Williamson County, Illinois - The whole text, 1905 (part 3 of 9)

an early and successful career, mauy of the leading and influential citizens of the County were members of this lodge, and it h.^s enrolled upon its records a large per cent of the early settlers who gave force and chai-acter to the early progress and development of the County. This was the only Masonic Lodge in the County from ISoO to 1S65, a period of 15 years. Then on October 4th 1865, Blazing Star Lodge. No. 458, was organized at Crab Orchard, and the next year, October 3d, 1866, Andrew Jackson Lodge, No. 4S7, was established at Corinth. Northern Pi-ecinct: the next Lodge was established at Herrin's Prairie, No. 693, October 1st, 1872. So it would seem from the history of Fraternal Societies in Williamson County that there were but three lodges of the long established Fraternal Societies in the County up to 18 69. when the Odd Fellows established a lodge at Marion. The next Masonic Lodge was organized at Chapel Hill. Grassy Precinct, No. 719, October 7th, 1874. The next was Lake Creek Lodge. No. 729, at Johnston City (this was long before Johnston City was established) October Sth, 1875. The next was Williamson Lodge, No. 802, October 6th, 1891, at Carterville. and the next was Creal Springs, No. 817, chartered October Sth. 1892, making a total of eight lodges in Williamson County, with a membership and standing as follows:

Marion Steam Marble Works

Total membership of the eight Lodges in the County at the present is 367. There has been no Lodge organized in Williamson County for 12 years, but it will be noticed that the Order has established lodges at all the available points, perhaps, that are capable of supporting a Lodge in the County. Marion Chapter, No. 100, Royal Arch Masons, at Marion, was chartered October 3, 1866, and is the only lodge of Chapter Masons in the County.

The Masonic Order is the oldest Fraternal Society in the United States, and it is claimed to be the most ancient, or perhaps the oldest, in the world. It has come down to us through the centuries, and while there are many other Societies that do a vast amount of good toward disseminating the principles of charity and benevolence, yet the Masonic Fraternity adheres more closely to its ancient landmarks and mode of procedure than any other society in the world.

Tt Is not the province or scope of this article to enter upon a dissertation of the many advantages, and the great good which the Masonic Fraternity has accomplished in all the civilized countries, but we give the foregoing as the brief history of its beginning, progress and development in Williamson County. It has among its members some of the most intelligent, wealthy and influential citizens in the County, and exercises an influence of great good in every community where It is located.

This young and progressive Society is entitled to honorable recognition in the history of Fraternal Societies in Williamson County. It is peculiarly of American origin. This Order was founded February 19. 1864, at Washington, D. C, by Justus H. Rathbone. At a time when "war was in the heart of man and sorrow was in the home," when from ocean to ocean, and from lake to gulf the people of our country were engaged in scenes of carnage and death in the terrible struggle of internecine war. It was at this period in our nation's history that Justus H. Rathbone, the great philanthropist and lover of mankind, saw in Grecian History, in the story of Damon and Pythias, the germ of an Order that should prove a power in i.ispelling the wrath of sectional strife and restoring the hearts of men to a basis of universal Brotherhood, having for its motto, "Friendship. Charity and Benevolence." From a small beginning forty-one years ago, this Order has made rapid strides, increasing in both numbers and wealth, until today it is reckoned as one among the leading Fraternal Societies in the United States. It numbers among its members some of the leading and prominent men of the State and Nation, both secular and divine.

There are four lodges of this Order in Williamson County. Following we give the date of institution, the name of the instituting Officer and the number of members and the names of the first set of Officers of each lodge;

Monitor Lo;lge, No. 236. Marion, instituted on the 5th day of February, 1890, by Past Chancellor James Alexander. The Officers were as follows: William C. Willeford, Past Chancellor; Herman Spieldoch, Chancellor Commander; Lorenzo D. Hartwell, Vice Chancellor: John M. Bainbridge. Prelate; James C. Mitchell, Master of Exchequer; Levi B. Casey, Master of Finance; Ed M. Spiller. Keeper of Records and Seal: William H. Warder. Master at

Residence Of Caleb Holland

Liberty Lodge, No. 252, at Carterville, instituted on the 5th day of June, 1S90, by Grand Chancellor James H. Kellogg. The Officers were as follows: A. K. Elles, Past Chancellor: R. H. H. Hampton. Chancellor Commander: John Hadfleld, Vice Chancellor: Marion Stocks, Prelate: Mark Carter, Master of Exchequer: James Payne, Master of Finance: B. L. Washburn, Keeper of Records and Seal: W. H. Gunster, Master at Arms: John Biby, Inner Guard: Jeff Cox, Outer Guard. Number of members now, 105.

Williamson County Lodge, No. 596, Herrin, instituted on the 29th day of May, 19(m:i, by Past Chancellor Joseph E. Kelley. The Officers were as follows: W. H. For], Chancellor Commander; Pat Gillooly, Vice Chancellor; Charles Hagler, Prelate; John W. Mayor, Master of work: Horace Henry, Keeper of Records and Seal; Emery Whitaker. Master of Finance; G. W. Gosnell, Master of Exchequer; Luther Clem, Master at Arms; W. M. Stone, Inner Guard; J. B. Sizemore, Outer Guard. Number of members now, 107.

Scott Lodge, No. 619, Johnston City, instituted on the 3rd day of April, 1902, by Past Chancellor John Wallace. The Officers were as follows: P. W. Duncan, Chancellor Commander: Guy Barlow, Vice Chancellor; Logan Fultz, Prelate; Albert Wagoner, Master of Work; E. E. Eubanks, Keeper of Records and

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Seal: Charles Cla;-k, Master of Finance: Henry Smith, Master of Exchequer: John Wickershaw, Master at Arms; Charles Clayton, Inner Guard; Wash Leigh, Cuter Guard; Samuel W. Maguire, Fast Chancellor; George E. Wilburn, Past Chancellor: Joseph Barlow% Past Chancellor. Number of members now, 41.

then three others have been established as above set forth. At the present time they have a total membership in the County of 395, with an aggregate accumulation of money an 1 property of over $s0o0.on. They have a well regulated system of sick and funeral benefits, and provide for their sick and the needy, and the w'idow and orphans of their members with substantial financial assistance.

The Knights of Pythias, like all other Fraternal Societies, has had its drawbacks and imposters, but it stands upon a high moral plane and teaches pure morals and practical charity and benevolence, and the elevation of human character. It is intensely American, all its ceremonials being conducted in the American language. As a secret Order it has nothing to do with religion or politics or anything sectarian, yet, it teaches the highest principles of loyalty, patriotism and love of our country, and a veneration for religion and our common Christianity. It is certainly an institution calculated to do much good in every community where a lodge exists, and is one among the great moral forces which bind our people together.

The first Lodge of the Independent Or'er of Odd Fellows that was established in Williamson County was Williamson Lodge, No. 392. It was instituted May 27th, 1869, by Samuel A. Flagler, Acting Grand Master, assisted by the following brothers from Carbondale Lodge, No. 2 33: J. Boyd Richart, Deputy Grand Master; Thos. J. Belcher, Grand Warden; A. G. Shepart, Grand Secretary: Chas. Martin, Grand Treasurer, Jos. Weaver, Grand Marshal; Ed Norberry. Grand Conductor, and J. D. White, Grand Guardian. The Charter members were: S. W. S. Fribble,

J. W. Willefords Machine Shop

Pierce L. Jeniison, David M. Fligoi-, James O. Bagwell and Jas. M. Jemison. S. W. S. Pribble was nist Noble Grand of the Lodge: Pierce L. Jeniison, first Vice Grand: David M. Fligor, first Secretary, and James M. Jemison, Treasurer.

On the night of the institution only two members were initiated. They were William H. Eubanks and John B. Willeford. No other members were admitted until June 26th, when Dr. Augustus N. Lodge was admitted by card. On July 3rd, Lorenzo D. Hartwell and Geo. W. Willeford were admitted by initiation; July 10th, Daniel A. Davis was initiated; July 17th, Geo. W. Young was admitted by initiation; July 31st Edward H. Bishop was admitted as an ancient Odd Fellow: November 27th, David V. Sanders was admitted by deposit of card; December 18th, Caleb T. Holland was admitted by initiation. This completes the history and work of the new and first Odd Fellows Lodge in the County up to the close of the year 1S69, showing that for the first seven months of its existence only seven had been admitted by initiation, two by deposit of card and one as an ancient Odd Fellow, making a total membership of the Lodge, at the close of the year, and the first seven months of its existence, of only fifteen members.

Daniel A. Davis, the South Side Baker, has held continuous membership in the Lodge since July 10th. 1869, being the fifth member initiated. Geo. W. Young, Lawyer, has held continuous membership in the Lodge since July 17th, 1869, being the sixth member initiated, being 3.5 years in July, 1904. These two members are the only ones remaining of the Old Guard. They have never been in arrears for dues at any time since they became members, and neither one of them has ever drawn any sick benefits out of the Treasury of the Lodge. Geo. W. Young has made some reputation as an Odd Fellow by being a member of the State Grand Lodge for the last thirty-one years, and has held several positions and served upon several Committees in that body.

The general trend and history of Williamson Lodge, No. 39 2, has been somewhat in keeping with the first seven months of its existence. It has never been given to much show or boasting, but has quietly pursued the even tenor of its way, at all times trying to carry out the fundamental principles of the Order, "We command you to visit the sick, relieve the distressed, bury the dead, protect and educate the orphan, and rare for the widow."

This Lodge met in 1869 and fitted up a hall in the third story of Bainbridge Brick Block, on the West side of the public square, where it continued to meet until 1883, when it fitted up a hall in what was then called the Hundley Building, on the east side of the square, corresponding to the second story of the building where John M. Cline's Drug Store now is. It continued to hold its meetings there until 1892, when it moved into a lodge room of its own, built and furnished from its own funds, on South Market street, on the Southwest corner of the block just south of where Westbrook's store now is. Here it held its meetings and rented its hall to the Masons. Knights of Pythias, and other benevolent organizations, until February 1st, 1899, when the hall and most of the furnishings and paraphernalia were destroyed by fire, but the loss was nearly covered by insurance.

