Quincy Township (part 45 of 74)

John L. Soebbing. Banker, merchant and public citizen, John L. Soebbing occupies a prominent place at Qi^incy, where he has long been identified with important interests. He is a native of Quincy, born February 2, 1861, has spent his life here, and it has been his privilege to contribute through his business ability and undiminished industiy to the foiinding and forwarding of numerous enterprises that have had much to do with substantial development here.

The parents of John L. Soebbing, Anton and Catherine (Buddie) Soebbing, were of German extraction. They came to Quincy, Illinois, in 1853 and 1847, respectively, and during their long subsequent residence here were respected and esteemed. They were the parents of six children, namely : A son that died in infancy ; John L. ; Anton G., who is a rsident of Kansas City, Missouri ; Elizabeth, who is deceased; Catherine, who is the widow of William Tempe, of Quincy ; and Henry A., who is a resident of Quincy. After attending the parochial schools at Quincy John L. Soebbing entered the employ of Dr. Rittler, a well known medical practitioner of this city at that time, and then started to learn the drug l)usiness with P. Cams, a druggist located on Elaine Street, and continued with Mr. Carus until the latter 's death. His next position was with the grocery house of C. R. Oliver, and from there entered the employ of John H. Metzger. At this time, realizing that a thorough knowledge of practical business methods was almost a necessity for a young man contemplating a business life, he entered the Gem City Business college in 1876 and completed the course, after which he returned to the grocery line and between that time and 1887 was a clerk with Strickling & Company, Jacob Scholz and John Altmix, in these standard houses securing a very thorough knowledge of this line of trade.

lu 1887 Mr. Soebbing bought the grocery house of John Winkeljohn and carried on a tirst class retail store at Twelfth and Vine streets for three years, and then built a spacious store building on the opposite corner and moved into it with his brother Anton Soebbing as his partner. The enterprise was carried on with business caution and ability and prospered greatly. In 1896 ]\Ir. Soebbing retired from the retail line and was one of the incorporators of the N. Kohl AYholesale Grocery Company, and became secretary of this company. He sold his interest in December, 1899.

In January, 1900, Mr. Soebbing organized the Quincy Grocery Company, of which he is now treasurer and general managei-.. On Februarj' 6, 1900, he bought out the W. S. Warfield Company, taking over the entire stock, building and sales force. Mr. Soebbing is president of the Merchants Trust and Savings Bank, and a director and the treasurer of the Columbus Home Association. He w^as vice president and a director in the Excelsior Stove Manufacturing Company and is secretary and treasurer of the Quincy Sand Company and other concerns.

For many years interested in politics, a republican voter, Mr. Soebbing has been honorable and useful in public office. From 1889 to 1890 he served on the board of supervisors; from 1891 to 1893, was a member of the city council, serving on the auditing, water and light committees, and in 1896 was re-elected but resigned in the fall of that year. In 1899 he was elected again to public office as alderman of his ward, his admirable business qualities making him particularly useful on the finance, water and light committees.

Mr. Soebbing was married October 30, 1883, to Miss Clara Altmix, and they have had children as follows : Leo A., who is associated with his father in many business enterprises ; Robert J., who is teller in the ^Merchants Trust and Savings Bank; Clara M., who resides at home; George F.. who is a bookkeeper in his father's emploj'; Helen, who is the wife of A. R. Russell, of ]\Iuscogee, Oklahoma; Edith, who is the wife of Charles Pritzlaft', of Quincy, now in the United States Navy; John R., who was traveling salesman for the Quincy Grocery Company and is now in the mechanical department, Balloon Division, T'nited States Army; Ralph J., who is in his father's employ; Eugene, now at San Antonio, Texas; and three who died in infancy.

Mr. Soebbing and his family are members of St. Francis Roman Catholic Church at Quincy. and through that medium he has made generous contributions in charity. He is identified with the Knights of Columbus and the Western Catholic Union, and formerly was treasurer of St. Andrew's branch.

William A. Richardson. For man,y years the name of Richardson has been one of marked distinction in Illinois, and Quincy numbers among her citizens the present head of the family, Hon. William A. Richardson (Jr.). He was born in the capital city of the United States, while his honored father was serving as a member of Congress, June 24, 1848. His parents were William A. and Cornelia H. (Sullivan) Richardson, his father a native of Kentucky and his mother of Yincennes, Indiana. In 1831 the elder William A. Richardson came to Illinois and was married January 18, 1838, and his family numbered seven children, four of whom lived to manhood and womanhood: Helen Richardson Dwight, George J.. William A. and John S.

Four years after coming to Illinois from Kentucky, the Legislature of Illinois elected Colonel Richardson state's attorney for the fifth judicial circuit; in 1836 he was elected to the Legislature from Schuyler County; in 1838 was chosen a member of the State Senate ; and in 1844, again a member of the Lower House, was made speaker. When the Mexican war broke out he raised a company and led it to the front and for gallant conduct at Buena Yista was made a lieutenant colonel. While yet in Mexico he was nominated as a candidate for Congress, and on his return home was elected to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Senator Douglas, and served in that representative body for ten years and in 1856 was put forward by the democratic party of Illinois as its nominee for governor. In 1857 President Buchanan appointed him governor of Nebraska. In 1860 he was returned to Congress from the Quincy District and in 1863 was chosen to fill the vacancy in the United States Senate caused by the death of Judge Douglas and for more than thirty years was a prominent factor in public affairs. Colonel Richardson's death occurred December 27, 1875.

After finishing his education in the private schools of Quincy, Palmyra and Chicago, William A. Richardson (Jr.), obtained a position with the railroads, first in the freight and afterward in the engineering departments. He was connected with the survey of the Quincy, Alton & St. Louis Railway, now the Louisiana branch of the C. B. & Q., and afterward on the construction of the same ; with the survey of the Chillicothe, Council Bluffs & Omaha Railway, now a branch of the Waba.sh ; with the survey and construction of Sni Levee in Adams and Pike counties in the state ; with the survey and construction of the Atchison branch of the old Hannibal and St. Joseph Railway, now a part of the C. B. & Q. system ; and with the survey of the Chicago, Quincy & Western Railway, which was never built.

Mr. Richardson commenced the study of law in office of the Hon. 0. H. Browning at Quincy in the year 1874 and was admitted to practice in 1876, in April of the .same year being appointed master in chancery, which office he held for nine years. In 1878 and 1879 he was city attorney of Quincy. In 1880 he was elected a member of the Illinois Legislature. In 1885 he was appointed United States commissioner, and served in this capacity until impaired health compelled him to resign, and devoted himself to his farm in Minnesota.

Henry H. Garrelts is secretary and treasurer of the Henry G. Garrelts and Sons Company, one of the oldest established concerns in Quincy, with a record of fifty years of growth and service. One distinctive feature is that it is and always has been a family concern, and it is today a close corporation, all the stock being owned by the Garrelts family. Quincy people need hardly be informed that it is a wholesale and retail paint, wallpaper and supply house, and also operating a general department store for different cla.sses of household furnishing. The store, 38 by 75 feet, is one of the prominent South Side concerns, located at 813-815 State Street. The company also have three warehouses and a large paint shop in the rear of the store. The main building was erected by the late Henry G. Garrelts in 1905. In 1915 the business was incorporated and its founder died in December, 1916, nearly fifty years after he came to Quincy and went to work as a master painter. After incorporation Henry H. Garrelts was made secretary and treasurer, and the president of the company became at that time his lirother George Garrelts, who died October 9, 1918, the mother succeeding him to the presidency of the company.

Henry G. Garrelts was a native of Germany, and while in the old country learned the trade of baker. He came to America in 1866 and during one year spent at Pekin, Illinois, followed the trade of painter. In 1867 he located at Quincy, and his work and trade as a painter proved the basis on which the present business was built. For a time he was associated with Daniel Lynds and later with the Young Brothers, finally establishing a liusiness of his own. Henry G. Garrelts was one of the leading members of the Lutheran Church and prominent in many civic affairs and movements at Quiney. His widow is still living.

The children comprise an enterprising group of younger people, all active workers, good citizens, and valued members of the community. The oldest child, Mary, who was educated in the public schools and a business college, was a stockholder in the comjiany and head clerk of the department store. She passed away October 16, 1918. Anna, the second daughter, lives at the old home with her mother. The third child is Henry H. Garrelts. Lena is manager of the picture and to.y department in the store. The next in age was George, while the youngest is Clara, who has distinguished herself by special skill and efficiency as a stenographer. She is a graduate of the Gem City Business College, and is now private secretary for Secretary of State Emerson of Illinois.

Mr. George Garrelts married Anna Schulte and a son, George, Jr., was born in 1918. The brother of Mrs. Garrelts will always have a high place in American history as the first American soldier to be killed in the front line trenches in France.

Henry H. Garrelts, like his brother, was educated in the local public schools and business college, and practically grew up in the atmosphere of his father's store. In 1902 he went to Des Moines. Iowa, and for two years was shipping clerk and salesman for a wholesale paint company there. In Des Moines in 1903 he married Martha Borkenhagen. She was born in Pomei'an, Germany. Her father, ilaj. Gustav Borkenhagen, was an officer in the Franco-Prussian war, and was at one time a very successful manufacturer of cloth in Germany. He accumulated a fortune, but lost nearly all of it through the dishonest actions of a partner. Mrs. Garrelts came to the United States when twelve j-eai-s of age and finished her education at Brunswick, Missouri. Henry H. Garrelts and wife have two daughters, ^laria D., aged twelve, and Dorothy A., aged eleven. Both are now attending school.

