Quincy Township (part 71 of 74)

C.VRL Peine. Thousands of Adams County people knew Carl Peine a.s the genial proprietor and most successful manager of the Quincy resort known far and wide as "No. 9" at 526 Hampshire Street. The business which he established and built up, beginning during the Civil war, has been continued through his capable sou, and altogether "No. 9" has been patronized by the public for over seventy years. There was a saloon at that number as early as 1845.

Carl Peine was born in Westphalia, Germany, August 10, 1829, and represented au old and prominent Catholic family of that province. One of his uncles was a bishop in the Catholic Church in Westphalia. Carl Peine grew up there and saw some severe service as a soldier. He took part in the war against Denmark, and during the siege of Schleswig was wounded seven times, having six wounds in the legs and one just over the heart. For several weeks he lay unconscious, but finally recovered and saw service again as a soldier in the revolution of 1848. In 1858 he came to the United States on a sailing vessel and was seven weeks on the voyage to New Orleans. While on that boat he met Miss Johanna Thieleman. She was born at Goslar, Hanover, July 14, 1836. She is still living at the advanced age of eighty-two. As a young girl in Germany she was awarded a gold medal for her skill as a cook. She had ,much to do with the success of "No. 9," especially in its kitchen and .service. Some years ago she entertained a large party of city coiuicilmen from Chicago, and was given a fine token of their appreciation of her repast.

From New Orleans Carl Peine and iliss Thieleman came up the river to St. Louis, and shortly afterward to Quincy. They were married at Quincy in 1860, in St. Boniface Church. Carl Peine was first employed in the Lubbe general merchandise house, and his wife was employed as a maid. Later he established Uncle Sam's Headquarters, but lost the building and stock during the war by fire. Then, in 1864, he acquired the property known as "No. 9" and continued it as a high class resort for over thirty years. He erected a substantial building, 29x70 feet, and also had a summer garden. He was diligent in looking after his business until ten dajs before his death. He died Jul_y 14, 1897, on his wife's sixty-first birthday. Carl Peine also owned considerable other property, including a farm in the Indian Graves Drainage District, and some property in the city. He was a lifelong republican, and while never an office holder was much interested in local affairs.

He and his wife had five children. Carl Anton died in 1910, at the age of fift.v years. He married Anna Huston Hinchman, who now lives in California, and has two children, Carl and Norma. The second son,, William, died in infancy. Henry, who died in 1893, at the age of thirty, married Rose Pfirman, his death occurring just six months after their marriage. Robert H., who is associated with his brother Frederick A. in managing the business, married Anna Glazes, and they have a son Robert H., Jr., a student in high school. Frederick Albert, the youngest child, was born at the old home place at 526 Hampshire Street, April 2, 1873. His brothers were also born there. He grew up and was educated in the city schools and after his father's death became manager of "No. 9," and its continued success is largely a tribute to his energy. He also manages the farm of 120 acres formerly owned by his father.

In the late '60s or early '70s Quincy had a great saengerfest or singfest, during which the minister from Prussia tr>ok part and was a guest of Carl Peine and when he left he gave ^Irs. Johanna Peine as a token for services a beautiful fan, which .she still retains. In 1858 when Lincoln and Douglas held their famous debate in Washington Park "No. 9" had the honor of having both visit it. and the same posts that both stood close to and the bar top are still there and in use. The place during the '60s and '70s was patronized also by some of the most prominent attorneys of the country as well as some very prominent

Fred Willlvm Echternkamp. "When a man starts life as a hard worker and struggling against adverse circumstances at an age when most boys are ill school, and finally masters the problems of life so as to gain the object of his ambition for material success, it is with genuine admiration that people regard the results of his enterprise and diligence.

The late Fred William Echternkamp, of Fall Creek Township, had such a career. He was one of a number of early settlers there who had at first to depend uj)on wages of work by the day or month, and through a frugal and industrious course eventually acquired a fine property. He was an excellent citizen, public spirited in all ways, and the memory of his life and character is still an asset of the community.

He was born in Westphalia, Germany, February 4, 1835, and died at his old home in this county April 3, 1913, aged seventy-eight yeai-s, one month and twenty-seven days. He was educated in the schools of his native country, and at the age of eighteen came to America. HJis parents, Casper Echternkamp and wife, also came to this country. Casper later went to Nebraska with his three sons: Gottlieb, Fred and Herman. One son, Henry, died in Quincy.

Fred William Echternkamp cam£r.tP: swnhood in Fall Creek Township, and before he was twenty-one years of ^stges 'married ^liss Hannah Fleer, who was born in Germany, September 25,. 1^37. She.jQa^e to this country with her parents, ^Ir. and Mrs. CaipSr 'Fleet. Her mo'tner, Anna Fleer, died when about eighty -two or eighty-three years of age.

The first land bought by Mr. Echternkamp was twenty acres. It had a three-room log house, and in that humble home all his children were born. About 1875 he bought eighty acres a mile east of his first home. That had a good house, and he soon afterwards erected a barn. Later he acquired another eighty acres adjoining, giving him 160 acres in the home farm. The second eighty also had a group of buildings and improvements. He also retained the original twenty acres and his estate kept on growing luitil he had about five hundred acres, divided into three complete farms. His industry as a stockman helped raise the standard of the horses, mules and cattle in his community. He was a democrat in politics, a member and trustee of the German Lutheran Church, and served in many relations with the community, including the offices of tax collector, school director, road commissioner, etc. For many years he was identified with the Bluff Hall Congregational Church, and at his death was laid to rest in the church cemetery. His widow survived him about four years, passing away September 14, 1917.

He and his wife had eight children, and six reached mature years : Henry G., born February 10, 1857, and died July 16, 1918, special reference being made to him on other pages ; William H., bom Februarj' 23, 1863, died at the age of twenty-one; Minnie, born February ]0, 1865, died in 1889, unmarried; Hannah, born March 16, 1868, died when a young woman; John A., referred to in a following paragraph; and August F., tiorn October 20, 1873. who died a few days after his brother William, at a time when nearly all members of the family were ill.

John A. Echternkamp, who has followed in his father's footsteps and has done much to keep up the reputation of the old farm as a center of productive activities, was born in a three room loghouse across the road from the Bluff Hall Church in Fall Creek Township August 11, 1870. All his life has been spent on his farm, and he looked after his parents as long as they lived. On November 1, 1891, he married Elizabeth Speckhart, member of the well known Speckhart family to whom repeated reference is made in these pages. Mrs. Echternkamp was twenty years of age at the time of her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Echternkamp have a fine family of children, named John, Hannah, Margaret, Henrj', Fred, Carl, Katie, Adam and Ella. All are still at home except

Edward Morris Hodgdon is one of Quincy's business men who are responsible for the supply of milk of wholesome and standard quality to the people of that city. It is a service second to none in value and importance, and under Mr. Hodgdon 's careful and energetic direction it has become a business of substantial character and profitable returns to himself.

Mr. Hodgdon was born in Quincy IMay 1, 1883, and is connected with some of the old families of this county. His grandfather, Watson Trowbridge, had the distinction of hauling the first load of freight across the Quincy bridge. Mr. Hodgdon is a son of Charles F. and Alice (Trowbridge) Hodgdon, the former a native of New Hampshire and the latter of Ohio. His father came to Quincy in 1868, was a carpenter by trade, and later conducted a planing mill. Both parents are now living at Hannibal, Missouri. They had four children : Frank, cashier of the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Hannibal, Missouri ; Edith, deceased ; Edward M. ; and Louise, at home with her parents.

Edward Morris Hodgdon began his education in the Quincy public schools and when a boy went with his parents to Hannibal. There in 1900, at the age of seventeen, he obtained his first experience in the milk business, and has been in that one line ever since. Having acquired a thorough knowledge of the industry and having accumulated some capital through thrift and careful saving, Mr. Hodgdon came to Quincy in July, 1914, and built a plant for pasteurizing and handling milk. He gets his raw milk supply from Missouri plants, and handles, pasteurizes and distributes about 275 gallons per day. The business is rapidly growing.

