Sangamon County, Illinois - The whole text, 1912 (part 21 of 46)

HUNTER, John W., an enterprising and practical young farmer, who has always been identified with the best interests of his community, and a lifelong resident of Chatham Township, Sangamon County, Ill., was born on his father's farm on Section 18, Chatham Township, the son of George W. and Rachel Caroline (Campbell) Hunter, mentioned at length in a sketch of the former, which appears in a preceding section of this volume. John W. Hunter spent his boyhood days on a farm, attending school and helping his father, beginning to do his share of farm work as soon as he was able to reach the plow handles and guide it in the furrow. After finishing a course in the district school he spent four winters attending the public school in Springfield and one year in the Springfield Business College, after which he returned home

November 4, 1903, Mr. Hunter was married to Miss Flora Van Doren, also a native of Chatham Township, born on a farm near Mr. Hunter's birthplace, and daughter of William L. and Emelly (Darneille) Van Doren, her father a leading farmer of the township. After their marriage Mr. Hunter and his wife remained in the neighborhood and in 1905 located on the farm where they now live, on Section 6, Chatham Township, where he makes a specialty of breeding Percheron horses. This is one of the best farms in the neighborhood, containing 200 acres, most of it under cultivation. Since purchasing this place he has made many improvements in the way of erecting buildings, putting in tiling, etc., and now owns 345 acres in the township. His farm is well stocked with high-grade cattle, hogs and horses, and his Percheron stallion, "Caesar," is well known as one of the finest in Central Illinois, being coalblack, 18 hands in height and weighing 2,000 pounds. He also has two pure-bred mares. Though a young man Mr, Hunter has won a good reputation for his intelligence and success in conducting his agricultural business. He takes great interest and pleasure in producing abundant crops, and in looking after the many details necessary in carrying on so large a farm to advantage. He believes in owning and using the latest improved equipment in carrying on his work and takes great interest in the progress and improvement of the community, and especially in the improvement of road conditions, which may be appreciated by examining the roads adjoining his land. He stands well with his neighbors and is popular with his many friends. In politics he is Independent, voting for the Men and Measures he things for the best interests of all the people. Having resided in the neighborhood all his lifetime he is wellknown, is a popular representative of his family, which he has been identified with this community for so many years.

Mr. Hunter is a member of the Christian Church while his wife belongs to the Methodist Church. He is also a member of the Masonic Lodge at Loami, and of the I. O. O. F. No. 108 at Loami, and he and his wife are identified with the Order of the Eastern Star of that village.

HUNTER, Peter James, member of the wellknown Hunter family that has done so much in promoting the welfare and progress of Chatham Township, Sangamon County, was born in the township, April 24, 1882, a son of George W. and Rachel C. (Campbell) Hunter. (A more complete history of the family is to be found in the sketch of George W. Hunter, in a preceding section of this department.) Peter J. Hunter attended the district schools of his neighborhood, and when twelve years old enrolled himself in the public schools of Springfield and attended them during the next five section (18) of Chatham Township, as himself, April 30, 1882. She was a daughter of William Van Doren, a representative citizen of his community, still residing on his farm, and of whom may be found a sketch elsewhere in this work.

After marriage, Mr. Hunter settled on his farm on Section 3 of Chatham Township. In 1907, he and his wife took a pleasure trip to Colorado and New Mexico, then spent two years in the village of Chatham, and in the spring of 1910, returned to the farm, where they have a pleasant home, brightened by the presence of their two children: Emma R., born November 15, 1904, and Esther Eloise, May 1, 1908. For many years Mr. Hunter has been connected with the Christian Church, while his wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of Loami which he also attends. He is a member of the with the best interests of his community, and is always found ready to support any worthy public enterprise. In 1909, by solicitation of his friends, he was placed upon the Democratic ticket for the office of Supervisor, and although the townsnip is strongly Republican, he was elected by a fair majority and took his seat in June of that year. He has stood for a "fair deal for the people,' and has been one of the most useful members of the board. When the question came up of converting the county into a commission of three Judges, he voted that the people: be allowed to vote on this question. Personally, he is much opposed to the issue and has advanced many good reasons for his opposition to the commission plan.

Mr. Hunter is an intelligent farmer, and for the past three years has given much attention to breeding high-grade hogs. At the head of his herd, is the pure-bred Poland China "Banker Second,' champion at the Illinois State Fair, in 1909. Mr. Hunter has about fifty head of hogs on his farm at the present time. He owns 240 acres in his home place on Section 3, and also has 160 acres on Section 8 of Chatham Township. He has always been in favor of a good grade of horses and cattle, as well as hogs. His success attest the soundness of his judgment on agricultural matters.

HUNTER, William D., an enterprising young farmer and a business man of sound judgment, has recently purchased a fine farm in Section 12, Loami Township, Sangamon County, I., which he is stocking with high-grade cattle and hogs. Mr. Hunter has virtually had charge of his own affairs since he was twelve years of age, his father having died before he was born, and in this way he has acquired a degree of acumen and clear-sightedness not usually possessed by a man of his years. Mr. Hunter is a native of Sangamon County, born in Chatham Township, July 10, 1882, a son of George W. and Rachel Caroline (Campbell) Hunter, the former a native of Auburn Township, Sangamon County, and the latter of Chatham Township. A sketch of the father, to be found elsewhere in this volume, contains further history of the family.

The boyhood of William D. Hunter was spent on a farm and, after attending the district schools, he spent three years in the public schools of Springfield and took a course of six months in bookkeeping. After leaving school he went to live with his grandfather, Peter C. Campbell, and at the age of twelve years was entrusted with the responsibility of drawing a check against the bank account of the latter for personal expenses and given a voice in the transaction of all business in which he had a personal interest through property inherited by him. He remained on the farm until he was sixteen years of age, during that time superintending much of his grandfather's business, writing the leases of land which was rented out and on his own responsibility looking after large land interests.

August 31, 1909, Mr. Hunter married Miss Catherine Ramsey, who was born on the edge of Springfield, July 26, 1888, a daughter of Christopher M. and Catherine (Baskim) Ramsey, her father being deceased while the mother is still a resident of Springfield. Mr. Ramsey passed away June 4, 1909. He and his wife had four sons and one daughter, namely: Robert, of Springfield; Joseph and Chester, twins, the latter deceased; John, at home, and Mrs. Hunter. At the time of his marriage Mr. Hunter had sold his stock and prepared a pretty home on Allen Street, Springfield, for his bride, but after they had occupied it about six months, both decided they preferred country life. In February, 1910, he purchased his present farm of fifty-three acres in the northeast quarter of Section 12, Loami Township, for which he paid $208 per acre, the highest price ever paid for land in that vicinity. This is a well-improved and fertile farm and Mr. Hunter plans adding to its attractiveness and productiveness as time goes on. He is a most enterprising and energetic farmer and has made a special study of scientific methods and modern ideas. He is stocking his farm with Poland-China hogs and Jersey and Holstein cows. He has selected this breed of hogs after much deliberation, and his choice has been due to their superior quality as a food product and their early fitness for the market. He pays high prices in order to secure the best quality of stock for the market, is commended for his excellent judgment in embarking in this very profitable industry and holds a high reputation for honest dealing and integrity in business transactions. He owns 525 acres

Mr. Hunter is a member of the Christian Church, while his wife is a communicant of St. Pauls Pro-Cathedral in Springfield. In politics he is a Democrat, is popular among his neighbors and has many friends in various parts of Sangamon County.

HUNTER, Walter E. - The tendency of the age is toward specializing, experience having taught that through distinctive training along limited lines, the greatest measure of success is attained. There is no limit placed upon the work. Every line of activity is open to specialization, and one of those who has already made his name known in Illinois as a skilled trainer of horses, is Walter E. Hunter, one of the newer residents of Springfield. Mr. Hunter, whose place of business is located on South Fourth Street, was born in Hffingham, ` Il., August 11, 1877, the son of James and Mary (Toothacher ) Hunter. The father was born in Effingham County, Il., January 10, 1842, while his wife was born in the same locality, but died in 1893, at the age of thirty-five years. James Hunter served in the Civil War and located in Effingham County at an early day. This has continued to be his home ever since, and he has become prosperous as a farmer and stationary engineer. His work has won for him enviable distinction in his line of business, and he enjoys the respect and confidence of his associates.

Walter E. Hunter attended the schools of Effingham, and Champaign, finally taking the full course in veterinary surgery, at the Illinois State University. Prior to this he bad learned the baker's trade, at which he worked for eight years to earn the money for his university course. While at the university he decided upon becoming a horse trainer, and his success has justified his adoption of this profession. His experience has been wide and varied, and while in Effingham County he was easily a leader in his line, as he is in Sangamon since coming there. He had gained a good knowledge of horses on his father's farm in boyhood, and understands them thoroughly.

Mr. Hunter had an interesting experience as a soldier, serving as a non-commissioned officer for eighteen months in the Spanish-American War, in the Philippines, and was a brave and faithful soldier. He is a Presbyterian and has always been a Republican, but is not an office seeker. His fraternal affiliations are with the Modern Woodmen of America. Although he has left Effingham, Mr. Hunter is still interested in that city, for he owns considerable property there, and it was his home all his life before his location in Springfield.

HUNTINGTON, George Lathrop (deceased), for many years identified with the business life of Springfield, serving for two terms as Mayor of the city, was born in Norwich, Conn., in May, 1812, and died in Springfield, Ill., May 26, 1874.

