Sangamon County, Illinois - The whole text, 1912 (part 38 of 46)

Mr. Shartzer was married at Lake Fork, Ill., February 14, 1867, to Sarah P. Hall, who was born in Toledo, Ohio, April 20, 1850, daughter of William Hall, who carried on farming in Ohio for many years. In 1856 Mr. Hall brought his family to Sangamon County, where he conducted a farm until his death in 1864. His widow survived until 1894. Mr. Shartzer and his wife became parents of eleven children, of whom the following seven survive: James H., an electrician of Georgetown, Ill.; William J., of Illiopolis; Minnie A., married George Davis, an engineer residing in Springfield; John F., a farmer living near Illiopolis; Mary E., wife of William R. Tayner, who conducts a barber shop at Illiopolis; Anna L., wife of George S. Prater, a barber of Illiopolis; Hattie L., wife of Vernon Jackson, an electrician living at Newman, Ill. There are thirteen grandchildren in the family. Mrs. Shartzer died August 16, 1905, at her home in Illiopolis, having been a good wife and mother, and mourned by a large circle of friends. Mr. Shartzer is interested in any public movement he believes is for the betterment of his community and is a member of the Methodist Church. In political views he is a Democrat. The family is one of the older ones of the village, where they have an excellent standing and enjoy the respect of all.

SHEEHAN, Thomas. - Springfield is fortunate in the officers in whose hands are placed the safety and life of its residents. One of the most popular park policemen whose efficiency has been proven during long years of faithful service, is Thomas Sheehan. He was born in Waterford, Ireland, March 2, 1848, a son of James and Ellen (Flynn) Sheehan, both natives of Ireland. The parents, who were farming people, came to the United States in 1849, landing in New Orleans, where they remained a few days, when making their way to Naples, Ill. From there they went to Jacksonville, but after a short time there, once more made a change, this time selecting Springfield as their home, and there they remained until they died, the father passing away March 19, 1872, and the mother October 25, 1909. There were seven sons and three daughters in their family, and Thomas Sheehan was the oldest. Only six of this family now survive.

the United States, which he reached in 1867, not having made the trip with the rest of the family. He came direct to Springfield and entered the employ of the Chicago & Alton Railroad Company, working in the freight house. Two years later he was transferred to the roundhouse, and, after four years in all, became fireman. He worked twenty-four years for this company, and one year in the rolling mills, when he entered the Wabash Railroad shops, where he remained a short time, leaving to enter the City Engineer's office. After three years there, he was appointed park policeman, served a year, then returned to the City Engineer's office. However, popular demand made him return to his position as park policeman, and he is now guarding the interests of the people in this capacity.

Mr. Sheehan was married in Springfield, in May, 1872, to Bridget Tobin, born in Troy, N. Y., April 29, 1850. Her parents, coming from Ireland, located in Troy, later coming to Springfield, where they died when their daughter was but five years old. She was brought up by her grandmother. The following children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Sheehan: Catherine, wife of Edward Davelin, of the fire department; Ellen, wife of A. R. Connelly, an insurance agent, of Springfield; Mary, in the employ of the Illinois Watch Company; Margaret, living at home, and James, a painter of Springfield. Mr. Sheehan has a pleasant home at No, 121 West Reynolds Street, and is in comfortable circumstances. He is a member of the Court of Honor. A good Catholic, he belongs to St. Agnes Roman Catholic Church, of Springfield. In political convictions he is a Democrat, and he liyes up to his views. Genial, courteous and with the chivalry of his race, Officer Sheehan has friends all over the city and is one of the most popular men on the force.

SHEEHAN, William Patton, proprietor of the Hotel Wabash, located on the corner of Tenth and Washington Streets, Springfield, Ill., is a well-known and popular citizen and successful in business. He was born in Ashland County, Ohio, December 25, 1853, and through his father is of Irish descent. He is a son of William and Mary (Patton) Sheehan, and grandson of John Sheehan, a farmer of Covington, Ky., who married Mary Putnam. The great-grandfather, John Sheehan, was a Revolutionary soldier,

William Sheehan was a native of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and became a Captain in the Mexican War. He located at Perrysville, Ashland County, where he died at the age of sixtyfour years. His wife, who was a native of Lexington, Ky., died in Perrysville, in 1907, at the age of ninety-two years. She was a daughter of John Patton, who was a native of New England and a soldier in the Revolution, participating in the Battles of Lexington, Concord, Cambridge and others. He was wounded at Lexington by two bullets which penetrated his left shoulder, and he carried them to his grave. John Patton moved from Massachusetts to Ohio, and later went to Kentucky with Daniel Boone, locating in Lexington, where his death occurred.

William Patton Sheehan spent his childhood at Perrysville, Ohio, and when fifteen years old volunteered his services as a soldier in the Civil War, being refused on account of his extreme youth. When sixteen years of age he became a water boy on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago railroad, became a brakeman, later a fireman, and eventually a locomotive engineer. After being hurt in a railroad wreck he became a conductor, in 188i, on the Wabash railroad, and filled this position until the strike of 1894, when he became freight conductor for the Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis road, working for this company until 1905, when he accepted a position as passenger conductor on the Gulf Coast road. He was at Brownsville, Tex., at the time of the trouble with the negroes, whom he hauled in and out. After working two and one-half years for this road he resigned his position and returned to Springfield. He was appointed as Inspector for the Board of Health and served in this office until December, 1909, when he resigned and took hold of his present business. He is enterprising and progressive in his methods and has established a good patronage. His parents were members of the Episcopal Church, but he is not connected with any church. In politics he is a Democrat, and he is affiliated with the Order of Railway Conductors of America, and is a charter member of Camp No. 454, Modern Woodmen of America, and Massasoite Tribe of Red Men.

Mr. Sheehan was married (first) in Steubenyille, Ohio, in 1870, to Miss Jennie Parr, who died in Fort Wayne, Ind., in 1884. He mairied (second) in Fostoria, to Miss Ada Herald, daughter of William Herald. Her father and brother William were both killed in the Civil War. Mr. Sheehan had one child by his first marriage, Lillian, Mrs. Victor Wise, of Los Angeles, Cal. By his second marriage he had no children. Since his marriage Mr. Sheehan has made his home at different times at Crestline, Ohio; Fort Wayne, Ind.; and Springfield, Ill. He is well known in railway circles and is Secretary of Lincoln Division No. 206, ORG

SHEPARD, James R. - It seems almost impossible to give any account of the life of a veteran of the Civil War that will give him full credit for his bravery and loyalty. It was no easy matter for a man to leave all he held dear and offer himself as a target for the bullets of the enemy, as well as subject himself to all the dangers attendant upon life in camp, yet how many did it, and few, if any, escaped perfectly unharmed. One of the honored veterans of Sangamon County is James R. Shepard, a retired farmer of Illiopolis, who was born May 27, 1839, three miles east of Decatur, Macon County, Ill.

He is a son of Stephen and Mary (Hawks) Shepard, the former born in Westmoreland County, Va., and the latter in Kentucky. Stephen Shepard was a farmer, who came to Macon County in 1828, taking up eighty acres of the raw land. Afterwards he bought sixty acres one mile west and one north of this city of which he made a fine farm, operating it until his death, in 1858. During the Black Hawk War he defended his home and community by serving as a soldier. He and his wife had growing up among healthy country surroundings, and was still engaged in farming when the war cloud burst, and he enlisted on June 27, 1861, at Springfield, in Company A, Twenty-first Illinois Volunteer Infantry, serving six months under the command of Colonel (afterwards Brigadier General) Grant. +The regiment left Springfield July 3, going to Missouri. Among other battles, Mr. Shepard participated in those of Frederickstown (Mo.), Corinth, Perryville, Knob's Gap, Stone River, Chickamauga, Liberty Gap, Pine Mountain, Kennesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Jonesboro, . Franklin, and Nashville as well as many skirmishes. He was made First Lieutenant, and was mustered out with that rank at San Antonio, Texas, in December, 1865, and discharged at Camp Butler, Springfield.

Returning to Macon County, this brave soldier quietly resumed his farming, thus continuing until 1906, when he located in Illiopolis, although he still owns eighty acres of valuable Macon County farm land, as well as his home in Liliopolis. While residing in Macon County Mr. Shepard served as School Director. He belongs to Morgan Post No. 208, G. A. R., and to Camp 265, Modern Woodmen. For twenty years he has been a consistent member of the Christian Church.

On December 1, 1868, the former brave young lieutenant was married at Decatur, to Maria Anderson, born in Ross County, Ohio, August 27, 1842, a daughter of William Anderson. The latter came to Illinois in 1859, buying a farm in Macon County that was the site of Brush College, and there he lived for many years, but later sold it to return to Ross County, Ohio, where he died. Mrs. Anderson bore the maiden name of Nancy Hall and was a native of Kentucky. Of the nine children she bore her husband, not one survives aside from Mrs. Shepard. Mr. and Mrs, Shepard have had three daughters: Minnie and Edith live at home; Grace married James Dennis and they live on a farm in Piatt County. Mr. and Mrs. Dennis have two children, Robert and Myra, who are the pets of their grandparents and aunties. Miss Minnie and Miss Edith are charming ladies, who assist their mother in making the Shepard home one of the most pleasant in the neighborhood. Mr. Shepard is justly regarded as one of the representative men of Sangamon and Macon Counties, and has many friends in both localities,

_ SHEPHERD, Louis Pitner. - It is due to the efforts of energetic, progressive and intelligent farmers that agricultural conditions in Sangamon County are now in such a healthy condition. Intelligent cultivation of the soil, recognition of the value of crop rotation, tiling, grading, draining and ditching, and the use of modern machinery, have improved conditions wonderfully, and one of those who have assisted in the advancement of farming in the county is Louis Pitner Shepherd, who is operating a valuable farm in Woodside Township. Mr. Shepherd was born in Sangamon County, July 1, 1884, a son of Charles Miller and Sarah (Ford) Shepherd.

