Quincy Township (part 52 of 74)

William R. Gelston grew up in his native county, attending school there, and in 1894 graduated from Grinnell College in Iowa. Since then he has practiced his profession as a civil engineer, and as already stated, was for eight years connected with the engineering department of the Burlington Railway. He was assigned tasks all along that great system, and had many interesting experiences in the western states and territories. All of his experience well qualified him for the responsibilities he enjoys and the service he renders the people and the City of Quincy. In 1916, on the score of his experience and attainments, Mr. Gelston was elected a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and is also a member of the Illinois Engineers Association, the American Waterworks Association, and the New England Waterworks Association, and has attended many of the conventions of these professional bodies and participated in their proceedings.

I\Ir. Gelston married at Homan. Arkansas, Miss Elizabeth Chavey. She was horn in Indiana, but from the age of ten years lived in the State of Arkansas. She was paying a visit to a sister in Omaha when she met Mr. Gelston. Mr. and Mrs. Gelston liave one son. W. Richard, born in 1909 and now attending the public schools of Quincy. The family are members of the Presbyterian Church and in national politics Mr. Gelston votes as a democrat.

George H. Moyer is a Quincy business man whose hard working industry and genial manners have won him a host of friends, not only in the strict lines of his business relationships but among all classes of citizens. Vol. n - IT

As a boy he learned the trade of harness maker, and that lias been his reg-nlar business in Quincy for over twenty-five years. He has a large and well equipped shop at 1205 Broadway, and manufactures and handles a large volume of leather and harness goods.

His first location on starting business for himself Septeml^er 1, 1890, was an old land mark known as the Prairie House, at the corner of Twelfth and Broadway. It was the oldest building in that section of the city. Mr. Moyer had his shop there for six years before the building was torn down and was therefore its last occupant. The Prairie House in its time had a rather checkered history, and at one time was an old fa.shioned tavern, saloon and dance hall run very much on the plan of resorts in western mining or ranching towns. On leaving that location Mr. Moyer moved his shop across the street and established the plant where he has now been located for over twenty years.

Mr. Moyer was born in Missouri September 13, 1866, son of Henry ond Sarah (Levan) Moyer, both natives of Pennsylvania, where the,y were married, subsequently coming west to Missouri and finally locating at Keokuk, Iowa. Mr. Moyer is of an old Penns.ylvania family. The Meyers were originally French Huguenots, and lived in Holland before coming to Pennsylvania. His ancestors were in Pennsylvania prior to the Revolutionary war. His mother's parents came west to Missouri with a colony of settlers and spent their lives in that state.

George H. Moyer had very limited educational advantages. He learned the trade of harness maker, and in 1880 came to Quincy and worked at his trade until he set up in business for himself ten years later. "When he started his shop he had only .$25 capital, but had a large number of good friends who were willing in every way to help him. ilr. Moyer got his real education outside of school, and by practical experience and by constant reading of good books and papers. He is thoroughly posted on all current affairs and discusses man.y matters outside the ordinary interests of men.

Mr. Moyer married in Melrose Township of Adams County Elizabeth Barry. She was born in that township in 1864, and still owns the old farm where she was born. Mr. and Mrs. Moyer have one son, Edmund Milton, born January 6, 1903. He is now a pupil in the Quincy city schools. Mrs. Moj'er is member of St. Peter's Catholic church. Mr. Moyer is affiliated with the Chamber of Commerce.

"WrLLiAM F. Beeghofer. Few cities anywhere have a more varied line of manufactures and industries than Quincy. It is an important center for the manufacture and distribution of poultry supplies of different kinds, including incubators, and one of the principal firms helping to swell the volume of the city's business in this respect is that of Berghofer, Mitchell & Company, who have a large plant and turn out a big annual aggregate of sheet metal work, the Marvel Stove Range, fruit canuning devices, and incubators, feed and watering troughs and other poultry supplies, some of which have a widely attested popularity and are the direct invention of ilr. Berghofer, head of the company.

Mr. Berghofer is a veteran in the sheet metal and general hardware and tinsmith industry. He was born at Palmyra, Missouri, November 8, 1848, son of Henry and Henrietta (Schaler) Berghofer. Both parents were born in Pru.ssia, and on coming to the United States about 1845 located at LaGrange, Missouri, and later at Palmyra, where they spent their last years. The father died at the age of eighty-seven and the mother at eighty-one. They were members of the Lutheran Church. Their four sons and two daughters all grew up, one daughter dying unmarried at the age of thirty. These children were: William F. ; Henry, of Quincy ; Mary, wife of Doctor Bremmer, of Ashton, Illinois ; Catherine, deceased : Jacob, of Palmyra ; and Edward, of Florida.

"William F. Berghofer grew up at Palmyra, and until he was twelve years of age attended a pay school. At the age of sixteen he left home and came to Quincy and learned the trade of tinsmith under H. C. Dasbach, an uncle by marriage. After three years of apprenticeship he worked as a jourueymaii, aud in 1878 entered business on his own account in Saline County, Missouri. There he conducted a tinshop and also handled a general stock of hardware. He was one of the merchants in that flourishing town in the Missouri River Valley until 1888, when he returned to Quincy and established a sheet metal works. Out of that has grown the present extensive business, doing every class of general sheet metal and tin work, and emphasizing the specialties above mentioned. In 1891 Mr. Berghofer built his plant at 510 Jersey Street, 25x185 feet. In 1900 Alexander Ohnius became a partner, but eight years later the partnership was dissolved and in 1908 Mr. Berghofer associated with himself his son-in-law, E. H. Mitchell, who looks after the general commercial end of the business. They employ from ten to twenty-five men. Mr. Berghofer is president of the company, and the business is practically a family affair, including Jlr. ilitchell and also a son of Mr. Berghofer.

At Quincy March 24, 1870, Mr. Berghofer married iliss Mary Niemeyer, a native of Quincy, where she was reared and educated. Her parents were natives of Germany and spent their long and useful lives in Quincy. Mr. and Mrs. Berghofer had three children. Walter died in Missouri at the age of five years. Their daughter Katherine was born at Paris, Missouri, was educated there and in Quincy, and is the wife of Mr. E. H. Mitchell. Mr. Mitchell is a native of Palmyra, Missouri. The son Elmer J. H. was born at Slater, I\Iissoiiri, was educated in Quincy, and is now junior member of the company. He married Viola Ruff, daughter of Casper Ruff, of Quincy. They have a daughter, Gladys. Mr. Berghofer votes independently. He is affiliated with Bodley Lodge, No. 1, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and he and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

George W. Drallmeier was born in Quincy, and an early service, beginning when he was sixteen years of age, as clerk in the well known drug firm of Heidbreder Brothere fixed permanently his vocation and his business interests, and continuously since that time he has been connected with this firm, being now partner and manager of the store of Heidbreder & Drallmeier at 1707 Broadway.

Mr. Drallmeier was born in Quincy, at 1001 Kentucky Street, in 1875. His earl}' education was imparted to him in the grade schools, and at the age of sixteen he went to work for J. H. Heidbreder, the well known druggist. He has been with that firm continuously for twentj'-seven years and in 1904 he graduated from the Chicago School of Pharmacy, now the pharmacy department of the State University. Since getting his degree he has been a licensed pharmacist and has been manager of the store on Broadway and a partner in the firm which controls five of the most complete drug stores in the city. Mr. Drallmeier also established for the firm the store at Twelfth aud Broadway.

He is a son of Fred and Caroline (Kclker) Drallmeier. Fred Drallmeier was born in Germany but during infancy lost both his parents and was reared practically among strangers, at least not among immediate members of the family. When he was three years of age he was brought to America on a sailing vessel and grew up at Quincy, learned the trade of cigar maker and is still at that vocation. His wife was born in Quincy and is a year younger than her husband. Both are still living here and are active members of the Liitheran Church. They had a large family of tliree sons and eight daughters, all of whom are still living, all married and nearly all of them have children of their own. One son, Fred, is a pliarmacist at Gillespie, Illinois.

George W. Dralmeier married at Quincy Miss Etta Hunsaker, who was born near Quincy in ^Melrose Township. Her father was John Hunsaker and her grandfather was the well known old pioneer Alexander Hunsaker, who came from Pennsylvania and was one of the first settlere along Mill Creek in Melrose Township. He accumulated large holdings of land and was widely known in business affairs. He finallv went west and died at the home of a daughter in

Walla AValla, Washington, when past eighty years of age. John Hunsaker, father of Mrs. Drallmeier, was for many years in service as a member of the old city fire department of Quincy. He is now on the retired list, drawing a pension, and is about seventy years of age. John Hunsaker married Sophia Berian, of another pioneer family of Adams County. She died in 1913, at the age of fifty-four. Mr. and Mrs. Drallmeier have one son, Roy E., born April 1.5, 1901:, now a .iunior in the Quincy High School. Mr. Drallmeier is a member of the Masonic Order, but after his family he devotes all his interests and most of his time to his business. He learned pharmacy thoroughly both by experience and by technical study, and much of the success of the firm of which he is a partner is due to his hustling energy and his personal popularity.

George Ertel was that type of business man and citizen whose memory Quincy cannot afford to neglect. He was an inventor, a manufacturer, a large owner and improver of local real estate, and his influence was always steadily directed toward the welfare of his community as well as himself.