He was a son of Jonathan and Anna (Lathrop) Huntington, both natives of Norwich, Conn. The ancestors of Mr. Huntington were prominent in New England in colonial times, having served in the colonial wars and also in the War of the Revolution.

Mr. Huntington received his education in Boston, Mass., and having a natural taste for music, received excellent training along this line and in the classics. He came west as a

Springfield, Ill., where for many years he conducted a similar business. He became interested in various other business enterprises, for a time being connected with the Great Western Railroad. He was also successful as a lumber merchant, displaying both business judgment and superior energy in caring for his financial interests, as a consequence accumulating considerable property, including city real estate and several farms in Sangamon County. Mr. Huntington took an actiye part in political affairs, being affiliated with the Democratic party, and the people of Springfield showed their appreciation, for two terms (1861-63) electing him to the office of Mayor, which he filled with ability and satisfaction. He always had at heart the progress and welfare of the city and assisted in laying out beautiful Oak Ridge Cemetery, which contains the tomb of Abraham Lincoln.

Mr. Huntington took great interest in various benevolent societies, and being a man of kindly disposition and generous instinct, contributed largely to private charities as well. He was a loving husband and father, a true and kind friend, and became a social leader. He was very fond of music and fond of other arts as well. He became Musical Director of the Philharmonic Society, and his home was the scene of many pleasant gatherings which were well remembered by those present. He was much beloved in social circles and was highly esteemed and respected as a citizen. His loss was felt keenly in many circles and he is still remembered by those who had the pleasure of his friendship as a man of more than usual talent and worth. He was a member of the Episcopal Church.

Mr. Huntington was married in St. Louis, Mo., to Hannah Flagg Forbes, daughter of Franklin and Clarissa (Nichols) Forbes, both natives of Boston, Mass. Nine children blessed their union, namely: Mary, died in infancy; Charles, a commander in the United States Navy; Alice, Emily, George, Clara; Ellen, widow of Thomas C. Henkle; Arthur and Leonora. Mrs. Huntington was noted for her personal beauty and intellectual attainments. She was a social favorite in all the great functions during the time of Abraham Lincoln. She died in 1893.

has lived in the neighborhood of his present home since 1867. He was born in Menard County, Ill., December 12, 1832, son of James K. and Malinda (Preston) Hurt, both natives of Kentucky, the former born in 1805 and the latter in 1808. The father was a farmer by occupation and came to Sangamon County in 1880, living for a short time on a farm north of Springfield, then moved to a farm near Athens, Menard County, where his death occurred in 1852, from cholera. His wife died at the age of eighty years. He was a soldier in the Black Hawk War. His parents and those of his wife were natives of Kentucky. Seven daughters and four sons were born to James K. Hurt and his wife, of whom two sons and three daughters survive: J. A., Justice of the Peace at Athens, Ill.; Frank, residing in Colorado; Julia Holland, living in Kansas; Adeline Peter, of Springfield; Maria Primm, of Athens.

David M. Hurt received his education in the country schools of Menard County, and after leaving school worked on the farm for his father. He learned the trade of cooper, at which he worked for some time, and he and his brother J. A. for four years conducted a brick business in Athens, just before the former enlisted in the Union Army. He enlisted at Athens, August 12, 1862, in Company K, One Hundred Sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, served three years, and was mustered out in July, 1865. He took part in several battles, among them the siege of Vicksburg and the battle at Little Rock, besides many skirmishes. At the close of the war Mr. Hurt returned to Athens and in 1867 purchased a farm near Illiopolis, where he lived many years, then retired from active work and located in Illiopolis. He was an enterprising and industrious farmer and won a very fair degree of success. He has erected a comfortable home in Illiopolis and is enjoying the fruits of his years of hard work. He is a Republican in politics and cast his first Presidential vote for Fillmore and his second for Lincoln. He served eighteen years as School Director in Athens, and also served as Commissioner of Highways. He is Commander of Morgan Post No. 208, G. A. R., and has been its Chaplain several terms. He has belonged to the Methodist Church fifty years, and is Trustee of the organization in Illiopolis.

Mr. Hurt was married, in Athens, to Susan Tice, a native of Menard County, whose parents came there from Virginia in an early day, and lived on a farm until their deaths. Her parents lived to an advanced age. Mrs. Hurt died in May, 1900, having been a faithful and loving wife and mother. Children were born to her as follows: Edwin N., a farmer of Illiopolis Township; Luella, deceased; Minnie lives with her father. Edwin N.' Hurt has four children: Ruth, Pauline, Lora and David N. Mr. Hurt owns his present home and a farm in Illiopolis Township.

IDE, Albert L. (deceased). - No compendium such as the province of this work defines in its essential limitations, will serve to offer a fit memorial to the life and accomplishments of the honored subject of this sketch, a man who was remarkable in the breadth of his wisdom, in his indomitable perseverance, his strong individuality, and yet one whose entire life had not one esoteric phase, being an open scroll, inviting the closest scrutiny. True, his were "massive deeds and great" in one sense, and yet his entire life accomplishment but represents the result of the fit utilization of the innate talent which was his, and the directing of his efforts in those lines where mature judgment and rare discrimination led the way. There was in Mr. Ide a weight of character, a native sagacity, a far-seeing judgment and a fidelity of purpose that commanded the respect of all. A man of indefatigable enterprise and fertility of resources, he carved his name deeply on the record of the commercial and business history of the State, which owes much if its advancement to his efforts.

The name of Albert L. Ide, is familiar in mechanical circles throughout the civilized world for his designing, co1structing and perfecting a high-speed automatic engine for electric lighting purposes, and at the time of his death was connected with many business and financial enterprises in Springfield, Ill. He was at that time the senior partner and original founder of the firm of A. L. Ide & Sons, proprietors of the Ide Engine Works, at Springfield; President of the Springfield Electric Light & Power Company; a Director of the Ridgely National Bank, and a Director of the Springfield Consolidated Railway Company. The Ide Engine Works reached phenomenal success and secured world-wide reputation under his able management, selling the finished product in many foreign countries, as well as throughout the United States. He was a natural genius, a mechanic of the highest order, and met success aS a business man, an inventor and a manufacturer. He was the first steam fitter who established himself in business in Springfield and one of his larger contracts was the fitting of the present State Capitol with heating facilities.

Mr. Ide became a resident of Sangamon County in 1843 and was long accounted a leading citizen and representative business man of Springfield. He was one who, under the pressure of necessity and the stimulus of competition, rose to prominence in trade circles in Central Illinois, and in his career exemplified the fact that no country offers the advantages to its citizens as great as those furnished by America. Unhampered by caste or class, the people of this land may rise through the inherent force of character and the exercise of indomitable industry to positions of power and influence, and thus it was that Mr.

Ide became one of the leading representatives of industrial life in Springfield and won the proud American title of a self-made man. The Ide family of which he was a representative, was founded in Vermont in colonial days and was afterward established in Ohio. In the latter State the subject of this sketch was born March 20, 1841, his parents being Harrison and Mary (Stockdale) Ide. The father, also a native of the Buckeye State, came to Sangamon County in 1848, settling on a farm near Williamsville. He there carried on agricultural pursuits through the summer months and in winter season engaged in teaching school. He resided in Sangamon County several years, but there was something attractive to him in pioneer life, as he took pleasure in claiming wild land and improving it for purposes of civilization. This induced him to move farther west, and he went to Sanford, Iowa, where he purchased land and began its development, there carrying on agricultural pursuits until his death. The mother of the subject of this sketch had died in Springfield, and the father was afterward married a second time, his union then being with Mrs. Reynolds, who is also deceased.

Albert L. Ide acquired his education in the country schools, which were taught by his father near Williamsville. He was about two years of age when brought to the county and he made his home continuously in this locality until called to his final rest. When he had completed his education he entered upon his business career aS an apprentice in the machinist's trade in Springfield, the trend of his mind and his native powers all tending in this direction. An incident of his early life showing this is related. While his parents were attending church one Sunday, Mr. Ide, then a small boy, amused himself by boring a hole in a stick of wood, fitting it with a chamber and touch hole, and used this toy cannon by loading it with powder and firing it off in the house. However, the cannon exploded and the flying pieces damaged the plaster of the ceiling, and he was trying to repair it when his parents returned. He also took considerable pride and pleasure in repairing the neighbors' clocks. At the age of fifteen years Mr. Ide entered the shop of Campbell & Richardson, in Springfield, as an apprentice, and as they built steam engines for saw and grist-mills, he thus became familiar with the work which engaged so much of his attention in later life.

At the first call for troops by President Lincoln, Mr. Ide enlisted in the Seventh Illinois Infantry and, at the close of his term of service, became drill master at Camp Butler, remaining in that post one year, when he reenlisted and was chosen Major of the Thirtysecond Illinois Infantry, finally being honorably discharged for disability after a severe attack of typhoid fever. i ing up a few hundred dollars, with which capital he purchased an interest in the jewelry business of Henry C. Meyers, of which he ultimately became the sole owner. After the war he superintended the building and equipment of the Springfield City Railway Fifth Street Line and became President of the company.

