Quincy Township (part 61 of 74)

George T. Pearee, only surviving son of his father, has always lived on the farm where he was born. Besides the piiblic schools he had the advantages of the Gem City Business College at Quincy. He is, in fact, a business man as well as a farmer, and that combination of qualities is the more necessary in s-uccessful fanning today than ever before. Mr. Pearee has 640 acres in his home place, besides 100 acres of timber and pasture land, and has a half interest in a 100-acre farm near Mount Sterling. Nearly all the products of his land he markets through the route of live stock, and is one of the chief cattle feeders in the northern part of the county. Mr. Pearee has not neglected the call of public duty, has been a-s-sessor of the township four years and township clerk, and is now a member of his local school board. He is a democrat, like the rest of the familj', and is a member of the Methodist Church.

February 14, 1895, he married Miss Amy Boyd. Mrs. Pearee was born in Pennsylvania Augvist 16, 1871, but has been a resident of Adams County since she was seven years of age. Her parents were Robert and Margaret (Ross) Boyd, the father born in Ireland and the mother in Scotland. In 1878 they came to Adams County, lived for a time on the George Smith farm in Camp Point Township, later settled in Honey Creek Township, and finally in Houston Township, where they spent their la.st days. The father died in 1908. In the Boyd family were the following children : Edward, Robert R., Sarah A., Jennie, ilaude, who died in infancy. Amy and Lilly, twins, and Mary. Mr. and Mrs. Pearee have two children : Wilbur C, the son, was bom in 1895, was educated in the public school and the Bowen High School, and is also a graduate of Knox College at Galesburg. He was a splendid student and very popular in all college activities, and was valedictorian of his graduating class. After leaving college he came home, and on June 5, 1918, was enrolled in the United States Navy for service in the great war. The daughter, Sarali Ruth, born July 27, 1900, is a graduate of the Bowen High School, and is now in the first year of Knox College.

Hon. William H. Hoffman. A Quincy citizen who has enjoyed many distinctions at the hands of his fellowmen is Hon. William H. Hoffman, a veteran printer and newspaper man, proprietor of a commercial printing establishment in Quincy for a quarter of a century, and e-specially well known over

Mr. Hoffman is of Scotch-German ancestrj', though both his parents and grandparents were born in the United States. He is a son of James M. and Phoebe (Dodge) Hoffman, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Ohio. His maternal grandfather, Benjamin Dodge, was a native of New York State, married there, moved to Iowa, and spent the rest of his life on a farm in Appanoose County, where he and his wife died when past eighty-five j^ears of age. They were members of the Baptist Church.

James M. Hoffman and wife were married at Nebraska City when Nebraska was still a territory. It was in that pioneer locality and in pioneer daj^s that William H, Hoffman was born. In 1867 the family moved to Quincy, and his father was for twenty years baggage agent on the Wabash Railroad, and later was transfer mail agent. He finally retired and died at Quincy in 1910, at the age of seventy-six. He was a lifelong democrat and very active in polities. His widow is still living in Quincy, at the age of eighty-four, sound and well in both mind and body. Mr. Hoft'man was one of two children. His brother, Charles Leroj', lost his life in a raili'oad accident on the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad about the time he reached his majority.

Mr. Hoffman was educated in Quincy, attending local schools and early beginnmg an apprenticeship to learn the printer's trade in the old Quincy Ledger office. The Ledger, long since extinct as a Quincy newspaper, was at that time conducted by David Williams and William Avis. Later Mr. Hoffman was employed on the Quincy Whig and acquired a detailed knowledge of every phase of the newspaper business from printer to editor. For many years he has been a member in good standing in the Typographical Union and Priutei-s' and Pressman's LTnion. He has been a general commercial printer for twentyfive years, and his establishment at 331 Hampshire Street is one of the best equipped and largest institutions of its kind in Adams County.

Mr. Hoffman has always been a loj'al democrat. In 1910 he was nominated by his party for the House of Representatives to represent Adams, Pike, Calhoun and Scott counties. During the session of 1911 Mr. Hoffman prepared the bill known as House Bill No. 203, providing for an efficient system of county highwaj^s. This bill did not pass, but its main features and substance are the basis of the bill passed during the session of the Legislature in 1913. During the Forty-Eighth General Assembly Mr. Hoffman was chairman of the committee to visit penal and reformatory institutions, and a member of the appropriation, congressional apportionment, contingent expenses, farm drainage, good roads, parks and boulevards, state and municipal indebtedness, state institutions. Soldiers and Sailors Home and Soldiers Orphans Home committees. Mr. Hoffman was elected to the Legislature in 1910, 1912 and 1914. He was nominated for speaker of the 1912 session and received more votes of his party than had ever been given a democrat in one session in, the state before that time, but was beaten by a combination of republicans, progressives and a few democrats.

Thirty years ago Mr. Hoffman was married at Quincy to M. Anna Hoffman, but no relation, who was born in this city and is ten years younger than her husband. She was educated in Quincy. They have two children, C. Leroy and Edna. The son was born in Quincy, is a graduate of the high school and is now superintendent of his father's printing plant. He married ^largaret Brose. of Quincy. The daughter, Edna, is a graduate of the Quincy High School and is the wife of Clarence Walker, and they now live in Covington, Kentucky.

Charles E. Steiner. In the beautiful and productive region of Columbus Township there are some of the model farms of Adams County. Conspicuous among them is that operated by Charles E. Steiner. This is the old Steiner homestead, located in sections 13 and 14. The land under his management comprises 350 acres, and at least 200 acres have been put under cultivation to the crops that succeed best in this soil and climate. A considerable part of his land is seeded to clover and timothy. In a modern farm one of the things that count most is the building equipment. The Steiner farm has everything that could be required in that line, including a fine nine room house, a barn 40x50 feet, with other sheds and outbuildings.

Charles E. Steiner, the present proprietor of the farm, was born there June 9, 1884. As a boy he attended the Oakwood District School, and has spent practicallj' all his life on the land that he now cultivates. He was associated with his father, the late Louis Steiner, in farming the land, and for four years was in partnership with his brother George. Only recently he took over the farm on his own responsibilitj^

Louis Steiner, his father, was born in New Orleans in 1840. His parents came from Switzerland, and his father died when Louis was a small child. The mother married a second time, wedding a Mr. Hartune, and they came north and settled in Adams County, where both of them died. Louis Steiner was a j'oung boy when he came up the river with his mother and stepfather, and his early training well fitted him for farming. He also followed the business of threshing nearly all his active years. In Columbus Township he married Mary Zeiger. She was born in Germany and was a small child when her parents, Mr. and ilrs. William Zeiger, came to the United States and settled in Adams County. Her mother died in Columbus Township and was buried on the old farm where Mrs. Steiner was born. William Zeiger died at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Steiner when past eighty years of age.

Louis Steiner after his marriage took over the management of the Zeiger farm and later became its owner. He put up most of the farm buildings, and made many of the good improvements now seen there. Mrs. Louis Steiner died at the old homestead March 24, 1918, at the age of sixt.v-four, while Louis Steiner passed awa.y July 22, 1918. Both were reared as Lutherans and Louis Steiner was a democratic voter.

A brief record of the children is as follows : Lizzie, wife of Shannon Wallace, living at Springfield, Illinois, and they have two children, Letha and Laura. Albert Steiner is a farmer at Bowen, Illinois, and by his marriage to Ida Mc- Millan has a daughter, Erma. William is a farmer in Camp Point Township on the old Horner farm, and he married Catherine Horner and has a daughter, Lois. Emma is the wife of Albert Schuhault, a salesman living at Quincy. The next in the family is Charles E. Steiner. Arnie F. married Freda Brakensiek, and he operated the Brakensiek farm in Columbus Township. They have two children, Irene and Harold. George Steiner is married and lives on a farm in Columbus Township.

Charles E. Steiner married October 20, 1910, at Camp Point, Hattie Ware. She was born in Concord Township September 21, 1888, and as a girl attended the Hazel Bluff School House. Her parents were Ezekiel and Sophronia (Amen) Ware, both natives of Adams County. They are still living on the old Amen farm in Concord Township. They were reared in the Dunkard Church but now attend the Holiness. Mr. Ware is a democrat and has held most of the local offices. Mr. and Mrs. Steiner have a daughter, Jlildred. born July 20, 1914. He is a democrat, and he and his wife are members of the Wolf Ridge Christian Church.

Jacob G. ]\L\nn-. One of the most interesting and helpful stories that might be written of individual experience would be that of Jacob G. Mann if his experiences and struggles from early manhood to the present could be told in complete detail. Mr. ilann was first known in Adams County as a farm laborer, and during forty or more years has quietly but effectively built up a farm, acquired important holdings, and has long been recognized as one of the most substantial citizens in Payson Township. His home is in section 21 of that town.ship, three miles southeast of Payson and two miles west of Plainsville.

In the spring of 1868, having reached the age of twenty-one, he came to Adams County with a schoolmate, Joseph Armold, whose brother, Frank Arniold, was then living in Payson Township. It was that circumstance that led Jacob G. Mann to this community. There for six or seven years he worked at wages as a farm hand, twenty dollars a month and board. That he was tkrifty as well as industrious is shown by the fact that he saved a hundred dollars out of each year's earnings. During four seasons of his employment he was with the late Isaac Grove. Having accumulated a little capital and with a desire to get a home of his own, he paid a visit to Kansas, but changed his mind about locating after reaching there, and instead returned to Adams County and bought a small tract of seventeen and a half acres of new gi'ound, with the timber cleared but with the stumps still standing as an obstacle to cultivation. There were no buildings. Nevertheless he paid a thousand dollars for the tract. He built his humble home and lived there three years.

