Quincy Township (part 42 of 74)

In fact the Fisher family have been stove foundrymen and manufacturers in Quincy for more than half a century. John J. Fisher was born in this city July 6, 1869, a son of John C. and Mary A. (AVeilage) Fisher. His father was a native of Baltimore, Maryland, and his mother of Germany. John C. Fisher was a molder by trade and coming to Quincy during the early 'iOs. as a yoimg man, he engaged in work at his trade as a stove plate molder and about 1865 organized and established the Excelsior Stove Works, with which he was actively connected until his death. His associates in this business were Samuel "Wood and Joseph Easterly. Subsequently, in 1890, after the death of IMr. Fisher, the Excelsior Stove Works discontinued business. His widow, who was born in Hanover, Germany, and was brought to Quincy in childhood, is still living in the city. John C. Fisher at one time represented the Third Wai-d in the city council.

He and his family were active members of St. Mary's Catholic C%ureh. They had eight children, two of whom. William and Adelaide, died young. Otillia is the wife of Theodore Ehrhart ; ilartha is the wife of Otto Duker : the third in age is John J., of Quincy; Henrietta married F. W. Rummenie. of St. Paul, ^linnesota : William Joseph and Frank H. reside in Quincy.

John J. Fisher grew up in his native city, attended St. Mary's parochial schools to the age of eleven, at which age he went to work eai-ning his own living as clerk in a confectionery store and later in a grocery house. Then in 1884, he began an apprenticeship in the foundry of the Excelsior Stove Works and was with that company until it discontinued business in 1890.

On the first of May in that year ]\Ir. Fisher went into the stove repair business, under the name Excelsior Stove Repair Company, and in 1893 his business was incorporated and in 1896 the capital was increased and the name changed to the Excelsior Stove and ilanufacturing Company. Since then the company has manufactured stoves, ranges and furnaces under the popular trademark name "National Stoves, Ranges and Furnaces," which have been shipped to every q^iarter of the globe. ]\Ir. Fisher is president and treasurer of the company and now two branch houses are maintained, one at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and the other at St. Paul. ^Minnesota. It is one of the larger local industries, emploving several hundred men and doing an annual business valued at more than .$1,000,000.

Ml". Fisher is also vice president of the National Furniture and Stove Company St. Paial, ilinnesota, is president of the Quincy Freight Bureau; is chairman of the Transportation and Classification Committee of the National Association of Stove Manufacturers and is vice president of Potter & Vaughn Company. He has acquired many other interests with business and civic enterprises and during the last year has served as a member of the National Defense Neighborhood Committee and a member of the Conservation Committee of the War Industries' Board of the National Association of Stove ^Manufacturers. He and his family are active members of the St. Peter's Catholic Church.

Mr. Fisher has undoubtedly had a large and sustaining part in Quincy 's industrial life and yet it is his disposition to refer to this role with exceeding modesty and disclaiming honor for himself gives credit for all the success of his business to his loyal and faithful assistants, associates and workmen, who in co-operation have produced the results by which the name of the Excelsior Stove and Manufacturing Company has such interesting and worthy significance.

John J. ^Ietzger. Of the old time business men of Quiney one whose name is still spoken with respect due to the energj- and character of its possessor is that of John J. iletzger, who was at one time connected with the pork packing industry- of this city, was also a grocer and land owner, and one of the most prominent and public spirited citizens Quiney ever had.

He was born in Wuertemberg, Germany, October 30, 1842, of Catholic ancestry. "When he was three years old his parents Martin and Margaret Metzger came to the United States and after a voyage of many weeks landed in New Orleans. From there they proceeded up the ilississippi River to Burlington. Iowa, but soon located at Edwardsville, Illinois, where Martin Metzger died when past seventy years of age. After his death the family came to Quiney and located at 17 Vermont Street. Here the mother spent her last years.

John J. Metzger in early life became associated with others in pork packing, and carried on an extensive business. In early life he learned the trade of saddler and for some time worked at his trade with the late J. B. Schott. Along in the late '70s he was in the grocery business at the corner of Sixth and York streets. He finally retired and built his fine home at -53.3 York Street, where he lived until his death October 2.5, 1910, at the age of sixty-seven. He owned eighty acres of land just south of the city and since his death has been reclaimed for the purpose of cultivation by the South Quiney Drainage System. This was an improvement which he always advocated during his lifetime.

ilany remember Mr. IMetzger chiefly for his active connection with many public affairs and as a leader in his church. He was prominent in local politics as a democrat and was once candidate for mayor. He was one of the organizers of the first volunteer fire departments, was its first chief, and was in active service for over twenty-five years, being chief much of the time. One of the honors which he always appreciated was the chief's bugle given him by the ladies of the city. He and his family were pi-ominent in St. Boniface parish of the Catholic Church and he was one of the organizers of the "Western Catholic Union, served as its supreme president, and was also an official of the local branch and attended nearly all the conventions of the order. On October 16. 1889, his services as president of the Supreme Council received a beautiful recognition when he was presented with a gold headed cane. He was also president of the local branch known as St. Peter's No. 16, and this service was also given a grateful token when he was presented with a gold badge. He was active in the Catholic Benevolent Society.

College and the Gem City Business School, and for some years was in the hardware business with Tenks and Cotrell. Later he was a grocery merchant and his death occurred June 25, 1913, when in the prime of life. He was active in the Catholic Benevolent Society and the Western Catholic Union. He married Mollie Gardner, now a resident of Decatur, Illinois. They had four children, Marina and Raymond J. and two who died when young, ilai'ina is married and lives in Decatur. Raymond J. makes his home with his mother.

Matilda, the oldest of the living children of ]\Irs. Metzger, married Henry J. Rummenie, of St. Louis, and her children are Clifford J., Alvara E., Clarence A., Margaret and Virginia. The other three daughters are still at home and all of them have been well educated in St. Mary's Academy. The only living son Arthur 0., who completed his education in St. Francis College, is now in the grocery and confectionery business. '

Charles H. Altenhein, one of the prosperous farmers of Ellington township has lived on the one farm and in one location for over fifty j-ears, since earlj' childhood. The farm is in section 17 and he has conducted its fields and the general business of the farm since 1890 on his own account. The farm comprises eighty acres of land and is devoted to general agriculture and stock raising. He has made a success of his enterprise, and has a good property for his purpose, being well drained soil and with excellent buildings. The livestock which he favors are Poland China hogs and Hereford cattle. Mr. Altenhein has owned this old homestead since 1907.

He was born in Melrose Township of this county, in section 20, May 11, 1864. He was three years old when he came to his present farm and grew up and attended the Center School in Ellington Townehip. Mr. Altenhein is a son of Frederick and Christina (Rhode) Altenhein, and some other particulars regarding the family will be found on other pages. Frederick Altenhein was born in Hanover, Germany, August 10, 1826, and his wife was born in Hesse Darmstadt June 15, 1827. He served tliree years in the regular army. He then joined his sweetheart and at once set out for the United States. They traveled by sailing vessel to New Orleans, were married in that city, and a year later arrived in Quincy. On reaching here tliey had only a dollar in cash and in order to get a start he secured employment as a wood chopper and his wife as a domestic. In 1857 they made their first purchase of land, a small farm in Melrose Township. Then, in 1868, they moved to Ellington Township, where their son Charles H. now lives. The father in addition to this homestead subsequently acquired two more farms, and was one of the most prosperous citizens of the township. He and his wife lived together many years after celebrating their golden wedding anniversary, though his wife was an invalid for several years. After they had been married neai'ly sixty years their companionship was broken by her death January 5, 1911. The father survived only until December 6, 1912. Both were well known, good hearted and generous people, and were charter members of St. John's Lutheran Church at Quincy. Frederick Altenhein was one of the builders and one of the chief supporters of the church, and nearly always held some church office. He was a democrat in politics.

The oldest child was Frederick Altenhein, Jr., to whom a separate sketch is dedicated on other pages. Mary, who died in 1910, left four children. John died two years after his marriage and left a widow and two small children.

Charles H. Altenhein married at Quincy, February 22, 1899, Miss Eva Feigenspan. She was born in Quincy in 1872 and was reared and educated there. Her parents came from Germany. Mrs. Altenhein is the mother of one daughter, Margaret, born December 2, 1900, and a graduate of the Quincy High School in 1918.

Chaeles Henry Fosgate is remembered by Quincy people and hosts of travelers who wera entertained by him as the man who had the ability and resources of a hotel manager to give the Newcomb Hotel of Quincy its real place among the fiue hotels along the Mississippi River. After his death he was succeeded in the management by his capable wife, Mrs. M. L. Fosgate, who has even improved upon the standards of management set up bj' her husband.

The late Mr. Fosgate had all the natural qualifications as well as experience to assist him in his hotel work. He was born at Ripon, Wisconsin, in 1872, and died at Rochester, New York, at the Whiteomb Hotel, of which he was owner, December 17, 1910. He received his education at Ripon, and at the age of eighteen began clerking in the Corning Hotel at Portage, Wisconsin, for his uncle. For a time he conducted the Union Hotel at Galesburg, Illinois, and at the age of twenty-three was proprietor of the Fosgate Hotel at Elgin. At the age of twenty-seven he came to Quincy and took over the Newcomb, and was the first to make that hotel, with its splendid equipment of buildings and other facilities, really successful from the point of view of good management. Besides his local hotel interests Mr. Fosgate was interested in the management of the Mark Twain Hotel and the Whiteomb Hotel at Rochester, New York. At one time with his brother L. R. Fosgate he conducted the Pacific Hotel at Jacksonville, Illinois.

