Quincy Township (part 55 of 74)

Captain Alfred L. Castle. The Castle family has been in Adams County for over eighty years. Among their many interests and honorable activities two points stand out with special prominence. One is the connection of the family for half a centuiy or more with the primary industrj' of Quiney, stove manufacturing, and members of three successive generations of the family have given much of their energies and have gained their individual fortune in that business. The other noteworthy feature of the family history is its patriotic and military record. The late Chauncey H. Castle was a brave and gallant defender of the Union during the Civil war, and his son. Captain Alfred L. Castle, along with numerous business responsibilities and burdens has a record of service both in the Spanish-American and Philippine wars, and has been identified as an officer with the Illinois National Guard for over twenty years.

The founder of the family in Adams County was Timothy Castle, who came from Wilmington, Vennont, to this county in 1835. He was a man of affairs, and until his death in 1880 did much to further the progress and development of Quiney. Among other financial interests he had a considerable share of stock in one of the pioneer stove foundries of Quiney.

Chauncey H. Castle, a son of Timothy Castle, was born at Columbus, Illinois, July 10, 1843, and moved to Quiney with his parents in 1858. He had barely completed his education in the public schools and at Quiney College when he left his studies to enter the army as a private in Company I of the Seventy- Third Illinois Infantry. He was only eighteen years of age when he took his place in the ranks, and soon afterwards was made acting sergeant ma.jor. He was diligent and faithful in the performance of every duty required of a soldier, and gave full proof of this when at the battle of Chickaniauga he was shot four times, in both legs, both arms and in the hand. These severe wounds terminated his military career.

In 1865, still liearing the marks of his army service, he went to work as shipping clerk in the stove foundry in which his father had bought a large interest in 1863. Three years later Chauncey H. Castle was a partner in the business and in 1880 the Comstoek-Castle Stove Company was incorporated. This business had its origin in 1849, when Allen and Enoch Comstock started one of the pioneer stove making plants in the West. For fully forty years Chauncey Castle was one' of the moving and guiding spirits in the stove industry at Quincy. But the lines of business in which he had some part and influence, and the causes and institutions to which he contributed, would make a much longer list. He served as president of the Stove Founders National Defense Association for ten years, was a director of the American Straw Board Company, from 1892 for many years was an aide-de-camp on the staff of the National Commanders of the Grand Armj' of the Republic, was a director in the State Savings, Loan and Trust Company, the Newcomb Hotel Company, Graceland Cemetery Association, the Quincy Freight Bureau, the Chamber of Commerce, was one time president of the Quincy Commercial Club and was president of the Mulliner Box and Planing Company. Another important public service was rendered through his chairmanship of the committee of local Quincy citizens which succeeded in bringing to completion the extensive improvements of the Burlington Railway at Quincy.

Chauncey H. Castle died at Quincy May 2, 1909, in his sixty-sixth year. He married ilary Parker, a native of Knox County, Illinois, who died in April, 191.5. Seven of their children are still living: Julia A., of Quinc.y; Ella G., wife of Dr. Francis L. Reder, of St. Louis, Missouri ; Timothy P., of Quincy ; Alfred L. ; Elizabeth H., wife of Walter E. Williamson, of Quincy, of whom mention is made on other pages of this work; Mary E., of Quincy; and Clara E., wife of Robert F. Day, of Springfield, Massachusetts.

Captain Alfred L. Castle was born in Quincy March 2, 1875. He attended the local public schools and then entered the Western ^Military Academy at Alton, Illinois, where he took the full course and during his military training filled every office from corporal to first lieutenant, graduating as brevet second lieutenant in the Illinois National Guard. In 1894 he became second sergeant of Company F at Quincy and sergeant major of the battalion, and in April, 1897, was made first lieutenant and adjutant of the second liattalion. At the oiitbreak of the Spanish-American war he was battalion adjutant of the Second Battalion, Fifth Regiment, and he also recruited a full battalion of four companies, which, however, were never called into service. In 1899 he volvmteered in the Forty-Fifth Infantry Regiment and went to the Philippine Islands as first lieutenant, where he saw two years of active service.

In 1894, after finishing his education. Captain Castle became actively identified with the Comstock-Ca.stle Stove Company of Quincy and for a number of years was the representative of the company throughout the South and West. Later for ten years he was secretary and treasurer of the corporation, and in March, 1917. became treasurer of the Channon-Emery Stove Company. He is also a director of the Quincy Hotel Company. In politics Captain Castle is a republican.

In April, 1908, he married Eleanor J. Thomson, who was born at Andover, Massachusetts. Thev have four children : Eleanor J., Rosamond M., Abby L. and Alfred L., Jr.

Wnxi.vji H. PuTx.\M. Thei'e are very few families in Adams County whose continuous residence here covers a centurj'. A century ago the first state had not been carved out of the vast territory west of the Mississippi River, and Illinois had just qualified for entrance to the Union. The ^lississippi River rolled an almost uninterrupted course along banks untenanted by white men, and in all this wilderness Adams County had hardly form and .shape to distinguish it in any way.

One of the first settlers of that period, a pioneer who came from 1820 to 1825, was the grandfather of Jlr. William H. Putnam of Ellington Township. William II. Putnam was born in that township April 13, 1856, and is a son of

Rufus and Malissa (Simmons) Putnam. Rufus Putnam was born in Adams County September 8, 1833, only a year after tbe Black Hawk war. He grew up at a time when no public schools existed, and acquired his education in a school supported by subscription. He took up farming and acquired a fine place of 280 acres in Ellington Township. Rufus Putnam is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, living native son of Adams County. He is now eighty-five, and is a venerable and highly esteemed I'esident of Quincy. He is one of the few men still living who voted with the whig party in early days, and is one of the true and original republicans, having been affiliated with that organization steadily over sixty years. He is also one of the few men still living who heard the historic debate of 1858 between Lincoln and Dougla-s. In the Putnam family there exists an old parchment deed to a tract of land in Adams County, executed under the hand and seal of President James Monroe. Moni-oe was president from 1817 to 1825, and that is another proof of the early residence of the Putnam family in this locality. Rufus Putnam donated the land on which the Presbyterian church in Ellington Township stands, and for many years was one of the pillars of that church. He married in 1855 Miss Simmons, who died in 1889, and is buried in the Presbyterian cemetery of Ellington Township. They were the parents of six children, the only son being William H. Of the five daughters two are still living, Fannie and Edith, both residents at the old home in Quincy with their father. Both were well educated and are active in the Daughters of the American Revolution and in the Red Cross societies.

William H. Putnam has spent all his mature years as a farmer. He acquired a good practical education in the common schools and attended the Howe and Musselman Business College at Quincy. After his marriage he began farming on part of his father's old estate, and has found in good honest toil all the rewards to satisfy his ambition and provide for those dependent upon him.

December 7, 1887, Mr. Putnam married Miss Maggie Duncan. Their family consist of three children, two sons and one daughter : Earl D. is a farmer on his grandfather's old place in Ellington Township. He is one of the younger and progressive farming element of the county, and graduated from the Quincy High School in 1908. He married Miss Winifred Simmons, and their two children are Russell R. and Marjorie M. Eai'l and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church and in politics he is a republican. The other son is Rufus Bennett, who graduated from the Quincy High School in 1909 and is now farming in Mendon Township. He married Miss Sallie Ann Johnston. The daughter Helen is a graduate of the class of 1918 in the Quincy High School and is very active in the Presbyterian Church, the Red Cross societies, and the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Mrs. Putnam was educated in the common schools and also attended the Knox Seminary at Galesburg. She is a member of the Presbyterian Church, the Ladies Aid Society and is a participant in Red Cross work. She has nobly filled her sphere of duties as wife and mother.

In politics Mr. Putnam is a republican, casting his first vote for James A. Garfield, and has never seen a good reason why he should deviate from the old and time tried principles of that organization. His official record has made him a man of prominence in his home locality. He served as road commissioner, township elei'k and is at present secretary and treasurer of the Ellington and Riverside Mutual Insurance Company. He has been of gi-eat service to the Sunday school of the Presbyterian church, and his record of nineteen years as superintendent stands to his credit. Mr. and ]\Irs. Putnam have traveled extensively. In 1909 they toured the Southwest, including the cities of Fort Worth, Houston and Galveston, Texas. Mrs. Putnam before her marriage visited the Mardi Gras celebration at New Orleans. They have also been to the Pacific slope and Mr. Putnam was a visitor at the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia in 1876. Their home is a beautiful one and is widely known under the name Putnam Spring.

Robert McIntyre. A native of Adams County and one who has spent his entire life within its borders, watching its development throughout the years of its greatest growth, Robert McIntyre is so well known to the citizens of this great agricultural and business district that anything like an introduction seems superfluous. Mr. McIntyre has not been content merely to witness this progress, but has been a participant in the movements for the raising of the standards of agriculture and of general country life, and in his official work as supervisor of Ellington Township has a record that bears inspection from every side.

Mr. McIntyre is of Scotch-Irish ancestry and was born in Adams County May 4, 1865, the youngest of eleven children, five sons and six daughters. These children included: David, who died July 29, 1918, was a well kno^vn farmer of Riverside Township, was educated in the common schools but largely trained himself and had a successful career. He was a democrat. Alice, the next in age, is the widow of J. L. Potter, of Quincy, who died ia August, 1918. The.v were the parents of three children. ]\Ir. Potter was a republican and a member of the Episcopal Church. James I\lelntyre, a retired resident of Quincv, died September 20, 1918.

