Hallock Township (part 1 of 2)

Hallock Township

The geographical designation of this township is " township 11, N. range, 8 E," and is one of the tier of townships bordering upou Marshall county. It forms a part of the northern half of LaSalle prairie. The township contains a great extent of bluff and timber lands, a belt of which runs through its center from nortli to south, varying in M'idth from nearly four miles in the north, to a little over one mile at its southern boundarj'. The twelve western sections are almost free of timber, and contain a most excellent body of land. The southeast corner is also clear, and splendid farming laud.

The first settler in this township was without doubt Lewis Hallock, who came to it about the year 1820, and after some months roving about among the Indians, took up some land and iniilt a cabin in what is now called Hallock's Hollow, near Union. He was a native of Long Island, N. Y., had left home when a young man, wandered westward, and had for many years previous to his appearance in Peoria county, lived among the Indians in Wisconsin and elsewhere, gaining a livelihood by hunting and trap])ing. At the time of his settlement he was a single man, and about 182.5, lived for some time with a Frenchman called Osier, who was the government interpreter to the Pottawattomie Indians, and had married into tiie tribe. In the Winter of 1829, he married a Mrs. Wright, a daughter of Hiram Cleveland, and bi-ought her to his cabin in the hollow. By her he had one child, a girl called Clarissa, who afterwards married Henrj' Robinson. Hallock died April 1, 1857, on his old farm, at the age of sixty-one years. He was a man of sterling character, upright and honest in all his dealings.

About 1825, settlers from the East began to drop into the district, Simon and Aaron Reed came from Jackson county, O., in November of that jear, and they were closely followed b}' Moses and Samuel Clifton, Francis Thomas, Joseph Meredith, Cornelius Doty, Resolve and Hiram Cleveland. Gerchom Sillirnan and family, and William Wright. In 1830, Joel Hicks and family, and Jeriel Root, with his sons Erastus C. and Lucas Root came. The greater part of these settled near the north end of LaSalle prairie. In 1880, Joseph Meredith settled on Sec. 12, and kept a small tavern, for the accommo-

In the last days of June, 1836, Roswell Nurs with his son Isaiah Nurs, and Ebenezcr Stdwell, came to the towiishiii on a prospecting tour. They started from Chenango county, N. Y., walking to Buffalo and coming from thence to Toledo by water, again took the road and traveled to Hallock township on foot, with rifle on shoulder and all their impedimenta in one knapsack. Taking due note of the fine land yet lying unclaimed in the township, they pursued a zigzag course toward t^uincy, still prospecting, but found no lands more inviting, and on arriving forthwith entered their land in the Government Land OflBce at Quincy, and returned to take possession. They found at this time no one living north of Nortliampton, but in the Fall of the same "year (1836) Erastus Root moved to his present location on Sec. 3.

The Winter of 1831, was an exceptionally severe one all over the West. During the Winter, two men, strangers to the settlers, named Dr. Franklin and Mc.Millian, with six yoke of oxen and two sleds, loaded with goods and i)ound for Prairie du Chien, stopped at Simon Reed's and after a stay of about a week, during which they liuilt another sled, and hired a man by name of Cooper to go with tiiem, started some time in the month of January, and were soon after caught in a terrible northeast snow storm which filled up the track, and caused them to lose their way. Night overtook them when out on the prairie near Boyd's Grove, and they turned the oxen loose and tried to reach Boyd's on foot. Two of tiiem penslie<l, and the tiiinl - .McMillian - got there next morning badly frozen. Eleven of the oxen were frozen to death, and one came to Meredith's.

The deepest snow ever known in the township fell during this Winter. It was three feet deep on the level, and the drifts were in some places fifteen to twenty feet deep. The cold was steady ami intense. The deer and wild hogs died in great numbers, and the prairie cliickens. quails, etc., were almost entirely destroyed.

The Black Hawk war in 1832, found the settlers in tliis district not only prepared for self defense, but to take tiie field against their treacherous foe. In April, of that year, Thomas Reed, Edwin S. Jones, Lucas Root, James Doty, Elias Love, and Simon Reed, volunteered, and their services ware accepted. Simon Reed wiis detailed to act as teamster, and served until the close of the war. The others named were at the front for thirty days, and afterwards served as rangers on the frontier between Peoria and Roek river, until they received their discharge at the close of tiie war. Previous to this outl)reak the Indians were quite numerous and very friendly. The Pottawattomies had three towns in or near the townslii|) - one on the land now occupied by Emory Sillinnm in Medina township, one at Smith's Springs, and one on the Senachwine creek, not far from the i)ridge.

The first mill built in the township that the settlers in the northern part of it ooidd easily reach, was that built on Senachwine by William MofTatI, one and a half miles Ciist of Northampton, about the year 1834. The first saw mill built in the township, and the only one that ever did any amount of work, was erected in the year 1838 by Tliomius Ford, in the N. E. } of sec. 13.

This settlement formed part of LaSalle precinct. Simon Reed was the first justice of the peace, and was appointed to the office prior to 18"JS, and (Cornelius Doty was elected justice iti tlie Fall of 1831. This election took place at the only polling place in LaSalle precinct, covering nearly one-half of the northern part of Peoiia county, on sec. three of Medina township.

In IH.OO the township organization was adopted, and the township received its name, out of comi)liinent to its oldest settler, Lewis Hallock, l»y a vote of the citizens. The first supervisor of the township w;is Walter S. Evans.

town clerk, C. C. Lockwell ; assessor, Alonzo Root : collector, R. J. Nurse ; road commissioners, John Spicer, Hiram Rankin, and Justice Stewart; justices of the peace, W. E. Smith and Samuel Merril.

The only village situated ejitirely within the township is that of Northampton, on Sec. IB, which was laid off by Reuben Hamlin and Mr. Freeman in July, 1886. Tlie first house therein was also the first erected in the township as a tavern. It was built in tlie Winter of 1835-6 by Reuben Hamlin, and was kept as a public house by him for many years. He came from near Northampton, Mass., and he named the village, of which he was the founder, after it. Aaron Reed was the first settler near the site of the village, and his old log cabin was replaced by the house which stands beside the bridge, near the south end of the village.

Nathaniel Cliapin, a native of Massachusetts, was quite a prominent resident of the village about 1840. He held the office of justice of the peace.

The population of the village is at present but little over 100, and it contains one good general store, kept l)v Mr. C. O. Phillijjs, who is also postmaster.

The village of Lawn Ridge stands upon the boundary line dividing Peoria and Marshall counties, and has a population of about 500. It has been partially platted for some years by individual enterprise, but has never been formall}' laid out. Nathaniel Smith, now a resident of New York State, was one of the earliest settlers in it. It has two churches - a Methodist Episcopal, and a Congregational - whose congregations are drawn about equally from the two counties.

Congregational Church. - Tlie Congregational Church at Lawn Ridge was organized by Rev. Owen Lovejoy, wlio was then a settled minister in Princeton, Ills., in Marcli, 1845. The original members were six in number, viz : Ebenezer Stowell and wife, Nathaniel Smith and wife, and Dr. A. Wilmot and wife. The organization took place in a small brick school house in Hallock, which had been built about seven years before. A preacher was shortly afterwards hired, and with help from the Homa Mission, regular services were maintained until about 1848, when, owing to the rapid settling up of the prairie around Lawn Ridge, the place of meeting was transferred there. At first they met in the school house, and some years later built a small cliurch which they continued to occupj' till about four years ago, when the present fine building was erected, at a cost of about $6,000. It is the best church building in the county west of Peoria. Rev. Hall is the present pastor, and has filled that position for over six years. The membership numbers about 130. Services are held every Sunday. A prosperous Sunday school is connected with the church, having an attendance of from ninety to one hundred children.

Lawn Ridge M. E. Church. - Tlie church which is now known as the Lawn Ridge M. E. Church, was built during the Summer of 1856, on the land of David Shane, Sr., about three miles south of Lawn Ridge, and it was dedicated by Rev. H. Summers, under the name of the Mount Hedding M. E. Church. The leading movers in its erection were David Shane, Sr., Isaac Breidman, and John Ferguson. About fourteen years later, owing to the influx of so many Seventli Day Baptists into its immediate neighborhood, having displaced many of its members, it was decided to move it to Lawn Ridge, which was done in tlie Spring of 1871, and the church was rededicated July 22d of that year, under its present name. It is a plain, substantial, but well finished building, with a seating capacity for over 200 people. Among the preachers whose ministries are notable for their beneficial results, may be mentioned Revs. Ahal Keller, Chas. H. Brace, William Wooley and H. S. Humes. The society is at present out of debt, and is financially and sjiiritually in a prosperous condition, under the pastorship of Rev. Geo. M. Bassett.

Lawn Ridge Lodge No. 415, A. F. & A. M., was organized under dispensation May 18, 1864, and was chartered by Grand Lodge of Illinois October 5, 1864, with ten original members. Its first officers were W. M., Henry A. Raney ; S. W., Amos F. Leigh ;

.1. W.. .Inl.ii B. Pliillips ; Seeretarv, W. H. Wilniot ; Treasurer, E. Sickles. Those now in office are. W. M.. John B. Phillips; S. W., Elijah Stowell; J. W., N. P. Green: Secretary, Jolin Morris ; Treasurer, Stephen Cornell. The lodge has about thirty members, and tie regular meetings are held on the Wednesday nights on or before full moon, in a nicely furnished, and well appointed little hall, devoted to its sole use.

The village contains two good general stores, two hotels, a post office attended to by Mr. Stephen Corm-ll. and a good public hall, built by a stock company, capable of seating -")00 peojjle, an<l situated above the public school.

The hamlet of West Hallock is almost entirely in Akron township, opposite section 19 of Hallock township. It contains a cheese factory, which has been in operation for some years, mentioned in the history of the township in which it is located. It also has a good general store and post office, under the care of Mr. Potter.