He was a prominent member and at one time president of the Illinois State Hotel ]Men's Association, and also belonged to the Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association. He was made a Mason in Wisconsin, and during his last years was affiliated with the order at Quincy. He was also an Elk and active in the Quincy Chamber of Commerce.

Three years before his death he married at New York City, Miss Maida Lee. !Mrs. Fosgate was born in North Carolina, but was reared and educated in New York City and attended the Staten Island Academy. Her father was captain of a company in the Sixty-Ninth ^Massachusetts Infantry early in the Civil war, and was in service until the close of that great struggle. He was at Lookout ilountaiu and with Sherman on the campaign to the sea, and on one of the battlefields was promoted to colonel of his regiment. After the war he went back to Boston, but later returned south to North Carolina and bought several plantations around Raleigh. While in North Carolina he married Venetia Blanche Harris whose father was a colonel in the Confederate army. Mr. Fosgate is survived by his widow and one child, Elaine Reade Fosgate, born April 11, 1909.

Floyd W. IMunroe was admitted to the bar October 5, 1904, after successfully passing the examination at Chicago before the bar committee headed by James R. Ricks, then judge of the Supreme Court. Since that date Mr. Munroe has been achieving the better distinctions and rewards of the capable lawyer, and has his share of the best and most important practice at Quincy. Mr. Munroe is one of the men whom Judge Lj-man MeCarl has trained for the legal profession. He was a student under Judge McCarl for three years. Mr. Munroe is a member of the Adams County and State Bar As.sociations, and his practice has frequently taken him before the Supreme Court and the Federal Court. A lawyer's first case is sometimes regarded as significant of the future, but any predictions based upon that in the case of Mr. Munroe would have been a gratuitous assumption not justified by subseciuent facts. Before he was admitted to practice he was employed to handle a piece of litigation tried before a country justice, and he failed to carry his point. Mr. Munroe has developed a large business in chancery and probate work.

He represents one of the oldest of American families, and traces his descent back to William Munroe, who was born in Scotland in 1625 and was member of the famous Clan of Munroe. He came to America in 1652, a prisoner of war taken by Cromwell at the battle of Worcester, and sold in service to an American proprietor. After working out his time William Munroe acquired property at what is now Lexington, Massachusetts, and thereafter was very prominent in

A large number of Munroes still live at Lexington. The ancestor died January 27, 1717, the father of thirteen children by two wives. The names of his sons were John, William, George, Daniel, David, Joseph and Benjamin. It was from these sons that the various branches of the family now found are descended.

History recalls the fact that more than twenty Munroes took part in the first battle of the Revolution at Lexington. Some of them had been soldiers in the earlier colonial wars, and some of them saw active service during other phases of the war for independence.

One of these men who withstood the advance of the red coats at Lexington in 1775 was Nathan Munroe, who with a number of his kinsmen was in Captain Parker's Company of Minute Men. Nathan Munroe had ten children, one of whom was Thaddeus Munroe, the pioneer of this family at Quincy.

Thaddeus Munroe, who was born at Lexington, Massachusetts, September 14, 1790, was the grandfather of Floyd W. Muni'oe. Thaddeus was a cabinet maker by trade, and settled in Quinc}- in 1835. He spent the rest of his long and useful life in the city and died at a very advanced age.

Floyd W. Munroe was born at Mendon in Adams County in 1879, a son of Warren T. and Mary A. (Higbie) Munroe, both of whom were natives of Adams County. Warren T. Munroe was born in 1837 and learned the trade of harness making. He established a business at Mendon, where he married. During the Civil war he was a soldier for three years and three months in Company I of the Ninety-First Illinois Infantry. Early in his service he was captured in Kentucky by John Morgan, but after thirty days was paroled and subsequently joined his regiment in time to participate in the Llobile campaign. He saw much hard fighting, but was never wounded. He was made sergeant of his company and at the close of the war was brevetted second lieutenant. When the war was over he resumed the hai'uess business and finally located in 1883, at Beverly, where he conducted a general store for some years. In 1901 he retired and removed to Quincy, where he died Febi'uary 1, 1915, when in his seventy-eighth year. He was a republican, while his father, Thaddeus was a democrat. His wife was born September 27, 1849, and is still living at the age of sixty-nine. They had a family of five children, three sons and two daughters, all of whom are living, married, and two of them have children.

Floyd W. Munroe married at Palmyra, Missouri, in 1908, Miss Eula Moss. She was born at Palmyra October 29, 1886, and was reared and educated there. She is a daughter of Joseph and Eula (Leggett) Moss, both of whom are still living. The maternal grandparents are John B. and Anna Leggett, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Palmyra, Missouri. John B. Leggett is now eighty-one years of age and his wife sevent.y-six, and on March 31, 1918, they celebrated their fifty-fifth wedding anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. Munroe have one daughter, Eulalie, born November 30, 1909, and now in the third grade of the public schools.

Mr. Munroe is affiliated with Bodley Lodge No. 1 of the Masonic Order at Quincy. His grandfather Thaddeus, was a charter member and the first junior warden of that lodge when it was organized in 1840. Warren T. Munroe was also an active member of the same order. The family is now represented in the Lodge by Floyd W. and his brother Eugene. Mrs. Munroe is a member of the Episcopal church.

Fred C. Altknhein. Time and change have dealt kindly with Fred C. Altenhein, though only in accordance with his deserts. Mr. Altenhein for forty years has been a successful farmer on the sovitheast quarter of section 5 in Ellington Township. He has worked hard and industriously for all that he has, and his prosperity is represented by a farm of nearly 100 acres, most of it thoroughly cultivated and well improved. His home is an eight-room modern steam heated house, and the farm buildings are most substantial, including a barn 40 by 4-± feet and other facilities. Mr. Altenhein is one of the leading fruit growers of that section, having twenty-five acres in fruits of different kinds. His regular fields are cultivated to the staple crops, chiefly wheat. He also owns eighty acres in the Indian Drainage District.

ilr. Altenhein was born on Kentucky and Fifth streets in Quincy, January 24, 1854, and received his early education in the schools of Melrose in Ellington Township. He and his good wife have been married for thirty-eight years and in that time they have worked hand in hand and their splendid prosperity mu.st be credited to them jointly.

yiv. Altenhein is a sou of Fred and Christina Ehoda Altenhein, the former a native of Waldeck and the latter of Hesse Darmstadt. They were married in Germany, and soon afterward came to America and were farmers in Adams County for many years. The father died at the home of his sou Fred in Ellington Township, December 6, 1912, when past eighty-six, and his wife on January 5, 1911, aged eighty-six. Both were members of the Luthei'an Church.

Fred C. Altenhein married in Ellington Township Miss Anna Henhoff. She was born in Riverside Township of this count.y February 1, 1859, and received a good education in the Quinc.y schools. Her parents, Fred and Anna (Tappe) Henhoff, were also natives of Germany, coming from Bielfeld and marrying after they reached Adams County. They were also farmers and her father died as the result of an accidental fall from a wagon when about fifty years of age. Her mother died six years earlier. Both were Lutherans in religion.

Mr. and Mrs. Altenhein had five children, one of whom died in infancy and a son, Albert, at the age of twentj'-five, unmarried. William F., the only living son, manages the home farm, and by his marriage to Ella M. Hoelscher, who died April 17, 1918, at the age of thirty-one, has two children, Har-old and Emmett. Lenora Altenhein is the wife of Ernest "Weiseman, a grocery merchant at Quincy, and has a sou, Alfred A. Laura N. Altenhein was reared and educated in Ellington Township and is the wife of Otis W. Glemmore, now principal of schools at Hammond, Indiana. Mrs. Glemmore is a talented musician. She is the mother of one son, Otis.

Mr. and Mrs. Altenhein are members of the Seventh Street Lutheran Church at Quincy. He has filled all the township offices, served as justice of the peace nine yeai's, township clerk and assessor for some years, school trustee two terms, and is a free trade democrat.

Henry Moellring. One of the many energetic and progressive men actively engaged in cultivating the rich and fertile soil of Adams County, Henry Moellring has brought to his calling an excellent knowledge of agi-iculture, sound judgment and good business methods, and is meeting with well deserved success in his labors. His farm is the old Moellring homestead where he has spent practically all the days of his life, situated in Gilmer Towu.shi]) a half mile south of Paloma. He has a fine body of land in one of the best sections of the county, and many of its choice impi'ovements represent his own individual contributions, including barn and house. Mr. Moellring is a fine, intelligent citizen, public spirited, and makes his presence count for good in the community.

Plis father, the late Henry Moellring, Sr., was born December 18, 1818, in the City of Hanover, Germany. His was a long and industrious career before coming to an honored close November 2, 1900, in his eighty-second year. "When he was about thirty years of age he came to the United States and made his way to old acquaintances in the Schurraann family at Quincy. About the first work that employed him in this county was cutting wood and farm labor at six dollars a month. Thus his experiences continued for about five years. At Quincy he married Henrietta Rueter, who was born in Prussia and had come with friends to America at the age of eighteen. At Quincy she worked in several homes until her marriage. At the time of his marriage Henry Moellring had saved enough to buj- a yoke of oxen, a plow and wagon, and with this equipment he and his bride rented some land near Fowler. One of the places they rented in that vieinitj' is now the home of their daughter Mrs. George Steinagel. The old homestead on which Henry, Jr., now resides was bought by the parents in 1869. Henry, Sr., paid forty dollars an acre for the eighty acres of land. It was all in cultivation, but its buildings consisted only of a small stable and a two-room house. The house continued to be the nucleus of his home, though with various additions and improvements. Later he bought thirty acres a mile from the homestead, and was successfully identified with the management of this farm the rest of his life. His good wife died July 5, 1899, at the age of sixty-seven. Their children were: Anna, Mrs. J. H. KoUmeyer; Emma, who died at the age of eighteen ; Lena, Mrs. George Steinagel ; Louise, Mrs. William Steinagel; and Henry.