Robert McIntyre is a son of Robei't and Maria (Enbody) McIntyre. Robert, Sr., was born in the north of Ireland and came to the United States when a young man. His first place of settlement was in Pennsylvania, where he married, and about 1864 brought his family to Adams County and lived here the rest of his days. He was one of the founders of the Ellington Presbyterian church. By occupation he was a contractor, and his business relations in that field extended over a wide range of country. He was a builder of railroads and bridges, and constructed one of the largest bridges in the East at that time. Through his operations in business affairs he invested heavily in lands in Adams Countv, and acquired more than 1,250 acres in Ellington and Melrose townships. He was a democrat in polities. He died in 1876, when his son Robert was only eleven years old. Both he and his wife are buried in Ellington cemetery. His wife was a native of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, and represented both French and Pennsylvania German ancestry. She was a very devout member of the Ellington Presbyterian church.

Robert McIntyre, Jr., grew up in Adams County and had a practical education in the public schools and also in the Military Academy at Chester, Pennsylvania, and the Morgan Park Military Academy in Chicago. Since early years his interests and vocation have been identified with farming and stock raising.

February 20, 1895, he married Miss Emily S. Smyth. They have a daughter and son, Edith E. and Robert Ray. The daughter is a gi'aduate of the common schools, both in the country and in Quincy, spent one year in the "Woman's College at Jacksonville, Illinois, and is now the wife of Glenn Chatten, of Riverside Township. She is a member of tha Presbyterian Church. The son, Robert Ray, is now in the eighth grade of the public schools.

Mrs. McIntyre was born in Adams County August 16, 1867, oldest of nine children, two sons and seven daughters, whose parents were William and Barbara ("Wray) Smyth. Seven of the Smyth family are still living. Elizabeth is a graduate of the Quincy High School, taught three years in her home district, and is now a stenographer at Chicago. Margaret was educated in the Quincy High School and is the wife of Fred Colby, a retired resident of Los Angeles, California. They have a son, William. Edith R., who completed her education in the Quincy High School, is the wife of Arthur Dixon, a hotel proprietor at Wichita Falls, Texas. Jessie, who also attended Quincy High School, is the wife of Lee R. ]Mathew, an automobile dealer and a grower of oranges, lemons and walnuts at Pomona, California.

William Smyth, father of -Mrs. McIntyre, was born near the City of Londonderry, Ireland, in 1825, and died in Adams County, January 17, 1906. He was sixteen years old when he came to the United States, and from that time until his death was a resident of Adams County. As a farmer he developed an estate of 200 acres in Melrose Township, and he was one of the fine characters of that district and as such is well remembered. Politically he voted as a democrat, and served in some of the local offices, including that of road commissioner. He and his wife were active members of the Presbyterian church of their locality. Both are buried in Woodland cemetery. His wife was a native of the same locality as her husband.

Mrs. Mclntyre was well educated in the grammar and high schools of Quiucy, and since her marriage has acquitted herself mast creditably in her duties as wife and home maker. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Mclntyre located on the old Mclntyre homstead, but about 189.5 bought 200 acres of fine land in Ellington Township, and here they made their real start in life, heavily in debt, but industry and economy have brought as their rewards a splendid home and farm establishment, improved with a handsome residence, farm and other buildings, and all now clear from obligations. The Mclntyre home is one that many city residents might well envy. It is equipped with acetylene lights, furnace heat, telephone, rural mail delivery, and many advantages and comforts that city homes are denied.

Mr. Mclntyre is now in his third successive term as supervisor of Ellington Township. In his official capacity among other work he erected a modern school building known as the Standard School, and has liberally supported every movement for improvement of the schools and for good roads. For a uumber of years he served as school director and road commissioner. In fraternal matters he is especially interested in Masonry, being affiliated with Herman Lodge, No. 39, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Quincy, -nith the Royal Arch Chapter and the Scottish Rite Consistory. He and his wife are active in the Ellington Presbyterian church. They are numbered among the prosperous farmers of Adams County and own and enjoy for pleasure and for bu.siness a good touring ear of the Reo type.

George B. Powell. Many years of association with the agricultural interests of Adams County have given George B. Powell a recognized position among the practical agi-icultiirists of Ellington Township, where he and his wife own one of the most ]>eautiful and attractive homes of that rural district. Mr. Powell has spent his active life in Adams County, is known as a skilled tiller of the soil and as a citizen who gives his aid and influence to worthy civic measures and movements, and his business record is irreproachable.

He was born January 30, 1854, youngest in the family of ten children, four sons and six daughters, of George W. and Mary Ann (Beatty) Powell. Four of the children are still livijig. Prances is the wife of Alonzo Dewitt, a farmer at Shelbina, Missouri. They have one son. They are members of the Christian Church. Francis M. is a resident of Bentley, Hancock County, Illinois, and by his marriage to Miss Anna Campl>ell has three children. They are also members of the Christian Church. William B. is a retired farmer in Quincy.

George W. Powell was born in Kent County, Delaware, in 1800. He grew to manhood in his native state, had only a common school education, and throughout his active career followed farming. After coming west he lived near Kahoka, Missouri, but from there moved to Adams Comity, Illinois, and developed a good farm of 140 acres in Ellington Township. He was a democratic voter. He died in Adams County in 1890. His wife was a native of Ireland and was brought when a child by her parents to the United States. The Beattys settled in Southern Illinois. Mrs. Mary Ann Powell died when her youngest child, George, was an infant.

The latter spent most of his youth in the home of his uncle, John Beatty, a man of noble character whom it is his delight and pleasure to recall with every mark of affection to his splendid manhood. Mr. Powell acknowledges his uncle Beatty as the source of much of the influence and wi.sdom which have made him in turn a successful man and citizen. John Beatty was born in Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, and grew up with a good kind man named John Brown, for whom he was named. John Beatty and his two maiden sisters, Catherine and Jane, constituted a fine old household of Adams County, and all of the members of that household took part in the early education of Mr. Powell. These kindly people have all long since passed away, and a monument in Woodland cemetery marks their last resting places.

Mr. Powell after reaching manhood, on October .3, 1889, married Miss ilary D. Dralle. Mr. and Mrs. Powell have had no children of their own, but in the goodness of their heart they have reared three children in their home, and these adopted children regard them -with all the devotion of true parents. The first child that came to them was Catherine Shaffer. She was educated in the common schools and the Quincy High School and is now the wife of Harvey W. Allen, who is connected with the Electric Wheel Woi-ks at Quincy and lives at 2520 Chestnut Street. Jlr. and Mrs. Allen have one daughter, Mary Catherine. The other two children adopted into the Powell home were Emma and Christie Will. Both were given good ediieations. Christie is a practical farmer and now a member of the Fort.y-Fifth Infantry Machine Guns, Camp Gordon, Georgia. Both are members of the Episcopal Church.

All the family have been zealous participants in the work of the Red Cross and in every measure designed to promote the efficiency and the .speedy and honorable termination of the war with victory for the allies.

Mrs. Powell was born April 26, 1854, fourth iii a family of five children, two .sons and three daughters. Her parents were Frederick and Mary (Heine) Dralle. She has two brothers still living. Henry, though long a resident and farmer of Adams County, is now living at Champaign, Illinois, where he has educated his children, Ruth and Frederick, in the Illinois State University. The other brother of Mrs. Powell, Frederick, is a retired resident of Quincy.

Frederick Dralle, Sr., father of Mrs. Powell, was born in Germany and grew lip and married there and on coming to America landed at New Orleans and at once came north to St. Louis and to Quincy. A wagon maker by trade, he for many years conducted a shop at Quincy. He and his wife were members of St. Peter's Lutheran church. Mr. Dralle died in 1863 and his wife in 1883. Both are at rest in Woodland cemetery, ilrs. Powell was reared in Adams County and had a good training and has sii.stained the character of the splendid housewife and one devoted to the best interests of her home and husband.

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Powell took up farming in Ellington Township, where gradually their possessions have assumed the foi*m of permanent prosperity represented in a fine homestead of eight.y acres and a total ownership of 220 acres in Ellington Town.ship. Mr. Powell possesses two old parchment deeds that record original transfers of land from the Government to private ownership in Adams County. Both these deeds bear the date of October 7, 1834. and were signed by Andrew Jackson, then president of the United States. The date of the deeds was only two years after the Black Hawk Indian war.

Politically Mr. Powell is a democrat. He cast his first vot« for Samuel J. Tilden, and has steadfastly maintained the principles which he espoused in his youth. He has been selected as delegate to senatorial conventions, and has served as trustee of the Township of Ellington. He and his wife are both advocates of good schools and are members of the Episcopal Church in Quincy. Mrs. Powell was reared a Baptist. As prosperity has come to them and has enabled them to relax somewhat the strenuous toil of their earlier years, they have taken much pleasure in travel. In 1917 they made an extended trip to California, visiting the marvelous cities of the South. Los Angeles and Pasadena, and then traveling over the smooth automobile highwaj-s to San Francisco. They returned by way of Salt Lake City, and were greatly impressed by the splendors and ceremonies of the Mormon Temple and its wonders. The Powell home is only four miles from the courthouse at Quincy, and it is a beautiful place to live and also a contributing unit in Adams County's total of agricultural enterprise.

Joseph H. Lubbe, member of a family that has been identified with Quincy since 1845, has been a figure and factor in business affairs forty years or more, and is one of the wealthy property owners of Quincy and has used his means and influence in many ways to develop and extend the prosperity of his community. Mr. Luhbe is one of the leading Catholic Church men of Quincy. His home is one of the residential landmarks of the city a beautiful residence which he erected some years ago at 1233 Park Place.