The family are all members of Salem Lutheran Church at Quincy. The late Henry G. Garrelts and wife were early members there and did much to build up the church. The father served as an officer, and has since been followed in that by his sons. For the past ten years Henry H. Garrelts has been an active member of Herman Lodge of Masons and has filled chairs in the lodge, as did also his brother. The firm has membership in the Quincy Chamber of Commerce.

Joseph Barlow. In the invention and use of appliances and devices for saving time and labor in the agricultural industry, America has led the world for many years. Hence, in part, has come the wonderful prosperity that has made the United States the granary of the world, her inventions making it possible to far outdistance other lands where primitive methods of agriculture have been retained. One of the exceedingly valuable inventions is the corn-planter, which piece of machinery is indispensable in the great corn belt of the country, and which, with a few improvements, is constructed practically on the same lines as those manufactured in Adams County, Illinois, seventy years ago, by Joseph C. Barlow. He was the father of Joseph Barlow, one of Quincy 's representative business men of today, who is manager of the Quincy Foundry & Novelty Company.

Joseph Barlow wa.s born in this city, April 19, 1868. His parents were Joseph C. and Eveline (Streeter) Barlow, the former of whom was born in 1836, in Genesee County, New York, and the latter in Kentucky. Of their family of ten children there are four survivors, namely : John W., who is a resident of Kansas City, Missouri ; Ella M., who is the widow of James W. Fairman. of Kan.sas City; Joseph; and Emily L., who is the wife of J. 0. Glenn, of Quincy, Illinois. In 1848 Joseph C. Barlow came to Adams County, Illinois. He had been reared on a farm but the possession of mechanical ability led him finally into a manufacturing l)usiness and he produced some of the first cornplanters used in this section, and in the study of his product he found where a better planter could be made and set about its invention. In time he was successful in securing a patent for this invention, which became known as the Barlow Corn Planter, and Mr. Barlow establi.shed his manufacturing plant for the same on Front and Cedar streets, Quincy. For many years he continued in the active conduct of his business there, his corn-planter meeting with a wide sale and continuing in favor long after later patented machines came upon the market, because of its practical qualities and reasonable cost. Mr. Barlow died in 1895. His widow survived many years afterward, passing awav at Quiney in 1905.

Joseph Barlow was educated in the public schools of Quiney. With an inherited taste for mechanics he then entered his father's foundry and from the age of nineteen years to thirty he was connected with the business of the Barlow Corn Planter Company. In 1898 he came to the Quiney Foundry & Novelty Company, and has continued manager here ever since.

Mr. Barlow was married October 25, 1893, to Miss Georgie H. Ben-y, who was born in Illinois. They have had two children, neither of whom survived infancy. Mr. Barlow belongs to the Rotary Club and politically is a republican but has never been particularly active in political life and has never sought public oflSce. It is a matter of some pride to him that on the paternal side he can claim relationship with so gi-eat a man as Stephen A. Douglas, who was his father's first cousin.

Edwin P. Osgood, a resident of Quiney since 1905, is a man of wide and thorough experience in business affairs. He has been a trader and dealer since early youth, has also done some practical farming, has sold and operated in real estate and as a lumber manufacturer and dealer, and is now handling industrial investments, his offices being in the Majestic Building at Quiney.

Mr. Osgood was born at Plymouth, Illinois, in 1874. He attended school there, biit at the age of seventeen started out upon his omti resources and has won his way by hard work and honest dealings. He has made good in practicalh' every undertaking. After coming to Quiney he completed a course in the Gem City Business College, and has constantly used even,' opportunity to improve his ability and give him a broader outlook.

One of his early experiences was as a farmer in Lewis County, Missouri, where he bought some land and for several years worked almost night and day to manage it and improve it. He bought it for fifteen dollars an acre and sold it for thirty dollars an acre. He then became engaged in business as a trader in merchandise stocks. He bought and sold twenty-six stocks of goods within a few years, and made a profit on nearly every transaction. During the same period he bought and sold fifty-two farms. From early boyhood he has been a hustler and has a great liking for business transactions, a trait which he no doubt inherited from his New England Yankee ancestry.

On coming to Quiney in 1905 Mr. Osgood entered the lumber and real estate business. For six years his time was largely confined to real estate work and for two years he lived in Kansas City. ]\Iissouri, and operated as a manufacturer and dealer both wholesale and retail, in lumber. In 1915 he returned to Quiney and until February, 1917, was engaged in lumber manufacture.

After long and careful study Mr. Osgood in February, 1917, became identified with the work of industrial investments and securities, especially with the International Industrial Securities Company. He has well earned the confidence of the people and has allied himself with a very interesting phase of industrial promotion.

The Industrial Securities Company has promoted the American Mineral Production Company, which has the largest deposits of magnesite in the world in Stephens County, Washington. This company was organized in the fall of 1916, and by October, 1917. the capitalization of $1,500,000 has been sold to the public except a one-third interest held by the Industrial Security Company. Magnesite is a material used in the lining of all steel furnaces, in the hardening of rubber, in extracting metallic magnesium and salts obtained from magnesium. A superior roofing is made at Springfield, Illinois, from magnesite. The American Mineral Production Company is on a 12 per cent per annum dividend basis. The Industrial Securities Company built a railroad leading to the magnesite deposits. Another promotion of the Industrial Secur- ities Company is the Perfection Tire and Kubber Company, wliieh holds patents covering the use of asbestos for the construction of tires. The Curtis Brothers Handle Company is another promotion of the Industrial Securities Company. This capital stock is now owned by the public and is on an earning basis estimated at 18 per cent per annum. Another concern promoted by the company of which Mr. Osgood is a member is the Karamoid Container Manufacturing Company. This company manufactures on patents a varied line of containers constructed of magnesite, wood pulp and chemical compounds. They have perfected a process by which containers can be made so cheaply that while suitable for such usage as milk bottles, and also for the canning and preserving of fruits, lard, butter and meat, the containers are used only once. Tlie plant for the manufacture of these articles is being built at Fort Madison, Iowa, which is also the home of the Perfection Tire & Rubber Company and the Curtis Brothers Handle Company.

Mr. Osgood states that the Industrial Securities Company guarantees each stockholder against loss for two years, and at the expiration of that time they have the privilege of returning their stock and receiving their money back with 6 per cent interest. Mr. Osgood became interested in this company in February, 1917, and took up the work believing he could benefit each and every individual who bought stock. He has given up the lumber business and other lines so as to devote all his time to the new field.

In Lewis County, Missouri, Mr. Osgood married Miss Leona Lay, a native of that county. She was educated in the city schools of Canton. They have one daughter, of whom they are justly proud, Hazel, bom December 25, 1910. She is now a student in the grammar schools of Quincy. Mr. and Mrs. Osgood are active members of the Baptist Church and he is one of the church trustees and for several years has been superintendent of the Sunday school. He is affiliated with Lambert Lodge No. 15, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Quincy.

Charles Eberhardt. To work .steadily in one line and one occupation for forty-tive years is to render a service that needs to be appreciated in any community, since it is such men and such services that do most to insure all elements of welfare. That has been the distinction of Mr. Charles Eberhardt, a carriage trimmer by occupation, and who as a boy began his trade in 1872 with the old E. M. Miller Carriage Company on South Sixth Street. He learned the trade there and with the exception of brief trips as a journe>nnan to the West and South was employed steadily until 1890, when he established a business on his own account at 902 Maine Street. This is his business home today, and he has not only been materially prospered, but has gained the esteem of a host of Quincy people.

Mr. Eberhardt was born in Germany July 5, 1854. His parents, Adolph and Mary Eberhardt, when their son Charles, their first born, was not yet two years old. in 1856 crossed the ocean and established their home in Quincy, so that Mr. Charles Eberhardt has been a resident of this city for over sixty years. Adolph Eberhardt was a cabinet maker by trade, and followed that line chiefly in Quincy. He retired about ten years before his death, which occurred in June, 1911, at the age of eighty-four. His wife died in Quincy December 31, 1884, aged fifty-eight years, six months. They were members of the Lutheran Church. Their children were: Charles; Anna and Mollie, both unmarried; Adolph J., who for many years was a worker with the E. ]\I. Miller carriage shop, and by his marriage to Anna Bregger, daughter of Thomas Bregger, has three children, Louise, Grace and Caroline.

]\Ir. Charles Eberhardt married in Quincy Miss Emily Gasser. She was born in this city of German parents. She was a small child when her father died and her mother died later. I\Ir. and Mrs. Eberhardt and family are all members of St. John 's Lutheran Church and he is a democrat in politics. Their children are: Cordelia, a graduate nurse from Blessing Hospital has been active in her profession for ten years ; Mollie, a well educated young woman living at home and a bookkeeper for the Quiney Produce Company ; Louise, who for several years was secretary and treasurer of the Quiney Produce Company and is now at home ; and Elsie, who married Lewis Tredder, of Quiney, and has a son, Donald, born June 7, 1915.

Philip Gentemaxx, A skilful and practical horticulturist aind florist, Philip Gentemann is intimately associated with the development and advancement of that branch of industry that relates to the growing of flowers, plants and shrubs, a work that he is canying on after the most approved scientific methods. A son of C. Frederick W. Gentemann, he was born in Quiney November 15, 1877, and was educated in the parochial and public schools of the city.

