Quincy Township (part 69 of 74)

At the age of twenty-seven he married Miss Caroline Neumann of Richfield Township. She was four years his jtniior. Their oldest child, Cina, who died at the age of twenty-two, was a music teacher and played the organ in the Liberty Lutheran Church. Harrv' is a resident of Bui-ton Township and by his marriage to Pearl Whitman has two children, Grace and Elsie. Louis, at home, married Ethel Fusselman and has three children, Jlerel, Floyd and Cloyd, the last two being twius. Lottie married James Rice and has one child, Gladys. The family arc members of the Lutheran Church at Liberty.

Edw-\rd Hopke is a native of Adams County, has spent his life here as a successful agriculturist, and his work as a business man, his relations as a citizen and in all other respects have brought him a wealth of communitj' esteem, which he enjoys as a resident of Riverside Township.

He was born Julj- 4, 1855, fourth in a family of six children, five sons and one daughter, born to Frederick and Lovina (Dusterhaus) Hopke. Five of their children are still living, all residents of Adams County except Fred, a retired farmer in Schuyler County.

Frederick Hopke, the father, was born in Germany and came to the United States in 1844. Two years lat«r he located in Adams County. He was then a young man, and had come to America on a sailing vessel. He responded to the call of patriotism in behalf of his adopted land and enlisted as a soldier in the Mexican war. After getting his honorable discharge he went to work as a wage earner at Quincy, and his frugality and industry brought him a successful status as a farmer. He bought eighty acres of land in Ellington Township, and lived there until his death on July 20, 1876. His last resting place is marked by a monument in Woodland Cemetery. He and his wife were active members of the Salem Lutheran Church. His wife was born near the City of Berlin, and was a young woman when she embarked on a vessel which after eleven' weeks of sailing brought her to New Orleans. From there she came up the ilississippi to Quincy. She always recalled that voyage up the river, since the steamboat frequently could make no headway against the current and had to be towed by a horse. Her death occurred July 11, 1882.

Mr. Edward Hopke grew up and attended the schools of Adams County and since reaching his mature years has been an agriculturist. His knowledge of farming conditions here covers a period of over forty years. On May 24, 1883, he married Miss Pauline Oblander. Two sons and two daughters were born to their marriage, both daughters now deceased. The sons are Edgar George and Arthur A. Edgar G. had a common school education, a business course in the National Business College and the City Business College, and is now employed in the civil service at Denver, Colorado. He married IMabel Fultz, and" their two children are Bettie and Leon. Edgar is a republican, and he and his wife are members of the Christian Science Church. The son Arthur has for eleven years been connected with the examiner's ofSce in the civil service department at St. Louis. He married Miss Mary Super, and their son. Daniel Arthur, is a yoimg stenographer.

Mrs. Hopke was born at Quincy October 11, 1861, daughter of Andrew and Vesselonia (Busman) Oblander. Her father was a native of Baden, Germany, and came to the United States as a young man. He was educated both in the Gennan and English languages, and followed the trade of wagon maker. He died I\Iareh 5, 1900. He and his wife were members of the Swedenborgian Church. His wife was a native of Friesland, Holland, and was a small girl when she came to the United States. For six years she lived in New Orleans and from there came to Quincy. She is still living at the age of eighty-two, bright and active, and makes her home with her two children, Catherine and Fred, in Portland, Oregon. Mrs. Hopke was third in a family of nine children, four sons and five daughters, but the only ones still living besides herself are her brother and sister in Portland, Oregon. Mrs. Hopke was educated in the common schools. Mr. and Mrs. Hopke have one of the good country homes, situated a mile from the city limits.

In politics Mr. Hopke is independent and votes for the man rather than the party. His official service has been done as road commissioner and six years as school director. He is a member of the ]\Iemorial Lutheran Church at Quincy. Mrs. Hopke is a member of the Ladies' Aid Union Society and the Missionary Society of the same church, but much inclined towards the faith of the Christian Science.

Thomas T. Lawless. A citizen whose record has an appropriate place in every history of Adams County was that of the late Thomas T. Lawless, who bore an iinsullied reputation as a man and citizen, was an honored veteran of the Union armj- in the Civil war, and for many years was a successful and prosperous farmer.

He was born in Grant County, Kentucky, March 21, 1834, of old Virginia stock. His parents were John and Margaret (Skirvin) Lawless. AVhen their son Thomas was two years of age, in 1836, the family came to Adams County, making tlie jouniey with teams and wagons and settling as pioneers in Gilmer Township. There John Lawless bought a tract of Government land near the Mount Pleasant Church, erected the usual log cabin, and he and his family lived with all the simplicity and with many of the hardships of pioneer existence. John and his wife died there, lie in 1865 about the close of the Civil war, and she in 1868. Both were of the Baptist faith.

Thomas T. Lawless wa.s one of ten cliildren. As he grew to manhood he saw much of the development which was changing his locality from a frontier into settled peace and industry. He had to work hard from early boj'hood and managed to get in a few terms of school in the log schoolhouses of that day. Before he was twenty he set out on his own account and drove an ox team across the plains to California. For four years he was in that country of romance and adventure, working as a gold miner, and then returned to the States across the Isthmus. With what he had accumulated in California he bought land and settled down to a successful career as a farmer. From this quiet vocation he was called bj' the march of armed forces to put down the rebellion. In 1862 he enlistee! in the Seventy-Eighth Illinois Infantry, one of the chief regiments recruited fi'om Adams County. He served as a private, and participated in the Grand Review at Washington at the close of the war and was mustered out in that city in June, 1865. He was in many battles, including that of Missionary Ridge, where he was captured by the enemy. He spent many months enduring the hard.ships of a southern prison. For a time he was kept at Richmond, but his chief place of imprisonment was the notorious Andei-sonville, where he suffered many of the agonies so often recounted ill stories of that place.

On returning to Adams County ilr. Lawless resumed his occupation as a farmer and later bought the 160 acres in section 12 of Gilmer Township which now bears the many evidences of his careful and judicious handling and cultivation. That was his home for twenty-iive years and he died February 28, 1897. He was a republican and held several minor offices.

In December, 1872, in Burton Township, he married Miss Ann M. Ferguson. Mrs. Lawless was born in Burton Township April 11, 1846, and obtained her education there. She still owns and operates the home farm, with the aid of her son. She is a daughter of John and Emily J. (Pollock) Ferguson, natives of Ohio, but married in Edina, ^lissouri. Thej- had a farm in Burton Township, and lived there until their death when past eighty years of age. During their last years they were members of the IMethodist Church. Mrs. Lawless' fatlier was a whig and republican. Mrs. Lawless has a brother Russell, a farmer in Burton Township, married and with three daughters. Clara, her sister, is the wife of James Lawless, a farmer in Gilmer Township, and has a family of five sons and two daughters. Her sister Helen is the widow of Dr. David Landon, who was at one time a physician to the Soldiers' Home and died in Liberty Township. Jlrs. Landon lias a daughter.

Mrs. Lawless is the mother of three sons. John Y., the oldest, lives on a farm near his mother's place. He married Nellie Wagner, and their daughters are Ethel R. and Hazel J. Frank Lawless now operates the home farm for his mother. Howard is an elevator manager and livestock dealer at Loraine in Adams County. He married Mary Grubb, of Liberty Township, and has a daughter, Helen J., born in 1914. The family are all members of the Methodist Church.

Theodore Helh.\ke. Quincy produced in the modern generation few business men of higher standing and of more solid achievement on the score of individual effort than the late Theodore Helhake, upon whose career death set an untimely seal October 10. 1918. In the commercial life of the city he was gen- erally recognized as oue of Quiney's most active, most enterprising, most thoroughly loyal young citizens. A native of Quincy, here he grew to manhood. Here he commenced his business career that in a few short years placed hiju in the forefront of the most prominent and successful merchants. Here were his interests and here he died in the very years when his usefulness was beginning to be fully appreciated.

in his passing there was sincere sorrow throughout the community. To many homes he liad been a generous benefactor. It is said of him that he had never refused a worth_y appeal, but the extent of his benefactions will never be known so cpiietly were they bestowed. The modesty that characterized his daily life marked his helpfulness to those about him. His affection for children was proverbial. To the little ones in the orphan homes he was a personal friend and to him a child in need made an appeal not to be denied.

Born in Quincy, June 11, 1883, Theodore Helhake was a son of Mr. and j\Irs. William 0. Helhake and a grandson of Theodore Duker. He attended St. Boniface School and later a school in St. Louis and at the age of twenty began liis business career as a clerk in the store of the Miller Shoe Company, in this city. In a few years his abilities secured his promotion to the position of manager, and there were probably few details of the shoe business which were not a part of his intimate knowledge and experience. C. B. Miller, of Columbia, Missouri, had organized the company in 1902, the store being located at 515 Jlaine Street. In 1913 Mr. Miller and Mr. Helhake took up all of the stock of the company, the title being changed to the Miller, Helhake Shoe Company, and the large four-story building at 506 Maine Street was purchased for the rapidly increasing business two years later. In 1916 Mr. Helhake became the sole owner of the business with the exception of a few shares of stock in the company retained by Mr. Miller. At the time of his death this progressive young business man was conducting one of the largest establishments in his line in western Illinois.

Mr. Helhake married Jvine 3. 1908, Lenore E. Barnett, a native of Oakland, California. He was affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Travelers Protective Association, the Chamber of Commerce and was a member of St. Peter's Catholic Church. (Written by D. F. Wilcox at request of Mrs. Helhake.)