He was born in 1832 in the Province of Lorraine when it was a French possession and at one of the intereisting villages along the River Rhine. He was of German ancestry. He was a small boy when his father died. His father had been a river man on the Rhine and spent his active career in the transportation industry. Mr. George Ertel gi-ew up and received his early education in his native village, and there learned the trade of cabinet maker. About the time he completed his apprenticeship, at the age of eighteen, he headed the family, consisting of his widowed mother and three other children, Valentine, Daniel and Anna Mary, in their iramigi-ation to the New World. They embarked on a sailing vessel at Havre, France, and seven weeks later landed in New York. From there they went to Williamsport, Pennsylvania, where the mother lived until her death. The Ertels are of Protestant German stock. Mr. George Ertel 's brothers Valentine and Daniel and his sister Anna Mary all went to Wisconsin, became farmers in that state, and spent their lives there. They all lived to fullness of years and all left families.

George Ertel had as one of his first American experiences employment at his trade at J^lmira, New York, and three years later he returned to Williamsport, Pennsylvania. At Williamsport he met and married Miss Eva E. Gardner. She was also born at Newburg on the River Rhine in Lorraine, September 18, 1838, daughter of John and Barbara (Rhinehardt) Gardner. Her parents were natives of the same vicinity. John Gardner was a well to do business man there and had trade connections with Carlsrue, Strassburg and Baden. The Gardners lived in that section of Germany until the sons were nearly grown and in order to escape the impositions of a military government the i'amily immigrated in 1851 to America. John Gardner and wife were accompanied by their five sons and four daughters and by a number of friends. They also sailed from Havre, France, on the ship Edwina, and less than five weeks later landed at New York. Thence by rail and canal they journeyed to Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Ertel 's parents finall.y joined her and other members of the family in Quincy and her father died here at the age of sixtynine and her mother when nearly ninetj-five years old.

Mr. and Mrs. Ertel after their marriage came to Qiiincy and here he soon entered business for himself. He was the patentee of a special type of hay press, and manufactured and sold those presses for a number of years. He also originated a special type of poultry brooder, and that was also a commodity which was widely manufactured and sold. Through his manufacturing enterprise he gained the capital which enabled him to invest and develop some valuable property. He built the Ertel Block, a well known landmark in the Quincy business district, part of which was modeled for theatrical uses. Mr. Ertel built the fine brick home at 1261 Park Place where Mrs. Ertel still lives and where his death occurred February 16, 1907, at the age of seventy-five.

Mr. Ertel was a Mason and in politics voted independently. ]\Irs. Ertel has one son, Charles M., who was born in Quincy, was educated in the local schools, and succeeded to his father's business. He married Miss Odella ]\Iorrell, a native of St. Louis, who was reared and educated in that city. Charles M. Ertel and wife had four children: Elsie, the oldest, died after her marriage to J. C. Goves, and her daughter, Ruth, aged six, is Mrs. Ertel's only greatgrandchild. Edna, aged twenty-one, was educated in the Quiucj' schools and is now a student of art at Chicago. Georgianna, aged nineteen, is a student of ai't in Quincy. Pauline, the other granddaughter of Mrs. Ertel, died at the age of eighteen.

Newton J. Hinton. There are hundreds of people in Adams County who need no introduction to the service by which Newton J. Hinton has made his life one of distinctive credit and honor in the county. Mr. Hinton for forty years or more has been an educator, and most of those years have been spent in Adams County. Since 1898, a period of twenty years, he has been principal of the Franklin School at Quincy, and in point of continuous service is the oldest principal and school administrator in the city.

Mr. Hinton represents a very old family of Adams County and it was during a temporary absence of his parents in Memphis, Missouri, that Newton J. wa.s born Slarch 3, 1857. When he was a year old his parents returned to Melrose Township, three miles from Payson, on Payson Prairie. In that locality his maternal grandparents, Peyton and Sarah (Basnett) Griggs, had settled during the '30s and had improved a farm from a portion of the wilderness. Peyton Griggs and wife were from Kentuck}^ He died in this county in 1863, when about sixty j-ears of age, and his widow died at Payson in 1893. She was born in 1803. They were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and as a family the politics ran democratic. Peyton Griggs and wife had seven sons and three daughters, nearl.y all of whom married and had children. One of these wa.s Mary Ann, better known as Polly, who was born in Melrose Township about 1833. and spent most of her life in the county. She was the mother of Professor Hinton.

The latter's father, Samuel Hinton, was born in St. Clair County. Illinois, in 1831, of Virginia parentage. His father Vachel died when Samuel was a small boy. The latter at the age of twenty moved to Adams Couut\-, and soon afterward married Miss Griggs. They lived in Melrose Township a time, then spent two years in Missouri. On returning to Melrose Township Samuel Hinton bought a small farm. From there he moved to Fall Creek Township, rented land, and conducted some of the extensive orchards of the Chatten family, noted fruit growers in that vicinity. About fifteen years later Samuel Hinton moved to Anthony, Harper County, Kansas. While there he became blind, and finally returned to Quincy and spent his last days in the home of his son Newton, where he died in April, 1917, at the age of seventy-nine. He was an active Methodist and a republican. His first wife, the mother of Newton J. Hinton, died in Fall Creek Township. She was the mother of nine children, and those still living are: Lois, wife of C. E. Tilton, who lives retired in Columbus. Illinois, and has three sons and two daughters ; Newton J. ; Alliertine. wife of C. W. Collins, who resides at Labelle, I\Iissouri, and represents the Quincy Herald, ]Mr. and Mi-s. Collins being the parents of two sons and two daugliters ; and Amanda, wife of George Tilton, a farmer near Garnett, Kansas, and they have four sons and one daughter.

Newton J. Hinton as a boy attended public school in Melrose High School in Payson, and also had several terms of instruction at Chaddock College in Quincy. He taught his first school at the age of eighteen. It was a rural school in the Whitcomb District in Payson Towm.ship. His second school was the Center School in Fall Creek Township. The patrons of that school were so well pleased with his services that they kept him five years. He left that to take charge of the grammar school at Payson, later organized the grade school at Liberty and taught it five years, and following that spent seven years again at Payson and one year at Mendon. He was principal of the Paysou Higli School seven years. Since coming to the Franklin school as principal in 1898 Mr. Hiuton has gi-aduated more than 400 pupils from the eighth grade. This is one of the old and well known schools of the city, located at Third and State streets. He has thirteen regular teachers under him, besides the teachers who handle the domestic science and manual training department.

In Quincy ilr. Hinton married Miss Lois Thompson. She was born in Melrose Township and she and Mr. Hinton were fellow students, and she likewise taught for three years, one year after her marriage. Mrs. Hinton is a daughter of Isaac N. and Elizabeth (Forgy) Thompson, both of Kentucky ancestry. Her mother was born in Kentucky and her father near Athens, Ohio. On coming to Adams County they bought a farm in [Melrose Township, and later lived in Payson Township, where the mother died at the age of sixtysix and the father at the age of eighty-six. Mrs. Hinton 's father was an active democrat and besides township offices was at one time deputy sheriff of Adams County. The Thompsons were members of the Baptist Church. Mr. and Mrs. Hinton are active members of the Vermont Street Methodist Episcopal church, and he has served as a member of its official board and for about twelve years was assistant superintendent of the Sunday school. In politics ilr. Hinton is a republican. He is affiliated with Bodley Lodge, No. 1, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and is a past master. He is also secretary of the local court of the Tribe of Ben Hur and a member of North Star Camp, Modern Woodmen of America. He is secretary of the Adams County. Mutual Life Insurance Company.

Mr. and ilrs. Hinton are pi'operly proud of the achievements and attainments of their only son, Dr. Ralph C. Hinton, one of the prominent alienists of the state. He was born in 1881, is a graduate of the Payson and Quincy schools, and in 1904 took his medical degree from the University of Illinois. For two years he was an interne in the Michael Reese Hospital at Chicago, and for a time carried on a private practice at Quincy. He entered upon the real work of his life when he became assistant superintendent of the State Hospital at Jacksonville. Later he was superintendent of the hospital at Elgin several years, was also connected with an institution at Peoria and on September 1, 1917, was sent back to fill the position of superintendent at the Elgin State Hospital. He has made a splendid record in these several state institutions. Doctor Hinton married Alma Thompson, of Adams County, daughter of Sanniel and Sarah Thompson, both now deceased. Her father died in California at the age of thirty-five and her mother in Fall Creek Township at the age of fiftysix. Doctor and Mrs. Hinton have a son, Ralph C, born August 25, 1912, and this grandson is the particular pride of Professor Hinton. Doctor Hinton and wife also have an adopted daughter, Elizabeth R., born June 20, 1913.

JoHx Adam Bangert has a store that is a recognized institution i)i his part of Quincy at 700 North Fifth Street. This has been a locality for family trade in groceries for about forty years. It was established by his father, Frederick Bangert, who was the first to open a stock of goods of that kind in this part of tlie city. The lot on which the present store stands was at one time a steep hillside, and was as a result of much labor graded down and brought into condition for the erection of a building 25 by 70 feet. Frederick Bangert presided over this store the rest of his life and it has been continued bv his son, John Adam, and is now the oldest store north of Hampshire Street. Frederick Bangert was proprietor of the business until his dcatli in LSDG, at the age of sixty-one.

Frederick Bangert was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, in 1835. and came of a very substantial and well-to-do family of German people. He grew up in his native land, spent his early life on the farm, and in order to avoid military duty came to the United States. He made the voyage from Bremen to New York Citj' ou a sailiug vessel iu seven weeks' time, aud from New York came at once to Quincj'. In Adams County lie followed farming in Melrose Township until after the close of the Ci-vil war, aud his iudustiy and thrift enabled him to accumulate the modest capital which he finally invested iu his property and store at Quincy.

