Grant Township (part 2 of 2)

William Moore, Hoopeston, real estate broker, was born in Coshocten county, Ohio, on the 30th of November, 1841, and is the son of Silas and Mary (McCoy) Moore. He was reared a farmer; educated at Spring Mountain Seminary, Ohio ; was taking a preparatory course at the breaking out of the war, with a view to fitting himself for the law ; volunteered on the 23d of April, 1861, for three months, in Co. D, 16th Ohio Vols., and promoted to orderly sergeant; mustered out the next August. He was commissioned 1st lieutenant by Governor Dennison, on the 3d of October, 1861, with authority to raise a company, which he enlisted mostly among the students of Spring Mountain Seminary. This was Co. I, 51st Ohio, Col. Stanley Matthews. He fought at Phillipi, Perryville, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge and Ringgold. In January, 1863, he was commissioned captain of his company. In the battle of Chickamauga he lost nearly every man in his command. One half were killed and wounded, and a large number captured. All the regimental officers of the 51st having been taken prisoners, Capt. Moore, as ranking line officer, assumed command, and, with a handful of men, bearing the colors of the regiment, and a stand of rebel colors captured from a South Carolina regiment in the last charge, cut through the rebel lines and safely reached Chattanooga the next day. On two particular occasions he was selected for special service of a difficult and hazardous kind. He carried out his instructions with signal success, and was warmly complimented by his fellow and superior officers and the general commanding the army. He was mustered out of the military service in April, 1864. In March, 1365, he settled in Grant township, this county, having bought a farm of three hundred and twenty acres. From 1866 to 1874 he was justice of the peace; from 1867 to 1870 collector of Grant township; from 1866 to 1872 school treasurer of town 23, range 11. He bought fifty acres of land at Hoopeston, and had it laid out in the town plat as Moore & Brown's Addition. In April, 1S72, he moved into the village, and has since been engaged in buying and selling lands and town property. In the year from March, 1874, to March, 1875, the sales of the firm of Moore, McFerron & Seavey reached §330,000 ; is a member of the firm of Moore & McFerron in the real estate and loan business. Mr. Moore has been a director of the Hoopeston public school several years. It was through his energy and enterprise that the imposing edifice belonging to the city, and used for that purpose, was erected in the face of much opposition. It cost $25,000, and is a noble monument to his good understanding and his able management of the entire scheme from its inception. He has three living children : Winfield S., Claude H., Cora M. Mr. Moore is a greenback republican. He owns six hundred acres of land, worth 818,000.

Milton M. Bush, Rossville, farmer, was born in Edgar county, Illinois, on the 24th of September, 1845, and is a son of John and Jane ('Wallace) Bush. In 1865 he settled with his parents in this county. He was married on the 2d of ^November, 1871, to Mary E. Evans, daughter of the late Rev. Thomas A. Evans. Thev have four living children : Anna M., born September, 1872 ; Franklin, born October 20, 1874; Jacob P., born April 20, 1876; Mertie, born November 5, 1878. He owns one hundred and eighty acres, worth $5,000. He is a republican, and a member of the U. B. church. Mrs. Bush belongs to the Christian church.

Anderson McMains, Rossville, farmer, was born in Warren county, Illinois, on the 10th of January, 1840, and is the son of Robert and Mary (Groves) McMains. In 1S41 his parents moved and settled in Montgomery county, Indiana. In 1861 he went to Mahaska county, Iowa, and on the 1st day of September enlisted in Co. H, 8th Iowa Inf. He fought at Shiloh, at which battle his regiment was captured, and held as prisoners two months, when they were paroled and sent to

St. Louis. On the 1st day of September, 1862, he enlisted for three years in Co. C, 40th Ind. Vols. He fought at Stone River and Mission Ridge, served throughout the Atlanta campaign, being engaged in battle at Buzzard Roost, Resaca and Adairsville, and was wounded in the thigh at Pine Mountain, June 18, 1864. He rejoined his command at Atlanta on the 6th of September; was on the campaign against Hood in his invasion of Tennessee; was in the engagement with Forrest's cavalry at Linden, on the 29th of November, and the next day fought at Franklin, receiving a wound in his left wrist at the latter place. He was discharged on the 6th of June, 1865, at Louisville, Kentucky. In the same year he settled in Grant township, this county, where he now lives, four miles west of Rossville. He was married on the 30th of August, 1866, to Clarissa Comstock, daughter of Albert Comstock, sen., an old and highly respected citizen of Vermilion county. They have five living children: Lewis, born May 14, 1868; Harrison, born January 10,1870; Nora, born November 20, 1871 ; Guy, born October 7, 1874; Viola, born January 16, 1877. Mr. McMains owns eighty acres, worth $2,400. In politics he is a republican. Both he and his wife are members of the Christian church.

James Grove, Rossville, farmer, was born in Hamilton county, Indiana, and is the son of Samuel and Ellen (Hays) Grove. His grandfather, John C. Groves, was an old Indian warrior, and fought gallantly at the battle of Tippecanoe. His father was an ardent Unionist, and zealous supporter of the war. He sent his three sons to the arnry, and himself was a member of Col. Morehouse's regiment of Indiana Home Guards, and joined in the pursuit of John Morgan on his invasion north of the Ohio River. The subject of this sketch enlisted on the 7th of August, 1862, in Co. K, 70th Ind. Vols., Col. Ben. Harrison. He served throughout the Atlanta campaign ; was one of the storming force which consisted of the 1st Brig., 3d Div., 20th Army Corps, that captured a four-gun battery of twelve-pounders at Resaca, close to the enemy's entrenchments, and fought desperately from noon till ten o'clock at night in a successful effort to hold their position and retain their prize. He fought at Peach Tree Creek, which was an open battle, and disastrous repulse to the rebels. He did duty as one of Sherman's "bummers" on the march to the sea, and the campaign of the Carolinas, and fittingly terminated his military service on the grand review of the army at Washington, on the 24th of May, 1865. He was mustered out at that place on the 8th of June, and disbanded at Indianapolis. He was married on the 3d of November, 1866, to Sarah C. Fred, who died on the 14th of January, 1873. He was married again on the 2d of October, 1875, to Sarah Duke, of Montgomery county,

Indiana. He has three living children : Dora, born on the 18th of October, 1867; Amanda Ellen, born on the 1st of September, 1869; Laura, born on the 25th of November, 1871. He has an undivided one-half of one hundred and twenty acres, worth $1,800. He is a member of the Christian church. His political views are republican.

Michael T. Livingood, Rossville, physician and surgeon, was born on the 9th of March, 1825, in Womelsdorf, Berks county, Pennsylvania, and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Treon) Livingood, descended from German ancestors. His father and grandfather Treon were both physicians. He began the study of medicine at a very early age, under the direction of the former. In the winters of 1847-8-9 he attended lectures at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, graduating on the 28th of March, 1849. He located in the practice of his profession at Sinking Springs, near Reading, Pennsylvania, and remained there until 1865; in the meantime being for twelve years one of the physicians in charge of the Berks County Alms-house Hospital. He removed to Illinois and settled in Rossville, where he has since resided and acquired a large practice. He has been village trustee of Rossville two. terms; is president of the North Vermilion Medical Society. He was married on the 23d of February, 1852, to Hannah E. Ruth. They have five living children. In politics Mr. Livingood is a democrat, and in religion a Methodist.

John Bush, the grandfather of John Bush of Rossville, lived on Freeman's Creek, in West Virginia. Early on the morning of the 24th of April, 1791, he sent his two eldest children, Daniel and Ann, to drive up the cows. Immediately on their departure his house was furiously assailed by an attacking party of Indians. The screams of the children and the shouts of the savages suddenly brought Mr. Bush to his feet, and grasping his rifle, he opened the door. The weapon was instantly seized by a redskin standing at the threshold, and wrested from him. His foe shot him through the body with it, and as he dropped to the floor his wife sprang out of bed to his assistance. The Indian, while endeavoring to drag his body out, was dispatched by Mrs. Bush with an axe. Others also attempted to remove him, and she likewise disposed of five in succession. She wounded the sixth, and lost her weapon by its becoming fast in his ribs, and not being able to disengage it, she then barred the door, and the neighborhood having become aroused by the firing and yelling, the discomfited assailants fled precipitately, leaving the resolute woman " holding the fort," with her five or six children. The two children were carried into captivity, but after about two years were recovered. The boy died soon after his release, from the effects of the severities he had undergone. Mr. Bush was in a fair way of recovery, when, in a paroxysm of laughter, he ruptured a blood-vessel in his wound and died. This incident is related, though differing somewhat in its details, in an old book entitled " Chronicles of Border Warfare," a history of the settlement of northwestern Virginia. The subject of this sketch was born in Harrison county, West Virginia, on the 2d of November, 1810. He was the son of William and Mary (McCauley) Bush. In 1811 his parents removed to Galia county, Ohio, and in 1810 to Warren county. He was married on the 21th of November, 1830, to Jane Wallace. In 1838 he settled in Edgar county, Illinois, where he resided till 1865, and tilled a farm of four hundred and sixty-six acres, which he came into possession of solely as the fruit of his own toil. He labored irregularly for many years at cabinet work and carpentering, but never fully learned either trade. In 1865 he came to Vermilion county ; lived three years a little north of the present site of East Lynn, and in 1868 moved into Grant township. In Ohio he was first lieutenant of the Rossburgh Independent Rifle Company live years. He has served as constable and justice of the peace in different places where he has lived. His wife died on the 7th of November, 1877, aged sixty-eight years, five months and ten days. He had seven sons and four daughters. Three of his sons were in the army in the late war: Franklin L., in the 12th 111., Col. McArthur, three months; John C, in Co. H, 29th 111., wounded at Pittsburg Landing, on the 6th of April, 1862, and died in hospital at Keokuk, Iowa, on the 22d of April ; Daniel M., in an Indiana regiment about two years. Mr. Bush is a republican in politics, and has been a member of the IT. B. church thirty-five years. His wife was an old member.