Erde W. Beattt is now in his third consecutive term as clerk of the Circuit Court of Adams County. Mr. Beatty is one of the busiest men around the courthouse at Quincy, and everyone who has dealings with his office understands his thorough technical and business qualifications for his job. Mr. Beatty is a native of Adams County, and his record is that of one of the best citizens of Quincy.

He was born at Quincy May 11, 1859. His parents, Thomas and Sarah (Owens) Beatty, were also natives of Adams County, where their respective families were established in pioneer times. Thomas Beatty was a blacksmith and carriage maker b.y trade and a great many years ago established a business at the corner of Twelfth and Hampshire streets on the present site of the Beatty Automobile Company. He was an industrious worker, an honest and competent citizen, and although he died in ^larch, 1891, his name is still remembered and cherished in the community. His widow is still living at Quincy. They had ten children : Erde W. ; John E., of Kahoka, Missouri ; Mary E., instructor of art in the Quincy High School ; Thomas M., head of the Beatty Automobile Company of Cleveland: Isaac C, who died in March, 1903; Anna M., who died in 1894 ; Helen S., a teacher in the public schools of Quincy ; George F.. who died in August, 1903; James P., now captain of the One Hundred and Twenty-Third ^lachine Gun Company, formerly a part of the Fifth Illinois Infantry, stationed at Fort Logan, Houston, Texas; Harry C, a resident of Los Angeles, California. Captain Beatty saw service overseas. He received special mention in the leading newspapers of England and America as a hero: "Captain Beatty Rescues Nurses on the Warilda. Wounded antl 111 With Pneumonia, But a Hero in Rescuing Survivors. The Warilda was sunk in the Englisli Channel August 3, 1918; he saved the Waaek Nurses."

Erde W. Beatty grew up in (juincy, attended the public schools, and as a boy worked with his father iu the shop. He also acquired a boyhood experience in the grocery business. In 1879, at the age of twenty, he was appointed engineer of the city waterworks, and held that office for six years. Following this for a short time he was connected with the paper mills and then for eleven years kept books for Peter H. Meyer, the well known building contractor. Mr. Beatty had his first experience iu public affairs as deputy assessor, and was elected city treasurer, ex officio town collector of Quiney, Illinois, for two years. He was next appointed in charge of the Quiney :Manufacturers' Exhibit at the World's Fair at St. Louis, and then spent a year on the road selling hardware and stoves. Mr. Beatty then assisted in organizing the Quiney Transfer Company, but was called from that business to work with the city assessor in making the first quadrennial assessment of real estate in the city.

Whether in private or public business Mr. Beatty had exhibited such ciualificatious that when his name was presented to the voters of Adams County in November, 1908, as candidate for the office of Circuit Court clerk there was no hesitation in his generous endorsement and his election. He was reelected in 1912 and again in 1916, and it is the generally accepted opinion throughout Adams County that the afl'airs of the office were never in better hands.

]Mr. Beatty is a democrat in politics. He is a Mason and a member of the Mystic Order of Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm of the jMaster Masons Grotto, was one of the first local members of the Modern Woodmen of America, belongs to the Woodmen of the World, the Loyal Americans of the Republic, and for twenty-one years served as vestryman in the Church of the Good Shepherd, Protestant Episcopal, and is now its senior warden.

October 19, 1893, Mr. Beatty married Anna C. Wild, a native of this city. They have two children: Edward Corbyn Obert, born in August, 1894; and Sarah :\Iargaret, born in July, 1897. The son is now first lieutenant of Company H., Three Hundred Forty-First Infantry, National Army, and now in service overseas, being in the Third Provisional Regiment. He is one of the original officers of the Eighty-Sixth Division, known in Chicago and abroad as the "Black-Hawk Bunch."

:Maurice E. Graff is one of the live young men of Beverly, is a general merchant there and is also assistant cashier of the Beverly State Bank.

He was born in the Village of Liberty in this county October 9, 1890, son of George S. and Anna (Kuntz) Graff. His mother is still living in Liberty. His father died in January, 1905, at the age of forty-seven. He was born in Liberty Township, a son "of Paul and Jane Graff. George S. Graff during most of his active life had a harness shop at Liberty. He was an active member of the Presbyterian Church and was affiliated with the Modem Woodmen of America and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Maurice E. Graff, only child of his parents, spent his boyhood at home and attended the local schools. At the age of fifteen he went to work at his father's trade, and later took over the business and conducted it until 1917. In that year he entered the bank at Liberty and was sent to Beverly as assistant cashier of the Beverly Bank, formerly a branch of the Liberty Bank. Then in 1919 he became one of the incorporators of the Beverly State Bank and is now its assistant cashier. On February 11, 1918, he broadened his enterprise by buying the W. E. Inslee general store, at Beverly and continued that. He has also been associated with Steve Lawless and others in several business ventures in this part of the county. Mr. Graff still owns his store and shop building at Liberty.

is a past noble grand of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Liberty, and is also a member of Liberty Lodge of Masons. He takes keen interest in all outdoor sports and is an enthusiastic hunter. On September 22, 1915, Mr. Graff married Miss Elma Clary, of Liberty Township.

Ne.vl E. Monroe is vice president of Monroe Color & Chemical Company, one of the large industries today of America, and a business that in two years has developed the great plant at Quincy. The company is one of the larger color manufacturers in the United States. The executive officers of the corporation are: Edmond N. Monroe, president; his sou Neal E. Monroe, vice president; S. H. Jackson, vice president; L. P. Bonfoey, vic« president; and R. W. Jackson, secretary and treasurer. The company at Quincy manufactures products that are technically known to the trade under the following names: "Direct Union Colors, H. Acid, Benzidine Base, Dinitrobenzol, I\Ietaphenylenediamiue and other Intermediates."

The Quincy branch of the business is located on the North Bottom Road, adjacent to the Burlington tracks. The company has done much to develop and manufacture special dj'es, largely along the lines of new processes, and these dyes have an extensive use in textile manufactures. The Quincy business employs from forty to forty-five people, including four graduate chemists who are in the experimental department and constantly improving various types of dyes manufactured from coal tar products. This is one of the companies that is endeavoring with a large degree of success to supply the deficiency in dye stuffs made by the war.

Neal E. Monroe learned the drug and dye business under his father, E. N. Monroe. He was born at Unionville, Missouri, May 11, 1888, is a graduate of the high school there, later graduated from the Morgan Park Academy at Chicago, and completed his education in law at the Missouri State University. Instead of becoming a lawyer he became associated with his father in business, and is now giving all "his time to the manufacture of dyes and chemicals. He has been a vice president of the company for the last six years. Mr. Monroe is the oldest living son and the second child of his parents.

He married Miss Mary Bert, a Quincy girl, who was born here in 1893 and was educated in the "city schools and the University of Chicago. She is a daughter of Harry Bert and a granddaughter of John L. Bert. The Bert family were prominent early settlers of Quincy and as a family they have long been identified with the Unitarian Church, ilr. Monroe was reared in the faith of the Presbyterian Church and is a republican voter. He and his wife have one daughter, Nancy Ann, born December 5, 1914.

George A. Hendricks is one of the keenly alert and successful business men of Adams County, and has a host of loyal personal friends always ready to express their confidence in any movement which he leads. Mr. Hendricks is now devoting much of his time to the office of cashier of the Beverly State Bank, which was opened for business January 1, 1919, with a capital of |l2,000. The president of the bank is Steve Lawless. The directors are H. G. Henry, John G. Sykes, S. D. Moore, George A. Hendricks and Steve Lawless. This bank succeeds the Beverly Bank, which was a branch of the Bank of Liberty.

Mr. Hendricks was born in Richfield Township of Adams County November 9, 1869, son of William and Elizabeth (Sparks) Hendricks. He was only an infant when his father died, leaving the widowed mother and two children. The daughter, Mary, now lives with her mother at Beverly Village. George A. Hendricks on account of the early death of his father came face to face with the serious circumstances and responsibilities of life when most boys are in school. He lived with his mother in Richfield Township and received most of his schooling there. At the age of twelve he went to work as a farm hand, and for several years he was never paid more than $15 per month. He worked for one man four or five years, with several advances in salary. He made every possible effort to save something from his income, and it was this saving disposition and methodical and industrious habits which laid the secure basis for his later prosperity. He finally began farming as a renter and he boarded or kept bachelor's hall for himself until his marriage at the age of twenty-six. After his marriage he rented laud three years longer and theu bought his first farm and has ever since been a land owner. He has owned several farms and e\evy one has been improved for the better.

Mr. Hendricks has been a resident of Beverly Township for the past fifteen yeai-s. He sold one good farm of 120 acres here but still retains 200 acres. For twelve j-ears he has been well known as an auctioneer and has cried public sales, farm auctions and real estate sales over this and adjoining counties. In this way he has gathered a large acquaintance, and as a result of his work as an auctioneer the custom has gi"own up to call him "Colonel," a popular title which Mr. Hendricks is careful to explain means no army record.

As a farmer he has been a feeder of cattle and hogs, and has prospered in spite of some exceptional revei-ses. In August, 1917, bis large barn filled with hay, grain and other supplies and nearby sheds were consumed by fire entailing an aggregate lo.ss over insurance of fully $1,500. In the fire a new automobile was also burned. I\Ir. Hendricks has one of the neat homes of Beverly Village, and it is a center of hospitality to his numerous friends.

