St. Clair County, Illinois - Chapter 17, 1928 (part 2 of 2)

Judge Columbus A. Keller

JUDGE COLUMBUS A. KELLER Columbus Alonzo Keller was born near Mt. Vernon, Illinois, November 24, 185 1 and died at his home m San Antonio, Texas, in February, 1918. He entered McKendree in 1869, being admitted to the Junior Class on examination, and graduated in 1871, with the degree of B. S. He was a Philo. For the next two years he was a student in the Law School of the University of Michigan. He was admitted to the bar at Ottawa, Illinois, September 14, 1873. He was elected county judge of Jefferson County in 1877, which position he held for five years. In 1885 he moved to San Antonio, Texas, seeking a climate more favorable to his wife's health. His wife was formerly Nellie Raymond, of Lebanon. This change doubtless prolonged her life, but she died in 191 1, leaving one daughter, now Mrs. D. P. Allen, of San Antonio. Mr. Keller's second wife was Miss Essie F. Haynes, of San Antonio, who survived him. In McKendree he was a hard working student. He was president of Philo, a member of the editorial staff of the McKendree Repository, and in his senior year was elected president of the "College Association." In later life he was a prominent lodge man. He was a Knight Templar, a Shriner, and a thirty-third degree Scottish Rite Mason. In 1882, he was chosen State Grand Master of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows for Illinois. In 1912, he was chosen Grand Sire of that order for the World, in the convention at Winnipeg, Canada. He was also an active member of the Methodist Church, and a Democrat in politics.

The Class Of 1872 Ellen S. Allyn

WiUiam Edgar Ward, Charles Spies, Ellen Cecilia Axtell, George W Virginia Laura Thatcher (Mrs. W. E. McBride), William Austin Ke THE CLASS OF 1872 ELLEN S. ALLYN Ellen Sophronia Allyn was born in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, June 5, 1852. Her father. Rev. Dr. Robert Allyn, who was born in Ck)nnecticut and died at Carbondale, 111., was president of McKendree College from i86j to 1874. Her mother, Mary B. Budington, was born in Leyden, Mass., and died in Carbondale, 111. From 1857 to 1859, Ella lived at Athens, Ohio, where her father was professor of Language in the Ohio University; and from 1859 to i86j at Cincinnati, where he was president of the Wesleyan Female College. During the first six years of her residence in Lebanon she attended a private school conducted by Mrs. Helen Finley Keeney and her sister, daughters of Dr. James C. Finley, a former president of McKendree. She became a student in McKendree in 1869, and graduated in 1872. She was the first woman to receive the A. B. degree from the college. She was devoted to the interests of the Clionian Society, which she joined soon after its organization. When Dr. Allyn became president of the Southern Illinois Normal School at Carbondale, she removed to that place with her father's family, and for the remainder of her father's lifetime, devoted much of her time to assisting him in the duties of his office. She was for many years a teacher in the Sunday School of the Methodist Church at Carbondale. Her death occurred several years ago.

Ellen C. Axtell

illiam Flint, Leonidas Worthy Thrall, D. D., Thomas Jefferson Porter, :lsoe, Charles Shuman, George Key Edwards, Walter Watson, M. D. ELLEN C. AXTELL Ellen Cecelia Axtell was born at Elyria, Ohio, April 3, 1845. She was of New England ancestry. Her parents were Almon and Sophronia (Boynton) Axtell, the former a native of Massachusetts and the latter of Maine. Philip De La Noye (later anglicized to Delano) one of her ancestors on the mother's side, came to America in the ship "Fortune" which followed the Mayflower. His grandson married a grand' daughter of Bettie Alden, the oldest child of John Alden and Priscilla. Miss Axtell's grandmother Boynton's maiden name was Delano and she was thus descended from the famous New England Aldens. In i860 her parents moved to St. Joseph, Missouri, and eight years later, to Lebanon, Illinois. Here both she and her brother, Benton, became students in McKendree. He finished in the class of 1870, and she in 1872. After that. Miss Axtell taught five years in the public schools of St. Louis. In 1877, she gave up teaching on account of her health, and a little later went to Cleveland, Ohio, and studied art. Upon the death cf her brother in 1882, she went to Waco, Texas to live with his family. Soon afterward the teacher of art in Baylor University died, and Miss Axtell was appointed to the position. Two years later her mother died, and she went to live with her sister in St. Louis. There she attended the St. Louis Art School for two years, and then opened a studio, first in her own home and then at the

Y. M. C A. Building, where she taught various Hnes of art work. After working m St. Louis a number of years, she returned to Texas, still pursuing her favorite vocation. She made a specialty of china painting. She came to Lebanon to attend the reunion of the class of 1872 on the fortieth anniversary of their graduation. Her death occurred at Magnolia, Texas, February 24, 1917.

Dr. Augustus C. Bernays

DR. AUGUSTUS C. BERNAYS Augustus Charles Bernays was born at Highland, Madison County, Illinois, October 16, i8';4. He attended the schools of St. Louis during the Civil War, and after the removal of his family toLeb anon, he became a student m the Preparatory Depart - mentofMcKendreeCollege. He completed the Classical Course and received the degree of A. B. in 1872. He was a member of the Platonian Society. He was the youngest member of the class and was still under eighteen at the time of his graduation. The following autumn he went to Germany to pursue his medical studies. He entered Heidelburg University and four years later received the degree of M. D. "summa cum laude," being the first American to graduate from this famous university with highest honors. He then spent a year in post graduate studies and hospital work in Heidelburg, Berlin, and Vienna. Also, m England he succeeded in becoming a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in London. In 1877 he came to St. Louis to take up his life work as a specialist in surgery. He was a pioneer in abdominal surgery, introduced antiseptic treatment in this country, and invented surgical instruments now used the world over. He was a teacher many years. First in the St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons, and later in the Marion-Simms Medical College, which is now the Medical Department of St. Louis University. Dr. Willard Bartlett of St. Louis said of him- "He had more gifts of various kinds than any man I ever knew. He ranked high as an investigator, operator, and teacher. While in my eyes, his greatest merit lay in his ability as an operator - in his being able to do things successfully which others refused to attempt - he was also a great teacher."

Dr. G. G. Cottam of South Dakota, a pupil of his, gives the following testimony of his ability as a teacher: "He presented the plain, unvarnished truth without affect.ition and so convincingly that to hear him was to believe him. In the early nineties, when I first heard him, he was lecturing on pathological anatomy; later clinical surgery was added, and his fourfold qualification as embryologist, anatomist, pathologist, and surgeon, of each of which he was a master, enabled him to deal with his subject in a manner wholly impossible for one lacking m any of these four closely connected branches."

Louis F. Bohm

Dr. Bernays was never married, but maintained a well equipped home which was presided over by his sister, Thekla, who was a student in McKendree with him, and remained with him to the end of his career, devoting herself to his comfort. She accompanied him on several trips to Europe and on a trip to Japan, and after his death, which occurred in May, 1Q17, she wrote his biography m a very interesting volume, to which we refer the reader for further information about this remarkable man. LOUIS F. BOHM

Louis Frederick Bohm was born on a farm near EdwardsviUe, Illinois, November 18, 1849. His parents were natives of Germany. Louis completed the classical course at McKendree in 1872 and received the degree of A. B. After his graduation he taught in a country school two years, and the following year was appointed to teach in the Edwardsville High School. Early in the spring of 1874, he was compelled to give up his school work on account of failing health, and died April i, of that year. At college Mr. Bohm excelled especially in the languages. Not only was he a master of German, his mother tongue, but also ranked high in Greek and Latin. He never married.

George K. Edwards

GEORGE K. EDWARDS George Key Edwards, A. M., of the class of "72, was born December jo, 1846, near Madisonville, Monroe County, Tennessee. He is the son of Thomas H. and Margaret (Stephenson) Edwards. The family moved before George was three years old to the farm on which he lived to the end of his life, near McLeansboro, Illinois. George was married April Q, 1885, to Miss Ada Daily, of McLeansboro. They have four children, Kate, a teacher in the McLeansboro High School, George, Paul, and Frank, the youngest. After graduating at McKendree, Mr. Edwards taught school in Illinois, Kansas, and Montana, nine years in all, and then engaged in farming and stock-raising on the farm on which he himself was raised. For many years he has been also a public lecturer.

and a writer for magazines, religious and temperance journals, and other publications. The "Ram's Horn," a religious publication of international fame, once printed a friendly cartoon of this physically slight, slender man, representing him as a very big, fat, heavy, short man. Mr. Edwards has devoted much time to Sunday School work, both on the public platform and in private life . His death occurred only a few years ago .