The Lodge then obtained a lease upon the second story of what was then called the Goodall and Campbell building on the north side of the square, the building now, and at the time, being owned by Charles H. Denison, and being upon the same spot of ground where Richard Trevor's store now it. As the room was in a very bad state of repair, the Lodge was compelled to, and did, expend considerable money in repairing it and arranging the many requisites for good lodge work. Something over seven hundred dollars was expended in repairs and refitting the hall. Sub-leases were entered into with the Encampment, Rebekahs. Masons, Eastern Star,

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Knights of Pythias and Knights and Ladies of Honor. All arrangements were highly satisfactory with landlord and tenants, when the following September 26th, 1S99, the lodge room, building and all the furnishings and regalia of all the Orders, including the Odd Fellows, were destroyed by fire, nothing saved, and not more than half enough insurance to cover the loss. In 190 0 the Masons, Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias, procured a ten-year lease from Mr. C. H. Denison for a hall in the Xew Denison Building on the north side of the square. There is also a banquet hall attached, and the room is styled "Fraternity Hall." It was furnished and fitted up by all three of the Orders jointly, each bearing one-third of the expense. The Hall is used by the Chapter and Blue Lodge Masons, by the Encampment and Subordinate Lodge of Odd Fellows, by the Knights of Pythias and by the Eastern Star and Rebekahs.

Williamson Lodge, Xo. 3 9 2, is styled and regarded as the parent lodge in the County. Since the institution of the Lodge in Marion, ten other Lodges have been instituted in the County, and the charter members have drawn heavily upon the Marion Lodge. Over three hundred names have been enrolled on the records of Williamson Lodge, No. 3 92, and there have been withdrawals for nearly every lodge instituted. It bought forty lots in the Marion City Cemetery, and its net worth is about $4000.00.

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Blairsville Lodge, Xo. 525, instituted December 31, 1904, by J. W. Wheatley; number of members, 40. Total membership at present, S50. Benevolent Encampment, No. 171, was institutel .January 5, 1876, with \V. H. Eubanks. Geo. W. Young, Daniel A. Davis, James V. Grider, Patrick H. Lang, John R. Little and Jacob Stein, as Charter members. James B. Richart. of Carbondale, was the instituting officer, assisted by members from Carbondale Encampment. This Encampment was one of the best furnished Encampments in Southern Illinois, and sustained itself with the Order in an acceptable manner until the burn-out Septemlier 26, 1899, when it lost all of its paraphernalia and working apparatus, and not having any insurance, it has not done any work since, but a few of the members pay the per capita tax to the Grand Encampment and retain the charter, cherishing the hope that before long, some of the young and enthusiastic Odd Fellows will desire to take the Sublime Degrees and again start the Encampment on the hi.ghway of Patriarchal Odd Fellowship, and infuse new life into the work, and make it what it was intended to be. and is - the crowning beauty and sublimity of Odd Fellowship.

Opera House At Electric Park

The Rebekah Degree is no longer a side degree, or an honorar.v aegree, but is one of the degrees of the Order, separate and independent in its worlv, receiving its Charter from the State Grand Lodge. It is considered an auxiliary to the Order of Odd Fellows. It is under the jurisdiction of the State Grand Lodge, and its Constitution and By-Laws are approved by the Grand Lodge. The Rebekah Degree is very popular, not only in this State, but throughout the entire domain of Odd Fellowship.

There are seven thriving and prosperous Rebekah Lodges in the County, viz: Marion, Creal Springs, Carterville, Crab Orchard, Herrin, Stonefort and Johnston City, with a membership of over 400.

Taking for its compass the motto of the Order, Friendship, Love and Truth, the Indepen 'ent Order of Odd Fellows has carried joy and gladness to many a family in this County, besides it has distributed thousands of dollars to its beneficiaries in the way of sick and funeral benefits and charitable donations. It occupies a place in the front rank of the Great Republic of Fraternal and Benevolent Societies.

Wigwam Of Modoc Tribe, No. 173, Imp

It claims to be the oldest purely American Secret Society in existence, and to have been founded before the Revolutionary War.. Its motto Is "Freedom, Friendship, Charity," and it claims to aid the afflicted, counsel the distressed; succor the feeble; watch the sick and bury the dead.

"Redmen administer no oath binding you to any political or religious creel. They bind neither your hands nor your feet; as you enter their wigwam, so you depart, a free man."

Modoc, No. 173, was organized in 1901, with 29 charter members, and has a present membership of SI. Its Officers are; B. F. Jeter, Sachem; Joseph Dixon, Senior Sagamore; J. H. Younkins, Junior Sagamore; William Schroeder, Prophet; Paul C. Smith, Chief of Records; John B. Fry, Keeper of Wampum.

The degree of Pocahontas was instituted September 24, 1904, with 39 charter members and a present membership of 58. It bears the euphoneous name of Miona Council, No. 58, and its Officers are Mrs. Sarah Eveland, Pocahontas; Eva H. Holman, Winona; Geo. W. Brown, Powhattan; Mrs. Emma Brown, Prophetess; Miss Polly Johnson, Chief of Records; Miss Myrtle Brown, Keeper of Wampum.

This is a late comer into the Insurance field, but a very vigorous and vociferous youngster, nevertheless. It was founded March 1, 1894. with its headquarters at Crawfordsville. Indiana. The year ot its organization gave it 759 members and a surplus of $2,653. November, 1, 1904 - ten years later - it reported 73,320 members, total assets, $601,- 356.79, and to have paid to deceased

OFFICERS AXD Mp:.MBERS OF THE BROTHERHOOD OF ELKS, MARION. ILLINOIS. From left to right. Top row - Charles W. Hay. R. H. Cunningham, Geo. C. Campbell. John Schneider, Jean Burkhart. Second row - Cline V. Cunningham. \Vm. H. Warder. R. Trevor, Karl Wolf. Third row - John W. Spiller, O. J. Page, W. H. Bundy, Hogan Willeford, T. S. Morrison.

members $2,970,523. The local branch was organized about f.ve years ago, and now has a membership of between 75 and 100. J. L. Johnson is the local deputy, engaged in securing new members.

At the last election the following Officers were chosen: Chief, 0. G. Wilson; Teacher, Mrs. Fred Hauer; Judge. E. F. Vancil: Guide, Robert Sparks; Captain, James Smith; Mother Hur, Mrs. E. F. Vancil; Tirzah, Katie Edwards; Scribe, Charles L. Campbell: Ben Hur, C. M. Rice: Keeper of Tribute, Frank Howe; Indoor Keeper, Frank Wyatt; Outdoor Keeper, Prank Ward: Master of Ceremonies, Chas. Campbell, Sr.

This most numerous, popular and useful of the Fraternal Orders of the County, was organized August 1, 1902, with 31 charter members. As the rules of the Order require a population in the city of 5,000, b^ fore a charter can be issued, Marion Lodge stands alone in the lower portion of Southern Illinois, with the exception of Murphysboro, DuQuoin, Mt. Vernon, Centralia and Cairo.

It has fitted up the oil Dunaway Opera House in a substantial and attractive manner, with electric lights and fans, chairs, carpets and an elegant piano with the famous Angelus automatic attachment. It has also a good billiard room and table, and a large and well-appointed dining room for festive occasions. The hall has a seating capacity of from three to five hundred, with a broad central stairway of only one flight, opening directly on the street on the west side of the square. Convenience, safety and elegance mark all the conditions and arrangements, and it is not surprising that it is rapidly increasing in members, applications being received at every meeting.

This flourishing, aristocratic addendum to the A. F. & A. M. in Marion at its last election of officers counted in. without an accusation of ballot-box stuffing, generally chargable to political performances in that line, the following list of misses and matrons to look after the business and edibles for the ensuing year:

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The Five Points of the Star: Ada - Miss Kate Burkhart. Ruth - Mrs. Geo. C. Heyde. Esther - Mrs. Alice Davis. Martha - Mrs. Mollie Holland. Electa - Miss Ada Edwards. Farder - Mrs. Aggie Abne.v. Sentinel - C. T. Holland. Marshall - M'-s. Samantha Smith. Chaplain - Mrs. Emma Fozard. It was organized in and numbers

Marion Camp. No. 5 3 37, at its last election of Officers, selected the following list to bear its honors the ensuing year: Consul, M. N. Sewan; Worthy Advisor. Milton Norman; Excellent Banker, Fred Kaeser: Clerk, J. M. Dodd; Escort, Ed Knight; Watchman, Joe Barham; Sentry, D. N. Moore; Managers, Jesse Holland. V. A. Scurlock. F. A. Nance; Camp Physician, Dr. A. M. Edwards.

Paul J. Smith, Marion, 111., was liorn August 20th, IS 82, in West Vienna, Johnson County, Illinois. He comes from one of the most respectable families of that County. His father, M. S. Smith, was a native of Illinois, and was born iii November, 1S27. His ancestors were of English and Welsh descent. By occupation he was a tanner. Becoming tired of this, he began farming, which he continued until his death, Jan. 17, IS 85. He was first married to Miss Mary Davis, to which union were born five children, of which three are living. They were separated by the death of the wife. In 1874 he was married to Miss Rebecca Ring, a native of Tennessee, who was born October 2 3rd, 1845.

Paul, the youngest of the family, spent his childhood as most children, playing, not realizing they were the happiest days of his life. His youth was spent in going to school as much as circumstances would permit. He was soon made to know the responsibility that rested upon him, as he was forced to forsake many pleasures and to lose time from school in order to assist in supporting the family.