June 21, 1911, ]Mr. Hodgdon married Ruth Brown, a native of Monroe City, Missouri. Politically Mr. Hodgdon is a democrat, and is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

Dr. Edwin F. Stanntis. The History of Adams County would not be complete without the biography of Dr. Edwin F. Stannus, the leading specialist in Quincy, and one of its substantial citizens.

The Stannus famih' is a native of our sister State of Iowa, both his father and grandfather having been born in that State. John Stannus, the grandfather, spent a very active career in Keokuk, Iowa, where he conducted a large wholesale business and developed trade relations all over the Central "West. He was of prodigious size - being six feet four inches in height. He was a prominent Mason.

Frank E. Stannus, the father of Dr. Edwin F. Stannus, was born in Keokuk, was prominent in the affairs of that city, having served three terms as alderman - ' one year as mayor pro tem, and a member of the volunteer fire department;. Some twelve years ago he removed his family to Quincy, where he was active in the affairs and proprietor of the Quincy Rug and Carpet Manufacturing Company until his death January 14, 1916. He was also prominent in many fraternal bodies, and was a leading member of the United Presbyterian Church in Keokuk. Iowa. His wife, who shared with him in church activities, was Miss Elizabeth Young, a native of Warsaw, Illinois. She survives her husband and makes her home with her only son. Dr. Edwin F. Stannus. Her only daughter, Etta C, is a graduate of the Quincy High School and of the State Normal School at Macomb, Illinois, and is now a successful teacher in Dewey School in Quincy.

Dr. Edwin F. Stannus, the subject of this sketch, was born August 6, 1881, in Keokuk. Iowa, where he grew to manhood and received his academic education in the schools of that city. He was vei"y active in outdoor sports, which accounts for his splendid physique. He is a graduate of both the high school and business college of Keokuk. He was a great athlete and his friends and admirers characterized him as a perfect dynamo of energy.

After completing his college training he was engaged with his father, who at that time was the representative of the Standard Oil Co., in Keokuk, and became a proficient stenographer and clerk. But the ambition of young Stannus prompted him to undertake more responsible duties than that of clerk.

His first ambition led him in the dental profession. He wa.s graduated from the Keokuk Dental College in dentistry in 1903, at the age of twenty-one years, and is now a meml)er of the Alumni Association of the Iowa State University, which afterwards took over the Keokuk Dental College. A spirit of adventure led him out to Keystone, South Dakota, in the Black Hills District, where he soon developed a good practice. Kemaining there but a short time he returned to his native city of Keokuk, where he entered the Keokiik Medical College and College of Physicians and Surgeons, from which he wa.s gi-aduated in 1905, and now is a member of the Alumni Association of the Iowa State University, which also took over these colleges. After passing a successful examination Before the State Board of Examiners of Iowa, he practiced at Keokuk until 1907, when he removed with his parents to Quincy, Illinois.

He received on August 15, 1907, his license to practice his chosen profession in Illinois, and from that day on his success has been assured. His fame has spread beyond Quincy, so that his office is thronged by patients from far and near.

His splendid technique has been developed not only by his large individual practice, but under the direction of the most eminent specialists in this country. The Doctor ha.s taken many post graduate courses. He was in the New York Polyclinic Hospital in 1913 pursuing a general course and in 1916 and 1917 was an individual operator in that institution, under the direction of the foremost surgeons. He was also a student in the New York Polyclinic and the New York Roosevelt Hospital of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat in 1914 and 1915, and again in 1916, 1917 and 1918 took a special course as an operator in both of the above institutions. He studied in the Roosevelt Hospital, and holds certificates for expert and special study from Dr. Ben Witt Key of the New York Eye, Nose and Throat Infirmary, and also from Dr. Ernest Whitby Goode of the Polyclinic Hospital, ajid from Dr. Alibott Trask Hutchinson, of tlie Roosevelt Hospital. Another certificate was given him by Dr. Walter Eyre Lambert, one of the most eminent eye sjieeialists in New York City. Doctor Stannus was also appointed on the staff of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of New York, as assistant eye surgeon in 1918, and held that position for six months until he returned to Quincy to resinne his former practice. He was also surgeon of the nose, throat and ear clinic of the West Side Dispensary and Hospital in New York City in 1918, and built up that department until it exceeded all other clinics in this institution.

Doctor Stannus was first assistant surgeon to Dr. William Lawrence Gatewood in the Polyclinic Hospital of New York in 1917 and 1918, and after Doctor Gatewood was taken into Government service, he became instructor in laryngology and rhinology in that in.stitution, and did all tlie teaching therein. But more than that, the good wishes and the keen professional interest of these eminent specialists have followed him, and have stood sponsor in many ways for his unusual s^^ccess.

Doctor Stannus has the most complete laboratory and equipment for the medical and surgical treatment of the eye, ear. nose and throat of any specialist in this territory. The Doctor has not failed to provide anything that will supplement his personal skill.

Doctor Stannus offered liis services to his Government, but received the following reply: "The Acting Surgeon General directs me to acknowledge receipt of your letter of September 7, 1918, tendering your services to the Government in the existing emergency, and in reply to inform you that owing to the fact that yon are ineligible for appointment in the Medical Corps, the IT. S. Army, by reason of overweight, the Department regrets that it cannot utilize your services in a commissioned capacity, the offer of whicli is greatly appreciated." However, he was appointed on selective service by the governor of New York, which action was approved by the authorities of the United States, a.s a member of the Local Board, Division No. 116 of the City and County of New York, and had full charge of the examination of all applicants of the eye, ear, nose and throat. lie was also appointed an a.ssociate member of the Medical Advisory Board No. 6 of New York City.

Doctor Staunus is a member of the G. F. Jenkins ]\Iedical Society of Keokuk, Iowa, also of the Charles C. Slagel Dental Society of Iowa, and is also assistant surgeon in the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, and surgeon of the nose, throat and ear clinic of the West Side Dispensary and Hospital of New York.

He is at the head of the local aerie of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and is the examining physician for the Jlodern Woodmen of America, of the International Harvester Co., of the Illinois Bankers Life Insurance Co., of Monmouth, Illinois, and for many other orders and companies.

Doctor Stannus is not only an eminent specialist, but is one of the substantial citizens of Quiucy, occupying a beautiful home on Maine Street. He is a stockholder in many of the best institutions of the city, including the Illinois State Bank, and the State Savings, Loan & Trust Co.

This sketch would not be complete without mention of the Doctor's estimable wife, whose maiden name was Miss Osa Miller, and to whom the Doctor was wedded on December 16, 190fl. She is a native of Quincy and is an accomplished musician, both in piano and vocal, being a teacher of music before her marriage to the Doctor. She is not only a good wife to the Doctor, but is a great helpmate a.s an assistant and nurse. The Doctor could not possibly treat so many patients without her valuable assistance. During the summer of 1918 she took a course in refraction in the School of Ophtholmology and Otology of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of New York City, under the supervision of her husband.

Herm.\n a. Gentemann. An active and able representative of the horticultural and floricultural interests of Adams County, Herman A. Gentemann is a valued resident of Quincy, where he has an extensive nursery, well filled with a varied and choice collection of plants and flowers, some of which are quite rare and valuable. A son of the late C. Frederick W. Gentemann, he was born in Quincy July 10, 1876, of German ancestry.

Born and educated in Germany, C. Frederick W. Gentemann immigrated to the United States when about seventeen years of age. Coming directly to Quincy, Illinois, he was in the employ of Governor Wood for several years. Industrious and economical, he accumulated a sufficient sum of money to warrant him in starting in life on his own account. Familiar with horticulture, he built a small greenhouse, 16 by 30 feet, and having imported a few plants became the pioneer nurseryman of Adams County. Successful in his venture, he gradually enlarged his operations, building up an extensive business, which in 1901 he relinciuished in i^avor of his sons, Herman and Phillip, and thenceforward lived retired until his death. His wife, whose maiden name was Anna Frederika Goesling, was born in Germany, and is now living in Quincy. Eight children were born of their union, as follows: Henry, of Argonia, Kansas, now engaged in dairy farming: Hannah, wife of William Coulson, of Memphis, Tennessee : William, of St. Louis ; Reicke, wife of William Schnith, of Galesburg, Illinois: Minnie, living with her mother: Herman, the sub.iect of this brief sketch: Phillip, associated with his brother Herman as a florist; and Linnie, who died in girlhood.

