Warren County, Illinois - The whole text, 1886 (part 4 of 25)

Gov. Wood was twice married, - first in January, 1826, to Ann M. Streeter, daughter of Joshua Streeter, formerly of Salem, Washington Co., N. Y. They had eight children. Mrs. W. died Oct. 8, 1863, and in June, 1865, Gov. Wood married Mrs. Mary A., widow of Rev. Joseph T. Holmes. Gov. Wood died June 4, 1880, at his residence in Quincy. Four of his eight children are now living, namely: Ann E., wife of Gen. John Tillson; Daniel C., who married Mary J. Abernethy; John, Jr., who married Josephine Skinner, and Joshua S., who married Annie Bradley. The last mentioned now resides at Atchison, Kansas, and all the rest are still at Quincy.

ICHARD YATES, the "War Governor," 1861-4, was born Jan. 18, 1818, on the banks of the Ohio River, at Warsaw, Gallatin Co., Ky. His father moved in 1831 to Illinois, and after stopping for a time in Springfield, settled at Island Grove, Sangamon County. Here, after attending school, Richard joined the family. Subsequently he entered Illinois College at Jacksonville, where, in 1837, he graduated with first honors. He chose for his profession the law, the Hon. J. J. Hardin being his instructor. After admission to the Bar he soon rose to distinction as an advocate.

Gifted with a fluent and ready oratory, he soon appeared in the political hustings, and, being a passionate admirer of the great Whig leader of the West, Henry Clay, he joined his political fortunes to the party of his idol. In 1 840 he engaged with great ardor in the exciting " hard cider " campaign for Harrison. Two years later he was elected to the Legislature from Morgan County, a Democratic stronghold. He served three or four terms in the Legislature, and such was the fascination of his oratory that by 1850 his large Congressional District, extending from Morgan and Sangamon Counties north to include LaSalle, unanimously tendered him the Whig nomination for Congress. His Democratic opponent was Maj. Thomas L. Harris, a very popular man who had won distinction at the battle of Cerro Gordo, in the Mexican War, and who had beaten Hon. Stephen T. Logan for the same position,

It was during Yates' second term in Congress that the great question of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise was agitated, and the bars laid down for reopening the dreaded anti-slavery question. He took strong grounds against the repeal, and thus became identified with the rising Republican party. Consequently he fell into the minority in his district, which was pro-slavery. Even then, in a third contest, he fell behind Major Harris only 200 votes, after the district had two years before given Pierce 2,000 majority for President.

The Republican State Convention of 1860 met at Decatur May 9, and nominated for the office of Governor Mr. Yates, in preference to Hon. Norman B. Judd, of Chicago, and Leonard Swett, of Bloomington, two of the ablest men of the State, who were also candidates before the Convention. Francis A. Hoffman, of DuPage County, was nominated for Lieutenant Governor. This was the year when Mr. Lincoln was a candidate for President, a period remembered as characterized by the great whirlpool which precipitated the bloody War of the Rebellion. The Douglas Democrats nominated J. C. Allen of Crawford County, for Governor, and Lewis W. Ross, of Fulton County, for Lieutenant Governor. The Breckenridge Democrats and the Bell-Everett party had also full tickets in the field. After a most fearful campaign, the result of the election gave Mr. Yates 172,196 votes, and Mr. Allen 159,253. Mr. Yates received over a thousand more votes than did Mr. Lincoln himself.

Richard Yates

most critical period of our country's history. In the fate of the nation was involved that of each State. The life struggle of the former derived its sustenance from the loyalty of the latter; and Gov. Yates seemed to realize the situation, and proved himself both loyal and wise in upholding the Government. He had a deep hold upon the affections of the people, won by his moving eloquence and genial manners. Erect and symmetrical in person, of prepossessing appearance, with a winning address and a magnetic power, few men possessed more of the elements of popularity. His oratory was scholarly and captivating, his hearers hardly knowing why they were transported. He was social and convivial. In the latter respect he was ultimately carried too far.

The very creditable military efforts of this State during the War of the Rebellion, in putting into the field the enormous number of about 200,000 soldiers, were ever promptly and ably seconded by his excellency ; and the was ambitious to deserve the title of "the soldier's friend." Immediately after the battle of Shiloh he repaired to the field of carnage to look after the wounded, and his appeals for aid were promptly responded to by the people. His proclamations calling for volunteers were impassionate appeals, urging upon the people the duties and requirements of patriotism ; and his special message in 1863 to the Democratic Legislature of this State pleading for material aid for the sick and wounded soldiers of Illinois regiments, breathes a de'ep fervor of noble sentiment and feeling rarely equaled in beauty or felicity of expression. Generally his messages on political and civil affairs were able and comprehensive. During his administration, however, there were no civil events of an engrossing character, although two years of his time were replete with partisan quarrels of great bitterness. Military arrests, Knights of the Golden Circle, riot in Fulton County, attempted suppression of the Chicago Times and the usurping State Constitutional Convention of 1862, were the chief local topics that were exciting during the Governor's term. This Convention assembled Jan. 7, and at once took the high position that the law calling it was no longer binding, and that it had supreme power; that it represented a virtual assemblage of the whole people of the State, and was sovereign in the exercise of all power necessary to effect a peaceable revolution of the State Government and to the re-establishment of one for the " happiness, prosperity and freedom of the citizens," limited only by the Federal Constitution. Notwithstanding the law calling the Convention required its members to take an oath to support the Constitution of the State as well as that of the general Government, they utterly refused to take such oath. They also assumed legislative powers and passed several important "laws!" Interfering with the (then) present executive duties, Gov. Yates was provoked to tell them plainly that " he did not acknowledge the right of the Convention to instruct him in the performance of his duty."

In 1863 the Governor astonished the Democrats by " proroguing " their Legislature. This body, after a recess, met June 2, that year, and soon began to waste time upon various partisan resolutions ; and, while the two houses were disagreeing upon the question of adjourning sine die, the Governor, having the authority in such cases, surprised them all by adjourning them " to the Saturday next preceding the first Monday in January, 1865 ! " This led to great excitement and confusion, and to a reference of the Governor's act to the Supreme Court, who decided in his favor. Then it was the Court's turn to receive abuse for weeks and months afterward.

During the autumn of 1864 a conspiracy was detected at Chicago which had for its object the liberation of the prisoners of war at Camp Douglas, the burning of the city and the inauguration of rebellion in the North. Gen. Sweet, who had charge of the camp at the time, first had his suspicions of danger aroused by a number of enigmatically worded letters which passed through the Camp postoffice. A detective afterward discovered that the rebel Gen. Marmaduke was in the city, under an assumed name, and he, with other rebel officers - Grenfell, Morgan, Cantrell, Buckner Morris, and Charles Walsh - was arrested, most of whom were convicted by a court-martial at Cincinnati and sentenced to imprisonment, - Grenfell to be hung. The sentence of the latter was afterward commuted to imprisonment for life, and all the others, after nine months' imprisonment, were pardoned.

In March, 1873, Gov. Yates was appointed a Government Director of the Union Pacific Railroad, in which office he continued until his decease, at St. Louis, Mo., on the 27th of November following.

ICHARD J. OGLESBY, Governor 1865-8, and re-elected in 1872 and 1884, was born July 25, 1824, in Oldham Co., Ky.( - the State which might be considered the " mother of Illinois Governors." Bereft of his parents at the tender age of eight years, his early education was neglected. When 12 years of age, and after he had worked a year and a half at the carpenter's trade, he removed with an uncle, Willis Oglesby, into whose care he had been committed, to Decatur, this State, where he continued his apprenticeship as a mechanic, working six months for Hon. E. O. Smith.

In 1844 he commenced studying law at Springfield, with Judge Silas Robbins, and read with him one year. He was admitted to the Bar in 184^, and commenced the practice of his chosen profession at Sullivan, the county seat of Moultrie County.

The next year the war with Mexico was commenced, and in June, 1846, Mr. Oglesby volunteered, was elected First Lieutenant of Co. C, Fourth Illinois Regiment of Volunteers, and participated in the battles of Vera Cruz and Cerro Gordo.

On his return he sought to perfect his law studies by attending a course of lectures at Louisville, but on the breaking out of the California "gold fever " in 1849, he crossed the plains and mountains to the new Eldorado, driving a six-mule team, with a company of eight men, Henry Prather being the leader.

In 1852 he returned home to Macon County, and was placed that year by the Whig party on the ticket of Presidential Electors. In 1856 he visited Europe, Asia and Africa, being absent 20 months. On his return home he resu;ned the practice of law, as a member of the firm of Gallagher, Wait & Oglesby. In 1858 he was the Republican no.ainee for the Lower House of Congress, but was defeated by the Hon. James C. Robinson, Democrat. In 1860 he was elected to the Illinois State Senate ; and on the evening the returns of this election were coming in, Mr. Oglesby had a fisticuff encounter with " Cerro Gordo Williams," in which he came out victorious, and which was regarded as " the first fight of the Rebellion." The following spring, when the war had commenced in earnest, his ardent nature quickly responded to the demands of patriotism and he enlisted. The extra session of the Legislature elected him Colonel of the Eighth Illinois Infantry, the second one in the State raised to suppress the great Rebellion.