In January, 1875, Mr. Mann had married Caroline Ruby. She wa.s also a native of York County, Pennsylvania, and had come to Adams County with her mother two years after Jacob Mann. Her home was in Payson Township. She was a niece of Mrs. Jacob Harris, who owned a large amount of land in Payson Township.

Three years after buying his first small farm Mr. Mann sold and bought forty-six acres of the Harris farm three miles away. This land, originally owned by Mr. Harris, had been sold in the meantime to T. S. Elliott. I\Ir. ]\Iaun's new purchase included the buildings erected by Mr. Harris. The purchase price was thirty-one hundred dollars, and he paid about half in cash. Much of this land he cleared up and also remodeled the old home built by Mr. Harris. He acquired additional land in the Harris tract until he owned seventy-one acres. Jacob Mann lived there imtil 1908. He bought a hundred eighteen acres adjoining in 1896, giving him about a hundred ninety acres, and since then has added to his possessions until he has two hundred forty-four acres all in one body. Much of this land has been cleared by his own labors. For one tract of twentyfive acres he paid as high as eighty-seven dollars an acre. He realized some revenue from the sale of wood from the land, but perhaps his chief dependence has been hog raising. It is obvious that Mr. Mann made most of his money and accumulated most of his land by farming under the restricted conditions preceding the present opulent period of agriculture. There were times when he lost whole bunches of hogs from cholera, and there were frequent seasons when his wheat failed to make a crop. He was ten years in paying of? his indebtedness, which at one time was as high as seven thousand dollars, and he paid eight per cent interest on his moneJ^ He sold hogs as low as two dollars and sixty cents a hundred and other products in proportion. Mr. ilann continued to give his personal supervision to the operation of his farm until about ten years ago. He has erected a complete second set of improvements on the farm.

Mr. Mann is the father of three children : His son John is located in Chicago. He finished his education in the Gem City Business College, and was at one time employed as an expert by the Dairy Show Company. He married Miss Howard, and they have two children, Pearl and John. Myrtle Mann is the wife of Frank Scranton, and they live with Mr. and ]\Irs. Mann, Mr. Scranton operating part of the farm. Mr. and Mrs. Scranton have two sons, Amos and Harry. Stanley Mann operates the older part of the ]\lann farm. He married Maucl Gillespie, and they have two sons, ]Minton and Charles.

Mr. Mann is a democrat but has never had a desire to hold office. He is a very active and faithful member of the Payson Congregational Church and a deacon and trustee, having filled the former office for the past fifteen years.

Henry Dedert. A farm home which is distinctive in many ways of the enterprise and ability of Henry Dedert as a progressive agriculturist is located in section 32 of ^lendon Township. He also has a fine farm in Ellington Township. Mr. Dedert comes of a family noted for thrift and all around qualifiea-

His parents, William and Louise (Sehlippmann) Dedert, were both born in Westphalia, Germany, and came to America over sixty-five years ago. They married in Germany and in 1852 took passage on a boat at Bremen and after a voyage of several weeks landed at New Orleans. From there they came by boat up the ilississippi River, landing at Quincy, where William Dedert worked at whatever employment he could find. Later he rented land in Ellington Township, and at the close of the Civil war bought eighty acres in section 10 of that township, iluch of this laud was uncleared and hardlj- ready for cultivation, and had no buildings on it. But from that time forward his abilities and energies enabled him to pro.sper and he made a good farm and provided liberally for his children. His farm before his death comprised 250 acres. Both he and his wife were active members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, in which they were confirmed aud reared. William Dedert was born January 2, 1819, and died April 24, 1898. His wife was born August 28, 1830, and died April 14, 1912. They were the parents of eleven children, nine sons and two daughters, all of whom married but two, and two sons and one daughter are deceased. Henry Dedert was the second in age. Several of the thrifty sons are specially mentioned in this work.

Mr. Henry Dedert was born on State Street near Eleventh Street in Quincy September 7, 1854. He attended the public schools and from an early age has been a practical farmer and stockman. His farms comprise one in Mendon Township of 100 acres and the one in Ellington Township of 160 acres, each with good houses and barns, and nearly all the land under cultivation and managed with the highest degree of thrift generally characteristic of every Dedert farm.

]\Ir. Dedert married in Ursa Township Miss Emily Cramm. She was born in Ellington Township and was educated in Melrose and Ursa townships. Her parents were Christian and Emily (Pape) Cramm, both natives of Germany, her father born December 7, 1825, and her mother January 7, 1832. Her father came alone to America before his marriage and he and his wife were married in Adams Count}-. They spent the rest of their lives in the county and died in Ursa Township, the father on July 23, 1878, and the mother February' 16, 1913, at the age of eighty-two. Both were members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.

Mr. and Mrs. Dedert have an interesting family of children. Edward, the oldest, is a farmer in Mendon Township and by his marriage to Edith Kuhlman has three children, Harriet, Hurbert and Eleanor. Lydia is the wife of Fred Ellerbrock, a resident of Ursa TowTiship, and their children are Raymond, Leatou and Freda. Dora M. was well educated in the local schools and is still at home with her parents. Fred is a farmer in Ellington Township and married Bessie Wiesenborn. They have one son, Alfred. Rosa is the wife of Charles Buhra, a farmer in Ursa To^\iiship, and by a former marriage Mr. Buhra had a daughter, Esther. Walter helps his father on the home farm. Four children died : Clara, at the age of thirteen ; William, at the age of five months ; Christian, at the age of eleven years; and Sophia, when four days old. The famihare all members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Mr. Dedert is a republican, his father having been of the same political faith, while Mrs. Dedert 's father was a democrat.

Jacob W. McClintock. A long and interesting story might be woven concerning the ancestry of Jacob W. JlcClintock. the well known farmer, stockman and citizen of Columbus Township. As the name indicates the McClintock 's were originally Scotch. One of the chief reasons for emigration two or three centuries ago was religious persecution. The McClintocks moved over into Londonderry-, Ireland, and some of them participated in the famous siege of

The family came to America in the persons of three brothers prior to the Revolutionary war. One of these brothers was Joseph Warren McClintoek, great-grandfather of Jacob W. He served as a soldier in the Revolution. He spent all his life after coming to America in Pennsylvania. His son Joseph was born in Pennsylvania and married Jean Glasgow. She was a Scotch woman and had come to America with her brother James. Joseph Warren McClintoek went over the mountains into Kentucky after the Revolutionary war, and eventually located at Millersburg, in Bourbon County, Kentuc^. In Bourbon County and in St. Clair County, Illinois, the McClintocks had more than local fame for their stables of thoroughbred Kentucky race horses. Thej'- had been fanciers of fine stock of different kinds through all the generations. Mr. Jacob W. McClintoek himself has long been interested in the better breeding of hogs, and _ cattle, and he owned the first thoroughbred Shropshire sheep in Adams County. It was about 1816 that the McClintocks settled in St. Clair Coimty, bringing with them the stock from Kentuckv'. Joseph Warren Mc- Clintoek died there at the age of sixty-five and his wife when pa.st ninety. In Illinois they became identified with the Baptist Church.

John McClintoek, father of Jacob W., was born in Bourbon Count}', Kentucky, November 27, 1807. He was nine years of age when the family settled in St. Clair County, Illinois, and he grew up there as a farmer and stockman. When a young man he came to Adams County, Illinois, on September 13, 1836, married Bai-bara Wolfe. She was born in Union County, Illinois, in 1815, and came to Adams County when a girl with her parents, Rev. George and Anna (Hunsaker) Wolfe. Rev. George Wolfe has a fixed place in the early history of Adams County and is frequently referred to. He was the pioneer minister of the Dunkard Church, and organized a number of churches of that denomination in this country and in Pike and Hancock counties. The old church in Libei'ty Township is still in existence. Rev. George Wolfe died here at the age of eighty-five and his wife at sixty-five. He is remembered as a very large and strong man, standing six feet 6 inches and weighing 245 pounds. His goodness of heart and beneficence of character were as notable as his physical makeup.

John i\IeClintock and wife after their marriage returned to St. Clair County, Illinois, but in 1841 came back to Adams County and bought 100 acres in section 6 of Liberty Township and in 1845 acquired 145 acres in section 31 of Columbus Township. It is this second farm that is now owned and occupied by Jacob W. McClintoek, his youngest son and only living child. The Liberty Township farm was first improved with a cabin home and about 1851 John McClintoek built a substantial frame hoiise. He died in that home in 1873. He and his wife were members of the Brethren Church and he was a lay preacher. The MeClintocks have always been democrats.

The children of John McClintoek and wife were: George, who died leaving no children; Joseph W., who also died without children; Jane married Robert Carsey, and she left two children, Alice V., an artist in Chicago, and Edward A., a teacher who is now an instructor in Camp Johnston in Florida.

Jacob W. McClintoek was born on the old homestead in Liberty Township February 2, 1852. He was educated in the local schools, attending the West Union School. On November 24, 1880, he married Nellie Harding. Mrs. Mc- Clintoek, who has long been prominent socially and in church and other activities, was born in Buckinghamshire. England, November 29, 1859. Her mother, Elizabeth Rose, died when her daughter was five years of age. In the fall of 1870 Mrs. McClintoek arrived at Quincy with her father, Thomas Harding, and his second wife, Lucy Harding. Thomas Harding died in Quincy, and his second wife is still living there.