In 1870 Mr. Ide engaged in the steam-fitting business in Springfield, and soon after secured the contract for furnishing the heating apparatus for the new capitol building. In 1876 he purchased from the city the Market House property at the corner of Fifth and Madison Streets, and equipped a more complete and extensive machine shop and foundry than he had before been able to own, and this became the nucleus of the present engine works plant. Many of the largest public institutions of Illinois have been fitted with heating and ventilating systems by Mr. Ide. About 1880 his attention became centered upon efforts which were being made to perfect and introduce a commercial and practicable system of electric lighting, and in the interests of this enterprise Mr. Ide visited Mr. Edison, at Menlo Park, to witness results which had there been accomplished. He discovered that the greatest difficulty encountered was in regulating and goyerning the engines furnishing the power jo that this would not fluctuate and cause unsteadiness, pulsation and variation of the intensity of light furnished. In the next few years he accomplished much in studying the leading engines of the country, their use in connection with lighting plants and their various attachments and appliances for regulating power. His subsequent designing, experimenting, and perfecting of his engine resulted in the present product of the plant at which he spent so many active years. Besides the governing mechanism, he developed for his engines a self-oiling system, and in 1886, when he had completed his invention, his engine was named the "Ideal," after the surname of the inventor, with his initials added. This engine rapidly became popular in the trade, and various improvements were afterward added and patented. The trade constantly grew, commanding an enlargement of the plant, and today it is the largest enterprise of the kind in this part of the State. Mr. Ide continved in business up to the time of his demise, when he was also connected with other industries and enterprises of the City.

Albert D. Ide married Miss Adelaide Pierce, who was born in New York, and was the daughter of Simeon Pierce, who followed farming throughout his entire career, and died in Cass County, Va. Five children were born of this union: Harry L., who is a member of the firm of A. L. Ide & Sons; Albert who resides in Chicago; Francis P. and Roy W., who are also connected with the engine manufacturing business; and Chester E., a teacher of music, in Springfield. j

Mr. Ide passed away on the 6th of September, 1897. He had never taken a very active interest in politics, but voted the Republican ticket. He was a member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Stephenson Post G. A. R., and attended the Second Presbyterian Church. Causes of local improvement elicited his attention and co-operation, and in matters of citizenship he was always progressive and public-spirited. In a busness career of industry, integrity and success, he made for himself an honorable name, never incurring an obligation that he did not fulfill or making an engagement that he did not meet. He came to enjoy, in large measure, the respect and confidence of his employes, as well as his acquaintances of social life, and his death, therefore, was deeply regretted by a wide circle of friends. His widow resides in a beautiful home at No. 1515 North Third Street and the sons all own fine residences in that neighborhood.

IDE, Henry, an enterprising and progressive German-American citizen of Springfield, Ill., now living retired from active life and enjoying the rest he has so well earned by years of hard work, has been a resident of Springfield since 1866. He was born in Hessen, Germany, April 28, 1828, the son of John and Mary (Gottschalk) Ide, both natives of Germany. The father was a farmer by occupation and served nineteen years in the German Army. In later life he conducted a large sheep ranch, and died at the advanced age of one hundred eight years. He and his wife spent their entire lives in Germany and she died at the age of ninety-five years. They were parents of ten sons and four daughters, of whom all are deceased except Henry, the subject of this sketch. Henry Ide received his education in his native town, attending school until he was fourteen years old, then went to Prussia and drove a team on a pike road there nineteen years. In March, 1859, he sailed from Bremen for America, landing in New Orleans after having spent forty-nine days on the ocean voyage. He came direct to Illinois and worked on a farm near Peoria until 1864, and in that year married Miss Emma Schmidt, of Peoria. He and his wife then moved to Alabama, where he owned and conducted a cotton plantation two years. Mrs. Ide died in 1866 and Mr. Ide then came back to Illinois, taking up the occupation of farming in Sangamon County.

Mr. Ide was married (second) December 19, 1892, to Mrs. Catherine Sauer, who was born in Germany and came to America in 1867, sailing from Bremen to Hull, England, and thence to New York on a sailing vessel. Her birth occurred in 1843 and she was married before leaving Germany, to Frederick Sauer, who died in 1890. She has lived in Springfield the last thirty-three years. No children were born to Mr. Ide by either marriage. Upon first coming to Springfield Mr. Ide drove an ice wagon for the Stiffler Ice Company, then worked fifteen years for the rolling mills, after which he car- ried on farming and teaming sixteen years. He still owns a farm near Springfield besides his home at 1516 Hast Edwards Street, where he has lived for nineteen years.

Mr. Ide is a member of the German Lutheran Trinity Church and in politics is a Democrat. He has been industrious and thrifty all his life and is respected for his honesty and integrity of character. He is well advanced in years but is active and well and enjoys the society of his friends.

ILES, Washington Thomas. - There are a number of farmers of Sangamon County who have lived through the various changes in agricultural life, emerging from the time when everything was done in the crudest fashion and the farmer never expected to earn more than a mere living, to the present when operations are conducted along scientific lines, and the man who tills the soil is thoroughly business-like in every respect. One of these men who has become wellto-do as a farmer, and still owns some of the valuable farm land here, is Washington Thomas Iles, residing on Section 14,. Woodside Township. He was born in Springfield, April 5, 1883, a son of Washington and Ann (Foster) Iles.

Washington Iles, Sr., was born in Kentucky, July 18, 1800, and married in that State. They had nine children, three of whom survive: Anna E., born in 1830, married William H. Bourne, is now a resident of Springfield, her husband being deceased; Elijah Foster Iles, born in 1888, is also a resident of Springfield ; and Washington T. Iles. Having enlisted in the Black Hawk War, Washington Iles was impressed with the richness and beauty of Sangamon County through which he passed, and so returned, coming up the Sangamon River on the steamer Talisman, the only steamer ever run on it. He located in Springfield, becoming the owner of a large acreage of land in and about the city. His brother, Major Elijah Iles, donated the land for South Park, and also that used by the Wabash Railroad Company for their Springfield car shops. This public-spirited and patriotic man died near Springfield, July 4, 1871, and his wife August 25, 1866.

Washington Thomas Iles was educated in the Sangamon County schools and here laid a firm foundation for his future life. Adopting farming as a calling, he has followed it all his life, now owning 280 acres in Sections 13 and 14, Woodside Township.

Mr. Iles was married in Butler County, Ky., in 1867, to Emma Jones, born in Bath County, Ky.. April 4, 1844, a daughter of James and Malinda (Robinson) Jones, and they became the parents of five children as follows: Julia J.; Linnie L., wife of John Norris, born July 14, 1869; Benjamin B., born May 28, 1872; William, born in February, 1874; and George, born April 6, 1879, is deceased. From 1887 to 1890 Mr. Iles was a member of the Grangers and enjoyed his associations with his fellow farmers. He has al- ways been a good farmer, and has developed his land until it is now extremely valuable. Hardworking and thrifty, he has known how to make his labor count for something, and he stands very high in his community as a man in whom implicit trust can be placed by those who have business dealings with him.

INGLEDEW, Thomas, a well-known florist living at 1227 Phillips Avenue, Springfield, is a native of Bristol, Somersetshire, England, born April 29, 1841. He is a son of Thomas and Mary (Kemm) Ingledew, the former of whom was a commercial traveler in the employ of a London wholesale tea house, and' when his son was a small boy lived five years near Dublin, Ireland. When the boy was seven years of age the family moved to London, and there he received his education, through private tutors.

In May, 1865, Thomas Ingledew came to the United States, landing in New York when the city was draped in mourning for President Lincoln. He lived in New York and Brooklyn for ten years, being employed as hotel clerk and in various other capacities, such as street car conductor, etc., and in 1866 was there married to Miss Mary Ryan, who died in New York. In 1886 Mr. Ingledew located in Springfield, which has been his home ever since. He is honest and industrious and has filled many different positions. He has been in his present business since 1901 and has met with fair success in this line. He is an energetic and faithful worker and an excellent manager, and owns his home at 1227 Phillips Avenue.

Mr. Ingledew has formed many friendships and is popular with his associates. He was married (second) in Springfield, in 1886, to Miss Nettie Miller, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Gabel) Miller, old settlers of Sangamon County and natives of Kentucky. Mr. Miller was a '"'Forty-niner"' and died in California, and Mrs. Miller in Springfield, Tl. They had four children. Mr. and Mrs. Ingledew have one daughter, Mary E., who married B. F. Best. Mr. Ingledew is a member of the Episcopal Church and in politics is a Democrat.

It is supposed this family is of Scotch descent, and that their emigrant ancestor was one of a family that came from Edinburg to Philadelphia, Pa., about 1690 or 1700. The sons and daughters moved to different parts of the country, and one descendant, who lived in Pennsylvania, James Ingels, married Mrs. Catherine (Boone) Dehart, cousin or niece of Daniel Boone, and they moved to Bourbon County, Ky., in 1785.

Nathaniel H. Ingels was married, October 2, 1860, to Sarah Bell Lockridge, who was born January 1, 1841, and they became parents of children as follows: Sarah Parmelia, born September 27, 1861; William B., born April 20, 1863; Henry G., born January 15, 1865; Frederick L., born April 17, 1866; John A., born May 13, 1869; Jessy N., born February 17, 1872.

INGRAM, James. - The present generation can have no conception of the spirit which moved the brave boys of the early 'sixties and sent them off to the front to fight in defense of their country. Only those who went through those trying days know anything about these matters. One of the veterans of Sangamon County, now living retired at No. 1906 South Grand Avenue, Springfield, is James Ingram. He was born in Putnam County, Ind., August 7, 1845, a son of Robert and Margaret (Miller) Ingram, natives of Kentucky and Indiana respectively. The father was a cooper who came from Kentucky to Indiana at an early day, settling near Terre Haute, where he followed his trade, this continuing to be his home until his death. His wife is also deceased. There were five sons and two daughters in the family, those surviving being: James; Oliver of Cuba, Ill., and two sisters living. in Oklahoma.