Stephen G. H. Edwards

STEPHEN G. H. EDWARDS Stephen Gardner Hicks Edwards was born at Mt. Vernon, lUinois, December 23, 1850 He was the son of Dr. F. H. and Margaret Elizabeth (Hicks) Edwards. His paternal grandfather, Rev. William Edwards, was a pioneer Methodist preacher in Illinois, and for many years chaplain of the Illinois Grand Lodge of I. O. O. F. His maternal grandfather, Stephen Gardner Hicks, was an officer in three wars - Blackhawk, Mexican, and Civil. Stephen's mother lived to the end of her long life at Sandoval, Illinois, their home when he was a student in McKendree. After finishing his college course, he attended the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, where he received the degree of M. D. Then he formed a partnership with his father, and for the next twelve years, practiced medicine in Sandoval. Early in 1887, he went to Texas on account of his health, and on April 30 of that year he died at Castroville, Texas, leaving a wife and four children. One of his sons, Dr. Frank M. Edwards, is now a practicing physician; the other. Dr. Ralph D. Edwards, is a dentist. His daughter, Lydia, is a talented musician; the other, Elizabeth, is the wife of Chas. W. Hall, a prominent business man of Sandoval. Dr. Edwards' wife never re-married.

William M. Essex

WILLIAM M. ESSEX William Monroe Essex, salutatorian of the class of 1872, was born in St. Louis, November 12, 185 1, and died in the same city January 23, 1875, a victim of the "white plague." He never married. He became a teacher after graduating from McKendree, and continued enthusiastically in the service of the cause of education up to a short time before his death. He was for a time professor of Mathematics in the Springfield (Missouri) Female College. He was a younger brother of the late Thomas Essex, who was also an alumnus of McKendree, class of 1858.

George W. Flint

GEORGE W. FLINT George William Flint was born on a farm near Lebanon, Illinois, February 6, 1847, and died at his home near Ray mond, Illinois, February 11, 1926. He was the oldest son of William and Mary (Gedney) Flint, who were both natives of England and came to America soon after their marriage in the home land. George W. graduated from McKendree in the class of 1872, receiving the degree of B. S., and later, M. S. He was a member of the Platonian Society. A year after his graduation he went to Glenwood, Iowa, where he engaged in teaching for several years. Here he was married February 24, 1876, to Miss Ada M. Carter, of Glenwood. She died in August of the same year, at the age of twenty. He then returned to Illinois and engaged in the lumber business, first at Mt. Olive, and later at Greenville. On May 4, 1881, he was married to Miss Annie E. Kirkland of Walshville, Illinois. Mrs. Flint died in March, 1912, leaving two children. Earl W., and Mary Louise. From the spring of 1896 until his death, Mr. Flint lived on a farm near Raymond, which for a number of years has been managed by his son and daughter. The residence is a large roomy house, lighted with gas, heated with hot water, and supplied with all modern conveniences. Mr. Flint had five brothers who were students at McKendree, tho not all of them graduated.

Margaret E. Gilbert

MARGARET E. GILBERT Margaret Elizabeth Gilbert, daughter of Edward and Margaret E. (Roosevelt) Gilbert, was born March i, 1850, on the old Greenwich plantation of colonial days, five miles from Savannah, Georgia, and died January 29, 1906, at Los Angeles, California. Most of her childhood was spent on a farm near Lebanon, Illinois. Before the doors of McKendree were open to women, Miss Gilbert attended a young ladies' seminary in Jersey City, and Almira College, at Greenville, Illinois. She entered McKendree in 1869 and graduated in 1872, with the degree of B. S. She was one of the founders of the Clionian Society. She was married October 10, 1876, to Charles Colgate Galusha, of Rochester, New York. One of her classmates. Miss Ellen Allyn, served as bridesmaid at the wedding, which took place at the Gilbert homestead two miles east of Lebanon. Their two sons were Eldon Gilbert and Charles Edward, the latter of whom died when but two years old. Her husband, after a long period of ill health, died March 18, 1881. In December, 1902, Mrs. Gilbert, with her son, Eldon, and her sister, Euretta, moved to Los Angeles, where she died only about three years later.

Samuel Hastings

SAMUEL HASTINGS Samuel Hastings was born at Ingraham, Clay County, Ilhnois, July 24, 1850, and died in Cairo, Illinois, September 22, 1905. After graduating at McKendree in 1872, where he was a member of the Platonian Society, he taught school for several years in Clay County, and then moved to Cairo and engaged in the wholesale grain business. On September 24, 1876, he was married to Miss Anisee Barney at Ingraham,

Illinois. To them were born four children: Lelia M,, Maude, Oris B., and Mary Alice. The grain business established by Mr. Hastings in 1885 has now passed to his son, Oris, and his brother, Ira. He also served the public as a member of the City Council of Cairo, and as County Commissioner of Alexander County. He was also president of Cairo's Board of Trade, and one of the trustees of the State Hospital for the Insane at Aurora, Illinois.

George W. Hill

George Washington Hill was born at Ewing, Franklin County, Illinois, October 31, 1874, and died at Murphysboro, Illinois, October 29, 1897. His parents were Judge John W. Hill, a native of Virginia, and Margaret (Beattie) Hill, born in Alabama. At McKendree, Mr. Hill was a member of the Philosophian Society. After his graduation in 1872, when he received the degree of B. S., he was elected professor of Science and Latin in Ewing College. He spent a year there and then located at Murphysboro, serving as principal of the public schools of that city for a time before entering upon the practice of law. In 1884 he was elected State Senator from the 50th Illinois District. He took an active interest in politics, served many years as chairman of the County Central Committee of his party, and was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention which nominated Grover Cleveland for president in 1888. Mr. Hill was married October 27, 1875 to Miss Fannie Ingram, daughter of Col. W. T. Ingram, M. D., of Murphysboro. Five children were born to them, three of whom are still living. These are Margaret, now Mrs. D. M. Parkinson of San Antonio, Texas; Frances, now Mrs. A. C. Butterworth of Little Rock, Arkansas; and Miss Helen, the youngest daughter, who lives with her mother in Murphysboro. The only son, Dr. W. C. Hill, died in 1906 at Murphysboro, where he was engaged in the practice of medicine.

John C. Keet

John Charles Keet, son of Thomas Josiah and Elizabeth (West) Keet, was born at Keetsville, Missouri, August 9, 1850. While in McKendree he was a member of the Platonian Society. He graduated in 1872 with the degree of B. S., and later received the degree of M. S. On December 18, 1875 he was married to Miss Lyda Hypes at her home in Lebanon. Miss Hypes was one of the founders of the Clionian Society, and was a student in McKendree at the same time with Mr. Keet. To them were born five children: Florence, Bertram, Harry, Belle, and Margaret. Mr. Keet engaged in merchandising at Springfield, Mo. soon after his graduation, and continued in this business until his death February 20, 1905.

William A. Kelsoe

William Austin Kelsoe, a veteran newspaper man of St. Louis, IS one of the two surviving members of the class of 1872, the other survivor being Zachary Taylor Remick, of Trenton, Illinois.

Mr. Kelsoe traces his ancestry back to American colonists from Europe, including the four countries of the British Isles and two on the Continent. The mother of his father. Alexander Kelsoe, a native of Tennessee, was a North Carolina Huston (also spelled Houston). Her husband, Archibald Kelsoe, is said to have changed the spelling of his family name to have it end like Monroe, Defoe, Kehoe, Bludsoe and other names ending in "oe," Archibald's brothers and their children keeping the old-time Scotch and Irish spelling, Kelso.

Mr. Kelsoe's parents were both school teachers before their marriage. He still has the teacher's certificate under which his mother taught a country school in Athens County, Ohio, when she was Miss Elizabeth Watkins, her father being Mathew Watkins, a soldier of the War of 1812 and a son of Jonathan Watkins, a soldier of the American Revolution. She was married to Alexander Kelsoe in 1849 at Rock Island, Illinois, where she was then living with a married sister, Mrs. Austin (Esther) Prouty. Alexander Kelsoe was then circuit clerk of Bond County, Illinois, but before that he had taught school in the county several years and had attended McKendree College in 1844.

