Quincy Township (part 46 of 74)

Completing his earlj' education in the Quincy public schools and college, Osmon B. Gordon obtained his first knowledge of mercantile pursuits in his father's store. In August, 1867, he accepted a position as traveling salesman for the shoe store of C. Brown, Jr., & Company, and in 1872, having proved himself capable and efficient, he acquired an interest in the business. In 1878 Mr. Gordon formed a partnership with Mr. Upham, and the firm of Upham & Gordon purchased the stock and good will of C. Brown, Jr., & Company, who retired from active pursuits. The business of the new firm rapidly increased, and owing to its demands was transferred from Hampshire Street to its present commodious quarters on Third Street. In 1909 ilr. Gordon, with characteristic enterprise, took over ^Ir. Upham 's interest, and has since conducted an extensive and remunerative business, the Gordon Shoe Company being one of the more prosperous and busy firms of Quinc}^

Mr. Gordon has been twice married. He married first Elvira A. Wright, who spent her entire life in Quincy, her death occurring Februaiy 6, 1881. Mr. Gordon married for his second wife, June 23, 1887, Harriet E. Adams, and they have one son, Osmon B. Gordon, Jr., who is a.ssociated with his father, they being sole owners of the Gordon Shoe Company. Mr. Gordon is now serving as president of the Gem City Building & Loan Association, and is also president of both the Woodland Home and the Anna Brown Home for the Aged. Religiously he is a member of the Congregational Church, of which he is the treasurer.

William Schlinkman. Quincy 's well known business men include William Schlinkman, who has for over twenty j-ears be«n in the drug business, is one of the ablest pharmacists of the city, and has gained a large trade and a large business through his well directed efforts. He has been established at 900 South Eighth Street since 1896. Mr. Schlinkman is a registered pharmacist and graduated from the Chicago School of Pharmacy in 1896. He is a thoroughly practical man in his business, and his store is one of the real mediums of service in the city. In connection he operates an ice cream plant and manufactures about 4,000 gallons of ice cream every year.

^Ir. Schlinkman was bom in Quincy Februarj^ 23, 1872, and was reared and educated here, attending the city public schools and high scliool. He entered liis ])resent business through the avenue of drug clerk, and thus had a practical foundation before he entered a school of pharmacy.

His parents were Henry and Hannah (Beck) Schlinkman, botli natives of Germany. They married in the old countiy and three of their children were born there. While they were on the ocean, ten weeks en route, another child was born. They came immediately to Qviincy and located their home at the corner of Twelfth and Monroe streets. Here they lived long and useful lives, and the father died in ^larch. 1900. when past seventy, and his widow died in 1888 when about the same age. They were members of the Salem Lutheran Church and in politics he was a republican. In their family were twelve children, eight daughters and four sons, all of whom grew to maturity. Julia is the wife of Jack Russell, of St. Louis. Anna is the deceased wife of "William Reed. Rica man-ied Frank Little, and they live in Quincy and have a family of sons and daughters. Lizzie married James Blades, of Quincy. ilinnie and Emma both died of pneumonia about the same time, their respective ages being twenty-four and twenty-six. The next in the family is William. Henry was a Quincy business man, now deceased, and left two children. Bertha is the wife of Henrj- Kalber, of Quincy. and has a family of children. Clara died leaving a son and daughter. Herman lives in ^Vyoming and is a rancher. Edward, also unmarried, lives at Quincy.

In 1902 William Schlinkman married at Quincy Miss Lulu Fredericks. She was born in Quincy, and was reared and educated here. Her fatlier, Henry Fredericks, is still in business and is the oldest cigar manufacturer in Quincy. He was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1836, came to America in 1S64, and arrived in Quincy in March. 1S66. On ]\Iay 25, 1871, he married Anna Grimmer, who was bom in Westphalia Februarj- 3, 1850, and came to Quincy with her parents in 1855,

Mr, and ilrs. Schlinkman have a daughter, ilargaret L,, who was born in 1903, in the building where her father now has his drug business. She is a student in the Quincy High School, and plans to complete her education in the State University. The family are members of the Salem Lutheran Church and Mr. Schlinkman is a republican.

I.EWI.5 L. BoTER. There is hardly an official position in which are concentrated more of the vital interests of the public than that of superintendent of highways. The business of making roads is one of the first if not the first community improvement undertaken by the people of a new district. Next after making their rude log cabins the pioneers busied themselves with blazing trails through the forests, constructing corduroy roads through the swamps and devising means to get across the creeks and rivers. There has been no cessation in that work .since those early beginnings, Adams County, like other counties in Illinois, has far from reached an ideal perfection of roads and highways, and in former years it suffered from the haphazard and loose system or lack of system which left road making to the indi^-idual enterprise of townships or other smaller localities, without any centralized supervision or plan.

In 1913 there was created the oflSce of superintendent of highways for the purpose of providing a centralized authority through which a general plan of county highways might be devised, and through which efforts and money might be expended systematically to realize the greatest benefits to the greatest numbers. To fill this office a young man of great energy- and thorough technical qualifications was .selected. Lewis L. Boyer, a civil engineer and a man thoroughly alive to the needs and responsibilities of his office. He entered upon his duties in March, 1917, and has already done much to ju.stifv the expectations of his supporters, Adams County has 1,650 miles of highways of all kinds, and has 287 miles of what is known as standard highways, and of these more than 100 miles are in the state highway system, including three roads which converge at Quincy. These .state highways in particular will be recipients of some share of the recently passed $60,000,000 bond issue. Improvements on all the important highways in the county, so far as means justified, have been energetically piLshed by Mr, Boyer, He has drawn up a standard road map of Adams County, -which tells at a glance the highway situation, and is of invaluable aid to all interested in the public road situation. In 1917 he also laid out a system of roads, 135 miles in length, which it is supposed shall be improved with macadam or concrete or other forms of permanent construction. Adams County has 3,000 bridges and culverts, 1,000 of them being of concrete construction, and ninety bridges are of more than 100-foot span.

Mr. Boyer was born in Richtield Township of this county ilay 19, 1885, and was elected to his present office from Liberty Township. He attended the public schools to the age of sixteen, and at the age of eighteen qualified as a teacher. He taught in the Douglas School two years, one year in the Franklin School, three years at Pin Oak and five years was principal at Liberty. Eveiy summer he attended Normal School, and received a supervisory certificate. Besides perfecting himself in the branches which would better qvialify him for teaching he also studied engineering, and was thus well qualified for the technical as well as the administrative features of his present work.

Mr. Boyer is a son of John and Louisa (Koetzle) Boyer, both natives of this state. They were married in Liberty Township, and occupied their old home there until four years ago, when they moved to the Village of Liberty, where they are now living. Mrs. John Boyer is a member of the Lutheran Church. Besides Lewis L. they had a son Chester A., who died of influenza in November, 1918. He lived in Iowa and was a commercial salesman for Swift & Company. He married and his son Robert is three years old. Roscoe L. Boyer lives in Quincy, where he sells agricultural implements and Ford automobiles. Harvey died at the age of nine months. Robert E. is a rural school teacher in Fall Creek Township of this county. He married in November, 1918.

In Liberty Township Lewis L. Boyer married ]\Iiss Effie Proctor, who was born in Adams County in 1889, and was reared and educated here. At the age of eighteen she also was certified to teach school, and taught in tlie rural districts for several years and for five years was connected with the Liberty public schools. 'Sir. and ]\Ii"s. Boyer have one son, John, born in November, 1915. Mr. Boyer married for his first wife in Liberty Township Miss Nettie Brubaker, daughter of Rev. David Brubaker, a minister of the United Brethren Church now living in Ohio. Nettie Brubaker was born in Westerville, Ohio, in 1886. She died eleven months after her marriage.

Mrs. Boyer is a member of the Baptist Church while ]\lr. Boyer is active in the Christian denomination, being choir leader, Sunday scliool teacher and otherwise interested. He is affiliated with Bodley Lodge No. 1, Ancient Free and Accepted -Masons, and was forraerlv its seeretarj-, and is affiliated with the Eastern Star, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Rebekahs, the Eagles, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Adams County Mutual. In politics he is a democrat.

Jackson R. Pearce. The present generation at least need no enlightenment as to who Mr. Jackson R. Pearce is or the position he has held in the community for many years. His protracted services as county clerk of Adams County brought him the acquaintance of practically everj- local citizen, and since leaving that office his career has been distinguished by able administration of business affairs and banking. He is vice president of the Ricker National Bank of Quincy.

He came into the larger public notice of the county after a youth spent on the farm in Houston Township. He was born there October 28, 1862, son of Augustus F. and ]\Iary E. (Woods) Pearce, the foniier a native of a Kentucky and the latter of Illinois. The Pearce family came to Adams County in 1851, and Augustus Pearce was for many years an agriculturist in section 23 of Houston Township. There were eight children : Jackson R. ; Martha, wife of James i\Iiller, of Augusta, Illinois; Samuel 0., a resident of Chicago; Sarah A., wife of William J. Cromwell, of Adams County; and four who died in infancy.

The first eighteen years of his life Jackson R. Pearce spent at home, working on a farm while attending the district schools. For two years he himself was a teacher and then entered merchandising. In 1882 he became a general merchant, dealer in grain and agricultural implements at Chatten, the postoffiee center of his old country home. In the fall of 1890 he came to Quincy and began work in the county clerk's office on Octobei- 23d, and in December was appointed deputy county clerk. He filled that office under several administrations, and in 1898 he himself was elected county clerk. His tenure of that office was continued by the voters of Adams County through twelve successive years. He then resumed active control of his various business affairs and for several years has been vice president of the Richer National Bank. He is also a director of the Farmers National Life Insurance Company of Chicago, and of the Gem City Building and Loan Association.

