Quincy Township (part 67 of 74)

In 1893 he removed to the Village of Camp Point and bought an acre of ground as a building site and erected a very commodious and ample residence, situated just west of the Maplewood High School. Mr. Horner is a democrat in politics and while living in Columbus Township was a member of the school board eighteen years, and also township supervisor and road commissioner. He is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and with the Christian Church at Camp Point.

August 17, 1862, Mr. Horner married Miss Eliza A. DeMoss. They have lived together fifty-six years and their home is almost unique in the fact that it has never been the scene of either a death or a birth. Mrs. Horner was born in Adams County March 18, 1842, a daughter of Peter and Catherine (Herron) DeMoss. Her parents were natives of Ohio, her father born in April, 1818, and her mother in 1825. They settled in Adams County in the '30s and were prominent residents of Columbus Township. Her father died there in 1854 and her mother in 1911. Mrs. Horner is the oldest of three children. Her sister, Mary Elizabeth, is the wife of John Christopher Marshall, and her only brother, James W^illiam, lived at Savannah, Missouri.

Albert L. Horner, brother of William Wesley, has for many years been one of the leading stock farmers and citizens of Camp Point Township. He was born in Hamilton Township. Ohio, January 24, 1845, and came to this county at the age of four years. He is the owner of 201 acres in Camp Point Township and other lands in Columbus Township. In 1875 he removed to Camp

Point Township and bought from his father-in-law the old John F. Seaton farm, ont of the best and most noted farmsteads in that part of the county. This farm he has made the center of his extensive stock raising industry. He is a well known breeder of Poland China hogs and Polled Angus cattle. His political affiliations have been with the democratic party. He has served as road commissioner. He is a member of the Christian Church of Camp Point.

In 1875 Albei't L. Horner married Maria Seaton. Her father, John F. Seaton, came to Adams County when a child from Kentucky and spent all his life in this locality. Mr. and Mrs. Albert L. Horner had four children. Alice, the oldest, died when four years old. Nellie is the wife of Henry Meyers, and their children are named Horner, Alfred and Eleanor. Florence is the wife of Warren H. Hoke and has one daughter, Margaret. Kate is the wife of William Steiner and has a daughter, Lois. Mrs. Albert L. Horner died December 15, 1915.

Charles Veihl is a man of importance in Burton Township, has been identified with farming there for many years, and is now rendei-ing valuable service in the office of highway commissioner. His home is fourteen miles southeast of Quiney.

Mr. Veihl was born at St. Louis Otcober 21, 1865. His father, Christ Veihl, came to Quiney from St. Louis and was a wagon maker by trade. He was employed in the old Knapheide wagon shop until about 1873, when he moved to Burton Village and ran his ovpii shop there until he lost an arm through an accident. After that he continued to live in the Village of Burton, ran a huckster wagon for some years, and died in 1910, when about sixty-seven years of age. He married Christina Fultz, w^ho died some years before him. They were married in St. Louis. Besides Charles one son, Christ, is a resident of Fall Creek Township, and two sisters, Mrs. George Kemmerer and Mrs. Fred Usher, live in Quiney, and two others have their home in Kansas City, Missouri.

Charles Veihl grew up at Burton, and from an early age began earning his own living. For a number of years he was in the employ of George Abel. At the age of twenty-four he man-ied Miss Hannah Gilhouse, daughter of August and Serepta (Huffman) Gilhouse. Her parents were residents of Burton Township. Her father gave her at the time of her marriage eighty acres of laud, this being the old farm of Major Aten, who built the substantial house there in 1859. Mr. Veihl has farmed this place ever since his marriage, and has increased his holdings by another eighty acres purchased at $100 an acre. He is engaged in general fanning and specializes in Poland China hogs.

In the way of public service Mr. Veihl was tax collector of the township two years and for the past three years has been highway commissioner. His chief duties in this office are the building of a number of cement culverts on the township highways. He is a democrat and has served as precinct committeeman and election judge.

Mrs. Veihl died in 1915, the mother of two sons, Elmer and William. Both sons had a part in the inanaffcmcnt of the farm until William enlisted and is now a soldier at Camp Sheridan. Elmer, who remains on the farm, married Miss Frances Lester.

WiLLi.vM Bock is proprietor of one of those farms in Melrose Township that have been longest in the possession of and under the tillage of one family. His home is nine miles southeast of Quiney, and the land in his farm has been improved and cultivated by the Bock family for more than half a century.

It was not far from his present home tluit William Bock was born September 5, 1860. He is a son of Daniel and Fredericka (Gasser) Bock. Daniel Bock was born in Waldeck, Germany, February 2. 1828, and was reared and educated in the schools of his native countiy. He came to America in 1854, locating in Melrose Township, wliere his older brother, William, also lived. William sjient many years iu this county, was au active farmer iu Melrose Township, and died after living retired several years in Quincy. He left no descendants. Daniel Bock worked on a farm two years after coming to Adams County, and then married in Quincy on February 7, 1858, Miss Gasser. She was born in Germany ilarch 14, 1838. She came to America with her mother and three brothers. These brothers, William, Fred and Henry Gasser, all went west and became business men. Fredericka Gasser was twenty years of age at the time of her marriage. After that Daniel Bock rented land from liis brother William in Melrose Township, and about 1866 bought eighty acres for !f-4,500. A few years later he acquired another eighty acres at $80 an acre. This is the land now in the home farm of his son William. Daniel Bock brought that land under a high state of cultivation, abundantly supplied with fruit and with good liuildings. He was one of the most energetic farmers in the township. He built a house, barn and other buildings, and was always up to date in his farm management. His wife died on the old farm, and he passed away in 1910 at a good old age. He was a democrat and a member of the German Lutheran Church in Fall Creek Township. He and his wife had eight children : Mary, first wife of Adam Speekhart ; William : Fred, a resident of Quincy ; Philip, a farmer in Melrose Township near ^larblehead; John, who was an employe of the Burlington Railway and was killed in a train accident ; Henry, a farmer in Fall Creek Township ; Kate, who lives with her sister Minnie ; and Minnie, wife of Fred Reich, member of a well known family elsewhere referred to in these pages.

William Bock grew up on his father's farm, and for two years he worked out as a farm hand at wages of $175 to $190 a year. On March 22, 1888, he married Miss Elizabeth Rotligeb, of Quincy, daughter of Charles Rothgeb. Mrs. Bock was born on the farm where she now lives, her father renting it at the time. She grew up in Quincy and was ediicated there. After their marriage Mr. and ]Mrs. Bock rented land in Fall Creek Township and then took over the home farm. After his father's death Mr. Bock bought the other interests in the 160 acres, and has continued there a very prosperous career as a general farmer, adding much to the value of the farm in the way of buildings and other facilities. He is the present director of his local school board, and in politics is a democrat. He and his family are members of the Bluff Hall Church in Fall Creek Township.

For the past two years Mr. Bock has been retired from the more active responsibilities of the farm, which is conducted by his son-in-law. He and his wife have five children : Emma is the wife of Ed Wolf, of Pike County, Illinois. Margaret married Matt Loos, who lives on his father's farm. Carl died at the age of three years. Lydia is still- at home. Elsie married August Kaufmann, who now operates the Bock farm. August Kaufmann is a son of the late Henry Kaufmann. who was born in Germany and died in iIelro.se Township April 21, 1916. He married in Quincy Catherine Speekhart, a sister of John and Adam Speekhart.

Ben Schneider is a resident of Melrose Township, his farm home being eight miles southeast of Quincy. He is one of the capable farmers and citizens of that locality and for a number of years has been a general farmer, stock raiser and truck grower, marketing tlie produce of his fields largely in Quincy.

He was born two miles from his present home on November .3, 1867, son of Moritz and Catherine (Muhe) Schneider. ]\Ioritz Schneider was born in Steinbach, Germany, and was eighteen years of age when he came to the United States in company with a friend, George Plerold, who became a well known Adams County citizen. They landed at Quincy, and Moritz Schneider worked in a store for a time. In 1830 he went overland to California, having a partner and driving eight.v oxen across the plains. It took all summer to cross. For four years he remained in the mining districts, made considerable money, but saved comparatively little on account of the high cost of living. He returned by way of the Isthmus. After that he lived in Adams County, making his home with

Mr. Heroic! until he married, at the age of thirty-two, ]\Iiss Catherine Muhe, of St. Louis. She was twenty-two years of age at the time of her marriage.

After that they began farming near St. Anthony's Catholic Church and in 1868 moved to the present farm of Ben Schneider. Moritz Schneider secured eighty-two acres of rather poor land, with indifferent buildings, and in course of time had a good farm. He built the present home in 1893. During his last years he lived retired at a small property close to his old home. He also o\fned ninety-four acres in the same locality, improved it with buildings, and sold it to his son. Mr. Schneider served sixteen years as road boss and was a democi-at in politics. He died December 31, 1910, at the age of eighty-five years and two mouths, and is one of the well remembered old timers of ilelrose Township. His widow survived him about a year and was seventy-six at the time of her death. They were active members of St. Anthony's Catholic Church, situated five miles from their home. Thej* contributed to the building of that ehiu'ch. and he was a trustee for many years. They are laid to rest in the churchyard there. Their family consisted of eight children : August and Philip, both of whom died in e&rly childhood ; Elizabeth, who died at the age of twenty ; Margaret, Mrs. Henry Wand, of Melrose Township ; Ben, whose Christian name is Boniface ; Philip, who lived near the old homestead and died in 1908, at the age of thirty-six; Emma, who married Simon Wand and died in 1917, at the age of forty-five; and Pauline, who became Sister Dolores in the Order of St. Francis at Manitowoc, Wisconsin, and died at the age of thirty-five.

