Quincy Township (part 47 of 74)

Henry Moyer or Myers was born in Pennsylvania June 25, 1802. January 3, 1828, he married Anna Tinsman. She was born I\Iay 31, 1811. Henry Myers died in 1869, at the age of sixty-seven, and liis widow survived to the age of eighty-eight. The record of their children is as follows: Polly M,, who was the first wife of Mose Wareman; Jacob T. ; Nancy, who was the second wife of Mose Wareman; Sarah, widow of Doctor Gilland and living at Coatsburg; Catherine, who lives in California, widow of William Osborn ; Lovina, a resident of Oklahoma, widow of Simon Young; Cyrus C. ; Jesse J.; John Henry; Elvira. Mrs. Frank Dudley, living near ]\Iendon ; Izarra, deceased wife of Frank Ogle : Leroy. deceased ; Vannatta, Mrs. James Evans of IMendon Township ; and Lutulles is the only male survivor of this generation and lives at Fowler in this county.

Jacob T. Mvers, son of Henry I\Iyers, was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsvlvania, November 1, 1832. In 1851, at the age of nineteen, he accompanied his parents to Mendon Township, settling two miles northwest of Fowler. Vol. n - 10

It was in that commiinitj' that Henry Myers and wife spent their last years. On October 30, 1856, Jacob T. Myers married Mary E. Wilhoit. The marriage ceremony was performed by Rev. H. G. Abernathy. She was born in Columbus Township of Adams County May 15, 1838, a daughter of William and Delilah (Currj') Wilhoit, who had come from Kentucky to Illinois about 1835. Jacob Myers became a highly' successful and prosperous farmer, accumulating 270 acres three miles southwest of Columbus in Gilmer Township. In that community he passed away July 11, 1909, at the age of seventy-seven. His first wife died May 3, 1885. In 1887 he married for his second wife ili-s. Mai-y Gamble, who was a native of Baltimore, Marj-land. She died March 1, 1913.

The children of Jacob Myers by his first wife were : Annie, Mrs. Joseph Haley of Columbus, her family being subject of separate mention on other pages ; Melvina Ogle, who died soon after her marriage ; Loretta, deceased wife of Thoma.s Yeargain, of Paloma ; David Lee, a farmer in Gilmer Towaiship ; George E., a farmer who lives at Topeka, Kansas; Mary Elizabeth, Mrs. H. B. Coflfield, of San Diego, California; W^ilbur L., who owns the old ]\Iyers homestead ; Henry- L. ; Ida, wife of Elmer Kessler, of Camp Point Township ; Delilah May, Mrs. G. E. Dickhut, of Topeka, Kansas.

Representing the third generation of the family in this county are the several sons and danghtei*s just mentioned. At this point reference is made to Heniy L. Mj-ers, whose home is in Gilmer Township, a mile south of Fowler and eleven miles northeast of Quincy. He was born in that township February 28, 1874, and his early life was spent on the old farm and in the local schools. For nine years he provided for his family as a renter, eight years on one of his father's farms. In 1908 he bought his present place, the old Chase farm of 2IIV2 acres in one body. Mr. Myers is one of the men who paid a high price for his land, but has jiistified the purchase through his intelligent and thrifty management. His farm cost him .$14,800 and he ha.s .since rebuilt the house and added many other improvements. He farms on the general or mixed plan, and feeds a number of carloads of cattle, hogs and other livestock. Mr. Myers is a democrat in politics as was his father before him, who filled several local offices, including that of township supervisor. I\Ir. Myers and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

March 16, 1898, Henrj- L. Myers married :\liss Nellie M. Horner, daughter of Albert L. and Maria (Seaton) Horner, a prominent family of Camp Point Township, whose record is given on other pages, ilrs. ;\Iyers was born in this county September 27, 1877. ' *

One of the matters deserving space in any history of Adams County is the introduction of blue grass into the county. That important work is credited to Mrs. Myers' maternal grandfather, John S. Seaton, one of the early settlers and brother of Richard Seaton, well known in the county as a banker and former sheriff. John S. Seaton after settling in the county went back to Jefferson Count}', Kentucky, where he was born, and spent several days in stripping the seed from a quantity of bluegrass until he had a barrelful. He brought this to Adams County, and sowed it in fence corners and at other appropriate spots around his farm, and thus began the cultivation of one of the most valuable grasses kno^^^^ to mankind.

Mr. and Mrs. Myers are parents of three bright and interesting children : Horner Seaton, borii January 7, 1899; Wilbur Halford, born March 29, 1903; and Eleanor, born Februaiy 20, 1908. These children are still at home and Horner graduated from the Maplewood High School at Camp Point in 1918.

Simon Duker. Inheriting to a marked degree the business ability and integrity characteristic of his father, the late John Herman Duker, Simon Duker, of Quincy, is prominently identified with the commercial interests of this section of Adams County, which has always been his home, his birth having occurred June 11, 1858, in Quincy.

aaid there after attaining man's estate he followed the carpenter's trade until his death, while yet in manhood's prime. In 1847 his widow, Elizabeth Duker, came with her three sons, John Herman, Theodore and lienrj-, to the United States, landing in New Orleans, Louisiana. Six weeks later she came up the river with her boys to St. Louis, Missouri, where she lived for two months. Coming from there to Quiuey, Illinois, in tlie fall of 1847, she continued a resident of the city until her death.

A lad of fourteen years when he arrived in Adams County with his mother and brothers, John Hei-man Duker, who had ac(iuired a practical education in Hanover, Germany, his native place, served an apprenticeship at the saddler's trade, which he afterwards followed as a journeyman for a few yeare. Subsequently, in partnership with John Kuhl, he established in Quiuey a harness and saddlery store, with which he was identified until 1859. Selling his interest in 1859, he was engaged in the grocery business with his brother Theodore until 1871, wdieu they embarked in the wholesale liquor trade under the firm name of J. H. Duker & Brother, locating at No. 323 Hampshire Street, Quiuey. lu 1837 John Herman Duker, senior member of the above named firm, became one of the stockholders of the Quincy National Bank, of which he was made president a short time later, a responsible position which he filled most ably and satisfactorily until his death, November 14, 1903.

John H. Duker married, in 1856, Clara Elizabeth Glass, who was born in Quincy, a daughter of Simon and Margaret (Liebig) Glass, and she died at her beautiful home in Quincy in Februaiy, 1912. Of the ten children born of their union, six are now living, as follows : Simon, the special subject of this brief sketch; Ann M., wife of John C. Ording; Nina il., wife of Doctor Blickham; Ellen M., who with her brother Simon occupies the commodious granite mansion built by her father ; John, emploj'ed in the Quincy National Bank ; and Clara, wife of Harry Beatty, of Los Angeles, California. Both of the parents were members of Saint Boniface Catholic Church. In politics the father was an influential member of the democratic party, and for twenty-five years was a member of the Quincy Board of Education, and an important factor in developing the present admirable public school system.

Finding employment in a general store in 1874, Simon Duker worked in the establishment a year, after which he resumed his studies, attending school for a year. The following three years he worked for the firm of J. H. Duker & Brother, of which his father was at the head, and at the age of twenty-one years started in business for himself as a dealer in agricultural implements, continuing for five years, when he had the misfortune to ])e burned out. Mr. Duker in 1888 entered his father's store, with which he has since been associated. In 1904 the business was incorporated under its present firm name, J. H. Duker & Brother Company, with Simon Duker, presiclent and treasurer ; Otto Duker, vice president ; and John C. Ording, secretary. Mr. Duker is a director of the Quincy National Bank, of which his father was formerly president. True to the religious faith in which he was reared, he is a valued member of the Saint Boniface Catholic Church.

WalterT a. Heidbreder. One of the enterprising young business men of Quincy, who l)ears a name that has been honored here in commercial circles for many yeai-s, is "Walter A. Heidbreder, w-ho is assistant cashier of the State Street Bank and is interested in other successful enterprises here. He was born at Quincy, Illinois, July 22, 1879, and is a son of J. Herman and Anna (Junker) Heidbreder.

The late J. Herman Heidbreder was among the foremost business men of Quiuey. He was born in Germany and with other members of his family came to the United States in 1851 and located at Quincy, where misfortune overtook the parents, whereby the youth was thrown entirely upon his own resources. It is well to recall this because of the example he set, through industry and integrity overcoming great hardships and in the course of time reaching aflBuenee and high public esteem. For almost a quai-ter of a century he was engaged iu the dry goods business, later was interested suecessfulty in handling real estate, and in 1890, in association with other capitalists, founded the State Street Bank, of which he was cashier during the rest of his life, his death occurring August 28, 1907. He is recalled as one of the city's generous and public spirited men, a friend and promoter of educational and religious movements. He married Anna Junker, a native of Germany, who died March 18, 1911, and eleven children were born to them, the following surviving : Walter A. ; William H., who is secretary of the Gem City Stove Mani;facturing Company ; Clara M., who is the wife of H. C. Sprick ; Harry J., who is with the State Street Bank ; Minnie, who is the wife of Charles Seifert, of Quiney ; and Alma, who is the wife of M. M. Hess, of Saskatchewan, Canada.

Walter A. Heidbreder was educated in the public schools of Quiney and then took a commercial course in the Gem City Business College. In 1897 he entered the State Street Bank and has been identified witli this financial institution ever since, with the exception of one year, 1899-1900, when he was with the Gem City Stove Company. Since 1907 Mr. Heidbreder has been assistant cashier. He is financially interested in and is a director of the Central Iron Works at Quiney and of the Gem City Stove Manufacturing Company.

