St. Clair County, Illinois - Chapter 2 (2 of 2 so headed), 1928 (part 2 of 3)

On May 27, 1884, Dr. Bock was married to Lula Risser, of Troy, 111. There were four chilion - Henrietta, who is at home; Edmund Alois, accidentally killed near Salt Lake, Utah, Oct. 14, 1923; Lillian Pearl, wife of j. H. Senne, architect and teacher in McKinley High School, St. Louis, Mo.; and Florence Rowena, wife of M. Lasersohn, M. D., Richmond, Va.

R. E. W. CANNADY, of 600 Washington Place, East St. Louis, was born at Lebanon, the birthplace of so many men who have rendered distinguished service in this county, on September g, 187J, and received his early education in the public schools of Mascoutah, Illinois. Later he studied in Illinois College, at Jacksonville, and for two years in the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, after which he returned to his native county and taught school for three years. But he gave up the calling of the pedagogue to become a phy.sician, entered Washington University as a student of medicine, and graduated in 19^2.

Dr. Cannady's father, Chas. Cannady, a native of Clinton County, Illinois, was born March 3, 1844, and followed the vocation of teaching during most of his active career. He died November i^, 1914. He was married to Ella Wise, a Monroe County girl (born Sapieniber 30, iSti), but who resided in Lebanon until her marriage. To them were born four bays and three girls. The mother passed away on July 28, 1920. The father was a member of th; Misanic Order.

On the i-ith ot June, 1904, Dr. Cannady was married to Ida B. Rose, born at Columbia, Illinois August 22, 1877, the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. William Rose. The only son of Dr. and Mrs. Cannady was born on June 20, igj6. Edward Jr., received his A. B. degree from Washington University in 1927 and he is now enrolled in the medical department of this same school.

Dr. Cannady is a Mason, and a Shriner in this fraternity; he also belongs to the Elks and to the K. of P. The medical societies of which is he a member are: The County Medical Society of which he is president; the Southern Illinois Medical Society; the State Medical Society; and the American Medical Association. He is chief of staff of the Deaconess Hospital in East St. Louis. He has served for sixteen years on the East St. Louis Board of Education, the last four years as the president of the Board. For some time he has tjeen the Plant Physician for the Monsanto Chemical Plant, a large industrial estabhshment on the East Side. Dr. Cannady has travelled extensively in this country, and has been very active in all movements for civic betterment in th? city.

David S. Wahl

^R. DAVID S. WAHL, field secretary for McKendree College, and a much loved minister for the past thirty-five years, was a native of Berea, Ohio. His college work was done in Iowa Wesleyan University and Central Wesleyan College. Until 1925, Dr. Wahl was a member of the St. Louis German Conference, where he worked faithfully and persistently in his calling.

In January of 1927. Dr. Wahl left on a trip around the world. He made his plans to visit a representative school in every country so far as possible, and to visit and to learn more of the missionary fields in the various countries.

On September 25, 1896, Dr. Wahl was married to Miss Julia M. Jockisch. and four children were born to this union. Ruth died some years ago, Milton J. is doing graduate work in the University of Chicago, Edmund D. is superintendent of schools at Summerfield, and Oliver C. is a senior and an instructor in violin at Mc- Kendree.

L. S. McKOWN IS the son of the late Milton C. McKown, for forty-five years of M. E. Church, and Mrs. Anna Sheets McKown, of Vincennes, Indiana. He was born at Greenville, Indiana, Feb. 14, 1876. Was graduated from the high school at Gosport, in 1896; entered DePauw University in September, 1896, and during the three years of his college course, served as a student minister. In 1898, joined the Indiana Conference; 190J, he was transferred to Southern Illinois Conference; now located in East St. Louis as pastor of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church.

United in marriage June 8, 1902, to Bertha Edith Peek, daughter of Charles E. Peek and Julia A. Thomas Peek, of Washington, Indiana. Two children - Helen Norma and Mary Esther.

In his youth, worked in printing offices. During World War, while pastor in Benton, Illinois, served as Federal Food Administrator for Franklin County. For several years, member of Conference quartette; in 1924. Conference secretary; at other times, on boards and committees of Conference and of institutions of Conference. Is member of board of examiners and of board of i and visitors of McKendree College.

A J2nd degree Mason, a Shriner, an OJJ Fellow, a member of the Eastern Star, ot the Rebecca Lodge, and the Tribe ot Ben Hur, and of the Sigma Nu Fraternity.

Chandler B. Abend

CHE WORK of being a book-keeper, a statistician, and an insurance man, always keeps Mr. Chandler B, Abend, of St. Louis, very busy. Mr. Abend attended the public schools of Belleville, and spent the year 1881 in study at McKendree College, where he was a member of Philo. In 1919 he was married to Miss Mary Bean, who has been a real partner in all affairs of life.

Mr. Abend began business in St. Louis in iSS";; for many years he has been a thrifty business man. He carefully supported his parents until their death in 1914 and 191 5. His brother, Adolph, who died in 192';, attended McKendree College with him in 1881.

Jesse W. Blythe

©HERE ARE very few men in the City of St. Louis who have contributed more to the city's development than has Mr. Jesse W. Blythe, Assistant Director of the Missouri Committee on Public Utility Information.

For seven years, as a member of the advertising staff of the John Ring Jr. Advertising Co., Mr. Blythe conducted the research and wrote all of the advertisements appearing in magazines and newspapers throughout the country advertising St. Louis for the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Blythe handled all of the publicity and advertising for the $87,500,000 bond issue for general public improvements in St. Louis, and contributed largely to the success of the campaign

For several years Mr. Blythe was City Hall reporter for various St. Louis newspapers, and is welt-versed in statewide politics. He has been staff correspondent for St. Louis newspapers, and has held editorial positions.

Mr. Blythe received his elementary school training in Shelbyville, Illinois, and after graduating from McKendree College in 1894, practiced law in East St. Louis. He was married in 1899 to Miss Georgie E. Carter. There were two children: Donald W., deceased, and a daughter. Mrs. Gladys Mitchell. His home is at 708 West Bend Road, Webster Groves, Mi

R. Keith Purl

4~\ KEITH PURL, principal of Dupo Com- _|^ munity High School, born on Dec. 8, iSi/), at CarroUton, Illinois, son of O. T. and BLinche Scandrett Purl. Educated in CarroUton public schools, lUinois State Normal University, University of Colorado, and University of Illinois. Received bachelor's degree in 1922 from latter. Served in navy for one year. Has taught in White Hall, CarroUton, Longview; in 192J came to Dupo High School. On Aug. 8th of that same year, married to Miss Muriel A. Thompson, of Rantoul, Illinois, daughter of Theodore Thompson and Bessie Collins Thompson. Mrs. Purl is graduate of Rantoul High School, has been a student of Illinois Woman's College and of University of Illinois. Is graduate nurse from Walter Reed Hospital. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Purl, Oliver Thomas, born at Dupo, on June 5, 1924.

Charles A. Bevis

HAR OUT IN sunny California lives Mr. Charles A. Bevis, a realtor in the city of Van Nuys since 1913. He was born in Olney, Illinois, received his high school training in Newton, and attended McKendree from 1897- 18 pS, married, in 1902, to Miss Ada Lemay. The couple are parents of three children - Margaret, a University of California graduate; Albert L., and Emma. Mr. Bevis is a director of the Bank of Van Nuys, and holds membership in the Board of Governors, the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and the San Fernando Valley Branch.

James M. Ames

JAMES M. AMES J^=^ HERE are few people who can trace their I) ancestry as far back as can James M . Ames, ^"^ a descendant of William Ames, who was born m Somersetshire, England, on Oct. fi, 1605, and who, in 1646, settled in Braintree, Massachusetts. James M. Ames was born in East St. Louis, Illinois, on March 21, 1876. His father was well-known as miller and land-owner. He moved his family from East St. Louis, in 1876, to Rose Bud. Ten years later he removed to Chester, where the subject of this sketch secured his education. In 1890, he came to East St. Louis. Here he worked in the store of J. P. Becker, and sometime later, as a street car conductor. In the following year Mr. Ames was married to Mary Ellen McGrory, in East St. Louis.

the fire department. Because of his courage and bravery when fighting fires, and because of his ability in handling men, he was made Fire Chief in 1927, a position which he holds at present.

Charity A, Lee

^ISS CHARITY AMANDA LEE, the winner of the Director's Medal in the piano contest of the McKendree Conservatory of Music, in 1914, is a piano teacher in Trenton, Illinois. After completing her grammar school work in the Trenton Public School and SIX months' work in the local high school, which was thus shortened because of ill health, she attended the Beethoven Conservatory of Music in St. Louis. In 1916 she was graduated from the McKendree Conservatory of Music. Miss Lee was an organ student of McKendree College in the term of 1927-1928. At present she is the organist of the Trenton M. E. Church.

Charles D. Shumard

CHIS GENTLEMAN, a member of the joint board of McKendree for twenty-five years and a minister who has built two churches. Rev. Chas. D. Shumard has made for himself an enviable record. He attended school at Normal, Illinois, and received the honorary degree of D. D. from McKendree College in igio. The churches which were erected through his inspiration and direction are the First Methodist, at Alton, and at Marissa. In 1877, Mr.

On Dec. 4, 1879, Mr. Shumard and Miss E. Funkhouser were married. Mrs. Mabel F. Mahon, of Mt. Carmel, Illinois, is their only child. Mrs. Shumard's people were formerly from Prussia. Her grandfather Funkhouser was in the Senate and Legislature at two different times.

W. W. STINES yr^fR. STINES, who is a dealer in real estate, ^J[J and the proprietor of a service station at 3,101 State Street, East St. Louis, comes from the state of Ohio. He was born at Dayton. April 17, 1869. His father, W. W. Stines, died in 1875, and the mother in the same year, and left their two boys to make their way in the world greatly handicapped. They went West and worked at different occupations for some time. At the age of seventeen, our subject was working in St. Louis, but left this city and secured employment in the casting department of the Crystal City Plate Glass Co., at Crystal City, Mo.; was made foreman of the department two years later, remained here until 1894, when he came to East St. Louis and found employment with Morris y Co. He worked in the mechanical department of this plant for twelve years, resigned in 1907 to take a position as engineer with the East St. Louis and Suburban Railway at their Winstanley powerhouse, and remained here until the plant was discontinued in 192J. Having acquired a good amount of property, he now entered the real estate business, and . later put up, on his property, the Stines' Service Station.