He was born at the corner of Eighth and Hampshire streets, on lots that he still owns, December 23, 1852. He is a son of Anton J. and Elizabeth (Sanders) Lubbe. His father was a prominent pioneer of Quincy. Born in Bakum Oldenburg, Germany, in 1822, he came to the United States and located at Quincy in 1845. In 1849 he married Elizabeth Sanders, who was born in the Kingdom of Hanover. In 1847 A. J. Lubbe engaged in the dry goods business, and continued in that one line for over forty years. He was also a grocer, and much of his success and prosperity came from manufacturing and dealing in altar wines. Anton J. Lubbee died in Quincy in 1894, at the age of seventy-two. and his wife passed away in 1898, aged seventy-nine. Thej' were prominent early members of St. Boniface Catholic church. A. J. Lubbe was active as a democrat, served as an alderman for several j-ears, and was also a supervisor. They had twelve children, nine of whom grew up. Those to reach mature years were named Anthony Joseph, Francis, Henry Bernard, Aloysius, Martin, August, Anna and Godehard. One of them. Rev. Francis, was a Jesuit priest and died in the prime of life at Ysleta, Texas.

Joseph H. Lubbe was reared in Quincy, spent one year in college in addition to the work of the parochial schools, and when a young man took the responsibilities of managing his father's business. He especially developed the trade in altar wines, and in former years he shipped this product for sacramental purposes all over the country. He has judiciously used his income and his opportunities to acquire much valuable property in the heart of Quincy and now gives most of his time to the management of those private interests.

In Quincy Mr. Lubbe married Miss Emma Hoehn. She was born here and was educated in the local schools and also at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her parents were pioneers of Quincy, coming from Germany. All the family were members of St. Boniface Catholic church. Mr. Lubbe served as the first recording secretary of the first Western Catholic Union Society of his church, and has always been active in church affairs.

Of the eight children born to him and his wife only two survived infancy. The daughter, Anna Mary, is a graduate of St. Mary 's College at Notre Dame, and is now the wife of Dr. Raymond J. Padburg, of Quincy. Doctor and Mrs. Padburg have two children, Mary Josephine and Anna May, the former in school. The son, Albert J., was born and reared in Quincy, attending St. Boniface School, and also studied journalism at the University of Michigan. He was press correspondent for the St. Louis Republic, and is now a lieutenant in the Signal Corps of Photography.

Daniel E. Robbins. Among the early families to settle in Payson Township were the Robbins and Prince families, who were connected by marriage, and for eight years these names have been significant of good citizenship, honest industry and agricultural enterprise.

The founder of the Robbins family here was Daniel Robbins, who was born in the Town of Ph-mouth, New Hampshire, October 15, 1813, son of Asa and Jemima (Braiimrci) Robbins, natives of the same place. The grandfather, Jonathan Robbins, served as a soldier in the Revolution. Asa Robbins fought in the War of 1812. Daniel Robbins grew up on a New England farm, attended the common schools, and later from money earned by his own labor paid a term or two of tuition in a seminary at Plymouth. In the fall of 1839 he came West and settled in Adams County. He located near the Prince family, and on April 26, 1842, married Mary A. Prince, daughter of Deacon David Prince.

Deacon David Prince, who died in 1873, was one of the real founders of Payson Village and Township. David Prince was a sergeant in an artillery company in the War of 1812. One of his sons, David Prince, Jr., was a physician and surgeon, and at Jacksonville, Illinois, enlisted and served as a surgeon in the Civil war. Another son of Deacon David was Edward, who was colonel of the 7tli Illinois Cavahy and a former member of the Quiney Blues. Later he became prominent as a lawyer of Quiney, and was one of the men chiefly instrumental in establishing the waterworks of that city.

Deacon David Prince brought his famil.v west in 1835, and also introduced a stock of goods from New York and established the first store at the village of Payson. He was also associated with those who built the old windmill, the pioneer flour mill of the township. He was one of the charter members of the Congregational Church, and its first deacon. Mrs. Daniel Robbins was born at Bloomfield, New York, April 19, 1820, and was thirteen years of age when she came to Adams Countj^

A brother of Daniel Robbins was Cephas Robbins, who located in Gilmer Township of this county about 1838. AVhile still a young man he was struck and killed by lightning, and his only child. Louisa 'SI. Robbins, was for many j-ears a teacher in Quiney. Daniel Robbins acquired a good farm of 148 acres in Payson Township, and also owned 480 acres of bottom lands eight miles away. The home farm was open prairie, with only a few spots of timber. He put up good buildings, his land lying partly within the corporation limits of Payson, and he devoted himself to farming and also to horticulture. At one time his orchards produced 7,000 boxes of peaches. He died in August 1888, when about seventy-six years of age, and his wife passed away in December of the same year at the age of sixty-nine. The old house on the Robbins farm was erected in 1860. Daniel Robbins was a whig and later a republican, served as a deacon in the Congregational Church, and he was widely known as Deacon Robbins. His son Daniel E. has the same official connection with the old church.

Daniel Robbins and wife had seven children. The only two now living are Daniel E. and Annie, Mrs. Albert Arthur of Chicago. The son David was a member of Company C of the 50th Illinois Infantry and was killed at the battle of Altoona in the Atlanta campaign October 5, 1864. The son George B. was a sheep rancher near San Antonio, Texas, for five years, but later returned home and died in 1885. Cephas Robbins spent some years in Western Kansas, but died at Oskaloosa in that state. The daughter Mary married Adam Eckman, and they lived on the bottoms near Seehorn, where she died in 1890.

Daniel E. Robbins, whose farm is a half mile southwest of Payson, was born on an adjoining farm on his grandfather Prince's place, December 7,. 1843. In 1862, at the age of nineteen, he enlisted in Company D of the 7th Illinois Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel Prince, later colonel of the regiment. The regiment was originally commanded by the noted Pitt Kellogg. Mr. Robbins served about a year as a private, a year as sergeant, and subsequently was commissioned a first lieutenant and regimental commissary. After Lee's surrender he remained in Mississippi and Alabama, and for a considerable time had charge of the commissary when its chief duty was to feed refugees. He saw much hard service, and in the entire service, sixty-seven men of his regiment were killed.

August 13, 1866, after returning from the war, Mr. Robbins married iMiss Anna C. Thompson, daughter, of the late Philo Ellsworth Thompson, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this publication.

Mi's. Robbins was born at Payson January 3, 1844, and she died in June 7, 1904, she and her husband having traveled life's highway together for thirty-eight years. After their marriage they had lived five years on his grandfather Prince's farm, then on a farm ad.ioining the old homestead, and in 1890, two years after his father's death, he acquired the home farm of

148 acres. This fai*m was heavily burdened with debt and as administrator of the estate Mr. Bobbins saw the place sold under mortgage, but he became the purchaser. He has operated it for over a quarter of a century, and he also owns his previous farm of eighty acres. Altogether he has 250 acres in cultivation and ha.s a fine ten acre orchard. His farming for the most part has consisted of raising hogs and cattle, corn and wheat. Mr. Robbins is now living practically retired, but keeps his home on the farm and gives his time to his apiary and also to mechanical work. He has a shop fitted up with blacksmith and wood working tools, and puts in some hours every day at work that is both pleasurable and a source of use and profit. He is a republican, biit his only offices have been as village trustee and as school director for seventeen years. He is a member of the John Wood Post.

Mr. Eobbins has a family of five children : Ellen was a teacher in Lincoln, Illinois, also in Medora County, Dakota, where she served as county superintendent of schools. She married in Dakota and is now living at Fresno, California. Mary, who had also taught for a time at Payson, married S. ^l. Hughes, and she died at Galesburg, Illinois, at the age of forty-five. Grace, who also taught at Payson, married A. T. MeCrory, and they are now living at Okmulgee, Oklahoma. Ernest T. Robbins, the only son, is a gi-aduate of high school, as were his sisters, and in 1900 graduated valedictorian of his class from the Illinois State University. After that he spent five years on the farm, and then took post-graduate work in agriculture and animal husbandry in the Iowa Agricultural College at Ames. Wliile there he had charge of the cattle on the college farm for four years. For another four years he served as assistant editor of the Breeders Gazette in Chicago, and then became County Agricultural Agent or advisor for Tazewell County, Illinois. He was thus engaged for five years, and is now farm superintendent of the large farm of Henry F. Scarborough in Adams County. He married Ida Folkrod, daughter of George Folkrod, of Ellington Township. Edith A. Robbins, the youngest of the family, remains at home with her father as his housekeeper. At one time she was also a teacher in the Payson schools. She is very active in Red Cross and other war activities and organizations, and is also greatly interested in literary and social movements.

Mrs. Edgar S. Butterworth. One of the most interesting farms and homes of Adams County is in section 31 of Ellington Township, known as the Sunny Ridge Farm. It has an antiquarian interest as well as an interest due to its care and productiveness at the hands of civilized men. It was evidently a rendezvous for aboriginal tribes, and many Indian relics have been dug up from the soil of the ridge. :\rrs. Edgar S. Butterworth, who has lived on that farm since childhood, has in her beautiful home a large collection of Indian tools and implements dug \\p from the land. It was the old home of her father, the late Thomas Kidney, and is noted as one of the leading fruit farms.