Seventh Day Baptitst Church. - The only church in the village is that of the Seventh Day Baptists. In the year 184."), Elder Anthony Hakes came to the township, and was followed .some three years later by his brother, Daniel Hakes, and John Simpson, who had been connected with a church of that faith in the State of New York. They kept holy the seventh daj-. In due time accessions were made to their number, and meetings were held from house to house until the erection of the Academy building in 1849. when it was made their jilace of worship, and there on the 3d day of September, 18-')2, the church was organized l)y Elder Coon, with fourteen original members. The society grew yearly in numbers, and in 1871 it was found expedient to erect a larger and more comfortable structure for their sole use. The present house was accordingly put up in the Summer of that year, at a cost of So, .500, the whole of which was pledged by the adherents and friends of the church, l)efore any thing was done towards its construction. The building is a neat and sul)stantial one. and can comfortably seat about "2^)0 people. Elder A. Hakes was the founder of the church, and for many years before its organization preached as a layman to the Baptists in Hallock and the surrounding townships. After organization he was ordained minister, and had charge of the congregation for some years. Rev. H. B. Lewis is the present pastor, and has been with them since May, 1879. The church is very prosperous, and has a membershij) of about l.')0. Daniel Hakes has been for many years superintendent of Sabbath school, and still holds that office. Its average attendance is over 100 children. Besides these three villages there are two post offices in the township, Southampton, situated in S. E. ^ of section 30, and Hallock (often improperly called Blue Ridge), on the middle of the northern boundary of section 10.

Hallock M. E. Church. - The first Methodist sermon preaclied in this district was by Rev. Milton Smith, a local preacher, about the year 1839. in a log cabin which stood on the site now occupied by the house of Isaiah Nurs. on section 3. In 1841 a two days' meeting was appointed to be held in the brick school-house then in process of erection at Hallock. PVom this time forward regular preaching was held every two weeks till 1849, when a joint movenu-nt was made by the Methodists and Congrcgatiomilists in the vicinity for the erection of a I'hiirch. resulting in the present iuiililing. in the Summer of that year. Robert Will donated the land now occupied by the ciiurch, school and graveyard. The church was u.sed on alternate Sundays by the Methodists and Congregationalists. until the meeting place of the latter body was changed to Lawn Ridge, and it is now and always was, a free ihurch, used for the meetings of all denominations. The first cost was ai)out |i800, and when it wius finishi-d and completely seated, siune seven or eight years later, near ill. '200. It has a seating capacity for 200.

The Union Baplimt Church is locateil at Union, on section 2fi, and its congregation was formerly connected with the Chillicothe Baptist Cluinh. It was (uganizeil Juno 19. l.H')8. with thirteen memi)ers, as follows: Thomas B. Reed, Sanford Reeil, Amy Sillinian, Simon Reed, Walter S. Evans, .Sarah Kirkpatrick, Mary Baggs, Frances Reed,

Nancy Spraijue, Levi Spvague, C. Reed anil Amy Reed. Only two of these are nowalive. In July of the same year Elder Antliony Hakes was chosen pastor, and preached once in two weeks. The churcli was erected immediately after the organization, by the Methodists and Baptists of the neigliborhood in common, and was in consequence called tlie Union churcli. It was occupied by these societies in common until 1873, when the Methodist interest was brouglit out by tlie Baptists, and tlie building assumed its present name. The present pastor, Rev. R.Tyrrell, came to them from Michigan, in March, 1879. The building is a substantial one, and cost originally about f 1,000. The present membership is about seventy-five.

Schools. - The first school ever taught within the pr^esent bounds of the township was located on the present site of Harrison Reed's house, and was taught during the Winters of 1829 and 1830, by Lucia Root, daughter of Jeriah Root. The first schoolhouse built in the district, stood near Joel Hick"s place on sec. 32. It was erected in the Fall of 1836, and was removed about eight years afterwards to the Hallock farm. In the northern part of the townsliip a little school was taught during tlie Summers of 1839 and 1810, in a log cabin where the house of Isaiah Nurs now stands. Fiducia Bliss was the teaclier. In 1841 the first school-house in what is now School District No. 1, was erected It was 18 ft. square and was built of brick. Sarah Fosdick was among the earliest of the teachers. The present school-house in that district was built in 18.36, and stands near the S. E. cor. of the S. W. \ of sec. 3. It is well fitted up and can accommodate sixty children. In School District No. 5, the first school was taught in an old log cabin which stood a little south and east from where O. M. Miller's dwelling now stands, and was used for that purpose about tlie year 1851. Joseph Gallup was then its teacher. In 1856 the present school-house was built. School District No. 6, was originally composed of portions of Peoria, Stark, and Marshall counties, and was reconstructed in its present limits in 1860. It was the last school district to be organized in the township. The first public school was built about 1857 at a cost of 1800, and in 1866 to accommodate the growing wants of the district, the present school was erected at a cost of about '11,400.

In the West Hallock district the structure now occupied as a public school was erected in the Fall of 1856 :is an academy, and was occupied -as such for about five years, when it fell into the hands of the school trustees, and has since been conducted as a public school.

HoUis township is bounded on the north by Limestone, west by Timber, aud the south and east by the Illinois river, directly opposite the city of Pekin. and about six miles southwest from the city of Peoria. Tlie lands on the Illinois river are unimproved bottom lands, but along the bluff, on tlie line of the Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw R. R., are some of the most valuable coal mines in the State. In the northwestern portion of tlie township, and along the crest of the bluffs, are some extensive and very fertile farms. Among the early settlers that came to the township was Wm. Martin, a native of Washington county, New York, where he married Margaret Scott, and came in 1837. Mr. Martin was the first justice of the peace in the township. S. D. Buck, a native of Cayuga, New York, came in 1837. E. W. Homan came from Kentucky in 1835. In 1832, Peter Muchler, a native of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, came to the township. S. C. Wheeler came from Hamilton county, Ohio, in 1844. The township was organized in 1850, and derived its name from a man by the name of Denzel Hollis, who came among the early settlers, and was a native of England.

H0Lli8 Village

Is situated on the T. P. & W. K. R.. six miles southwest of Peoria. It was laid out Septcniher 8, ISfiS, l)y E. J. and M. A. Jones, and is a minin<j villatje. The Hollis mines are owned liy Hamilton it Carter. There is also one run hy a corpt)ration. The Orchard mines are owned and operated hy the Newsam Brothers, who also have the only store, where they carry a general stock of about 82.000.

Mapleton village is located on the T., P. & W. R. R., twelve miles southwest of Peoria. It was laid out in 1868, by William Maples, now of Mi.ssouri. and hius about 100 inhabitants. There are three coal mines, one owned and operated by Linsley & Walker, who emplo}' forty men. The Mapleton mine is owned b}' Mansfield, Gilfoy & J. T. Linsley, and employs twenty-five men. The mine is half a mile east of Mapleton. and wius formerly owned by Neil, McGrew & Co., but is at present operated by Frank Newsman, who works twenty-three mines.

There are two general stores, one owned and run by Thomas Linsley, who carries a stock of $3,000, and has an annual business of $15,000 ; the other by Frank Newsam, who commenced business in 1874, and in 1876 erected a large, commodious store building, where he keeps a stock of from S3, .500 to $4,000, and does an annual trade of from $15,000 to -S-20,000.

Lamarsh B'lptist Church, Maple Itidije. - This church was organized October 27. 1838, with fourteen original members, who had come from Guernsey county, Ohio. The original members were Isaac and Sarah Maples. Robert and Rebecca Buchanan, Abram Maples, William and Mary Ma[)les. Hugh and Sidney Ann Jones, Mrs. Harker and Eliza Jones. The settlement in which this church was formed contained a population of one hundred, which has increased to over eiglit hundred. The nearest Baptist church was at Peoria, twelve miles distant. This little church was at first surrounded by Methodist influence, but now occupies almost the entire religious field in the community. Elder A. M. Gardner served as pastor of this church from its organization until August, 1848, a period of nearly ten years.

The church continued (juite small for several years, never reporting more than twenty-two members. In 1847 it had increased to thirty members. In January, 1840, Elder Wm. T. Bly became pastor of the church, residing at Washington, Tazewell county, and preaching at Lamarsh half of the time. The association held its sessions with this church in June, 1840. The meetings were held in a barn for the want of a house of worship. After the association adjourned, some of the ministers, among whom were Ehbsrs H. G. Weston and S. G. Miner, remained and continued a series of meetings for some days. A glorious revival commenced, whicli eontinue<l through the year, and in 1850 the church reported fifty-eight baptisms and 102 members. The following year eight more members were added.

Elder Bly closed his labors as pastor in June, 1851. in July, 1851, Elder Joel Sweet, who was also preaching at Trivoli part of the time, became pastor of tiiis church. There Wius another revival in 1852, when twenty-one were received into the church. Elder Sweet closed his labors as pastor in July, 1855.

Immediately after the meeting of the as.sociation in lS40, the cliurch commenced the erection of a house of worship 30 i)y 45 feet, which cost about one thousand dollars. Elder John Edminister began his pastoral labors in 1855. and continued lor .some years. Tiie first deacons were William Slaples and John Mc(Jee. The present trustees are Abram .Maples, Josfpli liornlMnker and Samuel Walters. Deacons are Elijah Starks, Samuel Walters and Benjamin Hart. Of the original members two are still living - Abram and Isaac Maples.

Schools. - HoUis townsliip contains six school districts, each of which is furnished with a comfortal)le, substantial frame house. Careful attention isj)aid by the local school officers to the selection of competent teachers, for wiiicli fair salaries are paid, and the schools are all creditable and prosperous.

The first settlements in Jubilee townsliip were made in 1835, by Clark D. Powell, Roswell Walker, Samuel Johnson, A. W. Harkness, Jacob Snyder, Samuel Snider, Daniel Stansbury, David Shane, and Mrs. Lambert, of whom only two are now living, viz. : Samuel Snider and A. W. Harkness.

