HENRY F., was born Feb. 22, 1787, near Madison Court House, Virginia, and was there married Feb. 21, 1811, to Mary T. Jones, who was born Jan. 6, 1792, at the same place. They moved to Adair county, Ky., where they had three children, and from there to Warren county, near Bowling Green, where three children were born; thence to Sangamon county, 111., arriving Oct. 23, 1830, near Springfield. Two children were born in Sangamon county. Of their children -

JOHN A., born Sept. 3, 1814, in Acteir county, Ky., was married Sept. 24, 1838, to Susan J. Jones. She died Sept. 5, 1844, in Chester, 111., leaving one child, HENRY F., who was born Sept. i, 1840, at Georgetown, Randolph county, 111. He was married in the fall of 1864, at Rock Island, 111., to Fannie F. Kelly. H. F. Lightfoot died in St. Louis, leaving live with their mother in St. Louis, Mo. John A. Lightfoot married Cornelia Sigler. She died, leaving three children, CHARLES W., MARY A. and SUSAN M., with their relatives in Jacksonville, 111. J. A. Lightfoot is employed in the U. S. Custom House at New Orleans.

GOODRICH, born April 19, 1817, in Adair county, Ky., married in Sangamon county Dec. i, 1842, to Nancy Callerman. They had eight living children. MARY E., born Sept. 18, 1847, married Sept. 2, 1868, to John F. Fagan. See his name. ELIZABETH J., born June 22, 1849, married Sept. 6, 1870, to Richard T. Lewis, who was born April 18, 1838, in Delaware county, Ohio, came to Sangamon county in 1844. He enlisted at Springfield, Sept. 28, 1861, in Co. G, loth

111. Cav., for three years. Re-enlisted as a veteran Dec. 12, 1863; served until the end of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged Nov., 1865, at San Antonia, Texas, and mustered out at Springfield Jan. 6, 1866. He resides at Elkhart, Logan county, Illinois. JAMES R., born April 17, 1852, -married Dec. 24, 1873, to Julia A. Plunkett, and live near Marysville, Nodaway county, Mo. SUSAN M. married Jan. 8, 1874, to John L. Callerman, Jun. See his name. JOHN L., JUDITH L., ALICE B. and JULIA ANN live with their parents, three miles north of Springfield, Illinois.

MARGARET S., born Nov. 16, 1822, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Philip F. Lightfoot. They had two children. REUBEN enlisted in 1862, for three years, in Co. A, 38th 111. Inf. He was wounded at the battle of Stone's river, and died Jan. 4, 1863. GABRIEL lives near Springfield, 111. Mrs. Margaret S. Lightfoot died Dec. 15, 1847, while on a visit in Alabama.

ROBERT S., born March 13, 1825, in Kentucky, came to Sangamon county with his parents, went to California soon after the discovery of gold, and died there.

LILLARD, THOMAS, born in North Carolina, married there to Temperance Duncan. They moved to Tennesee with her father, and from there to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in 1830 in what is now Woodside township. Mrs. Lillard died, and he married again, and moved to Missouri, taking all except two of his children -

Lincoln, Abraham

LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, was born Feb. 12, 1809, in that part of Hardin, which is now Larue county, Ky. He was taken by his parents, in his eighth year, to Spencer county, Indiana. His mother died there, and his father returned to Kentucky, and married again. In 1830 the family moved to Macon county, 111., and spent the winter of the "deep snow" there. In the spring of 1831, Abraham Lincoln passed through Springfield and went to New Salem, near where Petersburg, Menard county, now stands. He labored at boat building, rail making and like employments, also clerking in a store, until the Black Hawk war came on, when he was elected captain of a volunteer company. After the war he was elected to the Legislature four times. He studied surveying and practiced that, usually in summer, after having spent the winter in the legislature. During all the intervals between other employments for gaining a livelihood, he studied law, and when qualified to practice he sold his surveying implements, and in 1837 moved to Springfield He was married in Springfield, Nov. 4, 1842, to Mary Todd. They had four children -

ROBERT T., born in Springfield, graduated at Harvard College, married in Washington, D. C., to the daughter 01 Senator Harlan, of Iowa, is now a practicing lawyer in Chicago.

Abraham Lincoln was elected, in 1846, Representative in Congress, serving one term of two years. From the close of that term until 1854, he "practiced law more assiduously than ever before." During that time he took but little interest in politics, but the repeal of the Missouri compromise ai'oused him to the encroachments of slavery, and he united with kindred spirits in organizing the Republican party, at Bloomington, 111., in 1856. In 1858 he was a candidate for United States Senator to succeed Stephen A. Douglas, whose term was drawing to a close. Contrary to the usual custom with candidates for that office, instead of aiming to influence the members of the legislature, by whose votes the choice is made, the contest was brought directly before the people, in order to influence their action in choosing members of the legislature, who were to choose a United States Senator. That led to seven joint debates between Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Douglas, in different parts of the State of Illi- Mr. Douglas was elected as his own successor, but Air. Lincoln's speeches in that campaign gave him a national reputation, and proved that his understanding of the slavery question was more clear and comprehensive than that of any other man in the nation. That led to his being chosen by the Republican National Convention, assembled in Chicago, in June, 1860, as the candidate of that party for the office of President of the United States. He was elected in November of that year. When he took his seat at Washington, D. C., March 4, 1861, he found fifteen States in armed rebellion against his authority, the treasury of the nation empty, its arsenals plundered, and its ships of war scattered to the most remote parts ot the globe. War - cruel, bloody and relentless, followed. He was re-elected President in November, 1864, and when he took the oath of office for .the second time, March 4, 1865, the armed hosts of the rebellion had almost melted away, and in his Heart he was beginning to sing the glad anthem of" Peace on earth and good will to men," when he was shot by the hand of an assassin on the evening of April 14, and breathed his last on the morning of April 15, 1865, at the capital of the nation.

His remains, accompanied by a large delegation of the most distinguished men of the nation, civilians, statesmen and soldiers, occupying a railroad train of nine cars, were conveyed to his. former home. For twelve days and nights the train moved on, and was hailed everywhere more like a triumphal procession than a funeral cortege. May 4, 1865, his body was deposited in the receiving tomb at Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois.

A grateful people have erected to' his memory a monument, and upon it placed his statue, in bronze, of heroic size. It was unveiled Oct. 15, 1874, in the presence of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, at their eighth annual re-union, with a host of citizens, making an assemblage of about twenty-five thousand per- - 58 sons. When the four groups of statuary, representing the Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery and Navy, are put in position on the monument, the total cost will be about two hnndred and twelve thousand dollars.

The following are the only words Mr. Lincoln ever wrote concerning himself or his ancestors. They were not intended for publication, but were written as an act of personal regard for an old friend, and placed in the hands of Hon. Jesse W. Fell, of Bloomington, 111., in December, 1859. It is very properly termed by Mr. Fell, the

Autobiography Of Abraham Lincoln

"I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin county, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families - perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks, some of whom now reside in Adams, and others in Macon counties, Illinois. My paternal grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, emigrated from Rockingham county, Va., to Kentucky about 1781 or '2, where, a year or two later, he was killed by Indians, not in battle, but by stealth, when he was laboring to open a farm in the forest. His ancestors, who were Quakers, went to Virginia from Berks county, Pennsylvania. An effort to identify them with the New England family of the same name ended in nothing more definite than a similarity of Christian names in both families, such as Enoch, Levi, Mordecai, Solomon, Abraham, and the like.

" My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age, and he grew up literally without education. He removed from Kentucky to what is now Spencer county, Indiana, in tny eighth year. We reached our new home about the time the State came into the Union. It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up. There were some schools, so-called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher, beyond "readin', writin' and cipherin'" to the rule of three. If a straggler, supposed to understand Latin happened to sojourn in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard. There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. Of course, when I came of age, 1 did not know much; still, somehow I could read, write, and cipher to the rule of three, but that was all. I have not been to school since. The little advance I now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time, under the pressure of necessity.