James Ingram was educated in Indiana, and when still a boy, worked in a spoke and hub factory in Vermont, following this occupation for several years, or until he felt that his services were needed by his country. When only nineteen years of age, he enlistd from Fulton County, Ill., in Company D, One Hundred and Fifty-first Illinois Volunteer Infantry, serving under Colonel Woodall. His regiment was first stationed at Columbus, Ga., being on guard duty the greater part of the time. -Returning to

Camp Butler, he was discharged, and went back to Fulton County, having done his duty as a soldier. From then until 1907, he followed his trade in Fulton County, but in that year retired coming to Springfield, but is still the owner of property in Fulton County. While living in Fulton County, he was a member of the Joe Hooker Post, G. A. R., and is still a member of Astoria Lodge, I. O. O. F. He has always been a Democrat.

Mr. Hoffman was married in Schuyler County, Ill., in 1875, to Miss Mary Wallace, born in that county, where her parents were early settlers, and he worked at his trade of cabinet making until his death. Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Ingram: Edward, living with his father, and engaged in mining; Inez, at home; Robert and Clyde, both miners; Bruce, William and Walter, all at home. There are two grandchildren in the family. Mr. Ingram is one of the reliable and substantial citizens of his community, whose probity and general kindliness of character have won him respect and confidence.

INSLEE, N. J., a highly respected farmer who owns an estate on Section 5, Cotton Hill Township, Sangamon County, is the only one now surviving of the six children of Joseph and Sarah (Pease) Inslee, and was born six miles south of the city of Springfield, Ill., December 31, 1882. The father was born in October, 1796, and he and his wife were both natives of the State of New York. Joseph Inslee and wife came to Sangamon County in 1818 and located about six miles south of Springfield, where they spent the remainder of their lives. His death occurred in the year 1868 or 1870. He was a blacksmith by trade and he and his wife had four sons and one daughter, all deceased except Newton. Joseph Inslee served three months in the Black Hawk War. The only daughter of this family lived near Mineral Point, Wis. The family were among the earliest settlers of Sangamon County and have always been considered among the most useful and public-spirited citizens of the county. The subject of this sketch has always been ready to promote any cause for the general welfare and has a patriotic feeling for his native county.

In boyhood N. J. Inslee worked on the farm for his father, and when he could be spared attended school in the old log building which is still standing, and which was then fitted with primitive log benches and desks. At the age of eighteen years he took up the occupation of farming on his own account and has since followed it. His first independent farming was done on a farm southwest of what is now known as New City, where he spent three years, and in 1866 he located on his farm, which he purchased in 1865. He owns forty-one and one-half acres of fertile land, which he has developed into an excellent farm, and is known as a kind neighbor and desirable citizen. He is reasonably proud of his family, as is in every way proper, and in his own life has endeavored

Mr. Inslee was married in Sangamon County, May 16, 1852, to Eliza A. Keyes, daughter of Isaac and Mary Keyes, natives of Ohio, who came to Sangamon County in a very early day and located near where Mr. Inslee now lives. The father died there a comparatively young man and the mother died at somewhere near the same time. Five children have been born to Mr. Inslee and wife, three of whom now survive: Mary, wife of John M. Walker, of Sangamon County; Melissa, wife of William T. Dodd, was born in 1858; and they live in the State of Washington; Joseph W., born April 1, 1859, at home. Mrs. Walker was born in 1860, There are seven grandchildren in the family. During the Civil War Mr. Inslee was a meniber of the Union League. He is a member of the Christian Church, which he joined in 1870. He is a Republican in politics and in 1860 voted for Abraham Lincoln. He was elected School Director in 1858 and held the office two years.

IRWIN, Adolphus Quintin. - The financial standing of a community depends upon the solidity of its banking institutions, and as a result the officers of these institutions must be men of upright character and business reputation. Adolphus Quintin Irwin, Cashier of the Pleasant Plains State Bank, President of the Building and Loan Association, belongs to a family that has long been connected with the financial, business and political life of Sangamon County. He was born in Cartwright Township, December 30, 1864, a son of Amos Dick and Rebecca J. (Plunkett) Irwin, and a grandson of Robert S. and Ruth (Combs) Plunkett, pioneers of Sangamon County who located here in 1820 from North Carolina. The Irwin family is also an old one in Ilinois, where the general occupation of the family has been that of farming. Mr. Irwin's grandfather was a member of the company commanded by Abraham Lincoln during the Black Hawk War, and was intimately connected with the early history of the State. Adolphus Q. Irwin spent his boyhood on the home farm, going with his parents to Kansas when about five years of age and returning to the farm in 1870. In 1872 the family moved to the village, where Mr. Irwin attended the public school, and in October, 1882, he accepted a position as clerk in a grocery store, later taking charge of the books, and eventually becoming confidential clerk and book-keeper. He continued in that position until 1887, when he took a position as clerk in the grocery store of McCullough Brothers, No. 124 North Fifth Street, Springfield, later becoming book-keeper and finally head clerk. He remained with that concern until June, 1891, when on account of illness he went home, and after recuperating accepted a position in a general store. In 1892 he went West, where he remained for one year, and on his return 'commenced agricultural operations, with his brother as a partner, so con- tinuing for two years, when he went to work for William Lynd, a grocery merchant. In 1896 the stock was sold to John Lehmann, with whom Mr. Irwin continued until the fall of 1904, and in 1905 he accepted a position as book-keeper in the Greene Bank, of Tallula, a private institution. He had full charge of the books there until June, 1906, when he was tendered the position of Cashier of the Pleasant Plains State Bank, which he accepted, and the bank was then incorporated as a State institution with the following officers: A. Atherton, President; J. H. Irwin, Vice-president ; A, Q. Irwin, Cashier; E. J. Atherton, Assistant Cashier; and A. Atherton, J. H. Irwin, W. S. Rearick, J. F. Tomlin, Isaac F. Tomlin and A. Q. Irwin, Directors. The bank's cash capital is $30,000, and the deposits run as high as $150,000, showing that the people have entire confidence in the institution under its present management.

On June 25, 1903, Mr. Irwin was united in marriage with Frances M. Griffin, who was born in Pleasant Plains July 4, 1876, a daughter of William B. and Malinda (Farris) Griffin, the latter of whom is deceased. Mr. Griffin came from Ohio at an early day and located in Pike County Ill., there carrying on his trade of life, since which time he has made his home with his daughter, Mrs. W. S. Hinsley, in Pleasant Plains. Mr. and Mrs. Irwin had one child, Francis Q. Irwin, born April 25, 1905, and on May 12th of that year Mrs. Irwin died. She was a leading member of the Presbyterian Church, while Mr. Irwin is affiliated with the Christian denomination. In political matters he is a Republican and for some years has been a member of the Village Board of Trustees. For many years he was Secretary of the Building and Loan Association, and in July, 1906, was elected President of that body. In addition to his various other operations he farms a tract of 110 acres of fine land.

IRWIN, James H., a farmer residing on Section 8, Cartwright Township, and Vice-President of the Pleasant Plains State bank, was born on his present farm, two miles east of Pleasant Plains on the Beardstown Road, Noy. 25, 1855, a son of Alexander Blackstone Irwin and Jane (Broadwell) Irwin. His father was born in Cabarrus County, N. C., February 7, 1814, and was a son of Samuel Lynn and Rachel (Hudson) Irwin.