Ben Schneider remained at the old homestead, rented the farm from his father, and finally bought it. For fifteen yeai's during the winter he combined farming with another occupation, that of teaming for the Papes flour mill on Mill Creek. He now has his farm nearly all in ciiltivation, with twenty-six acres of rich bottom laud on Mill Creek. As a truck grower he specializes in such crops as melons and potatoes. He has always raisecl a number of hogs. In the way of public service Mr. Schneider was highway commissioner one term of three years. That was an important office at the time, since as a result of heavy floods many of the bridges and culverts had been destroyed and for several months he was almost constantly on duty in rebuilding and repairing the highways. That was before the time of cement construction, and bridges were not built so permanently as at present. Mr. Schneider is a democrat, and he and his family are members of St. Anthony's Church.

January 10, 1899, he married Miss Mary Dreier, of Olpe, Lyon County, Kansas. Mrs. Schneider wa.s born in Melrose Township May 11, 1873. daughter of Gerhardt Henry and Elizabeth (Evers) Dreier. Her father was a native of Germany, and was brought to America at the age of seven years by his parents, Gerhardt and Helena Dreier, who spent their last years in Melrose Township. When Mrs. Schneider was twelve years of age her father, her mother having died at Quincy, moved out to Kansa.s, and she was her father's housekeeper for a number of years. Her father later returned to Adams County and died at Quincy in February, 1917, at the age of eighty-four. During Civil war times he had driven a span of mules in the Government service out to Salt Lake.

Frank Wellm.vnn. About seventy years ago William Wellmann bought 120 acres of woodland in Melrose Township, with only two acres cleared and with a log house as a habitation. That was the beginning of a fine farm and may also be taken as the starting point for the capable enterprise of the Wellmann family in Adams County, though William Wellmann had visited here several years previously. The Wellmanns today, grandsons of William Wellmann, are noted as some of the best orchardists, fine stock raisers and general farmers in Melrose Township.

was a blaeksiiiith, and after coming to America and locating at Quincy conducted a shoj) for many j-ears on Ninth Street. Then about 1847 he bought a 120 acres, as above noted, in Melrose Township. He devoted himself to clearing away the trees, extending the area of cultivation, but he subsequently lived for several years in Quincy in order that his sons might attend school there. He finally returned to the farm and his last days were spent in Quuiey, where he died. His widow survived him until past eighty years of age. Both were active members of St. Francis Catholic Church at Quincy, and they were laid to rest in St. Boniface Cemetery. Part of the present home on the Wellmann farm was built by William AVellmann more than forty years ago. The son Frank reconstructed the home in its present form. William Wellmann was no seeker of public office, merely a democratic voter, and alwa.ys bore the character of a steady, industrious and upright citizen. He and his wife had nine children : Frank; William, a saddler living in ^Montana ; Frederick, of Palmyra, Missouri; John, a painter at Quinc.y ; Elizabeth, who married Edmond Reed, and died in 1907; Sophia, who died in 1913, the wife of Louis Klingle; Catherine, widow of John Criddell, living in Quincy ; Theresa, widow of Frank Kerkmann ; and Philomeua, widow of Joseph Ashman, of Quinc.y.

The late Frank Wellmann, son of William, was born in Quincy in March, 1842, and died at his old home in Melrose Township June 3, 1914, at the age of seventy-three. His widow and sons George and Alfred now reside at the old farm seven miles southeast of Quincy. Frank grew up on that farm and on Januarjr 30, 186-5, married Miss Lucy Horbclt. She was born in Bavaria, Germany, December 13, 1845, and was eight years old when her parents, George and Catherine Horbelt, came to Quincy. Her father became a farmer, starting as a farm laborer in Melrose Township, and later secured land of his own in Newtown in Burton Township. He finally retired to Quincy and died there at the age of seventy-six and his wife survived him only three weeks. After his marriage Frank Wellmann rented land from his father and .subsequently bought the old home.stead. He improved it with new buildings, and made of it the first class farm which it is today. This farm lies in the Mill Creek Valley, and is in one of the best sections of agricultural lands in the county.

Frank Wellmann during his life was responsible for starting the splendid orchard now regarded as the most productive and valuable in Melrose Township. He set twenty-seven acres to apple trees, and brought it into bearing and received a fine income from his fruit. He studied fruit growing as a business proposition, was one of the early orchardists to use spra.ying and scientific methods of cultivation, and the results more than justified all the pains and labor bestowed. In 1918 this orchard produced about $2,000 worth of fine commercial fruit. Frank Wellmann was a school director, was a democrat in politics and was one of the original members of St. Antonius Catholic Church, located a mile from his home. He served as trustee of that church, and he was laid to rest in its churchyard.

The oldest child of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wellmann was Frances, who became Sister Rossara of the Sisters of Notre Dame, taught in the schools of Milwaukee and Kenosha, and died at Quincy at the age of twenty-eight. George Wellmann is the orchardist member of the family, is a bachelor, and still lives with his mother on the homestead. He ha.s made a close and exact study and has the benefit of long experience and training in all branches of apple culture. ]\Iany regard him as an authority on pruning, cultivation, fertilization, spraying, picking, packing and marketing, and his mastery of all these branches has brought out the remarkable success of his orchard. William, next younger than George, is a farmer near the county farm in Gilmer Township. Frank is a farmer in Burton Township. Edward C. Wellmann has separate mention on other pages. The two youngest sons are Albert and Joseph, the latter a farmer a mile south of Melrose Township.

Albert Wellmann, who operates the general farming and stock raising departments of the homestead, has shown great natural aptitude in handling and arraiigino: machinery. He has fitted out some veiy clever and ingenious machinery for lightening the labor of the farm. This machinery includes feed mill, separator, churns, laundry machinery and even a cement mixer. This cement mixer was constructed of a frame made from a fallen wind mill tower, carrying an ordinary barrel turned by gears from a worn out reaper. Mr. Wellmaun has employed cement liberally about the house, barns and grounds, and this alone indicates the up to date character of the Wellmann place. Albert Wellmann is a breeder of Jersey cattle, having a herd of about twenty-five head of these fine animals. He produces a large amount of butter for special customers.

Albert Wellmann married Mary Frese, daughter of the well known nurseryman on North Twelfth Street in Quincy. She was born in Coatsburg and was twenty-one years of age at the time of her marriage. Albert and ]\Iary Wellmann have five children, named Robert, Herbert, Arthur, Louisa and Ralph.

John William Likes, though for the past five years a resident of Barry, still retains an active interest in the farming and stock raising affairs of Richfield Township, and he and his son Alexander do a large business in the line of growing and feeding livestock for the market.

It was on the old farm in Richfield Township that Mr. Likes was born December 3, 1860. He is member of an old and prominent pioneer family of Adams County. Mr. Likes is a second cousin of Judge McCarl of Quincy. His parents were William and Mary (Ham) Likes. William Likes was a native of Indiana, a son of Philip Likes. The Likes family moved from Kentucky to Indiana and came to Illinois when William was twelve years old. Philip Likes settled in Adams County about 1827 or 1829, ninety yeai-s ago. He located in the timliers, and spent tlie rest of his life improving a farm. J. W. Likes has some recollection of lais grandfather, and he was twelve years old when his grandmother died. Her last years were spent with her son William.

William Likes was one of the youngest in a large family of children, many of whom moved out to KaiLsas. His sister, Mrs. Jonas Wager, remained in Richfield Township and died there. William Likes grew up on the old farm and as a young man spent some time in California in company with his brother Philip. They went to the gold coast by water route and were engaged in the mines for two years with fair success. Philip Likes served as a captain of the Union ai'my in the Civil war, and afterwards moved out to Kansas.

William Likes bought a farm near the old homestead and at his father's death acouired that farm, giving him 420 acres. He improved it with fine buildings and lived there until his death in 1897. His first wife was Adeline Havard. who died leaving two children : Alexander H., who became a successful physician, practiced four years at Barry, Illinois, and later became a traveling salesman and partner in the A. M. Lester Siirgical Instrument Company of St. Louis. He sold their goods in Texas and died at the age of thirty-two. The second child of William Likes' first marriage was Maggie, now Islrs. George McCrory, living near Pueblo, Colorado.

The second wife of William Likes was Mary Ham, daughter of John and Elizabeth Ham, wlio moved from Kentucky to Missouri and later settled in Columbus Township of Adams County, where Mary Ham was born and where she lived until her marriage. Her father was a local Methodist preacher. William and Mary Likes had a family of two sons and three daughters. John William ; Anna, who trained for a nurse at Blessing Hospital in Quincy, and is now at Wenatchee, Washington; Mary is Mrs. Frank Harris of Ottawa, Illinois; Cliarles is a bachelor living with his brother J. W. ; and Lou is the wife of Rollaud Hendricks at Kingston in Adams County.