In politics Mr. Pearce has always been identified with the democratic party. He has acquitted himself creditably as chairman of the local exemption board. All the demaaids placed upon him for the support of war activities have been generously met. He is also president of the Board of Trustees of the Chaddock Boys" School, and is a director of the Quincy Y. M. C. A. He is a steward in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is affiliated with the Masonic, Odd Fellows and Elks fraternities.

Mr. Pearce is more than willing to merge his own achievements in his pride for his children. September 15, 1884, he married Miss Elizabeth McGinnis, a native of Adams County, and daughter of Solomon W. and ]Mary (Fiefield) McGinnis, now deceased. The oldest of the three children of ^Ir. and Mrs. Pearce is Dr. Warren Frederick, born August 9, 1885. As a young physician and surgeon he became interested in military affairs, was senior surgeon of the Quincy Naval Reserves, Ignited States naval surgeon on the reserve list, and on April 8, 1917, was ordered out as senior surgeon on the flagship of a fleet of war vessels. Later he was returned to land duty, was made executive of a base hospital in France, and at the close of the war was in command of a naval base. Only second to the achievements of the boys in the trenches has been the wonderful service rendered by the army surgeons, and in the glory attaching to this branch of modern warfare Doctor Pearce has his own special credit.

The two daughters of ^Ir. Pearce are Nina ^lay and Edna Ruth. Nina Jlay is the wife of Bert E. Chatten, of Quincy. Edna Ruth is a graduate of Knox College at Galesburg, and is now industrial secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association at Detroit, Michigan.

Herman E. Nelson. One of the popular young business men of Quincy is Herman E. Nelson, who is well known in the motion pictui'e world and as the manager of the leading motion picture theaters in this city. He is the oldest continuous man in the business at Quincy. He lias been identified with pictures since his school period ended and few phases of the industry are unknown facts to him.

Herman E. Nelson was bom at Sioiix City, Iowa, November 17, 1890. His parents are Edward and Mary (Davidson) Nelson, both of whom were bom in Norway. Edward Nelson came to the United States and located at Sioux City, Iowa, when a young man and for a number of years was a building contractor there. At present he fills a very responsible position, that of overseer of the construction of all buildings for the J. Deere Plow Company at Ottumwa, Iowa. Of his seven children, Herman E. is the fourth in order of birth, the others being: Norman, who is a.ssociated with his father at Ottumwa; Ma.v. who is the wife of Edward Earle, of Ottumwa, Iowa ; Arthur, who is well known on the vaudeville stage ; Alice, who resides at home ; Roy, who is interested at Hannibal, IMissouri ; and Esther, who lives with her parents.

Herman E. Nelson became first interested in his present line of business at Ottumwa, Iowa, and afterward spent a year at Galesburg, Illinois, as film operator and assistant manager. In 1910 he came to Quincy as manager of the Colonial Theater and then took over the Colonnade Theater, which he bought in association with "William A. Schwindeler, when they named it the Star, and it is a comfortable and attractive playhouse. Mr. Nelson was one of the organizers

Mr. Nelson was married June 24, 1913, to Miss Rose Weltin, of Quincy, and they have two children : Rose ilary, who was born in April, 1914 ; and Edward, who was born January 17, 1916.

While the general name applied to the motion picture business may be "amusement," it is not amusement from every angle and, in fact, is a very serious enterprise from the standpoint of both owners and managers. This industry that has so rapidlj- developed and extended over the world has become almost one of the indispensable elements of modern life. This art has opened so many doors to knowledge and enjoj-ment that it is to be hoped no censor nor any national calamity will ever do away with it. In the management of the Quincy houses Mr. Nelson has not only shown himself a capable man of business, but one who is careful to present only the best and most artistic productions.

Rupp Brothers & Company. This firm is probably the oldest institution at Quinc.y to exemplify in practical and commercial ways the conservation principle concerning which so much is now heard on all sides. It is no longer considered a virtue even in America to throw away and waste valuable material. Rupp Brothers & Company for nearly half a century have been using and utilizing what the public throws away and counts as waste. The founders of the business, following the custom of junk dealers from time immemorial, traveled about over Quinej' ten'itory gathering up their materials with a poor hoi'se and wagon. Today Rupp Brothers & Company are responsible for the largest tonnage that goes out of Quincy on the railroads, and most of their material has right of way on the roads as preferred traffic for government use.

The new plant of the company recently established at Walton Heights in East Quincy, with ready access and traffic facilities from the Burlington Railroad, represents the last word in the construction of a plant of this kind. The machineiy for loading and unloading comprises several magnet cranes capable of lifting ten tons of iron at a time. They have also installed wonderful breaking and cutting devices for preparing the metal for shipment and subsequent use. Large boiler irons are cut up rapidly by an acid heating device which practically melts away the heavy iron by simple contact. The company employs about eighty people all the time, and their sales run into several hundred thousand dollars annually. All of this is merely suggested a.s items to show the remarkable development of a business which started on the simplest scale.

An old Quincy directory of forty years ago indicates the name of the firm as George Rupp & Brother, Junk Store, at Broadway, corner of 18th Street. The founders of the business were George and his brother Fred, both natives of Nassau, Prussia. George wa.s born in 1842, and he and his brother came to the United States in 1867, locating at Quincy after coming up the ^Mississippi River from New Orleans. Both were poor young men in a strange land, and one of the first means they found to earn a living was selling mustard. They also worked on farms, and in 1870, having managed to acquire a horse and covered wagon, they started out buying iron and other products, and from that business both became wealthy. From the original location of 18th and Broadway they moved to 12th and Broadway, and about 1885 took over a property at 100 to 112 North 10th Street, where the business was located until the Walton Heights plant was occupied. The business was incorporated in 1894. George and Fred Rupp were esteemed business men and citizens of Quincy for nearly half a century. George Rupp died here in 1909 and his brother Fred in August, 1917. Their widows are still living.

George Rupp married in 1872 Elizabeth Reuraing, a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is still living at the age of sixty-seven. George Rupp was a Catholic and independent in polities. He and his wife had five sons and five daughters, all of the sons living and four of them married. The president of the company is Mr. Fred Rupp, and George A. is secretary and treasurer. At Walton Heights the company has acquired four acres of ground for their large buildings. They also operate three Ijranch houses, one at Hannibal, ilissouri, one at Moberly, Missouri, and other at Chillicothe, Illinois. They have an extensive system of reaching out into the various districts, having two men covering Illinois as buyers and six men in other fields. The average shiiiment from Quincj- amounts to over 120 cars a month or 1,500 cars per year. While most of the product handled is iron, they are also collecting large amounts of paper and rags and have electric presses which put this material into large bales for shipment.

Fred and George A. Rupp were both born in Quincy and both attended the high school and the Gem City Business College. Of these two brothers Fred is the only one married. He married Anna Schupp, who was born and educated in Quincy, daughter of Charles Schupp, a native of Germany. Charles Schupp married iliss Charlotte Schupp, who is still living at the age of sixty-seven. Fred Rupp and wife have had the following children : Virgil, a student in St. Francis College; Marion, who died in 1918, at the age of sixteen; Omer, Dorothy, Celeste, Anna, Maria and Lawrence. The Rupp brothers and their respective families are all Catholics, and they are affiliated with the Knights of Columbus.

C. Henry Wurst. Any business that can live, grow and prosper for more than half a century has beyond all doubt proved its usefulness and service, and possesses elements that make it a real institution of any community. The vitality of such a business, and the quality of the service rendered, are largely a matter of personal effectiveness. To live so many years a business must depend iipon the loyalty, faithfulness, industry and good judgment of its personal factors.

Such an institution at Quincy is the C. H. Wurst Company at Seventh and State streets. It is one of the largest general hardware concerns in Western Illinois, but far more interesting than its material equipment and growth are the individuals who founded and have kept up its vitality to the present day.

It was established by the late Christian Gottlob Wurst, who, though he passed from the living more than thirty-five years ago, is still remembered by many Quincy people as a scholar and thorough business man, a complete exemplification of the old time merchant, with his punctual habits, diligence, and complete integrity of character. It was characteristic of this gentleman of the old school that he should keep a diary, and from that diary the story of his life from childhood has been told.

Christian Gottlob Wurst was the son of a schoolmaster at Sulzbach, Wurtemberg, Germany. Wnen a small boy he was left fatherless. The burden of caring for the family fell on an older brother, who had completed his studies and become a schoolmaster before the father's death. This brother not only helped to provide for his j'ounger brother, but supervised his education, teaching him the elementary branches during the long evenings.

When Christian reached the age of fourteen it was decided that he should learn the tinner's trade. For a number of years therefore he traveled about German.v, securing work wherever possible, and in 1850 received his diploma as a finished tinsmith.

November 17, 1853, he left Bremen on the ship Carolina, arriving in New York six weeks later. Here he worked in a number of shops until April, 1855. when he decided to go west to Oquawka, Illinois, county seat of Henderson County, where a New York acquaintance had referred him to two friends. His diary states that he had $27 in gold and good, warm clothing when he left New York. He found 0(|uawka to be a thriving city of about 1,000 inhabitants. Here he learned the English language.

Quincy as a good city of 18,000 population. Business, however, was dull, and he left the following spring for Palmyra. This town, he said, had 1,000 inhabitants, and was the nicest, liveliest little cit.y he had yet visited. Business continued dull and in the fall he went to La Grange, ilissouri, where he remained until the next spring, when he went back to Palmyra. That was his home until the spring of 18.59. St. Joseph, Missouri, next attracted his attention, but he found no work there, so went by steamboat to St. Louis. After working three months he went on to Na.shville, Tennessee. That city he described as being too hot, .so he left a few days later for Quincy, and then decided to buy some tools and open a shop in Mendon, Illinois.