As his father died when Paul was a mere child, he never knew the influence of a father, and was compelled to profit by his own experience, and soon learned that the trials in this life had to be met with much sacrifice and great patietice. He would attend the common rural schools in winter months and farm in the suiumer, together with coal mining. In this way he acquired a common school education such as at that time was afforded- by the rural schools. After this Mr. Smith gained a practical knowledge of coal mining in the New Burnside coal mines. Soon after he was 16 years of age he concluded to finish his education, and was admitted by examination to the Vienna High School, where he attended two terms but was compelled to return to the mines on account of his financial condition. His friends offered to place him in school where he could obtain an education in law. but he refused, saying if he ever had anything he wanted to earn it himself. He left the Vienna High School with the honors of a Junior.

In 19 01 he was married to Miss Florence Reeves, a native of Illinois, born February 15, 18 82, and to this union has been born one child, Melvin. who is two years old.

Commercial Hotel, .Marion, Ill

tical mechanical knowledge, he procured a position as locomotive fireman with the Illinois Central railroad company, and later with the Frisco Company. In 1902 he returned to the mines and was employed by the Carterville District Coal Company of Marion. Here he began to manifest an interest in organized labor, realizing that the working masses were compelled to unite in order to compete with combined capital. Being one of the horny-handed sons of toil, he decided that his efforts should, and of right ought to be dedicated to organized labor. In a short time after he began work at this mine he was elected vice president of Local Union No. 2216 U. M. W. of A. In December, 1903, he was elected president of this local union by acclamation. His first administration of this office was so successful that in .Tune, 1904, he was re-elected president without opposition. In .4ugust, 190 4, he was chosen delegate to Marion Trades Council, and in October of the same year, was elected vice president of that body, which otfice he conducted in a successful manner. In December, 1904, he was elected president of Trades Council without opposition. In .January, 1905. Mr. Smith resigned his office to accept an office as Business Agent with that body, and in connection with this office he was commissioned by Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor as District Organizer of Labor Uniona for Marion and vicinity. He resides in the northwest part of this city, better known as German Town.

This Society was incorporated in 1856, with the following gentlemen as its first officers: Willis Allen, President: .John H. White, secretary: James D. Pulley, treasurer. Its Directors were: John Goodall, J. H. Swindell, O. H. Pulley, R. M. Hundley and George Willard.

Prominent among the members of the Association were: M. C. Campbell. George W. Binkley and J. M. Cunningham, who all united in the purchase of ten acres of land from T. A. Aikman, to be used as a fair ground. It lay on the west side, just outside of the then corporate limits of the town, and cost $5 per acre. The gentlemen whose names are given above fitted it up at their own expense, besides buying the land, ani then made a present of it to the Society. Annual fairs were held on this place until after the beginning of the Civil War, when it was sold to R. M. Hundley. The Souvenir ha.s in its possession a piece of common card board on which is written with ink "Admit N. West and family." signed J. H. White and numbered 71. It is stamped with the official seal of the Williamson County Court, and must have been issued as early as 1S56. when its first officers were elected.

Another ticket of admission is also a membership ticket, and is dated 1871. The Society was then called the "Williamson County Agricultural and Mechanical Fair." It "admits the bearer and family," and is signed "A. N. Lodge, Secretary."

It is also countersigned by N. West on the back. A third ticket is headed "Williamson Annual E.xhibition, September 30th and October 1st, 2nd and 3d, 1879." It admits F. S. West & Co., is "not transferable," and is signed by L. A. Goddard, Secretary. A fourth ticket is dated September 28, 29, 30 and October 1, 1880. It is headed "Membership Ticket Williamson County Agricultural Board, Twenty-fourth Annual Fair." It is issued to W. H. West and family, and is signed also by L. A. Goddard, Sec. A fifth and the last is a "Complimentary Pass," issued to Rev. J. F. Wilcox and Lady, to the Williamson- County Fair, Marion, 111.. ?eptember 13, 14, 15 and 16, 1904," and is signed by W. J. Aikman, Pres., and W. H. Bundy, Sec. It is needless to remark that the Souvenir Book man used and enjoyed it to the utmost every day till the close, and took pictures innumerable of the very fine stock, crowds, the bands, the speakers: but Mrs. Wilcox was in Effingham, so the "Lady" could not participate. This sub rosa.

But this new site for the Pair was purchased of George C. Campbell about 1866. It comprised at that time 2S acres at the Eastern limits of the city, one mile from the public sf|uare. in a beautiful natural grove of oak. It has been greatly improved and enlarged till it now contains 52 acres in one body, ample buildings erected and a fine race track graded, which is said to be the best in Southern Illinois. The amphitheatre will seat 1000 persons. The whole is enclosed in a high and tight board fence.

Marion Basket Ball

At the first meeting of the Fair the membership fee was placed at $1.00 and remained at that figure In the year 1S86, for which we have reliable report, the attendance after the first day was from .5,000 to 8,000. The receipts were $3,100 and the expenses including premiums, $2,000. The surplus was used to cancel an old debt against the Society, leaving at that time less than $100 to be paid. The officers that year were C. H. Dennison. President; Wm. F. Westbrook, vice president; W. H. Eubanks, secretary; C. M. Kern, treasurer, and the directors were O. S. Tippy, Shanno Holland, John H. Sander, Thomas, N. Cripps and Dr. Theo. Huison.

As shown by the reports which follow, the progress of the Society has been rapid and steady making the present the most successful year of its history. Its present Secretary, Hon. \V. H. Bundy, was first elected to that office in 1888, having previously served as Director. And with the exception of the year 1899, when Geo. H. Goodall consented to take it. Mr. Bundy has served conti"uously until the present time.

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This excellent and very promising enterprise was first set upon its feet in May, 1903. It was organized by Chas. A. Gent, J. C. Mitchell and S. R. Fuller, commissioners, with $25,- 000 capital stock. The original stockholders were, besides the above named gentlemen, Adele Holland, W. H. Warder, E. N. Rice, L. C. Campbell, A. L. Cline. John H. Duncan and M. L. Baker. Its present officers are A. L. Cline, president; J. C. Mitchell, vice president; L. C. Campbell, secretary and treasurer; J. R. Lamport, superintendent of works. The plant consists of 40 acres of the very best of brick clay land, lying level at the northwest crossing of the Coal Belt and the Illinois Central railroads, and has a switch track to both. They run four down draft kilns, having a capacity of 75,000 bricks each. They use the Quincy Improved Clay Gatherer, which gathers enough clay at one time for 300 bricks: and the Boyd Four-Mould Pressed Brick Machine, having a capacity of 20,000 bricks each day of ten hours. They began construction work in June. 1903, and were pressing brick in the following September. They give employment on an average of to 20 men daily. Their output is largely disposed of at home, but they find a market for their surplus in the near-by towns of Carterville, Herrin, Johnson City and the outlying towns along the railroads.

This extensive plant, owned and run for six years by Benj. B. Griggs, changed hands July 1st, 1904, the brothers buying out the father's interest. It is located on East College St., near the Fair Grounds, and is the most extensive plant in the county. They have an inexhaustible bed of fine clay and a capacity of 20,000 bricks a day. They have an invested capital of about $10,000, and in the busy season employ on an average 20 men and three teams.

They have two kilns with a capacity of 200,000 brick each, seven drying sheds, holding 200.000 and run a CO-horse power engine. They manufacture the red pressed brick, for which they use the Freese machine, and also make cement and sand blocks and mouldings for facings and trimmings, for which they use the Horton-repress machine.

Their output is mostly disposed of at and near home, although they ship to Herrin, Carterville, Goreville, Creal Springs, Johnson City, West Frankfort. Benton and DeSoto They are now filling an order for 300.000 bricks for Herrin. They have made and sold more than 2,000,000 brick the year past, and the output and demand is on the increase.

This promiueut industry was inaugurated in September, 1903, several minor establishments being absorbed and a corporation formed with $10,000 capital. They began work in 1904 and already have under contract and in preparation about $5,000 worth of work to be delivered this spring. They employ about five hands steadily.

The well-known Attorney and Master in Chancery, W. O. Potter, by a late purchase of the stock held by Chas. A. Gent, became sole owner and manager of the plant, and with his usual business energy and skill

The location is near the crossing of the Illinois Central and C. & E. I. railroads, with shipping facilities at both. Their principal building is of wood. 75x40 feet, which contains the oflices. the cutting and polishing room, and a full equipment of machinery and tools, consisting of engine and boilers, air compressor, air pump and a complete outfit of pneumatic tools.

Another building. 25x40. is devoted to storage and the cutting and dressing of lime-stone bases, which are obtained from the Romona Oolitic Stone Company of Indianapolis. Indiana. They execute all kinds of granite and marble work and keep six salesmen employed.

A. E. Harper, of Chicago. President: H. C. Shaw. Marion. Manager; W. E. Fish, Marion, Supt. of Construction and of Mechanical and Electrical Department.

This enterprising company is iust now installing an entirely new plant at Marion, which will have sufficient power to supply all demands. As soon as the new building is completed, the old machinery will be moved into the ell-part and used as necessity may require.

Flash-light of thf aiuilein'e loom of the OlJei'a Housf at Maiiou. Illinois. . on I he evening ot Fiulay. November 25, 1904, on the occasion of the delivery by Dr. John W. Cook, President of the State Normal School at DeKalb, 111., of his lecture on "The New Profession," before the Thirteenth Annual Union Teachers Meeting of teachers from the counties of Pope, Saline. Johnson and Williamson counties, Illinois.

SOME COrXTY OFKICKKS AND THEIR FRIENDS AT ilARIOX, ILLIXUUS. Top row - H V Shackelford, Mr. Hilbreth. W. A. Jacobs, W. F. Tidwell, Cass Pully. Second row - .1. M. Dodd. A. G. Davis. Lednard A. Gulp, F. L. Shrave, C. L. Miller, Chas. R. Otey. Last row - Dr. J. F. Tidwell. R. O. Clarida, L. B. Pulley, H. S. Harris. Rufus Xeeley, Thos. Davis.

