Quincy Township (part 70 of 74)

George E. Stauffer lived at home to the age of twenty-two. His father then gave him his present place of 185 acres and with that as a nucleus he has steadily promoted his holdings until he is now owner of 1,040 acres. The home farm comprises 600 acres all in one body, and he has 400 acres 11/2 miles away. Most of this land he acquired in an era of cheap prices, ranging from $40 to $75 an acre. One farm now occupied by his son comprises 240 acres of bottom land. Mr. Stauffer invested a large amount of money in tilling this land, and it is now the most productive soil he has. On another farm he has a tenant, being in partnership in the matter of stock and improvements. His home place of 600 acres comprises a model stock farm. He has kept as high as 2,000 sheep and at present has 250 breeding ewes. He also has from 125 to 150 cattle. He buys stock cattle on the Kansas City markets and turns them off direct from the grass to the market in the fall. It has been his practice to feed from four to six carloads of hogs every season. He takes pride in the improvements on his farm, especially good barns. While his home is not the largest it is one of the most desirable and attractive home properties in Beverly Township. Mr. Stauffer is a republican voter. Though not a member, he has served as a member of the building committee and has done much to promote the welfare of the Mound Prairie Christian Church, of which Mrs. Stauffer is a member.

November 27, 1895, Mr. Stauffer married Miss Mary Wells. She was born on the old Wells farm two miles northwest of where she now lives February 24, 1877, daughter of Francis and Serena (Bimson) Wells. Her father was born in Adams County and her mother came from Ohio. Her father died in 1904, at the age of fifty-eight, and her mother two years later, aged fifty-six. Mr. and Mrs. Stauffer have two sons. Ray E. has the complete operation and management of the 240 acre farm of his father above noted. He married Ezma Robertson, member of the well known Robertson family of this county. They liave two children, Analu and Silber Ray. Roy L. Stauffer, second son of Mr. Stauffer, was educated in Eureka College and is now a partner with his father in the stock and operations of the home farm. Hte was in Class A of the draft but was never called into active service.

Wii/UAM Mark Huffman. Since early times Beverly Township has had a reputation for its well improved farms and its capable farmers. One of the men who are doing much to uphold this reputation at the present time is William Mark Huffman, whose place is li/j. miles east of Beverly Village.

Mr. Huffman when a boy worked out as a farm hand, and he knows every pha.se of country life, that of farm hand, renter, land owner, and has not only

He was born at Georgetown in Vermilion County, Illinois, February 8, 1861. He comes of a family of pioneer ministei-s. His grandfather, Samuel Huftman, was of German pai'entage, and spent most of his life as a circuit rider and minister. He was in Missouri during the Civil war, and carried the gospel to various other states. Rev. Pleasant B. Huffman, father of William M., was born in Tennessee ajid during his boyhood his parents moved to Georgetown, Vermilion County, Illinois. His father at one time had preached in Adams County, but did most of his work in Missouri and later went to Texas. Pleasant also became a circuit rider and for several years was on the circuit including Adams County. For two yeai-s he was located at Beverly, and spent two years at Lima. Many of the old timers remember him in Pike, Adams and Hancock counties. His later years were spent at Berdan in Greene County, Illinois, where he died in October, 1892, at the age of sixtytwo. He was a man of great ability and led several stirring revivals, one of the most successful being held at Kinderhook. Pleasant Huffman married Nancy Clifton. She is now* living at Whitehall, Illinois.

W^illiam ^lark Huffman is now the only member of his father's family in Adams County. He received the equivalent of a grammar school education and as a boy worked out on farms. One of his early employers was Jacob Funk of Beverly. While there he became acquainted with Miss Emma Sykes, and they were married January 15, 1882. Mrs. Huffman is a daughter of James Sykes, of a notable family in Adams County to which especial attention is paid on other pages.

Mr. Huffman at the time of his marriage became associated witli his fatherin-law for five j'ears and then he and Ins brother-in-law, Frank Sykes, operated as partners for a similar period. On dissolving the partnership each rented a farm until 1896, when William iMark Huffman bought the old Sykes homestead. Most of the buildings on this land were erected in the time of Mr. Sykes. In one particular Mr. Huffman has effected a conspicuous change. Like many other farms the fields were set off by the old fashioned hedge fences. Most of this has since been removed and Mr. Huffman has replaced it with post and wire fences. He continued the active management of the farm until five years ago, when he rented it to his two sons. He and his wife then lived for tliree years in Beverly Village, but two years ago they returned to the farm and Mr. Huffman now gives it his personal attention. It is a fine farm and the home is one of the best in the township, standing on a .sightly elevation. Mr. Huffman has filled most of the township offices, being clerk six years, and also supervisor. He is a republican. Some years ago he was called upon to make some repairs on the local telephone line, and that may be said to have given him a pennanent interest in telephone work. He and associates bought the line leading from Baylis to Hadley, passing through Beverly, and he has since been a director of a local company and is manager of the Beverly switchboard.

ilr. and Mrs. Huffman arc tlie parents of four children : Laura, wife of Dr. George A. Lierle, of Burton ; William M. ; Elsie, Mrs. Raymond Sykes, of Beverly Township, and they also own a homestead at American Falls, Idaho; and Frank. Mr. Huffman's son William i\I. is now a farmer at Amberg, W^isconsin. The son Frank L., who married Nellie Rhodes, is a farmer west of Beverly.

James Sykes was bom at Huddersfield. England, in 1819, son of James and Hannah (Hurst) Sykes. Their three older children, Mar\', William and James, were all born at Huddersfield. The family came to America in the fall of 1821, and another son, John, was born in New York in 1824. James Sykes. Sr., in England was foreman in a cloth dressing establishment, a factorj- where the finest cloth was manufactured. He came to America in advance of his family and located at Manhattanville, now a part of New York City, where he found employment. He sent for his family, who were twenty weeks in crossing the ocean. Jn 1834 James Sykes, Sr., brought his family west to Illinois. He made the trip with tlie Robertson family, elsewhere referred to in these pages. At that time the only other resident of Beverly Township was Esariah Mayfield, near the present Mound Prairie Church on section 21. He had located there only the preceding spring. The Sykes and Robertson families made the entire journey westward by the water route. They went up the Hudson River to Albany, thence by canal to Buffalo, around the lakes to Cleveland, acrass the State of Ohio by canal to Portsmouth, and thence down the Ohio and up the Mississippi to Quincy. Between Quiney and Beverly at that time there were only five houses. It was an era of pioneer things, and the Sykes family did their first farming operations with ox teams, witli the wooden moldboard plow, with grain cradles, and threshed their grain by tramping and flailing. Mr. Sykes secured the southea.st quarter of section 21. His home wa.s half a mile south of the Mayfield home. He and his son William lived with the Mayfields while the first log house was being constructed. He died at the old home in June, 1852, at the age of sixty. He had survived his wife, Hannah, about two years. In the meantime he had bought other laud, so that he could give each child a farm. He served as a justice of the peace and when the county seat was moved from Columbus to Quincy he was appointed a county officer, by Governor French, but never qualified. His sons William, James and John all settled near him, and his daughter Mary became the wife of Jacob Fimk, whose son, William Funk, still lives on an adjoining farm. The oldest son, William Sykes, was born April 17, 1817, and died in July, 1884. He married Eliza G. Raymond. He was a justice of the peace thirty years and school treasurer twenty-eight years.

James Sykes, Jr., was only two years old when the family came to New York and was fifteen when thej' settled in Beverly Township. In 1849 he married Miss Mary Ayers, who was born in New Jersey in 1830 and died April 1, 1873. In 1850 he bought the land where his daughter Mrs. Huffman lives at $4 an acre. He owned 440 acres there and also 325 acres three miles away. He became one of the leading farmers of the township and about 1888 he bought property on Diamond Hill in Barry, where he spent his last years in retirement. He died at Barry July 21, 1906. At one time he owned land not only in Beverly Township, but property in Nebraska and Minnesota. He was a noted figure in the life of the county not only by reason of his possessions but by his unusual character. The first presidential vote he cast was for Martin Van Buren. Later he became a republican when that party was organized and never deviated from a stanch allegiance therewith. For thirty years he was a school director, and he also served on the school board at Barry and as chairman of the board of health. He was verj'^ systematic in everything he did, and all of his life kept a diary. He was also correspondent for local papers and was ever ready with the courage of his convictions to defend his views. He had that moral stamina, so valuable to every community in that he was not afraid to report any misdemeanor which came to his official view. He was a radical temperance man, and fought vigorously for anything he conceived to be for the benefit of the community. In old age he became a member of the Masonic Lodge at Barry and the ]\Iasons had charge of his funeral. The sermon was preached by Rev. W. M. Hailey, an old friend. Such a man inevitably leaves a deep impress upon his community, and as such his memory is deeply cherished. It was characteristic of him that he practically settled his estate before his death, giving each of his children the equivalent of about .$10,000.

By his first marriage he had eleven children, six of whom are yet living: Hannah, wife of Aaron House, of Cresliard, South Dakota; Elizabeth, Mrs. J. 0. McClain, of Lincoln, Nebraska ; Joseph, who married Martha E. Molt and lives at Colorado Springs, Colorado ; Emma, wife of William M. llulfmau ; Frank, who married Eliza Hill and is a retired resident of Macomb, Illinois; and Hattie, Mrs. Frank Lawson, of Barry.

November 25, 1875, he married ilartha Cunningham, of Barry, Illinois, formerly qf Harrison County, Ohio. She came to Barry, Illinois, in 1867. She survived her husband only three weeks.