One of the invincible proofs of his personal popularity came when he was elected and served three consecutive years as supervisor of Beverly Township. He was elected a democrat in one of the few strongholds of the republican party in Adams County, where the normal republican majority is verj' large, and a democrat must indeed have unusual qualifications to get elected. Mr. Hendricks is present precinct committeeman of his party. He has served as consul for the Modern Woodmen of America and is a member of the ^Masonic Order at Kingston. He is active in the Methodist Church at Beverly and served some years as superintendent of the Sunday school and is now assistant superintendent.

July 9, 1896, Mr. Hendricks married Miss Iva GoUiher, daughter of Jame.s Golliher, a well known former resident of Richfield Township now living at Barry and concerning whom more detailed information will be found on other pages. ]\Ir. and Mi-s. Hendricks have two living children. Their second child, Susie, died at the age of five years. Lydia Leora is the wife of William Nelson, who lives on ^Ir. Hendricks' farm near Beverly. The j'oungest child is William Arden, a bright and vigorous youth of five years, who almost daily is seen piloting his individual roadster and rendering much valuable assistance to his father on the farm.

Scott McCarl, of Richfield Township, has achieved much of the substantial success in farming and stock raising which his brother, Judge Lyman, has attained in the field of professional effort and politics. He owns a big farm and a fine countn- home seven miles northwest of Barry and twentyfive miles southeast of Quincy, and part of the farm is of special interest to all members of the MeCarl family, since it comprised the old homestead where all of them had their youthful associations.

On that farm Scott McCarl was born April 23, 1862, son of Alexander W. and Minerva McCarl. Alexander W. McCarl died February 22, 1910. and his wife in ^March, 1893. Scott McCarl has spent his entire life on the old fann and lived with his father until the latter retired when Scott was about thirty years of age. The present commodious country home was built in the spring of 1890 and the principal barn in 1882.

Scott and his brother Grant were jointly interested in the management of this farm for some years, and increased its area by the purcha.se of an additional 120 acres. In 1903 they separated their interests. Grant removing to another farm nearby, while Scott bought the entire place of 240 acres. He conducts a general stock farm, raising grain and fattening a goodly bunch Vol. n - 41 of cattle for the market every year. For several years past his active associate in the enterprise has been his son Fred, for whom a separate set of buildings was erected as his home.

February 11, 1892, Scott MeCarl married Sarah Loser, daughter of Lafe and Lydia (Sehmalhof) Loser. Mrs. McCarl was born at Newtown in Adams County July 7, 1868, and was fourteen months old when her father died and ten y-cars old at the death of her mother. Her mother had in the meantime married Thomas Abbott, who is now deceased. To the age of five Mrs. McCarl lived with her grandparents, Jacob and Margaret Sehmalhof, of Richfield Village. Mr. and ilrs. McCarl have two children : Fred and ]\Iinerva. The daughter is still a student in the high school. Fred spent one year in high school, then taught a term of school, and married a neighbor girl, Bessie Lock.

Mr. Scott McCarl has served as school director and is an active supporter of the Mount Zion Baptist Church. He has been a vigorous supporter of all war movements in his county. Mrs. IMcCarl was educated in the country schools and for three years was a teacher in Payson and Richfield townships.

Albert W. Larimore. There are many reasons for the prominence of the Larimore family in Payson Township, where they have lived since pioneer days, and where the cultivation of land, well ordered prosperity, and good citizenship have marked all their ways.

A member of this family is Albert W. Larimore, whose home is a mile east of Plainville. His father was John W. Larimore, who was born in Hampshire County, Virginia, December 30, 1811, son of James and Naomi (Wolverton) Larimore. James and wife were natives of the same place. John W. was second in a family of seven children, and as a boy lived on the Virginia farm or plantation. In 1842 he came west, settling in Macon County, ilissouri, but in the fall of 1844 located in Payson Township of Adams County. He bought a farm of eighty acres a mile north of Plainville, built a log house, and lived there until about 1860. He then went to a larger place of 240 acres a half mile away, and later bought a quarter section a half niiie north of Plainville. His last years were spent retired in the Village of Plainville, and he died at the venerable age of ninety-one in 1902. His wife also reached advanced years. John "W. Larimore was not only a busy and successful farmer but was a fluent speaker and rendered much valuable service as a local preacher in the Methodist Church, often filling pulpits and officiating at funerals.

On November 21, 1837, five years before he came west, John W. Larimore married Elizabeth Fahs. She was born and reared in Hampshire County, Virginia, daughter of Philip and Rebecca (Baker) Fahs. John W. Larimore and wife had six children. The oldest is Albert W. William, born December 20, 1840, served as a Union soldier up to the battle of Shiloh and was wounded on April 6, 1862, and died ,iust a week later. Isaac ]\L, who was born Februar.y 25, 1844, has been a farmer for many years in Pa.ysou Township, and is now living at Plainville. Rebecca, born June 9, 1848, married Robert Price, and lives w'ith a son in Minneapolis, ilinnesota. James A., born September 30, 1850, was a farmer, but is now in the livery business in Pike County, Illinois. Naomi, born March 25, 1856, died unmarried at the age of thirty.

Albert W. Larimore was born in Hampshire Count.v, Virginia, December 11, 1839, and was three yeai-s old when his parents came west to ^Missouri. They soon became dissatisfied with 3Iacon County and started to return home, but along the way concluded to locate near Plainville in Adams County. Here Albert W. grew up on the home farm, was educated in the local schools, and was at home until his marriage in 1862. He then bought eight.v acres of his present farm. This farm was offered at public sale at the courthouse in Quincy, and he acquired it at $30 an acre. At once he built a portion of the present home, which has been extensively remodeled to its present comfortable facil- ities. Mr. Larimore eoiitiiuied buying land until he had 400 acres adjoining the old place, actiuired at prices ranging from $40 to $75 an acre. I'art of this land was compi-ised in the old Vickers homestead. A hundred sixty acres of it is now occupied by Mr. Larimore 's sou Edward. ^Ir. Larimore set out two or three orchards. One of 13iA acres is entirely planted to Jonathan apples, and he sold this highly developed tract at $300 an acre. A forty-acre tract, largely in Ben Davis apples, is now a part of his son Edward's orchard. Apple growing has been one of the important features of Mr. Larimore 's efforts as a farmer, and on the whole has been quite profitable. He also bought 160 acres of the old Tottle farm, and this is now owned by his son William O. Mr. Larimore "s home farm now contains about 280 acres. He has always kept much stock. For a number of years he and his brother Isaac were associated in the breeding of high grade Clydesdale horses, keeping several fine stallions and doing much to improve the quality of horse flesh in this part of the county. They were in fact the first to introduce Clydesdales here. Mr. Larimore beyond serving on juries has never sought public office. He has been a republican since the time of Lincoln, and his father before him was a whig and republican. In early life he joined the Good Templars order and has always been a strong advocate of temperance and prohibition.

June 5, 1862, ilr. Larimore married Miss Julia F. Pottle a native of Adams County and daughter of Brackett and ^lary (Woodruff) Pottle. Julia Frances Pottle was born July 3, 1837, on the old Pottle farm and died August 15, 1917. She inherited 120 acres of her father's place and her husbantl subsequently bought eighty acres more. Mr. and Mrs. Larimore had four children : William 0., mentioned elsewhere in this publication; Anna, who died in childhood; Edward N., a farmer near the homestead; and Mary Neva, wife of Frank Penick, a well known Quincy attorney.

Brackett Pottle, father of ^li-s. Larimore, was a noted citizen of Adams County. He was born in Stafford County, New Hampshire, ;\Iay 18, 1804, son of Dudley and Betsey (Hoit) Pottle. His father saw active service in the War of 1812. Brackett Pottle lived at home to the age of twenty-one and in 1825 went to the vicinity of Boston, spending a year at Lexington, during which time he saw General Lafayette while that noted Frenchman was on his visit to America. He also heard Daniel Web.ster deliver his famous speech at Bunker Hill before an audience of 60,000 people. In 1826 he witnessed another event in American history, the funeral procession of President John Adams. For ten years he lived in and near Boston, and eight years of that time were spent in employment, usually hard manual labor, iluch of the time his wages was only $6 a month. While working he allowed a hogshead of molasses to get awaj- from him and drop into Boston Bay, and he had to take the value of the molasses out of his own wages. In spite of that and other mishaps he managed to save a little money and in the spring of 1833 came west and first worked on the farm of Deacon Kimble in Adams County. He also became associated with Ex-Governor Wood and Mr. Kimble in entering- 900 acres of land in Payson Township in partnership. That land included part of the present site of the Village of Payson. The tract was divided the following year.

In the fall of 1834 Mr. Pottle married Miss Lydia E. Thomiison. Her father, Kev. Enos Thompson, was a minister of the Methodist Church from Athens County, Ohio. After their marriage they .settled on a farm three miles cast of Payson, and the first Mrs. Pottle died there in May. 1835. In the fall of that year Brackett Pottle married Mary Woodruff, "daughter of Darius and Ruby Woodruff, who came from Connecticut, ilary Woodruff had come to Adams County with the family of Deacon Scarborough, elsewhere mentioned in these chronicles. She carried with her the infant son of Deacon Scarborough and married after she reached this county. Mary Woodruff' died in November, 1869. Her children were: Julia Larimore, Elijah Lovejoy and Albert. In 1873 Brackett Pottle married Sarah j\I.' Ramsey

GrifSth. He removed to Payson in 1870 and owned considerable land in and around that village. He was a very devout Christian, a constant and regular member of the Congregational Church, and very strict in his observance of Sunday practices.' He helped establish the church at Payson and was its last surviving original member. He died at the age of ninety years. His son Elijah L. became a successful farmer and merchant at Chillicothe, Missouri, but finally retired to Chicago, where as a means of occupation he became a ticket seller for the Chicago Elevated Railway. He died in Chicago about five years ago. Albert Pottle occupied the old home farm for many j-ears, and died at Plainville.