Business was good and that same year he bought the shop and residence from Mr. Durfin for $1,000. In 1861 he married in Quincy Miss Catherine Wolf, who at once returned with him to Mendon.

In the spring of 1866 he started to sell out his holdings in Mendon. He then returned to Quincy and purchased the brick and frame building that was standing at Seventh and State streets, and stocked it with merchandise and tools. The place was opened for business August 20, 1866, fifty-two years ago. There were bad years and good years but the store and shop steadily grew in popularity. It was sixteen j^ears after he became a business man of Quincy that Chi-istian Gottlob Wurst died in 1882. He left his widow and son Henry, then a lad of seventeen years, to care for the business. Under their management great progress was made. In a short time the young man found the entire responsibility resting on his own shoulders. With each succeeding year trade increased and new patrons were attracted to the establishment.

The late C. Henry Wurst was born at Mendon, Illinois, April 4, 1865. His boyhood was spent in Quincy attending school and assisting his father in the store and shop. He was the responsible head of the business for thirty years. In 1890, when he was twenty-five years of age, the business outgrew the old building. This building was accordingly wrecked and the east half of the present structure erected. In 1908 more room was again demanded, supplied by building the west lialf, making the building 37 by 60 feet, three stories high with basement, and an extension in the rear of the west side. Fire seriously damaged the building the next year, but all was quickly restored to the original condition. Even with this equipment the business found itself cramped, and later they bought property two doors north of the store, where extensive warehouses and shops were erected.

Prior to 1911 the business was conducted as a private institution. It was Mr. Wurst 's desire that two of his faithful emploj-es be permitted to take an interest in the business, and accordingly the C. H. Wurst Company was incorporated with C. H. Wurst, Herman I. Ehrhardt and A. J. Hermsdorfer as directors and Mr. Wurst as president.

October 27, 1912, C. Henry Wurst succumbed to injuries received in a street car accident and passed away at the age of forty-seven, still in the prime of life, but he had already achieved distinction as one of Quincy 's most successful business men. Owing to his quiet, modest manners only those who knew him well realized tlie extent of the business he conducted. Among his friends he was accepted as a man of sound business judgment, deliberate but painstaking, quiet but fiirm.

He has a worthy successor as president and head of the board of directors of the company. This is his wife, Mrs. Wurst, who upon assuming the unexpected responsibilities proved as capable and resourceful as she had previously in the management of her home and household. She keeps in close touch with all details of the business, though in her fellow directors she has two of the very capable business men of Quincy, formerly associated with her husband. One is Sir. Herman I. Ehrhardt, now superintendent of the company and one of its directors since 1911. Mr. Ehrhardt is a man distinguished by great capacity for detail as well as possessed of all the qualities of tlie good executive. Vol. n-9

He has the general management of the retail store and the l)usiness in general. The other active man in the business is A. J. Hermsdorfer, who like Mr. Ehrhardt has been in business for over fifteen years, and who is superintendent of the mechanical department and has given the tin and metal working shops an enviable reputation.

At Quincy in 1897 Mr. C. Henry Wur.st married Miss Lillie C. Ebert. Sirs. Wurst was born and reai-ed and educated in Quincy. She is a daughter of Jacob and Mary (Schaefer) Ebert. Her father was born in Wuertemberg on the Swiss border in 1826 and his parents died in Germany. At the age of twentyseven he came to America, and after a long voyage landed at New Orleans. He was possessed of a college education and in Germany had learned the trade of stone mason. He first located at Bushnell, Illinois, but six months later came to Quincy and with Mr. Brosi engaged in the quarrying and stone mason contracting business. Mr. Brosi soon left Quincy, ancl ilr. Ebert continued the business alone. He supplied stone materials for many of the foundations in homes, business houses and public buildings in Quincy. He was an active worker and died in the prime of life, at the age of tifty-tive, in November, 1881. Soon after coming to Quincy Mr. Ebert married Miss Schaefer, who was born in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, and was thirteen years old when her parents, Wendel and Anna E. (Daum) Schaefer, came to the United States. They were on the ocean six weeks, landed at New Orleans, and then came up the Mississippi to Quincy. Mr. and Mrs. Schaefer died here, the latter at the age of sixty and the former at eighty-six. Wendel Schaefer was an all around blacksmith. The Schaefers wex-e members of the German Methodist Episcopal Church. The mother of Mrs. Wurst died June 3, 1916, lacking only a mouth of her eightieth birthday.

Mrs. Wurst was one of a family of fifteen children, of whom a daughter and two sons died in early childhood. Twelve grew to maturity, six sons and six daughters, all Init three married, and all are still living except the oldest son, George, who died seven years ago and who had succeeded to and conducted his father's business as a stone contractor.

Mr. and Mrs. Wurst iDceame the parents of six children, and witli these children they had a most happy home life at 1254 Kentucky Street, where Mrs. Wurst still resides. Their oldest child, Ella, died at the age of eleven years. Henry E. graduated from the Quincy High School in 1918, at the age of eighteen, and a few months later entered the Illinois State University. Katharine, aged sixteen, is member of the Quincy High School, class of 1920. Emily died at the age of five years, and was buried on the same day her sister Ella died. Mary is nine years old and in grammar school, while the youngest, Charles E., is seven years old. Mrs. Wurst is a member of the ilethodist Episcopal Church, and the late Mr. Wurst was one of its trustees.

Louis Dedekt. Few of the veteran farmers of Adams County have a greater volume of woi-k and production to their credit than Louis Dedert, now living retired at Quincy. Mr. Dedert 's home is at 1606 Payson Avenue, where he has lived since August, 1911. This is a comfortable city home, a seven room house located on a large lot 100 feet square.

Mr. Dedert came to this city home fi'om his farm in section 10 of Ellington Township, where he owns eighty acres. On that farm he spent most of his life. He was born December 28, 1859, and was reared and received his education in Quincy and Ellington Township.

His parents were William and Louisa (Schlippmann) Dedert. Both were born in Bielfeld, Germany, the father about 1830. They were married in Germany and came to America on different ships, landing at New York and thence coming to St. Louis. Leaving his wife at St. Louis William Dedert came on to Quincy during the winter of 1851-52 for the purpose of finding work. Soon afterward the river froze over and he was unable to rejoin his wife at St. I-ouis until the next spring. They rented land, and later bought the eighty acres in section 10 of Ellington Townsliip where they lived for many years. The widowed mother finally retired to Quincy and died in the spring of 1912. They were members of the Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church and both are buried side by side in the Green IMount cemetery. William Dedert was a ro]iublican but never interested in politics only to the extent of casting his vote. Their children were Henry, William, Louis, F'rank, John, Edward, Simon, Theodore and Mary. All of them married except Frank and ^lary.

Louis Dedert, third in this family, grew up on the farm and became an energetic farmer and stock raiser, and followed that vocation successfully until he retired. He married for his first wife in this county Cornelia Speckmann. She was born at Quincy in 1864 of German parentage. Her death occurred in Ellington Township December 2, 1911. Her two children, Freda and IMabel, are both unmarried and at home with their father. In the spring of 1913 Mr. Dedert married at Quincy Lena Ermann, a sister of his first wife and widow of George Ermann. George Ermann was born in Wuertemberg, Germany, October 5, 1860, and came to the United States when a young man. At Quincy he took up his trade as a custom shoemaker, and followed that vocation until his death when nearly twenty-nine years of age. He was the father of three children. Walter Ermann, born in Quincy in 1885, is a well educated and trained musician and is employed in the Weiler's music store at Quincy. He married Minnie Boehl, and their children are Florence, Wilbur and Charles. Alfred Ermann, born in 1887, is now in the army ser\ace, attached to the Hospital Corps at Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis. Arthur, born in 1889, was, like his brothers, well educated in the city schools and is now a farmer at LeGrande, Oregon. He married Hulda Schroeda, of Adams County, and has one daughter, Anita. The family are members of the Salem- Evangelical Lutheran Church at Quincy and Mr. Dedert is a republican.

Charles W. Breitwieser. Among the able business men who have contributed for many years to the commercial importance of Quincy is Charles W. Breitwieser, for a long time prominent in the grocery line and at present owner and operator of the Gem City Transfer Company. Mr. Breitwieser has chosen to spend his life in his native city. He was l)orn at Quincy, Illinois, .March 5, 1862. His parents were John and Amelia (Reinecker) Breitwieser, natives of Germany.

John Breitwieser for many years was a well known and highly esteemed resident of Quincy, where he spent his entire life after coming to the United States in 1837. He was a shoemaker by trade and as he was of industrious habit acquired a sufficient competency and provided well for his family of nine children. Of these two survive and are residents of Quincy : Charles W. and Amelia.

The father of Charles W. Breitwieser was a man with practical ideas and when his son had reached his thirteenth year decided that it was time he leave school and learn a trade, hence Chai'les entered a cigar factory with the expectation of becoming a cigar-maker. A year later, however, a more attractive opportunity presented itself and he accepted a position in a retail grocery .store and i-emained there for sixteen years. With this preparation in 1892 he went into the grocery business for himself, having learned its details th.jroughly, purchasing from William Evers, and for thirteen years he conducted a first class grocery near the corner of Fifth and Hampshire streets. In 1905 he embarked in another line by purchasing the transfer business of two companies here and consolidating as the Gem City Transfer Company. Under all conditions and circumstances this business is conducted in a satisfactory manner and both visitors and local patrons unite in praise of the service.