Lafayette Goodwine, Hoopeston, farmer and stock-raiser, was born in Warren county, Indiana, on the 27th of February, 1846. His parents were Harrison and Isabel (Charlton) Goodwine. In 1863 he enlisted in Co. K, 11th Ind. Cav. He fought in the decisive battle of Nashville, on the 15th and 16th of December, 1864. The previous summer he had done duty in guarding the railroad between Stevenson and Huntsville, Alabama, his regiment having been assigned the task of protecting that line against the irruptions of the enemy. His command lay at Eastport, Mississippi, in the spring of 1865 ; from there it was ordered to St. Louis, and thence, in the latter part of June, to Council Grove, Kansas, where it lay till September, when it marched to Fort Leavenworth, where the horses were turned over. The regiment was soon after mustered out at Indianapolis. In the fall of 1866 he bought one hundred and sixty acres of his father, who also gave him an equal tract, and he settled where he at present resides, on the east half of section 17, town 23, range 11. The value of farm is $10,000. He was married on the 12th of October, 1866, to Miss Sarah Ann Wagoner, daughter of a respectable farmer of Milford, Iroquois county, Illinois. They have two living children : Julia Ann, born on the 3d of April, 1871 ; Ida May, born on the 7th of May, 1875. Mr. Goodwine is a republican. He is a prosperous farmer. Stock-raising engages a large share of his attention.

John C. Grove, Rossville, farmer, was born in Marion county, near Indianapolis, Indiana, on the 5th of September, 1837. He is a son of Samuel and Helen (Hays) Grove. He was enrolled on the 1st of August, 1862, in the 86th Ind. Vols., Col. Geo. F. Dick. He fought in the battles of Perryville, Stone River and Nashville, the latter occurring on the 15th and 16th of December, 1864; was present at Chickamauga and Mission Ridge, but not engaged. During the latter part of his service he was in feeble health. At the battle of Stone River a bullet went through his hat and cut out a tuft of his hair. He was drummajor of his regiment about one year, when failing health caused him to relinquish that position. He was mustered out at Nashville, on the 6th of June, 1865, and disbanded at Indianapolis. On the 28th of December, 1865, he was married to Huldah Plummer, daughter of William and Mary Ann Plummer, of Iroquois county, Illinois. They have had four children: Florence, born on the 3d of November, 1867; Lenora, born on the 5th of June, 1870 ; Lilly, born on the 7th of February, and died on the 17th of February, 1872; Drusilla, born on the 16th of October, 1873. In 1866, in company with his brother, James, he bought one hundred and twenty acres of land in section 31, town 23, range 12, Grant township. The estimated value of his interest is $1,800. His political views are republican.

The parents of Henry S. Hoover, of Hoopeston, Abraham and Mary (Speed}-) Hoover, removed in 1831 from Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, to La Fayette, Indiana, when there were fewer than a half dozen houses in the latter place, and the Indians were " as plenty as blackberries." On the 19th of February, 1833, the subject of this sketch was born. In 1846 the family sought a new location at Marshfield, Warren county, where they resided eighteen months, and then moved on a farm owned at the time by Perrin Kent, southeast of the present site of State Line City. From there, in 1S49, they went to Oskaloosa, Iowa. In 1854 Mr. Hoover returned, and worked as a hand in the neighborhood of Marshfield and of Rossville till 1862, when, in February of that year, he went back to Iowa, and on the 13th of August enlisted in Co. C, 7th Iowa Inf. He served on the Atlanta campaign ; was under tire at Resaca, and fought in front of Atlanta on the 22d of July, 1864, and a little later at Jonesborough ; participated in the march to the sea, and the still longer and more difficult campaign of the Carolinas, ending his active and eventful military service with the grand review of Sherman's army, at Washington city, on the 24th of May, 1865. He was mustered out at that place on the 13th of June, and disbanded toward the close of the month at Clinton, Iowa. In the following September he came to Vermilion county, Illinois. In 1867 he settled where he now lives, four miles southeast of Hoopeston. He was married on the 14th of November, 1875, to Mrs. Ellen Forshier, relict of Daniel Forshier. Her maiden name was Stone. Mr. Hoover owns one hundred and sixty acres of land, worth $4,800. He is a republican in politics.

John L. Starr, Hoopeston, farmer, was born in Logan county, Illinois, on the 5th of April, 1853. His parents were Shelby and Nancy (Groves) Starr. His father was from Kentucky, and his mother from Pennsylvania. The former died on the 8th of August, 1855, and his mother married a^ain to John Brandt. In 1869 the family removed to this county, and settled in Blount township. From this time forward till 1876 he lived alternately in Vermilion and Logan counties. In the latter year he moved on the farm he now owns, five miles east of Hoopeston, which he had bought the fall before. It consists of ninety acres, situated in section 10, town 23, range 11, and is valued at $2,700. He was married on the 31st of December, 1874, to Miss Sophia A. Fairchilds, who was born on the 20th of April, 1857, and was a daughter of the Rev. Daniel Fairchilds, a pioneer Methodist preacher of Vermilion county, now deceased.

Philip C. McMains, Rossville, farmer, was born in Parke county, Indiana, on the 15th of February, 1835, and is a son of Robert and Mary (Groves) McMains. His grandfather, Frederick Groves, was a soldier in the Mexican war. He was married on the 15th of February, 1858, to Nancy Groves, daughter of Samuel Groves, of Lemon county, Kentucky. She was born on the 18th of February, 1832. In 1868 he moved to Waynetown, Montgomery county, Indiana; lived there one year, and then removed to Vermilion county, Illinois, and settled in Grant township. He has eight living children : John H., born on the 21st of February, 1859 ; Zachariah T., born on the 22d of April, 1861 ; Charles, born on the 8th of November, 1863 ; Mary B., born on the 15th of October, 1865 ; Betty, born on the 28th of May, 1868 ; Willie, born on the 18th of September, 1871 ; Frank, born on the 24th of January, 1874, and Almira, born on the 7th of August, 1877. Mr. Mc- Mains is an independent in politics. Mrs. McMains has been a member of the Christian church about thirty -five years.

Lemuel W. Anderson, Hoopeston, physician and surgeon, was born in Franklin, Venango county, Pennsylvania, on the 7th of May, 1838. In 1844 his parents settled in Huntington county, Indiana. He spent one year at Wabash College, Crawfordsville ; he studied medicine at Zionsville, Boone county, under Drs. Duzan & Anderson, who were in partnership. In the winter of 1858-9 he took a partial term of lectures at the Medical College of Ohio, and in the winter of 1861-2 attended a full course of lectures at the University of New York. During the same period he took a full course of instruction in the Eye and Ear Infirmary of New York. After the close of the lecture course he practiced a while in obstetrics, under Dr. Wilson, superintendent of the Lying-in Asylum. In 1862 he began practice at Huntington, Indiana; but in eight months re-located at Mount ^Etna, in the same count}T, where he remained nine and one-half years. In 1851-2 he was deputy postmaster at Huntington, and from 1858 to 1860 occupied the same position at Zionsville, except the time he was in college ; and again at the former place in 1S61. During the intervals he clerked a part of the time in a dry-goods store. In 1857 he worked in a machine shop in Fort Wayne, with the intention of learning the trade, but the concern broke up and he was thrown out and never resumed it. In 1871 he moved to this county and settled on a farm of eighty acres situated four and one-half miles southeast of Hoopeston, which he still owns. In the spring of 1873 he removed to Hoopeston. He is a member of the North Vermilion and of the Vermilion County Medical Societies. Dr. Anderson not only began poor, but sadly in debt. No favorable circumstances attended him from his youth up. He has struggled with a high purpose and an invincible will. The result is but natural : he now owns two hundred and twenty-seven acres of choice farming land, valued at $7,000; also twenty-two lots and six houses in the city of Hoopeston. His superior skill and judgment, and extensive and constantly increasing practice, have placed him in the front rank of his profession. His eminent success has made him widely known and deservedly popular; but it is not Dr. Anderson's success as a business man and practitioner which is most to be admired : his word is law. This is not the least of the means which have operated to give him a highly respectable and conservative reputation. He was married on the 24th of March, 1864, to Elizabeth J. Blose, who was born on the 2d of July, 1842. They have eight children : William Orion, born on the 28th of November, 1866 ; Norval Otto, born on the 29th of March, 1867, died on the 24th of August, 1869; George Oscar, born on the 7th of June, 1869, died on the 29th of May, 1S72 ; Edward Ovid, born on the 24th of March, 1871 ; Alfred Oglesby, born on the 11th of Septem- ber, 1872; Thomas Orlando, born on the 24th of May, 1874; Lemuel Orth, born on the 7th of March, 1876 ; Mary Olive, born on the 4th of February, 1878. Both he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church. He has been an elder thirteen years.