" I was raised to farm work, which I continued till I was twenty-two. At twenty-one I came to Illinois, and passed the first year in Macon county. Then I got to New Salem, at that time in Sangamon, now in Menard county, where I remained a year, as a sort of clerk in a store. Then came the Black Hawk war, and I was elected a captain of volunteers, a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since. I went the campaign, was elated; ran for the legislature the same year - 1832 - and was beaten, the only time I ever have been beaten by the people. The next, and three succeeding biennial elections, I was elected to the legislature. I was not a candidate afterwards. During this legislative period I had studied law, and removed to Springfield to practice it. In 1846, I was once elected to the lower house of congress; was not a candidate for re-election. From 1849 to 1854, both inclusive, practiced law more assiduously than ever before. Always a Whig in politics, and generally on the Whig electoral tickets, making active canvasses; I was losi:;g interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

" If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am in height, six feet four inches, nearly, lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds, dark complexion, with coarse black hair and gray eyes; no other marks or brands recollected. " Yours, very truly,

During the war to suppress the rebellion, as is well known, Mr. Lincoln was frequently waited upon by delegations from religious bodies. Among others, a large number of women belonging to the Society of Friends gave him a call. One of their number, the widow of Joseph John Gurney, a distinguished Quaker preacher of England, wrote him a letter. The following is Mr. Lincoln's reply. It will be highly prized, because it contains such emphatic and unequivocal expressions of his belief in the overruling providence of God.

" MY ESTEEMED FRIEND - T have not forgotten - probably ne^er si. all forjet - the very impressive occasion when yourself and friends visited me, on a Sabbath forenoon, two years ago; n T has your kind letter, written nearly a year later, ever been forgotten. In all, it has been your purpose to strengthen my reliance on God. I am much indebted to the good Christian people of this country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them, more than yourself. The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail; though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance. We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. Wre shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein. Meanwhile, we must work earnestly in the best light He gives us, trusting that so working still conduces to the great ends He ordains. Surely, He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion, which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.

" Your people, the Friends, have had, and are having, a very great trial. On principle and faith, opposed to both war and oppression, they can only practically oppose oppression by war. In this hard dilemma, some have chosen one horn and some the other. For those appealing to me on conscientious grounds, I have done, and shall do, the best I could and can, in my own conscience, under my oath to the law. That you believe this, I doubt not; and believing it, I shall still receive, for our country and myself, your earnest prayers to our Father in Heaven. " Your sincere friend,

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LINDLEY, SIMON, was born Jan. 20, 1769, in Orange county, N. C. Anna Standley was born Feb. 3, 1766, in Kent county, Del. Her parents moved to Pendleton District, S. C. Simon Lindley and Anna Standley were there married, July 14, 1789. Their home was in Orange county, N. C., until four children were born, and they moved to Christian county, Ky., wheie they had three children. In the fall of 1807 they moved to Madison county, 111., and the next spring to what is now Bond county. All was quiet there for about three years, but in the latter part of 1811 the Indians became hostile, and began to murder the settlers and steal property. Mr. Lindley was warned by a very old, whitehaired Indian, of the threatened danger. Then the settlers united in building a fort or stockade, about two and a half miles from where Greenville now stands. They lived in that fortification during the whole time the war with Great Britain was raging. They could not have held their ground and provided for their families, but the soldiers who were stationed there guarded the men while they worked in the fields. They lived that way four years, many of their members being murdered. The Indians continued to swarm about them in greater numbers, and they abandoned the fort, and all went back to the vicinity of Edwardsville, in September, 1814, and the next spring, 1815, a treaty was made, in consequence of which, hostilities ceased. Mr. Lindley remained near Edwardsville four or five years, and moved to what became Sangamon county, arriving April 14, 1820, in what is now Chatham township. The farm is now owned by the heirs of Benjamin F. Darnielle. Of his seven children -

JOSEPH, born Jan. 7, 1793, in North Carolina, married in Bond county to Nancy Hicks, moved to Sangamon county, then to Tennessee, and from there to Freestone county, Texas.

SIAfON, Jun.y born August 16, 1799, in Christian county, Ky., came to Sangamon county with his parents, went to South America when a young man, married there, and has not been heard of for several years.

Simon Lindley was a minister of the Regular, or Predestinarian Baptist church. In July, 1821, himself and wife, John Bridges and wife, united with others for the purpose of keeping up worship, and on the second Saturday in June, 1826, the Liberty Baptist church, on Lick creek, was organized by Elders William Crow, Thomas Ray and Micajah Rowland, and brethren Austin Sims and Peter Robeson. There were thirteen members: -

Mr. Lindley was a very eccentric man, and many anecdotes are related of him, both 'in connection with his preaching and in private life. Mr. Lindley was also a man of liberal education. He was educated at some college in Philadelphia, but whether he was a graduate or not, I cannot say. After the town of Springfield was laid out, there was a discrepancy between the surveyors of that and the former town of Calhoun, and Mr. Lindley was called on to re-survey it and harmonize the differences, which he did, to the satisfaction of all parties.

LINDSAY, ISAAC, born May 16, 1819, in Franklin county, Penn., was married in Jacksonville, 111., in 1841, to Mary Dyer. Their four children all died young, and Mrs. Mary Lindsay died in the spring of 1850. Mr. Lindsay was married in Jan , 1851, in Springfield, to Mercy Elder, a n-.itive of Kentucky. See Elder family. They had three children, and all died young. Mrs. Mercy Lindsay died Jan. 27, 1858. Mr. L. was married in Springfield, 111., to Mrs. Sarah Rogers, whose maido-i lame was Elder, a sister of his second wuc. They have five living children, MARTHA A., FRANK R., WILLIAM E., ADA and IDA, twins, who all live with their parents.

Isaac Lindsay was a bricklayer by trade, and was for about seven years, from 1858, clerk in the recorder's branch of the circuit court of Sangamon county. He was assessor and collector for the city two years - 1856 and 1857. He and his family reside in Springfield, Illinois.

LINDSAY, MORRIS, born June 30, 1818, in Franklin county, Penn. He came to Springfield with his brother, Isaac, in 1836, and was married April 2, 1844, at Salisbury, to Sarah Miller, a daughter of Solomon Miller. They had four children, two of whom died young. Of the other two -

SOLOMON L., born March 12, 1846, in Sangamon county, was married Jan. 8, 1872, in Arkansas, to Dora Moore, a native of Tennessee. They have two children, MORRIS W. and ALBERT CHARLES, and reside in Springfield, Illinois.

Morris Lindsay was appointed postmaster, at Springfield, in 1858, and served until 1861. He also served several terms as a member of the city council of Springfield. In 1863 or '4 he moved to Carbondale, 111., where he died March 25, 1869. His remains were brought to Springfield, and interred in Oak Ridge Cemetery. His widow and daughter reside Hn Carbondale, Jackson countv, Illinois.

year 1797, in Fleming county, Ky., to Mary Newcomb. They had nine children in Kentucky, and moved to St. Clair county, Illinois, where two of their children died. Mr. Little moved with his family to what became Sangamon county, arriving in 1819 or 1820, and settled two and one-half miles southwest of the present State House. Six of their children married and raised families, and all except one has died, and their children have moved away from the county. The only remaining one -

SAMUEL N., born March 1,'iSq, in Fleming county, Ky., married in Sangamon countv, Jan. 29, 1843, to Eliza M. Morgan. They have seven children - WILLIAM H., born March 16, 1845, near Springfield, married, Oct. 31, 1872, to Delia Pirkins. Wm. H. Little was killed Aug. 16, 1873, by an accident on the Chicago & Alton railroad, at Sag Bridge, near Chicago, and interred in Oak Ridge Cemetery. His widow resides with her father, R. Pirkins. Sec his name. GERSHOM J., born Feb. 19, 1847, near Springfield, married, Jan. 2, 1867, to Nellie Crafton. She died Jan. 14, 1868. G. J. Little was married, Oct. 27, 1874, to Maggie E. Conner, who was born June 22, 1851, in Springfield. G. J. Little is of the firm of S. N. Little &. Sons, and resides in Springfield. SANFORD H., born June 21, 1849, lives in Springfield, and is of the firm of S. N. Little & Sons. HARRIET C., born Dec. 12, 1853, near .Springfield, married Feb. 14, 1867, to John W. Crafton. They had one child, WILLIAM H., who died in his third year. Mr. and Mrs. Crafton reside in Springfield. MARY E., born May 10, 185 1, died Oct. 30, 1855. MINERVA C., died Aug. i, 1857. FANNIE Z., born Jan. S, 1869, resides with her parents. Samuel N. Little owns and resides on the farm where his father settled in 1819, and received the title from the United States government soon after it came into market, in 1823. He is also engaged in the livery business, in Springfield, with his sons, Gershom J. and Sanford H., under the firm name of S. N. Little & Sons.