Having acquired a practical education in the Quincy schools, Herman A. Gentemann became interested in the growing of plants and shrubs while working with his father. He .subsequently spent two years in Chicago, in the em- ploy of Bassett & Washburn, wholesale dealers in cut flowers, gaining valuable knowledge and experience while there. Returning to Quiney in 1901, he and his brother Phillip succeeded to the business established by their father, and are managing it most successfully. These enterprising brothers have a finely equipped nursery, with 35,000 feet of glass in their greenhouses and other things of corresponding size and value. This firm, which has an office and flower shop at 714 Maine Street, is carrying on a substantial and lucrative business in the city, and employs a number of representatives in outside towns. All are extremely well patronized, as flowers within the past few years are listed among the necessities of life rather than the luxuries.

Mr. Gentemann married, August 20, 1902, Anna M. Bradshaw, a native of Quiney, and into their home two children have been born, Christel, who died in childhood, and Rosalind, born June 29, 1907. Politically Mr. Gentemann is independent, voting with the courage of his convictions. Fraternalh' he belongs to the Ancient Free and Accepted Order of Masons, being a member of the Quiney lodge ; and also belongs to the Loyal Order of iloose. Socially he is a member of the Quinc.y Power and Motor Club.

W.VRREN L. King is a native of Quiney and in 1901 graduated from the Chicago College of Dental Surgery and lost no time in establishing himself in practice at Quiney, where his business and professional reputation has increased apace. He is one of the busiest dentists of the city, and is prominent in dental organizations, having been vice president of the Illinois Dental Society, and blso a member of the County and National associations. Doctor King is a Scottish Rite Consistory Mason, and is a member of the Rotary Club and the Chamber of Commerce.

He was born in Quiney July 11, 1880, and graduated from the Quiney High School in 1898. He entered upon his professional work at the age of twenty-one and has been one of the useful citizens of Quiney ever since.

He is a son of William E. and Mary J. (Martin) King, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of New Yoi'k State. They married in Quiney, where William E. King was for several years manager of the local office of the Western Union Telegraph CompanJ^ He learned telegraphy in Ohio. He died while still at his work in 1886, when not yet forty years of age. His widow is still living, enjoying good health in advanced j'cars.

Doctor King, only son of his parents, married at Quiney Miss Alice Sweet, who was born and reared here, daughter of E. K. and Lucia A. (Davis) Sweet. Her father, who died a number of years ago, was prominent in local business affairs as a horse dealer and stockman. Doctor and IVIrs. King have two children. Marylyn Sweet King, who is thirteen years old and in the ninth grade of the public schools, and Warren Kent King, bom in 1907 and also at school.

Edward W. Peter is county treasurei> of Adams County. A native of the county, known to its people all his life, Mr. Peter has proved trustworthy and reliable in every relationship and duty, and for many years was one of the leading educators of the county.

He was born in Melrose Township of Adams County March 9, 1865, a son of William and Emily (Kaltenbach) Peter. His father was also a native of Melrose Towaiship, where the Peter family established their home in pioneer times. William Peter followed farming, was a substantial resident of his community, and died March 15, 1915. The mother, who was born in Baden, Germany, is now living in Quiney. To their union were lx)rn a large family of children, the record being told briefl.y as follows: Edward W., the oldest; Charles, of Melrose Township; Albert, of ^lelrose; Frank, deceased; Tony, of Danville, Kansas; George, of Melrose Township; Rose, wife of Henry King, of Quiney ; a son that died in infancy ; Carrie, wife of Frank Daniels, of Quiney ; and William, of Payson, Illinois.

Edward W. Peter grew up as a farmer boy, attended the district schools, and was earnest and diligent in making the best use of all his opportunities. In 1887 he was a student in the Gem City Business College at Quiney. There are many sections of Adams County whei-e "his name is most highly honored because of the effective services he rendered as a teacher in country schools. Altogether he was active in the work of the sclioolroom for twenty years. Then for IVs years he M'as associated with his brother-in-law, Mr. King, in the merchandise business at Quiney, but left that to accept the office of county treasurer, to which he was elected in' 1914. Mr. Peter is a member of St. Peter's Catholic Church and is an active member of the Knights of Columbus.

Bernard H. Berter has been a resident of Quiney nearly fifty yearsi. made his money here, and in this community has invested all his loyalty and affection, and is' one of the most patriotic and public spirited of Adams County's citizens.

His business for many years has been as a grocer at 640 North Twelfth Street. Mr. Berter is now semi-retired, leaving the details of the store to his two sons, William and Joseph. He was born in Westphalia, Germany, March 19, 184.3, and was reared and educated there. In 1863 he enlisted as a private in the German army and served all through the war against Austria. He was in five of the major battles of that war, but escaped unhurt. Wlien the war ended in July, 1866, he secured a passport and sailed for America. From Bremen to Castle Garden was a voyage of two weeks by way of Liverpool. He joined a relative at Cincinnati and worked there a year with a florist and greenhouse proprietor. In ]\Iay, 1870, Mr. Berter came to Quiney and was employed here five years as a coachman, two years of that time with the late Edward Wells, the story of whose life is told on other pages. He then went into the old Quiney mills as salesand delivery man, and was with that institution until it was burned about ten years later. Mr. Berter received his final certificate of naturalization from the Circuit Court at Quiney in 1880.

In 1889 Mr. Berter invested his modest capital in the gi-ocery business, his first store being at Twelfth and Oak streets. In 1903 he bought his present location at the corner of Twelfth and Vine streets, and here he has since built up a flourishing trade. He owns a large store building, and in his business tiained his sons, and for the past nine years has given them practically the management of the industry, which is still conducted as B. H. Berter & Sons.

In 1876 Mr. Berter married Elizabeth Hoelker, daughter of the late George and Adelaide Hoelker, who came to Quiney in 1842. Both the Berter and Hoelker families are Catholics and members of St. Francis Church for the past forty years. The children were all confirmed there. William and Joseph are in the grocery business. Alois is a painter in Quiney. Edward died at the age of eigliteen, and Maria at the age of two. Carl, the youngest, studied law at Georgetown University, Washington, D. C, was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1917, took post graduate work the following year and has since enlisted in the Army IMedical Corps at Camp Kearney, California. The sons are members of the Knights of Columbus and both father and sons are democratic votei-s.

J. Grant McCarl, brother of Judge Lyman McCarl of Quiney, has for many years been one of the successful farmers and stockmen of Richfield Township. His home is four miles northwest of the old McCarl place in the same township.

On the McCarl homestead, which is now owned and occupied by his brother Scott, J. Grant McCarl was born August 11, 1863, son of Alexander W. and Minerva McCarl. He came to manhood with a liberal education, having spent three years in Lombard College at Galesburg, though he never graduated. I\iany people rememli^r him as a former teacher. He followed educational work for three years in Richfield and Payson townships. He became a member of the Phi Delta Theta college fraternity.

For a number of years he was associated with his brother Seott in the management and ownership of the old home place, and sold his share to his brother in 1904. On September 3, 1904, he bought his present farm, the old Henry Lyle place in section 19, on the west township line of Richfield. Lyle had secured the 135 acres direct from the government. This farm is two miles east of Plainville and twenty-two miles southeast of Quincy. Mr. MeCarl paid less than .$50 an acre for the farm. It has many attractive features, being watered with living springs. The .substantial brick house was erected in 1867 and has a cornerstone laid by the Masonic Lodge with the initials H. L. and the date 1867, and also containing the Masonic Square and Compass and other symbols.

Mr. :McCarl has done much to improve and develop this farm and has conducted it both for grain and stock. He keeps some pure bred Poland China hogs. He has remodeled the house and also the bam and put up several other smaller buildings.

Mr. ilcCarl has always been a democrat but has no tendency towards politics. He is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America and the Tri-State Fraternal Insurance Order.