He married on the day after Christmas, 1885, Miss Anna Roussin, and has three children - Elizabeth, Thomas, and WiUiam. The older boy was graduated from the St. Louis Medical School and is now a practicing physician. The daughter is married to Mr. Dan O'Connell, and the younger son is in business with his father. All his children received a good education, in fact, Mr. Stines came to East St. Louis for this purpose, having learned of its excellent schools.

Mr. Stines is serving his fourth term on the city school board; he was first elected in igi'j. He is a Mason, a Modern Woodman, diligently attends to business, and enjoys hunting for recreation.

James K. Ewing

XN 191';, Mr. James K. Ewing, of East St. Louis, was appointed Probation and Humane Officer for the city and the surrounding communities. Mr. Ewing was born at Louisville, Kentucky, on Aug. 29, 1866, the son of George W. and Elizabeth Dryden Ewing, both Scotch.

James Ewing, after being graduated from the Kenyon College, of Gambrier, Ohio, began railroading in Louisville for the Baltimore and Ohio, and later was employed by the Chicago and Alton for about twenty years, during which time he travelled extensively.

Mrs. Ewing was born at Cahokia 111., April 1^, 1869, the daughter of Calvin and Cordeha McCready. Ada F. McCready was married to Mr. Ewing on Jan. 27, 1886. They have two children - James K., Jr., born Sept. 4, 1887, now a live stock and commission man in Kansas City; and George W., born July 4, 1889, who is employed in St. Louis as chief of the cleaning department for the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company. Mrs. Ewing acted as mother to two other children - a niece, Stella McCready, now Mrs. John Hancock, of Fort Worth, Texas, and Mary McFarland. Mrs. Ewing is a graduate of the East St. Louis High School and of the Beethoven Conservatory of Music, in St. Louis; is a member of the Excelsior Club and a charter member of the Shubert Club.

Mr. Ewing was for four years a member of the board of supervisors (:9i8-i92i), helped organize the Traveling Nurse Association in 1918. cooperated with Judge Messick of the Juvenile

Court until the Judge's death, was chairman ot the Dependent Children's Home Committee, and has been president ot the Boy Scout organization for two years, during which time it has grown from 400 to iioo members. He understands youth, is greatly interested in young people, and has always been unselfish in his gLTHOUGH FOR the past four years he has been pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Urbana, Illinois, Rev. G. L. Losh is best known to present McKendreans as their beloved evangelist of the last two years. Rev. Losh did all his academic work and the most of his university work in the city of Cincinnati and received his Bachelor of Arts de» gree from the American University and an honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from Mc- Kendree College in 1928. In 190^, he was married to Miss Frances P. Finch of Cincinnati. He was engaged in business until 191 4 when he entered the ministry. Rev. Losh is a third degree Mason and an Odd Fellow. He has been president of the Chamber of Commerce, a member of different school boards and is at present a member of the Illinois Wesleyan Board and Chaddock Boys School Board of Directors and is also the president of the Epworth League Institute of the Illinois Conference.

OR. JAMES LINCOLN McCORMACK, a physician of great success at Bone Gap, Illinois, was born at Newton on April 25, 1865. He attended McKendree, Rush Medical, Chicago, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of St. Louis, Missouri. He has been practicing his profession since 1892, all of which time he has been located in Southern Illinois. In i8gi. Dr. McCormack married Miss Alwilda Hocking, of West Liberty. Illinois. All of their children were students of McKendree College. Glen, their only son, who was graduated in 191 ^. with a B. S. degree, died a hero's death in the World War. Three daughters, Mabel, Grace, and Dorothy, also attended McKendree. The latter was at the college at the time of her death. A few years ago. Dr. McCormack's nephew, Virgil, attended McKendree. Dr. Mc- Cormack has always been a friend of McKendree, a capable physician, and a prominent citizen of his county.

Rev. Edmund F. Williams

0DMUND F. WILLIAMS, veteran of Spanish-American War, pastor of Methodist Church in Marissa since 1925- Bo^"" at West Frankfort, III, Sept. 2-;, 1880, son of John M. Williams and Sarah E. Scarlett Williams.

Received public school education in native city, attended university at Fort Worth, Texas. Admitted to Oklahoma Conference in 1904, transferred to the Columbia River Conference, of Washington, to the Illinois, and later to the Southern Illinois Conference. Has been pastor of M. E. Church of Granite City, and Bond Avenue Methodist Church of East St. Louis.

On Oct. 14, 1904, was married to Johanna Blinka, born in Austria, January 18, 1880. Came to Galveston, Texas, and received early education. Attended Huntsville State Teachers" Normal, and Methodist School at Fort Worth. Taught school for nine years, missionary for three years, member of Fort Worth University faculty. She speaks six languages.

Rev. Wm. M. Lane

REV. WM. M. LANE yj^R- Wm. M. Lane, Methodist pastoral tIJ Creal Springs since 192';, was born in ^^ CoU-ell County, Ky., April 17, 187J, and was educated at Cave-in-Rock public schools, and at the State Normal. He taught school several years; worked for a number of years as carpenter-contractor; pastor at Crab Orchard, and at Karnak; attended summer school of Theology at McKendree; married to Minnie Belt, of Hardin County. 111. They have two sons - Enos and Radford. Mrs. Lane taught school five years after her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Lane are loved and respected by their many friends.

Vernon G. Mays

VERNON G. MAYS >=|^R. VERNON GRIFFITH MAYS, super- \IM intendent of Lebanon public schools, was ^^ born in Newburg, W. Va. He attended pubhc school in Michigan, was graduated from Albion College (Mich.) with degree of Ph. B,; had more than three years of post-graduate study in the Universities of Chicago, Michigan (from which he received degree of Master of Arts), and Columbia, New York City. In the last, he held a scholarship for work in Teachers College, in which he prepared one year for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Mr. Mays has devoted his life to helping young people attain the highest possible standards of mental and moral development. As an educator, he has held important positions, climbing from teacher in rural school, thru superintcnJcncies and pnncipalships ot smaller cities to that of Supt. of Schools of St. Joseph, Missouri. He served as principal of the high school at Lincoln, Nebr. seven years, and at Lewistown and Great Falls, Mont., each two years; of the Model High School of the University of Nebraska one summer; and taught in the University of Nebraska two summers, and has been engaged to teach in McKendree College this summer, having work in the Social Science department.

In each of the five states in which he has served, he has been a member of the executive committee of the State Teachers' Associations, and in each held the otEce of district president. Since early boyhood, Mr. Mays has been active in church work, and that of its auxiliaries, and has filled nearly every ofEce of each.

He has been a Rotarian for twelve years; a Mason, both of the York Rite, and of the Scottish Rite, including that of the Commandery of Knights Templar, and of the Mystic Shrine; a member-at-large of the National Social Science Honor Society - Pi Gamma Mu. Also, a member of the National Educational Association, the National Association of School Superintendence, the National Society for Scientific Study of Education, a charter member of the National Association of Secondary School Principals, and a charter member of the National Vocational Guidance Association, and member of other social and civic organizations.

Mr. Mays was married to Miss Mabel A. Benham, of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Besides her membership in local church, social, and literary clubs, Mrs. Mays is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and of the national P. E. O. sisterhood.

Their only daughter, Helen Isabelle, is a member of the 1928 class in Lebanon Community High School, and a student of voice in McKendree College.

Reverend William Schutz

HOR FIFTY-EIGHT years Rev. Schutz, of Bunker Hill, Illinois, has devoted his services to the ministry. He is the oldest effective minister in the Mid-West, and has missed his appointments only four times during his ministry. When only seventeen years ot age he enlisted as a volunteer in the 14th Illinois Cavalry, serving for eighteen months.

Rev. Schutz was born in Prussia. Germany, Feb. 22, 1847, ""id began the ministry in April, 1870. At the age of twenty-five he married Miss Mary Mueller, of Belleville, III, and later, after having been left a widower several years, he was married again, (in 1915) to Mrs. Pauline

Jaenicken. Rev. Schutz's children are: H. W. Schutz, an accountant in the Christian Missionary Society, of St. Louis; John; H. J. Sheet, who changed his name on account of the World War, and who, for tw'enty-one years, has been a missionary in India; Mrs. J. A. New, Springfield, 111.; and Mrs. F. H. Jaenicken, Chicago. From 1891-97 Rev. Schutz was Superintendent of the Quincy District, and in 1896 he was delegate to General Conference, at Cleveland, Ohio.

The little gray Schutz Memorial Church at Bunker Hill and the loving remembrance of his people wherever he has served are both expressions of Rev. Schutz's true Christian worth.

Harry E. Mueller

nARRY E. MUELLER, of Lebanon, youngest of the four children of John and Mary Weber Mueller, was born on a farm near New Memphis, 111., August 14, 1893. Harry was given his common school education at New Memphis, and in 1918 was graduated from the McKendree School of Music. After this, he served in the Army, and worked for the Shapleigh Hardware Company, of St. Louis. In 1920, he re-entered McKendree, completed the academic and college courses, and graduated with a B. S. degree. During this time he taught Violin in the College, directed the College Orchestra (1923-1926), and was instructor of Violin in the Heink Conservatory of Music in St. Louis (1921-1923).

Thomas Meehan

While in college, Harry was a Platonian, and during the summer of 1924, he traveled with the McKendree Quartet, assisting in advertising the college.

SEV. HARRIS G. BECK, D. D., is the pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Mattoon - a church which has a membership of 0%'er two thousand. He was born on July II, 1886, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In this city he attended high school. After graduation, he entered the old Epworth University, and in igo8, was graduated with an A. B. degree. In June, 1928, he received a degree of D. D. from McKendree College.

Rev. Beck joined the Illinois Conference in 1912, and was minister at Bellflower until 1914. From 1914 to 1917, he was pastor at De Land. During the Great War, he served as Chaplain- First Lieutenant. He came to Mattoon in 1924, after having served at Newman and Hoopeston. Rev. Beck was the dean of the Illinois Conference Epworth League Institute from 1922 to 1928.

Benjamin G. Merkel

©ENJAMIN GEO., the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Merkel, was born August 4, 1897, and obtained his education in the public schools, in the Northern lUinois Normal, and in the Southern Illinois Normal, from which latter institution he graduated in 1925. Since then he has pursued post graduate studies. During the period of his normal training he taught school six years, and by this means paid the expenses of his higher education. He came to Freeburg to take the position of principal just after his graduation, and has remained in this position.