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LITTLE. THOMAS S., born March 16, 1820, in Northampton, Mass., came to Springfield, 111., Aug., 1838, where he was married, May 30, 1844, to Ann M. Watson. They had five children, two of whom died in infancy. Of the other three children -

MARIA W., born Jan. 27, 1846, in Springfield, was married, Aug. 7, 1865, to Samuel A. Slemmons, who was born Jan. 28, 1842, at Cadiz, Harrison county, Ohio, and came to Springfield in 1859. Mr. and Mrs. Slemmons have three children, GEORGE B., ELLA L. and ALICE H. Mr. Slemmons was a member of an independent military company, of which John Cook was captain, and it was part of a regiment of which E. E. Ellsworth was Colonel. * In connection with that company, Mr. Slemmons volunteered on the first call for 75,000 men, in April, 1861, but being under age he was prevented by his father from going. He returned to Ohio, in 1862, and became Lieutenant of Co. E, 88th Ohio Inf., a three months regiment, in whic,h he served four and one-half months. During that time he was appointed Major of a three years regiment, but could not serve on account of a crippled arm. He came back to Springfield, and engaged in business. Mr. Slemmons was one of the original projectors of the Springfield Spice and Hominy Mills, and aided in building and running the same, as a member of the firm of Conkling, Slemmons & Co. He went out of the firm in April, 1876, and is now - July 1876 - residing in Springfield.

ELLEN C., born Dec. 14, 1847, ^n Sprin Afield, was married, Oct. 20, 1870, to William O. Converse, who was born June 30, 1840, in Painesville, Lake county, Ohio, and was brought with the family of his father, Henry Converse, to Springfield, in 1846. Mr. and Mrs. Converse have two daughters, NIANA and , and reside in Springfield. Mr. Converse is a farmer, and trader in stock, land, etc. He united with A. M. Garland, who first suggested it, in obtaining a pledge from the board of supervisors of Sangamon county, that they would lease the old poor house grounds to an Agricultural Society. Mr. Garland and Mr. Converse induced others to unite with them in organizing the present Sawgamon county Agricultural Society, and securing the lease for the grounds for twenty-five years - from 1872. Wm. O. Converse served the society four years as secretary, and is now - 1876 - its treasurer, elected for two years.

EMMA J3., born March 2, 1850, in Springfield, was married, Dec. 9, 1869, to Charles E. Blake. They have one child, PAUL, and i-eside at Anoka, Minn. He is cashier and manager of the Anoka Bank.

Thomas S. Little was in business as a merchant tailor and clothier, from 1844 to the spring of 1876, when he retired in consequence of impaired health, and resides in Springfield.

LOCK, JOHN was born Jan. 10, 1799, in the town of Farrisburg, Addison county, Vermont. Maria Jaquays was born Aug. 31, 1802, in the same county. They were there married Jan. 5, 1820, had three living children in Vermont, and moved to Essex county, N. Y., where two children were born. The family moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving May 2, 1832, at Rochester, where they had six children. Two died young. Of their nine children -

WILLIAM H., born Aug. 16, 1840, in Sangamon county, married Nov. 28, 1861, to Amanda M. Delay. They had two children, LOLA and WILLIAM H., Jun., and Mr. Lock died Jan. 25, 1871. His family live in Rochester.

John Lock and his wife have been living together nearly fifty-six years, and reside in Rochester. May 3, 1832, the day after his arrival, and before he had unloaded his wagon, he was notified to appear at Springfield on the morning' of the 4th, to stand draft to fight the Indian under Black Hawk. He was there in time, but more men had volunteered than had been called for, and his services were not wanted. There was no corn in Sangamon county at the time, and Mr. Lock went thirty miles below St. Louis, paid five dollars for ten bushels, and hauled it home for seed, and bread for his family. He has known corn to sell for four dollars per bushel, and has seen equally as good corn sell at eight cents per bushel, a difference of fifty fold. Mr. Lock donated timber and labor to aid in building the 'first steam mill in Rochester. After it was built, the proprietors refused to grind for toll, and demanded twenty-five cents per bushel for grinding. Mr. Lock offered two bushels for grinding one, but the miller refused. The price of corn was ten cents. He was forced to the necessity of hunting a purchaser for two and onehalf bushels, take the twenty-five cents and pay it for grinding one bushel. The usual toll is one-eighth of the grain.

LOCKRIDGE, JOHN, was born about 1758, in Augusta county, Va. He enlisted about 1775, in the revolutionary army, and was in the battles of Guilford Court House, the Cowpens, and many others. For his services he drew a pension to the end of his life. Mr. Lockridge married in his native county, and moved to Montgomery county, Ky., raised a large family, and came to Sangamon county, 111., with his son, William A., arriving in 1835. He died in 1848. He had four sons and four daughters, who came to Sangamon county, nafaely -

JOSEPH H., born Dec. 10, 1791, in Montgomery county, Ky., was married there to Martha Cassity. They moved to Sangamon county in 1835, in what is now Ball township, where he died. His widow married James Phelps, and lives in Auburn.

to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in 1835, in what is now Ball township. They had eight children, namely: ELIZABETH A. married Charles Bridges, moved to Missouri, and Mr. Bridges died there. JOSEPH W. married Oct. i, 1848, to Eleanor Haley. They had two living children, EDWARD and JULIETTE, who live with their mother. Joseph W. Lockridge died Dec. 27, 1865, in Sangamon county. His widow married July 19, 1867, to George Young, who was born November, 1832, in Pittsylvania county, Va. They had three children, and live half a mile north of Pawnee. JOHN married Elizabeth A. Hart. They have two children, ROSE and ROBERT, and live in Henry county, Mo. He served three years in an Illinois regiment, nine months of the time in Libby prison, and came -as near starving to death as it was possible to do, and live. FRANCIS M., served three years in an Illinois regiment, and was honorably discharged. He lives in Henry county, Mo. ROBERT enlisted in an Illinois regiment, and died in the army. MARTHA J. married Henry Kitch. They moved to Missouri, where he died, and she married again. MARY married James Mollihorn. They have three children, AMBROSE, CORDELIA and LILLIE BELLE, and live three miles northwest of Pawnee. AMANDA L. married John Forahner, and lives in Missouri. Elijah Lockridge died in Ball township, about 1856. His widow lives with her children, in Missouri.

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A., was born Jan. 17, 1810, in Montgomery county, Ky. He was married there to Sally Moore, June 3, 1830. They had two children in Kentucky, and moved in company with his father, John Lockridge, to Sangamon county, 111., arriving Oct. 22, 1835, in what is now Ball township, where five children were born. Of their seven children -

JULIA A., born in Kentucky, married to Napoleon Lloyd. They have three children, WILLIAM, ROBERT and HATTIE,and reside at Mt. Sterling, Kentucky.

SARAH J3., born Jan. i, 1841, in Sangamon county, married - Nathaniel Ingels, who was born Jan. i, 1837, near Paris, Ky. T.hev have five living children, SARAH P"., HENRY G., FREDERICK L., JOHN A. and JESSIE N. WILLIAM B. died, aged two years. They live in Ball township, two and a half miles southeast of Chatham, Illinois.

WILLIAM 7?., born in Sangamon county, married April 22, 1869, to Mary Nuckolls. They had one child, CHARLES W., and reside adjoining Pawnee on" the north. William R. Lockridge is a farmer, stock-raiser and merchant.

JOHN R., born in Sangamon county, married to Sarah J. Headley. They have one child, JAMES W., and live in Ball township, near Sugar creek Cumberland Presbyterian church, on the farm settled by Joseph Dodds in 1818.

Mrs. Sally Lockridge died Nov. 23, 1857, 'n Sangamon county, and Wm. A. Lockridge was married June 10, 1858, to Amanda E. Goodbar, who was born in Kentucky, June 2, 1826. They have three children, EMMA, RACHEL L. and MART M.

Wm. A. Lockridge resides in Ball township, two and a quarter miles south of Chatham, 111. *j When Mr. Lockridge came to Sangamon county the timber land was all taken, and it was almost impossible to buy it at any price. Prairie land could be obtained for two or three dollars per acre, and at the same time he has known timber land to sell as high as eighty dollars per acre. Timber land equally good can now be bought for forty dollars per acre, while the prairie land that was then so cheap sells from forty to sixty dollars per acre. Railroads, coal and the hedge plant have wrought the change. Mr. Lockridge says he raised wheat, tramped it out with horses, hauled it ninety miles to St. Louis, and sold it for thirty seven and a half cents per bushel. It required ten days to make the trip, and a full four-horse load would bring about seventeen dollars and fifty cents. The best he could do in selling net pork in Springfield was one dollar and a quarter per hundred pounds, and half of that in trade at very high prices. Mr. Lockridge is now one of .the most extensive farmers in the county.