Mr. and Mrs. McClintoek in 1884 moved to their Columbus Township farm in section 31, and here in the past thirty-five years they have developed one of

Mr. and Mrs. McClintock have a family of interesting children: Nellie B., attended the local high school, graduated from the Quincy Business College and Macomb Normal School and taught school a short time. She is the wife of Pierre Nooj-, and they live in St. Louis, where her husband is a railroad man. Ada M., who was educated in the high school and normal colleges, has been a teacher in the State of Colorado and recently proved her energj' and independence by proving up a claim of 320 acres near Colorado Springs. John T. Mc- Clintock, who was educated in the township schools, is farming the J. W. Henry place, a 200-aere grain and stock farm in Burton Township. He married Martha Parmalee, daughter of Capt. Henry Parmalee, and they have a son, John Jacob Henry. Robert M. McClintock, who is associated with his father on the home farm, married Lessie M. Akers. She died February 6, 1918, at the age of twenty-three.

^Irs. ilcClintock and her son are members of the Pi-esbyterian Church. IMr. McClintock has been a justice of the peace for many years and has held several local offices. He has been active in Liberty Loan drives, and his public spirit has been displayed on every occasion where some local interest has been at stake.

Jacob Thurwachter. One of the prosperous families of Columbus Township whose record should be preserved in this publication is that of Jacob Thurwachter. His fine farm of 250 acres is located in sections 19, 30 and 16, the home and grounds being in section 19. Most of the land is in a high state of improvement and cultivation. He derives most of his revenue from stock raising, and has a number of good grade Red Polled cattle, and a cross of Poland China and Red Jersey hogs.

This farm was originally owned by P. P. Thomas, and in 1901 ]Mr. Thurwacliter bought it. It has a substantial ten-room house, constructed in 1888, of the good construction and timbers of that time, and carefidly kept in repair. There is also a full equipment of barns and sheds, generously provided with grain and stock. The interesting veteran of ]\Ir. Thurwachter 's livestock is a mare, now more than thirty years old, named ilolly, and she has given effective ser\'ice to her owner for over twenty-six years.

Mr. Thurwachter has been a resident of Columbus Township since 1886, and prior to that from the age of seven was a resident of Honey Creek Township. He was born near Palmyra in Marion County, Missouri, April 20, 1860, son of George A. and Magdalena (Siplel Thurwachter. His father was a native of Bavaria and his mother of Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany. They came to America when young people, by sailing vessels, landed at New Orleans and thence came up the ^Missouri River. They married in Missouri and most of their children were born there. In 1867 the Thurwachter family came to Adams County, and a daughter now Mrs. Emma Frike, was born in Quincy. A year later the family moved to Coatsburg, where the children were reared and where the father died in August, 1880. at the age of fifty-three. His widow survived him a number of years and pa.ssed away at the age of sixty-three. They were members of the Lutheran Church and the father was independent in politics.

Jacob Thurwachter was the second son and third child of four sons and two daughters. A son, Henry, was killed when a young man in California, and a daughter, Mary, died at the age of six years. Louis is now a resident of California, a widower, and has a son, George, with the colors in France. Charles is a farmer near Kewanee, Illinois, is also a widower and has three children, Russell, Florence and Dell. Anna is the wife of Elza Frike, of Adams County, and has three children, Ruth, Mabel and Anna, the two older married and Anna a teacher.

Jacob Thurwachter first attended .school in the old schoolhouse at Quincy where the courthouse now stands. After that he was educated at Coatsburg.

He married at Coatsburg Miss Isadora Emery. Mrs. Thurwachter was born in Honey Creek Township February 4, 1863, and as a girl attended the old Center School House. She is a daughter of Thomas S. and Lucy (Shandrow) Emery. Thomas S. Emery was born near Portland, Maine, January 10, 1818, and came to Adams County as a pioneer in 1838. His wife, Lucy Shandrow, was born in Vermont December 31, 1825, and was brought to Adams County when a small child. Thomas S. Emery came to Adams County by railroad as far as Philadelphia, thence by stage over the mountains to Pittsburgh and down the river to Quincy. He lived at Quincy about fifteen years and followed his trade as a tailor. Li 1850 he crossed the plains to California, the trip requiring about four months. After thirteen months in the mines he returned to the Middle West in 1853, but in 1856 made another trip west, this time by water from New York around the Isthmus. In 1857 he permanently settled in Adams County and bought a farm in Honey Creek Township, in section 21. He became owner of 400 acres, and was one of the highly prosperous citizens of that locality. While he was mowing in his fields his team became frightened by bees, and he was thrown in front of the sickle bar and both his feet had to be amputated. He died in 1882. His widow survived him seventeen years.

Mr. and Mrs. Thurwachter have three children : Ruby, born in 1883, was educated in Columbus Township and is now the wife of Herman Miller, who has an automobile repair shop in Columbus Village. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have children named Neva, Eldon and Florence, all attending school. Bessie, the second child, was educated in the Robinson sehoolhouse, and is now living in California. Verna, the youngest, was also educated in the local schools and lives with her sister in California. Mr. Thurwachter has been a school director for nineteen years, and has always been interested in educational and other concerns affecting his home locality. Politically he votes as a democrat.

Andrew T. Eckhofp. For over forty years the late Andrew T. Eckhoff was numbered among the prosperous and progressive farmers of Columbus Township. His old homestead is in section 23. Today it is recognized as one of the best managed farms in the county, and its management and productiveness are a high tribute to the energies and capabilities of two interesting women, daughters of Mr. Eckhoff. It is only recently that farming has come to be considered anything but a man's job, and yet some of the most conspicuous successes have been made by women. Miss Anna M. and Mi.ss Emma H. Eckhoff did not take up farming through the pressure of war necessity, biit had been doing capable work in that role for a number of years prior to the present economic and military crisis. They know how to farm, they are good farmers and good managers, and there is hardly a detail in the industry in which it could fairly be said men excel them. During 1917 these sisters sold .$4,000 worth of live- .stock from their farm, and it has not been an unusual thing for their farm to produce that much or more every year.

Andrew T. EckhofP was born in the Kingdom of Hanover, Germany, August 19. 1827, of old Hanoverian stock of Lutheran religion. His parents spent all their lives in Hanover and his father, Richard Eckhoff, was a farmer. Andrew T. Eckhoff was a young man when he journeyed by sailing vessel from Bremen to New Orleans, being six weeks on the voyage, and immediately on arrival came up the river to Quincy. He found employment on a farm in Riverside Township owned by Mr. Turner. Later he lived in Morgan County, Illinois, and there in 1864 he married Mrs. Harnke Emma (Tholen) Deterding. Her first husband, Herman Deterding, died when about thirty years of age, and left three children : William. Jennie and Henry. All of them are married. Jennie died in 1889 and Henry in 1901, leaving five children. William Deterding is now living in the northern part of Adams County, near Big Neck, is married and has two sons and three daughters.

Mr. and Mrs. Eckhoff shortlv after the close of the Civil war bought 320 acres in section 23 of Columbus Township from Mr. Owen. They at once oecu- pied this land and spent many years in bringing it into a high degree of cultivation. It was their home throughout the rest of their lives. Mrs. Eckhoff died there February 11, 1906, at the age of sevent}--four, and Mr. Eckhoff passed away April 29, 1907, when nearly eighty years of age. They joined and were active members of the Christian Church and Mr. Eckhoff was a republican in politics.

Of their three children one was born in Morgan County and two on the old farm in this count}-. The three children are Anna M., Thomas and Emma H.

The sou Thomas was born on the old homestead May 12, 1870, was reared and educated there, and is now a successful farm owner in Columbus Township. He married Flora E. Shultz, and their living children are Edua E., Dottie E., Norman M., Hazel M. and Flora T. Their daughter Etta died at the age of fifteen.

Of the two sisters whose work entitles them to so high a place among Adams County agriculturists, Anna was born in Morgan County and was two years of age when her parents moved to the old home in Columbus Township. She attended the Excelsior district school. She and her sister have named their farm the Excelsior Farm. Emma Eckhoff' was born on the old homestead and attended the same school as her sister. Besides operating the farm left them by their father they have added forty-five acres of valuable land and twenty-five acres of timber. These sisters and their brother Thomas all joined the Christian Church on Christmas Day, December 25, 1893.

Simon H. Bbakensiek. -While in no sense the biggest and best known, one of the most interesting and significant manufacturing enterprises in Adams County is located at the Village of Columbus. Its significance and value are better appreciated and understood than they would have been even two or three years ago, owing to the world wide scarcity of sugar and all the varied products of sugar cane, a typically tropical plant. It seems probable that for years to come the world will suffer a near famine in sugar, whether made from the cane or from the beet. In this critical situation other substitutes are eagerly sought and now as never before is a time for the exploitation of certain manufactured products which in earlier years were a familiar article of everyday diet, but in the recent past have nearly lost commercial importance.

The factory at Columbus, the proprietor of which is Simon H. Brakensiek, is equipped and specialized for the manufacture of sorghum molasses. Thirty or forty yeare ago, all over the states in the Mississippi Valley, nearly every home laid in its annual supply of sorghum molasses to supplement the rather scarce and high priced brown or refined sugars made from sugar cane. But to the younger people of the present generation sorghum molasses might be -said to be almost unknown. Its delicacy and richness of flavor many would claim far superior to the cheap molasses and syrups manufactured in enormous quantities and largely from by-products.