Charles Miller Shepherd came as a boy from Virginia and settled in Sangamon County. He was educated in the common schools and Concordia College at Springfield. He enlisted as a soldier in the Civil War, being a member of the Eleventh Regiment, Missouri Volunteer Infantry. For three years he was in partnership with his father and brothers, and then branched out on his own account, and spent the remainder of his life in agricultural pursuits in Sangamon County, accumulating a large property, becoming a man of affairs in his community and being the owner of the Straw Bridge farm, on which he died. He was the father of three boys, all of whom are now carrying on agricultural operations in Sangamon County.

Louis Pitner Shepherd attended the common schools of his native place and later secured a college education, attending the University of Illinois. He and his brothers, Charles Raymond and Alva Ford, were brought up to lead farming lives. As soon as he left school he at once engaged in agricultural pursuits, and has continued to follow this line to the present time. His politics are those of the Republican party, but he has never desired to hold public office, preferring to give his time and attention to his excellent farm. His religious faith is that of the Methodist church.

Mr. Shepherd was married, November 25, 1908, in Glenarm, Sangamon County, Ill., to Geneva Fountain Lard, a daughter of Jacob F. and Estella (Leach) Lard.. He was born in Sangamon County, but she was a native of Pike County. Mr. Lard is a prominent farmer of Ball Township. Mrs, Shepherd was born July 16, 1887, in Sangamon County, where she has spent her entire life. They have no children.

SHEPHERD, Thomas A., a leading farmer and business man of Ball Township, Sangamon County, is one of the largest landowners of the community, and has spent much of his life on the farm he now occupies, where he was born

December 4, 1860, being of Welsh descent. He is a son of Thomas B. and Arminda (Pyle) Shepherd, the former born in Maryland, and died February 2, 1911. Mrs. Shepherd, who was born in St. Clair County, Ill., October 18, 1838, died in Sangamon County, January 30, 1907, and both she and her husband are buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield. Thomas B. Shepherd was an early settler in Sangamon County, where he became a prominent and successful farmer. A sketch of his life succeeds the one of his son Thomas A,

The boyhood of Thomas A. Shepherd was spent on his father's farm and he received his education in the country schools of Ball Township, where he applied himself to good advantage. He has always been fond of outdoor life and sports of all kinds, and as soon as he was old enough took up farming on his own account, spending twenty-three years on the farm owned by William Patterson, which he has since purchased. He came to the old home farm to live in 1906 and has since carried on the farm. He owns 580 acres of land in Bail, 160 in Divernon and 200 acres in Pawnee Township. He is progressive in his methods and pays considerable attention to raising stock, having his farm well stocked with cattle.

Mr. Shepherd is an enterprising business man, and September 1, 1909, in company with E. A. Baxter and M. C. White, organized the Pawnee State Bank, of which he is President. The bank is patronized extensively by the farmers of the locality, and has a capital stock of $25,000. Mr. Shepherd is recognized as a man of ability and good judgment, and has won success through his own efforts, making the most of opportunities that have come his way. He is interested in public affairs in the community and supports various measures which he considers will be of benefit to the people in general. In politics he is a Republican and fraternally a member of the Masonic Lodge at Pawnee. The family to which he belongs is well known in Sangamon County, where they are held in high esteem by all.

Mr. Shepherd was married in Ball Township, December 24, 1882, to Miriam M. Weber, the ceremony being performed by Rey. William Poe, of Oak Ridge Methodist Church. Mrs. Shepherd was born in Sangamon County, October 5, 1864, and is a daughter of George P. and Vienna (Meader) Weber, both natives of Sangamon County, the former born in Springfield. Three children have blessed this union: Stella M., born December 25, 1885; George W., August 15, 1890; Thomas C., November 7, 1893.

SHEPHERD, Thomas B. (deceased). - To have lived in one county for three-quarters of a century is to have seen and participated in almost unbelievable changes, to have watched the country grow from a wilderness into a flourishing, abundant farming section, to have seen the little towns develop into large cities and new towns and villages spring up, and to have seen the wilds of nature conquered by the onward, progressive march of man. There are few people in Sangamon County who can look back over seventy-five years spent there, and recall with anecdote and reminiscence the early days of this section, but this was the privilege of the late Thomas B. Shepherd, who during the last years of his life, retired on North Fifth Street, Pawnee, Ill., who came to Sangamon County in the spring of 1886. Mr. Shepherd was born in Washington County, Md., September 28, 1885, a son of Thomas C. and Ellen (Miller) Shepherd.

The progenitor of the family in America was Thomas Shepherd, a native of Wales, who came to Virginia. He settled on the south bank of the Potomac River, near Blue Ridge, and took up several thousand acres of land, and the place was named Shepherdstown, in his honor. He sold lots and acre tracts, and required that an annual quit-rent of five shillings be paid perpetually. The will which granted this land to him is now owned by Thomas B. Shepherd, covers eight pages of foolscap, and is dated August 20, 1776, being of much historic value.

Thomas C. Shepherd, father of Thomas B., was born in Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, W. Va., June 28, 1806, and was married there July 3, 1834, to Ellen Miller, who was born June 24, 1818. They made their home at Blackford's Ferry, Washington County, Md., until 1836, when they, with Grandfather Shepherd, Joseph, - Amanda, James and Thomas B. Shepherd, started for Illinois in wagons, and, after a journey of six weeks, reached Sangamon County November 17, 1886, locating on a farm six miles south of Springfield that had been purchased by Mr. Shepherd the spring previous. Five children were born to Thomas C. and Ellen (Miller) Shepherd, namely: Thomas B.; John H., born February 21, 1838, married October 6, 1869, to Ann Pyle, and the one child of this union, Arminda, lives in Pawnee; Mary E., who died in Sangamon County; William B., born June 6, 1840, married October 23, 1867, Elizabeth H. Brown, who was born October 20, 1848, near Wheeling, W. Va., and now lives in Woodside, Ill., and has one child; and Charles M., born November 18, 1841, served three years in Company B, 11th Missouri Volunteers, married November 11, 1867, Sarah E. Ford, and died June 15, 1910, in Pawnee, leaving three children - Charles Raymond, Alva and Louis.

Thomas B. Shepherd is the only survivor of the party that made the wagon trip across the country in 1836. He was educated in the country | schools until eighteen years of age and then took a course in the Illinois State University (its buildings now being the property of Concordia College), at Springfield, Ill. He lived at home until his marriage, at the age of twenty-four years, at which time he went to live on a farm in Ball Township. He lived on the same farm for forty-seven years, but after the death of his beloved wife left it and came to Pawnee, where he lived retired until his death. On October 26, 1859, he was married to Arminda Pyle, who died January 30, 1907. Her father, Alfred

Pyle, was an early settler of Sangamon County, and both he and his wife died in Ilinois. To Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd there were born three children: Thomas A., the eldest, born December 4, 1860, residing on the old homestead, married Miriam M. Weber, daughter of George P. Weber, and has three children: Stella M., married, June 19, 1911, to Chester Baker, of Pawnee Township; George W. and T. C., all living at home. Ann E., the second child, born December 12, 1862, married George W. Davidson, of Divernon, son of Samuel Davidson, and has three children: Flossie S., Lelia S. and George, Jr., all at home, and Mary E., the youngest child, born October 24, 1864, married Charles W. Anderson, and they lived with Mr. Shepherd in his beautiful Pawnee home, and have two children, Leslie and Nellie.

Mr. Shepherd was a member of the Methodist Church and in political views he was a Republican for many years, but later acted with the Prohibition party. He died February 2, 1911, and both he and his wife are buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield.

SHEPHERD, Thomas D., a retired farmer living at 1506 East Capitol Avenue, Springfield, Ill., and an honored veteran of the Civil War, was born at Lawrenceville, Ill., March 27, 1843, son of Henry Harrison and Adeline (Hackley) Shepherd, both natives of Virginia. The maternal and paternal grandfathers were soldiers in the War of 1812 and the father of Henry H. Shepherd came to Illinois, where he died at the age of one hundred and eight years. Henry H. Shepherd was a merchant all his life and became cashier of a bank in Lawrenceville, the second bank organized in central Illinois. His wife died in 1852.

The education of Thomas D. Shepherd was received in Lawrenceville and Olney, Ill., and his childhood was spent on a farm. He began working in a drug store after leaving school and lived in Lawrenceville until after the war, then moved to Washington, D. C., and until 1870 was engaged in drug business there. In that year he came to Sangamon County, IIL, and later located on a farm in Christian County, where he spent nineteen years in farming, since which he has lived in Springfield. He was an energetic and prosperous farmer and has the respect of all who know him. He has never married, but is of cheerful disposition, friendly manner and social tastes. He is a Methodist in religious belief and has always been an active adherent of the Republican party. He belongs to A. J. Weber Post No. 421, G. A. R. , é

Mr. Shepherd enlisted, first, in Company K, Seventieth Illinois Infantry, was given rank of Sergeant, served three months, and was mustered out, October 20, 1862, at Alton, Ill. He re-enlisted in Company K, Ninth Indiana Cavalry, at Vincennes, Ind., served three years and was mustered out at Vicksburg, Miss., in 1865, at the close of the war. He then was appointed in the regular army, becoming Second Lieutenant of Company K, Hleventh United States Infantry, served a year and was promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant, after which he served another year. After the war he was Commander of Libby Prison and was the last officer in charge of Jefferson Davis before he was sent back to Richmond. He received his final discharge at Richmond, Va., having been in the Government service nearly six years. He was wounded in the shoulder at Franklin, Tenn., and was also shot in the head and arm. He was taken prisoner at Sulphur Trestle, Ala., and escaped while crossing Dutch River. He spent some time in the Tennessee mountains with nothing to eat save corn bread. At one time he was hit on his breast with a bullet, but was saved by an album which he was carrying in his pocket, so that although every face was punctured and every picture ruined, it did not penetrate his body. Among the battles in which he participated were Nashville, Franklin, Sulphur Trestle, Spring Hill, and others too numerous to mention. He has every reason to feel great pride in his record as a brave and faithful soldier.