Henry Moellring, Jr., was born February 28, 1871, on the fann where he now lives. "When his father died it was at the latter 's special wish and desire that the son succeeded to the ownership of the homestead, after paying the interests of the other heirs. Besides the home farm he has acquired another sixty acres and operates the two places as a general farm and stock raising proposition. Mr. Moellring built his present comfortable home iu 1911 and three years previously had erected his good barn. All the crops he raises he feeds on the place, and his chief money making stock is Poland China hogs, marketing about 125 every year. Mr. Moellring is now serving as director of the home schools.

February 10, 1892, he married Minnie Fischer, daughter of Henry Fischer, a well known old resident of Melrose Township, now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Moellring have five children : Inez, wife of Zelma ^lorton, a farmer near Camp Point; "Walter H., who is now taking most of the responsibilities and management of the home farm from his father ; and Lydia, Esther and Roj-, who are the younger people in the Moellring home circle.

Henry H. Thyson. A farm home quickly reveals the character and tastes of its owner. In section 5 of Ellington Township is a farm which at once indicates the thoroughly systematic and efficient methods that prevailed among the family. Everything is spick and span and iu its place, and the Thysons have the character and reputation of being cjuiet, domestic and harmonious people, well worthy of all the esteem they enjoy in that community.

Mr. Thyson has been a farmer at his present home for the past fifteen years. He has done much to improve both the land and the buildings. He has a barn 32 by 44 feet and an 8-room modern house. He is a general farmer and stock breeder, and has spent all his life in Adams County.

Mr. Thyson was born in Mendon Township December 19, 1868, and as a boy attended the public schools. He is a son of Herman and Caroline (Schlipman) Thyson, both natives of Germany. They came with their respective parents to Adams County by way of sailing vessel to New York, were reared and married in Adams County, and then went on the farm in Mendon Township. They spent their last years there, where the father died at the age of fifty-eight and the mother at forty-five. He was a republican and both were active members of the Lutheran church. Their five sons and four daughters are all living, all married, all but two have children, and they occupy homes in Adams County.

Henry H. Thyson married in Ursa Township Miss Edith E. Brennecke. She was born in Kentucky Street in Quincy, July 20, 1875, and as a girl attended the public and Lutheran parochial schools. Mrs. Thyson is a daughter of Charles and Charlotte (Henriehs) Brennecke, her father a native of Brunswick and her mother of "Westphalia, Germany. Her father came alone to America when seventeen years old. Her mother was ten years old when her parents came to this country by way of New Orleans. Charles Brennecke was a shoemaker by trade, married in Quincy, and after some j'ears bought land in Ursa Township, where he lived as a farmer until his death November 27, 1911, at the age of sixty-six. His widow is still living in Ursa Township, aged seventy-two. She is a member of the Ursa Lutheran church.

Mr. and Mrs. Thyson have three children. Edgar C, born August 8, 1898, was educated in the Standard School near the old home in Ellington Township, and is now associated with his father in the management of the farm. Charlotte Ethel, born April 3, 1900, also received her education in the Standard School; Margaret B., born March 30, 1905, is still in school. The family are members of the Ursa Lutheran church. Mr. Thyson is a republican and is now serving as a school director.

Greenbury Elliott Whitlock, M. D. The residence and the scene of activities of Doctor Whitlock has been in and around the old village of Columbus more than sixty years. Doctor "Whitlock retired from the active practice of medicine some years ago and resides on his farm two miles west of Columbus in Gilmer Township and fourteen miles northeast of Quincy. Farming has been an interest with him for many years, though he leaves most of the work and responsibilities to his sons.

Many hundreds of families in the eastern pai-t of Adams Count}' appreciate the quiet and effective services rendered by Doctor Whitlock in that community. In his individual career he has lived up to some very excellent family traditions.

The record of the Whitlock family in America goes back nearly three centuries. Including Doctor Whitlock 's sons there have been eight generations of the family in this country.

The founder was Thomas Whitlock, who was born in Devonshire, England, in 1620, and immigrated to Massachusetts in 1640. His first settlement was at Salem, later, in 1645. he moved to Gravesend, Long Island, and in 1667 to Monmouth County, New Jei-sey. He died in 1703 at Shoal Harbor, New Jersey. A brief record of the subsequent generations in this branch is as follows : 2. John, who died at Middletown, New Jersey. 3, Thomas and John, sons of John, and the latter also lived and died in Monmouth County. 4, James. 5, John Whitlock, son of James and Jane (Cruiser) Whitlock, served as a private in the Revolutionary Ai-my, and four of his cousins were also represented in the same struggle. 6, John, born in 1775, married Lydia Howell, and from Sussex County, New Jersey, they moved by wagon and team over the trackless wastes of the Middle West and settled in Butler County, Ohio. John Whitlock died in that county. 7, Derrick Whitlock was an old and prominent character in Adams County, Illinois, and was the father of Doctor Whitlock.

Derrick Whitlock was born in Sussex County, New Jersey, April 2, 1817, and a few months later was taken by his parents to Butler County, Ohio, where he grew to manhood. December 18, 1839, he married Miss Eachel Elliott, who was born in Butler County March 13, 1818. Derrick Whitlock during his early life followed the trade of tailor. In 1853 he brought his family West to Adams County, and established his home at Columbus. Two of his brothers-in-law, Samuel Elliott and D. L. Hair, had located in the same community of Adams County two years before. John Elliott came at the same time as his sister and Derrick Whitlock. John Elliott was at one time in business at Quincy, later was a hotel man at St. Louis, and finally moved out to California, where he died. Samuel Elliott settled in Hancock County, Illinois. Another of the Elliott brothers, William, located in Northeast Township of this county, and for a number of years served as superintendent of the county farm. His son, William B. Elliott, is now representative of the International Harvester Company at Helena, Montana. A daughter of William Elliott lives near Canton, Missouri.

After coming to Adams County Derrick Whitlock was a general merchant at Cohimbus for fourteen years, from 1857 to 1871. At that time Columbus was a flourishing inland village and lost its original prosperity largely through the competition of towns situated on the railroad. Derrick Whitlock also served as postmaster at Columbus during the Civil war, and from 1860 to 1887 was a justice of the peace. He lived retired in the village of Columbus until his death in 1892. He was a loyal democrat and adherent of Stephen A. Douglas until the close of the Civil war, when he became affiliated as a republican. He was very active in the Methodist Episcopal Church, a Sunday school worker, and a strong temperance man. He was also affiliated with the JIasouic order and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

The Whitlock family has furnished many notable men to the ministry of the Methodist Church and various professions. Derrick Whitlock was a nephew of Rev. Dr. Elias Wliitlock, whose son. Brand Whitlock, has for a number of years been one of the America's foremost leaders of public opinion and promoters of American ideals of democracy, and as United States Minister to Belgium has attained international fame. Another nephew of Derrick Whitlock was William Francis Whitlock, for many years prominent as a professor in the Ohio Weslej'an University at Delaware.

The wife of Derrick Whitlock died in 1896. Of their four children only two came to mature years, Louisa, who married Dr. N. H. McNeall, and of her family further mention is made on other pages of this publication; and Dr. Greenbury Elliott.

Dr. Greenbury Elliott Whitlock was born in Butler County, Ohio, October 12, 1850, and was three years of age when brought to Illinois. He attended the common schools, also the Abingdon College in Illinois, and graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan University with the class of 1874. Among his classmates at Ohio Wesleyan was N. Luecoek, who for many years has been prominent in the Methodist Episcopal Church and since 1912 has been a bishop of that church. Doctor Whitlock began his medical studies under a physician at Delaware, Ohio, also studied a year with Doctor Henry at Columbus, Illinois, and finished his course in the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, where he was graduated in 1876, and in the fall of the same year began practice in the village of Columbus. It was only after thirty-eight years of continuous work in the profession that he retired in 1914. Doctor Whitlock practiced over all the country around Columbus, riding and driving without thought of hardship or other inconvenience. When he began practice he had to carry most of his medicines with him and as he went on with his work he adapted himself fi'om year to year not only with the new and enlarged scope of medical science, but also to such improvements and aids to the medical practitioner as telephone, automobile and modern highways. He was always active in medical societies, serving as president of the county society, and adhered closely to the regular school of medicine. During the first ten years he gave undivided attention to his professional duties, and in 1885 bought his farm in Gilmer Township where he now resides and to which he has given some portion of his time and energies for many years. For four years during the '90s he was also proprietor of "a general store at Columbus. Doctor Whitlock is now serving his twenty-fourth year as justice of the peace, having first been elected to that office in 1892. In politics he cast his first ballot as a republican and became a democrat on the silver question. Doctor Wliitlock has given his service as a member of the Exemption Board of Adams County, and is one of the men whose personal character and activities constitute them natural leaders of public opinion. He has filled all the chairs in the local lodge of Odd Fellows, has been representative to the Grand Lodge, and has the rank of Past Noble Grand.