April 17, 1895, he married Miss Orpha Hull, daughter of John P. and Martha (Harrison) Hull. Her mother is still living at the age of eighty-four. Her father, a native of Virginia, came west as a young man to Adams County, secured a tract of land, and then went back to Virginia and married. He took his bride to the new home in Richfield Township, and became a citizen of prominence here. He died December 1, 1901, at the age of seventy. He was an exceptional business man and of most scrupulous integrity, and was called upon to administer several estates and act as guardian for children. Six of the Hull daughters are still living. Miss Vickie is still at the old home with her mother. The other four besides Mrs. McCarl are: Ida, Mrs. W. C. Baker of Richfield; Jennie, Mrs. S. A. Baker of Richfield; Clara, wife of E. J. Wagv of Richfieldand Martha A., Mi-s. Orville Hess of Richfield.

Mrs. MeCarl received a good education, including special training in music, and was a teacher for one year before her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. MeCarl have two sons: Clement, who is twenty-three years of age and for several years has been the active partner with his father on the farm ; and Lewis, aged twelve.

WujLi.vm W. Robertson, the present supervisor of Beverly Township, is owner of one of the fine old family estates of that locality, a" farm that has been steadily improved and carefully tended and cultivated by one family for more than half a century. Mr. Robertson's home is a half mile south of Beverly Village and eight miles northeast of Barry.

He was born on this farm January 23, 1866, son of William W. and Mary E. (Richardson) Robertson. His father owned 200 acres of land there, and had farmed in that locality most of his life. He was retired for twenty-five years and died when within one month of his ninetieth birthday. His surviving children are: William W. ; ilary, Mrs. John G. Sykes, living in the same vicinity as her brother; George W., who left Adams County at the ase of twenty-two and for about forty years was a railroad engineer and is now living at Glen's Ferry, Idaho; John W., a retired farmer at Quinev; and Mrs. Rose Leightv. living at Vermont, Fulton County, Illinois. William W. Robertson was a republican and was reared in the Congregational Church.

William W. Robertson, the son, remained at home and attended the local -schools, and when about twenty-five years of age took charge of the old farm. Its 200 acres are now under his ownership and he has made many improvements, including the building of a commodious new home where he and his family reside. This house was built in 1916. As a stockman Mr. Robertson has been chiefly interested in Polled Durham cattle.

llr. Robertson is now serving his third consecutive term as tovpnship supervisor. He has given much of his time to the duties of his office and has been especially interested in road improvement and has secured appropriations for the construction of a number of cement culverts. He has served on the bridge committee of the board. He was elected to this office as a republican and is his party committeeman for his township.

October 12, 1893, Mr. Robertson married Nadine Griffith, of Clayton, daughter of Capt. A. J. and Sarah Ann (Wallace) Griffith. Mr. and Mrs. Robertson have two children, Ezma and Griffith, the latter still at home. The daughter is the wife of Ray Staulfer, of Beverly Township, and they have two children, named Analu and Silber Ray. Mr. Robertson is a stockholder in the bank at Beverly, suppoi'ts the Congregational Church, and in the last year or two has been very active in war work, especially in behalf of the Red Cross.

Ezra D. Wing. The Wing farm three miles southeast of Clayton, in the extreme southea.stern corner of the townshij) of that name, is an interesting place, not only by reason of its value as a farm, but also for the fact that it has provided for and sheltered four generations of this familj'. Ezra D. Wing is now practically retired from his active career as an agriculturist, and his two children still live on the fann and share in its benefits.

Mr. Wing was born there August 8, 1867, his birthplace being the substantial brick house still standing and which was built by his grandfather, Stephen, and his father, Theodore Wing, in 1864. The brick was burned on the land.

Stephen Wing was born in Vermont in 1810, and was descended from Welsh ancestors. The family tradition is that a widowed mother accompanied by her two sons came from Wales and settled in Massachusetts in colonial days, and later moved to Vermont. The early generations were Quakers in religion. Stephen Wing when a boy went with his parents to Ohio, locating in Greene County, and the family were there when it was not an infrequent experience for wells sunk for water striking a vein of oil, which was then considered a nuisance. In Ohio Stephen Wing married Olive Rice. Their son, Theodore Wing, was born in Ohio in 1836 and was a small child when the family started west in 1845, journeying down the Ohio and up the Mississippi rivers to niinois. They first settled at Newburg in Pike County, and in 1857 Stephen Wing secured the present farm in Clayton Township. Later, when he needed more land, he paid $3,500 for an eighty-acre farm, that being a very high price for that period. Theodore Wing was partially crippled, and he and his father, Stephen, always lived together and had many of their property interests in common. Stephen Wing died at the old homestead in October, 1896, having lived retired for some years and having survived his wife. He had one son and two daughters. The daughters and their husbands are now deceased. Rosalinda married John Dodd and went to Iowa, while Sarah became the wife of William Anderson and they lived in Davenport, Iowa.

Theodore Wing married in 1865 Alice Wing, a distant relative. She was also a resident of Pike County at the time of her marriage. She survived her marriage only a few years, and was twenty-five at the time of her death. She wa.s the mother of Ezra D. Wing. Theodore married for his second wife Rhoda Carter, of Augusta, Hancock County, Illinois. She died in 1894, and Theodore Wing passed away April 10, 1905, at the age of sixty-nine. He had lived retired since the death of his second wife. Ezra D. Wing was the only child of his father to reach mature years. Practically all his life has been lived on the old homestead in Clayton Township. However, for three years he was in Missouri and for one year in Nebraska. He returned home at the time of the death of his stepmother in 1894, and from that time had the active management of the farm luitil he himself turned over these responsibilities to younger people. The farm comprises 175 acres in one tract, and the principal residence is the brick building above noted. Mr. Wing rebuilt the old barn and has made many other improvements. He has followed general farming and has had considerable supcess with Shorthorn cattle and Poland China hogs. About a carload of hogs has left the farm for market every year.

All generations of this family have given meml>ers to the republican partj'. Mr. Wing's father and grandfather were members of the Christian Adventist (Church when that was a tiourishing organization in Adams County. Ezra Wing and wife are members of the Baptist Church at Timewell.

February 5, 1891, 'Sir. Wing married ilaiy Anderson, of Clayton, daughter of Cornelius and Nancy (Martin) Auderson. Her father was a fanner and liveryman and finally retired from business and died at the age of eighty-two. Mrs. Wing's mother died at the age of forty-two. The two children of ^Ir. and Mrs. Wing are Floyd D. and Theodore Cornelius, each of whom now fanns a part of the old homestead. Theodore Cornelius married Vivian Shelley, and they live with his parents in the old brick farmhouse. Floyd D. married Edna Marrett and has one daughter, Alice Elizabeth.

Hexry M. Sheer. Given a product that the public desires, a mechanic with technical training and sufficient experience may become a successful manufacturer. However, to not only manufacture but to provide ideas for innumerable devices and to develop them into concrete forms through inventive genius goes far be.yond ordinary mechanical ability, and for that reason Henry M. Sheer, president of the H. M. Sheer Company at Quiney, occupies an unusually prominent position in the manufacturing field here.

Mr. Sheer was born in Melrose Township, Adams County, April 1. 1865, a son of David and Elizabeth (Herlemann) Sheer. His father, who died recently, wa.s one of the early settlers of Adams County, and though he began life poor rose to a commanding place among the successful farmers of Melrose Township and enjoyed many of the dignities and honors of the community. He was born at Buffalo, New York, October 10, 1828, and when two years of age his parents moved to Tuscarawas County, Ohio, where he received his early education. In 1845 he and other members of the family came to Adams County and settled in Melrose Township. In the spring of 1850 he made an overland trip TO California, but returned home in January, 1852, and in Februarj' of the same year married Miss Elizabeth Herlemann. a native of Pennsylvania. After their marriage they moved to a farm in section 24 of Melrose Township, and there he developed a place of 400 acres, notable not only for the productiveness of its soil but also for the fine blooded cattle and hogs in which he specialized. He was a man of sterling character and commanded the respect of all who knew him. For several terms he represented his township in the county board of supervisors. He was reared a democrat and adhered to that party most of his life, though he voted for Mr. Lincoln for president both times. His wife died when about sixty years of age. Their eight children, four sons and four daughters, all grew up, all married but two, and only one of them is deceased. These children are : Leonard, a resident of Qnincy ; Margaret, wife of Joseph Able, of Benton County; William, who moved to Oklahoma-; Caroline, a resident of Quiney ; Henry M. ; Matilda, deceased ; Annie, wife of Christopher Luffli, of Quiney ; and Walter, who lives at Qiiiney.