Samuel Lynn Irwin was born June 6, 1779, in Cabarrus County, N. C., and his wife, Rachel Hudson, in Rockingham County, Va., October 15, 1785. The latter was taken by an uncle to Cabartus County, N. C., where she and Samuel Lynn Irwin were married, September 23, 1802. They had ten living children born to them in North Carolina, and in the fall of 1818, with their family, moved to the part of Tennessee then called the Cherokee Purchase, where one child, Robert T. Irwin, was born. Samuel Lynn Irwin came to Illinois in 1819 and staked out a claim on land which is now located in the northeast part of Pleasant Plains. He then went back to Tennessee to bring his wife and children to the new home that he had found, and returning arrived with his family on April 20, 1820. Upon his return he found John B. Broadwell occupying on his claim, having settled during Mr. Irwin's temporary absence, so' Mr Irwin went two miles farther down Richland Creek and took another claim, which is now known as the B. Lee Purvines farm, where he lived until his death on March 1, 1854 His widow died July 6, 1867 The children of Samuel Lynn and Rachel Irwin were: Hannah, born July 11, 1803, died August 30, 1880; Mary, born January 10, 1805, died October 20, 1852; Jane C., born January 26, 1806, died January 15, 1832; Deborah, born November 7, 1807, died November 26, 1852; William C., born February 7, 1809, died in 1851; Nancy, born October 2, 1810, died December 17, 1824; Hugh B., born August 30, 1812, died October 18, 1852; Alexander B., born February 7, 1814, died September 2, 1894; Rachal, born March 26, 1816, died in 1852; Matilda B., born February 13, 1818, died September 11, 1879; Robert Travis, born March 7, 1820, died April 10, 1908; Benjamin F., born May 18, 1822, died January 30, 1902; Julius H., born July 22, 1824, died October 5, 1875; James C., born May 6, 1827, died March 18, 1886; and John M., born April 24, 1829, died January 31, 1902. Alexander B. Irwin married Cynthelia Broadwell daughter of John B. Broadwell, October 18, 1838, and settled upon what is now the James H. Irwin farm, where he spent the remainder of his life, with the exception of the last few years, during which time he lived in Pleasant Plains. To this union were born five children: Amos Dick, born October 12, 1839, still living; John B., born March 27, 1841, was wounded in the Civil War at the battle of Corinth, Miss., October 4, 1862, and died of his wounds at Jackson, Tenn., March 20, 1863; Betsy Jane, born April 1, 1848, still living; Samuel P., born Webruary 22, 1845 still living; and Hardin, born April 9, and died August 7, 1847. Cynthelia B. Irwin died August 10, 1847, and Alexander B. Irwin married her sister Jane S. (Broadwell) Seaman, February 28, 1855. To this union were born four children: James Henry, born November 25, 1855 ; Arabel] Albertha, born July 30, 1857, still living at Pleasant Plains; Adah Rachel, born April 16, 1859, now living at San Diego, Cal.; and Maggie Stella, born September 25, 1861 also living at San Diego, Cal. Jane S., Mr. Irwin's second wife, was born December 19, 1817, and died January 3, 1893. Alexander B. Irwin was a prosperous farmer and auctioneer, having cried sales throughout the central part of Illinois. He was an ardent worker for the cause of prohibition, and during the later years of his life was prominent upon the platform at picnics and Old Settlers' Meetings. He was a man widely known, kind hearted, and universally respected. James H. Irwin received his education in the district school of his neighborhood, and in the Springfield Business College, remaining on the farm assisting his father until his marriage, at which time his father moved to Pleasant Plains. On April 25, 1883, James H. Irwin was united in marriage, in Sangamon County to Mary Etta Purvines, who was born in Menard County, November 25, 1862, a daughter of Green Lee Purvines, a history of whom appears elsewhere in this work. To them five sons were born: Oramel Blackstone, born March 11, 1884, graduated from the University of Michigan Law School, and is now practicing law at Springfield, I11.; Harry Clyde, born November 19, 1885, attended the University of Illinois Agricultural College, married Delle B. Boynton, daughter of E. D. Boynton, of Pleasant Plains, December 8, 1909, and now resides on a farm at Scranton, Iowa; Emory Quinton, born October 10, 1887, attended the Illinois Agricultural College, married October 20, 1910, Lillian Thompson, the daughter of Z. Thompson of Petersburg, Il., and now resides on a farm in Menard County, Illinois; Scott Broadwell, born November 16, 1889, graduated from Springfield High School, and now living at home with his parents; and George Purvines, born July 14, 1894 and now attending Springfield High School. Mr. Irwin has given his sons a good education, striving to fit them for any position they may be called upon to fill. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Irwin located on the old Irwin homestead where he has since made many improvements and where they still live. In 1901 he erected a commodious dwelling, fitting it up in a thoroughly modern manner. His farm has developed very materially under his efficient management, until it is one of the best in that part of the State. He is also engaged in breeding thoroughbred Poland-China hogs and Hereford cattle. He has found time in the midst of his agricultural duties to fulfill his obligations as a member of the Christian Church, to which he and all the members of his family belong. He is one of eight substantial men who organized the Pleasant Plains State Bank, in 1879, being elected its first Vice President and still retaining that position. His fraternal relations are with the Masonic Order and the Modern Woodmen of America of Pleasant Plains, while his wife belongs to the Eastern Star and the Woman's Club. She is active in these organizations and also in church and missionary work. In politics Mr. Irwin is a Republican, and although not a seeker for public office, is ever solicitous for the success of his party. Thrifty, hard-working, never neglecting a duty or shirking an obligation, Mr and Mrs. Irwin have endeavored to rear their children to be useful members of society, and are people of whom any community may well be proud.

ISHMAEL, Frederick Worth Peden, a successful and well-known real estate dealer of Springfield, was born in Illinois, and is a son of William W. and Adeline (Peden) Ishmael, the father a broker,

Frederick W. P. Ishmael received his education in the public schools of Illinois. He received good business training and experience, and engaged in business on his own account, building up a successful enterprise. Although still a young man, he has shown himself to possess business acumen and good judgment, and has a reputation for honest methods and upright dealing. He takes a commendable interest in public affairs and is ready to do his share in building up public enterprises. In political views he is a Republican. He is a member of the Business Men's Association, of Springfield, also of the Order of Red Men. His religious affiliation is with the Grace Lutheran Church,

Mr. Ishmael was married, in Springfield, February 1, 1909, to Miss Catherine Haynes, who was born in Springfield, December 22, 1884, daughter of Archimedes and Anna Haynes. One son has blessed this union Hughes William, born September 18, 1909. Mr. Ishmael has won many friends among his business and fraternal associates,

JACKAWAY, William, a retired farmer, living northeast of Springfield, in Clear Lake Township, Sangamon County, was born in Pike County, Ill, June 5, 1840, son of John B. and Sarah Jackaway the former born in Illinois and the latter in Ohio. Both parents are deceased, the father having passed away at Sherman, Ill., and the mother at Webster City, Iowa. Mr. Jackaway's grandfather was an old settler of Ohio and participated in the War of 1812. William Jackaway received his education in the subscription schools of Logan County, Ill., where his parents lived ona farm. Upon leaving school he took up farming and made it his life work. As a boy he moved with his parents to Iowa, later returned to Illinois went thence to Missouri, then back to Illinois, where he afterwards made his home.

In June, 1861, Mr. Jackaway enlisted, at Young America, Henderson County, Ill., in Company D, Fifty-ninth Illinois Infantry under Captain H. E. Payne. This regiment was originally the Ninth Missouri, although recruited wholly in Illinois. It was organized at St. Louis in September, 1861, and the name changed to the Fifty-ninth Illinois in February, 1862, by order of the War Department. Mr. Jackaway re-enlisted, at Whiteside, Tenn., in the same company and regiment, under Captain James Johnson, serving to the end of the war and being mustered out in October, 1865. He participated in the Battles of Pea Ridge, Stone River, Crab Orchard, Perryville, Chickamauga and many other hard-fought engagements. He was at Lookout Mountain with Gen. Hooker, also fought at Missionary Ridge in the Atlanta Campaign, was captured at the Battle of Jonesboro, Ga., taken to Andersonville Prison and held there seven months and eight days, being liberated when the war was over. In the Battle of Franklin (Tenn.), Mr. Jackaway was wounded on the top of his head by a saber, left on the battlefield for dead and taken to Knoxville, Tenn., by the Confederates, who captured him, and held there seven months. He was mustered out at

Camp Butler, near Springfield, Ul, having proven a brave and faithful soldier in every way. At the close of the war he resumed farming and is highly respected by all who know him for a man of strict honesty, integrity and industry.

Mr. Jackaway was married at Williamsville, Sangamon County, to Miss Sarah E. Richard, born in Pike County, Ill., January 14, 1847, daughter of John and Levisa (Coon) Richard, natives of Ohio. Mr. Jackaway and his wife were married December 14, 1865, and became parents of children as follows: John M., born October 16, 1866; William L., March 17, 1868; George J., 1871; Sarah, August 18, 1876; Lillie M., 1878; Mary E., 1885. Mr. Jackaway and his wife are members of the Baptist Church and in politics he is a Republican. He is a member of the G. A, R,

JACKSON, Charles, a member of the Springfield Fire Department, is a native of Jersey County, Ill., born October 15, 1841. He is a son of George and Elizabeth (Brown) Jackson, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of South Carolina. The father was a farmer by occupation and was an early settler of Jersey County, where he spent the last forty years of his life, and the mother died at Jerseyville. They were parents of three sons and seven daughters, and three of their children now survive: Charles is the oldest; Emily, Mrs. Daniels, lives at Jerseyville; George, also of Jersey- Ville, is Superintendent for the Bell Telephone Company there. The father was educated at West Point.

In boyhood Charles Jackson attended school in Jerseyville, where one of his teachers was a brother of ex-Gov. John M. Palmer. After completing his education he learned the trade of engineer, which he followed at Jerseyville, and when the war broke out he was working as engineer in a distillery there. He enlisted from that city in Company C, Sixty-first Illinois Volunteer Infantry, which was under the command of Col, Fry, and participated in the Battles of Corinth, Parkers Cross Roads, Vicksburg and Shiloh, besides minor engagements. He was mustered out at Springfield.

After the war Mr. Jackson returned to Jerseyville, where he remained until 1866 and then came to Springfield. He first took a position as engineer in a paper mill, where he remained five years, then worked eleven years for the Springfield Woolen Mills. He later worked one year as engineer for the Roberts Laundry Company and one year in the Franklin Building. For the past two years he has been in the employ of the City Fire Department as watchman. He owns the home he occupies and also property in Jerseyville, and is a substantial, reliable citizen. In politics he is a Democrat and he is a member of Stephenson Post No. 30, G. A. R., of Springfield, and Camp No. 454, M. W. A. He is a member of St. Agnes Parish Roman Catholic Church, í

Mr. Jackson was married at Jerseyville May 17, 1864, to Annie McBride, who was born in the north of Ireland, daughter of Charles and Rose McBride, natives of that country. Her father eventually settled in Springfield and both he and his wife lived with Mr. and Mrs. Jackson the last years before their deaths. There were several children in the McBride family, all of whom are now deceased. Mrs. Jackson died January 7, 1911, sincerely mourned by a large circle of friends. No children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Jackson.