Mr. Brakensiek has therefore performed a valuable public service in continuing the manufacture of this rare product, and such is the renewed appreciation of it today that he could readil.v find a market for ten times more than his plant can produce. With the exception of about five years Mr. Braken.siek has followed this specialty ever since he reached manhood. He learned the art under his father, who was a pioneer mola.sses manufacturer in Adams County. Simon H. Brakensiek has been in the business for twenty-five years in Columbus Township, and for the past eight years his plant has been in the Village of Columbus.

His plant is thoroughly modern and up to date, though it does not involve any of the extensive machinery found in sugar refineries and factories. The sorghum cane is crushed between rollers, and the juices are separated and reduced in vats much after the manner of the manufacture of maple sugar. Naturally Mr. Brakensiek has introduced many improvements, and his long experience has given him a masterly skill, enabling him to judge just the proper time for working up the cane, and he keeps his trained eye upon every subse- quent process vmtil the molasses is sealed in cans under an appropriate label of his own device. His plant has a capacity of 150 gallons a day, and during the grinding season in the past year he has made over 100 gallons a day. The sorghum is placed and sealed in one gallon tin containers, and he has brought about such improvements and refinements in the process of manufacture that it is asserted the molasses will remain unimpaired in quality and flavor for twenty years. Mr. Brakensiek has about 150 customers who take all the capacity of his plant, and at the end of the season in 1918 he began preparations to double his capacity so as to meet the increased demand. Mr. Brakensiek has fourteen acres of land near the village, and besides his plant he cultivates all the available acreage in sorghum cane every year.

He was born in Columbus Township January 18, 1862, a son of Gottlieb and Henrietta Brakensiek. His parents were born in Germany and were married in Quincy. They lived for a number of years in Columbus Township, and the mother died at Carthage, Illinois, in 1883. Gottlieb Brakensiek died at the home of his son Fred September 14, 1890. As already noted, he was a sorghum maker in Columbus Township, and Simon woi-ked as a boy around the mill and evaporating pans, learning every branch of the business. During that time he acquired his education by attending the Lost Prairie District School in Liberty Township. In Ellington Township Mr. Brakensiek married Miss Anna C. Krieger. She was born in Quincy February 24, 1865, and was reared partly in Quincy and partly in Ellington Township and attended school there. Her parents were Henry and Charlotta Krieger, natives of Germany, who came to the United States when young and were married in Quincy. Her father was a painter and died when about thirty-five years of age. Her mother survived many years and passed away at Hoopston, Illinois. She was three times married, and had children by her first and last husbands.

Mr. and ]\Irs. Brakensiek have five children. Roy E., the oldest, is a contractor in cement work at Indianapolis, Indiana. He married in Columbus Township Bessie McCann, and they have a son, Frank. Virgil S. Brakensiek. like the other children, was born and reared and educated in Columbus Township, and he is now an employe of the Burlington Eailway. He married Lila Wheeler, of Cohimbus Township, and has one daughter, Grace. Aldo M. is still at home and working for his father. Alva E. has finished his school work and is also at home. Harry, the youngest, is now in the Quincy High School. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and Mr. Brakensiek is one of its stewards. He is a republican, and has filled the office of township assessor and has been a member of the School Board.

Arthur Frank Morris, whose life has been devoted steadily and quietly to the routine business of farming on the old Morris homestead in Payson Township, has a very interesting ancestry, and it can be said that his life and character have measured up to the worthy ideals of this substantial American stock.

This branch of the Morris family is descended from the Robert Morris who came from England to the American colonies prior to the Revolutionary war and settled in Maryland. It was a son of the brother of this Robert Morris whose name appears as one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Robert's son Lovell was born about 1762. He married Mary Zigler in 1788. In 1795 he moved to Virginia, and seven years later to Hog Run in Licking County, Ohio. During the War of 1812 he and three sons, John, William and Charles, were under the command of Major Tupper in the army of Gen. William Henry Harrison. Lovell Morris and wife both died in Licking County when about sixty-five years of age. There is an interesting old account of Mrs. Lovell IMori'is, and following the language of the time it should be here set down. Her religion M'as of the primitive emotional nature, the old shouting kind. So pronounced was it that many were shocked and she was excluded for some 3'ears from the communion until the spirit of real religion produced such a revival that hundreds embraced the same heights of ecstasy, and then she was recognized as possessing the true essence of the Divine Spirit.

William Morris, second son of LoveU Morris, was four years old when the family moved to Licking County, Ohio, in 1801. He married there Charlotte Purdy ]\Iarch 26, 1826. In 1838 he came to Payson, Adams County, Illinois, and that date places him among the real pioneers of this county. He lived a long and useful life and died at his home in Payson June 11, 1870, aged seventytwo. His wife died March 15, 1878, aged seventy. William Morris wa.s a whig, later affiliating with the republicans, and in religion was an ardent Methodist.

His own career was noteworthy and he also has the honor due to being father of several worthy sons. His children to reach maturity were : William Harrison, born April 22, 1837, and died December 9, 1912 ; George, born August 1, 1839, died Februarv 6, 1879; David, born October 27. 1841, died Jauuarv 11, 1910 ; and Richard, born May 8, 184-4, died June 5, 1906. Of William Harrison ^Morris special comment is reserved for a later paragraph.

George Morris, the second son of William, graduated in medicine at Cincinnati and saw three years of active service as an assistant surgeon in the Union army during the Civil war. Later he practiced at Craigstown in Adams County until the close of his life. He married Mary E. Beebe, who died at St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1884. Their son Alvin A. is a gi'aduate of the Harvard Law School and is now a successful attorney at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

David Morris, the third son of William, was also a soldier in the Civil war and afterwards was an inspector of customs at San Francisco during the Cleveland administration. He died at Oakland, California. Richard ]\Iorris, the j^oungest of the four sons, served through the Civil war, though being very young when that struggle started, and afterwards was a farmer in Western Nebraska. He died at Farmington, New Mexico. He had two sons, William H. and Edward, and the latter is with the American Expeditionary Forces in the great European war.

William Harrison Morris was born April 22, 1837, and was one year old when his parents located in Adams County. He grew up at the old home in section 21 of Payson Township, near Pigeon Creek. The old house built by his father is still standing, and is one of the most spacious in the eountr>\ having been erected when material was abundant and cheap, and when people cared more for roominess than comfort and coziness.

September 19, 1861, William H. Morris married ]Miss Jennie Fowler. They were married nearly forty-five years at her death April 15, 1906. In 1862 William H. ilorris located on the farm now o^\iied by his son Arthur F., and in 1883 erected the present residence there. He was a stanch republican, and latterly gave stanch support to the prohibition cause. He and his wife were Baptists. He was held in high esteem and enjoyed an extensive acquaintance. His wife is kindly remembered by a host of people in Adams County. He and his wife had three children, Edgar, ilinnie and Arthur Frank. Edgar is a well known commission man, of the firm of Stacy & Sons of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is one of the best known ajjple men in the county, regarded as an authority on that subject. Minnie is the wife of Emmor E. Thompson, a well known citizen of Payson, concerning whom more is said on other pages of this publication.

Arthur Frank Morris was bom on the farm where he now resides Febniary 15, 1869. He received a common school education in the local schools and in Payson High School, then attended the Illinois State Normal for two years, after which he taught school for several years. Since then he has given his time and energies to the cultivation and improvement of the farm, which is regarded as one of the best in this rich and prosperous agi-ieultural community.

December 13, 1896, he married Ina Wilson, of Kinderhook, Illinois. They have one daughter, Vera, bom September 15, 1905. Mr. and Mrs. Morris are identified with the Paj^sou Congregational Church, of which he is a deacon. He is a member of Payson Lodge No. 379, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons.

Richard S. Curry. Probabl.y no one family contributed more of the physical energy and the sterling citizeu.ship which built a community than the 'Curry family in Clayton Township. As a family they came into the wilds of "Western Illinois more than eighty years ago. Some of the sons and daughters comprising the second generation were children at the time of the settlement in Adams County, and only a few of them are still represented in the active citizenship, one being Richard S. Curry, who for many years has lived retired at Camp Point.

The responsible head of the family at the time of its settlement here was Thomas Curry, who was born in Kentucky March 2, 1802. He married ilalinda Murphy, who was born in Kentucky November 6, 1807. They made the memorable journey from Kentucky to Western Illinois in 1836 and settled in Clayton Township, Adams County. Thomas Curry acquired 320 acres there, and also some timber land, and he directed his efforts toward the reclamation of his land and the genei-al improvement of the country. He was prospered, and spent many years in comfortable retirement in the Village of Clayton, where he died in 1891, at the venerable age of ninety. His wife died at the age of seventy-two. Thomas Curry began voting as a Kentucky whig, was an admirer of Henry Clay, and subsequently became allied with the republican party. He and his wife were active members of the Christian Church. A brief record of their numerous family is as follows : Benjamin Allen, who was born in Kentucky May 8, 1825, and became one of the leading citizens of Clayton Township, an extensive land owner, a manufacturer and merchant, and honored with many public offices: Marv, who was born September 17, 1826; Susan, born February 25, 1828 ; Richard S. ; William, who wa.s bom July 30, 1833 ; Sallie, born January 4, 1835, still living as Mrs. Bradley ; Christopher, born November 9, 1836, became a farmer in Clayton Township and reared a large family of children ; Nancy Ellen, born October 1, 1839 ; Henry Harrison, born July 8, 1841, who served three years as a Union soldier ; James T., born July 13, 1843; Sampson 0., born April 22, 1845; Pauline, born April 14, 1847; and Daniel 0., born February 23, 1851.