Mr. Heidbreder is a republican in his political affiliation. Fraternally he is a Thirty-second degree Mason and belongs also to the Order of Moose and to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is a member of St. Peter's German Evangelical Church.

John G. Clough. The aiatomobile repair business together with the handling of first class cars, founded on economic necessity, has become so important in eveiy section of the country that it is not surprising that men of enterprise and business sagacity have turned aside from other lucrative occupations to engage in this. Quiney has excellent examples and a prospering firm is that of Clough, Reihm & Company, the members of which are John G. Clough and Charles L. Reihm.

John G. Clough was bom at North Amheret, Ohio, ]Ma}- 5, 1875. His parents were Jolni B. and Jane E. (Gerrish) Clough. The father was a native of Ohio and the mother was born at Brownlow, Illinois. They had a family of five children, John G. being the third in order of birth.

A public school education laid the foundation on which John G. Clough commenced to rear his business structure. His inclinations and opportunities led him in certain channels and when twenty-one years of age he was engaged in a rock quarry business at Griggsville, Illinois, and later engaged in concrete contracting. He was one of the pioneers in the concrete industry. In 1905 Mr. Clough came to Quiney and in partnership with his brothers, WaiTcn B. and Everett S.. of Quiney, went into the business of manufacturing concrete blocks and continued in the industry until 1911, when he sold out to E. B. Gibson.

In the meanwhile Mr. Clough, as a shrewd business man, had become interested in the automobile business. In 1912 he erected at No. 1738 Broadway a spacious business structure of re-inforced concrete, 50 by 100 feet in dimensions, two stories in height, one of the most practical and substantial business buildings in the city. In 1914 Charles L. Reihm became a partner, when the present firm style was assumed of Clough, Reihm & Company. A general repairing business is done and the firm makes a specialty of handling the Chevrolet cars and the Republic tracks, and undoubtedly, as far as this firm is concerned, the motor car industry is in a vei-y satisfactory condition.

Mr. Clougli was married to Miss Emma Bennett, who was born at Kinderhook, Illinois. They arc members of the Presbyterian Church. Never very active in politics, nevertheless Mr. Clough always casts his vote with the republican party, and when called upon as a good citizen beai-s his share of public responsibility. lie is looked upon as one of Quiney 's reliable and representative men.

Andrew Jackson Tittle is a man of mai'k iu the coimmuiity of Honey Creek Township, and his life is significant because it has been lived for others more than for himself, and for that reason he is thoroughly desei"V'ing of all the esteem in which he is held by his community. Mr. Tittle's farm home is 21/2 miles east and a mile north of Meudon in Honej^ Creek Township.

It was on this farm and in a house which is still standing as part of the building improvements that Mr. Tittle was born April 18, 1862. His parents were A. Johnson and Margaret (Montgomei-j') Tittle. His father was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, November 2, 1809, his parents being natives of the same county. The traditional accounts that have been handed down indicate that the family originally had its home in Austria, but remote generations ago they settled in Ireland and Scotland. Their home was in Pennsylvania during the colonial period. A. Johnson Tittle came to Illinois in 1856. His brother Hamilton had settled in Adams County two j^ears before, establishing a home in Honey Creek To-miship. A. Johnson Tittle in 1858 secured a tract of wild land at $10 an acre, and soon afterward erected the house in which his son Andrew Jackson was born. Of that land he cleared up forty-five acres and had most of it under cultivation before overtaken by old age. He died here April 9, 1899, when in his ninetieth year. He kept his faculties unimpaired almost to the end. He was never a public man, though voting as a republican, and at the time of his death was the oldest member of the Congregational Church at Slendon. He had had an adventurous life before coming to Adams County. In 1850 he went out to California, being six months on the vessel which took him around the Horn. His brother Jonathan crossed the plains to California in 1849. A. Johnson Tittle while in California was a miner and a charcoal burner. He and a companion with whom he had burned charcoal on the shores of Lake Superior some years before lived in a small hut, and this companion was stricken with the smallpox. Johnson Tittle remained with him, careless of his own danger, and nursed and comforted the sick man until he died. His experience in California netted him considerable money but he brought back very little of it. He was there five yeai-s, and soon after returning to Pennsylvania came west to Adams County. His many travels and experiences furnished him with interesting anecdotes which made him popular among the younger generation, and he was also greatly esteemed for his strict integrity and good citizenship. His ^\-ife died in August, 1870. His .brother Hamilton died at Mendon July 2. 1877, when about sixty years of age. A daughter of Hamilton Tittle is Mrs. Henry Worman of Mendon. Of the four children of A. Johnson Tittle and wife Andrew Jackson is the only survivor, and was the third in age. His brother William lived in Adams County until twenty-three years of age and then moved to LaBelle, ^Missouri, where he died May 4, 1918. Lizzie L. married G. D. Riddle, who for five years was a farmer and merchant at Oxford, Indiana, and they later moved to Boulder, Colorado, where Mrs. Riddle died September 25, 1916. Anna A., who died in Febriiary, 1901, was the wife of William MeGinley, who settled in Keene Towtiship five years and then removed to LaBelle, Missouri.

Andrew Jackson Tittle grew up on the old farm, and twelve years before his father's death took its active management. He succeeded to the ownership of the place upon his father's death. He remained at home looking after his ]iarents and when relieved of these responsibilities he went out to Guthrie County, Iowa, and cared for an uncle, Andrew Jackson Tittle, for whom he was named, until that uncle died at the age of eighty-five. Thus a large part of his life has been devoted to the care and welfare of others. At the age of twenty Mr. Tittle went out to the western frontier of Kansas and in Finney County took up a pre-emption, secured title to the land, and still owns it, though he lias never had opportunity to develop it as a farm. It is in the wheat growing and grazing district of AVestern Kansas. Mr. Tittle is most comfortable situated, has a good fann, and in 1917 erected a modern coiuitry home. In 1907 he married Miss Eleanor Taylor, daughter of Paul and Eliza (Kerriek)

Taylor, ilrs. Tittle was boru near Des Moines, Iowa. IMr. Tittle served two terms as road commissioner, is a republican, and is prominent in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Mendou, tilling all tlie local chairs, and serving as noble grand and representative to the Grand Lodge.

W. Emery Lancaster is a native of Adams County, in early life was a farmer, but for the past fifteen years has been steadily adding to his honors and emoluments as a successful lawyer.

Mr. Lancaster was born June 17, 1875, a son of William and Isabel (Prather) Lancaster. Both parents were born in this county, were substantial farming people, and both are now deceased. There were seven children : Warren, deceased; Martha, wnfe of William Herron, of La Prairie; Mollie, wife of James Herron, of Bowen, Illinois ; Sherman, of Carthage, Illinois ; Frank, of La Prairie; Charles, who lives iu Wyoming; and W. Emery.

W. Emei-j' Lancaster spent his boyhood on a farm and received most of his education in the La Prairie public schools. Later he graduated in 189-i from the West Normal College at Bushnell, Illinois. He completed the regular course of study in Knox College at Galesburg, where he graduated Bachelor of Science in 1899. This was followed by his prepai-ation for the law at the LTniversity of Michigan, in which he had the degree LL. B., awarded him in 1902. . He then began practice at Quincy, as a member of the firm Govert & Lancaster. Besides his present practice Mr. Lancaster is a director of the State Savings & Loan Company and of the Halbach Schroeder Company. He is a democrat and a member of the Masonic Order. October 10, 1906, he married Miss Edith Halbach. They have one daughter, V^irginia, born July 20, 1908.

John Korn. A man of pronounced executive and financial ability, John Korn occupies a position of note among the prominent and prosperous business men of the city, being manager of one of a chain of five bakeries that have been established by himself, father and brothers, four of them being in the Central West and one in a far western state. A son of Henry Korn, he was born September 18, 187-1, in Davenport, Iowa, and was there reared and educated. -

Henry Korn left Germany, his native land, at the age of eighteen j-ears, coming to America, the land of hope and promise. Locating in ilaryland, he worked at the baker's trade in Baltimore for awhile. Subsequently nugrating to Davenport, Iowa, he started in the bakery business on his own account, and in the management of his affairs met with rare .success. He accumulated a competency, and is now living retired from active pursuits, the Davenport bakery which he established upAvards of half a century ago being now under the supervision of his oldest son, William H. Korn. Henry Kom's wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Albeit, was born in Germany, and came to this country with her parents when a girl. Seven children have been born into their home, as follows: William H., managing the Davenport bakery; Charles, of Davenport, Iowa; Henry, of Eugene, Oregon; Lina, widow of John Kaufmann, of Davenport ; John, with whom this brief sketch is principally concerned ; Bertha, living at home ; and Otto, of Clinton, Iowa.

Acquiring his early education in the public schools of Davenport, his native city, John Korn was actually reared in the home bakery, he and his brothers having assisted their father in the upbuilding of an extensive and lucrative bakery business which is now strictly a family corporation. Five plants have been established by the Korn family, as follows : one in Davenport, operated by William H. Korn ; one at Rock Island, Illinois ; one in Clinton, Iowa ; one in Quincy, Illinois, managed by the son John ; and one at Eugene, Oregon. Coming to Quincy, Illinois, in 1910, Mr. Korn built his present plant, a twostory building 100 by 106 feet, witji a capacity of 10,000 loaves of bread a day. The bakery is amply supplied with the most modern machinery and appliances for carryiug on the work, and its products are in great demand not only in Quincy but in all villages and towns within a radius of fifty miles.

Mr. Korn married, September 27, 1905, Helen Volkland, and they are the parents of two children, Elizabeth and Katherine. Politically Mr. Korn votes for the best men and measures, regardless of party restrictions. He is prominent in fraternal circles, being a Scottish Rite Mason and a member of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and likewise belonging to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is also a member and a past president of the Quincy Rotary Club, which he organized a fewyears ago.