December 4, 1877, Doctor Whitlock married Mary Frances Booth, who was born in Adams County March 4, 1854, and died September 29, 1909. She was born in Gilmer Township and was a daughter of IWilliam A. Booth of that township. Doctor Whitlock has two sons, Derrick B. and Halford B. These sons handle the operations of the home farm. Derrick is married, hi? wife being Alta Tilton. They have two children. Derrick and Grace.

Richard E. Harness. To mention tlie name Harness is to recall the earliest family identified with the permanent settlement of Lima Township. To record the time of that settlement it is necessary to go back ninety years, to the year 1828, when Joseph Harness, a native of St. Clair County, Illinois, invaded this section of the wilderness and erected the first house, about two miles northwest of where the Town of Lima now stands. The maiden name of his wife was Nancy Worley. Their daughter Julia was the first white child born in the township. Joseph Harness, who was of German ancestry, was a man of very distinctive character and many stories are told of his personality. The only picture he ever had taken shows a man of strength both physically and mentally. His ability brought him large possessions and at one time he owned 800 acres, partly in Adams and partly in Hancock counties. This land he distributed among his children, and some of it is still owned bj' them. He was one of the pioneer raisers of cattle and mules, and his name was also identified with the early history of fi-uit growing in the county. About 1835 he established a nursery and sold much of the stock which supplied the early orchards of this part of the state. It is said he was the first man to graft and bud trees, a custom which is now the vital feature of fruit growing. At one time he was probably the largest apple grower in the county. He was also a noted hunter. In this sport, which he pursued largely as a means of supplying his table with meat, he relied upon the old fashioned muzzle loading rifle. He was an expert in its use, and it is said that he killed sixteen deer in seventeen successive shots. He also was fond of telling a story of killing five deer with one bullet. His reputation for veracity and uprightness was greater than that for a keen sense of humor, and few strangers on hearing the storj- would have disputed it. His son Richard R., however, who was about ten j-ears old when he first heard the tale, was disposed to question its truthfulness and showed an attitude of doubt until the matter was explained. His father satisfied him with the explanation that it was one bullet but five different shots that did the execution. Each time he recovered the bullet from the deer and used it over and over again until the one missile had slain five animals. Joseph Harness was a democrat, but had no fondness for local offices, and so far as known never held any. He died on the old farm in 1881, in his ninetieth year, and he and his wife had enjoyed their marriage companionship for sixty years.. She survived him three years and passed away at the age of ninety. Joseph Harness was a member of the Masonic Order at Lima, and was representative two years in the Grand Lodge, and he also belonged to Mendon Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, the Knight Templar Commandery at Quincy, and the Medina Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Chicago. Among other characteristics Joseph Harness had a voice of wonderful strength and carrying power. From his farm to the Mi-ssissippi River a distance of seven or eight miles intervened, but old rivermen frequently claimed that they could distinctly hear him calling his stock. One night a prowling wolf came into his yard, and was attacked by his dogs. Thinking that the dogs were getting the worst of it Mr. Harness jumped up out of bed and barefooted and bare-legged, with only his hunting knife, started out and got close enough to make one stab at the wolf, but missed and then started in pursuit. He and the dogs kept up the chase for fully three quarters of a mile, until the wolf made its escape. He then realized that other dangers were present and made his way back home very carefully, fearing that every step would expose him to the bite of a rattlesnake.

The old Harness home in Lima Township, 2yo miles northwest of Lima and on the Hancock County line, is now owned by Richard R. Harness, and he was born on that farm Februaiy 28, 1841. Practically all his life has been spent in that one community, and he now owns about half of the land formerly held by his father. The Harness home is in Adams County, while his barn is over the county line in Hancock. They are twenty-eight miles from Carthage and twenty-two miles from Quinc.v. Mr. Harness is a capable and progressive farmer and one of the leading grain and stock raisers in his vicinity. In politics he is a democrat.

At the age of twenty-three he married Miss Rilla Ann Crenshaw, daughter of Paschal Crenshaw of Hancock County. The Crenshaws located in that community in the spring of 1827. Rilla Crenshaw was twenty years of age when she married Mr. Harness. She died at the age of sixtj'-five. Mr. Harness has three sons and two daughters : George M., the oldest, lives in the same community with his father and married Lizzie Vinson. Charles C, who farms part of his father's place in Hancock County, is the second in age. Callie Gertrude is the wife of Elmer Lliller, and they live on part of the farm. Jasper, who is operating the home place, married Verna Nicholson, of Ursa Township, and their children are Hugh Carlton, "Wilma Emaline, Richard Lafayette, Russell Paul and Leo Elizabeth. Effie, the youngest of the family, is the wife of Doctor Parker, formerly of Lima but now of Clayton.

Louis Henerhoff. Adams County has its fair share of the fertile soil of Illinois, and taking the farms as a whole they measure up to the best standards of cultivation and management found in other prosperous sections of the state. But there is a wide difference between individual farms, and this difference is largely a reflection of the owner and manager and the methods employed. It is largely this personal element which accentuates the character of the Henerhoff farm, a mile south of Lima. On the road from Lima to Quiney it would be diflScult to find a farm more skillfully kept and managed than this place. The farm is a monument to the industry and abilities of Louis Henerhoff, who is an eminently practical farmer, but began life poor and without special resources except those contained within his o^^ti work and character.

Mr. Henerhoff was born three miles east of Lima in that township March 13, 1861, a son of William Henerhoff. 'William Henerhoff' came to this country from Germany, and he and his wife brought with them four children. Three children were born in Illinois. The family settled here about 1859, and had previously lived in Ellington Township. Louis Henerhoff was only two years old when his mother died, and when he was five j'cars old his father died at Tioga in Hancock County. Louis is one of three sons and four daughters, being the youngest son. His brothers, August and Fred, are farmers in Lima Township. The four daughters are : Hannah, widow of H. Honor, of Lima ; Rika, who died in 1895, the wife of Casper Elderbrook ; Gusta, who lives in Hancock County, the widow of Henry Dix; and ilinnie, who is the wife of Herman Elleman, and lives ten miles east of Quiney.

At the time of his father's death, which made him an orphan, Louis Henerhoff went to live with his sister Mrs. Elderbrook, and her home was the only one he could claim until he was twenty-eight years of age. With only a meager education in the common schools he began work at the age of fourteen, and for many years worked out with farmers at wages from .$10 to $20 a month. He was thrifty as well as industrious, and managed to accumulate something each year in the way of savings. For four years he farmed in Hancock County with his brother Fred.

At the age of twenty-eight he established a home of his ovrn by his marriage to Hannah Holtman, daughter of Fred and Hannah Holtman. The Holtmau home was a half mile east of Marcelline. Mrs. Henerhoff was born in Quiney, where her father was a prominent earpenter and builder until she was sixteen years of ago, when they moved to the farm. Mrs. Henerhott" was twenty years old when she married.

After their marriage they rented the George Earhart farm of 240 acres in Lima Township for seven years, and there got their real start. Prom their savings and earnings the.v then bought their present place of a hundred acres, known as the Conner Reager farm. For that land he paid sixty-five dollars an acre. Mr. Henerhoff at once erected the comfortable house which still adorns the place and has also put up a barn and made many other improvements. Besides this homestead he owns a farm of seventy-six acres across the road, improved with a set of buildings, and has another forty acres elsewhere. He paid as high as seventj--flve dollars an acre for some of his land, but considering the present range of prices it was all acquired at a very reasonable figure. Mr. Henerhofif found the land when he acquired it drained of its best resources by many years of successive cropping, and one of his best achievements has been in restoring the soil fertility. He has practiced rotation of crops and has always used fertilizer generously. He keeps a bunch of cattle, horses and hogs that furnish much fertility for the farm, and he has also bought fertilizer. For a few years he was a cattle feeder, but would now be classed as a general farmer.

Mr. Henerhoff is a trustee of the Gennan Evangelical Church at Ursa. He and his wife have four children. Selma is the wife of Elmer Grimmer, and they live on her father's seventy-six acre farm above mentioned. Edith is the wife of Guy Conover, and their home is two miles west of Lima. Emil, who now has the active management of the homestead, married Ella Baker. The youngest, Alma, is still in the home circle.

Charles C. Crooks is secretary of the Crooks Brothers IMillinery Company, the exclusive wholesale and retail millinery house in Quiney, and an institution which lias been built up and developed by the Crooks Brothers during the last thirteen years to a point where it now enjoys a commanding position in the millinery trade over several states.

The business was incorporated November 20, 1905. The first president of the corporation was the late Frank Cox, who died in 1907. Since then his position has been filled by R. Edward Crooks, while Thomas A. Crooks is treasurer. Mr. Charles C. Crooks has been secretary of the business since it was established. These three brothers have equal partnership interests.

The house is located at 514 Maine Street, where they have a beautifully equipped store occupying three floors and basement, and all devoted to the different^ departments of the business. This firm has been the medium for the importation and distribution over the Middle West of many of the most exclusive French modes, and as wholesalers their field of distribixtion covers Illinois, Missouri and Iowa and even other western states. They keep from six to eight traveling representatives on the road, while in the local retail department they employ from twenty-five to thirty milliners. They also maintain a staff of trimmers numbering about fift.v, who each season carry the ideas of the Crooks Brothers Millinery Company to the various retail establishments of the firm throughout the trade territory.