Richard S. Curry was born in Jefferson County, Kentucky, January 22, 1830, and was six years of age when the family moved to Clayton Township and established their home in an old log hou.se in section 32. From that home he went during the winter seasons to attend the neighboring schools, and his early training brought out all the hardy virtues and accomplishments of the frontier youth. After attaining manhood he bought eighty acres in Clayton Township, land which he subsequently sold to his father-in-law, and then bought 124 acres of the old homestead in section 32. That was considered a high class farm at the time, and commanded the price of $70 an aci'c. However, land values increased wonderfully during Mr. Curry's ownership, and when he sold the place in 1917 its approximate value was .$200 an acre. Mr. Curry ha.s lived retired from the active responsibilities of farming mauA' years, having moved to Camp Point Village in 1885. He had one of the good homes of the Village, which was burned in 1911, and he at once rebuilt it. Mr. Curry is a republican and served on the school board while living in the country. For many years he has been affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and has been a sustaining member of the Christian Church.

September 1, 1853, Mr. Curry married Miss Mary Virginia Booth. She was bom in Virginia March 24, 1834, daughter of Milton Booth, who was one of the early settlers of Adams County. Mr. and Mrs. Curry were married nearly thirty years before the death of the wife in 1881. She was the mother of seven children: Susanna Jane, born May 18, 1854; Anna M.. born January 12, 1858, died January 30, 1875 ; John Marcus, born December 7, 1861 ; Sarah Ellen, bom October 14, 1863; Harriet M., born March 13, 1866; Lottie B., born

December 12, 1867, now deceased; and Desdemona, bom September 3, 1874. On December 20, 1883, Mr. Curry married for his present \vife Miss Susan Lewis. She was born on the old Lewis homestead in Adams County December 2, 1849, daughter of Henry M. and Sarah (Kelley) Lewis, members of a prominent family elsewhere mentioned in this work. By his second wife Mr. Curry has one child, Cora Armenia, wife of William E. Stecher, of Camp Point. Mr. and Mrs. Stecher have one child, William Currj- Stecher.

John W. Sherrick, now a retired resident of Camp Point, gave several of his youthful j'ears to his country as a soldier of the Union, and came home from that great conflict on crutches. The major part of his active life was spent in Houston Township, and as a farmer and land owner his energy and resourcefulness brought him ample rewards and insured his independence and comfort in later years.

The old home of the Sherrick family in Houston Township was in section 20, and many acres of good land in that locality were redeemed from the wilderness by the Sherricks. John W. Sherrick was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, April 3, 1842, son of Martin and Susanna (Strickler) Sherrick. His father was bom in Fayette County in 1815 and his mother in 1819. They were mairied in Fayette Covmty in 1837 and in 1844 ilartin Sherrick came to Adams County and bought land in Houston Township. In 1846 he came here with his family and was one of the industrious farmers of that community until his death in 1875. His widow survived him over thirty years and passed away in 1907. Martin Sherrick was a republican, and served in various local offices, including justice of the peace. He and his wife were both active in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was affiliated with the ilasons. In their familjwere seven children, and the two still living are John W. and Joel D.

Four years old when brought to Adams County, John W. Sherrick spent his boyhood in the environment of Houston Township. Besides tlie advantages afforded by the district schools there he attended school at Quincy during 1858- 59. It was his great privilege while at Quincy in 1858 to be a boy witness and auditor of one of the great debates between Lincoln and Douglas held in that year. He thus came under the spell of the great Illinois statesman, and it was a matter of patriotism as well as civic duty that impelled him to take iip arms for the Lhiion when the war came on. He enlisted in Company H of the Seventy-Third Illinois Infantry, was mustered in as a sergeant, and later was promoted to second lieutenant of his company. He was with the army of the Cumberland in most of its campaigns from October 8, 1862, until Chickamauga, where he was wounded and returned home on a furlough for two months. He then rejoined his regiment and was discharged June 25, 1865. After his honorable discharge and some recuperation Mr. Sherrick taught school in Adams County, and in 1865 became an independent land owner, purchasing 180 acres, 160 acres of prairie and 20 acres of timber. The cultivation and improvement of this land forthwith occupied all his time and labor, and the fruits of his enterprise he reinvested in other land until he became owner of 670 acres, which he still retains. He remained a resident on his farm until 1889, and since then has lived in Camp Point and in later years has more and more relieved himself of the active share and responsibilities of business. On coming to Camp Point he bought twenty acres in and adjoining the village, but has since sold all but four acres, which surrounds his beautiful home known as the Seaton Place.

Mr. Sherrick is a republican in politics. While in Houston Township he served as road commissioner. He is affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic, with Lodge No. 197 of ]\Iasons, with Camp Point Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and it is interesting that he took his first degree in ^Masonrj- in February, 1865, at Huntsville, Alabama, while .still in the army. Mr. She/riek attends the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Woods. She is a member of oue of the oldest of Adams County families, being' a sister of Samuel Woods of Quincy and a daughter of Samuel aud Amanda Woods, who came to Adams County during the early '30s. Mr. and ilrs. Sherrick have two daughters, Susie aud Lucy, the latter still at home. Susie married Rev. A. K. Byrns, who is now pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church at Bloomington, Illinois. Eev. aud Mrs. Byrns have one daughter, Guinevere, a student in the Bloomington High School.

Alois J. Blickhan, M. D. Representing one of the stanch older families in the history of Quincy, Doctor Blickhan was born and reared in this city, has spent most of his active years here, and for over a quarter of a century has filled a place of great usefulness in the community as a capable physician and surgeon.

He was boiii at the old family homestead ou State Street in Quincy, June 2.5, 1866, son of John and Louise (Lambood) Blickhan. His eleven brothers and sisters were all born in the same house on State Street. John Blickhan was a native of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and came to Quincy in the early '40s. He was a carriagemaker by trade and founded in this city the Blickhan Carriage Manufacturing Company, a substantial industry that he prosperously- conducted for many years. John Blickhan acquii'ed considerable propertj^ and spent his last years practically retired. The mother, a native of France, came to the United States as a child and is living in Atlantic City, New Jersey, aged eightyseven years.

Doctor Blickhan was a practical printer before he was a phj-sician. He was educated in the public schools and in the Gem City Business College, but in the meantime had learned the trade of printer in the ofSce of the Job Printing Company. As a journeyman he followed his trade in several different states. He was working as a printer in St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1887, when chance brought to him some medical works, and a casual interest deepened into a profound study and eventually turned all his thoughts and ambitions toward the medical profession. Doctor Blickhan thoroughly earned every step of his preparation and promotion to professional success. For two j-ears he attended Rush Medical College of Chicago and paid his expenses while in college by working as a printer. In 1890 he entered Keokuk Medical College at Keokuk, Iowa, where he graduated in the spring of 1891. He had earned a portion of his expenses at Keokuk as clerk in a hotel at Burlington, Iowa.

Since graduating from medical college Docton Blickhan has been steadily devoted to a growing general practice at Quincy, and is skilled both in surgery and general medicine. He is a member in good .standing of the County and State Medical societies and the American Medical Association.

Doctor Blickhan married at Quincy Miss Nina Duker, a daughter of the late John Herman Duker, who in his time was one of Quincy 's most prominent business men and bankers. Doctor and ]\Irs. Blickhan have two sons : Norbith H. and Arthur, both of whom are students in St. Francis Catholic College at Quincy. The family are members of St. Boniface Catholic Church and Doctor Blickhan is a charter member of the Knights of Columbus, Council of Quincy, and the Benevolent aud Protective Order of Elks.

Doctor Blickhan is the largest ice packer in Quincy, having large ice houses and the latest machinery for the conduct of the business. He has a beautiful home, has been quite an extensive traveler, is an interesting, companionable fellow and has been successful in his professional and business undertakings.

Rev. Robert A. Omer. A long and active service in the Evangelical ministry has distinguished the career of Robert A. Omer of Camp Point. It is significant that some of his most fruitful work has been done in his old home community where he was born and reared and where he still resides.

He is identified with this locality by some of the oldest family relationships of Camp Point Township. His father, Daniel Omer, a son of Jacob and Priscilla (Curry) Omer, was born in Jefferson County, Kentucky, near Louisville,

September 5, 1828. He was reared on a farm and in 1855 came to Adams County and located on land in section 24 of Camp Point Townsliip, where lie lived until his death. His first year in the county he rented land, then bought eighty acres, and kept adding by other purchases until his estate at the time of his death comprised 500 acres. He was a republican, but never an aspirant to office, and he and his wife were very active members of the Christian Church. Daniel Omer died in 1910. He married Delilah Hoke, who was born in Kentucky in 1S31, daughter of Leonard and Barbara Hoke. They married in July, 1851, and lived together as man and wife for more than half a century. Mrs. Daniel Omer died in 1903. They had a family of seven children: Robert Ayres; James Edward, now deceased; Oscar Elsworth; Ellis Rousseau; Effie M. ; and Fannie and John Crittenden, both of whom died young.

Robert A. Omer was bom in Camp Point Township September 8, 1857, and grew up on the old homestead. He attended the country schools, the Maplewood High School at Camp Point and Abingdon College one j'ear. Another year he spent in Christian University at Canton, Missouri, and still another year in Eureka College at Eureka, Illinois. He was a school teacher for two years in his early life and in 1881 was ordained to the Christian ministry. During nearly all his active years as a minister he has retained his home at Camp Point, and from there has looked after his charges in various surrounding churches. For fifteen years Reverend Omer was engaged part of the year in Evangelical work, and during that time he preached in nearly every state of the Union, though chiefly in Iowa, Missouri, Illinois and Kentucky. For a number of years he was pastor of the Christian Church at Camp Point and the most successful meetings he ever held were in this old community. He now devotes his time to preaching for churches in the immediate vicinity, holding occasional revival meetings and doing lyceum work during the Chautauqua season. His efforts and influence as a minister have brought more than 10,000 persons into the church.