David Bedell, Hoopeston, merchant, was born at Twin Rivers, Manitowoc county, Wisconsin, on the 8th of April, 1854. He is the son of Jonathan and Jane (Pollock) Bedell ; came to Hoopeston with his father in the summer of 1871. He received his education at the public schools of Loda and Hoopeston. He is now chief partner in the firm of David Bedell & Co., in the general merchandising business.

Jonathan Bedell, Hoopeston, merchant, was born in Cazenovia, Madison county, New York, on the 29th of October, 1827, and is a son of Milo and Hannah (Cole) Bedell. His grandfather, Joseph Y. Cole, was a veteran of the revolutionary war. At the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to the tanner and currier's trade. In 1851 he emigrated to Twin Rivers, Manitowoc county, Wisconsin ; while there he learned the carpenter's trade. He was employed by the Wisconsin Leather Company four years in tanning leather. In April, 1855, he moved to Illinois and entered the last piece of land in Vermilion (now Ford) county, which was entered while the register's office was at Danville. This wras the S.E. J of section 35, town 24, range 8. He lived on his farm four or five years ; moved into Loda and lived there until 1871, when he settled in Hoopeston and opened the first store in the place. He was at first assistant postmaster in the new town, and opened the first mail that was received, and mailed the first matter that was sent away. He also made the first payment of cash on lots which wTere sold in the place, it being for lots 68 and 69 which he at present occupies on 'Main street. He was the first master of Star Lodge, No. 709, A.F. '& A.M., of Hoopeston. On the 1st of January, 1875, he sold his store, and the business has since been continued under the firm name of David Bedell & Co. He was married on the 18th of September, 1851, to Jane Pollock. They have seven children : Henry, born on the 12th of June, 1852, died on the 27th of September, 1853; David, born on the 8th of April, 1854 ; Laura E., born on the 8th of February, 1857, died on the 24th of April, 1864 ; Wilford, born on the 16th of June, 1859, died on the 27th of December, 1863; Jane, born on the 20th of January, 1864, died on the 20th of September, 1864; George, born on the 18th of December, 1866 ; Maggie, born on the 16th of January, 1870. He is an independent in politics.

Miles Odle, Hoopeston, farmer, was born in Warren county, Indiana, on the 26th of December, 1841. His parents were Nathan B. and Frances (Watkins) Odle. He was reared on a farm. He volun- teered, on the 3d of June, 1861, in Co. A, 15th Ind. Vols., Col. G. D. Wagner, and was mustered into the United States service on the 14th at Lafayette. He was engaged at Cheat Mountains on the 12th of September, and at Greenbriar, Virginia, on the 3d of October, 1861, both of which were federal successes. He subsequently fought at Shiloh, Perryville, Stone River, Chickamauga and Mission Ridge, besides having a share in a large number of smaller actions. He was mustered out on the 30th of June, 1864, at Indianapolis. He was married on the 30th of August, 1866, to Susan Hunter, who was born on the 25th of November, 1847, and died on the 17th of May, 1870. He was married again on the 12th of January, 1872, to Sarah Hunter, who was born on the 22d of January, 1850, and daughter of John Hunter, a wealthy farmer of Warren county, Indiana. In 1871 he removed to Vermilion county, Illinois, and settled where he now lives, in Grant township, four miles east of Hoopeston, on a farm of one hundred and twenty acres in section 3, which he bought at that time. He now owns two hundred acres, worth $6,000. Mr. Odle is a staunch republican, and a firm advocate of specie resumption. He has five living children: Ella Florence, born on the 17th of September, 1867; Anna Rossa, born on the 18th of October, 1869 ; Hattie Letitia, born on the 21st of February, 1874; John Lindsay, born on the 3d of August, 1875, and Miles Sherman, born on the 2d of November, 1878.

Thomas J. Bowsman, Hoopeston, farmer and carpenter, was born in Preble county, Ohio, on the 14th of November, 1839. His parents -were James and Rosanna (Strader) Bowsman. His grandfather Strader served seven years in the revolutionary war without a furlough, and without being once at home during the time. His father was a carpenter, and from him he learned the same trade. Until he was seventeen he had done no other kind of work. In 1856 the family emigrated to Pike county, Illinois, and settled near Pittsfield, where he farmed two years. In 1858 he returned to Ohio, and finally went to Madison county,, Indiana, where he enlisted on the 28th of August, 1861, in Co. D, 34th Ind. Vols. This regiment became attached in time to the 1st Brig., 3d Div., 13th Army Corps. He bore a part in the operations at New Madrid and Island No. 10 ; fought at Fort Gibson, Champion Hills, siege of Vicksburg and Jackson, Mississippi. In the winter of 1863-4 the regiment was ordered to Texas, but returned to New Orleans in March and veteraned. On the 13th of May, 1865, a portion of the regiment had a sharp fight with the rebels, and sustained a loss of two companies captured. This occurred on the Rio Grande and on the old Palo Alto battle-ground. In the battle of Champion Hills the stock of his gun was shattered by seven bullets, but he was unscathed during all his service. He was mustered out on the 28th of February, 1866, at Brownsville, Texas, and disbanded at Indianapolis. On his return home he engaged in running first a saw and afterward a planing mill, owning a one-third interest in each. Subsequently he worked at his trade, but in the spring of 1869 he became interested in a saw-mill in Preble county, Ohio, which he ran to May, 1871, when he removed it to Vermilion county, Indiana, and set it up seven miles southeast of Danville. He operated it till September, 1875, when he sold out and bought one hundred and ten acres of land, where he now lives, in Grant township. He is a stalwart republican.

William R. Clark, Hoopeston, hardware merchant, was born in "Watertown, New York, on the 25th of October, 1832, and is the son of Raymond and Lucy (Gill) Clark. When quite young his parents emigrated to Washington, AVayne county, Indiana, and in 1810 to Adams county, Illinois, settling on a farm near Quincy. He was in Missouri a year, returning to Franklin county, Indiana, in the spring of 1846. From this' time till the spring of 1853 he was steamboating on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, most of the time in the capacity of steward. He started on the 1st of May, 1853, for California by the overland route, arriving there on the 2d of October. He kept hotel at Neal's Ranche, in the Sacramento Valley, forty miles north of Myersville, during his residence in that state. In September, 1857, he returned to Marshall county, Illinois, living nine years in Winona, engaged in the grocery trade. In 1866 he moved clark s hall.

to Gilman, Iroquois county, and started a hardware store; in 1870 removed his business to Loda, and in the spring of 1872 to Hoopeston, then an enterprising town just starting. He has continued the same business ever since, and now owns and occupies the finest merchandising house in the northern part of Vermilion county. He is serving his second term as supervisor of Grant tcrwnship. He possesses good business qualifications, a firm character, unqualified integrity, and is highly and universally respected. He was married on the 5th of September, 1857, to Henrietta Filton. They have two living children : Lilie, born on the 8th of May, 1864; Georgie, born on the 5th of May, 1866. Mr. Clark is a steadfast republican, at this time popularly termed " stalwart."

Johu S. Powell. Hoopeston, druggist, was born in Xew York city on the 23d of February, 1840, and is the son of Edward and Harriet (Everett) Powell. At the age of twelve he was indentured to Dr. William G. Wood, of Harlem, in the drug business, and placed under the supervision of the doctors brother, James Wood, a thorough pharmacist. He served an apprenticeship of five years, during which time he was required daily to learn a prescribed task and undergo examination by the doctor. He became by this means a good Latin scholar. When seventeen he went into some of the leading drug stores in -the city, where he finished his professional education. In 1860 he immigrated to Illinois, and on the 14th of April, 1861, volunteered in Co. A, 12th 111. Inf., Col. McArthur, for three months. He was mustered out at Cairo on the 2d of August. In the following month he reenlisted in the 30th 111., and was appointed hospital steward of the regiment, and served in that capacity till the expiration of his three years' term, when, in September, 1861, he veteraned. He bore a part in the battles of Belmont, Forts Henry and Donelson, Shiloh, and the Yicksburg campaign, including the actions at Clinton, Jackson, Champion Hills, and finally the siege and fall of the Gibralter of the Mississippi. At the battle of Champion Hills, on the 16th of May, 1863, he fell into the hands of the enemy, but was released on parole, when he reported in person to Gen. Grant, and requested to remain with the army till the fall of the citv. The general acceded to his request, and put him on duty as hospital steward in Gen. Logan's division hospital. After the capture of Yicksburg he was ordered to report to Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, as a paroled prisoner of war, where he remained until exchanged ; then returning to that city he was placed on detached service in the office of the medical director of the 17th Army Corps. Availing himself of the department library at command, he resumed and diligently prosecuted his studies. He appeared before the board of medical examiners, consisting of surgeons Patterson, Wilson and Bouschee, and passed a successful examination, and in January, 1865, was commissioned assistant surgeon of the 52d U. S. Col. Vols. He was given charge of a ward in U. S. hospital No. 3, at Yicksburg, and also a small-pox hospital. He remained there on duty till he was mustered out of the service, in May, 1866. He returned to Illinois and engaged in traveling in the wholesale drug business. On the 2d of August, 1871, he stopped in Hoopeston, and in the following winter purchased the store and stock of drugs belonging to Frank Hoffman, and has continued the business to the present time, having secured a large and increasing trade. He was married on the 25th of January, 1874, to Miss Lizzie Webb. They have one child,

Joseph Dallstream, Hoopeston, merchant, was born in Wenersborg, Sweden, on the 2d of April, 1852, and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Anderson) Dallstream. He received a fair education in the public schools of the country, and spent one term in Uppsala College. At sixteen he was apprenticed to the shoemaker's trade, which he has steadily followed since. In 1871 he came to America, and settled in Champaign city. He lived there one year, and afterward a few months in Rantoul, finally settling in Hoopeston in the fall of 1872. In 1876 he opened a general boot and shoe store in connection with his manufacturing. He was married on the 6th of September, 1878, to Amy J. Given, who was born on the 22d of July, 1849, in Millersburg, Holmes county, Ohio. She is a member of the Christian church. He is a republican in politics, and a member of the Lutheran church. ' He is also a member of the Blue Lodge of Masons, and of the chapter in Hoopeston.

