Quincy Township (part 59 of 74)

Mr. John Ihrig votes the republican ticket, but he is too busy with his stock and farm to accept the cares and vexations of office. He is affiliated with Golden Lodge No. 267, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, with Camp Point Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and is a member of Golden Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He and his wife are active in the Eastern Star. ]\Iarch 22, 1905. he married Miss ^Mildred Blanche Callahan. She was born in Columbus Township of this county in 1886, daughter of Wesley and a gi-anddaiighter of John Callahan, whose name also deserves mention as one of the pioneers of Adams County. Mr. and Mrs. Ihrig have two children : Clara, Pauline and Eugene Lummis.

John Rodney L.\mbert, M. D. True to the title that follows his name Doctor Lambert is a physician and has practiced in Adams County a great many years. However, his chief business now and what makes him most widely known over the state is as a horticulturist. Doctor Lambert has been in the commercial orchard business for a number of years, has a tract of splendid trees on his place near Coatsburg, and another large orchard at Barry. He took up fruit growing as an occupation for old age, has given it thorough study, and has managed it in such a way that few individual business enterprises in the county pay better returns than his orchard.

Doctor Lambert was born in Quincy October 23, 1867, a son of John H. and Hattie R. (Evatt) Lambert. His father was born in Virginia in 1832, son of Daniel Lambert. Daniel Lambert spent a number of years in Maryland. His son John and Rodney came to Quincy, Illinois, about 1855, and was soon followed by their father, Daniel Lambert, who had a farm in Liberty Township, two miles northwest of tlie village of that name, and died tliere. John H. Lambert secured a steamboat agency at Quincy, and he and his brother were associated in that business and as grain handlers for a number of years. Rodney eventually became identified with the Eagle Mills. John H. Lambert died in July, 1868, at the age of thirty ^ix, and before Doctor Lambert was a year old. His widow, Hattie (Evatt) Lambert, was a daughter of William and Emily (Marshall) Evatt. She and John H. Lambert were married in 1862 at jfcndon. William Evatt at one time operated the mills at Mendon and after the war at Fall Creek. During the war he served as a sutler in the army. Mrs. John H. Lambert was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, July 1, 1841, and was brought to Quincy in 1856, the family traveling by steamboat. Her father died at Quincy when past eighty years of age. Mrs. Hattie Lambert is still li\'ing, and is a second time a widow, Mrs. Frank Homan, with her home at Quincy. Her brother, Frank Evatt, is a railway man at Cincinnati, and her sister, Anna, is Mrs. Drew, wife of the superintendent of telegraph of the Soo Railway at Chicago. Mrs. Hattie Lambert had two sons, William dying in early boyhood as the result of an accident.

John H. Lambert was a verj^ prominent Mason and Lambert Lodge was named in his honor. He filled the chair of master in that lodge for some years, and his son. Doctor Lambert, has his sword and regalia as a Knight Templar. The boyhood of Doctor Lambert was spent in Quincy, and he began the study of medicine under Doctor Nickerson. He is a graduate with the class of 1889 from the Medical College of Chicago, and in 1890 received a diploma for post-graduate work from the University of Pennsylvania. After two years of practice at Quincy he moved to Mendon, practiced there two years, and in 1895 located at Coatsburg, which has been his home ever since.

It was his interest in outdoor life, especially trees and other growings things, that drew him into the profession of orchardist. In 1902 he planted 1,000 apple, pear and other fruit trees on his place at Coatsburg. Later he bought the Charles Williams orchard in Pike County. This contains sixty-five acres, and altogether he has 100 acres in fruit. The orchard he developed at Coatsburg has been especially profitable, and he has given it his closest personal supervision for many years. In recent years his apple trees have produced crops ranging from four to eight barrels apiece. Modern methods prevail in all departments of his business. He practices thorough cultivation, looks after the health of the tree as carefully as he would that of a human being, and safeguards his crops against the usual pests, and this care is fully justified by the results he obtains. He has frequently exhibited his fruit at horticultural societies and fairs, and is a life member of the State Horticultural Society. Doctor Lambert has been most successful as a grower of the Ben Davis, Gano, Grimes Golden and Jonathan apples. He estimates that his crop for 1914 paid for the cost of the land, the trees and all the labor put upon them. His usual average net returns amounts to $150 an acre. His orchard at Barry is situated in one of the most ideal fruit growing localities in Illinois.

Doctor Lambert is also serving as postmaster at Coatsburg, but the active duties of that office are assumed by his wife. June 20, 1894, at West Point, Illinois, he married Miss Nellie Carlin. They first became acquainted while she was working as stenographer at the Ertle Hay Press Works. Her father, the late Franklin Carlin, was a farmer of Gilmer Township and a veteran of the Civil war. Mrs. Lambert was born near Columbus in Gilmer Township January 23, 1875. Her parents came to Illinois from Maryland and her mother was eighteen and her father twenty-one at the time of their marriage. Her father spent most of his life in Hancock County. Mrs. Lambert has a sister, Mrs. Frank Gibbs, at Coatsburg. Doctor Lambert is an active member of the Masonic order.

He and his wife have two children, Dana C. and Doris. The latter is a student in high school. The son. Dana C, after graduating from high scliool spent two years in the State University and for one year was employed in the Marmon Automobile Works at Indianapolis. With the declaration of war against Germany he entered the officers training camp at Fort Sheridan, re- ceived his commission as a second lieutenant, and has since been assigned to duty at Camp Grant, where he is a member of the Eighth Battalion of the One Hundred and Sixty-first Depot Brigade. Lieutenant Lambert married Miss Marian Parkin, daughter of Kev. I\Ir. Parkin of Indianapolis. For a number of seasons she has been a very popular singer and Chautaucpia entertainer.

Fred W. Brinkoetter. Widely and favorably known through his connection with the granite and marble industry of Adams County, Fred W. Brinkoetter, of Quincy, is devoting his time and talents to the making of durable and' artistic monuments, and as proprietor of the granite works located at 1019 South Fifth Street is carrying on a large and substantial business. Coming of German ancestry on both sides of the house, he was born in Quincy February 16, 1875.

His father, John H. Brinkoetter, was born and brought up in Germany. Leaving the fatherland when young, he came to the United States, hoping in this land of thrift and plenty to find remunerative employment. Learning the trade of a blacksmith, he located in Quincy, Illinois, and having established a smithy at the corner of State and Ninth streets was there prosperously engaged in his occupation until his death in 1876, while j'et in manhood's prime.

Having obtained a practical common school education, Fred W. Brinkoetter made use of his natural mechanical gifts by learning the trade of a granite ciitter, which he afterward followed for a year in Pennsylvania. Returning to Quincy at the end of that period, before he had yet attained his majority, he started in the monumental business on his own accoi;nt, succeeding the firm of Louis A. Rupp. Succeeding far beyond his expectations in his venture, and his large and increasing volume of trade demanding better quarters, he built at 1019 South Fifth Street, the fine brick and stone building, -10 by 110 feet, which he now occupies, and is carrying on business with the same good success.

Franklin T. Brenner, M. D., who grew up as a farm boy in Mendon Township, early manifested an intense ambition for a medical career, and though he had to make his own way through college and university his present position as a physician and surgeon justifies all his efforts and his choice of a calling.

Doctor Brenner, who has offices in the Illinois State Bank Building, graduated from Rush Medical College at Chicago in 1895. Practically his entire professional career has been a continiied course of study and increasing abilities in which he has capitalized his experience and almost every year has spent a couple of months in post-graduate work and clinical and hospital observation, usually in Chicago.

Doctor Brenner located at Quincy in 1896, and for a time his earnings as a physician were hardly sufficient to pay his office rent. As his abilities became better known and appreciated he accumulated a splendid practice, and in addition to this he has served for the past three years as a surgeon and is now a member of the medical staf? of St. Mary's Hospital. He is also a member of the Adams County and State Medical societies, and has held office in the state society.

Doctor Brenner Avas born on his father's farm in section 25 of Mendon Township of this county February 15. 1871. He attended country schools and also spent four years in Chaddock College at Quincy, where he was graduated with the bachelor and master's degrees in art in 1893. His parents were Henry and E. Reliecca (Heckman) Brenner, both natives of Germany. They came to Adams County when young, met and married here, and their first home was a log cabin. They started life poor, and prospered through the exercise of the utmost thrift and frugality. Henry Brenner died on his old farm near Mendon in 1908, at the age of seventy-six. His widow is still living with her daughter, IMrs. Lawrence Callahan. Though eighty-four years of age, she is remarkably well preserved, and is as free from aches and pains as many women of forty. She was confirmed in the German Lutheran Church in her native country. Henry Brenner was a republican voter.

Doctor Brenner has a brother, George, who is in the drug business and is married and has three cliildren. His brother John A. is a Quincy furniture merchant. Two other brothers, Joseph and Edward, are farmers at Louisiana, ilissouri. and both have families. The three sisters are Elizabeth, Mary and Anna. Elizabeth is a trained nurse at the Soldiers Home at Quincy. Mary is the wife of Dr. W. S. Knapheide, a Quincy physician. Mrs. Anna Callahan lives on the old home farm in Adams County and is the mother of three children.

Doctor Brenner married at Chicago the year he graduated from Rush ^Medical College iliss Ethel Nixon. She was born and reared in that city. They have three children : Russel A., aged eighteen, a senior in the Western ^Military Academy at Alton, Illinois ; Paul, aged ten ; and Frank, aged eight. Doctor Brenner is a member of Herman Lodge of Masons, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Church.