W. A. Kelsoe, born Feb. i, in Greencastle, the capital of Bond County, lost both parents before he was eleven years old, his mother in his early infancy, and until he became of age he lived most of the time with the family of an uncle and aunt, William and Martha Watkins, the latter being a Greenville Greenwood, of Boston parentage and culture. His early education was received at public schools in Greenville, Pocahontas and Vandalia, a private school in Greenville for boys, and a country school near Highland, 111. Entering Mc- Kendree College in September, 1866, he devoted two years exclusively to studies in the regular scientific course and the next two largely to Greek and Latin. Then he put in nine months as a teacher of a country school not far from Lebanon, returning to the college campus in June, 1871, to read Greek and Latin daily to Professor S. H. Deneen (the flither of the present United States Senator) under a shady tree the rest of the summer.

Mr. Kelsoe says that he was not a brilliant student and that he owed his election to an editorship (twice) on the college paper and to the presidency of the Platonian Society in the fall of 1869 and again in the fall of 187 1, not to oratory or any literary achievement, not to his record in the recitation room, but largely, in fact, almost entirely to his work on the ball field and in the college gymnasium. He is credited with having won high honors in an essay contest, but his good fortune then was due, he says, to the fact that one of the members of his class. Miss Virginia Leonora Roberts, was not a competitor, this brilliant young lady having been the winner in a similar contest the year before. And the high prize this time, in June, 1872, was not for Mr. Kelsoe alone, he tells us. He had to share it with another great woman in the graduating class that year. Miss Ellen Sophronia Allyn^ a daughter of the college president.

After graduating at McKendree, Mr. Kelsoe accompanied his youngest classmate, Augustus Charles Bernays, (later nationally famous as a surgeon) to the old University of Heidelburg, Germany where they were joined later by another classmate, the valedictorian of the class. Rev. Thomas Clark McFarland.

From the Centennial History of Missouri, page 501, we learn that "at Heidelburg, Mr. Kelsoe studied philology and old German literature under Professor Bartsch, history and literature under Professor von Treitschke, international law under Professor Bluntschli. the master works of literature under Professor Kuno Fischer and physics under Professor Kirchhoff, all men celebrated in their respective fields of education."

His stand for the settlement of international controversies by arbitration, publicly advocated on more than one occasion at McKendree, was greatly strengthened at Heidelburg. "Old McKendree" and "Alt Heidelberg" have never, no, not for a single moment, since his student days, cea.sed to be very dear to him.

Twice the college (McKendree) has honored him with election to its Board of Trustees - in 1893, and 1926. One of its present members, Charles Pace Hamill, who.se parents were Mr. Kelsoe's fellow students at McKendree, was associated with him in newspaper work at the St. Louis World's Fair, being connected with the Exposition's Local Press Bureau, and so were Professor Willi.im F. Thrall, J. Paul Edwards and G. Roy Flint, themselves McKendre<ins, as their fathers were before them. Dr. Theodore Lewald, who had charge of Germany's wonderful exhibit at the Fair, was a member of Mr. Kelsoe's college fraternity at Heidelburg, the Verbindung Rupertia, named for Carl Rupert, the foun der of the present Germany's oldest university.

Mr. Kelsoe was married in 1877 at Kansas City, Mo., to Miss Frida Hillgaertner, whose acquaintance he had made at McKendree College and whose father was prominently identified with the German press of that city, as he had been in the Fifties with the Illinois Staatszeitung of Chicago, Mrs. Kelsoe's native city, where some of her relatives are still hving, notably Mr. Charles Roden, the head of the Chicago Public Library and president of the national association of American Librarians. Dr. Hillgaertner was with Carl Schurz in the German Revolution of 1848, and Mrs. Hillgaertner was of the German nobility, a von Roden of Hanover and a great-granddaughter of Baron von Freytag.

Mr. Kelsoe's long service in St. Louis newspaper work, beginning in August, 1874, has seemed to him to have been a continuation of his college training, and he says he has never regretted his choice of journalism as his life vocation. Much of his newspaper experience is told in his work, the "St. Louis Reference Record," published late in 1927 by the Von Hoffman Press in St. Louis. Since Mrs. Kelsoe's death, in 1920, he has made his home with their only child, Stephen Hillgaertner Kelsoe, connected with the St. Louis Public Library.

Dr. George S. Liggett

DR. GEORGE S. LIGGETT George Samuel Liggett was born in Williston, Vermont, October 27, 1853. He was a son of William C. and Ellen O. (Whitney) Liggett. His mother was a member of the celebrated Whitney family of New England. At an early age he came with his parents to Lebanon, where in due time he entered McKendree College and graduated in 1872, re ceiving the degree of B. S., and later, M. S. In 1876 he received the degree of M. D. from the St. Louis Medical College. He spent the next year as interne at the St. Louis Public Hospital. His first private practice was at Mt. Vernon, Illinois. After a year he accepted a position as company physician for the Iron Mountain Mining Company in Missouri. In 1884, Dr. Liggett moved to Oswego, Kansas, where he spent the remainder of his life. He had a large general practice, and made a specialty of microscopic work. He wrote much for medical and other scientific journals. He has served as county health officer, county physician, mayor of Oswego, member of the City Board of Health, Government pension examiner, president of the County Medical Society, secretary of the Southeast Kansas Medical Society, and the American Medical Society, and filled other public and semipublic positions of honor and trust. While m McKendree he was a member of the Platonian Society, and m later life was prominent in several fraternal organiz,ations. He was married in February, 1882, to Miss Marianna Henderson, of Glasgow, Mo. Of their three sons, the oldest and youngest are now living. The second died m his twentieth year. Dr. Liggett's death occurred at his home m Oswego, Kansas, January 16, iqij, in the sixtieth year of his age. REV. THOMAS C. McFARLAND

Thomas J. Porter

Thomas Clark McFarland, born near Sparta, Illinois, October 8, 1850, was valedictorian of the class of 1872. He received the degree of A. B., and later, A. M. He taught school in Cahfornia, and also did newspaper work on a San Francisco paper in 1872 and 187J. He then went to Heidelberg, Germany, where he joined two of his McKendree classmates, Bernays and Kelsoe. After attending university lectures on philology and literature a year at Heidelberg and a year at Strassburg, he returned to the United States and entered the Lane Theological Seminary at Cincinnati, where he remained a year. He then spent two years in the McCormick Theological Seminary at Chicago, graduating there with the class of 1878. That year he was ordained a minister of the Presbyterian Church, and soon afterwards accepted a pastorate at Bellevue, Iowa, where he remained one year. Then he served in turn, four years at Malcolm, Iowa, three at Petersburg, Illinois, one at Mitchell, South Dakota, seventeen at Williamsburg, Iowa, and seven in California. He removed to California on account of his health, and lived at Beaumont, in that state. On September 20, 1880, he was married to Miss Myra Delia Wynkoop of Bellevue, Iowa. Mrs. McFarland died November 2j, 1903, leaving three children, John S., Isabel, and David Hawthorne. While m McKendree he was a member of the Platonian Literary Society. He died m Los Angeles, Jan. 24, 1914. THOMAS J. PORTER

B. S. in 1872, later receiving the Master's Degree. He became a travelling salesman soon after graduating. During the years between 1887 and 1899, he was engaged in the mercantile business for himself, but since 1901 he had been engaged in the life insurance business. He was state agency director ot the Kansas City Centr.il Life Insurance Company for that state. On May 10, 1880, Mr. Porter was united in marriage with Miss Sallie A. Hughey, at the home of the bride, m St. Louis. She was a daughter of Dr. and Mrs. G. W. Hughey, who lived m Lebanon when Mr. and Mrs. Porter were both students m McKendree. The Porters lived for many years m Galena, Missouri. Mr. Porter attended the reunion of his class m 1Q12. His death occurred a few years later. 2ACHARY T. REMICK