He w is shortly entrusted with important commands. For a time he was stationed at Bird's Point and Cairo; in April he was promoted Brigadier General ; at Fort Donelson his brigade was in the van, being stationed on the right of General Grant's army and the first brigade to be attacked. He lost 500 men before re-inforcements arrived. Many of these men were from Macon County. He was engaged in the battle of Corinth, and, in a brave charge at this place, was shot in the left lung with an ounce ball, and was carried from the field in expectation of im- mediate death. That rebel ball he carries to this day. On his partial recovery he was promoted as Major General, for gallantry, his commission to rank from November, 1862. In the spring of 1863 he was assigned to the command of the i6th Army Corps, but, owing to inability from the effects of his wound, he relinquished this command in July, that year. Gen. Grant, however, refused to accept his resignation, and he was detailed, in December following, to court-martial and try the Surgeon General of the Army at Washington, where he remained until May, 1864, when he returned home. The Republican, or Union, State Convention of

1864 was held at Springfield, May 25, when Mr. Oglesby was nominated for the office of Governor, while other candidates before the Convention were Allen C. Fuller, of Boone, Jesse K. Dubois,of Sangamon, and John M. Palmer, of Macoupin. Wm. Bross, of Chicago, was nominated for Lieutenant Governor. On the Democratic State ticket were James C. Robinson, of Clark, for Governor, and S. Corning Judd, of Fulton, for Lieutenant Governor. The general election gave Gen. Oglesby a majority of about 31,000 votes. The Republicans had also a majority in both the Legislature and in the representation in Congress.

Gov. Oglesby was duly inaugurated Jan. 17, 1865. The day before the first time set for his installation death visited his home at Decatur, and took from it his only son, an intelligent and sprightly lad of six years, a great favorite of the bereaved parents. This caused the inauguration to be postponed a week.

1865 were the election of ex-Gov. Yates to the United States Senate, and the ratification of the 131)1 amendment to the Constitution of the United States, abolishing slavery. This session also signalized itself by repealing the notorious " black laws," part of which, although a dead letter, had held their place upon the statute books since 1819. Also, laws requiring the registration of voters, and establishing a State Board of Equalization, were passed by this Legislature. But the same body evinced that it was corruptly influenced by a mercenary lobby, as it adopted some bad legislation, over the Governor's veto, notably an amendment to a charter for a Chicago horse railway, granted in 1859 for 25 years, and now sought to be extended 99 years. As this measure was promptly passed over his veto by both branches of the Legislature, he deemed it useless further to attempt to check their headlong career. At this session no law of a general useful character or public interest was perfected, unless we count such the turning over of the canal to Chicago to be deepened. The session of 1867 was still more productive of private and special acts. Many omnibus bills were proposed, and some passed. The contests over the location of the Industrial College, the Capital, the

During the year r872, it became evident that if the Republicans could re-elect Mr. Oglesby to the office of Governor, they could also elect him to the United States Senate, which they desired to do. Accordingly they re-nominated him for the Executive chair, and placed upon the ticket with him for Lieutenant Governor, John L. Beveridge, of Cook County. On the other side the Democrats put into the field Gastavus Koerner for Governor and John C. Black for Lieutenant Governor. The election gave the Republican ticket majorities ranging from 3S>334 to 56,174, - the Democratic defection being caused mainly by their having an old-time Whig and Abolitionist, Horace Greeley, on the national ticket for President. According to the general understanding had beforehand, as soon as the Legislature met it elected Gov. Oglesby to the United States Senate, whereupon Mr. Beveridge became Governor. Senator Oglesby 's term expired March 4, i879,*having served his party faithfully and exhibited an order of statesmanship beyond criticism.

During the campaign of 1884 Mr. Oglesby was 1 nominated for a "third term" as Executive of the State of Illinois, against Carter H. Harrison, Mayor of Chicago, nominated by the Democrats. Both » gentlemen "stumped " the State, and while the peo- " pie elected a Legislature which was a tie on a joint 1 ballot, as between the two parties, they gave the I jovial " Dick" Oglesby a majority of 15,018 for Gov- J ernor, and he was inaugurated Jan. 30, 1885. The Legislature did not fully organize until this date, on account of its equal division between the two main parties and the consequent desperate tactics of each party to checkmate the latter in the organization of the House.

Gov. Oglesby is a fine-appearing, affable man, with regular, well defined features and rotund face. In stature he is a little above medium height, of a large frame and somewhat fleshy. His physical appearance is striking and prepossessing, while his straightout, not to say bluff, manner and speech are well calculated favorably to impress the average masses. Ardent in feeling and strongly committed to the policies of his party, he intensifies Republicanism among Republicans, while at the same time his iovial and liberal manner prevents those of the opposite party from hating him.

He is quite an effective stump orator. With vehement, passionate and scornful tone and gestures, tremendous physical power, which in speaking he exercises to the utmost ; with frequent descents to the grotesque; and with abundant homely comparisons or frontier figures, expressed in the broadest vernacular and enforced with stentorian emphasis, he delights a promiscuous audience beyond measure.

John M. Palmes

||OHN Me AULEY PALMER, Governor 1869-72, was born on Eagle Creek, Sco'tt Co., Ky., Sept. 13, 1817. During his infancy, his father, who had been a soldier in the war of 1812, removed to Christian Co., Ky., where lands were cheap. Here the future Governor of the great Prairie State spent his childhood and received such meager schooling as the new and sparsely settled country, afforded. To this he added materially by diligent reading, for which he evinced an early aptitude. His father, an ardent Jackson man, was also noted for his anti-slavery sentiments, which he thoroughly impressed upon his children. In 1831 he emigrated to Illinois, settling in Madison County. Here the labor of improving a farm was pursued for about two years, when the death of Mr. Palmer's mother broke up the family. About this time Alton College was opened, on the "manual labor " system, and in the spring of 1834 young Palmer, with his elder brother, Elihu, entered this school and remained 1 8 months. Next, for over three years, he tried variously coopering, peddling and school-teaching.

first canvass for Congress. Young, eloquent and in political accord with Mr. Palmer, he won his confi- 1 dence, fired his ambition and fixed his purpose. The following winter, while teaching near Canton, he be- J, gan to devote his spare time to a desultory reading t of law, and in the spring entered a law office at Car- I linville, making his home with his elder brother, I Elihu. (The latter was a learned clergyman, of considerable orginality of thought and doctrine.) On the next meeting of the Supreme Court he was admitted to the Bar, Douglas being one of his examiners. He was not immediately successful in his profession, and would have located elsewhere than Carlinville had he the requisite means. Thus his early poverty was a blessing in disguise, for to it he now attributes the success of his life.

From 1839 on, while he diligently pursued his profession, he participated more or less in local politics. In 1843 he became Probate Judge. In 1 847 he was elected to the State Constitutional Convention, where he took a leading part. In 1852 he was elected to the State Senate, and at the special session of February, 1854, true to the anti-slavery sentiments bred in him, he took a firm stand in opposition to the repeal of the Missouri Compromise; and when the Nebraska question became a party issue he refused to receive a re-nomination for the Senatorship at the hands of the Democracy, issuing a circular to that effect. A few weeks afterward, however, hesitating to break with his party, he participated in a Congressional Convention which nomi- T. L. Harris against Richard Yates, and which unqualifiedly approved the principles of the Kansas- Nebraska act. But later in the campaign he made the plunge, ran for the Senate as an Anti-Nebraska Democrat, and was elected. The following winter he put in nomination for the United States Senate Mr. Trumbull, and was one of the five steadfast men who voted for him until all the Whigs came to their support and elected their man.

In 1856 he was Chairman of the Republican State Convention at Bloomington. He ran for Congress in r859, but was defeated. In 1860 he was Republican Presidential Elector for the State at large. In 1861 he was appointed one of the five Delegates (all Republicans) sent by Illinois to the peace congress at Washington.

When the civil conflict broke out, he offered his services to his country, and was elected Colonel of the I I4th 111. Vol. Inf., and participated in the engagements I at Island No. 10 ; at Farmington, where he skillfully J extricated his command from a dangerous position ; at Stone River, where his division for several hours, Dec. 31, 1862, held the advance and stood like a I rock, and for his gallantry there he was made Major General; at Chickamauga, where his and Van Cleve's divisions for two hours maintained their position when they were cut off by overpowering numbers. Under Gen. Sherman, he was assigned to the I4th Army Corps and participated in the Atlanta campaign. At Peach-Tree Creek his prudence did much to avert disaster. In February, 1865, Gen. Palmer was assigned to the military administration of Kentucky, which was a delicate post. That State was about half rebel and half Union, and those of the latter element were daily fretted by the loss of their slaves. He, who had been bred to the rules of common law, trembled at the contemplation of his extraordinary power over the persons and property of his fellow men, with which he was vested in his capacity as military Governor ; and he exhibited great caution in the execution of the duties of his post.

Gen. Palmer was nominated for Governor of Illinois by the Republican State Convention which met at Peori.i May 6, 1868, and his nomination would probably have been made by acclamation had he not persistently declared that he could not accept a candidature for the office. The result of the ensuing election gave Mr. Palmer a majority of 44,707 over John R. Eden, the Democratic nominee.

On the meeting of the Legislature in January, 1869, the first thing to arrest public attention was that portion of the Governor's message which took broad State's rights ground. This and some minor points, which were more in keeping with the Democratic sentiment, constituted the entering wedge f >r the criticisms and reproofs he af:erward received from the Republican party, and ultimuely resulted in his entire aleniation from the latter element. The Legislature just referred to was noted for the introduction of numerous bills in the interest of private parties, which were embarrassing to the Governor. Among the public acts passed was that which limited railroad charges for passenger travel to a maximum of three cents per mile ; and it was passed over the Governor's veto. Also, they passed, over his veto, the "tax-grabbing law" to pay railroad subscriptions, "the Chicago Lake Front "bill, etc. The new State Constitution of 1870, far superior to the old, was a peaceful " revolution " which took place during Gov. Palmer's term of office. The suffering caused by the great Chicago Fire of October, 1871, was greatly alleviated by the prompt responses of his excellency.