John William Likes grew up on the old home farm in Richfield Township, and on September 6, 1888, married Ella Wheelan, of Pike County. He then bought part of his father's farm, put up building improvements, and later bought the original Pliilip Likes homestead of 100 acres. This gave him nearlv

200 acres, and tlie buildiug improvements have always been on his first purchase. The old buildings erected by Philip have now disappeared. Mr. Lilfes gradually developed this as a stock farm, growing and feeding cattle and hogs, and only incidentally has been a breeder. He has also fed sheep, and as a sheep man his flock has at times numbered as high as 500. It was to this business that he has given the best years of his life, and the work is still continued as a firm, with his son Alexander as partner. Mr. Likes left the farm in 1914 and has since enjoyed the comforts of a good town home at Barry.

ilr. Likes lost his first wife after seven years of marriage. She was the mother of his son Alexander Likes, who married Nellie Morrison, but there are no grandchildren. On October 11, 1899, I\Ir. Likes married Anna Dwyer, of Burton Township, daughter of William and Emeline (Stewart) Dwyer. Her mother is a sister of George R. Stewart of Quincy. Mrs. Likes was born at Camp Point in Adams County October 23, 1861, and from early girlhood lived with an aunt, Mrs. Poll.y Wilson, in Burton Township.

Mr. Likes is a republican voter, as was his father, but has never had time to fill a public office. He is a member of the Northcott IMethodist Church near the old home in Richfield Township. He is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge and Chapter at Barry. His father was a very loyal ]\Iason, being warden and master of the lodge at Kingston, and later connected with the lodge at Plainville. He was buried under ^Masonic auspices. Mrs. Likes is active in the Eastern Star, Pike Chapter No, 20, and is also a member of the Red Cross and has given much time to that and related activities during the war.

George F. Miller. By his enlightened leadership and disinterested service through many years George F. Miller deserves a lasting place in the annals of Quincy, where his name is intimately associated with many of tliose improvements of which the general public are now most proud. He has done as much as any other man for the establishment of an adequate park system, and tiiere is hardly a civic enterprise of any importance undertaken within the last twentyfive j'ears upon which he has not impressed some of his ability and judgment and to which he has not given the full scope of his energetic helpfulness.

]\rr. Miller was born at an historic community in Missouri, near St. Louis, Cottleville in St. Charles County. The house in which he was born is still standing. His birth occurred September 24, 1844. His fathtr, Chai'les F. Miller, was a native of Baden, Germany, and came to the United States when a boy with his parents. The family lived a time in St. Louis, and while there Charles learned the trade of blacksmith, which he followed nearly all his life. He was one of the first blacksmiths to open a shop in Cottleville. An interesting reminiscence of his work throws a light on the rewards of mechanical industr.v in those early days. The first hand made plow in St. Charles County was fashioned in his shop. The man who bought the plow paid for it in trade with eggs at 1 cent a dozen. The purchase price of the plow was $12, therefore it required 1,200 dozen eggs in payment. The same quality of a plow todav doubtless could be bought for $50, but the same number of eggs would lie worth $300 or $400.

Being a man skilled at his trade Charles Miller prospered and with the proceeds of his toil bought three or four farms in that locality. He was able to live practically retired the last twenty years of his life. Pie died in St. Charles County at the age of seventy-two. He was a man of high character, of splendid judgment, and had a very fine intelligence though his early schooling had been rather meager. His memory was such that he was able to keep a record of all business transactions and obligations in his own mind without trusting it to books. It is said that he never made a mistake due to bad memory. In politics he was a Douglas democrat. Such was the esteem in which he was held for integrity, fair mindedness and other qualifications that he was chosen by the opposing party for a judicial office, and made a splendid and upright judge. He was twice married, and ^Mr. George F. Miller is one of the

George F. Miller on reaching the age of eighteen enlisted in the Missouri militia. His father was a stanch Union man and consented to his son doing his bit in safeguarding life and property in a state which was torn by civil dissensions. He served for some months, and was called to diiferent parts of the state to protect loyal people. The company of which he was a member furnished all their own horses, guns and ammunition, and they foraged for their food, so that the expense of the organization to the Government was practically nothing. For this service Mr. Miller received no compensation and has never asked for a pension.

In 1863 he moved to Hancock County, Illinois, with the intention of learning the trade of miller in the mills of Mr. John Kropp. Instead he became a clerk in the Kropp store and remained there until April 18, 1865, when he came to Quiney. Here he went to work as clerk for S. J. Leasom Brothers & Company, a wholesale and retail dry goods house. Such was his efificiency and ability that at the end of ten months, when the company abandoned the retail department, he was the only one out of twenty clerks selected to remain with the organization. As a boy under his father he had been trained to quick judgment and prompt action, and these qualities have taken him far in a business way as well as in civic affairs. He was finally made chief clerk of the Leasom establishment, and eventually was apponted buyer and for ten years had carte blanche to buy what he wanted and thought was needed for the establishment. During those j-ears he made two trips annually to New York to the wholesale centers.

When the business closed out in 1898 Mr. Miller himself retired from active affairs and since then for a period of twenty years has found abundance of opportunity to make himself useful to the city which has been his home for over a half century. In 1902 he was appointed a member of the City Improvement Board, looking after streets, sidewalks, sewers and other improvements. He served as a member of the board eighteen montlis, and during that time brought about many changes in the material conditions of the sidewalks, changes still in evidence. About that time he was appointed a member of the Humane Society. As a director and vice president he has done much to \italize this movement and increase its possibilities for effectual service in the city. He was chairman of its Public Fountain Committee, and under his direction nearly all the fountains and watering places in the city have been constructed and planned, including the fountain at the city workhouse. These public watering places mean much to the domestic animals of Quiney. He has always looked after the welfare of animals as well as of the human beings who must live and work in the city, and horses, dogs and bii'ds have found in him a special protector for many years. For eight years Mr. ]\Iiller was vice president of the Woodland Cemetery and he and H. P. Walton did much to beautify that city of the dead. For some years with E. J. Parker he was on the Board of Parks and Boulevards, and his service there has gained him title as one of the fathers of the park system of Quiney. For yeai-s he never lost an opportunity to educate public opinion to the need of a good park system, and did much of the hard work required in raising money and in bringing about the fruition of tlie park plans, especially in the north part of the city. He had much to do with the building and naming of Gardner Park, now one of the finest recreation centers in the city. One of j\Ir. Miller's most active associates in civic -work has been tlie well known Quiney banker E. J. Parker.

I\Ir. Jliller was one of the organizers and original members of the City Civic League, and has been continuously identified with it as vice president for several years. He is also one of the members of the committee on pure milk. An important feature of the program of the league is safeguarding the pure milk supply of Quincv. In politics Mr. Miller is a democrat in principle, but believes in voting for the best man.

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He married at Quincy Miss Mary L. Schmitt, who was born and reared and educated in this eit.v, daughter of Adam Schmitt and a sister of General William A. Schmitt. Mr. and Mrs. ^Miller live in one of the good homes of Quincy, at 1502 Sixth Avenue, North. He was responsible for naming that thoroughfare, and he also safeguarded the residential district by protecting it from the invasion of saloons.

TiLLiiox Potter, who is now living retired at Barry, is a representative of the old and substantial class of farming people of Adams County, and has acquired his prosperity through the avenue of hard work, concentrated energies and good judgment spread over a long period of years.

He was born in Lawrence County. Indiana, November 22, 1852, and was only two yeare old when his parents came to Illinois. He is a sou of Bartholomew and Catherine (Sellers) Potter, his father a native of North Carolina and his mother of Pennsylvania. They were married in Indiana and on coming to Illinois settled near Plainville in Adams County. A short time later they moved to the old Potter homestead in Richlield Township, six miles northwest of Barry. This home farm is now the pi'operty of Tillmon Potter. The family located there about 1861, and the parents made their home on the farm for over forty years, until they retired to Barry in 1902. The farm was a virgin wilderness when Bartholomew Potter took it, and he made it largely what it is today, clearing awaj- the brush and timber and gradually converted the 150 acres into fertile fields. Hie built the present house on the fann about 1876. In many ways it stands out as one of the valualjle farms of Richfield Township. Bartholomew Potter was never a public man in the sense of seeking office. He was a democrat, and was very devout in his attendance upon Zion Baptist Church, a mile and a half from his old fann. His wife died after they moved to Barry, and he continued to live in his home there until his owa death, when he lacked one month of being eighty-nine years of age. He and his wife had seven children, six to reach maturity : Tillmon ; Alonzo E., of Barry; John C, a farmer in Barry Township: Sarah J., ^Irs. Henry Hadsel, of Bany; David C, of Oklahoma; and Laura, ilrs. Charles Kuntz, a farmer near Barry. '

Tillmon Potter spent his boyhood on the old home farm and when a young man went west to Nebraska and spent thirteen years in Dawson County as a farmer. He then returned to Adams County, and on October 18, 1896, married Celena A. Bliven. JIi-s. Potter was born in Burton Township of Adams County March 18. 1856. and is a daughter of Albert G. and Ellenor (Poster) Bliven. Albert G. Bliven was born in Wyoming Coiuit.v, New York, September 6, 1830, and came to Adams County in 1834. He is a brother of the late Hiram Bliven, who died in December, 1918, at his home farm near Burton, at the age of seventy-five, ha\ang spent all his life of seventy-five years in Adams County. Mrs. Potter's mother, Ellenor Foster, died November 17, 1902, at the age of seventy-two. She was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, in 1830, and came to Adams County, Illinois, in 1839, with her parents, Eli and Miriam (Lemon) Foster, both of whom attained rii>c age, passing away when about seventy-six or seventy-seven years of age. All>ert G. Bliven since the death of his wife has lived retired in Quincy and is now in his eighty-ninth year. Mrs. Potter was born near Newtown in Burton Township and when she was a girl her parents moved to a farm in Bany Town.ship of Pike County, four miles north of Barry, on the county line, where .she lived until her marriage. She still ownis the old Bliven homestead of 260 acres. The first purchase by her father was 160 acres, bought in 1856. Mrs. Potter was the second of three children. Her brother, Willis Bliven, is a resident of Grand Junction. Colorado, and her sister, Ida ]\r., is Mrs. Charles Franks, of RoswcU, New Mexico.