SHERMAN, Lawrence Y., lawyer, former legislator and Lieutenant Governor, and present head of the State Board of Administration, was born in Miami County, Ohio, November 6, 1858; at three years of age came with his parents to Industry, McDonough County, Il., but when ten years old went to Jasper County, where he grew to manhood, receiving his education in the public schools of that locality and in the law department of McKendree College, at Lebanon, Ill. Meanwhile he was engaged in teaching for a time in both Jasper and St. Clair Counties and, after graduating at McKendree College in 1881, located in Macomb, McDonough County, where he began the practice of his profession in 1882. Later he served one term as City Attorney of Macomb, and in 1886 was elected County Judge, at' the expiration of his term in this office entering into partnership with George D. and Damon G. Tunnicliff, the latter serving for a short term as Justice of the Supreme Court by appointment as successor of Judge Pinkney H. Walker. |

In 1894 Mr. Sherman was a candidate for the Republican nomination for Representative in the General Assembly from the McDonough District, but withdrew to prevent a division in party ranks. Two years later (1896) he was nominated for that office and elected, and subsequently reelected for three successive terms, during the last two terms (the Forty-first and Forty-second General Assemblies) serving as Speaker of the House. In 1904 he was nominated and elected Lieutenant Governor on the Republican ticket, serving during Gov. Deneen's first term. At the expiration of his term as Lieutenant Governor in 1909 he was appointed by Goy. Deneen President of the newly created State Board of Administration, a position to which he was re- appointed in 1911, for a full term of six years. This board has general supervision of all State Charitable Institutions in Illinois (seventeen in number), a position for which Mr. Sherman, by his integrity, benevolent temperament and executive ability, is especially well suited, and his administration has met with marked success.

SHIPP, Clark Brahm, a prominent attorney of Springfield, who for a number of years has filled the office of Police Magistrate with ability and credit, and to the general satisfaction of the citizens, has won distinction in his chosen profession. He is actively interested in every movement he thinks will be of benefit to the people in general and is identified with the progress and improvement of the city. He has been a member of the Bar but a few years, but has shown promise of a successful career in his chosen field, and is recognized as a rising young lawyer. He was born in Petersburg, Ill., October 29, 1879, son of Columbus and Farinda Jennie (Goff) Shipp. Columbus Shipp was engaged in mercantile business in Petersburg.

After attending the public schools of Petersburg and Knox College, at Galesburg, Ill., Clark B. Shipp began his legal education and was admitted to the Bar. He had for some time been in the employ of the Republic Iron & Steel Company, of Springfield. He was first elected to his present office in 1906 and was re-elected in 1908, both times being a candidate on the Democratic ticket.

From 1896 until 1899 Mr. Shipp served as a member of Company C, Fifth Ilinois Infantry. He belongs to St. Paul's Episcopal Pro-Cathedral, and is prominent in fraternal circles, being affiliated with St. Paul's Lodge No. 500, A. F. & A. M., and to Springfield Lodge No. 158, B. P. O. E., being Past Exalted Ruler of the latter order. He is a Democrat in political views and actively interested in public affairs. He has formed many warm personal friends, among whom he is well liked and popular. He is located at 611 South Seventh Street and is unmarried.

SHOCKLEY, Uel Hickman (deceased), was a resident of Springfield, Ill., thirty-one years before his death, and was for some time engaged in business in the city. He was born near Columbus, Ohio, July 10, 1825, son of Archibald and Susan (Hill) Shockley, the former a native of Ohio and a farmer by occupation. They were parents of two sons and three daughters. The boyhood of U. H. Shockley was spent on his father's farm near Columbus, and he received his education in the country schools. After leaving school he remained with his father until his marriage, in 1844, and then carried on farming on his own account several years, business man and took no active part in polltics, although he was a Republican after the organization of that party and stanchly supported its principles. He belonged to no secret organizations of any kind, but was zealous 1n the work of the church and Sunday School with which he was connected, and after coming to Springfield united with the Second Methodist Hpiscopal Church. For several years before his death he lived retired from active business affairs and made his home with his daughter, Mrs. W. B. Coleman, at 1411 Pasfield Avenue.

June 20, 1844, Mr. Shockley was married to Miss Charity Bowman, who was born at Columbus, Ohio, October 27, 1826, daughter of John and Margaret (Reynolds) Bowman. Children as follows were born of this marriage: John, September 10, 1854; George, November 18, 1847, and Mary E., November 4, 1862, in Litchfield, Il. Mary E. Shockley was married, December 2, 1891, by Reverend Kulner, of Springfield, to William B. Coleman, who was born in New York city, January 16, 1855, son of Benjamin and Mary Francis (Glennan): Coleman. Mr. Coleman is Check Clerk with the Chicago, Pennsylvania and St. Louis railroad company, and he and his wife own their pleasant home in Springfield. They have three children, as follows: Charles I., born September 17, 1892, with the Court of Honor Insurance Society; Etta Grace, born August 15, 1894, stenographe: for Mr. Reinhart, a wholesale fruit broker: and Benjamin H., born September 11, 1896, is attending school.

At the Coleman home, Mr. Shockley passed away, July 3, 1905, and his remains were interred in Oak Ridge Cemetery. He was a man of excellent character and kindly dispositon, and his loss was widely mourned. He was known and missed in many circles and was always active in any movement connected with the good work of the church of which he was a member. His wife is still living and resides with her daughter, at the age of eighty-five years.

SHOUP, Samuel - Sangamon County will always be a strongly agricultural center, for the fertile lands of this section, under the magnificent climatic conditions, bear so abundantly that there will always be men glad to wrest from the black soil the large returns awaiting their efforts. One of the progressive farmers of this locality is Samuel Shoup, born in Cotton Hill Township, Sangamon County, March 23, 1864, a son of Henry and Ruth (Knotts) Shoup, the former born in Ohio, and the latter in Illinois. The father came with his parents to Cotton Hill Township, and he and his wife were married in Springfield. Following this he bought land. cwning at one time 188 acres in Cotton Hill Township. He was a Democrat and a consistent member of the Baptist Church. His wife died in 1906, and he in 1904. There were seven children in the family: Elbert, of Springfield; Sarah, wife of James Milliner, a farmer near Glenarm; Jacob, of Michigan; Elijah, a farmer near New City, Ill.; Leander, of Cotton Hill Township; Samuel; and Lilla, wife of Leonard Lawley, a farmer of Cotton Hill Township.

Samuel Shoup attended Crow Mill School in his native township, at the same time working for his father and thus gaining a practical knowledge of farm work. In 1903 he married and went on a farm of his own. The following year he bought his present farm of thirty-nine acres, which he has placed under a fine state of cultivation. He raises stock of all kinds for the market.

On December 2, 1903, Mr. Shoup married Sally McKee, daughter of James Mckee, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Shoup: James Henry, born April 17, 1906; Ruth Geneva, born April 19, 1909, and an infant, deceased. Mr. Shoup is a Democrat and has served most acceptably as School Director and Road Commissioner. He is liberal in his religious views. His wife belongs to the Methodist Church. An excellent farmer, a good citizen and successful business man, Mr. Shoup is one of the representative men of Sangamon County, which has been his home all his life. x

"SHROYER, Abel, an enterprising and representative citizen of Capital Township, Sangamon County, conducts a blacksmith shop and owns six acres of land. He was born at Troy, Miami County, Ohio, August 14, 1843, son of John B. and Mary A. (Sullivan) Shroyer, the former born in Pennsylvania and the latter in Maryland. The father was a farmer by occupation and for many years lived in Ohio, but in 1880 came to Ilinois. Settling in Girard County, he bought a farm there, and later moved to Macoupin County. He died in 1896 and his widow now lives on the old home place in Macoupin County, with her son, Eber Shroyer, having reached the age of ninety-four years (1910). There were eight children born to John B. Shroyer and his wife, of whom seven now survive.

In the early boyhood Abel Shroyer attended the country schools of his native county, and he was reared to agricultural pursuits. In youth he learned the trade of blacksmith, in Carlisle, Ohio, and afterward worked at this trade in Tippecanoe. Later he worked fifteen years at his trade in Peru, Ind. He came to Sangamon County in 1898 and has since continued to work at his trade near the city, in 1904 purchasing six acres of land where his present business is located, and where he has built up a good trade. He is conscientious and painstaking in the work he turns out and has the confidence of his patrons. He carries on farming to a small extent, and is fairly successful in that line of endeavor

Mr. Shroyer was married, in Girard, Il., in 1875, to Frances Doty, who was born in Macoupin County. Her parents were from the East and were early settlers of Macoupin County, where both died. Three daughters and one son were born of this union: Theodore, a brakeman on the Chicago & Alton Railroad, lives in Girard, Il.; Etta, wife of Charles Clark, a contractor living at El Paso, Tex.; Gussie, wife of Samuel Weaver, clerk for Swift & Company, and living in Chicago; Stella, living in Bloomington, Ill. Mr. Shroyer has two grandchildren,

Mr. Shroyer is a member of the Dunkard Church and his wife is a Presbyterian. Both are much interested in church work and every worthy object meets with their ready approval and support. Mr. Shroyer is a Democrat in politics. He is an industrious, hard-working man, fond of home and family, and makes the most of his opportunities for advancement in life. He and his wife have reared a family of children who are a credit to them.