LOCKRIDGE, JOHN, was born July 17, 1799, either in Montgomery or Fayette county, Kentucky. He was married in Kentucky Sept. 3, 1811, to Margy Killough, and moved in 1826 to Owen county, Indiana, and from there to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving Oct. 20, 1838. Of their eight children -

JOHN MILTON, born Jan. 15, 1814, in Montgomery county, Kentucky, cane to Sangamon county, near Auburn, in 1837, one year before his father c.me. He was married July 2, 1840, to Jane Nuckolls. They had five living children in Sangamon county. ROBERT H., the fourth one, born Jan. 17, 1850, married May 3, 1871, to Ella Hough, who was born July 22, 1853, in Lewis county, New York. They live two and a half miles southeast of Chatham. The other four, JOHN W., JAMES M., ANDREW H. and CHARLES E., live with their parents. J. Milton Lockridge and family reside one mile west of Auburn, Illinois. Mr. Lockridge has served several years as a member of the Board of Supervisors of Sangamon county

JAMES W., born in Kentucky, married Margaret A. Bridges. She died, and he married Jane Foster. They reside at Elkhart, I ogan county, Illinois. He has children by both marriages.

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LO NG N I N E*. - In the State Legislature of Illinois that assembled at Vandalia, in December, 1836, and continued until March, 1837, the delegation from Sangamon county was composed of two Senators and seven members of the House of Representatives. They were the most remarkable body of men from any one county, for the reason that they ^ were much taller than the average of human stature. Some of them were a little less and some a little more than six feet, but their combined height was exactly fifty-four feet. They were then, and are yet, spoken of as the "Long Nine."

The names of those in the Senate were Archer G. Herndon and Job Fletcher; in the House of Representatives, Abraham Lincoln, Ninian W. Edwards, John Dawson, Andrew McCormack, Dan Stone, William F. Elkin and Robert L. Wilson. One or two were as tall, but none taller, than Abraham Lincoln, who it will be seen, by reference to his Autobiography, could add four inches to be divided among those who fell below the average. A sketch of each of them will

The settlement of the State began in the southern part, and Kaskaskia was made the capital of the territory because it was more easy of access to a majority of the inhabitants than any other point. Settlements moved northward, and Vandalia was created for the purpose of making it the capital. A feeling prevailed at the time that it would again be necessary to move further north. For that reason a

Before the expiration of that time, it Was everywhere conceded that the capital must again be moved north, Springfield was early a candidate, and the members of the legislature from Sangamon county were chosen with direct reference to that subject. The people of Illinois were at that time nearly insane on the subject of internal improvements. The previous session of the legislature commenced chartering railroad companies, but the session of 1836-' 7 was devoted largely to business of that kind. The capital stock authorized to joint stock companies, chiefly railroads, clown to the end of the session of i836-'7, was twelve millions of dollars. The internal improvement act ol Feb. 27, 1837, appropriated ten million, two hundred thousand dollars, directly from the State treasury; more than nine millions of that sum was for railroads. At the same session private laws were enacted, chartering joint stock companies with authorized capital stock, to the amount of nearly eight millions, making an aggregate of nearly thirty millions of dollars involved in efforts to legislate railroads into existence, before the business of the country would justify it.

In order to accomplish this legislation, a great amount of what is understood among politicians as "log rolling," was done. That is, you help me to get my pet scheme through, and I will help you. The "Long Nine" did not ask much for their section in the way of internal improvements, but they never lost an opportunity to make a vote for the removal of the capital to Springfield. It is only surprising that, with such opportunities, they did not accomplish more. It will be seen, by reference to the forty-third page, that there were seven candidates for the location, and that on fhe first ballot Springfield received thirty-five of the one hundred and twenty rone votes cast, and continued to gain until the fourth ballot, when she received seventy-three of the one hundred and eight votes cast. It was thus decided that Springfield was to be the future capital of the State, and as surely determined that the men who secured that result should ever after be known as the "Long Nine."

LONG, THOMAS, was born May 6, 1775, in Nelson county, Ky.; went to Caldvvell county, married there Feb. 4, 1819, to Annis Hurlbut, who was born in Vermont Feb. 14, 1801. They had three living children in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving April 19, 1824, seven miles south of Springfield, where three children were born, and they moved to Rochester, in the same county, where they had two children. Of their nine children -

MATTHE IV E., born June 12, 1820, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county Feb. 4, 1844, to Eliza Thompson, daughter of General Lewis Thompson. Mr. Long moved to Taylorville in the spring of 1850. Mrs. Eliza Long died Nov., 1857, in Taylorville, and he was married July 4, 1861, to Mary Sattley. Mr. Long was elected Justice of the Peace in 1869, and is now serving his second term. Matthew E. Long and wife reside in Taylorville, Illioois.

JAMES G., born Dec. 8, 1824, married Feb. 3, 1857, in Washington, D. C., to Virginia Stone. Tney had one child, VIRGINIA. Mr. Long was Sheriff of Menard county two terms, after which he obtained a clerkship in the pension office, and served sixteen years. He was then elected and served one term in the legislature of the District of Columbia. Mrs. Virginia Long died Sept. 15, 1860, in Washington, D. C. Mr. Long and daughter reside there.

THOMAS W., born March 8, 1830, in Sangamon county, married Oct. 19, 1854, to Mary Trotter, who was born Aug. 6, 1835. See Trotter family. They had one child, JAMES E., and Mrs. Long died March 21, 1856. T. W. Long was married May 15, 1864, to Harriet Logan, a native of Ohio. They had one child, FLORA B., and Mrs. Long died Jan. 6. 1871. Mr. Long was Deputy Sheriff of Christian county in 1863 and '64, and is now keeping the Long House in Tavlorville, Illinois.

GEORGE W., born March 3, 1833, in Sangamon county, married in Taylorville, June 22, 1852, to Sarah J. Stockdale, a native of Kentucky. They had one child, WILLIAM F., and Mrs. Sarah

Long died April 2, 1861. Mr. Long was married in 1871, to Millie Tickle, a native of New York State. They have one child, FLORENCE E., and reside in Taylorville, Illinois.

ELIZABETH A., born Aug. 27, 1835, in Sangamon county, married in Taylorville, Oct. 2, 1861, to Charles A. Manners, who was born Aug. 2, 1827, in Somerset county, New Jersey. His mother was a Stout, a descendant of "Penelope." See Stout family. Her own name was Penelope, also. Mr. Manners came to Christian county, and settled in Taylorville, July, 1851. He was county surveyor from 1852 to '54, and then was appointed Government surveyor in Kansas and Nebraska, and was there from 1855 *° '60. He was the*n elected sheriff, in 1862, in Christian county for one term, since which time he has been engaged in the construction of railroads and fanning. They have two children, FRANCES C. and TOM, who reside with their parents, in Taylorville, Illinois.

FRANCIS M. was Captain of Co. G, 4ist 111. Inf., was promoted to Major, at Memphis, in 1862. Was wounded at Jackson, Miss., July 12, 1863, from which he died the sixteenth of the same month.

Thomas Long was Major in the Black Hawk war - first campaign. He left Springfield as Captain, and was elected Major, at Beardstown, and commanded what was known as Long's Odd Batalion. He died July 13, 1875, in Taylorville. His widow still resides there - 1876.

LOGAN, JAMES M., born Sept. 22, 1815, in Bourbon county, Ky. He came to Springfield in May, 1840, and was married April, 27, 1843, near Rochester, to Elizabeth W. Bowling. She was born Sept. 22, 1818. They had five children, two of whom died young.

JAMES C. was married Dec. 3, 1873, in Marys v Hie, California, to Libbie Wilbur. They have one child, JAMES W., and reside in Oroville,--Butte county, California.

LOGAN, STEPHEN T., was born Feb. 24, 1800, in Franklin county, Ky. His parents moved to Lincoln county HI 1802. Stephen T. attended school at Frankfort, and became a clerk in the office of the Secretary of State, under Martin D. Hardin, the father of Col. John J. Hardin, who fell at the battle of Buena Vista, Mexico, in 1846. Although Stephen T. Logan was but thirteen years old at the time, it so happened that in the discharge of his duties he issued all the commissions to the officers under Governor and Gen. Shelby in his campaign to the northern frontier in the war of 1812. The office of the Secretary of State was kept in the third story of the capitol, which was burned soon after, and S. T. Logan came very near being burned with it. In 1817 he went to Glasgow, Ky., studied law and practiced there. He was married in Glasgow, in June, 1823, to America T. Bush, who was born there in 1806. They had four children in Glasgow, two of whom died young. Mr. Logan moved his family to Springfield, 111., arriving May 16, 1832. They had four children in Springfield. Their children were two sons and four daughters. Both sons and two daughters are dead.