2000 16-candle power lamps. The old engine is of 100-horse power, ideal high speed, of 7 5 K. W. power, -equal to 1500, 16-candle power lamps. They are using three boilers now and are adding two more to the new plant. They have between fifteen and twenty miles of wire strung and are using 50 arc lamps of 1200- candle power each for street lighting, and 2 500 incandescent lamps. The actual power required to furnish light for the city is at present 12 0 K. W.

This enterprising and successful company was organized in 1900, with the following partners: W. R., E. L. and C. W; Welborn, brothers. They handle a general stock of merchandise, which is always well assorted, ample for the trade and up-to-date In style and quality. It controls a capital of $20,000, and has a branch at Attila, in the eastern part of the County.

This fine factory was erected by Xall and Williams, Carpenters, Contractors and Builders, and the company was incorporated in 1901, It is of brick with dressed stone trimmings, one story, 35x79, with a Kl-foot drive-way on one side and 2 4-foot on the other. It was finishel .lune 1st, and cost $3,50i>.

This company has a very large and flourishing establishment at Herrin for its main business, with important branches at Marion, Johnson City and DeSoto. It is successor to the W. N. Stotlar Lumber Co., the Paul Herrin Lumber Co. and the Johnson City Lumber Co.. and was incorporated May 1, 1901, with $2n.- 0 00 cash capital. It handles everything used in building a frame house from turret to foundation. Its lumber is principally Yellow Pine and

Cypress. It does an immense volume of business under the active management of its officers and branch managers. In 1901 they sent to their main house at Herrin at one shipment no less than 21 cars of lumber, followed the day after by two more belated ones, giving them the nice little job of unloading 23 cars from the track at one time. This is the largest single shipment of lumber ever made into the County.

Of course, this rate is not kept up, but the tremendous development of the mining industry throughout the district has given all branches of business a rapid and permanent growth, and structures of all kinds are springing up everywhere. New towns are being started and the old ones improved as by the hand of the magician, and the building trades are flourishing. This has given all dealers in material a tremendous rush of business which bids fair to continue for many years, or until new mines cease to be opened.

The present officers of the corporation are W. N. Stotlar, president; Thomas Stotlar, vice president: E. M. Stotlar, secretary: Harry Stotlar, treasurer. The directors are Fred Stotlar. Paul Herrin and C. C. Stotlar.

The branch managers are Fred Stotlar, Herrin: E. M. Stotlar, Marion: C. C. Stotlar, Johnson City: Henry Stotlar, DeSoto. They give constant employment to an average of 10 men besides the active force of the officers and yard masters in the four branches.

The transfer business of Marion consists mainly in the loading and unloading of cars from the two railroads entering the city of the various commodities handled here, such as store goods of all sorts, marble, brick, stone, lime, sand and lumber. Coal is loaded for shipment at the mines and for local use is largely brought in by farmers from near-by coal banks. There are no long hauls to furnish steady employment to teams, as the various roads reach all parts of the county, and only short hauls and town and city transfer business can be obtained. The city furnishes some work in grading its streets and graveling them with broken stone.

So, in addition to several drays and a swarm of delivery wagons, the ti-ansfer business is in the hands of three firms: Lane & Brother, T. C. Whittock and W. H. Travelstead. Statistics of their work cannot be obtained, but all keep busy.

This prosperous business started in a small way in August, 1902. The proprietors had but one horse and an old farm wagon, and very little money, but they had lots of energy and ambition, and a determination to succeed. Besides, they had good sense and good morals. There was no one at Marion who made the tran.sfer of goods and merchandise a business, so the opening was a fine one and they saw their chance and were quick to seize it. Besides the transfer of goods to and from the railroad depot, they do a general teaming business, handling large quantities of all sorts of building material, such as brick, lime and sand, lumber and stone. They also keep a full supply of hay and feed, both for their own teams and for sale.

They now own and run four good teams and wagons, and have built a large barn and stables for their teams and supplies, capable of stabling twenty horses. When fully

These gentlemen have always been partners in everything they did since they were old enough to work. Their father, Andrew Jackson Lane, died in 1S99 and left the wife a widow with two boys, Henry 23, and John 21, who together went into coal mining as soon as they reached manhood. They were poor and had only the benefits of a common school e Uication, although Henry had a short term at Crab Orchard Academy, and digging coal seemed the best prospect for a living they knew of. Henry married April 5, 1900, Miss Elnora Henson. They had one child which died in infancy, and November 6, 1902, the wife sickened and died also. The death of their father and Henry's wife and child all within three years kept the family poorer still, and was a great setback in the way of business. But they had started the teaming business the August preceding the death of Mrs. Lane in November, and their misfortune only spurred them to greater effort.

April 4, 1S76. and John. Febniaiy 19, 1879. They both belong to the Woodmen and Henry is a member of the M. E. church. In politics both are republicans. Henry at one time spent five years in handling musical instruments and books. That was before the death of the elder Lane, anl before his marriage.

Established September 11, 19ii3, J. A. Burkett, Manager. This new departure is doing a thriving business, not only catering to the needs of Marion grocers, but shipping on all the railway lines passing through Marion. They keep two men employed in the house and two on the road.

J. W. Chapman, general contractor, president; George Fuller, brick contractor, secretary: Robert Sparks, treasurer: R. C. Noll, of Noll & Williams, General Contractors, Frank Bock, painter, Albert Sumner, plasterer: Burt Bobbit, Oscar M. Williams, of Noll & Williams, Otis Williams and A. L. Pulley, directors.

The Fruit and Produce business of Marion supports two flourishing wholesale houses, both of recent establishment. The Marion Fruit and Produce Company opened business in the spring of 1904, with Brice Holland as head of the house and his two sons, W. P. Holland and T. A. Holland, junior partners. Their first year's business reached a total of $30,000. They deal in all kinds of foreign and domestic fruits and produce, shipping a car load of bananas about every ten days. When we remember that a car load contains about 400 bunches of fruit and weighs 20,000 pounds, we get a good idea of the amount of this excellent fruit consumed in the area supplied from this point. They handle only the finest of this fruit and ship exclusively from Port Le Mon, Central America, via New Orleans.

This branch of industry is owned and controlled by Armour & Co., the great Chicago packers. Mr. E. E. Kimmel, the manager, has been connected with it for the past six years. The poultry house was originally a tobacco barn, built by Goodall & Campbell, but upon the decline of that industry was sold to Jean & Son, the original promoters of the poultry business in this market. Later the firm changed to Jean & Re 'f earn, then to McArthur & Son, and then a company was formed to facilitate the rapid growth of the business, under the title of the Jean, Hurst. Redfearn Produce Co. This was absorbed by W. B. Hurst & Co., and then the last transfer, that to the present management, took place.

The business has always been verv profitable, and at present represents an outlay of about $75,000 annually. They ship mostly to the markets of the East, sending to Chicago only foi cold storage.

The business of fire insurance in Marion is mostly done by the oldest insurance man in this part of Illinois, T. J. Binkley, who has been writing insurance for 24 years. He is devoted exclusively to that line of business, is expert, well known and highly esteemed. He has been a long time in the field, represents only the very best companies, and in consequence, gets the bulk of the business. He, now for some years, is not compelled to do any soliciting, but when Williamson County wants any insurance, they know whe'-o to get the best, and generally go to "Jeff Binkley."

T. J. Binkley, representing the National of Hartford, Conn., the Commercial Union of London, Eng., American Central of St. Louis, New York Underwriters and the Phoenix of Brooklyn, N. J.: L. C. Campbell, representing the Glens Falls, Springfield Fire and Marine, Westchester, N. J.: Ed. M. Spiller, representing the Germania: R. P. Fowler, the Connecticut, Hartford and Northern: Dennison & Son, the Philadelphia Underwriters, Liverpool,

London and Globe: Traders Insurance Co. of Chicago: J. P. Lewis, the Queen: Abney & Bentley, the Caledonian: T. J. Youngblood, Michigan Fire and Marine: Rice and Throgmorton. North British and Mercantile: Fireman's Fund: Home, of New Jersey; Etna: Citizens, of Missouri; Fire Association; Insurance Co. of North America: Norwich Union; Providence, of Washington: German American.

The Life Insurance in this section is principally in the hands of the various Orders and benefit associations, the Old Line Stock Companies having very little to do with it. The Prudential, howveer, and the Bankers' Association of Des Moines, la., and the Metropolitan are all doing a satisfactory business. The local officers of the Prudential are: W. H. Hendrick, Ass't. Supt.: Isaac N. Cox and A. Z. Elam, agents, Marion: F. W. Burdick, Herrin; J. W. Woodburn, Carterville: Edward L. Bayless, Johnson City: S. C. McClintoc, West Frankfort. The Metropolitan is represented by Mr. A. L. Chury, who seems to be very active and successful in his canvass.

This office is now rated 3rd Class, but its annual income having reached $S,000, it will next July be advanced to 2nd Class. Besides the six daily trips over the rural routes, the office receives and discharges ten daily mails. The following table gives the hours received, the direction and the railroad over which sent, of each mail:

The total amount of daily mail is about 100 pounds, requiring the labor of three clerks besides Mr. Jones, the postmaster, to handle it. Mr. S. S. Miller is assistant postmaster, having charge of all money order business. E. T. Howell and T. F. Jones, son of the postmaster, are the general delivery clerks.