SHUMATE, Hiram H., retired farmer, Riverton, Sangamon County, is one of the few remaining citizens of his part of the State who are distinguished as having personally known Abraham Lincoln during the active years in Illinois of that distinguished, martyred and universally lamented President. Mr. Shumate was born in Andrew County, Mo., April 3, 1849, a son of Hiram and Eliza Jane (Beacham) Shumate, natives of Kentucky. His father, a blacksmith, came quite early to Illinois, locating first in Macoupin County, whence, after some years, the family removed to Missouri, where the elder Mr. Shumate farmed and worked at his trade till 1849, when he set out for California in quest of gold, dying en route. His widow survived him until March 10, 1857, when she died in Calhoun County, Ill. Of their five sons four are living: Hiram H. Shumate; Joshua B. Shumate, of Havensville, Kan.; Joseph M. Shumate, of Frankfort, Marshall County, Kan.; and William H. Shumate, of Eskridge, Kan. Joshua B. is a mail carrier; Joseph M. is an insurance agent. and William H. is a minister of the Christian Church.

Mr. Shumate came to. Sangamon County, in 1853, when he was about four years old, and his education was secured there. He gave the active years of his life to farming and was so employed until a few years ago, when he moved to Riverton to live in retirement from active life. However, his experience since has demonstrated that idleness is no rest for a man who has long been busy. Tiring of having nothing to do, five years ago he assumed the position and duties of janitor of the public school buildings of the village. He was President of the local Board of Education one term and has been a member of the Board three years.

There is another chapter of Mr. Shumate's life which must not be overlooked. When the Civil War began he went to the front as Captain's boy, with Captain Davis, of Company H, Seventy-third Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and was on duty with that organization until after the battle of Stone River. Returning home, he enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Thirty-third Illinois Volunteer Infantry, which was stationed at Rock Island on guard duty. He was discharged at Springfield, Ill., September 12, 1864. January 3, 1865, he re-enlisted for three years or during the war in Company C, Thirteenth Regiment, United States Infantry, in which regiment he served against Indians of the West, taking part in many exciting engagements and skirmishes, and having many arduous, dangerous and interesting experiences. He was finally mustered out in Dakota, January 2, 1868. His four brothers also did duty as soldiers under the stars and stripes in the War of the States. He is prominent as a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, a Red Man, a Methodist and a Republican.

November 19, 1874, Mr. Shumate married, at Curran, Ill., Miss Louisa Drennan, born near Curran, the daughter of a farmer. She lived until July 21, 1908, and bore him children, of whom Herman, now living with his father, is the only survivor. Mr. Shumate owns a fine home and considerable other valuable property at Riverton. He is a man of education, amiability and much force of character, who has made and retains numerous warm personal friends. His life has spanned the modern development of Sangamon County, and he has witnessed many changes all around him and helped to bring about some of the most important ones.

Mr. Shumate has also been Justice of the Peace and Notary Public for twenty-two years. He has heard hundreds of cases during this time and many appeals have been taken from his judgment to the County and Circuit Courts, but he has never had a decision reversed.

SIDENER, George P., Jr. (deceased). - The men who were able to look ahead and foresee the values which would be attached to farming land in Sangamon County, reaped large harvests, for the property they secured at nominal prices now are held for amounts that in those days would have appeared impossible. However, these values are but the legitimate results of concentrated effort on the part of the farmers to develop and improve not only their farms, but the more congested sections, and now they and theirs are profiting manyfold. One of the most advanced and prosperous farmers of his time was the late George P. Sidener, Jr., who for years operated a farm in the vicinity of Rochester. He was born in Bourbon County, Ky., December 10, 1833, being a son of George P. Sidener, who was also a farmer, and a na-

George P. Sidener, Jr., grew up in his native city, receiving an excellent education. His inclinations Ied him to adopt farming, but he felt he could not make the progress he desired in Kentucky, so he moved to Sangamon County, Ill., about half a century ago, locating on a farm near the South Fork, where he rented forty acres of land. Later he purchased a farm near Rochester, Ill., where he passed the remainder of his life. His death occurred on the home farm, December 30, 1900, and his remains rest in the Rochester cemetery.

On February 9, 1858, Mr. Sidener was united in marriage in Rochester, Ill., with Hannah R. Elder, born in Rochester, July 1, 1841, daughter of Samuel and Phoebe (Clinkenbierd) Elder, natives of Kentucy and Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Sidener became the parents of the following children: Phoebe Ann, born December 29, 1858, deceased; Charles L., born July 24, 1860; Ada Amelia, born January 29, 1862; James G., born May 14, 1864; Flora A., born June 14, 1867; Edward Benjamin, born November 14, 1868; William A., born February 20, 1873, and Fred E., born December 26, 1877.

Mr. Sidener, while not a politician in any sense of the word, took an active interest in local affairs, casting his influence with the Republican party. The Christian Church held his membership, and he was liberal in his contributions to it, attending service in Rochester. After his death his widow, renting the farm, moved to Springfield where she now resides at No. 101 East North Grand avenue. She is a lady well known in the city, and universally respected. Mrs. Sidener owns the home farm near Rochester. Mr. Sidener lived out a quiet, uneventful life, honorably and well. Whatever came to him to do he did honestly, and always tried to give the other man a fair deal. Although a decade has elapsed since his demise, his memory is tenderly cherished, and honored in the county where he spent the greater part of his life.

SIDENER, Richard Allen, a prominent and well-known business man of Springfield, IU., was born in Garrard County, Ky., August 20, 1849, son of George P. and Anna (Smith) Sidener, both born in Lancaster, Garrard County, where they lived until 1857, then moved to a farm near Breckenridge, Sangamon County, Ill., and three years later purchased a farm near Springfield, where the father died in 1867 and the mother in 1868. The parents of George P. Sidener and those of his wife were all natives of Kentucky. He drove-a Government team at Camp Butler during the Civil War.

The education of Richard A. Sidener was acquired in a little log school-house east of the city of Springfield, and he 'remained on his father's farm until he was fifteen years of age. He then followed agricultural pursuits until he was thirty, then for three years followed the occupation of contract painting. He subsequently took up the tiling business in Sangamon County and vicinity, and has been very successful. He has built up a good business and is one of the representative business men of Springfield. He is a self-made man in every respect and has made the most of his opportunities for improvement and advancement. He has spent most of his life in Sangamon County, where he has become well known and highly respected. bah

Mr. Sidener was married, in Taylorville, Il., to Luella Utterbach, who was born in Clay County, Ill., October 22, 1869, daughter of B. We and Floretta (Mitchell) Utterbach, both natives of Clay County, where they spent most of their lives. The Utterbach family moved to Springfield about 1880 and are now living there. Mrs. Sidener was one of six children, of whom four survive. Her grandparents were natives of Illinois and Virginia.

Thirteen children were born to Mr. Sidener and his wife, of whom seven suryive: William F., born in Taylorville, 111., August 21, 1887, married Alice Hoepfner, who was born In Springfield, May 17, 1891, and they have one child, Wilma May, born in El Paso, Tex., November 9, 1909, and they now reside in Springfield; Robert Allen, born October 6, 1889, is unmarried and lives at home; Floretta, born December 18, 1892, married Carl Langston, a native of Menard County, and they had one child, Nellie May, deceased, and now live in Springfield; Sylvester, born October 13, 1894, died 1n 1895; Ora June, born June 4, 1897, died March 21, 1902; Bertha Leona, born in Springfield, May 22, 1900; Nina Luella, born January 18, 1902; Richard Earl, born May 20, 1905; Harvey Ray and Margaret May, twins, born April 18, 1908, are deceased; Elfreda, born August 14, 1910; and two others deceased.

Mr. Sidener had married (first), in Garnett, Anderson County, Kan., in 1872, Sarah Hill, a native of Shelby County, Ill, whose parents were natives of Illinois, where their entire lives were spent. Mrs. Sidener died May 18, 1878, having had two children, Ida Pearl and Nellie May, both born in Sangamon County. Ida Pearl married D. S. Fischer, of Springfield, where they reside, and they had six children: Everts, Charlie, James, Irval, Florence (deceased). and Orval Harold: Nellie May Sidener married Orval Clarry, of Christian County, where they now reside, and they became the parents of two

Mr. Sidener has many friends in Sangamon County, where the most of his life has Leen spent, and he enjoys an excellent reputation in business circles. He is a Methodist in religious belief and in politics is a Republcan.

SIEBERT, Gustav, A. - A live. energetic young man of Springfield, who has devoted his energies to the building up of large business enterprises for others, is Gustav A. Siebert. This young man, who is so well and favorably known to everyone in the city and the large territory contiguous to it, was born in Altamont, Eftingham County, Ill., May 30, 1878, a son of William Siebert.

After a boyhood spent in Altamont, where he attended the parish school of the neighborhood, as well as the public schools, when only thirteen years old, Mr. Siebert commenced working for farmers. He learned many valuable lessons of industry and economy, but was not satisfied with his outlook, and in 1895 came to Springfield to engage with his brother as a clerk. Almost immediately his value was recognized by his employer, who depended upon him more and more during the succeeding years. Perhaps no other man in his position is better qualified to serve the people than he, for he understands every detail of the business and the needs of the customers.

On December 10, 1904, occurred the marriage of Mr. Siebert, in Springfield, when he was united with Sophia Biesenthal, who was born in Sangamon County, a daughter of Frederick and Sophia (Kuhn) Biesenthal, farming people of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Siebert have no children. In religious faith Mr. Siebert is a Lutheran and he is one of the loyal supporters of his church. In politics he is a Republican and his party places implicit trust in him. Honorable, hard-working and conscientious, Mr. Siebert is a young man who deserves the confidence he has always inspired. He owns his pleasant home, located at No. 1125 South Spring Street.