Stephen T. Logan was elected Judge of a circuit that included about one-fourth of the State. After serving a short time, he resigned in 1837. He was again elected, in 1839, without his consent, but resigited in a few weeks, both times because he could not live on the salary, and could do better by private practice. Judge Logan served four terms in the State Legislature, and was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1847. early in life he established a reputation as one of the most able lawyers in the country, and long enjoyed a lucrative practice. He retired several years ago, and is now in his seventy-seventh year. He was at one time a partner with Abraham Lincoln. Success never affected him injuriously. His whole life has been plain and unostentatious.

LOGS DON, JOSEPH, was born about 1780, in Madison county, Kv. He was there married to a Miss Simmons. They had several children born in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in 1824, in what is now Ball township, near where St. Bernard church now stands. In 1832 or '33, he moved his family to Missouri, and from there to Texas. He died in 1848 on his road from Texas to California. He is particularly remembered in the vicinity of St. Bernard church from the fact that the first religious services ever conducted by a Catholic priest in Sangamon county was held at his house, in 1829.

LOOSE, JACOB G., born about 1812, in Washington county, Penn., and came to Springfield, 111., in 1836 or '7. He was married in Springfield, Dec. 18, 1845, to Elizabeth lies. They had ten children in and near Springfield, three of whom died young. Ot the other seven children -

S ALL IE C., born Dec. 25, 1848, in Springfield, was married, Jan. 9, 1865, to Junius D. Crabb, a native of Harrison county, Ohio. They have five children, and reside adjoining Springfield on the south.

JESSIE V., born Nov. 2, 1850, in Springfield, was married there, Feb. 7, 1872, to Dr. Jacob S. Price, who was born in Kentucky. They have two children, and reside in Springfield, Illinois.

When Mr. Loose came to Springfield, he first engaged as clerk in a dry goods store, and later engaged in business on his own account, at one time in partnership with Col. John Williams, again with E. B. Hawley. He afterwards purchased land and engaged in farming and stock raising, which he continued until he became the own£r of seventeen hundred acres of land adjoining Springfield, south and southwest. Becoming satisfied that his land contained coal, he made arrangements with Mr. P. L. Hewlett, who was then horing for coal at Riverton, to use his machinery, but afterwards decided not to wait, and sent to the oil regions of Pennsylvania, obtained a complete outfit, and commenced boring in June, 1866. He bored down to coal, satisfied himself that it would pay to mine it, and commenced sinking a shaft in September. He commenced taking coal from the shaft in April, 1867, being the first shaft within fifteen miles of Springfield to supply the market with coal. The mine is 237 feet deep, reaching a bed of coal five feet ten inches in thickness. The entire cost when first fitted up, including steam engine, hoisting machinery, etc., was eighty thousand dollars. The mine is at the junction of the C. & A., and the T. W. # W. railroads, two miles south of the State house, and is yet owned by his heirs. This was only the beginning 6f the development of the underground treasures of Sangamon county. There are now - 1876 - seven shafts in the county.

L Y MAN, JOHN, was" born Apr. 2, 1780, at Lebanon, New Hampshire. The Lyman family in America trace their origin to Richard Lyman, of High Ongar, near London, England, who emigrated to America in 1631, and settled at Northampton, Mass. He had three sons, one of whom, Richard, removed to Lebanon, N. H. He had five sons, Ebenezer, Thomas, David, John and Richard. John was married in 1731 to Hannap Burchard. They had one child, Mary, and Mrs. Lyman died. He married in 1747 to Mary Strong. They had one daughter and six sons. Four of their sons, John, Abel, Elijah and Josiah, moved to Brookfield, Vermont. Abel had six sons, five of whom - John, Azel, Alvan, Ezra and Cornelius - emigrated to Sangamon county, Illinois. It was the latter John whose name heads this sketch. He was married Nov. 13, 1804, at Lebanon, New Hampshire, to Martha Storrs, a native of that town. They made their home at Randolph, Vermont, until they had two living children. He was, meantime, privately studying medicine, and took his family to his father's house at Brookfield, while he attended medical lectures at Dartmouth college. Having completed his studies about 1808, he commenced practice at New Haven township, Vt. During the war of 1812, he was part of the time surgeon in the United States army, and was stationed at Swanton, Vt. In 1817, he removed to Williston, Vt., and in 1824 to Potsdam, N. Y. In. 1832 he and his brother, Azel, traveled over the Western country; and in the fall of 1833, in company with fifty-two persons, including his four brothers, he removed to Sangamon county, and settled on Prairie creek, in what is now Gardner tow nship, nine miles northwest of Springfield. They were eight weeks on the road, and observed the fourth commandment by resting every Sabbath and assembling for divine worship, which was conducted by Rev. Billious Pond, who fell in with the company at Oswego, N. Y. Dr. John Lyman and wife had eight children, three of whom died young. Of the other five -

HENRY P., born Aug. 10, 1805, at Randolph, Orange coun'y, Vt., married Aug. 7, 1833, at Madrid, St. Lawrence county. N. Y ., to Mercy Sanders, who was born Dec. 4, 1805, at Bethel, Windsor county, Vt. They started soon after marriage to Sangamon county, arriving in the fall of 1833. They had four children in Sangamon county, namely : CALISTA M., born July 14, 1834, married March 5, 1864, to R. C. Curtis, and resides in Waverly, Illinois. JOHN STORRS, born July 31, 1841, enlisted Aug. 9, 1862, for three years, in Co. G, loist 111. Inf.; served to the end of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged June 22, 1865, at Springfield. He was married Sept. 13, 1870, to Mary Carrie Happer, who was born July 26, 1849, in Sangamon county. The} have two children, EDWARD H. and NELLIE c., and reside one and three-quarters miles northwest of Farmingdale - 1876. SARAH A., born Jan. 1 6, 1844, married Aug. 15, 1865, to Rev. Jomes D. Kerr. They have three children, HARRY p.. JAMES M. and RALPH c., and reside at Nebraska City, Neb. He is pastor of the First Presbyterian church there - 1876. GEORGE H., born Oct. 4, 1850, married Jan. 16, 1873, to Emelie Stewart, and resides at Carmi. 111.

BENJAMIN RUSH, born March 10, 1815, at New Haven, Vt., married in Sangamon county Dec., 1837, to Eliza Estabrook. They had three children, and Mr. Lyman died Feb. 16, 1847, in Sangamon county. His widow married Seth Child, and moved to Manhattan, Kansas, taking two of her children. Her son, LEWIS J. LYMAN, went there later, and is now - 1876 - a practicing physician at St. George, Pottawattomie county, Kansas.

LAURA, born Jan. 14, 1819, married Augustin Curtis, and died Aug., 1847, at Waverly, Til., leaving one daughter, LAURA, who married Wm. Brown, and died Jan., 1870. Mr. Brown lives in Waverly, Illinois.

Mrs. Martha Lyman died March 8, 1862, and Dr. John Lyman died Aug. 4, 1865, after one hour's illness. Both died near Farmingdale, Sangamon county.

LYMAN, AZEL, was born Aug. i, 1784, at Lebanon, Conn., and was taken by his parents two years later, to Brookfield, Vt. He was married in 1808, in Randolph, Vt., to Roxana Fisk, who was born there, Dec. 12, 1788. They moved to Potsdam, N. Y., in 1810, had three living children, and Mrs. Lyman died there, June 7, 1829. He was married in 1830 at Potsdam, to Mary P. Bates, who was born there, Feb. 2, 1809. They moved to Sangamon county with his four brothers, arriving in 1833, at what is now Farmingdale They had eight children, six of whom were born in Sangamon county. Four only of their children are living. Of his children -

AZEL S., born in New York, married in Cincinnati, Ohio, raised a family, and resides in New York City. He invented a way of making paper from wood, a refrigerating vessel and a historical chart, .-ill of which are valuable.

ELLEN, born April 2, 1831, in Potsdam, N. Y., married in Sangamon county, May i, 1852, to S. Simonson, who was born March 22, 1824, in Norway. They have one child, and reside at Green Valley, Tazewell county, Illinois.

Azel Lyman died Jan. 3, 1873, near Delavan, 111., and his widow resides there. The family moved from Sangamon to Tazewell county in 1852. Azel Lyman was an active Sunday school worker. He established Sunday schools in thirty-five counties of Illinois.