Mr. Merkel has but recently married, on November 6, 1926. Mrs. Merkel is one of Freeburg's cultured young ladies, formerly Emma L. Krauss, the daughter of a well-known merchant and musician of this city - Theodore Krauss. She was born in Freeburg on March 19, 1907, and was given, in addition to a high school training, a good musical education. She is a graduate in music.

Professor Merkel was obliged to work hard for his higher education and he is now one of the able, though youngest, principals in this county.

Ernest Evans

^R. ERNEST EVANS, an O'Fallon miner, born in Olney, Indiana, Oct. ij. 1878. son of Horace and Amanda Evans. His father IS living at Marissa, 111. Mr. Evans obtained common school education in O'Fallon schools and worked on farm for three years, and then started mining, and has remained at this work. Oct. 6, 1904, married Miss Mary Hooley, of Collinsville, born on Dec. 18, 1882, daughter of William and Ann HoUey. Mrs. Evans also received education in O'Fallon public schools. One son, Harold, born on July 8, 1907. The mother is a member of the Pocahontas Society.

Mr. Evans is a member of Redmen, and holds office of chief of records and secretary in this fraternity. He is master of finance in the K. P. Lodge. For the past four years he has been a member of the city school board.

Thomas M. Meehan

XN 1904. Mr. Thomas M. Meehan, representative for the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, came to O'Fallon. He is a native of Indiana, was born at Paola, in Orange County, on July 22, 1876. His parents, J. W. Meehan and Rachel Froman, are living in East St. Louis, where the father is employed as a railroad man. Thomas attended the public schools at Shoals, Ind. for two years, and at Winslow, Ind. for two years. The rest of his education was secured at Mt. Carmel, 111. His first employment was with a raikoad company, as a clerk, which position he kept until he was eighteen. Then he entered the train service, remaining in this until May, IQ20, and worked at several occupations, including two ycirs at the mines, before entering the insurance bus-.ness.

Miss Effle Neville, to whom he was married on Christmas Eve in 1905, is an O'Fallon lady, born on June 27, 1882, the daughter of Charles and Bertha Neville. Her father died in 1917; the mother is living in Detroit, Mich. Two children have been born in the Meehan home - Opal F., on August 1907; and Garnett M, on August 10, 191 1. Opal graduated from the O'Fallon High School, and is now attending McKendree, a Junior, and an honor student. Garnett is a sophomore in high school.

Mr. Meehan is a Mason and a Shriner. He served as alderman in O'Fallon for two years, and in the spring of 1927 was elected a member of the city school board. Content with the insurance business, he is in it to stay.

nENRY TRABAND, Jr. entered the cigar manufacturing business of his father about iSqo. He was born in Lebanon, the .'on of Henry and Lena Campe Traband; received a public school education, and spent two years in McKendree College. Then he worked as a store clerk. On January 22, 1894, he married Miss Eliza Creed, a Lebanon girl, born August 28, 1874, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Creed. To them have been born four children, three of whom are still living. Emmjtt, the youngest, died on August 1919. Lena is now the wife of Simon Wessel, a clerk of the Wabash Railroad in St. Louis; William Henry, who is employed by the Standard Oil Co. at Wood River, 111., married Leola Morton, of Bachtown, 111.; and Luretta Irene is married to Mr. A. J. Schoene, a garage proprietor and the Chevrolet agent in Lebanon.

(f^EV. DAVID FROESCHLE, D. D., a J^ minister of the Zion M. E. Church, of Granite City, was born in 1864, in Cincinnati, Ohio. At the age of nineteen, he responded to the call of the ministry. He was graduated in 1891 from the Theological Seminary at Central Wesleyan College, of Warrenton, Missouri. Rev. Foreschle served in the St. Louis German Conference for thirty-four years, and, in 1925, was transferred to the Southern Illinois Conference. At the Centennial Commencement exercises of McKendree College, the honorary degree of D. D. was conferred upon him.

Fred G. Nuetzel

HRED G. NUETZEL, born at CaseyviUe, April 10, 1875. His father - also named Fred G. Nuetzel - was born in Bavaria, Germany, December 8, i8jj; came to this country at age of twenty-two; died December 7, 1922. Fred G. Nuetzel, Jr., attended public schools of CaseyviUe until he was fourteen years old; in 189';, attended McKendree College for a short while. In 1899, started farming for himself; now owns a lucrative truck farm. Married Miss Louisa M. Niebruegge, April 18, 1899. Three children: Earl H., born January 7, 1901, now married to Miss Pauline Gossman; Arnold P., born Sept. 25, 1905; and Irvin G., born Aug. 12, 1908, and died May 2, 1919.

Mr. Neutzel's hobby - music. He played drum in Collinsville band. Member of Collinsville local No. 350, A. F. of M.; treasurer and member of board of directors of this organization for twelve years.

^R. F. A. WALTON has the distinction of belonging to one of the good old families of Missouri. His parents, J. H. Walton and Mary E. Wyatt Walton, lived on a farm at Hawk Point, Missouri, and here on the 25th of July, 1875, F. A. Walton was born.

Mr. Walton was educated in Buchanan High School, at Troy. Mo., and at Central Wesleyan College, Mo. After the completion of his studies, he taught school in his native state tor three years, and then turned his attention to farming for a while. He left the farm to become the manager of the Wm. PoUoch grain business, at Hawk Point, and a Uttle later he assumed the management of the elevator company at Troy, and continued as the director of this company for eight years. In 1920, he came to Belleville, 111., to assume similar duties here as manager of the Belleville Cooperative Grain Company.

Miss Ehzabeth R. Ball, to whom Mr. Walton was married on June 14, 1907, was born in Jonesburg, Mo., in 188;, on Aug. 19. They have two children, a son and a daughter. Their hoy, William H., who is twenty years of age, is a graduate ot the Belleville High School and also of the College of Pharmacy, in St. Louis. He is at present a student of medicine in the University of Illinois, and is well-advanced for a young man ot his age. Ester Lee, the daughter, is thirteen years old and is attending Junior High, in Belleville; She was born on Nov. 6, 1914, also in the state ot Missouri.

The Hussong Family

I^KO THE RESIDENTS of Lebanon, and L J to many former and present day teachers and students of McKendree. members of the Hussong family have been known for many years. George J. Hussong (died 1896) and his wife, Mary M. Hussong, lived for many years on a farm near Alhambra, 111. At her husband's death Mrs. Hussong moved to Lebanon, where she died February 20, 190J. A brief account of the children's lives follows: Thos. J. Hussong, born Sept. 25, 1863, attended public schools, and McKendree, now teaching Manual Training in Alton, 111. schools. Married to Lucy Holoway, of Piasa, 111., also a former McKendree student. Odd Fellow and member of Methodist Church. Daniel W. Hussong, born Feb. 7, 1872, completed grade schools, and two years in Carbondale Normal, taught five years, employed in Granite City several years, entered Methodist ministry 1908. Married Lura F. Gruver, Nov. 26, 1896. Six children - Harold, Gladys, Earl and Richard are living. Earl is in the McKendree Centennial Class. Mrs. Hussong died in May, 1927. Rev. Hussong is now pastor at Wood River; attended McKendree Theological School summers of 1924-25-26-27.

Sadie F. Hussong, now Mrs. Wm. Jackson, of Godfrey, 111., born Oct. 1, 1875, educated, in public schools and one year in McKendree, taught many years. Has three children - Sadie, Dorothy, and William.

Andrew J. Hussong, born Dec. 29, 1877, attended public schools, and McKendree three years; is married and is post office employee in St. Louis. Has one daughter.

M. Mae Hussong, born Feb. 29, 1S80, married to George Ritcher, of Alton, graduate of Lebanon High School and McKendree (1905). taught in East St. Louis several years before her marriage. Has one son. The entire family, including the father, George J. Hussong, have always been interested in education and are friends of Mc- Kendree.

Edward F Schmelzel George H. Nuernberger

eEORGE NUERNBERGER was born in New Athens Township August 31, 1879, and after receiving a public school education, worked on his farmer's farm until 1906, the year of his marriage to Anna E. Junk, the daughter of Herman Junk and Elizabeth Ritzel. She is one of a family of eight children, and hke her husband, received her education in the public school. Mr. Nuernberger, too, comes from a family of eight children. Louis Nuernberger, his father, died July 27, 1910; and his mother, Augusta (Kunze) Nuernberger, died February II, 1905.

Mr. and Mrs. George Nuernberger have four children - Herman P. was born February 22, 1907; Otto L. was born on July 9th of the following year; Wilbur D. on November 8, 1910; and their daughter Virginia on August 6, 191 5.

After his marriage, Mr. Nuernberger began farming for himself on his father's 280 acre estate, on which his grand-parents located in 1840. He has bought additional land until he now owns 424 acres. In 19:6, he was elected a member of the Board of Supervisors for his to wnship; has been the president of the New Athens Community High School; and has served as a Precinct Committeeman of New Athens Township. Mr. Nuernberger is by religion an Evangelical, and has been a trustee in his church for two years.

Rev. Geo. R. Goodman Conrad A. Kolditz

GONRAD KOLDITZ, adopted son of Charles A. Kolditz and Maria Kraemer, born in New Athens, January 19, 1884, received his education in pubhc school and in Belleville Commercial College. First positions, stock clerk for the Inland Type Foundry, St. Louis, Mo., and employee of American Agricultural Chemical Company, of East St. Louis. Since 1918, bookkeeper for Auto Stove Works, New Athens.

Mrs. Conrad Kolditz, the daughter of John Westrich and Johanna Siegfried, was born in Belleville, Illinois, on April 12, x886, and was married to Mr. Kolditz on July 7, 191 1.

Mr. Kolditz has served on New Athens school board since 1921, is the secretary of the town school board, as well as a village trustee. He has been the secretary of the Evangelical Brotherhood, is a member of the Commercial Club, is a Shriner in the Masonic Lodge, and also a Knight Templar. He enjoys hunting and fishing.