Jacob S. McFerren, Hoopeston, banker and real estate broker, was born in Warren county, Ohio, on the 1st of October, 1845. His parents were William and Eliza (Snyder) McFerren. He received a business education at Bartlett's Commercial College, Cincinnati. His father having always followed the mercantile business, he was reared to the same pursuit. At the age of fifteen he quit school to take a half interest with his uncle in a store at Level, Ohio, the latter furnishing the capital, and he conducting the business and sharing one half the profits, the style of the firm being, A. S. McFerren & Co. Two years later his uncle formed another partnership, and commenced operating in grain ; but a heavy decline and other bad speculations caused the firm to suspend with heavy liabilities, which so affected the firm of A. S. McFerren & Co. that the quite extensive business which the subject of this sketch had built up was discontinued, and their affairs were settled up, and all their debts paid in full. In his short, independent business career Mr. McFerren had made a clear profit of $3,000; but by the unfortunate speculations of his partner he lost all but $800, which so reduced his capital that he was obliged to begin on a salary. So, in August, 1865, he started west, and located at Paxton, Illinois, where he took charge of the books of J. W. Scott, of that place, for a short time, and afterward found a permanent situation with R. Clark, one of the oldest merchants of Paxton, as book-keeper. At the end of a year Mr. Clark's health failing, he offered to turn over his stock of goods to his nephew, A. L. Clark, and Mr. McFerren, and loan them all needed capital. The proposition was accepted, and the firm became Clark & McFerren. This partnership and enterprise proved highly fortunate. Their trade suddenly attained a basis of substantial prosperity, and their capital steadily and rapidly increased. Mr. Mc- Ferren at length determined to embark in banking and real estate brokerage, and, accordingly, associated with himself T. W. Chamberlin, under the style of McFerren & Chamberlin. They opened a bank in Hoopeston on the 1st of August, 1872, and did a remunerative business, passing safely through the panic of 1873, keeping their doors open throughout that trying period. Early in 1874, owing to ill-health, Mr. Chamberlin retired from the partnership. Mr. McFerren's bank is one of the most safely conducted institutions of the kind in the country, and its credit is deservedly high. The business transacted by it has constantly augmented in volume. Maintaining his working capital at a uniform figure, he has judiciously invested the profits in first-class farming lands in Vermilion, Iroquois and Ford counties, which are now valued at $60,000. He attributes his success to careful economy, to keeping his own books, and maintaining a close, personal supervision over the details of his business, and to strictly living up to his contracts, and compelling others to a like exactness in discharging their contracts with him. In the spring of 1877 Mr. McFerren was elected the first mayor of Hoopeston on the temperance ticket. The town had always been controlled by the liquor interest, but at the end of his term of two years it was cleared of every saloon and groggery. It is not the least of his merits that he has been a consistent and earnest laborer in the temperance cause, and has thus assisted largely in building up the city, infusing life into it, rendering it respectable, and contributing to its good name and reputation. He has been treasurer and director of the Hoopeston District Agricultural Society, and is at present school treasurer of town 23, range 12. He was one of the original projectors of the Ford County Agricultural Society, and is still a stockholder in it. Having a taste for travel, Mr. McFerren has gratified it by an extensive tour of the United States, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the British provinces to the Gulf of Mexico. He was married on the 4th of April, 1871, to Miss Susie P. Clark, daughter of K. Clark, who died on the 28th of July, 1871. His parents have been life-long members of the Universalist church. He is a republican in politics.

Enoch Ross, Hoopeston, farmer, was born in Stark county, Ohio, on the 27th of December, 1840, and is a son of Isaac N. and Nancy (Hewitt) Ross. His parents were native Pennsylvauians, and his ancestors on his mother's side were Irish. His father was the owner of a large grist-mill in Waynesburg, and he raised his son a miller. He followed this trade until his removal to Illinois. On the 17th of July, 1863, he joined the " Ohio National Guard " for five years, and remained a member of that body until the 1st of May, 1866, when he was honorably discharged. He volunteered in the one-hundred-days service, on the 2d of May, 1864, in Co. I, 162d Ohio National Guard, as a musician, and was mustered into the U. S. service. He did duty at Camp Chase, Ohio, and at Covington and Carrollton, Kentucky, and was mustered out at the former place on the 4th of September, 1864. He was married on the 22d of September, 1862, to Christina Kara, daughter of Adam Kara, a well-to-do and respectable mechanic of Waynesburg. She was born on the 27th of December, 1841. In the spring of 1868 he removed with his family to Illinois, and located in Fountain Creek township, Iroquois county, on land belonging to his father. He lived there four years, and then bought one hundred and sixty acres in Grant township, Vermilion county, of H. W. Beckwith, 'of Danville, the same being the southeast -j, section 6, town 23, range 12, where he at present resides. He has a fine homestead, free from debt; is an independent farmer and valued citizen. He has one daughter: Lorena, who was born on the 22d of August, 1863. His political views are republican.

Garret J. Pendergrast, Rossville, farmer, was bora in Jefferson county, Kentucky, on the 24th of February, 1838, and is a son of James F. and Dorothea (Miller) Pendergrast. His father was a physician of Jefferson county. He was reared a farmer, and also learned the trade of brickmaking and bricklaying. In 1856 he emigrated to Keokuk, Iowa, and in 1858 returned to Kentucky, and in the fall went to Chippewa county, Michigan, and entered one hundred and twenty acres of land, living eighteen months among the Indians, but growing weary of his prolonged separation from white men and civilization, he gave his land to his brother, who lived in that section fifteen years altogether. He returned to " Old Kaintuck," and after a few months went to New Orleans. In 1863 he again wandered back to his native home. Three or four years were then spent in farming, after which he went to making and laying brick in Henry and Shelby counties. He was married on the 9th of December, 1871, to Delia Hardesty, daughter of a wealthy farmer of Henry county, living near Eminence. She was born on the 23d of November, 1853. In 1872 he emigrated to Illinois and settled at Rossville, where he continued his usual employments of farming and making and laying brick. He and his brother Patrick built all the brick business-houses in Rossville, viz : Deamude's, Henderson's and Putnam & Albright's. He has a pleasant home of sixteen acres on the northern confines of the town, valued at $1,500. He was identified with the republican party for a long time, but for the past few years has been independent in politics. The Pendergrasts were Irish, and the Moores, - his ancestors on his mother's side, - were English. Both families were among the earliest settlers of Kentucky ; they emigrated from Pennsylvania. His great-grandfather, Jesse Pendergrast, was killed at Boonesborough in attempting to enter the fort while it was invested by Indians. His grandfather, Jesse Pendergrast, was born in the old fort, and a brother, Garret J. Pendergrast, for many years a noted practitioner of Louisville and surgeon in the U. S. army, was reputed to have been the first white male child born in Kentucky. His birthplace was also at Boonesborough. Garret J. Pendergrast, uncle to the subject of this sketch, was a commodore in the U. S. navy, and at the breaking out of the war was one of the oldest officers in the service. His wife was a daughter of Commodore Barron who killed Decatur in a duel. Austin Pendergrast, brother to the subject of this sketch, was a commander in the U. S. navy. He was lieutenant-commander of the Congress when she was sunk by the Merrimac at Newport News. He commanded the U. S. steamer Waterwitch in Ossabaw Sound, Georgia, when she was captured, and received a severe wound in the engagement. He was confined in Libby prison eighteen months. He, among others, was placed under the rebel guns at Charleston during the siege of that city by Gen. Gillmore, to check the federal fire.