After their marriage Mi*, and ]\Irs. Potter spent one season on his father's old farm, which he now owns, then moved to a farm belonging to ]\Ii-s. Potter's father in Richfield To^niship. They lived there six years and then moved to the adjoining place, the old Bliven homestead in Pike County. They were on that farm fourteen years and tlien moved to their liome in Barry, ilr. Potter bought his father's old home at the latter 's death and has since increased its size to 160 acres and he owns another farm of 160 acres, joining Mrs. Potter's old home place. The entire estate contains 580 acres in three farms, and Mr. Potter still gives much of his time to the improvements. The old Bliven farm owned by Mrs. Potter comprises 260 acres, and its buildings were erected during her father's active career. Mr. and Mrs. Potter have no children of their own but they have reared since he was eight years old a boy named Lioneil B. Howlin. Mr. Potter is a member of the Christian Church and his wnfe is a Methodist. They have built a neat bungalow home on Diamond Hill in one of the best parts of Barry.

Barnett p. Cummings. The value of Barnett P. Cummings' citizenship in Adams Comity is represented in part at least by the fact that for a long period of years he has occupied and diligently cultivated one of the good farms of Camp Point Township, and without question is one of the most progressive factors in the agricultural affairs of the county today. With all these responsibilities he has exercised a wholesome influence in behalf of community betterment and every movement that reflects the higher and better life of society.

It is now nearly sixty years since the Cummings family came to Adams County. Barnett P. Cummings was born at Danville, Indiana, December 26, 1853, and was six years old when the family moved to Western Illinois. His grandfather, George W. Cummings, was a native of Virginia, but grew up in Kentuck)' from the age of one year. George W. Cummings married Elizabeth Ferris, a native of Kentucky. They were earlj^ settlers in Hendricks Count.y, Indiana.

Benjamin Cummings, father of Barnett P., was born in Clark County, Kentucky, February 14, 1828. His early life was spent in Indiana, and in 1846, at the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the First Indiana Regiment for service in the war with Mexico. He was discharged about a year later from the hospital at Point Isabel in Southern Texas. He re-enlisted, but the war was over before he could see further active service. Form 1848 to 1859 he followed mechanical engineering, particidarly in the milling industry at various points in Indiana. In October, 1859, he brought his family to Camp Point Township in Adams County, and for several years rented land, but in 1866 acquired 100 acres in section .36 and gradually improved his farm and holdings until he had one of the vahiable estates, comprising 300 acres at the time of his death. He died on the old farm in June, 1907, when in his eightieth year. On December 30, 1852, Benjamin Cummings married Catherine Celia Parrish, a native of Kentucky. She died in June, 1900. Benjamin Cummings was a republican and in religion was a man of liberal views. He and his wife had the following children: Barnett P.; George, deceased; Ida, wife of Joseph Pierce, of Kansas City; Maggie, living at Camp Point; Ira B., an engineer with the Burlington Railroad; Laura, deceased; and Thomas B., who is a conductor with the ]\Iissouri Pacific Railroad, his headquarters being Nevada, Missouri. Benjamin Cummings for many years served as commissioner of highways in Camp Point Township. He was one of the prominent members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and was organizer of the Encampment at Camp Point.

Barnett P. Cummings grew up on the homestead farm of his father, attending school at Camp Point Village. Farming was his first choice of vocation, and by following it he has prospered and has a farm of 165 acres which in point of improvement and productiveness would bear favorable comparison with any in that part of the county. His land is situated on the high ground between the water slied of the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers. He conducts his farm on general lines, his one specialty perhaps being pure bred Duroc Jersey hogs. Mr. Cummings is a republican and served on the Centi-al Committee for two years. He has been affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows since April, 1874, and has been even more prominent than his father in that order. He was health officer of the Grand Encampment two years. He is also a member of Lodge No. 297, Ancient Freg and Accepted ilasous, and is a Knight of Pythias.

Albert Burton Leeper is proprietor of the well known Lake View Farm and orchard two miles w-est of Lima, and is also president of the State Bank of Lima. He is a citizen of varied interests, and they are of such importance that it would be difficult to find a better known resident in the northern part of the county.

The house in which he now resides was his birthplace on June i, 1875. His father was the late Thomas F. Leeper, a son of Samuel and Lovina (Conel) Leeper. Samuel Leeper brought his family from the vicinity of Cadiz, Ohio, by boat around the Ohio and Mississippi rivers iu 1851, lauding at Nauvoo, and from there transferring his residence in 1853 to Lima. He was a carpenter by trade and followed it in this county until 1858, when he located on the farm now owned by Albert B. Leeper. Thomas F. Leeper and his brother Wesley as partners bought this old homestead. Samuel Leeper died here at the age of seventy and his wife at seventy-eight.

After the death of his brother Wesley, Thomas F. Leeper bought all the old homestead, giving him 280 acres, eighty acres of which were bottom laud.

Thomas F. Leeper was a democratic voter though never active in politics and was a member of the Methodist Protestant Church at Lima. He died June 10, 1904, and his widow passed away December 2, 1917. Her maiden name was Elizabeth Caldwell. They were married at Canton, Missouri, where her father, John C. Caldwell, long had his home.

Thomas F. Leeper deserves his chief place in Adams County history because of his efforts as a pioneer horticulturist and apple grower. He was one of the first in the eouuty to develop an apple orchard on a commercial scale. He planted sixty-five acres of his land to apples, and that is still the principal feature of the Leeper place. This noted orchard frequently prodiiced as high as 5,000 barrels of apples in a single season. Thomas F. Leeper was also one of the organizers of the Mississippi Apple Growers' Association about twenty years ago. He was also a member of the Hancock Countj- Horticultural Society, in the absence of such a society in Adams Coimty, and a member of the State Horticultural Society. While on the subject of this orchard it should be noted that Albert B. Leeper still has forty acres in apples and furnishes a considerable share of the total crop harvested in this county. For the past fifteen years it has been his policy to spray regiilarly all the trees, and though that was taken up as an experimental practice it is now a settled feature of orchard management and the results have thoroughly demonstrated the value of such a process. Formerlj- a grower could expect only one crop in two or three years, but now there is seldom a failure. Mr. A. B. Leeper has had twelve good commercial crops within the past fifteen years.

Albert B. Leeper was educated in the local public schools and high school, and attended the Northern Illinois College of Law. He was admitted to the bar in 1897. but his law practice was chiefly confined to two years of work at Oklahoma City. He also took a business course in the Christian University at Canton, Missouri. He gave up the profession to return home and take the management of his father's farm, and in that business he has found occupation that easily places him among the men who fill essential positions of service in the county. Besides his large orchard he is a breeder of Chester White hogs and runs a model farm. The old house in which he was born and which was

As one of the organizers of the State Bank of Lima in 1910 Mr. Leeper accepted the position of cashier, but in 1912 was made president and has done much to build up that institution, which now has total resources of $190,000 and capital stock of $25,000. Mr. Leeper is a democrat, has served on the school board, and is a member of the County, now Township, High School Board, and has also been levee commissioner.

In 1904 he married IMiss Mary J. Best, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Best of Quiney. Mr. and Mrs. Leeper have four children, Gladys, Alberta, Raymond and Keiit. Mr. Leeper is past master of Lima Lodge of Masons and has served as representative to the Grand Lodge, and is also a member of the Mendon Chapter of the Royal Arch, of Quiney Commandery, and of Medinah Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Chicago.

James Wagy. In Payson Township three miles southwest of Plainville is a farm that has been in the possession of the Wag}- family through several generations, and its present owners are justified in their proprietorship by the energy and enterprise they have shown in keeping up its productiveness and maintaining its value, which has been steadily increasing from the time it was carved from the wilderness.

The late proprietor, James Wagy, was a member of one of the oldest and most widely known families of Adams County. He was born in Ohio January 20, 1841, and died at his old home in Payson Township August 26, 1908. He was a son of Jacob and Rachel (Riley) Wagy, the former a native of Virginia. Much of the history of this branch of the Wagy family will be found on other pages of this publication. Jacob Wagy was an early settler in Adams County and li\ed there until his death at the age of seventy-tkree. His sons were Henry, William, Stephen, John and James, and he also had two daughters, Mary. Mrs. Charles Stratton, and Margaret, Mrs. Benjamin Lytle.

James Wagy was brought to Adams County when he was eight years old, grew up on the old farm near Plainville, was educated in the common schools, and earl.y took up farming on his own responsibility. On September 26, 1872, he married iliss Lucina Benson, daughter of Littleton and Louisa (Parks) Benson. Mrs. Wagy was born at Kinderhook in Pike County December 20, 1847. Two years later, in 1849, her father went to California as a gold seeker and died soon after reaching the gold coast. Lucina spent part of her girlhood with her uncle. Pleasant Benson, of Payson Township. Of the Benson family more is said on other pages. Mrs. Wagy's mother married for her second husband George Walborn, of Kinderhook, and died when past sixty. Littleton Benson owned a farm at Kinderliook and the Walborn farm was on the bottoms.