Valentine Reuschel is one of the men whose lives have been of constructive endeavor and quiet but good citizenship in Adams County. For years he employed the proceeds of his labors as an agriculturist in Honey Creek Township, and has reached that point in years where he is content to turn over the burdens of farm management to his sons and enjoy the accumulations of past j'ears in the companionship of children and grandchildren and his many friends.

Mr. Reuschel was born in Saxe Oldenburg, Germany, November 5, 1833. He lived a life of much activity until he was foiirscore years of age. In 1855 he came to America and joined relatives and friends in Adams County. An old friend, Fred Guenther, and other members of that family had come from the same part of Germany to Adams Coitnty about two years previously. Valentine Reuschel 's father. Andrew, had arrived six months previously and had bought the land where Valentine Reuschel now lives. It was in association with his father that Valentine Reuschel gained his first experience as an American farmer. His father paid -1*25 an acre for 240 acres of land in Honey Creek Township. Andrew Reuschel brought with liim from Germany a small capital and it was invested in this farm. Valentine Reuschel saw eighteen mouths of service in the German army, though it was a time of peace, and he was never in battle. His father died in Adams County at the age of seventy-four and his mother at seventy-two. They had four children. Gustina married iliehael Geibert and died young. The second in age is Valentine. Julius had a farm in Gilmer Township, and died when seventy years of age. He married Minnie King, who is still living. Hermann lives four miles east of Golden on a farm and has attained the age of seventy-three.

During more than sixty years of residence on one farm Valentine Reuschel has contributed many improvements and has witnessed vast changes in the growth and development of a community. He built the substantial house in which he now lives in 1865, erected barns and kept the fields producing, the land growing better instead of worse, and contrived to prosper year in and year out. He found his gi-eatest joy in outdoor activity, and has lived a retired life about fifteen years.

He married Christian Lock, who was eighteen years of age at the time of her marriage. She was a sister of Ed Lock of Quincy. Mrs. Reuschel died at Coatsburg three years ago. Her children were : Ainia, who married Adam Koch and died young : Henry : Bertha, who died in young womanhood : Ida, who is the wife of Ed Simons, of Honey Creek Township, and has one child, Clarence; Pauline, who married Henry Rohe and died at the age of forty-two, the mother of two children, Walter and Irene; William, who lives on one of his father's farms and married Annie Janssen.

Henrj' Reusehel, who now has the management of his father's farm, was born January 2, 1868, in the same house where he now resides. The land under his direct cai-e and supervision comprises 120 acres, and he is one of the many successful farmers and stockmen in this eommunitj'. His chief stock is the Poland China hogs, and he sends about sixty head to market even,- year. ilr. Henry Eeuschel served two terms as tax collector of the township, and during that time collected about $9,000 annually. For the past twenty-one years he has given service as a trustee of the local school board. On his o%vn farm stands a building used as a granary which was the school building of the district when he first went to school. Both he and his father are democrats, and they have long been among the leading supportei-s and contributors to the Lutheran Church at Coatsburg. Henry Eeuschel married Miss Amelia Doeringh, of Gilmer Township, daughter of Waldemor and Marie (Fuehr) Doeringh.

"William F. Harris. The life and affairs of the community of Payson Township, especially around Plainville, have been touched at many points by members of the Harris family. The Harrises came here at the very beginning of permanent settlement, more than eighty-five years ago, and including the youngest members of the last generation there have been five generations to live in this commiuiity.

The founders of the family here were Nathaniel D. and Margaret (Bishop) Harris, both of whom were natives of Wvi:he County, Virginia. In 1830 Nathaniel D. Harris came west and acquired a tract of land in Adams County. He brought his family about the same time and had just completed the erection of a cabin and moved in when the deep snow of the winter of 1S31-32 fell. They had no difficulty in procuring an abundance of meat from the wild game then so abundant, but they were compelled to pound corn for meal. Sev^en years later the Harris family bought land on Stone's Prairie in Payson Township and Nathaniel Harris and wife spent the rest of their days there. His first settlement was in Richfield Township in the mid.st of the dense timber. Nathaniel Harris died when past fourscore years of age. One of his sons. Emory, died in Payson Township when about forty years of age. Another, named William, at the age of seventeen left Adams County and went to Portland, Oregon, where he was a merchant and ice manufacturer and died at the age of eighty-two.

Franklin Harris, son of Nathaniel D. Harris, was born in Wj-the County, Virginia, September 12, 1823, and was seven years old when he came to Adams County. There were few schools and those of a very primitive cliaracter during his boyhood. He early learned the art of frontier life, did practical work as a farmer, and on May 18, 1848, at the age of twenty-four, he married Emily L. Shaw. She was born in Oswego County, New York, in ilarch, 1827, and was reared in Pike County, Illinois. After his marriage Franklin Harris moved to the farm now occupied by William F. Harris. All but fifteen acres of that land was covered with a heavy growth of timber. He worked steadily and eft'eetively for a number of yeai's to bring the fields under cultivation, and was a farmer until March 10, 1870, when he bought a store in Plainville. Thereafter for fifteen yeai-s he was the leading merchant of that ^-illage, and also kept and to some degree supervised the operation of his farm of 160 acres. For five years prior to 1877 he also served as postmaster at Plainville. In 188.5 he retired from the store and lived in the village until his death on November 12, 1902. His wife died February 24, 1913. 'They were happily married for over half a centurv-. Franklin Harris never held any public office after that of postmaster. He was a republican and especially active in the ilethodist Episcopal Church, .serving as class leader. He was a charter member of Payson Lodge of Masons. That lodge was organized in an upper room in his house on the farm. He became a past ma.ster and was active in the order all his life. He was buried with the ^Masonic ritual. The house which is still standing on the farm was built by Franklin Harris in 1864 and the barn was erected iu the preceding year, both structures having stood the storm and wear of more than half a centurv. P'rank- lin Harris and wife had seven children. The oldest, Lucy E., died at the age of fifteen. MoUie J. is the widow of Frank Robinson and lives at Plainville. Anna Lee was the wife of Albert D. Lester, and she died at Gutlirie, Oklahoma, at the age of fifty-two, having left Adams County about twenty-eight years ago.

William P. Harris was born in the house where he now lives May 16, 1866. His home and farm is IV2 miles southwest of Plainville and twenty miles southeast of Quincy. As a boy he attended the local schools in Plainville, and was also a student in Chaddock College at Quincy during 1881-82. He had plenty to do working and clerking in his father's store, and in 1885, when his father retired from business, he succeeded him and continued merchandising there until 1889, when he sold the store to his brother-in-law, Mr. Lester. In 1890 he returned to the home farm and has found satisfaction and profit in looking after that business ever since. He acquired the interests of his sisters and has added considerable area to its cultivation, having the entire farm keyed up to a high standard of production.

November 8, 1887, Mr. Harris married Eva Cane. She was born in Jacksonville, Illinois, and during her girlhood spent a few years in Nebraska. Later she finished her education in the schools at Plainville, and was seventeen years of age at the time of her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Harris have four living children. Clarence is a partner with his brother-in-law, Arthur Richmond, as a farmer. He married Ella Gaiues and has two children, Irma and lona. Lura, the wife of Arthur Richmond, lives on a farm ad.ioining that of her father, and has two children, Ivan and Junior. Anna is the wife of George R. Clark and is now living at home with her parents while her husband is in the service. He is a veterinary with the United States Army now located at Newport News, Virginia, and prior to entering the army service practiced at Golden. Edith Harris is a well trained and talented musician and is still at home. Mr. Harris has filled all the chairs in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and several times has represented his lodge in the Grand Lodge. He is also affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America.

John G. Blomer. Many of the city's most substantial interests revolve around the name Blomer, and as a family they have been a factor in Quincy life for nearly seventy years.

Tlie first generation here was represented by John Blomer, who was born in the Kingdom of Hanover March 30, 1794. He married Christine Maria Brinkman, who was born June 6, 1804. The passport which was issued to tiem at Muenster February 22, 1843, is an interesting document still cherished by their grandson, John G. Blomer. They had just enough money to pay their passage over the ocean, and on reaching St. Louis John Blomer learned of the presence of a Catholic priest in Quincy, through whose influence he came to this city. Being very poor, he worked as a day laborer, and later was a farmer. He was naturalized in 1850. His old home was on Hampshire Street between Eleventh and Tenth. That is the only original building still standing on that side of the street. When it was put up it was almost at the edge of town. John Blomer died December 2, 1869, and his widow survived him many years, passing away February 16, 1883. They had six children : Adelheit, who married George Hoelker, a farmer in Melrose Township, who died at the age of thirty-two. Adelheit died February 20, 1905. She wa.s the mother of four children, and the three to reach mature years were: Elizabeth, wife of Bernard Berter, a well known grocery merchant on Vine and Twelfth streets; Carolina, wife of Bernard Schlangen, of Quincy; and Christina, who never married and spent her life with her mother. Johann Gerhard Joseph, the second in age, was a tanner by trade, and his four children are all living: Christine, of Ilannilial : Thomas, of Texas; Joseph, of El Paso, Texas; and Fi-ank. The next in the family was Johann Heinrieh or Henry. Johann Bernhard, the fourth, moved to Waco, Texas, but died at Quincy. Johanna Christina married George Busker and both died in Texas.

Maria Anna became a Sister of Notre Dame, was for many years connected with an institution at Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and died at the age of sixtyfive.