Virginia L. Roberts

Zachary Taylor Remick, son ot George W. and Eleanor Remick, was born March 1 . 1850, m Clinton County, Illinois, two miles south of Trenton. After graduating at McKendree in 1872 with the degree of Bachelor of Science, he taught school for four years at Summerfield, three at Columbia, two at Shiloh, and five at Trenton, where he is still living. After teaching fourteen years he engaged in the milling business in Trenton with his father-in-law and brother-in-law, and later for fifteen years in the grain and lumber business. He is at present interested in the loan, insurance, real estate, and collection business, and was for some years president of the First National Bank at Trenton, Illinois. He has served for many years as notary public and police ludge. In 1904, he was nominated without his consent for county superintendent of schools and was beaten by only 300 votes, although running on the Republican ticket in a county ordinarily Democratic by 1000 to 1200 votes. Whilein McKendree Mr. Remick was a member of the Philo Society. On December 3, 1880, he was married to Miss Kate Eisenmayer, a daughter of the late Andrew Eisenmayer, of Trenton, and a sister of the late J. C. Eisenmayer, both of whom have been trustees of McKendree College. To Mr. and Mrs. Remick four children were born. Arthur, the oldest, is an architect in New York City; A. B. Remick, the second son, studied law and is now connected with an advertising agency in St. Louis; Christine, the only daughter, was a student in McKendree, and is now the wife of Walter Siegmond, of St. Louis: the youngest child, Walter, died when only three years of age. He is still Hving in Trenton (1928) and takes an interest in business. For a number of years he served as organist in the Methodist Church at Trenton. VIRGINIA L. ROBERTS

Virginia Leonora Roberts was born July 2r, 1851, in Lebanon, 111. She was a daughter of Rev. George Lamb Roberts, a native of Kaskaskia, one of whose ancestors came to America with William Penn and was the first governor of the province of New Hampshire. On her mother's side she was descended from Nicholas Horner, a native of Eng- land, who came from Baltmiore to Lebanon in 1812, over a century ago. Her mother was Virginia E. Horner, a native of Lebanon. Miss Roberts was born in the historic old house, built and occupied by her maternal grand-parents, Nathan and Nancy (Hypes) Horner. In this home Bishops Asbury, McKendree, and Soule had been entertained as guests, and here too, Edward R. Ames, afterward bishop, preached his trial sermon before being licensed to preach. Miss Roberts was one of the founders of Clio. She graduated in 1872, with the degree of B. S., after which she taught school two years in Lebanon, and was then chosen principal of a school in Atchison, Kansas. Here she met John C. Kerr, to whom she was married November 24, 1880. To them were born three children, Edward Roberts, now living in California, Mabel Virginia, a teacher in the public schools of San Diego, Calif., now the home city of the Kerrs, and Margaret, now the wife of George A. Otis, and living in the same city. Mrs. Kerr died Nov. 5, 1918, in San Diego, Cahfornia.

Charles Shuman

CHARLES SHUMAN Charles Shuman was born in Philadelphia, Pa., February 21, 184J. His parents were Charles and Magdalena (Elbert) Shuman, both natives of Heidelburg, Germany. They came to America in i8j9, first locating in Philadelphia, and afterward settling in Illinois in 1857. Charles entered McKendree where he pursued the scientific course, and was a member of Plato Society. He graduated in the class of 1872. He then taught school two years in "Looking Glass Prairie," St. Clair County, Illinois, spent one year at the Southern Illinois Normal at Carbondale, and then taught three years in Moultrie County, Illinois. He served three years as township supervisor and eighteen as county clerk of Moultrie County, being elected on the Democratic ticket. In 1891 he was elected vice-president of the State Bank of Sullivan, Illinois, and six years later, president. In 1905 this bank became the First National Bank of Sullivan. He was the head of the bank for many years. He was also for many years extensively engaged in farming and stock-raising. His farm of 850 acres near Sullivan includes the farm on which he worked when a boy. He was married September 8, 1874, to Miss Mary R. McPheeters at the home of the bride's parents, Major and Mrs. Addison McPheeters. They have two sons. Bliss, who manages the Shuman farm, and Irving, who is a cashier of the First National Bank of Sullivan, and one daughter. Bertha, who became a teacher after graduating from DePauw University. He died at the Mullanphy Hospital of St. Louis, April 6, 1916.

Charles Spies

CHARLES SPIES Charles Spies was born on a farm near Marine, Illinois, June 13, 1850. He graduated from McKendree in the scien tific course in 1872. He was a member of the Platonian Literary Society. From 1873 to 1875, he was principal of the St. Jacobs public schools. He was engaged in the drug business in St. Jacob for twenty-four years, and for twelve years of the same period was secretary of the Valier and Spies Milling Company of that place. He was also Township Treasurer for eight years. Later he moved to St. Louis and became vice-president of the C. F. Blanke Tea and Coffee Company of that city. He is the son of Jacob and Katherine (Kaufman) Spies. He was married August 6, 1874, to Miss Emma Blanke of Marine, Illinois. To them were born three daughters. Stella graduated at McKendree and married Victor M. Seiter. They live in Kansas City. Florence, the second daughter, was accidentally drowned while a student in McKendree. Linda, the youngest, is still living with her mother in St. Louis. Mr. Spies' death occurred in November, 191 5.

Virginia L. Thatcher

VIRGINIA L. THATCHER Virginia Laura Thatcher was born September i, 185a, at Marion, Illinois. Her parents were Rev. John and Virginia (Wells) Thatcher. Being a Methodist preacher's daughter, she lived in many towns during her girlhood, the family moving in turn to Xenia, Benton, Salem, Fairfield, Mascoutah, Ashley, Tamaroa, and Mt. Erie, all in the Southern Illinois Conference. After her father's death in 1869, the widow and children located in Lebanon where Miss Jennie attended McKendree and graduated in 1872 with the degree of B. S. She was one of the founders of the Clionian Literary Society. She taught school in Lebanon for a time after her graduation, and in 1875, on her twenty-third birthday she was married to William E. McBride, of the class of 187 1, with whom she lived happily until his death in 1893. Their four children are Dovey M., who married Dr. O. C. Church; Olive, William, Thomas, and Sadie E., who married Prof. Ernest R. Crisp. The son now has charge of the McBride farm in St. Clair County, which was owned by his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, having been in the McBride family for more than a hundred years. After living on the farm for thirty-three years, Mrs. McBride moved to Lebanon and lived till her death in the home formerly occupied by her mother. One night, January 30, 1918, she went to bed as usual, after talking over plans to visit her youngest daughter in Chicago, and woke up in Eternity. She thus made the transition from this world to the next without a single day of illness.

Rev, Dr. L. W. Thrall

Leonidas Worthy Thrall was born on a farm near Bone Gap, Edwards County, Illinois, February 21, iSso. He is a son of Worthy and Hannah (James) Thrall. His mother was of Welsh ancestry, and his father was a great-grandson of Samuel Thrall, a captain in the American army during the War of Independence, and a descendant of William Thrall, who came to America from England with a band of Puritans and settled at Windsor^ Connecticut, in i6jo. Before entering McKendree College. Leonidas attended the academy of the Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois; and before his graduation he taught a school for colored children at Lebanon. He completed the classical course and received the degree of A. B. in June, 1872. In 1875 he was granted the degree of A. M., and in 1895 his Alma Mater honored him with the degree of Doctor of Divinity. After his graduation he entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church and was received into full connection in the Southern Illinois Conference m 1874. After a few years of work m this conference he was transferred to Kansas, and served the churches at Hartford, Columbus, and Independence, Kansas. He then returned to Illinois in 187Q and served m turn the following charges: Ashley, Grayville, Metropolis, Salem, Greenville, Lebanon, and Flora. For six years beginning 1893 he was presiding elder of the Vandalia District, making his home first at Salem and later at Lebanon, that his children might more conveniently attend college.

While in Hartford, Kansas, he served as president of the Hartford Collegiate Institute of that city. He once served as financial agent for McKendree College, and was a member of the Board of Trustees for thirty years. He was a delegate to the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which convened at Cleveland in 1896; and again to the one in Chicago in 1900. It has been truly said of Dr. Thrall that he was one of the ablest pulpit orators m the Methodist Church, and he was known throughout Southern Illinois as a public speaker at Memorial Day exercises. Fourth of July celebrations, and educational meetings.

Dr. Thrall was twice married. His first wife was Edith M. Flint, the first woman to graduate from McKendree College (class of 1870) and one of the founders of Clio. They were married September 29, 1873, at the old Flint home one mile east of Lebanon. Mrs. Thrall died November 10, 1898, at Lebanon. Her funeral was held in the college chapel. Their five children. Edith Laura, Victor W., William F., Charles H., and Harold L., are all graduates of McKendree. On December 27, 1900, Dr. Thrall was married to Emily M.