William F. Sipfle

SEVEREND WM. F. SIPFLE, the subject of this sketch, was born in Peoria, Illinois, on Sept. 16, 1857. He was educated at Central Wesleyan College and at Iowa Wesleyan University. He was received into the St. Louis German Conference in 1882. In that conference he served the following charges: Wellman, la., 1882-84; Des Moines, la., 1884-87; Harper, la., 1887-89; Mt. Pleasant, la., 1889-91; Dodgeville, ja. (circuit), 1891-93; Petersburg, 111. (circuit),

On August 26, 1884, Rev. Sipfle married Mathilda Miller, of Burlington, la. Three children. Miller, Laura, and Philip, were born to this happy union. Mrs. Sipfle went to her crowning Sept. 6, 1915.

Rev. Sipfle has always been very greatly interested in history and has contributed a great deal to the records of various churches. In the Blue Book is to be found Rev. Sipfle's History of the Mascoutah Congregation. He also wrote the History of the Edwardsville Congregation at the fiftieth anniversary of the Immanuel Church. For the past eighteen years Rev. Sipfle has been in or near Edwardsville, where he now resides.

Rev. Samuel Thero

/^AMUEL THERO was born January 10, J~J 1871, in Farmington, Iowa. After being graduated from high school, he studied three years in Iowa Wesleyan University. At 21, he was ordained a minister in the Methodist Church, and was a member of the Iowa Conference for ten years.

On Nov. I, 1893, he was married to Jennie Owen- To them have been born two children - Jennie, now Mrs. George M. Nessel, born Nov. 27, 1896; and Samuel Griffith, born April 24, 1899. principal of the Lucknow Christian School of Commerce, in India, and warden and treasurer of the Warne, Hostel for boys.

In 1902, Rev. Thero transferred to the Southern Illinois Conference and was a member of this conference for the remainder of his life. From 1922 to 1924. he acted as superintendent of the Mt. Vernon, Illinois Methodist Orphanage, and immediately preceding his death on April 28, 1927, he was pastor of the Bond Avenue Methodist Church and of the Settlement House, both in East St. Louis.

The Western Christian Advocate of June 2. 1927 says of him, "As a minister, the quahty of his work and his standing among his fellow ministers has always been far above the grade of appointments he held. He sought service

Edward F. Schmelzel

J^HE SUPERINTENDENT of the Dupo V. J Schools was born on August 9, 1894, near New Athens, Illinois. There his parents moved m 1902, and there he received his grammar and high school training.

In 192'; Edward Schmelzel was graduated from the Illinois State Normal University, where his scholarship had been rewarded, previous to this, by his election to Kappa Delta Pi, honorary scholarship fraternity.

Since his graduation, he has taught in the Hertell School, near Freeburg, in New Athens, and in Belleville - in the last named place as principal of the Bunsen School. In 1921 he was elected to his present position as supervisor of the Dupo, the Sugar Loaf, and the Bixley Schools. The introduction of a Lyceum Course in Dupo was due to the efforts of Mr. Schmelzel.

On December 11, 1919, he was married to Minnie A. Wirth, daughter of George Wirth, of New Athens. She was born April 3, 1895, received a high school education, and afterwards was graduated from the Weltner Conservatory of Music in St. Louis.

J^^^HE MEN are few who have inspired the IJ building of more churches than has Rev. George Robert Goodman, D. D. Under his ministry, churches were built at Green Hill, Zion and Benton. He rebuilt the Bridgeport Church and enlarged the Eldorado Church. Parsonages were built at Eldorado, Benton (purchased) and Mt. Vernon. Aided by his efforts while Superintendent of the East St. Louis District, many splendid church buildings were erected in this district.

Dr. Goodman attended McKendree College in "95 and '96, but was unable to complete his work because of ill health. In '98 he went to Arizona, but later returned to the Southern Illinois Conference, of which he is now a member. Six years ago, along with Dr. Peterson, Dr. Goodman received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from McKendree College, the institution in which he is now secretary of the Executive Committee. Since 1913, he has been a member of the Joint Board; in 1924 he was elected to the General Conference, and is now the Secre-

In 1896, Dr. Goodman was married to Carrie A. Berkshire, of Lawrence County, Illinois, a union that was blessed with live children: Gerald M., Herald R,, Mildred E,, Pauline M., and George, Junior.

Walter J. Grodeon

ij^ ALTER GRODEON, mail carrier on R. \iy R. No. I, lives on a farm west of Lebanon. Born m O'Fallon Township, Jan. 15, 1886, son of Fred and Margaret Meyer Grodeon (both deceased).

Mr. Grodeon was educated in neighborhood schools and in McKendree, year of 190}; he taught school three years in Mascoutah Township, and four years in Lebanon Township, before his appointment on the mail route; was married August 10, 19 10, to Wanda Luckner, daughter of Charles and Emily Runkwitj Luckner, born in O'Fallon Township, on December 31, 1886. Mrs. Grodeon received her education in Summertield and Shiloh Valley public schools. She and Mr. Grodeon have no children. Members of Methodist Church.

Rev. Virgil N. Gould

^R. GOULD, pastor of the Union Methodist Church at Freeburg, Illinois, was born on a farm, Edwards County, Illinois, attended the public schools, graduated from high school, and worked on his father's farm until he was twenty-one, when he began farming for himself. On May 11, 1893, he married Dora Sophia Leighton, of Covington, Virginia. They have four children: Edwin Malcom, born Sept. 11, 1894, McKendree graduate - now teacher of music in Ashville, North Carolina, High School; Victor, born Nov. 23, 1898, attended McKendree two years, graduated from IlUnois University in 1922, and from Washington University Medical School in 1926 - now an interne in the new Maternity Hospital of Washington University, in St. Louis; Paul G., born Feb. 21, 1900, spent four years in teaching, and is now a senior in McKendree; the daughter, Areta H., born on October 18, 1907, studied one year at Illinois Wesleyan, Bloomington, Illinois, and one year at McKendree - now teaching in the public schools of Granite City.

James G. Wilkin

JAMES G. WILKIN /t\R JAMES GARLAND WILKIN, a mem- ^jI^ bcr of McKendree 's Board of Trustees, was born in Crawford County, Illinois, July 17, 188';, the younger son of Rev. L. C, Wilkin. Mr. Wilkin has been connected with such firms as the Woolson Spice Company of Toledo, Ohio, and the B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co., of Akron, Ohio (with the latter for more than ten years). He is also part owner and manager of a large cotton plantation m Mississippi, which furnishes work for thirty-three families. He was married October 20, 1909 to Miss Nellie Levering, Assistant Cashier of the First National Bank of Olney. They have one daughter, Mildred Corinne, who is a junior in the High School at Robinson, where the Wilkins now reside. Mrs. Wilkin is an active worker in various lines of church and club work and is Conference Superintendent of the Y. P. for the W. F. M. S. of Southern Illinois. She and Mr. Wilkin are both members of the OiEcial Board of their local church.

Charles M. Minter

CHARLES M. MINTER, before coming to East St. Louis, Illinois, had been the publisher of a weekly newspaper, the Campbell Hill Illinois EcUpse. Before going into the newspaper business he followed farming for several years m Randolph County, 111., in which county, at Shiloh Hill, he was on Jan. 13, 1874. Here he secured his common school and high school education.

In 1904, after arriving in East St. Louis, he began his career as a conductor for the East St. Louis and Surburhan Railway Company, and held this position for thirteen years, leaving it in 1917 to take up new duties as a foreman for the Oertell Roofing Company, which position he held until 1919. Then he bought out the coal business which was being operated under the firm name of Fred Koehler, at 21st and State Streets, and which he changed to the name of the Charles Minter Coal Company.

On Dec. 7, 1907, Mr. Minter married Miss Gertrude M. Gardner. To Mr. and Mrs. Minter there was born, on Aug. 13, 1909, a daughter, Margaret G., who is a graduate of the East St. Louis High School, and who since her graduation has studied music in the Lieber Conservatory of Music in her native city. She is a graduate of this school. Now Margaret is a student of the pipe organ and is also a teacher of music. For the last SIX years she has been pianist for the Sunday School of the First M. E. Church m East St. Louis, of which church Miss Minter and her parents are members.

Louis A. Butts

Mr. Minter is an active member of this church and serves on its board of trustees. He is a 32nd degree Mason, and a member of the Blue Lodge No. 504. He is also an Odd Fellow.

Adam Sensel

a DAM SENSEL was born at Floraville, Monroe County, on January 10, 1879, the son of Henry Sensel and Mary Matzenbacher Sensel. Mr. Sensel attended the schools of Goeddeltown, Monroe County, III., and then worked on his father's farm until he was twentyseven years of age.

He was married on November 8, 1905, to Miss Rosalie Wietkamp, of Monroe County. In 1923, Mr. and Mrs. Sensel left Monroe County and rented a farm of 172 acres in St. Clair County, one mile north of Scott Field.

Mrs. Sensel was born January 22, 1880, and was educated in the Valmyer Central School, Monroe County. She has borne Mr. Sensel two children - Goldie E., and Elmer H., on December 13, 1906, and February 13, 1913.

Since 1924, Mr. Sensel has been president of the School Board of District No. 86. He served on the Board of East Carondelet for three years. He belongs to the Woodmen and to the Evangelical Church.

Robert P. Munger

XF A PERSON were to take a look into the record of the various occupations in the life of Robert P. Munger, he would undoubtedly come to the conclusion that this gentleman has indeed tried his hand with quite a few of them with some degree of success. Mr. Munger was born on November 26, 1878, in Moberly, Missouri. After attending various grade schools, he entered the Southern IMinois Normal University, of Carbondale, an institution from which he was graduated in 1898. In this city, Mr. Munger served as an assistant postmaster, and later on as a trainmaster on the 1. C. Railway Company. Next, he was appointed assistant cashier in the Jackson State Bank, of Carbondale. He then came to East St. Louis and took employment with the Illinois State Trust Company, and six months later was elected assistant secretary of the treasury of this firm. After reaching a still higher height, he resigned and took a position in the All Roofing Manufacturing Company as assistant manager. In 1917, he organized the Storm Cote Roofing Corporation, was made president, and then sold out to the present company, the American Asphalt Corporation, of which he is now manager, of the East St. Louis plant. Mr. Munger is married, and is the father of two children. He is a Shriner in the Masonic Lodge, an Elk, and one of the papular members of the St. Clair Country Club.

William C. Spies

nIS PARENTS - WiUiam Spies and Wilhelmina Merkelbach Spies - both born in Coblenz, Germany, came to America in 1856, and died here in 1905 and 1911, respectively. Their son, William C. Spies, born in Belleville, Oct. 24, 1858. Here received education in the public schools. Dec. 12, 1883, Mr. Spies married to Minnie C. Willman, who was born Belleville, May 9, 1855, daughter of Rudolph Willman and Johanna Stein Willman. Mr. and Mrs. Spies have daughter, Mrs. Christ A. DaumeuUer.