Since the expiration of Gov. Palmers 's term, he has been somewhat prominent in Illinois politics, and has been talked of by many, especially in the Democratic party, as the best man in the State for a United States Senator. His business during life has been that of the law. Few excel him in an accurate appreciation of the depth and scope of its principles- The great number of his able veto messages abundantly testify not only this but also a rare capacity to point them out. He is a logical and cogent reasoner and an interesting, forcible and convincing speaker, though not fluent or ornate. Without brilliancy, his dealings are rather with facts and ideas than with appeals to passions and prejudices. He is a patriot and a statesman of very high order. Physically he is above the medium height, of robust frame, ruddy complexion and sanguine-nervous temperament. He has a large cranial development, is vivacious, social in disposition, easy of approach, unostentatious in his habits of life, democratic in his habits and manners and is a true American in his fundamental principles of statesmanship.

OHN LOWRiE BEVERIDGE, Governor 1 87 3-6, was born in the town of Greenwich, Washington Co., N. Y., July 6, 1824. His parents were George and Ann Beveridge. His father's parents, Andrew and Isabel Beveridge, before their marriage emigrated from Scotland just before the Revolutionary War, settling in Washington County. His father was the eldest of eight brothers, the youngest of whom was 60 years of age when the first one of the number died. His mother's parents, James and Agnes Hoy, emigrated from Scotland .at the close of the Revolutionary War, settling also in Washington Co., N. Y., with their first-born, whose " native land "was the wild ocean. His parents and grandparents lived beyond the time allotted to man, their average age being over 80 years. They belonged to the " Associate Church," a seceding Presbyterian body of

America from the old Scotch school ; and so rigid was the training of young Beveridge that he never heard a sermon from any other minister except that of his own denomination until he was in his igth year. Later in life he became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which relation he still holds.

Mr. Beveridge received a good common-school education, but his parents, who could obtain a livelihood only by rigid economy and industry, could not send him away to college. He was raised upon a farm, and was in his i8th year when the family removed to De Kalb County, this State, when that section was very sparsely settled. Chicago had less than 7,000 inhabitants. In this wild West he continued as a farm laborer, teaching school during the winter months to supply the means of an education. In the fall of 1842 he attended one term at the academy at Granville, Putnam Co., 111., and subsequently several terms at the Rock River Seminary at Mount Morris, Ogle Co., 111., completing the academic course. At this time, the fall of 1845, his parents and brothers were anxious to have him go to college, even though he had not money sufficient; but, njt willing to burden the family, he packed his trunk and with only $40 in money started South to seek his fortune.

John L. Bevertdge

First, he taught school in Wilson, Overton and Jackson Cos., Tenn., in which experience he underwent considerable mental drill, both in book studies and in the ways of the world. He read law and was admitted to the Bar, in the South, but did not learn to love the institution of slavery, although he admired many features of Southern character. In December, 1847, he returned North, and Jan. 20, 1848, he married Miss Helen M. Judson, in the old Clark- Street M. E. church in Chicago, her father at that time being Pastor of the society there. In the spring of 1848 he returned with his wife to Tennessee, where his two children, Alia May and Philo Judson, were born.

In the fall of 1849, through the mismanagement of an associate, he lost what little he had accumulated and was left in debt. He soon managed to earn means to pay his debts, returned to De Kalb Co., 111., and entered upon the practice of his profession at Sycamore, the county seat. On arrival from the South he had but one-quarter of a dollar in money, and scanty clothing and bedding for himself and family. He borrowed a little money, practiced law, worked in public offices, kept books for some of the business men of the town, and some railroad engineering, till the spring of 1854, when he removed to Evanston, 12 miles north of Chicago, a place then but recently laid out, under the supervision of the Northwestern University, a Methodist institution. Of the latter his father-in-law was then financial agent and business manager. Here Mr. Beveridge prospered, and the next year (1855) opened a law office in Chicago, where he found the battle somewhat hard; but he persevered with encouragement and increasing success.

Aug. 12, 1861, his law partner, Gen. John F. Farnsworth, secured authority to raise a regiment of cavalry, and authorized Mr. Beveridge to raise a company for it. He succeeded in a few days in raising the company, of course enlisting himself along with it. The regiment rendezvoused at St. Charles, 111., was mustered in Sept. 1 8, and on its organization Mr. B. was elected Second Major. It was attached, Oct. ii, to the Eighth Cavalry and to the Army of the Potomac. He served with the regiment until November, 1863, participating in some 40 bat- tles and skirmishes : was at Fair Oaks, the seven days' fight around Richmond, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. He commanded the regiment the greater part of the summer of 1863, and it was while lying in camp this year that he originated the policy of encouraging recruits as well as the fighting capacity of the soldiery, by the wholesale furlough system. It worked so well that many other officers adopted it. In the fall of this year he recruited another company, against heavy odds, in January, 1864, was commissioned Colonel of the lyth 111. Cav., and skirmished around in Missouri, concluding with the reception of the surrender of Gen. Kirby Smith's army in Arkansas. In 1865 he commanded various sub-districts in the Southwest. He was mustered out Feb. 6, 1866, safe from the casualties of war and a stouter man than when he first enlisted. His men idolized him.

He then returned to Chicago, to practice law, with no library and no clientage, and no political experience except to help others into office. In the fall of! 1866 he was elected Sheriff of Cook County, serving one term; next, until November, 1870, he practiced 1 law and closed up the unfinished business of his office. He was then elected State Senator; in November, 1871, he was elected Congressman at large; in November, 1872, he was elected Lieutenant Governor on the ticket with Gov. Oglesby ; the latter being elected to the U. S. Senate, Mr. Beveridge became Governor, Jan. 21, 1873. Thus, inside of a few weeks, he was Congressman at large, Lieutenant Governor and Governor. The principal events occurring during Gov. Beveridge 's administration were: The completion of the revision of the statutes, begun in 1869; the partial success of the "farmers' movement;" "Haines" Legislature " and Illinois' exhibit at the Centennial.

Since the close of his gubernatorial term ex-Gov. Beveridge has been a member of the firm of Beveridge & Dewey, bankers and dealers in commercial paper at 7 1 Dearborn Street (McCormick Block), Chicago, and since November, 1881, he has also been Assistant United States Treasurer : office in the Government Building. His residence is still at Evanston.

Shmlb Y M. Cullom

HELBY M. CULLOM, Governor 1877-83,13 the sixth child of the late Richard N. Cullom, and was born Nov. 22, 1829,111 Wayne Co., Ky., where his father then resided, and whence both the Illinois and Tennessee branches of the family originated. In the following year the family emigrated to the vicinity of Washington, Tazewell Co., 111., when that section was very sparsely settled. They located on Deer Creek, in a grove at the time occupied by a party of Indians, attracted there by the superior hunting and fishing afforded in that vicinity. The following winter was known as the " hard winter," the snow [being very deep and lasting and the weather severely cold; and the family had to subsist mainly on boiled corn or hominy, and some wild game, for several weeks. In the course of time Mr. R. N. Cullom became a prominent citizen and was several times elected to the Legislature, both before and after the removal of the capital from Vandalia to Springfield. He died about

Until about 19 years of age young Cullom grew up to agricultural pursuits, attending school as he had opportunity during the winter. Within this time, however, he spent several months teaching school, and in the following summer he "broke prairie "with an ox team for the neighbors. With the money obtained by these various ventures, he undertook a course of study at the Rock River Seminary, a Methodist institution at Mt. Morris, Ogle County; but the sudden change to the in-door life of a student told severely upon his health, and he was taken home, being considered in a hopeless condition. While at Mt. Morris he heard Hon. E. B. Washburne make his first speech.

On recovering health, Mr. Cullom concluded to study law, under the instruction of Abraham Lincoln, at Springfield, who had by this time attained some notoriety as an able lawyer; but the latter, being absent from his office most of the time, advised Mr. Cullom to enter the office of Stuart & Edwards. After about a year of study there, however, his health failed again, and he was obliged to return once more to out-door life. Accordingly he bought hogs for packing, for A. G. Tyng, in 1'eoria, and while he regained his health he gained in purse, netting $400 in a few weeks. Having been admitted to the Bar, he went to Springfield, where he was soon elected City Attorney, on the Anti-Nebraska ticket.

In 1856 he ran on the Fillmore ticket as a Presidential Elector, and, although failing to be elected as such, he was at the same time elected a Representative in the Legislature from Sangamon County, by a local coalition of the American and Republican parties. On the organization of the House, he received the vote of the Fillmore men for Speaker. Practicing law until 1860, he was again elected to the Legislature, as a Republican, while the county went Democratic on the Presidential ticket. In January following he was elected Speaker, probably the youngest man who had ever presided over an Illinois Legislature. After the session of 1861, he was a candidate for the State Constitutional Convention called for that year, but was defeated, and thus escaped the disgrace of being connected with that abortive party scheme to revolutionize the State Government. In 1862 he was a candidate for the State Senate, but was defeated. The same year, however, he was appointed by President Lincoln on a Government Commission, in company with Gov. Boutwell of Massachusetts and Cnarles A. Dana, since of the New York Sun, to investigate the affairs of the Quartermaster's and Commissary Departments at Cairo. He devoted several months to this duty.