]\Ir. Breitwieser was married September 15, 1886, to Jliss Clara R. Rothgeb. who was bom at Quincy. They are members of the Memorial Lutheran Church at Quincy, and he is a member of its board of trustees. Fraternally he is a Blue Lodge ilason, and politically he is a republican.

JoHK L. Grieser. Some of the valuable and important interests of Adams County represented in farms and other properties have been built up and accumulated by the late John L. Grieser, and are at present managed by his capable sons. The family has been a factor in the life and affairs of this country for eighty years or more.

The late John L. Grieser was only about four years old when brought to this county. He was born at Baltimore, Maryland, September 3, 1834, son of Leonard and Dorothy (Hack) Griesei-. His father was a native of Alsace-Lon-aine, then a part of France, and his mother was either born in that country or of German parentage. They came to Illinois and located in Quincy about 1837, and some years later moved to a farm in Ellington Township. Leonard Grieser, Sr., and wife spent their last years on a farm. They were active members of the Lutheran Church. All their children are now deceased.

John L. Grieser, who died at his home 401 Elm Street in Quincy, August 26, 1906, aged seventy-tsvo, was the oldest of his parents' children, and grew up in Quincy and in Ellington Townsliip. After his education he took up the business of farming, and for many years his enterprise was chiefly centered in the wood business, with headquarters at Quincy, shipping from wood lots up and down the river for many miles. At the same time he carried on his farm operations and was one of the leading stock raisers in Ellington and Ursa townships. He owned good farms in both townships. He was a man of progressive ideas and was one of the citizens who took the lead and brouglit about one of the greatest improvements Adams County has had, the Indian drainage district. L'l-sa Township land lay in this district, and was highly benefited from the improvement, though not more so than many other lands adjoining.

Mr. Grieser gave his personal superintendence to his farms and other lines of business from his home in Quincy. For many years he lived on State Street, but later moved to the residence on Elm Street where he died. He was a republican voter and an active member of the Baptist Church.

]\[r. Grieser met and married his first wife, Adelia Davis, at Canton, ^lissouri. She was a native of ^Missouri and died at the State Street home of the family in 1873. Her only child, Maude, is the wife of Dr. Otis Johnson, the prominent Quincy surgeon.

At Taylorville, Illinois, Mr. Grieser married Miss Hattie Ash. Mrs. Grieser, who resides at 305 South Sixteenth Street, was born in Macoupin County, Illinois, and was educated largely in Christian County and at Quincj-. She is a daughter of Kankin and Virginia (Clark) Ash, the former a native of Chester County, Pennsj'lvania, and of an old Pennsylvania family. Her father came to Illinois and was an early settler in Macoupin Comity, where he married Miss Clark. Her mother was of Scotch ancestry and a native of Kentucky and when a young girl accompanied her parents to Macoupin County, where her fatlier was a carriage maker. Mr. and Mrs. Ash after tlieir marriage lived on a farm near Gillespie, where their only child, Mre. Grieser, was born. The family removed to Quincy and ^Irs. Grieser 's mother died at the age of thirty-two and her father at fifty-five. They were also a Baptist family.

]\Irs. Grieser became the mother of ten children, namely: Maxie, unmarried and living at home with her mother ; Edward, who died in yoimg manhood -, "William A., who is also a bachelor living with his mother and is managing the family farms in Ursa and Ellington townships, and is also one of the commissioners of the Indian Grave Levee district. Nina, who like the other children was well educated in the Quincy schools : Harry A., who is foreman in one of the departments of the West Coast Ship Building Company, and thus is doing his part to help win the war; Leroy 0., who is a g:-aduate of Illinois State University with the class of 1916 and is associated with his brother William on the farm ; Zoe, who died at the age of eight years ; Grandison L., a young man of twenty-five who finished his education in Illinois State LTniversity, later enlisted and is now in training for wireless service in camp at Indianapolis ; Robert W., aged twentytwo, has been with the ambulance corps in active duty in France since the winter of 1917-18 ; Virginia F., a graduate with tlie class of 1918 from St. Mary's Academy. Mrs. Grieser is an active member of the Baptist Churcii and most of her children are likewise affiliated.

Calvin H. White. Glendale Farm, a half mile east of Mendon, has a reputation for its fine stock by no means confined to Adams County. Stockmen generally keep in close touch with the tinn of C. II. White & Son, and farmers who have succeeded in incorporating some of the blooded strains from the Glendale Farm refer with a special touch of pride to the fact.

Mr. White and his son are specialists and experts in the livestock business. Calvin H. White is a native of Adams County, and is a member of the well known AVhite family of Honey Creek Township, in which locality he was born July 16, 1851, son of John A. and Elizabeth (White) White. His father was a native of Alabama and his mother of Tennessee. John A. White came to Adams County in 1833, and grew up and married here.

Calvin H. White remained at home to the age of twenty-one and then started his independent career as a farmer by renting an adjoining farm for eighteen years. He then bought ninety acres a mile and a half northwest of Mendon, paying $6,500, and after holding it twelve years sold for $11,000. Ten yeai-s ago he bought his present place, the former owner having been Samuel Chittenden. This land cost him $100 an acre, and ^Ir. White has invested about $4,000 in buildings, including a new home, his son occupying the old house on the place.

Glendale is especially well known for its Shorthorn cattle and its Poland China hogs. The head of his cattle is one of the prize bulls from the McDermott herd of Cahoka, IMissouri. A half-brother of the bull on the Glendale Farm brought $2,000, while another of the same stock sold for $3,000. :\Ir. White's bull, a fine roan, weighed 1,300 pounds when one year old. He has twenty head in his herd. Mr. White is a director of the Farmers State Bank at Mendon.

At the age of twenty-one he married Martha J. Hiuiter, a neighbor girl, daughter of Hugh and Jane (Edmonds) Hunter, both of whom are now deceased. Her father was born in Scotland and her mother in Wales, and they were married in Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. White have two children: Isadore and Richard H. Isadore is the wife of Charles Evans, who lives on an adjoining farm, and they have a child, Alta. Richard H., who is his father's partner, lives on the Glendale Farm and though a young man is quoted as an authority on many branches of the livestock business. He married Ada Chittenden, daughter of Harry Chittenden of this county. They have one daughter. Hazel. - Mr. C. H. White has never sought any office, though he has served as a school board member and road commissioner. He is a republican voter and a member of the Congi-egational Church.

Frank H. Bredeweg. In the history of the German element in Adams County as written by Mr. Bornmann on other pages, one of the families credited to the .year 1812 is the Bredeweg. Thus for more than three quarters of a century the people of this name have been identified in many worthy and useful ways with the locality, and their interests and associations have been concerned with the most substantial affairs of the community.

A representative of the family who is a native son of Adams, County is Frank H. Bredeweg, probably one of the most successful and prosperous farmers in the immediate vicinity of Quincy. ]\Ir. Bredeweg was born here February 25, 1853. He is the oldest of the seven children, two sons and five daughtei's, born to Garrett H. and Hannah Wilhelmina (Stickhorst) Bredeweg. Garrett Bredeweg, though born in Germany, was reared in Holland, and as a young man came to the United States in 1842. He arrived in Adams County with only $7 in cash. Though his name aftei-wards became synonymous with large landed possessions and business influence, he started his career here as a wage earner at $7 a month. He worked in Jlelrose Township and the first land he bought was si.xty acres in Riverside Township. That land was in section 26. He had to go in debt to make the purchase and rigid economy and thrift were necessary to relieve himself of his financial obligations. Gradually he added other possessions until he owned about 750 acres in Adams County. He was one of the prominent and successful men of his time. Honor and business affairs was a cai'dinal point of his character. He had his home in section 26 from 1848 to 1878 and was successfully engaged in general farming and dairying. A republican Y0t«r, he never sought official honors and gave his undivided time to his business affairs. However, he was very liberal in support of church and its various causes, and was oue of the large contributors to the erection of Salem Church at Quinc}'. The death of this honored Adams County pioneer occurred in March, 1893.

His wife, Hannah Wilhelraina Stickhorst, was bom in Germanj-, and was a small girl when her parents came to the United States. Tlie voyage was made in a sailing vessel lasting a number of weeks. She distinguished herself as a splendid housewife and mother, and was equally libei'al and ardent with her husband in upbuilding the forces of religion in her comnuuiity. One form in which her liberality took expression was in generous support of the Young Men's Christian Association at Quincy. In the building of that institution her portrait hangs a,s the tribute to her liberal benefactions. Her death occurred ii^ Los Angeles, California, January 1, 1900, but her remains were returned to Illinois and now rests beside those of her husband in Woodland Cemetery. Of their family of children six are living, and all reside in Adams County except Anna, wife of Fred Schulte, formerly a merchant but now retired.

Frank H. Brcdeweg grew up in the home of his parents and was early trained to agricultural and dairy operations. His has been a most busy and successful career and for forty years he has assumed his share of responsibilities both in the business and civic life of his community.

On January 15, 1878, at the age of twenty-five, he married Miss Emelia Klusemeyer. ]\Irs. Bredeweg was born in Quincy JMarch 12, 1857, daughter of August and Anna (Ausmeyer) Klusemeyer. A page is devoted to the Klusemeyers in other parts of this work, but it is appropriate here to introduce a brief obituary which appeared in the local papers regarding the death of Mr. Klusemeyer.

"August Klusemeyer of 724 S. 13th Street passed away at 7:15 o'clock at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Minnie Viehmeyer. He had been ailing for some time with diseases incidental to old age to which he finally succumbed at the age of eighty-three years, three months and thirteen days.