Henry M. Sheer was reared on his father's farm. He obtained his education in the public schools and later took a course in the Gem City Business College at Quiney. In 1888 he became identified with a farm machinery company at Quiney as a salesman, and continued in that line for seven years. In the meantime he had made plans to go into business for himself, and eventually opened a shop for the manufacture of incubators and brooders used by poultrymen. Not content with a general manufacturing line, he began developing ideas of his own and gradually restricting and specializing his business for the niainifacture of special parts of incubators. He has done his greatest work probably in developing a perfect system of heat control in incubators and brooders, ineluding various types of stoves and thermostats. His incubator and brooder supplies are sold all over the world, and his manufactured products are all covered by his own patents. His plant on Hampshire Street covers ground 150 by 100 feet, part of it with a two story building and basement. He is also manufacturer of the Cascade Washing Machine, one of his inventions, and a machine that is now sold all over the country. He has also perfected various types of oil stoves, blue fiame burners, and now has from thirty to thirty-tivo people employed in the business.

The H. M. Sheer Company has been in its present plant since 1914. His tirst shop was at 513 Ohio Street, and the necessity for enlarged quarters caused him to move into the factory district of Hampshire Street, where he had a plant just west of bis present cpiarters for seven years. Some of the equipment manufactured under his patents has been supplied to the number of over 75,000 to a single poultry supply manufacturing concern.

Mr. Sheer married at Quincy iliss Gertrude Drallmeier, a native of Quincy and reared and educated here. ilr. and Mrs. Sheer have two children : Florence, wife of Ray Menke, who is now employed in the government arsenal at Rock Island, Illinois: and David, who is in the city high school and assists his father. Mr. Sheer and family are members of the Congregational Church.

Fr.\nk J. Klinghxe. In the fertile agricultural country surrounding Quincy are found many men who have passed practically their entire lives in this region and have w^on success and high standing. Among this class is Frank J. Kliugele, who has made a success of the intensive forms of agriculture, chiefly in truck and fruit crops.

Mr. Kliugele was born in Adams County, received his training here both educational and agricultural, and for his straightforward character he has gained a strong place in the confidence of his fellow citizens.

Mr. Kliugele was born July 20, 1865, fourth in a family of twelve children, six sons and six daughters. His parents were Ludwig X. and Sophia (Wellmann) Kliugele. Five of the sons and two of the daughters are still living, all in Adams County but two, John and Edward F,, who are farmers in the State of Wa.shington, Both are married but John is now a widower.

Ludwig X. Kliugele was born near the Black Forest of Germany and came to America when a young man. He was well educated, having proficiency in the German and English languages. He came to this country in a sailing vessel, first located at Cincinnati, and a short time later went to St. Louis, and from that city in 1849 joined a party who drove overland with wagons and mule teams to California. It was a journey fraught with much hardship and hazard and took three months. He remained in the gold coast and was reasoual)ly successful until 1852, when he returned by water. He crossed the Isthmus of Panama and from New Orleans came up the Jlississippi River to St. Louis. By trade he was a cabinet maker. At St. Louis he converted his gold dust into coin of the realm and soon came to Quincy and took a position as clerk in a dry goods establishment on North Fifth Street. Later he bought the laud where his son Frank now lives. For forty acres he paid $1,640. This was in 1853. The land had no improvements and he converted it into a good farm with excellent buildings and was one of the prosperous and influential men of the community the rest of his days. He was a democrat and always took a keen interest in politics and political affairs. He and his wife were members of St. ]\Iary's Parish of the Catholic Church, being charter members of that church. Ludwig Kliugele died in 1901. Both he and his wife were laid to rest in St. Boniface cemetery. His wife was born at New Orleans December 3, 1840, was reared in Adams County and was educated in the parochial schools. She was a kind and affectionate wife and mother and many grateful memories follow her. She spent her last years at the home of her son Frank and died March 13, 1914.

Frank J. Kliugele was reared aiul educated in Adams Comity, attending the parochial schools. In 1892-93 he was a visitor in North Dakota, but did not identify himself permanently with that portion of the northwest. Otherwise his career has been spent in Adams County. On January 17, 1900, Mr, Klingele married iliss Wilhelmina Magdalene Klues. They are the parents of six children, four sons and two daughters, five still living. Clara 0., at home, was educated in St. Mary's parochial school at Quiucy, was also trained in music and is an active member of St. Mary's Church. Roman F. is with the class that graduates from the eighth grade of parochial schools in 1918. Paul M. is in the fourth grade of the parochial school of St. Mary's Parish, ilary G. is in the second grade, and the youngest of the family is Marcellus Urban. Mr. and Mrs. Klingele have been at great pains to give their children the best of advantages to fit them for life.

Mrs. Klingele was born in Adams County November 13, 1876, daughter of Andrew and Rosa (Rohling) Klues. There were nine children in the Klues family, six still living, and all residents of Adams County except Catherine, who is the wife of William Reis, a painter and decorator living at Okonee, Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Reis have three children.

Andrew Klues, father of Mrs. Klingele, was born in Hanover, Germany, was reared in his native land and served as a soldier during the Franco-Prussian war. He is one of the men of the present generation who have vividly impressed on their memory pictures of old Field Marshal Von Moltke and Prince Bismarck. In former .years Mr. Klues was employed as a brick manufacturer, and has also been a farmer. He is a democrat and is now a resident of Quincy. His family have been identified with St. Mary's Parish. Mrs. Klingele 's mother was born in Germany, and died May 26, 1905. Mrs. Klingele had her education in the parochial schools at Quincy and was well fitted by training and by natural capabilities for the responsibility of making a home. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Klingele began farming on their present place, which is about a half a mile from Quincy, and there by their labor have improved an attractive home and have made a success of the crops best suited to their land. Mrs. Klingele has proved a faithful counsellor and guide in the affairs of home and also in solving those problems which concern all members of the family. Mr. Klingele cast his first presidential vote for Grover Cleveland and has always sustained the policies of the democratic party. He and his wife ai'e members of St. Mary's Parish. Mr. Klingele has seen a great deal of the United States, has been as far west as the Pacific Coast, including the cities of Taeoma, Portland and Spokane. The farm on which he resides has an abstract covering possession of almost a century, the land having originally been a soldier's claim.

John L. Pipe. During the last fifteen or twenty j-ears there has been no more successful coal operator and dealer at Quincy than John L. Pipe. His present business was established in June, 1909, and it has been developed to large proportions both wholesale and retail, handling all the staple grades of coal. The yards are on Eleventh Street between York and Jersey streets. Mr. Pipe has for eleven years been associated with Mr. E. W. Trobridge of Quincy, and for six years had charge of the city trade of the Wabash Coal Company. He knows the coal business in every detail, and his own success has onh' been a justified reward of the splendid service he has rendered the public.

Mr. Pipe comes of a family notable for splendid physical manhood. He and his brothers are large men of athletic build, and ilr. Pipe stands full six feet with corresponding proportions. He was bom in St. Louis, Missouri, about forty years ago, was reared and educated in Quincy, and was only a boy when he started to learn the coal business. His parents were Alfred T. and Josephine (Sharkey) Pipe, both natives of St. Louis, the former of English and the latter of Irish parentage. They married in St. Louis, where Alfred Pipe followed the business of stove molder for a time. He died at the age of sixtyfive in March, 1911. His widow is still living in Quincy, at the age of seventytwo. She is a member of the Catholic Church. There were three sons and two daughters, Alfred C, of Chicago, in the government mail service, and married ; John L. : George A., manager of the Comstock-Castle Stove Foundry of Quincy, is married and has three sons and one daughter; Mabel is clerk in one of the large dry goods stores of Quincy; while Josephine, the youngest, is a music teacher in Quincy.

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John L. Pipe married at Quiiicy in 1900 Bertha N. Wiesenburger. Mrs. I'ipe is a native of Quiucy and after completing her education was a bookkeeper until her marriage at the age of twenty-two. Her parents, Bernard and Elizabeth (Hemple) Wiesenburger, were bom in Germany, her mother in Baden, but were married in Quiucy. Her father followed the trade of wagonmaker and died in 1905, at the age of seventy-six. Her mother is still living at the advanced age of seventy-nine. Mrs. Pipe is one of a family of eight children, all living, and all married but one daughter. Her brother Albert B. was educated in the city schools and the Gem City Business College and was bookkeeper for Mr. Pipe. He married Emma Sehrieber, who died in November, 1915, leaving four children. Albert L., Mildred, Grace and Ellen, the three younger of whom are all in school.