C. Frederick W. Gentemann was born in Germany, and as a young man came with his parents to Illinois, locating in Quiney. '^\Tiile working for Governor "Wood, having charge of all of the horticultural work of the place, he accumulated quite a sum of money, and when ready to invest it bought land and built the first greenhouse in Adams County. He began the nursery business on a modest scale, but enlarged his operations each year, carrying at firet a line of trees and .shrubbery, but subsequently putting in a stock of potted plants and making a specialty of cut flowers. In 1901 he retired from active pursuits, giving up the business to his sons, Herman A. and Philip. He continued his residence, however, in Quiney until his death in April, 1909. He married Anna ]\Iinerva Goesling, a native of Germany, and she survived him, at the present time making her home with her son Philip. They were the parents of eight children, as follows: Henry, a prosperous farmer and dairyman of Kansas; William, who laid out the grounds for the Illinois Soldiers' and Sailors' Home at Quiney, and of which he had charge .several j'ears, is now living in St. Louis, being there engaged in the manufacture of librarj' tables and kitchen cabinets ; Hannah, wife of W. L. Coulson, of Memphis, Tennessee; Reicke, wife of William C. Smith, of Galesburg, Illinois ; Minnie, who is interested with her brothers in the nursery ; Herman, who has charge of the downtown ofiice of the nursery ; Philip, who superintends the growing department of the nurserj' ; and Lennie, who died in gii'lhood.

Working in the greenhouse with his father from his boyhood days, Philip Gentemajin found the occupation congenial and profitable and with his brother Herman has succeeded to the business founded by his father and has devel-. oped a large and constantly increasing trade. The plant is large and- finely equipped, containing 35,000 feet of glass, under which are grown choice plants of all kinds, the enterprising firm of Gentemann Brothers catering to an extensive and appreciative public, its patronage extending over a large territoi-y, covering not onh' Quiney but numerous other cities and towns.

Mr. Gentemann married. May 9, 1917, ilary Orr, a native of Lima, Illinois. Mr. Gentemann is a stanch repuljlican in politics. He is a member of the Order of Eagles, and of the North Side Boat Club. He and his family are members of St. Jacobi Church.

Crayton Sl-^de is a veteran Union soldier, a resident of Adams County more than sixty years, and is now surrounded with the comforts and plenty of a fine farm, the result of many years of persevering toil and good management. This farm home is in section 25 of Gilmer Township, fourteen miles east of Quiney, on the Columbus Township line.

Mr. Slade is a native of Maryland, born in Baltimore County May 14, 1830. He was nine years old when his father died leaving his mother with seven children, and he only fifteen when his mother passed away. He had to get out and make his own living, and as a boy he worked six years in a woolen factoiy.

Otherwise all his active career has been spent as an agriculturist. Mr. Slade came west to Butler County, Ohio, in 1852. Three years later he went back to Maryland, but in 185.5 came on to Adams Covmtj', which he had first visited in 1852. His sister was ilrs. James 0. Lj'tle, who with her husband had come to Adams County down the Ohio and up the Mississippi rivers. Mr. Slade and his brother-in-law bought in partnership seventy-five acres in Burton Township at $30 an acre. This land contained a new house, and it is now the farm of J. P. Spangler. They located there in the spring of 1856, and continued their partnership operation until 1862.

In August, 1862, Mr. Slade enlisted in Company E of the Eighty-Fourth Illinois Infantr.y, under Col. L. H. Waters, Captain Tousley, while his first lieutenant was Hiram Roberts. Among his comrades who also went from the same township were George and Jared Stabler, James Plowman, William Hughes, James Hughes, Wash Wilson, James Malone, William Malone, Anson Malone and Joseph Pond. Several of these were killed or died in service. Mr. Slade served from the time of his enlistment until the end of the war. He was in the Atlanta campaign, and then went with Thomas' army in the chase after Hood, ineluding the battles of Franklin and Nashville. At Chickamauga September 19- 20, 1863, Mr. Slade 's knapsack stoj^ped an enemy bullet. He was promoted to sergeant of his company.

At the end of the war he returned home and on February 28, 1866, married Mary Pearee. She was also a Maryland girl, but had come to Illinois at an early daj' with her parents. In the spring of 1867 Mr. Slade settled on his present farm, starting with fifty-three acres bought for $2,400. Later he rounded out his possessions to make a full quarter section, and he also owns 188 acres three quarters of a mile away in Columbus Township. This second farm has a complete building equipment of its own. Mr. Slade never paid more than .$52 per acre for land, but his holdings are worth much more than that at the present time. His original farm had a very poor house and no other buildings at all, and in the course of half a century he has expended much money and his own labor in equipping and fitting out his farms with improvements that are of the best. He has put his chief reliance in such money making enterprises as stock raising, handling hogs, cattle and horses. He has always been a lover of good horse-flesh, and has had some very fine horses. For the past ten years Mr. Slade has turned over the heavier responsibilities of farming to his children.

Of the four children born to him and wife one died in infancj^ and one at the age of fifteen. The daughter Ada is Mrs. Walter Frey, and his only son is William Slade, a bachelor. Mr. Slade and his children all live together.

In an official capacity he has been township supervisor several times, road commissioner, tax collector and member of the school board. He is a democrat. His mother was a Presbyterian, but he has never affiliated with any church. Mrs. Slade died in 1902, after they had lived happily together for thirty-six years. Mr. Slade served a number of times on the grand and petit juries. He has been a witness to all the changing developments in his part of the county for over sixty j'cars. One of the interesting landmarks of Columbus Township was the old Dutch windmill which was built on a brick foundation. There was no arrangement to shut ofl:' the mill, and as it kept turning constantly, whether in use for grinding or not, it eventually ran itself to pieces. One of the owners of the property refused to sell the brick as he wanted to preserve the tile as a monument to his grandchildren. Mr. Slade is a remarkable man for eightyeight years of age, active as many men of only fifty. He often walks miles and back to visit his neighbors. He was educated in the old time subscription schools, with their slabs for seats and walked two and three miles to school.

Theodore Dougherty. While he has relaxed somewhat the strenuous toil of earlier years, Theodore Dougherty is still one of the capable business men and active citizens of Keene Township, and still lives on the fine farm that reflects

Mr. Dougherty was born in Carbon Count}', Pennsylvania, May 21, 1854, son of Mathew and Mary (Edmonds) Dougherty. His father was born at Coleraine, County Derry, Ireland, in 1812. His wife was born at Timby, Wales, and went to Ireland when a young woman. Her father was an old sea captain. Mathew Dougherty with two children immigrated to America, landing at Quebec, and from there went to Carbon County, Pennsylvania. He worked in the anthracite coal mines for several years, until about 1838. He had served eight years on the coast service in Ireland. He was an engineer for a time with the famous Inclined Plane Railroad over the Allegheny Mountains in Pennsylvania. He lived on top of Mt. Jefferson, and from his home there was an unrivalled expanse of scenery and landscape to be beheld. He helped haiil the cars over the mountains, pulling them up by cable and letting them down by gravity. In 1868 Mathew Dougherty came to Adams County, locating in Honey Creek Township a mile south of the present home of his son Theodore. He died there in January, 1885. He and his wife had thirteen children. Three daughters and three sons still survive: Clara, Mrs. Willis ]\Iorris, of California; Mrs. Martha Mclllmorrell, of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania ; Mrs. Sarah Gibson, of Summit Hill, Pennsylvania ; Arthur, at Douglass, Wj-oming ; Andrew J., also of Wyoming; and Theodore. The oldest son, Thomas, became a Union soldier and was killed in the battle of Cold Harbor. He served with an artillery company from Philadelphia. The daughter Mary married Thomas Fleming and died in Adams County, her husband still being a resident of Mendon. Eliza married Andrew McMullen and both died in Keene Township.

Theodore Dougherty married. April 18, 1883, Ellen Campbell. Her parents were John and Margaret (Owens) Campbell, both natives of County Monaghan, Ireland. I\Irs. Dougherty was born in Gilmer Township, April 18, 1858, and when she was ten years of age her parents moved to the Big Neck community, where her father died at the age of sixty. The Campbells had a family of twelve children, five of whom are living: Margaret, Mrs. Jacob Gross, of Camp Point ; Maria, Mrs. Frank Powell, of Bowen ; Hannah, Mrs. IMilton Kelley, of Wyaconda, Missouri ; Samuel Campbell, who lives on the old homestead in Keene Township ; and Mrs. Dougherty.

The year he married Mr. Theodore Dougherty secured his present farm of eighty acres from his brother Andrew J. He has his farm improved with a good house. Most of the laud was originally timber, but is now an expanse of fertile fields. He has been a successful gi-ower of wheat, hogs and other good livestock, and lias marketed from forty to eighty head every year. His hog raising has been handicapped by the heavy ravages of the cholera. Mr Dougherty still retains his home, but rents out his fields for cultivation.

A brief record of his family is a.s follows : Roy, is a telegraph operator with the Burlington Railway in Knox County, Illinois, and married Zoe Epperson. Beulah is a very accomplished teacher, having spent ten years in that vocation in Adams County and having finished a course in domestic science in the Bradley Polytechnic Institute at Peoria, and is now connected M-ith the schools of Greenville, Illinois, Floyd married Anna Grosh, and is now farming the Grosh farm in Keene Township. Alice taught six years in Adams County -and four terms at ^Marblehead and is now the wife of Wallace Haxel, a teacher in the Gem City Business College. Both daughters are members of the Eastern Star and Roy is affiliated with the Masonic Order. Mr. Theodore Dougherty is a republican, and was reared in the Episcopal Church, but has no church connections. He is a member of Masonic Order at Mendon.

John E. Miller, ^I. D. For nearly a quarter of a eenturj' Doctor ]\Iiller has practiced his profession in Illinois, and since coming to Quincy his attainments as a physician and surgeon have spread his fame abroad from this city.