"]Mr. Klusemeyer was born in Herfurt, Westphalia, Germany, ^larch 12, 1825, and died in 1908. He learned the trade of shoemaker in his native province. At the age of thirty-one years he came to this country, in a strange land among strange people and language and a man honest in character, industrious, but poor in capital. He came direct to Quincy November 8, 1856, since which time he made his home, a period of fifty-two years, more than a half century. He was known as a good citizen, honest and law abiding, and he connnanded the respect of all who knew him. He was for many years in the shoe business at 813 Payson avenue, Quincy, retiring from business in the year 1893. In 1888 his good wife died and since that time he made his home with his daughter Mi"S. Viehmeyer. ]\Ir. Klusemeyer was a member of the Salem church ever since he came to Quincy. He is survived bj- one son, three daughters, twentythree grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren, and one brother, Frederick, of ^lelrose township. The children are Henry Klusemeyer, "Sirs. Bert Wessell and Mrs. Minnie Viehmeyer, all of Quincy, and Mrs. Frank Bredeweg of North 5th Street in Riverside township. The funeral occurred at the residence of ]\Irs. Viehmeyer, with services at Salem church and interment at Woodland cemetery."

Mrs. Bredeweg wa.s reared and educated in her home county. She is a woman of splendid ability, demonstrated both in the management of her home affairs and the rearing of her children as also in the assistance she has given

Mr. Bredeweg in the larger interests of their life. They have every reason to be happj' and proud of their family, consisting of a son and a daughter. The daughter, Dollie M., was educated in the Quincy High School and also had musical training, and is now the wife of John B. Keith, of Davenport, Iowa. Ml'. Keith is in tlie service of the Government, one of the trusted employes at the Rock Island Arsenal. The son, Harry A., is a graduate of the Quincy High School and the Gem City Business College and is a young man of great ambition and has made good in all his work. For five years he was located at Pittsburg with the Pittsburg Supply Company and is now a resident of Detroit with the Wagner Baking Company. He is a republican in politics.

]Mrs. Bredeweg is a member of the Salem Lutheran Church and has been active in its various organizations, ilr. and Mrs. Bredeweg have one of the most beautiful estates around Quincy. It is located on North Fifth Street, only three blocks from the eitj- limits. The home is the equal of many of the best in the city, having furnace heat, electric light, rural mail deliverj' and every other modern convenience.

The Bredeweg farm consists of 200 acres in Riverside Township. All the buildings are modern and thoroughly well arranged for stock raising and farming. Mr. Bredeweg in addition to farming is a general building contractor and for a number of years has been one of the busiest men in his township. He has given mueli time to public affairs, having sers'ed as township supervisor eight years and also as road commissioner. In politics he is a republican, casting his fii-st presidential ballot for Hayes. He has done some reclamation work, and a dam or levee thirty-eight feet high in one place has been constructed and reclaims 100 acres of bottom land on his farm. Mr. and Mrs. Bredeweg have used their ample means to benefit themselves and others. One of their interesting excursions from home was made in 1906, when they toured the Far West. Among the points of interest they visited were Mount Shasta, San Francisco, San Jose, Monterey, Los Angeles, Pasadena and Santa Barbara, including a visit to the ^Mexican border. They went west by waj^ of the Union Pacific and returned by the Southern Pacific route.

Fred C. Turner. The career of the agriculturist has brought Fred C. Turner many pleasant and profitable experiences, and it is principally through that vocation that he has made his mark as a citizen of Mendon Township. Mr. Turner owns one of the excellent farms of that locality, in section 21, two miles east of Ursa.

The land which he owns and cultivates today has been in the family for many years. He was born there December 2, 1874, a son of Fred C, Sr.. and Mary E. (P'letcher) Turner. The Turner family came into Adams County in 1834. One of those who came at that time was Joseph Turner, who was born at Dedliam. ]Massachusetts, June 12, 1799. Accompanying him to Adams County were his father, Ebenezer, and three brothers, Edward, Ebenezer and John. Joseph Turner located near Wesley Chapel, and late in life retired to ilendon in order to be near the Jlethodist Church of that town, of which he was a very active member. He died March 16, 1876, at the age of seventy-seven.

Fred C. Turner, Sr., was born in Ursa Township May 17, 1839, and was well educated, completing his early training in a school at Denmark, Iowa. He taught school, studied civil engineering, and for a number of years practiced surveying. On December 23, 1869, he married Mary E. Fletcher, who was boru on the farm in section 21 of Mendon Township where her son Fred now lives. Her parents were Ephraim and Mary Jane (^Icilurray) Fletcher. Ephraim I'letcher sec\n-ed his land in Mendon Township from his father and lived there until his death when his daughter Mary was only sixteen years old. Mary E. Fletcher was one of four children. Her brothers died young, and her sister Louisa never married. Mary E. Fletcher was only eighteen when she man-ied ^Ir. Turner. After their marriage at Galesburg they returned to the Fletcher farm of eighty-five acres, and Fred C. Turner handled that property with great skill aucl thrift, and subsequently bought 122 acres, combining it with the Fletcher laud. Ephraira Fletcher had built a barn on this land about seventy years ago, hewing out the timbers bj* hand. In 1855 he had remodeled his home to an eight room dwelling, which was considered one of the best houses of the kind in the township. Mrs. Mary E. Turner's mother died at the age of seventyfive. Mary E. Turner spent the last thirteen years of her life at Galesburg and Quiney, and died in March, 1917, at the age of sixty-nine. Of her eight children seven came to maturity : John F., who is an engineer with the Atlantic Coast Line at Lakeland, Florida ; Joseph, an engineer with the Wabash Railway, with headquarters at Brimswick, ]\Iissouri ; Fred C, Jr. ; Herbert, Mho has spent his life as a fanner ; ]\Iary F., wife of Charles Higgins, a chemist liviug in Chicago ; Everett, a business man of Galesburg ; Enoch, who died in infancj- ; Louise, wife of Theodore F. Awerkamp, a paying teller with the Bicker National Bank of Quiney.

Fred C. Turner lived at home with his parents to the age of twenty-one, when he married !Miss Alice McVay, who was then eighteen j-ears old. After their marriage they farmed the old Fletcher place, renting it for a time, and finally bought the entire property, comprising 205 acres. This is the farm where Mr. Turner has done so well and prospered as an agriculturist and stock man. It has been his custom for several years to sell about two carloads of hogs annually. He is a republican, is a member of the Congi-egational Church at Mendon, and his father was an active Mason. Mr. and ^Irs. Turner have three children, all at home : Vera E., who gi-aduated from high school with the class of 1916, spent two years in Knox College at Galesburg and is now a teacher in Adams County ; Ferol CaiTol, who graduated from high school in 1918 is now attending Knox College ; and Fred Paul.

JoHx H. Tenk was one of the good and solid citizens of Quiney, was known as honest and tmthful John Tenk, was connected with the mechanical trades for a number of yeai's, and at his death on October 14, 1911, left not only a legacy of material good but the reputation and honor of a worthy life and character.

He was born in Westphalia, Germany, January 12, 1855, and came of an old German family. His parents were Herman and Catherine E. (Buck) Tenk, who spent all their lives in .Westphalia as farmers. They were Catholics in religion. They had a number of children, and most of them lived and died in the old country. John H. Tenk had two sisters, Elizabeth and Christina, who came to the United States. Christina was the first to come. She located at Quiney. Elizabeth married Henry Brasing, and they lived in Quiney, where he died at the age of seventy and she about fifty-five. Henrv' Brasing was a brick mason. They left sons and daughters. Christina Tenk married Herman Terstrip, and she died in 1909, when past fifty years of age, while her husband is still living.

John H. Tenk grew up in his native province, was educated there, and in 1875 came to the United States to join his sister in Quiney. Here he learned the trade of plasterer and mason and eventually became a master mason. He was employed to do the plastering work on some of the best homes and public buildings, including churches and schools, at Quiney. His partner in the plastering contract work was Josiah J. Perry. Later he had as partner Frank Hilbing, his brother-in-law. Mr. Tenk about six years before his death retired and spent his last years in comfort at his home at 1328 North Ninth Street, where the family have lived for forty years. He had accumulated much property and at the time of his death owned ten houses and also a small farm of tem acres in Riverside Township. This property has been carefully conserved by his widow and children since his death. Mr. Tenk was a democratic voter.

At St. Francis Church in Quiney February 26, 1878, he married Miss Elizabeth Hilbing. I\lrs. Tenk still occupies the old home on North Nintli Street. She was born in Quiney December 11, 1854, and was educated here in the St. Francis parochial schools. Her parents were Anthony and Catherine

(Hestliiig) Hilbiug, both natives of Westphalia. They crossed the ocean to the United States on the same sailing vessel, making the voyage in nine weeks, landed at Baltimore, and came west to Quiucy, where they were married in St. Boniface Church. Mr. Hilbing was a cooper by trade and followed that vocation until he retired. He was retired about ten years and died at his home 524 North Eleventh Street, July 31, 1897, at the age of seventy-one. His widow passed away June 16, 1917, at the age of eighty-tive. They were members of St. Boniface Catholic Church.

Mr. and Mrs. Tenk had the following children: John H., Jr., died January 8, 1900, at the age of twenty-one; Henry died at the age of three months; Frank, boi-n April 9, 1881, lives on the Riverside Township farm of his father. He married Gertrude Yeargensmeyer, and their children are Henry, John, Raymond and Dorothy, the two older now in school. Catherine Tenk was educated in St. John's parochial scliools, and is now the wife of William Steinkamp. Mr. Steinkamp was born in Quiney, was educated in the St. Boniface parochial schools, and is a harness maker by trade. They have two children, E. Deloris, and Olivia M. The next two children, Edith and Edward Tenk, both died at the age of three months. Addie J. is the wife of Frank Pfietfer, a gardener in Riverside Township. They had two children, Frank, who died in infancy, and Virgil F., born in 1916. Edward, the youngest child of the family, is the soldier representative. He is a boilermaker by trade, and is now serving in Company B of the Nineteentli Engineer Corps in France. All the family are members of St. John's Parish.