The Postoffice Department allows but $580 towards the expense of running the office, besides $60.00 for lights and fuel, and $25 a month for rent. The salary of Mr. Jones la $1900. He had to fit up the office himself at an expense of about $600. He pays $12.50 additional every month for rent and the salaries of his office force. The office has 49 S boxes, rented at from 20 to 40 cents per quarter each. There are six rural routes out of Marion, each carrier getting a salary of $G0 a month and providing his own teams and wagon. Adding together all the items of expense, we find that account with the government for this office stands as follows:

Balance for Government. ... $1,140 From which it appears that the post office at Marion is now self-sustaining and gives the Department a surplus of $1,140.

Born November 3, 1853. near Creal Springs. Williamson County, Illinois. He secured such education as farmer boys generally get in the district school, and followed the plow until 2 5 years old. His father, John S. Jones, is now living with his children, at the age of 7G. His mother, whose maiden name was Sarah F. Jones, died in 1891, aged 60.

In 18S2 he moved into Creal Springs and in 18SS was elected to the office of Justice of the Peace, serving one term. In 1892 he came to Marion and was elected Circuit Clerk and re-elected in 1900, serving two full terms of eight years.

On the 10th of December, 1900, he received his first appointment as postmaster, and after one term of four years received a second appointment, without opposition, on the 13th of last December.

His marriage took place while he was living on the farm. February 13, 1871. His wife was Miss Mary J. Bower, daughter of Wm. J. Bower, a farmer near Crab Orchard. To this union four children have been born: Sarah, wife of N W Martin. Marion: Amanda, wife of H. W. Lane. Marion; Madeline, living with her parents, and Thomas F. Jones, employed in the postoffice. The family are members of the First Baptist Church, and he belongs to Williamson Lodge, No. 392. T. O. O. F.

Marion is well equipped with banks and bankers. She has three of the best banks in Southern Illinois. The officers of these banking institutions are among the most conservative business men of the community, and their standing in the community is an adde 1 strength to the integrity of their respective centers of finance.

The First National Bank of Marion was organized in January, 1891, with a capital of $50,000, in succession to the Exchange Bank, which for a number of years prior thereto had been conducted under practically the same management as the present institution. It is one of the strongest financial institutions in this end of the state, and under conservative, yet liberal management, extends every permissible accommodation to customers. Its officers and directors are among the most substantial of our business men and citizens, and in their personalities alone afford every guarantee to depositors, known to banking.

It has always been the policy of this bank to aid in every legitimate way and assist in the development of the commercial and financial interests of Marion and Williamson county. To that end we ask your co-operation, and trust it may be your pleasure to place all or a part of vour account with us.

yet conducted in his name, on an extensive scale, in the Holland block on the south side of our public square. He is owner of this building, erected in 1894-5. It is 50x75 feet in dimensions. 2 stories and basement, iron front, modernly built and one of the finest structures in Marion. The upper portion, devoted to residence purposes, is Mr. Holland's handsomely appointed home.

Though shunning publicity, Mr. Holland has been city treasurer, served as alderman and during 1891- 2 as Mayor, in each of which positions he acquitted himself with advantage to the public. He married in 1872 Annie Cox, daughter of George Cox, himself a Virginian. She was born and reared in Williamson county. They have no children.

Shannon Holland

Mr. Shannon Holland, president of the First National Bank since 1894, was born near Morgantown, West Virginia, February 2, 1864, and came with his parents to Marion at the age of 15 years. His father engaged in brick making and was assisted by the son, who later entered the livery and stock business on his own account and was successful. Still later he established the dry goods and millinery establishment

J. C. Mitchell

This reference would be inadequate did it not contain some mention of Mr. J. C. Mitchell, since 1891 the capable and conscientious cashier of the above institution. He was born in Williamson county in 1852, attended the public schools and at the early age of IG years engaged in the drug business, in which he continued with success until his election as county clerk in 1886. He was re-elected in 1890, serving until 189 4, from 1891 occupying the dual position of county clerk and cashier of the First National Bank. When Mr. Mitchell assumed the duties of his office as county clerk Williamson county had an indebtedness of $30,- 000 and county orders were selling at 4 0 cents on the dollar of their face value. When he left that office this debt had been cancelled and county warrants were selling at par, a result largely due to the efficiency and financial skill displayed by him in management of county affairs. He has since won added recognition in financial circles, and is known throughout the state as a factor in the development of Williamson county interests. He married in 1872 Lily White, daughter of Col. John White and sister of A. F. White. Her life was spent in doing good. She died in 1901. leaving seven children. John. Rose, Verna. James, Frank. Dessie and Everett, who give promise of inheriting her gentle virtues, with their father's sterling traits of character.

Lloyd C. Campbell

Lloyd C. Campbell, assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Marion is the son of J. M. Campbell, the grocer, and Mollie Campbell, nee Fubanks. The father dates back to the old Blue-Grass state from which he came to Marion when a boy and married her who was Mollie Eu- banks. L. C. Campbell Is the first child of three in the order of their ages, and was first introduoed to the public eye (and ear) October Iti, 1S74, in Marion. His early education and training were the best possible, being such as Marion affords to all of its school boys. He is a graduate of the High School class of '9 2 from which he entered the general merchandise store of Burkhart & Binkley, where he sold goods for two months. Ke then entered the First National Bank as bookkeeper in September, 1S92, where he acquitted himself so well that after three years he was elected assistant cashier, which position he still holds. On July 12th, 1S97. he took a "helpmate" in the pei'son of Miss Xettie Hottse, the daughter of C. H. House, now and for some years in the employ of Burkhart & Binkley.

Mr. Campbell is an active worker in the Christian field, is a member of the M. E. church and Superintendent of its Sun-lay Srho-'l. He rightly regards the leligion of Christ as the most potent influence for good in the world and sees no reason to discard or even neglect the best and most efficient instrument for one of less power for usefulness. Having a good, sharp steel sword, he has no desire to exchange it for a wooden one. Hence, his labors and all Tiis influence in all reformative work or for the benefit or upbuilding of his fellowmen are pnd RMist be distinctively Christian, and that simply because he, bein°; a Christian, desires that what little good he can do in the world shall be for the honor of the Christian name and principles and to none other whatever. Let others use a wooden sword if they have none better, but he has the "Sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God."

In July, 1903. he was elected the Secretary and Treasurer of the Marion Pressed Brick Company and as such looks aftei' the interests of their extensive nlant at the crossing of the Hlinoi" Central and Coal Belt Railways.

Albert M. Towxsend

Albert M. Townsend was born August 26, 1851, in Carroll county, Tennessee. He was from staunch ITnion stock who dared and suffered much at the hands of guerrillas, during the dark days of the war. His mother died at the beginning of the war, his father was killed by guerrillas during the war, one brother was cruelly murdered by them when he crept from his hiding place in the brush in order to get food to sustain life, while another, a mere boy, was hung by them, but on relenting they cut him down before life was extinct and thus he was spared. He died April 1.5, 1903. By these untoward events, the subject of this sketch was left an orphan at the age of ten and the only one left on the farm to support the family of smaller children and look after the crops and their few beasts. Under the circumstances, it is not to be wondered at that his schooling in Tennessee was very light. However, after he came to Williamson county, when past twenty-one years old, he secured three terms of schooling by working out nights and mornings and by the day in summer, in order to pay his board. He spent four rears in Williamson county, and then moved to Senatobia, Miss., where he followed the trade of a carpenter and builder until 1S92 when he returned with his wife and children to Williamson county. While in Mississippi, he married Miss Virginia Adman, a Tennessee lady, by whom he has had five children, three of whom are still living. He is a republican in nolitics. and was elected Justice of the Peace on that ticket in 1SS6. but finding it was a hindrance to his business, he resigned. In 1S90 he was elected county treasurer pnd in 1S92 moved to Marion, where 'le has since resided. In 1884 he first became a member of the Primitive Baptist church, where his membership still stands and of which he is at present clerk. He belongs to the directorate of the First National Bank and is a member in good standing of the Blue Lodge of the A. F. and A. M. In April 15, 1903, he formed a partnership with Thomas A. Cox in the implement business under the firm name of Cox & Townsend. They handle all kinds of favm implements wagons, buggies, etc.

Rolla Holland

Rolla Holland, farmer and stockman, was born in Monongahela county. West Virginia, December 1. 1851. In ISGl he came to Illinois with his parents and grew up on a farm. November 29. 1S7 9, he was married to Mary Roberts by whom he has four children.

Thomas J. Binkley

mostly reared and educated in this county, where his active life has been spent. He was born January 12, ]S5(i, in Cheatham county, on the Cumberland mountains about twenty miles from Nashville. His father, A. N. Binkley, was one of those sinewy sons of energy out of whose sterling qualities of head and heart has come a very large share of the brawn and brain of this country. He lived and toiled and died on his native mountains in Tennessee. Ke was born in 1812 and died in 1878. His only brother was George Washington Binkley, who settled at a very early day four miles north of Marion when the country was practically a wil 'erness and became one of the leading actors in the affairs of this part of Illinois for many years. He served in the state legislature at Springfield and was equally successful and popular as a man, in politics, or in business. His wife was even more remarkable than himself and reared no less than twelve adopted children, besides two of her own. Thomas came to Marion in 1867 and settled on the old Binkley place. When about fourteen years old, he with his father and family listened to the roar of cannon at the battle of Fort DonaHson only forty miles away. His education was that of the common school sort with a term or two at the academy in his Tennessee home before moving west. For thirteen years he followed farming, but in 18S2 went into the insurance business and for twenty years has been the leading man in that line in Southern Illinois. Following the usual custom at first, he canvassed this county and the adjoining territory until he has established a reputation that brings his customers to him for miles around.

In 1895 he established the Marion Steam Laundry at a cost of $3,000. which he later sold. He has never dabbled in politics nor run for office, except for city council in which he served two terms. His only interest outside of his insurance and real estate, being in his bank, the First National Bank, of which he has been a director for about twelve years, being re-elected annually, and the Christian church, of which he has been a member since 1S65. He was married December 23, 1S68, to Miss Cynthia Parlee Goddard. the daughter of Wesley Goddard. Nine children blessed this union of which five are living, Rowena, who married Eugene Ewbank and lives in Johnson City: George W., now a clerk for No, 3 mine: Roy Goddard, clerk for the Egyptian Powder Mills: Rome, a conductor on the Electric Coal Belt Line, and Nettie, the youngest now seventeen years old, living at home.