Erastus D. Crane, Rossville, farmer, was born in Warren county, Ohio, on the 4th of January, 1834. His parents were Silas and Jane (Romine) Crane. Soon after his birth his parents migrated to Fountain county, Indiana; he lived in that and Warren count}^ till 1873, when he moved to Yermilion county, Illinois, and bought the N.E. 4; of section 5, town 22, range 12, three miles west and three-fourths of a mile north of Rossville, where he at present lives. He was married on the 3d of February, 1856, to Sarah M. Bowling, who was born on the 6th of March, 1839. He was assessor four years in Jordan township, Warren county, Indiana. He has eleven children living and dead, as follows: Mary Jane, born February 13, 1857; Hannah Alice, born August 26, 1858; Huldah Elma, born November 28, 1860 ; died August 16, 1866; William E., born October 21, 1862; Charles, born October 15, 1865; Elnora, born January 28, 1868; Ora, born April 23, 1870; Frank, born September 3, 1872; Clara, born February 14, 1874; Lulu May, born February 13, 1877; Nellie Florence, born April 12, 1879. He owns one hundred and sixty acres of land, worth $4,800. Mr. Crane is a greenback republican.

tucky, on the 26th of October, 1826, and is the son of Solomon and Mary E. (Randolph) Green. In 1849 he removed to Crawfordsville, Indiana. He was married on the 17th of October, 1849, to Elizabeth E. Rogers. In 1864 he settled in Prairie Green township, Iroquois county, Illinois, where he purchased a farm of one hundred and sixty acres. In 1867 he moved into Stockland township, and bought two hundred and forty-one acres ; lived there seven years, and then settled in Hoopeston, to avail himself of the superior school there for his children. He has served one term as alderman, and been a director of the high school since the spring of 1875. This school is in the front rank of institutions of its kind, and its high reputation is due primarily to the wisdom of its officers. His judgment has proved no less practical in public than in his own private affairs. He has four living children : Willis T., Titus T., Henry Clay, Lina Ellen. He owns four hundred and one acres of land, valued at $12,500. Mr. Green is a staunch republican ; has been a member of the Christian church since 1844.

Alba Honeywell, Hoopeston, farmer, was born in Cayuga county, New York, on the 15th of December, 1821, and is the son of Enoch and Eliza (Dye) Honeywell. When a youth his parents settled in Steuben (now Schuyler) county. He was brought up to the pursuits of the farm. At the age of sixteen he began his education, at first attending the Groton Academy two years, and, after teaching a year, continued his studies two years more at the Oneida Institute. He next taught the Pleasant Valley Academy, and labored in this profession eight or ten years. About 1843 he went to Seneca Falls, and, while engaged in teaching, read law in the office of Ansil Bascom. The next year he went to Rochester, and studied in the office of Gilbert & Osborne. He resided in that city a year, and while there, was a delegate to the Buffalo Convention, which nominated James G. Birney, the abolition candidate, for President in 1844. From this time till 1847 he was chiefly engaged in the temperance and anti-slavery lecture field, and in the meantime wrote several plays in the interest of the temperance cause. During the same period he contributed a number of poems to the Philadelphia "Dollar Newspaper," and employed his pen variously on other papers in writing stories and stray communications bearingmore or less directly on the reform questions of the day. In July, 1847, he went to New York city, and became editorially connected with the "Anglo-Saxon," a phonetic publication, Andrews & Boyle, proprietors. Afterward, in company with Josiah Pillsbury and B. P. Worcester, the latter a nephew of the lexicographer, he commenced the publication of the "New York Eagle," a reform paper, which was soon discontinued. In about 1849 he became an attache on the edi- torial staff of the " Standard," the organ of tlie American Anti-Slavery Society. During much of the time he was associated with the "Standard " he issued a small monthly of his own, called the "Chromo Press." He was thus occupied till April, 1853, when he emigrated to Iroquois county, Illinois, and went on a farm of eight hundred acres, which he and his father had entered the year before. He lived there three years, increasing the farm to fourteen hundred acres. In 1856, having become dissatisfied, he traveled in Minnesota and Iowa in quest of a better location, and in the fall went to Chicago and secured a position on the editorial staff of the Chicago " Daily News," a republican paper, which ceased to exist when the political campaign of that year ended. In the spring of 1857 he went to Logansport, Indiana, and became connected with H. H. Evarts in his celebrated patent shingle machine, in which venture he lost four thousand dollars. He next formed a partnership under the title of Swan & Honeywell, in lumber manufacturing, which lasted two years. In 1860, in company with Charles W. Simonds - firm name of Honeywell & Co. - he started a plow-handle and bending establishment, but at the end of two years sold out his interest to his partner. This same factory has since grown to immense proportions. In 1862 he returned to his farm in Iroquois county, and in 1864 was elected supervisor of Stockland township, and reelected to that office every year until 1869, when he was elected county clerk on the republican ticket. During the winters that he was on the farm he was engaged in teaching school, and, during the most of his service on the county board, was chairman of the finance committee. In 1872 and 1873 he bought one thousand acres of land adjoining Hoopeston, a part of the city being laid out on it. In 1874 he removed there, and has since been engaged in improving his fiue estate. Altogether, he owns two thousand acres of land, valued at $80,000. He is at present maj'or of the city of Hoopeston ; has been a stockholder in, and a director of, the First National Bank of Watseka since its organization ; has been prominent in temperance work in Hoopeston. Mr. Honeywell has written the text of a manuscript work entitled, "Philological Encyclopedia of the English Language," embracing, among the many subjects discussed, phonics, and the institutes of grammar, rhetoric and logic. He was married on the 3d of April, 1851, to Cornelia R. Andrews, of Steuben county, New York. They have four living children : Stella, wife of John C. Cromer, editor of the Homer "Enterprise"; Florence, Lilian and Sarah E. Mr. Honeywell is a republican in politics.

the youngest son of Lyman and Candice Stocking, both of whom were born and reared in Litchfield, Connecticut. He was left an orphan at a very early age, his father dying when he was two and his mother when he was three years old. He was adopted by Chauncey W. McCall, a distant relation, by whom he was reared and with whom he lived till he was twenty-one. At sixteen he was apprenticed to the printer's trade, which he learned, but it being too confining for his health he abandoned it and went to gardening, which has been his life-occupation. In 1847 he emigrated to Coldwater, Michigan, where he was married on the 15th of October, 1852, to Miss Harriet E. Dunn, daughter of a respectable farmer of that place. In the spring of 1859, accompanied by three men named Douglas, Hunter and Sopries, he crossed the plains to Denver, Colorado, on foot, they hauling their provisions in a one-horse cart from Omaha. They were treated very kindly by the Indians, among whom they passed without molestation, and with whom they traded every day. This was the first party to reach Denver that spring ; perhaps a dozen had preceded them the fall before. At this time there was not a house in the place ; the few who were there burrowed in the ground. He helped to make the first mining laws and to hang the first criminal, who was a Mexican that had murdered his brother-in-law ; he made the first farming claim, a tract of one hundred and sixty acres. He went there for the purpose of gardening, the Pike's Peak emigration being at its height, but a midsummer frost destroyed every prospect for him in that direction and he returned home in June. In 1867 he moved to Jacksonville, Illinois, where he carried on gardening, farming and stock-feeding till 1874, when he settled in Hoopeston, where he opened his Prairie Garden. He has been trustee of the town of Hoopeston, and later alderman of the city. He is a republican in politics, and has been a member of the Methodist church since he was sixteen years old. He has two living children : Ida E., born on the 24th of September, 1853, wife of W. W. Hobart, of Hoopeston ; and Eddie J., born on the 24th of October, 1859.

John R. Livingood, Rossville, physician and surgeon, was born on the 27th of March, 1853, at Sinking Springs, Berks county. Pennsylvania, and is the son of Michael T. and Hannah E. (Ruth) Livingood ; attended the Reading Classical Academy from 1867 to 1869, then studied medicine with his father till 1871, when he entered the University of Pennsylvania, graduating on the 13th of March, 1874. He returned to Rossville, where he has since lived and practiced his profession with increasing success. He is a member of the North Vermilion Medical Society. He is a democrat and a Methodist.

Henry H. Dyer, Hoopeston, attorney, was born in Rutland county, Vermont, on the 9th of April, 1831. He is the son of Daniel and Phila B. (Beverstock) Dyer. When seven years old, his parents removed to Richland county, Ohio. He was bred a farmer; was educated at Mount Hesper Seminary, in Morrow county, and taught school a number of terms. In 1853 he obtained a position in the Bank of Mansfield, a bank of issue, as teller and bookkeeper. He was married on the 22d of November, 1854, to Miss Sarah J. Wescott ; next year settled in Calloway county, Missouri, where, in company with his father, he bought a farm of three hundred and twenty acres whereon he built a combined steam saw, grist and woolen mill. In 1858 this was fired and burned by one Lewis, at the instigation of the slaveholding community, to punish Mr. D. for his anti-slavery views. In 1860 he removed to Denver City and engaged in the commission business ; in 18^1 he went to Nevada City, and for two years was mining and running a quartz mill ; in 1863 moved to Canon City and bought three ranches ; followed farming and trading; elected justice of the peace and held the office one year. In the fall of 1864 he went to Denver and embarked in the auction and commission business, taking a partner, under the firm name of Clark and Dyer. In the spring of 1867 he came to Chicago, engaging in the hardware trade and the manufacture of tinware ; in 1870 moved to Greenup, Cumberland county, Illinois, and went into the real estate and contract business; in January, 1875, settled in Hoopeston, and began the study of the law privately, which he prosecuted with prodigious zeal and assiduity. He began to practice in July following. He did not relax his studies, and in January, 1877, was admitted to the bar at Springfield. He has secured a very successful and lucrative practice. He is a nephew of Hon. Charles V. Dyer, of Chicago, a noted antislavery lecturer, who was formerly judge under treaty with Great Britain for the suppression of the African slave-trade, by appointment of President Lincoln. He is the father of four living children. Mr. Dyer in his political views is a greenbacker.