John A. Stillwell, president of the Electric Wheel Company, Quincy, Illinois, was born at Hannibal in Marion County, ilissouri, Januaiy 23, 1861. His parents were Brison and ilargaret (Duncan) Stillwell, both of whom were born in Kentucky, probably being of Scotch parentage. For many years the father was in the pork packing business. His death occurred in 1876, six children surviving him and four of these still living. The mother died in 1916.

An only son, John A. Stillwell was given excellent educational advantages. In 1886 he entered the banking house of L. & C. H. Bull at Quincy as a clerk, and he continued there for four years when circumstances led to his entering, in 1890, the employ of the Electric Wheel Company as manager, thus continuing until he became the president of the company. He is now one of Quincy 's representative business men and most worthy citizens.

Mr. Stillwell was married in December, 1893, to Miss Elizabeth M. Newcomb, and they have three children, namely: Newcomb, who is a member of the aAaatiou corps of the National anny; Brison, attending Harvard College; and Alan, who is a student in the Quincy High School, ilr. Stillwell has never been particularly active in politics but his opinions on public questions have made him a democrat and he is loyal in party support.

Stephen Douglas Shipe. The Shipes are one of the oldest and best known families in Lima Township, where they have lived since pioneer times. Forty years ago there were some four or five different families of Shipes located on farms around Lima, and the name is still pi'omincntly represented in that community by Stephen Douglas Shipe, whose home is IY2 miles noi'th of Lima on the Hancock County line.

In 1858 Illinois and the nation was aroused over the unique series of debates carried on by Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, debates which made these two figures tlie foremost personalities in the nation. Daniel Shipe was an ardent admirer of the "little giant" and consequently when a son was bom into his household on the 23d of September he gave him the name Stephen Douglas. Stephen Douglas Shipe was born in the house that he still occupies as a home. It is one of the oldest homes in that part of the county and has been standing for fully sixty years.

His father. Daniel Shipe. was born in Pennsylvania in 1819. The grandfather when about eighty years of age came to Adams County and settled in Ursa Township. A member of the second generation of the family was William Shipe, known as Uncle Billie, who lived in Hancock County until his death in October, 1918. at eighty-seven years of age. Daniel Shipe bought a homestead north of Lima from Lafayette Frazer, and it was in 1857 that he built the house in which Stephen Douglas Shipe was born and now lives. Daniel Shipe went to California in the gold excitement and gained his start by his operations as a miner in the W^est. He lived to be more than sixty years of age, and his widow died when past eighty. One of their sons died in childhood, and there were two children who reached maturity, Amelia, wlio lives in Lima, widow of John 0. Perry, and Stephen Douglas.

Stephen D. Shipe as the only surviving son remained with his mother on the home farm, and as his growing strength permitted aided her in the heavy task of handling the fann as well as managing the household. Mr. Shipe married in 1880 Miss Clara Barton, of Lima, and after his marriage took over the farm and has since conducted it independently for over thirty years. Forty acres of the old homestead went to his sister, but he now has eighty -two acres of that tract and also fifty-five acres of timber land. Mr. Shipe has erected all the buildings and placed the other permanent improvements on the farm except the house. He is engaged in general farming, and for eight or ten years has been a cattle feeder and buys a number of cattle and hogs every year. He has never sought notice in public affairs and is a member of no society or church. He and his wife had five children. William Alfred is a fanner near the old home and married Edith Crow; Bertha Viola is the wife of James Marsh, a Lima Township farmer; Lenora Ellen lives with her father and is the widow of George Woodworth. Mrs. Woodworth has two children, Elmer Douglas and Mary Ellen, who was born after the death of her father, who died from blood poisoning when not yet thirty years of age. The other two children of Mr. and Mrs. Shipe are Amelia Frances, who died at the age of sixteen, and Mary May, who married Paul Brickman, who died September 20, 1918, leaving one daughter, Wilma Eugene. Mrs. Brickman makes her home with her parents.

Patrick W. Reardon is one of the best known public officials of Quincy and has been active in politics and affairs for a number of years. He is now serving his second term as police magistrate of Quincy, having been first elected in 1911 and again in 1915.

Mr. Reardon was born in Quincy January 29, 1871. His boyhood education was acquired in the parochial schools. He has always manifested a commendable degree of public spirit and has been associated with men who earned their livings by definite and positive service. As a young man he worked for some time as a freight car checker with the Burlington Railroad. At the same time, realizing some deficiencies in his education, he attended night school and thus prepared himself for larger responsibilities. For about five years he also worked as a freight checker in the local offices of the 0. K. Railway. 'Sir. Reardon in 1895 became a patrolman on the Quincy police force and ten years later was taken from the police department and made clerk of the Police Court, where he served six years, until his first election as police magistrate. Judge Reardon has been one of the local leaders in the democratic party of Quincy for a number of years.

He is of L-ish parentage, a son of Michael and Amelia (Bums) Reardon, both natives of County Limerick. His father came when a young man to New York City. The girl he had grown up with and pledged his troth to in Ireland followed him somewhat later and they married in New York City and immediately after their wedding came west to Quinc}% where they spent the rest of their days. They now rest side by side in St. Peter's cemetery. The father died at the age of sixty-six and the mother at seventy-four. Both were active members of St. Rose Catholic Church. Of their children, Thomas J. was a railway conductor for many years and died in 1905, leaving a widow, who is also deceased. James A., who died May 7, 1918, at St. Louis, was a prominent manufacturer and business man of that city, and had extensive interests in Old Mexico. He left a widow and three sons and one daughter. One son is Lieut. Ambrose Reardon in the Aviation Corps. John E. lives at St. Louis and is superintendent of the Reardon Mantifacturing Company, of which his brother was the founder. John has seven children, and two of them are representing the family in the American army. Walter is in a branch of the service concerned with high explosives, while Lawrence is an enlisted man. ]\Iichael J. Lives in Kansas City and is assistant yardmaster of the Missouri Pacific Railway, is married and has a son and four daughters.

Patrick W. Reardon, the youngest of the family, married Catherine E. Daniels, who represents one of the oldest families of Adams County. She was reared and educated in the country districts. They have two children,

Catherine A., born August 27, 1907, and Johu, bom March 2, 1910. The family are members of St. Rose Catholic Church and Judge Reardon is a member of the Knights of Columbus, the Western Catholic Union, the Woodmen of the World, and for two years, 1916-17, served as president of the local branch of the Eagles.

Grover C. Miller. For over eighty years the Miller family stood second to none among the business, social and civic leaders of Ursa Township. Representing the third generation of the family, Grover C. Miller has applied himself successfully to railroading and telegi-aphy, but is now well established as a general merchant at Marcelline and does a flourishing trade over the surrounding territory.

He was born at ilarcelline December 18, 1884. He is a grandson of Uriah K. Miller, one of the honored pioneers of Ursa Township. Uriah K. Miller was born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, December 16, 1825, and died November 27, 1899. He w-as brought to Adams County in 1833 when eight year's of age, grew up on the frontier, and was a successful farmer and a highly energetic citizen. Hje acquired 320 acres of land in section 36 of Ursa Township and did much to improve that during his active career. In the time of the Civil war he enlisted in Company B of the Seventy-eighth Illinois Infantry, and saw active service for 2i/^ years. He was a democrat in politics and a member of the Christian Church. In 1846 he married Miss Elizabeth Jane Groves, who was born in Wabash County, Illinois, May 17, 1830, and died May 11, 1916, when nearly eighty-six years of age. They had three children : John W., Daniel B. and Martha A. The old homestead of Uriah K. Miller, a half mile south and 11^ miles west of Marcelline, is now occupied by his son Daniel B. Another well known member of the family was William E. Miller, brother of Uriah K., whose home farm was also in section 36 of Ursa Township.

John W. ]Miller, father of Grover C, was born November 13, 1850, and died October 20, 1914. He spent his active career as a farmer near the old homestead, but was chiefly knowTi through his extensive activities as a cattle buyer and cattle drover. He was one of the largest buyers operating at the Quiney markets. He also served as highway commissioner and levee commissioner and was an active democrat. He married Martha Virginia Rockwell, who was born December 23, 1858, and is still living at Lima. They were the parents of the following children : Arthur, who lives on the home farm ; Lillie, who was bom January 24, 1880, married Bert ]\Iiller and died February 24, 1906, at the age of twenty-six ; Lottie, twin sister of Lillie, became the wife of Arthur Adair, who is now serving in the United States army ; Minnie, who died after her marriage to William Anient; Grover C. ; and Elizabeth, wife of William Harness, of Lima.

Grover C. Miller was bom at Marcelline December 18, 1884, and was named in honor of Grover Cleveland, who had been elected president only a few weeks before his birth. He lived at home until twenty, and secured his education partly in the grammar school and the high school at Quiney, and was also two years in the National Business College. He perfected himself in telegraphy and did his first practical work as an operator at West Quinc.v. He also spent six months in California as a warehouseman with the Southern Pacific Company, and for six months was an operator with the Butte County Railroad, for IV2 years was operator and cashier in the offices at Chico and Mar3'sville, California, with the Northern Electric Company, and then resumed employment with the Butte County Railroad for three years as agent at Pai-adise, California.