Doctor Miller is of southern birth and ancestry. He was born at Austin, the capital of Texas, June 27, 1871, son of George E. and Mattie (McQuiston) Miller. His father's family came from Virginia while his mother's people were originally Missourians before they located in Texas. Both Doctor Miller's parents were born in Texas, were married at Austin, and his father was for many years a farmer and cattle raiser. He died in Texas iu 1903, at the age of sixty. His widow later caime north and lived at Quincy until her death in 1915, at the age of seventy.

Doctor Miller was liberally educated, attending the University of Texas, and from there entering the Baltimore Medical College at Baltimore, where he finished his course and received his M. D. degi'ee in 1893. For about a year he practiced at Lockhart, Texas, but in 1894 came north and settled in Pittsfield, Illinois. He has a medical license in two states. At Pittsfield he was prospered in liis work, and steadily improved his opportunities and abilities. In 1900 lie interrupted his practice to take a tour abroad and spent much time in the great hospitals and clinics at Vienna. On returning to this country he resumed his work at Pittsfield, and his trend toward surgery influenced him to build and manage a private hospital in Pittsfield. Then iu order to have a wider field for his surgical practice he removed to Quincy iu 1907, and for five years practiced as a partner with Dr. J. H. Rice. Since 1912 he has been alone in practice, and has a fine suite of offices in the Majestic Building. Nearly everj' daj' Doctor Miller is to be found in the operating rooms of the two hospitals at Quincy and he handles many of the difficult and complicated major operations.

By his first wife Doctor Miller has two children. Helen and William Estill. The daughter is the wife of Professor W. A. Schimell, who is now engaged in the hardware business at Pittsfield. They have two children, W. A., Jr., and JIargaret. The son, William Estill, was born at Pittsfield, graduated from the high school there, from the Illinois AVesleyan College at Bloomington in 1918, and is now a student in Washington University at St. Louis. In 1914, at Pittsfield, Doctor JMiller married for his present wife Miss Alice Hoos, who was reared and educated in that city. She is the mother of one daughter, Wilda Idel, three years old. Doctor Miller is a Knight Templar ilason and also belongs to the Scottish Rite Consistory at Quincy. He took his first ilasonic degrees at Pittsfield, but has transferred all his membership to Quincy except that in the Royal Arch Chapter.

William Mealiff. Long years have been vouchsafed William Mealiflf, and at the age of more than fourscore it is possible to claim for him a life of useful activity, honorable dealings with his fellow men, the contribution of something wholesome and enduring to his community in Adams County, and altogether his is one of the names entitled to and receiving the respect and veneration paid to worthy old age. Mr. Mealiff resides in Honey Creek Township 31/. miles northeast of ilendon.

He was born in County Cavan, Ireland, February 12, 1834. He grew up in his native country and was twenty-five years old when in 1859 he came to the I'nited States and joined some cousins and other relatives in Jlendon Township. The next ten years he was hard at work earning a living, saving something, and getting familiar with American methods. Two of those years he spent with the Talcott family, seven years with Mr. Weed, and one year with Abraham Chittenden. He had some thrifty habits that enabled him to save from his meager wages about $1,000 altogether, and he used that capital to buy a tract of wild timber in Honey Creek Township. The i)riee agreed upon was .$12.50 per acre. There he built a story and a half frame house, containing five rooms, and shortly afterward, in 1876, married Miss Anna Hewitt. Mrs.

MealifF was born in Mention Village and was twenty-three years of age at the time of her marriage. Her parents were Thomas and Sarah (Kells) Hewitt, of Mendon Village. Thoma.s Hewitt also came from County Cavan, Ireland, in 1849, and for a number of years followed the trade of wagon maker. He settled on a farm three-quarters of a mile south of Mendon and died there in 1898, at the age of eighty-eight. In 1852 he married in Mendon Sarah Kells, who had also come from County Cavan in 1850. She is still living, at the age of eightyeight, in Mendon. In the Hewitt family were five children: Anna, Mrs. Mealiff; Robert, a railroad man at Burlington. Iowa ; ^[artha, wife of G. H. Baldwin, of Mendon : Sarali, Mrs. Frank Heineke, of Mendon ; and Elizabeth, Mrs. George Chant, of Strongluirst. Illinois.

After his marriage ilr. Mealiff lived on the farm until 1911. He was associated with his cousin James ilealiff in purchasing that land in section 4. but in 1885 acquired James Mealiff 's interest. James Mealiff is still a resident of the township. In section 4 of Honey Creek William Mealiff owned 200 acres. In 1909 he Imught his present farm two miles away, consisting of eighty acres, the purcha.se price of which was $105 an acre. It contained an old home and its present substantial residence was erected in 1910 and he occupied it in 1911. In making the move to the new farm Mr. ilealiff was largely intlueneed by the fact that his first farm was five miles from Mendon over rough roads with few bridges, while his present land is only three miles from market and the social center and has an excellent highway between, ilr. Mealiff and son still operate both farms and are among the large grain and stock raisers of the county. He is a republican and was reared in the Episcopal Church and for many years has served a.s vestryman and warden.

ilr. and Mrs. Mealiff have a most interesting family of children. Grace, the oldest, is the wife of John P. Dickerman. Lawrence is a bachelor and lives at home, having assumed most of the responsibilities in connection with the management of the home farm. Lavania Elizabeth was a successful teacher in Adams County for .seven years and taught altogether ten years, and is now the wife of John Davidson, a retired ranchman at Salt Lake Citj-, Utah. Gordon was a teacher for two years in the county and attended the mechanical engineering course at the University of Mis.souri at Columbia two years, and is now a successful farmer in Honey Creek Township. He married Laura Bogart. The daughter ilartha Ellen is a graduate in dome.stie science at the Bradley Polytechnic Institute of Peoria, taught domestic .science classes in the Peoria public schools, and before taking domestic science taught rural schools. She is now teaching in high school at Vernon, Kansas. The next member of the family is Walter, who is serving with the United States Army in the motor division and now in England. Ada, the youngest, graduated from ilendon High School with the class of 1917 and is still at home.

John F. Pieper. A prosperous business man of Adams County, John F. Pieper, of Quincy, president and general manager of the Quincy Show Case Works, is a substantial representative of the manufacturing and mercantile interests of both citv and couutv. A native-born citizen, his birth occurred July 2, 1854.

His father, Semon Henry Pieper, was born in Germany and there spent the days of his boyhood and youth. Immigrating to the United States in 1848, he located in Quincy, where he built up a large and lucrative business as a cabinet maker, remaining a resident of the city until his death in September, 1905. He married Alary Folkers, a native of Germany. She survived him but a very short time, passing away in December, 1905. Of the five children born of their marriage but one, John F., of whom we write, is now living.

Beginning life for himself poor in pocket but rich in energy and ambition, John F. Pieper engaged in agricultural pursuits, spending two years as a general farmer and two years as a dairyman. Locating then in Quincy, he learned the cabinet maker's trade, which he subsequently followed for a time. In lSTr> he bepui tlie manufacture of show cases, and met with such cncourasiiuir results that in 1S76 he admitted to partnership II. II. Schleeter. with whom he was associated three ycai-s. Suhsctiucutly. with H. C. Tfciffer as a partner, Mr. Pieper established the Quincy Show Case Works, with whidi ^Ir. Pfeiffcr was ideutitied until his death. Mr. Pieper is president and general nuinasrcr of the company, which under his able and .judicious supervision is in a rtourishin*r condition, beintr one of the most enterprising and substantial tirms of the kind in the county.

Mr. Pieper married in March, 1S7S, Louisa Erke, a native of Columbus Township. Adams County. Illinois. Five children have blessed their union, namely : Henry F., of Quincy, who is associated in business with his father as assistant manager of the works; Ida. wife of August Stacklebaeh, foreman of the cabinet department of the Show Case Works; Clara; Frank J., and Bertha, who lived but four short yeai^s. ifr. Pieper is a member of several fraternal organizations of the state, including the Ancient Free and Accepted Order of ilasons, and is a prominent member of the Salem Evangelical Church, wliicii he has served as a trustee for the past seventeen years.

J. Leroy Ad.\uj. The profession of law is one to which many aspire, but in which only a comparatively few secure success in any remarkable degree. Mere training, industry and persistence do not necessarily make a successfvil lawyer. He nuist possess inherent ability and talent for his profession, and it is the lack of this quality that keeps nuuiy in the ranks of the mediocre.

One of the talented among the younger members of the Quincy bar is J. Leroy Adair, now state's attorney of Adams County, and whose work and abilities have found constantly growing favor since his early yeai-s.

!Mr. Adair was born at Coatsburg in Adams County February 2;?. 18S7, a son of PIcnry L. and Sarah E. (Pevchouse'l Adair. Both families came from Kentuck>-, settling in Brown County, Illinois, in ISIS, the year Illinois was admitted to the Union, and removing to Adams County in 1S:{0. Henry L. Adair is now a retired farmer living at Clayton, Illinois. There were two children, J. Leroy and Orville Ray, the latter a business man of Clayton.

.1. Leroy Adair graduatetl from tlie Clayton High School in lilO;^ at the age of sixteen. Following that he taught school a year, had a mercantile experience as a groceryman at Clayton for two years, and from there entered the Illinois College at Jacksonville and following tliis spent three years in tlic University of Michigan Law School at Ann Arbor, where lie was graduated LL. B. in 1911. Mr. Adair did his first work as a lawyer at ]\Iuskogee, Oklahoiim, where he remained two years, but in 1913 returned to his home county and has been making rapid progress in his profession. He served as city attorney of Quincy during 1915-16. and in 1916 was chosen to his present responsibilities and dignity as state's attorney. !Mr. Adair is a democrat and a member of the Masonic Order. April 15, 1911, he married Miss Maude E. Gruber, of Clayton, Illinois.