Henry Blomer, who was born in Hanover, Germany, November 10, 1833, was ten years of age when brought to Quiney. Here he attended the St. Boniface School one year, and also spent one year in a Methodist school. He' learned the brick laying trade, and later became a contractor in company with Robert MeComb, one of the early day contractors of Quiney. Still later he was associated in business with the father of the late Mayor Steinbach. He was a general brick contractor, put up store blocks, residences, and during Civil war times, when Iniilding operations were largely suspended, he put up the old distillery smoke stack south of town. He was paid only $1.50 a da.y for the work. When the stack was completed he had to take down the staging himself as no workman was willing to risk his life for $1.50 a day. Not long afterward his business was seriously affected by labor strikes. He survived two of them, but the third left him practically bankrupt. During the dull season in the building trade Henry Blomer packed pork at Quiney. He was associated in that enterprise with C. A. Vanden Boom, and thus brought about the establishment of the noted firm of Vanden Boom & Blomer, for many years leading pork packers at Quiney, with plant at Tenth and Broadway. Every winter they would kill from 500 to 600 hogs per day. Eventually Mr. Vanden Boom retired from the partnership, and was succeeded by Blomer, "Wolf & Michal, and when Mr. Wolf retired to engage ,in the harness business the firm remained Blomer & Michal. They finally incorporated as the Blomer & Michal Company, and Henry continued as active head of the enterprise, with a plant at Front and Delaware streets. Eventually this business was crippled by a fire, and soon afterwards was closed out. Henry Blomer died May 20, 1906, after a long and active life. At the time of his death he was a director in the Mercantile Trust & Savings Bank, and had been one of the first directors of the Quiney Grocery Company but sold his interest in that enterprise. For one term he was an alderman and was a democratic voter. In early life he was a member of the Concordia Singing Society and also belonged to the old volunteer fire company. He was married in St. Boniface Catholic Church, and later became a member of St. Francis Church. He built his home at Fifteenth and Broadway, and the grounds of that residence are now included in St. Mary's Hospital grounds. In St. Boniface Church May 16, 1861, Mr. Blomer married Anna Klatte, a native of Oldenburg, Germany. She died January 5, 1911, aged seventytwo. They had a family of five children : Anna B., Mrs. Joseph B. C. Freiburg ; John G. ; Marie Christina, Mrs. J. N. Tibesar ; Ida E., who is unmarried and lives at the old home at Fifteenth and Broadway; and Joseph H., a Quiney physician.

Mr. John G. Blomer, who is now retired from active business, was born in Quiney January 26, 1870. He attended the St. Francis parochial schools, spent five years in St. Francis College, graduating with the degree blaster of Accounts. He then entered actively into the business of his father, pork packing, and was treasurer of the company from its incorporation and finally succeeded to his father's interests. He remained active in this concern until it was closed out. Since then he has devoted his attention to his private affairs and is a director in the Quiney National Bank and the Quiney Building and Loan Association. He is a grand knight of Quiney Council No. 583 of the Knights of Columbus, and has been a delegate to the state convention of that order. He was chairman of the Knights of Columbus Committee for the raising of the War Fund, and when that movement was consolidated with the United War Fund he was one of the six local officials entrusted with raising the money and acting as trustees. Mr. Blomer is a member of St. Francis Catholic Church and is a democratic voter.

Andrew Bauxer is the fortunate ownier of one of the well cultivated and valuable farms of Camp Point Township, land that has responded to his efforts as an agriculturist for thirty years. He has earned all the prosperity he enjoys and his success in business and his public spirited citizenship are the chief source of the esteem in which he is held in his coramunitj'.

Mr. Banner has been an American citizen for over thirty years. He was born in Germany July 6, 1851. He was reared and educated in his native land, and came to America in 1881. He soon located at Camp Point, and for tive years worked as a farm laborer and then another five yeai*s he rented the place which he now owns. Its former owner was Emery Downing. This farm is in section 16, and there Mr. Banner bought 160 acres and later acquired fifty-seven acres in section 15. Mr. Banner is of the class of men who are not content to own land without developing and improving it, and besides the condition of the soil which is reflected in the generous crops he has built and kept up his barns and other buildings and has all the equipment and facilities that belong to the modern stock farm. Hs farm is the home of some very fine Shorthorn cattle and Poland China hogs and he has everything well adapted to his business as a stock farmer.

Mr. Banner is independent in politics. He was a member of the local school board fifteen years, and is a member of the Lutheran Church. After he had been in America about twenty-five years he went back for a visit to the old country in 1905, and during the three months he was gone he acquired much knowledge of the modern Gennany. On March 4, 1887, Mr. Banner married Miss Sophia Gilbert, who was bom in Adams County and represents one of the old and prominent families here. She was born at Columbus in this county August 5, 1865, daughter of Charles and Catherine (Gilbert) Gilbert. Her parents were both natives of Germany and came to Adams County about 1847. They made the jouniey on a sailing vessel and Charles Gilbert was twentyseven and his wife seventeen when they arrived in Adams County. They married at Newtown, and shared their journey and its sorrows and joys for more than fifty years. From Coli;mbus Township they moved to Gilmer Township, and were successful fanners in that community for many years. Charles Gilbert died December 15, 1905, at the age of eighty, and his wife passed away May 30, 1908, aged seventy-one. Of their fourteen children five are still living.

Mr. and Mrs. Bauner have six children : Katrine, wife of Oscar Hyer and the mother of one son, Arthur ; Emma, wife of Oscar Giiuther, son of Louis Gunther, one of the early settlers of Adams County ; Edward, who died in infancy; John, who lives at home with his parents; Lillian and Ora, who are also members of the home circle.

Fred W. Floetman has lived in Adams County sixty years, learned a mechanical trade when a youth, but spent tlie greater part of his active career as a successful farmer in Concord Township and is now enjoying a well earned retirement at Camp Point. Of his thorough Americani.sm and good citizenship no better proaf could be cited than the service he rendered in the Civil war as a soldier of the Lfnion with an Illinois regiment.

Mr. Floetman was bom in Germany December 20, 1839, a son of Henry Floetman. As a boy he had the advantages of the common schools of Germany and left there in 1853, at the age of fourteen, with his parents, who settled in St. Charles, Missouri. Three years later the family moved to Quincy, where Henrv' Floetman followed his trade as tailor until his death in 1857. His wife died about 1859. Their two children are Hannah H. and Fred W., the former a widow living in Quincy.

The only school advantages Fred "W. Floetman had in this country was while attending an English Sunday school. He first learned the tinsmith trade and later became a molder, and worked at that occupation about twenty-five years. He finally invested his earnings and savings in a farm in Concord Township, and acquired 275 acres in that locality. This land he developed to a high degree of productiveness and value, and still owns 235 acres of it. In 1910 Mr. Floetman retired to Camp Point, where he built a fine home on Oliio Street and where he enjoys eveiy comfort, including the society of his many friends. Mr. Floetman is a republican and is proud of the fact that he voted for Abraham Lincoln. In 1861, the first year of the war, he enlisted in Company F of the Third Illinois Cavalry, and saw active service on many of the battlefields of the South for three years. He has long been affiliated with the Grand Army of the Eepublic and in church affairs is a Presbyterian.

Mr. Floetman married in 1865, after returning home from the war. His wife was Miss Mary Hokamp, who was bom in Germany and came when about ten years of age to Quincy with her parents. She was lx)rn May 8, 1842, and died April 30, 1913, at the age of seventy-one. Her father, William Hokamp, died at] Quincy during a cholera epidemic, and her mother died in Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Floetman had a family of eight children. Two of them, both named Mollie, died in childhood, one when about twelve months of age and the other at the age of twelve years. William, the oldest living child, is foreman in a printing house at East St. Louis. John now occupies the old homestead farm in Concord Township. Fred is in the wholesale grocery business at Des Moines, Iowa. Minnie is the wife of W. Taylor, of Camp Point. Clara married Charles MeClintock, of Adams County. The devoted companion of her father is the daughter Louise, who superintends the . management of tlie household at the home in Camp Point.

George Creswell Gill is in point of service one of the oldest fire insurance men of Illinois. He is now manager of the Quincy Adjustment & Service Bureau, a constantly growing institution. He has been identified with practically every phase of fire insurance for nearly fifty years, beginning before he was of legal age.

One achievement to Mr. Gill's credit was the development of a practical schedule for rating conflagation hazard. He spent four years in devising and perfecting this system, and it is the only system in existence for appljing a conflagation rating to cities and towns as units. In 1909 Mr. Gill was appointed a member of the Illinois Fire Insurance Commission by Governor Charles S. Deneen, and was a member and secretary of the commission two years. Upon him devolved much of the work which made the performance of the commission notable.

The Quincy Adjustment & Service Bureau has been in continual demand by practically all of the fire insurance companies. Mr. Gill has also been an independent operator in the insurance field, and from Quincy his service extends over the three states of Illinois, Iowa and Missouri.

For seven years Mr. Gill was sergeant at arms of the Fire Underwriters Association of the Northwest, a national organization of over 1,200 members. He is now a life member. The association meets annually at Chicago.