After coming to this country he married at Quincy Maria Heidloff, sister of John Heidloff and member of a well known Quincy family elsewhere referred to. Mrs. Fredei'ick Bangert was a noble wife and mother and by her thrift and care in supervising the early training of her children earned their undying gratitude. She died in 1911, at the age of seventy-seven. Both she aud her husband were active members of St. John's Lutheran Church. Frederick Bangert was a very decided democrat in politics. Of their six children Katharine is the wife of Thomas Rottenkobler, a retired butcher of Quiuc}-. Marj^ married John David, a grocery merchant of Quincy. Fred C. is in the butcher business and married Miss Mohler and has two children, and by a former marriage had thi-ee children. Leonard was also a butcher by trade and died in 1915, at the age of forty-five. Anna died unmarried in 1914, when about thirt}--eight.

John Adam Bangert was born in Quine.y in 1875. His birthplace was a house that stood on the lot where he now has his store. Thus his associations of home and business center around one locality, and in this atmosphere he igrew up, attended the local schools, and learned the business from his father and by practical experience. When his father died he and his mother and sisters Slarj- and Anna coutinued the business. Later a sister went into the grocery business for herself, and since then IVIr. Bangert has been sole proprietor of the old store.

In Quincy he married ilargaret Wemhoener, daughter of F. C. and Elizabeth (Wisenbei'ger) Wemhoener. Her father was a former city clerk of Quincj'. Both her parents were born in Quincy, were married here aud are still residents, being now about seventy years of age. They are active members of the Lutheran Church. Mr. and Jlrs. Bangert have two daughters, Maria E. and Helen K. Maria was born in 1905 and is now in the eighth grade of the public schools, while Helen was born in 1909 and is in the fifth gi'ade. The family are members of the Lutheran Church.

Edg.vr McNay. a farm that measures up to the best standards of Illinois rural improvements, representing value, productiveness, first class buildings, ample facilities for ci'ops and livestock, and at the same time the comforts that insure the welfare of its occupants, is that of Edgar ]\IcNay, located about three miles west of Mendou in section 9 of that township and on the line of Ursa Township.

This farm home is the birthplace of Edgar McNay, where he was born May 3, 1865. He is a son of James and Helena (Laughlin) ilcNay. Helena Laughlin was a daughter of William Laughlin, one of four brothers who more than eighty years ago came to Adams County and were among the most prominent pioneers of iMendon Township. James McNay was born in Kentucky of Scotch parents. One of his brothers died while the family were coming "to America and was buried at sea. James McNay was a small child when his father died and later his mother came to Adams County as the wife of Daniel Lewis, and tioth spent the rest of their days in Mendon Towmship. As a boy James McNay worked for his brother Andrew until he was about grown. In 1849 he and J. P. Nichols were attracted to the gold fields of California. The entire summer of that year they were on the plains traveling to the gold coast, a journey that retjuired six months. The.v were in the California mines for a year and a half, and had more than the average success. James McNay had gold dust to the value of between $3,000 and $4,000 when he returned, and he invested much of it in eighty acres of land included in the present farm of his son Edgar. Later he bought another eighty acres and was a prosperous farmer in that community until his death on March 4, 1876, at the age of fifty-one. He was born in the year 1824 and was brought to Adams County from the vicinity of Covington, Kentucky. His brother Andrew also spent his life in Mendon Township, and there were two other brothers, John and William, who were long identified with this part of Adams County. Mrs. James McXay died June 17, 1906, at the age of seventy-three. They were married soon after his return from California, and she survived her husband about thirty years. Their children were : William, a railroad man living at Peoria ; Herschel, who died in California at the age of twenty; Edgar; Charles, who is cashier in the freight office of the Burlington Railroad at Des Moines, Iowa; Violet, who died at the age of two yeai-s; and Gertrude, who died at seventeen.

The life of Edgar ]\IcNay has been identified from birth to the present time with the old homestead farm. During his mother's lifetime he bought the farm and has since increased its size by the purchase of eighty acres until he now has 240 acres under his ownership and control. For the eighty acres which he bought he paid $100 an acre. He and his family enjoy the comforts of a good home, the house having been erected in 1875, and having since been remodeled. Mr. McNaj^ sei*ved twenty years on the school board of his district and in the spring of 1916 was elected township supei"visor and served until 1918. He was elected on the democratic ticket in a strongly republican district, and was defeated for re-election on account of the high school question. During his term as supervisor for Mendon Township he secured the entire aid from the county for two bridges. This was a much needed improvement and they were erected at a cost of $3,000. He has always been democratic in his politics, and is afSliated with the Lodge of Odd Fellows at Ursa. At the age of twentyfour Mr. McNay married Miss Clara Wilkins, daughter of Eli and Susan (Kelley) Wilkins. Six children were bom to their marriage: Mabel, wife of Virgil Baker, a carpenter at Marcelline, and they have two children, ]Milton and Lois ; Florence, who is still at home ; Marie, who graduated from the Mendon High School in 1912 and is at home ; Helen, wife of Ray McClelland, a farmer in Honey Creek Township, and they have one daughter, Alma ; Gilbert and Glen, both at home.

WoiLiAM D. Groves, M. D. The oldest and best known ph.ysician of Ursa Township is Doctor Groves, who has practiced medicine in this county for over thirty years and whose personal associations have been with the localities of Marcelline and LTrsa. Doctor Groves is a man of high standing in liis profession, and is now vice president of the Adams County Medical Society.

He was born at Marcelline in Ursa Township April 18, 1862, a son of John P. and Amanda (Ruddell) Groves. His mother was a daughter of Rev. Stephen A. Ruddell, one of the prominent pioneers of Ursa Township, who took a prominent part in organizing the first religious society in the to^vmship, and later gave from his own farm the site for the Christian Church. The Ruddell family has been active in Adams County for ninety years.

John P. Groves was born in Pennsylvania and was brought as a child to Adams County, his parents locating at Marcelline. He was born in 1817 and died March 22, 1881, at the age of sixty-four. John P. Groves' mother lived to a good old age. He was the only one of thi'ce sons to reach maturity. His brother Daniel died while a soldier in the Civil war and his brother Joseph Henry died in young manhood. Jolm P. Groves spent his active career as a, farmer near Marcelline. He was never in public life, but was one of the organizers of the Christian Church at Marcelline. His wife died in 1891. at the same age as himself. They had four children: Mary E., widow of R. M. Agec, of Berkeley, California; George W., a farmer of Mendon Township; William D. ; and Martha R., wife of John D. Gerard, of Tacoma, Washington.

Doctor Groves was liberally educated, taking his literary work in Christian University at Canton, Missouri, and graduating witli the class of 1878. He then entered the St. Louis Medical College, from which he received his medical degree in 1883. With this preparation he began practice at Marcelline, and in 1902 established his home at Ursa. The lour years previous to his establishment at Ursa he spent at Kansas City, Missouri. He has given all his time to his work as a physician, and thei'e is hardly a home in Ursa Township which he has not entered at some time in a professional capacity. He is a member of all the medical societies, including the District and State societies, and the American Medical A.ssociation. He is an Odd Fellow and has sat in the Grand Lodge. Doctor Groves has spent several winters either in Florida or California. At the age of twenty-three he married Minnie Keith, of Marcelline, daughter of E. B. Keith, a farmer of that vicinity now deceased. Mrs. Groves died July 28, 1915. She was very active in the Christian Church and for many yeai-s taught a Sunday school class. Their only child, Ursula, is now ^Irs. William B. McAdams, wife of a prominent stockman of Ursa. Her tii-st husband was William Smith Byrd, who died in Florida. William Smith Byrd was a son of Dr. William A. Byrd, long a prominent physician of Quincy. Mrs. Ursula McAdams by her first marriage has a daughter, Mary Belle, now ten years of age.

James T. Ruddell is the present supervisor of Ursa Township and for a number of years has sold much of the merchandise distributed from the village of Ursa over the surrounding coimtry. In 1904 he acquired his present business as successor to the Lummis Brothers. The store was originally established about 1880, the building being erected by Mr. Steiubach. and is now owned by the J. M. Daugherty Estate. Mr. Ruddell has a stock of general merchandise valued at about -$7,000, representing an increase from an original investment of $3,300. The business has grown and prospered and shows very satisfactory returns.

Ursa Township was a wilderness when the Ruddell family came here nearly ninety years ago, in 1829. It is recorded that the first religious society in the township was organized at the re^sidence of Rev. Stephen Ruddell in section 18, and he and his wife were among the seven charter members. Stephen Ruddell afterwards gave a site from part of his farm for the fii-st house of worship, and a church has stood there for many years.

James T. Ruddell was born in Ursa Township November 4, 18.55, a son of John M. and Martha A. (Dunlap) Ruddell. John M. Ruddell was born in Bourbon Coimtv, Kentucky, September 28, 1812. The date of his arrival in Adams County was November 20, 1829. On ilarch 20, 1832, he married Miss Martha Dunlap, who was born in [Mercer County, Kentucky, April 28, 1813. Her father, David Dunlap, came to Adams County in 1830 from Audrain County, Missouri. David Dunlap settled in Mendon Township, and spent his life as an active fanner there. He died at the age of eighty years, ilartha Dunlap 's mother died in Kentucky. -John M. Ruddell developed a farm of 120 acres in section 1 of Urea Township and was a citizen of high standing in that locality for many years. He was a democrat, an active member of the Christion Church, and served foi' over fourteen years as township supervisor and in other offices. In the Blackhawk Indian war of 1832 he was a member of Philip W. Martin's company. Three of his sons and a son-in-law were Union soldiers. His son William D. went out as first lieutenant in Company A of the Seventy-Eighth Illinois, and came back a captain. John D. enlisted in Company B of the Fiftieth Illinois Infantry, and was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant. George H. served as a private in Company B of the Seventy- Eighth Regiment, and the son-in-law, J. W. Wiester, was also in the Seventy- Eighth Regiment. John M. Ruddell died in August, 1896, and his wife in April of the same year. They had altogether eleven children, including: William D., who removed to Andrew County, ^Missouri, in 1876, and served as county treasurer of that county and died in 1888, at the age of fifty-four; John D. died at Mendon, Chariton Countv, Missouri, at the age of forty-one; Margaret R. lives with her brother James and is the widow of Jacob Wiester,

James T. Ruddell was reared a farmer and gave his years usefully to agricultural operations until 1897. During 1897-98 he was a merchant at Ursa, and from 1901 for a number of years was manager of the local creamery. He has been regularly established in business as a merchant since 1904.