Joiix F. Garner came into the honors and responsibilities of membership in the Adams County bar about a week after reaching his twenty-tirst birthday. For nearly twentj- years he has borne the reputation of a hard working, earnest and successful attorney, and many of the best honors of his profession and of civic life have been bestowed upon him.

A native of Hancock County, Illinois, where he was born October 6, 1878, ^Ir. Garner is a son of James R. and Helen (Finlay) Garner, both natives of Hancock County. His father is now living retired at West Point, Illinois.

The only child of his parents, John F. Garner attended high school at Carthage. Illinois, and was a student in literature and law at Chaddock College of Quincy. He graduated from the law course in 1898, at the age of twenty, and was admitted to the bar on October 14, 1899. His services as attorney have been employed in much of the important litigation in the courts at Quiney and he is now sharing his practice with Mr. Charles L. Bartlett, under the firm name of Bartlett & Garner.

From time to time he has been called fi'om the duties of his private profession to public office. Governor Deneen appointed him to fill out the unexpired term of Judge McCrory as county judge for nine months. In 1911 he was elected mayor of Quinc.y, and filled that office two years. Mr. Garner in 1898, while the Spanish- American war was in progress, enlisted in the Quiney division of the Naval Reserve. He held all the petty offices of the division, was elected Ensign in 1900, Lieutenant (J. G.) in 1901, and a few months later in that year was elected Lieutenant, commanding the Division, and so continued until his request to be placed on the retired list. He did much to put the organization on an efficient basis, knd continued in active service until put on the retired list January 9, 1913. Mr. Garner is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite and a Knights Templar Mason. In politics he is a republican.

March 31, 1903, he married Cora Jansen, a native of this city and a daughter of Henry H. and Julia (Kendall) Jansen. Her father was born in Adams County, and was for a number of years a successful member of the bar. The mother is also a native of this county and is still living at Quiney.

Henry Disselhorst. Through a period of forty years the Disselhoi-st family has been identified with Ellington Township, and the name is synonymous with good citizenship and most effective labors in agi'ieulture and other lines.

The founder of the family here was the late Fred Disselhorst, who was born in Hanover, Germany, IMay 14, 1850. At the age of twenty-one he embarked for the United States, landed at New York, and came west to St. Louis. He lived there for a time and later came to Adams County, where he hired out as a farm hand. Later he married in Ellington Township Miss Amelia Ahlemeier. She was born in Adams County April 19, 1857, daughter of John and ]Mary Ahlemeier, natives of Germany. Her parents on coming to the L^nited States settled in Adams County, were married there, and spent the rest of their days in Ellington Township. Both were active members of the Lutheran Church.

Fred Disselhorst and wife had very little capital when they married and continued renting until they purchased their first farm of eighty acres in Ellington Township. Tliis land was greatly improved by Fred Disselhorst and he provided liberally for his children as they grew up. His industrious career came to a close September 16, 1914. He was a republican in politics and held a number of offices in the township. Mrs. Fred Disselhorst now lives at 815 South Fourteentli Street in Quiney. She is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, of which her husband was also a member. Fred Disselhorst's mother died in Germany. The father and other children came to the United States and the father died in Adams County when about seventy-five years of ao'e. Of the other sons and daughters those still living are Ernest, Cliarlcs, William and :Mrs. William Wittier.

Fred Disselhorst had six children, Henry being the oldest. Minnie is the wife of Henry Hoehne, living on a farm in Missouri, and has three sons and two daughters. Mary is unmarried and resides with her mother. Anna married Fred Th.yson, a farmer in Ellington Township, and they have a son, Chester. Lena is the wife of Albert Rottman, an Ellington Township farmer. Fred is a farmer in Ellington Township, married Lydia Wagner, of Melrose Townsliip, and has a son, Virgil.

ITcnry Disselhorst grew up on his father's farm in Ellington Township, attended tlie Washington District School and since his marriage he and his wife liave lived on his mother's farm in section 9 of Ellington Tovimship. Under his management this is a very productive property. He conducts it as a stock and grain farm. Among other buildings he has one of the large barns in the township, 36 by 5-1 feet. His home is a two-story seven-room house of modern construction. He grows good stock and has fine crops of cereals.

November 18, 1903, ilr. Disselhorst married Nora C. Schroeder. She was born in Honey Creek Township of this county and was educated in the Oakland Grove School. Her parents were Henry and Sophia (Dickhnt) Schroeder. Her father was born in Germany and was brought to America by his parents at the age of nine years. His parents spent the rest of their lives in Adams County. He married an Adams County girl, Miss Dickhut, and farmed in Melrose Township for several years and later bought a place in Honey Creek Township. That was their home for a number of years, finally moving to a farm in Ellington Township and ten years ago retiring to the Village of Fowler. Mr. Schroeder is now seventy years of age and his wife several years younger. Both are members of the Evangelical Church. Politically he is a republican.

Mr. and Mrs. Disselhorst have had three children : Walter F., who died at the age of two years seven months ; Florence Marian, born August 7, 1908, now in the fifth gi-ade of the common schools; and ilildred Laura, born August 14, 1913. The family are members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Fowler, of which Mr. Disselhorst is a trustee. Politically he votes as a republican.

Joseph Haley. One of the well known farms of Gilmer Township is the old Myers place, situated at the west edge of the old county seat of Columbus, and now owned and occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Halej'. Mrs. Haley is a daughter of the late Jacob T. IMyers and is a member of that well known Myers family whose history and record through the different generations has been detailed on other pages of this publication.

Before her marriage ilrs. Haley was Anna ]Myers. She was born in this county ]March 20, 1859, and on November 11, 1885, became the wife of Joseph Haley. Mr. Haley was born in York County, Pennsylvania, March 1, 1857, and has lived in Illinois since 1880. All his active career he has spent as a farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Haley have four children : Ida Jane, wife of Elmer Powell, living at Philadelphia in ^Marion County, Missouri; Luella, Mrs. Walter Herron, of LaPrairie, Illinois; Oscar, at home; and Nina, Mrs. Ed Thomas, of this county.

The father of "Sirs. Haley, Jacob Myers, spent the last three years of his life on the farm where the Haleys now live. After his second marriage his second wife lived here and was cared for by Mr. and Mrs. Hale.y, and she left the farm to them at her death. Mr. and ]Mrs. Haley are active members of the Methodist Epi.scopal Church, are identified with the Red Cross, and Mr. Haley is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Woodmen.

Albert R. Bush. One of Quincy's oldest and most substantial industries is the Bush Foundry and Metal ~\^^leel Works. It is a business which was established on a small scale and gradually developed to larger scope and importance by Clement Bush, and is still continued under the active management of his sons, his son Albert R. having the official title of manager.

The founder of this Inisiness during the past eight or nine years lived retired and spent most of his time in California. Clement Bush was a man whose character and abilities meant much to Quincy and his name will always have a worthy place in its history. He was born in Bitton, near Bristol, England, in 1838. son of John Nash and IMarcia (Ford) Bush. His father was a blacksmith and foundryman, and died at the age of eighty-two, and the mother passed away at sixty-five. At the age of twelve Clement Bush had all the schooling that he was permitted to enjoy and began earning his own living. At fourteen he was an apprentice in a foundr.v and two years later, in 1857, came to America. He first located at Seneca Falls in New York, working with a foundry there for two years, and subsequently in a foundr.v at Auburn, New York, for two and a half j'ears. In 1861, having had some four years of active experience in the United States, he returned to England and in 1863 became proprietor of a foundry near Bristol. He continued in this business for seventeen years, and while it was a prosperous establishment he lost most of his fortune thi'ough misplaced investments. In order to recover under new and more auspicious circumstances what he had lost he came to America, living at Montreal, Canada, for two years and working in the shops of the Grand Trunk Railway. Because his wife had a distaste for the rigorous northern winters Clement Bush came U) Quincy in 1884. He was led to locate here largely through the influence of the Young Men's Business Association. For two years he took charge of the foundry of Wright & Adams on Front and Broadway, and then rented the foundry and operated it on his own account for three years. In 1890 he established a new business on Broadway on a lot which he bought, and after nine j'ears he enlarged his plant by the addition of metal wheel works. His industry grew, his pay roll increased in number of workmen and aggregate sums paid out and more and more his products had a wider distribution and reputation. In one branch of his indi;stry he specialized in the manufacture of Bush wheels for farm wagons. He was also a stockholder in the Quincy Engine Works. About eight years ago Mr. Clement Bush retired from business and made his home at Long Beach, California, where his death occurred May 27, 1918. He married in 1865 Ellen Lockley Woodland, whose father, Richard R. Woodland, was an attorney at Bristol, England. Mr. Bush was called upon to mourn the loss of his wife on May 11, 1903, after they had been happily married for nearly forty years. Five children were born to their marriage : Clement J., who was born November 18, 1866, and has long been identified with his father's business; Albert Richard ; Prank A., also of the Bush Foundry ; Blanche E., wife of Thomas C. Hughes, of Herscher, Illinois; and Florence, wife of Lionel Hiles, of Seattle, Washington.

Albert Richard Bush was born at Bristol, England, November 18, 1872, and was about sixteen years of age when his parents came to the United States. He received his first advantages in the schools of his native country, and about the time his father came to Quincy he began learning the general foundry biisiness. This he has followed actively all his career and always in association with his father. He took the general management of the plant when his father retired and has kept it up to the same high standard of workmanship and output that everything bearing the name of Clement Bush has always enjoyed.