JACKSON, John A. (deceased), an honored veteran of the Civil War and for some years a resident near Sherman, Sangamon County, carried-on farming in that county for more than thirty years and was well regarded as a useful, patriotic citizen. Mr. Jackson was born in the northern part of Pennsylvania, October 6, 1833, both his parents being also natives of that State. The father, John Jackson, was a farmer and both he and his wife spent their entire lives in Pennsylvania. They were parents of three sons and three daughters,

The country schools of Pennsylvania furnished Mr. Jackson his education and, after his school days, he helped his father on the home farm until coming to Illinois in 1859, he located near LeRoy, McLean County, and there engaged in farming, remaining several years. He then spent a short time in the city of Springfield, but later moved to a farm northeast of the city, where he successfully conducted a farm for thirty years and where he spent the last years of his life.

During the early part of the Civil War Mr. Jackson enlisted at Bloomington in Company F, Ninety-fourth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, in which he served three years, participating in many battles, including the notable siege of Vicksburg and battle of Corinth. He was once wounded but did not return home until the close of his term, when he spent some years in McLean County. He was a member of the G. A. R., and in politics was a Republican; he was a Methodist in religious faith, and both he and his wife became active and useful members of the church organization at Sherman. A man of conscientious, reliable character, he endeavored to discharge his full obligations in all relations of life, thus winning the regard and confidence of all with whom he was associated.

Mr. Jackson was married at Bloomington, Ill., August 18, 1860, to Mary J. Ramey, born in Ohio, December 3, 1843, a daughter of John Ramey and wife, both natives of that State. The parents became early settlers of McLean County and lived near Bloomington several years, then moved northeast of Springfield and there resided until their deaths. They were parents of six sons and two daughters, of whom the following are now surviving: James, of Delphi, Ind.; William, of Gibson City, Ill.; John, living on a farm north of Springfield; Edward and George of Springfield; Mrs. Jackson of Sherman, Ill. One son was born to Mr. Jackson and wife, Alfred P., of Sherman, in the employ of the Chicago & Alton Railroad Company, who married Miss Nancy Hamrick, a native of Illinois, and they have three children: Andrew D., Ethel D. and Violet L. Mr. Jackson died in 1901 and his widow now lives in Sherman where she shares a comfortable home owned by her son.

JACOBS, James A., one of the oldest nativeborn residents of Sangamon County, Ill., was born on Section 24, Loami Township, August 4, 1829, a son of Daniel Jacobs, who came to America from Germany when two years of age, and was reared in Kentucky, where his parents settled. His father died young and the boy was afterward bound out to a man named Daniel Spore, with whom he remained until he reached his majority. His birth occurred in Germany in 1795 and he was brought to America in 1797, the family remaining for a short time in Maryland, after which they removed to Kentucky. When he was twenty-one years old Daniel Jacobs married Charlotte Webb, a native of Clark County, and in 1825 they came to Sangamon County, Ill. Arriving in the fall they camped out for about two weeks, when they purchased a claim of eighty acres from an Indian. Mr. Jacobs paid $40 for this land, which contained a small cabin, and into this the family moved late in the same fall. After he had made this purchase, his money being exhausted, the family lived for a time mostly on wild game. He finally procured a load of corn from a Mr. Black, a Kentuckian, who lived on Sugar Creek, and was told to call at any time for corn for feed for his animals or for himself, until he could break land and raise a crop. Mr. Jacobs began improving his farm the next spring, and as five acres had been cleared before he came into possession, he was able to plant early in the following spring.

James A. Jacobs was born in the little cabin on the home farm, and his father entered more land, finally owning 120 acres at one time. In 1831 he erected a house on the land where his son now lives. Following the general rule of early settlers, he first located in the edge of the timber, but afterward bought forty acres of prairie land. This he broke with six yoke of oxen and an old wooden mold-board plow. The forty acres which he improved in 1832 was the first prairie land broken in his part of the county, and people came from ten to fifteen miles distant to see the operation. The prairie grass was as high as the head of a man on horseback. The year of the "deep snow" was one of much suffering for this family, as their cabin was almost covered with the snow for a time. The few fences had been completely covered, during the notable fall of snow, which began December 28, 1830.

Daniel Jacobs was proud to witness the rapid development and settling of the community, and was glad to see the school house and church replace the Indian wigwam, or some fine home erected where once had been unbroken prairie. He died in 1852 at the age of fifty-seven years, his widow surviving until 1884, when she passed away at the age of eighty-four years. They were the parents of nine daughters and two sons, and the mother lived to see them all married and located on good farms with comfortable homes. But two now survive. Their children were: Henry W., died in Missouri, about 1879; Mary, married Franklin Daniels, and both are now deceased; Amanda, married Thomas Wycoff, both deceased; Elizabeth, married Littleton P. Bradley, and both died in Girard, Ill.; Martha, married J. L. Foster, and both are deceased; Isabel, married Stephen Staley, a farmer of Maxwell Township, Sangamon County, but is now deceased; Charlotte, married Washington McGunas, both deceased; Catherine, married Greenbury McGunis, who lived in Butler County, Mo., both deceased; Susan married H. S. Coley, and both are deceased. Those surviving are: Annis, wife of J. E. Dodd, a farmer of Talkington Township, Sangamon County, and James A.

The education of James A. Jacobs was acquired chiefly in the subscription schools of his locality, where his father paid $3 per quarter for him. He learned the "three r's" from a single book, and applied himself to good purpose to his lessons. For more than eighty-one years his home has been on his present farm, where at a tender age he began to practice cracking the long ox-whip over the heads of four yoke of oxen, In later years he purchased and made use of much modern farm machinery, and became successful through his enterprise and energy.

October 11, 1855, Mr. Jacobs was married to Miss Mary H. Neal, born near her present home, and has spent her entire life on these two farms, making but one move in that time, and that at the time of her marriage. She was born June 24, 1839, a daughter of John A. and Elizabeth (Greening) Neal, both natives of Kentucky, who died in Sangamon County. They began housekeeping in a log cabin, which was well weather boarded and plastered, in those days an excellent home. They used the tallow dip for many years and when the tallow mold candles came into general use they rejoiced greatly.

Hight children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs, four of whom still survive: Amanda, widow of Thomas Miller, living in Chatham Township; Henry C., a liveryman of Auburn; Alpheus, an undertaker living in Auburn; John, married Ollie Workman, and a full sketch of them appears elsewhere in this volume; Charlotte, deceased, had married Scott McGinnis, of Canton, Ill.; one child died in infancy, and Lizzie died at the age of five and Fred at the age of two years. Mr. Jacobs and his wife celebrated their golden wedding anniversary seyeral years ago.

Mr. Jacobs remembers many incidents of early days in Sangamon County. He then sold his hogs in St. Louis for $1.40 per hundred and wheat at 40 cents per bushel making the trip with an ox-team and driving his hogs, the trip requiring ten to fifteen days. In contrast to this kind of transaction is his sale of hogs for $9 per hundred, and his wheat at $1.07 per bushel, both sold near home. In 1873 the family lett their log cabin and moved into their present beautiful seven-room frame house of two stories. Here he has installed a telephone and has all modern conveniences. He rode on the first car on the Wabash Railroad which ran from Bates to Springfield, and which was drawn by mules. He has been very successful in his operations and now owns 360 acres of excellent land, the highest price paid for which was $6 per acre, and-most of it is now valued at $200 per acre. He has made many of the improvements himself and is considered one of the leading farmers of his locality.

In 1862 Mr. Jacobs joined the Masonic Order in Auburn, later becoming a charter member of the lodge at Loami. For many years he has been prominent: in the organization and has taken seven degrees. He has been identified with the best intersts of his town and county since attainging his majority, and in politics is a Republican. During his long life he has never tasted whiskey but once and has never entered a saloon and gambling house. His wife has been a member of the Christian church for the past fifteen years, and while Mr. Jacobs has never joined any church he has contributed generously toward the good work carried on by the religious organizations of his locality, especially when they were preparing to erect a new house of worship. He is hale and hearty, active for his years, and appears to be younger than his years. He is always ready to tell a joke or laugh at one, and enjoys telling stories of his youth. His first pair of shoes he obtained when he was nine years old and he took them to bed with him, being very much pleased with his new possessions. The nearest grist mill of that time was at Vandalia. The first mill used by the early settlers was a home-made affair - a piece of tin with holes punched in it, nailed on a board and called a "gritter;' this was used three times a day to produce food for the family.

JACOBS, John. - The Jacobs family has been identified with the history of Sangamon County, Ill., for nearly a century, and a representative member of this prominent family of the present day is John Jacobs, who was born on Section 24, Loami Township, June 1, 1879, a son of James A. Jacobs, a sketch of whom appears in a preceding section of this work, and who was reared on this farm and educated in the district schools. At the age of twenty-two years he was united in marriage with Ollie Workman, who was born in Loami Township, September 26, 1880. After their marriage, which occurred February 12, 1902, they settled on Section 23 of the township where both were born, and this has since been their home. Mrs. Jacobs is a daughter of Stephen and Sarah Workman, the former having died December 15, 1895. Mrs. Workman lives on the home farm. Stephen was a son of Jacob Workman, of families that have long been well-known and respected in the county, have been identified with the best interests of the community in which they lived, and have always been ready to contribute of their means and influence toward the upbuilding of schools and churches. They are among the large landholders of the county and representatives of the best type of citizens.

Jacobs is an. active member of the Christian Church, and though Mr. Jacobs is not affiliated with any religious denomination, he follows the policy of his father in giving his support to various churches, and is also much interested in the cause of education. He is a member of Lodge 901 I. O. O. F., and in politics is a Re publican. He is a practical farmer and stockraiser and operates 170 acres of land, although he owns but sixty acres. He has been successful in his operations and has some Duroc Jersey hogs that are entitled to registration. He is progressive in his ideas and enterprising in , his methods. His wife is a pelasant, welleducated woman, and they have a very pleasant home. They stand well in local society and have many warm friends.