Dale Wallace, Hoopeston, publisher, was born in Laporte, Indiana, on the 5th of November, 1849. His parents were John Porter and Lydia Ann (Winchell) Wallace. In 1855 his parents moved to West Union, Fayette county, Iowa, and the subject of this sketch was reared and educated there. He began the printer's trade in 1863 in the office of the " Fayette County Pioneer," a violent copperhead sheet which was published at West Union. This was mobbed the same year by a lot of returned soldiers, while he was yet working in the office. He next went to Marion, Linn county, and obtained a place in the office of the " Marion Register," remaining there one year. In 1865 he en- tered Baylies' Commercial College and learned telegraphy, graduating in four mouths. He next went to work on the Cedar Falls "Gazette," and was foreman in that office two years; then went to Eldora, Hardin county, and was foreman of the "Ledger" one or two years; from thence he went to California and Oregon and remained two years working at his trade in San Francisco, Sacramento, Portland, Salt Lake and Virginia Cities. When a poor boy he conceived a passion for travel, and saved his money carefully during the long years of close application to his trade to gratify it. He has visited every state in the Union, except Maine and Texas, and traveled in Montana, Idaho, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. In 1871 he returned from the Pacific coast to Eldora. A large eight-column newspaper, owned by stockholders, was being published in that place, and he was engaged to manage it, which he did three months. Dictation not proving agreeable to him, he gave up his position and came to Hoopeston, and in company with G. W. Seavey, established the " Chronicle," on the 1st of January, 1872. They sold out on the 1st of January, 1877, to L. F. Watson, and on the 1st of July, of the same year, Mr. Wallace came into control of it again, this time as sole owner. In February, 1877, he visited Washington City, and during that and the following month he traveled extensively in the southern states. In November, 1877, he was appointed postmaster at Hoopeston, and on the 1st of January following took charge of the office, which he holds at the present time. He was married on the 14th of November, 1878, to Miss Luc}' Viola Webb. Mr. Wallace possesses first-class qualifications for his profession. His ability to maintain a newsy, racy and pungent paper has placed the " Chronicle" in the front rank of the country press, and secured for it a generous patronage. He never does things by halves ; he contributes no halting support, or interposes no timid opposition - he embraces or repels with energy and resolution. He founded the " Chronicle " before a business house had been finished in the place, and by his spirit, pluck and intelligence has done as much as any other to make the name of Hoopeston a byword abroad, and her reputation for thoroughness and enterprise a fixed fact.

Alfred E. McDonald, Hoopeston, attorney, was born in Chatham county, North Carolina, on the 10th of May, 1844. His parents were Simeon and Anna R. (Elliott) McDonald. When very young his parents removed to Clark county, Illinois, and settled on a farm of eighty acres, which was subsequently increased to about six hundred. He volunteered in the spring of 1861 for three months, in Co. G, 10th 111. Inf., Col. B. M. Prentiss. At the expiration of his term he reenlisted in the same company and regiment; was employed at New Ma- drid and Island Xo. 1<>. His regiment and the 16th 111., under Gen. Pope, bagged six thousand rebels at the latter place. He was present at the siege of Corinth and the battle of Chickamauga ; fought at Mission Ridge, and marched to Knoxville ; veteraned on the 1st of January, 1864, at Rossville, Georgia. He was captured on the 27th of August during the movement of Sherman's army to the rear of Atlanta ; was confined first at Andersonville, then at Florence ; and was paroled on the 13th of December, and delivered to federal authorities at Charleston on the 16th. After a respite of nearly three months at home, he rejoined his regiment at Raleigh the day before Johnson surrendered ; marched to Washington, and went on the grand review of Sherman's army, on the 24th of May, 1865 ; mustered out on the 4th of July, at Louisville, and disbanded at Chicago on the 12th. He was married on the 16th of November, 1867, to Miss Mildred Conley. On the death of his father, in 1867, the management of the estate devolved upon him. In 1870 he went to Texas, and was employed on a stock ranche. Returning in the fall of 1871, he commenced reading law under Judge A. H. Stutsman ; studied afterward with James A. Conley, of Charleston, Illinois, at present United States district attorney. In the winters of 1872-3 and of 1873-4 he attended the law school of the Michigan University ; graduated on the 25th of March, 1874, and was admitted to the bar at Lansing on the 7th of April. Soon afterward he located at Waxahatchie, Texas, but in July, 1875, came north and settled at Hoopeston, where he enjoys a good reputation and a fine practice. He has' one son : Cory. Mr. McDonald is a republican.

Rudolphus R. Taylor, Hoopeston, hardware merchant and implement dealer, was born in Peoria, Illinois, on the 5th of April, 1842. His parents were James S. and Sarah (Miller) Taylor. At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to the tinner's trade, which he learned. In 1859 he went to California, by the way of Panama; lived there two years ; worked some at mining, but most of the time at his trade. He enlisted on the 18th of September, 1861, in Co. A, 2d Cal. Cav., Col. A. J. Smith. He passed his term of service doing duty at Fort Churchill, Nevada, and at Camp Douglas, Salt Lake City, and in scouting after Indians. He was mustered out on the 4th of October, 1864, at Camp Douglas, and disbanded on the 16th. He at once started for home across the plains, and arrived in Peoria early in December. He was married on the 7th of February, 1865, to Miss Carrie Ash. In 1867 he engaged . in the hardware trade in Princeville, Peoria county, in company with I. Howell, under the firm name of Howell & Taylor. In the spring of 1872 they sold out and Mr. T. returned to Peoria, and was employed by the T. P. S: W. Railroad Company. Two years later he formed a co-partnership with James Hnlsizer, style of Hulsizer & Taylor, and resumed the hardware business in Princeville. In February, 1875, they removed to Hoopeston, and in March, 1877, Mr. H. sold his interest to Mr. Taylor and retired from the firm. Mr. T. is still at the old stand, doing a good business. He is an honorable, fair-dealing man, worthy of confidence and patronage. He has two living children : James A., and Minnie L. Mr. Taylor is a staunch republican in politics.

Joseph South wick, Hoopeston, farmer, was born at Hoosac Falls, Rensselaer county, New York, on the 1st of August, 1833. He is a son of John Wesley and Esther (Chapman) Southwick. He obtained his education at the high school at Union Village, Washington county, New York, ending his studies there in 1854. He spent the year 1855 in Maine, surveying and platting the counties of Kennebec and Androscoggin for county maps, published by Chase & Barker, of New York. In 1856 he was engaged in the same work in Pennsylvania, for Chase & Barker, and surveyed the counties of Lebanon and Dauphin. In 1857 he emigrated to Woodford county, Illinois, and bought a farm of eighty acres five miles north of El Paso. In the fall he returned to New York, and was married on the 17th of October, to Elizabeth Joy, daughter of John Joy, an influential farmer of Rensselaer county. She was born on the 29th of October, 1839. In 1875 he removed to Vermilion county, having bought the W. ^ of section 6, town 23, range 12. He has a well improved and choice farm four and one-half miles west of Hoopeston, on the L. B. & M. railroad, valued at $9,600. In 1869 Mr. and Mrs. Southwick united with the Methodist Episcopal church in Woodford county, but the appointment was dropped and the class went down. Since that they have not been identified with any religious society. They have three living children : Merritt A., born on the 23d of October, 1859; Henry, born on the 2d of November, 1863; Arthur, born on the 27th of December, 1866. He is a republican in politics.

Lucius H. Jones, Hoopeston, lumber dealer, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on the 18th of June, 1839, and is a son of Horace and Mary (Mead) Jones. In 1853 his parents settled at Princeton, Illinois, and the next year moved to Oneida, Knox county. He lived there till 1868, during which time his principal occupation was farming. He then went to Chicago and lived there seven years, contracting joiner work. In December, 1875, he located in Hoopeston and engaged in the lumber trade. In 1877 he formed a co-partnership with A. H. Trego, under the firm name of Trego & Jones, and is doing an extensive and profitable business. The gentlemen composing this firm are straightforward, obliging and reliable men. He was married on the 20th of

December, 1863, to Miss Frances Bailey, daughter of Benjamin Bailey, then of Oneida, now of Hoopeston. She was born on the 19th of August, 1843. Thev have two living children : Bertie, born on the 1st of December, 1864; Maud E., born on the 11th of August, 1871. Mr. Jones is a republican. He had a brother, William Orlando, in the army during the late war, who served in Co. 1, 102d 111. Beg., throughout the Atlanta campaign, the march to the sea, and the campaign of the Carol inas. On the march to "Washington City he rode off from the column (he was a mounted orderly at the time) to view the Wilderness battle-ground, but he never returned, and no tidings of his fate were ever received. He was probably slain by guerrillas.