Mr. A. R. Bush is a democrat, member of the Masonic Order and Knights of Pythias, and was reared in the Episcopal Church. November 19, 1898, he married Miss Anna ^leyers, a native of Quincy. They have a family of six children : Harold Lockley, Donald Clement, Grace Lillian, Albert Richard, Jr., Derrick Sidney and Roger Roland.

George McAdams was born in Ursa Township and during his active career has made his presence known and felt through a long experience and service as a grain buyer and grain dealer. With grain elevators at LTrsa and Rock Creek on the Burlington Road, he handles a considerable share of the grain raised and shipped out of Adams County.

A number of interesting changes have occurred in the methods of marketing grain. Up to about forty-five years ago all the grain raised in Ursa and that section of the county was brought on wagons to the Quincy mills by individual farmers. About 1877 William Lemmon began arranging with some of the farmers to bring their grain to the station at Ursa and load directlj' from the wagon into the cars on the track. As a track buyer he was succeeded b.y John H. James, who was employed for a number of years by the Dick Brothers Milling Company on a salary. In 1902 Mr. James and Mr. George McAdams bought the interests of the Dick Brothers, and in order the better to handle the grain and give themselves and the farmei's a broader market they built an elevator at Ursa. In the same year Mr. McAdams built the Rock Creek elevator on his own account. September 9, 1909, the interests of Mr. James passed bypurchase to Mr. George McAdams, and since then the latter has been proprietor and manager of both elevators. Through these elevators he handles most of the surplus grain raised in the surrounding agricultural community, and ships extensively to the Chicago and St. Louis mai'kets, and also occasionally to Peoria and Quincy. Corn and wheat with some oats comprise practically all the grain that goes through the elevators. Mr. McAdams handles an immense volume of the grain trade in the county.

He was born in Ursa Township in 1863, and was reared and educated in that locality, completing his education by a course in Carthage College and graduating from the Gem City Business College in Quincy. He is widely known over Adams County not only because of his operations as a grain dealer but also through his capable service for four years as county treasurer. He was elected to this office in 1894, at the age of thirty years. For eight years he was also supervisor of Ursa Township.

His father, William McAdams, was born in Logan County, Kentucky, August 1, 1815, of Scotch ancestry. He was a pioneer in Adams County, settling here in November, 1835. On ^lay 1, 1838, he married ^Miss Elizabeth Taylor, also a native of Kentucky. "William McAdams acquired a fine estate of over 300 acres in section 18 of Ursa Township, and for some years was one of the prominent farmers of that section. He was a democrat in politics and a member of the Christian Church. He died on the farm at the age of seventy-six and his wife at fifty-seven. They were the parents of four sons and four daughters. The only ones now living are, George and his brother John, the latter of whom lives in Quincy retired from active business.

Mr. George McAdams married in Adams County Miss Blanche K. Leachman, who was born at L'rsa and educated in the public schools. She is a member of the old and prominent Leachman family of Ursa Township. The Leaehmans originated in Virginia, from there went to Kentucky, and came to Adams County in 1835. Mrs. McAdams' parents were James and Lucy (Selby) Leachman, who spent all their lives in Ursa Towniship, where her father died at the age of sixty-two and her mother at fifty-six. Her father was a democrat, but in later years was an ardent prohibitionist, and both he and his wife were members of the Christian Church.

'Mr. and Mrs. McAdams have two sons. William Chauneey, was born in 1896, was educated in the schools of Ursa and Quincy and is now assisting his father in business. The younger son. George Eugene, born in 1909, is attending public school at Quincy. The family attend the Christian Church, of which Mrs. McAdams is an active member. ^Ir. McAdams is a director of the Ricker National Bank of Quincy.

Joseph Nichol^vs Tibesar, a retired business man of Quincy, is one of the striking personalities in local citizenship. He comes of an old and prominent family of Western Europe, long identified with some of the districts in the immediate war zone of the recent conflict, and as a youth there he was liberally educated, had a thorough technical training, and has always been a student as well as a practical man of affairs. He not only inherits the intellectual qualifications of his ancestors but also their splendid physical stature and manhood.

Mr. Tibesar was born in the Duchy of Luxemburg February 14, 1859. His father, Maximillian Tibesar, was born in Belgium in 1808, and for generations the family had lived in and around Brussels. Maximillian married Mary Sehleimer, of Luxemburg, where she was born in 1824. Her father was a native of the same Grand Duchy and had served as a soldier under Napoleon the First. Maximillian Tibesar after his marriage settled in the Belgium district known as the Walloon and later lived in Luxemburg on a farm estate. He died in 1861 and his wife in 1879. Both branches of the family were Catholics.

Joseph Nicholas Tibesar acquired a liberal training in the schools in Europe, and was given a thorough technical apprenticeship in blast furnace and the iron works trade. He was superintendent of a large furnace plant on the border between Prance and Belgium. At the age of twenty-five he was granted a two years vacation for the purpose of accjuainting himself with the most improved technical methods of the iron industry. In 1884 he went to England to look over the iron districts of that country and later in the same .vear came to America, through New York and on to South Bend, Indiana, where some cousins were connected with Notre Dame University as instructors. He himself enrolled as a student there, taking a course in elocution under Charles W. Stoddard and studied chemistry under Professor Zahm. Later for a time he was in Chicago and from there came to Quincy and was a student in St. Francis College. A year later he was made a professor in that institution, teaching French, chemistry, mathematics and natural sciences. For six years he was one of the men who gave strength and prestige to the faculty of St. Francis College. He then entered business as a grocer, and in 1898 joined the Blomer & Michael Packing Company. In 1900 he became a member of the Wholesale Quincy Grocery Company and i-epresented that house four years. He then went back to the packing company and continued with it until fire destroyed the plant on February 14, 1913. Since then Mr. Tibesar has been practically retired from business, and enjoys the comforts of a fine home at the corner of Vine and Fifteenth streets.

After coming to Quincv Mr. Tibesar married Miss Christina Blomer. She was born in Qaincy in 1872, and is a graduate of St. Mary's Academ.y and was liberally educated in music. Her father was Henry Blomer, a prominent figure in Quincy affairs to whom further reference is made on other pages. Mr. and Mrs. Tibesar are the parents of eight children : Maria, who was educated in St. Mary's Academy and took special work in music; Agnes, a graduate of St. Mary's Academy in the commercial course; Leopold, who graduated from St. Francis College with the degi-ees A. B. and A. M., and is now preparing for the priesthood in a Catholic seminary; Cyril, a graduate of high school and now a pharmacist student ; Maurice, a student in St. Francis College ; Norbert and Sevrin, both in St. Francis parochial schools ; and Octavia. The family are all members of St. Francis Catholic Church.

William Cl.vek Chatten. Of the old American families in Adams County one that is conspicuous for the high character of its members and what they have done to improve this region from pioneer times to the present is represented by William Clark Chatten of Riverside Township.

]\Ir. Chatten was born in this county June 17, 1860, the youngest of five childi-en, and the onl.y son of Clark and Abigail (Brown) Chatten. He has three sisters still living. Elizabeth, residing in Riverside Township and mother of three children, is the widow of Isaac Shinn, a former attorney of Quincy; Anna is the widow of Frank Chapman. She lives in Quincy, and has two children. Lucy is the wife of William Bywater, a gardener and grower of small fruit in Riverside Township. They have two children.

Clark Chatten, the elder, was born in the State of New Jersey July 10, 1813. He grew to manhood there, had a common school education, and on coming to the west .sought a home in Fall Creek Township of Adams County. Around his log cabin home in the early days the wolves howled and the deer ran fearlessly, and even an occasional Indian prowled among the brush. From Fall Creek Clark Chatten moved to Riverside Township and bought the old Fair Ground jn-operty. There he lived until his death and accumulated a farm of 300 acres. This land was sold after his death and the property divided among his children. He was a republican, but began voting as an old-line vhig. He showed a special interest in public schools and education, and he and his wife were active members of the Methodist Church. He was one of the pioneer fruit growers of the county and the fruit fi'om his farm were awarded a number of medals in the Fruit Growers Convention and the State Fair. His death occurred in Fall Creek Township, and his children erected a handsome monument to him and his wife. His wife was born in Essex County, Ma.ssachusetts, October 29, 1819, and died February 14, 1903, having survived her husband nearly thirty years. Clark Chatten died July 2, 1874.

William Clark Chatten grew up in Adams County and most of his knowledge of men and affairs is the product of his own learning, though he attended the common schools during his .youth.

On September 8, 1885, Mr. Chatten married Miss Carrie P. Edwards. Mrs. Chatten was born in Adams County October 19, 1868, sixth among the seven children of Paul and Mary Ellen (Piatt) Edwards. Of this family there was only one son. Mrs. Chatten was educated in the common schools and in the thirty-three years since her marriage she has stood faithfully beside her husband in co-operating with him in business and at the same time has been a splendid homemaker and her children have found in her their best friend and counselor.

To Mr. and Mrs. Chatten were born six children, four sons and two daughters. Five of them are still living. Lollie Belle, the oldest, received her training in the township schools and also took musical instruction. She is now the wife of Ernest Wisman, a cattle and hog farmer in Riverside Township. They have a daughter, Mildred, who is now in school and has shown much musical talent. The second child is Walter C, who was educated in the public schools and in the National Business College and is now connected with the International Harvester Company. He married Miss Anna Thomas, and they have two children. Bculah Marie and James William. Beulah ]Marie is a student in the public schools and has also taken instruction in music. James William is attending the Webster School. Walter C. Chatten is a republican voter. Paul Glenwood ('batten is a well known citizen of Adams County, a practical fruit grower, and is manager of his father's estate. He resides in a modern cottage liis father built on the home farm near their own home. Paul Glenwood married Miss Edith Mclntyre. The fourth of the family is Frank William Chatten, who was educated in the common schools and in the Musselman Business College, is a republican voter and married Miss Addie Thomas and resides in Riverside Township. Ernest Marion, the youngest, was educated in the common schools and spent two years in the Gem City Business College.