John \Villl\m Hendricks. The people of Kichfield Township' long knew and admired the late John William Hendricks, regarded as one of the best farmers and public spirited citizens of that locality. Mr. Hendricks had retired only a short time from his farm to the Town of Barry when his death occurred December 15, 1918.

He was only sixty-two years of age, having been born in Richfield Township July 26, 1856. His parents were James and Sarah (McClellan) Hendricks, who came from Ohio to Adams County at a veiy early date. They settled three miles from Kingston in Richfield Township. James Hendricks lived to a good old age, and his widow is now living with her daughter Mrs. John Pennell.

John W. Hendricks spent his boyhood on the farm and had a common school education. At the age of twenty-three he married Elvira McLean, a neighbor girl in Richfield Township. After his marriage he devoted his time steadily to farming in that township, and after a few years bought the old home place. He was quite successful in handling his resources and pursued a policy of mixed farming, raising grain and feeding hogs.

He was always interested in local affairs and for twenty years held the office of road commissioner and was also a school director. He was a good and loyal democrat and a member of Northcutt Chapel of the Methodist Church. He was laid to rest in the Barry cemetery. He was also affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America. Outside of his business as a farmer and as a local citizen he became widely known as a drummer. He had taken up that art when a boy, was an expert, and for years his services were in demand at nearly all the rallies. The last time he appeared in that capacity was the celebration over the signing of the armistice in 1918, when he drummed at Barry and at Kinderhook.

Mr. Hendricks lost his first wife in 1900. On June 7, 1903, he married Mrs. Alice jMixer, of Beverly Township, daughter of William and Marj' (Costello) Manker and widow of Alexander Mixer. She wa.s married to Alexander Mixer at the age of twenty-six, and they lived together for seventeen years, until his death. Mr. Mixer "was a farmer in Beverly Township. Mrs. Hendricks has one son by her first marriage, Vernon Mixer, now a fanner at Bunston, Missouri. Mr." Hendricks continued to live on the old Hendricks farm of 200 acres six miles north of Barry in Richfield Township until October, 1918, at which date he retired to a comfortable home in Barry and died there a few weeks later, as above mentioned. By his first marriage he was the father of ei"-ht children: Myrtle, wife of Samuel Gamble, living on the old Gamble farm in Richfield Township: Daisy, Mrs. Harry Funk, on the old Predmore farm in Pike County: Grover of Jacksonville, Illinois; Nellie, wife of George Burroughs, of Kinderhonk; James, a farmer in Payson Township of Adams County; Ha, wife of Leonard W'ickenkamp, living near New London, Missouri; Basil, "who now lives on the old Hendricks f ai-m ; Blanche, wife of George Long', a railroad man living at Sedalia. Missouri. Mr. Hendricks had no children by his second wife. They took Viola Woodworth, his granddaughter, at the age of three years, and she is now a young schoolgirl living with Mrs. Hendricks.

Elmer C. Clary. One of the well located and highly productive farms of Columbus Township is the place of Elmer C. Clarj- in section 13. Mr. Clary is one of the younger farmers but has made such good use of his time and op- portunities that he has already accumulated 176 acres in a body, well improved between cultivated fields and pastures, with a good eight-room house, two Ibarns, one for stock and the other for grain, and various other buildings which give him a complete equipment for all the varied industry that goes on at his I'arm.

Mr. Clary bought this place eight years ago. He came here from Liberty Township, where he was born July 8, 1889, and was reared and educated in the locality. His parents were Patrick and Sophia (Schwartz) Clary. Both are still living. His father was born in Payson Township of this county of Irish parentage, and his mother is a native of Liberty Township and of German parentage. Both families were early settlers in Adams County, and the grandparents on both sides died in advanced years. The Clarys were Catholics and the Sohwartzs were Lutherans in religion. Patrick Clary and wife were married in Liberty Township and have spent their lives there as farmers. They are now about sixty-five years of age. Both are members of the Presbyterian Church and the father is a democrat. They had three sous, Edward and Elmer C, twins, born July 8, 1889, and Audrey, who was also born in Liberty Township and after a good education in high .school and business college became a bookkeeper and is so employed today in Chicago. The son Edward is a farmer near the Lost Prairie School House, where he and his brothers were educated and where their mother also obtained her schooling. Edward is now married and lives in Columbus Township. His wife was Amelia Herman.

Elmer C. Clary married in Liberty Township Cora Erke. She was born in Columbus Township in 1881 and attended the Wolf Ridge School. Her father, Fred Erke, died in 1912, at the age of sixty-three. He was born in Germany, to the United States when a boy with his parents, and married in Columbus Township Amelia Schultz. She was bom in that township and is still living at the age of about seventy. Mr. and Mrs. Clary lived on a farm in Liberty Township until they removed to their pi'esent place. They had two children. Earl, who died when sixteen days old, and Vera, who was born January 16, 1917. Mr. and Mrs. Clary are members of the Wolf Ridge Christian Church.

William Funk, now living retired at his country home a half mile southleast of the Village of Beverly, is a member of one of the old and interesting families of Adams County. Perhaps the distinguishing characteristic of the Funk family has been skillful and honest workmanship, whether in mechanical lines or as farmers and business men. No higher compliment could be paid any family than this.

Especially deserviiig of memory is his father, the late Jacob S. Funk, who was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, May 25, 1818, and died in Adams County December 1, 1901. He was a son of Abraham and Susanna fStoncr) Funk. The Funk family came to Adams County in 1835, in the very early pioneer epoch, and settled in Richfield Township, 21/^ miles from Kingston. Abraham died a few years later and his wife, Susanna, spent her last years with lier children. She died July 30, 1866, at the age of seventy-three, and was laid to rest in the Mound Prairie cemetery.

On December 2, 1838, Jacob S. Funk married Miss Mary Sykes, who was born April 24, 1815. at Huddersfield, England, and was a daughter of James and Hannah (Hurst) Sykcs. The Sykes family came to Adams County in 1834, and this publication contains several references to members of the family. Mrs. Funk died in January, 1877.

Jacob S. Funk was a successful business man, but is perhaps best remembered for his remarkable skill as a cabinet maker and wood worker. For a great many years he was the local undertaker in Beverly Township. He had bis shop on his farm three quarters of a mile southeast of Beverly until it was burned. He employed the leisure of old age in manufacturing some marvelous .specimens of cabinet making. Thej' chiefly took the form of jewelry boxes.

They were wonderfully and cleverly made, and contained much inlay work in patterns. In his eighty-third year he made such a box and put upon it his signature with the date July 25, 1901. That is still carefully preserved by his family. The box contains 5,100 distinct pieces of wood. Several such boxes he gave away as presents to his children. He learned his trade in early life in Quincy, and no finer workman in that line ever lived in Adams County. Besides his business and trade he owned a farm of 200 acres in Beverly Township. This land is now owned by his sons William and Fi-ank, Sr., and is operated as a farm by the son ot' William Funk. Jacob S. Punk was a republican in politics and a member of the Methodist Church at Beverly. He was a man of good address, a fluent talker, and for many years was superintendent of the Sunday school. He and his wife had nine children, eight of whom reached mature years: Mary- Ann, wife of Thomas Shepherd, now living at Zephyrhills, Florida; James, who died at Bevei-ly at middle age; Charles H., who died in 1877, when past thirty years of age; George, who died at the age of twenty-one; AVilliam; John, who died in middle age; Frank, who lives near Barry in Pike County, Illinois; Nellie, wife of Orlando Havird, near Barry.

Mr. William Funk was born at Quincy October 8, 1848, and when three weeks old his parents moved to the farm which became his future home. He spent his early days there and attended the local schools.

December 29, 1874, he married Hannah E. Kelly, daughter of Frazy and Hannah (Raymond) Kelly, of a well known family of Adams County. She was an infant when her mother died and grew up with her aunt, Mrs. William Sykes, whose maiden name was Eliza G. Raymond, and her sister, Hannah Raymond. As a boy with his father William Funk acquired a skillful knowledge of the cabinet making trade. He worked at the carpenter's bench from 1871 for ten years, doing largely local work. For some years he lived on the William Sykes farm. He became interested in the manufacture of water tanks for fanners. These tanks were equipped with heaters. His brother Frank in- \ cnted and patented the first tank heater in the United States. William Funk built up a considerable business in this line and continued it until about ten years ago. Since then he has lived rather quietly on his present farm, which he bought in 1887. Mr. Funk and his brother Frank at the death of their father secured the old Funk place and, as above noted, own it and for some years operated it in partnership. Mr. Funk has a comfortable home and forty acres of land, which was the old Robertson homestead, and he has built a new house and barn and made other improvements. Like his father he has employed his leisure in doing some neat cabinet work, especially in making home furniture.

Mr. Funk has always been a republican in politics. He served nearly ten years as township assessor, and was also a supervisor. He has owned land in "other localities, but all his interests are now concentrated at Beverly. He is not a member of any church or fraternity. His wife is a IMethodist.

Mr. and Mrs. Funk have two children. The daughter, Mabel E., is the wife of S. C. Lawson, who for several years has done work in oil development around Tulsa. Oklahoma. The son. Frank W^., who now operates the old Funk farm and also the home iilace of William Funk, married Fern Hull, and they have a ilaughter, Margaret Ruth.

Charles F. Bishop. There is no business which requires for its successful handling more experience and exact knowledge of many complicated conditions than the commission business, especially the handling of poultry, eggs and kindred lines of produce. Capital is of course an essential to such a business, but it is not money but the knowledge born of experience that brings success.