LYMAN, ALVAN, born Mch. 5, 1786, at Brookfield, Vt. He was married, February, 1813, at Royalton, Vt., to Lucy Perrin, who was born there Dec. 22, 1790. They became acquainted in St. Lawrence county, N. Y., and returned to Vermont to be married. They had two children born and died in St. Lawrence county, N. Y., and moved with a colony of fifty persons to Sangamon county, arriving in the fall of 1833 near Farmingdale. Mr. Lyman helped to haul the silver coin from Alton to Springfield, to establish the State Bank of Illinois. He arrived with one of four loads of coin, July 4, 1835. Alvan Lyman lived thirtythree years in Sangamon county, and died September. 1866, near Farmingdale. His widow resides with her niece, Mrs. T. H. Ferry, four miles southwest of Pleasant Plains. - 1874.

LYMAN, EZRA, born Feb. 23, 1789, at Brookfield, Vt. He went to Potsdam, N. Y., in May, 1809, and in 1811 went back to Brookfield, Vt., and was married to Mercy Cushman. They made their home in Potsdam, until four children were born, one of whom, BETSY, died at three years of age, and the family moved to Sangamon county, 111., in 1833, with a colony, and settled in what

EZRA C., born May 19, 1814, in Potsdam, N. Y., married in Sangamon county, March 28, 1840, to Caroline Van Patten. They had eight children in Sangamon count}'. AL V AN, horn June 33, 1842, died, aged seven years. HANNAH H., born Oct. 14, 1844, married, Nov. 15, 1863, to Thomas H. Earnest. See his name. MARY E., born Feb. 23, 1846, married, Dec. 12, 1867, to Robert Morris, a native of New Jersey. They have two children, ETTIE c. and WILLIAM E., and reside near Maroa, Macon county. CORNELIUS, born Oct. 14, 1849. CUSHMAN, born Oct. 21, 1851. ALVAN, born Jan. 31, 1853. JOHN D., born Oct. 7, 1856. LAURA A., born Oct. 16, 1858; the five latter reside with their parents, near Maroa, Macon county, 111., where they moved from Sangamon county in 1874.

MERCT S., born May 19, 1820, in New York, married in Sangamon county to Jeremiah D. Low. (He was one of the fifty-two colonists, and was a teacher.) They had three children - CORNELIA A. died in St. Louis, aged eleven years. LAURA T., born July 16, 1848, and CHARLES H., born Oct. n, 1851, reside with their parents, in Chicago.

LYMAN, CORNELIUS, was born August 10, 1792,511 Brookfield, Vt. He was there married, about 1814, to Betsy Cushman, and moved to Potsdam, N. Y., where they had two children. The family moved to Clinton county, and from there to Sangamon county, 111., in 1833, as part of the colony of fifty-two persons. After residing in Sangamon county many years, they moved to Minnesota with the first emigration, and settled at St. Croix Lake. Of their two sons -

CORNELIUS S., born in 1816, in New York, married at Chatham, Sangamon county, to Emily Kincaid. They have a large family, and reside near Stillwater, Minn.

DA VID />., born in New York, married in Sangamon county to Ann J. Hannah. They have a family, and reside near Stillwater, or Marine Mills, Minn.

LYON, HENSON, was born July 28, 1790, in Loudon county, Va., was taken by his parents about -1800 to Clark county, Ky. Nancy McCann was born Jan. 8, 1795, in Clark county, and they were there married Aug. 10, 1814. They moved to Shelbyville, where they had nine children, and the family moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving Oct., 1834, in what was then called Portland, south of the Sangamon river, and seven miles northeast of Springfield, where one child was born. In March, 1835, they moved to a farm, two and one-half miles east of Springfield, Of their ten children -

HARRISON D., born May 7, 1815, in Shelbyville, Ky., married in Sangamon county April 6, 1^43, to Mary E. Hickman. They had four living children. MARY E. lives with her parents. WILLIAM H. married March 12, 1874, to Sarah A. Day, a native of New York, and resides three miles northeast of Springfield. EUCLID F. and JAMES F. reside with their parents, three and one-half miles northeast of Springfield.

LUCINDA M., born Feb. 20, 1818, in Shelbyville, Ky., married there to Clifton L. Burge, and came to Sangamon county in 1836. She died July 27, 1860, leaving three children in Sangamon county. GEORGE W. married in Springfield to Martha Clarke, and lives in Ottawa, Kansas. SOPHRONIA E. married jn Kansas to Willis P. Broadwell, and lives in Rockport, Boone county, Mo. C LIFTON L., Jun., lives in Ottawa, Kansas.

HESTER A.fi.,born Nov. 13, 1823, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to James S. Dawson. They have seven children, and live near Paris, Mo.

LYON, TALBOTT, was born in 1805, in Shelby county, Ky. He came to the house of his uncle, Henson Lyon, in Sangamon county, in 1834. He married Elizabeth Fullin wider; had six children, and she died; and he married Eliza Correll, had four children, and he died Sept., 1845. His children are all dead, and his widow married, and lives in Atchison, Kansas.

LYON, ELIZABETH, sister to Talbott, born Dec. 21, 1823, in Shelby county, Ky., came to Sangamon county in 1840, married George T. Hickman. See his name.

LYNN, JAMES, was born Feb. 24, 1788, in Rowan county, N. C. In 1809 he went to Muhlenberg county, Ky., and when the war between the United States and England commenced, in 1812, he enlisted in a regiment at Russelville, Ky., and served eighteen months. He was severely wounded by a gunshot in Canada. After leaving the army he returned to Muhlenberg county, Ky. Sarah DePoyster was born April 29, 1795, in Iredell county, N. C. When she was a child her parents moved to Butler county, Ky. James Lynn and Sarah De- Poyster were married Nov. 27, 1814, in Butler county, and at once visited his parents in North Carolina, remaining one year, and in the fall of 1815 moved to Barren county, Ky., where they had four children, and moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in the fall of 1825, at the north end of Buffalo Hart Grove. Mrs. Lynn says that the country looked so new and wild, it required three days to look around and consult before they could decide to unload their wagons. Her husband would willingly have gone back, but she would not consent to it. Indians were very numerous, but never did them any harm. They had four children in Sangamon county. Of their eight children -

AfARY ANN, born Nov. 7, 1816, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, Feb. 28, 1840,10 Garrett Laughlin. They had eight children. JAMES H., born Dec. 6, 1842, and JOHN W.,tborn Nov. I, 1845, are unmarried, and reside with their parents. SARAH J., born April 9, 1848, married April 9, 1870, to Alexander McMurray, whs was born in 1843, in county Donegal, Ireland. She died Sept. 29, 1873. IS ABEL, born March 14, 1850, married Jan. 13, 1869, to Samuel Remines, have two children, MINNIE and MARY. WILSON D., GEORGE P., GARRET F. and EMMA C. - the four latter live with their parents, half a mile southwest of Cornland, in Sangamon county.

R. PERRY, born July 20, 1819, in Barren county, Ky., raised in Sangamon county, married May, 1865, at Sedalia, Mo., to Emily Dickson, a native of Arkansas. They had three children ; two died in infancy. CATHARINE lives with her parents at the homestead settled by his father in 1825, near Buffalo Hart Station, Sangamon county, Illinois.

CALYOU JANE, born Feb. 2, 1822, in Kentucky, married March, 1868, in Sangamon county, to William Beck. They live in Vernon county, Mo., near Appleton, Kansas.

Sarah F., Clara D., Mary E.

JOHN W., born May 24, 1824, in Barren county, Ky., raised in Sangamon county, married Aug. 5, 1858, to Sarah Matthews, at Decatur, although they both lived at the time in Sangamon county. She was born Sept. 14, 1835, in Clermont . county, Ohio. They had eight children; two died in infancy. LUE BELLE died March 23, 1871, in her twelfth year. The other five, ALICE A., SARAH F., CLARA D., MARY E. and ADA MARIA live with their parents, two and a half miles east of Buffalo Hart Station, Sangamon county, Illinois.

SUSAN, born Feb. 2, 1829, in Sangamon county, married Feb., 1851, to Lewis Dyer. They have five children, and live in Vernon county, Mo., near Appleton, Kansas.

James Lynn died March n, 1860. He carried the musket ball received in 1814, in Canada, in his flesh to the grave. His widow resides - 1874 - with her son, R. Perry Lynn, on the farm where herself and husband settled in 1825. It is half a mile northeast of Buffalo Hart Station.