Mr. Gill was born at Olympian Springs, Kentucky, a property once owned by Henry Clay and subsequently purchased by his grandfather' Col. George Lansdowne, and later owned by his father, Harrison Gill. His father was mainly instrumental in raising a regiment for the Union Army, and his only brother served as captain. in that regiment. George C. Gill, despite the fact that his early youth was spent in a region of Kentuckj^ mountaineers, had the home influence and social environment of the finest type, and had a good fundamental education to develop his talents. Mr. Gill is widely known as an author and has contributed many interesting sketches to magazines of general circulation in addition to numerous technical articles on insurance. He is author of a novel, published about ten years ago. "Beyond the Blue Grass," in which he has set down many of his early studies, observations and

After the war Mr. Gill removed to Illinois, and practically ever since has been engaged in the insurance business, chiefly as special agent, inspector, and adjuster. He came to Quincy in 1902 and was manager of the Quincy Inspection Bureau until 1909. He had previously lived for a number of years in Chicago. Mr. Gill was chairman of the committee which had in charge the unveiling of the monument to George Rogers Clark in 1909, an occasion which was honored by the presence of the governor of Illinois and manj' notables from other states.

IMr. Gill married at Tuscola, Illinois, where he had his headquarters in the insurance business for a number of years. Miss Jennie Bright. Mrs. Gill, who died in January, 1916, was born at Clinton, Indiana, daughter of ^Ir. and Mrs. Coleman Bright. Her father represented an old and prominent Virginia family. Her mother, whose maiden name was Susanna Harrison, belonged to the noted Harrison family of Virginia, a family which has given this nation two presidents, two mayors of Chicago, and also the Hon. James 0. Harrison, who succeeded Henry Clay as representative from Kentucky in Congress. Her gi-eat-grandfather, Thomas Harrison, founded the Town of Harrisburg, Virginia. When Mrs. Gill was a small girl she moved to Tuscola, Illinois, with her father. She was the only surviving member of nine children, Mrs. Gill had a great following of loyal friends not only in Quincj^ but in other parts of Illinois. She was a woman of great literary taste and judgment, had a charming personality, and was a beautiful character both in her home and in society. Mr. and Mrs. Gill had two sons and two daughters. Albin B. Gill is now in the government railway mail service as chief clerk between St. Louis and Detroit on the Wabash Eailway. Harry C. Gill is a graduate of the Illinois State University, and is now connected with the Hartford Fire Insurance Company at Hartford, Connecticut. Mrs. Grace G. Kingsbury, now living in New York City, is an accomplished musician and has more than ordinary literary ability-. Blanche, like the other children, was carefully reared and educated, mainly in private schools, and spent some two years in European travel and study. She is now at home with her father.

August Horneckee. Students of country life conditions have frequently pointed out that there are many kinds of farmers - almost as many as there are people. August Horneeker represents a type by no means too common. He was during his active years a builder of land fertility and value as much as he was a successful crop and stock raiser and a keen student of market and business conditions affecting his work. One or two farms that had been laid waste by careless and profit-skimming methods were redeemed under his management and have actually been added back to the wealth of the county. Mr. Horneeker is a prosperous citizen, but no one better deserves prosperity.

While he was born in Germany, in Baden Eistad, May 2, 1854, he has lived in America since infancy, having been brought to this country at the age of two years by his parents, Andrew and Lena Horneeker. His father owned a small tract of land in the old country, and Andrew's step-brother, Jacob Horneeker, was in Adams County some years before Andrew came. The latter bought 140 acres of land in Gilmer Township, in the southwest corner of that township. He had some means received from the family estate in Germany, and that coupled with the energy and progressiveness he manifested as an American citizen brought him. a comfortable competence. His farm contained an old house, and it was his residence for a number of years. About 1870 he built a substantial brick house, which is still standing. That farm has passed out of the possession of the Horneeker family. Andrew Horneeker died in ]\Iarch. 1897. when past eighty-five years of age, and his wife died the day after his burial, at the age of eighty-one. As a citizen of the United States he voted as a democrat and he and his wife were active members of the Lutheran Church on the Liberty Road near his farm. He helped that church in many ways and before it was built he attended woi-ship at Quincy. He and his wife had eleven children, nine of whom reached maturity: Lena, who married Jacob Reiehcrt and died in old age; Kate, who married Andrew Grimmer and also died when old ; Tina married Rudolph Housner and left Adams County : Lizzie married Henry Frey and is deceased ; Selma married Louis G. Zander and is deceased ; Charles died when an old man in Clay County, Missouri; William never married and died in advanced years in ilelrose Township ; Englehart is a farmer in Camp Point Township ; August is next to the j-oungest; and the youngest, Henry, died in young manhood.

The boyhood of Mr. August Hornecker was spent on his father's farm. He was twenty-thi-ee years of age when he married Louisa Rabe. at that time twenty. They had grown up as neighbor children, her home being in Burton Township. Her parents, Christ and Maria (Rhode) Rabe. were married at St. Louis and were early settlers in Burton Township. The Rabe farm in that district has passed out of the family ownership. After man-iage Mr. and Mrs. Hornecker spent one year on the old homestead, then rented for two years in Honey Creek Township, and started toward independence by buying eighty acres of the old Doctor Darragh farm in Honey Creek Township. The price fixed at the time of the purchase was $2,500, and Mr. Hornecker went in debt for the entire sum. There were difSculties and discouragements without number. Hogs brought only $2.35 a 100. and one season his wheat crop failed entirely, and at other times this cereal brought only 40c a bushel. His livestock possessions consisted of two cows and three horses. The land of his farm was nothing more than a pasture, without buildings. The first building was a small two-room house. It required some years to pay for the land and in the meantime Mr. Hornecker had built a better home. For the past twentyfive years he has been steadily on the up grade, and in 1900 he bought 202 acres in one body at $35 an acre. This was also part of the old Doctor Darragh estate. It had been in the hands of renters for a number of years, and these renters had done nothing more than mine the fertility of the soil and it could not be depended upon to produce a crop worth the time and labor expended. In fact the land had not been considered an attractive bargain for anyone. Mr. Hornecker took the one sure method of improving the land and restoring its fertility. As many cattle and hogs as he could secure he turned loose on the farm, running about seventy hogs a year, and not only fed all the land would produce but bought corn in large quantities and by crop rotation and the judicious use of fertilizing legumes he has more than put back on the land what a generation of tenants had taken away, and now has a farm that would measure in point of fertility up to any in that section. He is a raiser of Polled Angus cattle and Poland China hogs, but is not in the fancy stock business. About ten j-ears' ago Mr. Hornecker retired from his farm and has since owned and occupied a neat home at 1627 State Street in Quincy.

His has been a life of continuous and industrious application, though he has not neglected the general welfare. For three years he served as road commissioner and for eleven years was a school director. Politically he is classed as an independent republican. He is a member of the Lutheran Church. Always fond of outdoor life, as opportunity has permitted he has en,ioyed many fishing excursions.

He and his wife reared a very capable family of children. The oldest is Mar.y, Mrs. Bernhardt Dittmer. Clara, the second daughter, is the wife of Simon Guenther, near the old homestead, and the.v have three children, Eleanor, George and Clarence. Josephine married Frank Schlipman, and he now operates part of the farm of her father. Amelia, who died at the age of twenty- six, was the wife of William Knopfmeier, and she left two children, twins, Louise and Amelia, who at the death of their mother were taken into the home of their gi-andparents.

Mr. Bernhardt Dittmer, who married ]\Iiss ]\Iary Hornecker, and whose home is in Meudon Township, four miles northwest of the Village of Mendon, was born on the old Dittmer farm 11^4 miles north of Coatsburg August 8, 1870. His parents were John and Anna (Ackerman) Dittmer. John Dittmer was born in Hanover, Germany, June 3, 1831, and came to America in the fall of 1853. He married Anna C. Ackerman, who was born in Saxe Oldenburg June 12, 1835. He and his wife came to America on a sailing vessel, being two months on the voyage. They landed in New Orleans, and he gained his first opportunity to earn a living by railroad work. At St. Louis he worked in a brick yard at $1 a day, and on his arrival in Adams County was employed at farm labor for -$10 a month. He rented a farm ten years, and in 1868 bought a place of about 140 acres in section 24 of Honey Creek Township. He lived there and prospered, but died when his son Bernhardt was only eleven years old. His widow .survived him and married for her second husband Herman John Peters. She died June 20, 1917, at the age of eighty-one. Bernhardt Dittmer made his home with his mother and step-father until he was about eighteen years old. He worked out on farms and did independent farming as a renter for a time. On February 12, 1896, he married Mary Hornecker, who was then eighteen .years of age. Following their marriage they rented for a year in Camp Point Township, and for nine years lived on one farm in Honey Creek Township. In 1906 they came to their present farm, buying 100 acres at $80 an acre. Since then they have added forty-five acres at $95 an acre. Mr. Dittmer has kept improving his land, adding to the house and to other buildings, and an important item in the farm revenue is a small dairy of ten cows, the cream only being sold.

Mr. Dittmer is a school director and has also served as tax collector of Honey Creek Township two years. He is a democi-at and a member of the Lutheran Church at Mendon. Mr. and Mrs. Dittmer have five children : Mabel, Benjamin, Henrj', Clara and Mary.

Amos Dili>.\rd Bates, M. D. On the roll of Adams County's physicians and surgeons Doctor Bates has a prominent place because of the long period he has practiced and served his patients in Camp Point, and also for the character and abilities he has exemplified both in his personal and civic life.