Joseph Benz. Seven miles from Quincy southeast in Melrose Township is the well ordered and valuable farm home of Joseph Benz. It is more than seventy years since the Benz family came to Adams County, and in all those years the name has been synonymous with industry, thrift, good citizenship and liberal support of all community activities, including church and schools.

21r. Joseph Benz was born in Adams County at the ea.st end of Quincy, on Twenty-Fourth Street, a block south of Maine. His birth occurred February 12, 1853. His parents were Joseph and Crescentia (Nadler) Benz. Joseph Benz, Sr., was born in Karlsrhue, Germany, March 19, 1819. He received his early education in the schools of his native country, and in 1846 he married Crescentia Nadler, w-ho was born in Germany May 31, 1824. In 1847 they .came to America and settled at Quincy. Joseph, Sr., had followed the trade of butcher in Germany and for a time he worked in the same line at Quincy when there were only two butchers in the town. He was employed by a Mr. Bowman for one year. He then rented a tract of land on Twenty- Fourth Street, and a year later moved three miles east, where he had the possession of one farm for twelve years. He then bought land included in the present farm of his son Joseph, and was getting nicely started on that farm of 120 acres when death overtook him in his labors, October 11, 1869, at the age of fifty years. When he moved to his farm it had only a log house, and that building has since been included in the present home. He cleared off .some of the land and sold wood at Quincy, white oak cordwood for $8 a cord and later for $6.50 and $7 a cord. His death was the result of pneumonia. He left a widow and eight children. He was a democrat and a member of the Catholic Church. His children were: Louise, who was a seamstress and died unmarried at the age of sixty-two; Bertha, who lives in Quincy, widow of Henry Ilelmar; Sophia, also a resident of Quincy, widow of Jacob Herbilt, a carpenter and builder; Joseph, olde.st of the sons; Frank, a retired farmer from Marion Count.y, Missouri, now living in Quincy; George, who was a farmer in Burton Township but died at Payson in 1917 ; Mary, unmarried, and living with her brother Frank in Quincy; Emma, who became a Sister of Charity in the convent at Hoboken, New Jersey, and died there sixteen years later. The widowed mother kept these children together, and used her unusual talents as a Inisiness woman to pay off the debt upon the farm and acquire more land, enlarging the house in its present form. She left the farm in 1881, at the time of her son Joseph's marriage, and then bought a home in Quincy, where she died September 19, 1896, at the age of seventy-two. She had long been a member of St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Melrose Township, and helped build that edifice. Both parents were laid to rest in the St. Boniface Cemetery at Quinc.y.

Joseph Benz gi'ew up on the old farm, and lived with his mother until ste rented the place to him. When his mother died he bought out the interests of the other heirs in the 235-acre homestead, and since then has added fifty-six acres, giving him a well proportioned farm of 291 acres, all in one body, and most of it cultivable land, with some good timber. This is devoted to general farming, the raising of corn, wheat and other crops, and nearly everything produced is fed on the place to hogs and cattle. The building improvements occupy a very conspicuous site on an elevation from which the ground slopes away in every direction. Mr. Beuz has been iudefatigably busy with his farming throughout his active career, and never found time to participate in politics beyond voting the democratic ticket.

November 22, 1881, he married iliss Sophia Schneider, daughter of Bartholomew and Dorothy (Strolimanger) Schneider. Her father was born in Bavaria, Germany, December 15, 1809, and came to America in 1833, tirst settling in New Jersey, where he lived three years, and in 1836 became a pioneer in Adams County. He married iu New Jersey the same year he cainc to Adams County. His wife was born in Germany August 31, 1815. Their daughter Mrs. Benz was born in Adams County. Bartholomew Schneider died in 1899 and his wife July 23, 1889.

ilr. and Mrs. Benz have two sons and two daughters, and all the famdy are members of St. Anthony's Church three miles from their home farm. The oldest is George B. Benz, who married Frances Boekhold, and their tive children are Eleanor, Joseph, Edward, William and Leo. i\Iary Benz married Ed Wand, a farmer of Melrose Township, and has a son, John Edward. Frank Benz is now a veterinary in the service of the United States Army at Camp Lee, Virginia. Clara, tlie youngest, is the wife of Eugene Wand, a plumber at Quiney. They have three children, Carl, Marie and Clara Louise.

Leonard E. Shbiver has been known to the people of Adams County for many years as a well-to-do farmer, a thrifty and prospei-ous citizen who has made good in all his undertakings, and still owns a fine place of 120 acres in sections 11 and 10 of Ellington Township. Mr. Shriver is now practically retired. His farm has been noted for its abundant yields of the staple crops, 60 bushels of corn, 25 bushels of wheat and 40 bushels of oats to the acre being about the average yield. The farm has a good ten-room house, a ba.sement barn 42x50 feet, w'ith 20-foot posts and 44 feet from foundation to gable. It is stocked with high grade Poland China hogs and Shorthorn cattle.

Mr. Shriver bought this farm, known as the John Aaron farm, in the spring of 1894, and for twenty-five years it has been his home and has been greatly improved under his proprietorship.

Mr. Shriver was born II/2 miles from the Village of ]\Iendon in that Township September 29, 1862. His father, Louis Shriver, was born in Germany and came to the United States in 1854, locating at Herman, Missouri, and two years later moving to Adams County and in 1857 to Quiney. In Quiney, he married Miss Catherine Waggamon, who was born at Saarbrucken, Germany, March 25, 1832. She came to America in 1855, and from New Orleans went up the Mississippi to St. Louis and two years later, in 1857, came to Quiney. After their marriage Louis Shriver and wife settled on a farm in section 24 of ]\Iendon Township, and later moved to section 26 of the same township. Louis Shriver died there in 1890 and his wife August 19, 1896. Of their seven children two died in infancy. The others were: Henry, born January 25, 1858; Louis C, born June 28, 1860; Leonard E. ; IMrs. Louisa C. Wettig, born December 30, 1864 ; and Frank, bom Januai-y 11, 1867.

Leonard E. Shriver married in Mendon Township Polly Myers. She was born in that township October 17, 1868, and attended the rural schools. Her parents, John H. flyers and wife, came from Pennsylvania, and the Myers family were early settlers in ]\Iendon Township. Her grandfather, Henry Myers, brought the family to this county and her father, John, was a small boV at that time. Henry flyers spent the rest of his days in the county. John ilyors married Emma Evans, of Scotch and Welsh ancestry. She was born in 1850 and is still living. John Myers wa.s born in 1844 and died in Jul.v, 1913. They were memliers of the Elk Grove United Brethren Church.

Mrs. Shriver was a beautiful and noble wife and mother, and it was a sad loss to the family and community when she pa.ssed away April 3, 1913, at the age of forty-five. ^Ir. and Mrs. Shriver for a number of years were mem- bers of the Presbyterian Church. Their youngest child, Alice Belle, died at the age of three months. William is a farmer in Ursa Township, and by his marriage to Martha Wood, of P^llington Township, has three children, Eva M., William, Jr., and Myrtle. Emma Shriver is the wife of Samuel JCnox, who runs the home farm of Mr. Shriver. They have a son Lowell. Martin E. is unmarried and runs the farm of his aunt in Mendon Township. Lawrence L. is now twenty-one years of age and is a practical young farmer. Clara H., aged tifteen and the youngest of the children, lives at home with her father and attends the city high school at Quincy.

The Seymour Brothers. There are very few men in Adams County who do farming on the big scale suggested by the ranches of the far western states. If any men could be entitled to the distinction of ranchers, in the sense of owning large tracts of land and doing business on a wholesale scale it is the Seymour Brothers, Henry M. and Lyman K. of Fall Creek TowTiship.

The Seymours have been in Adams County over eighty years. Their name is synonymous with all those substantial activities connected with building up and developing the country and with ample land holdings and the substantial qualities of the old New England stock.

The Seymours in Adams County trace their ancestry back to Richard, who came from England in 1635 and s^t!ie'd;aJ Hartford, Connecticut. Eight generations of the family lived in Hartf(n-d Countj* The grandfather of the Seymour Brothers was I\Iartin Seyi|io,ur, who w^s bom siiif Hartford County, Connecticut, August 24, 1789. June 29,' 1814, he married Lucy Butler. They had nine children. While this family was growing up around him Martin Seymour determined to find better opportunities for himself and his sons and daughters in the new West. Leaving his New England farm, he set out for Illinois, embarking May 28, 1836, on the steamer Oliver Ellsworth. This boat took him to New York, whence they followed the river Hudson up to Albany, crossed New York State by the Erie Canal to Buffalo, and from Lake Erie went across the Ohio Canal and thence down the Ohio River and up the Mississippi until they landed at Quincy June 28, 1836, accomplishing in a month's time a journey that can now be made in two days.

Martin Seymour located on land in section 12 of Pall Creek Township, which is the present home of the Seymour Brothers, but he did not live long to enjoy his new home. He died November 19, 1842, and his widow passed away September 4, 1845.