Mr. and Mrs. Pipe have one daughter, Elizabeth, born May 27, 190S, now attending the sixth grade of the public schools. The family are members of the ^Memorial Lutheran Church. Mr. Pipe is active in Lodge No. 296 of the Masonic Order.

George "W. Francis, the present postmaster of Camp Point, has been a well known citizen of Adams County for many years, was born here, and formerly resided in Quincy. His name serves to recall besides his own worthy career several of the older and influential families of the county, including the Coxes, his mother's people.

Samuel Francis, who died in 1901, was perhaps best known because of his long identification with Camp Point Village as a landlord, being proprietor of the old Adams or Francis Hotel for thirty-five years. A son of Vincent and Amelia Francis, of Bedfordshire, England, he was born in that country October 21, 1817. As a youth he learned the shoemaker's trade and followed it in England until thirty years of age. In 1848 he came to America, was a Quincy shoemaker for several years, also lived in Ui"sa Township, and in 1856 settled at Camp Point, where he was in the shoe business. In 1861 he bought the Adams House, and to the conduct of that old and well known hostelry gave his attention during most of his active years until he retired. He was a republican voter and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Both he and his wife were members of the Christian Church.

In December, 1850, Samuel Francis married ]Mary Ann Cox, who was born near Quincy March 18, 1831, daughter of George W. and Alvira (Crawford") Cox. George W. Cox was a native of Virginia and his wife of Kentucky. They married in Kentucky, and about 1825 came to Illinois and settled in Honey Creek Township. As pioneer settlers they acquired their land from the government, and the old Cox estate in that township lias since become one of the most productive and valuable farms of the county. George W. Cox was also one of the contractors who built the Burlington Railroad through Adams County. He died in 1859, at the age of sixty-four, and his wife in 1866, at the age of fifty-six.

Samuel Francis and wife had three children : Sarah C, born September 7,. 1851, decea.sed wife of James Robertson ; George W. ; and John T., who was born December 27, 1855, and is now deceased.

George W. Francis was about two years old when his parents moved to Camp Point. At that time this was a community of about three houses clustered around Garrett's mill, and Samuel Francis' small shoe shop was one of the first enterprises of the village. Mr. Francis grew up here and in the course of his education attended the noted Maplewood High School of Camp Point and also attended college at LaGrange, Missouri. For abut nine years he was engaged in the agricultural implement business at Camp Point, and then for twenty-five years was on the road as a traveling salesman. Another experience of his early career was service as deputy county recorder for seven years. For eight years his home wa.s in Quincy, and while there he built a fine home at

Twenty-Second and Main streets. In 1913 Mr. Francis returned to Camp Point and bought the E. B. Sawyer Insurance Agency, which is now his principal business. It is conducted under the firm name of Francis & Spenee. Mr. Francis was appointed acting pcstmaster of Camp Point January 4, 1918. He has also served six years as village trustee. Politically he is independent and is a member of the Presbyterian Church. He was at one time president of the Adams County Fair Association, and ha.s always been liberal of his time and means to support all worth.v enterprises. He is aSiliated with Lodge No. 197, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Royal Arch Chapter No. 7, Claj-ton Cominandery, Knights Templars, and is a member of Camp Point Lodge No. 299, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Exkaliber Lodge of Knights of Pythias. He and his wife are members of the Eastern Star.

Since coming to Camp Point he has built the home in which he and family now reside. In 1877 he married Miss Susan E. Wliitbread, who was born in Quincy June 4, 1861.

Ira R. Calkins. In practically every walk of life there is a certain, well defined path to success, but undoubtedly there are many bypaths leading to the broad road and it is veiy often necessary for a young man to search closely for these as he pursues his various industries. It is something to be able to recognize an opportunity when it presents itself, and thereby each man makes his own success surer if not always easier. In all probability, when Ira R. Calkins, vice president of one of Quincy 's important industries, went into the foundry of the Electric Wheel Company at Quincy he set step on the successful-ending path that led him to his present ample fortune and responsible place in the business world

Ira R. Calkins was born at Quincy, Illinois, October 4, 1872. His parents were John W. and Adelaide (Niles^ Calkins, who were born in the State of New York. In 1860 they came to Quincy, the father at that time being connected with the Pullman Car Company, and subsequently he was in the United States postal service. His death occurred in 1902 and that of the mother in 1913. They were held in great esteem at Quincy and were identified quietly Tvith those things which make up community peace, benevolence and happiness. "They were the parents of four children, namely : A daughter who died at the ^ge of six months; Addison N., who is a resident of Quincy; Harriet W.. who is the wife of Harry H. Hale, whose home is in the City of Los Angeles, California ; and Ira R.

Ira R. Calkins was reared at Quincy and had the advantage of her excellent public schools, and after completing the high school course became a clerk in the postofifice at Quincy and remained for six years, during that time becoming unusually well acquainted with a large number of his fellow citizens. In 1899 fame the opportunity to go with this Quincy Electric Wheel Company, and he has been identified with this business ever since and now is the company's vice president. In all his transactions he has proved to be an able and honorable husiness man, and such is his reputation at Quincy.

^Ir. Calkins was married March 23, 1903, to Miss Sue McDavitt, and they "have one daughter, Elizabeth Meriam. They have a wide circle of personal friends and maintain a hospitable home. In his political views Mr. Calkins is a republican. He is an earnest and upright citizen and is ever ready to cooperate with others in mattei-s of .substantial public interest for the benefit of all.

Joseph L. Thomas, former county treasurer and now assistant county treasurer of Adams County, is a citizen of long and active identification with ]]nblic afifairs and formerly with the educational life of this county, and is undoubtedly one of Quincy 's best known citizens. He has made a study of the problems and methods of that particular branch of county government with which he has been chiefly identified, and is now generally recognized throughout the state as an authority on the construction and administration of the general revenue laws of Illinois.

Ml'. Thomas was born in Clayton Township of this county November 3, 1873, a son of Eli K. and Mary A. (Beckett) Thomas. Both families have been identified with Adams County since early days. Eli Thomas was a native of Indiana and came to Adams County in the early '50s, locating on a farm in Clayton Township, a tract of land which, with its modern improvements, is still owned by the family. Eli Thomas spent a long and praiseworthy career as an agriculturist and died February 2, 1894. His wife, ilary Beckett, was born iu Adams County, where her father, Joseph S. Beckett, was a pioneer farmer. Mary Thomas died December 20, 1916. They were the parents of four children : Ida, wife of George B. Cornelius, living on the old homestead in Clayton Township ; Curtis M., who died at Los Angeles, California, June 20, 1916 ; Joseph L. ; and Walter H. L., cashier of the Farmers State Bank at Mendon, Illinois.

Joseph L. Thomas grew up in a rural environment, made the best of his opportunities in the local schools and at the age of eighteen, in 1892, began teaching. His first work as a teacher was done in Ellington Township, and altogether he taught about twelve years. In the meantime he was paying for the expenses of his higher education in the Western Normal at Bushnell, Illinois, where he graduated in 1896. After that he continued teaching in the winters, and in 1902 came to the Court House at Quiney as deputy treasurer. He filled that office four years and then took up a new line of work as repoi'ter for the Quiney Daily Herald. He was with the staff of that paper 31/2 years. In 1910 Mr. Thomas was made candidate on the democratic ticket for the ofiBce of county treasurer, and received a signal triumph in the election of November 5, 1910. He gave four years to the capable and efficient handling of the county funds, and in 1914, at the close of his term, was appointed assistant county treasurer. He is also secretary of the County Centennial Celebration. Mr. Thomas is a thirty -second degi-ee Scottish Rite Mason, is past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, and an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

November 14, 1901, he married Miss Mattie E. Gans. Mrs. Thomas was born in Red Oak. Iowa, and before her marriage was a successful teacher. They have two children : Harry L., boi'n October 6, 1904, and Charles Clifford, born January 25, 1906.