Returning East, he became a relief operator with the Burlington Railway for six months, and at one time was towerman in the Interlocking plant near Keokuk. On giving up railroading Mr. Miller returned to Adams County and for two years was identified with the restaurant and general store business at Lima. He then came to ]\Iarcelline and succeeded J. B. Taylor as general mer- chant. This business is one of the oldest in that village, having been established about 1885 by George H. Walker, who built the store building now used. Several years later he sold out to Jasper and James Me Adams, who in turn sold to U. K. Miller, a grandson of Uriah K. Miller, Sr. Other successive owners were William Worley, Bert Miller, John Gerard, Ed EiLsminger, James Inghram, Elmer Andrews, and Ed Osgood, who were succeeded by Mr. J. B. Taylor and from him Mr. Miller bought the establishment in 1915. Hie now gives all his time to his store and enjoys the confidence and patronage of one of the most prosperous farming communities in the county.

Mr. Miller is an independent democrat in politics. At the age of twentyone he married Miss Leah Laughlin, daughter of D. C. and Melissa (Shepherd) Laughlin, of Mendon Township. They have a family of two children, Gerald Edwin and Bruce Russell. The family are members of the Christian Church of Marcelline, and Mr. Miller is also affiliated with the local lodge of Masons.

NiKLAUs Kohl. Possessing rare business ability and judgment, with a capacity for affairs of magnitude, Niklaus Kohl holds a place of importance anions' the mereliants of Adams County and has also the distinction of being the pioneer wholesale grocer of Quincy. He was born March 19, 1836, in the southern part of Germany, where he grew to man's estate. He is a son of the late John and ^Margaret (Schaeffer) Kohl, natives of Germany, who were the parents of nine children, a.s follows: Lawrence; Leonard; John; Phillip and Lawrence, all deceased ; Niklaus, the subject of this sketch ; Margaret ; Adam ; and Peter.

Having acquired a practical education Niklaus Kohl was variously employed for a few year.'?. Not content with his limited opportunities for there obtaining a livelihood, he immigi-at^d to the United States in 1857, coming directly to Quincy, where he hoped to tind woi-k. He was poor in pocket but rich in energy and ambition, and for a few years toiled industriously at whatever he could find to do. In 1860, or thereabout, he secured a position with James T. Baker, a prominent grocer, with whom he remained seven years, when his employer sold out. ilr. Kohl then entered the wholesale grocery house of Austin & Company, which subsequently became Austin & Manson. Industrious and intelligently interested in his work, he soon became familiar with the details of the business, and when the junior member of the firm was ready to retire Mr. Kohl purchased his share, and the firm name was changed to Austin & Kohl. Mr. Austin retiring in July, 1896, Mr. Kohl organized the N. Kohl Grocer Company, of which he has since been president, while his son Adam, who is now dead, was vice president and his son George ca.shier; Edward is also a member of the firm and a grandson, Mathew J., is secretary of the wholesale grocery company.

Soon after its organization, this enterprising firm bought on Fourth Street, between Hampshire and Vermont streets, the large building it now occupies, and having entirely remodeled it has now one of the most conveniently and neatly arranged and best stocked wholesale grocery establishments in the Central West.

Mr. Kohl has been three times married. He married first Katherine Eva Kunkle. a native of Germany. She died at a comparatively early age, her death occurring in May, 1881. Children were born of their union as follows: George, of Quincj' ; Adam, deceased; ]Maria K., deceased; Eva E., deceased; Edward, of Quincy ; and Maria, Nicholas A., Anna, Nicholas, Theresa, and Mary, all deceased, and Emma who is living. The maiden name of his second wife was Aggie Webber. Mr. Kohl married for his third wife ilrs. Mary (Wielager) Fischer, who was born in Hanover, Germany. She was the widow of John C. Fischer, who died November 1, 1887. By her first marriage Mrs. Kohl was the mother of eight children, namely: Otelia. wife of Theodore Ehaart, of Quincy; Martha, wife of Otto Duker; John J. Fischer; Rose Henrietta, wife of Fred Romony, of Saint Paul, Minnesota ; Joseph W. ; William D., deceased ; Frank H., of Quiucy; and Eliza])eth A., deceased. Politically Mr. Kohl is a steadfast democrat. He is a member of the Western Catholic Union, and of Saint Boniface Church, as is also his wife.

Maurice E. Vasen. The name Vasen has been an honored one in the business and financial histoiy of Quincy for half a century. The special genius of the family seems to have exemplified itself in the organization and administration of co-operative financial affairs. More than anything else the name is associated witli building and loan associations, and in that field of finance doubtless there was not a more accomplished student and authority in the Middle "West than the late Benjamin G. Yasen, many of whose intei'csts and activities are carried on today in Quincy by his son ]\Iaui4ce E. Vasen.

Benjamin G. Vasen was born in Philadelphia July 2, 1857, and became a resident of Quincy when his parents located there ten years later. His public schooling was supplemented by a thorough course in bookkeeping and mathematics at a commercial college. His business experience began very early when at the age of thirteen he went to work for the firm of Hirscli & \'asen. For a time he was bookkeeper and cashier in the branch house of J. Jonas & Company at St. Joseph, Missouri.

On returning to Quincy in Januai-y. 1875, thougli then only eighteen years of age, he was put in charge of the Building Association and Loan Department of the firm of Morton & Nichols. He .soon became an expert in this branch of the business and became independently established in the insurance, real estate and loan business in 1881.

In November, 1883, he organized and became the first secretary of the People's Savings Loan & Building Association, and in December, 1885, was elected secretary of the Quincy Building & Homestead Association. Those executive offices he continued to hold up to the time of his death on December 2, 1916. In January, 1875, he had become assistant secretary of the Quincy Building & Homestead Association. Of this business he made a close study and his interest and enthusiasm, combined with rare natural gift, served to make him widely accepted as an authority. Shortly before his death it was stated that he had handled over for the two associations of which he was secretary, without a single loss. Among his other qualifications he was an expert accountant. Outside of Quincy Benjamin G. Yasen was probably best known because of his long temi, beginning in June, 1890, as secretary of the Building Association League of Illinois. Through that office he became instrumental in shaping much of the legislation governing building associations in the state. In 1893 he also helped organize the LTnited States League of Local Building and Loan Associations and was its secretary for two years, declining re-election for a third term.

In 1881 Benjamin G. Yasen married Julia Eschner, of Philadelphia, Penn- .sylvania, who died October 2, 1900, the mother of four children: Freda J., wife of Joseph M. Allen, of Chicago; ^Maurice E. and George B. of Quincy; and Beulah C, wife of H. Archer Wild, of Chicago.

]Maurice E. Yasen was born at Quincy September 21, 1885, graduated from the local high school in 1903. then entered the University of Illinois, where he graduated in the Liberal Arts Department in 1907, and in 1909 was awarded the Master's degree. In the meantime he had entered the Northwestern University Law School at Chicago and finislied his course in 1909. For four yeai-s he remained in Chicago practicing law with the firm Howe, Fordham & Yasen. He then returned to Quincy and practiced law, but since his election as secretary of the Quincy Building & Homestead Association and the People's Savings Loan & Building Association lie lias found his time fully occupied with handling the many responsibilities of the association whose combined assets now aggregate almost $1,000,000. He is also secretai->' of the Building Association League of Illinois, where again he was successor to his father.

belongs to the Illini Club of Chicago, is affiliated with the Masouic orders, including the thirty-second degi'ee of Scottish Rite and the Shrine, with the Elks, with the local Country Club, the Rotary Club and in politics is a republican.

Edvfard p. Wittler, a young, ambitious, progressive farmer of Ellington Township, whose home is in section 4, has already surrounded himself with many of those possessions and comforts which every ambitious man desires. His farm comprises 126 acres. It is well situated and naturally drained, and vdth excellent improvements. There are good farm buildings, including a barn 36 by 50 feet, and a good ten room house. The land gi-ows splendid crops, com, wheat and oats, besides a three acre apple orchard and seven acres in mixed fruits. Most of the revenue from his farm aside from the fruit comes from livestock, and he has good grades of horses, hogs and cattle.

Mr. "Wittier was born in Gilmer Township of this county December 8, 1876. A year after his birth his parents moved to Ellington Township and he grew up there, attending the Washington schoolhouse. He is a son of William and Flora (Disselhorst) Wittier. His father was born in St. Louis. His mother was born in Hanover and came to America with her father, Henry Disselhorst, her mother having died in Germany. Her family settled in Adams County, where her father, Henry, lived to a good old age and died at the home of his daughter. William Wittier after his marriage began on a small farm in Ellington Township and by hard work and careful saving made a good home in section 9. He became owner of eighty a<?res, erected some good buildings and was a man of consequence in that community. He died on the old farm December 6, 1912, at the age of sixty-two. His widow is still living there. Both were members of the Evangelical Church and William Wittier filled several minor offices. In the family were seven children, four sons and three daughters, all of whom are married and all but one live in Adams County.

Edward F. Wittier, the second child in the family, married in Gilmer Township November 12, 1902, Miss Emma Haxcl. She was born in Adams County May 18, 1886, and received her education in the Mount Pleasant School. Her parents were Henry and Anna (Korves) Haxel. both born in this countiy but of German parentage. Henry Haxel died in 1887, in the prime of life, leaving his widow and two daughters, ]\Irs. Wittier and Carrie, the latter the wife of Barney Brinkman. Mrs. Haxel subsequently married Joseph Herzog, and she still lives in Adams County. Her two daughters by her second marriage are now married.

Mr. and Mrs. Wittier are the parents of four children : Elmer William J., bom November 2.5, 1904, is in the sixth grade of the common schools; Edward C, born October 4, 1910, is in the third grade : Virgil H., born March 22. 1914, and Florence A., born October 19, 1917. The family are members of the Lutheran Church at Fowler, and Mr. Wittier is a democrat.