Doctor Bates represents one of the older families of this part of Hlinois, a number of whom have been identified with Adams County. However, he was born in Hancock Countj^ Illinois, September 3, 1855. His parents were William I. and ]Mary A. (Robertson) Bates. William I. Bates was born in Tennessee in December, 1828, and was a small boy when he came to Adams County with his father Joseph H. Bates, a minister of the Presbyterian Church. Rev. Mr. Bates married Elizabeth Goodpasture. He was both a farmer and preacher, and he died at Lincoln, Illinois, while his wife died in Knox County, both in advanced j-ears. William I. Bates received his education in the public schools of Adams County, married here, and after his marriage moved to Hancock County, where he was a farmer for about twenty years. Returning to Adams County, he spent his later years at Camp Point, where he died in April, 1913. His wife survived him only fourteen days. She was born in Adams County in 1832, a daughter of James Robertson, one of the pioneers of this county. William I. Bates for several .years served as superintendent of the Adams County Home, but was never a seeker for office. He was a democrat, and in Hancock County joined the Masonic lodge and was always faithful to its teachings and practices. He and his wife were members of the Methodist Church. Their family of children consisted of Dr. Amos D. ; Myra J., deceased; Ida, Mrs. David Lee Myers, of Columbus, Illinois; Mary Effie, wife of James MeAnnltr, of St. Joseph. Missouri : "Williaiii E.. of Camp Point ; Hatrie. who died in infancy: Joseph M. a farmer in Camp Point Township; and Orrille Lee, known as a dentist at Camp Point.

Doetor Bate dnriiig part of his boyhood attended school in Hancock County. He was also a student in the Carthage High School and for two years in Carthage Collie. His home has been in Adams County almost continuously sinee 1576. For four years he was a teacher in this county. He prepared for his medical career in the Xorthwestem UniTersity Medical School, where he was graduated M D. with the dass of ISS^. Since June. 1882, he has been in practice, and with the exc-eption of four years his home has been in Camp Point, from which TiDage his service has radiated all over the surrounding c-ountry. He is a member in good standing of the County and State Medical societies, and has served on the Adams Cotmty Exemption Board. Doctor Bates is a Mascn and Kni^t of Pythias, is a Methodist, and Mrs. Bates is a member of the Christian Chtrreh.

September 20. 18S2. soon after taking his place in the ranks of physicians, Doetor Bat« married Miss Florence Seaton. Mrs. Bates was bom in this eotmty August 2-5. 1S60. a daughter of Richard and Xancy E. (Curry) Seaton. The Seaton family has been a historic one in Camp Point Township. Richard Seaton. who is now retired, was bom in that township December 19. 183-5. and in his aeiiTe career was a farmer, was long identrSed with the Camp Point Bank, and for four years served as sheriff of the county.

Doetor and Mrs. Bates have one son. Charles R.. who is also a physician, a graduate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago. He had two years of thorough h(Kpital experience and is now railroad surgeon located at Boodhouse. Illinois. Dr. Charles Bates married Marian Alexander, and they have two children, Kchard Alexander and Virginia.

JoHX v. WniiBD. In the year before the Blaekhawk Indian war there eame into Houston Township some of the first white families to invade that and among them were the "Willards- For nearly ninety years that name has been prominent and has been and is today associated with some of the largest and most prosperous farmers and farm holdings. A leading rei>- resentatire of the present generation is John V. Willard, a grandson of one of the pioneer settlers.

21. 1817. The "Millard family were early pioneers both in Southern Illinois and in the State of ilissouri. John Wiliard located in Morgan County. Illinois, and later with two brothers. Madison and Davis, arrived in Adams Cotmty in 1831. He and his brothers took up government land in Houston Township, Jolin Willard having 120 acres that is still held in the family. On this land he erected a Ic^ hotise. and gradually accumulated comforts and possessions which were equivalent to prosperity. He died at the old home in section 9 April 8. ISSS. His widow survived and died in Hotiston Town^p March 13, 1894- They were the parents of four children: TViUiam Madison: Rebecca Ann. bora Dec-ember 1. 1840. and died June 22. 1911: James, bom October 29. 1843, now deceased: Delia, bom November 3. 1849, died Febmarv 10, 1888. *

William 3Iadison WiHard. father of John T.. was bom on the old homestead in section 9. Hotiston Town.ship, ilarch 16. 1838. He still owns that farm, and is one of the oldest citizens of the county, having passed his eightieth birthday. He married Elizabeth 3Ieats. who was bom at TTeUington. England- Augtist 10. 1840. daughter of Isaac and Mary Elizabeth Meats. The Meats family came to America and settled in Brown County. IllinoL?. in 1842, later moved to Hancock County, and Isaac Meats and wife later went out to Kansas, and they both died there. William M. Willard and wife were mar-

unbroken for nine years longer. Mrs. "Willard di&i Janoary 1 1 . ' ,:;s tVian two months before their fifty-ninth "«reddrng anniversary. Wiuiam M. "Willard is stiH living on the old farm, where he avns 130 acres. He grew irp in Adams County "when it was pracdeally a and ha/i the djTrsDtages of only such sehcols as were then maintained. He has al^s-ays t>een a democrat, and for a number of yeai^ served as road eommissioner. His was very active in the Methodist Z - 1 Chnreh. They had a large femHy of children. William and Emma, r leased: John V.: Annie, deceased;

John T. Willard was l-cim on the home farm in section 9 Febmary 10, 1S63. He grew tip in that eommnnity and attended the Glaiwood Sdioai House in Houston To"wnship. For over forty years he has been an ind^gidanf and progressive farmer. TTi~ place comprises '260 acre and it has bees under his o"wnership for thi-rry years and has improvements that measnre to b«t standards of farms in Adams County. Mr. "WHlard has done much as a raiser of pure bred stock. He has some splaidid Shorth<H3i cattle of pure bree^i also Poland China hogs, and has made most of his laaae^ as a stock raiser. He is a democrat, and in public aSairs has eoneentrated his interest chiefly upon good roads. He is not only an advcniate of gocd roads but in his long te^unre of the offic-e of road commisioner. now in the nfteenth year, he has done much to give his ideas eneetive force. He has many other interests and relations tdth the community. For twelve years he has been a director of the Houston Telephone Company, is a director of the Farmers Elevator Company at Charten and La Prairie, and for eight years has been solicitor and Sir two years a director of the Camp Point Mutual Insuranc-e Comi>any. He has also served as a member of the s-ic-ol l«oard seven years. Mr. "WTElard is afnliated the Independsit Order of Odd Feilo^ws at Bowen. and attends the Christian Church and active in retuilding the church edinee. These fa-ets reflect his public spirit and his to idaitify himself with every movement for the general welfare.

January 2-5. ISSS. Mr. Willard married Miss L^ura Barger. of Bowen. Illinois, daughter of John and ^Martha Barger. Her parents were early settlers in Adams County. Her father died in Misscmri in April 191S. at advanced age, and was laid to rest at Clayton. Her mother died at Clayton in 1915. 3Ir. and Mrs. WOlard are the parents of seven children, and they have one star in their service flag. The oldest. Pearl, married, and died in Utah in 1914. at the age of twenty-sis : Merle is the of Owen Sammons and the mother of one child. Mar^orir Laveme: Carl Russell died in infancy: Oyde. the fourth ehUd. is the war representative of the family, and is now in service in the na^vy and in France : Boseoe is a graduate of the Camp Point Maplewocd High School graduating at the age of sirteen. and now a student in "die Gem City Business College at Quincy: Dale, the sixth chUd. died in infancy: and youngest. Neva, is stfll at home.

La-wtezxcz L. Callahax. Few men have " ' -nemselves more successfully to the business of farming and stock rai~ . :. La^wrence L. Callahan. of Cohrmbus To^wn^p. Mr. Callahan lives on "ni> father's farm. 16"? acres located in one section and twenty acres in another. His farm is improved, good soil, well cultivated, nist class buildings, and all managed a view to utmost efBeiency.

The btuldings on the land were erected by Mr. Callahan's grandfather. John Callahan, who secured the land forty or fifty years ago. It -was the home of Jdm Callahan for many years, and he died mo^sing froro rlie farm to Camp Point in lS9-t He then alxwit seventy years of age. H "^ ~Jisylvania of Irish ancestry, and was a child when his parent? 7. :ty and tliey broke out the wild prairie land with oxen, ten or twelve being yoked to the plow. John Callahan is said to have done his courting with an ox team. He married Jane Hemy, of Kingston, Illinois. She was born in Ireland and her people came when she was young to Illinois and located in the vicinity of Kingston. John Callahan and wife after their marriage became farmei's near Kingston, and most of their children were born there. Mrs. John Callahan died at Camp Point when about fourscore years of age. All the Callahans had been Protestants, and in politics they have never deviated from their allegiance to the democratic party.

J. Alexander Callahan, father of Lawrence L., was born at Kingston, Illinois, in 1850 and was a small child when his parents moved to Columbus Township. He grew up on the old farm, attended the local schools, and subseciuently acquired part of the homestead and farmed it until about twenty-seven years ago. when he retired to Camp Point, where he is now living. He married in Gilmer Township Jane A. Yeargain. She was bom in that township in 185-1, daughter of John P. and Elizabeth (Lawless) Yeargain, natives of Adams County, who spent all their lives in Gilmer Township, and were representatives of some of the oldest and best known people of the county. J. Alexander Callahan and wife have three children : Lawrence L. ; Albert Arthur, who was formerly connected with an ice plant and is now a railroad employe at Osawatomie, Kansas, and by his marriage to Lulu Childs has three children, Grace, Ethel and Floyd, all in school ; Myrtle, who is unmarried and is living with her parents.