In 1864 he entered upon a larger political field, being nominated as the Republican candidate for Congress from the Eighth (Springfield) District, in opposition to the incumbent, JohnT. Stuart, who had been elected in 1862 by about 1,500 majority over

I Leonard Swett, then of Bloomington, now of Chicago. The result was the election of Mr. Cullom in November following by a majority of 1,785. In 1866 he was re-elected to Congress, over Dr. E. S. Fowler, by the magnificent majority of 4,103! In 1868 he was again a candidate, defeating the Hon. B. S. Edwards, another of his old preceptors, by 2,884 votes.

During his first term in Congress he served on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Expenditures in the Treasury Department; in his second term, on the Committees on Foreign Affairs and on Territories ; and in his third term he succeeded Mr. Ashley, of Ohio, to the Chairmanship of the latter. He introduced a bill in the House, to aid in the execution -of law in Utah, which caused more consternation among the Mormons than any measure had previously, but which, though it passed the House, failed to pass the Senate.

The Republican Convention which met May 25, 1876, nominated Mr. Cullom for Governor, while the other contestant was Gov. Beveridge. For Lieutenant-Governor they nominated Andrew Shuman, editor of the Chicago Jourtial. For the same offices the Democrats, combining with the Anti-Monopolists, placed in nomination Lewis Steward, a wealthy farmer and manufacturer, and A. A. Glenn. The result of the election was rather close, Mr. Cullom obtaining only 6,800 majority. He was inaugurated Jan. 8, 1877.

Great depression prevailed in financial circles at this time, as a consequence of the heavy failures of 1873 and afterward, the effect of which had seemed to gather force from that time to the end of Gov. Cullom's first administration. This unspeculative period was not calculated to call forth any new issues, but the Governor's energies were at one time put to task to quell a spirit of insubordination that had been begun in Pittsburg, Pa., among the laboring classes, and transferred to Illinois at Chicago, East St. Louis and Braidwood, at which places laboring men for a short time refused to work or allow others to work. These disturbances were soon quelled and the wheels of industry again set in motion.

In May, 1880, Gov. Cullom was re-nominated by the Republicans, against Lyman Trumbull, by the Democrats; and although the former party was some- ' what handicapped in the campaign by a zealous faction opposed to Grant for President and to Grant , men for office generally, Mr. Cullom was re-elected " by about 314,565, to 277,532 for the Democratic State ticket. The Greenback vote at the same time was about 27,000. Both Houses of the Legislature again ' became Republican, and no representative of the Greenback or Socialist parties were elected. Gov. Cullom was inaugurated Jan. 10, iSSi. In his message he announced that the last dollar of the State debt had been provided for.

March 4, 1883, the term of David Davis as United States Senator from Illinois expired, and Gov. Cullom was chosen to succeed him. This promoted Lieutenant-Governor John M. Hamilton to the Governorship. Senator Cullom's term in the United States Senate will expire March 4, 1889.

As a practitioner of law Mr. C. has been a member of the firm of Cullom, Scholes & Mather, at Springfield ; and he has also bjen President of the State National Bank.

He has been married twice, - the first time Dec. 12, 1855, to Miss Hannah Fisher, by whom he had two daughters; and the second time May 5, 1863, to Julia Fisher. Mrs. C is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, with which religious body Mr. C. is also in sympathy.

OHN MARSHALL HAMILTON, Governor 1883-5, was born May 28, 1847, in a log house upon a farm about two miles from Richwood, Union County, Ohio. His father was Samuel Hamilton, the eldest son of Rev. Wm. Hamilton, who, together with his brother, the Rev. Samuel Hamilton, was among the early pioneer Methodist preachers in Ohio. The mother of the subject of this sketch was, before her marriage, Mrs. Nancy McMorris, who was born and raised in Fauquier or Lou- | doun County, Va., and related to the two large families of Youngs and Marshalls, well known in that commonwealth ; and from the latter family name was derived the middle name of Gov. Hamilton.

In March, 1854, Mr. Hamilton's father sold out his little pioneer forest home in Union County, O., and, loading his few household effects and family (of six children) into two emigrant covered wagons, moved to Roberts Township, Marshall Co., 111., being 2 1 days on the route. Swamps, unbridged streams and innumerable hardships and privations met them on their way. Their new home had been previously selected by the father. Here, after many long years of toil, they succeeded in paying for the land and making a comfortable home. John was, of course, ' ' A brought up to hard manual labor, with no schooling except three or four months in the year at a common country school. However, he evinced a capacity, and taste for a high order of self-education, by studying or reading what books he could borrow, as the family had but very few in the house. Much o: his study he prosecuted by the light of a log fire int the old-fashioned chimney place. The financial panic of 1857 caused the family to come near losing] their home, to pay debts ; but the father and two sons, William and John, " buckled to " and persevered in hard labor and economy until they redeemed their place from the mortgage.

When the tremendous excitement of the political campaign of 1860 reached the neighborhood of Roberts Township, young Hamilton, who had been brought up in the doctrine of anti-slavery, took a zealous part in favor of Lincoln's election. Making special efforts to procure a little money to buy a uniform, he joined a company of Lincoln Wide-Awakes at Magnolia, a village not far away. Directly after the ensuing election it became evident that trouble would ensue with the South, and this Wide-Awake company, like many others throughout the country, kept up its organization and transformed itself into a military company. During the ensuing summer they met often for drill and became proficient ; but when they offered themselves for the war, young Hamilton was rejected on account of his youth, he being then but 14 years of age. During the winter of 1863-4 he attended an academy at Henry, Marshall County, and in the following May he again enlisted, for the fourth time, when he was placed in the 141 st III. Vol. Inf., a regiment then being raised at Elgin, 111., for the loo-day service. He took with him 13 other lads from his neighborhood, for enlistment in the service. This regiment operated in Southwestern Kentucky, for about five months, under Gen. Paine.

The following winter, 1864-5, Mr. Hamilton taught school, and during the two college years 1865-7, 'le went through three years of the curriculum of the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio. The third year he graduated, the fourth in a class of 46, in the classical department. In due time he received the degree of M. A. For a few months he was the Principal of Marshall " College " at Henry, an academy under the auspices of the M. E. Church. By this time he had commenced the study of law, and after earning some money as a temporary Professor of Latin at the Illinois Wesleyan University at Bloomington, he entered the law office of Weldon, Tipton & Benjamin, of that city. Each member of this firm has since been distinguished as a Judge. Admitted to the Bar in May, 1870, Mr. Hamilton i was given an interest in the same firm, Tipton having been elected Judge. In October following he formed a partnership with J. H. Rowell, at that time Prosecuting Attorney. Their business was then small, but they increased it to very large proportions, practicing in all grades of courts, including even the U. S. Supreme Court, and this partnership continued unbroken until Feb. 6, 1883, when Mr. Hamilton was sworn in as Executive of Illinois. On the 4th of March following Mr. Rowell took his seat in Congress.

In July, 1871. Mr. Hamilton married Miss Helen M. Williams, the daughter of Prof. Wm. G. Williams, Professor of Greek in the Ohio Wejleyan University. Mr. and Mrs. H. have two daughters and one son.

In 1876 Mr. Hamilton was nominated by the Republicans for the State Senate, over other and older competitors. He took an active part " on the stump " in the campaign, for the success of his party, and was elected by a majority of 1,640 over his Democratic- Greenback opponent. In the Senate he served on the Committees on Judiciary, Revenue, State Institutions, Appropriations, Education, and on Miscellany ; and during the contest for the election of a U. S. Senator, the Republicans endeavoring to reelect John A. Logan, he voted for the war chief on every ballot, even alone when all the other Republicans had gone over to the Hon. E. B. Lawrence and the Democrats and Independents elected Judge David Davis. At this session, also, was passed the first Board of Health and Medical Practice act, of which Mr. Hamilton was a champion, against so much opposition that the bill was several times " laid on the table." Also, this session authorized the location and establishment of a southern penitentiary, which was fixed at Chester. In the session of 1879 Mr. Hamilton was elected President pro tern. of the Senate, and was a zealous supporter of John A. Logan for the U. S. Senate, who was this time elected without any trouble.

In May, 1880, Mr. Hamilton was nominated on the Republican ticket for Lieutenant Governor, his principal competitors before the Convention being Hon. Wm. A. James, ex-Speaker of the House of Representatives, Judge Robert Bell, of Wabash County, Hon. T. T. Fountain, of Perry County, and Hon. M. M. Saddler, of Marion County. He engaged actively in the campaign, and his ticket was elected by a majority of 41,200. As Lieutenant Governor, he presided almost continuously over the Senate in the 32d General Assembly and during the early days of the 33d, until he succeeded to the Governorship. When the Legislature of 1883 elected Gov. Cullom to the United States Senate, Lieut. Gov. Hamilton succeeded him, under the Constitution, taking the' oath of office Feb. 6, 1883. He bravely met all the annoyances and embarrassments incidental upon taking up another's administration. The principal events with which Gov. Hamilton was connected as the Chief Executive of the State were, the mine disaster at Braidwood, the riots in St. Clairand Madison Counties in May, 1883, the appropriations for the State militia, the adoption of the Harper high-license liquor law, the veto of a dangerous railroad bill, etc.

1884, where his first choice for President was John A. Logan, and second choice Chester A. Arthur; but he afterward zealously worked for the election of Mr. Blaine, true to his party.