SIMON, Prof. John S., well known in educational circles, has been connected with Concordia College, of Springfield, for the past twenty-three years, and educational work for fifty-one years, and is regarded with reverence and respect by all the pupils who have come under his supervision and instruction, although many of them are now far from the scene of their former studies. Prof. Simon was born at Augsburg, Germany, on March 5, 1832, a son of. John S. and Sabine (Kuehlreuter) Simon, both of German birth. The father was a merchant and conducted a store at Augsburg, where both parents died. They had four sons and two daughters and the only one of the family now surviving is the subject of this sketch.

As a boy, John S. Simon attended the public schools of his native place, and afterward entered college there, preparing himself for the profession of teaching, which he has followed all his life since. He began teaching in Germany, and in 1852, was sent by the German Commission to erect a Teacher Seminary in Saginaw, Mich. One year later he was called to Monroe, Mich., where he lived and labored twenty-eight years in a parochial school with great success. In 1881, he was called to Concordia College, where he has. taught both English and German and has made a specialty of the subjects of general history, geography, grammar, bible history, pedagogy and literature, He also lectures in mission work and music. On account of the illness of his wife, Prof. Simon was compelled to resign in 1904, from active teaching, but is still a member of the faculty, and for the past twenty years has had charge of the financial affairs of the institution and synod. He is a member of the German Lutheran Trinity Church, and for the past thirty years in April, 1865, to Catherine Anweiler, a native of Monroe, Mich., born December 1, 1839, of German parents. Her father engaged in farming after coming to America, owning a big farm near Monroe, and both parents died in Michigan. Mrs. Simon died June 26, 1905. Ten children were born to her and her husband, of whom seven now survive: John, a merchant and owner of a farm, of Arcadia, Mich.; Willjam, a druggist of Cairo, Ill.; Henry, proprietor of a hotel at Detroit, Mich.; Edward, M. D., practicing in Cairo; Julia, wife of Fred Yazell of Springfield; Bertha, wife of Anton Piper living with her father, her husband being employed in the Wabash shops; Hedwig, wife of William Vose, her husband being superintendent of a mine. Mr. Simon has a nice home at 1000 South Eleventh street, and has many friends in the city, county and state. He is very proud of his children and twelve grandchildren. While residing in Monroe, Mich., Mr. Simon was drafted into the army, during the Civil War, but the people of the congregation induced him not to serve, for they felt they needed his services in the schools there, and so he continued teaching in compliance with their wishes. Not only has he given his life to teaching, but he has written a number of books on educational matters, which have proven very valuable to the profession. Among them may be mentioned "Paed. Schulkunde," Lehrplan for academies, Lehrplan for parochial schools, Lehrplan for one class schools, and others. In these books he displays a wonderful acquaintance with his subjects, and is regarded as an authority on pedagogy and k:ndred matters. For more than half a century was Professor Simon active -in educational work, and many of his scholars are now engaged in mission work, not only in different parts of this country, but also in Canada, in South America, Australia, Argentina, New Zealand and other parts of the world.

SIMPSON, James Wickliff, one of the old and honored citizens of Pleasant Plains, Sangamon County, Ill., was for fifty years engaged in the blacksmith business and is now living retired, enjoying the fruits of his years of labor. He was born in the shadow of the old Court House, in Springfield, September 8, 1886, a son of Jordan and Clarissa (Sayre) Simpson.

Jordan Simpson. was born July 19, 1808, in Fayette County, Ky., and his wife October 31, 1816, in Cape May County, N. J. He came to Sangamon County in 1888, and there met Miss

Sayre, their marriage occurring October 27, 1885. He was a wool carder and weaver by trade and after coming to Sangamon County went to work in a little carding mill in Tallula, continuing to work at his trade until within a few years of his death. He and his wife were devout Christian people, being consistent members of the Christian Church and constant attendants of its service. Both were buried near Pleasant Plains. In politics he was a strong Democrat, but would never accept any political office. He passed to his reward December 23, 1872, his wife surviving him until May 17, 1897. To them were born nine children: James W.; one who died in infancy; Isaac N., who enlisted in 1861 in Company G, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, served three years, was honorably discharged, returned home and died February 24, 1866; William J., born April 24, 1841, a wellto-do resident of Chicago, married (first) Alice Buchanan and (second) Victoria Penn; Catherine B., born August 18, 1842, married Benjamin Watts, December 2, 1864, and resides at Springfield; Mary M., born April 6, 1848, married November 20, 1867, Morris Hillyard, and resides near Climax, Greenwood County, Kan. ; Jennie J., born October 25, 1850, married in 1869, David Gibson, a resident of Springfield ; Julia A., born March 5, 1868, married Wiley Johnson, a resident of St. Joseph, Mo.; and Lucy M., born August 25, 1857, the widow of W. M. Smith, is residing in Chicago.

The boyhood of Mr. Simpson was spent in doing odd jobs, working on a farm, and attending school, and when he was twenty-two years of age he apprenticed himself to J. K. Adams to learn the trade of blacksmith. The work was hard and the hours long, he often starting in at daylight and working so late that he would need candlelight, and his first year's work netted him $60, while for the second year he received $72. In 1861 he hired out as a journeyman with Joel H. Ellis, near Old Berlin, and in 1862 went to work at Petersburg, but during the same year located in Pleasant Plains and there purchased a shop of his own.

On November 6, 1867, he was united in marriage with Julia B. Butler, who was born December 4, 1847, daughter of Stephen H. and Nanéy (Coats) Butler, the former born November 12, 1818, in Adair County, Ky., and the latter December 16, 1825, in Warren County, Ky. They were married February 27, 1845, and were parents of twelve children. After his marriage, Mr. Simpson went to housekeeping in Macon County, but eventually returned to Pleasant Plains, purchased land on East Main Street, and in 1874 built a fine home, where he and Mrs. Simpson have resided to the present time. They have had these children: William Edward, born August 16, 1868, conducting a drug store at Gridley, Cal.; Sally E., born April 29, 1870, is the wife of H. H. Hansford; Mary E., born June 10, 1872, is the wife of Robert B. Smith, a farmer of Auburn Township; Bertha Jane, born December 27, 1874, is the wife of L. A. Green, and resides near Porcupine, Mont.; Alice Belle, born May 13, 1877, is the wife of W. W. Smith, of Auburn, Ill.; and Essie Ruth, born December 10, 1885, is the wife of Dr. M. D. Henderson, of Pleasant Plains.

Early in life Mr. Simpson joined the Christian Church, and has always continued in that faith. He is a stanch adherent of Temperance and has always fought the liquor traffic. Mr. Simpson has served on the village Board of Trustees. His fraternal connection is with the Good Templars.

SIMPSON, William R., one of the best-known farmers of Ball Township, Sangamon County, Ill., where he has spent his entire life, was born on the farm he now occupies, on Section 22, January 22, 1862, and is a son of Robert G. and Martha A. (Stout) Simpson, both natives of Fayette County, Ky. Robert G. Simpson was born May 3, 1826, and has spent all his life in farming, being now the owner of a farm near Glenarm, Ill., where he is living, at the age of eighty-five years. His father, a native of Kentucky, died when Robert was but seven years of age, from cholera. Some years later Robert G. Simpson's mother, Rebecca Randolph Simpson, married William Chambers, of Kentucky. Robert G. Simpson came with them to Sangamon County, Ill, when he was eighteen years of age, the trip being made in wagons. Mr. and Mrs. Chambers lived in Sangamon County a number of years, then removed to Macomb, McDonough County, Ill., where Mr. Chambers died in 1855. Mrs. Chambers died in 1866. Martha A. Stout was brought by her parents to Sangamon County when she was six years old, the family making the trip with a wagon. Her parents were natives of Kentucky and came to Sangamon County in 1835 and her father died in the house where he first settled on coming to Illinois. Mrs. Stout died later at the home of her son, Philemon, near the old homestead. Mrs. Martha Simpson was born April 1, 1829, and died on the farm in Ball Township, January 6, 1908, being buried in Stout Cemetery. Both families were early settlers in Sangamon County and became influential and well known.

As a boy William R. Simpson was very fond of outdoor life and spent many happy hours in hunting. He was early taught to perform his share of the tasks on the farm and was educated in the country schools near his boyhood home. He engaged in farming on his own account when he was old enough, and has been successful in his operations, bringing his land to a high state of cultivation and paying careful attention to all the details of his work. _He carries on general farming, carrying on sixty acres belonging to his father and renting considerable land. He is held in high esteem for his many fine qualities of mind and heart, and is always ready to lend his aid to those in sickness or distress. Although not a member of any church, he tries to follow the Golden Rule and believes in practical Christianity. He is a man of good principle, honest and reliable, and in his dealings with his fellow men has always been actuated by justice and fairness. He is a Republican in principle, but in local affairs votes for the man he believes will best carry out the wishes of the people and act for the greatest good of the greatest number. Fraternally Mr. Simpson is a Modern Woodman, being affiliated with Sugar Creek Camp, of Glenarm, Ill. He takes an active interest in the cause of education and progress, and any movement for the uplifting'and benefit of his fellows. He is now serving in the offices of School Director and Road Commissioner.

Mr. Simpson was married in Sangamon County, December 24, 1889, by Rey. Wheeler, ot Pawnee, to Miss Addie Hall, born at Witt, Montgomery County, Il., December 16, 1865, daughter of Jim and Sarah (Williams) Hail, both natives of Tennessee, who came to Sangamon County, where the former died, and- his widow still resides there. Mr. Hall was a prominent farmer and stock-dealer, and his father, who was a native of Tennessee, died in 1865. The Grandfather Williams was a native of Tennessee, and died in 1889. Two children were born to Mr. Simpson and his wife: Leslie H., born June 11, 1891, and Mata E., born October 22, 1894. Leslie attended the country school and afterwards graduated from the Caldwell High School (where the daughter is now a student), then engaged in teaching in Sangamon County.