Lawrence L. Callahan was bom in Columbus Township July 31, 1871. As he grew up toward manhood he attended the public schools and for six months a business college. Since manhood he has steadily devoted his best energy to farming and stock raising, and in that sphere is recognized as one of the leaders in his township. He has also been active in local affairs, especially in helping forward war activities, serving on the Liberty Loan Committee and in other ways. He and his family are all members of Mount Pleasant Methodist Episcopal Church, which he is serving as a steward and is also a teacher in the Sunday school.

Mr. Callahan married Anna L. Brenner in Mendon Township, where she was bom May 10, 1867. Besides the country schools she attended the Quincy High School and for two years was a student in Chaddock College, after which she taught until her marriage. She is a daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Heckermann) Brenner. Her mother was bom near Essen on the River Rhine and her father in Northern Germany. Her father was born in October, 1834, and came to America at the age of eighteen by way of New Orleans and thence to Quincy. Her mother was born in September, 1832, and was sixteen years of age when she came to this country, also by way of New Orleans, thence to St. Louis, two years later to Beardstown, Illinois, and from there to Quincy. After their marriage they lived at Fowler and kept a boarding house for three years while the railroad was being built through that village. Later they bought a farm in Mendon Township, subsequently a second place known as the John Stahl Farm near the Elm Grove Church. They finally lived retired at Fowler, where Mrs. Callahan's father died October 5, 1908, at the age of sevent.y-fom*. Mi-s. Brenner has since made her home with Mrs. Callahan, and is now eighty-sis: years of age, but still hearty and active. The Brenners were German Lutherans, but soon after moving to Illinois became members of the Methodist Church. One of their children died at the age of nine yeai-s, and nine are still living, all well known in Adams County except two prosperous farmers in Missouri.

l\Ir. and Mrs. Callahan have two children : Earl Brenner, born January 20, 1900, a member of the ^laplewood High School Class of 1919; and R<iymond Harold, bom February 17, 1904, now in the eighth grade of the public schools.

Philip J. Deege. Representing a family that has been in Adams County for over sixty years, Philip J. Deege has concentrated his chief interests in the county in Columbus Township, where he owns a fine farm of ninety-six acres in section 31. This farm is replete with evidence of his thrifty management and toil, the land being well drained and improved with the best of buildings. Mr. Deege has lived here since 1897.

He came here from Liberty Township, and was l)oi'n in Quiney October 29, 1863. He lived and grew np on his father's farm in Burton Township, and also had a home in Gilmer Township for a time. In the past twenty years he has effected many changes on his home-farm. His barn is 32 by 42 feet and he has a substantial six-room house. The fann is well known as Elm Dale Farm.

Mr. Deege is a son of John Philip and Catherine (Petre) Deege. His father is a well known resident of Burton Township, and all the particulars concerning his career from the time he came from Germany as a bo.y, his marriage, his children, his experiences as a farmer and blacksmith, are recounted on other pages of this publication.

Philip J. Deege married in Adams County Elnora Cook. She was born May 7, 1870, and was educated in the public scliools of Columbus Township, also at Carthage College and in the Gem City Business College. For a time she taught school. Her parents, William and Maria (Fry) Cook, came from Pennsylvania and were early settlers in Columbus Township. They had a farm there and her father died in 1890, at the age of fifty-six. Her mother is now living with her children, eighty-two years of age and still active. Mr. and ]\Irs. Deege have two children. Wesle.v J., registered for the army but was not called into service. He was born October 13, 1899, graduated from the eighth grade of the public schools in 1917 and is now a student in the Gem City Business College. Helen, born in 1905, is in the eighth grade of the West Union High School in Columbus Township. The family are members of the Lutheran Church in Liberty Township and Mr. Deege votes as a democrat.

WiLLi.vM Barcley Quigg. Tliough he is numbered among the bankers of Adams County as president of the Farmers State Bank of Mendon, William Barcley Quigg is essentially a farmer, and the land, its cultivation, its improvement and the interests of rural life have really constituted the basis of his effective career.

Mr. Quigg was born at Mendon August 24, 1848, and is related to some of the pioneer names of the county. His parents were Conrad and Margaret (Shupe) Quigg. Conrad Quigg was born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, April 26, 1818, and arrived in Adams County, Illinois, in November, 1843. Two years later, in March 1845 he married Miss Margaret Shupe. She was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in 1822, and came to Adams County in 1842 with her parents and brother, Christopher Shupe, long a prominent resident and farmer and land owner of Adams County.

Conrad Quigg was a carpenter by trade and followed that occupation in Adams County for several years. Though he was married and had a family, he succumbed to the mighty influence whicli drew so many young men from the Middle West to the gold fields of California after the discoveries there of 1848. He had four companions on that trip, well known Adams County men, Shuey, Sproat, Webb and Clark. They bought three yoke of oxen and hitched them all to one wagon, and accomplished the long trip overland during the summer of 1849. Indians were numerous along the route, but were still friendly, not having been driven to the hostilities which later made tliem so dangerous to overland traffic. Conrad Quigg was absent in California about two years. During that time he and his partners prospected, worked in the mines, and also developed a dam in order to secure a head of water for operation. A freshet carried away this construction before they had realized much benefit from it. About that time, on account of failing health and the result of discouragement due to the destruction of the dam, Conrad Quigg returned to the states, making the voyage around the isthmus in the spring of 1851. Here he resumed his trade as carpenter and in 1857 bought a farm IV2 miles from ]\Iendon. He became a large property owner, having in addition to his farm of 240 acres in section 35 several houses and lots in Mendon, and at one time also conducted a meat market in the village. He lived to a good old age, being eighty-four when he passed away in 1902. After his marriage he and his wife became members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and for many years he was on the official board. His widow survived him several years and was about the same age when she died.

Conrad Quigg also had two brothers, "William and Chauncey, who lived in Adams County. Both enlisted from here for service in the Union army. William died less than two years after his enlistment as a result of war service. Chauncey left the county a few years after the war and resided at Norton, Kansas, until his death ten years ago.

Conrad Quigg and wife had six children, four of whom died in childhood. Michael Quigg was a farmer in Adams County until about two years ago, since which time lie has lived in Oklahoma.

William B. Quigg lived at home witli his parents until he was about twenty-four, when he bought his father's old farm and it was the scene of his busy career until he retired to Mendon in 1915. He still ownsi one of the finest farms in the county, consisting of 300 acres and developed in every facility for purposes of general fanning and stock raising. For years he has been an extensive stock feeder.

Upon the organization of the Farmers State Bank at Mendon in May, 1914, Mr. Quigg became a director and was soon afterw'ard elected president, and the success and the standing of the institution largely reflect his personal management and integrity. However, he still spends some time on his farm, and is in partnership with his tenant in the ownership of the stock. Mr. Quigg served as road commissioner fourteen j'ears, as township supervisor twelve years, and has always been an active republican.

In 1872 he married Miss Izora Mann, a native of Kentucky. Five children were born to their marriage : Nettie, who married William Gibbs and lives with her father ; William, who was connected with a transfer company at Seattle, Washington, when he was killed at the age of thirty-two : Charles, who died at the age of twenty-six, the result of an injury sustained in a ball game; Arthur, a farmer in Honey Creek Township ; and Harry, who has a farm near the old homestead.

Mr. Quigg is a thirty-second degree Scottish Kite ]\Iason, with membership in the consistory at Quincy, and is past master of the lodge and past high priest of the chapter at Mendon, and has been a representative in the grand lodge and chapter. Throughout his long and active career he has been known as a whole-souled genial gentleman, fond of comradeship, esteemed both socially and as a business man, and he also possesses those interests which tend to keep a man out of doors in toiich with nature. He has spent many pleasant hours in the woods and along the streams and has a thorough acquaintance with all forms of plant life as well as the specimens of the animal kingdom found in woods and in water.

Kalph H. Amen is a native of Adams County, and is one of the .vounger men of the progressive type who have exerted all their energies, intelligence and purpose toward founding homes of their own. He is one of the leading farmers and stock raisers of Columbus Township, his place being located in sections 19 and 22 of that township, his home in the former section.

He has lived here since 1910, when he manned. He raises all kinds of stock, including Jersey Hed hogs and good cattle and horses. He has a large bank barn, with a shed for his stock. His house is six rooms and modern in every particular. Mr. Amen cultivates about sixty acres in com, twenty acres in wheat, and thirty acres in oats. All his land is tillable and has perfect and natural drainage.

Mr. Amen was born on a faiin in Concord Township of this county December 12, 1882. He attended school in Columbus Township, where his parents moved when he was a child, and he graduated from the Gem Cit}- Business College in 1908. His father, Francis Amen, is a resident of Quincy, and more particular reference to his career and family will be found on other pages. Ralph H. Amen was eighth in a family of eleven children, nine of whom are still living and five are married.

In Melrose Township Mr. Amen married Julia G. Fessler. She was born in Gilmer Township, near Fowler, February' 18, 1889, and was educated in that township and in the Madison School at Quincy. Her parents, Louis and Elizabeth (Heeb) Fessler, are natives of Adams County and are now living retired at Quincy, her father at the age of seventy-four and her mother a few years younger.

Mr. and Mrs. Amen after their marriage combined their resources aud have labored effectively to make their present property. They have three children : Kenneth F., born September 23, 1911 ; Rita E., born August 17, 1915 ; aud Anna M., born August 16, 1918. The family are members of the Catholic Church, aud Mr. Amen is a democrat.

John C. Marshall. Though he died thirty years ago the name of John C. Marshall is still spoken with the respect and honor that is its due all over the eastern part of Adams County. He was one of the capable men of Columbus Township, developed a good home, and left an honored name to posterity. He died in the midst of his labors, and had the good fortune to have his plans and purposes effectively carried out by his capable wife, who is still living, with her home in Columbus Village, and has some of her prospering and intelligent children close around her.