Rev. Philander Chase, Bishop of Illinois, secured funds from the friends of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America and England, in 1836, with it he founded the Jubilee College, selecting lands in section 25, and came with his family into the township. He called the place " Robins' Nest," because, as he says, his first dwelling was " built of mud and sticks and filled with young ones," and the place is called by that name to this day. It is the only postoffice in the township. Although the village was known at this early date, there is perhaps now not over a score of houses within its limits. Bishop Chase was the first postmaster, and was appointed in 1837. On the 3d day of April, 1839, Bishop Chase laid the corner-stone of the chapel of the Jubilee College, fronj which the township was afterwards named. Noah Alden and Hiram Shane were the first justices of the peace ; they were appointed in 1843.

Prominent among the citizens of this township is the name of Gilbert Hathaway, who settled here in 1838, and has always taken an active part in the affairs of the town. He held the oifice of assessor five years, collector four years, and supervisor two years ; and held the office of township treasurer for twenty-seven years continuously, from 1851 to 1878. Mr. Hathaway has dealt considerabl}' in real estate in his town, and has done much to improve and build up the township. Hon. William Rowcliffe, residing on section 11, has also taken an active part in the township, as well as the county matters ; has held nearly all the offices of thi town, and has honorably acquitted himself as a member of the General Assembly. His prospects are perhaps as favorable as any man in the townsliip for further promotion ; in fact, his influence throughout the county is probably greater than any other man in the township. J. B. Slocum, one of the early settlers of Jubilee, although not taking so active a part in the public affairs of the town and county, has held many of the offices from time to time, and been counted as one of the leading men of the place. He has dealt largely in real estate, and improved a number of farms in the township, but has resided for some thirty years on section 29, and now owns a farm of over two hundred acres on sections 20 and 29.

Jubilee was first divided into four school districts, viz. : number one, or the Rowcliffe district ; number two, or the Shane district, which built its first school-house in 1847 ; number three, or the brick school-house district, which was built in 1848 ; number four, or the Bramble district, which built its house in 1850. Nathaniel F. Shaw was the first teacher of a public sciiool in the township. The first marriage was that of Samuel Snider to Mary Jane Stansbury, in 1839. Samuel, son of Daniel Stansbury, was the first child born. Mr. Squires, who lived on the southern line of the township, was the first person who died in the township after its settlement. Rev. L. N. Hall preached the first sermon, in the house of Jacob Snyder. There has never been a house of worship erected in the township, except the ciiapel referred to in connection with the college, but arrangements are now being made to build a Lutheran church on section 28, and also a Methodist church on section 33. A part of the jilat of land set apart for the Lutheran church is tcr-be used as a cemetery. The first person buried liere was the wife of Philip Killstadt, who died April 1 j, A. D. 1880. Tiie school-house known as the Town House, is built on section 15, where all township meetinj^s and elections are held. The increase of population in this township has .so augmented the demand for educational facilities that the number of school districts is now not less than nine, with very good school-houses in each. The principal market for this township is at Brimfield, one mile from the western line of the township. The postofBce at Kobins' Nest is now kept by Benjamin Tucker, an old resident of the place. The present oflBcers are as follows: Supervisor, Peter Cahill ; collector, George Rowcliffe ; assessor, Cecil Moss ; town clerk, Frank Coulson ; township treasurer and justice of the peace, Thomas Pacy ; justice of the peace, \Vm. Rowcliffe ; constables, Phil. Lully and George Rowcliffe.

This township is well watered by numerous branches of the Kickapoo and their tributaries. There is plenty of timber throughout the whole area, and stone and coal of good quality abound. Jubilee, although not as rich as some of the neighboring towns, is perhaps as favorable a locality as can be found in this section of the county. It is surrounded by railroads on all sides, at distances varying from a few rods to three or four miles, and yet it has never voted any tax or bonds for either road, and hence it is as free from debt as any town in the county ; and its taxes lighter, perhaps, than any of the surrounding towns.

BALDWIN WILLIAM J. farmer. Sec. 13, was born in Pittsburg, Pa. ; is the only son of a family of two children of Capt. Thomas Baldwin and Letelia Jackson, both natives of the " Keystone State," where they were married in 1834. Their only daughter, Fannie, is now the wife of Dr. H. T. CoflTey, of Peoria. Capt. Thomas Baldwin was born on Dec. 7, 1804, near Pittsburg, Pa., where his father. Col. Robert Baldwin, owned a large farm and a flouring mill, located on Chartier's creek. In shipping their flour to market. Captain and his brother conveyed it up the river in canoes and other small crafts, which was a tedious process, and young Thomas resolved, while a mere youth, to do what he could to develop a better system of water transportation, and such progress had he made in the art of boating that at the age of nineteen years he was captain of a steamboat on the Ohio river. Nature had so well adapted him to his chosen work, that he became one of the leading steamboat men of his time ; devoted fortj'-five years of his life to it, during which he built and was sole, or part, owner of twentysix steamboats, a number of which were among the finest and swiftest upon the western rivers. Captain Baldwin's boating experience was chiefly upon the Ohio, Mississippi and Illinois rivers. He removed to Peoria in 1844, and when the California gold fever broke out in 1849, Commodore Vanderbilt selected him to superintend aline of steamers to Central America, that being then the principal route, at a salary of $10, 000 a year. His health failing, he resigned the position at the end of ten months, and Mr. Vanderbilt presented him with a check for $10,000 in gold. Soon after the beginning of the late civil war he offered his ser%'ices to the Government, which were accepted, and he was put in command of a transport vessel ; later was appointed to the command of the gunboat Romeo, which he retained till the close of the war. lie then retired from active business, and on Aug. 23, l37g, died at his residence in I'euria, ending a very active and useful life. Mrs. U. still occupies the elegant homestead on East Bluff. William J., being infused with the prevailing patriotic spirit of the times, enlisted, secretly, though a mere boy, and was in the army nearly a year, when his mother, after much effort, secured his discharge. He married Miss Jennie Scholes, a native of Peoria county. They have three children, Leon, Harry C. and Letetia.

IIRAYTOX C. Y. farmer. Sec. 13. P. O. West Hallock, was born in the city of Peoria, April 13, 185S, and is the son of William J. Brayton and Mary D. Curtiss : father a native of Warren, R. I., and mother originally from Connecticut. His father, in partnership with two brothers, was for many years in the agricultural implement business in Peoria, and he served in the Union army during the late war, enlisting at Providence, R. I., and died of typhoid fever in Albany, N. v., in the year 1865. Mr. C. Y. Brayton's mother died in Peoria, .August 24, 1S76. He was raised and educated there, and after the death of his mother came to Hallock township, and farmed on rented land until the Spring of the present year, when he moved to his present location on the borders of Akron township, where he owns eighty acres of fine farming land and forty acres under timber, the purchase price of which was $5,500. He married March 26. 1678, in Lawn Ridge, Miss Letlie Cornell, eldest child of Stephen Cornell, merchant, I. awn Ridge; by whom he has one child. Kzra Jeremiah, born October 8, 1879.

IJUVOKN WILM.VM, Jr. farmer. Sec 23, P. O. Northampton. Was born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, in August, 1838, and came to America with his parents when very young. His father was born in the Parish of Kskdalemuir, Dumfriesshire. .Scotland, August 30, 1 801, and is the son of J.imes Bryden, Ksq., of Uurnclugh.and Mary Scott, both of the same parish. Mr. Bryilen. Sr., was raised on the farm, received such e'lucation as the district aflorded, and afterwards attended classes at Edinburgh College for four years ; acted as tutor for two years, and then for three years conducted a private school at Birkenhead, in Kngland : titencc returning to his native country, worked a farm for eleven years, under lease, and in the year 1838 immigrated to this country, landing at New York after a tedious passage of nine weeks. Staying for ihort periods in Cincinnati and New Richmond, C. he came with his family to Princeton, Ind., where he taught in the Gibson County Seminary for three years, and in 1642 came to Peoria county, settling in the following year in Hallock township ; rented a farm for four years, and then purchased his present home, where he ha« since resided, and where he owns about 145 acres of land, worth about $8,000. He married in 1835, Mist Elizabeth, daughter of James Jardinc, of Artleton, Dumfriesshire, by whom he has had seven children; five survive and reside in his neighborhood. Their names are Mary Scott, James, Ellen. William, whose name heads this sketch, and Jessie. Mrs. Bryden died on the homestead January 29, 1S70. Mr. Wm. Bryden, Jr., resided at home and worked on the farm till the breaking out of the war. when he enlisted in Company L., 15th Illinois Cavalry. Captain Ford, commanding. Mr. Bryden, along with his company and regiment, took part in the battles of Shiloh, Farmington, luka, Corinth, Tuscumbia. Helena, Ark., and Big Creek, Ala., besides many smaller engagements; was mustered out at Springfield. III., January 9, X865. Of 120 men who joined his company, but twenty-four were mustered out. Mr. Bryden was never wounded. Four years after leaving the army he married Miss Laura A. Swisher, who was born in Peoria county, in May, 1850, by whom he has had four children, three living, Frank. Harry and Julia. He is Republican in politics, has been two years a school director, and is a hard working and public spirited farmer and citizen.

COON F. M. farmer. Sec. 12, P. O. Northampton, was born in Chenango county, N. Y., October 4, 1828; father born in Rhode Island. Was raised on a farm, and came West in February. 1858, settling in Akron township, where he farmed on rented land for about twelve years, and then liought a quarter section of land in Hallock township, where he lived for two years, removing thence to a farm he had purchased in Chillicoihe township ; remained there for seven or eight years, and bought a farm on section 13, of Hallock township, to which he removed. About this time he cultivated three farms, but afterwards sold the Chillicothe farm and a portion of the Hallock one. Owns at present 240 acres of land, eighty acres of which are in Chillicothe township, and values the whole at about $S,ooo. He was married in New York State, July 7, 1S49, to Miss Mary Ann Stillman, who was born in the same county as himself, February 24, 1830, by whom he has had eleven children, viz : Judson, Mary E., Alice J., Charles F., John F. (deceased), Albert Henry, Benjamin H., Arthur J., Edna L., Mattie E., and Willie A. Three of his children are married and settled in the neighborhood. Mrs. Coon is a member of the Seventh Day Baptist Church. Coon Judson, farmer. P. O. Northamptou.