SIMS, David Hudson, a substantial farmer and large landowner living at Latham, Logan County, Ill., is a native of the place where he now resides, born July 8, 1838. He is a son of David and Elizabeth (Elston) Sims, who lived on a farm at Latham. The father, who was of Scotch descent, was born in Charlotte County, Va., January 1, 1801, and the mother was born in Henry County, Ky., March 5, 1806. David H. Sims was educated in his native county and was reared to farm work, in which he has since been very successful on his own account. Besides the 400 acres he owns at Latham he also has 160 acres in Kansas, 160 acres in Texas and several hundred acres in old Mexico.

Mr. Sims earned a good record as a soldier, enlisting as private in Company H, Thirteenth Infantry. He was promoted to Second Lieutenant, three months later to rank of First Lieutenant, and in 1865 was again promoted. At the close of the war he resumed his farming operations. He has been successful in his agricultural operations and is recognized as a man of energy and ability.

Mr. Sims was married, at Marshalltown, Iowa, July 4, 1860, to Miss Ann Burkes, who was born June 30, 1845, daughter of James and Marcy Burkes. Three children blessed this union, namely: Mrs. Clara M. White. born December 6, 1866; Myrtle R., Mrs. Huston, born January 21, 1875; David Benjamin, born January 6, 1882. Mr. Sims is a Republican in politics and he is a member of the Christian

Church, He has been a member of the Masonic Order for fifty years, for forty has been a menber of the Knights of Pythias, and also belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic. Mr. Sims is Vice President of the Springfield & Jacksonville Interurban Railway Company, engaged in constructing an electric line between the two cities.

SIMS, George Washington, a successful truck gardener living at 1261 West Jefferson Street, Springfield, Ill., owns a fine house and two lots there. He is a native of Muskingum County, Ohio, born March 17, 1838, son of James and Lucy Ann (Shackford) Sims, both born in Virginia, the father in 1811 and the mother in 1815. James Sims was a farmer and shingle maker, and he and his wife located six miles west of Springfield in 1865, living there until their deaths. The father died in 1887, and the mother in 1891, and both are buried in tue United Brethren Cemetery west of Springfield. James Sims enlisted in 1862, and served in the Union Army. He had two sons who also served in the war and one of them was captured by the enemy and held eight months in Libby Prison, Thirteen children were born to Mr. Sims and his wife seven now living besides G. W. - George John, James, Austin, Angelina, Nancy and Lucy Ann,

George Washington Sims received his education in an old log schoolhouse in his native State where the seats were hand-made slabs. He remained with his father on the farm until he was nineteen years old, then worked a year at the trade of cooper, after which he took up farming as an occupation and also made rails and posts. He was an active and vigorous young man and has cut from the stump and corded up five cords of wood in one day; and remembers cutting one tree on Spring Creek from which he made fourteen cords of wood. He remembers Abraham Lincoln very well, naving visited his home a number of times. He has been active in the interests of the Democratic party and in 1894, was elected Road Commissioner, serving three years. He is a member of the Union Baptist Church and is interested in its good work. He is a public-spirited and enterprising citizen and has always given his support to measures which he thought would be of public benefit. He has lived in Sangamon County about fifty-five years and is well known as an upright, honest citizen. He has won success as a farmer through industry and perseverance and has always worked hard.

Mr. Sims was married, in Springfield, January 1, 1870, to Mrs. Rachel (Cowell) Fox, daughter of William and Rachel Cowell of Monroe County, Ill. Mrs. Cowell died in 1848, and Mr. Cowell jn 1855. Rachel Cowell married (first), William Fox, by whom she had two sons and one daughter: Sarah, John W. and Charles E., all living in Sangamon County. Mr. Sims and his wife became parents of five children, namely: «austen

M., a fruit farmer near Springtield; Maud, wife of Fred Spangler in the employ of A. C. brown; Franklin, a cement finisher of Springfield; Jessie, wife of Marion Hibbs, a cement worker and finisher of Springfield. Mr. Sims has had fifteen grandchildren of whom eleyen survive, and Mrs. Sims has three great-grandchildren. Mrs. Sims is one of a family of fourteen children, and was born July 10, 1848. Both she and her husband are active and enjoy good health and take great pleasure in the society of their descendants.

SIMS, James P., Principal of the Iles School, at Springfield, Ill., has been engaged in educational work ever since he was twenty-two years of age, and has acceptably filled numerous important educational positions. He was born on his father's farm in Gardner Township, four miles west of Springfield, July 7, 1858, and is a son of Thomas A. and Mary E. (Robison) Sims.

Thomas A. Sims was born in Culpeper County, Va., October 3, 1835. In 1856 he came to Illinois, lived in McLean County for one year, and then came to Gardner Township, Sangamon County, where he has followed an agricultural life. In 1862 he enlisted for service in the Civil War, entering Company I, One Hundred and Thirtieth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, in which he served until 1865, when he was honorably discharged and mustered out. He served with General Grant in the Vicksburg campaign and was made a prisoner during the Red River expedition, and confined in a military fortress at Tyler, Tex., for thirteen months.

James Perry Sims attended the country schools in Gardner Township and the Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso, Ind. He was occupied on the home farm until he was twentytwo years of age, then turned his attention to teaching school, and has been identified with educational interests ever since. His beginning was made in Gardner Township near Farmingdale, Ill., and he continued teaching in different sections for thirteen years. In 1894 he came to Springfield as Principal of the Iles School, and has been identified with the same ever since. He is an earnest educator and works tirelessly to realize his ideals in school advancement, while at the same time he is practical in his methods.

Mr. Sims was married near Curran, Ill., September 25, 1888, to Margaret M. Foster, who was born there July 3, 1870, a daughter of Samuel L. and Lydia (Lee) Foster.

Mr. Sims is a member of the Chamber of Commerce at Springfield. He belongs to Tyrian Lodge, No. 333, A. F. & A. M. In politics he is a Republican. With his wife he attends the First Methodist Episcopal Church. Their pleasant home is situated at No. 851 South Lincoln Avenue, Springfield.

of the Civil War, and has a host of friends, was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, February 27, 1841. He is a son of Reuben J. and Julia A. (Babcock) Sims, who lived eighteen years on a farm in Muskingum County. The father was born in Rappahannock County, Va., and the mother in Muskingum County, Ohio. The father of Reuben J. Sims served in the War of 1812 and lived to the age of ninety years. The great-grandmother of John O. Sims was a Miss Search, and when she was twelve years old she saw General Washington marching to Trenton, N. J. The boyhood of Reuben J. Sims was spent in the Old Dominion, and when he was of age he moved to Ohio, living eighteen years in that State. In 1852 he moved to Sangamon County, Ill., arriving at his destination October 14th. He followed farming in Sangamon County from then until his death.

John O. Sims spent his childhood on a farm and attended school in the little log building of one room which stood near his father's house. The furnishings of this building were very primitive, the seats having been hewed out by hand. Mr. Sims helped his father until he was twenty years old, then began farming on his own account, and a year later enlisted in the Civil War, in Company B, One Hundred Thirtieth Illinois Infantry, under Captain William Prescott, the date of the enlistment being April 15, 1862. He was mustered out at Springfield, June 21, 1865. The first battle in which the regiment participated was Port Gibson, then came Champion Hills, Black River Bridge, Vicksburg and Jackson, Miss., after which they were transferred to the Department of the Gulf, under N. P. Banks. They were out on the gulf in a severe storm, but weathered the gale and landed on the southeastern coast of Texas, where they wintered, and in the Palm Leaf Swamps Mr. Sims shot at the first alligators he had ever seen, He was taken prisoner at the Battle of Sabine Cross Roads, by Price, Kirby Smith and Johnson, and with many others of his regiment was held prisoner for a period of thirteen months, at Camp Fort Tyler, Tex., being thus held at the time of the assassination of President Lincoln and the surrender of Lee. Their rebel guards piloted them through until they could start home. Mr. Sims conducted himself creditably throughout his service and gave to his country several of the best years of his life.

At the close of the war Mr. Sims engaged in farming in Sangamon County, and after operating a farm there eighteen years, moved to Denver, Colo., where he spent two years and seven months, lived for a time in Cedar Rapids, Towa, and in 1896 returned to Illinois, purchasing property at 1503 South Walnut Street, Springfield, which has since been his home. He sold his farm before moving west and is now retired from active life. Mr. Sims has been successful in his operations and has well earned 'the rest he now enjoys. He is justly proud of his family and their public spirit, which he has himself emulated, and is considered a useful,

Mr. Sims married (first), in Springfield, November 28, 1866, Sarah, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth McClain, the former a native of Cape May County, N. J. Mr. McClain and his wife came to Illinois in 1851, locating six miles west of Springfield, where they lived to be very old, and where their deaths occurred. Mrs. Sims died February 19, 1891, having borne six daughters and one son. Those of the children now living are: Lura, wife of John Kennedy, a farmer of Christian County, Ill.; Elizabeth, living at home with her father; Clarence É., a printer living in Chicago, was born March 24, 1886. Mr. Sims has grandchildren, as follows: Mary, Agnes, Malachi, Terca, Bertha and Anna, all children of Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy. Mr. Sims married (second) October 24, 1894, Annie E. Nalin, who died in 1900. She was a daughter of Josiah Nalin, who came to Christian County, Ill., in 1828, making the journey on horseback. He first built a log house and began developing a farm, and now owns a fine property. Mr. and Mrs. Sims were married at the Nalin School House, three miles south of Pana, Ill.