Aldo Sommer. Long before his life came to its peaceful close in death on August 7, 1916, Aldo Sommer had impressed his character and ability upon the permanent commercial fortunes of Quiney. He was founder of the Aldo Skimmer Drug Company, one of the largest wholesale dmg houses in the Middle West. The fortunes of this organization are now carried on largely by his family.

It is a business comprising a large office and store at 213-15 North Third Street. The firm occupies a three-story building and basement 60 by 100 feet, and the firm emplovs twenty or more persons in the oiifice and store and also have six commercial salesmen covering the states of Illinois and Missouri.

More than forty years ago Aldo Sommer engaged in business at Quincy, and with Daniel E. Lynds established a copartnership in 1875. They handled exclusivelj' a wholesale drag business, and they were located on the south half of the present location of the store until a fire destroyed the building in 1894. About that time Mr. Lynds retired and the business was continued as the Aldo Sommer Drug Companj' and has since been an incorporation. Aldo Sommer was president and treasurer of the company until his death.

He was born December 13, 1830, in Germany, and left his native land and came to America at the age of seventeen. He traveled by sailing vessel and from New York went to Allento\vn, Pennsylvania, and a few years later to St. Louis, Missouri. He had a training as a druggist and followed his profession throughout his active career. In 1855 he married Matilda Brauu. She was of Huguenot French and English parentage. She was born at St. Louis June 10, 1838, and was reared and educated in that city. She is still living in Quincy, and has all her faculties except for her hearing. She reads, knits and does a great deal of Red Cross work. Both she and her husband were Protestants in religion. Aldo Sommer was an enthusiastic republican, and at one time was affiliated with the Masonic Order.

In addition to his drug business Aldo Sommer established and operated for a number of years a large nursery at Twenty-fourth and State streets. He was a man of great enterprise and could successfully conduct more than one activdty at a time.

He and his wife had five sons and five daughters. One daughter, Alice E., died December 2, 1917. Three sons also died early: Edwin died in 1861. at the age of three years; Gilbert, in 1883, at the age of eight years; and Aldo, on April 11, 1879, at the age of twenty-two. A brief record of the living children is as follows: Minna is the wife of W. H. Arthur, who was formerly a druggist and is now in the insurance business at St. Louis. They have a son and two daughters. ]\Iatilda is the wife of James L. Martin, ilr. [Martin was for twenty years representative of the International Harvester Company at Quincy and for the past ten years has been connected with that organization at Chicago. Jennie is the widow of Edwin P. Jaquith, and has two children, Kenneth and Sommer, the former an instractor in the Aviation Corps of the United States Army. Harry B. Sommer was born in Quincy at the home where he now resides with his mother on February Iri. 1868, was well educated in this city and in the Christian Brothers School at St. Louis, and for a number of years has been actively identified with the Sommer Drug Company. Ella is the wife of H. L. Beard, who since 1913 has been vice president and trea.surer of the Aldo Sommer Drug Company. Mr. Beard was born in St. Louis, and is a public accountant by profession. ]\Ir. Beard's first wife was Mamie Mc- Sweeney, who died sixteen years ago, leaving two daughters, Mrs. J. Arthur Twig and ]\Iargaret Mae. Mrs. Twig lives in St. Albans, Vermont, and has a daughter, ilargaret. Walter B. Sommer, president of the Wliolesale Drug Company was educated at Alton, Illinois, in the Wjonan Institute and in a militarjschool at Champaign. He married Pearl Kathan, of Bucklin, Missouri, and they make their home in Quincy.

Frank A. Freund. For all his fourscore and four years Frank A. Freund is still hale and vigorous, possessed of a good memory and active intelligence, and has a long retrospect of years which miist aft'ord him satisfaction and contentment. Mr. Freund has been a resident of Quincy over sixty years, and has witnessed and been a part in its development from village times.

He was born in Bavaria, Germany. ]\Iarch 14, 1834, of old German Catholic stock, son of Anton and Lucinda (Bock) Freund. His parents were also natives of Bavaria, and his father was a brewer there and died at advanced years. Frank A. Freund was a boy when his mother died at the age of fifty-six.

The youngest of six children, and the only one to come to America, he lived in his native land to the age of eighteen, and in order to avoid the enforced military duty left there in 1852, crossing the ocean by sailing vessel from Bremen to Baltimore. He landed in this eouutiy July 5tli and for a year had employment in Baltimore at the brewer's trade, at wages of $4 per month. While there he learaed the cooper's trade and in 1855 came to Quiney. Here he acquired still another mechanical art, brick laying, and was not only a well qualified workman but a leader among his fellows, and organized the first brick laying association or union in this part of the state, continuing as its head for several years. About the close of the Civil war ^Ir. Freund took up brick contracting, and there are not a few brick structures in and about Quiney today, including both business and pi'ivate houses, which were constructed by him.

For over forty years his home has been at the corner of Spring and Thirteenth streets, and he owns his home at 1301 Spring Street and also the adjacent house at 1303. He also has other property and is now retired in comfortable circumstances.

In Quiney J\Ir. Freund married Elizabeth Schwebel. She was born in Illinois, and her parents came from Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, and were early settlers in Quiney. For many years her father was a teamster and transfer man. Both her parents died many years ago. Mr. and ^Irs. Freund after their marriage proved an ideal working partnership, and they created their prosperity by thrifty co-operation. Mrs. Freund died in 1895. Among her children were: Rose, who married William Markus and died at twenty-eight years of age, leaving four children ; Edith, widow of Henry Vanden Boom, who died some years ago leaving children ; Joseph, who is a brick contractor in Quiney and is married and has a familj'; Estelle, who lives at home with her father. All the family are members of St. Francis Catholic Church, and Mr. Freund is affiliated with the Western Catholic Union and St. Michael's Society.

John Fredeeick William Wittlek. A citizen whose life meant much to his commvinity, where he lived so long and prospered by so much diligence and toil, wa.s the late John Frederick William Wittier of Ellington Township. His fine homestead in section 9 is still owned by Mrs. Wittier, and is a well drained tract of rolling land, with new farm buildings, fields well tilled, good livestock, and altogether such a home as these prosperous people well deserved.

The late Mr. Wittier was born in St. Louis, ]Missouri, October 27, 1851, and died at his homestead in Ellington Township December 9, 1912. His parents were natives of Hanover, Germany, and were married at St. Louis. His father was named Schmidt and died when John Frederick wa.s a very small boy. The widowed mother married a Mr. Wittier for her second husband and the son took his name. Mrs. Wittier came to Quiney and spent her last years in that city. John Frederick William Wittier grew up in Adams County and his early training well fitted him for the business of farming, which he pursued on his place in section 9 of Ellington Township.

In 1872, at Qiiincy, he married Miss Flora W. Disselhorst. She was born in Bielfeldt, Hanover, April 7, 1852. Her mother, Clara Swader, died in Germany in 1869. when about forty years of age. Her father, H^enry Disselhorst, in 1870 brought his six children from Bremen to New York City and thence to Quiney, and was a farmer on rented land in Ellington Township. He died at the home of his daughter, ]\Irs. Wittier, at the age of seventy-seven. He was a member of the Lutheran Church and a republican.

Mr. and ]\Irs. Wittier after their marriage began as renters, and by hard work and saving habits were enabled to buy their present home of eighty acres in section 9. ^Ir, Wittier was constantly busied with the improvement and cultivation of this land until his death. ^Irs. Wittier is the mother of seven children : Minnie married Leonard Knorr, a farmer in Ellington Towniship, and they have five sons and five daughters. Edward F. Wittier, the second child, is subject of a separate sketch elsewhere. Charles is a farmer in Ellington Township, and by his marriage to Sarah Allen has a son and two daughters. Henry William Wittier, now the practical manager of his mother's farm, married Grace Knox. She was born in Ellington Townsliip in 1888, was educated in the public schools, and is a daughter of Henry and Emma (JMeyer) Knox. Her father died in 1902, at the age of fifty-one, and her mother is still living on the old Knox homestead in section 15 of Ellington Township, at the age of fortyliine. She is an active member of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Knox wa.s quite prominent in local republican politics and held several offices. Mr. and Mrs. Henry William Wittier have a daughter, Jane, born ]\Iay 11, 1916. William Wittier, the next in the family, is a farmer at Fowler in this county. He married Ida Wittland and has two sons, Gus and Paul. Lena is the wife of John Eooskamp, of Tioga, Illinois, and they have two sons, Elmer and Edgar. Etta is the wife of Fred Peuster and lives on a farm in Ellington Township. They have two children. Earl and Elsie.

John L. Fltnn. One of the business men of recognized importance at Quincy is John L. Plynn, manufacturer of high class carbonated waters and owner and proprietor of the bottling works established here almost forty years ago by liis father, tlie late John J. Flynn, who was one of Quincy 's most popular and respected citizens for more than thirtj- years.

John L. Flynn was born at Quincy, Illinois, December 12, 1882. His parents were John J. and ]Mary E. (Larkin) Flynn. The father was born April 9, 1854, at Blackstone in Worcester Count.y, Massachusetts. His home was not one of wealth and very early he became self-supporting, at the age of ten years starting to work in a cotton mill. In 1874 he came to Quinc.y, Illinois, where he completed an iuterrupted education by taking a commercial course in a business college. Perhaps it was for that purpose he came to Quincy, but after becoming acquainted with the sterling residents here he determined to stay and soon found a business opportunity in the manufacture of those delicious beverages, spruce and root beer. He had prudently commenced in a small way but his venture proved successful and his first expansion wa.s the bottling of his product. In 1881 he established his soda water business, having in the meanwhile taken a course in chemistry in relation to the manufacture of carbonated waters. As the demand for these non-intoxicating beverages increased, Mr. Flynn was prepared to meet it, in the course of time erecting his modern plant, where he carried on business until his death on January 6, 1907. In 1877 John J. Flynn was man-ied to Miss Mary E. Larkin, who died October 23, 1915. They had three children : James J., who is a resident of Quincy ; Lillian, who is the wife of Paul A. Wolf, of Quincy; and John L., who is his father's business successor.