CRADY PETER AV, postmaster and shoemaker, P.O. Hallock, was born in Champlain, Clinton county, N. Y., March 14, 1S31, and is the son of Peter Crady and Elizabeth Newey, both of New York. Moved with his parents to St. Albans, Vt., when about fifteen years old, and there remained till 1862, working at his trade. On August tst, of that year, he enlisted in Company I, loth V. V. I.; was disabled through sickness in the first Fall, and lay for five months in hospital at Burlington, Vt. ; on partial recovery, was sent to camp at Alexandria, Va., but not yet being able for active service, was transferred to invalid corps, and after one year to veteran reserve corps ; served while in that body in the campaign on the Peninsula, taking part in the fight at White House Landing, June 21, 1864, afterwards returning to Washington, D. C, where he remained till close of the war, and was mustered out June 24, 1865. His family in the meantime had removed to Peoria county. 111., and he came W^est and joined them in Hallock township, where he has since remained, with the exception of five months in 1S72, when he made a visit to Colorado for his health ; has worked at his trade all llie time he has been here ; received his appointment as postmaster under President Grant's administration, in 1876. He married, October 21, 1S57, Miss Laura A. Mallory, who was born in Northfield, Vt., about the year 1833, by whom he has had four children, three of whom now survive : Geo. E., Romeo Sumner (deceased), Henry Eugene, and Henrietta Hortense. The last two children are twins, born September 18, 1867. Mr. Crady is in politics a Greenbacker, and is a member of the local lodge of Sons ot Temperance. Mrs. Crady is a member of the M. E. Church.

EASTOX WILLIAM, justice of the peace, and farmer. Sec. 29. P. O. Southampton, was born in Newark, N. J., May 7, 1S07, and is the son of William Easton and Elizabeth Drake, both of the same city. Was raised until six years old at Sunny Plains, N. J., and then removed to Ovid township, Seneca county, N. Y., where he remained some months, thence removing to Euclid township, Cayuga county, Ohio, where he went to school, and where he learned the trade of carpenter and joiner. In 1836, he came to Illinois, spending the first Winter at Wyoming, Stark county: then came to Peoria county, staying in it about a year; thence, removing to Tazewell county for about fifteen months ; returning to Peoria county, for the next eight or ten years he divided his attention between farming and his trade, doing year by year less at the latter, till about 1850, since when he has confined his attention to farming. He owns 126 acres land, worth about §7,500, and has a fine, neat dwelling house, surrounded by tastefully laid out grounds. He married, DecembeJ 5, 1833, Miss Sophia Lake, of Kirkland, O., who died .Vugust 12, 1837, and afterwards he married Miss Sarah M. Hicks, by whose death, on June 24, 1S73, he was again left a widower. On May 14, 1S74, he married his present wife. Miss Isabell Jones, of La Prairie, Marshall county. 111. By his second marriage he had three children, only one of whom, Joel J., born April 5, 1S45, now survives. Mr. Easton is a Universalist, and Mrs. Easton a member of the Methodist Church at La Prairie. Mr. Easton has been a justice of the Peace in Hallock township for fifteen years, and also school trustee for many years ; is a Republican in politics, and possesses a firm hold upon the respect of his neighbors, and all who are brought into business contact with him.

EVANS WALTER T. (deceased) farmer, res Sec. 23, P. O. Chillicothe, was born June 15, 1836, at Montgomery, Pa., and was the son of Walter F. Evans and Euphemiah Taylor. His father was a native of Pennsylvania and his mother of New Jersey. When -ibout two years old he came with his parents to Hallock township, settling there in 1S38 upon raw land which they bought. His father died in 1S61. Mr. Evans married, in 1863, Miss Sarah C. Kiel, who was born about twenty miles from Toronto, in Upper Canada, Aug. 31, 1839, by whom he had five children, four of whom survive. Effie, born Oct. 23, 1S64 ; Ulysses G., liorn Aug. 7, 1S66, died Aug. 14, 1866 ; Willie W., born Aug. 7, 1867 ; Ida M., born Aug. 27, 1871, and Rosa A., born Jan. 25, 1875. Mr. Evans died Aug. 18, 1877. He was an earnest, hard working man, who always had a kind word and a ready hand to cheer and to help. His neighbors who survive him can look back upon many an act of kindness done, and cheerful help rendered during his life. His widow, Mrs. Sarah E. Evans, still resides on the homestead ; owns iSo acres of land, 125 acres under cultivation, worth altogether about $8,000. Mr. Evans was a member of the Union Baptist Church, as is also Mrs. Evans.

GALLUP JOSEPH, farmer. Sec. 17. was born in Windham county. Conn., on the 4th of September, 1827 ; was reared and educated for a farmer. Besides the advantages afforded by good common schools, he attended PlainBcId Academy in Connecticut, and Smithville Seminary in Rhode Island, several terms. He taught several terms of school with good success; came to Peoria county in 1850 to luok after the land now composing his farm, then ovned by his father ; reported it covered with wild grass, rattlesnakes, wolves, deer, and sandhill cranes. Mr. G. erected a log house and made some other improvements on it that Summer ; returned to the " land of steady habits "in September ; taught school there the following Winter, and April 2, 1851, married Celia Gallup, of Voluntown, Windham county. Conn., and came to Peoria county in June of that year, settling on his present farm. Although late he raised quite a crop of vegetables, and being a good marksman could easily supply meat from the prairie and the thicket. Mr. Gallup has been quite successful in his chosen pursuit, and owns several hundred acres in the home farm, which is well improved and amply stocked. He jestingly says his " farming now is by proclamation." Mrs. Gallup died on Jnly 17, 1877. leaving a family of fivc chililrcn, Judie A., born Jan. 16, 1852; Marion, born Nov. 20, 1853; Loren, born Dec. 15, 1858; Nettie S.. born May 20. 1862, and Ellie J., born Jan. 2q 1865. Since Mrs. G.'s death the oldest daughter has managed the affairs of the household. Mr. Gallup is not connected with any church society, but is a Universalist in belief. In politics he is a Democrat of the Jeffersonian school. His paternal ancestors were among the early settlers of New England. Nathaniel Gallup, his father. was somewhat prominent in politics, and held a number of offices of honor, civil and military, and died in Connecticut in 1856, aged 58 years. Mr. G.'s grandfather, Bcnadam Gallup, served in the war of the Revolution, and died in 1858. at the advanced age of 88. He wa.s the first white child bom in the vicinity of Voluntown, and was, for many years, a member of the Legislature of Connecticut, and a lirge landholder, John Gallup, the great grand sire of Joseph, was the first settler in that region : obtained the chirter for the first church in the place; look large land claims, and served for years in the St.ite Legislature. A great portion of the lands he entered are now in the hands of the Gallup family. His father, John Gallup, made the first origin-il purchase, together with two brothers, of lands from Governor Winlhrop, who was a member of the Colonial Government. The original John Gallup, of Boston, Ma»., emigrated from the west part of England in l6'?o.

GILLFILL.\X HKNRY C. fanner, res. Sec. 8, P. O. Lawn Ridge, was born in Ross Co., O., Nov. 7, 1831, is the tenth of a family of twelve children of Adam and Sarah GillfiUan Hff Moets. both natives of Pennsylvania. He removed with his parents to Peorii in 1834. and the next year they settled in Limestone tjwnship, where his father died in 1844, and the widow removed with the family to Hallock township two years later. Mr. G. learned the trade of brick mason in youth and followed it for some time. Married Ivmima Newell, a native of Madison Co , 111., in November, i860, and settled on their present farm. They have had three children, Lucy A., Charles Martin and OIlie May. He turned his attention to reading law some years ago. and now does considerable practice In the justice courts of the county. Their farm embraces 200 acres valued at $50 per acre. Mr. G's mother died in 1875, and six of the twelve children have died.

GLAZE COLLINS, farmer. Sec. 35, P. O. Chillicothe, was bom in Bedford Co., Pa , Ian. 15, 1834, and is the son of John Glaze and Sarah Brydendall, both natives of that county. His father died about 1853, and his mother in 1870. They were farmers. lo the Fall of 1836 he removed with his parents 10 Peoria Co. settling in Richwoods township, where they lived for about one and a half years and removed to Medina township, where he grew up to manhood and .ifter hit father's death worked the home farm in company with his younger brother for four years and then removing to Hallock township, fanned for some time on rented land. His brother Isaac Glaze served three years in Union .\rmy and at the close of the war they together went to Bureau Co., 111., where they farmed for ten years and then selling out bought their present farm. Own 160 acres prairie land and twenty acres timber. Hr married Dec. 25. 1872, Alice Wheeler, daughter of William Wheeler and Ann Bethal, natives of Pennsylvania, who was born in that State September 5, 1849, by whom he has two children, Rosie. born Sept. 21, 1874. and Cori born Nov. 18, 1876. Mr. Glare has been for fiveyearsa member of Neponset Lodge. No. 560 I. O. O. F. Gocxiwin Wm tirli-kinaltfr. P. O. Nnrlliainplon.

GUEENE .lErFEKSON J. farmer Sec. 30. P. O. Southampton, was born July 12, 1S30 in Stephentown, Rensselaer Co., N. Y.,«nd is the son of Samuel S. Greene and Lucy Rose, who were both from the same State. When about six years old. he moved with his parents to Ostego county. N. V.. and after five or six years residence moved to Cayuga County in the same State. He came to Peoria Co. when abont twenty-four years o( age. and has ever since resided in it. He married July 3. 1855. Miss M»ry Nelson, who was born in Radnor township, January 15, 1839, by

HAKES ANTHOXY, farmer, Sec. 30, P. O. West Halluck, was born in Berlin, Rensselaer count\-, N. v., June 22, 1S17, and is the son of Rensselaer Hakes and Lana Eymer, natives of that county. He was raised on a farm until twenty-five years of age, when he married, Sept. 17, 1842, Susan Saunders, a native of his own county, born Sept. 29, 1821, and in June, 1845, came with his family to Hallock township, Peoria county, and settled on Sec. 31, in company with his brother Alanson ; came to his present fine farm about five years later. He owns 210 acres of land, 50 acres of it timber, and has a very fine, large dwelling, which was completed in 1870. His marriage resulted in two children: Mary S., born Dec. i, 1845, and Egbert Eugene, born April 5, 1848. Mr. Hakes was in youth instructed in the tenets of the Seventh Day Baplist Church, and when about twenty-five years old, began to exercise his natural gifts in preaching, and after coming to Hallock gradually fell into the position of minister to the small circle of Seventh Day Baptists settled there. Some years afterwards, when the members increased in number, he was ordained minister, and for a number of years served the people in that capacity, both in the church at West Hallock and all over the surrounding country ; has been pastor of the church at West Hallock for a number of years. His family are all members of the same church. Mr. Hakes has been supervisor of the township for three years, and assessor for one year. Hakes A. E. farmer. P. O. West Hallock.