The early history of the Butterworth family goes back to Quaker stock, some of whom came "to Pennsylvania at the time of William Penn. The grandparents of the late Edgar S. Butterworth were Henry and Charlotte (Fowler) Butterworth, who came from Birmingham, England, soon after the Revolutionary war and lived at Newburgh, New Yoi-k. They had a family of five sons and one daughter. One son, Samuel, was at one time head, of a Government mint, and another .son, John F., was commissioner of Central Pai'k in New York City for many years.

Sylvanus Butterworth, father of Edgar S., was Ixjrn in Orange County, New York, and in 1840 came west and settled in Shelby County, :\Iissouri, where he acquired 600 acres of raw land and improved it into a large farm. One of the most interesting facts connected with his history as a ^Missouri farmer is that he brought in 1843 at great expense and after much difficulty of transportation, three head of imported Shorthorn or Durliara cattle, which were tlie first thoroughbreds of that strain west of the Mississippi River. Sylvanus Butterworth was also a merchant in Missouri, and died there in advanced years. He mariied in IMissouri Miss Virginia Vandiver, a native of Virginia and of southern family. Her parents had moved to Missouri in 1834. Her father, John Vandiver, invented the first practical corn planter but never reaped great rewards from his invention, since he was unable to place a proper value upon his work and patent, and allowed others to reap where he had sown. Sylvanus Butterworth and wife had three children : Theodore who came to Quiney in 1866 and two years later established the Western Agriculturist and Livestock Journal, and in 1892 moved that paper to Chicago and published it as the Livestock Journal, one of the laj-gest trade papers of its kind in the United States. He finallj' went west and died in California. Glorianna, the second child of Sylvanus Butterworth, married John Settle, and thej' live in North Dakota.

Edgar S. Butterworth was born in Shelby County, ilissouri, October 29, 1848, and received his education there. In 1866 he came to Quiney with his brother Theodore, and in 1870 he married Miss M. C. Alexander, of Quiney. They then returned to Shelby County, where he followed farming, and from there moved to Webb City in Southwestern ilissouri, where his wife died in the prime of life. Of their two children one died in infancy and the daughter Mabel at the age of twenty-five.

After this misfortune Mr. Butterworth returned to Quiney and wa.s advertising manager of the Western Agriculturist and Livestock Journal, published by his brother, and did much to build up the prestige and commercial prosperity of that paper. Following this for four years was in the drug business as a member of the firm W. H. Alexander & Company at Fourth and Maine streets.

In 1891 Mr. Butterworth married at the home of his bride in Ellington Township Miss Sophia M. Kidney. After his marriage Mr. Butterworth devoted his time to the farm which Mrs. Butterworth had inherited from her father, located a half mile from the city limits of Quiney. Thirty-seven acres comprise a large orchard of apples and peaches, and he found both pleasure and profit in operating this valuable old property.

JMrs. Butterworth was born two miles north of her present home March 26, 1854, and attended the local schools and the old Female Seminary in Quiney. She is a daughter of Thomas and Sophia Louise (Berrian) Kidney. Thomas Kidney, her father, was bom in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in 1822, and was a son of John and Matilda Kidney. His parents came west to Quiney in the fall of 1837, when he was fifteen years old. Later John Kidney went back to New York State and died there about 1879. at the age of eight.v-six. Thomas Kidney engaged in farming in Adams County and was especially successful as a pioneer fruit grower. In 1846 he mari'ied Miss Berrian. who was born in New York City in 1824, and came to Adams County when about nine years of age with her parents, William and Sophia (Ricker) Berrian, a prominent family whose annals are recounted on other pages of this publication. Thomas Kidney built his beautiful home on the farm near Quiney in 1873. It comprises fourteen rooms, and is one of the most commodious country establishments in the county. Thomas Kidney pa.ssed away March 8, 1889, and left no will. He always said the law was the best will he could make. After his death Mrs. Sophia Kidney divided the farm of seventy acres between her two children, William A. and Sophia M., giving her daughter the old home place. She remained with her daughter twelve years, passing away February 23, 1903, after a residence of almost half a century in Adams County.

Edgar S. Butterworth died on his home farm in Ellington Township December 5. 1905. Since his death ]Mrs. Butterworth has kept her home there, and the farm is carefully conducted by her son Edgar T., a young man of great enterprise who interits many of the estimable qualities of both his father and his maternal grandfather. He was bom August 11, 1896, and was educated in both the rural and city schools. Mrs. Butterworth and son are members of the Congregational Church. While a ver.y busy young man, Edgar T. Butterworth finds much time to cultivate outside interests, and is a student and practical taxidermist.

Alfred G. Koch. Fortunate is the man who finds early in life a useful work to do and does it conscientiously and thoroughly. The community is also fortunate that has such a man. Alfred G. Koch when only a schoolboy showed unusual proficiency as a mechanic, and for a number of years was an all around carriagesmith, ancl he coxild doubtless take his place in the ranks today and earn a good living by liis trade. Howevei-, for a nimiber of yeare his interests have been concentrated on a small farm and store at the corner of Thirtieth and Broadwaj'-, in section 31 of Ellington Township. Mr. Koch owns eleven acres, all thoroughlj' improved and intensively cultivated, with small fruits, including peaches and cherries. He has a nine-room brick house, good barn and other facilities. Mr. Koch has lived in that place four years and has done much to improve the house and gi-ounds, setting out the fniit trees and revamping the barn. He raises some fine grades of the red hogs.

At Thirtieth and Broadway he has been proprietor of a grocery for eighteen years. Mr. Koch was bom in Melrose Township November 7, 1870, and attended school in Ellington and I\Ielrose townships and also in Quincy. When not in school he was handling the tools in his father's blacksmith and carriage shop, and made expert use of them long before an average boy thinks of a real vocation. One of the first pieces of practical work he ever did was shoeing his school teacher's horse. He became an expert horse shoer. and also learned in all details the trade of carriagesmith. W^hen he was fourteen years of age he built a complete wagon, from tongue to endgate, and traded it to George Chase for a four year old horse. From that time on he was a full fledged mechanic, and earned a good living at his trade until he took over his present business.

Mr. Koch is a son of Henry C. and Johanna (Hemptick) Koch. His parents were born in Lorraine vrhen it was French soil, as it is today. His father was born in 1832 and his mother in 1836. They came to America before marriage. The father settled in Adams County prior to the Ci\al war, and during that war bought foi'ty acres of land in Burton Township. He married and began life on his farm, but after a few years sold out and moved to ^lelrose Township, buying five acres on Thirty-Fifth Street near the city limits in Melrose Tovm.ship. There he established a blacksmith and carriage shop on his land. He had learned the trade at Quincy in the old Rogers cai-riage and wagon factory. He lived on his place at Thirty-Fifth Street until a few years before his death. He and his wife spent their last days in the home of a daughter, Mrs. George Upsehultz of Melrose Township. Henry C. Koch died there in 1907 and his wife in 1910. They were long members of St. John's Lutheran Church on Kentucky Street. He was an ardent republican and held several minor offices in Melrose Township. Of the children, Charles for twenty-five years has been an employee of the Collins Plow Company. He is a widower. Robert is married and has children. George Ameil is a carriagesmith at Quincy and has four daughters, Laura, Augusta, Hilda Emily and Alice, and one son, Roy.

At the home of the bride 916 Spring Street in Quincy Mr. Koch married Elizabeth Renter. She is a daughter of William and Catherine (Vandenboom) Renter, both natives of Germany. They are still living at the old home on Spring Street. Mrs. Koch was reared and educated in Quincy. Her sister Theresa is the wife of Henry Gerding of Quincy and has a son. Paul. "Sir. and Mrs. Koch's children are: Virginia, bom in 1899, educated in the public schools and a proficient stenographer; Dorothy, who was bom in 1902 and has finished the public school course; Alvera H., attending school; Elizabeth, born in 1906; and Jeanette, born in 1910. Mr. Koch is a republican. He is a man of liberal public spirit and sj'mpathies, and since the war began has been active in behalf of all patriotic movements and the various campaigns for raising funds.

Adam Keil. In the field of practical achievemeut, in the clearing up and development of land, the making of two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, one of the men whose work deserves special mention is Adam Keil of Fall Creek Township. Mr. Keil resides twelve miles southea.st of Quincy.

He is a member of one of the best known families of Adams County. It is unnecessary here to enter at length upon the family historj', which has been told on other pages. Adam Keil was born on the old home near his present place December 23, 1869. He grew up on that farm and worked with his brothers at farming and threshing and contracting until he married.

At the age of twenty-seven Mr. Keil married Anna Margaret Rotiigeb. She was reared in Quincy and had lived for several years before her marriage in the old Squire Seehorn family.

After his marriage Mr. Keil located on his present farm. As his share of his father's estate lie received $6,000, and he used that capital to buy 142 acres. Later he acquired 85 acres of bottom land 21/2 miles away. Still later he bought another 260 acres and now has, all told, 387 acres. Few men could liave used this land and made so much out of it as Mr. Keil. The 160 acre tract was bottom land which no one else wanted. It was partly swamp, and had absolutely no economic value. Two creeks meandered through it, and the area was covered with water, swamp grass, brush and timber, all of which had to be cleared away. Mr. Keil used a great deal of practical engineering skill in draining the land. He built levees again.st the water courses, straightened, dredged and channeled out the streams so as to give a free outlet to the surface waters, and eventually not only had his own land in cultivation and practicall.y free from excess Dioisture, but his enterprise affected favorably the value and productiveness of all the ad,ioining laud, though his own initiative and lal)ors were not recompensed except on his own land. This farm lies west of Fall Creek station and about 2i/^ miles from his home place. Wheat is the big crop Mr. Keil grows on his bottom land. He had 200 acres in that cereal in 1918 and the average production was thirty-two bushels to the acre. He also raises rye and oats on a large scale. The money feature of his farm, liowever, is livestock feeding. He keeps about 30 head of cattle, about 175 hogs, and sends between 100 and 125 hogs to the market every year, and also feeds a bunch of cattle, ranging from a half carload to two carloads. lie buys miK-li feeding stock in St. Louis. He keeps a bunch of mules for work purposes. Mr. Keil has improved his land with a complete set of modern farm Ibuildings, with every facility for lightening the burdens of management. He also operates a threshing machine outfit and has done a great deal of road work and other contracting. One season he and his forces graded about seven miles of highway.