The leading commission man in this line at Quincy is Charles F. Bishop, whose warehouse and offices are located at 220 Front Street. He has been in liis present plant since 1915, and for three years before that was at 101 Front Street, at the foot of Maine. Mr. Bishop has extended his trade connections all over Western Illinois and Eastern Missouri. He is one of the men whose combined enterprise has served to make the Mississippi Valley one of the greatest concentration points for poultry supplies in the world. Mr. Bishop has two feeder plants, one at Hannibal, Missouri, and the other at Keokuk, Iowa. The immense volume of his business is well indicated in the shipment of from twelve to fifteen carloads of poultry every month, and besides this he ships many carloads of eggs and butter. Mr. Bishop has been in this branch of the provision trade for twenty years. For twelve years he M-as associated with Swift & Company of Chicago, and it was with that great packing house that he acquired his thorough and detailed knowledge of everj- branch of the business.

Mr. Bishop was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, September 18, 1877, a son of Addison J. and Belle (Powell) Bishop. Trumbull County is one of the oldest centers of settlement in the Western Reserve of Ohio, and the Bishop family were there among the pioneers. Addison J. Bishop in 880 took liis family west to Kansas and settled near Minneapolis in Ottawa County. They were pioneer farmers and homesteaders in that section, and the father lived there until his death in March, 1910, at tlie age of sixty-five, his first wife having passed away a number of years beflf.¥e,>'Ji4 the age of thirty-eight. He married a second time. Addison Bishop and wife took with them to Kansas two children : Adelbert and Charle^jF; ,. Adelbert died?''\<-hen about thirteen years of age. After they went to Kansas other children were born : Addie, wife of John J. Jennings, of Ottawa County; William J., who is a druggist at Greeley, Colorado, and by his marriage to Anna York, of Nebraska, has two sous, Daniel and York.

Charles F. Bishop grew up on the Kansas farm and was educated there in public schools. He was about twenty years of when when America entered the war with Spain, and he enlisted and served with the famous Twentieth Kansas Infantry, under the command of one of the most brilliant soldiers in American annals, Fred Funston, who was colonel of the regiment when it went to the Philippines, and who afterwards achieved rank a.s brigadier-general and as one of the ranking major generals of the United States forces, and died in active service on the Mexican border in 1916. In the Philippines Mr. Bishop had fifteen months of active experience, participated in many battles, was also on detached duty, and was one of the American soldiers who were granted by special act of Congress a medal commending his meritorious service. After returning from the Philippines Mr. Bishop began his employment with Swift and Company in 1900, and left them to take up a business of his own at Quinc.y.

Mr. Bishop married at Springfield, Missouri, Miss i\Iabel M. Smith. She was born at ]\larshfield, Missouri, in October, 1879, but was reared and educated at Springfield. Iler father was Isaac Newton Smith, who for thirty years was district manager of the ilutual Life Insurance Company of New York and died at the height, of his business career in the fall of 1914, when past fifty years of age. Mrs. Bishop's mother was Margaret Butcher, of Pennsylvania, who is still living at Springfield. Mrs. Bishop's brother Lucius M. is married and lives at Tulsa, Oklahoma, and her sister Ada is the wife of John J. Tooker, of Springfield, Missouri, and they have three children.

Mr. and jNIrs. Bishop have one daughter, Margaret E., born November 20, 1906, a student in the Webster grade schools. Mr. and Mrs. Bishop are active members of the Presbyterian Church and in politics he is a republican and as the leading representative of his line of business is a member of the Quincy Rotary Club. Mr. Bishop for a man of his age has had an iinusual share of Masonic honors and credits. He has taken all the degrees of both the York and Scottish Rite except the thirty-third supreme honorary degree. He is a member of the Lodge, Chapter, Council and Commandery at Quincy, the York

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Adam Rankin Wallace, Sr. Eighty years ago members of the Wallace family came to Adams County from Kentucky. In Camp Point Township they have been especially conspicuous as farmers, business men and citizens, always conscious of their obligations and well qualified by leadership and ability to perform their civic duties.

The old Wallace homestead is in section 2 of Camp Point Township. Adam Rankin Wallace, Sr., was born at Paint Lick in Gan-ard County, Kentucky, December 27, 1823. His birthplace was next door to where Cncle Tom's Cabin was written. He was a son of Josiah B. and Mary or Polly (Mason) Wallace. Josiah Wallace died in Kentucky when his children were small, and in 1835 his widow came to Adams County, bringing her children and also a negro slave nimed Nellie, who lived in this county until her death about 1860. The family made the long journey in wagons drawn by oxen and brought with them only the barest necessities, leaving behind the comforts to which they were accustomed in a state long past the pioneer condition. The first winter was a severe trial to the family accustomed to a milder climate, a secure house and an abundance of provisions : fainter hearts might well have yielded to the inclination to return to the land of their birth. The winter was spent in a cabin 14x14 feet, which remained the home after the family had bought a quarter section in section 2 of Camp Point Township. At that time wild game was abundant, and the young men often killed deer in the woods near their home. Venison at that time was their main source of meat supply.

The children of Josiah B. Wallace and wife were : Mason, who came to Adams County on horseback about a year before his mother; Allen, who was born in Kentucky and died in 1876 ; Isabel, who became the w-ife of Jason Wallace; Jennie, who married Seth J. Morey, who was a pi-ominent early day surveyor in Adams County and also at one time conducted a woolen factory at Clayton; James, who was for many years a prosperous farmer and land owner in Camp Point and Houston townships; and Adam Rankin, Sr.

Adam Rankin Wallace Sr. was about thirteen years of age when his mother came to Adams Countj'. He attended the public schools of his native state and of this county. During his mature lifetime he became one of the most substantial farmers and citizens of the county. He owned seven hundred acres in Camp Point and Houston townships, his home being in section 2 of the former to\\'nship.

The late Adam Rankin Wallace grew up in a political atmosphere saturated with the influence of the great Henry Clay of Kentucky, and when he cast his first vote for president he honored this great whig. Upon the decadence and dissolution of the whig party he joined the republican forces when they first organized and remained steadfast to that party allegiance the rest of his life. He was active and prominent in political affairs and often a delegate to conventions. Tn religion the Wallace family were adherents of the United Presbyterian Church.

Adam R. Wallace Sr. was one of the organizers of the Adams County Fair Association, and to no one enterprise perhaps did he give more of his enthusiasm and interest. He laid out the grounds of the a.ssociat.ion at Camp Point, which is now the beautiful Bailey Park, set out most of the trees, and wa.s general sup':'rintendent for twenty years. It was in recognition of his splendid services to the organization that in 1882 the Quincy exhibitors at the Fair presented him with a handsome silver ice pitcher.

Adam Rankin Wallace, Sr. died February 10, 1904. On December 31, 1852, ho married Sarah Jane Lyle, who died August 13. 1910. With her parents, William and Margaret Tj>le, she had come to America from Ireland when she was quite .young. In 1902 Mr. and Mrs. Wallace celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Their children were: Marj', who died in infancy; Adam Rankin,

Jr., Mary, wife of T. J. Downing; John R., of Clayton Township; Emma J., who lives on the old homestead with her brother Adam ; and Samuel M., mentioned in following sketch.

Adam R. Wallace Jr. and his sister Emma J. have always lived together, she assuming the burdens and responsibilities of keeping and managing the old homestead where both of them were born and have spent their lives. Adam, Jr., was educated in the public schools and he and his sister Emma jointly own the old home of two hundred seventy acres of the Wallace estate, and he also owns 100 acres in a tract across the road from the home. He and his brother Samuel are associated under the name Wallace Brothers, and this is one of the most widely known firms of stock men in the coi:nty. Their specialty is pure bred Shorthorn cattle, a strain which their father introduced into this county many years ago. In fact the senior Wallace was the first to import thoroughbred Shorthorns to this part of Illinois, and brought the first animals of pure strain to Adams County in 1859 from Kentucky. This stock has been developed and improved by the Wallaces until the Wallace Shorthorns bear favorable comparison with any specimens of that strain and in .some points have marked superiority as individuals.

Samuel M. Wallace is a lawyer by profession, was an active member of the bar of Quincy for a number of years, but has largely given up the profession in favor of stock farming, and is one of the firm of Wallace Brothers of Camp Point, whose particular strain of Shorthorn cattle is not one of the least valuable assets of Adams County farm enterprise. Mr. Wallace is also prominent in other directions, and is one of the best known citizens of the county.

He was born in Camp Point Township INIarch 18, 1867, son of Adam Rankin and Sarah (Lyle) Wallace. Of his parents and ancestry a more detailed account will be found on other pages. Mr. Wallace was reared at the old homestead, attended the local schools, the Maplewood High School at Camp Point, and in 1889 graduated from the law department of the University of Missouri. The next twelve years he spent in handling a successful practice at Quincy. He then returned to Camp Point and was identified with the home fai-m until his father's death. He individually owns 120 acres in Houston Township and also rents a portion of the old homestead from his brother Adam R. Jr. While the firm of Wallace Brothers concentrate their efforts upon pure bred Shorthorn cattle, Mr. S. M. Wallace has made some individual contribution to the stock raising activities of the county as a breeder of saddle horses.