John A. Dickhut. At different points in these pages references have been made to the sterling activities and character of various members of the Dickhut family. One of them was the late John A. Dickhut, whose life requires some particular attention at this point.

He was bora at Quiney January 20, 1850, and died July 12, 1912. His father was John Andrew Adolph Dickhut, who was born in Germany in 1823 and died in this county Februai-y 22, 1899, having spent more than half a century as a farmer in Adams County. Hte was twice married and John A. Dickhut was the oldest child of his first wife.

John A. Dickhut grew to manhood in Gilmer Township, and on February 8, 1877, married Eleanor S. Booth. She is a daughter of Stephen and Lavinia (Gray) Booth. Her mother was a sister of Richard Gray and an aunt of Will Gray of Coatsburg. Stephen Booth was born in England December 7, 1815, and in 1828 came with his parents to America and in 1833 settled in Adams County. He was one of the pioneer farmers in the vicinity of Coatsburg, and some of the land he had there is still owned by members of the Gray family. Mrs. Dickhut 's parents were married January 13, 1837. Their four daughters were: ]\Iary Ann, widow of Chapman Wilson, of Minnesota; Charlotte, who married Richard Colburn and died at the age of seventy-seven; Louise, who died at the age of thirty-three, wife of Thomas Powell ; and Eleanor S.

In 1842 Stephen Booth became identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church and was one of its stanchest supporters the rest of his life. He died at the age of sixty-eight. His widow survived and died at the home of Mrs. Dickhut aged eighty-five.

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. John A. Dickhut farmed on rented land, at the end of which time they bought the old Booth place of her father, and they lived there, giving Mrs. Dickhut 's mother a home in old age and bringing up their own children. John A. Dickhut greatly prospered in all his undertakings, owned a fine farm of 300 acres, and also land elsewhere. While his energies were devoted to farming, he served as tax collector and school director, and was always a man of public spirit and willing to support all local enterprises.

Mr. and ]\rrs. Dickhut had a family of six children. Mrs. Dickhut remained on the old homestead until 1918, when she occupied a ta.stefully built and eon- venieiit bungalow at Paloma. Her oldest child, Nettie May, is the wife of Charles C. Lawless, at Paloma. Her daughter Blanche is Mrs. Henry Ogle, of Gilmer Township. Florence, the third child, lives with her mother and is the widow of Leon Sivertson. Leon Sivertson was born October 23, 1882, and died December 31, 1910, at the age of twenty-eight. His parents were William F. and Laura H. (White) Sivertson, and this is a well known old family in the vicinity of Paloma. Leon Sivertson and Florence Dickhut were married November 24, 1909, and their onlv son, Donald Frederick, was bom September 28, 1910.

Oliver P. Dickhut, the oldest son of Mrs. Dickhut, has special mention on other pages. Koscoe Lee Dickhut is the other son and occupies the homestead. Hazel is living with her mother.

Roscoe Lee Dickhut was born on the old farm where he now resides October 31, 1887, and has spent his life .so far in that one locality. He was well educated, and on December 12, 1917, at the age of thirty, married Miss Ruby Sivertson of Paloma daughter of Ed Sivertson. Roscoe L. Dickhut has had the practical management of the homestead for a number of j-ears, practically ever since his father's death and even prior to that time. This gives him a large amount of land and responsibilities in proportion, but he has shown an ability to make the most out of his opportunities and is one of the productive and resourceful farmers of the county.

William Wewers. A man of pronounced business ability, judgment and foresight, the late William Wewers was a conspicuous factor in the upbuilding of the industrial interests of Quincy, for upwards of a quarter of a century having been officially connected with the Gem City Stove Works, and the moving spirit in making it one of the important and prosperous manufacturing concerns of the city. Born in Quincy July 1.5, 1851, he was not only a fine representative of the native-born citizens of Adams County, but of the self-made men of his generation, his success in life having been the result of his own unaided efforts.

His father, Bernard Wewers, was born and bred in Germany. Coming as a young man to America, he made his way to Illinois, locating in Quincy. Learning the trade of mason and bricklayer, he became an expert concrete worker, and in that capacity laid much of the good concrete pavement in the city. He married Adelaide ]Moeller, who was also of German birth, and they reared three children, as follows: William, the subject of this sketch; Anna, wife of Henry Lechtenberg. of Quincy; and Bernard, also of Quincy.

Accjuiring his preliminary education in the Saint Boniface parochial school, William Wewers subsequently continued his studies at the night schools of the city. Beginning life for himself when qiiite young, he learned the Sadler's trade, but never followed it to any extent. When twenty-one years of age he established a chair factory on Eleventh Street, between Jersey and York streets, and ran it about four years, when he sold out. Then, in company with August Vanden Boom and Joseph Wewers, Mr. Wewers was for six years engaged in the milling business, having a plant at the corner of Second and Spring streets. Mr. Wewers, disposing of his interest in the mill, then accepted the position of manager of the Gem City Stove Works, of M'hich he was afterwards the president, having been officially connected with the concern for twenty-eight years prior to his death, which occurred May 9, 1912.

Mr. Wewers married May S, 1879, IMary Lechtenberg, and of their union four children were born, namely: Adelaide, deceased; Stevens, deceased; Bertha, wife of Henry J. Rupp ; and Albert, deceased. Mrs. Wewers, a most estimable and liighly esteemed woman, built in September, 1914, a beautiful home at 1270 Park Place, and there entertains her friends with a generous hospitality.

Politically Mr. Wewers was independent, voting with the courage of his convictions, regardless of party restrictions. Religiously he was a member of Saint

McMuLLEN Brothers. One of the biggest farms and stock enterprises in Adams County is carried on under the business name of McMuUen Brothers, George E. and Arthur R. McMuUen, their extensive barns, fields, feed lots and business headiiuarters being located in Keene Township, six miles east of[ Mendon.

Their father, the late Andrew P. McMuUen, was one of the stalwart and beloved citizens of Adams County, a man who was a producer and made much of life from limited opportunities. He was born in Ireland, son of an Irish blacksmith. He learned to handle the implements in his father's shop when most boys are not yet going to school, and he sometimes was set to work making nails by his blacksmith father. At the age of seven years an uncle paid his passage to America, and on reaching Philadelphia he was turned loose and had to depend entirely on his own resources. He helped sort coal, and then served an apprenticeship at the blacksmith's trade. For twenty-two years he was employed chiefly in shoeing omnibus horses in Philadelphia. At Philadelphia he married Elizabeth Jane Dougherty, a sister of Theodore Dougherty, elsewhere referred to in these pages. While they lived in Philadelphia three children were born : William, who died at the age of twenty-one ; ilathew, who for twentyfive years was a street railway employe in Chicago and died in 1911, while on his way home from his father's funeral; and Mamie, wife of William 0. Gorby, near Bowen in Hancock County.

Andrew McMullen responded to the inducements held forth by a relative to come to Adams County and establish a shop at Coatsburg. His wife's aunt, Mrs. Hugh Hunter, lived in Honey Creek Township and it was through the Hunter family that the McMuUens came west. Andrew JIcMullen was a blacksmith at Coatsburg five years and then started a shop at what is known aa Dorsey Corners, one mile east of the old McMullen home. Subsecpiently he bought foi-ty-four acres in the present McMullen farm, paying $900 for this tract of timber land. He built his house there and also erected a shop, and continued industriously at his forge until about 1909, when failing health caused him to retire. He was a skillful and expert blacksmith in every line, had a large patronage, and was as popular as he was a good workman. He died October 9, 1911, at the age of seventy-four. His widow survived him six months, passing away in April, 1912, when about the same age. Andrew McMullen increased his landed property until he had 114 acres in the homestead, and also eighty acres a short distance away. He gave all his attention to his shop and his sons looked after the farm. After Andrew McMullen came to Adams County five other children wei'e born : George E., born August 20, 1869 ; Ida E., w'ife of Albert Steiner, a farmer at Bowen ; Theodore G., in the transfer business at Council Bluffs, Iowa; Lizzie Maj-, who died in childhood; and Arthur R., born November 25, 1880.

George E. and Arthur R. McMullen bought tlie old homestead from their father and through their .extensive operations as fanners and stockmen have greatly increased their holdings, buying first the Turner farm of 116 acres, then another 40 acres, the Naderhoff farm of 160 acres on the south, coml)ining in one farm 510 acres. For their land they paid prices ranging from $87 to $125 an acre. It is on this big farm that the ilcMullen Brothers have established and developed their stock business. They keep their fields under cultivation for a maximum of crops, liut even at that buy large quantities of feed for the hundreds of cattle and hogs they fatten for market every season. Besides hogs they feed from eighty to a hundred head of cattle every year. The McMuUen Brothers are well known in the livestock markets of Chicago.

Arthur Mc^MuUen married August 29, 1912, Edith Emma Zeiger, daughter of Henry Zeiger, of Clayton Township. Their children are named Raymond Leland, Russell Gordon. Elizalieth Marie and Leona Mav. George McMullen is unmarried. He is affiliated with the Odd Fellows. The McMullens were reared in the Episcopal Church and the sons attend worship at Clayton.