James Wagy after his marriage began housekeeping at the present farm in Payson Township. The old house has since been remodeled and enlarged. His entire business career was devoted to the farm and he kept up its active management until his death. Part of the land was inherited from his father's estate. Tie was a republican, served as school director, and was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Mr. and Mrs. James Wagy had the following family, iliunie, wife of John F. Wilson, a farmer of Pike County, Miss Belle, who lives on the home farm, and Fred, who operates the farm and by his marriage with Dolly Mowers has five children, named Everett, Earl, Maude, Ralph and Addie.

WiLLi.Mi H. Beavers. While now living in comfortable retirement at Barry, William H. Beavers was for many years successfully identified with the farming and livestoi-k interests of Adams County, and is still owner of one of the fine farms of Richfield Township.

Mr. Beavers, wlio started life with little capital and made his way by intelligent use of his own resources, was born near Jacksonville in Morgan County,

Illinois, June 14, 1844. His father, William Beavers, was a native of Hampshire, England, and spent his life as a farmer. He died at the age of eightyfive. His last years were spent with his son William and with a son-in-law, Sherrill Cain, of Plainville, where he died. William Beavers married Marj; Stout. She came from Ohio to Illinois at the age of ten years, and lier family was at Jacksonville when it was nothing more than a small crossroads store. She died at the age of sixty-six, the mother of ten children, eight of whoin reached maturity. Only three are living today. Their one daughter is Mary McLaughlin, of Plainville.

William H. Beavers married at Quincy at the age of twenty-one a Miss Jane George. She was at that time a resident of Pike County and a daughter of John and Anna (House) George, who came from Carroll County, Ohio, to Pike County, Illinois, where their subsequent lives were spent. Her father died at the age of seventy-seven and her mother at seventy-two.

For two years after his marriage Mr. Beavers lived in Pike County and in 1867 came to Adams County and settled on a farm in Richfield Township, eight miles northwest of Barry. That farm was his home until 1913, after which he spent five years in Plainville and in the fall of 1918 moved to his present comfortable home at Barry. He took a tract of land which was still uncleared and in association with his l)rother Robert he improved and farmed a place for eight years. His brother Robert then returned to the old home in Morgan County and William H. soon acquired the entire place. Eventually he developed a 200-acre farm and made it one of the best in Richfield Township, especiall}' as a stock raising center. He kept a high grade of Shorthorns, and as he always bred from the best animals he frequently sold his calves at $50 apiece. He held three very successful public sales. Mr. Beavers believed in good equipment and improvement, and put up a commodious farm house, two barns and other facilities. Every year he fed a bunch of stock cattle, and usually shipped his own stock to market. While for many years he did miich of the labor of the farm, he also employed assistance and was very fortunate in that respect. One man remained with him continuously for thirty years, ilr. Beavers was an original stockholder in the Plainville Bank. The only public office to which he was ever elected was that of justice of the peace, but he soon retired from its responsibilities. He began voting as an old Douglas Democrat, but for years has cast his ballot independently. He helped organize the Mount Zion Baptist Church, half a mile from his farm, and for twenty-five years was superintendent of its Sunday school and one of the chief pillars of its support. Mr. Beavers has remodeled the home which he bought at Barry, and he also owns property at Plainville. His first wife died in 1901. She was the mother of his two sons, both of whom are physicians. Charles E., the older, is practicing medicine at Barry, and during the war was a surgeon in the army. He married Delia Grayball of Barry. Doctor Virgil, the other son, is now a physician at China, Texas, and a large land owner there. He married Anna Sykes, daughter of the late Doctor Sykes of Beverly, Adams County, ilrs. Virgil Beavers inherited two sections of Texas land, and she and her husband now own more than 2,000 acres of land in that state.

;Mr. Beavers married for his second wife Margaret ^Morehouse, of Canton. Missouri. She died twelve years later. For his third wife he married Bertha Helms, also of Canton, Missouri. She had been nurse to his second wife, and was formerly a Missouri scliool teacher.

JoHX J. Drummoxd, Jajies R. Druifmoxd, Jacob Ogle. Several of the old and prominent names in the history of Adams County, and particularly Beverl}^ Township, is represented by Mrs. jlaude Ogle, now living at Barry.

Her grandfather was the late John J. Drummond, who died at Barry in 1893. He was born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, in 1824, and as a young man came west and settled in Pike County, Illinois, and in 1861 moved to Adams County. He became a successful farmer and stock raiser in section 19 of Bevei-ly Township, and at one time owned 500 acres. Forty years ago he had one of the largest and most valnable farms in Adams County and was noted as a stock raiser and shipper and was a familiar figure at the Chicago markets. After he left the farm and moved to Barry in 1894 he conducted a meat market and poultry house for several years. He was a republican in politics.

In 1849 John J. Drummond married Matilda Spence, who was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and died at Barry in 1895. They were the parents of five children: Nancy Ann, deceased wife of Al Wieting, of Adams County ; James R. ; "William Y., now a fruit gi'ower at Wichita, Kansas j Charles L., who died in young manhood; and Abraham L., who went west some j'ears ago. John J. Drummond and wife also had two children who died young, named John and Etta.

James R. Drummond was born January 3, 1853, and spent a rather active, life, though he was handicapped with ill health and finally fell a victim to tuberculosis. He died October 4, 1901, aged fort.v-eight. His early years were spent with his father and he finally secured eighty acres of the father's estate and spent the rest of his life there. James R. Drummond married Mary McClain, who was born at Knox\ylle, Tennessee, December 28, 1854. She was seventeen years old when she came to Adams County with her brother Joseph MeClain, and she grew up here and was married at the age of twentyfour. After her husband's death she lived in Beverly Village several years, then returned to the old farm, and in 1914 moved to Barry to be with her daughter, ilrs. Ogle. She is an active worker in the Christian Church and Sunday school, and her husband was identified with the same denomination. Her brother, Joseph McClain, is a resident of Camp Point.

James R. Drummond and wife had three children, one daughter Anna dying in girlhood. The two surviving daughters are Maude and Carrie D., better known as Dollie. The latter is the wife of Orville Rigg, and they live on the old farm in Beverly Township. James R. Drummond had an adopted daughter, Nora Spicer, who was taken into his home when nine days old. She is now- the wife of George H. Spicer, living in Tustin, California.

Miss Maude Drummond was married Februar.y 6, 1901, to Jacob Ogle. He was born in Beverly Township April 13, 1874, son of Isaac J. Ogle. Isaac Ogle, long identified with the farming and civic activities of Beverly Towiiship was born in St. Clair County, Illinois, in 1841, and went to Adams County in 1850. Earl}' in the Civil war he volunteered in the Fiftieth Illinois Infantry, and though once severely wounded remained with the army until he had completed almost four years of service. In 1865 he married Louisa Carbaugh, who died in 1867. In 1868 Isaac Ogle married her sister, Mary Alice Carbaugh, who died April 27, 1899.

Jacob Ogle spent his early life on the home farm near Beverly, and after his marriage secured the farm of 192-/3 acres originally o^^^led by Mrs. Ogle's grandfather, 'Jolna J. Drummond. He erected a new house and barn and was busily and successfully engaged in farming there until his death on May 14, 1912. He had served two successive terms as township supervisor and was one of the very useful members of the board. Otherwise his life was devoted to the farm and his home. He was a member of the Christian Church in ;\Iound Prairie of Beverly Township, and was buried in the churchyard there. His parents were members of the same church and Mrs. Ogle while on the farm was a worker in the same society.

Mrs. Ogle in September, 1914, moved to Barry, where she and her mother occupy one of the neat liomes. She has been very active in local church and Red Cross work and is interested in all phases of community development.

William B. Myers, now living retired at Barry, spent all his working career in Adams County and was one of tlie stanch "upholders of agricultural prosperity for many years.

ilr. flyers was bom l^^. miles west of Barry in Pike County November 23, 1847, son "of Jacob aud Rebecca (AYike) Myers. His father, a native of Cumbei'land County, Pennsylvania, was married in that state, and at a very early date came west and settled near Barry, Illinois. The old Myers home is divided about equally between bottom and upland. Jacob ]Myers was a hardworking farmer and lived on the, home place until William B. was five or six years old. The latter 's mother died in 1852, and the following year Jacob Myers went west to California by the water route and never returned. He died in California after his son William B. was grown to manhood. There was one other son, John, who subsequently joined his father in California and at last accounts was still living in that state. He married in Adams County Angeline Crosson.

William B. Myers grew up with his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Boren. at Stone's Prairie, now Plainville in Payson Town!5hip, Adams County. The Boi'en farm was 11^ miles southeast of Plainville. Both Mr. Myers and his brother lived at this home, and from the age of fourteen Mr. Myers was paid regular wages by his uncle, ranging from $16 to $18 a month. He saved most of his earnings, and had something to start with when he married at the age of twent.v-one. The wife of ilr. Myers was Bethana MeCarl, daughter of Samuel and Dorcas (Likes) McCarl. Mrs. Myers is a cousin of Judge Lyman McCarl of Quiney. Bethana MeCarl was born in Pike County, Illinois, but spent her early youth in Adams County and was eighteen at the time of her marriage.