Mr. Wallace in 1917 was appointed township food commissioner or administrator under the General Food Bureau. He is an ardent republican in polities. Mr'. Wallace has an ideal home life. March 24, 1909, he married Miss Maiide Mason, of Richmond, Kentucky. ]\Irs. Wallace was born, reared and educated in Central Kentucky, and possesses many of the charms that traditionally have been associated with Kentucky women for generations. Her parents were John and Sarah (Comelison) Mason, her father a prominent and wealthy farmer who lives at Richmond, Kentucky. Mrs. Wallace is a most accom]ilished lady, has rare ability as a conversationalist, and was liberally educated. As a girl she graduated from Madison Institute in Kentucky and later Central University. Prior to her marriage she taught at Richmond, Kentucky. Mr. and Sirs. Wallace have one daughter, Sarah Lvle, born Slarch 18, 1913. This is the only gi-andehild of the late Adam Rankin Wallace, Sr.

James E. DeMoss. For many years the DeMoss family has been numerously represented in Columlms and adjoining townships, and their activities and influence in farming, stock raising and general business affairs have been in proportion to their number. One of them is James E. De]\Ioss, one of the most capable fanners as also a very successful trader and stock man.

Mr. DeMoss is now practically giving all his attention to farming and farm supervision. His home place of 58 acres is in sections 3 and 10 of Columbus

Township, and he also owns eigrhty acres in section 11 and twenty-seven acres of native timber in another part of that township. His home farm is well improved with good buildings and other equipment, has a large number of graded stock, and he feeds practically every ton of his crops on the place and buys much more. His farm is situated on the old Telegraph Road.

On this farm which is now his home he was born February 14, 1877, and was reared here. He attended the Oakwood District School and also the school at the Village of Clayton. F'or about four years Mr. DeMoss followed the business of butcher and stock trader at Clayton, and for the past eleven years has occupied the old homestead.

His grandfather, James DeMoss, was born in Ohio of French ancestry. He came to Illinois during the '40s, and married here Margaret White. About that time they settled on the farm in Columbus Township that is now owned by their gi-andson. They were very active people, successful as farmers, and left honored names. The grandfather died in Columbus Township and his wife at Camp Point. Both were past seventy years of age. They were members of the Christian Church.

John DeMoss, father of James E., was one of a family of sixteen sons and daughters. Two of these sons and four of the daughters are still living and are all married. John grew up on the old homestead, and married at Clayton iNaney Haslett. She was born in Ireland, where her parents both died. She come to this country with brothers and sisters, locating at Clayton. After her marriage she and her husband lived on the old homestead, and they finally moved to the Village of Clayton, where she died I\Iarch 31, 1916, at the age of sixty. John DeMoss is still living at Clayton, and is still more or less active as a trader. He is a republican and a member of the Cliristian Church. His children are three in number: James E. ; Birdie, who died during the winter of 1918, was the wife of Charles Peacock, of Idaho, and they have a son, John ; Ellen Charlotte is the wife of Han-j- Griffin, a fanner in Allen County, Kansas, and they have a son, AVillett.

James E. DeMoss married at Clayton March 14, 1906, Miss Anna Wiggins. She was born in Hancock County, Illinois, in 1884 and wa.s educated in the schools of that county. Mr. and ilrs. DoMoss have the following children: Roy E.. born in 1908 ; Ruby, born November 5, 1914; Glenn Otis, bom January 24, 1916 ; and Ruth ]\L, born :\lareh 29, 1918,

W. R. Sykes, farmer of section 35 in Beverly Township, was born at Beverly in 1842 and is the oldest native of the township now residing in it. The farm of 305 acres is now owned in part by his two sons. The seventy-five acres now including the buildings wa.s given him by his father over sixty yeai-s ago, and was the last prairie land fenced bordering the i-oad on the "divide" between Quincy and Griggsville Landing.

Mr. Sykes taught fifteen terms of district school and then went to farming. In 1867 he was married to ^liss Hattie Eager, wlio died two years later. In 1882 he was again married, to ^liss Adelaide Pottorf, b.y whom there are four children living, Eliza, Ethel, Walter and Webster, each of whom is the owner of a good farm. Webster is a IMa.son and Odd Fellow, and Walter is a thirtvseeond degree Mason. Walter served four months in the army and was under orders to be ready to go to France on short notice when the armistice was signed. In ^lay. 1918, he married -Miss Enn\nitrude Askew, a most estimable and popular young lady. The other three children are at home. Mrs. Sykes has no relatives living in Illinois, but many in Kansas who are prominent citizens.

Mr. Sykes' father was born in Iluddersficld, England, in 1817 and died at his home in Beverly Township July 23, 1884. He was treasurer of Beverly Township twenty-eight years and justice of the peace thirty years and before

The mother was born iu Beverly, Massachusetts, and with her sister name<;l the Town of Beverly, Illinois. She died January 7, 1877, aged fifty-nine years, two months and twelve days. Her maiden name was Eliza G. Kaymond.

Grandfather Sykes was born in Huddersfield, England, August 2, 1792, eame to New York City in 1820, and was foreman in the finishing department of a cloth factory. About a year later Grandmother Sykes with three small children started from Huddersfield to join her husband. The vessel became luiseaworthy and turning hack managed to reach Cork, Ireland, thirteen weeks from the time it left Liverpool. Grandmother went back to Huddersfield, England, took another vessel and arrived at New York after seven weeks' voyage, having spent twenty weeks on the ocean in getting from England to America.

Grandfather Sykes came from New York City to Quincy in October, 1834. He came out to Beverly Township and built the second house in the township and moved into it with his family in November, 1834. Mr. Ezariah Mayfield and family were the first settlers, having built their house in the spring of 1834 and ilr. John B. Robertson and family built the third house in the township and moved into it in the spring of 1835. There is yet on file Grandfather Sykes' naturalization paper dated New York City September 25, 1834, also a commission from Augustus C. French, the eighth elected governor of Illinois, authorizing him to act as a.ssessor and collector of Highland County, dated November 29, 1847.

Highland County was first a part of Adams County, then Marquette, then Highland, and then by act of the Legislature approved February 27, 1847, reverted back to Adams County when the inhabitants persistently refused to organize.

Henry Rees has perhaps the oldest established business as a paving and sewer contractor in Western Illinois. He has been continuously engaged in that line of work at Quincy for twenty-seven years, and his father, whom he succeeded, had the distinction of laying some of the first pavements and constructing some of the first modern sewers in Quincy.

The first pavement laid by Mr. Henry Rees was on Eighth Street, and his first sewer construction was an extensive contract known as the North End sewer. From those initial works to the present time he has handled an immense volume of business of this kind, not only in Quincy but in many surrounding towns. The business of contracting is an uncertain one, involving many unforseen risks and obstacles, and the most successful contractor is not one who has never sustained a loss but one who has accepted losses as inevitable and at the same time fulfilled the letter and spirit of his contract. That is the business record of Mr. Rees, who grew up in this business under his father.

His father was the late Casper Rees, who took his first paving contract thirty years ago. when lie laid the pavement on the entire block around Washington Square. Casper Rees was born in Baden, Germany, in 1881, and married Barbara Durley, both of whom were natives of Oberkirch. Their first child. Bertha, was born in Germany, and when she was still an infant the family emigrated to America during the '60s, locating in Quincy. Casper Rees was a stone mason by trade, and found employment in that line and at teaming for some years, gradually developing his enterprise imtil he was the first recognized paving contractor in the city. He died in 1891, at the age of sixty years. His widow survived him four years and was sixty-two years old at her "death. In Quincy they were communicants of St. Boniface Church and later of St. Francis Parish, and their bodies now rest in St. Boniface Cemetery. Their living chilr dren are: Mrs. Bertha Middendorf, of Quincy; Henry; and Frank, who is a teamster and is married and has a family.

streets, October 29, 1870. His early education was acquired in St. Boniface and St. Francis parochial schools, and from school he entered almost immediately into the business of his father. Thus he was well qualitied by training and experience to take over the business at the time of his father's death. Mr. Rees has from time to time added modern equipment until he has all the facilities for the successful, prompt and efficient handling of any contract in paving or sewer work. Among the machinery is an immense caterpillar drainage and ditching machine.

Mr. Rees married at Quincy Helen ^'oigt. She was born in Baden, Germanj', in 1872, and came to the United States in 1885 with her aunt, Mrs. George Benz. They took passage on a vessel at Bremen, and from New York City came west to Quincy, arriving here September 3, 1885. Mrs. Rees is a daughter of Ernest and Helen (Kanbe) Voigt. Her father died at Baden in 1917, when about fourscore years of age, and her widowed mother is still living there, at the age of eighty. Mrs. Rees is the only member of her family in this country. She has two brothers, Arthur and George, and two sisters, ^larian a widow, and Cecelia, who still reside in Germany.

Plight children were born to the marriage of Mr. and ^Irs. Rees: Frank, who lives in Quincy and married Velley Gartensmeier ; Leota, who has completed her education ; Helen and Bertha, both students in high school ; Carl, in the l)arochial schools; Walter, aged ten years, also a schoolboy; and Edith and Edward, twins. The family are members of St. Francis Catholic Church, and Mr. Rees is a member of the Western Catholic Union.

Ceyixjn Smith. Quincy has many kindly and grateful memories of the late Ceylon Smith, who resided here half a century, built up a distinctive industry, became a man of wealth, and used his means and his influence wisely and helpfully to make both a better and greater city. The only surviving representative of his family is his daughter, Mrs. Ella May Lewis, and his five grandsons, whose attainments and service in church, missionax'v and army work reflects the greatest credit both upon their devoted mother and also their grandfather.