Judge William E. Ward

JUDGE WILLIAM E. WARD William Edgar Ward was born in Belleville, Illinois, May 13, 185 1. His parents were John Ward and Lucy L. Ash, pioneer citizens of St. Clair County. He graduated from McKendree in 1872, receiving the degree B. S., and a year later was admitted to the bar at Mt. Vernon, Illinois. In addition to his law practice he has been city attorney of Belleville five years. Township Clerk and Township Attorney, two years each. In 1892 he was elected city justice of Belleville, and held the office thirty-five years. Judge Ward was married May 13, 1874, to Miss Elizabeth G. Phillips, of Belleville. They have five children: William H., Marian Frances, Edgar A., Florence, and Ardella. They are all married but one. Mr. Ward was a member of the Philosophian Society while in McKendree, and belonged to the Knights of Pythias and the Liederkranz Singing Society of Belleville. He died in Belleville December 4, 1927.

Dr. Walter Watson

Walter Watson was born May 14, 1851, at Mt. Vernon, Illinois. He is a son of Joel Franklin and Sarah (Taylor) Watson. He graduated from McKendree m the class of 1872, receiving the degree of B. S. Later he received the Master's degree from his Alma Mater. While m college he was a member of the Philosophian Society. After his graduation he taught school for a time at Grayville, Illinois, and then entered the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati, from which institution he received the degree of M. D. m 1875. While there he won the college prize in ophthalmology and by competitive examination secured a position as interne m the Good Samaritan Hospital of Cincinnati. After serving a year in the hospital and a year as demonstrator of anatomy in the medical college where he graduated, he returned to Mt. Vernon in 1877 and began the practice of medicine in his home town, having formed a partnership with Dr. W. Duff Green of that place. In 1893 he was appointed superintendent of the Hospital for the Insane at Jacksonville. Illinois. He was a member of the

Democratic State Central Committee of Illinois for seventeen years. While he was chairman of this committee, the party polled the highest vote in its history in this state. He was a delegate-at-large to the National Democratic Convention which nominated Grover Cleveland for president in 1892. Dr. Watson retired from regular practice some years ago. He stood high both as a physician and surgeon, but it was in surgery, of which he made a specialty, that he won his chief distinction. On September 16, 1888, he was married to Miss Nettie M. Johnson, of Champaign, Illinois, who died April 7, 1897. Their only child, Margaret, is the wife of Thomas Perry, of Westerly, Rhode Island. He died January 8, 1922

The Class Of 1873 Rev. William F. Brown

THE CLASS OF 1873 REV. WILLIAM F. BROWN William Fletcher Brown enrolled as coming from Walshville, lUinois. His membership in the Philosophian Society shows that he came as early as 1865, but he did not finish his course till 1873,, when he received the degree of A. B. He joined the Southern Illinois Conference in 1874 and served in the pastorate in this conference till 1882, when he transferred to Iowa. Later he moved to Kansas. In 191 1 he was at South McAlester. Oklahoma. We have no later information concerning him.

Thomas I. Briscoe

THOMAS I. BRISCOE Thomas Ira Briscoe, son of Edward and Nancy Briscoe, was born in Pike County, Illinois, August 27, 1845. He grew up on a farm and after passing through the public schools, he entered McKendree and graduated in 187J, receiving the degree of B. S. He was a Philo. Later he entered the Law School of the University of Michigan and received the degree of LL. B. in 1876. He practiced law for a few years at Pittsfield, Illinois, and then in 1878 he vyent to Colorado and engaged in the mining business. At the last report from him a few years ago he was still concerned with mining interests and his home was at Buena Vista, Colorado, which is the county seat of Chaffee County. He was county commissioner for one term, sheriff for one term, and county judge for one term. He was married in July, 1895, to Miss Minnie Oliver of Pittsfield, Illinois. He is a member of the Masonic Order and has been twice master of the local lodge in his home city. He has not had an opportunity to visit his Alma Mater for many years, but nevertheless he is still a loyal McKendrean.

Benjamin H. Chapman

dree in 1869 and graduated in 187},, receiving the degree of B. S. He was a member of the Platonian Literary Society. After his graduation he studied law at Springfield, Illinois. He began practicing law in Vandalia, Illinois, about the year 1878, and later became a member of the law firm of Henry and Chapman. In 1884 he moved to Kansas City and became a member of the law firm of Brown, Chapman, and Brown. He afterward became interested in gold mines in South America, and while looking after these interests, his death occurred at Medellin, United States of Columbia, about the year 1905. He was never married. He was an attendant and supporter of the Methodist Church, a good lawyer, a high-minded and honorable man, a companionable and trustworthy friend.

John Tethering Ton

JOHN TETHERING TON John Tetherington was born near Caseyville, Illinois, October 8, 1849, and died at Edwardsville, August 31, 191 1. He graduated from McKendree in the class of 1873, receiving the degree of A. B. He was a member of the Platonian Literary Society. He was married October 8, 1878, to Miss Mary I. Renfro. They have seven living children. He spent a good portion of his life on a farm in Madison County. For a number of years he was treasurer of that county. During his later years he retired from the farm and resided in Edwardsville. He was a Ma.son and also belonged to the Order of Red Men .

Oliver M. Edwards

OLIVER M. EDWARDS Oliver Mathis Edwards was born at McLeansboro, Illinois, March 30, i8si. His parents were Thomas H. and Margaret Edwards. The father was a native of North Carolina, and the mother of Tennessee. Oliver entered McKendree in 1869 and graduated in June, 1873, with the degree of B. S. He was a member of the Platonian Literary Society. He was married November 20, 1873, to Miss Louise Alice Vollintme, who was a student of McKendree from 1869 to 18" I. They have five children; Emory, William H., lona, BeuLih, and Oliver Mathis, Jr. The youngest followed his father's footsteps for a time in being a student in McKendree. After his graduation Mr. Edwards made farming his principal business until 1906, since which time he has resided in Sorento, Illinois, with his wife and son. He has always been identified with educational interests in the community where he lived. He taught school himself for seven years, and was a member of the Board of Directors eighteen years. Since living in Sorento he has been a member of the Board of Education for four years. He has been a member of the Methodist Church since he was thirteen years of age, and for many years a Sunday School Superintendent. He has always been active in public affairs, especially so m the interest of the Republican party. In March, 1912, he was appointed postmaster of Sorento, Illinois, by President Taft. He has been for fifteen years a Mason, and for twenty years a Modern Woodman.

Dean William W. Edwards

William Wirt Edwards WIS born March 3, 1853,, at Pinckneyville, Illinois, where his parents, William md Juliet M. Edwards, were among the early set tiers, having located there tbout the year 1832. His tither, William Edwards, was for some years a merchant, but later he studied and practiced law, and at the time of his death m i8s4. stood high m the legal profession. The widowed mother, a woman of cultured mmd, by reason of home study and extensive reading, was deeply interested in the education of her children, and rendered them every assistance which her limited means would permit. When William W., her youngest son, had finished the village school, she came with him to Lebanon in 1869 and remained there with him during most of the time he was pursuing his college course. He graduated m 187}, with the first honors of his class, receiving the degree of A. B. and three years later, A. M. For three years he engaged in teaching and studied law. In 1876, he was admitted to the bar and began the practice of law at Carleton, Nebraska, where he remained five years. In 1878 he was elected county judge. On September 11 of the same year he was married to Miss Cora Malone, of Steelville, Illinois. For thirty-eight years she shared with him the vicissitudes of life as a beloved companion and a wise counsellor, devoted to her home and family, also finding much time for active religious work, for which her character and talents especially fitted her. At her death in November, 1916, she left four sons and five daughters, all of whom are still living. About four years later, Mr. Edwards was married to Mrs. Louise Watson, of Springfield, his present wife.