Henry Frankeberger, Hoopeston, druggist, was born in Hendricks county, Indiana, on the 27th of October, 1842, and is the son of Samuel and Rhoda Jane (Smith) Frankeberger. He enlisted on the 3d of August, 1861, for three years, in Co. H, Harris' Light Cavalry. Gen. Judson Kilpatrick was lieutenant-colonel, and finally colonel of this regiment. The subject of this sketch served entirely in Virginia and under Kilpatrick until the transfer of the latter to Sherman's army in the spring of 1864. He did not miss a day's service, and participated in all of Kilpatrick's scouts and engagements, including the notable raid begun on the 28th of February, 1864, for the purpose of releasing Union prisoners in Richmond. He was captured on the 5th of May, 1864, at the battle of the Wilderness, and was confined at Andersonville, Florence and Charleston, until March 1, 1865, when he was exchanged at the latter place. It was two 3Tears before he recovered sufficiently from the effects of his inhuman treatment to do any labor. He has not entirely regained, and never will, his former robust constitution. He was married on the 6th of September, 1866, to Martitia Swisher. From 1870 to 1876 he traveled in the patent-right business. In the latter year he came to Hoopeston, where he now keeps a drug store. He has one child, Judson Kilpatrick, born on the 12th of November, 1869. Mr. Frankeberger is a republican in politics.

Thomas B. Bird, Hoopeston, teacher, was born in Holmes count}T, Ohio, on the 24th of October, 1841, and is the son of Thomas B. and Mary (Williams) Bird. He was reared a farmer; received his early education at Hiram Academy, Portage county, Ohio ; began teaching when seventeen, and subsequently attended Spring Mountain Academy, in Coshocton county; also a select school at Millersburg. He enlisted for three months under the first call for troops, in Co. G, 16th Ohio Vols.; engaged in action at Phillipi, and mustered out at the end of four months' service. He reenlisted in 1862 in Co. G, 102d Ohio, for three years; did post duty most of the time; was promoted from private to third-sergeant, and in the spring of 1863 mustered second-lieutenant of his company. In the winter of 1802-3 he came home to Millersburg, Ohio, on recruiting service ; mustered out on the 8th of July, 1865. In the fall of 1865 he entered upon the classical course at Bethany College, and graduated in June, 1869. Since that time he has been an instructor ; was principal of the Newark (Ohio) High-school four years : in 1875 went to California; visited, that summer, the Yosemite Valley, in company of a horse-back part}' of ladies and gentlemen, who crossed the Sierra Nevada Mountains, consuming six weeks in the journey. After visiting Salt Lake City, and teaching school one year, he returned home via the Panama route, and was present at the opening ceremonies of the Centennial. In the fall of 1876 he became superintendent of the Millersburg High-school, and the next year principal of the Hoopeston High-school. His reputation as a skillful and efficient teacher is wide and well deserved. A more successful and popular graded school cannot be found in the state. He was married on the 22d of May, 1879, to Miss Mary Strauss. B.e belongs to the Christian church, and is a republican in politics.

Samuel Rodman, Hoopeston, farmer, was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, on the 4th of November, 1842. His parents were Scammon and Eliza (Wolf) Rodman. His father was for many years an active and exemplary member of the Methodist church. His great-grandfather was a veteran of the revolutionary war. In 1854 the family emigrated to McLean county, Illinois, and located in Bloomington township. He was bred to farming, but received a fair education. He was in attendance at the Wesleyan University at the outbreak of the rebellion. He volunteered on the 7th of August, 1862, in Co. D, 94th 111. Inf. ; was mustered into the United States service on the 22d, and started for the seat of war on the 25th. The regiment was uniformed, armed and equipped at St. Louis. He fought at Prairie Grove, Arkansas, on the 7th of December, 1862, and a few days later at Van Buren. He served throughout the siege of Vicksburg, taking part in a number of sharp engagements with the enemy. He was at Port Hudson, Fort Morgan, Spanish Fort, Morganzia and Mobile, and participated in seventeen battles, all told. He was mustered out of service on the 9th of August, 1865, at Galveston, Texas, and disbanded at Springfield, Illinois. The first colonel of his regiment was W. W. Orm, and the second, John McNulta. In 1872 he became station agent on the Wabash railway at Padna; also agent for the United States Express Company, and postmaster at that place. In addition, he sold goods the first year. In the spring of 1877 he resigned his position at Padua, and moved to Hoopeston. The next year he bought a farm of eighty acres, valued at $2,500, four miles southeast of that city, the same being the N. \ N.E. \ section 30, town 23, range 11, on which he is living. He was married on the 13th of August, 1867, to Miss Josephine Nelson, of Hardin county, Ohio. They have five living children. He is a Universalist in religion, and a stalwart republican in politics.

Jesse McQuade, deceased, was born in Green township, Wayne county, Ohio, on the 2d of July, 1S45. He was the oldest son of Alexander and Nancy McQuade. In 1857 he immigrated, with his parents, to Oneida, Knox county, Illinois. His early life was passed on a farm. He volunteered in Co. 1, 102d 111. Inf., on the 9th of August, 1862, and was mustered into the United States service on the 2d of September, at Knoxville, county seat of Knox county. He served throughout the Atlanta campaign, and fought in the general engagements at Resaca and Peach Tree Creek ; marched to the sea ; was one of Sherman's " bummers," in which capacity he acquired a high reputation among his comrades. He resumed the same exciting and perilous duty at the beginning of the campaign of the Carolinas. On the 28th of February, 1865, while foraging, he and a single companion discovered and surprised a party who were guarding the Bank of Camden, South Carolina, which had been removed and secreted in the woods. They were fired upon and both wounded. McQuade's left shoulder, arm and side were rilled with small shot. Their command coming up speedilv, the prize was secured. He was discharged at Grant United States General Hospital on the 24th of May, 1865. His left arm became almost useless, and he carried to his grave the charge of shot which had been lodged in his body. After the war he was postmaster at Oneida five years. From 1870 to 1877 he was in the employment of the C. B. & Q. Railroad Company as station agent and operator. In the latter year he settled in Hoopeston, and was employed in selling lumber and keeping books. In April, 1879, he went to Dakota for his health, which had been declining for several years, and while homeward bound, died on the cars at St. Cloud, Minnesota, on the 19th of the following month. His body preceded the intelligence of his death. He was married on the 24th of December, 1866, to Miss Harriet Bailey, whom he left with two children : Minnie, nine years old, and a babe, burn after his departure for the west.

Andrew J. Bowman, Hoopeston, farmer, was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, on the 18th of July, 1840, and is a son of John and Susanna (Nowel) Bowman. His father came from Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1813, and settled in Coshocton county. At the age of nineteen he was apprenticed to the blacksmith's trade. He was enrolled on the 18th of November. 1861, in Co. C. 67th Ohio Vols.,

Col. A. C. Voris. He served in the Shenandoah in the summer of 1862, under Gen. Shields, taking part in numerous minor actions, and in the battle of "Winchester, April 23. His command having been transferred, he fought at the terrific battle of Malvern Hill. He was subsequently in front of Charleston, South Carolina, during the siege operations against Forts Wagner and Sumter under Gen. Q. A. Gillmore ; next on the James River in front of Richmond ; fought at Chah'n's Farm ; was present throughout the siege of Petersburg, and participated in the grand assault on that place on the 2d of April, 1865, which hastened Lee's retreat from Richmond. He was in the pursuit after Lee, and present at the surrender of his army. He was in thirty-two engagements. In February, 1863, he veteraned. He was mustered out on the 18th of December, 1865. On the organization of his company he was appointed fifth sergeant, and was regularly promoted to second sergeant. In March, 1863, he was advanced to quartermaster sergeant of his regiment, and on the 9th of January, 1864, was commissioned first lieutenant of Co. E, in which capacity he served the remainder of his term. On his return from the war he engaged in mercantile pursuits at New Bedford, Coshocton county, Ohio, and continued thus employed twelve years. In 1877 he emigrated to Vermilion county, Illinois, and bought a farm of one hundred and twenty acres in Grant township, worth $4,500. He was married on the 25th of October, 1866, to Elizabeth Dellenbaugh, who was born on the 23d of February, 1841. They have four living children: Emma, born October 8, 1868; Oliva, born December 22, 1871; Susanna E., born July 25, 1874; John H., born January 30, 1877. He is a republican in politics.

Source changes here: from History of Vermilion County, Illinois : a Tale of Its Evolution, Settlement, and Progress for Nearly a Century, by Jones, Lottie E, published 1911; 2,231 words in this source stream.