Rev. Mr. Omer owns one of the fine homes at Camp Point and is also owner of eighty acres of the old Omer homestead farm and seventy acres in another tract. He has always been interested in politics for the sake of good government in his home locality and is affiliated with the republican party. He is a member of the Masonic Order and the Knights of Pythias.

December 27, 1881, Rev. Mr. Omer married Miss Jessie B. Dewey. Mrs. Omer was born at Mendon in this county March 24, 1864, a daughter of L. D. Dewey, one of the prominent citizens of Camp Point Township. Her father was born in Chautauqua County, New York, August 13, 1827, son of Russell and Elizabeth (Meeks) Dewey. Russell Dewey was a miller by trade and also a local preacher of the Methodist Church. It was his intimate friendship with the great Lorenzo Dow which accounts for the name given his son. Lorenzo Dow Dewey came to Adams County in 1848, and for fifteen years had charge of the Fletcher Mill on Bear Creek in Honey Creek Township. He also spent two years in Quincy as ai grain dealer and was a farmer in -Mendon. He married February 28, 1847, Amanda Fletcher, who was born in Ohio April 14, 1827. Wlien Mrs. Omer was eight years of age her parents came to Camp Point, where her father took charge of the Casco Mills.

Rev. and Mrs. Omer had three children, only one of whom is now living. The oldest, Roy D.. died in infancy and Zula G. died in 1894, at the age of nineteen. She was just at the entrance upon a promising womanhood, having graduated from the Maplewood High School, and during her school work having won three medals for elocution.

The living son, Floy D., is a graduate of the Maplewood High School, the Gem City Business College, and is a successful young business man at Camp Point, where he has a vulcanizing and motor repair establishment and handles batteries and other motor accessories. He married Grace Sigler, of ]Memphis, Tennessee, and Reverend Omer and wife are very proud of their two grandchildren, Robert Charles and Mary Belle.

J. Albert Marshall has spent praetieall.v all his life in Columbus Township. On reaching manhood he had about the same opportunities that most young men have, but has vigorously prosecuted all his advantages and managed his affairs so well that he is now oiie of the large and successful farmers of that locality, with 200 acres in section 29. Of this extensive farm he has 140 acres improved and cultivated, the rest being in timber and pasture. He gives his attention to the entire farm, grows large crops and is doing much with good livestock, cattle and hogs in particular. Mr. Mar.shall bought and located on this farm in 1901. For five years previously he had lived on another place in the same section. Since coming to his farm he has erected a good class of farm buildings, including a barn 28x32 feet, with a 12-foot shed on one side, and he also has a cattle shed 20x48 feet. The barn improvements he erected in 1903 and his good substantial farm house of seven rooms was built in 1901.

Jlr. Marshall was born in Columbus Township April 1.5, 1864. He grew up here, was educated in the common schools, and has been a farmer for over thirty years. He is a son of John C. and Mary E. (DeMoss) Marshall. His father was born in Europe April 6, 1840, and on his sixth birthday his parents set out for the United States. After seven weeks on a sailing vessel they landed at New Orleans, came up the river to Quincy, and soon afterward located on a new farm in Liberty Township. In 1853 the famil.y moved to Columbus Township, acquiring a tract of wild land in the northwest quarter of section 29. The first improvement was a hewed log '^house. The grandparents spent the rest of their days there and made a good fann of it. They died when between fifty and sixty years of age. They were Protestant in religion.

John C. Marshall greAV up on the farm in Adams County and married Miss DeMoss, who was born in Columbus Township July 4, 1844, daughter of Peter DeMoss, one of the noted pioneers of the county, who owned a large amount of land in Columlius Township. Mr. and Mrs. DeMoss both died in Adams County. His wife whose maiden name was Catherine Hei-ring, lived to be eighty-seven years of age.

John C. ^Marshall and wife after their marriage lived on the old home farm three years, when he bought land in section 29 and some years later added to his possessions. He lived the life of a practical farmer and died there in 1888. His widow is still living, at the age of seventy-four, hale and hearty, and is a much respected resident of Columbus Village. Both parents were members of the Christian Church.

J. Albert Mar.shall was the oldest in a family of nine children, five sons and four daughters. All of them are still living and all married except Gamett, who lives with his mother.

J. Albert Marshall married Minnie R. Gibbs. She was born at Coatsburg in this county February 18, 1868, and was reared and educated there. Before her marriage she was a successful teacher. Her parents are Charles M. and Frances (Murray) Gibbs. Her father is still living at Coatsburg, at the age of eightyone, and, as noted on other pages, is a veteran railroad employe, having been station agent at Coat.sburg more than fifty years. Mr. and Mrs. IMarshall have three children : Mary, born in 1899, was educated in the township schools and is still at home ; Orin L., born in 1902, is still pursuing his education ; and John M., born in 1905, is also a schoolboy. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall are members of the Christian Chiirch at Columbus. He is a republican and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Colum.bus.

Charles E. Gabriel has been one of the chief factors in the activities of the village of Payson a number of years. He was postmaster nine years and for the past ten j^ears ha.s been cashier of the Bank of Payson, which is operated by the directors of the State Savings, Loan and Trust Company of Quincy.

Mr. Gabriel was born at Payson February 18, 1865, son of William R. and Sarah E. (Collins) Gabriel. AVilliam R. Gabriel, a native of Ohio, came as a young man to Adams County, and for a time followed his trade as black- smith on Mill Creek in Melrose Township, and later located at Payson, where he lived until his death at the age of fifty-five. During the period of the Civil war he had to carry the mail from Quincy to Payson, and made the trip thrice weekly. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a local exhorter, and for some years also filled the office of ju.stice of the peace. He was twice married. His first wife was Mary Greno, who died leaving four daughters and two sons: Susan, widow of Richard Eels, residing in Cashmere, Washington ; Melissa married William A. Mitchell and both are now deceased; Emma, who lives at San Diego, California, is the widow of L. M. Dort; Lavina, who resides in Los Angeles, is the widow of John A. Robertson ; Newton A. was a soldier in the Civil war and died soon afterwards ; William died in Helena, Montana. For his second wife AVilliam R. Gabriel married Sarah E. Collins. She was born at Elizabethtown, Spencer County, Kentucky, and was a girl of eight years when her parents. David and Sarah Collins, came to Adams County. The Collins family located three miles east of Payson, where she grew up and where her parents died in old age. Members of the Collins family were soldiers in the Revolutionary war. The Collins family spent their first winter in Illinois on what is now South Park, Quinej-. They found Payson Township a wilderness, covered with heavy 'timber, but they eventually carved out a good farm there. Sarah Collius Gabriel, who died at Payson October 29, 1908, was the mother of two daughters and four sons: Eflie, Mrs. W. A. Dunlavy, of Bloomington, Nebraska ; Jessie M., who died at Lucia, New Mexico, in 1916, was the wife of John Bingham White : Charles E. Gabriel is the third child ; George G. is manager of the Halbach-Schroeder Company at Quincy; E. J. is a physician at Payson; and Frank R. lives at Iveokuk, Iowa.

Charles E. Gabriel has spent all his life at Payson. He attended the local schools and had a partial course in the high school. For seventeen years he has been the local undertaker and his service as postmaster was from September 18, 1905, until October 1, 1914. In December, 1909, he was chosen cashier of the Bank of Payson, one of his strongest recommendations for that post coming from David Wilcox of Quincy. His chief assistant in the bank is Mrs. Gabriel.

October 19, 1901. ilr. Gabriel married Miss Maggie Hall, of Camp Point, daughter of Professor and Mrs. S. F. Hall, well known and noted characters in the educational life of Adams County, elsewhere referred to. Mrs. Gabriel attended the Maplewood High School at Camp Point, also the Blandinsville High School, and for one year was a student in De Pauw University at Greeneastle, Indiana. At the age of eighteen she was employed as a teacher at Blandinsville, and altogether taught sixteen years, ten years at Payson and five years in the Highland School of Quincy. Both Mr. and Mrs. Gabriel have been very active in Red Cross work and he has been chairman of his local district in the bond drive. He is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Burton, and for sixteen years was master of Pay.son Lodge, No. 379, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and is now the present master and has attended many sessions of the Grand Lodge. He and his wife are both prominent in Payson Chapter, No. 375, of the Eastern Star, and he is a charter member of that organization and was its first and its present patron.

Samltel F. Hall. The highest tribute to a man's character and usefulness is the quality and duration of the memory that survives him and persists among those people outside his immediate blood relationship with whom he lived and worked. On that score the late Samuel F. Hall died content and well satisfied. Hundreds of men and women in Adams County and elsewhere have a grateful memory of what he did for them as a teacher, friend and guide of their youth, and while his services were not altogether concentrated in one community the splendid record of the Maplewood High School at Camp Point alone would be a sufficient monument to his life.