We give two views of this elegant bank building herein showing both its external and internal appearance. It was erected in 19C.3 by Gill & Pride, contractors and builders. The second story is occupied as the City Hall and Council Chamber and the justice court and law office of Juige R. P. Hill. No. 1 Justice Court in the rear of the bank is occupied by Ed Durham as a first class barber shop.

The inside view of the bank shows the now venerable president, C. H. Dennison; the cashier, Earl B. Jackson; and F. M. Borton, assistant cashier, in attendance. It was taken by Mr. J. W. Wilder, of this city m January 1904.

The bank furnishings are of mahogany and have no superior in material or finish in Chicago. St. Louis, or any other city in the United States. The work was done by Kloak Brothers, Cincinnati. Ohio, in July, 1903, at a cost of $1,200.

It had been furnished before but the burning of the Benson block next to it in February. 190 3. destroyed the interior by the falling of the whole adjacent wall by which a 2-foot brick wall, two stories in heighth was precipitated into the bank through its glass partition on the south side, crushing the whole internal fixtures into kindling woo'. This was followed by fire and that by a deluge of water by which combination it was pretty effectually wiped out. It has however. Phoenix like, risen from its ashes and is more beautiful than ever. The following is the latest report of the

Hon. Charles H. Dennison

Hon. Charles H. Dennison, Mayor of Marion and President of the Marion State and Savings Bank, was born in Seneca county. New York August 31st, 1S37, the third of seven children. His father. Edward Dennison. was a native of Vermont of Irish descent, born 17S9 ant died in McHenry county, Illinois, in 1872. His mother, whose maiden name was Evelina Hitchcock, was of English ancestors and born in Utica, N. Y.. in l.SOS. They married in Utica and moved to Huron county. Ohio, in 1841. In 1849 they came to Mc- Henry county, Illinois. She died at the residence of her son in Marion in July, 1886.

Our subject was reared on a farm and educated in the common school of McHenry and taught school two years after he was 2il in the Mc- Henry county public schools. His marriage took place in 1869. when he settled on a farm at Bainbridge an i alternated farming and dealing in live stock with school teaching until 1873. At the fall election of IN 72 he was elected circuit clerk of Williamson county on the Democratic ticket with the late Joseph W. Hartwell as his antaTonist. His first experience in politics was in 1870 and on the following New Years day moved his family to Marion, where he was beaten for sheriff by Alonzo Owen with 40 votes. At the expiration of his official term as circuit clerk he entered into partnership with W. H. Bundy in the drug business, but two years later sold out his interest to W. S. Washburn and confined his business to handling real estate and live stock. His election to the mayorality did not occur until the spring of 1903. He went into banking in 1890 with Mr. Searing, opening a private bank under the firm name of Searing an1 Dennison with $30,000 capital. A little later Mr. J. H. Burnett came into the firm and afterwards bought out Jlr. Searing's interest. In July 24. 1902. the present Marion State and Savings Bank was incorporated with a capital of $60,000 in which Mr. Dennison is the largest and Mr. Burnett the second largest stockholder. The stock is now held at 100 per cent premium and none for sale. It pays 20 per cent annual dividends. Mr. Dennison is a careful conservative financier, not given to wildcat schemes of speculation and has been very fortunate and successful all his life. Intimate friends ascribe his gooi fortune to his open ear to the advice of his talented better half, which opinion is. of course, strictly orthodox, and in entire accord with all the wise-acres from Adam down, who it must be admitted, was a notable exception and was ruined by trying to set the proper pace in the race. His descendents however, have refused to take warning by his horrible example and have foun^ their happiness and good luck in doing exactly the thing which drove him from horticulture to farming and stock raising among the thistles. Probably their success in doing so may be ascribed to the homeopathic principles of "Similia. similibus curantor" which liberally translated means "the hair of the same doy cures the bite." At any rate he did the wisest thing his ancestors have ever done when March 21, 1869, he took him a "rib." The maiden name of the fortunate lady was Mary E., daughter of Dr. S. H. and Mary A. Bundy. nee Smith. She was born in DeKalb county, Tennessee, in 184S. and has proven herself indeed a "help-meet" to her husband until the present hour and are able to reckon their property accumulations at over $200,01111. They own four fine farms in this county valued at $50,0u0, other realty of equal amount including their elegant home on West Main street: the splendid store building of the Allen Phyfer Chemical building of St. Louis; the largest drug house in the city; the fine Dennison building in Marion; $12,000 stock in the bank of which he is president and $5,000 stock in the Allen Phyfer Co. Their chil Iran in the order of their births are Leon E. Dennison in the Wholesale Dry Goods business at Cairo; Edward Everett Dennison, attorney at law in Marion; Mrs. Lora B., the wife of Charles E. Lane, vice president and general manager of the Allen Phyfer Chemical Co., and Samuel B. Dennison. farmer at Marion.

Earl B. Jacksox

W. \V. Whittington. grain dealer and miller. Vice President Marion State and Savings Bank. The subject of this sketch is another of the solid men of Marion whose life began and has been spent in this and the adjoining counties. He was born in Frankin county near Benton. May Sth, 1S50. and spent his boyhood on a farm. After the usual training in the common schools he took a scientific course at Ewing College from which he graduated in 1873.. After several terms of school teaching he entered the profession of surveying and civil engineering, which he followed for nine years. This brought him into business relations with railroad men and he gradually got into the hard-wood lumber business, dealing in bridge timber, railroad ties. etc. Among other jobs he furnished all the timber for bridges and cattle-guards and all the ties on the C. & E. L Ry. from Mt. Vernon to Marion. This has. however, been more as a side line with him. as milling has been the principal occupation of his life. He first operated a flouring mill at Benton, then at .Tohnson City for four years, coming to Marion and buying the Marion Elevator and Mills in 1900. He did not move his family, however, until two years ago. He was united in marriage to Miss Rebecca R. Matthews September. 187 5, by whom he is the father of four children, two sons and two daughters, all of whom are living. When the old Marion hank was reorganized and became the Marion State and Savings Bank he became one of its directors and at its annual election last December was elected Vice President.

The popular Cashier of the Marion State and Savings Bank is wholly a child of Marion, where he was born October 9, 1S74. With the exception of two terms in Carbondale he received his education in the public and High Schools of this city from which the graduated in 1893. For eighteen months he w-as Assistant Postmaster and afterwards for about twenty months Assistant Cashier of the Bank of Xorris City. White county, when he entered the employ of the Old Bank of Marion as Assistant Cashier. After two and one-half years he was promoted to Cashier. L^pon its reorganization in July. 19113, he was at once selected by the management for Cashier, which position he still holds. In July. 189S, he was united in marriage to Miss Carra Barnes, of Xorris City, by whom he is father of one child. Pauline, now four years old.

Besides his bank interest he is a partner with his father. J. C. Jackson, in the furniture business on West Jlain street, and Treasurer of Special School District of Marion. He is an active member of the M. E. church and belongs to the K. of P. and Modern Woodmen.

Frank R. Bortox

Frank R. Borton is Assistant Cashier of the Marion State and Savings Bank. This promising young accountant and financier was born in Marion September 21, 1884. His parents were James M. Borton and Anna Goodali. He accompanied them when an infant to St. Louis and attendel the public schools of that city until about fourteen years old when he returned to Marion and has since made his home with his grandparents, Frank Goodali and wife. Upon his return to Marion he entered the eighth grade and then the High School from w-hich he graduated with high honors in the class of 1903. On the IGth of the following June he got a position as Bookkeeper in the Marion State and Savings Bank, and gave such good satisfaction that he not only hell his place, but at the election of officers in October, 190 4. was promoted to his present position. Although not yet 21 he has established a good leputation and stands deservedly high in public esteem and has a brilliant future before him.

Wiley G. Cochrax

Wiley G. Cochran, lumber dealer and Director of Marion State and Savings Bank, was born February 4. 1863. in Benton, the county seat of Franklin county. Illinois. He received a common school education in Franklin. On January 28, 1891, he married Miss Hawley Esken, daughter of V . L. Esken, of Benton. In 1897 he purchased the lumber yards of J. Vick & Company at Marion, and moving his family here became a prominent resident of the town. They have one child. Mr. Cochran first became connected with the Board of Education in 1901, but his time expires at the present spring election, and he does not aspire to re-election. He carries a moderate but finely assorted stock of lumber and its usual branches at his place of business on S. Market street, near public square. He is a member of the order of Hoo Hoo, a lumbermans" organization, and is a K. of P.. Monitor, Lodge Xo. 236.

Thomas A. Cox

Thomas A. Cox, dealer in implements and director of Marion State and Savings Bank, is a native of Illinois, born in Union county. April Sth, 1850. on a farm near Jonesboro. He was reared on a farm and followed the occupation until a year ago when he removed to Marion and entered the implement business. He attended the common school of Union county until his removal to this county in 1S71, when 21 years old. That same year. October 5th. he was united in marraige to Miss Nancy C. Rendleman and reared a family of five children now living. Two died in infancy. He never united with any secret order, but is an active member of the Missionary Baptist church.

April 15. 1903. he and A. M. Townsend went into the implement business under the firm name of Cox & Townsend. They handle all sorts of farm tools, wagons, buggies, etc.