Their oldest son was the late Edward Seymour, long a prominent resident of Adams County. He was born in Hartford County, Connecticut, and came to Illinois with his father. He received a good education in the schools of his native state and was a man of liberal views and large observation. He was a strong supporter of the republican party. He was elected supervisor of Fall Creek Township for several terms, and held the office of township treasurer for twenty years. He died July 15, 1904,

Charles W. Seymour, the youngest son of Martin Seymour, was bom in Hartford County, Connecticut, August 23. 1834, and was two years of age when he came to Adams County. He was educated in the local public schools and at the age of sixteen became associated in business with his brother Edward under the firm name of Seymour Brothers, which partnership was continued for nearly fifty years. They were remarkably successful in business and were among the wealthiest men in the county.

Charles W. Seymour married. May 14, 1863, Miss Emily C. Kay, a daughter nf Robert G. Kay, of Payson. Five children were born to them and the four now living are Henry M.. Lyman K., Loren B. and Mrs. Stella M. Starr. Charles W. Seymour died October 11, 1898.

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It wa.s a tragic loss to the family aud a source of sorrow to the entire community when Charles W. Seymour, the only son of Henry M. Seymour, was accidentallj' killed, at the age of sixteen, while playing ball on the High School grounds at Payson. His young life gave promise of a career of great usefulness, and his father, recognizing that fact and endeavoring to give some memorial to his son, so prematurely taken away, has erected and donated to the village of Payson the present High School building, known as the Charles \V. Seymour High School. It is one of the most important benefactions to the cause of education ever made in Adams County. In 1918 Henry M. Seymour also erected in the park at Payson a handsome Band Stand as an "Illinois Centennial" monument. These are instances of a public generosity which has alwaj's characterized him and his brother Lyman K. in tlieir relations to the community.

Lyman K. Seymour was born October 2, 1865. He grew up on his father's place in Fall Creek Township and for two years was a student at Knox College under the presidency of Newton Bateman and afterward had two years of banking and accounting experience in Quiney. At the age of twenty he returned to the farm, and since then has been occupied almost entirely with his interests as a farmer aud stockman. He built his present fine residence in 1907 from stone quarried on the farm. ilr. Seymour is a republican in politics but has never sought office.

He married for his first wife Mrs. CS,mi^''^ay) Robbins, who died one year after their marriage. On Septieitnber.29', 1904, he married Miss Agnes Jarrett, daughter of James and Anna Tftf Jarrett", of Qu>h*^*^

Henry M. and Lyman K. Seymour have been for many years partners in their business enterprises under the firm name of Seymour Brothers, as their father and uncle were before them. Being brought into touch with fanning and stock raising on a large scale on their father's and uncle's farm, they have continued the business on a still larger scale. Their farms now comprise more than four thousand acres of the best land in Adams and Pike counties. ^lost of this land is fanned by tenants, while the Seymour Brothers devote their time to orcharding, stock feeding and their other business interests. For a number of years they have been among the leading apple growers in this section of the Mississippi Valley. The principal varieties grown are Grimes Golden, Jonathan, Ben Davis, Gano and Willow Twig. Since 1911 the crops of apples have been from five to ten thousand barrels per year. Their "Square Deal" Brand is widely known and enjoys a very favorable reputation among dealers.

The land that is rented out is farmed on the "share" plan and the Seymour Brothers' share of the com crop is all fed to cattle and hogs. Most of the grass land is reserved for grazing their cattle. They have never attempted the breeding and raising of fancy stock but buy a good grade of stock cattle and fatten them for market. Their hogs are raised on the farms. They also have other interests in real estate outside of their farm lands, having confined their investments almost entirely to agricultural enterprises.

SejTnour Brothers have always been active in all public and local affairs and are big men in character as well as in their material interests.

George F. Durst. There is no industry that affects more vitally the very life and welfare of a community than its milk supply. From the cow to the consumer is a long and complicated process, and at every point the supplyis exposed to the dangers of contagion and deterioration. It involves the labor of many individuals, requires expensive equipment and constant care to preserve .«o far as possible that degreo of cleanliness which is present when the milk is first drawn. For all that has been said and written in the effort to educate people to the importance of a pure milk supply it is doubtful if many of the customers of the Durst Brothers Sanitary Dairy of Quiney realize

George F. Durst, who since the death of his brother James, while serving with the colors, has been sole proprietor of the business, is a thoroughly practical daiiyman. It has been his pride and ambition to develop and maintain the highest standards of a sanitary dairy distributing plant. This ideal has been realized in every particular and its visible expression is found in the plant at 407 North Twenty-Fourth Street, where the finu has been located since ilarch, 1917. The building represents the last word in the matter of construction and equipment. It is cement throughout, 26x60 feet, and the building can be cleaned and kept clean as easily as any one of the containers in which milk is handled. Several hundred gallons of milk go through this plant every day, brought in from the dairying district around the city, but in no case is the haul more than three miles, ililk is strained and bottled at a temperature of fifty degrees, and before going into the bottles it is subjected to the pasturizing process, being held at a temperature of 142 degrees Fahrenheit for thirty minutes. From the dairy plant to the back door of the consumer equal care and precaution is exercised.

The Durst Brothers Sanitary Dairy is now supplying over 1,200 individual famih'es throughout the city with pure pasturized milk and cream daily.

The Durst brothers, George F. and James E., were both born in Quincy and were reared and educated in Ellington Town.ship. George F. Durst was born November 23, 1889, and started in the dairy business with just a few cows and a one-horse wagon when only twenty-four years of age. He has made a wonderful success of the industry and is one of the largest handlers of sweet milk in the City of Quincy today. He has just added two more large retail wagons, hauling 130 gallons of bottled milk each to his retail delivery outfit. He also owns a large herd of cattle, which produce an important share of the milk delivered by his busines in Quincy. This herd is growing to a large number rapidly and promises to be one of the largest dairy herds in Adams County in the near future.

The parents of Mr. Durst are Hugo and Carrie (Layman) Durst. The father was born in Germany and came to Adams County when one year old. The family was established here by George and Nancy Durst, who were old settlers of Quincy and died here when past seventy years of age. Forty years ago George Durst, Sr., was numbered among the millers of Quincy. They were a Lutheran family. The parents of George F. Durst are still living in Ellington Township, and are still active as farmers and citizens of that locality. They are members of the Methodist Church and Hugo Durst is a democrat, while his sons became independent voters. Mrs. Durst 's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Layman, were one of the first settlers of Knox County, Missouri, and Mr. Fred Layman was a blacksmith by trade, Imt later settled down as a large farmer and .stock raiser. He served his country during the Civil war with the North. Mr. Fred La^^nan died at the age of seventy years and Mrs. Layman died at the age of seventy-five.

James E. Durst was called to the colors September 3, 1918. He was stationed at Camp Grant, Illinois, contracted influenza about September 2.5th and died October 3, 1918. George F. Durst afterwards bought the interest of his brother. About the last important improvement to the plant is one of the finest refrigerating machines and systems found anywhere in Illinois outside of Chicago. James E. Durst married Ruth Heidbrader, of Ellington Township.

Louis H. Durst, another son of Hugo, is a prosperous vegetable grower in Adams County. Charles E. Durst the other son is county farm adviser of Union County, Illinois. Their only sister, Marguerite, is still on the home place in Ellington Township with her mother and brother Louis.

Mr. George F. Durst married at Quincj' Miss Edna Bybee, who was born and educated in Quincy. Her father, Clarence Bybee, died here some years ago after a long career as a conductor on the Burlington Railway. Mrs. Bybec is still living in Quincy. Mr. and Mrs. George F. Durst have two children: Margaret J., born in 1915, and George E., born in 1917. Mrs. Durst is a member of St. Johns Episcopal Church.

CuRREN E. LoGUE. Of the younger generation of progressive farmers in Adams County one of the leading representatives is Curren E. Logue of Clayton Township, whose farm is 3 1/2 miles northeast of Clayton on the Brown County line.

The place he now lives on was contained in the old Logue homestead and he was born there August 31, 1862. He is the oldest son of William M. Logue of Clayton. On other pages of this work is published an interesting history of William M. Logue and his family, who have long been actively identified -with this county's affairs.

Curren E. Logue spent his early life at home, and from 1888 to 1893 was engaged in the dry goods and clothing business, three years at Clayton and two years at Golden. He was active manager of the store, the firm being known as William M. Logue & Son. His father remained on the farm and had only a financial interest in the business. After leaving merchandising ;\Ir. Logue was associated with his father in business and farming for several years.

November 19, 1908, he married Miss Effie Curry. ]\Irs. Logue was born in 1871, and is a daughter of Christopher Stafford and Elizabeth (Bennett) Curry. Her father was born in Kentucky in 1836 and when a child was brought to Adams County by his parents, Thomas and Melinda Currj', who located in Clayton Township. Thomas Curry died when about eighty-eight years of age, having survived his wife about ten years.

Curren E. Logue since his marriage has lived on his present farm of 160 acres, included in a portion of his father's large estate. He has given his personal operation to the land and gets most of his profits from hogs, marketing from forty to fifty every year. He also keeps some cattle. .Mr. Logue has never been a politician, but he is nominally a democrat. He and his wife are members of the Clayton Christian Church and he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias.

Rot a. Peter is one of the younger substantial citizens of Melrose Township, and for the past ten years has had the active management and is now owner of the old Peter farm eleven miles southeast of Quincy.

The house in which he now lives wa.s the scene of his birth February 2, 1883. He is a son of Joseph and Caroline (King) Peter. Joseph Peter and his brother Jacob settled on two farms, eighty acres, and lived side by side for many years. Jacob finally retired to Payson, and Joseph lived in Quincy the last ten years of his life and died in that city May 11, 1918. He was born in Germany April 12, 1833, and w-as brought to the United States when one year old. His father soon settled on the farm where Ed ]\Ieyer now lives. The father of Joseph was noted as a violinist, and he taught that instrument and for many years played in the leading halls in Quincy. He was one of the most noted of the old time fiddlers and he kept up the art until advanced years. He was the father of four sons, Jacob, Joseph, Charles and William. Charles still lives in Quincy. William was a farmer in Payson but died in Quincy in March, 1916.