HAKES 1>AXIEL,, farmer. Sec. 29, P. O. West Hallock. Mr. Hakes' maternal grandfather was Anthony Eymer, who was born in Germany and came to America as cabin boy in the fleet of Gen. John Burgoyne, in 1775, remaining in America after the surrender. He married in Connecticut and removed to Rensselaer county, N. Y., where he resided until his death in 1826. On the paternal side, his grandfather was Jesse Hakes, who was born in Connecticut and afterwards removed to New York ; served in the American army in the war of 1812, and was frozen to death on his post as sentinel. One of his sons was Rensselaer Hakes, who was born Feb. 16, 1788, in the county from which he took his name, and remained there until i860, when he came to this county. He married Lana Eymer, who was born March i, 1793, by whom he had six children : Pamelia, born Nov. 26, iSli, died Jan. 4, 1861 , Stephen V. R., born June 28, 1813 ; Esther, born Sept. 14, 1S15; Anthony, born June 22, 1817 ; .\lanson, born April 22, 1819 ; and Daniel, whose name heads this sketch, born Aug. 20, 1821. His wife died in 1822, and in the next year he married Lucinda Hendrick, born Dec. 30, 1795, who bore him : Courtland, Sept. 8, 1824, died in 1S36 ; Lana, June 28, 1826; Alfred, Sept. 21, 1827; Rachel, Oct. 10, 1829. died Aug., 1864; Joel, Oct. 30, 1830; Emerson, July 21, 1832 (deceased); Martin, Nov. 10, 1833; Sarah Ann, Sept. 16, 1837, died 1845. His second wife died Aug. 30, 1862, and on March 15 of the next year he followed her, both dying in Peoria county. Three of the children by his first wife reside at present within its bounds. Daniel Hakes was born in the town ot Berlin. Rens.selaer county, N. Y., and resided there till May 15, 1848, when he removed to Peoria county and settled on his present farm with his family, having previously married. May 13, 1842, Dorcas, daughter ol Peleg and Hannah Saunders, who was born June li, 1S23. They had one child, now living in Missouri, Zebulon P., born March 10, 1S44, His wife died Aug. 12, 1848, and he married. May g, 1849, Mary Dennis, born Dec. 17, 1824, in Clermont county, Ohio, daughter of Joseph Dennis and Rachel McClellan, natives of Pennsylvania. Her father was born in 1797, and died in Peoria county, March 10, 1857. By this marriage Mr. Hakes has had three children; Alonzo G., born Nov. l6, 1852, who was drowned in the Illinois river .March 23, 1877 ; Albert, born Dec. 26, 1S56; Nellie, born Jan. 6. 1863. Emily, an adopted daughter, was l)orn June 20, 1852. While in the East Mr. H. was raised on a farm, he had also learned the trade of carpenter, and pursued it almost entirely during the first twelve years of his stay in Illinois, renting out his farm meanwhile. His natural ability as a mechanic has been of good service to him in devising and executing many improvements about his farm, and he has also made some inventions of great value to farmers, among them a hedge culler and a water return. He taught singing schools for many years in the surrounding townships, and was in great request in that capacity. He owns 160 acres of land, about 120 acres under cultivation ; has a large, fine dwelling, built in 1875 ^' a cost of over $2,000 ; large barns and out-buildings, with orchard of 200 bearing apple trees, besides other fruit. He has been a useful man in his township, and has filled manjr offices, among them (hat of supervisor ; was president of County Sunday School Association in 1675, and vice president of Sunday School Association of township for seventeen years, and superintendent of the same for twenty years. He and his wife and family are members of the Seventh Day Baptist Church at West Hallock. Is Republicmn in politics.

HICK.S LUCAS C. farmer. Sec. 32. P- O. Southampton, was born in Jackson county, O., Aug, 25, 1819, and is the fourth child and second son of Joel and I'ha'be Hicks. His father came originally from Nova Scotia, and his mother was a native of Connecticut. His family came to Peoria county in 1830, settling at first in Medina township, where they made a farm. He was married in 1846 to Miss Sarah Keed,of Ross county, C, who was bom in 1827, and shortly afterwards he bought his present farm. Owns a 260 acre farm in Hallock. 144 acres in Medina, and also another lot of 160 .acres of wet land in Hallock, worth altogether, about $24,000. Has had seven children, six now living: Lucius E., Samuel F., Ira J., Emerson C Fannie A. (deceased). Mark I. and Addie S. His second, third and fourth sons are farming in Medina township, and his oldest and youngest sons are in H.illock. He is an ardent Greenb.icker, but votes with the Republicans on National questions, and has fur several years served his township in the capacity of road commissioner and school trustee.

HOOVEll I. L. physician, P.O. I.awn Ki.lge, was born in Belmont county, Ohio, September 11, 1S30. and is the son Jacob Hoover and I'hoebe Frazier, who are both alive and reside with him. His father celebrated his eighty-second birthday on Feb. 17, of this year. His father was originally from Lancaster county. Pa., and his mother from Loudon county, Va. The doctor was raised in Belmont county till he arri\'ed at manhood, attended the common school there, ami in 1S50 began the study of medicine, .tnd practiced some years before attending lectures. In 1858 he attended for one term at Starling College, Columbus, Ohio, and gra<luating with the degree of M. D., he came directly to Lawn Kidgc, where he has since resided and practiced. He married Feb. 0, 1S66, Miss Nettie L. Freeman, a native of Plainfield, N. J. Dr. Hoover has a large practice, extending over portions of Marshall, Stark and Peoria counties.

and Lucy Hall. His father was bom in Rhode Island, July 13, 1803, and his mother in Rensselaer county, N. Y., Nov. 13, iSoS. In 1845 his parents moved from New York to Radnor township, and resided there twenty years, then coming to Hallock township, and settling on their present fine farm. They were married May 20, 1S29, and have had eleven children, eight of whom are now living - I'hoebe A., Louisa, Lucy (deceased), Charles H., William Augustus (deceased), Frank. Frances H., Rufus (deceased), Daniel B., Engene L. and Thos. H., whose name heads this sketch. Previous to her marriage with Mr. Keach, Mrs. Keach had a son by a former husband. This son was named Wya't Rose, and is now dead. Mr. Keach, Sr.. in politics is a Democrat, and owns 150 acres ofland. for which he paid $70 an acre, and has 100 acres under cultivation. The farm is well improved, with a fine house and spacious outbuildings, and every thing is kept in applepie order through the hard work of their youngest son, who is yet unmarried and resides with them.

KEXI>-\L,L JOHN G. farmer. Sec 30, P. O. Southampton, was bom in January, 1814, in Columbia county. Pa., and is the sun of Andreas Kendall and Theresa Cornelia Wagoner. Was raised on a farm and went to school in his native county till 1829, when at the age of fourteen he went to set, and led a sailor's life for sixteen years, during which he serx'ed in the U. S. navy and the merchant service. He was three years in the former, and made a voyage round the world in the U. S. Irigate Columbia, and has visited all the principal ports of the world. In 1845 he finally left the se,t. and, instead of "ploughing the main." resolved to plough the prairie of Illinois, and accordingly came West and settled in Hallock township, where he now owns 193 acres of land, and has a very fine orchard with 100 apple trees, besides other fmit. His farm it well improved, has fine, large barns, etc., and every thing is kept in sailor-like neatness. He values hit farm with all improvements at about $i;,ocx>. He married Nov. 7, 1847, Miss .Amelia Merrill, of Rota county, Ohio, by whom he has had eight children, five of whom are now living - Helena, Kent Kane. Kngenia. Ruble and Edward Everett. Mr. Kendall hat cut loose from all political parties, and now vutes for ibe best man.

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township and was born in New York, and his mother is a native of Ireland. He resided on his father's farm until 1867, when he came to his present location, and for six succeeding years farmed in company with his brother William. On Feb. 20, 1S73, he married Mary Ann Rogers, daughter of John Rogers and Ann Mc- Avoy, natives of county Louth, who came to America previous to her birth in Medina township. April 6, 1S55. The fruit of this union are three children - Mary Elizabeth, born March 4. 1S75; Maggie Ella, born Aug. 13, 1S77, and Annie Josephine, born Dec. 7, 1S7S. He owns eighty acres of fine farming land under cultivation. Himself and wile are members of St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Medina. Mrs. Mooney's father and mother are still living and reside in Livingston county. 111.

MOOXEY WILLIAM A. farmer, Sec. 25, P.O. Chillicothe ; was born November 11, 1S40, in Medina township, Peoria county, is the eldest son of Jas. Mooney and Elizabeth Jennet, and a grandson of Thomas Mooney and Helena Stagg, who were among the earliest settlers in Peoria county. He was raised on his father's farm till about twenty-one years old, when he went to California, and there farmed and prospected for about three'years. On his return, about 1864, he in company with his brother Thomas took up a lot of 160 acres in Ilallock township, and together farmed it for about ten years, when on January 13, 1876, he married Miss Annie Burke, who was born in New Hampshire, July 20, 1853, and came to Peoria county in 1871. liy this marriage he has two children - Herman, born October 28, 1S76, and Annie Elizabeth, born January 31, 1878. Mrs. Mooney is a graduate of Mount St. Mary's Convent of Mercy at Manchester, N. H., and previous to her marriage taught music in the city of Peoria, and was organist in St. Mary's - now the Bishop's Church there. Mr. and Mr-. Mooney are members of the Mooney Catholic Church in Medina township ; own 120 acres tine farming land, with good dwelling house, barns, etc., which he values at about Slo,ooo.