Mr. Ruddell served as assessor of the township eight years, as tax collector four years, and has now filled the office of supervisor four years. He is an active democrat, has been prominent in church affairs, and in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows has filled all the chairs in the local lodge, has been representative to the Grand Lodge and district deput.y.

At the age of twenty-one he married Miss Sarah E. Jenkins. She was born in this loealitj- of Adams County November 30, 1858, a daughter of William A. and Rachel Jenkins, who were married in Adams County. William A. Jenkins came from Kentucky to this county about 1838. Her mother, Rachel Price, was a native of Maryland. Mrs. Ruddell died May 28, 1916, the mother of five children: Charles A., a farmer in Ursa; John M., associated with his father in the firm of James T. Ruddell & Sou ; William F., a resident of Englewood, Kansas; Margaret il., who was born in 1889 and died February 6, 191-4, at the age of twenty -five, leaving two children; and Martha A., wife of James Selb.y, of Lima Township. On June 27, 1918, Mr. Ruddell married Mrs. ilary B. Main, of Knox City, Missouri.

Charles Laycock is founder and president of the Bank of Ursa. This institution, one of the most substantial of the smaller towns of Adams Count.v, was established June 5, 1905, with a capital stock of $10,000. Mr. Charles Laycock is president and his son, Robert E. Laycock, is cashier. The bank is housed in a solid concrete building, erected for the special purpose, and has all the equipment and facilities of the modem bank.

Mr. Charles Laycock is a native of West Riding, Yorkshire, England. He grew up as a factory boy, vdth limited education and opportunities. Coming to the United States at the age of twenty-two, he worked in a factory at Providence, Rhode Island, as a dresser in the cloth industry, and also at Manchester, New Hampshire. Perhaps the most important event of his early life was a visit during one summer at the home of an old friend on the Georgian Bay in Canada. While in Canada he chanced to attend a great religious debate lasting ten da.vs between Rev. 0. A. Burgess, president of Butler University of Indianapolis, and a ]Mr. L'nderwood, a celebrated free thinker of Boston. It was hearing this struggle between master and opposing minds, and his acquaintance with Doctor Burgess which influenced him to enter Butler University as a student. He graduated after a thorough training for the ministry, and at once entered upon his career as a pastor of the Christian Church. While in college he paid his way by preaching, and had more resources at the end of his course than when he entered. Mr. Laycock served as pastor of a Christian Church at California, Missouri, also of two country churches, and was active in the ministry in both Missouri and Illinois for thirt.y-three years. He came from Canton, ^Missouri, to Ursa to start the bank, and with all the duties of business affairs has continued to render service occasionally as a minister, and hardly a month passes that he is not subject to some call from his old friend and parishioners to attend funerals. He has met and known many of the celebrated pulpit orators, including John A. Brooks, who was one of the ablest preachers of his time and was once candidate for vice president on the prohibition ticket.

Wliile at California, Missouri, Rev. Mr. Laycock married Eugenia Chastain. They have two children, Robert E. and Fern. The daughter is still at home. Robert E. Laycock is cashier of the bank and has also become widely known in association with his father by his work in breeding of high grade Belgian and Percheron horses and mules. Their industry is widely known, and has done much to improve the blood of standard bred horses and mules .through-

Horace D. Morton. The ]\Ioi-ton family have been in Adams County for sevent.v years or more and their record as successful farmers is found in Gilmer, Ellington and several other localities, ilr. Horace D. Morton, who among his friends is better known as "Harry," did his share of the hard work involved in farm operation, and is now living in comfortable retirement at a home in Quiney at the corner of Ninth and Oak streets. He moved from the Ellington Township farm in section 9 on December 24, 1904. In that part of Ellington Township he owned a good place of eighty acres for nine years, and had pre- \aously farmed in IMendon Township.

Mr. ilorton was born in Gilmer Township July 26, 1856. He lived there to the age of eight years, when his father bought a farm in Henry County, Illinois. Four years later the family returned to Adams County and again settled in Gilmer Township, where his father bought a place of 106 acres.

The grandparents of Horace D. Morton were Z. and Clarissa (Morgan) Morton, who came from Ohio to Adams County in 1848 and bought a half section of land in Gilmer Township. The land was completely wild, and it was the task of the family to improve it. Mr. Z. Morton died there and his estate was divided among his three sons and three daughters. The grandparents and most of their six children are now at rest in the cemetery at the Village of Columbus. One daughter, Mrs. Rebecca Henderson, is still living at advanced age at Atlanta, Georgia.

Benjamin Morton, oldest of the six children, and father of Horace was born in Butler C-ounty, Ohio, September 9, 1825. He was of New England ancestry and the first American Morton came over about the time of the ;\Iayflower. He grew up in Butler County and was a young man when he came to Adams County. He married Nancy Cate, who was a native of New Hampshire and was brought to Adams County at the age of eight years. Her parents .settled on a farm in Gilmer Township and spent the rest of their days there. Mrs. Nancy Morton died when nearly seventy years of age.

Horace D. Morton was reared as a ilethodist, which was the family religion. However, after his marriage he joined his wife in worship in the Christian Church. He married in Gilmer Township ]\riss Eunice King. She was born in Burton Township of Adams County July 2.3, 1859. She died at the home in Quiney April 5, 1918. She was reared and educated in Burton and Gilmer townships and after gi-aduating from the Maplewood High School at Camp Point was a teacher until her marriage. Her pai'cnts were Elijah and Ruth (Chase) King, early settlers of Burton To^Taship, where they lived on a farm many years. Later they had a farm in Gilmer Township, where j\Ir. King died. His widow spent her last years in the home of Mr. and 'Sirs, ilorton. She lived until past eighty years. All the King family were members of the Christian Church.

Mr. and ]Mrs. ^lorton had seven children. Albert was killed when ten years of age, being kicked by a horse. Carl B., born July 20, 1883, is a fanner in Marion County, ^Missouri. He married Nellie Windmeyer, of Quiney. They have three children, Eunice E., Robert B. and I\Iarjorie F. ilarj- R., bom November 2, 1885. was educated in the Quiney Hiu:h School, graduating as an honor student in 1905, and is now the wife of Andrew L. Hastings. Mr. and Mrs. Hastings live at Okmulgee, Oklahoma. Ada N., born November 25. 1887, was educated in the Quiney High School and the Gem City Business College and is now the wife of Harlan Turner, of Quiney. Lulu JI., born January 21, 1893, is a graduate of the Quiney High Seliool and the Gem City Business College and is now keeping house for her father. Nellie E., born November 28. 1896, is a graduate of high school and the Gem City Business College, and is the wife of Harry Henhoff, of Ellington Township. Anna Lucile. born November 9, 1898, has a diploma from the high school and the Gem City Business College

George Fischer. A remarkable term of service in the industrial life of Quincy came to a close with the sudden death of Mr. George Fischer, which occurred on Februaiy 26, 1916. He had been identified with the l)usiness interests of the city for nearlj' fifty year.s.

After his school days he served an apprenticeship at the tinner's trade with Heuiy Ridder, and at the age of nineteen he formed a partnership in the stove and tinware business with John Grant and subsequently with Benjamin iSchupp. Later he embarked in this same line of business for himself, being located first at No. 625 Maine Street and then moving to No. 521 Maine Street.

In the year 1890 he purchased of Lcmley Brothers the iron, steel and heavy hardware business of that fiiTU. This transfer marked the beginning of the Fischer Iron & Steel Co.. which Mr. Fischer developed and successfully carried on until he died. In 1896 he erected on the premises of his boyhood home at 121-125 South Fifth Street a large and modern building, fitted and equipped with every facility in handling this important enterprise.

Mr. Fischer was born in Quincy, Januars^ 3, 1850, and died at the age of sixty-six years, in the full splendor of manhood His parents were Joseph. John and "Walburga (Wittmann) Fischer. Both were born in Bavaria, Germany, the father March 3, 1816, and the mother July 8, 1821. The father came to the United States in a sailing vessel -when a young man, and from New Orleans traveled up the river to Quincy, where he engaged in business as a merchant tailor. He was one of the well kno'mi early German settlers of the city, and died .on June 5, 1851. He married in Quincy, and George Fischer was their only child. His widow survived him and passed away October 21, 1891.

In earl.v boyhood George Fischer attended the parochial schools and St. Francis College. In 1877 he married Miss Euphemia A. Ricker, the eldest child of the late Henry F. J. Ricker, Sr., foiander of the Ricker National Bank of Quincy, Illinois. To this union five children were bom, three sons and two daughters, namely : George Joseph, Joseph John, Walburga Mary, Frank Aloysius and Gertrude Caroline.