April 11, 1903, in his sixty-fifth year. His parents were John Hall and Elizabeth (Maxwell) Hall, both natives of Ireland, though they were reared from chiklliood in America. John Hall was a New York State farmer. He met and married his wife in Canada. From Oswego soon after the birth of Samuel they returned to Livingston County, New York, where the mother died when Samuel was twelve years of age. The home was then broken up and the boy had to shift for himself, working among farmers in summer and attending district schools in winter. Later he satisfied his ambition for a better education by entering at the age of seventeen Nuuda Academy, going there with only .$1.50 in ca.sli and without books. The head of the school offered to lend him books and also to wait for the tuition. He earned his living while attending school by sawing wood, spading gardens and performing any other honest toil which people of that community were willing to assign him. At the close of his term he secured a school to teach, and for several years he taught alternately with attending school. After the Nimda Academy was burned he continued his studies at Dansville, New York.

During his work as a teacher in New York State he met and won the heart of Ellen Ai-temisia Burroughs. They were married September 8, 1861, and in March of the following year they went west and located at Princeton, Illinois. Both became teachers in the public schools at Princeton, Mr. Hall as principal and his wife as assistant. They were connected with the schools of Princeton five years and many of their old pupils are still living in that rich community, and Professor Hall's portrait hangs in one of the city school buildings.

About the close of the Civil war the citizens of Camp Point planned and built one of the most perfectly appointed school buildings in the state at that time, costing $30,000, and named, because of the maple trees that surround it, Maplewood High School. Through the recommendation of Professor W. H. V. Raj-mond, the local board at Camp Point negotiated with Mr. Hall at Princeton to organize and take charge of the new school. He entered upon that work in the fall of 1867, and it is hardly necessarv at this point to state the thoroughness and efficiency of his work. He installed a complete graded system and soon had 500 pupils enrolled. At the end of five years he resigned and then for two years taught at Payson, after which he returned to the ]\Iaplewood High School and was its principal for a total period of a quarter of a century. In 1877 he was unanimously nominated by the republican party for county superintendent of schools, but he declined to leave his work at Camp Point to become a candidate. He bought property adjoining the village, and made a very complete and comfortable home there. Maplewood High School iinder his prineipalship had a just fame all over Illinois, and attracted to it a large number of pupils who were non-resident in the township and district. It is said that fully half of the teachers of Adams County at one time had been students at Maplewood. Some of the men now living who received a poi'tion of their education there were Attorney Sam Woods, Judge Albert Akers, Judge Lyman McCarl, and former county treasurer, James D. Corrigan.

The affection paid by old pupils and friends was equally divided between Professor Hall and his equally cultured and gracious wife. Mrs. Hall was bom in Wyoming County, New York, September 13. 1841, daughter of Jefferson and Zilpha (Manchester) Burroughs. Her grandfather Manchester was a Revolutionary soldier, and several of the Burroughs family became prominent as teachers and educators. Mrs. Hall was a teacher when slie married Mr. Hall, and always took a deep interest in every educational movement. After the death of her husband she moved to Quincy, where her daughter Edith has for a number of years been one of the valued members of the teaching staff in the Quincy public schools.

A., born October 1, 1877 ; and Plarry Maxwell, born September 18, 1879 and died August 1, 1880. The son Louis now lives at Camp Point. The daughter Nina is the wife of George Gabriel of Quiney, Maggie is Mrs. Charles E. Gabriel of Payson, and Bessie is the wife of William Dunn.

Mr. and Mrs. Hall were active members of the Church of the Disciples. Their pastor, Rev. Ayrcs Omer, a former pupil of Professor Hall, officiated at the funeral services of Professor Hall and also of Mrs. Hall eleven years later.

RjCHARD M. Johnson. Some of the best farms and best farmers are found in Columbus Township, and one of them is located on section 29, the home of Richard IM. Johnson. Mr. Johnson has been a resident of Adams County for over tifty years, and since early manhood has been a practical and progressive farmer. He has made several changes of location, and all of them for the better. His present home has been occupied b,y him for the past twelve years. It contains eighty acres, all under the plow and productive of large crops of corn, wheat and oats.

He came to the county when a small child in 1862. For fifteen years he farmed in section 20 of Columbus Township, and for five years before coming to his present place had another fai-m, also in section 29. Besides his eighty acres he operates fiftj--five acres adjacent. H,e keeps his land well tilled, and feeds all his products to his horses, cattle, hogs and sheep.

Mr. Johnson was born in Marion County, ilissouri, not far from Palmyra, March 6, 1853. His father, Joel Johnson, was born in Ohio in 1827. He grew up and married in that state Christina Braught. a native of Pennsylvania. After their marriage they started out as farmers in Ohio, but being very poor they sought a countrj- where cheaper lands could be secured and made the journey on foot to Missouri, carrying practically all their worldlj- possessions on their backs. In Marion Countj' they secured a small log cabin. Two children were bom in that home. The parents one day were out gathering nuts in the woods when their cabin caught fire and burned to the ground, both the children losing their lives. They then moved to another home. There the following children were born: Elijah, Jeremiah, Joel, Jr., Couunodoi'e, Amanda and Richard M. Three years after the birth of Richard the father died when in the prime of life, at the age of thirty-nhie. Of the children Elijah, Commodore and Richard are still living, all married and with children. Elijah lives at Fort Smith, Arkansas, and Commodore is a farmer in Liberty Township of Adams County. Elijah served all through the Civil war, and Jeremiah and Joel, Jr., also enlisted in the Union army in that struggle and both died of measles in a hospital at Nashville, Tennessee, their deaths occurring but three days apart.

The widowed mother married for her second husband Joshua Piles. In 1862 they came to Adams County and settled in Columbus Township, where Mr. Piles died about 1885. His widow survived him about twenty years and passed away in March, 1905, at the age of eighty-seven. By her second marriage she had a son and daughter, Sampson and Rebecca Piles. Sampson now lives in Milam, Missouri, and has a family. The daughter, Rebecca, died after her marriage, leaving five daughters.

Richard JI. Johnson received his early education in Columbus Township. He married there Rachel Wear. She was born in Pike County, Illinois, in 1851 and was one year of age when brought to Adams County bj' her parents, who lived and died there. She had two brothers, Joseph and Albert, still living. Mrs. Johnson died at her home in Columbus Township October 12, 1S96. She was the mother of seven children, all of whom aj"e still living, named Laverna, Eva, Zelda, Adam, Elva, Ruth and Grimes. Laverna is the wife of William Williams, a farmer in Columbus Township, and has two children, Orin and Wade. Eva is the wife of Fred Ertz, of Columbus Township, and their children are Fay, Ray and Delbert. Zelda married Clifford Lierle, of Liberty Township, and they have one child, Merle. Adam lives on a farm in

McGee Township, and he and his wife have Elmo, Darling, Maxine and Glendon. Elva is the wife of Ray Cutforth, of Quincy, and has a daughter, Urith. Ruth married Fred Hall, of Camp Point, a man of superior education, a graduate of the MeComb Normal School, and now principal of the Liberty schools. They have two children, Glenedene and Fred, Jr. The youngest child. Grimes, is still unmarried.

Mr. Johnson married for his second wife at Barry, Pike County, Illinois, Mrs. Sarah E. "Woodward Curry. Her first husband. John E. Curry, died in 1906, when in the prime of life. He left one daughter, Clara, wife of Riley Byers, now of Kenneth, Kansas, and they have children named Hazel, Helen, Glen, Mary and Ellen.

Mrs. Johnson was born in Adams County February 15. 1861, and from the age of four years lived in Pike County, attending the schools near Bariy. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have two-children: Walter, aged nineteen, and Paul Clifford, -aged fourteen, the latter still in school. The family are members of the Church of the Brethren at Liberty, Mr. Johnson being a deacon in the churcli. Politically he is a democrat.

Thomas A. Eckhofp. One of the prominent farmers of Adams County, Thomas A. Eckhoff for the past twentj^ years or more has given his time and attention to the development of a good farm and to the raising of crops and livestock in Columbus Township. He is a citizen whose material circumstances have improved steadily with the passing years, and who at the same time has gained the esteem of his community for his good judgment and his public spirit in all matters affecting the common weal.

His farm is in section 23 of Columbus Township. He owns 340 acres thei'e, nearly all of it well improved and productive of the best crops of corn, wheat, oats, etc. ]\Iost of his grain and other forage he feeds on the farm, and he raises a large number of cattle, hogs and horses. His farm is good soil and has the benefit of a thorough natural drainage system. Mr. Ecklioff has owned this farm for a number of years and has cleared up many acres by his own labors. He has a set of excellent farm buildings, including a substantial six room house. One of the valuable features of his farm is a tract of good native timber.

On the same section and at his father's farm and old homestead nearby Mr. Eckhoff was born ilay 12, 1869. An interesting relic of the old homestead is the log cabin in which he first saw the light of day and which is still standing on the old farm now owned and managed by his capable sisters. Further refei"- enee to his father, Andrew T. Eckhoff', and family will be found on other pages.

Mr. Eckhoff grew up at home, attended the old Excelsior School, the land for which and the church was donated by his father. At the age of twentyfour Mr. Eckhoff made his first purchase of land, and has since added as his means and opportunities justified until he has a well proportioned farm. He has lived in his present farm residence since 1911.