John L. Flynn first attended the parochial school cormeeted with St. Rose Church, and later the Quincy High School, from which he was creditably graduated, and subsequently completed a commercial course under Professor Me- Kenna in the Union Business College. Thus w-ell prepared, he entered his father's works and made himself exceedingly useful while studying every detail of the business, and since he has become its owner has, like his late father been careful of the integrity of his product. The carbonated waters manufactured here have a well earned reputation for piirity and their sale covers the entire country. 'Sir. Flynn has proved able as a business man and pos.ses.ses other qualities that en.sure him the respect and confidence of his fellow citizens.

Mr. Flynn was married October 25. 1909, to ^liss Elsa Halbach, and they have three children, namely: John J., who was born November 3, 1910; William J., who was born July 16, 1912; and Ruth Mary, who was born November 10, 1914. Politically Mr. Flynn is a democrat and fraternally is a member of the Elks, the Eagles and the Knights of Columbus. He belongs also to the North

Jaices Higgixs. An nnnsoal propom<3ii of lire's experiences has been be^ stowed upon James Higgins, one of the viddr knoim and pro^>Qtnis eitizois aid farmers of Lima town^iip, who now owns and oeeiqties the oid TJiggiiis homestead a mile and a half south of lima Village.

3ilr. Higgins was bom at Poa^bkee|)se. Dntehes Conntr, New York, March 15, 1S42. He was about fire years of age when his paroits eame west in tihe fail <^ 1847 and made settlement in Lima Township. His father, Joseidi Hiygins, was btHii in Coonty Antrim, Irdand. His moth^, Margaret Campbdl, was Ae daa^ter of a BeroTntinnary sddior. Margarrt Campbd^'s mother had 160 acres of land in Adams County granted her ImeiiMid beeaose of his senriees in the war. It was this land grant whidi was (me fmebar at least in bringing the Higgins and Campbdl -famili<'s ont to Western TTKimig Hiif^ MeCarty married TTanTiali H. Campbdl a dster of Margaret Campbefl. and they had eome to Adams Connty several years before the Higgins party came. Hn^ MeCarty was a sailor and was dissatisSed with life in this island 'e<>E!imnnity and finally retomed East, never being heard of aftswards.

JoBefik Higgins made the trip West witii his &mi^ hy eanal, stc2 r. - railroad. The party pa^ed over the famous ineline plane railroad FoinsylTania. where the cars were drawn op the monntain by eallr ting aeroes the moontains they stt^ped for a brief time at ^^t^ ' embarking on an Ohio Biro- steamboat. The yoongest diild of then six miHitiis old. The fatho* and children were all on board, was temporarily lost, and as the boat eooM not wait it left the - ^iiri her. 9ie ean^t anoA^ boat immediately fidlowing. and ~ - ~ ~ rejmned her family, the in&nt baby being in great distre- Joseph Hi^ins crl reaehing Adams County sealed on the wife's mother. Mrs. Sarah Campbell who later moTed t there in 184E. Joseph Higgii^ ranained <m that did farm. ^ of the farm <^ his son James, and died there Angnst 16, 1 - ' sixty-Sve. He and his wife had foor srais and two danghtr -

James Higgins was reared and edneated in Lima Townf of 1861: left ti^ eoonty tar California. He arranged to neighbor at Council Bhi^ and the party had to wait in __r ._ mder to get ^dr torn to cross the rivs' <m flie fory. There werof teams and Tdneks leaving there for California almost ereiy dav. his companions a^ed 31r. Hi^ins to stick by him nntil California ws> r and he kept that ecHnpaet thon^ not without ccmsideraUe ineonve danger to himsdf. This companicai. thoogh the foet wis not kn time, was a deserter nom the army. The owner of the teams dis: man at Pawne? HiM. and Mr. Higgins in ordo- to beep his word lii_ : .--tflie party also, and they started alone across fte plains mi foot. ilr. Hizgins carried aboot srssy poonds of baggage, indnding orereoat ar- -- ""- -^ were maznr trying e:qpQrienee5^ Their food was chie^ driei reaching lie desert they had no canteen to carry water ahd en^urea Zcmc.i trials of thirst. The companion finally fdl down exhansted. wtfU Vt- Kiegins continued on some two miles until he found a water he was swdDen and he was so huztgry and ediausted that he cool ' to the water, and he sat there far a time feding that hK las I^ially a man came up who helped him to water, bnt he was uzi for a time on account of his swollen tongue. He reriTed and _ perpetrated by some white men who had captured a young friendlj- Indian and had shot him against the protest of several miners. This murder outraged the rest of the tribe and brought about hostilities that were quieted with great difficulty. In the fall of 1865 Mr. Higgins rode his pony from Boise City to Denver, and then for a time served as a stage driver between Denver and Buckskin Joe, 140 miles. He was caught in one of the awful blizzards of the West, the storm striking him soon after leaving the lights of Denver behind, and it was by a supreme effort that he tinally got his team tui-ned around and reached safety in the city at daylight, numb and sleepy with cold.

In September, 1866, Jlr. Higgins returned to Quincy, but the following spring went to Denver again and during that summer helped build a railroad depot at Cheyenne, Wyoming. He did some railroad work near Nebraska City at wages of .$1.50 a day. In 1868 he secured his share of his father's old home and on February 22, 1870, he married Miss Prances Orr, daughter of William and Martha (Woods) Orr. William Orr was a son of William Orr, Sr. William Orr, Jr., at one time had a water mill two miles southwest of the present farm of James Higgins on the White Oak Branch. James Higgins as a boy frequently went to that mill to get corn ground into meal. Later steam power was installed and a complete flour mill erected. The mill property with a fine bodj- of land was later sold to Allen Wait, who removed the machinery to a site on Bear Creek in Ursa Township. Wait erected two mills, one of which had a chimney ninety-nine feet high. Both these mills were burned, the last about 1874, and that closed the milling history of that place. The original William Orr farm adjoined the Higgins farm, and on that place William Orr, Sr., had in pioneer times, operated a small water mill. He died there at the age of ninety-five, and is buried on a half acre plat on his farm, several of his family lying in neighboring graves. William Orr, Jr., went out to California in 1849. but returned to Adams County and lived here until his death at the age of eighty. His) brothers Peter and Silas also went to California. Silas died at Mar^-ville, California, while Peter passed away at Washington, District of Columbia.

At tlie time of his marriage Mr. James Higgins bought the other interests in the old homestead, except one share, which had been sold in the meantime, and he has never been able to secure that portion and complete his ownership of the old place. As it is he has a complete farm of 173 acres, and has made it both a productive business and a fine home. His house was built in 1875 and his barn in 1880. For sis or eight years after 1883 Mr. Higgins also operated a threshing outfit, and at one time he also conducted a hotel at Quincy. Mr. Higgins lias made his way in the world largely through his individual experience and with few influences from the outside. He had meager schooling, nearly all of it from two teachers, James Anderson and Henry Beisel.

ilr. and Mrs. Higgins had five children. Lucy, who was born April 5, 1876 ; Maude, born October 28, 1878 ; Fanny, who died" at the age of twenty-one ; and Fred and Bert. The son Bert is a farmer in Lima Township and bj- his marriage to Mary Prazer has two children.

Joseph H. Vanden Boom. There has been no time in the last sixty-five years when the name Vanden Boom has not been significant of some of the larger business activities of Quincy. The Vanden Booms have been furniture manufacturers and lumber dealers, bankers, pork packers, and through these activities and their public spirited citizenship have contributed notably to the growth and welfare of the city.

The name Vanden Boom is distinctive of its Holland Dutch origin. The members of probably two generations of the family preceding that of the pioneer at Quincy were natives of Holland and spent some portions of their lives in Prussia, Germany. In Prussia was born Clement August Vanden Boom in 1818. His parents died in Prussia when nearly ninety years of age. Clement A. Vanden Boom as a youth was trained to the wood turning trade, and when Vol. n - 11 about twenty-seven years of age he sought better opportunities and privileges in the new world. He traveled to the United States from Bremen on a sailing vessel. After landing in New York he settled at Cincinnati in 1848, and worked at his trade there until 1851, when he came to Quiney. His early wages were only 75 cents a day and half that amount was held out by his employers for several months. While in Cincinnati he married iliss Gertrude Jessing. She was a native of the same town in Prussia, and they had come over on the same boat. On coming to Quiney Clement A. Vanden Boom bought a lot and erected a small wood-turning shop, offering his services to the community for the manufacture of any custom made furniture desired. His business prospered and he built a good home on the same lot which contained his shop. His tirst wife died there in 1861, at the age of thirty-seven. Her children were: Henry, Louisa, Joseph, Lizzie, August and Paulina. In 1862 C. A. Yanden Boom married Elizabeth Ellers, also a native of Genuany. She was a young woman when she came with her brothers to America, being on the ocean six weeks and landing in New Orleans, whence they .journeyed up the river to Quiney. After this second marriage C. A. Vanden Boom and wife continued to live in the old home at 429 North Tenth Street, and they were the parents of six children : ilary, Bernard, Gertrude, William, Annie and Katie. The mother of these children died about 1888. C. A. Yanden Boom who died in 1885, continued a prospering business as a furniture manufacturer for eighteen years, but in 1870 entered the pork packing industry with Mr. Blomer, under the firm name of Vanden Boom & Blomer, with plant at the corner of Tenth and Broadway. That was his chief business interest until his death. C. A. Vanden Boom was well known in the city's financial affairs, and also as a public spirited citizen and for eight years served as an alderman. He and his family were members of St. Boniface and later of St. Francis' Catholic parish.