Mr. Fischer at the time of his death was vice president and director of the Ricker National Bank of Quincy, member of the board of directors of the IModern Iron Works, also a member of the board of governors of the Quincy Freight Bureau, a trustee of St. Boniface Catholic Church, and had served as president and also as secretary of the St. Aloysius Oi^phan Society. He was also affiliated with the Travelers Protective Association and the Western Catholic Union.

Mr. Fischer always cheerfully gave a full measure of unselfish assistance and personal service to any cause which had in view the advancement or betterment of his home city.

He was a person of distinguished bearing, tall and commanding in appearance, possessing a memory which supplied him with facts down to the minutest detail. He was a man whom neither praise nor blame could swerve from what he considered a right decision. He was deeply religious, strictly honest, and in executing his purpose he had the convnction that eternal truth and right were on his side and must prevail. He was a plain and una-ssuming man, possessed of strong common sense, great self reliance and invincible purpose. Throughout his life he set an example of moderation, fairness and truthfulness. Greater only than his work was the fullness and richness of his life itself.

Henry A. Oenning. Prominent among the names of the men of worth and integrit.v whom Quincy has been called upon to mourn within the pa.st few years stands that of the late Henry A. Oenning, who for many years was an active and influential factor in promoting the mercantile growth and prosperity of the city. A native of Germany, he was born May 9, 1834, in Vehbing, and was there bred and educated.

Eealizing the value of the woiidei'ful opportunities America offered to j'oung men of industry and energy, he immigrated to the United States in early manhood, locating first in New Orleans. From that city Mr. Oenning came by boat to Quiney, Illinois, and about 1866, in company with John Benning, he opened a book store, putting in a full line of prayer, church, and school books. He became well patronized, and subsequently bought out the interest of his partner, continuing the business alone until his death, January 24, 1908. In 1916 was celebrated the fiftieth year of the business at Quiney. During this entire period of fifty years operation has been continued in the same block, from 632 to 638. Successful in the management of his mercantile affairs, Mr. Oenning accumulated property of value, becoming owner among other things of the fine business building in which his .store was located.

Mr. Oenning married, February 2, 1867, Elizabeth Heuer, who was also a native of Germany. No children were born of their union. Mr. Oenning was a faithful member of Saint Boniface Church and active in its affairs. He was likewise one of the organizers of the Western Catholic Union.

Levin H. A. Nickeeson, M. D. Quiney has in many ways betokened its esteem for the professional abilities and service of Doctor Niekerson, who is now its oldest physician and surgeon in point of continuous years of practice. Doctor Niekerson came here in 1876, and all of his early contemporaries and associates are either gone or retired from work. Doctor Niekerson is still tremendously active, looks after a large private practice besides his official duties and responsibilities in connection with hospitals and various boards.

Doctor Niekerson was boni in Camden, Delaware, in 1851, and represents one of the oldest of New England families, one branch of the Nickereons having been identified with the earliest settlement on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, while others for many generations lived in Connecticut. Doctor Niekerson grew up in his native town, and received his literary education in a seminary or academy. In 1874 he graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania and the following two years were spent in the Blockley Municipal Hospital of Philadelphia. This was an education aiid experience much superior to those of the average physician of that time.

Doctor Niekerson came to Quiney and- soon had a profitable business as a physician and surgeon. For the past thirty years he has been a member of the staff of Blessing Hospital, for many years has served as surgeon of the Wabash Railroad, and for fifteen years as surgeon of the Anny Medical Examining Board. Doctor Nickei-son is a past president of the Adams County Medical Society. This, by the way, is the oldest medical society in the state, having been established before tlie state society was organized. Doctor Niekerson served as president of Illinois State Medical Society in 1913-14. A number of times he has been sent as a delegate to the American Medical Association. Doctor Niekerson applied for service in the present war, but was refused on account of his age.

As already noted, he is the oldest phj'sician of Quiney in point of continuous years of practice. The same distinction was enjoyed by his wife's father, the late Dr. Michael Roeschlaub, who in his time was one of the most eminent practitioners in medicine in Adams County. Doctor Niekerson and Miss Jessie S. Roeschlaub were married in Quiney. Her grandfather. Dr. Andrew Roeschlaub, was a distinguished and eminent medical man of Germany. He served as private medical counselor to the King of Bavaria and was also dean of the faculty of the University of Munich. In one of the rooms of the University of Munich is now prominently displayed a marble bust of Dr. Andrew Roeschlaub as testimony to his abilities and service.

Mrs. Niekerson 's father, Michael Joseph Roeschlaub, was bom in the Kingdom of Bavaria February 2, 1806. He was liberally educated, and graduated in the literary department of the University of Munich in 1825, and three years later received his degi-ee in medicine and surgeiy in his father's school. After four years of practice in Munich he was appointed county physician, a position he held until 1S45. He was oue of those liberty loving Bavarians who became dissatistied with political conditions in their native land, and coming to America he first settled at Palmyra, Missouri, and in January, 1849, located at Quincy, where he practiced medicine for over thirty years and at the time of his retirement was tlie oldest practicing physician of the city. He was one of the founders of the Adams County iledical Society and very active among its leaders and officers, serving as president and in other capacities. Dr. ^Michael Roeschlaub died in Quincy when seventy-nine years qf age. He was twice married. His second wife was Margaret Sawers, of Scotch descent, and a native of Edinburgh, Scotland. They were married in Bavaria October 10, 1843. JMrs. Michael Roeschlaub, who lived to be over fourscore years of age, was a prominent woman of Quincy and was especially distinguished as a leader in literary affairs.

Doctor Niekerson and wife have one son, Harry L. R., now thirty years of age. He is a graduate of the Quincy High School, Yale University, and of the Boston Institute of Technology. As a chemical engineer he has worked himself to a position of eminence in the profession and in business affairs. A number of years ago he identified himself with the Boston Gas Light Company, and has applied him.self so diligently and ablj' to his duties that he ha.s become its general manager and superintendent. He lives in Boston and married there Miss Harriet L. ^leCloud, a native of that city and a woman highly cultured and educated.

Henry C. Grebmann represents one of the old German families of Quincy, located here nearly half a century ago, and his own career ha.s been in part a continuation of that of his father, beginning as a stone mason and developing a large enterprise as stone contractor and in construction work, represented in many of the large private and business houses of this territory.

Mr. Greemann is a son of Henry and Wilhelmina (Boehmer) Greemann, both natives of Hanover, Germany, and reared from childhood in the Lutheran religion. Henry Greemann was a stone cutter by trade and was married in Germany. Their first child, Fredericka, was born in the old country and was very young when in 1855 they set sail from Bremen for New Orleans. Up the Mississippi River they came to St. Louis, where Henry Greemann followed his trade until 1859 and then moved to Quincy. He located at 830 Ohio Street, which was the family home for a great many years. At Quincy Henry Greemann followed his trade, and later contracted with Governor Wood, the founder of the city, to buy five acres south of Jefferson Street along the Mississippi River banks. He paid $2,000 for this property and soon developed it as a stone quarry. This quarry is interesting historically, since iu the course of the quarrying operations it was discovered that the former Indian inhabitants had used the ground as a burial place and many skeletons were unearthed. Henry Greemann continued working this quarry for dimension building stone until his death in 1879. at the age of fifty-nine. His widow survived him until 1883, and was about seventy when she clied. Both became identified with the Lutheran Church at Quincy. Their children born in Quincy were: Elizabeth, now living at Brooklyn, New York, widow of John Love and mother of several sons and daughters; Henry C, the third in age; John, who died in Quincy in middle life, survived by his widow, Fredericka (Shroeder) Greemann, and a daughter, Florence.

ilr. Henry C. Greemann was born at the old homestead on Ohio Street November 10, 1860. He attended the city schools but as a boy began learning the trade of stone mason under his father. He had not yet completed his apprenticeship when his father died and he ser\'ed it out under another employer. After that he continued the operation of the quarry until January 1, 1893, when he formed a partnership with Mr. Albert Boeder, and in 1913 they incorporated as the Roeder-Greemann Stone & Construction Companj- with a capital stock of .$25,000. Mr. Greemann is president, Mr. Boeder is treasurer, and Homer Greemann is secretarj-. The firm do an immense business in construe- tion work, and in their stone eoutraetiug furnish practically all the materials from their own quany. They do building of other materials and the firm is one of the most important in this line at Quincy.

Mr. Greemann married in Quincy Ida Weisenberger, who was born in this city in 1862, daughter of Bernard and Elizabeth (Kunkle) Weisenberger, both natives of Germany. They married after they came to Quincy and spent the rest of their days here. Her father died in 1906, when past seventy, and her mother is now living past fourscore. Both were members of the Lutheran Church. They had a large family and most of them are still living and married. Mr. and Mrs. Greemann have a family of four children: Homer, secretary of the company, who man-ied Elma Stohlberg. Clara is a graduate of the Gem City Business College and now a stenographer in the government service at Washington. Helen is a registered nurse and is now in the Red Cross service at Camp Dodge, Iowa. Laura was well educated in the high school and the Gem City Business College and is employed as a stenographer at Quincy. The family are members of the Lutheran Memorial Church. Mr. Greemann is affiliated M-ith Lodge No. 1 of the Masonic order, and he and his son are democratic voters.

Mr. Albert Roeder, treasurer of the Roeder-Greemaun Stone & Construction Company, was born in Germany in 1860. He learned the stone cutting trade in the old country and in 1881 came to the United States. As former partner and now member of the corporation with Mr. Greemann he is chiefly responsible for the actual building construction and is a very practical and thorough man in this line. He married for his first wife Louise Abbath, and his present wife is Anna Reichert, both of whom were Quincy girls. By his first wife he had a sou. Otto, and a daughter, ^Martha. The son wag a stockholder in the Roeder-Greemann Company and died in August, 1913, at the outset of a very promising career. The daughter is the wife of Ernest Lehr, and is the mother of two children, Gertrude and Roland.