Joseph Peter was a farmer and for many years operated the old homestead. He was also one of the pioneer threshermen of the county, and began a horsepower outfit. His first purchase of land comprised eighty acres in the present home farm. It wa,s all covered with timber and he gradually cleared all that away and made it productive of crops. His first home was a log house.

About 1863 Joseph Peter married Caroline King. She was born in Ohio February 27, 1843, and died April 4, 1918, just five weeks before her husband.

They had been married nearly fifty-five years. Joseph Peter worked steadily and increased his farm to 160 acres, and made it one of the valuable places of the township. The residence was built more than forty years ago, and the present barn was erected on the site of one burned by lightning. Joseph Peter was a democrat without political aspirations. He was reared a Catholic, but tittended church with his wife in the Presbyterian denomination. They had the following children : Charles Henry, a commercial salesman living at Enid, Oklahoma ; Theodore W., a farmer and teamster at Payson ; Mrs. Anna M. Sanger, of Seattle, Washington ; Joseph D., who is unmarried and lives at Quincy; and Roy A.

Roy A. Peter has always lived on the old farm and in 1908 took over its management and since his father's death has Iwught the place. He is somewhat of a specialist in stock breeding, and increasing experience has brought him much success in that line. He breeds all kinds of good stock, especially the Duroc Jersey- hogs.

September 3, 1907, Mr. Peter married Miss Florence E. Seward, daughter of P. Z. Seward of Payson. IMrs. Peter was twenty years of age at the time of her marriage. They have two children, Ruth and Alvin. ]\Ir. Peter for two years, 1910-11, was tax collector and each year turned into the treasury about $13,000 annual collections. He is a democrat and has been active in local politics. Mr. Peter in earlier days played baseball and has alwaj^s been fond of outdoor sports and of hunting.

James McKinnay. Over Adams County there is perhaps no better known citizen than James McKinnay, former county treasurer, and for the past fifteen j'ears a live and energetic general real estate man of Quincy. Mr. Mc- Kinnay, whose offices are in the Stearns Building, has specialized in handling farm lands, and he also laid out and owned in 1905 the ]\IcKinnay Addition to Quincy comprising twenty-one lots between Cherry and Chestnut and Seventh and Ninth streets. Nearly all this property is now built up and represents a striking improvement to the city.

Mr. McKinnay was born in Lima Township of Adams County June 1, 1867, and his early life was spent on a farm, where he aquired much knowledge of practical agriculture and gained some of the experience which has made him so good a judge of farm values. He was educated in public schools, and at the age of eighteen acquired a certificate to teach. Following that he taught two terms in Camp Point Township, two terms in Hancock County, Illinois, and one term in his native township. After this period of teaching Mr. Mc- Kinnay did clerical work in Quincy for some time and proved his business ability while associated with the Quincy Herald by adding greatly to its circulation and prestige among the newspapers of Western Illinois. Two years later he accepted the office of deputy county treasui-er under George McAdams, and filled that office from 1894 to 1898. He was elected Mr. McAdams' successor as county treasurer and served four years. In the meantime he had taken up real estate and has been more or less actively engaged in that business since 1904. In politics Mr. McKinnay is a democrat. He and his wife are members of the Christian Church.

His parents were Michael and Lucinda (Workman) McKinnay. His father was born in Ireland of Irish parentage and came when a young man to this country, locating on a farm in Adams County, where he married. His wife was born in Lima Township, and her parents came from North Carolina and were pioneers in this county, arriving here about 1836 and obtaining Government land in Lima Township. Members of the Workman family were prominent in the Christian Church. IMichael McKinnay and wife after their marriage occupied a small farm in Lima Township for a number of years, but spent their last days in Quincy, where Michael died at the age of seventythree and his wife aged sixty-six. A brief record of their children is as fol-

JNlr. James ]\IcKinnay married at Quincy Lillie Tomlinson, who was born in Payson Township of this county. As a result of ill health she went west and died at Spokane, AVashington, in 1901. She left one son, James Lowell, who was born January 1, 1900, and is now a member of the cla.ss of 1919 in the Quincy High School.

I\Ir. McKinnay married for his present wife Effa A. Watson. ;\lrs. Me- Kinnay was born in Hancock County, Illinois, about forty years ago, and was liberally educated, being a graduate of the Quincy High School and was a popular teacher until her marriage. Mrs. McKinnay comes of an old colonial family of Connecticut. Some of her ancestors were soldiers in the Revolutionary war, and she is entitled to two bars indicating her direct lineage from soldiers of that .struggle, ilrs. McKinnay is vice regent of the Quincy Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. ]Mr. and Mrs. McKinnay have one daughter, Mary Marjorie, born Jul}' 15, 1910.

Lexus \Yeisenburger is one of the present generation of active farmers in Burton Township. He bought his present farm in section 1 only two years ago, paying upwards of $100 an acre for it, but his management has shown that such high priced land can be profitably managed, especially when in the Hands of such a thrifty and energetic farmer as Mr. Weisenburger.

]\Ir. "Weisenburger, whose home is thirteen miles east of Quincy, was born in Burton Township ilareh 28, 1875, son of David and Medora (Epley) Weisenburger. He was only si.x years old when his father died. Lenus has a sister, Nellie, Mrs. Ellis Franks, of Liberty Yillage. His mother married for her second husband Edward McRae. Lenus lived at home with his mother to the age of twenty-one, and after his mother and stepfather moved from the farm he continued its management. The mother finally sold the old place to her children, and Lenus sold his interest to his sister after two years

He learned the carpenter's trade, for five years ran a feed mill at Liberty Village, and did carpenter work and operated a threshing outfit for twelve or fourteen years. For five years after his marriage he managed the old Deege farm belonging to his father-in-law, and in 1914 bought the old Thompson place of 160 acres, paying .$15,000 for it. It contained an old house and other buildings, and he has since built a splendid farm house and has brought all the equipment up to date. One feature of the farm is a deep well, 320 feet. It is very rich and productive soil, much of it lying on the prairie, and ]\Ir. Weisenburger uses it for the staple crops, and raises large numbers of hogs every year. He is a democratic voter, as is most of the family.

At the age of twenty-two Mr. Weisenburger married Anna Deege, daughter of Philip Deege, who came to the United States in 1857, was a blacksmith by trade, and for many years was a prosperous farmer in Burton Township. Mr. and Mrs. Weisenburger have two children : Merle and Emery. The family attend the Liberty Lutheran Church.

George W. ^Ioxtgomery. However long the years of his life, the fullness and completeness of his career, there is an inevitable sense of loss when such a man as the late George W. Montgomery is removed by death from the community where his work and interests centered. Mr. ISIontgomery was an old time resident of Clayton, very successful as a business man and financier, and he used his means and his influence in many ways to forward the larger welfare of the community, and neglected few if any of those calls made upon him by the poor and unfortunate. He was exceedingly kind hearted, and had friends and admirers liv the hundrods. all of whom regarded his death in the sense of a personal bereavement.

Mr. Montgomery was born in Brooke County, West Virginia, in the rugged district north of Wheeling, February 24, 1841. His parents were Daniel and

Juliet (Mahan) Montgomery. His father was born in Greene Comity, Peuusylvauia, in 1805, and his mother in Baltimore, Maryland, of English descent. George W. Montgomery had a public school education and in 1865 came west and located at Clayton. For a short time he taught school, and in 1867 established a drug store, which was continued under his name and management for about thirty-two years. Jn 1879, with Mr. H. C. Craig, Mr. Montgomery entered banking, and he continued as a private banker for many years. In 1905 he with others organized the Clayton Exchange Bank, of Clayton, he owning the building in which that institution was located, and was president of the bank until his death June 18, 1913. Mr. Montgomery owned and handled large amounts of real estate, both city and country property, in Adams County and elsewhere, and was also in the insurance business for many years. One choice piece of property he owned was 135 acres in a farm adjoining the Village of Clayton. He also owned some large tracts in western states. He prospered as a busines man and through the integrity of his character and the energy and persistence of his efforts, since at the' beginning he was a poor boy and could depend only upon his own energies and resources.

Throughout his life he was an ardent democrat, casting his first presidential ballot for George B. McClellan in 1864. His name was well known locally and also in state politics. He was elected and served five terms as a member of the Board of Supervisors, and during that time was a member of the committee which had in charge the remodeling of the courthouse in Quincy and was also a member of the County Farm committee. In 1896 lie was elected a member of the Legislature to fill the unexpired term of Mitchell Dazey and was re-elected to that office. In the Fortieth General Assembly he distinguished liimself by his eiforts in behalf of progressive legislation, and was a member of the committees on banking, education, fish and game, and the committee to visit educational institutions. He was a delegate to many democratic conventions, and for tweufy-three years was a member of his home board of education, serving as secretary for fifteen years. All these honors were most fitly bestowed upon a man whose qualifications entitled him to leadership either in public or private affairs.

He was affiliated with Clayton Lodge No. 147, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, having been made a Mason in 1879. He was also a member of Clayton Chapter No. 104, Royal Arch Masons, Delta Commandery No. 48, Knights Templar, and filled the office of eminent commander four terms. He held all the chairs in his lodge of Odd Fellows, was a representative to the grand lodge four terms and was also a member of the encampment. In religion he was a Christian Adventist.