JACOBS, Taylor (deceased). - The visitor to Sangamon County, viewing for the first time, its fertile lands, well regulated farms, herds of well-fed cattle and general air of prosperity, finds it hard to believe that but a few years ago this section of the country was but a wild waste, principally swamp and timberland. Yet such is the case, and the present excellent condition of the country has been attained only through the untiring labor and perseverance of men of energy and persistent endeavor, who spent their lives in forwarding the development of the section. One of these men, whose lives were spent in agricultural pursuits, was the late Taylor Jacobs, who was born in Sangamon County April 29, 1847, a son of John and Elizabeth (Miller) Jacobs, natives of Virginia.

The parents of Mr. Jacobs came to Sangamon County at a very early date and settled in Cooper Township, where Mr. Jacobs purchased land and became an extensive farmer. Both parents spent the remainder of their lives there, reared a family, and now all are deceased. Taylor Jacobs was educated in the country schools and was brought up as a farmer by his parents, spending his time in the duties of his father's farm and sparing whatever time he could in securing educational advantages. He remained on the home place until his marriage, when he started farming on his own account and developed a good property on Section 14, Cooper Township, where he spent the remainder of his life, with the exception of one year when he lived in the State of Missouri. His widow now has a nice farm of fifty acres in Cooper Township. He was a Democrat in his political belief, and he was a member of the Christian Church, in the faith of which he died August 16, 1895. Mrs. Jacobs is a consistent member of the Methodist Church.

Mr. Jacobs was married at Taylorville, Ill., June 23, 1879, to Nancy E. Colburn, also a native of Sangamon County, who was born July 16, 1851, daughter of William and Eliza (Porter) Colburn, the former a native of Sangamon County and the latter of Iowa. In the early days they located at Loami, Il., where for a long period Mr. Colburn operated a grist mill, and later went to Cooper Township, where he carried on the same line of business for many years, Both died in Sangamon County. Of their five children, Mrs. Jacobs and a brother, James Colburn, are the only survivors, the latter being a resident of Springfield.

To Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs were born eight children, of whom there are six now living, namely: William, engaged in the teaming business at Taylorville, Ill. ; Luther, a farmer of Sangamon County; Ada, the wife of Archie Welch, living on a farm near Mt, Auburn, Ill.; and Lee, Peter and Owen, all living on the fifty-acre farm in Cooper Township. In the family there are eleven grandchildren. -

JANSSEN, Mrs. Johanna, a lifelong resident of Springfield, was born in that city, May 17, 1854, a daughter of Wiliam and Margaret (Bowers) Fulner. Mrs. Janssen has three brothers deceased, one sister living and one deceased. She lived with her parents until she was twenty years of age, when she was married to Mr. Janssen. Mr. Fulner served for a number of years as Sheriff of Sangamon County, and was a man of stability and influence.

Miss Johanna Fulner was married to Harmon Janssen on June 16, 1874, at Petersburg, Ill., and five children were born of their union, namely: Elizabeth, Louis, Marie, Anna and Nellie. Mr. Janssen was a native of Germany and there received his education. He came to the United States at the age of eighteen years, and after coming to Springfield attended high school until he graduated therefrom. He made that city his permanent home and became one of its industrious and respected citizens. He is deceased, but Mrs. Janssen continues to reside there, surrounded by her children and enjoying their affection and companionship. She is a member of Grace Lutheran Church, and is interested in its good work.

JARRETT, Thomas Lewis, an attorney-at-law of Springfield, and a man well versed in his . profession, has always been a recognized power in the community. He has been depended upon to conserve the most important interests of the people. During the time Mr. Jarrett has practiced his profession in Springfield, he has been identified with much important civil and criminal litigation and has acquitted himself in a manner to give him a high standing among the legal men of the community. Mr. Jarrett was born July 10, 1872, near Maxwell, Ill., son of Thomas and Flora (Lowry) Jarrett, who still live in Divernon Township, Sangamon County. Thomas Jarrett and his father, William W., were both prominently identified with the interests of the Democratic party in Sangamon County. William W. Jarrett came to the county from Virginia in 1826 and was well known among the pioneers. The family has been well known and prominent in public affairs, therefore, for a long period. Thomas L. Jarrett attended the district school in his neighborhood, and helped with the work on his father's farm. He applied himself industriously to his studies and secured a teacher's certificate, teaching a short time in the public school at Coddington, near Tallula, Menard County, and with such success that he was called to the position of principal of the schools at Chestnut, Ill., later becoming principal of the schools at Shipman, Ill. He then gratified his ambition by attending Lincoln University, from which institution he was graduated, then afterwards completed a course at the Northern State Normal. He had for many years had an earnest desire to study law and for this purpose entered the University of Illinois, and was graduated from the law department of the same with the degree LL. B. Locating in Springfield in 1906, he has rapidly risen in the esteem and confidence of all who had dealings with him, and in 1908, he became a candidate for the nomination for State's Attorney and was considered a strong candidate, but was defeated. He is a man of considerable learning, not only in the line of his profession, but on general subjects, and since he began practice in Springfield, has been a leader in all movements for the improvement and advancement of legal procedure, in both State and county. He is a man of high ideals in his chosen field and tries to live up to them as near as may be. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, in which he is a Deacon, and belongs to Springfield Lodge No. 4, A. F. & A. M. JAYNE, (Dr.) Gershom. (Vol. 'I, pp. 303-304.) JAYNE, Dr. William. - No history of Sangamon County, Ill., would be complete without special mention of Dr. William Jayne, who has been a resident of the county since the days of the whipping post, and on numerous occasions has been called upon to fill positions of high honor and trust. Perhaps no man in Springfield has so extensive a knowledge of past conditions, political or financial, and his mind is a veritable mine of information. William Jayne was born October 8, 1826, in Springfield, 1l., a son of Dr. Gershom and Sibyl Jayne. This branch of the Jayne family may be traced back to William Jayne, who was borp in Bristol, England, January 25, 1618, served in the army of Oliver Cromwell, and after the restoration of Charles II to the throne, came to America. He died March 24, 1714, and was buried at Setauket, Long Island. His son Willjam, the second in the line of descent, was born March 23, 1684, and was the father of Isaac Jayne, born November 22, 1715. than Jayne, of the fourth generation, was born March 4, 1758, and his son Gershom, born in Orange County, N. Y., October 15, 1791, was the father of Dr. William Jayne.

Dr. Gershom Jayne was educated in New York, where he practiced medicine until 1820, when he came to Illinois his route being down the Ohio River from Pittsburg by flat-boat, and he spent about six months in Southern Illinois before permanently locating in Springfield, then a place of but a few cabins, known as Calhoun. He began the practice medicine here at a time when there was not a physician north of him in the State, and traveling on horseback in the frontier district, successfully practiced his profession for forty-seven years. He lived to the age of seventy-five and one-half years and his wife to the age of seventy years. She bore the maiden name of Sibyl Slater, and was the daughter of Elijah and Elizabeth Slater. Her grandfather lived to be ninety years old. Mrs. Jayne's sister, Julia Maria, acted as bridesmaid to Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, and later became the wife of Ex-Senator Lyman Trumbull; Captain Henry, a brother, served five years in the Union army during the Civil War, and is now a retired physician of Taylorville, Ill.; and Mary Ellen, a sister, died unmarried.

William Jayne acquired his education in the public schools of Springfield, Ill, and in 1845 entered the Illinois College, at Jacksonville, graduating with the class of 1847 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He was one of the founders of the famous Phi Alpha Society and was its first President. For seyeral years Dr. Jayne had his father for preceptor. In 1860 he was elected State Senator for the district composed of Sangamon and Morgan counties, but resigned in 1861 to accept from President Lincoln the appointment as first Territorial Governor of Dakota (then embracing both -North and South Dakota), and was Delegate to Congress from that territory, serving two years and then returning to Springfield. In 1869 he was appointed by President Grant to the position of Pension Agent of Illinois, and later was appointed by Governor Oglesby as a member of the committee chosen to complete the new State Capitol. He served as Mayor of Springfield in 1859, 1876, 1877 and 1882, was a member of the Board of Education and Vice President of the Library Board, and was acting President of the State Board of Charities. He is a member of the State and National Medical Associations. Since 1875 Dr. Jayne has been Vice President and a Director in the First National Bank, and is now President of the Lincoln Library.

In October, 1850, at Jacksonville, Ill., Dr. Jayne was married to Julia Wetherbee, who was born in Vermont in 1880 and died in March, 1877. She was a daughter of Seth and Elizabeth Wetherbee, natives of the Green Mountain and Mrs. Jayne: William S., born in October, 1851, in 1875 married Margaret Palmer, daughter of Governor Palmer, but who died in May, 1905, leaving four children - Louis, Margaret, Perry and Susan, of whom Perry served in the Spanish-American War and Susan is the wife of George Fish; and Lizzie J., born in July, 1855, married in October, 1878, C. F. Kuechler, and died in 1902, leaving two children, Bessie, a former student in the Chicago School for the Deaf, and William.

Dr. Jayne is a recognized authority on matters of a political nature, and many reminiscences of political history may be found in his article in this work under the caption: 'Political Representation."