SIX, H. A. - Realty values in Springfield have risen steadily from the days when the Capital City was but a little hamlet and the imposing State House was only a dream of the future. Now city lots are held for prices that would have made the pioneers marvel, and farm lands adjacent are benefited thereby. Because of this activity the realty business has enlisted the services of some of Sangamon County's representative men, and one who has specialized on it and the handling of horses is H. A. Six, an important factor in the life of Springfield. He was born at Winchester, Scott County, Ill., December 31, 1870, son of John W. and Nancy (Clifton) Six, natives of Scott County and Naples, Ill. The Six family have been residents of Scott County since pioneer days. 'The parents of H. A. Six lived there until fifteen years since, when they moved to Moultrie County, 111., which is now their place of residence. They are farming people and own a nice farm.

H. A. Six went to the country schools, and grew up in Scott County. He came to Springfield in 1903, establishing himself in a boot and shoe and gents' furnishing goods business, but in 1907, realizing the better opportunities of his present line of work, he sold out and entered this field. He has been remarkably successful in all his business dealings and owes much of his prosperity to the fact that he always gives the "other man" a square deal and can be implicitly trusted. ;

On June 19, 1895, Mr. Six was united in marriage, in Macon County, Ill., to Maud Bromley, born near Decatur, Ill., daughter of F. D. Bromley, a farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Six are the parents of three children: Roy, fifteen years old; Joe, thirteen years old, and Frank, ten. In politics,

Mr. Six is a Republican. His life has been so filled with business details that he has had ho time for fraternal diversions. His business and his home round out his time, but his friends always find him genial and ready to lend a helping hand whenever they are in trouble or affliction visits their homes. Such men as he tend to raise the standards of morality and to develop good government.

SMELLEY, William F., one of the representative citizens of Sangamon. County, who, after many years of active endeavor in various lines of business all over the country, is now living retired in his comfortable home at Breckenridge, and Sarah (Hutchison) Smelley, natives of North Carolina and Tennessee respectively. John R. Smelley, who was a tailor by trade, came to Illinois in 1830, at the time of the "Deep Snow," and settled in Vandalia, where he conducted a tailoring establishment and also operated a hotel for some years. He was a soldier during the Black Hawk War, and participated in the Battle of New Orleans. Two brothers of William F. Smelley were also soldiers, one serving in the Mexican War and the other in the Civil War. John R. Smelley died in 1839, his widow surviving him but two years, and they were parents of six sons and four daughters, of whom there are but two survivors: William F. and a daughter, Mrs. Alice A. Clark, a resident of Olathe, Kans,

William F. Smelley was educated in the subscription schools of Fayette County, and later attended a business college at Indianapolis, Ind., also being a pupil in the school that was held in the old State House at Vandalia. At the age of fourteen years he started to learn the trade of carpenter, which he followed for a long period in Vandalia. About the time of the Civil War he started for Texas with a drove of horses, but sold out before reaching his destination and went to Kentucky, where he was engaged in farming for a short time. He then returned to Indiana, but eventually went to Vandalia and later to Paris, Ill., where he engaged in contracting, erecting many houses. He lived in Paris for some time, and eventually went to Indianapolis, but about the time of the organization of Guthrie, Okla., he traveled overland to that place and opened a restaurant, which he conducted successfully for a period of several years. Later, going to Kansas City, Mo., he engaged in business there for two years, at the end of which time he opened a restaurant business in Springfield, which occupied his attention up to the time of his retirement, and since then he has made his home in Breckenridge. He has been a member since 1853, and has held every office, in Friends Lodge of Odd Fellows. He is a Methodist in religious belief, and adheres to the principles of the Republican party, having always taken an active interest in public matters. Mr. Smelley has been successful in his business ventures, and now, in the evening of his life, can look back over a well-spent career,

On November 25, 1862, Mr. Smelley was married at Vevay, Ind., to Ellen J. Protsman, who was born in southern Indiana, the daughter of farming people of that State. One child, now deceased, was born to this union. Mrs. Smelley died March 4, 1863, and Mr. Smelley was married (second) in June, 1866, in Madison County, Ind., to Mary Brookins, who was born in Indiana in 1838. Her father, who was a native New Yorker and a dairyman farmer, came down the Ohio River to Indiana at an early date. To this union there were born five children, of whom three now survive: John R., a farmer of Cooper Township, Sangamon County; Berlin, who is a resident of Bonneterre, Mo.; and Laura, a schoolteacher at the Sand Hill schoolhouse, who keeps house for her father. There are three grandchildren in the family.

SMITH, Albert. - A number of the farmers of Sangamon County, after spending a number of years in agricultural pursuits, have retired from their farms to take up some other line of work. This is true in the case of Albert Smith, one of the reliable men of Springfield, now engaged in house-moving and teaming. He was born at Burlington, Iowa, August 10, 1848, a son of Evans and Mary M. (Church) Smith, natives of the States of Iowa and Indiana, respectively. The father was a farmer, who early settled near Burlington, where he farmed until his death, and his widow died in Springfield in 1898. There were four children in the family, three daughters and a son, but Albert Smith and his sister, Mrs. Hackett, of Springfield, are the only survivors.

Albert Smith went to school in Iowa and worked on his father's farm. In 1850 he moved to Christian County, Ill., where he worked on various farms, eventually coming to Sangamon County. He farmed until he located in Springfield, where for thirteen years he has conducted a flourishing house-moying and teaming business.

In 1893 Mr. Smith was married in Springfield, to Carrie Young, born in Macon County, ul., daughter of Frank Young. He was an early settler of Illinois, who engaged in farming in Macon County, continuing there until his death. Mrs. Young is also deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Smith had a son born to them, Albert, of Chicago. In 1900 she passed away, having been a most sweet and lovely woman, and a true Christian in every way.

Mr. Smith is a Roman Catholic. Politically he is a Democrat, but was a personal admirer of Abrahdm Lincoln from the time he first saw him and made his acquaintance. Mr. Smith was one of the many who gathered to pay their last respects to Mr. Lincoln at the saddest funeral Illinois ever knew. The pleasant fam- ily residence at No. 2305 Hast Kansas Street is owned by Mr. Smith. He has always been devoted to his work and has striven hard to do what he believed to be right, consequently has prospered, for nothing profits more in the end than strict honesty and fair dealing.

born in Knox County, Tenn., April 27, 1839, his parents being natives of Virginia and Tennessee. He is one of six children who were born to William M. and Ann (Greer) Smith, who located in Tennessee after marriage, but later moved to Decatur, Ala., where the father died, being survived by his widow and four children.

Andrew V. Smith, who was the third child, grew to manhood in his native State, receiving a common school education and being reared to farm work, which he followed on his own account in later life. On December 20, 1860, he married Mary E. Hart, daughter of George and Ellen (Akens) Hart, a native of Monroe County, Tenn., born July 23, 1841. After spending about four years in Blount County, Mr. Smith and wife came to Greene County, Ill., in 1864, and five years later, in the fall of 1869, went to Arkansas, coming back to Cooper Township, Sangamon County, in 1874. Here they engaged in farming. Mr. Smith became the owner of 283 acres of good farming land in Cotton Hill Township, and one of the most successful farmers of his part of the county. He erected substantial buildings and worked with untiring energy to improve his land and bring it to a state of high cultivation. He took an active interest in public matters and served as School Director and in other offices, being always ready to advance the interests of the community. He and his wife joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1876, and both were earnest workers in its interest. Mr. Smith is a Republican in political belief. Mrs. Smith died September 1, 1910, at the present home and her remains were interred in Burkhart Cemetery, Sangamon County. While Mr. and Mrs. Smith had no children of their own, they reared the three chil- left them. Alice, born October 30, 1870, married Robert Ayers, lives on the Smith farm, seven children, - Goldie, Andrew, Arthur, William R., Elmer, Ray and Velma M.; William, born December 14, 1872, lives in Douglas County, Ill., married Susie McDonald, no issue; Nicholas A., born August 19, 1876, married Bertha Abel, and lives on part of the Smith farm, one ehild, - _Hazel. To Mr. Smith these children are just as his own, and as they haye never known another father, they love him as though he were their actual parent.

Probably no family in Sangamon County is more entitled to special mention in a work of this character than that of Andrew V. Smith. Always public-spirited, he has certainly done his duty, and is now enjoying life in a retired way. He is no longer actively engaged in farm- ing, having retired in 1907, but still owns his farm in Cotton Hill Township. He erected a handsome residence at 2014 East Washington street, recently purchased a $6,000 home on Seventh street, and also has other city property. He is well known as an upright and public- Pes citizen, and has many friends in Springeld.

SMITH, Charles Harvey (deceased). - The late Charles Harvey Smith, of Springfield, was born near Jacksonville, Morgan County, Ill., August 9, 1862, son of Grandiston and Melissa (Masters) Smith, natives of Illinois, the former born near Jacksonville. The father was an extensive farmer and stockman, and after being educated in the schools of his native county, Charles H. Smith helped his father on the home farm for many years. In 1895 he moved to Springfield and entered the employ of the Cudahy Packing Company in that city. He subsequently entered the employ of Schwarzschild & Sulzberger, in a similar line. He had also worked for a time

, for the Hammond Packing Company, in Springfield. He was a shrewd and active business man, caring for the interests of his employers as he would his own.

Mr. Smith was married, at Jacksonville, August 25, 1881, to Miss Nannie Sparks, born in Macoupin County, Ill., July 27, 1861, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Harp) Sparks. Thomas Sparks was born in Tennessee and came to Morgan County aS a young man, finding but one log house where the city of Jacksonville now stands. His wife was born at Jacksonville. Children as follows were born to Mr. and Mrs. Smith: Edith, unmarried, lives with her mother; George Parnell, married and living in Missouri, has two children - Thelma Florence and Earl Parnell; Catherine Maud, unmarried and living in Springfield; Hthel Fay, unmarried, living at home; and Lorraine, Charles K. and Beatrice M., in school. Mrs. Smith owns the family residence at 1508 Hast Brown Street, Springfield.