The Crooks Brothers came to Quincj- from Keokuk, Iowa, where they received part of their school education and early business training. They are all thoroughly familiar with the millinery business, and each has developed special proficiency along different lines. They were born in Kentucky, and spent part of their youth near Louisville. Their father Rev. John C. Crooks, was a native of Kentucky and a ]\Iethodist minister. He died in 1875, in the prime of life. His wife, Virginia Montague, was also a Kentuckian by birth, and some years ago came to Quiney and is now enjoying the comforts of a fine home, surrounded by her children, who still consider their mother's residence their own home. She is now seventy-eight years of age and very vigorous for her years.

She was the mother of four sons and one daughter : John W., who is married and still lives in Kentucky ; Mrs. Charles A. Cox of Qiiincy ; R. Edward, a bachelor; Charles C, who married Ada B. Willson, of Quiney, and has two children, Charles C, Jr., and Robert E. ; and Thomas A. Crooks, who married Emily Wagner, of Keokuk, Iowa, and their two children, Thomas A., Jr., and Robert "Wagner, are both in the city schools.

The three brothers are members of the Masonic order. Their firm is represented in the Quiney Chamber of Commerce and Mr. Charles C. Crooks is a member and a director of the Quiney Rotary Club.

Henry Middexdorf. There is great worth to a community in the establishment and development of sound, well financed and honorably conducted business enterprises, and of these Quiney has a number and among the most important may be mentioned the lumber and building material firm of Middendorf Brothers & Company, of which Henry Middendorf is vice president.

Henry Middendorf is a member of an old family here and was born at Quiney July 6, ISSi, the second son in a family of eight children born to Bernhard H. and Elizabeth (Jelsing) Middendorf, as follows: Elizabeth, who is the widow of "William Schlagheck, of Quiney ; Catherine, who died in childhood; "William il., who is president of the Broadway Bank of Quiney and a member of the firm of Middendorf Brothers & Company ; Henry ; Mary and Frank, both of whom are deceased ; Theodore, who is a member also of the above firm : and Joseph, who is a Franciscan monk, connected with St. Joseph 's College, Teutopolis. Both parents were born in Germany and both died at Quiney, Illinois, the father in 1885 and the mother in 1905, having been residents here since 1849.

Henry Middendorf attended the parochial school until he was thirteen years old and then began to work in a factory, his task there being the painting of chairs, and afterward he served in a bakery long enough to gain a fair knowledge of that business. An opportunity came just then for work on a farm and for three years he maintained familiar relations with hoe, harrow and plow, and then spent two years learning the cooper's trade. The youth therefore had made excellent use of his time before he ever entered the lumber business, but since then has made no change and spent thirty years in lumber yards and sawmills prior to 1912, when he bought an interest in the firm of Middendorf Brothers & Company, of which his eldest brother, "William ]\I., is president and he is vice president. This house, with its well established reputation for business integrity, does an immense business at Qiiincj* and up and down the river, and it may be classed as one of the city's most prosperous business enterprises.

Henry 3Iiddendorf was united in marriage with Lliss Bei-tha Rees, who is a daughter of Casper and Barbara (Durley) Rees, old residents of Quiney. To this marriage the following children were born : George, who is in business at Quiney; Ida, who is the wife of Walter Bernsen, of Quiney; Raymond, in the United States Army now serving his country in France ; Heni-y, also in the United States Army ; and Helen and Arthur, both of whom live at home.

In politics Mr. Middendorf has always been a sound democrat, giving hearty support to his party's candidates but never being willing to accept any political favors. He is a faithful member of St. Francis Catholic church and his children have been carefully reared in the faith. He is a member of the Western Catholic Union and frequently has served on church and civic committees, mainly of a charitable nature, on which his good judgment and practical ideas have made him very useful.

WiLLLiM H. Anck. Among the many enterprising and trustworthj- men that are prominentlj' identified with the mercantile affairs of Quincy is William H. Anck, a son of the late John Anck, who became interested in the meat trade of the city nearly three decades ago, establishing a business that is now being successfully conducted by his sons, who have a large and well-kept meat market at the corner of Broadway and Eleventh Street. A native of Adams County, Illinois, he was born October 15, 1884, not far from Columbus.

Locating in Quincy in 1889, John Anck built up a fine business as a pork packer, and conducted it with excellent results until his death. The maiden name of his wife was Isabel Neista. She, too, has passed to the life beyond. Of their large family of children but six are living, as follows: Josephine, wife of Henry Hedrick, of Rock Island, Illinois; Marie, wife of Charles Schmidt, of Chicago ; Casper, born August 15, 1875, a member of the firm of Anck Brothers ; John, of Quincy ; William, the subject of this brief sketch ; and Edward, engaged in the meat business in Quincy.

But five years old when his parents removed to Quincy, William H. Anck obtained his early education in the city schools. Soon after attaining his majority, following in the footsteps of his father, he embarked in the meat business, with his brothers Casper and John opening a meat market. Successful in their operations, this enterprising firm assumed possession of the building it now occupies and owns in 1911, and has since continued in business with the same good success, having by straightforwai'd, upright dealing won the confidence of the community and built up an extensive and lucrative trade.

William H. Anck married, July 14, 1913, Lillian Mitchell. John Anck, who sold his interest in the meat market to his brothers in 1915, married, October

Father Didacus. 0. F. M., has been rector of St. Francis Solanus Church and School, a complete account of which noble Catholic institution is published in the general history section of this work.

Father Didacus was at the head of St. Francis Solanus for six years, till Augu.st, 1918, when he became a missionary. His assistant was Father Francis Werhand, 0. F. M., who graduated from St. Joseph's College, Teutopolis, Illinois, in 1903. In 1915 he came from Santa Barbara, California, to Quincy, and has since then been assistant.

Father Didacus was born in Germany, but was reared from childhood in Chicago, where his parents lived and where his brother Charles still has his home. He was educated in St. Augustine's parochial school and took hia philo-sophical and theological courses in the Franciscan Monastery, St. Louis, Missouri. He was admitted to the order of St. Francis in 1900 and in 1907 was ordained by Archbishop Glennon of St. Louis. He then did pastoral work at ]\Iontrose, Illinois, at I.sland Grove in Jasper County of this state, and for a time was in Wieu, Chariton Countj', Missouri. From there he came to Quincy, where his work as a constructive leader received the gi'ateful appreciation of the people and his church superiors. He was the successor of Father Columban, who was here for two years. Probably the most noteworthy material additions to the church propertj^ during Father Didacus' administration were made when .1>7,000 were expended improving the school and a fine pipe organ was installed at a cost of .$7,000.

Arthur H. Heidemanx. One of the old business concerns of Quincy, one that has been carried on continuously for a half century or more, is the retail lumber house of which Arthur H. Heidemann is manager. Tliis business was founded by Mr. Heidmann's maternal grandfather, Herman H. Merten.

Arthur H. Heidemanu was born at Quincy, Illinois, July 4, 1874. His parents were John William and Juliana (ilorteu) Heidemann. The father was born in Germany and the mother in St. Louis, Missouri. The families cama to Quiney about 1853, where the paternal grandfather, Herman Heidemann, established himself as a tailor, and the maternal grandfather embarked in the lumber business. John William Heidemann was a bookbinder by trade but later he went into his father-in-law's lumber business, succeeding to the same and continued to be interested until the time of his death, June 1, 1906. His first wife died September 27, 1881. They had two children, Orlinda Anna and Arthur H. In August, 1883, John William Heidemann was married to Matilda Meyer, who is now deceased. The children of that marriage were : Walter, who died in childhood, Meta C, Emma C, and Matilda M.

Arthur H. Heidemann attended first the parochial school in the parish belonging to St. Peter's Evangelical Church, later the Quincy public schools and subsequently a commercial school in this city. About five years before his father's death he became identified with the lumber business, as his father's manager at length but at first as bookkeeper, and has continued manager with his sister. Miss Orlinda A. Heidemann as assistant manager. The business has been gradually expanded and the plant enlarged but the old firm name continues and the same honest business policy is adhered to. Mr. Heidemann, like his gi'andfather and father, has proved not only an able business man but an upright one.

Mr. Heidemann was married April 15, 1902, to Miss Amelia Peter, who was born at Burton, Illinois, and they have two children: Arthur W., who was born April 9, 1905 ; and Juliana, who was born December 10, 1912. Mrs. Heidemanu is a member of tlie Lutheran Memorial Church at Quincy, and Mr. Heidemann of St. Peter's Lutheran Evangelical Church, and both are active in these congregations in furthering mission work and aiding in their various commendable plans of benevolence.

Mr. Heidemann is an independent voter, believing in this wa.y he can best use his influence as a public-spirited citizen, which fact he has very often demonstrated. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and has taken both the Scottish and York rites. He belongs also to the Elks and to the gi-eat lumber organization known as the Concatenated Order of Hoo Hoo.

James B. Corrigax. During his many years of residence in Quincy and Adams County James B. Corrigan has become known to his fellow citizens as a capable public official, a man of legal training and of thorough business ability. Since 1907 he has been engaged in the general insurance business in the Heintz Building at 300yo North Sixth Avenue.