William Thomas Xewtox

William Thomas Newton. Director of the Marion State and Savings Bank, was born near Gallatin. Sumner county, Tennessee. September 30th, 1843. His parents move1 to Logan county. Kentucky, when he was an infant of three or four months and to Williamson county in 1S56, reaching here March 30th. when our subject was 12 years and 6 months old. They bought for $5 00 the 80 acres of land on which the Virginia Mine is now worked, the shaft being sunk on the very 4 0 where the house stood, four miles north of Marion.

are living. She died on the llili of March, 1SS4, and on January 27, 1SS6, he tooli (or his second wife Rebecca Herrin. whose great grandfather settled on and gave name to the prairie on which the town of Herrin stanis. She died June 9, 1891. In 1877 he was elected Justice of the Peace In Lake Creek Township, where Johnson City now stands, and served for nine years, when he resigned.

In 1864 he moved Into the woods one mile south of the present site of Johnson City and lived there for thirty years. No one then dreamed of the vast wealth hidden in the bowels of the earth he peacefully tilled for so many years, but after he sold his farm the great Williamson County Mine was located on it.

He moved into Marion in December, 1S94, where he has since lived. In politics he is a Democrat and cast his first vote for president for Gen. George B. McClelland. In December, 1903 he was elected one of the directors of the Marion State and Savings Bank. Marion was at one time a great initial tobacco market and as many as fifty loaded tobacco wagons have been counted on its streets in a day. Countins? from his Kentucky experience, Mr. Newton planted and raised thirty-one crops of tobacco in succession, and some of his neighbors did even better, showing the possibilities of tobacco culture in Egypt and the capabilities of its soil.

M. L. Baker

M. L. Baker, a director of the Marion State and Savings Bank and a member of the firm of Duncan & Baker. The subject of our sketch is the son of T. D. Baker and Elizabeth J. (Sanders) Baker. The father is of English origin and was born in Mecklenburg county, N. C, April 17th, 1822, emigrated with his parents to Tennessee, grew to manhood, married and in 1856 moved to Williamson county, Illinois, locating on a farm in the southwest corner of the county, where he resided until 1883, when he sold his farm and moved to Marion in said county, where he died April 28, 1904, being one of the oldest inhabitants of the county at his death.

The mother was born in Benton county, Tennessee, January 19th, 1828, and died in Williamson county. Illinois, June 13th, 1877. Aunt Lizzie, as she was familiarly called, was the family physician and counselor in the pioneer families for miles around where she lived and her name and presence was so indissoluably connected with their joys and sorrows that she yet lives though dead.

was two years cf age when his parents moved to Williamson County, Illinois. Ke grew to manhood on the farm, attending school about three months each winter. At the age of si.xteen he began teaching in the country schools, teaching in the winter and farming in the summer. At eighteen he attended the S. I. N. U. one term and afterwards Ewing College two terms, paying his expenses by labor on the farm during the intervening vacations.

He studied law in the offices of Hon. F. M. Youngblood and Judge D. M. Browning, at Benton, Franklin County, Illinois, and was admitted to the bar in 18S1 at Mount Vernon, 111., being one of the sucessful applicants in a class in which over onefourth failed to pass.

He first opened an office in Carterville, this county, but in the Spring of 1883 located in Marion, where he still resides. At the Municipal Election in 18 85 he was elected City Attorney, and in 1SS6 he was appointed Master in Chancery of his County, which oflice he held for three terms. September 22nd. 1887, he was married to Amanda M. Spiller, (or as he puts it. he invested $1.00 in the matrimonial lottery and drew the capital prize). Two children bless this union, Manda E. and Miles L.

fn the Fall of the same year he formed a partnership with John H. Duncan and engaged in the retail hardware and furniture trade. The business of the firm prospered and in the Fall of 1903 the business was incorporated under the name of Duncan - Baker Hardware Co., capital stock $30,000.00: a branch store established at Johnston City and a jobbing department added. He is the Secretary and Treasurer of said corporation.

At the organization of the Marion State and Savings Bank he was elected a member of the Board of Directors, was appointed as a member of the committee on auditing and examination of accounts, and still holds said offices.

The following is a statement of the condition of the Williamson County Savings Bank, a group of whose oflScers appears on page 4 9 of this Souvenir, before the commencement of business on May 31, 1905:

Son of J. M. Burkhart and a member of the dry goods firm of Burkhart and Sons, is a native of the city of Marion, where he was born August 2Sth, 1S7S. His schooling has been confined wholly to the excellent public schools of the city, and when not in school he made himself useful clerking in his father's store. When but 17 his energies and ambitious character asserted themselves in the complete mastery of the mysteries of Electric Lighting by running the plant at Marion as he got a chance at intervals, until the authorites could safely trust him in full charge at any time.

In 1S9 8 he graduated from the Marion High School, an"" for three and a half years was assistant cashier of the bank of Marion. In August, 1S91, he organized the private bank of Dennison, Parks & C, at Goreville. 111., and became its first cashier. He held this position but a year and a half, however, for upon the organization of the Williamson Co. Savings Bank he was invited to become its cashier and accepted. This took him back home, which was much to his liking, and he has retained the situation ever since.

Mr. Burkhart is young, but by his conservatism in the management shows a natural aptitude for finance and has a bright future before him. He belongs to the Christian church and is a member of its choir, but as yet a bachelor. He takes an interest in fraternal matters, and belongs to several orders.

He is a member of Monitor Lodge No. 236 of the Knights of Pythias, and Master of the Exchequer. He also belongs to Goreville Loige No. 528 I. O. O. F., and the Woodman's Camp No. 3336.

Mr. Bainbridge was born in Williamson county, near Marion, February 19, 183 7. He engaged in the general merchandise business in Marion in 1856, and after 45 years is still as active in trade and management as when a youth of 19 he waited on his first customer. He has been uniformly successful and longer in business than any other in Williamson county. In 1860-1 he built the substantial brick structure. 50x85 feet in dimensions, on the soiitli side of our public square, tlie corner store room of wliich has ever since been occupied by him for purposes of his business. It is three stories in height, with the upper portion devote! to residence purposes, and here Mr. Bainbridge and family have made their comfortable home for many years.

He has always taken part in movements calculated in furtherance of community interests, and is among the most substantial of our citizens. He assisted at organization of the Marion Building and Loan Association, and has been its vice-president for 1 0 years. He helped organize the First National Bank in 1S91, and has been vice-president and a director, as well as large shareholder in that institution ever since. He was marriei September 7, 1S.59, to Josephine Goddard, daughter of James T. Goddard, one of our former merchants, and they have four living children, James A., who is engaged in the jewelry and watchmaking business here: Charles \V., who is a banker at Xorris City, this state; Luella, who is now the wife of L. A. Browning, of the Ely-Walker Dry Goods Co., St. Louis, and Maude W., wife of J. L. Parham. traveling salesman for the Desnoyers-Courtney Shoe Co.

Success having crowned the labors of a lifetime, Mr. Bainbridge looking no oHer than the average man of 50, is quietly reaping the rewards of decades of industry in the channels of commerce, while continuing to devote his attention to the details of a large and long since firmly established trade.

M. Cantor

The above named gentleman, who scarcely needed his long title to make sure he is a typical merchant of his class, was born July 2 7, iS-tS, in Prussia, Germany. His father, Nathan Cantor, who brought up his son to the mercantile business, ne.er came to America, but died in Germany in'lSS2. The son came to De- Soto. Jackson County, Hlinois, in 1859. With true mercantile instinct he opened up a general merchandise store on his own account three years later, when only fourteen years of age. One year later, in the spring of 1S63, we find him dealing in general merchandise in Memphis, Tenn., thence to Cobden, 111., later to Anna, 111., in 1S66, where he remained until 1S74. He then made a tour of the continent remaining until the spring of 1S76. The autumn following, the present business was started. At that time Marion was a small affair, boasting of only about 800 population, and Mr. Cantor had a hand in shaping almost everything from the beginning. He was one of the directors of the First National

Bank at its organization, and is a director of the Williamson County Savings Bank at the present time. He married Miss Sarah Yesky, of New York City, January 2 7, 1878. His elegant home on South Market St., where they still reside, was erected in 1893. at a cost of $5000.00. In Masonry, Mr. Cantor has attained the degree of Royal and Select Master. He is also a member of the Encampment of I. O. O. F., and a charter member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Mr. and Mrs. Cantor have two children, Bertha and Lillian, the first having married Mr. Charles W. Schwerdt, now in business here. Mr. Cantor carries a large and well selected stock of goods in his line in the Benson Building at the northeast corner of the public square, and keeps in his employ two clerks, W. B. Lee and Robert Jeter. The former has been with him for many years and Mr. Cantor's establishment is one of the oldest in this county.

Joab Goodall

The grandfather and namesake of this sketch came from Wilson county, Tenn., in 1S28, and settled on what is now known as the old Goodall farm, three miles south of .Marion. .\t this time John Goodall. Joab's father, was but six years old. The latter never quite forsook farming, though most of his life was spent in Marion, of which he may be regarded as one of the founders, in the successful conduct of a general merchandise business which he conducted until 1888, when he retired to accept the postmastership during the Cleveland adminiWration. This position he held up to the time of his death in 1897. He was sheriff of Williamson county in the '50's, and during his long life, an important factor in the politics, business and progress of this pnrt of the state.

Joab Goodall, whose portrait and that of his lovely and accomplished wife, accompanies this sketch, was born at Marion March 4, 18 58. He was educated in the public schools, and at Carbondale Normal, and on attaining his majority became associated with his father in business. This relation continued until the latter's retirement from mercantile pursuits in 1S8S. when Joab struck out for himself, and engaging in the purchase and sale of horses and mules, soon became known as the most liberal and successful dealer in his line in Southern Illinois, and through him Marion has the most extensive market in a radius of a hundred miles. His operations, and the assurance of a ready market at top prices, have done much to encourage the farmers of this and adjoining counties in the breeding of fine stock, and foreign dealers now look to this section as a source of certain supply.

from year to year. 1500 mules, mostly high grade and valued at upwards of $125,000 passed through his hands during the year just closed. He utilizes two large stock barns, one on North Market Street, with stabling for 75 or more head, and one just off the northwest corner of our public square. The latter of brick, completed in the Spring of 1901, is 54x150 feet in dimensions, two stories in height, lighted and ventilated like a hotel and has stabling capacity of 150 heal of horses and mules, with ample room for storage of hay, feed and grain. Half tone engraving of this structure will be found in this volume.