Mr. Smith died at the home now occupied by his widow, July 1, 1904, and his remains were buried at Pisgah, Morgan County, Ill. He was deeply mourned by his family and many friends, and left the reputation of an upright, honorable life. He was a member of the Baptist Church and in political views was a Democrat. He eared little for public life or honors, being absorbed by his business and domestic affairs.

SMITH, DeWitt Wickliffe - tIn every community are men who stand out as examples of the highest type of intelligent and public-spirited citizens, who are not only willing to work for the betterment of the community or State, but who also have the ability and requisite ambition to carry their plans into execution. Such a man is Honorable DeWitt Wickliffe Smith, who has spent his life in Sangamon County, Ill., and has for many years been a resident of Springfield. Mr. Smith was born December 13, 1844, on his

His father, Joseph Smith, was born in Loudoun County, Va., October 29, 1792, the son of Temple Smith, born in Virginia, April 4, 1744, and his wife, Lydia (Lane) Smith, born in Virginia in 1751, both of whose ancestors were among the earliest English settlers of Virginia and Maryland. He came with his father's family to Harrison County, Ky., in 1800. On April 9, 1822, Joseph Smith and Sally Taylor were married near Frankfort, Ky. Sally Taylor was born in Gallatin County, Ky., November 22, 1807, the daughter of Rey. John Taylor, born in Fauquier County, Virginia, October 27, 1752, and his wife, Elizabeth Kavanaugh, born in Virginia, June 18, 1761, John Taylor being of Scotch and Elizabeth Kavanaugh of Irish descent. The Rey. John Taylor was a preacher of the gospel in Virginia and Kentucky for more than sixty years. In 1823, was published his "History of Ten Churches," being the annals of ten Baptist Churches which had been under his ministry, which is one of the most notable and interesting histories of church extension during the pioneer days of Kentucky.

To Joseph Smith and his wife were born in and near Frankfort: Temple, born January 18, 1823, drowned January 2, 1833; John Taylor, born March 6, 1825, married in Springfield, Il., March 27, 1850, to Sophia Ridgely, died January 25, 1892 (see his name and family group 'In this work); Joseph Sidney, born July 21, 1827, served as a soldier in the Civil War (1861-65), with the rank of Major, in the Tenth Illinois Cavalry, was a prominent and useful citizen of Sangamon County, and died unmarried, in San Antonio, Tex., April 9, 1902; Elizabeth Jane, born January 21, 1830, died October 1, 1901, married, December 8, 1852, David Allen Brown. After the family moved to Illinois in the year 1884 there were born: Bradford Temple, born January 8, 1840, died in infancy; DeWitt Wickliffe, born December 13, 1844.

Joseph Smith entered the mercantile business as a clerk, at the age of fifteen years, in Paris, Ky., and at the age of twenty-one established himself as a merchant in Frankfort, Ky., the capital of the State. He remained in business seventeen years, but during most of the time resided on his farm, "Llangollan,"' near Frankfort. Wishing to remove his children from what he believed to be the evil influences of slavery, he came to Illinois to view the country in 1884, and purchased a considerable tract of land in the western part of Sangamon County. Returning to Frankfort, he sold out his mercantile business and his farm home, but with characteristic business prudence, retained his lands in Harrison and Daviess Counties until the day of his death. Central Illinois was in 18384, a somewhat uncertain proposition, and there was a current proverb of that time to this effect:

Mr. Smith engaged again in the mercantile business in Springfield with his relative, Col. James M. Bradford, as a partner, but until the close of his life in 1858, he spent the greater part of his time in improving and developing his lands, and in frequent business trips to Kentucky.

While on one of these trips, in the year 1844, he was nominated and elected, by the Whigs of the Sangamon District, to the Illinois Legislature, being then, for the first and only time in his life, a candidate for office. He was, however, an active and ardent Whig in politics, and was a personal friend of Henry Clay, with whom he enjoyed a close intimacy for many years.

Mr. Smith was a man of good education and fine mental endowments, much given to habits of study and thought, and of unusual business sagacity. When he departed this life he left his family not only well provided for in worldly goods, but with a far richer heritage in the memory and precepts of a father who had done good and not evil all the days of his life, and whose children could, with just and commendable pride, rise up and call him blessed. Mrs. Sally Smith survived her husband nearly forty-two years, going to her final reward in April, 1895, in the eighty-eighth year of her age, and until a few hours before her death, in the possession of all her physical and mental powers. It was said of her, and of the wonders that had come to pass during her lifetime: "She was a wife and a mother when the first railroad passenger train made its initial run, and was twenty-four when the first Lucifer match was manufactured. Five years later, in 1833, she might have been a passenger on the first steamship that ever sped from America to Europe. She was thirty-five when the electric wire flashed the first message from Washington to Baltimore. Since then have come in bewildering rapidity the more modern inventions, such as the telephone, the electric light, the phonograph, and a host of other appliances of science which are considered necessary to our busy life. Through all these marvelous years she passed sweetly, serenely and graciously, a blessing to all who were so fortunate as to come within the charmed circle of her inspiring influence."

DeWitt Wickliffe, the sixth and last child of his parents, was born on his father's farm, eleven miles west of Springfield, in what is now the eastern part of Cartwright Township. After the death of his father in 18538, he came with his mother to Springfield, where he attended the private schools of Rev. #rancis Springer and the Rey. John F. Brooks; he afterwards attended the old Illinois State University (now Concordia College), and for two years the Springfield High School. In 1868-64 he took a business college course and training in Chicago and in St. Louis.

B. McConnell and his wife, Augusta Saulsbury McConnell. Mr. McConnell and his wife were both born in the State of New York. Mr. McConnell was one of the charter members of the Illinois State Board of Agriculture, was for many years its Vice President and its" President; was Sheriff of Sangamon County for four years, and held other positions of honor and trust. After his marriage, Mr. Smith settled on his farm in what is now New Berlin Township, and there were born to him and his wife the following children: Sidney, born February 17, 1866, married October 8, 1894, to Gertrude Lapsley, of Kansas City, Mo., is now living near Bayliss, Ill., and has no children; Eliza Adelia, born December 8, 1867, married October 29, 1890, Henry M. Pindell, of Peoria, Ill, where they now reside, and their children are - Frances Adelia and Elizabeth Augusta; Temple DeWitt, born January 2, 1870, died unmarried March 19, 1893; Augusta, born September 18, 1875, married January, 1899, to Charles V. B. Carroll, of Springfield, Ill., where they now reside, and have one child, Edith. Mr. Smith lived on his farm, "Boskymead," for twenty-six years, during which time -he was somewhat extensively engaged in farming, in breeding pedigreed livestock, and in cattle ranching in Wyoming and Montana. He was connected with various agricultural and livestock associations, and by reason of these connections and a membership for several terms of the Illinois Legislature, was instrumental in securing the enactment of various State and National laws (of several of which he was the author) designed to promote and protect the great farming and livestock industries of the country, industries upon which, more than all others, the welfare of the people is dependent. Wuile having other business interests, he has been at all times proud to stand up and be counted as a Sangamon County farmer. He was for nine years President of the Illinois National Bank, and for twelve years Vice President of the Ridgely National Bank, of Springfield, and has held various other positions of responsibility and trust. In 1890, he moved back to Springfield where he has since resided, at 625 South Second Street. ' On February 19, 1895, Mr. Smith married (second) Gertrude Moore, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, December 23, 1873, the daughter of _William Baton Moore and his wife, Mary Bishop Moore, both of whom were born in Cincinnati. Mr. Moore, while he lived in Cincinnati, was engaged with his father, William H. Moore, in the book publishing business. He afterwards had various business interests here and on the Pacific Coast. In July, 1907, he became seriously ill in San Francisco, Cal., and with his physician started on the overland journey, hoping to reach his home and family, but he died within sight of his home, but before reaching it. His widow, with her daughters, Willa and Mrs. (Jeanette) Russell Yates, reside at the family homestead in the southwest suburbs of Springfield. To DeWitt Wickliffe Smith and his wife, Gertrude Moore, have been born: Mary Temple, born November 12, 1898; William Lane, February 22, 1900; Elizabeth Wilde, March 12, 1902,

SMITH, Edward William, formerly employed many years in the rolling mills of Springfield, has lived retired for several years. In his younger days he provided for old age by industry and thrift, and now has a comfortable home at 1307 Monument Ave., Springfield. He was born in County Cavan, Ireland, May 14, 1847, a son of Arthur and Mary (Leonard) Smith, natives of Ireland. The mother died in Ireland and the father afterwards moved to England, where he lived several years with his son Edward, and also lived for a time in Scotland. He was a farmer by occupation,

As a boy Edward W. Smith attended the public schools of his native county, and after his father moved to England the son worked on the farm. The young man afterward worked in the iron works at Northumberland and afterward became employed by the Armstrong Gun factory, the largest plant of the kind in the world, where he spent three years. He also spent a few years working in English mines and lived for a time in London. In 1881 he sailed from Liverpool for America, landing in Quebec and proceeding from there to Toronto. where he worked nine months on a farm. He then went to Hamilton, Canada, and after spending a year there emigrated to the United States. He worked three years in the rolling mills of Wyandotte, Mich., then for a few years worked in steel mills south of St. Louis, whence he moved to Edwardsville, Ill., and worked two years in the mines, went from there to Carlinville, and shortly afterwards to Springfield, which has since been his home. He worked several years in Springfield rolling mills, also worked in the city water works, but some years since retired. He has resided in the same house more than twenty years.