George Breuer. Quincy has long appreciated the services rendered by the business at 119 North Foiirth Street, an exclusive cai-pet and rug house, now conducted under the individual proprietorship of Mr. George Breuer and formerly for nearly half a century by Henry Ruff, from whom ]Mr. Breuer boiight the store in June, 1907. Mr. Breuer had been an employe of Mr. Ruff for eighteen years, and thus the business has practically a continuous history and is one of the oldest establishments of its kind in Adams County. Mr. Breuer has two floors for his stock and display rooms, 20 by 100 feet, and there are few people of Adams County who do not know his location on the west side of the Public Square.

The Breuer family has been in Quincy for half a century or more, and it is a family of sterling American patriotism. Mr. Breuer has liberally supported every cause and movement in behalf of the war of democracy against autocracy, and his father was equally intense in his loyalty to his adopted country. Mr. George Breuer was born in Quincy in 1874, and grew up and received his education here. He was only a boy when he entered the carpet business with Mr. Ruff, and all his experience has been in that one line. He is a son of Heniy and Helena Breuer, both of whom were born in Germany, were married in the old country, and after the birth of their first son, Henry, who is now deceased, they came to the United States and located at Quincy. The father died January 13, 1919, and the mother is still living, now quite old. Henry Breuer for many years was an active carpenter. George Breuer has several brothers and sisters still living in Quincy. Ernest and Charles are both married and live in Quincy. Mrs. Frank Orr, a sister, lives in Oklahoma. Anna died January 21, 1879, and Amelia, unmarried, reside in Quincy, as does the brother Eric.

Mr. George Breuer married at Quincy IMiss Minnie Koch, who was born and reared in this city. 'Sir. Breuer is affiliated with Lodge No. 1 of the Masons and also with the Knights of Pythias.

LkRoy H. Wolfe is a doctor of dental surgery, and has taken commendable rank in his profession at Quincy, where he has practiced for the last eight years. For three years, 1914 to 1916, he served as president of the Adams- Hancock Counties Dental Society.

He is a graduate of dentistrj' from the Iowa State University with the class of 1905. His earlier literary education was acquired in his native state of Pennsylvania and he was a student in the State School at Lockhaven. He began practice at Hull, Illinois, was there five years, and then came to Quincy. He is a member of the state and national dental societies, and has always been a progressive student of his profession. He took post-graduate work at St. Louis and Chicago, and has attended many clinics at New York, St. Louis and Philadelphia. He is a member of the surgical staff of St. Mary's Hospital. He has made a specialty of anaesthesia and oral surgery.

Doctor "Wolfe was born in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, December 28, 1883, and gi-aduated and began the work of his profession about the time he was twenty-one years of age. He represents an old Pennsylvania family. His father, George H. Wolfe, and his grandfather, Horace Wolfe, were both natives of that state and were farmers and dairymen there. His father is still living at the age of sixty-three. The doctor's mother was Belle Kuapp, who was born in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, sixty years ago, daughter of Amos and Rachel (Gordon)i Knapp, also natives of Bradford County, where they lived as farmers. The Knapps were Presbyterians while the Wolfes were Baptists. Doctor Wolfe has a brother, Hal C, still on the old homestead in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, and father of one son, Merrill.

At Hull, Illinois, Doctor Wolfe married Sena Miller, who was born there and finished her education at Quincy. Her parents, Barney and Alta (Gerdes) Miller, were born in Germany, but were married in Quincy, and are now living at Hull, Illinois, where her father is a retired grain merchant. They are members of the Lutheran Church. Mrs. Wolfe has a brother, Christ Miller, who is connected with the Portland Cement Company of Hannibal, Missouri, and is married and has one daughter, Nedra.

Tlie home of Doctor and Mrs. Wolfe has been blessed with one son, LeRoy, born October 20, 1911. Mrs. Wolfe is a member of the Congi-egational Church. Doctor Wolfe has attained most of the degrees and orders of Masonry, being affiliated at Quincy with Bodley Lodge No. 1, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Royal Arch Chapter No. 5, Knight Templar Commandery No. 77 and the Scottish Rite Consistory, thirty-second degree, and is a member of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is also affiliated with Lodge No. 160 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

WiLHELMiNA Westhold, D. O. A graduate in o.steopathy from the Pacific College at Los Angeles, Doctor Westhold returned to her old home at Quincy to practice her profession, and has gained a large clientele and is the object of great personal esteem among all who recognize the ability of an energetic and ambitious woman to advance herself in the world and render a service of usefulness to her fellow beings. Doctor Westhold graduated in 1909 and her offices are in the Wells Building.

She was born at Quincj^ in September, 1868, and was reai-ed here, attending the gi'ammar and high schools and graduating from the Gem City Business College in 1893. For twelve years she was a stenographer, until she took up her professional study and work.

Doctor Westhold is a daughter of Frank and Wilhclmina (Westermann) Westhold, both of whom were natives of Hanover, Germany, and were brought to this country and to St. Louis when young. They married at Quincy and have since liad tlieir home in this city. Her father for a nmiiber of years was engaged in the wood business, and later conducted a farm near Quincv. Fifteen vears ago Mr. Westhold retired, and passed away July 24. 1918. Mrs. Westhold is still living. They became members of the Evangelical Lutheran

Church and in politics he was a republican. Doctor Westhold is one of a family of six daughters and one son, being the third in age. The oldest, Lisetta, is still at home with her mother. Prank, Jr., is unmarried and lives at Seattle, Washington. Anna is the wife of John Speckhart, an Adams County farmer, and they have four children. Bertha is the wife of Albert W. Sprick, a Nebraska farmer and lirother of the well known Quincy banker of that name. Lulu is the wife of ^Yilliam Beilstcin, of Frankford, Jlissouri, and they have one daughter, Ruth. Amanda, the youngest, is a teacher in the Lincoln High School at Seattle, \Vashington. Doctor Westhold is a member of the Christian Church.

Aldo F. Behrens. For half a century the name of Behrens has been familiarly associated with the business affairs of Quincy. One of the oldest grocery and provision establishments in the city was formei-ly that of Behrens and Ohlschlager at the corner of Fourth Street and Maiden Lane. This business, now at 500 South Fourth Street, is conducted by the Behrens Brothers, Aldo F. and Archibald II.. who are sons of the former head of the business and nephews of Mr. Ohlschlager.

Herman Behrens, the pioneer of the family in Quincy, was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1837, and came to the ITnited States in 1857, making the voyage by sailing vessel to New Orleans and thence up the river to Cincinnati, Ohio. He lived at different times in Louisville, Kentucky, and also in Jlissouri, and he and his brother-in-law and their respective families came to Quincy in 1866. In Cincinnati in 1865 Herman Behrens married Alvena Ohlschlager, who was born in Indiana in 1844, and was reared in Cincinnati. Her parents were Frederick and Elizabeth (Rightmey) Ohlschlager, both natives of Hanover, Germany, where they married and soon afterward came to America. Most of the Ohlschlager children were born in Indiana and Cincinnati. Frederick Ohlschlager and wife also came to Quincy in 1866, and he died here in his sixty-first year and his widow at the age of eighty-four. They were members of the Lutheran Church and were highly respected in this community.

Herman Behrens and his brother-in-law, Henry Ohlschlager, on coming to Quincy started in business at the corner of Fourth and State streets, and about two years later bought the ground and built a large double store at the corner of the Fourth and ]\Iaiden Lane. Their building was 75 by 66 feet and in one half of it they opened a general grocery and produce business. Henry Ohlschlager. who was born in Cincinnati, was active in the business until his death in 1906 at the age of fifty-four. He never married. Herman Behrens died in 1909, at the age of seventy-two. Mrs. Herman Behrens is still living and was seventy-four years old June 14, 1918, and is still vigorous and in good health. Her brother, Mr. Ohlschlager, was a prominent republican at Quincy and for a number of years represented the third ward in the city council. He was a past master of Herman Lodge of Masons, while Herman Behrens belonged to Bodley Lodge of that order.

Aldo F. Behrens was born at Quincy June 14, 1866, and his brother Archibald was born August 10, 1868. They are the only children of the late Herman Behrens. Both grew up and attended the public schools of Quincy and from bo.vhood were trained at the counters of their father's store. They know the gi'ocery and provision business in every detail, and after the death of their uncle they took over the management of the store and have promoted it to greatly enlarged success.

Aldo Behrens married in Quincy Anna Warmeker. She was born in Quincy at the corner of Ninth and State streets in 1868, and for a number of yeai-s has been a dressmaker with a shop in the Wells Building.

as a teacher. She and her husband live at 1868 Hampshire Street, where she holds her art classes. Archibald Behrens is a member of Herman Lodge of Masons.

WiLUAM Loos. One of the family names that has been longest identified with Adams County and which bears a record of many interesting and important activities is that of Loos. One of the family is Mr. William Loos, an active farmer for many years, but now living retired at 515 South Twelfth Street in Quincy.

He is a sou of Michael Loos, w-ho was born in Frankiseh Grumbach, Hesse Darmstadt, Germanj-, September 16, 1815, and died in 1872. He grew up and received his education in Germany. He worked there in a slate quarry for the father of John Speckhart. one of the prominent citizens of Adams County. Mr. Speckhart paid Michael's passage to America at the same time that Speckhart himself came to this country. Michael left Germany just before the call to service in the regular army. In Melrose Township he married Mary Walthous. She was sixteen yeqrs of age at the time of her marriage and had come to this country from Bieberau. Hesse Dannstadt, at the age of four years. Her parents were Henry and Elizabeth "Walthous, who lived on Llill Creek in this county for a number of .years. Henry Walthous after the death of his wife built a log house at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Loos, and lived there until his death at the age of eighty-four.