Introductory

JHE time has arrived when it becomes the duty of the people of this county to perpetuate the names of their pioneers, to furnish a record of their early settlement, and relate the story of their progress. The civilization of our day, the enlightenment of the age and the duty that men of the present time owe to their ancestors, to themselves and to their posterity, demand that a record of their lives and deeds should be made. In biographical history is found a power to instruct man by precedent, to enliven the mental faculties, and to waft down the river of time a safe vessel in which the names and actions of the people who contributed to raise this country from its primitive state may be preserved. Surely and rapidly the great and aged men, who in their prime entered the wilderness and claimed the virgin soil as their heritage, are passing to their graves. The number remaining wliocan relate the incidents of the first days of settlement is becoming small indeed, so that an actual necessity exists for the collection and preservation of events without delay, before all the early settlers are cut down by the scythe of Time.

To be forgotten has been the great dread of mankind from remotest ages. All will be forgotten soon enough, in spite of their best works and the most e.irnest efforts of their friends to perserve the memory of their lives. The means employed to prevent oblivion and to perpetuate their memory has been in proportion to the amount of intelligence they possessed. The pyramids of Kgvpt were built to perpetuate the names and deeds of their great rulers. The exhumations made by the archeologists of Egypt from buried Memphis indicate a desire of those people to perpetuate the memory of their achievements. The erection of the great obelisks were for the same purpose. Coming down to a later period, we find the Greeks and Romans erecting mausoleums and monuments, and carving out statues to chronicle their great achievements and carry them down the ages. It is also evident that the Mound-bu'lders, in piling up their great mounds of earth, had but this idea - to leave something to show that they had lived. All these works, though many ot them costly in the extreme, give but a faint idea of the lives and characters of those whose memory they were intended to perpetuate, and scarcely anything of the masses of the people that then lived. The great pyramids and some of the obelisks remain objects only of curiosity; the mausoleums, monuments and statues are crumbling into dust.

It was lift to modern nges to establish an intelligent, undecaying, immutable method of perpetuating a full history - immutable in that it is almost unlimited in extent and perpetual in its action ; and this is through the art of printing.

To the present generation, however, we are indebted for the introduction of the admirable system of.local biography. By this system every man, though he has not achieved what the world calls greatness, h-is the means to perpetuate his life, his history, through the coming ages.

The scythe of Time cuts down all ; nothing of the physical man is left. The monument which his children or friends may erect to his memory in the cemetery will crumble into dust and pass away; but his life, his achievements, the work he has accomplished, which otherwise would be forgotten, is perpetuated by a record of this kind.

To preserve the lineaments of our companions we engrave their portraits, for the same reason we collect the attainable facts of their history. Nor do we thir.k it necessary, as we speak only truth of them, to wait until they are dead, or until those who know them are gone: to do this we are ashamed only to publish t) the world the history of those whose lives are unworthy of public record.

aj. John C. Bond, for nearly half a century one of the most prominent and valued citizens of Warren County, was born in Knox Co., Tenn., Dec. 25, 1799. Here he was reaied and educated and, in 1818, was married to Miss Polly Grimsley, of the same county. To them were born five children - Susannah Johnson, widow of Walter Johnson, deceased; W. G. Bond, ex-Sheriff of this county; Jesse W. Bond, a prominent citizen of Lenox Township; Ruby L. Cayton, wife of A. J. Cayton, of S'.van Township ; and Anna Bond, all of whom are living except the latter, who died when quite young. Sketches of the former may be found elsewhere in this volume.

Maj. Bond removed from Tennessee to Alabama, and from there to Morgan County this State, in 1826, in which county his wife died. In May, 1829, he was married the second time, to Miss Mary Singleton, of Morgan County, and by her had three children - Fielding, Mary and Eveline, all of whom are deceased. Fielding was elected School Commissioner of Warren County in 1861 or 1862, but died shortly after his election. He was a young man of brilliant promise ; graduated from Lombard University with honors in 1857 ; shortly after was admitted to the Bar, but died April 19, 1862, when only 28 years of age. Mrs. Bond died in September, 1842, and in January, 1844, Maj. Bond was married to Mrs. Nancy Terry, by whom he had two children - Canzada S., the wife of Mathew Campbell, of Stella, Neb ; and Cordelia, the wife of Henry Staat, of Berwick Township. (See sketch.) Maj. Bond was the father of ten children, six of whom survived him, and all of whom were present at his funeral. He lived to behold his fourth generation of children. His funeral services were held in the Methodist Episcopal Church, at Greenbush, Sunday afternoon, May 21, 1882, and were conducted by Elder Van Meter, a well known minister of the Regular Baptist Church, of McDonough County. It was attended by an immense concourse of old settlers from the south part of the county, who knew the venerable and esteemed man so long, so intimately and so well. He was buried in the graveyard laid out by his father on the old home farm many long years ago.

Maj. Bonfl played an important part in the early history of Warren County. He was one of the Commissioners of the county in 1839, when the affairs of the county were conducted by three men, and in 1853, together with Samuel Hallam and Robert Gilmore, was appointed to divide the county into Townships, which they did as they now exist. After the adoption of the township organization system, he was the first Supervisor elected from Greenbush, and served for 14 successive years, and until he became so deaf and bending with age he asked his fellow citizens of Greenbush to relieve him of further discharge of his arduous duties. He served the county on the Board long and well, and his judgment and excellent good sense, as well as public spirit, pervaded the affairs of the county for many years. He was the first Justice of the Peace in the south part of the county, to which position he was elected in 1835, and appointed his own constable to conduct his court and serve his papers. His first court was held in a smoke-house, and the trial was over a steer belonging to some Indianaian. Being his first term and the occasion an important one, he ordered his sons to clean out the smoke-house, and set the " court-room " in order. While carrying out the order, they performed some tricks not proper to docket, for which the 'squire fined them " for contempt of court,' and they paid the penalty.

In 1844, Maj. Bond was candidate for the Legislature, and was beaten by only three votes. He was Assessor for his township for a number of years. In 1828, he went to Galena and worked in the lead mines. He passed through this county on his way and camped for the first time in the edge of the timber two miles west of what became his own home. At that time, as he surveyed the broad, open prairie, that stretched out for miles before him, he was enraptured with the high rolling mound where the old homestead now stands. He remarked to his com- ''panion that " there was where he would settle."

He received his title as Major under the old militia law of Illinois, and was Major of the regiment of this section of the country, of which John Butler, deceased, of Greenbush, was Colonel. In 1834, Maj. Bond settled on the old homestead where he died. The land was entered by his father, and after his death Maj. Bond purchased from the other heirs their interest in the farm.

As a neighbor and friend, he was a most genial and companionable man, and just as true as the needle to the pole. His integrity was as unbending as the oak, and no man more heartily despised a dishonorable action than he. His heart and purse were ever open to the needy, unfortunate and oppressed, and no one was ever turned hungry from his door. His home and its hospitalities were often shared by the early settlers who sought locations in this county, and they never forgot the genuine friendship they received from John C. Bond, and many are the silent tears that will be shed to his memory by those who bore the trials and vicissitudes of the years long gone by in the settlement of the county.

Having well and faithfully performed the task set before him, and more than filled out the measure of his four score years with a firm and abiding faith in the mercies of a true and just God, he peacefully closed his eyes and rests from the long journey of life. Thus, on the 2oth day of May, 1882, passed away John C. Bond, as good and true a man as ever resided in Warren County, leaving to his descendants a priceless heritage - a spotless name. His widow is still living and now resides with her daughter, Mrs. Campbell, at Stella, Nebraska. His grandson, J. C. Bond, lives on the old farm in Greenbush. We are pleased to present the portrait of Major Bond in connection with this sketch.

B. Houlton, a member of the well known banking and mercantile firm of Chapin, Houlton & Co., Kirkwood, was born in Maine, in 1833. His father, Joseph Houlton, was a native of Massachusetts, and his mother,

Almira (Ray) Houlton, was born in New Hampshire. They came to Illinois in 1852 and settied on a farm in Ellison Township, Warren County. Here the elder Houlton passed his life in the quiet pursuit he had selected 31 years before his death.

In 1850 Mr. F. R. Houlton set out with a few others to cross the plains to California. For four years and a half, he was interested in gold mining on the Pacific Coast. Returning to Illinois, we find him in 1858, entering Kirkwood. He secured an engagement as clerk for Knowles, Ray & Chapin, with whom he remained one year, when he bought out the interest of Mr. Knowles, and became a partner in the new firm, and from that date, 1859, until the present, he has been connected with the firm and there have been but two changes in it. Besides his interest in the business carried on by Chapin, Houlton & Co., our subject owns about 700 acres of land in Warren and Henderson Counties, the cultivation of which he superintends himself. Politically he is identified with the Republican party.