The year following their marriage they rented the farm of ]\Ir. flyers' uncle west of Barry. The father later prevailed upon the boys to sell the farm, and, as above noted, John ]Myers then went to California, but W. B. ]\Iyers has alwa.ys remained true and loyal to the scenes of his early youth. For a time he rented the Boren farm near Stone's Prairie, remaining there four years, and then moved to Richfield Township and bought eighty acres of improved land. He went in debt for more than half of the purchase price. He was there four yeai"s, and in that time built and fenced and otherwise improved the place. He then began buying other land until he had 200 acres in one body, and moved his home to the last eighty acres which he purchased. This lies in the northwest quarter of section 22 in Richfield Township. Mr. Myers was very progressive in handling his farm, did much filling and other work to maintain the soil fertility, and had a profitable routine of stock and general farming. He remained there until 1908, and on selling the farm spent one winter in Barry. Then for li/o years he lived just outside of Quiney in Melrose Township, buying land there. On account of his wife's health he returned to Barry, and she died about two months later, on December 15, 1911.

In the meantime Mr. ilyers had bought his present home in Barry, and has since lived there. In order to fill in his spare time he grows garden truck and is still a man of great vigor though past seventy years of age. He has performed a great deal of hard labor in his life and has always been blessed with good health. 'Sir. flyers confesses that he never owned a gun in all his life, and has therefore taken little interest in a form of sport in w'hich many men delight. He has derived a great deal of enjoyment out of good horses. Mr. flyers served a term as tax collector of Richfield Township, and is a good democrat, as would be expected of a relative of Judge McCarl.

Mr. Myers has only one son, Harvey L., who is a cai-penter by trade and lives with his father. Harvey married Susie Saekett, and they have one bright young daughter, Ella Lee, born May 27, 1915.

William H. Kli'SEMEYER, of Jlelrose Township, is one of the older residents of Adams County, where he lias witnessed the changes of fortunes of life for over half a century. Hard work has been tlie keynote of his career, and aside from his material success he has exemplified the best qualities of honor and integrity. He and his wife have shared the common destiny for over thirty j-ears, have worked side hy side in the home and in sustaining the relationships of parents and of citizens in the community, and their names are deserving of ever.y honor.

Mr. Klusemeyer was born in Prussia, Germany, January 17, 1858, and was an infant when his father, Peter Klusemeyer, died. He was then adopted by his father's brother, Fred Klusemeyer, who proved a good and dutiful father to him. Fred Klusemeyer was one of the early settlers of Adams County in Illinois, and when William H. was seven years of age he came to America to join his adopted father, accompanying a Mr. Jansen. The voyage was made in a sailing vessel, and it took ten weeks and four days to cross the ocean. From New York they came direct to Quiney and from there he went to the farm_ of Fred Klusemeyer. Here he grew up and received a common school education both in the German and English languages. Mr. Fred Klusemeyer died in 1911, and a monument marks his last resting place in the Woodland Cemetery. Fred Klusemeyer developed the present fine farm of 94.34 acres in Melrose Township, and took that land when there was not a single building improvement on it and left it with buildings, a handsome residence, and surroundings that indicate both comfort as well as value. The late Fred Klusemeyer was a republican in politics. He served as school director and was always a believer in public education. He and his wife were members of the Lutheran Church. His wife, also deceased, was a good and exemplary woman, kind and affectionate to all about her.

William H. Klusemeyer on May 1, 1884, married Miss Minnie R. Koch. To their union were born four children, one son and three daughters, three of whom are still living. The only son is Fred H., who is a practical farmer and associated with his father in the management of the homestead. He was educated in the common schools both in German and English, is a republican in politics and he and his wife are members of the Lutheran Church at Quiney. He married Miss Mamie Brickmann. They were married in 1912 and have two children, Mildred and William.

Mrs. William H. Klusemeyer was born January 5, 1862, in Adams County, a daughter of Henry and Fredericka (Klusemeyer) Koch. She was one of a large family of eleven children, two sons and nine daughters. Eight of them are still living and five in Adams County. Her sister Augusta is the wife of Rev. Mr. Irian, pastor of a Lutheran church in Los Angeles, California. Her sister Lena lives at St. Louis, widow of Jacob Reitmeyer, who was a cooper by trade. Amelia, living at Burlington, Iowa, is the widow of AVilliain Miller, who was an agriculturist but was living retired when he died.

Mrs. Klusemeyer 's father was born at Hamburg', Germany, was reared and married there and came to the United States about 1858. It was a voyage on an old fashioned sailing vessel and took ten weeks in crossing the ocean. From the eastern seaport the family came west to Quiney and found this region when it was sparsely settled and largely undeveloped. Henry Koch was a manufacturer of brick. From his yards and kilns were supplied much of the brick which entered into the homes and other buildings of the city in his time. He also owned a tract of bottom land on the Mississippi River. He and his wife were both active members of the Lutheran Church, and both are now at rest in the Woodland Cemetery.

Mrs. Klusemeyer was educated in the German and English schools. She and her husband are active members of St. James Lutheran Church and she is a member of the Ladies' Aid Society and is interested in Red Cross work. Mrs. Klusemeyer has long been held in high estimation both as a homemaker and as a kind and hospitable friend. She has ably shared in the work and management of farm and home with her husband, and the years have brought them prosperity and contentment, with children who do them credit.

Mr. Klusemeyer is a republican, but lias often cast his vote for the man rather than for the party. He has rendered much valuable service to his community and for the past eight years has been a trustee of the local schools and never fails to accept an opportunity to improve the standing of popular education in his community. As a farmer he raises good stock of all kinds, and is also one of the many farmers in Adams County who make something of a specialty of fruit raising. His beautiful farm lies 4i/2 miles from the courthouse at Quincy. Mr. and Mrs. Klnsemeyer have a Studebaker car, which enables them to enjoy their friends at a distance and take much of the pleasure that is due them for the hard work of their earlier years.

Oscar L. Hufnaoel. Jlost of the high class farms of Adams County stand revealed to casual inspection by reason of their fine buildings, the orderly arrangement of bai-ns and sheds, and the presence of other equipment and improvement. One such fann is that of Oscar L. Hufnagel in section 28 of Columbus Township. Mr. Hufnagel has 260 acres under his ownership, and his sons own forty acres nearby. All but forty acres of his farm are under cultivation. The barns are two in number, one 40 by 56 feet, and a cattle barn 40 by 46 feet. All the buildings are in excellent repair, and there is a substantial eight-room house.

The land of this farm was deeded to Smith Gaunt, a Kentucky gentleman, by President [Martin Van Buren in 1840. Mr. Gaunt put the first improvements on the land. After his death it was bought by Thomas Marshall, of Golden. This transfer was made about thirty-five years ago. Mr. Marshall sold to Fred Hufnagel, father of its present owner. Fred Hufnagel spent many years as a farmer in this connty, and during the last years of his life lived with liis son Oscar, and died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. William Heckrodt, at Steffenville, Missouri, January 2, 1918, when he was nearly eighty-nine years of age. He was born at iluehlhausen and came of an old southern German Protestant family. He was born ]\Iarch 12, 1829, and when sixteen yeai"s of age came with his parents from Bremen to Baltimore, the voyage lasting seven weeks. The Hufnagels soon after located at Cincinnati, and from there came to Quincy. The grandparents were Leonard and Eve (Muscat) Hufnagel. They located in section 3.3 of Columbus Township, secured a tract of wild land, lived in a log cabin, and underwent many privations until they had developed a good farm. Leonard Hufnagel died at the age of eighty-one and his wife at eighty-three. They were much esteemed people in their section, and both were devout members of the Lutheran Church.

Fred Hufnagel, only child of his parents, married in Adams Coimtj- Miss Rachel Marshall. She was born in the same German town as her husband and they had been students in the same school. When she was twelve or thirteen years of age she came with her parents by way of New Orleans and up the Mississippi River to Quincy. Her father was John C. Marshall. The German spelling of the name was Marschell. The Marshalls located on new land in section 21 of Columbus Town.ship, and lived there the rest of their days. John C. Marshall died at the age of fifty-seven and his wife at fifty-three. They, also were members of the Lutheran Church.

Oscar L. Hufnagel is the youngest of seven children. Matilda married William Heckrodt, of Steffenville, Missouri, and they have two sons living, Charles and George, both married and with children. Amelia is the wife of Martin Eckert, and they live in New Mexico and have five children. Alvena is the widow of William Turner, lives in Houston Township, and has a daughter, Mrs. Myrta Beer. Alexander Hufnagel died at the age of twenty-eight, and his widow, Annie Erke Hufnagel, has a son, Walter A., now an architectural inspector in the Government service, married and has a son, William. Albert lives at Clayton in Adams County, is a farmer, and by his marriage to Elizabeth Kramberg has three daughters. The next in age is Oscar L. Linna died at the age of eighteen after completing her education.

lage schools afforded him his education, and since reaching his majority he has steadily devoted his energies to farming and with success, as has already been noted. In 1890, in Houston Township, he married Miss Lora Strickler. She tvas born in that township in 1870, and was educated at Camp Point, ilr. and Mi-s. Hufnagel have three children. Eula, formerly a teacher, born in 1891, is the wife of Henry Sehultz. They are farming people, and their two children are Emerson, born in 1909, a schoolboy, and Lora 0., born in 1914. Jeremiah F. Hufnagel, born in 1893, attended the local public schools, completed his education at Camp Point, and is now a soldier in France. Oscar Strickler, born in 1903, is a student in the Maplewood High School at Camp Point. The family are all members of the Christian Church.