Mr. and Mrs. Keil have four children : Carl George, John Adam, Clara Marguerite Elizabeth, and William Fred Alfred, all of whom are at home.

John Hopmeister has been a farm owner and farm cultivator all his active life and has well earned the retirement he now enjoys. His home is in section 36 of Liberty Township, five miles southeast of Liberty Village.

He was born March 24, 1853, on the old home farm in Beverly Township where his .youngest brother, David, now lives. His parents were William and Elizabeth (Diehl) Hofmeister. His father was born at Mansheim, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, November 25, 1819. He came to the United States in 1846. His brother was living at Charlestown, Indiana, where he had a cooper shop. William Hofmeister learned that trade with his brother in Indiana, and in 1849 came with another brother to Adams County and located in Beverly Township. On May 10, 1849, he married at Quincy Elizabeth Diehl, of Beverly Township. They were married by Rev. Philip Barth of Quincy. She was born in Pennsylvania and was sixteen years of age at the time of her marriage. She had come from Pennsylvania to Adams County a year or two before her marriage. Elizabeth Diehl had a sister and three brothers : John Diehl, who died at advanced age ; Henry, who died in Missoui-i ; Balzer, who went West and died there ; and Anna, who married William Kuntz and lived in McKee Township.

Soon after his marriage William Hofmeister bought the farm of his wife's father, and lived in that one location for sixty-six years. He died ilarch 16, 1916, at the remarkable age of ninety-six years, three months and twenty-two days. For many years he kept a cooperage shop on his farm, converting the timber on his land into barrels for the pork packers at Quincy and for other uses. He had put about two-thirds of his land into cultivation, and continued his farm management until he was seventy years of age. His wife died Febiniary 5, 1888. William Hofmeister was well educated, possessed a remarkable memory, and was one of the prominent men of his community for many years. He accjuired citizenship soon after coming to America and was always completely satisfied with this country and its ideals. He owned 240 acres of land. He was converted while living in Indiana in 1848, and for many years was an active member of the Bethel German Methodist Church in McKee Town.ship. He was a member of that church when they worshiped in a log house. At the time of his death he was its oldest member. For two years he was confined to his room, but he always enjoyed company and was a great social favorite. He was laid to rest in the cemetery at Kingston, a mile and a half from his old home. The present house on the farm was built by him in 1869 and he also put up barns and other buildings.

In his family were four sons and one daughter. The only daughter, Mina, was her father's housekeeper for many j^ears and died August 22, 1906. The son, William, spent his life on the old farm as a bachelor and died September 16, 1913. The next in the family is John Hofmeister. Davis is still at the old home in Beverly Township. Charles was a dealer in musical instruments at Barry, Illinois, and died at Blessing Hospital in Quincy.

William Hofmeister was not the only member of his generation to reach advanced age. His sister is still living at New Albany, Indiana, at the age of ninety-three. William was one of six children, and all but one passed the age of ninety. All but one of them came to the United States. One brother, Conrad, settled in McKee Township of Adams County. He came to America on money supplied him by his brother William. He died when past ninety years of age, and his three sons and one daughter are still living in the county. Lizzie, another sister of William, married Jacob Getz and also settled in Me- Kee Township, where she died.

John Hofmeister lived at home to the age of twenty-four, and during his youth he assisted in clearing up the old farm. He then bought eighty acres in McKee Township and spent some years on that, clearing up the land and getting it into condition for profitable farming. He then bought his present place of 160 acres in Liberty Township, thus constituting him the owner of 240 acres. He had spent about twentj'-three years on this farm and built the house and a substantial basement barn in 1895. Much of the land was originally covered with heavy timber and he put a sawmill into operation and sold large quantities of bridge timber. He does general farming and stock raising, bi-eeding Polled Angus cattle and regularly turn off about 100 jiogs for the market every year. Mr. Hofmeister is a republican.

April 15, 1885, he married Emma Knapheide, of Quincy, daughter of Henry and Catherine (Achelpohl) Knapheide. Concerning the Knapheide family of Quincy a more complete sketch is given on other pages. Mrs. Hofmeister was born in Quincy November 18, 1858, and was educated in the public schools.

The children of Mr. and Mrs. Hofmeister are noted as follows: Lydia Edna, wife of Rev. F. W. Carwell, a retired minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church now living at Parsons, Kansas ; Linda Catherine married H. E. Carwell, a farmer at Troy, iMissouri, and a brother of Rev. Mr. Car«'ell : Milton Henry has a farm a mile and a half west of the old home and married Grace L. Zoller, who is organist of the Bethel Church : Alma Elizabeth is still at home ; Ralph Oliver is now in active charge of the home farm and also oper- ates the 160-acre farm adjoining, owned by the widow of James Craigs. Ralph 0. Hofmeister is one of the pushing and energetic young men of the county.

George Arrowsmith. One of the oldest and most prominent families iu Adams County have been the Arrowsmiths, who acquired their first holdings of land near Quiiicy eightj'-five years ago, and have been residents of the count}' practically 101 years. The Arrowsmiths are English, William H. Arrowsmith was born in Newbury, England, and came to America prior to the Revolutionary war. He was a royalist and moved to Nova Scotia.

One of his children was Edward Arrowsmith, born in Nova Scotia, and as he grew up learned the trade of sail maker. He followed that as a business and also owned several vessels and was extensively identified with the shipping trade. He died during a cholera epidemic in New York City July 20, 1832, when a comparatively young man, little past forty years of age. He married Mary (Smith) Glentworth, a native of New York State. A short time before his death Edward Arrowsmith had bought from a revolutionary soldier a tract of land comprising 320 acres adjacent to Quiucy, Illinois. All this land was then covered with hazelbrush and was in a state of complete unproductiveness. His land was located in section 31 of Ellington Township.

IMrs. Edward Arrowsmith was left a widow with nine children. About 1843 she came with these children to take possession of the land in Adams County, Illinois. The family lived in Quincy until they could put a small Irouse on the farm, and then they took possession and the sons John and George largely improved the land from a wilderness condition and made it a fine farm. Mrs. Edward Arrowsmith died there July 2.5, 1872, at the age of eighty-six. She and her children were all Episcopalians. Mrs. Edward Arrowsmith had the following children : John, George, Edward, Jr., Thomas, William, Mary, Charlotte, Edwina and Elizabeth, all of whom married except Charlotte, and all those married had children. They are all now deceased and about half of them died in Adams County.

George Arrowsmith was born in New York, March 20, 1818, and he received his early education in the schools of New York City. In 1847 he married at Quincy Miss Ann Eliza Berrian, an own cousin of Judge Berrian. She was born in New York City May 19, 1821, daughter of William A. and Sophia (Riker) Berrian. Her uncle, Washington Berrian, and her great-uncle, Richard Berrian, made a prospecting tour over Illinois in 1819 and visited the site of Quincy. Her father, William A. Berrian, was a prominent merchant of New York. In 1833 he brought his family by canal and the river route to Quincy, arriving November 7. The following year he bought a farm seven miles east of Quincy, and lived there until his death, being one of the prosperous and well known citizens. Mrs. Arrowsmith was about twelve years of age when she came West. Other children who accompanied their parents were George, Louisa, Susan and Mary. Two other children were born in Adams County, Theodore and Josephine. The only surviving member of these children is Mary, who is now eighty-nine years of age. William A. Berrian died June 25, 1868, in his seventy-eighth j'ear, and his wife, who was born in 1801, died December 28, 1877.

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. George Arrowsmith built a good house on what wa.s then a back road. Later, as Broadway was laid out, they moved the house to its present location, enlarged it, and lived there in much comfort and enjoyed all the benefits of their thrift and progi-essiveness as substantial farmers and land owners. George Arrowsmith is remembered as a man who was reliable in business, faithful in friendship and one who enjoyed the respect and good will of all with whom he was associated. He died at his farm home January 31, 1886, at the age of sixty-eight. His widow survived him many years, keeping her home with her sons and daughters, and i)assed away in honored old age JIarch 13, 1910. George Arrowsmith was a republican, his sons having followed him iu that political belief, but his only public duties

He and his wife had the following children : Georgianna, Mary, Charlotte, Louisa, James and George. The old homestead is now occupied by the three daughters, Georgianna, Mary and Louisa. Their sister Charlotte died some years ago. The daughters were liberally educated in the local schools and are highly intelligent women. Louisa was for some years a teacher in the local schools. There was another daughter, Sophia, twin sister of Mary, who died at the age of three years and two months. The son, James K., was born on the old farm and now lives there and has its business management. He married Helen McAfee, and his children are James, Ricker, Marian and Helen, all of whom are married and have children of their own, and he also has an unmarried son, Paul, who was a soldier in the One Hundred and Twenty-third ]\Iachine Gun Battalion and saw active service in France. The other son, George, Jr., is a skilled pattern maker. He finished his trade in St. Louis and for several years was teacher in a manual training school in that city, and is now engaged in a similar position at Kansas Cit.y, Missouri. He married in St. Louis Rosetta Ochartrand and their children are George, Dwight, Mildred and Wendell. George and "Wendell were both soldiers in the war. Both first lieutenants of the One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Field Artillery. The Arrowsmith sisters except Mary are members of the Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, and Mary is a Baptist.