Mr. Corrigan was born in this county February 21, 1856, of Irish parents, a son of James and a grandson of Bernard Corrigan both of whom were natives of TjTone, Ireland, and of old Irish Catholic stock. Bernard Corrigan came to the United States with his family in 1838, the voyage being made in a sailing vessel and two months were spent in crossing. From New York City he went to Pennsylvania, but after a brief sojourn came west to Quiney in 1844 and bought and settled on a farm in Liberty Township. He cleared up much of his land and was a prosperous and well-to-do farmer in that locality for many years. He died when about fourscore years of age. He and his family were members of St. Peter's Catholic Church. He and his wife are buried side by side in the cemetery of that church. Their sons and daughters are all now deceased.

James Corrigan, Sr., was a young man when the family settled on the old farm in Liberty Township, and that home is still in the family, being now occupied by Daniel Corrigan, a brother of James B. James Corrigan married at Boston, Massachusetts, Sarah Hart, who was born in the same locality in County Tyrone as he was, and soon after she landed in the United States at

Boston they married. James Corrigan brought his bride to Adams County and to the old homestead, where they spent the rest of their years. James Corrigan died at the age of eight}- -four, and his widow died in the same year, at seventyeight years of age. They were members of the Catholic church, formerl.y of St. Peter's in Quiney but later of the church in their home township, where they are both buried. James Corrigan was a democratic voter. In the family were two daughters and seven sons, all of whom married, and all are living except John. The living children are Catherine, Bernard, Ella, Daniel, James B., Frant, Felix and Sj-lvester.

James B. Corrigan spent his early life on the old homestead which has been with tlie Corrigans now for three generations. He attended the local schools, also the Camp Point High School, and is a graduate of St. Francis College of Quiney. His early law studies were directed by the firm of Sibley, Carter & Covert at Quiney, and he also attended law school of Chaddock College. He has used his legal training to good advantage in different ways, but has never formally practiced. His first official service was as deputy under Benjamin Heekle.y, sheriff at the time. Later he was clerk in the county treasurer's office for four years, and was then elected to succeed John B. Kreitz as county treasurer. Following his regular term in the office he was assistant in the treasurer's office, for a time was engaged in the hardware business in Quiney, then sold and returned to the treasurer's office as assistant until 1907, when he engaged in the insurance business.

Mr. Corrigan married at Quiney Miss Agnes C. Bernbrock. She was born in the State of California of German ancestry, but was reared and educated in Quiney. Mr. and Mrs. Corrigan are members of St. Peter's Church and he is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus and the Western Catholic Union. Mr. Corrigan is a democrat in his political views.

John H. Best is one of Quiney 's oldest and most honored business men. He has been president of the Illinois State Bank of Quiney since it was organized July 1, 1909, and the splendid condition of this institution reflects highly upon his ability as a banker and general business man. "When it was organized the bank had a capital of .$12,5,000, which sixt.v days later was increased $100,000, and in Ma.y, 1916, to its present capitalization of $300,000. The Illinois State Bank today has aggregate resources of over $2,500,000 and its deposits total over .$2,000,000. It transacts a general commercial banking business, and is also authorized to act as a trust company.

The home of the Illinois State Bank is one of the well known landmarks of the Quiney di.striet, at the corner of Sixth and Hampshire streets, in the splendid seven-story terra cotta building, one of the leading office structures of the city. Mr. Best shares his honors of continuous connection with this institution with Mr. William J. Singleton, the vice president, and William Rupp, Jr., the cashier, both of whom have been with the institution since it .started. The directors are all prominent business and professional men of Quiney, including besides the executive officers, H. Weems, G. A. Urban, "Will J. Heintz, E. V. Moorman, Prof. J. H. Crafton, and Hon. Lyman MeCarl.

Mr. Best comes of old Scotch-Irish ancestry. He and his family are Episcopalians and his ancestors were for many generations activelj' identified with the Episcopal or Established Church of England. His father, John H. Best, Sr., and his grandfather, William Best, were both born in County Monaghan, Ireland. William Best was an Episcopal curate. He was twice married. His first wife was Margaret Stockdale, who was born in County Monaghan. She died there leaving two children, William and Charlotte. Charlotte became the wife of William B. Finley, an Episcopal curate who succeeded to the position of his father-in-law. William Best married for his second wife Mary McCabe. They came to the United States in 1839 and settled in Adams County, where they spent their last years. William died at the age of sixty-seven.

For a time they affiliated with the Methodist Church in Quiney, but finally returned to the church of their old faith. William Best was a whig and later a republican, and his death occurred before the Civil war.

John H. Best, Sr., was born in County Monaghan, Ireland, in 1813, and was reared and educated there. At the age of fifteen he came alone to America, arriving a stranger in a strange land after a six weeks' voj'age. He had learned the painter's trade in Ireland, and followed that occupation in New York City for about two years. He then, went to Philadelpliia, where he married Mi.ss Ann J. Adams. She was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1816, and was thirteen years old when she came with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Adams, to Philadelphia. Her father and mother spent their last years in Philadelphia, where they died when quite old. Both were membei-s of the Presbyterian Church. They were the parents of one son and four daughters. William Adams, Jr., was captain of a company in the Mexican war, being wounded at the battle of Monterey, and after his return became a captain of ordnance at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, where he died.

John H. Best, Sr., and wife were married in Februrarj', 1837, and a year later they arrived at Quiney, where he followed his trade as a painter and painting contractor and also conducted a paint store at the corner of Third and Main. On the site which he occupied as his business center for many years now stands a solid and substantial block, three stories high, erected by his sons John H. and Ezra as a memorial to their father. A tablet on the building tells briefly the business record of John H. Best, Sr. This building was erected in 1896 and is now a paper warehouse. John H. Best, Sr., died in Quiney, April 9, 1882, and his widow passed awa.y July 10, 1890, in Los Angeles, but was brought back and laid to rest beside her husband in Woodlawn Cemetery. Both were members of the Presbyterian Church and in politics the father was a republican.

John H. Best, Jr., was born in Quiney September 15, 1841, and has lived in this city for more than three quarters of a century. He was educated in the city public schools and the Bryant & Stratton Business College, and in early life spent eight years in farming. Later he learned the art of telegi-aphy and became an active man in local transportation circles. He was for a number of years traffic manager and agent for the Quiney, Omaha and Kansas City Road.

Ml'. Best also has a public record, having served as alderman from the Sixth Ward, and in 1907 he was elected mayor of the citj', and the following two years gave a very progressive administration to the municipal afifaii-s. He has always been a republican.

Mr. Best married at Quiney Sophia A. Daneke, who was born in Quinc.v of German parents. Her father and mother were early settlers here, her father being a victim of the cholera epidemic in 1849. Her mother died about eight years later. Mr. and Mrs. Best have one daughter. Alberta B., now the wife of Edwin S. Massie. Mr. and Mrs. jMassie live in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Best. The family are members of the Episcopal Church and Mr. Best has been affiliated with the Masonic order since 1868.

Besides his interests as a banker Mr. Best is almost equally well known as a farmer on an extensive scale. He has one of the complete and well arranged farms of the count.y, comprising 300 acres, all developed and intensively cultivated except twenty acres of native timber. He also has 300 acres in Pike County, Missouri, and four different farm tracts comprising 1,000 acres in Marion County, iMissouri. As a boy ]\Ir. Best had considerable experience, and besides the result of that early influence which has led him to invest his means in farm real estate, he derived from it in part at least his splendid physical constitution, which keeps him erect, rugged and vigorous in the prosecution of his affairs, though past the age of three score and ten.

J. George Birkexmaier is one of the solid and substantial business men of Quincy, has been a resident of the city thirty-five years, and for twenty-five years has been distributing and purveying meats and provisions to a constantly growing circle of patrons. He is one of the most popular and progressive men in the business at Quincy.

An American citizen since early manhood, he probably appreciates and can support more enthusiastically American institutions than many native born. He was born in Wuertemberg, Germany, October 23, 1866, and he and several brothers came to this country for the express purpose of freeing themselves from the military system and autocratic rule of the old country. His parents were J. George and Catherine (Eroetz) Birkenmaier, natives of the same country, his mother being of Austrian ancestry. His parents spent all their lives in Wuertemberg, and the father died there when about seventy and the mother at fortj^-three. The father was a farmer and wine grower. The Birkenmaiers were of Lutheran faith. The first of the family to come to America was J. Jacob Birkenmaier, who arrived in 1878, while his brother John came in 1879. Jacob finished his education in the Gem City Business College at Quincy, and is a well-to-do man, a resident of San Francisco. John lives in Chicago and is married and has a family.

J. George Birkenmaier lived in his native province until he was sixteen years of age, and while there acquired the fundamentals of knowledge as taught in the German common schools. In 1882 he set out for the New World, taking pa.ssage on a steam.ship at Antwei'p and landing in New York City fourteen days later. He came on to Quincy to .join his brother John, his brother Jacob having gone west. For six months he lived in Barry, Pike County, Illinois, and there attended school in his efl'ort to acquire the best possible knowledge of the English language. Later his brother Christ came to this country and is now a farmer in the State of Colorado, and has sons and daughters, some of his sons being in the Government service.

In 1883 Mr. Birkenmaier located in Quincy and was employed by several local butchers, under whom he learned his trade. About twenty-five years ago he engaged in business for himself, his first location being at Sixth and Maiden Lane, from there moving to 912 Maine Street, some years later to the corner of Maine and Ninth streets, and in 1905 he bought the interest of his partner, the late A. August Long, and moved across the street to his present location, where he owns a good business house 24x65 feet and also leases the adjacent store. His first partner in the meat business, with whom he was associated four or five years, was Chris Duker, now a well known commission merchant of Quincy. Mr. Birkenmaier handles many of the standard lines of meat products, and also manufactures a large amount of sausage in his ovra shop.