Daniel Tredway is an old time resident of Adams County, has lived here fully half a century, and his efforts as a farmer have brought him success and independence He owns one of the good farms of Burton Township, located twelve miles east of Quincy.

Mr. Tredway M'as born in Baltimore County, Maryland, August 15, 1836. He grew up as a farm boy, had a common school education, and represents old English and old American stock. When a young man, in 1863, he enlisted in the Ninth ilarylaud Infantry, and saw active service in the Virginia campaigns. He M'as wounded in the face by an exploding shell while saving an officer in the Court House at Charlestown, Virginia. It was in this Court House that the famous John Brown was tried and in the yard was hanged. Mr. Tredway has seen the old stump of the tree where the hanging took place.

At the close of the war he was discharged and soon located in Butler County, Ohio, and from there in 1868 came to Adams County. He first rented a fann in Gilmer Township two miles north of his present home, and rented different fainns for thirteen years, finally buying the Timmons farm of 160 acres in section 12 of Burton Township. For this land he paid $57.50 an acre, but it is now worth over three times that sum, largely as a result of the improvements made by ]Mr. Tredway. He built a good house, barn and other buildings, and has kept the land in first class condition. It is a general farm, and in the way of livestock its chief output has been from thirty-five to fifty hogs annually, also a fine herd of "White Face cattle.

Mr. Tredway is a republican. At the age of thirty he married in Ohio Miss Harriet Maud, who was born in Butler County, Ohio. She died October 25, 1906, the mother of two children, Frank and Anna. Anna is the wife of John IMetz, of Gilmer Township. Frank Tredway. who was born in Liberty Township of this county October 18, 1876, has spent all his life on the farm with his father and has never married. He now has active charge of the farm and is one of the successful and progressive men of the community. He takes a great interest in lodge work as an Odd Fellow at liibert.v. He and his father are both members of the Pleasant Grove ilethodist Episcopal Church.

Frank B. Parker, M. D. The Village of Clayton has not been without the services of a physician named Parker for over thirty-five years. Dr. Frank B. Parker recently took over the lai'ge practice which his father has en.ioycd for so many years, and in his new field a recognition accpiired by skillful work and earnest study follow him from other sections of Adams County. He has been an active member of the profession for a quarter of a century.

Dr. Frank B. Parker was boni in Montgomery County, ^lissouri. June 14, 1871, a son of Henry J. and Mai'y (Busby) Parker. His father was born in Missouri October 5, 1845. His mother was born June 17, 1850, and died at Clayton October 9, 1900. Henry J. Parker was educated in the common schools of Missouri and graduated from the Missouri ^Medical College in 1870. His first professional work was done in Southern Illinois at Carlyle. where he remained about six years, then for three years he was located at Hannibal, after which he returned to Carlyle and was there until 1882, when he removed to

Claj'ton in this county. In this community his name and services are held in the highest regard. He practiced almost until the time of his death, on May 5, 1918. He was a man of high standing among his professional brethren, and was a good citizen in all that phrase implies. He and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Dr. Henry J. Parker and his first wife had three sons: Frank B., Harry A. and Bert D. In February, 1902, the father married for his second wife Miss Ethel Rhodes, of Livingston, Illinois. By that union were born two daughters, Lucrece, born in 1907, and Atys, born in 1909.

Frank B. Parker was reared partly in Missouri and partly in Illinois. He attended school in the former state, and after his parents located in Clayton in 1882 he entered the high school. He gained his higher education in the Illinois College at Jacksonville, and in 1893 graduated from the Keokuk Medical College. For about two years he practiced at Clayton, but in September, 1893, accepted an appointment as assistant physician to the Southern Illinois Penitentiary at Chester. He was employed in that work two years, practiced at Joplin, Missouri, about two years, and then returning to Adams County located at Lima, where he enjoyed a successful business and remained in most congenial surroundings for fifteen years. When his father died he returned to Clayton and took up the practice which the senior doctor had carried for so many years.

Doctor Parker is a member of the County and State Medical societies and the American Medical Association. He votes independently, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1904 he married Miss Effie V. Harness, of Lima. She is a daughter of Richard Harness, a well known farmer of that community, who was born and reared on the place that he still occupies as a home. Doctor and Mi-s. Parker have two children : Helen, born in 1908 ; and Henry J., bom in 1913.

Frisby S. Finley is a farmer and stock man, with a large and well appointed place under his control and management in Houston Township. He is member of one of the old and well known families of the county.

He was born in Gilmer Township July 19, 1866, son of the late William D. and Adelia (Judy) Finley. His father was born in Kentucky in 1840, of .Scotch-Irish ancestry, a son of Eli Finley, who in an early day moved to Lewis County, Missouri. William D. Finley as a j'oung man came to Adams County, and married here Adelia Judy, daughter of Paris T. Judy, one of the most conspicuous names in the early settlement and history of Gilmer Township. Mrs. Adelia Finley is still living, and resides with her daughter in a fine home at Quiney. William D. Finley was greatly prospered in his activities, and besides his home farm in Gilmer Township of 371 acres he owns 720 acres in Houston Township and 160 acres in Kansas. He died in 1908. Further particulars regarding his interesting career will be found on other pages. He was the father of five children : Eli, deceased ; William J., of Houston Township ; Frisby S. ; Sarah Agnes, who lives with her mother ; and Ora Belle, who died at the age of two years.

Frisby S. Finley grew up on the old homestead in Gilmer Township, and attended the district schools and also the Maplewood High Scliool at Camp Point. His activities since young manhood have been directed to farming and stock dealing. In 1888 he located on his present place in Houston Township, where he has 220 acres, and its improvements and facilities make it one of the best farms in that locality. Mr. Finley is raising much live stock, including pure bred Duroc Jersey swine.

He is a democrat, but has been too busy with his private affairs to seek office. He is interested in Christian Science. His mother is an active member of that faith in Quiney.

Alexander E. Frazier, whose place in Adams County is that of a prosperous farmer and stock man in section 21 of ]\Iendon Township, ten miles northeast of Quiney, has accomplished those things in life that Adams County people in general have come to expect of members of the Frazier family.

The Fraziers were among the very first settlers in northwestern Adams County. They came here over ninety years ago. Nine decades is a long time in the history of any Middle West community. It takes us back to the administration of President John Quiney Adams, when Illinois as a state was less than ten years old, before the first American railway had been built, only a short time after the Erie Canal had been opened to traffic, and when it was more difficult to communicate with a person 100 miles away than it now is 1o send a message around the globe.

The pioneer of the family in Adams County was George Frazier, wlio was of Scotch-Irish ancestry and had formerly lived in Kentucky. Wlien he set out from Cynthiana, Harrison County, Kentucky, for Western Illinois, he was accompanied by some sturdy young sons and daughters. This family traveled overland in wagons, and George Frazier in prospecting the country was especially on the lookout for timber land and springs. When he passed through Quiney there was nothing to distinguish that site except two log cabins. Going on north, he eventually settled in what is now Ursa Township, seven miles north of Quiney, and there he obtained land sufficient to give each of his sons a quarter section. His family arrived in the township April 13, 1827. About a year before the Campbell family and one or two others had also extended their pioneer efforts to this locality. George Frazier later moved three miles east of his first place, and his old home was occupied by his son James, who lived on that farm in section 31 of Ursa Township the rest of his life, dying at the age of seventy-five. Part of the land had been in cultivation since 1826. The old farm of James was later occupied by Joel, son of James, and it is now owned by George and Carl Frazier, great-grandsons of George Frazier. The second homestead occupied by George Frazier is now known as the Whipps farm, and it adjoined on the west the farm of his son Lemuel G. At this second location George Frazier spent his last years, and he was laid to rest in the family burying ground on the farm of his son Lemuel. His wife died when about seventy-three.

George Frazier had five sons and three daughters. Joel his oldest son, spent most of his life in Mendon Township, where he died at the age of sixty, and none of his descendants are now in the countj'. Joel Frazier is remembered as the teacher of the first school in Ursa Township. That school, taught in the fall of 1828, was held in a little log schoolhouse in section 31. James B. Frazier, the second son, was born in Kentucky in 1807, and, as above noted, died at the original Frazier farm at the age of seventy-five. He married Emelia Nesbitt, and they had nine children. Lemuel G. Frazier, tlie third son, was the father of Alexander R., and further mention of his career is made below. George Frazier, who died at the age of sixty-five on his farm in Mendon Township, left a daughter, Carrie, now widow of Washington Taylor. Richard Frazier died near Lima at the age of seventy, and his old place is owned by his grandchildren. The farms which George Frazier pro\ided for these sons cost $1.25 an acre. George and Joel's farms were in Mendon Township, Richard's in Lima, and James and Lemuel's in Ursa Township. Louisa, oldest of the three daughters of George Frazier, married John Scott, and she died at Warsaw, Illinois, at the age of seventy-five. Lucetta, who rlierl near Lima at the age of sixty-five, had two husbands, the first named Whitney and the second Fletcher. Polly Ann, who died at Quiney at the age of seventy, married Thomas Jasper, a distiller and merchant of Quiney.