November 14, 1899, Mr. Montgomery married Miss E. Florence Long. Mrs. Montgomery has looked after the interests left by her late husband with conscientious fidelity to all parties concerned. Mrs. Montgomery is a member of the ilethodist Episcopal Church. Her parents, Robert D. and Harriet (Haley) Long, were residents of Brown County, Illinois.

Herman Kill. There is much besides his success in business and farming to distinguish Herman Kill among the citizenship of Richfield Township. He is a man of sound intelligence and progi'essive ideas, whether applied to his private affairs or any community undertaking. He is a persistent advocate of progress, and as he has never gotten into a rut himself he is not satisfied to see his community stagnate. Mr. Kill's home is ten miles north of Barry.

He was born in Burton Township of this county IMarch 7, 1865. son of "William and Catherine (Vollmer) Kill. His parents were both natives of Bavaria, Germany, but were married in Adams County, having come to this country when young. William Kill did work as a farm hand, later rented, and about 1870 bought a place in Richfield Township, a mile north of where his son Herman now lives. He died soon after occupying that home. His widow afterwards married John Schmidt in Biirton Township. They returned to Richfield Township, aud the mother died about twelve years ago. She had ten children, and those surviving are Herman, Jacob, Frederick, Lewis, John, Elizabeth, Hannah, Caroline and Edith.

Herman Kill began working as a farm hand when sixteen years old. At first he was paid only $5 a month, and in spite of low wages his thrifty habits enabled him to save something from his earnings and after about six years he made his first purchase of land, forty acres adjoining the old home. He lived there and worked the land five j-ears as a bachelor, his mother keeping house for him part of the time. About 1892 he bought his present place of 100 acres, paj-ing $33 an acre. It was an old fann and had been rented for a number of years, consequently the soil was much impoverished. Later Mr. Kill bought eighty acres a half mile north at .$47 an acre. It had no buildings. Mr. Kill has made his farm a good home as well as a place of business, and has a commodious house erected fifteen years ago. The main barn was built about six years ago. By proper rotation of crops and by keeping livestock he has brought his soil to excellent condition. He usually fed from 100 to 125 head of hogs every j-ear, but has more receutlj' turned his attention to cattle, handling about fifty a year. There is a stream running thorugh the land, with water in it the year around. Another valuable feature is a deposit of coal about three or four feet under the surface, and bj- "stripping" enough of this coal is made available for Mr. Kill's home use and also for use by the neighboring district school and some of his close neighbors.

He has frequentlj' answered the call of other enterprises, and for twenty years operated an agricultural implement store at Liberty, and was agent for agricultural implements over a wide area. He built up a large business in that line, and had his farm handled by a renter. For about fifteen years he also operated a threshing outfit, sometimes with partners and sometimes alone. He wore out three outfits, and year after year covered the same territory and served the same customers. For some years Mr. Kill has been local justice of the peace and is a democrat in politics. For three years up to 1919 he was manager of the Liberty Telephone Company and has also been a director of the company, resigning the office on account of business duties. He was one of its original buildei-s. He and his as-sociates constructing a metallic circuit from Libert}' to Quincy.

January 16, 1894, Mr. Kill married ^liss Minnie Klarner, daughter of Edward and Jane (Schmalshof) Klarner. They have four children, all at home, William, Carl, Clem and Verna. The sons William and Carl were enrolled under the draft law, but were never called into service.

Mr. Kill has been much interested in historical data and records, and was instrumental in gathering data for the township in 1918, especiallj- facts bearing upon the schools and teachers. He has followed the wise policj- of making his children confidantes and associates in the farm, and they already have a more than ordinary knowledge of livestock and other agricultural matters. Mr. Kill is deeply interested in their education and training and no other fact stands out as more illuminating testimony to his worthy character as a citizen.

Heney Bartlett, retired banker of Clayton, represents an old colonial English family of America, aud also some of the earlj- settlers in Adams County. He was born at Kingston in this county October 9, 1847. His father Nathaniel Gorham Bartlett was a grandson and namesake of Nathaniel Gorham of Massachusetts, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Nathaniel Gorham Bartlett was born at Charlestown, ^lassachusetts, in 1791. At the age of seventeen he graduated from Phillips Academy of Andover, Massachusetts, clerked in a hardware store, and later wa.s clerk in the Recorder's office of Boston. Several years later he went to Canada, and farmed and taught school there fourteen years. Returning to Boston he remained only a .short time and came west and settled in Beverly Township of Adams County in 1838.

In 1841 he married Miss Laura Mills. She was born in Connecticut in 1811. After their marriage the.v located on their farm at Kingston, and in 1849 moved to Liberty Township and in 1859 removed to Claji;on, where the father lived until his death in 1871. His wife died January 20, 1892. Nathaniel Gorham Bartlett had a sister Rebecca who became the wife of Mr. Vose, a hardware merchant at Boston. One of their children was the late Judge Henry Vose of Boston, a sister, Catherine married Rev. James Walker, for many years president of Harvard College; a brother, Henry Bartlett was for many years a leading physician of Roxbury, Massachusetts, and George Bartlett was lost at sea while a member of the Merchant .Marine. John C. Bartlett, a brother of Nathaniel G., became a physician and lived at Chelmsford, Massachusetts.

The children of Nathaniel G. Bartlett and wife were: James, who wa.s born in Kingston, Illinois, in 1842, married Catherine Ayers, and became a large land owner and wealthy business man of Wayne, Nebraska. He served with Company E of the Seventy-Eighth Illinois Infantry in the Civil war. He is now living at Glenwood, Iowa. Charles, the second child, was born in 1844, enlisted in February, 1865, in Company K of the One Hundred and Fifty- First Illinois Infantiy aiid died at Columbus, Georgia, in Octol>er, 1865. He is buried at Andersonville, Georgia. Mary Bartlett, born at Kingston in 1845. died at Cla^-ton unmarried in October, 1891. The next in age is Henry, and Joseph died in infancy, while Laura C, born at Kingston in 1857 married Frederick Kuntz of Clayton.

Henry Bartlett attended the public schools of his native town, also a private school in Payson one year, his teacher being Mr. Wallace. At the age of twenty-one he came to Clayton with his parents and in 1869 bought a half interest in the drug business of Lloyd & Miller, and continued selling drugs nearly five years. He has been connected with various enterprises, being at one time a member of the gi-ocerj' house of A. M. Lackey & Company and in the firm of Henry Bartlett & Company. August 1, 1887," he and John R. Wallace engaged in the banking business under the name of Bartlett & Wallace. They continued it as a private bank of far extending and unimpeachable record until 1916, when they reorganized it as the Bartlett & Wallace State Bank. Mr. Bartlett retired from the banking business in 1917.

In 1875 he married Susan M. Lackey, daughter of Abel M. Lackey of Brown County, Illinois. Mrs. Bartlett died at Clayton in 1909, the mother of two children: Charles L., born in 1877, and Bertha E., born in 1881. The son is now an attorney at Quincy, and the daughter who died August 8, 1918, married John H. Krugh. Mr. Bartlett since an early age has been a devout member of the Baptist Church, identified with church activities and Sunday school work. He is a repiiblican, and for nine years was township supervisor, director of the school board six yeai-s, and for one j'ear president of the Town Board of Clayton.

"I wish to say a word in tribute to Henry R. Hill. Illinois is .iitstly proud of her men at the battle fronts. Thousands of her sons have laid Aovm their lives that our government might endure. Cantigny, Chateau Thierrv. St. Mihiel and the Argonne forests are names that will stand in all our future history alongside of Concord and Lexington and Yorktown, Gettysburg and Vicksburg and Appomattox. The sons of Illinois have an imperishable part in all these gi-cat names. No one of her soldiers in this war, however, has written a braver page than General Hill. Regarded as he was by the state authorities, an ideal and experienced soldier, he sailed for Europe in command of a brigade. For some reason, which we do not understand but which we know could not reflect upon his soldierly qualities or his honor, he was supplanted in this command. He was then at liberty to return to his home, and could have done so without the s-lightest stain. Instead, he preferred to remain and asked only that he be given a soldier's work to do, whatever rank he might retain. He was placed in command of a battalion and, leading that battalion in a desperate charge, he fell. And I maintain that, under all the circumstances, he died a finer hero's death, though he wore upon his shoulder only the major's gold leaf, than tliough his shoulder had been bespangled with a general's stars. All honor to the selfeffacing, loyal and gallant son of Quincy, who found a grave on foreign soil." Springfield, November 29, 1918.

Major Henry R. Hill, deceased, 128th Infantry. - For extraordinary heroism in action near Romangne-sous-ilontfaucon, France, October 16, 1918. With absolute disregard for his personal safety ilajor Hill led his battalion over the top personally, readied tlie objective, and cleaned out enemy machine-gun nests. When a group of enemy machine gunners were about to open fire on his flank ]\rajor Hill noticed them, and, armed only with a captured pistol, he immediately went forward to engage them. Taken by surprise, three of the crew surrendered, but one, remaining in the pit, turned the^^vafiJwe giui on him; and as Major Hill's pistol failed to work he was instantl.^.'Jcilleff by the machine-gun fire. Next of kin, Mrs. Cecilia R. Hill, mother;,51§- Maine 111.

The foregoing is the closing chapter in the life of Henry R. Hill, according him the highest honors that can come to an American officer and soldier, the Distinguished Service Cross awarded for heroism in battle by the Commander in Chief of the armies of his country ; the highest commendation of the Governor of his state, the Commander in Chief of the soldiers of Illinois.