Mr. Houlton was married Jan. 22, 1862, to Miss L. J. Calkins, who was a native of Maine. She was born June 18, 1836. To this union two children have been born, Blanche L. and Fred. N. ; Fred. N. died in infancy. Blanche L. was born Sept. 7, 1863. Mrs. Houlton died April i, 1885.

i illiam Harrison Frantz, one of Warren County's most prominent and highly respected citizens, who has met with success in his chosen vocation of life, resides on section 27, Monmouth Township. He is a Director in the Monmouth National Bank and one of the leading general farmers and stockraisers of this section of Illinois. He is a native of Maryland, and was born in Alleghany County, that State, April 10, 1829. His father, Solomon Frantz, was born in the same county. His parents were John and Catherine Frantz. They were early settlers in the State and their grandparents were the first who settled in the United States by that name, having located in Bedford Co., Pa., at an early day. A few years previous to their demise the grandparents removed to Alleghany County, where they resided until their death, and where, previous to that event, they followed the vocation of farming. The father of Mr. Frantz, of this biographical notice, was married in Alleghany County to Jane McElroy, a lady of Scotch-Irish extraction and American parentage. After their marriage they resided in Alleghany County until 1849, when they moved to Perry Co., Ohio, and there became large land-owners and successful farmers, carrying on agricultural pursuits until about 1871. During that year they came to this State and settled on a part of the farm belonging to William H., in this county. Here the father died in March, 1882, aged 79 years. He was a strong temperance man and was one of the first to sign the total abstinence pledge in the State of Maryland, which he scrupulously kept the remainder of his life. In fact, the family were noted for their strong temperance views and their lives were passed in strict accordance with their opinions. The mother yet survives and resides with her son, H. M. Frantz, and although at the venerable age of 8t years,- is enjoying the best of health. She and her husband were active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and were respected and honored citizens of the community in which they resided. Their children were nine in number, two of whom have passed to the land of the hereafter. The following is a record of their family : Lucinda, who married Alfred Thayer, and resides at Tuscola, Douglas County, this State. Mr. Thayer is a stock dealer and farmer, but has retired from the active labors of life, enjoying the accumulations of the past. Andrew J. who married Virginia Johnson, and resides in the city of Brandon, Mississippi, is editor of the Brandon Republican ; William H. was the next in order of birth; Isabella was united in marriage with O. P. Wilson, who follows the occupation of a fanner in Monmouth Township, this county ; Elizabeth married Thomas Bushfield. She died in Ohio, in October, 1855; John H. (see sketch) married Anna Porter and resides on a farm in Spring Grove Township ; Catherine became the wife of J. W. Free, who is a resident of New Lexington, Perry Co., Ohio, where he is following the profession of the law. He was also Major of a regiment of Ohio Volunteers during the late Rebellion; Mrs. Free died in 1864;! Nannie E. was married twice, her first husband being J. D. Mackey, after whose demise she became! the wife of S. K. Cramer, who is a resident of Wap-K ello Co., Iowa; H. M. formed a matrimonial alliance with Flora Murphy, and is a farmer and stock shipper, residing in Monmouth Township (see sketch). -

Our subject received all the advantages in the way of an education afforded by the common schools of his native county, and when disengaged, assisted his father in the duties of the farm until he attained his i gth year, when his parents removed to New Lexington, Perry Co., Ohio. Remaining at the latter place three years, his next move was in the year 1851, when he came to Warren County and -located in Monmouth Township. Here our subject rented land for about four years. He then purchased a tract of 80 acres, all of which was improved, but soon sold this and bought 180 acres, a portion of which is included in his present homestead.

April 2, 1857, Mr. Frantz was united in the holy bonds of matrimony at the residence of the bride's parents at Monmouth, to Miss Mary A. Lucas, daughter of Marsham and Elizabeth (Deweese) Lucas, natives of Kentucky. Her mother was first married in her native State to William Davidson, by whom she had four children, only one of whom survives. Her marriage to Mr. Lucas was celebrated in Monmouth Township, this county, and to them have been born six children, of whom four survive. Mrs. F., our subject's wife, is the eldest. Next in order of birth was John T., his death occurring when a young man of 20 years ; William B., the third, formed a matrimonial alliance with Melissa Johnson, and follows the vocation of farming near Ashland, Neb. ; Charles is also married, his wife's maiden name being Lidia Taylor. He is a conductor on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway, and resides at Galesburg ; Benedict N. is a resident of Oregqn, and is engaged in farming ; Cassius died in early life. The parents of Mrs. Frantz are yet living and reside at Abingdon, Knox County, this State, where they are living in retirement. Her father was one of the first settlers in this county, coming here as early as 1830. He helped to locate the county road and lay out the city of Monmouth, and extensively operated here for nearly half a century. He was here when the Indians were numerous and endured all the privations incident to the settlement of a new country. At that early date Chicago was their trading post, and thither they were compelled to go to do all their marketing. He is now in his 851)1 year, and his wife, the mother of Mrs. Frantz, in her 7Sth year, and both are enjoying extremely good health for that age in life, and are among the best known and most highly respected pioneers of this part of Illinois.

Mrs. Frantz enjoyed only such educational advantages as the common schools - such as they were in an early day - afforded. She is, however, regarded by her many friends as a lady of rare culture and refinement. She is one of the leading spirits in every circle in which she moves. The most excellent judgment which she possesses, and the qualities of both mind and heart with which she is gifted, eminently fit her for a wider sphere than the home circle. However, in this divinely endowed sphere, that of the home, she is a wife and mother of the most admirable type. She continued to reside with her parents until her marriage to Mr. Frantz. Of their union seven children have been born, namely : Delavan C.,who chose for his life partner, Mary E. Paine, and is engaged in farming in Monmouth Township. They have had one child, - Harrison Paine; Kate married Charles Sickmon, who is also a farmer of Monmouth Township; Sina became the wife of Philo Kettering, a farmer by occupation, and she also lives near her old home; Pearl,

After the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Frantz, they located on the homestead which Mr. F. had previously purchased, and where he was for a few years engaged in farming, afterwards going extensively into the stock business, ( buying, breeding and shipping stock ) in which business he is still engaged at the present time. Mr. F. is one of the heaviest land-owners in this county, owning nearly 1,000 acres, all joining, and having three good residences and eight houses on his land. His land is all under an advanced state of cultivation and he is one of the most successful farmers of Warren County. His accumulations of this world's goods is indicative of that energy, perseverance and good judgment which he possesses.

During the last four years he has been engaged in the breeding of fine stock. In July of 1882, he visited England, Scotland and France, where he T made purchases of some of the purest-blooded stock "i to be found in those countries. Among the animals , he bought were King Cole, Knight of Athloe, Prin- j i cess of Wales, Princess Beatrice and Maggie Wilson.^ These are the names by which these splendid i animals were known in the herd books of Great I i Britain and America. They were pure-blooded ' Clydesdales, and rank among the best horses ever brought to Illinois. Princess of Wales has taken the first premiums at the Chicago State Fair, State Fairs at Peoria, at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and at the great fair at St. Louis. These magnificent specimens of this excellent breed of horses were bought by Mr. Frantz for the purpose of improving the character of the horses throughout his section of the county. The results have been most gratifying, and he should be commended for his enterprise and receive the gratitude of farmers and those interested in raising this noble animal in Warren County.

Not only has Mr. Frantz exhibited rare enterprise in his desire to develop the horse in this section of the State, but has carried the same spirit into his plans to better the grade of cattle. This is shown by his purchase of several head of pure Galloway cattle from some of the famous herds of Scotland, which he added to his already extensive herd on his fine stock farm, near Monmouth. Among those secured from Scotland were North Star, Rockford, Bonnie Lass and Bonnie Perle.

The publishers of this ALBUM are not only pleased to be able to present Mr. Frantz's property as showing one of the most beautiful country residences and splendid set of farm buildings in the Military Tract, but to show some of the magnificent specimens of both horses and cattle above mentioned.

Mrs. Frantz and some of her children are members of the Christian Church. Politically, Mr. F. is a believer in and a supporter of the principles of the Republican party. He has held the position of Road Commissioner, School Trustee and Director in his township, and is a gentleman whose word in a financial point of view is considered equal to his bond. His portrait, as one of the truly representative men of this county, is given in connection with this sketch.

J. Wood, associate editor of the Daily Evening Gazette, of Monmouth, a son of Cyrus A. and Mary A. (Roe) Wood, was bom in Cayuga Co., N. Y., Dec. 3, 1858. His father was by occupation a farmer, and died when the subject of our sketch was but four years of age.

At the common schools of his neighborhood, supplemented by a thorough preparatory training at Cortland, N. Y., Normal Academy, Cyrus J. Wood fitted himself for Rochester, N. Y., University, from which institution he graduated with honors in the class of 1883. The following fall found him at Monmouth, where he at once began the study of law, accepting in the meantime the position of reporter on the Gazette. It may be well to remember, that for several years (and the question may not even yet be definitely settled) he was not quite sure as to whether the third or the fourth estate, as recognized by men of letters, should become the field of his permanent operations. While at college he held the position of telegraph editor of the Rochester Sunday Morning Herald, and after graduating, and before coining West, he was police reporter of the daily issue of the same paper. Since coming to the city of Monmouth, though he has in nowise neglected the study of law, the press has claimed him fully as one of its members. From reporter he was first promoted to the position of city editor of the Gazette, and was soon afterward advanced to the position he has since so ably filled to the entire satisfaction of the Gazette and its readers.

He was admitted to the Bar in October, 1885, and as a member of the legal profession he may yet achieve the highest aims of his ambition and a record that will favorably compare with that made by any of the disciples of Blackstone.

eorge Abbey, engaged in the livery business at Kirk wood, is a native of New York, having been born in Steuben County, in 1844. He is a son of Newman and Harriet (Van Wagoner) Abbey, natives of Ulster Co., N. Y. The father came to this State in 1857, and at first located on section 3, Tompkins Township, where, on rented land, he was engaged in fanning for one year. He then moved into the village of Kirkwood and embarked in the drug business with Mr. L. Howard, the original firm continuing to exist for three years. At the expiration of that time he took into the business his son, Horatio, and the partnership continued until the death of the father, Sept. i, 1885.