Michael Loos was first employed in a brick yard in Quincy and during the winters worked in the porkhouse. He often told his children how he shoveled bones into the river, and frequently filled farmers' wagons with them simply to get rid of what was then a waste by-product. In this way he worked for about six years. After his marriage he bought eighty acres of land now owned by his son William. It was in the woods, only a few acres cleared, and he took his wife into a rude log house. It contained one room, and was overrun with mice. Micliael Loos later sent money back to Germany to pay the passage of his parents, Peter and Barbara Loos. Peter Loos wa.s a skillful carpenter and built for his son a good log house, and helped build several other houses and barns in the neighborhood. In the course of time Michael Loos had his farm cleared off and he built the present house and barn on the place. William Loos recalls well when the present house and barn were built, since he was then wearing his fir.st trousers, and while crossing a branch to show them to the carpenters he fell in the water and got wet. Michael Loos kept adding to his holdings until he had 231 acres, most of it improved and under cultivation during his lifetime. He was noted as one of the best and most successful farmers in that neighborhood. When he first bought land he borrowed .$100. The note he gave) was discounted so that he received only eighty dollars in cash, but he paid interest on the entire $100 at the rate of ten per cent, which wa.s then not uncommon in such financial transactions. Several of Michael's brothers came to Adams County. One of them, John, was a tailor at Quincy where he died. Fred lived on a farm in Fall Creek Town.ship but later moved to Carroll County, Missouri, where he died. Louis was crossing the Mississippi River on a skiff when it was overturned beside a big boat and he was drowned, his body never being recovered. Michael Loos and wife spent their last years on the "old farm. His widow survived him until April, 1912, passing away at the age of eighty-four.

Mr. William" Loos was born October 25, 1852, in the log house on the old farm, the structure which his grandfather had built. For a time he and John Hass were in the picture framing business in Quincy, then he worked for his brother Fred on a farm. At the death of bis father his brother Philip secured the old homestead. Later William Loos with the aid of his mother bought out the interest of Philip, securing 118 acres of the old farm. His mother remained as his housekeeper until Mr. William Loos married, Mny 22, 1881, Miss Anna Geberzahn. She was born in Nassau, Germany, June 4, 1860, and was sixteen years of age when she came to New York City with her sister. Mr. William Loos continued farming actively until 1913, when he retired and moved to Quincy, but still owns the old farm. He is a democrat and has filled several offices in his township.

Mr. and ilrs. William Loos have an interesting family of children : Marj', the oldest, is unmarried and lives at Taeoma, Washington. Thomas, of Quincy, married Elsie Leppert, and has one child, Allen William Frederick Loos. Emma is the wife of Charles Politsch, of Quincy. David, a farmer at Marblehead, married Elva Brown, and had three children, Gerry, Joseph and E. Leroy, the latter of whom died at the age of eighteen months. Mathias now lives on the old home farm and by his marriage to Margaret Bock has three children, Roger William, Velma Anna Elizabeth and Calvin. The five younger children of Mr. and Mrs. William Loos are Ernst, Joseph, John, Lillie and Pauline. It is a matter of pride to the family that three of the sons are helping the government in the war. Ernst is now in France with Company L of the Three Hundred and Twenty-seventh Regiment of Infantry. Joseph is with Headquarters Company of the Second Regiment of Infantry. John is in the employment of the government as a plumber at the Rock Island Arsenal.

Louis A. Schutte is now proprietor of one of the oldest industries of Quincy. A few years ago he succeeded the older firm of Henry Schutte Sons, manufacturers of furniture, sash, doors and blinds, and all classes of high grade exterior and interior finish for stores and dwellings. It is a highly specialized concern, and turns out much of the best grade of work done by any factory along the Mississippi River. The factorj- is at 1218 South Ninth Street. Mr. Schutte furnishes a large amount of woodwork used in shops, stores and homes.

This business was established by his father, Henry Schutte, more than fifty years ago. At first it was little more than a cabinet maker's or carpenter's shop. Henry Schutte had his home on the same lot with his factory, and there his children were born and reared.

Henry Schutte was born in Germany in 1839 of Protestant German parents who spent their lives in the old country. He lived there until he was eighteen years of age, when he took passage on a sailing vessel and started for the United States. The boat encountered severe storms, and it was fourteen weeks before he was landed at New Orleans. From there he went up the river to St. Louis, and a few weeks later came to Quincy. Here he learned his ti'ade in the furniture factory of Mr. Singer. When his apprenticeship days were finished he started on his own account at Eighth and Jackson streets, and two years later moved to the corner of Adams and Ninth streets. When he began work furniture making was aluiost entirely a hand process. When he did introduce machinery it was horse power and he continued to use horse driven machinery for twenty-five years. He was an expert workman, and took a great deal of care in turning out finished products, for which there was a demand as large as he could furnish. From time to time he introduced better machinery, and ^Ir. Louis Schutte about four years ago installed electric power in the factory.

Henry Schutte died November 28, 1910, at the age of seventy-two. After coming to Quincy he married Miss Rica Hagerbaumer. She was born in Germany in 1846 and was about ten or twelve years of age when her parents came to the United States and settled at Quincy. Her father, William Hagerbaumer, died in Quincy March 4, 1901, and her mother died here a number of years ago. They were members of the Salem Lutheran Church, as were Henry Sehutte and wife. Mrs. Henry Schutte died June 1, 1907. All these older people are now at rest in the Green Jlount Cemetery.

Henry Schutte and wife had nine children, two of whom, Frank and Emma, died in childhood. Henry, Jr., is now a farmer on South Twenty-fourth Street in Adams County and has two sons, Walter and Gustave. Edward is also a farmer, living on North Thirty-sixth Street, and has two sons, Edwin and

Arthur, Echvin being a soldier. The next in age is Mr. Louis Schutte. William, formerly as.sociated as one of Henry Sc-hiitte Sons, is a resident of Quincy and is the father of five sons, Alfred, Irwin, Elmer, Clarence and Earl, Alfred being in the National Army. Lena is the wife of William Miller, a farmer in Payson Township of this county, and they have nine children. Charles is a woodworker living in Quinej- and has a family. Anna married Louis Reicksick, an Adams County farmer, and they have two sons and a daughter.

Mr. Louis Schutte was born at the old home, on the site of his present furniture factory, December 9, 1868. As he grew to manhood he was educated in the city schools, and served a thorough apprenticeship at the cabinet making and furniture trade. Between the ages of seventeen and twenty he worked in the Locher furniture factory. He then joined his cousin, William Schutte, in the old plant of his father, and they were actively associated from 1897 until 1903. At that date William Schutte took over the business, and Louis Schutte remained in his employ until 1907. In that year Mr. Louis Schutte succeeded to the ownership, and has continued the business with increasing prosperity.

In 1893, at Quinc}', Mr. Schutte married Miss Catherine Spilker. She was born in Quincy in August, 1869, and was reared and educated here. Her parents were William and Elizabeth Spilker, both natives of Germany, and coming to America when young. They were married in Quincy and her father died twenty-five years ago, while her mother is still living in Quincy at the age of seventy-seven. Mr. and ]\Irs. Schutte have one son, Louis H., who was born in this city July 11, 1901, and after completing his education in thje grammar scliools went to work for his father, and is now diligently acquiring a knowledge of the furniture manufacturing business. The family are all members of the Salem Lutheran Church. Mr. Schutte is a republican.

William H. Heidbreder. The successful manufacturing" enterprises inl operation at Quincy have long been among the city's most important interests, and an old estaltlished house here is the Gem City Stove ilanufacturing Company, with which William H. Heidbreder is secretaiy and has been identified continuously since 1886.

William H. Heidbreder was born at Quincy, Illinois, May 14, 1868. His parents were J. Herman and Anna (Junka) Heidbreder, who were the parents of eleven children, the survivors of the family being: Walter A., who is assistant cashier of the State Street Bank, Quincy ; William H. ; Mrs. Clara M. Sprick ; Harry J., of Quincy; Minnie, now Mrs. Christopher Seifert, of Quincy; and Alma, who is the wife of M. M. Hess, of Canada. The parents of the above family were natives of Germany. In 1831 the father, then a boy, accompanied his parents to the United States and to Quincy. and shortly afterward was left an orphan. There are few of the older residents here who do not remember some of the hardships the youth bravely and courageously overcame and how his progress was steady in its path from a humble position to a foremost place among the city's most able and most respected citizenship. For a number of years he was cashier of the State Street Bank, of which he was one of the founders. He was a man of high principles and left an unblemished record behind him. He died in 1907.

William H. Heidbreder was educated in his native city, and on completing the public school course, spent a year in the Gem City Business College. In 1886 he entered the employ of the Gem City Stove ilanufacturing Company as bookkeeper and has never since severed his relations, the esteem and confidence that he entertains for his associates of so many years standing being entirely reciprocated. Through one advance after another Mr.' Heidbreder has become secretary of this large concern and is recognized as one of Quincy 's stable Inisiness men.

William IT. Heidbreder was married October 2, 1899, to Miss Anna C. Iloelscher, who was born at Quincy. a daughter of Bernard Hoelscher, one of the old and respected citizens. They have two children, a son and daughter:

"Willis H. and Ruth Florence. Mr. Heidbreder and family are members of the Lutheran Memorial Church at Quincy. He is identified politically with the republican party because he is in sympathy with its principles, but he is not unduly active, as business interests him more than party struggles for public preferment, in which direction he has no ambition.