Henry F., Chittenden, of Mendou Township, has many of the characteristics in physique, mind and heart that distinguished his ancestry and served to make the name Chittenden one of the best known and most honored in the annals of Adams County from earliest pioneer times. Mr. Chittenden has devoted his life's labors to farming and farm management, and as a matter of course his resources and influence have been sought in other lines of business. He is now a member of the Board of Eeview, is a bank director at Mendon and a trustee of the Adams County Mutual Life Association. Mr. Chittenden is a large man physically, and broadminded as a citizen, one of the best esteemed of Mendon Township people.

Before touching upon his individual career it is appropriate that the important facts should be stated concerning his honored grandfather, Col. John B. Chittenden, founder of the Village of Mendon. Colonel Chittenden was born at Guilford, Connecticut, January 16, 1790, fourth of the seven children of Deacon Abraham Chittenden. He was reared as a farmer and in early life became identified with the Congregational Church and in his twenty-first year was chosen a deacon. January 12. 1814, he married Eliza Robinson, daughter of Col. Samuel Robinson of Guilford. They became the parents of seven children.

In September, 1831, with his wnfe and four sons, in a two-horse covered w^agon, John B Chittenden stai-ted for Illinois, and Quincy. He was joined by Samuel Bradley and a number of others in Connecticut, and altogether they comprised a colony of thirty-six persons and five W'agons. The purpose that led Colonel Chittenden upon his westward migration has been stated as follows: First, to establish, strengthen and extend the Christian religion by the organization of churches, Sunday school and Bible classes ; second, to provide better for his family of boys in a new country. After three months of trials and hardships incident to such travel he found himself and family frozen on the Mississippi River near Hannibal, and thence they were transported by wagon and team, the last few miles on the ice of the river. Arriving at Quincy in December they spent the first night in the home of Governor John Wood. ]March 2, 1832, Colonel Chittenden bought from Jacob Gorshong, an old French settler, the southwest quarter of section 11 in what is now ]\Icndon Township. Its improvements consisted of a field of about ten acres and a log house. The log house is historic because in it the Congregational Church of Mendon was formed, that being the first Congregational churcli organized in the State of Illinois. In Februar\', 1833, Colonel Chittenden bought an adjoining quarter in the same section, and soon after laid oiit and started the Village of Jliendon. Later he sold his interest in the town site and retired to his farm two miles north of the village. There he lived until the death of his wife October 30, 1862. Mrs. Eliza Chittenden has been described as a most exemplary lady, w'hose law was the law of kindness and who never allowed herself to speak an unkind word to anyone. Colonel Chittenden did not long survive the passing of his beloved wife. He died January 23, 1863. at the age of seventy-three. Of him it has been written : "He had a clear and logical mind and was an able reasoner, and was a fluent and interesting piiblic speaker, an eai'nest worker in all causes of reform, unselfish in everything, thinking always to promote the happiness of others. His faith in and love for the church was unbounded. He was an honest, upright man and a sincere Christian."

Abraham Chittenden, a son of Colonel Chittenden and father of Henry Franklin Chittenden, was born in Guilford, Connecticut, December 1.5, 1824, and was therefore seven years of age when the family reached Adams County. Wliile his opportiniities to obtain a formal education were limited, he was given an excellent practical training, assisted his brothers in the management of the farm, and finally secured 120 acres of the old homestead in section 36 of Mendon Township. He bought other land, and in 1881 remodeled the substantial house that still adorns the property. He was actively identitied with farming until 1902, when he retired to Mendou and died in that village May 27, 1904. On December 19, 1852, he married Letitia Barclay, who was born in Lyons County, New York, and came to Adams County with her parents in 1851. ]\lrs. Letitia Chittenden is still living, at the age of eighty-two. Abraham Chittenden was a deacon in the Congregational church. He was a republican, but never sought official honors. He is remembered by the old timers as one of the most powerful men phj'sically in the county, and when in his prime he thought nothing of leaping a fence six feet high. Most of the land contained in his old farm was sold, but his son Henry Franklin still has forty acres of it. Abraham Chittenden and wife were the parents of three children : Henry F. ; Sadie E., who died in San Antonio, Texas, May 9, 1912, wife of George Shupe ; and Abraham L, who lives at Wichita, Kansas.

On the farm which he still owns, three miles northeast of Mendon, on the line between Mendon and Keene Townsliip, Henry Franklin Chittenden was born November 4, 1853. Nearly all his life ha.s been spent in this vicinity. For two years he attended an academy at Denmark, Iowa, and through seven winters both before and after his marriage taught school in this vicinity. March 9, 1877, he married Ella S. Jlills, of Denmark, Iowa. They were schoolmates in the Academy, and she also taught in her native state before her marriage. After his marriage ^Ir. Chittenden gave his chief energy to farming until ten years ago. Besides his homestead he owns a farm of 240 acres a mile east in Keene Township, and another of 260 acres on the townsliip line between Keene and Honey Creek Township. He gave his personal supei-vision to these three places for many years, and has since retired. When in his prime a.s a farmer he kept about 100 head of cattle, about the same number of hogs, and every j-ear had about seventy acres in corn, forty acres in wheat and forty acres in oats. Mr. Chittenden acquired most of his land in the era of low prices, much of it at about $35 an acre, though for some tracts he paid -$52 an acre. He is a republican and has served as a member of the County Board of Review for the past four years. He has always been active in church and Sunday school in his neighborhood and as a Modern Woodman of America has attended the Head Camp as delegate.

Mr. and Mrs. Chittenden had a family of five daughters and one son. Nellie E., who died in young womanhood, after her marriage to James Norris, both having been teachers; Frank B., who died at the age of twelve years; Ada L., who was formerly a teacher and is now Mrs. R. H. White, of Mendon; Sadie E., at home ; Mary M., who died at the age of twenty-six, the wife of Emmet Erghott ; and Ruth E., who taught school and is now the wife of John Mealiff, who manages one of Mr. Chittenden's farms.

James E. Adams. It was in the old Adams homestead at Quincy, Illinois, that Maj. James E. Adams, one of Quincy 's most prominent and respected citizens, was born January 15, 1848. Although other sections have also benefited through his energy- and talents, he has been a permanent resident of his native city for the past quarter of a century. Aside from his own achievements he bears an honored name at Quincy, to which place his parents came in 1839, when New England sent of her best to settle in Illinois. They were James and Mary G. (Arrowsmith) Adams. The maternal grandfather acquired large tracts of land and some of this land is now the busiest portions and most highly improved sections of the Quincy of today.

James Adams, father of ]\Iajor Adams, was a foundryman and in association with his brother, George Adams, built the first foundry at Quincy and was the pioneer in the indu.stry that is of such great importance in the city. The brothers were both men of great business enterprise in many lines. For about forty years they were the leading pork packers in this section, long before the marketing of meat assumed anything like its present proportions, and for as long a time they were exten.sive shippers of grain and produce. For a half centurj-

James E. Adams was educated in the public schools and the old Quiney Seminarv", and his education was not completed when, although only sixteen years of age, he enlisted in 1864, for service in the Civil war, becoming a member of the One Hundred and Thirty-Seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry. Notwithstanding his youth he served with the utmost courage and efiiciency until the war closed.

Before the railroad bridge at Quiney was built the ierry had to be utilized for the transfer of tho\isands of tons of freight, and one of the companies operating wa.s the Great Western Dispatch Company, with which the young soldier became identified after the war as a transfer clerk. Subsequently he accepted the position of cashier for the Merchants' Union Express Company. He learned something about civil engineering and went out on .surveys for the Q. JI. & P. Railway.

In 186D llr. Adams went to Texas, where he became deputy clerk of the Circuit Court of Parker County, and afterward engaged for a time in mercantile and banking business at Weatherford, Texas. He had become active in the republican party and it was in 1872 that he was appointed by President Grant a post trader in the regular army and was assigned to Fort Griffin, Texas, where he remained until 1876, when he removed to Edina, ^Missouri. He was one of the organizers of the Bank of Edina, of which he was cashier until 1892. He served as mayor of Edina for four years and the city prospered under his administration. He was also interested in the platting of Marceline, ^Missouri, being president of the Marceline Town and Land Company, and during this - period became active in the development of coal properties in that section that have continued to be of vast importance to the present da.y. In 1892 ]\Iajor Adams returned to Quiney and here his business interests have since been mainly centered, banking being his active field.

Major Adams was married at Weatherford. Texas, to Mrs. Sallie (White) Ellison, a widow. The children were: Josephine W., who is the wife of Henry E. Long, of Kansas City, Missouri ; Ethel E., who is the wife of Garrett B. Schuller, of Phoenix, Arizona; Ina D., who is decea.sed; and Mary C, who is the wife of Frank A. Wilson, of Quiney.

^Major Adams has served in many distinguished public capacities. He was commissioner of the United States District Court for the eastern district of Missouri from 1878 to 1892, and was one of the famous 306 who as delegate to the republican national convention of 1880 from the First Mis.souri District, cast thirt.y-six consecutive ballots for the reuomination of President Grant. During the ]\IcKinley campaign he was president of the McKinley Club at Quiney, and since, in political affairs, has been equally active and conscientiously interested. He was also a delegate to the Republican National Convention of 1916 from the Fifteenth Congressional District. Illinois. From the time of its oi-ganization he has been identified with the Grand Army of the Republic and he is a valued member of the Quiney Post, ^lajor Adams was reared in the Episcopal Church.

Emmett How.\rd. Possessing in a marked degree the qualifications needed for successfully conducting large affairs, Emmett Howard, of Quiney, is actively identified with the adavncement of the mercantile interests of Adams County, and as a wholesale dealer in house furnishing goods is carrying on a large and substantial business. A native of New York, he was born August 12, 1867, in Rathboneville.