The gentleman whose name we place at the head of this notice was an inmate of his father's household until he reached the age of 17 years, receiving at his hands and in the common schools of the county a good English education. At that young age in life, George Abbey enlisted in the war for the Union, joining Company A, 83d 111. Vol. Inf., as a private, and served in defense of his country's flag for two years and eleven months. He participated in the second battle of Fort Donelson, and engaged in many skirmishes with the guerrillas and was in between 20 and 30 engagements with them. At the expiration of his term of enlistment he received an honorable discharge, came home and once more entered upon the peaceful pursuits of life. He rented land and for two years was engaged in farming. In 1 867 he embarked in the livery business, with which he combined that of a feed and sale stable at Kirkwood and has since continued in the same, meeting with that success which almost universally comes to a man possessed of that push and energy which has characterized Mr. Abbey's career in life. In addition to his extensive stables, located contiguous to the tracks of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, Mr. Abbey has a fine residence and two lots in the village. He is also the owner of 80 acres of land in Kansas, which he is rapidly bringing under a high state of cultivation.

The marriage of Mr. Abbey was solemnized in 1871, at which time Miss Helen Barnum, a native of this State, became his wife. Mr. Abbey votes the Republican ticket, and socially is a member of the G. A. R. He is eminently worthy to be classed as one of the representative business men of the thriving little village of Kirkwood.

' saac B. Kirby, engaged as a general farmer on section 34, Ellison Township, was born in Greene Co., Pa., June 25, 1825, his father being Joseph H Kirby, a farmer by occupation, at present residing in Berwick Township, this county. Of a family of four sons and three daughters, our subject was the eldest.

Isaac B. lived at home until he attained the age of 25 years, when he was married, on the 7th of July, 1850, in Greene County, to Miss Eliza A^ Bailey, a native of the same county. She was the daughter of a Pennsylvania farmer, and lived at home until her marriage. Her parents died some time ago in the Keystone State. Mrs. Kirby was the youngest child of a family of nine children, and of her union with Isaac B. Kirby, she has become the mother of eight children, all of whom are now living. Three sons and one daughter, of the above mentioned eight children, are married.

In the fall after marriage, Mr. Kirby came to Illinois, and rented land for two years in Peoria County, after which time he removed to Warren County and in the latter county purchased an 80- acre tract of land where he now resides. He has improved his farm and added to his original purchase until he is now the possessor of 200 acres in this township, and 240 acres in Iowa, where two of his sons now reside. Mr. Kirby has been a very successful agriculturist, which is attributable to his indomitable energy, economy and perseverance, with the assistance of his good helpmeet.

Religiously, Mr. Kirby and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. K. has filled the position of Township Trustee and has also held several of the minor township offices, creditably discharging the duties of each. Politically, he is identified w ith the Democratic party.

ames F. Arthurs is a pioneer of Warren County of 1836 and resides on section 18. Kelly Township. He was born in the southern section of the United States, and was reared there. The death of his father when he was three years old left a heavy burden on the mother, as there were eight children of whom she was sole guardian. In 1831, a removal of the family to Putnam Co., Ind., was effected, and in 1836 another change brought the widow and her children to Illinois.

Mr. Arthurs was born Dec. 29, 1807, and is the son of Joseph and Catherine (Wingfield) Arthurs. Mr. Arthurs was 19 when he came to this county, where he has since been identified with its development and general well-being. The journey was made hither in the manner common in those days, with horses and oxen, and the domestic affairs were managed while the party were en route as nearly as possible as in the home they had left. Mr. Arthurs lived with his brother-in-law for a few months after reaching Illinois, and meanwhile bought the land included in the farm which he now owns. He erected a log house and split clapboards for the roof and puncheons for the floor. The place now presents a. modernized appearance, as the cabin of that early period has given place to farm-structures that are in every way suitable to the change in the circumstances of the proprietor and to the times.

The union in marriage of Mr. Arthurs and Miss Elizabeth A. Carmichael, took place in 1835. She was born in the District of Newbury, South Carolina, July 5, 1817. Five of their children are now living. Two sons enlisted in Co. C, 361)1 111. Vol. Inf. Will- ohn P. Campbell is the present Township Clerk of Spring Grove. He was born in Huntingdon Co., Pa., Aug. 6, 1853. He is a member of the fourth generation from his earliest known ancestor in this country, being of Scotch-Irish extraction. John A. Campbell, his father, was born in 1807, in the same county in Pennsylvania where the son was born. He was bred a farmer, that - having been the calling of his race for many generations. He was married in the Keystone State to Mary J. Wray, who was also born Huntingdon County, Oct. 16, 1817. After his marriage the senior Campbell bought a farm in Brady Township, seven miles from the county-seat, which remained the home of the family until 1865, when the property was sold and a removal to Illinois effected. A farm was rented in Suez Township, in Mercer County, where they resided one year, during which time the father was engaged in prospecting for a suitable location for a permanent homestead. In company with his eldest son, he bought a farm on section 9, in the township of Spring Grove, which, in the spring of 1866, he took possession of and made it the family residence until the death of the father, which took place in 1873. His widow now resides in Norwood, Mercer Codnty. They were the parents of ii children, of whom eight are still living.

Mr. Campbell is the fourth child. He was 12 years old when his father's family removed to Illinois. He had obtained a fair education before coming to this State, but after removal hither he continued his studies in the common schools of Spring Grove Township. In the interims of school he engaged in the duties of farming. He obtained a practical education, and in 1874 he commenced teaching. He made his first engagement as a pedagogue in District No. 5, of the same township in which he now lives. In July, 1877, he bought an interest in the dry-goods establishment of G. B. Hardy, at Alexis, and carried on a commercial business for 14 months. He sold out at the end of that time and resumed teaching, to which profession he has since devoted himself exclusively, having been engaged for nearly eight years in the schools of Alexis.

Politically, Mr. Campbell is a Democrat. He has officiated as Collector in his township and is serving a second term in his present official position.

He formed a matrimonial alliance with Ida Mc- Bride, Oct. n, 1877. She was born in Monmouth, and is the daughter of Abisha and Parmelia (Alley) McBride. Their children are Freddie H. and Stanley Vergne. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell are members of the Presbyterian Church and he is one of the Elders of his congregation.

oseph S. Gowdy, engaged as an agriculturist on section 24, Hale Township,, was born in Clarke Co., .Ohio, June 29, 1831. He lived at the place of his nativity until he was about 20 years of age, when he decided Jo come Westward, deeming the facilities better there for acquiring a competency than in the East. He has, since 1851, made his residence in Warren County, with the exception of two years spent in Henderson County. He purchased 70 acres of land, which, by his careful judgment and energy, has been put in an advanced state of cultivation, and is second to none in the township in its appearance to-day.

Mr. Gowdy was united in marriage in Hale Township, Oct. 24, 1860, with Eliza Hess, who was born in Clarke Co., Ohio, Feb. 8, 1840. Of their union, four children have been born, their names being as follows : Lunetta B., Henry C., Meda A. and Nannie L. Mr. Gowdy has been School Director, and himself and wife are members of the United Presbyterian Church. Politically, Mr. Gowdy is a Republican.

The parents, John and Ann (Steele) Gowdy, were natives respectively of Ohio and Kentucky. They came to Warren County before the days of railroads, locating in Hale Township as early as 1851. Here they lived for over a quarter of a century, becoming well known and highly respected people of that community. The elder Gowdy died Oct. 12, 1864, his wife dying March 8, 1880. The parents of Mrs. Gowdy were Christian and Nancy (Sellburger) Hess. They were both born in Pennsylvania. Mr. Hess came to Warren County the year before the elder Gowdy, being in the spring of 1850. His wife died in Ohio, in May, 1845. He lives at Kirkwood, 111.

\ saac Jenkins, a retired farmer residing in Berwick village, was born in Clermont Co., Ohio, Aug. 20, 1814, and is a son of Zephaniah Jenkins, who was born Aug. 9, 1789, in New Jersey, and who moved with his parents t to Ohio in 1805, where he remained until his death, which took place Dec. i, 1854. Zephaniah Jenkins was married Jan. 16, 1812, to Miss South, who was born in New Jersey, in 1789, and died in Ohio, in 1844. Their children were four in number, - John S., Isaac, Frances M. and Elijah.

Isaac Jenkins, the subject of this biographical no.tice, worked on his father's farm and attended the common school, developing into manhood. He also passed a portion of his time in clerking in his native State before coming to this county. He came here March 25, 1853, and engaged in agricultural pursuits, which he continued until the time he removed to Berwick village.

Mr. Jenkins was married to Miss Caroline Kellum, March 4, 1841, in Ohio, Rev. Fife, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, officiating. She was born Sept. 19, 1817, in New Jersey, her parents moving to Ohio when she was but one year old. Her father, James Kellum, was born May i, 1792, and died May 30, 1878, in Berwick. He was married to Ann Albertson, in 1816, who died Oct. 20, 1880. The issue of their union was nine children, - Caroline, wife of the subject of this sketch ; Elizabeth, born April 30, 1819; Maria, July, 26, 1821; Rebecca, Dec. 13, 1823; James, Sept. 20, 1826; Josiah, Aug. 13, 1829; John M., March 20, 1832; Edward M., Nov. 30, 1834; Sanford W., March 21, 1837.

Mr. Jenkins has 7654 acres of good farm land on section 8, Berwick Township, and also 2*4 acres inside the corporate limits of Berwick village, on which he has a good residence and there resides retired from the active labors of life. Socially, he is a member of the Order of Good Templars and also of the I. O. O. F., to which latter organization he has belonged for 36 years. He at present is a member of Lodge No. 84, Abingdon. Religiously, he and his wife are members of the Baptist Church located at Berwick, and politically, he votes with the Republican party.