Mallory, Valentine

MALLORY, VALENTINE R., was born Dec. 16, 1798, near Paris, Bourbon county, Ky. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was at the battle of the river Thames. Nancy Dawson was born Sept. 20, 1802, in Fairfax county, Va., and in 1804 was taken by her parents to Bracken county, KV. V. R. Mallory and Nancy Dawson were there married, June 28, 1821. Tney had three children, and in March, 1827, united with the Baptist church. They moved, in company with her brother, John Dawson (see his name) to Sangamon county, IllinoiSj arriving Oct. 22, 1827, in what is now Clear Lake township, where they had six children. Of all their children -

WILLIAM A., was born Oct. 25, 1822, in Bracken county, Ky. At nineteen years of age he commenced teaching school, and reading medicine, first under Dr. John Todd, of Springfield, then at Laporte, Ind. His first practice was at Beloit, Wisconsin, one year. He spent some time at Louisville Medical College, in 1846, and Cincinnati Eclectic Medical College, in 1847, and located at Fort Madison, Iowa, in 1848. He was married at Denmark, five miles from Fort Madison, Lee county, Iowa, June 6, 1848, to Susan A.Johnson, who was born Feb. 21, 1824, at Bedford, Penn., of Scotch parents. Dr. Mallory and his wife had one child in Iowa, and returned to Illinois. He commenced practice, in Springfield, Dec. 21, 1849. In Aug., 1852, he commenced publishing the Cnristian Sentinel* It was sold to Eureka College, in February, 1856. March 20, 1856, he went into the employ of the Illinois State Christian Association, preaching and teaching at Pittsfield and Rushville, and then to the churches in Sangamon and Menard^ounties, until the beginning of the rebellion, when he resumed the practice of medicine in Clear Lake township. In June, 1862, he was commissioned, by Governor Yates, as a recruiting officer, which culminated in the organization of the ii4th 111, Inf. Dr. Mallory became Captain of Co. C, at the organization of the regiment. He served until Sept. n, 1863, when he resigned on account of ill health. On recovering, he resumed practice, preaching and Sunday school work, at Hewlett, now Riverton. Dr. Mallory and his wife had two children in Sangamon county. Of their three children - ROLLIN V., born March 26, 1849, at West Point, Lee county, Iowa, married in Sangamon county, Sept., 1872, to Miranda CantralK They have one child, WILLIAM c., and live at Cantrall, Sangamon county. ALEXANDER J., born Apr, 28, 1857, and INA SUE, born March 1 6, 1863, reside with their parents, near Riverton, and within half a mile of where his parents settled, in 1827.

JOHN T., born April 27, 1825, in Bracken county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, April, 1847, to Elizabeth Myers. They had two children - CLARENCE A. married Mary Strode, and reside in Fancy Creek township. HERP L. is unmarried, and resides in Abilene^ Kansas - 1874. Mrs. Elizabeth Mallory died in Macon county. J. T. Mallory married Mrs. Ellen Simpson, whose maiden name was Holden. They have seven children, and live near Ottawa, Franklin county, Kansas.

ELIZABETH, born May 28, 1827, in Bracken county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, Jan. 8, 1857, to John C. Anderson, who was born Dec. 2, 1833, near Bloomington, Ind. They had three children, ELIJAH H., CLARA M. and JOHN C. Mr. Anderson died Dec. 6, 1860, near Williamsville. His widow and children reside with her mother, near Riverton.

REUBEN, born Sept. 7, 1829, in Sangamon county, married, April, 1854, to Mary J. Nesbitt. They have seven children, and reside near Buffalo, Wilson county, Kansas.

EGBERT 0., born Dec. 21, 1831, in Sangamon county, married, August, 1858, to Nancy A. Cantrall. They have five children. E. O. Mallory enlisted July, i862finCo. I, uphill. Inf., for three years. He was elected Lieutenant at the organization of the company, promoted to Captain, in 1863,; served as such to1 the end of the, rebellion, and was honorably mustered out, at Springfield, in 1865. He moved to Knox county, Mo., and was elected Judge of the Comity Court of that county, and now resides near Greensburg, Missouri.

ELIZA F., born Sept. 15, 1834, in Sangamon county, married G. W. Brittin. See his name. He died, and she married Thomas Glascock. See his name.

1862, for three years, in Co, I, 1 141!! III. Inf., and was elected orderly Sergeant at the organization of the company. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Guntown, June 10, 1864, was in hospital one month at Mobile, in Andersonville prison from August I to Sept. 13; while there he saw the inhuman rebel, Gen Winder, fall dead, from either heart disease or apoplexy. Mr. Mallory was sent to Charleston and kept three weeks under the fire of the Union artillery while the bombardment was progressing. He saw a Union soldier who tried to escape, hung by the thumbs with a small cord and drawn up until his feet barely touched the ground. He was whirled around until circulation ceased, and he was dead in fifteen minutes. He was sent from Charleston to Florence in Oct., 1864, remaining five months. Rations was half a pint of corn meal, corn and cob ground together, and half a pint of peas. Had one small ration of meat soon after entering, and no more until March, 1865, when six cows heads were sent in with the tongues and brains taken out. He was hospital steward at the time, and issued them himself. At Florence a soldier had no blanket, and when he asked for one he was tied up and whipped one hundred lashes by a New York rough named Stanton, under direction of the prison authorities. The soldier lived through it. Stanton received some favor for it, but was watched and killed at Annapolis, Md. When Sherman's army approached the prison in March, 1865, Mr. Mallory was among those who were too much emaciated 'to march, and was released, paroled, and fell into the hands of the Union soldiers. J, D. Mallory resides in Clear Lake township, near Riverton, Sangamon county, Illinois.

MARK C., born Jan. 16, 1844, in Sangamon county, married Nov. 28, 1869, in Menard county, to Emily Jordan. They live near Olathe, Johnson county, Kansas.

Valentine R. Mallory died Nov. 21, 1864, and his widow resides on the tarm where they settled in 1827. It is three miles southeast of Riverton, formerly Howlett, and previous to that Jamestovvui, Sangamon county, Illinois.

JOHN W. was born about 1816 near Richmond, Va. ; was taken by his parents to McMinn county, Tenn., in 1824; went to Brown county, 111., about 1832; was married there to Caroline Phillips, and moved to Springfield in 1834. They had five children in Springfield, and moved to St. Louis, where Mr. Malone died. His widow resides near Mt. Sterling, Brown county. Her son, Joseph Malone, is a dentist, and practiced in Springfield. He is now practicing at Mt. Sterling, Brown county, Illinois.

JESSE y., born Jan. 21, 1818, near Richmond, Va., moved to McMinn county, Tenn., in 1824; came to Sangamon county about 1836; went to Crawford county, Mo., two years later; there married May 3, 1842, to Harriet Patton; returned to Sangamon county in 1846; practiced medicine in Chatham; moved to Waverly, 111., and died there of cholera, July 15, 1851. His widow returned to her friends in Missouri. Their daughter, MARY F., married George W. Trumbo. See his name. LAURA married Hugh

M. Frazier, and lives near Monticello, Mo. CHARLES F. is unmarried. Mrs. Harriet Malone married in Missouri, April 12, 1855, to Benjamin Ruggles. Had two children, JOHN C. and WILLIAM N., and Mr. Ruggles died in 1868. Mrs. Ruggles resides with her daughter, Mrs. Trumbo, eight miles south of Springfield, Illinois - 1874.

Martha E., Miranda E.

ALFRED C., born March 23, 1822, near Richmond, Va., was taken by his parents to McMinn county, Tenn., and came to Springfield Sept. 2, 1840. He was married Sept. 18, 1845, *° Amanda M. Bridges. They had ten i ving children in Sangamon county, namely: WILLIAM B., EMMA ]., LOUISA D., MARTHA E., MIRANDA E., AMANDA R., MARIA E., CHARLES E., MARY J. C. and ALBERT H. reside with their parents,' in the northeast corner of Chatham township, one and a half miles north of Chatham, Sangamon county, Illinois.