In 1904, Mr. Spies elected to school board; re-elected since. He is a Modern Woodman and an Eagle, but spends much time in reading. Painter and paper hanger in Belleville for nearly half a century.

Louis Schaubert

HOUIS SCHAUBERT, retired farmer, born near New Baden, Illinois, December 17, 1S79. Son of George Schaubert and Elizabeth Perschbacher and one of ten children. Mother died June 8, 1909, and father married Margaret Riess May 8, 1912. George Schaubert died May 31, 1914; Margaret Riess (Schaubert), on Oct. n, 1918. Louis was educated in Mascoutah Township pubUc school, worked on father's farm until his marriage to Katie Krausz, daughter of Valentine and Katherine Weaver Krausz, January 23, 1902. Independent farmer 1902-1913. Retired to Mascoutah 1913, but still owns farm - 140 acres - which is rented. Member of Evangelical Church, and six years on church board. Elected alderman in 1921, and member of Mascoutah school board in 1922. An Odd Fellow, and advocate of city improvements. Mrs. Schaubert, horn October 20, 1880, near New Memphis, Clinton County, Illinois. Father born in Germany; mother in Illinois. Both parents are dead. One daughter, Aurelia E. Schaubert, born February 25, 1906; a graduate of the Mascoutah Township High School.

HOUIS ANDREW BUTTS, principal of the Belleville Junior High School, was born in the city of Belleville, June 30, 1894. His parents, both of whom are still living and who but recently celebrated their fortyeighth wedding anniversary, are A. W. Butts and Laura Manning Butts, former St. Louisans. His father, a farmer for twenty years and later a brick manufacturer, was born there Feb. 27, 1855 and his mother on Jan. 27 of the same year.

Louis A. Butts comes from a large family ot children; he has five brothers, all of whom are older than he. He attended the public schools of Belleville, was graduated from the Belleville High School and in 1916 received his degree from Mc- Kendree College. Since that time he has taken graduate work in the University of Chicago.

The year following his graduation from Mc- Kendree, Mr. Butts was made teacher and athletic coach in the Farmer City, Illinois. High School. Later he was made director of athletics in the Carterville, Illinois, High School. He also served in that capacity in the Benton High School and in the DesPIaines High School before he came to Belleville in 1926 as principal of the Junior High School.

His hobby always has been athletics and he was a basketball and baseball star while in high school and college, at one time being captain of the college baseball team.

George L. Obernagel

agel, of 701 North lUinois Street, Belleville, Illinois. This man is a representative of the S. W. Straus Company, In%'estment Bankers, with the Southern Illinois district as his field.

Mr. Obernagel, a son of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Obernagel, was born in Freeburg, Illinois, on November 8, 1888. He received his high school training in Freeburg. After attending the Belleville and Commercial College, he entered Mc- Kendree College. Mr. Obernagel next studied in the Interstate Audit and Accounting Bureau, of Chicago, Uhnois.

During the World War, Mr. Obernagel served as a First Sergeant in the Medical Department. He spent a year in Camp Dixon, New Jersey. For six years, from igii to 1917, Mr. Obernagel rendered excellent service as Assistant County Treasurer of St. Clair County, 111. When the war came, in 1917, he resigned this position and entered the military service. Upon his return to civil life, in 1920, Mr. Obernagel was employed by the United States Department of Commerce. The Illinois State Commerce Commission employed him in 1922, but he resigned, in 1923, to accept his present position.

Mr. Obernagel was married to Miss Martha Kloess, in 1923. The happy couple are blessed with a son, George William. With the same devotion to his business that he displayed for his country when he served her, and with the attitude of a student, which he developed while at McKendree College, Mr. Obernagel is one of the substantial citizens of his country.

Frank J. Stoffel

©ORN IN Mascoutah on January ';th, 1882, received a high school education, and learned the tinsmith's trade under his father Julius W. Stoffel. At the present he takes care of the tin work and the plumbing of his father's business.

April 12, 1902, he was married to Miss Anna Eberlein, the daughter of George Eberlein, a Mascoutah business man. Four children have come into their home - George, February 22, 190J; Elva, October 4, 1904; Catherine, July 12, 1910; and Marie, September 29, 1915.

Professor W. G. Padfield

HOR MORE than forty years. Professor W. G. Padfield has been instructor in East St. Louis schools, most of this time, principal. Born near Mascoutah, Jan. 21, iS'jS, son of J. B. Padfield and Martha Fike Padfield, received a liberal education in the public schools, in McKendree College, in Valparaiso University (summer term), and later, in the Harris Teacher's College, and through extension courses of Washington University.

Professor Padfield came to East St. Louis in 18S7, taught one year as assistant principal, and the remainder of his educational career as principal - forty years thus far. Married, on Nov. 12, 1886, to Eva Cox, of Marine, Illinois. She died ten years later, and on June 27, 1900, married Kate Kelley. One son, Arthur (born Oct. JO, 1901). Now student in Mexico Military Academy, Mexico, Mo.

Rev. Carl Fritz

REV. CARL FRITZ EV. CARL FRITZ was born April 17, 1 879, at Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany . In I90J he came to the United States and lived in St. Louis for several years. In 191 1 he was married to Miss Edna C. Lauenstein, of St. Louis.

Rev. Carl Fritz received his earlier education in Germany. In 1910 he was graduated from Central Wesleyan College, at Warrenton, Missouri, with the Greek Theological degree. In 1925 he received his B. D. degree from Milton University. He also attended the Ohio Mechanic Institute and a commercial school, and he has done post graduate work in Philosophy for six years in Milton University.

Rev. Fritz served in the following positions: from 1909 until 1919 he was assistant editor of the German Methodist Episcopal Sunday School and Epworth League literature, and the monthly magazine, Haus and Herd; from 19 19 to 192 1 he was contributing editor of the M. E. Apologist. He is a frequent contributor to religious periodicals. He served the following pastorates: New Melle, Mo., 1908; Emden, Illinois, 1919 to 1921; Victor, Iowa, 1921 to 1925; Mascoutah, Illinois, since September, 1925.

Rev. Louis E. Winter

aNOTHER McKendree graduate and a member of the Philosophian Literary Society, is Reverend Louis Edward Winter, pastor of the Durand, lUinois. church. He was born on January 21, i88i, in Rose Hill, Illinois. Besides earning an A. B. degree from McKendree, Rev. Winter was graduated from the Garrett Biblical Institute with a B. D. degree.

Adam M Heinemann

>WR. ADAM HEINEMANN, a Belleville \tf grocer, was born in Belleville, on Sept. 15, 1872, was educated in the pubUc schools of the city, and then worked for fourteen years as an employee of the Belleville Post fe? Zeitung. He was a clerk for two years following this, and in 1902 went into the grocery business. In 1907 Adam and his brother, August, bought property and built thereon a good modern store building. For over twenty years now they have been conducting a grocery business here.

The father of Adam Heinemann was Martin Heinemann, and came to America with his parents from Germany, where he was born in 1840. He served three years in the Union Army, and was wounded at the Battle of Vicksburg, on July 3, 186}. His wife, Elizabeth Mueller Heinemann, was born in 1839, and died in 1903, and shortly afterwards Mr. Heinemann retired from his business as a brick contractor, which he had followed in Belleville many years. He is still hving and in good health.

Adam Heinemann has, by his wife, Elizabeth Schwarz, one son and one daughter. Mrs. Heinemann was born in Highland, 111., Jan. 14, 1873, and was married to Mr. Heinemann on May 14, 1901. Their son, Gustav, born Feb. 3, 190";, is a graduate of the Belleville High School; the daughter, Aurelia, now Mrs. Fred Lorenz, completed a high school course and studied two years in a normal school. She was born on March 16, 1902.

Rev. E, E. Montgomery

®EV. E. E, MONTGOMERY, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, of CarterviUe, Ilhnois, is not only a very successful minister, hut also the father of a family of seven children, all of whom show remarkable abihty. The oldest son, Burtis E., is a McKendree graduate, and at present is the assistant principal of the West Frankfort High School. John Wesley, 1 student pastor, is now attending McKendree College. Another son, Charles C, is foreman of the Laboratory Department of Aluminum Ore, of East St. Louis. The youngest son, Paul T., is a high school student. There are three daughters: Agnes A., now married; Ruth H., a Junior in the high school of CarterviUe; and Mary M., a student in the seventh grade.

Rev. Montgomery was born on a farm in Indiana, in 1872. He attended Oakland City College at one time, and, in 1896, after selling his farm, he was married to Miss Etta McCleary. He entered the ministry in 1912. In his revivals. Rev. Montgomery has seen fifteen souls converted, and he takes great pride in the fact that he has received over one thousand converts into the Methodist Church.

ffiR. HOLLIDAY F. THURSTON was born at Lebanon, 111., October 6, 1864, and here he went through puHic school and two years in McKendree College. Since 1885 he taught and super\-ised schools in different parts of state. In 1913 appointed to present position - supervising principal of Slade and Park Schools, East St. Louis.

Married Hettie H. Todd, who was born in Highland, Illinois, November 21, 1867. Four children: Ora Delle, born September 14, 1897, graduated from East St. Louis High School, and studied in Harris Teachers" College, of St. Louis, and in Northwestern University. She is now Mrs. Paul Ingram, of Sedalia, Mo. On December 12, 1902, Carol Electa was born, completed high school course, graduated from Washington University, married to Clarence Moore, and lives in East St. Louis; Kenneth Burdett, born on the 5th of May, 1909, now a student in Washington University; Maynard died at the age of seven.

Rev. J. S. Cummins

CHE PRESENT pastor of the Belleville First M. E. Church, Jeremiah S. Cummins, was born in Johnson County, Illinois, on June 8, 186}. After receiving a public school education, he took a teacher's training course in the Normal University of Paducah, Kentucky. He then taught school for nine years, and at the same time read law.

In 1893, Mr. Cummins began his long career as a minister. After preaching seven years in Arkansas, he transferred to the Southern Illinois Conference.