His parents, Albert and Jeannette (Knickerbocker) Howard, were lifelong residents of the Empire state, the father having been engaged in agricultural pursuits. They reared three children, as follows : Clifton, of Hot Sprinsrs, Arkansas ; Emmett, the subject of this sketch ; and Albert F., of Farmville, Virginia.

Educated in New York State, Emmett Howard attended first tlie public schools of Morrisville and later the Cazenovia Seminai'v. In 1887, with the restless spirit characteristic of the true American, he started westward in search of remunerative employment, and for several years wa.s employed as a traveling salesman, selling household goods. In 1896 he located at Springfield, Missouri, where he remained three years. Coming from there to Quiney in 1899, Mr. Howard opened a retail store, putting in a stock of household furnishing goods. Succeeding well in his venture, he gradually enlarged his operations and is now carrying on a strictly wholesale business, his establishiiient being advantageously located at 117-119 North Third Street. He is also prominently identified with other important industries of the city, being president of the Quincj' Paper Box Company, and likewise of the E. Howard ilercantile Company.

Mr. Howard married, ^March 14, 1894, Mrs. Julia Watson, widow of Beverly Watson, and they have one son, William Howard, who is associated in business with his father. Politically Mr. Howard is a democrat. Fraternally he is a thirty-third degree ilason, and is president of the Masonic Association. He also belongs to the Order of the United Commercial Travelers of America and to the Travelers' Protective Association.

Fred G. Wolfe, ilost of the successful lawyers of the country have served at one time or another a period as an official prosecutor. It is considered one of the most valuable parts of a lawyer's experience, and in Illinois a lawyer who can retire with a creditable record as a state's attorney has his prospects for the future well insured. The office of prosecutor is also a splendid opportunity for public service, and as such it was regarded during Fred G. Wolfe's incumbency in Adams County from 1913 to 1917. Mr. AVolfe was a very able man in office, and has done much to distinguish himself in his profession. He is now serving as county judge, having l>een elected in November, 1918, on the democratic ticket for a four-year term.

He is a gi-aduate of law from the University of iliehigan Law Department with the cla.ss of 1909. He had been admitted to practice by examination at Chicago prior to his graduation. He at once located in Quiney, and the first case in which he appeared publicly as a member of the bar was as attorney for one party in a litigation over an estate. He won the case for his client.

Judge Wolfe was elected state's attorney of Adams County in 1912. and for four years gave all his efforts to the duties of the position. After retiring from that position he maintained his offices as an attorney in the Stenis Building and commanded a splendid practice.

He was born in Adams County, near Liberty, on a farm. December 20, 1876. He grew up as a farm boy, and was educated in the public schools until he entered college.

He represents one of the oldest families of Liberty Township. A record of things historical in that township states that the first sermon was preached the'Te by George Wolfe of the Dunkard denomination in 1829, and a Dunkard church was organized in 1831. It was also Elder George Wolfe who solemnized the first marriage in the township. This pioneer of the Dunkard faith was the great-grandfather of Judge Wolfe. As an early settler he patented 160 acres of land, built a log cabin, and there lived and died. He had come from Union County, Illinois, and the family lived for a time at Kaskaskia before sojourning in Adams County. The great-grandfather was born in Pennsylvania in 1780, and is credited with being the first preacher of the Dunkard Church west of the Alleghenj' Mountains. He was a leader of a little colony of the brethren who settled as a gi-oup in Adams County. This pioneer minister was a notable figure in the early days, a man of great physical strength and equallj- strong in moral and religious convictions.

David Wolfe, grandfather of Fred G. Wolfe, also came to Adams County as a pioneer and built a log cabin adjacent to that of his father. This old log building is still standing. He died in Liberty Township when iu middle life. The maiden name of his wife was Permelia McKuight, who lived to be over ninety- four years of age. Both were active members of the Duukard Church. David Wolfe was also prominent in public affairs, was a leader iu the democratic party and at one time represented the county in the State Legislatui'e. He died in 1879. Jacob B. Wolfe, father of the Quincy attorney, was born in the old log cabin home in Liberty Township in 1830. For many years he was a successful farmer in that locality, but for the past twent}' years has been a general merchant at Coatsbiirg, in this county. He married Emily Grubb, who was born in this county and died in the fall of 1879, when in the prime of life. Her people were Presbyterians. Fred G. Wolfe was one of four children. His sister Nellie married Charles C. Lawless and died leaving two children. Ebert Wolfe lives in Quincy and has a family of three children. Josephine is the wife of Arthur Chandler and has two sons.

Judge Wolfe is an active member of the County and State Bar associations, and in Masonry is a member of the various branches, including the thirtysecond degree of Scottish Rite. His father was at one time master of the Liberty Lodge No. 380. Judge Wolfe has membership iu the Odd Fellows at Liberty, of which he is past grand, and is a member of the Elks and Moose at Quincy. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church.

Fred W. Heckenkamp, Jr., Supreme President of the Western Catholic Union, is one of the prominent Catholic laymen in Illinois. He has served fourteen years as supreme president of this order, with offices in the Illinois State Bank Building. His name is identified with many other Catholic institutions and affairs. He is a Kjiight of Columbus, a member of St. Joseph's Benevolent Society, of St. Aloysius Orphan Society, of the Catholic Federation, and does much to support and direct a number of activities under the immediate auspices and management of the Catholic Church.

His positions in the church and the responsibilities with which he has been honored are in large part a reflection of his sueces.sful private business career. Mr. Heckenkamp is a member of an old Quincy family and is proprietor of what is no doubt the largest greenliouse and floral establishment in the city. He owns two well equipped greenhouse plants on Adams and Jackson streets, and hundreds of people ever^' year visit his peony and gladiolus fann near Harrison Street and Sixth Avenue. He has about five acres in cultivation to these flowers. It is no unusual thing for him to produce about 25,000 gladiolus bulbs every season, and he has two acres in peonies. He also grows about 10,000 asters every season. Under glass he has about 40,000 square feet.

This business was originally established in 1S81 by his father. Fred W. Heckenkamp, Sr. It was a very small house on Adams Street, but the Heckenkamps apparently possessed the faculty of succeeding in the production of plants and flowers with the aid of nature, and when the business was turned over to Fred W., Jr., in 1891 it was already a growing and prospering concern. The son has increased it many fold. In 1896 he introduced a seed and produce commission business, but after continuing it for seven years gave it \ip in order to concentrate all his time and energies on his floral business. His business store and headquarters are at 126 North Sixth Avenue, where he has a fine plant. At his greenhouses he has a sea.soning or underground cooler that keeps flowers in perfect condition after they are picked and before being marketed.

Fred W. Heckenkamp, Jr., was born in Quincy January 21, 1871, and was reared and educated here. He attended St. Francis College, and since reaching his maiority has been in the floral business. He is a son of Fred W., Sr., and Mary A. (Kroner) Heckenkamp, Both were natives of the Kingdom of Hanover, and were young people when their respective parents came by way of New Orleans to America, The Heckenkamps arrived iu Adams County in 1849 aud the Kroners in 1845. They established homes on farms in Melrose Township, and there Fred W., Sr., and wife grew up. He was the first student to register in old St. Francis College, now Quincy College. Later he took up the vocation of teaching, and an old Quincy directory of forty years ago gives his name with the profession of teacher. For thirteen years he taught in St. Mary's pai'ochial schools. He also did farming and gradually concentrated his efforts on the floral business. He finally became president of the German Fire Insurance Company of Quincy, but after six years retired from that office and engaged in the general fire insurance business on his own account and built up an immense patronage all over Adams County. He is now retired and with his wife lives at St. Vincent's Home in Quincy. Both were early members of St. Boniface Catholic Church but finally transferred their membersliip to St. ilary's parish. He has always been an active democrat, and was once an alderman from the third ward and was defeated after a strenuous campaign for the office of mayor. His wife first married John Vogelpohl, a native of Hanover, and an early business man of Quincy, long prominent in the affairs of the German Insurance Company He died in the prime of life, leaving two daughters, only one of whom is now living, Sister Wilhelmina, Mother Superior of St. Elizabeth Academy at St. Louis. Fred W. Heclienkamp, Sr., and wife had eleven children, including: Mrs. Elizabeth Wiskirehen, who is married and has a family of sons and daughtei-s; Mrs. Ed. D. Brewer, who is now business manager of St. Elizabeth Academy at St. Louis and has two daughters, both teachers; Fred W., Jr.; E. B., who is in the real estate business at Seattle, Washington, and has sons and daughters; Sophia, wife of William Wavering, of Wavering Brothers Milling Company at Quincy ; Sister Chrisologa, a teacher in the parish schools of Quincy.

Fred W. Heekenkamp, Jr., married at Quincy Elizabeth Boll who was born there January 27, 1875, and was educated in St. Mary's school. Mr. and Mrs. Heekenkamp have a large family of children. Clara, who is the wife of Joseph Hutmacher, an accountant with the International Harvester Company of Chicago, and they have a daughter, Mary K. George, who was educated in St. Francis College and is now foreman in his father's greenhouse. Frank, who also a.ssists his father in business. Joseph, a clerk in a city office. Robert, manager of his father's store; Antoinette and Bertha, both students in St. ilarv's Academy; Fred W., IIIj and Henrietta, who is attending St. Mary's school. The family are all members of St. Miary's Catholic Church.

Henry L. Myers. For over sixty years much of the enterprise and well directed efforts that have gone into the clearing of the land and production of crops and other matters a.ssociated with the welfare of a well ordered communit}- have come from the families in Gilmer and surrounding townships of the Myers relations. The name of the first pioneer of the family in this county was spelled Moyer, but in the present generation Myers is the accepted form.