Joseph H. Vanden Boom, son of C. A. and Gertrude (Jessing) Vanden Boom, was born at Quiney August 6, 1854. During his youth he attended the parochial schools and in 1869 graduated from the Bryant & Stratton Business College. He had some valuable training during the next three years as clerk in the Rieker Bank of Quiney, and from 1872 to 1875 was bookkeeper for Vanden Boom & Blomer, pork packers. In July, 1875, Mr. Vanden Boom formed a partnership witli Henry MoUer and established the lumber business of I\Ioller & Vanden Boom. In a short time this firm, with jieadquarters at 636 Vermont Street, was ranked among the leading lumber merchants of the city, handling many million feet of lumber supplies every year. Mr. Moller of this firm died in 1900, but there has been no important change in the family membership of the business to the present time. In 1901 the old firm was incorporated as the Moller-Vanden Boom Liimber Company, and Mr. Vanden Boom has been president from the first. Henry Moller is secretary and Fred Moller treasurer of the company. Mr. Vanden Boom has been a leader in the lumber business at Quiney forty-three years. The corporation today is both wholesale and retail in its organization, and owns and operates a number of branch yards in Illinois and Missouri. Mr. Vanden Boom has witnessed and has adapted liimself to many of the changes necessitated by difi'ering conditions in the lumber industry. Formerly nearh' all the lumber of the firm was brought down the ^Mississippi River from the northern woods in great rafts, while at the present time their supplies are brought by railroad from the lumber mills of the south and the shingle mills of the west and northwest.

Mr. Vanden Boom was one of the incorporators and is a director of the Rieker National Bank of Quiney, a banking house with which he had some of his early training. He is vice president of the Modern Iron Works and vice president of the People's Savings, Loan and Building Association, and president of the Barton Realty Company of St. Louis. Mr. Vanden Boom owns and operates three farms in Saskatchewan, Canada, and also has a large cattle ranch in the Panhandle of Texas. A prominent and wealthy citizen, he has made his influence count in many waj's and in many movements for the welfare and advancement of Quiucy. From 1878 to 1882 he served as alderman from the Sixth Ward. He is a democrat in politics. Mr. Vanden Boom and family occup3' one of the most artistic and complete modern homes in Quiney. His residence was erected in 1917, and combines all the facilities and improvements which make for comfort both summer and winter. Mr. Vanden Boom after business hours is usually at home, and finds his chief delight in the family circle.

In 1876, at Quiucy, he married Miss Amelia Kaltz, who was born in Quiney, and was educated in the local schools and a convent at Belleville, Illinois. She was born in Quiney in 18.52. She died in 1880, the mother of two children: Arthur, born in 1877 and died at the age of ten ; and Edward, who died when six years old. In 1885 Mr. Vanden Boom married a sister of his first wife, Julia Kaltz. Mrs. Vanden Boom was well educated, having finished her schooling in St. Mary's Academy at Nauvoo, Illinois. Her parents- were Adolph and Julia (Delabar i Kaltz, natives of Germany and early settlei's of Quinej', where they married and spent their lives. Mr. and Mrs. Vanden Boom are the parents of two children, Joseph H., Jr., and Elvira Louise. The daughter graduated from St. Mary's Academy in Nauvoo in 1902. Joseph H. Vanden Boom, Jr., who is a graduate of St. Canisius College at Buffalo, New York, is a prominent and progressive young business man of Quiney, being one of the executive officers of the ]\Iutual Fire Insurance Company, the Livestock Insurance Company and the Aer Sweep Company of Quiney. He married Gertrude Fisher, daughter of George Fisher, of a well known Quiney family elsewhere mentioned. Jfr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Vanden Boom, Jr., have two daughters, Harriet A, and Mildred A.

Herm.vn H. Stockhecker. One of the older men of Quiney who can best welcome and appreciate the services and sacrifices of the young soldiers who return from abroad after the great war is Herman H. Stockhecker, who went through a portion of our American Civil war, and has lived usefully and well for the subsequent half century, bearing his responsibilities as a good citizen and having an efficient business record to his credit.

Mr.- Stockhecker has lived in Adams County sixty-five years. He was born in Germany, December 29, 1845, a son of Joseph and Anna H. Stockhecker Joseph Stockhecker served in the German army and died when his son Her man was only two years old. The widowed mother, ]Mrs. Anna (Bornmann) Stockhecker, six years after her husband's death brought her children to America. These children were Ann, Ricka and Herman H. They made the voyage in 1853 on a sailing vessel, going from Bremen to New Orleans and thence up the ilississippi River to Quiney. Here the family joined an older daughter, Louise, who had come with friends some years previous. Mrs. Anna Stockhecker spent the rest of her days in Adams County and died in 1888, at the age of seventy-nine. She was a Lutheran, as was her husband. Louise married Herman Haney and died leaving a family of sons and daughters. Anna married Casper Haney and also left children. Ricka married John Heidbreder, and both are now deceased, being survived by four sons and three daughters.

Herman H. Stockhecker was eight years old when he came to this country and he grew up in Quiney. He attended the parochial schools, and had been earning his own living for some time prior to his enlistment for service in the Union army.

An authentic record of his military experience is as follows : He enlisted from Quiney February 14, 1865, to serve one year or during the war, and was mustered into the United States service at Quiney on the same day as a private of Capt. Charles H. Heidbreder's Company H, Fourteenth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, Col. Adolph Dengler commanding. This company was recruited to fill up the quota of the Forty-Third Regiment and joined that regiment at Little Rock, Arkansas. The regiment had been in service from the first year of the war, and participated in the capture of Little Rock, Arkansas, in the summer of 1863 and was the first regiment to enter that city. During the latter period of his sei-vice and while ]\Ir. Stockhecker was a member of the regiment it was in the operations at Arkadelphia in Arkansas, Okalona, Elkin's Ford, Prairie De'Ann, Moscow, Camden, Marks Hills and Jenkins Ferry, and from there returned to Little Rock. He performed guard duty, taking part in a number of expeditions and raids and was mustered out of the service November 30, 1865, returning to Camp Butler. Illinois, for final pay and discharge. Herman H. Stockhecker was always to be found at his post of duty and rendered faithful and meritorious service, earning commendation for soldierly bearing and good conduct at all times. He was sick during his ser%'ice and confined in a regimental hospital at Little Rock about three weeks. He received an honoi-able disehai-ge at Springfield November 30, 1865, by reason of close of the war. For many years he has been a member of John "Wood Post No. 96, Department of Illinois, Grand Army of the Republic.

Before enlisting he had worked in the foundry of Thomas "Wick at Quincj', and was taken back when he returned from the army and continued there two years. He and Frank West then formed a partnership as wood merchants, shipping large quantities of wood up and down the Mississippi River. Three years later he bought Mr. West 's interests and continued the business for sixteen years. He also acquired some 400 acres of timber land in Pike County and operated it extensively as a timber man for several years. At one time he had 700 acres of timber land. On selling that property he invested the proceeds in city real estate. When he left the wood business he and Samuel Woods engaged in the wholesale and retail brick trade for eight years. Mr. Stockliecker then bought the interests of his partner and continued the business on his own account vuitil 1906, at which date he foi-mally retired, and has since looked after his private afi'aii's. For a number of years Mr. Stockhecker resided at 305 South Eighth Street, but his present home is at 2546 Vermont Street.

March 23, 1868, he married at Quiney Miss Anna Fleer. She was born in Germany December 28, 1846, and at the age of six years was brought to this country in a sailing vessel to New Orleans and thence to Quiney by her parents, Herman and Anna Fleer. Her parents spent the rest of their days in Quiney and died when about three score and ten years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Stockhecker became the parents of the following children : Anna, Herman, Ida, William, George, Lillie, Albert, Edward, Walter and Flora. Anna now lives at Fort Madison, Iowa, the widow of Peter Werner, and her children are Frank Louis Paul, Peter and Lillian. Herman H., Jr., aged forty-six, lives at St. Louis and is a concrete finisher. He married Eva Shoop and has a son, Leroy. Ida is the wife of Anton Abbott, of Quiney, and their children are George, Edna, Arthur, Elva, Anton and Clarence. Lillie first married George Pliirman by whom she had two children, and after his death became the wife of Willis Thoele, and they now live in Detroit, Michigan. Albert is chief engineer of the Electric Light and Power plant at Quiney. He married Emma Williams, of Quiney, and his children are Russell, Ralph and Ruth. Edward is a stove molder and by his marriage to Nina Gordon has two sons, James and Lloyd. Walter is a night foreman in the Quinej' postoiSee. He married Lillie Dickhut, and has a son, Victor, born on Victory Day, November 11, 1918. The j'oungest of the children. Flora E., married Lawrence William Sturhahn, who is connected with the Standard Oil Company. They have a daughter, Betty Ann, aged two years. All the family are members of the Lutheran Church and Mr. Stockliecker is a republican voter.