A list of his services during his thirty-five years as a minister would be too long for this brief sketch. Suffice it to say that he is a member of the Conference Board of Trustees, the Vice- Chairman of the Conference Claimants Society, and the Chairman of the Board for the Holden Hospital, at Carbondale, Illinois. He was the first to organize the Methodist Orphanage at Mt. Vernon; has served as Superintendent of the Mt. Carmel District; and was a member to the 1912 General Conference. As a result of his faithful service, he has secured the largest advancement in salary of any minister in the conference.

Mr. Cummins was married on September 20, 1886, to Miss Nancy Rice, of Masses County. She is now the mother of five children, all of whom have been given an excellent education.

CHE SAYRE MOTOR COMPANY, of Lebanon, 111., is operated by Mr. C. E. Sayre and his son, E. R. Sayre, authorized agents for Buick, Pontiac, and Oakland cars. The father is a native of West Virginia, was born at Letart, on Feb. 28, 1864, and here he attended the public schools until he was twelve years of age, when his parents moved to Crawford County, 111., and located at Robinson, where he continued his education in the grade schools. At the age of seventeen he began teaching, following this vocation for several years, and then worked in the hardware store of Richey, Duncan and Co. at Flat Rock, 111. for four years, giving up this position to become a travelling salesman for the international Har\'ester Co. In 1921 he decided to give up salesmanship and to go into the automobile business, in which he is still engaged.

Mr. Sayre was married, in 1884, to Miss Halhe M. Richey, of Flat Rock, 111. Her parents also came from the East. To them have been born five children - RoUo, on Jan. 31, 1887; Eunice (E. R.), on Jan. 24, 1889; Gladys, on Aug. 9, 1892; Bernice, on Dec. i, 1895; and Norris, on July 15, i8g8. The oldest and the youngest sons are teaching school; E. R., now in business with his father, taught for many years; and one daughter, Bernice, is married to a school teacher. All of the children are married. The son, E. R. Sayre, was born at Flat Rock, where he received his grade school education, after which he entered the Mattoon High School, graduating in 1906. He studied for three years in McKendree College, and received his Bachelor of Arts degree from this institution in 1909. The following three years he held the principalship of the Grayville, 111. High School, and then entered the University of Illinois, from which he received a Master of Arts Degree in 191 4. From 1914 to 1918 he was principal of the high school at Chester, 111., and for the next four years he taught at Alton as head of the Science Department and principal of the night school. From Alton he came to Lebanon to take charge of the high school here. This position he held for three years, until 1926, when he resigned in order to give his full time to the business which he had helped his father organize.

On Aug. 23, 1923, Mr. Sayre was married to Edna Blanche Wolfe.'of Lebanon. His residence located on Belleville Street, is one of the finest in this city.

Mr. E. R. Sayre is a Mason, and belongs to the Knight Templars and the Shriners; is a member of the Rotary Club, and a trustee in the First Methodist Church, of which he has long been a member. He is greatly interested in college sports, and particularly enjoys fishing.

Mathias Rithman

ffiATHIAS RITHMAN, of Lebanon, is engaged in the manufacture of soft drinks. He was born in this city, March 11, 1893, and secured his education in the Lebanon parochial schools. His father, Mathias Rithman, Sr., died on Jan. 12, 1919: his mother, Anna C. Stamm Rithman, lives with her son, Mathias. After completing his schooling, Mathias went into business with his father, who taught his son thoroughly the details of operating the factory, so that upon the death of the father, the son was competent to manage the business.

Mr. Rithman married, on October 10, 1916, Miss Eleanora Scheibel, who was born in Belleville, on July 9, 1897. the daughter of Edward Scheibel and Sybilla Schaefer. Both parents are living; the father is a miner. Mrs. Rithman received her education in the parochial schools of Belleville, and helped with the duties of the home before her marriage. She is now the mother of two children - Cecelia F., born Sept. 26, 1917; and Gertrude R., born April 21, 1920.

Mr. Rithman and his family are communicants in the Catholic Church. He is also treasurer of the Lebanon Volunteer Fire Department. Mr. and Mrs. Rithman are a happy and unselfish couple, always wilHng to give a helping hand. The business policy of Mathias Rithman is a combination of faithful service and honest value, thus giving him a wide field where he supplies ice and soda water.

Henry W. Krohn

nW. KROHN came to St. Clair County in 1892, from Hanover, Germany, where he was born on the 8th of July, 1873. He was then nineteen years of age and had received a good education in the public schools of his native land. He secured employment on a farm, and worked there for three years, saving enough during that time to enter Central Wesleyan College, at Warrenton, Mo., in which school he studied for two years. He then taught a country school in St. Clair County, resigning on account of ill health, and spent the following three years working in the lumber camps and in the orange groves of the West. In 1904 he returned to IIUnois, and once more took up teaching. Three years later, he came to New Athens as principal. This position he held until 1920, when the new Community High School was built and organized, largely through Mr. Krohn's efforts. He is now the superintendent of this large school.

On the i6th of September, 190}, Mr. Krohn was married to Miss Rosalie A. Schubert, a farmer's daughter, born at Turkey Hill, April 22, 1881. Her parents, Joseph Schubert and Rosalie A. (Brosch) Schubert, are both dead.

Mr. Krohn has earned the reputation of being one of the most capable school supervisors in this county. He is a Master Mason, a member of the Odd Fellows, and a Modern Woodman.

William Kimbrell

HIKE HIS father, William Kimbrell is a shoemaker. The former, Joseph Kimbrell, went to Kansas soon after the Civil War and opened a shoemaker's shop at Peru. He is now eighty-six years ot age, having been born in 1841; but his wife, Fannie Jewel Kimbrell, and the mother of William, died in 1886.

William Kimbrell w.'as born at Peru on May 2nd, 1879, one of the five children of Joseph Kimbrell, and received his education in Kansas. For a while after leaving school he was employed in the shop of his father, but at the age of eighteen he went to Atlanta, Georgia, spent one year at the Chriton Sullivan Business College, then tc Bedford, Indiana, after working at different occupations for a short time, he went into the shoe repair business in Burns City, Indiana. In 1910 he came to Dupo, lUinois, where he was employed by the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company as a motor car repair man until 1917, and from that year until 1920, as a switchman. Then he opened a shoe repair shop in Dupo, and has operated the same since that time.

Mr. Kimbrell was married on October 1898 to Miss Myrtle A. Callahan, and the two children from this union - Louis O. and Fannie L., born in 1901 and 1906, respectively, are now married. Both were given a high school and a commercial, as well as musical education.

From 1918 to 1922 Mr. Kimbrell was a member of the Dupo Village Board, and since 1920 he has served on the school board of his town. He owns a good residence here, and enjoys the

Oliver J. Koebel

CHE PROPRIETOR of Lebanon's up-todate fruit and vegetable store is Oliver J. Koebel, who has been in the retail business since 1919. He was born in Madison County, three miles south of Troy, on June 11, 1895, the son of Mike Koebel and Barbara Hirstein. Both parents are living in Lebanon, and the father is in business with his son.

Oliver Koebel obtained his education in the schools near Summerfield, and then took up farming, which he followed four years before going into business. For a while he conducted a meat market in what is now the Kroger Store; later he and his father built the Koebel Building, near the square, and ran a meat market and grocery here for about six years, sold out the business, and soon afterwards established the business in which they are now engaged. They still own their former store building.

On Feb. 26, 1916, Mr. Koebel married Laura Reiger, and by her has two children. Marjorie H. was born Dec. 29, 1918; Delmar O., on Jan. 29, 1926. Mrs. Koebel is the daughter of Jacob and Margaret Reiger, and was born in St. Louis, March 4, 1894. She was educated in the public schools of this county. Mrs. Koebel is a member of the Rebeccas.

Mr. Koebel is an Odd Fellow, a member of the local singing society, one of Lebanon's Volunteer Firemen, and also a member of the Evangelical Church. Business is his hobby, although he is not averse to attending the lodge meetings and enjoying himself there.

Julius Heinemann

ff 1. one of the men who helped build the school system of his city - a very creditable work. He was born in Belleville, on April 4, 1867, and attended the grammar schools there. He then entered the Bryant and Stratton College, of St. Louis, came home in 1885, and took employment with his father in the meat business. In 1852, he began in the butcher business, started butchering, and made a great success.

Mr. Heinemann was married to Anna Semmelroth, on April 8, 1890. By this union there are two children Gustav, a graduate of N. A. G. University, in Indianapolis. This man was head teacher in the Philadelphia Turnverein. His classes took the highest honors in the National Turnfest, in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1926. The second child is Selma E., now Mrs. Kissel, wife of the county clerk. At present she is conducting a private school of fancy dancing.

The subject of this sketch has served on the board of education in his city for twenty-two years. He is a Shriner in the Masonic Order. During his life-time, he has turned to hunting and fishing for recreation. In these sports he has found many hours of relief from his business, for he IS, indeed, a very industrious and hardworking man.

William J, Eberhardt

HUGUST EBERHARDT, the father of William J., was born in Ottenhausen, Germany, Jan. 21, 1829; came to America in 1848; served three years in the Civil War; married Ehzabeth Feter on March 22, 1866, and settled on a farm. In 1874 he bought the sixty acres of land on which William now lives Five children - Sophia, John, William, Emma, and Josephine - were born to them. August Eberhardt died June 29, 1895; Mrs. Eberhardt on March 4, 1921.

William Eberhardt was born on the farm near New Athens, on Nov. a, 1872; received his education in the public school, and worked tor his father until the latter's death; began independent farming in 1898 on the old homestead farm; married Laura E. Schwartz on March 20, 1904. Three children were born to them - Marion J., on March 22, 1905; Elonora E., on Jan. 9, 1907; Roland A., on May jo, 1909. All have attended high school. The mother was born in Prairie du Lang Township, Jan. 18, 188";, daughter of John F. Schwartz and Hanna PfefFer, and received a public school education.

Mr. Eberhardt has been a member of the New Athens Community High School Board since its beginning; is a Modern Woodman; enjoys baseball, and played on a team for many years.

Louis Scheid

LOUIS SCHEID ^^^JHERE are perhaps few people who are 1} better known to those living in or near ^"^ Freeburg than is Louis Scheid, who for about forty years has followed the trade of a carpenter and building contractor in the Freeburg Township. His father, Charles Scheid, came to this country from Germany many years ago, and pursued the trade of builder and contractor until 1890, when he retired. The father died in 1907, and the mother, Margaretha Heigle Scheid, followed him four years later.