Ceylon Smith was born at Winchester in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, May 5, 1829. His father, Samuel Smith, was also a New Hampshire man, and his first wife, the mother of Ceylon, died in middle age as the result of accident, leaving her son a small boy. The Smiths were old New Englanders of English origin.

Ceylon Smith was reared in his native town and at the age of seventeen went to Springfield, Massachusetts, and learned the molder's trade. He married in Springfield in 1853, Miss Rosala Lee. Their wedding ceremony was performed by Rev. J. B. Ide. Miss Lee was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and was three years old when her mother died and only ten years when she was orphaned by the death of her father, A. T. Lee. Her father was a Springfield lawyer.

After his marriage Ceylon Smith and wife, accompanied by about a dozen other young couples, came west in 1855 to Alton, Hlinois. There he found employment in a local foundry. All but two of the little colony soon left that city, returning east or making homes in other towns. Ceylon Smith and wife and one other couple remained there a year or so. In 1857 Ceylon Smith came to Quincy and soon found employment in a local machine shop. Later he engaged in business on his own account, establishing a foundry at Fifth and Ohio streets. His business was in a fair way to prosperity when the entire plant was destroyed by fire. It was a calamity, and apparently his only resource was to Ijegin the struggle all over again without capital. But a good name and a reputation for honesty and industry stood him in good stead. His friend Lorenzo Bull simply told the young foundryman to draw upon him for all the money he required to re-establish the business, which he did, and was soon proprietor of another machine shop and foundry at the same location. Later he began concentrating his facilities upon a special line of manufacture, including steam engines and elevators, and more and more worked into the elevator business. Finally his plant was absorbed by the Otis Elevator Company, one of the greatest corporations of its kind in the world, and 'Sh: Smith v;as elected honorary president of the eorapauy. He retired from business at the age of seventy-two, and after that lived quietl.y in Quincy until the time of his death on July 6, 1906, at the age of seventy-seven.

He was one of Quincy 's successful men and made his success without parting with his hosts of friends and admirers. He was a member and officer in the Baptist Church. He was content to make his outside service count in the world simply as a manufacturer and business man. and after that found his greatest happiness in his home and in the companionship of his noble wife. Mrs. Smith maintained an ideal home and is especially well remembered because of her love for books and flowers. They were married more than fifty years, and in 1903 celebrated their golden weclding anniversary in the presence of relatives and many friends at their home at the corner of Sixth and Oak streets. Mrs. Smith died August 13, 1907. She was born in Massachusetts in 1830. They were the parents of four children, but the three oldest died in infancy.

Ella ilay, the only daughter, was born at Quincy in 1858, was educated in the City High School, a local college, and also in musical school. She married Dr. James Young Lewis, a graduate of the Philadelphia ]\Iedieal College, ilrs. Lewis, who resides at 1219i/o Maine Street, has devoted her life to the upbringing and education of her five sons, and in them she still finds her greatest pleasure and satisfaction.

The oldest of these grandsons of the late Ceylon Smith is Ceylon S. Lewis, who is a cement bridge contractor of Muskogee, Oklahoma. He married Glem Ellis, of Oklahoma, and they have a daughter, Rosella Lee.

J. Lee Lewis, the second son, is a graduate of the Quincy High School, of Knox College, and took his theological course in Massachusetts. He was pastor of the Baptist Church in that state and later entered upon his career as a Baptist missionary at Rangoon, India. He married a Massachusetts girl, Minneola Maybery, and she is also a missionary under the auspices of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Board. They are now located in their chosen field at Burmah, India.

Joseph Elwood Lewis graduated with honors from the Quincy High School, attended Knox College and William Jewel College at Liberty, Missouri, and took his theological work in Massachusetts and in the University of Chicago. He has been a preacher and missionary in the Baptist Church and in ^March, 1917, enrolled in the Young Men's Christian Association war service and is now with the allied forces in Italy. He was the twenty-first representative of the Young Men 's Christian Association to be assigned to the armies in Italy. In 1917 he married Ruth Arnold of Liberty. [Missouri.

Kenneth, the fourth son. wa.s also well educated and took up the art and trade of .ieweler. In August, 1917, he .joined the navy and is now an ensign in the Great Lakes Training Station.

Harold W. Lewis, popularly known among his friends as "Bud" Lewis, graduated with many honors from the Quincy High School, is also a graduate of Beloit College, Wisconsin, and has done much creditable work as a physical director. In 1917 he joined an ambulance corps and is now serving on French soil.

Charles William Ppieffer, ;M. D. A physician and surgeon of finished ability and wide experience. Doctor Pfieffer has enjoyed a large practice at Quincy, has associations that distinguish him as one of the able members of his profession, and is a man who does thorough and conscientious work in whatever he undertakes.

Doctor Pfieifer comes of au old Hanover family of Germany. His grandparents spent their lives there. His father was a charcoal burner in the government service, was the oldest of a family of seven brothers, and became (|uite well known in his community, having a liberal education and much ability as a teacher. Among his large family of children was C. Andrew Ptieffer, father of Doctor Pfieti'er. He was born in Hanover, and as he grew up learned Ills father's business. He married Fredericka Stecher, whose birthplace was only six miles from that of her husband. They married in 1869, and continued to live in the old coimtry until the early part of 1880, when they came to the United States by way of Hamburg and New York, and on reaching Quincy the father found employment as a pattern fitter in a foundry. He has spent a very active life in this city, and is still a man of energy and resources. He and his wife have been greatly devoted to each other, and are people who enjoy the highest respect and esteem. They were reared as Lutherans but since coming to Quincy have affiliated with the ]\Iethodist Episcopal Church. They have two children,' Doctor Pfielfer and Attilia, who is now the wife of Henry Kehl, a farmer living near Peoria, Illinois.

Doctor Ptieffer was born in Hanover October 25, 1875, and was five years of age when his parents came to Quincy. Here he attended the public schools to the age of fifteen and since then has been making his own way in the world. Among other employment he was for six years with the Quincy Showcase Company, and while there learned the trade of cabinet maker. In 1896 he used some of his means to enter the Central Wesleyan College at Warrenton, ilissouri, where he was a student for two years. At that time he had sketched a future as a minster, but abandoned that idea to prepare himself for medicine. In 1898 he entered Keokuk Medical College at Keokuk, Iowa, and after the full four years' course was gi-aduated in 1902. For his last two years in college he also enjoyed the invaluable" experience of assisting Dr. C. E. Ruth in private practice ancl hospital work in surgery. Doctor Pfieffer was admitted to practice at St. Louis in 1902, and soon afterward opened his office in Quincy.

He is doubtless best known for his work as a surgeon. In the past fifteen years he has handled many difficult major operations, and the profession and general public have come to look upon him as an authority. When the Boston contracting firm of Webster & Stone were doing a large amount of construction work in this part of Illinois they employed Doctor Pfieffer as their local surgeon. For the pa.st eight years he has also been examiner for the Prudential Insurance Company, and for fourteen years has been assistant surgeon on the staff of St. Mars-'s Hospital and is now secretary of the .staff. He is also one of the two physicians of the Quincy Board of Health. He is a member of the Adams County Medical Society, Illinois State Medical Society, American Medical Association, and for several years was secretary of the Western Illinois District Medical Society. He is a noble grand of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and is affiliated with the Elks. In polities he is a republican. Jlrs. Pfieffer is a member of the Lutheran Church.

September 30, 1903, he married Miss Theresa Golm, who was born and reared in Quinc}', where her father died in 1884 and her mother in 1902. Her father was for a number of years a general merchant at Seventh and Maine streets. Doctor and Mrs. Pfieffer have two children: Carl F. H., born in 1906, is now a student in St. James School and Helen H. F., born in 1910, is also in school.

Wn.Li.\M Henry Heitholt is the proprietor of the old Heitholt Homestead in section 22 of Fall Creek Township, thirteen miles southeast of Quincy. The house where he now lives was the scene of his birth October 6, 1881. The old Heitholt farm lies on the uplands in a rather secluded section, on a slightly traveled public road, but in point of cultivation, fertility of soil, general arrangement of buildings and improvements, it is one of the very good farms in this part of the county. Mr. Heitholt, the owner, is a man of good judgment, good foresight, and his industry has enabled him to handle his inheritance with excellent results.

His father was John H. Heitholt, whose career is noted somewhat at length on other pages. It should be here stated that he wa.s born in Germany March 8, 1833, and came to Adams County in 1846. William Heury Heitholt is a son of his second wife. He secured his present farm in 1918. This farm comprises eighty acres, and he also has 100 acres of bottom land three miles away in the Fall Creek Drainage District. He has made some of the improvements on the land, though the substantial house and barn were erected by his father. I\Ir. Heitholt rented the farm several years from his mother before becoming its owner.

October 6, 1904, he married Ida Reinebach, member of the well known Reinebaeh family, to whom further reference is made on other pages. Mr. and Mrs. Heitholt have two children, Roy and George, both attending school. The family are members of the Bluff Hall Congregational Church, and Mr. Heitholt is a member of his local scliool board.

Samuel D. Moore. At one of the highest points in Adams County stands the "Mound Farm," a conspicuous landmark not only for its position, but equally notable for its value, improvements and long established record of successful farming and stock raising. For many years it was owned by the late Christopher Stauffer, elsewhere noted in this work, and is now the home of Samuel D. Moore, but soon to be taken over by his son, Ray E. Moore.