MILLER OLIVER M. farmer, Sec. 16, P.O. Chillicothe; was born in Knox county, O., August 29, 1S37, and is the son of Jacob Miller and Mary Buyher. His father was a private in loth Regt. U. S. Inf. during the war of 1812, and died in Putnam county, O., about thirty years ago. His mother was born in Pennsylvania, July 11, 1793, is still alive, and resides with him. When about thirteen years old he came West with his people and settled in Fulton county. III., where he remained for about two years, and removed to Peoria county in different parts of which he has since resided ; owned at one time a farm on Sec. 16 which he worked for about four years, and in 1869 sold out and removed to his present location where he owns

116 acres of land ; also owns a farm of eighty acres good land in Vermillion county, Ind. He was married January i, i860, to Amelia Rebecca Van Tassel, a native of Medina township, by whom he has had eight children, six now living - Augustus Orton, born November 10, 1S60; Sarah Jane, born January 8, 1S62; Amos Elison, born September 13, 1S63 ; George W., born July 30, 1869 ; Orin Melville, born December 3, 1S71, and Lewis Omer, born May i. 1875. His eldest son and daughter are at present taking care of his farm in Indiana, and he thinks of selling out his present home and moving there in the near future. Nurs CJ. Mrs. P.O. Ilallock.

NURS HENRY H. farmer. Sec. 3, P.O. Hallock ; was born on his father's farm in this township, October 26, 1843, and has remained there all his life except what time he spent in the army. Isaiah Nurs, his father, was born in Bainbridge, now Afton, Chenango county, N. Y., March 19, i8i5,and was the son of Roswell Nurs and Jerusha Barton. His father was born in Ringe, N. H., April 3, 1787, and his mother was born and raised in Canaan, Litchfield county. Conn. Isaiah Nurs was raised on a farm till twentyone years old, when in company with his father and Ebenezer Stowell, he came to Illinois, walking all the way with rifle on shoulder, except from Buffalo to Toledo, which they came by steamer. They were about three weeks making the journey, and after zigzagging over a large part of Illinois during the next three weeks in search of a desirable location, they finally, in the last days of June, 1836, settled on their present farms, and entered it at the land office at Quincy. Mr. Nurs remained on the land, and his father returning to his home in the East, brought out his whole family in the next Spring. Mr. Nurs still lives on the old homestead ; owns 300 acres land, about 220 acres under cultivation, and the rest in timber, worth about $40 an acre right through. His father died on the farm, March 9, 1S63, and his mother August 16, 183S. Mr. Isaiah Nurs married January i, 1838, May M. Hill, who was born in Peru, Vt., October 3, 1813, and who came to Peoria county and Hallock township in 1834 ; has had four children, three now living - Jerusha B., born October 3, 1838. died June 16, 1870; Martha C. born July 13, 1842 ; Henry H., born October 25, 1843, and Newell E., born June 17, 1848. Those alive are married and resident in the neighborhood. Henry H. Nurs whose name heads this sketch, enlisted August 13, 1S62, in Co. C, 86th I. V. I., and with his regiment, served under Gen. Thomas in the Army of the Cumberland till the Fall of 1864, and took part in the many brilliant engagements fought by that army, among them Perryville, Ky., Chickamauga, Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, Jonesboro, with Sherman on his march to the sea, through N. and

S. Carolina under the same general, and at Aver)'sburgb, March i6, 1865, where he was wounded by a rifle bill shattering his Jeft knee, entailing the loss of his leg by ampjtation immediately afterwards. He lay in hospital at I'ort Schuyler, N". V., nearly three moiiihi, and was discharged June 26, 1S65. returning home July 24lh, of the same year. He married November 5, 1869, Miss Lucinda A. Stevens, who was born November S, 1843. at Columbus, Adams county, III., by whom he has one child, a boy, born July 27, 1877, and named Elbert I. Nurs. NUUS ISAIAH, farmer. Sec. 3, P. O. Hallock.

PERKIX.S S. P. farmer. Sec. 6, P. O. Lawn Ridge; was born in Dover, Stafford county, N. H., May 16, 1821, and is the son of .Morris Perkins and Abigail C. Paul, who were both natives of same county and State. His father was a mechanic, ship carpenter and builder, and Mr. Perkins learned his trade of machinist, and worked at it in hi.s native town till twentyfour years of age, when he moved to Philadelphia, and there for seven years took charge of a large machine shop. In the Fall of 1 85 1, an offer was made to him to come to Kennelton, Ind., and take charge of a machine shop connected with a factory there ; the offer was accepted, all his affairs were settled and household goods packed, ready to start for his declination, when a serious disagreement occurred between the owners of the factory and the agent they had empowered to manage their business, eng.ige help, etc., resulting in the resignation of the agent, and consequent lapse of the arrangements he had purposed, amon;; them the transference of Mr. Perkins to Kennelton. But a mischance of this kind was not allowed to stand in the way of his coming West, and he started with his family and came straight to his present farm, which he had some years previously bought, and where he has ever since resided, lie married in Dover, N. H., July 2, 1S45, Lydia Pierce, a native of Maine, born March 3, 1S19. by whom he has had five sons, three of them now living : Morris, born June 4, 1847; Edwin, born in 1 849, and died in following year ; George, born in May, 1851, died November 3. 1861 ; Charles \V., born September II, 1853; Sumner, horn March 14, 1857. Mr. Perkins owns 320 acres fine prairie land, worth $60 an acre, and sixty acres timber ; has been for five years supervisor of township, and has filled in turn almost all the township offices ; is in politics a radical Republican. Himself and wife are members of Congregational Church at I. awn Ridge.

PHILLIPS C O. postmaster and general merchant, .Vurtliaiiipton, was imrn in Plainfield, Conn., July 30, 1836, and is the son of Jesse C. Phillips and Amanda Brown, both natives of that State. He remained at home till about nineteen vears of aec and received his education at the common and high schuols.and in the Fall of 1S5S came to Peoria counlvand settled on Hallock township, there engaijing in farming pursuits ; afterwards bought a farm in Sec. 16, Groveland township, LaSalle county, where he stayed three years, and then removed to Montgomery county, where he worked at his trade of carpenter for two years, and kept a general store for about three months, when he sold out, and in 1869 returned to Peoria county, and has since resided there. Since coming back he has farmed and worked at his trade till about one year ago, when he again entered mercantile business, and received the position of postmaster ; carries a stock of about $1,200 and does a good business. On February 22. i860, he married Miss Mary Evans, daughter of Walter Evans, of Hallock township, by whom he has had two children, Euphcmia N. and Peter E.. both of them now living. Mr Phillips is in politics a Republican, and he and his wife are members of the Union Baptist Church.

POTTKR DANIEL, (deceased.) Sec. 30, address of widow P. O. West Hallock, was born in Rensselaer county, New V'orli, February so, 1816, and is the son of Ephraim Potter and Wealthy Hall, natives of that State. His father was by trade a blacksmith, and Mr. Potter learned the trade of wagon-maker, and worked at it for about eight years in Brookficld. Madison county. New Vork, removing, in 183S, to .\llcyhany county. New York, where he continued to woik at his trade until April, 1S65. when he came to Peoria county and bought a farm in Hallock township, which was worked by his son, he himself continuing to work at his trade as long as his health permitted. He was married in Brooklield. New Vork. January 14. 1836, to Rebecca I. Howler, daughter of William Bowler and Nancy Coon - the latter a daughter of Elder Abraham Coon - who was bom Nov. 28, iSl'i. by whom he had six children - William R., born Otsego county. New Vork, March 2, 1838, Albertus O.. born May 21, 1840, in Friendship, Alleghany county, New Vork. lulius A., iiorn .Vpril 16, 1844. in Genesee, same county. Daniel E.. June 22, 1846, in Wirt, same county, N. Atvilla. liorn March 6, 1853, in Alfred, sameconuty, and George F., born in .\lfred, same county, April 29, 1856. Mr. Potter died May 33, 187S, in West Hallock, and hit widow now resides upon the homestead with her youngest son. He was almost all his life a member of the Seventh day Baptist Church, and served as deacon in the congicgation at Alfred, and also in the church at West Hallock. He was for four years justice of the peace in .\lfre<l, and was township collector in Hallock for one year.

REED SI3ION, (deceased,) farmer, late of Hallock township, was born in Rensselaer county. New York, September ii, lygs, and was raised on father's farm in Delaware county. New York, where he married. October 13, 1S16, Currance Sanford, who was born September 20, 1799 in New York State. A few years after marriage he removed to Jackson county, Ohio, where he resided until 1825, removing at that date, in company with two other brothers, to Peoria county, and settling on the farm now occupied by his sons, on Sec. 26. By his marriage he had fifteen children, and he also adopted one child - Sanford, born Sept. 16, 1S17, died April 29, 1879, Jerusha, born March 17, iSig, Harriet, born Nov. 19, 1820, Esther, born Dec. 2, 1S22, Anna, born Sept. 19, 1824, Amos, born April 23, 1827, Emily, born Nov. 23, 1829, died Feb. 16, 1880, Lyman. born Feb. 5, 1832, Norman, born Oct. 8, 1833, Clarissa, born Dec. 21, 1835, Phoebe (adopted), July 7, 1S36, died March 19, 1S62, Marion, born Jan. 9. 1838, Harrison, born April 6, 1S40, Semantha, born Aug. 2, 1842, died Sept. 18, 1842, Henry, born Oct. 14, 1843, died October 10, 1S44. Barbara, born Nov. g, 1S45. Simon Reed died on the old homestead in Sept., 1869, and his wife followed him April 6, 1S76. At the date of his settlement within the hounds of Hallock township, there was no other settler there but Lewis Hallock, and he has the deserved credit of bringing to it many of the prominent families whose untiring labor has brought it to its present high state of cultivation. He was the pioneer of the colony from Jackson county, Ohio, among them the Mofiitts, Sillimans, Roots and Hicks. His brothers, Samuel and Thomas, came ^Vest and settled, the former in Ogle county. 111., and the latter in Medina township, a few years after Simon and Aaron Reed came here. He volunteered in the Blackhawk war of 1832 ; was detailed to act as teamster, and returning home for his team, served with it till the close of the war. He was the first justice of the peace resident within the present limits of the township ; was a man of large, warm heart and generous sympathies, ever ready to help and encourage, never sparing himself where the public weal was conserned, and the memory of his social qualities and public spiritedness is warmly cherished by the older settlers.