JEFFERIES, Naran Allen (deceased), was a member of one of the early families of Sangamon County, being born there August 2, 1828, two years before the "deep snow." His parents located near Springfield and lived on a farm there until their deaths. They were Elias and Rachel (Johnson) Jeffries, natives of Ohio. The former was born in 1800 and the latter in 1805, and they were married March 11, 1824. They were prominent and highly respected residents of Sangamon County and became well known there. They became the parents of three sons, all now deceased.

The education of N. A. Jefferies was acquired in the public schools and in-an Ohio college, and after leaving school, he took up farming, which occupation he followed the remainder of his life. In 1849, in -company with several other men, he went to California in search of the gold, of which they had heard so much, and several years later returned Hast, spending some time in Ohio, after which he returned to Sangamon County and took up farming again. He later purchased the farm where his widow now resides and brought it to a high state of cultivation. He was an energetic and industrious man and a very fair degree of success attended his efforts. His farm is located four miles from Springfield, and there his widow now owns thirty acres of good farm land.

Mr. Jefferies was married in 1861 in Springfield, to Ruth J. Wesse, who was born in Tennessee, her parents being also pioneers of Illinois, settling in Fulton County in an early day. A few years later they came to Sangamon County, where the father carried on farming until his death. Mrs: Weese died in Fulton County. Four children were born to Mr. Jeffries and his wife, of whom but one survives, John, a farmer of Sangamon County. Mrs. Ruth Jeffries died in 1873. In 1874 Mr.

daughter was born, Anna M., who died' March 5, 1906, having received an excellent education. She was a musician, poet and artist of considerable talent, and had many friends. Mr. Jefferies died in 1888 and was buried in Strode Cemetery. He left many warm friends and acquaintances and his loss was deeply felt in many circles. He was a member of the Methodist Church and in politics was a Republican.

JENKINS, Chauncey Hobart, attorney at law and (1912) present Judge of the Probate and County Court of Sangamon County, was born near Cuba, Fulton County, Ill., son of David Milton and Mary Jane (Peterson) Jenkins, the former a native of Jefferson County, Ill., and the latter of the State of New Jersey. 'The parents of David M. Jenkins came to Jefferson County, Ill., in 1826, where their son was born in 1882, but in 1834 they moved to Waterford Township, Fulton County, Ill. In 1852 David M. made the trip from Pekin, Ill., overland to Sacramento, Cal., and for three years prospected for gold in that region. Then he returned to Fulton County, and in 1859 was there married to Mary Jane Peterson, after which he engaged in farming which continued to be his vocation, but is now living in retirement in his advanced years. He was a member of Company I, One Hundred and Third Illinois Volunteer Infantry, under Captain Wright, and was twice wounded, first at the battle of Missionary Ridge in November, 1863, and later at Resaca, Ga., in 1864. He served from the organization of the company until it was mustered out. Mr. and Mrs. David Milton Jenkins have seven children.

Chauncey H. Jenkins, the subject of this sketch, received his primary education in the common and high school at Cuba, Ill., during the winter, alternating his training in the schools by working on the farm during the summer season. Later he entered the Michigan University at Ann Arbor, that State, taking a literary course and later studying law, graduating from the latter department in the class of 1907. He was soon afterward admitted to the bar, and establishing himself in the practice of his profession in the city of Springfield, has there met gratifying success. He is a Republican in politics, in 1908 was chosen a Justice of the Peace, and in 1910 was selected as the Republican candidate for Judge of the Probate Court, to which position he was elected in November following.

Judge Jenkins was married, April 27, 1911, to Miss Ella McRoberts, who was born at Sherman, Sangamon County, and their residence is at 623 South Fifth Street, Springfield. He is also an active member of several fraternal orders, and the progress he has made in his profession since coming to Springfield. furnishes abundant evidence of his ability and personal popularity.

JENKINS, William. - The Welsh have always been noted for their sturdy honesty and thrifty habits, and they retain these characteristics upon coming to this country as the lives of many people of this county show. One of the Welsh-Americans living in Sangamon County is William Jenkins, of Section 21, Cooper Township. He was born in Wales, July 27, 1840, a son of William and Margaret (Griffith) Jenkins. The elder William Jenkins was in the service of the British army for a number of years, but later became a farmer, and spent his life in Wales. He gave his children good educations, and then had them go to work.

William Jenkins, the younger, worked at whatever came in his way, and for five years was a member of the militia, being compelled to drill twenty-eight days each year. While still in Wales, he married, and with his wife and five children, took passage on a steamer at Liverpool, on May 6, 1871, for America. Landing in New York they made their way at once to Sangamon County. Here Mr. Jenkins found employment by the month on a farm owned by a Mr. Brown, near Dawson. For three years, he continued to work in this fashion, and then began farming for himself, on rented land in Cooper Township. Later he went to Christian County, but returned to Cooper Township, where in 1892, he bought his present farm of 153 acres on Section 21. In connection with its operation, he has farmed other land to the extent of 3801 acres, and has become one of the most successful farmers of Sangamon County. He has also devoted considerable attention to stock-raising.

Mr. Jenkins was married to Mary Evans, also born in Wales, and their children were as follows: Jennie, wife of Benjamin Barnes of Springfield; John, a farmer of Cooper Township; Maggie, wife of William Hverger, a farmer of Rochester Township; Charles, a farmer; Anna, wife of Ole McMara of Chatham; and David, a farmer, all living, while the following are deceased: Edward, who was killed by lightning on the day of the St. Louis tornado, when twenty-three years old, and was buried in the Mechanicsburg cemetery; Lizzie, married and died in the Springfield hospital, October 17, 1902; two younger children died in infancy; Wm. T. Jenkins enlisted in Company A, Sixth California Infantry, United States Volunteers, under Captain Charles H. Dasher, and Lieutenant George L. Dall, and died in Bakersville, Cal., April 19, 1905, aged forty-one years, four months and twenty days. His widow survives, making her home in California. There are thirteen grandchildren in the family.

Mr. Jenkins and his sons are Republicans, and earnestly support the candidates of that party. They are honorable and upright, never shrinking from hard work or civic duty, and are among the best citizens of Sangamon County.

a good practice in his profession and won the confidence and esteem of his patrons. Dr. Jerald was born in Jacksonville, Ill., May 18, 1877, son of Nathan and Hester J. (Picket) Jerald. The father was a son of O. F. Jerald, a native of Cohasset, Mass. Clarance H. Jerald was one of two children. He attended the public schools of Jacksonville, then took a course in Peoria Business College, after which he took a veterinary course at the Ontario Veterinary College. He practiced his profession in various locations and in 1903 came to Springfield, and has continued in the practice of his profession ever since, his office being located at 225 West Washington Street. He has won an excllent reputation for skill and efficiency in his chosen field of work and stands well among his fellow-practitioners. He served several months as City Veterinarian. He was reared in the faith of the

Methodist Episcopal Church and fraternally is affiliated with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Court of Honor and the A. F. & A. M. In political views he is a stanch supporter of the Republican party.

Dr. Jerald was married October 31, 1908, to Miss Theresa Hannibal, of Springfield, and they have an infant son, Joseph H. Dr. Jerald owns a comfortable home at 1415 Whittier Avenue, Springfield. He is a man of good principles and is considered a public-spirited, useful citizen, who has the best interests of the city and community at heart.

JOHNSON, Francis S. - The business interests of Springfield are many and varied and the men engaged in operating the several lines of activity find this one of the best centers in the State. Francis S. Johnson, photographer and coal operator, is one of the sound, successful and progressive business men there, who, not content with his advancement in one line, has branched out in another. He was born in Saline County, Mo., September 6, 1865, a son of Henry and Rhoda A. (Seatt) Johnson. Henry Johnson was a farmer and blacksmith, who in 1849 joined a company of fifty wagons on the way to California. As he was a superior shot, he was engaged by the company to secure their game, and provided the entire company with all they needed during the long trip. He was then considered one of the best shots in the State of Missouri. Although so successful as a hunter, Mr. Johnson failed in his search for gold in the promised land, and returned a year or so later, to resume his farming and blacksmithing. This most excellent man died on his farm in Saline County in 1903, after a long and useful life.

_ 1904, he came to Springfield and opened a photograph gallery, immediately becoming popular on account of the superior quality of his work. At present he has one of the best galleries in the city and does a large business. He has been

Mr. Johnson is a member of the Methodist Church and his political convictions make him a Democrat. He is a pleasant, affable gentleman, and one whose courtesy and polish make him a favorite wherever he goes. His business acumen is well developed and he would doubtless succeed in whatever he attempted.

JOHNSON, James D. - When the evening of life comes on apace, it is fitting that man should rest from the labors which have claimed his earlier years and made heavy demands on his energies. The duties of the more strenuous life should be put aside and a rest from further toil and care enjoyed. This has been vouchsafed to Mr. Johnson because of his business activity in the past, and he is now living in honorable retirement at 625 Wood Avenue, Springfield, one of the worthy and esteemed residents of the Capital City. James D. Johnson was born January 7, 1837, in Christian County, Kentucky. He is a son of James D. and Martha Elizabeth (Bradley) Johnson, his father was born in Virginia and his mother in Kentucky. Her parents were natives of Kentucky and were among the prominent people of that State, being large slave holders. Grandfather Johnson was in the war of 1776, and was a resident of Virginia. Grandfather Bradley was a native of Kentucky and came to Illinois in the early pioneer days following farming. Mr. Johnson was educated in Kentucky, in an old log school house. His childhood was passed on his father's farm, where he remained until he was thirteen years of age, and then came to Macoupin County, where he farmed for about two years, leaving that place, he came to Christian County, and lived for many years, making that his home.