The late John C. Marshall was born at Muehlliausen, Alsace Lorraine, April 6, 1840. The name was originally spelled Marschal. On the day that he was six years of age he and his parents took passage bound for America. His parents were Christian and Mary (Muschold) Marshall. They left Hamburg on a sailing vessel and after six weeks landed in New Orleans, thence coming up the Mississippi River to Quincy. Not long afterward the IMarshall family moved to a farm in Liberty Township, and soon went into Columbus Township, where they were among the pioneers and cleared up a tract of land that eveutually became a good farm. This fann was in section 21. A log cabin furnished the first habitation, and in the early years all the land was plowed with oxen. Christian ]Marshall and his wife spent their final years on that farm, were well to do and prosperous, and never regretted their choice of the new woi'ld as their home. He died when past sixty years of age. Both were active members of the Lutheran Church. Their children were four in numl>er. Rachel, who died in Columbus Township, married Fred Huffnagel, who spent his last years with a daughter in Missouri. They had three daughters and two sons. Amiel Marshall died unmarried at the age of twenty-one. His death was a local tragedy. He was cutting a tree and when it fell it rebounded in such a way as to strike him and kill him instantly. August Marshall died in Daviess County, Missouri, when about seventy years of age, leaving a large family of children.

John C. Marshall grew up on the old fann in Columbus Township, and had made such good use of his time and opportunities that he owned a farm before his marriage. Success came to him in large measure as a general farmer and stock man and he had nearly 300 acres of land when he died. After a brief illness he died at his home on j\Ionday, October 28, 1888, when in his forty-ninth year.

In that township he married Miss Mary E. DeMoss. ]\Irs. Marshall was bom in Columbus Township July 4, 1844, and is a memlier of the widely known DeMoss family of this county. She was educated in her native to\vn.ship and has always lived within a few miles of her birthplace. About nine yeai*s ago she left the farm and built a pleasant home in Columbus Village. As a young she labored hand in hand with her husband, and is justly credited not only with a part of their pi'osperity but also with the even more important task of rearing her sons and daughters so as to be a credit to themselves and to her. These nine living children are all self-supporting and substantial people of their respective communities. The youngest of them was three years old when John C. Marshall died.

Reference to J. Albert Marshall, the oldest of the children, is made on other pages. Elva is the wife of William Wheeler, of Columbus Township, and has five daughters, all of them but one married. Anna is the wife of J. C. Gibbs, also mentioned elsewhere. Emma married William Diekhut, a fanner in Hancock County, Illinois, and of their two daughters one is married. Dora is the wife of Elisha Hendricks, a farmer in Pawnee County, Kansas, and their family consists of four daughters, one of them married. Amos is a farmer in Pawnee County, Kansas, and has one son by his marriage to Sadie Grimmer. Otis is a farmer in Hancock County, married Ada Betterdean and has one son. Lorin is giving a good account of his energies and ability as the practical manager of his mother's old homestead. He married Effie Boling, and has a son and daughter. Garnett still lives with his mother in Columbus Village and is unmarried.

All the family are identified with the Christian Church. John C. ^Marshall was a republican, and his sons are of the same political faith. During his life he ser\'ed as assessor of the towaiship and a.s school director.

Harry 0. Ch.\nnon, general manager of the Gas, Electric Light & Power Company of Quiney, is an electrical engineer of a quarter of a century's experience, and has been identified with public utilities in Quiney since 1895. In that j'ear he was one of the organizers of the Empire Light & Power Company, and served as its secretary and manager until in 1898 it was merged with the present cori^oration.

At the time of its reorganization Mr. Channon was made construction engineer, and had the active supervision and superintendence of the erection of the present electric plant. When it was completed he superintended its operation for eighteen months, and then removed to Alton, Illinois, to superintend the Electric Light and Power Company of that city. He was recalled to Quiney to become superintendent of the electric plant under W. A. Bixby, the general manager. Two years later, when Mr. Bixby went to Springfield, Missouri, "Sir. Channon succeeded him, and has been the general director of this public utility for about fifteen years. His friends and associates regard him not only very highly as an expert in the various branches of electrical engineering but also as a splendid executive and manager, to whom much credit is due for the fine showing made by this corporation in Quiney.

Mr. Channon was bom at Quiney August 25, 1869, and as a youth he attended the public schools, graduating from high school in 1888. Following his high school course he had a year of valuable experience working in the local of&ces of the Burlington Railway. He then entered the University of Michigan and pursued the electrical engineering course until graduating in 1893.

Three generations of the Channon family have been well known citizens of Quiney. His gi-andfather, William V. Channon, was Iwrn in Devonshire, England, in 1812. In 1835 he married Elizabeth Haywood, a native of the same locality. They were the parents of two children, William H. and Ellen Elizabeth. William V. Channon while living in England operated a gas plant at Honiton. In 1841 he brought his family to the United States, locating at Philadelphia and in 1848 came to Quiney, where he spent the rest of his life and died when past eighty years of age. For about twenty-five .years he was connected as a traveling salesman with Comstock, Castle & Company of Quiney, stove and hollow-ware manufacturers. In the '80s he was one of the organizers of the Channon & Emery Stove Manufacturing Company, being president until his death. He was a republican in politics and he and his wife were members of the Congregational Church.

William H. Channon, father of Harry 0., was born in Philadelphia in 18-14. He was well educated, and during a portion of the Civil war he served in the quarter master's department. For a number of years he was connected with Pope and Baldwin, agricultural implements, and later was a member of the firm, Park & Channon, agricultural implements. He then entered the employment of the Comstoek-Castle Stove Company, withdrawing when the firm of Channon-Emery & Company began operations. When the firm incorporated as the Channon Emery Stove Company, he became secretary and a member of the ,lioard of directors. He has been active in the Baptist denomination, serving as a member of the state Sunday school committee; general secretary of the Young Peoples Union: member and treasurer of the board conducting the missionary operations of the state ; also a member of the committee of 100 serving the denomination in the matter of the University of Chicago ; also for a time trustee of Schurtliff College. He is now retired, but a very vigorous and enterprising man at the age of seventy-five. William H. Channon married in Quincy Sarah A. Taylor, who was born at ilelrose, Massachusetts, daughter of Shubel L. and Harriet (Newhall) Taylor, lie coming from New Hampshire and she from Massachusetts, representatives of New England families. Shubel L. Taylor at one time was sherilf of Essex County, Massachusetts, and afterward located at Quincy, where he was in the tanning business. Mrs. William H. Channon died in Quincy about twelve years ago, and both parents were active in the Baptist Church.

Harry 0. Channon married at Quincy Lyda M. Collins, of Payson, Adams County. They have had the following children : William H. graduated from the Quincy High School in 1916, later attended the Missouri State University and is now a farmer. P. Elizabeth is a graduate of the high school with the ela.ss of 1916, attended Millikan University at Decatur, Illinois, and in June, 1918, became the wife of Charles M. Eaton. The daughter Dorothy died at the age of two and a half yeai-s, and the younger children are Harry O.. Jr., and James Alle?!, both in high school, and Chester Newhall and John Thomas, in the grade school. The family are all members of the Baptist Chui-ch. Mr. Channon is a member of the Quincy Chamber of Commerce and the Rotarv Club.

Geokge T. Hartman instituted and built up a successful business at Quinc.y as a mattress manufacturer, and prosecuted his affairs so diligently and with such good judgment that he has been able to retire with a competence and is now permitted to manage his affairs with something of the leisure which every man deserves for his later years.

Mr. Hartman was bom in Quincy June 11, 1868. He is now fifty-one years old and attended the Catholic parochial schools and also the public schools, and as a young boy began learning the cabinet maker's trade. Later he established a shop for the repair of furniture and about twenty years ago made the beginning of his business as a mattress manufacturer. He was successful from the start and sooq^found his abilties taxed to the utmost. His factory was located on Oak Street and he had another place on Broadway and Ninth Street which he used as office and salesrooms. In 1910 he sold this prosperous enterprise to his brothers Frank and William, who still continue it on a large scale. The output of the factory for a number of j-ears has been distributed all over the middle section of the United States. Mr. Hartman resides in an attractive home at the corner of Spruce and Twenty-second streets.

He is a son of the late Bernard Hartman. Bernard was bom in Westphalia, Germany, December 21, 1844. He was seven years of age when his parents came to the United States by sailing vessel and from New Orleans arrived by way of the river at Quiney. The parents spent the rest of their days here, were devout Catholics and members of St. Francis Church. Bernard Hartman grew up in Quiney and after getting his education entered a furniture factory and became an expert finisher. Afterward he traveled on the road for a furniture company many years. He was a member of H. A. Vandeuboom & Company, furniture manufacturers at the comer of Tenth and Vermont streets, manufacturing chairs and bedsteads and other furniture. This firm was established in 1868, and became one of the important industries of Quiney. For the last six years of his life Bernard Hartman was a paralytic. He died at his home 1123 Oak Street November 25, 1900. He was a devout and faithful member of St. Francis Catholic Church.