REED HARRISON, farmer , Sec. 26, P. O. Chillicothe, was born in Hallock township, Peoria Co., April 6, 1840, and is the youngest living son of Simon and Currance Reed, who came to Peoria Co. in November, 1825. In 1861 his father divided the home farm between his sons Harrison and Marion, and the ormer got 100 acres prairie and forty acres in bluflf, which constitute his present farm. Much of this land has since been greatly improved, and he values it together with another lot of about forty acres recently acquired, at about $10,000. He married March 3, 1861, Sarah Adeline Hammond, born in Ogle Co., 111., January 4, 1842, by whom he had three children, of whom, only one, Charles Sanford, born March 17. 1864. now survives. The other children by this marriage were Lewis Edwin, born Nov. 29, 1861, died October 14, 1875, Herbert Irving, born Nov. I, 1865, died Oct. 2, 1866. His wife died January 18, 1869, and he married November i, 1869, Martha E. Scroggs, a native of Missouri, born June 30, 1846, who bore him one child, Lena M., born Nov. 13, 1870, and died November 28, of same year. On February 2, 1874, he married Clarissa Jane Pierce, born Aug, 27, 1845 in Medina township, Peoria county. Mr. Reed has been for one term, township commissioner, and is at present a school trustee. Himself and wife are members of the Union Baptist Church.

REED MARION, farmer, Sec. 26, P. O. Chillicothe, was born January 9, 1838, in Hallock township, and is the fifth son of Simon Reed and Currance Sanford, natives of New York State, who came to Peoria Co. in 1825, and settled on Sec. 27, where they built a log cabin and commenced clearing land. There were only thirteen white families on the present site of Peoria at that time. On this farm Marion Reed was born, and there he remained till Feb. 16, 1862, when he married Amanda Jane Dunbar, who was born in Champaign Co. O., March 28, 1S47, by whom he had two children. Amy Jane and Amos Reed. His wife died Feb. 9. 1867, and in July 21, 1871, he married Elizabeth Ellen Dunbar, the half sister of his first wife, who was born August 20, 1855, in Peoria Co., by whom he has two children, John Edward, and [Minnie May, born respectively, Feb. 16, 1877, and May 11, 1879. Owns 161 acres land, about 70 acres of which are under cultivation and worth about §50 an acre. His eldest daughter was married Dec. 31, 1879, to Thomas Purcell, farmer in Chillicothe township.

ROOT ALONZO BI. farmer. Sec. 3, P. O. Hal lock, was born March 2, i85i,and is the son of Erastus C. Root and Barbara A. Reed, who were among the earliest settlers in Hallock township, was raised on the farm and educated at Lombard University, Galesburg, where he spent two years. Married Aug. iS, 1874, in Lacon, III., Miss Lillian H. Ellsworth, who was born in Malone, Franklin Co., N. Y., Sept. 24, 1854. and is the daughter of Lucien D. Ellsworth and Maria Bird. They have two children, Julius D. born July 13, 1S75, and Gertrude, born May II, 1877. Mr. Rootisayoung

ROOT CYRUS, farmer, Sec. 24. La Prairie toimship, P. 0., Sparland Marshall Co., III., was bom September 4, 183S, onhis father's farm in Sec. 3, of Hallock township, PeuriaCo. Was raised upon it and devoted all his energy to it until the year 1862, when on August 27, he enlisted in Co. C. 86th I. V. I., and formed part of the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 14th Army Corps, under command of Gen. George H. Thomas. He took part with his regiment in its many battles and skirmishes among them that of Perryville, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and Kenesaw, in which he was severely wounded on June 27, 1864, and was confined to the hospital at Nashville for about four months. After recovery took part in the battle of Nashville, and was mustered out at Washington, D. C, June 6, 1S65. He married Dec. 29, 1869, Miss Mary Cornelia Stowell, who was born in Hallock township, April 4, 1845, and four years afterwards moved to his present farm in Marshall Co. The fruit of his marriage is one child, a boy, who was born in June, 1S74. He owns 100 acres of land, twenty of which are under timber.

ROOT ERASTUS C. farmer. Sec. 3, P. O. Hallock, was born in Roxbury, Delaware Co., N. Y., July 26, 1805, and is the son of Jeriel Root and Sarah Coleman, both of whom were born and raised in Coventry, Conn. His father after marriage moved into Duchess Co., N. V., where for some time he taught school, and afterwards moved to Delaware Co., where he bought a farm, upon which the subject of this sketch was born and raised. He was third in a family of ten children. In the year 1817 the family removed to Ross Co., O., where they resided till I S30, when the whole family again removed further West to Illinois, settling in Hallock township of Peoria Co., in the Fall of that year, and look up the N. E. ^ of Sec. 24. township II, N. range 8 E. He married in Hallock township, Dec. 16, 1830, Barbara A. Reed, a native of Middletown, Delaware Co., N. Y., born Sept. 15, 181 1, and in the Summer of 1832 moved on to the present site of the town of Chillicothe, being the first resident within its bounds. There he remained till April, 1836, and in the same Summer came to his present farm, where he has since resided. His farm consists of 240 acres in Marshall Co., and 160 acres in Peoria Co. A great part of the original farm has been given to his sons, who have left home and set up for themselves. Two hundred acres of his land in Marshall Co. are under plough, and his farm is worth $40 an acre right through. The fruit of his marriage was ten children, Jeriel Perry, Caroline (deceai.ed), James Lucas, lyrus. £isstu>, Willism, Sarah Lorina, Ann Eliza, Alonzo, and Charles P. Root. All but one of those alive are married, and two sons live at home. Mr. Root has been township assessor, and school trustee for many years, but has not held any office of late. He is in politics a Republican.

SAXGER W1LLIA3I M. farmer. Sec. 7. P. O. Lawn Ridge, was bom at Honeoye Falls, Monroe county, N. Y.. November 22, 1828, and is the son of James Sanger and Maria Wheeler, both natives of Vermont, who settled in Monroe county in 1S15 ; was raised on home farm until about fifteen years of age, and in October, 1S49, came to Peoria county, and settled in the vicinity of his present farm. He afterwards made a farm of 160 acres raw land in section 12, of Akron township, and in 1864 sold out and bought his present fine farm ; owns 320 acres prairie worth about $60 an acre, and 340 acres bluff land worth about $15 per acre. His farm is finely improved and has a handsome dwelling house upon it, which was built in 1 867. Married May 13. 1853, .'>cmirimis Kemble daughter of Colin B. Kemble and Elizabeth Harlow, both natives of Kentucky; who was born in Paducah, Graves county, Ky., June 2S, 1835. by whom he has had five children, three of whom now survive - James W., born February 2, 1S56 ; Francis M., born August 31, 1859, died June 18, 1864; Willie, born July 25, 1864, died October 21, 1S65 ; Carlisle B., born September 10, 1866 ; Semirimis E., bom December 10, 1S68. Mr. Sanger was at one time for live successive years township assessor. He and his wife are members of M. E. Church.

Saiiiiilcrs T., dairy [arnirr. I'. O. Weat Ilallock. .Siixtuii Sarah. 1'. o. Norlhaiiiploii. Schrailer Herman, fanner, r. o. llallork. Seclcy Daiifurtl). farmer. 1'. O. .Soutbauipton.

SILLI-MAX M.Vlt.SH.\LL B. (retired.) Sec. 32, P. O. Southampton, was born in Delawaie county, N. Y., May 12, 1S12, and is the son of Gcrshom Silliman and Polly Coleman, both of whom were natives of Connecticut. His parents were'married in Delaware county, October 9, 1S09, and had nine children, of whom Marshall is the second child and son. Five are now living. His father ser%'ed in the United Stales army until the close of the war of 1812, and while in the service saw much fine farming land, and becoming di.sgusted with the rough and stony country in which *liis family awaited his return, after being discharged he removed with them, and in company with many of his neighbors, in wagons, crossed the .MIcghany mountains to Ohio, settling at first in Koss county, and afterwards in Harrison township, Jackson county. Here he was followed in a few yean by many of hit old neighbors from Delaware county, some of whom were afterwards pioneer settlers in Peoria county, among them the families uf Reeds, Roots and Hicks. After a residence of some thirteen years in Ohio, dur- ing which Simon and Aaron Reed had removed west to Peoria county, Mr. Silliman's father became smitten by the Illinois fever, caught from Simon Reed, who had returned with glowing accounts of the land to be had in that State, and in the year 1828 the family left their farm in Ohio, and started in their wagons for Illinois, piloted on their way by Simon Reed. The journey occupied twenty-days, camping out every night, but two, in a tent. They arrived in Peoria, September 21. Simon Reed had a double log cabin upon his farm, and gave up one-half for the accommodation of his newly arrived friends. As soon as possible a log cabin of one and a half stories was built upon their claim, on section 35, and there the family resided for about two years, and then moved to what is now section 2, of Medina township, where they remained till 1S37, and again removed to section 3, of same township. While there, Mr. Silliman commenced an improvement for himself at his present location, and on November 16, 1837, married Clarissa, daughter of Calvin and Mary Hyde, natives of Massachusetts ; who was born in Broome county, N. Y., November I, 1S12. by whom he has two two sons - Edwin C, born November 18, 1840 ; and Norman H., born October 30, 1S42. His wife died November 5, 1842, and he married February 6, 1844, Nancy Y., daughter of Truman and Betsey Hawley ; who was born in Otsego county, N. Y., March 27, 1S16. Mr. Silliman has resided ever since his first marriage on his present farm, composed of 160 acres of fine land ; also owns fifty acres in section 21, of Chillicothe township ; a farm of 320 acres in Vermillion county, 111. ; and another of 400 acres in Iroquois county, 111. All this land, except about 100 acres, is fine farming land, and under good improvement. Mr. Silliman's father died December 2, 1S56, aged seventy-three years upon the old homestead in Medina township, and his mother died December 24, 1864, at the age of seventyseven, while on a visit near Chillicothe. His eldest son is in business at Chenoa, 111., and his younger is engaged in the grain business at Dunlap, and also runs a general wagon and carriage repair shop there. Mr. .Silliman has of late years enjoyed but poor health, but has been an active and useful man in his township, filling many offices, among them that of supervisor, which he held for seven successive years. In religious faith he is a Universalist, and in politics a consistent Democrat.