In 1883, Mr. Edwards entered the ministry and joined the Southern Illinois Conference. From that time until his retirement in 191 1, he served pastoral charges except the years in which he was engaged in educational work. He was for ten years, i88sr to 189";, a member of the faculty of McKendree College, first as professor of Latin, and later .is dean of the Law Department. He also served five years as principal of the McCray-Dewey Academy, at Troy, Illinois. Even after his retirement, he was so strongly drawn toward educational work that he founded the Lincoln College of Law at Springfield, Illinois, which was chartered by the State in May, 1912, and of which he is still the dean. This school maintains a strong course of study, and has obtained favorable recognition by the profession m general, as well as by other institutions of like character. Dean Edwards says: "In reviewing the experiences of the more than half century of my active life, I derive the greatest satisfaction from the thought that I may have contributed somewhat to the success of the youth with whom I have come in contact." FRANK W. MARSHALL

Frank Wyman Marshall was born at Clinton, New Jersey, March 3, i8<f3,. He is a son of Rev. Lyman and Eliza W. Marshall, who were both native Americans. His father was for many years pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Lebanon. He entered McKendree m 1869 and graduated m 1873, receiving the degree of A. B., a.nd later A. M. In 1897, McKendree conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Music. He was a member of the Platonian Literary Society. He spent some years in teaching after his graduation, being principal of the high school at Shelbyville, 111., and then was superintendent of schools at Upper Alton. He then went into newspaper work and for fifteen years was employed with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He is a gifted musician, and gave much time to amateur and professional work in that line. He was for nearly thirteen years in charge of the Church Music Department of the Presbyterian Board of Publication in Philadelphia. He was a director of the Winona Summer School Association for more than twenty years. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and of the Masons, Odd Fellows, and Knights of Pythias. He was married October 6, 1874, to Miss Sarah Seaman, of Lebanon. They have one son and three daughters. The son is a graduate of Oxford University and is a practicing physician. The daughters are married and living in the west.

Henry M. Needles

Henry Mace Needles was born at Mt. Sterling, Brown County, Illinois, October 9, 1853. His parents were James B. and Christina M. Needles, who were native Americans of English descent. He entered McKendree in 1870 and graduated in the class of 1873, with the degree of B. S ; some years afterward, he received the Master's Degree. He took a law course in the University of Wisconsin, and there received the degree of LL. B. in 1876. While at McKendree he was a member of the Philosophian Society. He was married May 9, 1875, to Clarissa L. Scott. Their children are Homer Needles, Mrs. Marjorie Needles Lyon, and Elmer H. Needles. Some years after the death of Mrs. Needles, he was married to Miss Clara Halbert. To this union there was born one child, Dorothy Needles. Mr. Needles has practiced law since 1876. He was public administrator of St. Clair County from 1880 to 1884, and for twelve years was police magistrate of Belleville, 111. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and of the Blue Lodge chapter, con sistory and commandery, in Masonry. He died in 1927. JOHN F. SOMMERFELDT

John Frederick Sommerfeldt was born at Marine, Illinois, October i, 1847, and died in St. Louis, Mo., April ig, 1909 He was a son of J. G. and A. M. Sommerfeldt, who were of German nationality. He was educated in the public schools and in McKendree College, from which institution he grad uated June la, 1873, receiving the degree of B. S. He was a member of the Philosophian Literary Society. He was mar ried December 26, 1883, to Mrs. J. C. Cox. To them were born three children: Grace, born September 27, 1884; Philo born February 9, 1886: and Zelma, born June 6, 1890. He taught school for a number of years, but in his later life was engaged in insurance business in the city of St. Louis where his closing years were spent and where some members of his family still reside.

Mary A, Raymond

Mary Alice Raymond was born in San Francisco, California, September 26, 1856. She is a daughter of Charles F. Raymond, a native of Beverly, Massachusetts, and Jennie K. Fielding, of East Randolph, Vermont. She became a student in McKendree in September, 1870, and graduated in June, 1873, with the degree of B. S. She was a Clio. After her graduation, she taught school in Mt. Vernon for eight years, and in the Art Department of the Southern Illinois Normal University for two years. On the thirtieth day of July, 1884, she was married to Professor D. B. Parkinson, who had then been a member of the faculty in the Normal School for ten years. They have one son, Raymond, and one daughter, Mary Alice. Mrs. Parkinson was a member of the Methodist Church.

William H. Steward

William Henry Steward was born ;n Salem County, New Jersey, June 23, 1850, and died at Carlinville, Illinois, Octo ber 10, 1912. His parents were William and Rebecca (Abbot) Steward, both being of Scotch ancestry. When he was only four years of age his parents came to Illinois and settled in Bunker Hill Township of Macoupin County. In 1869, he became a student in McKendree College, and graduated in the class of 1873, with the degree of A. B., later receiving that of A. M. He studied law for a time in Springfield, and then entered the Law Department of the Northwestern University, where he took a full course and graduated. He began the practice of law in Carhnville, Illinois, in 1876- Here for three years he was the law partner of W. H. Snelling; he then entered into a partnership with Mr. M. L Keplinger, which continued thirty-three years, till the time of his death. He was closely associated with the affairs of his home city and community. He has held the position of Alderman, and again of city attorney in Carlinville; he was a member of the Examining Board of the Carlinville Building and Loan Association from the time of its first organization; a member of the building committee of the School Board during the construction of the North School Building, and for many years has been secretary of the Carlinville Cemetery Association. More than thirty years ago he became a member of the Methodist Church, and ever since has lived a consistent Christian life, giving many years of service as a member of the official board. He was married October 14, 1880, to Miss Addie Miller, of Carlinville. Their eldest daughter, Edna, died some years ago, while their other children, Helen and Elwood, are now grown to womanhood and manhood. From Mr. Steward's published obituary we quote: "He was one of the men for whose life we need make no apology. As a friend he was true as steel, of approved integrity, just and generous in all his dealings. As a citizen he was in all respects a man ranking as the best of men. What he believed to be right he did as nearly as was in his power to do." His death came as the result of a paralytic stroke.

Francis M. Marion Wilson Weathersbee

WILSON WEATHERSBEE Wilbon Weathersbee graduated with the B. S. degree. He was a member of the Philosophian Society. He engaged m farming at Akin, Illinois, and later at Benton, Illinois.

John Fletcher Arnold was born in Grove Township, Jas, per County, Illinois, April 21, 1851. His parents, John F and Rebecca J. Arnold, were both of American descent. He entered McKendree in 1870 and graduated m 1874, with the degree B. S. In 1877 he received the degree M. S., and m iSS') the honorary degree, A. M. He was a member of the Platonian Society. In 1876 he was married to Delia B Barton. To them were born five sons, Edward E., Eugene P., Virgil H., Lawrence F., and Dale J. Arnold. Mr. Arnold has been engaged in educational work ever since his graduation, and has held the following positions: superintendent of the Newton City Schools for eight years: county superintendent of schools of Jasper County for twenty -five years. In i8go he was a candidate for State Superintendent of Public Instruction. In 1903 and 1904 he was a member of the Examining Board to examine candidates for West Point and Annapohs. He was a member of the I. O. O. F. Lodge No. 161. He died July 9, 1921, at Jacksonville, Illinois. WILLIAM H. BLACK

William Hampton Black, son of William M. and MiUy G. Black, was born near Lebanon, Illinois, March 6, 1852. He graduated from McKendree in the class of 1874, receiving the degree of B. S. He was a member of the Platonian Society. For some years after his graduation, his home was in Texas, but later he moved to Beulah, Kansas, where he died September 8, 1884.

Judge E. Dayton Brown

Erastus Dayton Brown was born on a farm near Walshville, Illinois, April ij, 18'; i. His father was a native of Connecticut, his grandfather was one of the early settlers of New England, and his grandmother was a first cousin to Neal and Lorenzo Dow. His mother was Miss Mary Kirklin, of Jersey County, Illinois. She died when he was only two years old, and his father died in 1875. Mr. Brown attended college a year at Lincoln, and then entered McKendree in 1871 and graduated in 1874, receiving the degree of B. S. He was a Philo, and took an especially active part m debating. In 1881, he was married to Miss Anna E. Nicholson, of Bond County, Illinois. To them was born one daughter,

Mabelle Claire, who is now Mrs. Walter Birge, of St. Louis, After leaving college, he studied law with Dysert and Brown, of Macon City, Missouri, and was admitted to the bar in 1876. He located in Edina, Missouri for the practice of law, and was elected judge of the Probate Court in 1877, and was re-elected for a second term. In i88j he became legal representative of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company for several counties m Northeast Missouri. In 1886 he became financial agent of the company for the state of Kansas. In this he was very successful, and is said to have loaned more than three million dollars for his company on Kansas farms, with no loss to his company. After retirement from active service, he made his home in Carthage, Missouri, where he died m 1914.