MALTBY, JOSIAH, was born in 1779, in Connecticut. Mary Me Arthur was born in 1783 in New Hampshire. They were married in Orange county, Vt., moved to Oneida and Tioga counties, N. Y., and came to Sangamon county, 111., in 1822, on Spring creek. Their daughter -

Mann, Christopher

Mrs. Mary Maltby died in 1827, and Josiah Maltby died Jan., 1841; she in Sangamon, and he in Brown county, Illinois. MANN, CHRISTOPHER C., born Jan. 2, 1819, in Bracken county, Ky., came to Sangamon county later than his brother, Uriah. He was married in Sangamon county Nov. 10, 1843, to Ann R. King. They had six children, namely -

HENRY F., born Nov. 10, 1844. He went from Springfield and enlisted in Chicago June 17, i86i,in Co. E, 24th 111. Inf., for three years. He was captured by John Morgan at Pulaski, Tenn., in 1862, and escaped in about twenty-four hours. He was slightly wounded at Rocky Face Ridge, Ga., in May, 1862; served until Aug. 6, 1864, when he was honorably discharged at Chicago. He was married Jan. 30, 1868, in Sangamon county, to Jeanetta Snodgrass, who was born Dec. 32, 1848. They have three children, - 60

WILLIAM, born July 9, 1847, enlisted Aug., 1862, in Co. I, H4th 111. Inf., for three years; served until the suppression of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged at Springfield. He lives at Carthage, Missouri.

MARETHA, born Oct. 17, 1853, married May n, 1872, to James Farley, who was born May 14, 1845, *n countv Dublin, Ireland, and raised in Louisville, Ky. They have one child, GLENARA, and reside at Riverton, Sangamon county, Illinois - 1874.

MANN, URIAH, was born Sept. 17, 1810, in Bracken county, Ky. He came to Sangamon county with his sister, Anna, and her husband, Thomas A. King, arriving the first Sunday in Oct., 1831. He was a soldier in the Black Hawk war, in 1832, in the same regiment with Capt. Abraham Lincoln, with whom he had many a wrestling match. Uriah Mann was married Jan. 6, 1832, in Sangamon county, to Elizabeth King. They had seven children in Sangamon county, two of whom died young.

PE TER, born July 23, 1833, married Sept. 17, 1854, to Carrie J. Knox. They had five living children. URIAH died Feb., 1870, in his ninth year. CLARENCE A., LUELLA B.", ALLEN and OLIVER live with their parents, adjoining Camp Butler National Cemetery on the east.

for three years, in Co. I, H4th 111. Inf. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Guntown, Miss., June 10, 1864; was ten months in Andersonville prison pen, exchanged about the close of the rebellion, and honorably discharged June 14, 1865, at Springfield, and died at home Feb. 16, 1867, of disease contracted in the rebel prison.

Ethel M., Sonora, Perces

Mrs. Elizabeth Mann died Sept. 9, 1861, and Uriah Mann was married Aug. 25, 1862, to Ellen Brimbarger, who was born Sept. 8, 1859, *n Gallatin county, Ky. They had eight children. URIAH GRANT and ELIZABETH S., died in their seventh and third years, respectively. -FANNIE B., B E T T I E, ETHEL M., SONORA, PERCES ANN and RICHARD OGLES-BY live with their parents, on the farm where Mr. Mann settled in 183:5. It is five miles east of Springfield, adjoining Camp Butler.

Uriah Mann hauled all the rails and timber, for improving his farm1, on a wagon constructed by himself, without any iron, the wheels being hewn each from a single piece of timber, from the largest tree he could find. His house was built by himself, of round logs. His tables, cupboard and other furniture were made from wild cherry lumber. In the absence of saw-mills, he split the timber into broad slabs, fastened them into a snatch block, hewed them to a uniform thickness, and after waiting a sufficient time for them to season, worked them into his household furniture. The first meal he ate in his own house, the meat was hog's jowl, and the bread made from frostbitten corn. He hauled the first wheat he raised for sale to St. Louis, and sold it for thirty-five cents in trade. He is now among the most successful farmers of the countv.

MAN 1ST, ME LI NBA, born Aug., 1807, in Bracken county, Ky., married there to Thomas Threlkeld, had five children, and Mr. T. died. She married Win. Summers, had two children, and he died. Mrs. Melinda Summers and her seven children all came to Sangamon county, arriving Oct. 20, 1847. Her

MANN, PETER, the father of Melinda, Uriah, Ann and Christopher, was a soldier from Bracken county, Ky., in the war of 1812, and came near dying of disease in Canada. He returned to Kentucky and died there.

Marsh, William

MARSH, WILLIAM H., was born Dec. 15 1804, in Lancaster county, Penn. He was married May 14, 1829, in the city of Lancaster, to Lydia Brady, who was born April 7, 1810, in Chester county, Penn. They had two children, and Mrs. Marsh died, July 24, 1833. Wm. H. Marsh was married, April 9, 1835, to Mary Lytle, in Lancaster. She was born in that county March 17, 1808. The family moved to Sangamon countv, 111., arriving May 16, 1837, at Springfield, where four children were born. Of his six children -

Evangeline M., Mary A., Vi Vi

DEWITT C.y born Oct. 21, 1832, in Lancaster county, Penn., married in Sangamon county, Aug. 29, 1855, to Harriet M. Bryant, and have four children, EVANGELINE M., MARY A., VI VI I. and JULIA A. Mrs. Marsh died, Dec. 29^ 1869, and he married Rebecca Snyder, who was born July 24, 1836, in Bedford county, Penn. They have two children, CHARLES W. and WILLIAM D., and live one and one-half miles north of Springfield.

MARTHA A., born Aug. 13, 1840, in Springfield, married, Oct. 10, 1866, to Charles Reed. They have one child, MARY, and live at 1061, North 5th street, Springfield.

When Wm. H. Marsh came to Springfield, he was employed by the State House Commissioners as foreman in erecting that edifice, under direction of the architect. He was thus engaged, part of 1837, all of '38, and part of 1839. He was next employed as foreman on the abutments of the bridge at the Sangamon river, for the Northern Cross railroad, now the T. W. & W., road, at Riverton. When gold was discovered on the Pacific coast, he attempted to go to California, but became disabled at the Rocky mountains, and returned. He was keeper of the Sangamon county poor house for ten years, ending in the fall of 1859.

born about 1787, in Kentucky, of parents from North Carolina. He was married in Kentucky, about 1807, to Melinda Lewis. They had three children in Kentucky, and moved to the vicinity of Bedford, Lawrence county, Ind., where nine children were born, and the family moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the fall of 1830, in what is now Cooper township, where one child was born. Of their children -

LE WIS, born in Kentucky, married in Indiana, moved with his father to Sangamon county, and after two years returned to Indiana, where his wife died ; and he was married there to Mrs. Martha Stotts. In 1848, he came back to Sangamon county. He has five living children, nearly all married, and lives near Sharpsburg, Christian county. He had one son who served in the Union army through the rebellion.

. MARGARET, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Henry Judy. They had five children, two of whom died young, and Mr. Judy died. The widow and two of her children live in Atchinson county, Kansas. She had two sons in the Union army, one of whom was killed while bearing a flag in battle; the other was since killed by an accident on a railroad.

SUSAN, born in Indiana, married in Missouri to David Driscoll. He died, Sept., 1845, leaving two children. Her son, LEWIS S. DRISCOLL, was a member of Co. D, 33d 111. Inf., and died, at Ironton, Mo. His remains were buried in Cooper township. The widow has been twice married since; the last time to Hugh Turner. See his name.

SAMUEL, born in Indiana, raised and married in Sangamon county to Mary Bragg. They moved to Buchanan county, Mo., and from there went to the mouth of the Platt river, Neb., and in company with another man, laid out the town of Plattsmouth, where he died, in 1853, leaving a widow and three children by the first, and one by the second wife. He had two sons in the Union army.

JEFFERSON, born in Indiana, moved to Sangamon county, married in Mills county, Iowa, to Fidelia Clark, and died there, without children, June, 1864.

RA CHEL, born in Indiana, raised in Sangamon county, married in Buchanan county, Mo., to James W. Berry. He died, leaving four children, and she married George L. Atwood, had one child, and died in Sangamon county. Two of her sons were in the Union army during the rebellion. One has since died, and the other is in the regular army.

MESSENGER, born Feb. 22, 1833, in Sangamon county, married, Dec. 23, 1858, to Eliza Craig, who was born May 12, 1837, 'n Scotland. They have four living children, MARY M., SARAH J., AMANDA and SUSAN BELL, and reside on the farm where his parents settled in 1830, in Cooper township, near Breckenridge.

Abraham Martin moved, in 1839, to Buchanan county, Mo., and returned in 1845. Mrs. Melinda Martin died, Feb. 19, 1860, and Abraham Martin died, Oct. 24, 1864, both in Cooper township, Sangamon county, Illinois.

MARTIN, GEORGE, wasborn in 1805, in Hampshire county, Va., and was there married to Leah Fans. They had two children, and moved to Licking county, Ohio, where one child was born; and then moved to Sangamon county, arriving in the spring of 1834,111 German Prairie, and in 1836 moved to what is now Cotton Hill township, where three children were born. Of their six chiU dren - -