This farm is two miles ea.st of Beverly Village in the township of that name. Samuel D. Moore was born just two miles north of his present home on February 28, 1860, son of Samuel A. and Sarah Margaret (Goodnight) Moore. Samuel A. ]\Ioore was born in Iredell County, North Carolina, June 4, 1820. He grew to manhood in Indiana and was married there. Sarah Margaret Goodnight was born in Casey County, Kentucky, and is now living at Timewell, Illinois, having celebrated her ninety-sixth birthday August 19, 1918. Samuel A. Moore on coming to Adams County rented land in Beverly Township, but soon bought a tract in section 11. He acquired 400 acres there, 240 acres in the home place and 160 acres in section 10. He built the present buildings on that farm, but moved to Timewell in 1890, where he died July 21, 1904, at the age' of eighty-four. Two years after his death the farm was sold to strangers. Samuel A. Moore after removing to Timewell bought the farm of his son John. The old homestead passed to his sons Paris and Samuel D. Samuel A. Moore and wife were the parents of eight children. John, who died in Chicago at the age of sixty-eight, was one of the noted men in Illinois livestock circles. For many years he farmed at Timewell in Brown County, having left Adams County about 1869. He was a graduate of Abingdon College. In Chicago he founded the Drovers Commission Company, and was one of the leading livestock commission men of the Stock Yards. He served twice as representative to the Legislature, his district including Adams, Brown and Pike counties. Minnie Moore, the second in age, has never married and has devoted her life to her parents, now living with her mother. Hester is the widow of J. H. Amrine and lives in Timewell. Sarah M. is the wife of I. N. Stout, a merchant at Ripley, Illinois. Paris D. lives near Kingston in Richfield Township, this county, ^lartha died at the age of fourteen, and the next in age is Samuel D. Mary E. is Mrs. Frank Bulman, of Keokuk, Iowa.

Samuel D. Moore was reared and educated in Adams County and October 1, 1891, married Lizzie Stauffer, daughter of the late Christopher Stauffer. In 1893 Mr. and Mrs. Moore moved to the Stauffer farm, better known as Mound Farm, and took the active management when ]\Ir. Stauffer 's son Marion T. retired. At that time Mr. Moore rented 320 acres of the place and Mrs. Moore now owns 240 acres of the estate, including the beautiful site and the build- iugs which give Mound Farm its distinctive place in the landscape. Mr. Moore also bought 240 acres of the estate. He has successfully handled livestock for many years, being one of the successful cattle and hog feeders of the county. He has also fed many horses for the market. He has always been too busy for office, and is a democrat in politics, as was his father. Mr. Moore is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He and his wife have two children : Ray E., who graduated from the Keokuk High School at Keokuk, Iowa, and now lives in part of the mansion on Mound Farm. He married Kuby Henthorn and they have a daughter Dorothy Irene. Clara F. Moore is the wife of Rex 0. Carlock, and they live on the south side of Mound Farm. They have a son, Robert Owen Carlock.

Christopher Stauffer, who was in his time one of the wealthiest men and largest land owners in Adams County, achieved a success as a farmer and business man which made him notable all over Western Illinois. His home, the noted Mound Farm, is now occupied by his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Moore.

Christopher Stauffer was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, Januarv 29, 1821, and came to Adams County in 1837. In 1857 he married Sarah Keach, who was born June 1, 1837, in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. They were married at Rushville in Schuyler County, Illinois. Christopher Stauffer on coming to Adams County located in Beverly Township, and at that time acquired land which is now included in Mound Farm. He began housekeeping there and in 1870 established the present building site of Mound Farm. His possessions kept growing and expanding under his remarkable energy and foresight, and at one time he owned 720 acres in a bodj-. Altogether he owned fully 1,000 acres. While he made much money by judicious investment in land, most of his income was derived from livestock. He was one of the leading shippers out of the county. He erected the present magnificent country residence at Mound Farm in 1881, and a number of the other commodious buildings there date from his regime. He was inclined to lavish hospitality, and delighted to entertain his numerous friends at his home. While a member of no church, he was one of the most liberal supporters of the Mound Prairie Christian Church. Politically he was a republican.

Christopher Stauffer died at the old home September 12, 1906. He and his wife had three children to reach maturity. There were three others who died young, George, Walter and Nancy. Marion T. Stauffer was associated with his father on the farm until 1893, and is now an oil producer at Tulsa, Oklahoma. Anna B. Stauffer became the wife of R. H. Sykes, a part owner of the old Stauffer farm, and they now live retired at Baylis, Illinois. The third of the children is Mary Elizabeth, wife of Mr. S. D. Moore. Mrs. Christopher Stauffer is still living at the age of eighty-one, is a devout member of the Christian Church and makes her home with Mr. and Mrs. Moore.

Joel Benton, who comes of some of the oldest and most substantial pioneer stock of New England ancestry in Adams County, has for over twenty years been a factor in business affairs at Quincy and is one of the successful men of that city.

Mr. Benton was born at Mendon, Illinois, January 6, 1871, and is a son of William W. and Caroline M. (Bartlett) Benton. His grandfather, Joel Benton, was born at North Guilford, Connecticut, in the earlv years of the last century. He was a son of Lot and Hannah (Chittenden) Benton, both natives of that section of Connecticut. Hannah Chittenden was a daughter of Jared Chittenden, and her ancestry was traced back to William Chittenden, who came to America in 1639 and was one of the earliest settlers of the Connecticut colony at Guilford.

and Abram, came west by the overland route and established themselves at ^leudon, then known as Fairfield in Adams County. Here thej- established the first store of the town and their double log house was the first house within the city limits. Joel Benton brought with him across the wilds intervening between Adams County and Connecticut a few pieces of old colonial furniture for his home in the West, and some of that furniture has been carefully preserved and is today in the possession of his grandson Joel at Quincy.

Joel Benton's parents were farming people at Mendon, and his father died there in 1907 and his mother in 1914. His mother was born also at North Guilford, Connecticut. Mr. Joel Benton has one sister, Celia W., born October 10, 1874, now the wife of Henry F. Daj-ton, of Quincy.

Joel Benton grew up on his father's farm, and at the age of nineteen came to Quincy to attend business college. For about a year he worked in the Quincy National Bank, was then in the artificial ice and produce business from 1891 until 1896. After that he sold farm implements until 1900, and following that was with the Stationer's Manufacturing Company until 1007. In that year ]\Ir. Benton organized the Quincy Laundry Company, but retired from that business in 1916 and has since concentrated his attention upon the cleaning and dyeing industry, being proprietor of the Quincy Cleaning and Dyeing Company.

August 3, 1891, Mr. Benton married Miss Theodora Munger Miles. Mr. and Mrs. Benton have two children : Lois Dudley, born January' 27, 1893, now the wife of C. L. Wells, of Quincy ; and William W., who was born November 12, 1895, and is associated with his father in business. Mrs. Benton is now chairman of the Hospital Supiply Committee for the Adams County Red Cross organization. She and her two children are members of the Episcopal Church, while Mr. Benton is a Congregationalist. He is a republican and his fraternal affiliations are with the Ma.sons, Knights of Pythias, Loyal Order of Moose and Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

C. Fred Reinebach. One of the most capable citizens Fall Creek Township ever had was the late C. Fred Reinebach, whose life was comparatively brief, but was filled with tremendous energy and effectiveness of purpose, not only in behalf of himself and family, but for all the community. His death January 28, 1912, was widely mourned and meant a great loss to his friends and family.

He was fifty-five years of age at the time. He was born November 21, 1856, at St. Louis. When about fourteen or fifteen j-ears of age he came to Quinej' with his parents. His people were very poor and he had little opportunity to gain an education, and soon as old enough he was put to some practical employment to earn a living and help support his people. While in St. Louis he worked in a rope and chair factory. He was employed at wages as a farm hand at Tioga in Hancock County, and later went to work for Ernst Pruessner in Fall Creek Township, not far from Fall Creek Station. Later he married the daughter of his employer, Louise Henrietta Pruessner. She was born in Fall Creek Township March 21, 1859, and died March 5, 1882. At the time of his marriage he took charge of the Pruessner farm and continued to live there until his son William Reinebach reached his majority and took possession of it as an inheritance.

October 9, 1883, JMr. Reinebach married Wilhelmina Caroline Albrink. ]\Irs. Reinebach, who resides on her farm home in section 25 of Fall Creek Township, sixteen miles southeast of Quincy, was born in Hancock County, Illinois, August 26, 1857, and was nine years old when her parents, Adolph and Caroline Albrink, came to Adams County. Mr. and Mrs. Reinebach lived on the old Pruessner farm until the spring of 1899, when they bought the place now occupied by Mrs. Reinebach. This consists of 200 acres and is the old Eli Seehorn homestead. The present substantial home, erected by Eli Seehorn seventy-five years ago, has been a landmark in that part of the county for many years.

Altogether it is a splendid upland farm, adapted to all kinds of stock and grain, and has excellent barns and other buildings, and is conducted by Mrs. Keincbach's progressive and enterprising sons. ^Mr. and Mrs. Reinebach went in debt for part of the purchase price, but the good farming methods of the owner soon provided ample income to pay off all the obligations.

The late Mr. Reinebach was one of the promoters and one of the first commissioners of the Fall Creek Drainage District, which resulted in the reclamation of a large tract of valuable land. He spent much time in these ofScial duties, and did much actual construction of levees himself. He held that office until his death. He wa.s also a school director for many years, was a republican, and was one of the original members and trustee of the Bluff Hall Congregational Church.