John Joseph Ormond. An attractive group of buildings, many broad acres under perfect cultivation, evidences of care and good management on every hand, constitute the outstanding features of the fine farm home of John Joseph Ormond in Liberty Town.ship, on the line between Liberty and Burton towniships and sixteen miles east of Quincy.

Mr. Ormond was born at Plainville in Adams County, August 1, 1855. His parents, Patrick and Bridget (Dalton) Ormond, came to Adams County in 1851. Patrick was born in Waterford County, Ireland, in 1819, and came to Adams County immediately on his arrival in this country. He had married Bridget Dalton in 1847. She was born in 1814. Patrick Ormond worked in Quincy at day labor until he was able to buy his first land. This purchase was northeast of Plainville in Payson To\\mship. About 1870 he moved to Richfield Township, locating a mile and a half from his former place. He owned 220 acres there in section 7. His wife died there at the age of seventy years. Patrick .spent the last thirteen years of his life with his son John J. and died at the age of eighty years. He and his wife were devout members of the Catholic Church at Liberty. There were two children, Bridget and John J. The daughter married Thomas Pendergast and went to California, where she died.

John Joseph Ormond, now the only survivor of the family, grew up at home and remained with his father assisting in the management of the farm. In 1902 he bought his present place, the old John Wolfe farm originally settled by David Wolfe. Mr. Ormond secured 197 acres of the John Wolfe place and ninety acres of the Jacob Wolfe farm. He paid fifty dollars an acre for the fir.st land and $125 an acre for the second tract. The second farm he bought for his son. John Wolfe put up the substantial brick house and Mr. Ormond has erected barns and other outbuildings and has extensively remodeled and given efficiency to the arrangement of all the farm equipment. He also o^vns another farm of 150 acres in Burton Township.

November 14, 1893, he married Anna Kaltenbach, member of a well known famil.y of Adams County more particularly referred to on other pages. Mrs. Ormond was reared in Bi;rton Township and was twenty-five years of age at the time of her marriage. They had seven children. One died in infancy, and the daughter Irene died in 1912. at the age of thirteen. Those living are: Joseph, who operates his father's ninety acre farm, married Irene Smith, daughter of Frank Smith ; Alice is the wife of Carl Smith, a farmer in Colum- bus Township, near Camp Point ; "William, Cornelia and Jerome are all at home. Mr. Ormond is a democrat and he and his family attend St. Bridget Catholic Church at Liberty.

Marion Carter is a native of Adams County, member of one of the old families here, and for many years has been successfully identified with agriculture in Liberty Township. His farm home is four miles east of Liberty Village.

He was born in MeKee Township May 6, 1850, son of Travis and Patsy (Fuqua) Carter. His father, a native of Kentucky, came to Adams County in the early days and settled in MeKee Township, where he devoted his active life to developing a farm. He died there at the age of fifty. Patsj- Cai'ter died when Marion was a small child. Travis Carter afterward married Lucy Fuqua, sister of his first wife. After his death she became the wife of George Cutforth, one of the well known old residents of McKee Township, where both of them died in advanced years. The children of Travis and Patsy Carter were: Mary, who married Charles Cutforth, a son of George, above mentioned, and both are now deceased; Martha, who married Wash Sparks, both deceased; Kittie, who married Jacoli Hearl.son, both deceased ; Robert, who went to Iowa when young and died in that state ; Fanny, who married Charles Fessenden, of Adams County, and both are now deceased : and Marion, the youngest ancl only survivor. George and Lucy Cutforth had two daughters, Janie, wife of George Hess, of ilcKee Township, and Eva, wife of Charles Robb, of Colorado.

Marion Carter was about eighteen years old when his father died. He carried on the farm for several years and on August 24. 1871, he married Miss Emma Gordon. Her parents were John and Elizabeth (Howe) Gordon, ancb their home was the farm where Marion Carter now lives. Mrs. Carter was born there and was about nineteen years of age at the time of her marriage. Her parents both came from Kentucky and they developed the present Carter farm. After his marriage Clarion Carter spent one year on the home place in McKee Township, and then bought a farm near the Gordon home. A few years later, after the death of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon, he bought their property, comprising forty acres in the home place and a .second forty acres a mile distant in McKee Town.ship. Mr. Carter has lived there ever since and has made his proprietorship count for many improvements in the farm. Mrs. Carter died May 20. 1891, at the age of thirty-eight. She was the mother of nine children, eight of whom reached mature years : Fred, a farmer in South Dakota ; Alonzo and Roy, both farmers in South Dakota ; Herschel, who died in Cass County, Iowa, at the age of forty years ; Adam, of Cumberland, Iowa ; Harry, of Liberty Township ; and Ethel and Erva, twins, the former Mrs. Charles Fischer, of Selma, Montana.

On ilarch 24, 1894, Mr. Carter married Ellen, better known as Nell, Barnard, daughter of Francis Marion and Susan (Pearce) Barnard. Some records of the Barnard family are publi.shed on other pages of this publication. F. M. Barnard died November 14, 1916, and his wife on July 19, 191.3. Mrs. Carter is one of six living children : Sarah, Mrs. John Robb, of Decatur, Arkansas ; Guilford, whose postofSce is Waldron, Kansas, but whose home is in Oklahoma ; Elizabeth, wife of Isaac Miller, of Macomb, Illinois; Jane, Mrs. Henry Hughes, of Annabell, Missouri ; Mrs. Carter; and Minnie, wife of Julius Kline, of Liberty Township.

At the age of twenty years Mrs. Carter began teaching in Liberty Township, and followed that profe.ssion for twelve years before her marriage, and also taught two years after her marriage. She was well educated in the local schools, had a short course in Chaddock College, and while teaching attended institutes every year. She has always kept an active interest in educational matters and especially in Sunday School work. She was a Sunday School superintendent for several years and is still a teacher. She has also been a worker in the Red Cross and other war movements. Mr. and Mrs. Carter have one daughter, Ivan, who was at home with her parents during the absence of her hiisl)and, Lawrence Graff, a soldier with the American Expeditionary Forces in France, but now at home.

Mr. Carter has rebuilt and remodeled his present home, and constructed a number of the outside buildings. He is a republican and a member of the Pleasant View Baptist Church.

Simon Dedeet in his management of his farm in section .3 of Ellington Township exemplifies all the thrift and good judgment for which the Dedert family have long been noted in Adams County.

Mr. Dedert owns 164 acres. His home place contains eighty acres and is improved with a complete set of farm buildings, including a barn 38 by 40 feet and a .seven-room house. As is usually the case in this section he grows the finest of stock and all his grain and other produce are fed on the farm, his revenues coming through the route of livestock. He has steadily conserved and built up his soil fertility. For over twenty years he has owned this eighty acre farm, a part of the old Dedert homestead, and about a dozen years ago he also bought eighty-four acres adjoining, thus giving him a well proportioned farm.

Mr. Dedert was born in Ellington Township December 17, 1872, and as a boy attended the rural schools and also the Lutheran Parochial schools. When he was twenty-six years of age he began on his own account and bought the eighty acres from his father's homestead. Later he operated the entire estate for his mother. Simon Dedert is one of the sons of William and Louisa (Schlippmann) Dedert, peojile who were hard working and thrifty farmers in Adams County and whose names deserve lasting memory and respect for the fine family which they produced. A more complete record of the experiences of these parents will be found on other pages.

Simon Dedert married in Melrose Township Frederica Burgdorff. She was born in Melrose Township and is five years younger than her husband. Her parents were Charles and Frederica (Freeze) Burgdorff. Both parents were born in Germany. The\- married in Melrose Township and for many years were truck gardeners there. Mrs. Dedert 's mother died at the age of three score and her father died at the home of a daughter in Riverside Township when eighty years of age. Both were members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Mr. and Mrs. Dedert take the greatest of pride in their four young children. The oldest is Paul C. born in 1906, now in the sixth grade of the public schools ; Lloyd is seven years old and is also in school ; the two younger children are Earl and Wesley. The family attend worship in St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church at Fowler. Mr. Dedert is a republican voter.

Joel Kingsbury Scarborough. Adams County has had many able men of great nobility of character, but few whose careers deserve more consideration and more of the enduring memory than the late Joel Kingsbury Scarborough.

Fully four-fifths of his long life was spent in the southern part of the county, largely at Payson. In that locality the name Scarborough has been significant and prominent for more than eight years. Chronologicallj' the first of his family to be considered was his uncle. Deacon Albigence Scarborough, who came from AVest Hartford, Connecticut, and in the fall of 1834 bought land in Payson Township which had been entered at the government land office the previous year. In the spring of 1835 Deacon Scarborough laid out the Village of Payson, which he named in honor of a much admired minister in New England. In 1836 Deacon Scarborough and associates undertook the construction of a windmill at Payson, and when it was completed several years later became an important part of the county industries. Deacon Scarborough was very liberal in upbuilding the town, donating lots for various public purposes, including the site of the first school. He was one of the organizers of the Congregational Church, and also set out the first apple orchai-d in that typically fruit growing section, and also planted the first peach seeds.