Grant Township

Until 1862, Grant township was a portion of Ross township. At that time Ross was found to be so large as to be unweildy and so was divided, forming the new township. The name chosen tells the sentiment of the people who had come to that section of Vermilion County. Loyalty to their country was expressed in choosing the name of the hero who was conspicuous in saving that country. The naming of this township was about the first honor to be accorded him. This township has never had a changed boundary. Its northern limit is the same as the northern limit of Vermilion County, the eastern limit that of the Indiana state line, the southern limit, Ross township and the western boundary, Butler township. The shape of the township is rectangular; twelve and a half miles long by seven and one-half miles wide. It contains 58,880 acres and is the largest township in Vermilion County. It is almost entirely prairie land and only had a small portion of timber which was known as Bicknell's Point, in about the center of the dividing line between Grant and Ross townships. This formed the treeless divide between the head waters of the Vermilion and those of the Iroquois. It was late in attracting settlement, being as late as 1860, without cultivation. The direct road between Chicago and the south ran directly through the center of this township, yet it was avoided as locations for homes. Indeed, when in 1872, the railroad was surveyed through this township, there were but few farms intersected. This stretch of open prairie, north of Bicknell's Point, was a dread to the benighted

As early as 1835, George and William Bicknell took up land at Bicknell's Point which was the last piece of timber on the route to Chicago until the valley of the Iroquois was reached. Mr. Lockhart, who came from Kentucky with William Newell, was the man who first entered land north of Bicknell's Point. Asel Gilbert entered a section of land south of Bicknell's Point in 1838. Albert Cumstock, B. C. Green, and James R. Stewart, early settled near this. Col. Abel Wolverton settled on sextion 18, in 1840, two miles northeast of the Point. He was probably the first settler in that neighborhood. He came from Perrysville, Indiana. He had been in the Blackhawk war and was as brave in fighting the hardships of the new home in the prairie as was he in fighting the Indians. Col. Woolverton was a competent surveyor and his new home provided much work of this kind. William Allen was the pioneer in the northern part of the township. He came to Ohio in 1844. Thos. Hoopes, from whom Hoopeston was named, came in 1855 and bought Mr. Allen's farm.

Conditions in this part of the county at this time is pictured by Mrs. Cunningham, then a child, whose playmates were "sky and prairie flowers in the summer time, with the bleak cold in the winter." A description of- her experience on a night in late autumn in this lonely place, reads : "The shadows of declining day were creeping over the prairie landscape, when this child, young in years but older in experience, as were the pioneers, stood listening for a familiar sound. The cold wind came sweeping from far over tractless wilds, and with almost resistless force nearly drove her to the protection of the house, yet she stood and listened for a familiar sound, straining her ear to catch the rumble of a wagon which told of the return of her foster parents, who had the day before, gone to an inland town for provisions to last them through the coming days of winter. They had gone on this errand some days before and were due to come back every hour. This young girl had learned to love even this solitude, and while she listened for the sound of human life she noted the lull of the fierce wind, the whirring of a flock of prairie chickens, frightened from their accustomed haunts, fleeing by instinct to the protection of man. Suddenly a wolf gave a sharp bark on a distant hillside, then another, and another and yet another answering each other from the echoing vastness. With a shudder, not so much from fear as from the utter lonesomeness of the time and place, she turned and entered the house, but she could not leave these sounds outside, she heard the mournful wail. It is impossible to describe those sounds. So weird, so lonely were they that the early settler remembered them always. The lack of courage of these animals was made up in the increased numbers they called together, whether it was to attack the timid prairie hen or the larger game of the open. Surely these wolves were fit companions for the Indians.

The interior of this little house was much better furnished than were those of the early settlers of Vermilion County who came into other portions twentyfive years before this time. It was easier to transport furniture and the homes of this period were less primitive in every way. When the girl went into the house she found the "hired man" had milked and was ready for his supper. He seated himself at the kitchen stove and remarked that he did not think that "the folks" would come that night, as it would be very dark and every prospect of a snowstorm, they surely would not leave the protection of the nearest settlement to venture on the prairie that night. The little girl busied herself with tne supper with* grave misgivings about her people, whom she earnestly hoped would venture to come home, but whom she feared would be injured. She could not eat and going to the window she pressed her face to the glass and took up her silent watch. Soon taking his candle, the hired man went to his bed, leaving the girl to keep her watch alone. After a little, she imagined she heard a faint sound; she ran to the door and threw it open. As the door was flung open their faithful shepherd dog bounded in. He was closely followed by a number of wolves who were chasing him and almost had caught him. They stopped when the light from the open door fell upon them. The girl hastily closed the door and shutting them out shut the dog within. Then all was silent on the prairie, except the howling of the wind while the wolves silently slunk away in the darkness. The girl turned to the dog and eased his mind by a bountiful supper, when she took up her watch once more. She hoped almost against hope as she pressed the window pane, scanning the horizon. As the night wore on the storm increased in violence, the wind drove the snow in sheets of blinding swiftness, piling it high on the window ledge, and obstructing the view across the expanse. The wolves were silenced by the terrible storm, but the faithful dog yet scented them in the near neighborhood. The old clock slowly ticked the hours away while the girl sat by the wooden table in the center of the room with drooping head and strained ears, until she dropped to sleep from sheer exhaustion. Uneasy were her dreams as her slumber was broken through discomfort and the ever recurring growls of the dog at her feet who growled at the scent of his pursuers. As the hours passed the girl aroused herself and went to the window. The storm clouds had partially cleared, and the young moon had peeped out with a faint light. Casting her eyes down she looked into the piercing orbs of two wolves who were standing in the glare of the lamplight. The girl turned to the dog and dropping beside him buried her face in his woolly coat and bursting into tears called out, "Taylor, what shall we do?" With a growl and a glance toward the opening, which said as plain as words, "I'll do all I can to protect you," he lay with his nose to the crack in the door. The hours wore away and the girl and the dog watched alone on the prairie for the coming of the human beings who might be out on the prairie. Toward dawn the dog sprang to her side with a low bark of delight. He had heard and recognized the voices of his friends, and was telling his companion that those for whom they were keeping vigil were very near. Soon they were housed in safety. A new day was theirs while all the terrors of the night had been vanquished. The sun came up, the deer were dashing from one snow bank to another, the wolves had slunk away, the agony of the night was passed away. Such were frequent occurrences in the section of the country in and about Hoopeston.

Mr. Dale Wallace, in a talk before a Hoopeston audience, some years ago. describes that village when he first saw it. He went to this new village on the Illinois prairie a young man full of hope and promise. He entered the town on the freight train of the C. D. & V. R. R. (commonly called the "Dolly Varden") which consisted of six gravel cars and a caboose. The conductor stopped his train at about where the stock yards were afterward located, and told the only passenger, this same young man, "This is where you get off, Kid." With the wisdom of his years he said : "I guess you are mistaken : I want to go to Hoopeston," said the "Kid."

The Kid meandered around through a forest of resin weeds and finally halted at a little shack on the road running east and west, which afterwards proved to be the main street. The shack proved to be a department store ; the front being the department, ten by twenty, it was filled with a few dollars' worth of everything, while the rear department was the residence of the proprietor, who housed his wife and three children. This establishment was that of Jonathan Sidell, the fire merchant of Hoopeston. He was rotund and hospitable and the following conversation was had between him and the "Kid:"

A few rods on further to the next mud hole, was a grocery store run by J. W. Elliott, who later went to Danville. Adjoining this was a drug store, by E. D. North. On west, across the street, was Charley Wyman's real estate office. Away up north opposite the northwest corner of the park was a clothing store, operated by J. Fleshman. Adjoining was a grocery store, by Miller Bros. Along the railroad track was Robert Casement's lumber yard. This was in the fall of 1871. On the first Thursday of January, Mr. Wallace, together with G. W. Steavey, launched the Chronicle, then called the North Vermilion Chronicle. In that first issue every business man, every carpente^ painter, etc., in Hoopeston, had an advertisement in the new paper, very encouraging' to the young men who had started it. Roof & Roe, E. D. North, and Frank G. Hoffman, were druggists. R. McCracken was a general merchant. Bedell and Elliott and Miller Bros, were grocers. Ed. Stamp was the butcher, S. K. White had the livery stable, G. H. White was the real estate and insurance agent. A. B. Perkins sold lumber and coal, Given & Knox were grain merchants, G. C. Davis and Moffet & Kirkpatrick were contractors. T. C. McCaughey, M. D., and L. W. Anderson, M. D., were the physicians. J. C. Askerman was the lawyer and B. Saunders was the shoemaker. This was four months after the Hoopes' farm was platted into town lots. Every week brought new business men to town. P. F. Levin came early in 1872, also W. B. Clark. W. W. Duly was the township tax collector. Before the year expired there were a half dozen grain buyers, and it was not an uncommon sight in the fall of 1872, to see 50 to 100 loads of corn waiting a chance to unload with buyers paying the enormous price of twentythree cents per bushel. The real-estate business was very active both in city lots and country property. Land now worth $250 per acre then sold for $15 to $25 per acre. Business lots then bought for $125 some time ago, were worth $5,000. Hoopeston grew rapidly and business enterprises kept pace with it. About 1872, J. S. McFerrin and Wright Chamberlain established a bank. J. M. R. Spinning was the first postmaster. A spirit of enterprise pervaded every nook and corner of the hustling little village. About every thirty days the enterprising citizens would hold meetings and build factories and railroads on paper. The first year of existence Hoopeston had a circus and menagerie. This gave the newspaper a chance to give news. Business houses multiplied rapidly, all branches being well represented by January, 1873. The Chronicle gave a resume for the year, showing the erection of 180 buildings, 27 of which were business houses altogether. The grain men brought 450,000 bushels during the year. The freight business of the "Dolly Varden" road amounted to 40,000. Hoopeston has had a phenomenal growth and is a small city of beautiful homes.