In Quincy Mr. Birkenmaier married Miss Wilhelmina Koch. She was born in Quinc}-, reared and educated here, and is a daughter of Gottlieb and Catherine (Bresing) Koch. Her parents were both born in Pru.ssia, but were married after they came to Quincy. Her father died at the age of seventyfive and her mother at sixty. Mr. Koch was a cooper by trade. The thorough Americanism of the Birkenmaier family needs no further proof when it is stated that one of the sons is now in France with the Allied Armies, and another is awaiting his call to the service under the new age limits. The family consists of three sons and two daughters. Carl J., now twenty-two years of age, .joined the National Guard at nineteen and is now a member of the Thirty-Third Division and has been in France since May, 1918. The second son, Robert G., aged nineteen, is employed by his father while awaiting the call to military duty. The third son, George, Jr., is acquiring a knowledge of military science as student in a military school. Edna is in the Quincy High School, Edith is in the grammar school. The family are members of tlie Lutheran church, and Mr. Birkenmaier is independent in local politics and votes as a republican in national afi'airs.

Frank E. Morris. One of the most flourishing industries of Quiucy is the Morris Brothers Shoe Company, which as a business is a lineal successor of one of the pioneer shoe factories of the Middle West. Quincy was fortunate in inducing the Morris Brothers to locate here a few years ago, and this is now one of the few industries of the eitv that produce goods to a total value of over .$1,000,000 annually.

The business was established at Quincy in February, 1914, and on February 8, 1916, it was incorporated as the Morris Brothers Shoe Company, with a capital stock of $85,000. Frank E. Morris is president of the corporation, Evan F. Morris is secretar.y, William J. Morris is vice president, and two other brothers are on the board of directors. It is a close corporation, the capital stock of 600 common shares and 250 preferred shares being pi'acticallj' all owned by the brothers.

The main factory building, comprising nearly half a block, is located at 237-239 North Second Street. About 450 people are emploj-ed. They manufacture all kinds of men's dress shoes, workmen's medium grade shoes, and in 1918 completed a separate factory for the manufacture of interlined shoes for mechanics. The goods of this company are sold everj-where. In four years time the business has been built up to an aggregate value of $2,000,000 a year.

Wliile never a resident of Quinc.y, the real pioneer and founder of the business was the father of Morris Brothers, Evan Morris, who was born in Wales of Welsh parentage in 1830 and died at St. Louis, Missouri, December 1, 1898. He was brought to America when a child, his parents Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Morris, locating in Maryland. His father soon afterward enlisted for service in the Seminole Indian war in Florida and was killed there in the prime of life. Evan Morris grew up and learned his trade as a shoemaker, and developed the highest degree of skill as a bench and custom shoemaker. Back east he was frequently employed in making the finest shoes, and one of his customers was Charlotte Cushman, most of his trade coming from people of exclusive tastes like that famous actress. He left his trade to enlist in the Union army and served four years, coming through unharmed, and then resuming work at the bench.

About fifty j'ears ago a Mr. Corning brought from Cincinnati to St. Louis the first McKay sewing machine for machine sewing of soles on boots and shoes. He started a factory in St. Loiiis, bringing with him experienced men from Cincinnati. After getting the business under way all his employes left him and returned to Cincinnati. He inserted an advertisement asking for skilled men at the business, and one of the replies received came from Evan Morris. He thus became identified with the new system of using machinery, recognized the value of machines as siiperior to the slower method of hand manufacture, and after developing a force of proficient men he and associates organized in 1868 a factory which was the first west of the IMississippi River. Out of this grew the Excelsior Shoe Company, with Evan Morris as one of its chief officials. He lived to see and use all the machines made and employed in the most modern work of shoe manufacture. Every trade paper has long recognized his pioneer standing in the shoe business in the Middle West.

At his death he left the business to his sons, and they sold it to the Goodyear Shoe Company. They then established the George F. Dittman Shoe Company, which they ran successfully until 1906. In that year they accepted a proposition from the citizens of Mexico, Missouri, to start a factory, were proprietors of it for one year, and then sold their interests to the Friedman Brothers Boot & Shoe Company. They continued the management of the factory, however, for .several years more. This factory at Mexico was finally taken over by the International Shoe Company of St. Louis.

At St. Louifs Evan Morris married Mary Sciilly, a native of Ireland. She died November 3, 1892. They had ten children, all of whom were born isn St. Louis and all grew to manhood and womanhood. Six of them married, and five sons and two daughters are still living. The sons all live at Quincy except Robert M., who is a manufacturer of shoe colorings and specialties. Edward T. Morris learned his trade with his father in the original factory at St. Louis. He is married and lives on Twelfth Street in Quincy.

Mr. Frank E. Morris was born in St. Louis in 1865 and after his education went into his father's shop and learned every detail of the business. He and his brothers all married in St. Louis, and all had been associated with their father after thej" reached maturity.

Frank E. Morris married in St. Louis Alice Bvirk, who was born in that city of Irish parents. They are the parents of six children, Evan F., Margaret, Richard, ilary, Francis and Alice. The younger children are students in St. Francis and St. Mary's Colleges. All the family are members of St. Peter's Catholic Church. The Morris brothers are active in the Knights of Columbus. Mr. Frank E. Morris' oldest son, Evan F., though secretary of the company, is now in the service of the Government in the war.

Dakiel Speyeb, one of Quincy 's prominent clothing merchants is successor to one of the oldest established wholesale and retail clothing houses of the city, for many years conducted under the name Jonas Meyer & Company. The late Jonas Meyer and L. Whitehead engaged as partners in the clothing and men's furnishing business at Quincy in September, 1868, just a half century ago. Their original location was at 323 Hampshire Street. They dissolved partnership in 1879, but Jonas Meyer continued in business from that time foi'ward and with other associates until his death.

Mr. Daniel Speyer was born in New York City November 22, 1854, son of Elias and Eleanor (Silverman) Speyer. Both parents were born in Bavaria, Germany. The father came to New York in 1835 and was a merchant for many years.

Daniel Spe.ver grew tip in New York State, was educated in the common schools, and had an extensive experience with a wholesale clothing house before he came to Quincy in 1879. Here he joined 'Sir. Jonas Meyer as an employe, in 1882 was taken into partnership as member of the firm Jonas Meyer & Company, and gave his utmost energies and abilities to the successful eonduct of this well known house. Mr. Jonas Meyer died in 1911, and Mr. Speyer is now sole owner of the business, which occupies three floors of one of the best known store buildings in the downtown district, at 421 and 423 Hampshire Street.

Davto D. Steixer, M. D. One of the busiest professional men of Quincy is Dr. David D. Steiner, who graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Keokuk, Iowa, with the class of 1886, and after a few years of practice at his native Village of Lorain in Adams County moved to Quincy twenty-six years ago and is now one of the older representatives of the profession in this city. He ranks high as a physician, and his solid abilities have justified all the liberal patronage extended him.

Dr. Steiner was born at Lorain in Keene Township of this county Jtily 6, 1860. He grew up on his father's farm in that locality and first qualified himself for teaching. The work he did as a teacher enabled him to carry on advanced literary courses in the Valparaiso Normal School in Indiana, where he graduated in 1883. He continued teaching another year before entering Keokuk Medical College.

of Keene Township. Michael Steiner was born in Germanj- Januaiy 30, 1810, and was well educated. He served a term in the regular army and the captain of his compan.y was the father of Prince Albert of Germany. Michael Steiner came to this country in 1836, and while at New York saw Martin Van Buren, who was elected in that year president of the United States. At Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he found employment on a coal boat, went to New Orleans, thence up the river to Galena and back to Quincy in 1837. He continued boating for a time, and was emploj'ed on the steamboat Olive Branch plying between St. Louis and Galena, one of the first boats to run on the Upper Mississippi. Later he was employed in the Whipple Saw Mill and sawed the blue ash flooring which went into the first home built bj' General Browning. Michael Steiner was a pioneer of many experiences. He often told of conditions during the hard winter of 1839-40 when the Mississippi froze so early that the merchants were unable to get their supplies from St. Louis, and goods had to be carted all the way from that city. Salt commanded a price that winter of $4 a bushel. In 1845 he was summoned as a witness at Macomb and had to find his way across the country the best he could in the absence of roads.

In 1839 Michael Steiner married Ann Catherine Goebel, who was born in Germany February 20, 1820. She had come to America with her brothers and sisters in 1826, and she located at Quincy in 1838. In 1842 Michael Steiner and wife moved to a tract of Government land in section 5 of Keene Township, and that was their home the rest of their industrious careers. Michael Steiner accumulated a large and well developed farm, and assisted some of his children to the ownership of homes of their own. He died at the age of eighty-two and his wife at seventy-nine, and both were members of the Lutheran church. They had nine children, seven of whom reached maturity, and when the parents died there were forty grandchildren to do them honor. Dr. Steiner is one of four still living.