Louis Scheid was one of twelve children, and was bom in Freeburg on the 19th of December, 1869. Here he secured his early education in the grade schools, and then took a course in the Scranton Correspondence Schools, following this with a special course in architecture. Thus he was well prepared for his vocation, and has thus been a successful builder.

In 1895, five years after taking over his father's business, Mr. Scheid was married to Louisa E. Ross, who was born in Freeburg Township on the 26th of June, 187^. They have three children - Luella A. M., Hilda K. E., and Clarence W. L., born on July 7, 1904, Jan. ;o, 1907, and October 24, 1910, respectively.

Mr. Scheid has served on the board of education in his city for many years, and has been, for five years, one of the directors of the Community High School. He is a Mason, a member of the Evangelical Church, and also a member of the Freeburg Fire Department.

William P. Kunz

ONE OF SMITHTON'S most distinguished citizens is none other than William P. Kunz, who is the popular mayor of this prosperous little town. He was born here on March 28, 1874, a son of John A. Kunz and Justince Suiter, who were the parents of twelve children. The father, who died on September 30, 1897, was a cooper by trade. The subject of this sketch was united in marriage with Christina Stell on Jan. 12, 1897. She was born on Sept. 20, 1878, in the Prairie du Long Township. There were eleven other children in this family. Mr. and Mrs. Kunz are parents of three children: Freda D., born on Aug. 11, 1898, who is nowmarried to Fred Silch; Clara C, born on April 11, 1901, now married to Wilbur Taylor; and Roy C., born on June 8, 1907.

Mr. Kunz had worked as a carpenter and a painter in past years, having done work all over the country in this line. Since then he has held many civic offices. In addition to the fact that he has been the village marshal and county patrolman, he has served for sixteen years in the capacity of township clerk. Since 1917 he has filled the position of township commissioner of Smithton Township. Mr. Kunz was elected mayor of Smithton in 1924, an office which he still holds. He has been clerk for the Modern Woodmen in his community for twenty-five years. Well liked and highly respected, Mr. Kunz IS held in high esteem by Smithton's citizens.

Elmer A. Grodeon

ELMER A. GRODEON i^R. GRODEON, superintendent of schools ^J[^ at Marissa, was born on a farm near Lebanon, Illinois, on October 10, 1894, and here received his grammar and high school training, and spent one term in McKendree College. Afterwards ha attended Illinois Normal University, from which he was graduated in 1923. However, before this time, he had taught school for a number of years.

His father, Fred Grodeon, was well known in and around Lebanon; his mother, Margaret (Meyer) Grodeon, reared a family of seven children. The latter passed away in February, 1908, and the father in August, 1901.

Elmer A. Grodeon began his teaching career in the North Grove School, in this county, in 1913. During the World War he did clerical work in the army. Upon his discharge he again resumed his teaching, first in the Lenzburg schools, and later at Summerfield, where he remained for three years. He took up his studies again alter this, and finished his course in the Normal in 1923. Since then he has been in Marissa.

He was married, on May 29, 1917, to Elsie O. Luckner, who was born near Lebanon, one of the tour children of Chas. Luckner and Emily Runkwitz. On September i, 1926, she bore to Mr. Grodeon a daughter, Doris Jean. Mrs. Grodeon received a good education.

Mr. Grodeon is a member of the American Legion. His people were Methodists. He is fond of studies, and likes hunting and fishing tor recreation.

Kirtland C. Barton

HS THE general superintendent of the East St. Louis Cotton Oil Company, the subject of this sketch has contributed no small amount to the success of this firm. He was born in Belleville, 111., on Oct. 16, 1889. After a public school education he took employment with the Aluminum Ore Company as an electrician. He had learned this trade by consistent and conscientious study in a correspondence course. In 1913 he resigned in order to accept a position as electrician with the company with which he is still affiliated. Only two years later, by virtue of his natural ability, ambition, and efficiency, Mr. Barton was appointed superintendent over the entire plant, which has employed as many as one thousand men. It is recognized as one of the largest oil mines in the county. On April 26, 1911, Mr. Barton was married to Mamie C. Hill, who is a daughter of W. L. and Belle D. (Brooks) Hill. Mr. Hill, who is the owner of a filling station, had worked for a railway company as assistant yard master. In 1912 he bought the resort known as "Hills. "There were five children in this family, one of whom is Mrs. Barton. The Bartons have adopted a son. Jack C, born on Sept. I, 1916. Mr. Barton is a thirty-second degree Mason, a Shriner, an Episcopalian, and an alderman of National City. He was elected president of the school board in 1926; has travelled many miles throughout the South; and is a member ot several hunting and fishing clubs.

Florian A. Neuhoff

OR FLORIAN A. NEUHOFF, of Belleville, is one of the leading members of his protession in Southern Illinois. He served three consecutive terms as president of the Board of Education, and was one of the leaders in a movement which resulted in the estabUshment of a dental clinic in the public schools. Dr. NeuholF has taken an active interest in all worthwhile civic and educational movements in his city. He is an active member of the Parent- Teachers Association, a charter member of the Chamber of Ckimmerce and the Lions Club. He has served as a member of the board of directors of the Lions Club since it was formed in 1920, and is now its presiding officer. He has also served as deputy district governor of the Lions Club. He IS a member and a former president of the North Side Improvement Association and holds membership in three dental societies - the St. Clair County Dental Society, the Illinois State Dental Society, and the American Dental Association. He has held offices of president and secretary of the St. Clair County Dental Society.

Dr. Neuhoif was born in Belleville, Dec. 20, 1884, the son of Adolph Neuhoif and Elizabeth Bechtold Neuhoff. After receiving his grade and high school education in the public schools of Belleville, Dr. Neuhoif was graduated from Washington University in igo'; with a degree of D. D. S. While still a student in the university, he served as assistant teacher of dental classes, and later as full time demonstrator and also as assistant in the clinic and operating room. He worked in the school eight years, after which he opened dental offices in St. Louis. He was married to Miss Alice H. Strassberger, in St. Louis, on April 12, 1909. They now have three children: Alice Eleanore, born March 3, 1910; Carl Frederick, born July 10, 1913; and Flore Alien, on Jan. 18, 1920.

Dr. NeuhofF, in 1924, took into his office, as associate. Miss Florence Kuhn, who had just been graduated from the dental school of Washington University.

XN 191 1 Frank B. Rogers became a stock holder in the Excelsior Foundry Co. ot Belleville, and at the same time was made the president of the company. Mr. Rogers is the son of E. P. Rogers, who was the president of the above firm until his son took the office. Frank Rogers was born in Belleville, on October 8, iSS^; and received his education in the public schools of his city and in the Manual Training High School of St. Louis, from which he graduated in 1903. From the school room he entered the foundry, worked under his father, and learned the business thoroughly. He is the general manager as well as the president of the company.

Mr. Rogers was married on Washington's birthday, in 1910, to Miss Francis L. MiddlecofF, and he is now the father of two children. The son, Eddy J., was born August 19, 1912; the daughter Jane Ellen on November i, 1916. Both are attending school in Belleville, and Eddy is a student in the high school.

In 1926, Mr. Rogers was elected a member of the Belleville School Board. His father served on the school board for fifteen years. He has taken an active interest in the educational and civic affairs of his city, has been placed on the School Building Committee, and is an active member ot the Chamber of Commerce. He belongs to the Elk fraternity, and enjoys outdoor sports, hunting and fishing in particular. Mr. Rogers is indeed one of Belleville's alert, practical citizens.

Louis J. Haas

GWO MILES east of Lebanon is located the farm of Louis J. Haas, upon which he and Mrs. Hass have lived since their marriage on February 7, 1912. Mr. Haas was born and reared on a farm. He was the son of John Haas and Helena Trenj Haas. His father passed away July 20, 1927, on the old home place, tour miles northeast of Lebanon. His mother is still living there. Louis Haas was born on August 25, 1886. As a boy he attended the Emerald Mound District School, north of Lebanon. After finishing schoof he worked for his father until he was married.

The wife of Mr. Hass, formerly Miss Jennie Haury, was born near Troy, Ilhnois. Her parents, Henry Haury and Anna 'Voisin Haury. are nowliving in Summerfield. Mr. and Mrs. Haas have two fine children. The daughter, Jessie J. Haas, was born in 191 j, just two days before Christmas; at present she is attending Lebanon High School; their son, Amos J. Haas, was born on February 5, 1910, and is attending the elementary school.

Mr. Haas has been a member of the District No. 4 School Board for four years and has been president of this board all this time. He has taken an active part in society work, and is at present a member of the Masonic Order, the Eastern Star, and the Emerald Mound Grange, He is an earnest w-orker and a leader in the educational and social activities of his district.

George N. Schwarz

GEORGE N. SCHWARZ HE MAN back of the Quality Dairy Products Co., of O'Fallon, is George N. Schwarz, one of St. Clair County's selfmade business men, the son of Mathias Schwarz, a well known furniture dealer and undertaker in O'Fallon. Mr. Schwarz was born in O'Fallon, Oct. 10, 1897, and here obtained a common school education, after which he entered the David Rankin Mechanical School and graduated in 1916. For three years he worked in his father's estabhshment, until 1919, when he became a partner in the business, known then as the Schwarz Bros. firm. In 1922 he sold his interest in this company and bought the O'Fallon Creamery from John Munier, and is devoting most of his time to this business. He owns the plant in which he manufactures a fine grade of ice cream and ice, and has operated this plant with success. He buys and distributes a great quantity of milk, and enjoys an extensive trade in O'Fallon and in the adjacent territory, and also in Belleville. His good wife, Susie McFarland Schwarz, to whom he was married on Nov. 10, 1910, has borne to him three fine boys - Robert George, Jack Harry, and William Edward. The family live in a substantial residence in O'Fallon, and are enabled to enjoy many of the good things in life, due to the success Mr. Schwarz has met with in his business. The latter holds stock in a number of companies other than his own. All that he has, Mr. Schwarz obtained through hard work and continuous labor; but this has not deprived him of the faculty to enjoy wholesome recreations. He is a lover of good sports - football, baseball, basketball, and in fact, all athletic games.