John A. Thompson, present mayor of Quiney, has long been a factor in the business and civic affairs here, and has attained a substantial position from a boyhood passed in self-respecting poverty and hard work.

Mr. Thompson was born at Quiney October 17, 1873, a son of John H. and Ida (Dustin) Thompson. His father was born in Pennsylvania and his mother in Quiney. John H. Thompson was a moulder by trade, and his death occurred in 1886. The children in the family were : Charles, of Quiney ; John A. ; Frank, of Quiney; Willard, deceased.

At the age of thirteen John A. Thompson left public school on account of his father's death, and began working, turning his wages over to his mother. In this routine he continued for some years and finally gained the modest capital with which about 1897 he embarked in the grocei-y business with his brother Charles. They operated a large and well patronized establishment, and Mr. Thompson was active in the business until May, 1917, when he retired to give all his duties to the office of mayor of Quiney.

^March 15. 1899, he married Ernestine Buerklin. ]Mrs. Thompson was liorn in Quiney, daughter of Adolph and Louisa (Schwarz) Buerklin. Her father is now deceased and her mother is a resident of Quiney. Mayor Thompson is n republican, and prior to his elevation to the mayoralty was alderman from the Second Ward for five years. In Masonry he has attained the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite.

George C. Marriott. In the modern city no municipal service has been developed to a higher point of effieicney and of greater usefulness to the property and welfare of citizens than the fire protection service. In its fire department the City of Quiuey need fear comparison with no other city of its size in the middle west, since" both in equipment and personnel it is modern and to the highest degree effective.

Much of the credit for not only the material equipment but for the disciplined efficiency of the department is due to its chief, George C. Marriott, who has had a long and active service as a fireman, covering more than a quarter of a century.

Though a resident of Quincy most of his life, Mr. Marriott was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, October 26, 1865, a son of Frank and Catherine (Weisenberger) Marriott. His father was a native of France and his mother of Germany. His father was a contractor and builder, and died in Louisiana when his children were small. In 1883 the widowed mother brought her family to Quincy, George being then eighteen years of age. There were four children : George C. ; Catherine, wife of Edward Hartzel, of Quincy, Mrs. Marie Delabar, a widow ; and Ellen, wife of William Weise, of Quincy.

As a boy George C. Man-iott received a rudimentary education in the public schools of Louisiana. At the age of fourteen he was working with his father, but at fifteen he left school to take the place of his father, who had died, and from that time forward was the mainstay of the family until the jounger children were grown. He learned the cooper's trade and followed it about five years, part of the time in Quincy. Then for four years he worked in a local flour mill, and in 1891 began his duties and experience as a member of the Quincy Fire Department. He is a veteran in the service, and has helped fight fires in Quincy for more than a quarter of a century. In 1907 he was made assistant fire chief, and in 1911 was appointed chief of the department, a position which he has now held for seven years.

September 21, 1897, Mr. Marriott married Emma S. Fischer, a daughter of Christopher and Annie (Durant) Fischer. Both her parents are now deceased. !Mr. ilarriott is a democrat in politics and has fraternal affiliations with the Knights of Pythias, Court of Honor, Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Loyal Order of ]\Ioose. He is also well known among Illinois firemen and has frequently attended conventions of the fire fighting organizations from this state.

Addison N. Calkins has been a factor in the industrial and manufacturing life and affairs of Quincy for many years. He is a manufacturer of long and extensive experience, and is now giving his entire time to his duties as superintendent of the Electric Wheel Company.

Mr. Calkins was born at Quincy October 1, 1865, a son of John W. and Adelaide (Niles) Calkins. His parents came to Quincy in 1860 from New York. His father was at one time connected with the Pullman Car Company and subsequentlv was in the postal service. John W. Calkins died in 1902 and his wife in 191.3.'

Addison N. Calkins was educated in Quincy public schools and also in the public schools of Louisiana, Missouri. After a course in the LTniversity of Missouri at Columbia he began work with a machine shop and foiindn- at Louisiana, Missouri, and was with that concern for four years, getting a thorough apprenticeship and acquiring a complete familiarity with all branches of the bu.siness. He then returned to Quincy and became associated with the Lechtenberg interests as one of the organizers of the Central Machine and Foundry Company. Later this became the Central Iron Works, manufacturing elevators. Mr. Calkins and the Lechtenbergs were the principal stockholders in this industry. After about twelve years Mr. Calkins went with the Otis Elevator Company for II/2 years, and then came into his present position as superintendent of the Electric Wheel Company.

Mr. Calkins married October 21, 1892, Miss Anna Schermerhorn. They have two daughters, Helen, a teacher in Knox College at Galesburg, Illinois, and Ruth, at home. Mr. Calkins is a Knight Templar Mason, is a member of the Presbyterian Church and a republican voter.

J. Erle Caldwell, city comptroller of Quiucy, is a well known business man of the city and is also on the retired list with the rank of lieutenant in the Illinois Naval Keserve.

Mr. Caldwell was born at Elvastou, Hancock County, Illinois, March 17, 1886, the only child of Lee E. and Ella J. (Browning) Caldwell, both natives of Hancock County. The family have lived in Adams County since 1905.

J. E. Caldwell completed his literary education in Carthage College, but left that school on account of illness. He then became associated with his father in business and is now secretary and treasurer of the Quincy Phonograph Company, handling, both wholesale and retail, the various line of wares manufactured by the Edison Company.

Mr. Caldwell was for eleven years identified with the Illinois Naval Reserve as a member of the Tenth Division. During that time he gained an unusually thorough knowledge of naval equipment and practice, and as commander of the torpedo boat "Somers" conveyed that vessel to the navy yard at New Orleans.

Mr. Caldwell was appointed city comptroller of Quincy and took that office ou May 8, 1917. He is a rei^ublican in politics, and his father was at one time a supervisor in Hancock County. Mr. Caldwell is affiliated with the Masonic Order and the United Commercial Travelers, and is a member of the Federation of Musicians. On June 27, 1911, he married Miss Nellie E. Poole, a native of Adams County.

George F. Metzger is secretary of the Menke Stone and Lime Company of Quincy. He has been a member of this firm since 1886, and has been its secretaiy over fifteen years.

Mr. Metzger is a man of expert technical qualifications, has had much experience in building contracting and other work, and his energy and resourcefulness have had much to do with the success and growth of the Menke Stone and Lime Company.

He came to Quincy in 1878 and was a building contractor for a number of years, until he entered business with his present firm. He was associated with W. B. Lockworthy aud later with Lockworthy and Menke, until the death of Mr. Lockworthy. The ^Menke Stone and Lime Company is one of the largest concerns of its kind in Western Illinois. They operate great limestone quarries and lime kilns near Quincy, having three mills south of the city, while their cut stone factory, warehouses and yards are at Kentucky, York and Front streets. In normal times they employ from 12.5 to 140 men, and ship carloads of crushed stone, cut stone, lime and other materials and products all over the states of Illinois, Missouri, Iowa and even as far away as Nebraska.

Mr. Metzger was born in Wuertemberg, Germany, in Januarj', 1854. son of Johan and Regina (Voehringer) Metzger. His parents were natives of the same province and spent their lives there, both dying when about twenty-eight years of age, the mother about two years younger than her husband. The father was a contractor and architect, so that in a sense the son may be said to have inherited his profession and occnpation.

George F. Metzger was only three 3'ears old when his mother died. He was reared and carefully educated, attending a Polytechnic College at Stuttgart, Germany. After gi-aduating he set out for America, making the voyage across the ocean in ten days on the ship ' ' China. ' ' He landed at New York City April 5, 1876, and at once came west to St. Louis. A few years later he located in Quincy.

Mr. Metzger married at Sedalia, Missouri, Miss Rosena Vosse. She was born at Atchison, Kansas, of German parentage, and was reared and educated in that city. They have one son, A. Frederick IMetzger, who was born at Sedalia, ^Missouri, in 1885. Mr. Metzger and family lived at Sedalia temporarily while he was a contractor during the construction of the court house there. The son grew up in Quinc.y, attended the public schools here, and the Union Business College, and is now bookkeeper for the Menke Stone & Lime Company.