After their marriage Mr. and IMrs. Chatten started farming in Riverside Township, and went in debt for their first property. They worked hard and as the fruit of their long continued elforts now have an estate of sixty acres in Riverside Township and forty acres in Ellington Township. Mr. Chatten was able to buy the sixty acres in Riverside Township largely through the savings of his wages earned as a farmer. Though they began life in debt, today they possess vastly more assets than liabilities, and have also reared a capable family. Theirs is one of the most beautiful fruit farms in Riverside Township. It is appropriately known as Orchard Home Fruit Farm. Mr. Chatten is a republican in politics but has never sought any official distinctions. He takes an active interest in the Farm Improvement Association and the Apple Growers Association, and is looked upon as an autliority on the subjects connected with the growing and handling of fruit. j\Ir. and ilrs. Chatten have a fine home, which means more to them than anything else in the world, and they are also able to enjoy their friends both near and at a distance by means of their five pa.ssenger Nash touring car.

He was born at St. Louis, Missouri, May 29, 1848, and was eight years of age when his parents settled in Quiney in 1856. He had a fair education and early in life learned to rely upon himself as a means of advancement in the world. Perhaps his first position was with the Rieker Bank, where he remained four j-eai*s. Later he worked in the planing mill of Menke & Grimm, and followed several other occupations for a time. On July 1, 1875, the lumber firm of Moller & Vanden Boom was organized, and thereafter Mr. iloller remained its senior partner and had much to do with the upbuilding of its business. The firm conducted four large lumber yards in Quincy and also had an extensive wholesale trade to nearly all the towns and cities in the Quincj' territory.

Mr. Moller was always an unselfish citizen, willing to devote his times and means to the encouragement of worthy local enterprises, and for five years was a member of the board of supervisors. He also seiwed as chairman of the poor farm committee and in many ways sought to improve that county institution. On Januarj' 10, 1871, he married Miss Louisa Vanden Boom, and they became the parents of four sons and one daughter.

Fred E. Moller, who practically grew up in the lumber business under the supervision and direction of his father, the late Henry H. Moller, has made that industry the chief claim upon his time and energies through his mature manhood.

He was born at Quincy December 10, 1879, and received a good education in the parochial schools, St. Francis College and the Gem City Business College. He was only fourteen when he began working in the yards and around the offices of the firm of Moller & Vanden Boom, of which his father was senior partner, and out of experience and a natural adaptability to this special line of work has become one of the best known lumber dealers in the Mississippi Valley. He is now treasurer of Moller & Vanden Boom Company.

January 17, 1906, he married Miss Maude Binkert, a native of Quincy. They have two children : Lawrence, born November 14, 1907 ; and ilildred, born June 1, 1910. Mr. Moller is independent in politics and with his family worships in St. Boniface Catholic Church.

Louis Ahlbmeier during a brief lifetime of less than fifty years was regarded a.s one of the ablest and most successful farmers of Ellington Township, and a citizen whose name always stood for the best in public spirit and value to the community.

He was born on his father's farm in section 10 of Ellington Township December 15, 1861, and died there January 23, 1907. He grew up on the farm, and in 1900 succeeded to its ownership upon the death of his father, John. He owned 120 acres, constituting the homestead, and also acquired 160 acres in an adjoining section. These two farms he developed to a high degree of productiveness. Both were well tilled, well stocked, and each had a complete set of good farm buildings, including a seven room house and ample barns and other shelter. The land of these farms is rolling and well drained, and the estate is still undivided, held in trust for the children. The original eighty-acre homestead in section 10 is owned by Mrs. Ahlemeier. In 1910 she retired from the farm and has since lived in Quincy, owning a commodious brick home on South Fourteenth Street. Mr. Ahlemeier bought the 160-acre farm in section 9 a short time after the death of his father. The buildings on the original 120 acres in section 10 had been erected by his father.

Mr. Ahlemeier was a son of John and ]\lary (Brown) Ahlemeier, both natives of Germany. They came from Hanover and were married either just before they left that country or after they landed. They made the voyage on a sailing vessel, being seven weeks in crossing. They arrived in New Orleans and thence went up the Mississippi River to Quincy. For a time they rented land, and then bought the original eighty acres in section 10 of Ellington Township. This land was improved from the bare wilderness, and by hard work thej' succeeded in providing liberally for their family and in making a good home. John Ahlemeier died there in 1900 and his wife in 1892. She was then sixty-one and he was in his eightieth year. Both were for many years active members of the Salem Lutheran Church at Ninth and State streets in Quincy. They were buried side by side in the Greenmount Lutheran Cemetery.

Louis Ahlemeier was the youngest of three children. His sister Amelia is the widow of Fred Henrj^ Disselhorst and is now living at 813 South Fourteenth Street in Quincy. The other sister married Fred Peuster, a carpenter, living at the corner of Fifteenth and Payson Avenue in QuincJ^ Mr. and Mrs. Peuster have two sons and two daughters, one of the sons being a soldier.

Louis Ahlemeier married September 29, 1891, Miss Sophia F. Drebes. She was born in Waldeck, Germany, February 10, 1872, and at the age of sixteen she and her sister Emma, then aged fourteen, crossed the ocean from Bremen, landing at Baltimore after a rapid passage of two weeks. They then came on to Quine\'. Emma married John Schafter, and thej- now live on a farm in Missouri and have six children. A brother, Christ Drebes, was the first of the family to come to America, and he is a fai'mer near Palmyra, Missouri. He married Amelia Merker, and they have a family of eight children. A few months after Mrs. Ahlemeier came to this country her parents, John and Frederica (Krause) Drebes, followed her by the same route and located on a farm in Marion Countj', Missouri. The father is still living there at the age of eighty and is now in quite feeble health. Mrs. Ahlemeier 's mother died in November, 1906, at the age of sixty-five. The Drebes were all Lutherans. The six children were: Christ; Mi-s. Ahlemeier; Emma; Charles; Minnie, widow of Louis Peuster, of Palmyra, Missouri, and mother of two sons and two daughters; and Fred, a resident of Quincy, who is married and has a family of children.

Mrs. Ahlemeier is the mother of three children: Frederica A., who was educated in the Washington District schools in Ellington Township, is still at home; Jolm W., aged twenty-one, still lives with his mother; Sophia A., aged seventeen, has completed her education and is also at home. All the family are regular attendants of the Salem Lutheran Church. Mr. Ahlemeier was a republican in polities.

John H. Steiner. No one has done more to impress and influence the educational aflfairs of Adams County than John H. Steiner, the present county superintendent of schools. Mr. Steiner has made education his life work, is a native of Adams Count.y, and his intense loyalty to all home institutions has pervaded his work at every point.

Mr. Steiner was born on a farm three and one-half miles northwest of Loraine in this county, January 5, 1874, the oldest of eight children of George JL and Elizabeth (Humphrey) Steiner. The family is one of the oldest and most highly respected in Adams County. The grandfather, Michael E., settled on the old homestead in 1836. George M., the father, was born here, while the mother was a native of Kentuckj'. George Steiner here laid the basis of his prosperity as a fanner. At his death, which occurred December 2, 1917, he was the owner of over 700 acres in Adams County. He organized the Loraine State Bank and for thirteen years, up to the time of his death, was the president.

John H. Steiner spent his early life on the farm and received his education in the public school. After completing the course in district school he graduated from Loraine High School in 1889 and in May, 1893, completed the course in Chaddock College in Quincy.

The next year he took up teaching, which was to be his vocation for life. He taught four years in the rural .schools. He was for five years the principal of Coatsburg High School and for five years the principal of Jefferson School, the third largest school in Quincy, with thirteen teachers and enrollment of over 500 pupils. Having had training and experience all along the line, Mr.

Steiner understands the requirements of the rural school as well as the village and city schools, and has done much to improve and vitalize school work with respect to modern needs and conditions.

He was elected county superintendent of schools in 1910, with a majority of 1,194; re-elected in 1914 with a majority of 1,500; and re-elected 1918 with a majority of 1,668.

Mr. Steiner is a democrat in politics, is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Quincy Lodge No. 12 ; the ]\lasonic Lodge in Loraine, and is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason in Quincy.

Jacob F. Daugherty. No name in Quincy stands for service that is more appreciated than that of Daugherty. Daugherty is in fact one of the oldest names of Adams County, and the people of this family liave always been prominent as landholdei-s, farmers, business men and citizens, but that of Jacob F. Daugherty is especially associated with the undertaking business. Some years ago it was said that no Protestant American had ever been able to set up a successful undertaking business in Quincy in competition with Mr. Daugherty. He was active in the business until 1908, when he turned the business over to his son. He has handled the funeral arrangements of more than 6,000 Quincy citizens in the past forty j'ears.