It was the presence of this uncle that brought Joel Kingsbury Scarborough to Adams County. The latter was born at Brooklyn, Windham County, Connecticut, November 12, 1824. His life was as prolonged as it was useful and honorable, and when he died at his home in Payson, May 3, 1915, he had attained the age of ninety years, five months, twenty-one days. He was a son of Joel and Lucretia (Smith) Scarborough. He was born three months after the death of his father, and his mother died when he was twelve years of age. His brother William S. subsequently graduated from Yale Law School and became a Cincinnati lawyer. His sister Esther Delia married Professor Mason Grosvenor, one of the foundei's of Illinois College. The sister Mary Ann became the wife of Rev. Cephas A. Leach, who for a number of years was pastor of the Payson Congregational Church.

Joel K. Scarborough early manifested a scholarly mind. He read Rollin's Ancient History at the age of eight, and at the age of ten was studying Latin, Algebra and Geometry. By the time he reached the age of fourteen he had what was then considered a good academic education.

In the fall of 1838 he arrived in Adams County in company with his oldest sister Mary A. The journey westward was made b.y the crude facilities of that time, by railroad, steamboat and canal boat, stage coach, as far as Pittsburg, and thence on account of the low water they traveled to Cincinnati by stage, thence taking passage on a steamboat and eventually arriving at Quincy.

He found his uncle then living in a log cabin at Payson, and for the next two years was in his uncle's emplo.y. At the age of seventeen he went to Hudson, Ohio, then the seat of Western Reserve College, now Western Reserve University of Cleveland. He lived at Hudson two years, part of the time studying in the college, and also improving his mind b.v home study. Returning to Adams County he resumed employment with his uncle until he was twenty-one years of age, and all that time he devoted his leisure to study.

He was only fifteen years of age when he bought part of the land comprised in his later farm, a tract of raw prairie without a single improvement. After leaving his uncle he undertook development and cultivation of the farm, boarding for several years with Mr. Edward Seymour. He was exceedingly vigorous and methodical in all his work, and his farm in course of time came to be recognized as a standard and model of improvements and thorough cultivation. He planted many trees about his home, developed a large orchard, and invested his financial surplus in other land imtil his holdings took on large scope. He had more faith than many of the early settlers in the ultimate value of the bottom lands along the Mississippi. In the early days he went on horseback to Pittsfield to attend a sale of swamp land. When the commissioner of the land office began the sale Mr. Scarborough was the only one present, and after his bid of 10 cents an acre had been repeated several times by the commissioner the transaction was concluded, whereby ]\Ir. Scarborough received an entire quarter section at 10 cents an acre. He also acquired another quarter section at 15 cents an acre. Later he acquired other lands along the Mississippi Valley and on Sni Island. He was one of the most prominent in bringing about the organization of Sni Drainage District, resulting in the building of the Sni Levee. Mr. Scarborough was one of the committee of three which employed the services of the Ex-President of the United States, Benjamin Harrison, to defend a suit before the United States Supreme Court to determine the validity of the first bonds issued by this drainage district, which by a previous decree had been declared unconstitutional. Through the reclamation afforded by the building of the levee and other improvements in the district much of the land which Mr. Scarborough had bought for practically nothing became in his possession worth fully $100 an acre. His home farm comprised 170 acres, and he owns several other farms in that vicinity. He was never a fancier of prize stock, but fed and fattened many carloads for the market. The Adams County Fair was first started on his land, which he leased for that purpose, but later it was removed to Camp Point.

In nothing was he more consistently active than in promoting and maintaining good educational facilities. He was an advocate of a high school in his township, but he had to work against heavy odds to secure such a school. As he and his friends showed unrelenting determination to secure such a school, the opposition resorted to a trick to defeat the move. They voted to build a schoolhouse, but the terms provided that the building should be erected on the Mississippi River bottoms, and this provision was of course so ridiculous as to defeat the proposition for the time being, but Mr. Scarborough kept up the campaign, and in 1867 had the satisfaction of seeing a fine school building erected in Payson and one which stood and served its purpose until 1915. He was for many years a director of the school. The first principal to manage the school in the new building was T. C. Poling, now one of the most prominent business men of Quincy. Another early principal of the school was S. F. Hall.

The late Mr. Scarborough was a man of deep religious convictions. While attending Western Reserve College he united with the Congregational Church at Hudson at the age of seventeen. He united with the church at Payton November 26, 1843, and on the 25th of May following he was elected church clerk, being then nineteen years of age. He was re-elected to that office at every annual meeting until at the time of his death he had served nearly sevent.y-one years. He tried to resign in 1913, but the church refused to accept his resignation, and elected an assistant to perform the duties. July 1, 1865, he was elected a member of the Board of Trustees of the church and held that office until his death. On January 1, 1868, he was elected superintendent of the Sunday school, and with the exception of fifteen months held that office until January 1, 1912, giving forty-two years and nine months to the service. He was a delegate from the Quincy Association of Congregational Churches to the National Council, was a corporate member of the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions, for four years was chairman of the County Sunday School Convention, and attended many state Sunday school conventions and was active in other church organizations and causes.

It was especially fitting that his funeral services should have been conducted in the church which he had served so long and faithfully and which he loved so well. The pastor officiating was assisted by Rev. David E. Rodd, a former pastor for ten years, and who had officiated at the funeral of Mrs. Scarborough. It is appropriate to quote a brief tribute written by his pastor : "Consecrated to the cause of Christ, he labored earnestly, giving both of time and money to the advancement of the Kingdom of God on earth. His personal devotion was reflected in his daily life, especially during the last few years of enfeebled age the Bible has been his constant companion, the source of his comfort and strength. His eyes grown dim with age, a Bible of large print was constantly by his side or in his hands.

"The memory of this Father in Israel reading his well worn Bible, finding solace and strength in its sublime truths has been an inspiration to his pastor - such a life can not fail to leave its impress upon the community. The promise of the Father is fulfilled in him: 'Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of coi'n cometh in his season.' "

In November, 1849, Mr. Scarborough married Mi.ss Julia Seymour, a native of West Hartford, Connecticut. She died in January, 1856, and her only child died a few months later. Mr. Scarliorough married for his second wife Harriet Spencer, daughter of iloses and Julia (Flagg) Spencer, of West Hartford, Connecticut. She was born January 1, 1820, and died in 1903. Her daughter Julia died at the age of seven years, and the only surviving member of the family is Henry Flagg Scarborough.

Henry Fl.vgg Scarborough. Through the career of Henry Flagg Scarborough many of the admirable qualities of his late father have been perpetuated as distinctive influences in the life and affairs of Payson village and township.

lie was born November 7, 1859, in the house which his father built fully seventy years ago and in which he still resides. The house has, of course, had many changes. It was added to its original form and in 1872 was remodeled and again in 1896. Mr. Scarborough has also built a new house on the farm for his farm superintendent.

He was educated in the public schools of Payson and at Knox College, Galesburg. lie became a partner with his father in the ownership and management of their extensive land and farm interests, and he prefers to be classified as a general farmer, though for a number of yeai-s the most profitable feature of his agricultural enterprise has been apple growing. The horticultural interests of IMr. Scarborough are in a sense a continuation of the pioneer enterprise of hi.s uncle Deacon Scarborough above referred to. On the various farms under his ownership he has extended his apple orchards until they contain more than 120 acres, and his production many years has ranged from 5,000 to 8,000 barrels. During the packing season more than forty persons are employed in the orchards and packing houses.

Mr. Scarborough succeeded his father as clerk of the Congregational Church at Payson. The last entry made b.y his father in the office was under date November 26, 1911. Mr. Scarborough is also active in affairs and is now in his eighteenth year of consecutive service as supervisor of Payson Township. It is an indication of his great personal popularity and the confidence reposed in him by his fellow citizens that he was elected to this office on the republican ticket in a strongly democratic communitJ^ He was first elected in April, 1901. He has represented the County Board at various state conventions as supervisor. Mr. Scarborough has never been satisfied with a mere routine of his duties in this public office. Some years ago he listened to an address by Judge Tuthill of Chicago on the care and duty of the state toward children. His interest was was so aroused that he became an ardent advocate of such care and supervision of dependent and delinquent children, and working hand in hand with women's organizations gained the consent of the board to establish a detention home on Sixth Street in Quincy. This home after a brief trial proved so valuable that the Board enlarged its scope, joining its functions with those of the overseer of the poor, and eventually bought the old Henry J. Ricker Home to be used especialh' for the care of dependent children in the county.

In 1885 Mr. Scarborough married Miss Mary Estella Wolfe, daughter of Rev. George B. Wolfe, at that time a minister at Payson. She died in 1900, leaving a son, Joseph Kingsbury, who is now a student in the Western Military Academy at Alton. In 1903 Mr. Scarborough married Mrs. Jennie (Thompson) Robbins, daughter of Philo E. Thompson.

George Fred Eisenberg is a prosperous farmer of Ellington Township, a man of genial traits, large and phj-sically well proportioned, weighing 200 pounds, and has proved himself equal to the emergencies of life as they came up.