While Dr. Steiner was a student of Valparaiso Normal School in Indiana he met Miss Emma I. Russell, and that was the beginning of a romance which eventuated in their marriage. Mrs. Steiner was born at Ironton, Ohio, January 9, 1862, and was educated in the public schools there and at Valparaiso and was a teacher before her marriage. Dr. and Mrs. Steiner had two children : Paul R., who died when two years old; and Hugh Wynne, who was born in 1891. This son was educated in the Quincy High School, in the Military School at Booueville, Missouri, and graduated with the class of 1915 from the University of Wisconsin. He is now connected with a large manufacturing corporation at St. Louis, and is at present in California assisting in the building of a branch factory in that state. He married Louise Johnson, daughter of Dr. Johnson of Barry, Illinois. She is a graduate of the Illinois Woman's College at Jacksonville. Dr. Steiner is a Royal Arch Mason.

Walter F. Emery. This is one of the most honored names in the pioneer annals of Adams County. Walter F. Emery came here in 1832, while his good wife, whom he married here, was an even earlier settler. She was a niece of the noted ex-Governor Wood, and had come with the Wood family to Quincy during the early '20s. She gi-ew up on the site of the town which her uncle founded. Many of the interesting details in the earlj' history of Quincy as noted on other pages may be considered as the background and environment in which both Walter F. Emery and his wife lived and acted for many years.

Walter F. Emerj- was born in Vermont July 7, 1797, and died in March, 1876, at the age of seventy-nine. He was of old New England ancestry, and descended from one of two brothers, John and Anthony Emery, who came to the colonies prior to the Revolution. The history of the family in detail was published some j^ears ago by Rev. Samuel Hopkins Emery, who for a number of years was pastor of the Congregational church at Quincy.

sought the scenes of the far "West. He first located at Galena, Illinois, where he was a lead miner. From there he came to Quincy in 1832, and here he met and married Miss Matilda Goodrich, who was born in New York State June 17, 1815, and died at Quincy, December 14, 1887, at the age of seventy-two. As already stated, she was a niece of Governor Wood, the founder of Quincy, and at the time of her death .she was probably the oldest resident of Quincy.

After his marriage Walter F. Emery entered 168 acres of Government land three miles south of what was then the Town of Quincy, but the tract now is just outside the limits in Melrose Township. On this farm Walter Emery built a double log house, and in many ways improved the land and brought much of it under cultivation. In 1849 he left Quincy to join the throng of gold seekers bound for California and was 214 years in the far West, engaged in mining operations. He went out across the plains, biit returned by way of Panama and the Atlantic coast. He made and saved some little money while in the West, and after his return he settled down to the quiet vocation of farming, which he followed the rest of his life. He had many of the experiences of the pioneer, including breaking land with oxen. Besides his home place in Melrose Township, he owned 400 acres in Columbus Township and also owned the site of the Woodland Cemeterj- which he later sold to Governor Wood. He began voting as a whig, and was one of the original members of the republican party. He also held a number of townsliip offices, and was a man whom to know was to trust. He was a man of splendid physique and of great powers of endurance, and in pioneer times he bore the reputation of being the champion cradler of the county. He was able to cradle four acres of gi'ain per day, and even a modern generation of farmers can appreciate how much labor and endurance that required.

Walter F. Emery and wife had eight children four of whom died young. Charlotte, the oldest of the family, married Frederick Smith, and died in California, the mother of two daughters, Minnie, who is still unmarried, and Agnes, who died after her marriage, leaving a son and daughter. James L. Emery owned a part of the old homestead, and died there in March, 1909. He married Miss Ella Heppelman, of Iowa, who died before her husband.

The living representatives of the familj^ of Walter F. Emery and wife are John F. Emery and his older sister, Emily A., both of whom live on the old homestead adjoining the city at East State and Twenty-Fifth Street. John P. Emery was born on this farm October 28, 1847, and has spent most of his life in this one locality. He has been a successful farmer, and now owns forty-six acres of the old homestead. He married at Quincy Miss Mary T. Howard, who was born at Hannibal, Llissouri. She died in 1896, at the age of forty years, the mother of five children. Two of the daughters are still living, Laura B. and Lula Pearl. Laura B. is the wife of Fred Ohlendorf, a farmer in Melrose To'miship. LIr. and Mrs. Ohlendorf have three children. Pearl, Jessie and Clyde. The other daughter, Lula Pearl, has one son, John E. Garver, attending high school.

Miss Emilj' A. Emery has spent her life at the old home, and was liberally educated in seminary and college. She has a beautiful home of seventy-five acres and has done much to improve this land and keep it up to the high standards set by her honored father. Her beautiful home is perhaps most widely known for its flowers. She has developed a remarkable skill in growing flowering plants of all kinds, both in the open ground and in the house, and there is never a day in the year when flowers are not abloom at the old Emery home.

Anton Binkert. For more than half a centurj^ the name Anton Binkert has had honored and useful associations with the business and public life of Quincy. Mr. Anton Binkert is representative of one of the substantial German families that came to Adams County more than eight decades ago, and during his active career he has filled public stations with credit, has been prominent in

Mr. Binkert was born in the Kingdom of Baden, Germany, June 4, 1836. Six weeks after his birth his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Antou Biukert, set out for the New World, traveling by sailing vessel and coming to Quiney. Anton Binkert, Sr., when he stepped from the packet on shore at Quiney had only 5 francs or 95 cents in his pocket. He had to begin at the very bottom and his industry carried him tlu'ough and enabled him to win an honored name in his adopted city. For eighteen years he worked for one man and then utilized his modest capital in starting a general store, which later he developed into a large business.

Mr. Anton Binkert gi-ew up in Quiney, had an education supplied by the public and parochial schools, and at the age of eighteen began learning the trade of carriage blacksmith. He served as an apprentice and journeyman for eight years. Mr. Biukert is one of the few men still living who knew intimately by experience the life of the western plains prior to the Civil war. He crossed the plains to Colorado in 1859, 1860 and 1861, going out in the spring and coming back in the fall. During the winter he worked in carriage shops in Quiney, and the money which he made by this vocation he spent prospecting for gold in Colorado.

In the latter part of 1861 Mr. Binkert was appointed a sutler's clerk with the Sixteenth Regiment of Illinois Infantry, and was in the army for three years. In the meantime his father had given up merchandising, and in 1865, when the sons returned to Quiney, they all started their business together under the name A. Binkert & Sons. There were two other brothers, Thomas and Damion, who were also in the Union Army. Thomas was likewise a .sutler, with the Seventy-Eighth Illinois Infantry, while Damion served as a private in the Sixteenth Infantry. At the battle of Big Shanty Damion was taken prisoner, and spent nine months of imprisonment and torture in the notorious Andersonville prison. He was not released until practically the end of the war. The firm of A. Binkert & Sons continued a prosperous business for a number of years and Anton Binkert, Sr., died in 1872. The sons in the meantime had sold out and had joined John Ware in the tobacco business as manufacturers. Two years later a fire destroyed the warehouse and factory and brought a heavy loss to all the partners. A little later the brothers again resumed general merchandising at the corner of Twelfth and Hampshire streets. This firm of Binkert Brothers, gi'oeeries and dry goods, was continued by Thomas and Damion Binkert until they died. In the meantime Anton Binkert had left the business in the hands of his brothers at the time of his election to the office of county treasurer in 1877. He filled that office with credit and efficiency for five years and after retiring engaged in the real estate business. He continued that most successfully until he retired, tui-ning his affairs over to his sons George and William, who have continued it and have added an insurance department. Binkert Brothers, Insurance and Real Estate, is still located at the place where Mr. Anton Binkert was in business for so many years, 214 N. Sixth Street.

Twenty-five years ago Mr. Anton Binkert bought fifteen acres on Twelfth Street between Jersey and Kentucky streets. This he laid out and developed what is known as Park Place, perhaps the most widely known and highly developed residential district of the city. It is now practically covered with fine brick homes, hundreds of them, and it is one of the real beauty spots of the city. Mr. Binkert coidd desire no better monument to his business energy than this fine residential section, which he helped so much to make.

Mr. Binkert was a charter member and the prime mover at Quiney in organizing the Western Catholic Union. He supported it liberally with his owti means, and was also one of its first directors and served as the supreme treasurer and secretary for a number of years. He was succeeded in that office by +he present supreme treasurer, Joseph J. Frj'berg.

Mr. Binkert was first elected to public office in 1872, when he was chosen alderman from the Fifth Ward. After two j^ears he resigned to become the first collector of the city under a new law establishing that office. He was in that position one year, and was then chosen county treasurer. It is a significant record that Mr. Binkert was never defeated for any office for which he was a candidate. He has always been identified with the democratic party. Seven years ago he was again elected alderman, from the Fourth Ward, and served one term. He and his family are all active members of the Catholic Church.

In 1863, in St. Lawrence, now St. Peter's, Catholic Church, Mr. Binkert married Miss Helen Beatty. Mrs. Binkert was boi-n in Ellington Township of Adams County in 1839 and was reared and educated there. She is a daughter of John and JIary (Truelock) Beatty, both natives of Ireland. Her parents came to the United States in a sailing vessel, spending many weeks on the water and landing at New Orleans, Louisiana. From there they came up the Mississippi River to Quincy and here joined his brother Thomas Beatty, who had located in Ellington Township years before. John Beatty and wife began life here on a tract of raw land, and with loyal co-operation they developed a good pioneer home and lived to enjoy its comforts in their old age. They were pioneers here and Quincy was only a hamlet when they first arrived. Mrs. Binkert and her mother were reared as Protestants but joined the Catholic ehiiroh in the earlj^ '60s.