1811, and was sixteen years old when he accompanied his father to Adams County. He spent all his active life on his farm in section 29 of Ursa Township, and was steadily prospered in his affairs and helped his children to get a start in life. He was a democrat and was active in the Christian Church of Ursa, helping build the first church. He also served at one time as county coroner. On October 28, 1848, Lenuiel G. Frazier married Mary Roberts, of Butler County, Ohio. She died ilarch 22, 1851, aged twenty-four years, two months and three days. She was the mother of three children. Theophilus, who died at Canton, Illinois, in 1914, at the age of sixty-eight, served through the Civil war as a member of Company B, Seventy-Eighth Illinois Infantry, having enlisted at the age of seventeen. He finished his education at Abingdon. Illinois, and for a nundjer of years was a druggist at Table Grove in Fulton County. He was elected and served two terms as circuit clerk of Fulton County. He married Dora Durham, and they had two children, Libbie, who is married and lives in California, and Clifford, an attorney at Peoria. ^Montgomerj' B., second child of Lemuel Frazier by his fii-st wife, married Jane Taylor, of Ursa, and afterwards lived for some years in Andrew County, ^Missouri, and in Nebraska, then returned to Illinois for five years, and eventually went to Oklahoma, where he died at the age of sixty-nine, and his widow is now living at Ursa. His daughter Winnie is the wife of John Loomis, of Loraine, Illinois. He has a son. Christian, in Oklahoma. Libbie, the third child of Lemuel and his first wife, married Rev. ilarion Ingles, of the Christian Church, who died in Kansas, where his widow is still living.

On August 19, 1853, Lemuel G. Frazier married Eva ]M. Ahalt, who was born in Frederick County, ilaryland, September 10, 1829, and was a small girl when her family came to Ursa Township. She died December 9, 1902, at the age of seventy-three. She became the mother of nine children, five boys and four girls. The oldest is Alexander Ransberg. Josie is the wife of Tom B. Smith, a farmer in Ursa. Thomas J. has a fann in Ursa Township adjoining the old place of his father. Ida married Ellis Dornbaugh, a Neliraska farmer. Charles also farmed in Nebraska. Rosa married George Ford, a grain dealer of Uliopolis, Illinois. Etta Belle manned Judas T. Wilderman, a farmer of Freeburg, Illinois. John owns the old homestead of his father, but lives on a place adjoining it in the same township. George is a stockbuyer and shipper of Ursa.

Alexander R. Frazier was born on his father's farm in Ursa Township May 16, 1854. He lived at home with his parents until he was twenty-six. In the meantime he had acquired a good education in local schools and in the Gem City Business College. ]Mr. Frazier married Anna King, of Gilmer Township, daughter of Elijah ^I. and Ruth (Chase) King of that township. ^Irs. Frazier has always taken a great interest in educational affairs, and has to her credit twelve years of teaching, l)oth before and after her marriage. ;\Iost of her work in the schools was done in Gilmer, Honey Creek and Mendon townships. She attended high school at Clayton and at Camp Point and also Abingdon College.

After his marriage Mr. Frazier rented a nearby farm for twelve years, and then bought the first place of his own, the old McBann farm of 160 acres cornering the place of his father in Ursa Township. The house was l)uilt in 1881 by Mrs. William Nicholson. Jlr. Frazier paid $80 an acre for his first eighty acres, and in 1890 for the second eighty paid $90. He has done much in the way of genera! farming and stock raising, and for many yeai-s has been an importer and breeder of Percheron horses. He feeds all his crops on his own farm and every year turns out a bunch of hogs for market. In politics he is a democrat, but has never sought the honors of office. He has been a member of the ]\Iasonic order since the age of twenty-one and is also affiliated with the ^lodern Woodmen of America and with his wife belongs to the Royal Neighbors. He and his family are members of the Ursa Christian Church.

Mr. aod Mrs. Frazier had a familj- of six children, but had the misfortune to lose three of them iu infancy. Their three daughters living are all women of thorough education, and all of them have taught school. The two oldest attended high school, and taught in Adams County, while the youngest is a graduate of the State Normal at Normal and received a state certificate, and for four terms was a teacher in Sangamon County. She is a special teacher of reading and still conducts private classes in that art. The oldest daughter, Ora, married August Isaacson, of Ursa, and of their three children one died in infancy, and the two surviving boys are Shei-ill D. and John. Eva Ruth, the second daughter, is the wife of Frank Shriver, of Mendon Township, and they have three children, Helen, ilildred and Henry Franklin. Elizabeth is now the wife of Robert Funderburk, a farmer iu Sangamon County, Illinois.

Anthony Lanza, who died December 12, 1918, was an interesting personality in the commercial life of Quincy, and a man of real achievement. His career is an illustration of how big things frequently grow from small beginnings. A number of years ago he was selling fruit from a pushcart in Buffalo, New York. For some years before his death he was head of the finn A. Lanza & Son, wholesale dealers in fruits and produce, one of the leading firms of its kind in the Mississippi Valley. This firm established its completely equipped store and plant at 624 Jersey Street about 1913. The business handled fruits produced all the way from Mexico to the northern borders of the United States, and supplied a retail trade over two states.

Anthony Lanza was born in Italy June 21, 1853. He grew up there and was educated in his native city. When he was a small boy he went to sea, and altogether had nine yeare of seafaring experience. For three years of that time he was a steward on a boat. He left the sea at Philadelphia in 1874, worked there for a time, but sold his first fruit, as above noted, at Buffalo, New York. Thrift and hard work took him through the successive stages on the way to success. For several years he had a retail store at St. Louis, Missouri, and for two years was a fruit and produce wholesaler at Springfield, Illinois. In 1887 he started business at Quincy with a small place on Maine Street, and had various other locations until he established the plant above noted.

He and his wife were married at St. Louis. Her maiden name was Miss Carmelia Foti. She was born in 1864, not far from where her husband was born. She came with her parents to America, and from New York the family went to St. Louis, where she grew up and lived until her marriage.

The late Mr. Lanza was a devout communicant of St. Peter's Catholic. Church, of which his widow and children are members. The interest he took in his family and in his church was one of the chief incentives to his business effort. His oldest daughter, Catherine, is the wife of J. F. Rao, sales agent for the National Cash Register Company at Joliet, Illinois. ^lary, like her sisters, graduated from St. Mary's Academy, and is now deceased. Sarah died after her marriage to Joseph Stephens, and left twin daughters, Lois and Lucille. The next in age of the family is Bruno. Josephine is now managing the Central Market Fruit Store. Samuel married Alice Stickler, and has a son, Anthony. Nancy is the wife of Frank Defavia and lives at Peoria. Vincent and Joseph are the youngest children, the latter still a student in high school.

Bruno Lanza had for several years prior to his father's death carried most of the responsibilities of the business, and much of its growth and development is to be credited to his youth, entliusiasm and enteqjrise. He was born in Quincy January 1, 1888, was educated in parochial schools, in St. Francis College and the Gem City Business College. He began work as clerk for his father and rapidly acquired a comprehensive knowledge of every detail of the fruit business. Mr. Bruno Lanza is still unmarried.

John H. Adams. A well remembered tragedy in Adams County which took away one of its best citizens and a substantial farmer of Columbus Township occurred July 19, 1917, when as a result of au automobile accident John H. Adams while on his way home from Quinej* was so severely injured that he died a few days later in St. Marj''s Hospital July 27, 1917.

Mr. Adams is survived by his widow and children, who still occupy the fine farm which he developed in section 27 of Columbus Township. Mr. Adams was born in Walker Township of Hancock Count}', Illinois, July 1, 1860, and was in the prime of life when he died. When twelve years of age he was brought to Fall Creek Township, Adams County, by his pai'ents, Fred and Mary Adams. They were farming people there and the father died in middle life. His widow afterwards married Henrj' Brackeusiek, and both died in Columbus Township. They were members of St. Peter's Lutheran Church.

John H. Adams grew up in Columbus Township at the home of his mother and stepfather. He took farming as a serious vocation early in life, and eventually acquired the homestead farm of 110 acres in section 27. He made many improvements, including a substantial seven-room house, located on a high hill overlooking much of the surrounding country. The farm is well named Valley View. The house was built in 1902. Other improvements consist of barn and outbuildings. Mr. Adams was a vei'v capable farmer and a good business man, and generally held in high esteem all over that part of the county. He was a democrat, had served as constable and in other minor offices. He was a confirmed member of the Lutheran Church.

In Columbus Township he maiTied Miss Carolina Hollenstein. Mrs. Adams was born in Lippe Detmold, Germany, August 15, 1861, daughter of August and Carolina (Bierman) Hollenstein, natives of the same place. Two children were born to them in Germany, August, Jr., and Carolina. Thej' then brought their famih- on a sailing vessel to New York and thence to Quiucy, locating on a farm in Columbus Township, where 'Sirs. Adams' mother died. Mr. Hollenstein spent his last years with Mrs. Adams and died March 14, 1914, at the venerable age of ninety-one. The Hollensteins were among the original members and founders of St. Peter's Lutheran Church. Mrs. Adams had the following brothers and sisters boi-n in this country : Jlary, wife of Henry Wilke, a farmer in Liberty Township, and the mother of Florian, Willard and Lloyd ; William, a farmer in Columbus Township, married ]Mary Frerge and has children named Laura, Etta, Harry, Mabel and Sadie; Henry, a farmer in Columbus Township, married Anna Wilke, and they have a daughter, Viola.

Mrs. Adams became the mother of five children. Emma died when nine months old: Fred also died in childhood; Elmer W., who has been the capable manager of the home farm since his father's death, was educated in the local schools; Myrtle L., who was educated in the schools near the old home, married Floyd Koch, and they live on a farm in Columbus Township ; Elsie was well educated in the local schools and is at home with her mother. The family are members of the Lutheran Church except the son Elmer, who has united with the Christian Church.