In 1867, in St. Boniface Church, he and Mary Otteu were married, Father Sehaffermeyer performing the ceremony. Mrs. Hartman, who is still living and has shown remarkable capacity in handling the business affairs and property left her by her late husband, was born on State Street in Quiney October 8, 1848. She was educated in the parochial schools and also in the Noti'e Dame College at Milwaukee. Her parents were Lucas and Mary (Janseu) Otten, both natives of Germany and of old Catholic ancestry. They were married in St. Louis after coming to this country and established a home in Quiney, where ilr. Otten was a wagon maker. He died in this city at the age of sixty-seven and his wife at the age of eighty-two. They were members of St. Boniface Catholic Church. Bernard Hartman and wife had three sons, George, Frank and William. Frank and William are now carrying on the mattress business established by their brother. Frank maiTied Elizabeth Donemichael. William married Eva (Bidel) Winkleman. All the family are members of the Catholic Church and the sons are democrats in politics.

George T. Hartman now gives much of his time to the management of soma fine property he has acquired and improved on Broadway, having three brick houses recently built there. He married in Quiney Anna Martin. She was born near Macon, Missouri, forty -six yeai"s ago, daughter of Jonathan and Martha (McWilliams) Martin. Her father was a native of Pennsylvania and her mother of Indiana, in which state they were married. After marriage they moved to Schuyler County, Illinois, where Mre. Hartman 's mother died. Her father died some years later near Macomb, Illinois, at the age of eighty-eight. The Martins were Baptists.

Very Eev. Henry B. Degenhardt has been pastor of St. Boniface Catholic Church at Quiney since July 1, 1910. As an institution that bears a sustaining part in the daily life of the people of Adams County St. Boniface has been the religious home and center of worship for as many families as any other church in Quiney. The history of St. Boniface as a church and parish is told in full detail on other pages. Father Degenhardt succeeded as pastor Vei-j' Rev. Michael Weis, who for over twenty years was the beloved priest of the parish, entering upon his duties there in 1887. Besides his work as pastor of St. Boniface Father Degenhardt is also dean with supervision over the various parishes in Adams, Brown and Pike counties.

A native of Alton, Illinois, where he was bom in 1855, Father Degenhardt is a son of Henry Degenhardt, who was bom in Westphalia, Gennany, in 1823, and came to the United States in 1849. Two years later he married at Alton Miss Wilhemlnia Bickel. Her father was a native of Lorraine and as a boy served as a soldier under the great Napoleon. Wilhelmina Bickel was ten years old when her mother died, and she was the first of her family to come to America. She lived at Chicago when that great city was a small town, and subsequently moved to Alton, where she married ^Ir. Degenhardt. The latter was a cabinet maker by trade, and lived in Alton until his death in 1870. His widow survived him until 1906 and passed away at the age of seventy-nine. Her father had followed her to America late in life and died at the home of a daughter in Iowa in 1878. He was born in 1798. Henry Degenhardt and wife were among the founders of the first German Catholic Church at Alton, known as St. Marj^'s Church. One of the brothers of Father Degenhardt was designated by the family for the profession of the church and died at the age of fifteen after beginning his studies to that end.

Father Degenhardt was educated in the parochial schools of Alton, also attended the college established by Bishop Baltes, taking the four years' classical course, and his philosophical and theological studies wei*e pursued at St. Francis Seminary in Milwaukee. He was ordained by Bishop Baltes in the cathedral at Alton, Illinois, August 15, 1879. A week after his ordination he was made pastor of Sts. Peter and Paul Church at CoUinsville, Illinois, and remained as the beloved minister of that parish for thirty-one years, until he was called to his present incumbency on July 1, 1910. He now holds the irremovable rectorship of St. Boniface.

His assistant is Rev. A. 6. Kunsch, who was born in St. Louis, Missouri, was educated in the parochial schools of that city, for six years attended St. Francis College at Quincy, Illinois, and completed his theological training at the Grand Seminarj' in Montreal. He was ordained December 17, 1904, and then returned to St. Louis where he celebrated his first mass in St. Anthony's Church December 26th. Three days later he became assistant in St. Boniface under Father ilichael Weis. He is a man of great energy and ripe scholai-ship and literary ability and was author of the recently published Souvenir of the Diamond Jubilee of St. Boniface Congregation, 1837-1912.

Carl Edward Gillhouse is one of the prosperous farm ownei's in that splendid agricultural district southeast of Quincy in Payson Township. He is a member of the well known Gillhouse family, a son of Ernest Gillhouse, one of the oldest men in Adams County and concerning whom more particular mention is made on other pages.

Carl Edward Gillhouse. whose home is sixteen miles southeast of Quincy, was born on his father's old farm in the same vicinity August 9, 1867. He grew up in that district, attended the local schools, and worked with and lived on his father's place until his marriage.

October 19, 1890. Clara Olive Journey became his bride. She was a young lady of nineteen at the time. She was born in Pike County, Illinois, a daughter of Peter A. and Rose A. (Donelson) Journey. Her parents are both now deceased. After his marriage Mr. and Mrs. Gillhouse spent four j'ears on his father's farm in Pike County. In 1896 they moved to their present place, the original Polk Whitcomb farm of eight.y-five acres. Altogether Mr. Gillhouse has more than 200 acres devoted to general farming, including eight}' acres of bottom land. He grows from ninetj' to 100 acres of wheat every season.

Mr. Gillhouse is also a director of the local telephone company, has been a director of the local schools four years, and is a democrat in politics. Mrs. Gillhouse is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They have two children, Gertrude and Gladys, the latter still at home. Gertrude is the wife of H. T. Groh, and has one child, Rosa Gertrude.

Simon Pieper. Probably no one family did more to develop into cultivated fields and homes the timber and hill section of southeastern Columbus Township than the Pieper family, one of the pioneers of which was the late Simon Pieper.

He was born in Lippe Detmold, Germany, June 8, 1826, of an old German Lutheran family. He married in Germany Caroline Linnemeyer. She was born in the same locality February 26, 1827. Not long after their marriage they set out by sailing vessel for the United States and after seven weeks landed at New Orleans, coming thence up the river to Quincy. Simon Pieper and his brother Fred had married sisters in Germany, and both came to this country at the same time for the purpose of joining their brother Henry, who had preceded them to Adams County several years. Simon and Fred from Quincy went to Columbus Township, bought each a forty acre tract of wild timbered land in section 26, and their good homes were subsequently made from that land as a basis. Simon afterward built up a large farm of 300 acres and Fred was almost equally prosperous. Fred and his wife and children are all now deceased.

Simon Pieper and wife lived on their old farm, gradually improved it and made it the home of good livestock and a source of production for all kinds of crops. Simon Pieper died there honored and respected as an early settler and good citizen May 1, 1915, and his wife passed away April 17, 1912. They were among the organizers of the First Zion Lutheran Church in their part of the county, located in Concord Township, and later they were among the organizers of St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Columbus Township. Simon Pieper served as a church officer from the time of its organization until he died. In politics he was a republican.

The children of Simon Pieper and wife were all born on the homestead except the oldest, and the children are all members of St. Peter's Lutheran Church. Simon H. Pieper, born in Quincy in 18.59, is a practical engineer and is now employed in that capacity at the County Poor Farm. He married Carrie Naylor, and their children are Prank, Martha, Dora, William, Daniel and Harriet. Anna M. is unman-ied and lives with her two brothers on the old homestead farm. Louis died unmarried at the age of twenty-four. The two following children died in early childhood. The youngest are Charles and Herman, who own and operate the old homestead, having bought out the interests of the other heii-s. They were born on this farm and have had its independent management since the death of their father. The brothers built the substantial nine room house on the land, and they cultivate the farm to a maximiun of production. They are highly esteemed and valuable citizens of the community.

John A. McFarl.\nd. It is more than eighty-five years since the McFarland family became established in Adams County. The principal locality with they have been identified during all these years is Camp Point Township. They have been a family of sturdy virtues, of upright citizenship, and their hard working ability has brought improvement to many acres and has contributed not a little to the power and prestige of the county.

Of tlie present generation is John A. McFarland, who was born and reared in Camp Point Township, but for a number of years has been a resident of Columbus Township. His grandparents, John and Kebecca McFarland, were natives of Scotland, were married there and several of their children were born in the land of the heather. They immigrated to America on a sailing vessel, and in 1832 arrived in Adams County and bought land in Camp Point Township in section 13. This land had been originally acquired from the Government in 1824, but the McFarlands were practically the first to give it settled agriculture and occupation. John McFarland cleared up some of this land, used ox teams for plowing and other work, and had his first home in a virtual wilderness. There was no transportation, hardly any high roads except trails through the trees, and the woods and prairies were filled with wild game, deer, turkey and other denizens of the forest. Obviously there were many privations and hardships, but the McFarlands were of the sturdy Scotch character and well fitted for all they had to endure. Grandfather John ]\IcFarland was a resident of Adams county only six years. He died in 1838, in the prime of life. His widow lived to advanced years. Their oldest son, William Madison McFarland, was born in Ohio, and became prominent in Adams County as a farmer and in politics. The grandparents were both members of the Primitive Baptist Church.

Daniel G. McFarland, father of John A. ^McFarland, was born in Camp Point Township September 26, 1834, and for many years had the distinction of being the oldest native man of that township. He was one of thirteen children. He was the last of them to die, passing away June 10, 1907. He remained the old homestead, improved it, and farmed it steadily for upwai'ds of half a century. In July, 1855, he married Martha McFarland, a cousin. She was born in Ohio, a daughter of Arthur McFarland, who became a pioneer settler in Greene County, Ohio, where he died. Daniel McFarland and wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She died in 1898, the mother of four sons and four daughters. Two sons and one daughter died young. The other children were: George R., who died in 1918; John A.; Rosa,, Susan and Minnie Harris, of Quiney.