IMr. Danglierty was bom in Westmoreland County, Pennsvlvania, not far from the City of Pittslturg, March 10. 1840, a son o'f Michael and Elizabeth (Funk) Daugherty, both natives of Pennsylvania and the former of Scotch ancestry and the latter of German stock. Michael Daugherty brought his family to Illinois in 1851 and settled on a farm in Ursa Township of Adams County. Michael was a blacksmith by trade, but after coming to Adams County gave his time to agriculture and developed one of the finest farms of the county. He died here August 28, 1892, and his wife on June 14, 1900. lie was eightytwo and his wife was nearly ninety-three when death came to them. They were the parents of nine children, two of wliom died in infancy. John M., who succeeded to the owner.ship of the old Daugherty homestead, and the son James W., who lived in Oregon, both died in the year 1917. Mary, widow of Martin B. Kuhns, is still living in Adams County, Samuel is a resident of Gilpin, Colorado, Michael has his home in Oakland, California, and Nancy is the wife of W. H. Barr, of Medford, Oregon.

Brought to Adams County at the age of ten years Jacob F. Daugherty has l)y personal experience known the changing developments of this part of Western Illinois for over six decades. Ilf grew up here on his father's pioneer farm and after his education in the local schools remained at home and assisted in its cultivation until he was about twenty-eight years old, at which time he moved to Quincy and engaged in the livery business for about five years, but in 1876 took up undertaking and embalming which he continued until his retirement. The business is still continued in his old location at 619 Maine Street, where it has been located over fifteen yeai's and where the firm has some of the best equipped undertaking rooms found anywhere in the state. Mr. Daugherty has also for many j-ears been interested in the monument business to which he lias been giving his attention since 1908.

In 1862 Mr. Daugherty married I\liss Louise Turner, daughter of John Turner, an old time citizen of Adams County. Six children were born to their marriage : Bertha, widow of P. B. Porter, of Quincy ; Nellie, wife of A. M. Brown, of Quincy; Pauline and Leroy, both deceased; Arthur W., who is an undertaker and succeeded his father in the business; and Grace, wife of W. A. Bishop, of Los Angeles, California.

^Ir. Daugherty is a democrat in polities and is an active member of the Vermont Street Baptist Church, which he has served as trustee, as chairman of the Board of Trustees and recently was elected to a life position as deacon.

Joseph J. Freiburg. An old and honored name in the business life of Qniney is that of Freiburg, and for more than half a century it has been identified with enterprises which have contributed to the prosperity and well being of the city. Its leading representative at the present time is Joseph J. Freiburg, who, it is the privilege of the publishers to note by way of grateful recognition, is one of the advisory editors of this publication.

His parents were Joseph J. and Elizabeth (Quinkert) Freiburg, both natives of Westphalia, Germany. They came to America and located at Quincy in 1866. The father was a cabinet maker by trade and followed that occupation until July 1, 1876, when with his brother Frederick he engaged in the furniture and undertaking business. In 1892 Joseph J. Freiburg, Jr., bought the interests of his uncle, and the firm was continued as Joseph Freiburg & Son, though about that time they gave up the furniture department and concentrated all their efforts upon undertaking. This name continued until Februar.y 8, 1906, when at the death of the father Joseph J. Freiburg bought all the remaining interests in the business. Mrs. Joseph J. Freiburg, Sr., died July 28, 1917. They were the parents of eight children : Joseph J. ; Henry J., deceased ; Anna, wife of Frank Wachtel, of Quincy; Bernard J., deceased; Herman, associated with his brother in business ; Mary, wife of Joseph H. Tushans, of St. Joseph, Missouri ; Elizabeth and John, both deceased.

Joseph J. Freiburg was born at Quincy April 7, 1867, and this city has always claimed his loyalty as a resident and public spirited citizen. He lived at home, attended the parochial schools, and at the age of thirteen began working for his father. Later for two j'ears he attended a local business college, and then entered the Clarke College of Embalming at Cincinnati. When he graduated from that institution he had the distinction of being the youngest man ever to receive a diploma in embalming from that school. After that he returned to Quincy and became associated with his father, but was also a co-worker with Professor Clarke in lecturing on anatomy and embalming from 1896 to 1905. About the latter time he assumed the entire responsibilities of the business, and he has made the name Freiburg synonymous with a perfect service in undertaking and embalming. He was the first to introduce auto hearses at Quincj', and has always studied to keep his equipment and service up to date.

November 25, 1890, Mr. Freiburg married Anna E. Brinkman. She was born at Quincy, daughter of W. M. and Elizabeth (Terlisner) Brinkman, her father a native of Germany and her mother a native of St. Louis. Mr. and Mrs. Freiburg enjoyed a happy marriage companionship for over a quarter of a century until her death on July 22, 1916. Seven children were born into their home. The oldest, Adelaide, is the wife of Rudolph J. Weltin, of Quincy, The other children, still at home, are Margaret, Gertrude, Odelia, Lucile, Edna and Marion.

As to politics Mr. Freiburg maintains an independent attitude. He is supreme treasurer of the Western Catholic Union, is active in the Knights of Columbus, is president of the Columbus Home Building Association, a member of Quincy Lodge of Elks, of the Rotary Club, the Quincy Ad Club, and is treasurer of the Big Lake Hunting and Fishing Club, an organization controlling 300 acres of fine game preserve. ]\Ir. Freiburg and family worship in St. Boniface Catholic Church at Quincy.

Robert A. Rochester. An active and conspicuous figure in the industrial life of Quincy, Robert A. Rochester has for nearly forty years been prominently associated with the advancement of the manufacturing interests of Adams County, and as superintendent of the American Straw Board Company has been instrumental in building up a business scarcely surpassed in this section of the eountn- by any other of a like nature. A native of Illinois, he was born January 23, 1855, in Rockford, Winnebago County.

when yoiing to this country, he learned the miller's trade, which he followed until after the outbreak of the Civil war. Soon after that event he enlisted in the iJnion Army, joining the Second Missouri Cavalry, and died while in service. His wife, whose maiden name was Jane Hislop, was bom in Scotland, and died in Rockford, Illinois. Of the nine children born of their union the subject of this brief sketch was the onl}' boy.

Left fatherless when a child, Robert A. Rochester began life as a farm hand when but ten years of age, working hard during seed time and harvest, and attending the winter terms of school. When sixteen years old he entered a paper mill in Rockford, Illinois, and dui-ing the j-ears that he remained there became thoroughly accjuainted with the details of i^aper making, and an expert in the industry. In 1878 Mr. Rochester accepted a position with the American Paper Straw Board Company of Quincy, and has since served most acceptably as superintendent of the concern, devoting his time and energies to the duties devolving upon him in the position.

Mr. Rochester married in 1879 Mary Calkins, a native of Quincj', and they are the parents of two children, Bessie, wife of George Springer, of Beloit, Wisconsin, and Helen. Politically Mr. Rochester invariably supports the principles of the republican pai-ty. Fraternally he is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

William H. Eber. Fortified with the prestige of many years and by the enterprise of a family of unusual business talents, the Eber Seed Company is one of Quincy 's oldest and best known commercial houses. At one time it was the only exclusive seed house in Quincy and the largest institution of its kind in the Middle West.

The founder of this business was the late William Eber, Sr., who died in April, 1910, after a residence of more than half a century in Quincy. He was born in Bavaria, Germanj', in 1829, and came to the United States twenty years later. For several j'ears he lived in Pennsylvania and was in the clothing business while there. In 1856 he located at Quincy, and from 1861 to 1873 carried on a general grocery and seed business. From 1873 his entire time and attention was given to the fruit and seed business and to developing a supply house for garden and farm seeds. His business partner and associate until 1868 was Mr. Charles A. Koenecke, and later the firm was conducted as Eber & Walters. In 1885 William Eber, Sr., took in William H. Eber as business associate, and the firm was William Eber & Son until after his death. His success was not only due to specializing in one line, but also to the integrity and character which he put into all his work. William Eber, Sr., was eighty-one years of age when he died. His death occurred at his home 2608 Maine Street, having erected that residence for his famil.v some years before his death.

In 1856 William Eber, Sr., married Susan Eber, who was also born in Bavaria, Germany, but was not related to the family of her husband. She came when a young woman to the United States by way of New York and located at Quincy, where her parents lived and died. Both the Eber families were Protestants in religion. Mrs. William Eber is still living in Quincy at the age of eighty-four. She and her husband were married in and were always faithful members of St. John's Lutheran Church. Nine children were born to them, two of whom died in infancy. The other children were named William, Eugene, Emma, Sophia, Sadie, Fredericka and Nellie. The son Eugene died at the age of fifty .years. They all reside at the old family home. Sadie is secretary of the Eber Seed Company.

William H. Eber, who is now president and treasurer of the Eber Seed Company, was born in Quincy in 1863 and was educated in the city schools and the Gem City Business College. At the age of sixteen he went to work for his father and in 1885 was taken into partnership under the name William Eber & Son. In 1912 the business was incorporated, with Mr. Eber as president and treasurer and his sister Sadie as seeretarj'. They have a large store at 234-236 North Sixth Avenue and Vermont Street, the building being 40 bj- 75 feet. This has been occupied by the firm since 1900. It is still continued on the plan established by the father of the family, and is both a wholesale and retail seed house.

OsMON B. Gordon. Inheriting in no small measure the many virtues and excellent habits of his sturdj- New England ancestors, Osmon B. Gordon, of Quiucy, holds a position of prominence and influence amoug the substantial business men of the city, and as a member of the Gordon Shoe Company is an important factor in advancing its mercantile interests. He was born July 7, 1845, in Fremont, New Hampshire, a son of Rev. Loren H. and Elizabeth A. Gordon, on the maternal side of the family being of the same Imeage as John Quincy Adams, their immigi-ant ancestor having been the same. His father, who for fifty years was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Conference, came to Adams Countj', Illinois, with his family in 1860, and was for some time engaged in the shoe business in Quincy, but later was a Bible agent. Both he and his wife died in Quiucy.