The only child of his first marriage was William Reinebach, now a resident of Melrose Township. The children of the second marriage are: Ida, wife of William Heitholt, of Fall Creek Township ; George A. H., who rents his mother's farm in Payson Township; Paul F. and -Irven C, both of whom were associated in the management of the home farm, until Irven was drafted and is now- serving in the Engineer Corps in the arm^v ; and Helen S., the youngest, still in the home circle.

Paul F. Reinebach was born September 7, 1889, and has spent all his life at home. He and his brother Irven took charge of the home place at the time of their father's death. Shortly before hisVdeaQUFred Reinebach had bought the old Lawrence farm of 274 acres jn PaysfSi Township, a mile east of Payson. He paid $14,000 for this fine f arm,'- mitl it is now opetetfd by his son George. Paul Reinebach on the home farm is giving particular attention to the raising of hogs and markets about 100 every sea.son, and also feeds a number of young cattle. On February 24, 1918, he married Miss Esther L. Spencer, daughter of Harlow M. and Olive Spencer, of Payson Township.

Ch.^ri.es W. Leffingwell is branch manager of the Quincy house of the International Harvester Company of America. This position alone carries with it a great weight of responsibility and makes him one of Quincy 's leading men of affairs.

His career is a happy illustration of a man who early finds his work and diligently prosecutes it in typical American manner from humble role in a rising succession of responsibilities until earning a prominent place in one of the greatest industrial corporations in the world.

Mr. Leffingwell was born in Wisconsin, of English and Scottish parentage, and was educated in the common schools of that state. In 1881, when merely a boy, he went to work for George Esterly & Sons, afterwards known as the Esterly Harvester Company of Whitewater, Wisconsin, manufacturers of harvesting and grass cutting machines. His first employment with them was as lathe worker. His employers apparently did a good service when they discovered the latent talents of young Leffingwell and encouraged them to complete development. He remained with the firm nine years, and there was not a department he did not go through during his stay with this concern. In 1890 it was proposed that the Whitewater concern should become part of the new organization known as the American Harvesting Machine Company of Chicago,. Illinois, but which organization failed to consummate.

;\Ir. Leffingwell then identified himself with the Walter A. Wood ]\Iowing & Reaping ]\Iachine Company of Hoosick Falls. New York, in their brancli house at Kansa.s City as cashier and bookkeeper, but .subsequently was sent, after the territory was divided between them and the Walter A. Wood Harvester Company of St. Paul, ^Minnesota (an auxiliary- company), as their general agent to Denver, Colorado. He remained with the Wood concern for several years, his next connection being with the Piano Manufacturing Company of Chicago as one of their four district sales managers, having charge of the southwestern trade until 1902, when as a result of the consolidation of different interests the Piano Manufacturing Company became a part of the International Harvester Company. The latter corporation continued Jlr. LefiSngwell as division district sales manager and later appointed him as one of its four general travelers having charge of the southern agencies. In this position he went over the South building up the business. .In 1904 he assumed the duties of general agent at ^Memphis, Tennessee. In 1917 he was ti'ansferred in the same capacity at Terre Haute, Indiana. From there in 1913 he came to Quincy and took charge of the company's large distributing plant. Thus for over thirty-seven years he has been in one line of work, and during that entire period was never discharged, and there has never been a time when his abilities have not been fully equal to every demand upon his services.

As manager of the Quincy branch he has had supervision over a large number of counties in Illinois and ]\Iissouri. Under his direction there are a large number of travelers, ofiRee and warehouse employes. It is evident that business with Mr. Leffingwell is a hobby as well as a source of livelihood. If he has one important recreation away from business it is Masonry. He lives, practices and carries its principles and rituals into his daily life. He takes pleasure in giving his mother, who died at the age of eighty, the credit for his being made a Mason at his majority. She herself at her death was an Eastern Star as well as a True Kindred, both Masonic Lady Auxiliary Lodges. His wife is an Eastern Star.

Mr. Leffingwell was married to Miss Abbie S. Wheeler of Chicago, Illinois. One child, Harold W., came from this union, and who was liberally educated at St. Albans, Knoxville, Illinois, and is a thirty-second degree Mason, having taken his Blue Lodge degree upon reaching his majority. He now is the family's representative in the great European war, enlisting in 1916, before the declaration of war, as a member of the Quincy Machine Gun Company, and remained with this company until arriving at Camp Logan, Houston, Texas, when he was appointed orderly to Brig.-Gen. Henry R. Hill (who was killed in action October 16, 1918). Before leaving Houston he was appointed orderly for General Bell, Jr., commander of the Thirty-third Division, in which position and with whom he remained not only during the war but during the occupation period.

Mr. Leffingwell is an Episcopalian, a Knight Templar, thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Ma.son, a Shriner, an Elk, a member of the Young Men's Christian Association and Travelers' Protective Association, and a director in the Quincy Country Club. His seeming regrets are that lie was not born in Quincy, for of all cities he has been in, he considers, without exception, that Quincy is one of the prettiest and best in proportion to its population of any city in the Union, that there never was a finer people taking them individually than right here, and it is his one wish that he may spend his remaining days in the city and .among the people he loves so well.

Oeie Prank Schullian, M. D., P. A. C. S. Quincy has only two surgeons who on the basis of skill and reputation for thorough ability have attained membership as Fellows in the American College of Surger.v. One of these is Doctor Schullian, who as a citizen and Christian gentleman is not less esteemed in his community than as a leader in his profession.

Doctor Schullian is a native of Quinc.v and finished his medical education in the Illinois University Medical Department at Chicago with the class of 1905. He then served a full term as house physician and surgeon to St. Mary's Hospital at Iloboken, New Jersey, and began practice at Quincy in the fall 1907. Nearly all his work for several years has been in the field of surgery, and it was his recognized talents that gained him membership in the College, admission to which is limited to men of thorough qualifications and sound practical experience as surgeons. He is also a member of the County and State Med- ical societies, the American Medical Association and the Rochester Surgical Society. For twelve years Doctor SchuUian has been a staff member of St. Mary's Hospital at Quincy.

He was Ijorn in this city October 8, 1883, and as a boy attended <he Catholic parochial schools. He finished his literary education in the University of Missouri, and from there entered the Medical Department of Illinois University.

He is a son of Frank and Louise (Ha ug) SchuUian, both natives of Germany. His mother was reared and educated in Paris and was sixteen years old when she came with relatives to the United States. Doctor SchuUian' 's father came with his parents by way of New Orleans up the Mississippi River to St. Louis and from there to Quincy. Several members of the family have long fbeen well known in Quincy, the old family home being at 1117 Jersey Street, where Doctor SchuUian "s parents began their married life. The father is a veteran machinist, and for forty-five years was connected with the Gardner Governor Works at Quincy. He is now seventy and his wife seventy-one, and both are still active and vigorous, and they and all their family are prominent in St. Boniface Parish of the Catholic Church.

Doctor SchuUian was the only son of his parents. His four sisters Agnes, Lucy, Pauline and Emily, are all married and have children of their own.

Doctor SchuUian married at Boulder, Colorado, Sophia ;\I. Tenk, member of the well known Tenk family of Quincy elsewhere referred to. Doctor and Mrs. SchuUian are members of St. Peter's Catholic Church. He is prominent as a fourth degree member of the Knights of Columbus and is also active in the Western Catholic Union.

John H. Cox, secretary of the Tenk Hardware Company, has been a resident of Quincy for a quarter of a century and active in several organizations before he concentrated all his time and abilities with the Tenk Company.

Mr. Cox was born near Burlington, Iowa, on a farm, in 1872, was educated there and completed a course in the Gem City Business College at Quincy. He remained in Quincy and for some years was connected with the wall paper firm of Young Brothers. Then for several years he was with the Tenk Company, and from here went to Spokane Falls, Washington, where he had service with the largest retail store in the Northwest, the Greenough Company. In 1910 Mr. Cos returned to Quincy, and since that date has been a.ssociated with the Tenk Hardware Company and was elected secretary- of the business in 1913. He has done much to increase and extend the activities of this great hardware house and has proved an invalualile member of the company in organizing and providing a thorough system for all office detail, collections, credits and similar departments of the business.

Mr. Cox married at Quincy Miss Fannie M. Crew. Mrs. Cox was born and reared in Wheeling, West Virginia, and came to Quincy as a student of the Gem City Business College. After finishing her course there she was employed as a stenographer for the Taylor Brothers ^Milling Company and later with the State Savings Loan & Trust Company. Mr. and Mrs. Cox had one child, Richard JVIelvin, who was killed in a street car accident June 12, 1914, at the a<ie of ten years. Mr. and 'Sirs. Cox are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is affiliated with Lambert Lodge No. 651, Ancient Free and Accepted ^lasons, of Quincy, and in politics is independent.

Vakdeleur Orton is one of the steady going progressive farmer citizens of Concord Township, proprietor of a fine farm, much interested and successful in livestock husbandry, and of even more importance the head of a home from which radiates many of those distinctive influences that give tone and character to a community. The Orton home is 41/. miles southea-st of Clayton.