From his earliest manhood General Hill had been a soldier. He enlisted as a private in Company F, Fifth Infantry, Illinois National Guard, at Quincy, in 1894. Promotion followed promotion until in tlie great World war he held a commission as brigadier general in the American army in France.

At the outbreak of the war with Spain in 1898 General Hill was first sergeant of Company F, and went with his company to Chickamauga, but the Fifth Regiment did not get to Cuba. May 26. 1899, he was commissioned a second lieutenant; captain, August 18, 1902; lieutenant colonel, November 12, 1908. On Deeemiser 2, 1914, he was commissioned brigadier general and assigned to the command of the Second Illinois Brigade.

When the national guard was ordered to the border in 1917, during the trouble with ^lexico, he was the only national guard general ordered .south. There he commanded the Second Brigade, Twelfth Provisional Division, at Camp Wilson, near San Antonio, Texas. His work was highly commended by General Funston and othei-s of the .southwestern military department, and it is due in large measure to the distinguished service he rendered at that time and the abilities he displayed as a military commander that he was one of the verj' few national guard generals who retained his rank when the state troops were taken over bv the war department. He served on the border from June 1, 1916, to January 27, 1917.

General Hill wa-s placed in command of the military forces at East St. Louis in July, 1917. at the time of the fatal race riots, by order of the President, after the police and militia had failed to restore order. He remained there for three weeks, brought order out of conditions amounting to armed warfare, and wa.s president of the militarv board of inquir\' that investigated the handling of the serious situation by the militia, after the rioting began. For this service he was accorded the highest commendation bv the civil authorities of East St. Louis and of the state and national authorities as well.

In August, 1917, after this countr>^ entered the great World war, General Hill was awarded a commission as brigadier general in the national army by order of President Wilson and on the 23d of that month went to Camp Logan, near Houston, Texas, to take command of the Sixty-Fifth Brigade, United States Infantry, composed of the former Third and Fourth Illinois Infantry, the regimental "numbers having been changed to the One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth and One Hundred and Thirtieth United States Infantry regiments, respectively. At the end of the training period his brigade was conceded to be one of the most efficiently organized and best trained in the American army.

He left for France wdth his brigade, May 1, 1918, and was fii-st sent to Brest and then to Tours. After months of waiting for active service, with many other former volunteer and national guard officers. General Hill was offered his discharge and was tendered a commission as colonel in the Service of Supplies. Both of these offers he declined, true soldier that he was, saying that he had gone to France to serve his country and preferred a position at the front, in any capacity, vrhere he could render the greatest service. On August 29, 1918, he accepted a commission as major in a regiment then moving to the front line trenches. In ten days he was at the front, engaged in the last and greatest battles of the war and on October 16th, gave up his life in the Ai-gonne Forest, in the heroic manner recorded in the foregoing citation for the Distinguished Service Cross.

General Hill was born in Quincy, Illinois, June 20, 1876, a son of Frederick T. and Cecilia Hill. Henry Root, his maternal grandfather, who came to Quincy in 1837, was a pioneer merchant, president of the Quincy, Missouri & Pacific Railway, the founder and president of the Union Bank. On his father's side his ancestry dates back in America to 1620 and on his mother's side to the heroes of the Revolution.

In civil life General Hill had occupied a prominent place in Quincy for many years. He was the owner and manager of the business of the F. T. Hill Company, founded by his father and one of the leading and the oldest concerns in the carpet and furnishing trade in the state. Identified with the Masonic fraternity, he held positions of trust and responsibility in its various organizations and also in other fraternal and civic societies. But there was martial blood in his veins and he had made a study of military affairs and service until he fully qualified himself for its high commands.

Embracing every opportunity for serving his countrj', Henry R. Hill died the hero that he was, facing the machine gun fire of the enemy, determined to clean out the machines that were dealing out death to his comrades and preventing the advance of his armies. It was the typical act of a true American commander, the deed of a brave man standing at the very head of his troops leading them, not driving them, willing to take, even before they were called upon to do so, the consequences of the commands he gave them. It was the deed of the kind of American who won the greatest war the world has ever known, waged on his part and on the part of others like him for the cause of humanity and righteousness. The things that make life great and glorious, the noblest attributes of manhood and Americanism were his. Such a life will go down into the history of Quincy, and of Illinois as one of the state's foremost soldiers who died a soldier's death.

William J. Ruff. A man of marked business acumen and foresight, possessing good executive ability and much inventive talent, William J. Ruff, of Quincy, has made an exhaustive study of the more modern and scientific methods used in the manufacture of beer, and is justly given a place of prominence among the leading brewers of Adams County. A son of the late John Ruff, he was born January 28, 1865, in Quincy, which he has always claimed as liis jionie.

John Ruff spent his entire life in Quincy, dying while yet in the prime of life, his death occurring May 16, 1880. He married Annie E. Lock, who came from Germany to Adams Comity, Illinois, when a girl of seven years. She survived her husband but a few short years, dying at her home in Quincy on

September 30, 1884 Of their eight children three are now living, as follows: William J.; Casper H., of Quincy; and Lizette, wife of George II. Schatfer, of Quincy.

Obtaining his preliminary education in the parochial schools, William J. Ruff entered the Gem City Business College at the age of twelve years. Three years later, owing to the death of his father, he was forced to discontinue his studies and begin the battle of life on his own account. After serving an apprenticeship at the brewer's trade, mastering its varioiLs branches in three years, Mr. Rutf went to Europe in order to take up the study of that branch of chemistry relating to brewing. Leaving home ou May 16, 1883, he went to Worms, Germany, the city in which JIartin Luther appeared before a diet in 1521, and there studied scientific brewing under the instruction of Dr. Schneider. W^hile thus occupied Mr. Ruff conceived the idea of pasteurizing beer by automatic control of the process, and the director of the school advised him to follow that method, and it was immediately adopted at Zweibrucken Pfallz, where he remained as an instructor for two weeks, during which time he was instrumental in having a large cargo of pasteurized beer shipped to Cape Town, Africa.

Returning to Illinois, Mr. Ruff introduced the newer methods of preser\'ing bottle beer, and his system is used in all breweries in the state, if not in the entire country. Mr. Rutf ha.s also invented and patented a self regulating machine for this purpose used by brewers, besides other devices used in brewing (beer. In 1906 Mr. Ruff assumed the management of the brewery with which he has since been officially connected, and through his energetic and systematic efforts he ha.s built up an extensive and highly remunerative business, his plant being one of the best equipped in the county, and producing one of finest brands of beer to be found anywhere.

On May 2, 1887, Mr. Ruff was united in marriage with Bertha A. Barth. She was a life-long resident of Quincy, her death occurring here April 1, 1914. Three children were born into their home, namely : Edgar J., in business with his father; Clarence F., in the hardware business; and Wilbert B., attending school. In polities Mr. Ruff is independent, voting regardless of party restrictions. He is an active member of the Park and Boulevard Association, and was influential in raising the first money for the purchase of South Park. He is one of the directors of the Quincy Hotel, and was greatly interested in the development of oil fields in Plymouth. Illinois.

During the war Mr. Ruff was greatly interested in improving safety devices in aeronautics, and invented a quick opening, variable speed parachute. He also has patents pending for preventing aeroplanes taking fire, thus obviating loss of valuable lives.

George E. Stauffer, whose home is in section 13 of Beverly Township, seven miles northwest of Baylis and thirty-four miles southeast of Quincy, has had a straightforward, consistently successful career as a farmer and stockman. Anyone familiar with farming and farming conditions in Adams County will confirm that statement, and it is evident that Mr. Stauffer would be completely satisfied to be ranked among the able farmers of the county, since he has always centered his interests on agriculture and apparently has cared nothing for those public honors which are frecjuently conferred upon men of his standing.

Mr. Stauffer was bom on the old home farm close to the noted Mound Farm October 23, 1863. His parents were George W^. and Elizabeth (Cunningham) Stauffer. George E. Stauffer is a nephew of the late Christo{)her Stauffer, at one time one of the largest land owners in Adams County and proprietor of the Mound Farm above mentioned. George W. Stauffer was a son of Jacob and Nancy Stauffer, who came from Pennsylvania to Adams County in 1837. George W^. Stauffer died in January. 1907, at the age of seventy-four. On coming to Adams County Jacob Stauffer located on land now constituting the home farm of W. R. Sykes, a mile and a half south of George E. Stauffer's farm. He spent the rest of his life there. Elizabeth Cunningham was a native of Holmes County, Ohio, daughter of John and Christine (Carbaugh) Cunningham. The Cunningham family lived north of Beverly. George W. Stauffer came to rank with his brother Christopher as a leading farm owner and stockman in this county. He acquired about 1,400 acres of laud, and was an extensive feeder of cattle and hogs. He survived his wife one year. He was one of the most ardent republicans in a democratic county and held some of the township offices. He and his brother Christopher were among the leaders in establishing the Mound Prairie Christian Church. George W. ytauifer and wife had nine children: Margaret, living at Baylis, widow of William Davidson; Elizabeth, who lives at Oakdale, Nebraska, widow of Milton W. Moore, who died at Oakdale in January, 1919; Sarah Kate, wife of Frank Grammar, of Kearney, Nebraska; Caroline, wife of William Huffmaster, of Macksville, Kansas; Emma, who died at the age of thirty-six, the wife of William Mixer; Charles, who lives near Barry in Pike County ; George E. ; Jacob, a banker at Baylis ; and John, a farmer and auctioneer at Griggsville, Dlinois, and owner of the old Stauifer farm in Adams County.