SIMPSON JOHN, farmer, Sec. ig. P. O. West Hallock, was born in Banffshire, Scotland, June 14, 1811, and is the son of John Simpson and Elizabeth Howie, both of same county. His mother's father was in the English service during the Revolutionary war, and his mother was born in New York in 1778, returning with the army to Scotland, where she was raised. He worked on a farm till 1832, when he came to

America, landing at Quebec June 3d of that year. Went to Vermont for about one year, thence removed to New York State and to Illinois in Fall of 1847, settling near Farmington, Fulton county, for two years, and came to hij present farm in the Fall of 1849, where he has since resided. He married November 16, 1842, Ann Saunders, a native of Rensselaer county, N. Y., by whom he has had a family of ten children, five now living - Pheobe R.. born January 6, 1844 ; Robin M., born March 19, 1845 ; Eva L., born November 16, 1854; Murray W., born December 28, 1863; Rena Bell, born February 13, 1865. He owns 135 acres of land, worth $65 per acre, all well improved ; and twenty acres under timber. Himself, wife and family are members of the Seventh Day Baptist Church, and he has for many years been a church trustee. .SlmsChas., farmer. P. O. Chillicothe.

SI»IS FRANK L. farmer, Sec. 25. P. O. Chillicothe, was born in Salem county, N. J., January 8, 1832, and is the son of John Sims and Susan Long; was raised on a farm till about twenty years of age, when he came west and settled in Trivoli township, Peoria county, where he farmed on rented land for seven or eight years, and in i860 came to his present farm in Hallock township. Married in the same year Lucinda Booth, who was born in Champaign county, O., in 1840, by whom he has had eight children, five of whom are now living - Lilly, Laura, Frederick, Earl, and one as yet unnamed, and born November 25, 1879. He has 160 acres in home farm, and twenty acres in the bluff, which he values at about $50 an acre. His farm was raw land when he bought it, and all the existing improvements have been made by himself Is in politics a Republican, and is at present a school trustee. Mr. and Mrs. Sims are members of the Union Baptist Church. Mrs. Sims is a daughter of Isaac and Sarah Booth, who were natives of Champaign county, Ohio.

SPICER JOHN G. dairy farmer. Sec. 18, P.O. West Hallock. Is the tenth of a family of nine sons and two daughters, nine living, of Joseph Spicer and Content Potter, natives of Rhode Island, where Joseph Spicer was born, March g, 1797, Content Potter, Aug. g, of the same year. They were married Nov. 12, 1818. John G. was born in Hopkinton, Washington county, that State, January 14, 1839. At the age of nineteen he left home and spent a year in Jefferson county, N. Y., then returned and helped to take the census of i860, after which he spent another year in Adams Centre, N. Y., in the drug business. Came West, and making Decatur, 111., headquarters, engaged in selling books a year, during which he bought a farm in Kansas, and in the Fall of 1862 went out and sowed a crop of wheat on it ; retarning to Illinois and continuing in book busi- i ness. In June, 1863, went East, and on the 29th of the month married Cornelia Babcoclc, in Jefferson I county, N. V., where she was bom January 18, 1844. Returning to Illinois, still continued the book business. In the Fall of 1864, bought a farm in company with his brother William, in Hallock township, Peoria county, and settled on it the next Spring. Meeting with an accident soon after, which disabled him fur farm-life, he told out and returned to Jefferson county, N. Y., and engaged in manufacturing soap and candles. Having partially recovered from his injury, he returned to Peoria county, and bought and settled on the farm they now occupy, in the Spring of 1S71. It contains ninety-two acres, improved, and twenty of timber, valued at $6,500. Has had four children, three now living, Minnie, bom May 22, 1S69 ; Clara Almira, born Sept. 25, 1873, (l'"! F«'>- 23. 1875 ; Clarence Winfred, bora Nov. 30, 1875 : and Ernest Samuel, born June 27, 1877. Both himself and wife are membersof the Seventh Day Baptist Church.

SPICEK WILLIAM, farmer, Sec. 30, P. O. West Hallock. Was born July 4, 1836, in Hopkinton, R. I., the son of Joseph Spicer and Content Potter, natives of Rhode Island. His father was a harnessmaker, and also owned and worked a farm, upon which the subject of this sketch was raised. He came to Illinois in 1856, and after a slay of a few months returned East, and for some time afterwards attended school in New York State, and came back to Illinois with intent to stay on Sept. 1, 1857, settling in Bureau county, where he bought a farm and remained until the Spring of 1865, when he sold out and purch.-ised his present farm in Hallock township, upon which he has since resided. He married in Centre township. Bureau county, August 22, 1861, Miss Olive A. GiUman, daughter of Charles S. Ciillman and Olive Whitcher, who was born at Northlield, N. H., May 15, 1843, ^y whom he has three children: Olive, bom January 16, 1864; Luella, born March 26, 1867 ; and Charles W., born Nov. 16, 1869. Mr. Spicer owns 130 acres of land, ten acres of it under timber, and worth about 1^50 an acre. Keeps about forty cows, and from the milk thus supplied makes an average of 175 pounds creamery butter weekly, throughout the year, all of which is sent to the Peoria market. His creamery was the fir^t erected in the county, and the butter thui made was the first of its kind introduced to any extent in Peoria. He is also interested in the cheese factory at West Hallock. Mr. and Mrs. Spicer are members of the Seventh Day Baptist Church at West Hallock. He is at present a school director, and has been for some yean school trustee. Is Republican in politics. bl««rart Juttlcr, farmer, i'. O. Nortliainplun.

32, P. O. Lawn Ridge. Is the sixth of nine children, and the 6fth son, of Ebenezer and Laura Stowell, of Hallock township, Peoria county, where he was bom, March 6, 184S. Was reared on the farm, and besides enjoying the benefits of the district school, attended Northwestern College, at Na[>erville, 111., for a time. For four or five years he taught school in Winter and carried on farming in Summer. On the loth of December, 1874, he married Mary E. Davis, daughter of John B. and Margaret Davis, ruf Ayers, of Peoria county. She was born Oct. lo, 1853. They have two children living, Daisie. bom Sept. 32, 1878 ; and Emma Blanche, born Nov. 10, 1879. Their homestead consists of 125 acres of fine farming land, on which they settled in 1875.

STOWELL EBEXEZEK, fanner. Sec. 3, P. O. Hallock, was born October ig, 1807, in Chenango county, N. Y., and is the son of Abishai Stowell, born in Windham, Windsor township, Vt., in 1779, and Hannah Field, born in Brattleboro, Vt., in 17S2. The family comes from English stock. His father, when a boy, went to Chenango county, N. Y., where he settled and married, and where Ebenezer was born and raised on his father's farm. He worked for some years at the trade of mill-wright, and in 1836 started west with Koswell and Isaiah Nurs for companions, to locate a farm in the then but thinly settled State of Illinois. Part of the way they came by water, but chiefly on foot, and before they made choice of their land, the distance walked aggregated nearly 1000 miles. In the Summer of that year they entered their farms at the Government Land Office, at Quincy. and Mr. Stowell returned to the East, and in the Fall of 1843 came back with his family, to till and occupy his farm. Since then he has remained upon it, and the high state of cultivation it has attained, gives evidence of the earnest and honest work expended upon it. Mr. Stowell married Februar>° 23, 1833, Paulina, daughter of Reuben and .\nna Hridgcman, who was born in Chenango county, N. Y., October 19, 1S07. By this marriage he had one son - Orson B. Stowell, born May 7. 1834, and now resident in Hallock township. His wife died in giving birth to this son, and on July 13, 1838, he married Laura liridgeman, also a native of his own county, by whom he has had nine children: - Calvin, born October

6, 1848; Samuel Reuben, born February 23, 1850; Anna Paulina, Irarn May 14, 1851, and Ebenezer, born March II, 1855; has seven children living - five married, and settled in the neigh)>orhoo<l, and two at home. He owns about bou acres of land, valued at (35 an acre ; has sjo acres under cultivation. Mr. Stowell

STOAVELL ORSON B., farmer, Sec. 7, P. O. Lawn Ridge, is the only son of Ebenezer Stowell, and Pauline Bridgeman, and was born in Binghamton, N. Y., May 7, 1834, coming to Peoria county with his parents in 1843. He has ever since been domiciled in the county. He was raised and resided on his father's farm, in Hallock township, until May iS, 1859, when he married in Toulon, Stark county, 111., Miss Harriet R. Church, who was born in St. Lawrence county, N. Y., October 9, 1833, and is the daughter of Norman Church, a native of Massachusetts, and Rebecca Delurga, of French parentage, born and raised in Vermont, by which marriage he has five children : William L., born May 18, i860 ; L. Paulina, born July 23, 1862; Laura Rebecca, born May 30, 1865; Fannie, born November 3, 1867, and Luther E., born January 20, 1875. He settled after marriage on southeast quarter of Sec. 7, where he remained for fifteen years, removing to his present location in October, 1875 ; has 80 acres in home farm, and another 80 acres at his old farm ; also owns 80 acres timber land on Sec. 9. Himself, wife, and eldest daughter are members of Congregational Church at Lawn Ridge ; has held various township offices, among them that of town clerk and commissioner of roads. Politically is a radical Republican.