George W. Morgan. Seventy yeai-s ago the ilorgan family from Kentucky came into Adams County. There are several interesting personages of this name in the subsequent history of Richfield and adjoining townships, and it is also worth while to note in general the value of their residence and the effectiveness of their labors in reclaiming a large tract of land from the wilderness and in promoting those benefits which the people of the present generation enjoy. It cannot be too frequently emphasized that what is today is in a large degree the product of the past. Fertile fields, easily cultivated, and responding with huge crops, are in many cases a product of the most strenuous toil on the part of the first possessors of the land. George W. Morgan has a notable record himself as a clearer of land in Adams County. Many rich acres had the woods and brush removed, the stumps pulled and the wild soil tamed by his direct effort. That is not the least of his claims to distinction as one of the pioneers. Mr. Morgan has for many j-ears lived retired from the heavy activities of farming, and is now a resident of Plainville.

He was born in LaRue County, Kentucky, September 3, 1835, and as a boy he doubtless saw many times the, same scenes upon which Abraham Lincoln looked out as a child, since both were natives of the same county. His father, Charles ]\Iorgan, was bom in the same County of Kentucky May 18, 180.5. In 1847 he brought his familj^ to Illinois, coming to Adams County from St. Louis. His wife's brother, Frank Gilkey, was at that time living in Richfield Township. Charles Morgan acquired a tract of 160 acres in section 17 of Richfield. This was heavily timbered land and he built a log house in which he lived until his death. In the meantime he had cleared up and put in cultivation fully fifty acres. He died Febiniary 21, 1897, in his eighty-second year. He was a member of the Christian Church and in politics a republican. In 1831 he married Nancy Redmond. Slie died April 20, 1839, the mother of five children, noted 'briefly as follows: ]\lary Jane, who married Joseph McMellen, and died when past sixty years of age; Julia Ann married Alexander Henry and died when past fifty ; George "W. is the third in age ; John went to Kansas when a young man, and is now living in Los Angeles, California; Franklin also went to Kansas and died in that state when past seventy. On October 26, 1840, Charles ilorgan man-ied Elizabeth Gilkey. She was a remarkable woman in her vitality, and at her death March 19, 1907, was in her ninety-ninth year. Six children were horn to her, but the only one to reach maturity was William, who lived a bachelor and died at the home of his brother George in Richfield Township March 28, 1914. He was born Januaiy 6, 1843.

All the four sons of Charles Morgan just mentioned were soldiers in the Union army. Frank and George W. were together as comrades in Company F of the One Hundred and Eighteenth Illinois Infantry, spent much of their time at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and were discharged on the same day. The brother John served in the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Illinois and was with the army until the close of hostilities. The half-brother, William, went into the army at tlie last call in 1864, and remained until the close. None of the boys were ever wounded or captured.

George W. ]\Iorgan was a boy when brought to Adams County, and he grew up on the pioneer farm in Richfield Township. He and his brother William finally bought out the interests of the other heirs and owned the homestead. Later George bought out his brother's interest, and eventually increased his holdings until he had 200 acres. He used the strength of his early days for clearing up much land. He bought at first thirty acres of timber, cleared it off, then bought another thirty acres, and in time a large and well proportioned farm had responded to his efforts, ilr. Morgan put down an artesian well on his farm, to a depth of 202 feet, and had an unfailing supply of water thirty feet from the surface. Jt is one of the best wells in the entire township. Of the 120 acres contained in the old homestead ^Ir. Morgan has since made a gift of that to his adopted son Fred ]\Iorgan, who still owns and occupies it. ^Ir. Morgan for fifty years lived on the eighty acres of his own purchase, adjoining the homestead. His son Fred has built a fine home on the old place, and has increased his holdings to 205 acres. IMr. George W. Morgan erected a good set of buildings on his place. Six years ago he left it to live retired in Plainville. He has always been a steadfast republican. His father was a democrat until the Civil war, and then went over with all his influence and conxactions into the republican ranks.

At the age of twenty-four Mr. Morgan married Adeline Cleveland of Richfield Township. She died when about thirty years of age, and none of her children reached maturity. On May 28, 1882, ]\lr. Morgan married Lydia Haws. She was born in West Virginia March 12, 1850, and came to Plainville with her parents at the age of seventeen. She was a daughter of George and Eve Haws, the former a carpenter, and both of whom died at Plainville. Mr. IMorgan has no living children and his adopted son Fred came into the ilorgan home at infancy at the death of his mother. Fred was a son of John and ^Melissa (Cleveland) Proctor. He was carefully reared and trained, and some years ago received as his personal property the fine old Morgan homestead. Mr. Morgan pi'esented him with that property about the time of his marriage. Fred Morgan married Maud House, and they have three sons: George Olan, now a student in the Illinois State University ; Kenneth, a student in Chaddock Boys School at Quincy ; and Fred, who was born October 8, 1916.

Mr. George W. Morgan has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Richfield for sixty-five years, and his wife is also a member of the same church. He is affiliated with William Larimore Post of the Grand Army at Plainville.

JuLiL^g c. Stuckman, a wholesale grocer of Quincy, was a boy when his father died, and immediately had to turn his energies to account in helping .support his widowed mother and brothers and sisters. Even as a boy he manifested a keen ability as a trader, and has practically always been a business man. However, he had to work hard and exercise constant ingenuity and thrift in order to unlock the door of success. He was an employee for many yeai's, made good in all his positions, and finally established himself in business. He started with a modest stock and in quarters only half the size of his present establisliment, and has more than doubled his trade and has earned a comfortable competence.

His establishment is located at the corner of Ninth and State streets, in a building 62 by 80 feet. As a jobber he distributes goods among the retail merchants of a large surrounding territory.

Mr. Stuckman was born on Washington Street in Quincy October 18, 1877, and had a public school education only a few years. Before he was sixteen years old he went to work in the wholesale firm of J. A. Kespohl & Company, and during the next four years acquired much knowledge and experience that have been of value to him. He was then with the Warfield Grocery Company about a year, until the firm sold out to the Quincy Grocery Company. A little later he entered the service of Nicholas Kohl, a wholesale grocer, and was in his employ for nearly eighteen years as a salesman. His savings and his experience with this firm he capitalized when he went into business for himself.

His father, August Stuckman, was born in Preis ]\Iinden, Germany, in 1850. His parents were German Lutherans and both died ir^ the old country when he was a small boy. At the age of fourteen he came to the United States alone to join his two brothers, Henry and Simon, who left the old eountrj' in order to avoid enforced militarv duty and located in Quincy. Here all the brothers spent the rest of their years. Henry and Simon never married. August Stuckman completed his education after coming to Quincy, attending night school, and for a time worked as foreman for a large coal company, and later \vas salesman for the wholesale firm of Feckler & Figgan. He was with them steadily for twelve years, and was on a fair road toward prosperity when he was taken ill and died in 1887, at the age of thirty-seven. He was a Lutheran and very active in Odd Fellowship circFes. In politics he voted as a republican. August Stuckman married in Quincy Lotta Meyer. Her parents came from Germany. She is still living at the age of sixty-si.x and is a member of the Salem Lutheran Church. Her children were: Lenna, wife of Fred Westennan and the motherof two children, Ahan and Meryle ; Julius C. ; Charles, who died young ; ^Matilda wife of William AValdhouse, of Quincy ; Charles, second of the name, who also died young; August W., who is living in Quincy and is married; Edward "W., who makes his home with his brother Julius ; and Walter, who died in boyhood. May 12, 1903, at Quincy, Julius C. Stuckman married Matilda Holtmau. She was born on Jefferson Street in Quincy and was well educated while growing to womanhood. Her parents, William and Henrietta (Stucksick) Holtman, were born in Prussia, Germany, and came to this country when young, being married in St. Louis, and soon afterwards removing to Quincy, where they are still living, her father at the age of eighty-one and her mother at seventy-nine. They are membere of the Salem-Lutherau Church. ^Ir. and Mrs. Stuckman have a daughter. May ^Matilda, born August 25, 1909, who has exemplified unusual scholarship and is now a student in the fourth grade of the public schools. Mr. and ill's. Stuckman are members of the Salem Lutheran Church. He is affiliated with the Travelers Protective Association.

Edwin SIerle Ogle. For thirty years the business of the railroad company at Paloma has been transacted through the medium of the Ogle family. Thomas P. Ogle was operator and station agent there twenty years, and Edwin Merle Ogle succeeded to those responsibilities and has been in active charge of the railway station for the past ten years.

Edwin ilerle Ogle was bom at Paloma December 12, 1888, son of Thomas P. Ogle. The latter was born half a mile south of Paloma, and married Lulu Hayden of New Canton, formerly of New London, ^Missouri. Thomas P. Ogle began his work as a railway employe at New Canton in Pike County, Illinois, and three or four years later w^as transferred to Paloma, where he was railway agent and operator from 1887 to 1908. He lives in Quincy.

Edmn Merle Ogle attended the Maplewood High School at Camp Point, and had some vinusual opportunities to accjuire a knowledge of telegraphy, since he spent much of his time as a boy around the station with his father. For a time he ser%'ed as night operator under his father, and six months later became successor to the business at Paloma. He is active in all local affairs, is treasurer of the local chapter of the Red Cross and a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Churcli. Mr. Ogle married April 5, 1916, Miss Golden Yeargain. Mi-s. Ogle is a daughter of T. M. Yeargain and a member of that old and prominent family of Adams County, the complete records of the Yeargains being found on other pages.