Vallej' of New York December 23, 1826, and died on the old farm now owned by his son in February, 1896, in his seventieth year. As a young man he settled in Morg:an County, Illinois, and on September 11, 18.56, he married Mary A. E. Kellar. Mrs. Clark Orton is still living, and has her home on a farm adjoining that of her son. She was born in Warren County, Indiana, March 4, 1832. and was three years old when her parents moved to Quincy and four years later went to Brown County, Illinois. Her father was a farmer in that locality and died in 1872 at the age of seventy-six, while her mother passed away in 1898, aged ninety-four. Clark Orton was a farmer all his active career. He was much interested* in local affairs, serving as school director, and was a republican in politics. Clark Orton and wife had eight children : Rosella, born December 13, 1857, is the wife of William B. May, and now lives in Texas; Ijerinthia, born in 1859, married John D. Black, and died in September, 1892; Charles F., born in 1861, lives on a farm adjoining his brother Vandeleur; Ida, born in 1863, died in infancy; Eva, born in 1865, married Harvey A. Williams and died in 1901 ; Vandeleur is the next in age ; Clark died in infancy in 1871 ; and Elsworth, born in 1874, died at the age of thirty-four.

Vandeleur Orton was born on the old farm June 10, 1868, and has .spent all his life in that one community. He acquired his education in the local district schools and had charge of the farm during part of his father's lifetime.

March 18, 1896, he married Miss Alta C. Bobbins, daughter of Jasen and Sarah (Walker) Bobbins, of LaPrairie in Adams County. Her parents are still living near Golden. Mrs. Orton was twenty-three years of age at the time of her marriage. After their marriage they spent six years on an adjoining farm, and then returned to the old homestead, buying out the other interests in the place. They now have 125 acres, and Mr. Orton has constructed a neat home. The barn was built by his brother after the father's death. The first frame building on the land was erected about seventy years ago and was christened "the City of David," its owner being David Orton. That old frame building is still in use. There is an apple tree on the farm that has attained the age of seventy-seven years and is still bearing perfect fruit every two years. This tree is large and vigorous. Mr. Orton does general farming and has been especially successful with livestock. He keeps Shorthorn cattle, Poland China hogs, and has recently developed his swine industrj^ to greater proportions. Mr. Orton is a republican, as was his father, and lives in a democratic township. During the last two years he has been active in the Red Cross and Liberty Loan drives, and all other measures for a vigorous support of the war. He is a member of the Adams County Farm Bureau. He and his wife are members of the Christian Church at Timewell, four miles from their home. This was the same church where his father worshiped. He has been active in the Sunday school.

Mr. and Mrs. Orton have two talented daughters; Hazel V., the older is a graduate of the Clayton High School and is now the wife of Otis R. Beckman, a farmer in Concord Township. Mary H., the younger daughter, is in the second year of the Clayton High School. She has a state wide distinction as a student, particularly as a speller. In 1916, when she was only twelve years old, she won the first prize and the banner at Springfield during the state spelling contest. She was chosen out of a large class in Adams County for her proficiency in that line, and thus her triumph was an honor appreciated by the entire county. She was subjected to an extensive written test at Springfield and carried away the honors, though being the j'oungest contestant in the county and also in the state. Her work has been equally praiseworthy since she entered high school.

Humphrey 0. Larimobe has been a member of the County Board of Supervisors for five years, representing Richfield Township, and his special qualifications as a business man and long experience on the board make him one of its most iuflueutial and useful members. Mr. Larimore had one of the fine farms in Richfield Township, located three miles east of Plainville.

As the Larimore family have been in Adams County more than seventy years and receive attention on other pages it is not necessary here to recount in detail the family history of Jlr. Larimore. He was born on the home farm in Payson Township June 28, 1886, and is a son of W. 0. Larimore. He was educated in the Payson High School and for four years was a successful teacher. He then took up farming as his regular vocation, and after renting about two years bought his present place, comprising 2011/^ acres. He has made many improvements, including the erection of a new house. He handles his farm largely for stock purposes, feeding cattle and hogs.

Mr. Larimore is a republican in politics and is affiliated with the Modern "Woodmen of America and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, having passed all the chaii*s in the latter lodge.

At the age of twenty-one he married Miss Edna Inman. Mrs. Larimore was born in Kansas and is a daughter of Samuel Inman now living retired at Plainville. They have three children: Carl, Maurice and Donald.

William J. Reese is one of the oldest fouudrymen of Quincy. He has been in business for himself since 1896 and at his present location at 820 South Twenty-first Street since 1900. He has a well equipped plant for all kinds of brass fouudiy work, which he supplies to Quincy and other neighboring territories. His business is entirely a product of his own energies and capabilities. He learned his trade during the thirteen years he spent as an employe of the Gardner Governor Works at Quincy. He never served a real apprenticeship. Mr. Gardner took a good deal of interest in developing his natural ability along this line, and he was afforded much opportunity by the owner of that plant to acquire a thorough foundryman's experience.

Mr. Reese was born at Lafayette, Indiana, December 3, 1857. His father, James Reese, died at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1865, when about fifty-four years of age. He was a cigar maker by trade. He had served three enlistments in the Civil war and had previously served in the Mexican war. He carried to his grave a bullet he had received while in the Mexican war. He was shot in the head, the bullet passing partly through his skull and lodging in his temple. Mr. Reese's mother died in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1910, at the age of seventy-four. Her only daughter, Ella, died just ten days later in the same city.

William J. Reese was nine years old when he began to work in a tobacco factory at Pittsburgh. Eighteen months later he found other employment as a messenger boj', and was at that two years. In 1872 he came to Decatur, Illinois, and on July 5, 1873, arrived in Quincy, which city has been his home and the center of his interests for the past forty-five years. For a few months after coming to Quincy he worked in a printing ofiSee, also served a three years' apprenticeship at pipe fitting, and worked at that trade for a time in Kansas City. In 1882 he formed his important connection with the Gardner-Governor Works, and thirteen years later took up business for himself.

In November, 1880, at Quincy, Mr. Reese married Amelia Goodapple. She was born May 13, 1859, in Quincy, at the corner of Seventh and State streets, and was reared and educated here. Mr. and Mrs. Reese are the parents of two children, a son, A. Arthur, and a daughter, Mabel. The son Arthur was born in Quincy January 20. 1888, had a high school education, learned the foundryman's trade with his father, and in January, 1917, was taken in as a partner in the business. As a boy he manifested a great interest in military affairs. At sixteen he joined a local company of the National Guards, Company F, and later for a time was in Troop A of the Cavalry at Chicago. He took a course in a preparatory .school at Washington, D. C, for a commission in the regular army. He was one of the first to join the Machine Gun Company at Quincy four years ago wheu it was organized. He went to Camp Logan at Houston, Texas, early in the present war activities, and was a non-commissioned officer there and just before his command was ordered overseas he was commissioned a second lieutenant, and as such is now serving in France.

The daughter Mabel is a graduate of the Quincy High School with the class of 1910 and is now the wife of W. A. Rothgeb, formerly of Quincy, but now an auditor with the City Light and Power Company at Danville, Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Rothgeb have a son, William, four years old.

Charles K. Kelly has long been one of the successful farmers and orchardists of Adams County, and has a most attractive home and farm a quarter of a mile east of Beverly ^'illage.

Mr. Kelly was born in the Village of Beverly IMarch 11, 1S50. He is a son of Prazy and Hannah (Raymond) Kelly. The Kelly family in several branches has been prominent in Adams County from pioneer times to the present. Frazy Kelly was born in New Jersey in 1818 and came from Woodbridge, that state, to Adams County in 1835. He located in Beverly Township and soon acquired forty acres four miles northeast of the village. The house he built on that land was blown down in a hurricane, and later he sold, and about 1853 bought the place where his son Charles now lives, just east of Beverly Village. This is in section 21. He came to own 135 acres in that vicinity, and he died on the old farm at the advanced age of ninety years and six months. He built a part of the present residence about 1853. He was an ardent democrat, though he never held a public office, and was member of no church or fraternity. He was a good conversationalist, and enjoyed the presence of some genial friends as the.v enjoyed him. His mental and physical faculties were preserved almost to the end. He and his wife had three sons and one daughter : Josiah R., who was educated in the iledical Department of the University of Michigan, practiced at Bowen, and later at Augusta, Illinois, and for thirty years was a sue cessful physician at Quincy, where he died at the age of sixty -three ; John Kelly, who also attended the University of Michigan but graduated from the Medical School at Keokuk and practiced in Quincy for a number of years ; Charles K. , and Hannah, who was an infant when her mother died and she became the vnfe of William Fimk.

Charles K. Kelly grew up on the old homestead and at the age of twenty-one took charge of the fann. He has forty acres in the home place and also owns 93% acres just north of the Village of Bevei-ly. He still gives his active superintendence to the farm and orchard. In the line of stock he raises Polled Angus and Hereford cattle. Mr. Kelly has a highly developed orchard of fourteen acres, planted to well tested market varieties of apples. He has long been looked upon as one of the most successful ajiple growers in the county. He was one of the first to adopt a regular routine and policy of spraying his fruit. He demonstrated its importance and value and for a number of years he has made a standing offer of a dollar for every wormy apple that could be found in his orchard. He gives his personal supervision to the pruning, spraying, fertilizing and cultivating the orchard. In 1917 he and his two sons shipped 2,300 barrels of choice fruit.

At the age of twenty-two Mr. Kelly married Mary Predmore. She died seven years later, leaving one son, Alvadore Kelly, who is now a farmer near Beverly. Mr. Kelly married for his second wife Martha G. Bonham. That companionship was continued for thirty years, until Mrs. Kelly's death. She was the mother of two sons, Emmet F. and Raymond. Raymond is now a successful dairyman at Modesto, California. Emmet F. owns a farm of 303 acres west of Beverly, his lirother Alvadore being in partnership as owner of the farm. These brothers arc also proprietors of a large fruit and vegetable store in Chicago, Emmet living in that city and giving his personal supervision to business. The store specializes in the home grown apples raised in the Kelly