Though regarding it as his vocation, Mr. Goodall has not confined himself to operations in live stock. As early as 1893, when owing to the efforts of A. F. White and other enterprising and public spirited citizens, attention was effectively directed to the immense coal fields of Williamson county, resulting in extension of the C. & E. I. Ry., through the county and on to Thebes, and the, at first somewhat tentative, investment of capital looking to development of our mines, Mr. Goodall set apart 40 acres of his 300-acre farm, lying immeliately north of the line of the I. C. Ry., and converted the same into what is known as Goodall's First Addition to Marion. This was followed in 1895 by Goodall's Second Addition, comprising 15 acres, and in 1898 by a Third of 20 acres: in June, 1901, by a Fourth and Fifth of 15 and 5 acres, and culminating that year in a Sixth and Seventh, of 60 and of 8 acres, respectively. The whole, approximateing 163 acres, is beautifully situated and indicates 300 building lots, averaging 80xl67i/, feet each. Threefourths of these have been sold, built on and are now occupied as homes, the many handsome modern structures among them, making this one of the most attractive residence districts of Marion. The new Coal Belt Electric Ry., in its course along North Market Street, traverses these additions at nearly center, making Spillertown, two miles to the north, and Marion business streets, as it soon will the towns of Herrin and Carterville. easily accessible.

Going a step farther we find Mr. Goodall interested for the last eight years in Williamson county coal lands and their development. In this connection it is not too much to say he has been an aid in important sales, such as those to J. W. Gates, the Illinois Steel Co. and the Leiters, involving great industrial possibilities in Marion.

Upon the organization of the Williamson County Savings Bank, on the 15th of January, 1903, Mr. Goodall was elected its first president, and at its annual meeting of the present year, all the officials were re-electel.

Without indulging in any fulsonie laudation, it is proper and entirely within the sphere o( sober truth, to say that the medical fraternity of this county have no superiors in their line in the country, unless we except the great cities who have exceptional opportunities for acquirinii skill in practice in difficult and unusual cases. The general health and long life of the community testify to their skill and faithfulness in the practice of medicine, and several well-known cases of extreme difficulty and delicacy carried to successful issue speak well for their skill in surgery.

The practice of medicine, like all other professions, has had its day of small things in Williamson Co. It has had to struggle with wellr/.eaning ignorance and incompetence, imprudent and irresponsible quacks, insufficient or ill-digested laws, as well as the usuil number of chronic dead beats, not to mention the early poverty of the country and the usual quantity of deserving and helpless sufferers. But through all discouragements and difficulties the noble profession has gone steadily forward, eliminating ignorance, incompetence and fraud, acquiring skill and establishing system, co-operation and harmony among its members and continually acquiring a greater reputation for skill and establishing a higher standard of medical ethics, until it has no superior, if an equal, in the State or Nation.

In July, 1902, the profession in Marion found it necessary to organize a Physicians' Protection Association for obvious reasons stated in t'^e preamble to their constitution and by-laws. This was;

"To establish a uniform Fee Bill to promote professional fraternity, uphold the standard of medical ethics, and secure for ourselves a iust recompense for our services."

In addition to the above Society. the physicians and surgeons of the County organize! the Williamson County Medical Association, about twenty years ago, but having declined and fallen into neglect, it was re-organized on October 2G, 19(13. Its preamble announces its purpose in the following language:

"the cultivation and advancement of knowledge upon all subjects pertaining to the healing art, and the promotion of the usefulness, honor and interests of the medical profession, by encouraging a generous emulation and a friendly intercourse among its members." It has regular semi-annual meetings on the second Monday in May and October.

On the 10th of November, 1904. the Williamson County Medical Association met for the regular annual election of officers with the following result:

1SS2. After two years spent in the Wyoming Seminary, Dr. Bennett began the study of medicine un er Dr. Ademak Strong, at Honesdale. where he spent one year, and then entered the Ohio Medical College, remaining until the Spring of 1S53.

After graduating he came to Union County, Illinois, and entered upon the practice of medicine, which he followed until the breaking out of the war. His sympathies being with the South, he at once went to Missouri and enlisted in the Missouri State Guards, from which he was transferred to the regular Confederate army un'ler Brigadier General Jeff Thompson. He was appointed assistant surgeon by him December 13, 1S62, and remained in the service until the close of the war. He was parolled by General Canby at Macon. Ga., at the close of the struggle, and returned to Madison Co., Missouri, in 1S65. He fought at Vicksburg, and when it surrendered he went to Mississippi, where he ma-ried. His wife's name was Nora Hargon. a Mississippi lady. After he returned to Madison County in IS 65 he spent a year farming and then came with his family to Marion, where he has since ren-'ained. Four children are the fruit of their union: Mary, Edward, Harriet and Myron.

The Doctor is one of the charter members of the Williamson County Medical Association, and a member also of the Physicians' Protective Medical Association of Marion. He is a democrat and a member of the Catholic Church.

Dr. Elijah M. Rotramel

Was born in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, November 9, 1835. His father Alonzo Bennett, was a shipwright bv trade and died at Port Jarvis, N. .7 His mother was Rachel Mandeville who came west with her son and died in Marion in December,

Physician and surgeon, was born in Frankfort, Franklin County, 111., in IS 43. He was the son of Henry and Eliza J. (Maddox) Rotramel. The father was born in North Ca'-olina in ISOS, of German descent: came to Wilson County, Tenn., in his vouth; married the daughter of Elijah Maddox, a Baptist minister, in 1S31; moved to Franklin County in 1532- served 100 days in the Blackhawk War, and died in January. tS67. The wife was born in 1S12, bore seven children and died in 18 65. Our subject was educated at Ewin',- College. and worked on the farm with his father until the latter's death. He began teaching when 22. taught for 22 months in Franklin and Williamson counties, taking up the studv of medicine the meanwhile, in 1869-70 he studied under Dr T. M. Sams, of Tamaroa. Perry Countv, where he began to practice. In 1S71 he located on Moore's Prai- Jefferson County, and in 1S76 located in Franklin, where he continued to practice until he removed to Marion in April. 1900.

Group Of Physicians Of Marion

GROUP OF PHYSICIANS OF MARION. Reading from left to right. Top row - W. C. Williford, W. H. Ceucley, J. F. Tidwell (father), W. K. Clark, James B. Miller. Second low - W. F. Tidwell (son), Frank P. Gillis, Levi B. Casey, G. J. Baker. Jv.. V. A. S. Baker. Third Row - B. M. Rotramel. I. C. Walker. D. D. Hartwell, A. M. Edwards, Curtis Brown.

of William and Caroline Kimmell. She was born in Union County in 1853, and has given her husband seven children, Decosa E., May, deceased: Homer A.. Hattie D.. Nellie A.. Ernest and Andrew. In IS.Sl he served one year as County Supt. of Schools. He is a Republican and a member of the Christian Church. He belongs to the Williamson County Medical Association and to the Marion Medical Protective Association, an1 Southern Illinois Medical Association.

Dr. .James Bailey Miller Dr. Geo. W. Evans

Born in Logan County, Kentucky, October 1, 1S4.S. It was in his native state his boyhood days were largely : pent, and habits formed that led him into the calling he has successfully filled. Being reared as he was, by a physician, his father, W. S. Evans, who recently died in this city at the age of 96, he began the study of medicine early in life and is a graduate of the St. Louis Medical College. He moved with his parents to Missouri when but a young man, and has practiced medicine in Missouri and Illinois. Came to Marion 1S79, where he paid close attention to his profession. Politically the Doctor has been and is acting with the Democratic party, but has lost no time nor neglected his profession to seek position or advance the claim of others to office, having served only as an alderman in this city in an official capacity. He has, from youth to the present, been connected with the Southern Methodist Church.

Dr. James Bailey Miller was born May 13, 1856, in South America, Saline County, Illinois. His father, Bryant Miller, was a farmer and died of acute pneumonia at the early age of 34, February 26, 1.S65. His mother was Martha D. Russell, daughter of Capt. David Bailey Russell, a hero of the Blackhawk War, who was wounded with an arrow in the massacre at Chicago among the Sand Hills along the lake shore about where the Douglas monument now stands. For her second husband Mrs. Miller married James D. Wriston, who served during the Civil War. She died at the age of -19.

The boy received such education as the common school of those d-<ys could give, till about 15 years old, when he made his home with W S. Blackman, at Creal Springs, and was under his tuition for two ternn. After one term under James E. Jobe tie passed his school examination and took a teacher's certificate, but did not take a school. When but IS years old he began the study of medicine, in 1874, at his home, under Dr. Benjamin D. Lewis. Three years later he began to practice among his neighbors. Later he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons at St. Louis, and in 1898 matriculated. Instead, however, of taking a fourth year in that College, he had the opportunity of pursuing his studies with Dr. G. H. Gorden, of Chicago, and in October, 1895, was examined by the State Board of Health and received certificate No. 293. For some years he practiced in company with Dr. B. S. Young, at

Stone Fort, and did not move to Marion until April of the present year. July 4, 187 8, he was married to Miss Maggie Young, the daughter of the man who later became his partner. Nine children were born of this union, all of whom are living.

Dr. Miller belongs to the Saline County Medical Association and the Marion Medical Protective Association. He is an Odd Fellow, Saline County Lodge, No. 874, a Modern Woodman at Carriers Mills, Saline County, and a member of the Missionary Baptist church in South America, his old home.