Mr. Eisenberg was born in Melrose Towaiship May 21, 1884, a son of Fred and Louisa (ilueler) Eisenberg. The parents were both born in Germany and were brought to the United States when young people. They were married in Quincy and started out as tenant farmers in Melrose To^^^^ship. In 1895 Fred Eisenberg moved to Ellington Township and bought 120 acres in section 18, where his son George F. now resides. He labored effectively here for many years, made manj- improvements, and in 1910 left the Ellington Township farm and moved to a comfortable home in Riverside Town.ship, where he and his wife are now living retired, the father at the age of .seventy-two and the mother at sixty-eight. They are members of St. John's Lutheran Church on Seventh Street in Quincy. Fred Eisenberg was always interested in local affairs in Ellington Township while he lived there, and held several minor offices. He is a democrat.

all of whom are married and all but one have children of their own. He received his early education in Melrose Township, and also in the schools of Ellington Township, and for the past eight years since his father retired he has been in active control of the 120-acre farm and has shown his ability at producing fine crops and keeping the farm up to the pink of perfection. The farm produces some wonderful crops of hay, also clover, and Mr. Eisenberg has some fine Shorthorn cattle and a number of good hogs. The old home in which he lives was built about seventy years ago by a Mr. Penrose, and is one of the substantial brick houses that stand as landmarks in the community.

In Quincy, October 26, 1910, Mr. Eisenberg married Miss Sarah Bumgardner. She was born in Quincy, June 23, 1885, and obtained her education in the schools of that city. She is a daughter of Otto and Fannie (WoUet) Bumgardner. Her father came from Pennsylvania and her mother was born in Quincy, and they lived for many years at Quincy. Otto Bumgardner died at Quincy at the age of sixty years. Mrs. Bumgardner is still living there at the age of sixty-three. Mr. and Mrs. Eisenberg have one daughter. Grace E., born December 23, 1913. The family are regular wor.shippers in St. John's Lutheran Churcli in Quincy. Mr. Eisenberg is a democrat and has served as road commissioner, township clerk and tax collector of Ellington Township.

WiLLUM PiLLATT. While William Pillatt was never a resident of Adams County, the county knows and esteems Mrs. Pillatt, who is a woman of remarkable enterprise and would easily stand as one of the most successful farmers and dairy proprietors in the county. She owns a large farm in Missouri, where her husband lived, but her chief interests at present are a dairy farm a short distance east of Quincy. She manages that with consummate skill and ability, her principal assistant being her daughter.

The late William Pillatt was born in St. Louis in 1854. His father was Tjorn in Northern France, and after coming to America married at St. Louis Emeline Johnson, a native of Maryland who had grown up in St. Louis. The fatlier died before the birth of his only son and child, William Pillatt. The mother married for her second hu.sband James Willhofi', a native of England, and they then moved to Lewis County, Missouri, buying a farm where they reared their family and where they died when quite old. Both were members of the ^Methodist Episcopal Church, and of their eight children two daughters are now deceased.

The late William Pillatt was reared and educated near Maywood, Missouri, and had the life and experience of a farmer throughout his active career. In 1876, in Lewis County, he married Miss Anna Smith. Mrs. Pillatt was born in Lewis County, near Maywood, and was reared and educated there, being a daughter of James and Virginia (Alford) Smith, both natives of Virginia. Her people in earlier generations were slave holders. James Smith was a son of William and Anna (Brooks) Smith, the former of German parentage and the latter of Scotch ancestry. The Smith family was noted for its longevity. One daughter, Mrs. Mary Gaddis, lived to be more than 102 years of age and died in Indiana, and all her brothers and sisters attained great age.

Mr. and Mrs. Pillatt after their marriage took up farming in Lewis County, Missouri, and continued it there until the death of ^Ir. Pillatt in 1898. Mrs. Pillatt was left a farm of 120 acres, and she continued its operation practically for ten years, and in that time increased it to 200 acres. It is a well modeled and arranged stock and grain farm, with excellent buildings, and Mrs. Pillatt still owns it, its operations being carried on by tenants.

In 1906 she moved to Quincy and bought I91/2 acres on Broadway in Ellington Township, in section 32, a mile east of the city limits. Here she continues farming on a concentrated scale, operating a dairy and having one of the finest registered Holstein bulls in the county, knowTi as King Regis. She also has a large herd of Chester White hogs. Part of the land is devoted to alfalfa, and vrith this crop she has had unusual success. Mrs. Pillatt is a bundle of energy

Her daughter is Etta Frances, who was born in Lewis County and attended school there and also for three years was a student in Chaddock College in Quincy. Mi's. Pillatt and her daughter are members of the Vermont Street Methodist Episcopal Church.

ALteANDER Reid. It is nearly half a century since Alexander Reid came to Adams Count.y. He has made good use of his time and opportunities, has been one of the very successful farmers of Liberty Township, an upright and con- .scientious citizen, and is well spoken among all his neighbors and friends. His home is now a well proportioned and improved farm a half mile east of the Village of Liberty.

Mr. Reid was born in County Derry, Ireland, in 1840. He lived in Ireland, secured his education, and learned a trade there, serving an apprenticeship of four years as a blacksmith. In 1864 he came to the United States and for three years worked at his trade at St. John's, New Brunswick. From there he went out to California, attracted by reports of good wages paid to men of his trade. He was in California about four years, and 21/2 years of that time he spent in the employ of a saw mill company. Two brothers had been living for several years in Adams County, and finally he came to visit them. One was John Reid of ilcKee Township, and the other James Reid of Liberty Townsliip. John died in ]\IeKee Township and James in Liberty Township. A son of the latter is Stephen Reid, still a resident of Liberty. On coming to Adams County Alexander Reid bought land in the east part of Liberty Township, and that section has been his liome ever since. He cleared up mucli of his land, erected new buildings, and increased it until he had a good farm of 120 acres. Eventually he turned tliis farm over to his oldest son, Leslie, who later traded it for land in ilississippi, and moved to that state. In ^larch, 1902, ilr. Reid bought his present place of 121 acres, including a strip of land a quarter of a mile long which enables him to reach a main road. It has a fair house and he has built a barn and other buildings. He is now giving all his time to general farming, and has not worked at his trade for many j'ears except for his own use. As a farmer Mr. Reid has done much in the way of soil improvement and has a place not only valuable but of which he may well be proud. Politically he is a republican but has never cared for public olifice. He and his wife were both reared as Presbyterians and they are members of the church at Liberty, in which he is an elder.

In June, 1871, he married Miss Fannie B. Leslie. Mrs. Reid was also born in Ireland and was brought to Adams County when a child. Her parents, Samuel and Margaret Leslie, located in Columbus Township, and .spent their last days in Missouri, where they died. Mrs. Reid was twenty-three at the time of her marriage, and is the only member of the family still in Adams County. They had four children to reach maturity. Leslie, the oldest, has already been spoken of as a farmer and land owner in ^Mississippi. His first wife was Nellie Litz, and there are two children of that union living: Carl Elmer and Esther May. The latter was sixteen months old when her mother died and she grew up in the home of her grandparents and aunt. She is now a schoolgirl eleven years old. Leslie married for his second wife Stella Parriek, and their children are Frank, Albert, Virgil. Hazel and Fay. John Reid, the second son, is unmarried and operating the home farm. Samuel finished his education in the Gem City Business College and for the past .sixteen years has lived in Montana. For a time he was bookkeeper in a bank at Billings in that state, but soon bought land sixteen miles from Billings, and is now giving practicall.v all his time to his farm. He is also president of a bank at Rapelye, Montana. He is a thorough banker and farmer and has made a great success in that state. He is one of the leading wheat and alfalfa growers in Montana, and in 1918 had over 6,000 bushels of wheat and 200 acres of alfalfa. He married Daisy

Maynard, of McKee Township, Adams County, and they have two sons, Paul Maynard and Samuel Sharon. Margaret Agnes, the yoxingest child, is still at home with her parents.

Heney Spangler is a member of a well known old family of Burton Township, referred to in more detail on other pages, ilr. Spangler is a successful and enterprising farmer, and has a large place fifteen miles east of Quiney on the Liberty Koad.

He was born at this old homestead February 2, 1871, and has spent all his life on that one farm. His pi-esent commodious and well furnished residence is on a site somewhat removed from the house where he was born. His father built the present residence, or part of it, and the son has since remodeled and extended it.

Mr. Henry Spangler and his brother Jacob were joint owners and operators of this farm for two years. When the estate was settled Henrj- secured seventy acres as his share and bought the interest of a sister in eighty acres, thus giving him 150 acres. Still later he bought fifty acres from his brother Philip, and this gives him a well proportioned and adequate farm. He has also rebuilt and enlarged the cattle barn and keeps some fifteen or twenty head of registered Shorthorn cattle, this being one of his chief sources of revenue. He also markets about fifty Poland China hogs every year.

Mr. Spangler married in 1897 Rosa Gilhouse, daughter of August and Serepta Gilhouse, of Burton Township. Mrs. Spangler was twenty-two years old at the time of her marriage. They have two children, Everett and Otis, both attending school. The family are members of the Lutheran Church at Libert}-. Mr. Spangler is a member and president of his local school board.

Joseph Howard Lummis. The important part taken by Mr. Lummis in the affairs of Adams County has been as a teacher, grain dealer and elevator man, real estate owner and farmer, and as a banker and good citizen. Mr. Lummis resides at Paloma and is vice president of the Paloma Exchange Bank.

His parents were Joseph and Sarah (Lawless) Lummis. The record of both of these well known old families is traced in some detail on other pages of this publication. Joseph Lvimmis was a native of Ohio, son of John and Anna Lummis. The family came to Adams County in 1844 and John Lummis died here in 1866. Joseph Lummis died at the age of seventy-five, but his widow is still living aged eighty-seven. Joseph Lummis was at one time county treasurer of Adams County, and his son Elmer is now postmaster at Quiney.