Hon, William V. Choisser

HON, WILLIAM V. CHOISSER Willi, im Voltaire Choisser was born in Hamilton County, Illinois, August 28, 1848. His father was of French and his mother of Irish ancestry. When scarcely fourteen years of age, he enlisted in the Union Army in 1862 and served three years till the close of the war. He was with Sherman in the famous "March to the sea" and in the Grand Review at Washington at the close of the war. After attending school at Carbondale and at Ewing College, he entered McKendree m 187J and graduated in the class of 1874, with the degree of B. S. He was a very active member of the Philo Society. After leaving McKendree he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1876. He located in Harrisburg, Illinois, where he spent the greater part of his professional life in the practice of law. In i8q7 he assisted in the organization of the City National Bank, and was its president from the time of its organization. In politics he was a Democrat. He served four years as State's Attorney of Saline County. In 1884 he was elected a member of the Illinois Legislature. In 1892 he was a presidential elector, and voted for Mr. Cleveland for president. In 1891, he was appointed by Governor Altgeld, commissioner of the Southern Illinois Penitentiary, and served four years. He was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention in Denver in 1908, and again to the one in Baltimore in 1912. He was appointed warden of the Southern Illinois Penitentiary by Governor Dunne in 191 J, and held the position until his death in May, 1917. He was prominent in the Masonic Order, being a member of both the Consistery and Commandery. He was married in 1 88 1, to Miss Kate Pearce. Of their five children, one died in infancy. The others are Robert E., who graduated at McKendree in 1906, Roger M., Nelle W., and Mary Louise. The latter married E. F. Hayes, of Mattoon.

Jeremiah T. Dew

JEREMIAH T. DEW Jeremiah Thornton Dew was born in Clinton Cbunty, Illinois, November 5, 1847. His grandfather, Rev. John Dew, was a native of Virginia, a pioneer Methodist preacher, came west with Bishop McKendree, was long associated with Peter Cartwright, and was once president of McKendree College. His father, Samuel P. Dew, was a native of St. Clair County, Illinois. His mother, Eliza Walker, was a native of Clinton County and a member of a prominent family of pioneer Methodists. Their son, Jeremiah T. grew up on a farm in the famous "Looking Glass" prairie near Summerfield. He attended school for some time in St. Louis and then entered McKendree, where he graduated in 1874, receiving the degree of B. S., and three years later, that of M. S. He was a member of the Platonian Literary Society. He studied law at Nashville, Illinois and Topeka, Kansas, and then located in Kansas City, Missouri for the practice of his profession. He became a member of the law firm of Tomlinson, Ross ii Dew; later, that of Dew, Downs &? Parkinson; still later. Dew, Parkinson &? Barnes. He was a member of the Kansas City Bar Association and has served as its president. He was prominent in the G. A. R., having served in the 145th Regiment of Illinois Volunteers during the last year of the Civil War, though only sixteen years old at the time of his enlistment. He has served as Commander of Farragut Post No. j, G. A. R., was for about fifteen years Post Adjutant, and has filled many other stations of honor in the order. He was a member of the Masonic Order. He was a Republican in politics, though not a strict partisan in municipal affairs, and has never sought political preferment for him.self. He was a member of the Illinois Historical Society, also of the Missouri State Historical Society. He was married in July, 1877, to Miss Julia E. Parkinson, of Highland, Illinois, who was a member of his college class at McKendree. Mrs. Dew died October 17, 1887, leaving three children: Emma, Arthur Samuel, and Julia L. Mr. Dew was president of the graduating class of 1874, and while a student in McKendree, was one of the editors of the McKendree Repository. He died in April, igi";.

Rev. John W. Flint

REV. JOHN W. FLINT John Wesley Flint was born near Lebanon, Illinois, January 9, 1849. He was among the oldest of the nine children of William and Mary Flint, who came to Lebanon in 1842. He entered the Preparatory Department of McKendree in 1867 and graduated as a member of the class of 1874, receiving the A. B. Degree and the first honors of his class. He was a member of the Platonian Society. McKendree also made him a Doctor of Divinity in 1900. He entered the Southern Illinois Conference in 1875, and spent fifty years in the work of the Methodist ministry. He held a number of the important charges in the conference and was presiding elder twelve years, covering one term on the Mt. Vernon District and one on the Vandalia District. He was the leader of church building enterprises at Flora, Lawrenceville, and Fairfield, where he closed up his half century of service in the ministry. He was a member of the General Conference which met in Los Angeles in 1904. He was married September 6, 1875, to Miss Mary E. Robertson, of Freeburg, Illinois. Their oldest daughter, Mrs. Minnie Phillips, died in 1912, leaving her husband and three children. Another daughter is Mrs. Mary Flint Morgan, whose husband is a member of the faculty of the University of Missouri. Gilbert Roy Flint, the only son, lives in Fairchild. The youngest living daughter, Annie, lives in Madison, Wisconsin. Mrs. Flint was born on the same day as her husband, but died about a year sooner. Dr. Flint died July 4, 1926, the one hundredth anniversary of the death of Thomas Jefferson. The funeral was held in Lebanon and he was laid to rest in College Hill Cemetery. There were thirty-five of his fellow ministers at the funeral. He was for thirty years a trustee of McKendree.

William A, Harnsberger

WILLIAM A, HARNSBERGER William Augustus Harnsberger was born at Alhambra, Madison County, Illinois, September 7, 185 1. He can trace his ancestry back to a pioneer family who settled in Virginia more than two hundred years ago. After receiving the usual preliminary training, he entered McKendree College, and after completing the course, graduated in the class of 1874, receiving the degree of B. S. He was a member of the Philosophian Literary Society. After leaving McKendree, he entered the Union College of Law in Chicago, from which institution he graduated in June, 1877, receiving the degree of LL. B., and was the same year admitted to the bar of Illinois. The following year he was admitted to the bar of the State of Missouri, and began the practice of law in Kansas City, which has been his occupation since that time. He was married December 20, 1907, in Kansas City, Kansas, but has resided since that time in Kansas City, Missouri. He regards himself as a Republican in politics, but does not consider himself bound by any party in the matter of local and municipal affairs. He was reared in a Methodist home and is a believer in the Christian religion, but is not affiliated with any branch of the church. He is a member of the" Masonic Order.

SALLIE M^ HUGHEY Sallie Maria Hughey was born at Harnsburg, Illinois, January i6, 1852. She is a daughter of Rev. George W. and Elizabeth A. Hughey. Her father was a prominent Metho' dist preacher and author who spent more than half a century in the service of the church in various capacities. She became a student in McKendree in 1870 and graduated in the class of 1874, receiving the degree of B. S. She was a member of the Clionian Literary Society. She was a music teacher and church organist and worker in other lines for some years after graduation. May 10, 1880, she was united in marriage to Thomas Jefferson Porter, who was her school mate at McKendree and a member of the class of 1872. Their home was for many years at Galena, Stone County, Missouri. Here for several years she had the privilege of ministering to the wants of her aged parents, who made their home with her in their declining years. She is a member of the Methodist Church, the Order of the Eastern Star, and the Women's Christian Temperance Union. For ten years prior to 1900, she was active in the County Sunday School work ; and she was for twenty years superintendent of the Loyal Temper' ance Legion. Since the death of her husband, her home has been in Kansas City, Missouri.

Norman A. Lough Isabel L Lynch

Norman Allyn Lough was born in Richland County, Illinois, October 10, 1S52. He is the son of R. C. and M. A. Lough. After receiving a preliminary education he entered McKendree College and graduated in the class of 1874, receiving the degree of B. S. He was a member of the Platonian Literary Society. After his graduation, he studied law and made that his life profession. He was city attorney of Olney, Illinois, but later went to Chicago, where he engaged in law practice for a number of years until an attack of pneumonia made advisable a change of residence to the hills and sunshine of Colorado. His home is now at Grand Junction, Colorado. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the Knights of Pythias. He was married January 9, 1877, to Miss AUie Conklin. They have two children now living, Clarence R. and Herbert M. Lough. ISABEL L LYNCH

Isabel Irvin Lynch was born in Shiloh Valley, November 2j, 1855. Her parents were Nehemiah and Ehzabeth (Calbreath) Lynch, who were both native Americans. She entered McKendree in the fall of 1872 and graduated in the class of 1874, with the degree of B. S. She was a member of Clio. After her graduation, she lived at her home in Lebanon until 1889. Since that time she has been employed principally as sales-lady in mercantile establishments. She served two years in Beardstown, three years in Galena, Missouri, and since that time has been with the Robeson Department Store in Champaign, Illinois, where for many years she has been superintendent of the department of ladies' furnishings. Since early youth she has been a member of the Methodist Church.