In 1894 Mr. Eckhoff married Miss Flora E. Shultz. She was born in Concord To^vniship of this county March 30. 1877, and was educated in the district schools. Her parents were Henry and IMargaret (Kiuker) Shultz, both natives of Germany. Her father came to this country alone and her mother with her parents. Her father came by sailing vessel to New Orleans, came up the river to St. Louis, where he married, and about 1870 moved to Adams County and bought land in Concord Township. In 1894 the Shultz family moved to another farm in Concord Township, where Mrs. Eckhoff's father died in February, 1903, at the age of eighty-four. Her mother is now living in Quincy with her widowed daughter, Mrs. Lizzie Gnuse. She celebrated her eightieth birthday November 3, 1918. She is a member of the Methodist Church and Mr. Shultz was also a member of that church. Of the three sons and four daughters born to ]\Ir. and Mrs. Shultz two sons and three daughters are still living, and all married.

Mr. and Mrs. Eckhoff have an interesting family of children: Edna E., born June 26, 1895, wa.s educated in the Liberty School, is still at home and is secretary of the Christian Church Sunday school. Etta M., born November 1, 1897, died July 5, 1913, while a school girl. Dottie E., born February 1, 1904, and Norma M., born ]\Iay 22, 1908, are both attending the local schools. Hazel N., born October 13, 19*13, and Flora T., born January 1, 1918, are the two younger children. The family are members of the Wolf Ridge Christian Church. Mr. Eckhotf has been quite active in the church, especially in helping with the musical programs of the Sunday school. In matters of politics he casts an independent republican vote.

Fred G. Bilvkensiek. It was a life of effective purpose, worthy endeavor and beneficent influence that was lived by the late Fred G. Brakensiek of Columbus Township. Mr. Brakensiek spent all his life in Adams County and was distinguished by unusual business qualifications, resulting in large landed properties and several well managed farms. He was equally prominent in church life, gave liberally of his means, and was a personal worker in one of the leading centers of religious activity in this township.

Mr. Brakensiek was bom at Quiney April 19, 1851. His parents, Gottlieb and Henrietta Brakensiek, were born in Prussia, Germany. Gottlieb married his first wife in Germany, and coming to America located at Quiney, where his wife died in the prime of life. She left one son Ferd, who now lives on his farm in ilelrose Township. He has lost both his wives and has children by both marriages. In Quiney Gottlieb Brakensiek married Henrietta, his second wife, and for several years they lived on a farm east of the city and later moved to the southeastern comer of Columbus Township and finally to the vicinity of Carthage, Illinois, where his wife died in 1883. He passed away at the home of his son Fred G. September 14, 1890. He was born in February, 1818. He was a Lutheran and both he and his wife gave their utmost to the maintenance of church influences in their community. He was a charter member of St. Peter's Lutheran Church, which stood on his fami. Among his children were Henry, Fred 6., August, Ferd and Simon, and four daughters. The only ones now living are Simon, Ferd, ]Mrs. Lena Weinreich and Mrs. Lizzie Hetier.

Fred G. Brakensiek grew up in Columbus Townshij), and on ilarch 16, 1876, married in Concord Township Miss Wilhelmina Rippel. She was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, September 24, 1855, and was five years old when her parents came to Concord Township, where she was reared and educated. She was a daughter of Christian and Caroline (Garke) Rippel, who were born in Germany, and their two oldest children, ]\Iary and Charles, were also born in that country. They came to America on a sailing vessel and from New York settled in Ohio, and in 1860 located on a farm in Concord Township of Adams County. Her mother died there in June, 1891. Her father afterwards moved to Mount Sterling, Illinois, where he passed away February 12, 1910. He was then very old, having been born in June, 1822. The Rippels were active members of the Lutheran Church, and the father helped found Zion Church in Concord Township and was one of the builders.

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Brakensiek lived four years in the southeastern part of Columbus Township, and then bought a large farm of 288 acres in sections 23 and 24. Later they added 100 acres in section 13, and also had 80 acres west of those properties. Most of this land was well improved and constitutes todaj' some of the best farms in the township. The home farm had some substantial buildings, including a good seven room house.

In the midst of his labors and activities Mr. Brakensiek died September 8, 1912, at the age of sixty-one. In politics he was a republican and held several local ofSces. He was reared a Lutheran and was one of the leading members of the Wolf Ridge Christian Church, the land on which that church stands having been donated by him. Mrs. Brakensiek and her children are sustaining members of the same church, and Lydia and Henry are both teachers in the

Sunday school. The oldest child was William, who died in infancy. Henry Brakensiek now lives on a fine farm in section 24, 121 acres, and more particular reference to him will be found on other pages. Lena is the wife of William A. Norris, a farmer in Columbus Township, and they have seven sons and daughters. Freda is the wife of Arnie F. Steiner. They occupy and operate the old homestead farm. Mr. and Mrs. Steiner have two children, Mildred L., born in 1909, now in the fifth grade of the public schools, and Harold H., born in 1911, now in the second grade. The son Frank C. Brakensiek died in 1906, at the age of eighteen, while a student in the local high school. Lydia S., the youngest, is- still at home and was well educated in the district schools.

Henry F. Brakensiek. One of the best farms in Cohimbus Township is visible evidence of the enterprise and good management of Henry F. Brakensiek, its owner. He is one of the .younger generations of farmers in that part of the county and has vigorously upheld the responsibilities of citizenship as well as his part in the agricultural community.

His home is in section 13 of Columbus Township. He has lived there for the past fourteen years, spending four years on the land as a tenant. In 1908 he bought 207 acres and later fourteen acres more. Most of this land is in ciiltivation, and it is splendidly arranged and equipped for his purposes of general farming and stock raising. He keeps the better grades of stock, including horses, cattle and hogs. His hogs are of the Poland China strain. He has also bred some fine Hereford cattle.

Mr. Brakensiek is a son of the late Fred G. Brakensiek, concerning whom and the history of this well known family in Adams County a more particular account is published on other pages. Henry F. Brakensiek was born January 13, 1880, on the farm his father first owned in Columbus Township. Three months after his birth his parents moved to what is known as the old Brakensiek homestead. Mr. Brakensiek was educated in the Excelsior District School, and his work as a boy on the farm gave him a good preparation for the career he has followed.

In Columbvis Township he married Miss Stella Mixer. She was born in McKee Township of this county December 4, 1880, Init grew up in Columbia Township and attended the Excelsior District School. Her pai-ents were Joseph H. and Mary (Tripplett) Mixer. Mr. and Mrs. Brakensiek have three children; Irvin L., bom December 21, 1905, now a student in the eighth grade of the Excelsior School; Reva M. F., born October 28, 1908, and Fern M., born July 28, 1912, both in school. The family are active members of the Wolf Ridge Christian Church, of which Mr. Brakensiek is a deacon. Politically he is a republican.

Samuel R. McAnulty. While nominally retired, Samuel R. McAnulty still finds much visefulness to occupy his time and attention at his home in Golden. Mr. McAnulty has never been able to free himself entirely from his vocation as a breeder and raiser of horses and other livestock. In the palmy days of the Adams County Fair Association his draft horses were usually on exhibition and many of them were blue ribbon winners.

When in the high tide of his farming career Mr. ^IcAnulty lived in Houston Township, and he still has a small farm surrounding his home at Golden. He was born in Adams County, October 31, 1839, son of Samuel and Lucinda (Mc- Farland) ]\IcAnulty. The McAnulty and McFarland families were among the early settlers of this county, arriving here in 1832. At that time Adams County had less than three thousand population and the advent of a single family was an event of no small importance. Samuel McAnulty located on a tract of government land containing a hundred acres in section 3 of Camp Point Township. He became a large land owner and gave much of his property to his children. He finally retired to Camp Point, and he and his wife both died in that village. He was a republican and an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

There were seven children, two youngest dying in infancy. Polly, the oldest, married Charles Kern, and is deceased. Matilda married Washington Gallamore, and is deceased. Jane Ann lives in Missouri, widow of Edwin Pierce. The fourth in age is Samuel R. John died at the age of thirteen.

Samuel R. McAnulty was born seven j'ears after his parents came to Adams County, and he grew up in the midst of frontier conditions and lived at home to the age of twenty-two. While attending school he had also worked on the farm from the age of ten years and was well prepared for his independent career when he left home. Mr. McAnulty 's farm was the northeast quarter of section 35 of Houston Township, and he gave personal attention to its cultivation and supervision until 1902, when he came to Golden and bought a good home in the town. He has twelve acres of ground, constituting what might be called a suburban farm. Even after moving to this town home he continued breeding draft horses and still keeps a small drove of hogs. Mr. McAnulty is a republican and has served in the offices of supervisor, road commissioner and school director.

In March, 1861, he married Mary Pierce. She was born in Ohio in 1840, daughter of Isaac and Mary Pierce, who three years later came to Adams County, where l)oth of them died. j\Ir. and ]\Irs. ]\IcAuultj^ were happily married for more than half a century. Mrs. McAnulty died May 1, 1918. She was the mother of six children, three of whom died in infancj'. Minnie is the wife of Clarence Van Nosdall, who now occupies and manages the old McAnulty homestead in section 35 of Houston Township. Mr. and ]\Irs. Van Nosdall have three children, Samuel Glenn, Elsie and Ada. The daughter Eva is the wife of W. A. Bottorff, of Coatsburg. Their childreii are Ruble, Arthur, Marion and Hazel. The daughter Lora is the wife of Henry Reynolds, of Camp Point Township. They have a son and daughter, Samuel and Lora. Samuel, who bears the name of his grandfather and great-grandfather, is now with the American Expeditionary Forces in Prance.

Henry J. Lewis. For eighty years or more the Lewis family has been prominent as land holders, farmers and good business men and citizens in Clayton and Camp Point townships. The name is numerously represented in the county, and the stock is an exceptionally virile one. It is doubtful if any family in Adams County can show more members who lived beyond their eightieth birthday.