Rev. William H. Poole

HOVED, HONORED and respected by his flock, whom he has served six years. Rev. William Holmes Poole, of Collinsville, Illinois, is another minister who has spent his life well. He is well-known in McKendree College, tor he was a member of the Board of Trustees of this institution from 191 1 to 192';. He has also been very active in other fields. From 1902 to 1911, and again from 1917 to 1920, he was a member of the Conference Board of Examiners. Since 1922, Rev. Poole has been Chairman of the Conference Board of Stewards. He is also a Mason and a Knight of Pythias. For four years, Rev. Poole was editor of the "Olney District Advocate"; from 191 1 to 1917, he was District Superintendent of the Olney District; and in 1916 he was a delegate to the General Conference which met in Saratoga, N. Y.

taught ^.1,.. : ' r . . : vcirs. On July 26, 1892, Rev. Poole was married to Miss Anna Malick. Two children were born. The daughter, Helen, is a' graduate of the Illinois Woman's College of Jacksonville, and is married to Attorney L. G. George of Edwardsville. The son, Foster, was graduated from the University of Illinois in 1921.

C. B. Peach

Mr. Peach was born near Lebanon, November 16, 1870. After being graduated from the public schools, he studied in McKendree College for two years. He then took employment in wholesale and retail business establishments in St. Louis, where he received ample training for his later successful business career.

Leaving St. Louis in 1894, Mr. Peach returned to Lebanon and married Sadie J. Hershey, of Lancaster, Ilhnois, October 16, 1895. She was graduated from the Lancaster public schools and then attended McKendree College. Mr. and Mrs. Peach have one child, a son, Robert, who was born March 20, 1905, and who is now a member of the Centennial Class of McKendree College.

In 1807, Mr. Peach became half owner of the Blanck Mercantile Company. The partnership was dissolved in 1917 when the business was destroyed by fire. Shortly after, Mr. Peach went to Houston, Texas, but soon returned to Lebanon and organized the establishment which he now owns.

Mr. Peach has served three terms upon the city council, is secretary of the Lebanon school board, is trustee of McKendree College and of the First Methodist Church, and is superintendent of the Sunday School. He is a Mason and an Odd Fellow. While in McKendree College, he was a member of the Philosophian Literary Society .

John Rochell

>^NOTHER fine cog in the machinery that ^ I feeds this nation is John Rochell, who is intensely interested in farming. He was born on Dec. lo, 1857, '" Westphalen, Germany, and worked for his father, Frank Rochell, until 1880, when the family moved to America. This family settled in Fayette County. In 1884 Mr. Rochell started farming on a sixty acre farm in Madison County, as a renter, but later he moved again, to St. Clair County, in 1888. Six years later he bought the one hundred and sixty acre farm on which he now resides, near Trenton. He also owns another farm of one hundred and sixty acres. On Jan. ig, 1882, the subject of this sketch married a native of Germany. She was Mary Lohmann, a fine lady who proved to be the good mother of eight healthy children, whose names are: Herman H., Frank B., Mary T., Elizabeth, Anna A., Mathilda, John A., and Ella N. Mr. Rochell has been a school director for twenty years. During all the time that he has spent as a farmer, he has worked like a true farmer - with a spirit, vigor, and love that shows he takes a keen interest in his occupation.

Henry D. Sexton

was born in East St. Louis, Illinois, on the nth day of August, 1891. He was named for the late Henry D. Sexton, president of the Southern Illinois National Bank and the Southern Illinois Trust Company.

For ten years, from 1913 to 1923, Mr. Sexton was a member of the firm of Sexton and Sons, 21 North Main Street, East St. Louis, lUinois, composed of the following members - Mr. Stephen D. Sexton, Sr., Stephen D. Sexton, Jr., and Henry D. Sexton. He severed his connection with this firm in order to devote his time to dairy products manufacturing, the Highland Ice Cream and Cold Storage Company having been organized in 1922, with Mr. Sexton as chief executive.

The Highland Ice Cream and Cold Storage Company is located at 20th and St. Clair Avenue; Mr. Sexton is president and general manager of this company.

During the World War, Mr. Sexton served in the British Transport Service, between Newport News, Va., and Liverpool, England, and in the U. S. Department of Operations of the General Staff at Washington, D. C. He was honorably discharged from this service December ig, igi8.

Mr. Sexton is a member of the board of education, a Rotarian, a member of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, an Elk, and J2nd degree Mason, and a member of the St. Clair Country Club.

Henry G. Vogt

nERE AND THERE in this great state of ours may be found quiet, unassuming people, who care little for the whirl of the city, but who delight in the quietness of the farm. Such a man is the subject of this sketch - Henry G. Vogt. He was born on a farm near Centerville Station on July 2, 188';, a son of Philip M. Vogt. The latter hailed from Germany, where he was born in 1864. After his arrival here he worked for his uncle. He married Elizabeth Rehg, both of whom became parents of six sons. The father of this family died in 1877. His son, Henry, of whom we are writing, got the best out of the public school education. He quit school at an early age, took employment with his brother, and worked for him for seven years. In igo7 he started farming as a renter, carefully saved the greater part of his profits, with which he bought a farm of 112 acres near Centerville Station. Mr. Vogt was married on Sept. 7, 1908, to Mary M. Ferry, a daughter of Olyseen Ferry and Susan A. Nadeau. Both of her parents, for whom she worked until her marriage, are now dead. The Vogts have seven children. These are: Lillie C, born on June 2, 1910; Nellie J., Dec. 29, igii ; Clarence F., Sept. 17, 1913; Clinton W., Nov. 10, igi'i; Marie V., June 21, 1917; Alfred J., Oct. 27, igig; and Pearl S., June 12, 1921. Mr. Vogt was elected president of the District 117 school in 1925. He IS known to be a hard worker.

Benjamin Reibold

BENJAMIN REIBOLD y«R. REIBOLD, the Mayor of Lebanon, is vlJ the representative of the Aetna Life Insurance Company for Lebanon and the surrounding territory. He is the son of Henry and Augusta Burkart Reibold (both dead), and was born on Dec. 6, 1880, received his education in the Oak Grove School, near Lebanon, and also in the Lebanon public schools, and began his working career on his uncle's farm, near this city. At the age of eighteen, he left the farm to learn the baker's trade, at which he spent five years in the

The wife of Mr. Reibold, to whom he was married on March 23, 1901, was formerly Cora C. Howard, the daughter of Dr. Chas. E. Howard, who is still living here, and of Eleanor Clucas, who died in March, 1923. Mrs. Reibold was born in Lebanon, Sept. 18, 1880, received her education m the Lebanon public schools, and learned dressmaking, which vocation she followed until her marriage. She has borne Mr. Reibold one child, Benjamin, Jr., on Nov. 27, 1901, who is located in Lebanon.

Mr. Reibold was appointed township clerk in Jan., igi8, to fill the vacancy left by the injury of Mr. E. C. Braun, and in April following was elected to this office, which he held two years. He was elected on the school board in 1924; he is an Odd Fellow, a Rotarian, member of the Commercial Club, of the Rebeccas, and of the Evangelical Church.

Reader Motor Company

\_J Lebanon, III, is under the management of Fremont R. Reader and his brother. Earl B. Reader. Another brother, Russell F. Reader, cashier of the First National Bank of East St. Louis, also has an interest in this company. They are the sons of Fred Reader and Jennie Eddington, and were born in Macoupin County, 111. - Fremont on Feb. 19, 1892, Russell on Oct. 6, 1890, and Earl on April 26, 1894. Their parents are dead.

Fremont was graduated from the Brighton, 111., High School, followed farming, and entered business in Lebanon, 192';. On Feb. 2'!, 1915, he was married to Mary L. Burk, who was born, reared, and educated at Brighton. Mildred R. is their only child.

Russell, a graduate of the Brighton High School, has studied one year in the Gem City Business College and three years in St. Louis University College of Commerce and Finance. He was married to Anna Gutwald, of East St. Louis, in September, 1917.

Earl attended the pubhc schools of Miles City; worked on the farm; entered business with his brother. In February, 1916, he married the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Camp, of Piasa, Illinois. Mrs. Earl Reader received a high school education at Taylorville, 111. Two children have been born to them - Jennie L. and Eleanor I.

George B. Ripley

eEORGE B. RIPLEY, who resides at lyji North Forty-second Street in East St. Louis, has been a government employee since 1899. He was born in Madison County, lUinois, June 5, 1 871, and attended the public schools of hiscommunity. After leaving the public schools he took employment as a clerk in the clothing business and in 1899 started working for the Post Office Department of the government. Shortly afterwards, April 18, 1900, he married Miss Mary L. Mills. Miss Mills was born m Clay County, Illinois, April i }, 1873. She had attended the public schools of Clay County and later she attended high school in East St. Louis, where she met Mr, Ripley, to whom she was later married. A daughter, Florence M., was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ripley, Jan. 17, 1901. Mrs. Ripley died March 1924.

Mr. Ripley worked hard and faithfully in his position with the Post Office Department and gradually worked up to his present position as chief clerk. He has always been active in organization and church work. He was one of the organizers of the St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church, and is now one of its trustees. He is a Mason and makes his home and his church work his hobby. He owns the residence property on which he lives.

Otto Hoerdt

After receiving a high school education. Otto began his career as a painter and decorator, and followed this trade until he went into business for himself in 1921.

Mr. Hoerdt married, on February 12, 191 1. to Miss Matilda E. Justus, born on January 21, i88fi, in Mascoutah, the daughter of Fred Justus and Elizabeth Richter Justus. Mrs. Hoerdt. like her husband, received a high school education. She is the mother of one son, Frederick O.. born June 2t, 1912.

Mr. Hoerdt is an Odd Fellow. He served four years on the city Board of Education, and has been a member of the Community High School Board since it was organized.

John J. Koch

John Koch (died, 1919) and Jacobina Schmidt "(now living in Belleville), he secured a public school education in OTallon, and for a number of years before his marriage on Dec. 4, 1902, engaged in farming on the home place. For three years after his marriage he was employed at the Willard Stove Works, and began mining in 193^. Mrs Koch was Louise Fischer, daughter of William and Elizabeth Freund Fischer, and was born in St. Louis, on March 7, 1881. Her father was a cigar manufacturer, and died July i8th, 1907- but the mother is still Uving, in OTallon. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Koch- Felton J., on Jan. 4, 1908: and William H,, now attending high school, on May 17, ign- Felton was a student in McKendree College, but is now attending Washington University. Mr. Koch is a member of the Masonic Order, of the Redmen, and of the Evangelical Church. He has been treasurer of the local fire department for sixteen years, and has served on the city school board for SIX years. He is one in the Brotherhood of his church. Mrs. Koch belongs to the Eastern Star, and to the Ladies Aid Society in her church, of which societies she is the secretary.