John W. Lord

JOHN W. LORD John Wesley Lord was born near Trenton, Illinois, April 18, 1853. He was the son of John and Ann Lord, who were both natives of England. He entered McKendree in the fall of 1870 and graduated in the class of 1874, with the degree of B. S. He was a member of the Philo Society and was president of that organization. He was married to Miss M. F. Towling of Decatur, Illinois, September 18, 1879. They have two children, Walter C. and Bonnie C, both married. After his graduation Mr. Lord taught school one year and then took up the study of Chemistry and Pharmacy. In 1881 he purchased a drug store at New Douglass, Illinois, which business he carried on till 1887. While living m New Douglass, he served as postmaster and school director. Then for seven years as a registered pharmacist he held a position as prescription clerk in a drug firm; but in 1894, he accepted a position as chemist in the laboratory of Irwin, Kirkland &' Co., of Decatur, Illinois. He remained with this firm until 1900, when he became senior chemist in the laboratory cf Flint, Eaton &' Co., in the same city. He is a member of the First Christian Church of Decatur, has served as deacon, clerk, and treasurer of the church, and at present holds the office of elder. He also belongs to the "Modern Amet' ican Fraternal Order."

SAMUEL P. McKEE Samuel Patton McKee was born near Summerfield, Illinois, January 10, 1849. He is the elder son of Dr. Samuel P. McKee and Mrs. Mary (Thompson) McKee, the former born near Louisville, Kentucky and the latter near Edwardsville, Illinois. His father was a member of the Board of Trustees of McKendree, and his maternal grandfather. Rev. Samuel E. Thompson, was a well-known pioneer preacher and one of McKendree's founders. Mr. McKee entered Mc- Kendree as a student in 1869 and graduated in 1874, with the degree of B. S. and received the degree of M. S. three years later. He taught school three years, but his principal occupation has been farming, which he has followed continuously except from 1890 to 1903, when he was employed in Kansas City. On November 24, 1874, he was married to Miss Frances E. Walker, of Richview, Illinois. Of their child- ren, two died in early childhood. They have only one daughter now living. While in McKendree, Mr. McKee was a member of the Philosophian Literary Society. He is a Republican in pohtics, and an active member of the Methodist Episcopal

Julia E. Parkinson Sarah A. Shepherd

Julia Emma Parkinson, born March 26, 1850, was a member of the prominent Parkinson family of Highland, Illinois. Several of her brothers were graduates of McKendree. She was a Clio, and graduated in the class of 1874. In 1877, she was married to J. T. Dew, who was a member of the same class. She died October 17, 1887, leaving three children. Additional data will be found in her husband's sketch. SARAH A. SHEPHERD

Augustus A. Parkinson

Sarah Abbie Shepherd was born in Lebanon, Illinois, October 10, 1854. Her father, Thomas H. Shepherd, was a native of St. Louis, of English and German ancestry. Her mother, Ehza A. Calbreath, was of Scotch-Irish ancestry. She became a student in McKendree in 1872 and graduated in the class of 1874, receiving the degree of B. S., and in 1877, that of M. S. She was a member of the Clionian Literary Society. October 20, 187';, she was married to Rev. John D. Gillham, D. D.. who was for many years a prominent member of the Southern Illinois Conference. They spent twenty-six years of wedded life together before the husband was called to his reward. During that period they served the following charges in the Southern Illinois Conference- Cairo, Litchfield, Carbondale, Belleville, Lebanon District, and Centralia. Dr. Gillham died at Centralia, May 1";, 1Q04. In November of the same year, Mrs. Gillham moved to Los Angeles, California, where she now resides. She is a member of the First Methodist Church of that city, and was a teacher in the Sunday School until compelled by illness to give up her class. She has six living children. AUGUSTUS A. PARKINSON

Augustus Alfred Parkinson was born near Highland, Illinois, November 14, 1847. He is a son of Hon Alfred J. and Mary E. (Baldwin) Parkinson. He graduated from McKendree in the class of 1874, receiving the degree of B. S., and later, M. S. He studied law in the University of Michigan, and received the degree of LL. B., from that institution. He was a member of the Platonian Literary Society. He was a Methodist in religion and a Republican in politics. He was married in 1876. to Miss Mary Harrison. He practiced law for some time at San Jose, California. He died at Highland, Illinois, May 18,

Cornelia E. Shepherd

CORNELIA E. SHEPHERD Cornelia Ellen Shepherd was born November 2, 1856, at Lebanon, Illinois. Her parents were Thomas H. and Eliza Shepherd. She entered McKendree in the fall of 1872 and graduated in the class of 1874, receiving the degree of B. S. She was a member of the Clionian Society. She taught school for two years after her graduation, but her chief occupation during the intervening years has been home keeping. She has always been an active worker in the Methodist Church and a member of the various organizations connected with it, such as the W. F. M. S., the W. C. T. U., and various other social or religious societies.

Rev. Hezekiah M. Short

Hezekuih M. Short, son of Ignatius T. and Mary Short, was born February 14, 1845, in Macoupin County, Illinois. He became a student in McKendree College in September, 1867 and joined the Platonian Society. He graduated in the class of 1874, receiving the degree of B. S., and later, M. S. He was admitted to the Illinois Conference in 1875, and was pastor of various charges - among them were Chatham, Merritt, and Hardin. After retiring from the ministry, he went west and engaged in the real estate business in Denver, Colorado. Before entering college he served as a soldier in the Civil War, being a member of the 133rd Illinois Volunteers. He was married January 10, 1882, to Miss Mattie Cline, of Denver. Their five children are Mabel N., Myrtle E., C. Paul, Hazel R., and Halford D. After going to Denver, he was a member of the Trinity M. E. Church and served as class leader and Sunday School teacher. His death occurred May 23, 1901.

Judge Charles E. Small

Charles Edwin Small was born at CollinsviUe, Illinois, July 27, 1854. His parents were Edwin and Agnes P. Small. He graduated from McKendree in 1874, receiving the degree of B. S. He was a member of the Platonian Society. After leaving McKendree, he studied law at Michigan University and was admitted to the bar in 1878, at Kansas City, Missouri. He has devoted his life to the legal profession, having been a member of a leading law firm in Kansas City since 1878. In 1919 he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Missouri. He was married November 12, 1879, to Miss Liura Hughey, of the class of 1875. They have seven children. The oldest son, Charles H. Small was vice-consul to Bogota, South America, during the years 1910-1912. Judge Small died October 24, 1924-

James A. Willoughby

JAMES A. WILLOUGHBY James Amos WiUoughby was born in Looking Glass Prairie, near Lebanon, May 2, 185';. His father, William E. WiUoughby, was born in Delaware, and his mother, Mary Moore, in Georgia. He graduated from McKendree m 1S74, receiving the degree of B. S. He was a member of the Platoman Society. From McKendree, he went to the University of Michigan, where he received the degree of LL. B m 1876. After that, he engaged in the drug business in Lebanon for four years. He was then elected county clerk and recorder for St. Clair County and moved to Belleville, where he made his home for the remainder of his life. In 1885 he became editor of the Belleville Advocate and made it a leading paper. In 1890 he was appointed postmaster of Belleville. In 1894 he was elected State Senator on the Republican ticket. Governor Deneen made him a member of the Railroad and Warehouse Commission, and he was a member of that body until it was absorbed by the Public Utilities Commission. In 1904 he served as Comptroller of the Currency for two banks m Oklahoma, so that his sphere of influence reached beyond the borders of his own state. He was a member of the Masonic Fraternity. He was married November II, 1886, to Miss Lis:;ie V. Hughes. In his later years, his health was much impaired and he spent much time in the hospital where his death occurred July 4, 1916. He was buried at Belleville, where the most of his active life had been spent

There are three other members of this class concerning whom we have no recent information, namely, Beniamin Moore Curtis, Charles Smith Frost, and John Godfrey Goethe. There is a strong probability that all three are dead. Ot Mr. Curtis, we only know that he enrolled in McKendree from Summerfield, was a member of the Platonian Society, received the B. S. degree, and some time after his graduation, his address was Topeka, Kansas.

Charles Smith Frost was born at Jersey ville, January ai, 1852. He took the first part of his college course at Browder Institute, in Kentucky. He came to McKendree in the fall of 1873, and graduated with the class of 1874, receiving the degree of B. S. It was his purpose to study medicine.

John Godfrey Goethe was born in St. Louis, January 25, i8'>o. He took the first three years of his college course at the Central Wesleyan College at Warren ton. After teaching school for several years, he came to McKendree and finished his course, receiving the degree of B. S. He afterward went to California. We have no late information about him.