.ark S. Douglas, manager of the Star Livery, Sale and Feed Stables, of Monmouth, is a native of that city, having been born Sept. 13, 1847. He is the son of Samuel Douglas, whose biography will be found elsewhere in the pages of this work. Hark S. was educated at the Monmouth schools and studied law some time with Mr. Almon Kidder, but the " turf" was always more attractive to him than were the pages of Coke or Blackstone, so we find him in 1880 engaged in the livery business, to the management of which he has since devoted himself with an assiduity that fully betokens his eminent fitness for that particular sphere in life. And, in point of fact, aside from a horse show or a horse race, his present business affords him

He was too young for a soldier and too honest for a politician, so the name of Hark Douglas will probably continue for some time to be found among the plain, every-day people, though it is not likely that as a rule the class named will have quite as much fun as he will. > In politics, the Republicans claim him, but as he boasts of being a " Mugwump," it is evident that his great love for the old land-marks of that party did not include a certain " plumed knight."

Mr. D. was married at Abingdon, 111., Feb. 15, 1872,10 Miss Lidie Reynolds, a native of Warren County, 111. They have two children, a girl and boy, bearing the names of Leota and S. Leonard.

Sillis Fruit is an old settler of Warren County and is a farmer on section 25, Kelly Township. He was born Aug. 3, 1810, in Henderson Co., Ky., and is the son of Doakes and Milly (Hanks) Pruit. His parents were natives of North Carolina, and were among the earliest pioneers of the county in Kentucky where their son was born. They both died there.

Mr. Pruit received the bringing up and education of a farmer's son, and in 1829 he went to Breckenridge County, in his native State, where he liyed four years. While there, in 1832, he was married to Jane Moredock. She was a native of the county where she was married, and was born Dec. 24, 1823. Mr. and Mrs. Pruit left that county in the year in which they were married and returned thither in 1834. Mr. Pruit engaged in farming until the struggle between Texas and Mexico gave opportunity to see the world, and he enlisted in the service of the Mexican government. He was in service there three years and was in the action at San Jacinto under Santa Anna. He remained a year in Henderson County after his return to Kentucky, and went thence to New Madrid Co., Mo., where he operated as a farmer two years. In 1845, he came to Warren County. He obtained the ownership of the farm on which he has resided for forty years and on which there had been a few acres of prairie broken. He erected a log cabin, and when the structure burned three years later he erected the frame house in which his family have since lived. Mrs. Pruit died in 1879. They had five children. William is a resident of Furness Co., Neb. ; Lucy is Mrs. S. G. Heflin, of Shelby Co., Iowa; Abby is married to Mr. E. Guernsey, of Pottawatomie Co., Iowa ; Alfred G. lives in York Co., Neb. ; Jennie is the wife of Homer Guernsey, and they are the managers of the Pruit homestead.

eorge W. Robinson, the owner of 250 acres of good farm land located on sections 5, 6 and 17, Berwick Township, and which he is actively engaged in cultivating, was born in Chautauqua Co., N. Y., Dec. 5, 1842. He is a son of William Robinson, also a native of York State, born there in 1812, and who died in his native State in 1876. The father married a Miss Ruah Newman in 1834. She was born<J in 1815, in New Jersey, and died iiv 1878. They! were the parents of four children, born in the following order: Lydia M., Oct. 28, 1836 ; Cordelia, Nov.] 7, 1838; William W., Nov. 28, 1840; George W., Dec. s, 1842.

George W. Robinson formed a matrimonial alliance Oct. 24, 1867, with Miss Anna Jenkins, who was born in the Buckeye State, Dec. 3, 1841. Her father, Isaac Jenkins, was born in Clermont Co., Ohio, in 1815. He married Miss Caroline Kellum (born Sept. 19, 1818,) March 4, 1841, and came to Illinois in 1853. They are the parents of five children and are both yet living, passing the sunset of their lives in peace and quiet in the village of Berwick. Their children are Anna, wife of the subject of this notice; John, born April i, 1844 ; Amanda died in infancy ; Dean, who also died in infancy; and Belle, born in

Mr. Robinson enlisted in the War for the Union, joining Co. C, 83d 111. Vol. Inf., Aug. 9, 1862, and was mustered into the service at Monmouth, 111.

He accompanied his regiment to Cairo, 111., where it remained some two weeks. He was first in active service at Forts Henry and Hindman ; was then ordered to Fort Donelson, and participated in the battle of Feb. 3, 1863 ; then went to Clarksville, Tenn., at which point he remained until he was mustered out, July 5, 1865. He was once wounded (in the back of the neck), but it was not sufficiently serious to prevent him from participating in every battle in which his company was engaged up to the time of being mustered out of service.

On receiving his discharge, he returned to this county and again engaged in the peaceful pursuits of life. On his fine farm of 250 acres he has a good residence and barn, and is meeting with that success in life which is duly merited by a man of his energy and perseverance. Socially, he is a member of the G. A. R., Post, No. 239, at Monmouth, and, in his politics, votes as he shot, with the Republican party.

^lonzo Sperry, formerly an agriculturist of this county, but who at present is passing the sunset of his life in quiet retirement, residing on section 10, Hale Township, was born in Ashtabula Co., Ohio, Nov. 22, 1822. He continued to reside in his native State until about 1849, when he went to Jefferson Co., Wis., and there lived until 1860. During that year he came to this county and became a citizen of Monmouth Township, from whence he moved to Lenox Township, and then, in 1874, made another removal, locating in Hale Township, where for the past n years he has continued to reside. He has disposed of his real estate and now lives a retired life in Hale Township.

The marriage of Alonzo Sperry to Miss Julia Heath, occurred Nov. 15, 1844, in Ashtabula Co., Ohio. She was born in the county in which she was married, Aug. 2, 1826, and has borne her husband three children, - Aura E., George VV. and Plin R. Aura was married to George Lynch Jan. 31, 1863, . but is now residing with her brother in Hale Township; George W. is a mechanic living at Monmouth; and Plin R. is engaged in farming, living in Hale Township^where he is the owner of 90 acres of land, the major portion of which is tillable.

evi B. Cowick, farmer and stock-raiser, residing in Larchland, and owning 240 acres of improved and well equipped farm land, in Lenox Township, is the second child in order of birth of his parent's family. He was born Sept. 2, 1846, in Cumberland Co., Pa. John and Hannah (Bixler) Cowick, his parents, were natives of the Keystone State, coming to Warren Co., 111., in 1854, \vhen they settled in Monmouth. They now reside in Lenox Township. Their children were Mary, Levi B. and Samuel R. Mary and Samuel R. reside in Kansas.

Levi B. Cowick, the gentleman whose name heads this biographical notice, was but a child of eight . years when his parents removed to Warren County, and of which he has since been a resident. Mr. Cowick was among the many who with brave hearts _- and strong arms successfully defended the Union flag in the struggle against treason. He enlisted in May, 1864, in the i38th 111. Vol. Inf., and served until the October following, when he returned to this county and engaged in agricultural pursuits, becoming also quite an extensive stock dealer. He has endeavored hard and earnestly to put his land .under the best cultivation possible and has succeeded, for at present his farm of 240 acres, entirely fenced and improved with all necessary farm buildings, farming implements, machinery, etc., is second to none in the township.

The marriage of Sarah O. Jones and Levi B. Cowick occurred in Tompkins Township, this county, on Feb. 22, 1872, she being a daughter of Calvin and Rebecca (McQuown) Jones, who were natives of Virginia. They came to Warren County about the year 1854, and settled in Tompkins Township, making it their permanent home. Of their union were born four children, - John, Furney, Parker and Sarah O., our subject's wife, who was born Oct. 10, 1850, in the State of Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Cowick have had two children, - Arthur G. and Frank B. Mr. C. has been Justice of the Peace for ten years, and in politics is identified with the Republican party.

1; hilip J. Karns, a farmer residing on section 32, Berwick Township, was born in the Province of Baden, Germany, Oct. 22, 1815, and came to the United States in 1828, with his uncle, Jacob Sackman. He landed at New York city after a voyage of 52 days on a sailing vessel, and Was one of three persons out of 360 that was not affected by what is known as seasickness.

Soon after landing he accompanied his uncle to Lancaster, Ohio, where he remained until 1842, when he removed to Morgan Co., Ind. In that county he remained some five years, engaged in farming, when he came to Greenbush Township, thiscounty, and there followed his chosen vocation, that of agriculture, until 1870, when he moved one half mile north into Berwick Township, where, on section 32, he had purchased 467 acres of land, and which he has increased by subsequent purchases to 700 acres. He has a fine residence on his place, covering 166 feet of ground, two stories in height, with a cellar under the entire building, and it is said to be one of the most splendid farm dwellings in Warren County. It was erected at a cost of $7,000. Not alone to agriculture does Mr. Karns attribute his financial success. He is and has been engaged to a considerable extent in the breeding of Norman horses, and also lias a fine lot of mules. He has one span of roadsters on the farm which are " beauties," and is also extensively engaged in raising Poland-China hogs and Short-horn cattle. His herd of cattle are seven-eighths full blood.

Mr. Karns formed a matrimonial alliance Aug. 20, 1837, in Ohio, with' Miss Anna Ellinger, the ceremony being performed by George W. Sanders, Justice of the Peace. She was born Nov. 15, 1817, in Fairfield Co., Ohio, and has borne her husband n children, six of whom are deceased. The living are: Catherine, born July 3, 1838; Margaret A., Oct. 27, 1842; Jacob, Aug." 20, 1854 ; William H., Nov. 24, 1858; Joseph L., Jan. 5, 1863. Catherine married Riley Adams, and now resides in Hardin Co., Iowa, and is the mother of eight children. Margarette is ' the wife of George Emerick ; they live in Bourbon