John F. Alison. For almost half a century Mr. Alison was a resident of Adams County and was a real substantial factor in the development of the farming and civic community of Ellington Township. It would be difficult to find a

The Alison family has been in America for more than a century and a half and have exemplified the sturdy traits of loyal and patriotic citizens. Mr. John P. Alison's ^audfather, John Alison, served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Mr. Allison's father, Andrew Alison, was bom either in Kentucky or Virginia, and was a pioneer settler in Nicholas Count}' of the former state. He grew up with only such advantages as were supplied in an educational way in the early part of the last century. He was reared and acted as a democrat until the birth of the republican party, when he was recruited into its ranks. In 1846, at the time of the Mexican war, Andrew Alison took his family from Kentucky to Putnam County, Indiana, and on a farm in that localitj^ he spent the rest of his days. Andrew Alison married Elizabeth Hedges, and both were members of the Presbyterian Church and died in that faith in Putnam County, where they have their last resting place. Elizabeth Hedges was also a native of Kentucky'. They were the parents of eight children, seven sons and one daughter, two of whom are still living, William H. and Robert R. The two brothers are members of the Presbyterian Church and republican voters. William H. is a retired farmer living in San Jose, California, and has four children, while Robert is farming at Paola, Kansas, and his family consists of three children.

John F. Alison was boi-n near the To^'n of Mooi'estield in Nicholas County, Kentuckv, IMarch 1, 1834. His span of live covered more than fourscore years, and within his personal recollection occurred many of the most astonishing events and inventions which have moved the modern world. He was about twelve years old when his parents moved to Putnam County, Indiana, and the trip was made in true pioneer style with wagons and teams. In Putnam County he gi-ew to manhood. His education was acquired in some of the typical oldfashioned schools that have been so frequently described in the literature of the period. The school that stood most clearly in his memory was built of logs, had a clapboard roof, while the seats were made of split logs supported from the floor by means of pins. He wi'ote his copy with the old goosequill pen, fashioned by the teacher, and used other equipment such as cannot be found in the modern schools. In one thing the old time schools did excel, and that wa-s the strict attention paid to the practical and fundamental principles of knowledge. Mr. Alison had little time to attend even siich schools as did exist in his youth, since much responsibility rested upon him in looking after the farm and contributing his earnings to the family support.

Mr. Alison married for his first wife Miss Angelina Brown. They had two children, only one of whom is now living. Lanvel. Lanvel is manager of his mother's farm in Ellington Township. He was given a good common school education and also a business course in Musselman's Business College at Quincy. He married jMiss Charlotte Cook. They had four children, Martha, John C., Robert F. and M^-ra Angelina. He and his wife are members and he is an elder of the Presbyterian church in Ellington To-n'nship. He is one of the leading republicans in that to^'nship, has served as township clerk and is chairman of the Town Board and the sale of Liberty Loan bonds. He is one of the men vigorously upholding the cause of the great war.

Mr. Alison's first wife died in 1876 and is laid to rest in Putnam County, Indiana. On March 12. 1879, Mr. Alison married Miss Lucinda Hedges. Mrs. Alison is a native of Adams County. She was born January 17, 1838, and her birthplace was a little log cabin that stood on the site of the present home of Mr. and Mrs. Alison. She has spent all her life in this county and her family goes back to the truly pioneer times of this section. Her parents when they first located here saw Indian tepees on their land. She gained her education in much the same kind of schools attended by her husband. Her first school was the old brick school, which lay southeast of the Hedges farm. It will serve to indicate the long span of years which Mr. and Mrs. Alison lived to note that America has been engaged in four great wars since they were children, the war with Mexico, the Civil war, the war with Spain and now the war with Germany. Mrs. Alison was well educated and from the common schools attended Abingdon College at Abingdon, Illinois. She was granted a teacher's eertitieate. She was formerly a member of the Christian Church, but is now active in the Presbyterian faith, and has served as treasurer of the Ladies' Aid Society, and has done much to maintain church functions in her communitj-.

Mrs. Alison's father was liorn and reared in Kentucky and was one of the stanch farmers of Adams County for many years. He bought 160 acres of land in Ellington Township and his property enabled him to accumulate much other property. He began voting as a whig and he and his wife were members of the Christian Church. Both her parents were buried in Ursa Township.

ilr. Alison as a republican cast his first presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln. With his wife and son he owned 110 acres of fine land in Ellington and Ursa townships, and this estate is widely known as the Walnut Dell Farm. It is a center of productive agriculture and is also a home of cordial greeting to their numerous friends. With his wife Mr. Alison has enjo.yed life as they went along and accepted opportunity to travel and see their own country. They spent some time on the Pacific coast in the cities of San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Jose, and also visited the grasshopper State of Kansas. John F. Alison died on the 18th of September, 1918.

Henry C. Cupp will go down to fame in Adams County chiefly as "the apple king." As a specialist in apple raising in this section of the country, and as a general horticulturist, Mr. Cupp's work and influence have licen of inestimable value not only locally but throughout the slate and nation. By years of patient effort and study he developed a magnificent apple orchard in Pall Creek Township, and not only grew apples by the thousands of barrels but applied himself to the studj^ and solution of the many problems affecting the distribution of the apple ci'op and to organizing the fruit growers of the state and nation for the general welfare of all concerned.

Mr. Cupp about 1875 determined to develop part of his farm in Fall Creek Townsliip to an apple orchard. Out of that he gradually built up what became widely known as the Diamond C Fruit Ranch. The nucleus of this ranch was ten acres of apple orchard. In 1880 he set out seventeen acres, chiefly of Ben Davis. In 1897-98 he continued his planting by increasing his acreage 120 acres. His crop of 1897 was sold for over !};400 per acre. For a numlier of years he handled the gx'owing, packing and marketing of the products of his 150 acres of orchard and in that time marketed many thousands of barrels of the choicest fruit grown anywhere in the Mississippi Valley. ^Ir. Cupp was both a scientific and practical orchardist. He did much to popularize the .spraying of trees in Adams County, and it is said that he was the first man to use a gasoline engine for power in operating his spraying tank. ]\Ir. Cupp owned a farm of 336 acres, and besides his orchard conducted general farming and stock raising. He was the first to introduce Poll Angus cattle into Adams County and was also a successful breeder of Chester White swine. As a business man he continued active until 1916, since which year he has lived retired in Quinc3^

Mr. Cupp was born in Steuben County, Indiana, October 30, 1848. He is of Holland Dutch ancestry. His father, Jacob Cupp, was liorn in Pennsylvania and married in Ohio Dorcas Ann Smith, who was of French and English lineage. Jai'ob Cu]ip and family moved in 1858 from Steuben County, Indiana, to Shelby County. Missouri, where he was a farmer. He was a stanch abolitionist, and it required a great deal of courage to live in that .section of Missouri at the time. Some of his property was stolen, and he was threatened with personal violence, until finally General McNeal made a public proclamation that if the life of Mr. Cupp was taken he would execute ten of his rebel neighbors. Jacob Cupp died in Shelby Count.v, Missouri, in 1874.

Henry C. Cupp was a small boy when his mother died, and he has always looked upon his sister Catherine as his second mother. Catherine Cupp was born November 18, 1839, and married William Cook, who was born in 1824 and left her a widow in 1876. Mrs. Catherine Cook now lives at Shreveport, Louisiana. She was the mother of six sons and one daughter: Lewis S., who is a successful farmer near Slater, Missouri, is married and has a family of sous and daughters; Jacob E., a fanner also near Slater, is married and has two daughters; Anna, wife of Benjamin Boring, also a farmer near Slater; Frederick, Ulrich and Edwin T., who all live near their mother at Shreveport, Louisiana, Frederick and Ulrich being married; and Frank C, who has a large farm under lease near Hannibal, ilissouri.

Henry C. Cupp had three brothers who made records as soldiers in the Civil war. Lewis C. and John S. were both members of the Third Missouri Cavalry, and served all through the war. Theodore was a private in the Thirty-Ninth Missouri Infantry and was out for about one year. Lewis C. died in Rails County, Missouri, in 1901, leaving a family of children. John was also a ilissouri farmer and stock raiser, as is Theodore. Henry C. Cupp received most of his early education in the schools of Shelby County, Missouri, and also attended Palmyra College at Palmyra, INIissouri. He moved to Adams County, niinois, in 1870, when about twenty -two years old, and in this county his active career has reached its most definite achievement. When at the height of his work as an apple grower he employed about 200 men in his orchard during the busy season, and the harvest was not infrequently as high as 10,000 barrels. Necessarily he had to provide extensive quarters for housing the lalioi- during the harvest, and he built a large house on his farm for that purpose.

In 1871 Mr. Cupp married in Adams County Miss Frances L. Rankin, who was born in Fall Creek Township in 1852. She was reared there, attended the local schools, and also the college at Jacksonville. She was a daughter of Robert and Sarah J. (Edmonds) Rankin. Her father was born in Kentucky of Scotch ancestry and her mother in Tennessee of Irish stock. Robert Rankin and wife were married in Adams County, Illinois, and he became active as a farmer in Fall Creek Township and was also one of the pioneer peach growers in the county. They were devoted Christian people, members of the Methodist Church, and through their charity assisted many deserving people.

Mrs. Cupp died on the farm in Adams County January 25, 1916. She was very active in the Methodist Church. To their marriage were born four children, three of whom died in infancy, and all are buried in the old Fall Creek Cemetery. The only surviving daughter is Lillie Jane, who was born in Adams County January 28, 1872, and was educated in the countr.y schools and four years at Chaddock College. July 26, 1893, she married Perry W. Sapp, of Macomb, Illinois. Mr. and ]\lrs. Sapp now live at Springfield. Mr. Sapp has been active in public affairs and is now engaged in the apple commission business at Springfield. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Sapp are : Stanley C, now a clerk in the railway postal service on the Santa Fe Railroad, married and the father of two children: Whitney F., who is connected with the Baltimore & Ohio Railway, is married and has a son Whitney, Jr. ; Lulu Miriam, who graduated with the class of 1917 from the Springfield High School and is a very talented musician, being a violinist.