He married in Quincy Agnes Singler, who was born in "Missouri in 1885, daughter of H. Frederick and Ellen Singler. ilr. Metzger and family are membei-s of the Lutheran Church and he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Masonic Order.

John H. Koch, M. D., P. A. C. S. During twenty years of practice at Quincy Doctor Koch has achieved an enviable prominence as a surgeon, and it was a sure skill and his successful method in handling many major cases which caused his name to be nominated and accepted as a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the only really exclusive and discriminating medical organization in America.

Doctor Koch tirst took up the profession of pharmacy and graduated from the National College of Pharmacy at Washington, D. C, in 1894. He remained at Washinjgtou and entered the Garfield Memorial Hospital, a branch of the Columbian, now the George Washington, University, where he received his M. D. degree in 1897. He has also been a student and attendant at clinics in perhaps the greatest medical center in the world, Vienna, It was in 1916 that Doctor Koch was accepted among the early members of the American College of Surgeons. For many years he has practiced with offices at Broadway and i;ighth streets. He is a member of the County and State Medical societies and the American Medical Association.

Doctor Koch was born at Quincy in 1874, and 'during his boyhood attended the Quincy High School and other schools of his home city. He has served as president of the Adams County Medical Society and as delegate to the state and national societies. He has prepared and read papers before both of the latter organizations. He is active in the Knights of Columbus, and with all his busy professional work finds time to keep in touch with current progress and affairs in his community. Doctor Koch has a fine home and office at his residence.

At Watsonville, Pennsylvania, Doctor Koch married Miss Louise Irvin. She is a native of Pennsylvania, and represents one of the old and prominent families of that state. She is of Scotch and English parentage. The Irvins were one of the famous clans of Scotland. Her great-gi'andfather served as a soldier in the American Revolution, while her maternal grandfather. Reader, was in the War of 1812. Her father, Lieutenant Joseph M. Irvin, was with the One Hundred and Thirty-First Pennsylvania Infantry during the Civil war and was seriously wounded at the second battle of Bull Run. He died in 1897, and her mother is still living in Pennsylvania. Doctor and Mrs. Koch are members of St. Peter's Catholic Church.

Arthur Dunn is vice president, treasurer and manager of the United Cereal j\Iills Company, Limited, at Quincy. He came to Quincy in 1916, and has been the responsible executive in charge of this branch of the great industry since that time. The Quincv mills of this companv have a capacitv of from 40,000,000 to 50.000,000 packages a year, or more 'than 1,000,000 cases. The goods are shipped to every state of the Union and to Canada, and it is not infrequent that 100 carloads leave the factory every month for distribution over this territory. The products of the Quincy mills are the E-C Cornflakes, Washington Flakes, Fruited Wheat and Fruited Cornflakes, and also cereals of rye and barley. This company has an elevator with a storage capacity of thirty cars. The plant is a large and commodious one, and every sanitary facility and comfort have been supplied the employes, who number about 200. in addition to 150 commercial salesmen who cover the territory supjilied by these mills.

Mr. Dunn came to Quincy from Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he lived from 1895 and where he practiced law and carried out a number of highly successful examples of business promotion. He is a business organizer and financier, and is a man who does things with a rapidity of decision that is the admiration of his business associates. He was liorn at Elmira. New York, in 1876, but grew up in Pennsylvania and is a graduate of the Scranton public schools and a graduate of Pi'incetou Uuiversity with the class of 1895. He was trained as a lawyer and practiced law at Scranton and engaged in large business affairs there for twenty-one years. He has also been active as a republican and was a delegate to the convention that nominated Roosevelt for president and stumped during the campaign for his election.

Albert T. Frankel. The youngest member of the County Board of Supervisors at present is Albert T. Frankel, from Concord Township, who was elected in the .spring of 1918. Mr. Frankel is one of the younger and p.rogressive element of farmers in that section of Adams County, and for sixteen years has been identified with the cultivation and management of a good farm. He also held the ofifice of township collector two years before entering upon his duties a.s a member of the Board of Supervisors.

The Frankel farm comprises 121 acres in sections 30 and 31. About half the land is improved and the remainder timber and pasture. Mr. Frankel devotes his time largely to cattle raising, his farm being especially adapted to the grazing of livestock. During the summer and fall he also does an etxensive business as a grain threshennan, having one of the complete outfits foi that purpose.

Mr. Frankel is thirty-four years of age, having been born at St. Ijouis November 9, 1884. He received his early education in St. Louis, and has lived in Concord Township since 1902. He is a son of Andrew P. and Sarah (Rose) Frankel. His father was born in Sweden in 1843 and came of a Swedish Lutheran family. When a joung unmarried man he came to the United States and located at St. Louis, and married in Missouri Miss Sarah Rose. She was born near Newtown in Adams County, Illinois, January 15, 1853, daughter of John j\L and Nancy (Ferguson) Rose. Her parents were natives of Missouri, but were married in Adams County, and for a time lived on the farm now occupied by the Frankel famil.y. John M. Rose was a railroad man. a shop worker and engineer, and spent most of his active life in that service at Louisiana, Missouri. He died there when past seventy years of age. He was a democrat. His widow died on the old farm in Concord Township at the age of seventy-six. Andrew P. Frankel after his marriage continued work at his trade as a carpenter, and in 1902 came to Concord Township with his wife and famih'. He died at the farm home there in June, 1908, at the age of sixty-five. He was a Lutheran. Mrs. Frankel is still living with her sons at the old homestead and is about sixty-five years of age. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Albert T. Frankel is second among lier four sons. Robert A., the oldest, was reared and educated in St. Louis, attending business college there, and at the time of his death, at the age of eighteen, was employed by the R. G. Dun Company. Elmer L., born in October, 1889, attended school in St. Louis and in Adams County, and is still at home with his mother. Ivan Burton, born at St. Louis February 19, 1891, was educated there and in Adams County, and is also on the farm in Concord Township. He married Ella Edmonson, of Concord Township, and they have two children, Nona and Vivian. The Frankel boys are democrats in politics.

William T. Ray. What gives Mr. Ray his exceptional position in Adams County is his wonderful success as a farmer and stockman. In any list of a dozen prominent agriculturists in the county his name would deservedly have a place. Under his ownership is a large body of land in Concord Township, and in many ways it is a model stock ranch. In line in what he has done in a business w-ay Mr. Ray has a reputation for superior judgment in affairs generally, for strict and upright dealing, and is said to have a memory for people and events that would justify not a little fame as a local historian.

All his life has been spent in Concord Township. He was born in section 1 of that locality August 2, 1863. He is of old Scotch Presbyterian ancestry. His parents were John Sinclair and Agnes (Ligget) Ray. John S. Ray was born in the Scotch Highlands January 1, 1821. He was five years old when his father, John, and family came to America, being six weeks on the voyage and after landing in New York City the family lived for two years at Freehold, New Jersey. John Ray then went back to Scotland, came again to America after a short time, about 1833, but was not content to live on this side of the waters and finally returned to Scotland, where he and his wife spent their last years. His wife died about 1845, and he survived until about 1870, being ninety-three years of age.

John S. Ray at the age of seventeen broke away from home ties and returned to America in 1838, locating at Freehold, New Jersey. There he worked on a fann for a Mr. Craig seven years. During that time he married Miss Agnes Ligget, who was born in County Down, Ireland, of Scotch ancestry, July 9, 1831. Her parents, John and Mary (Patterson) Ligget, natives of County Down, came to the United States in 1846 and located at Freehold, New Jersey. The mother died there and John Ligget afterwards came to Adams County and died in 1862, at the age of eighty-six.

John S. Ray after his marriage farmed near Freehold, New Jersey, and three children were born there : John, Mary and Margaret. In the spring of 1856 the family came to Adams County and rented a farm in section 1 of Concord Township. Later John S. Ray bought land of his own in section 11. This was a tract of uncultivated soil forty acres in extent, and he cleared at up and made a good home of it. This land is now owned by his son William, who acquired it after his father retired in 1892 to Quiney, where he lived until 1906. He then removed to Timewell in Brown County and died eighteen months later, July 17, 1908. His widow passed away ]\Iareh 17, 1910. Both were members of the Presbvterian Church. The children born to them in Adams County were : James L., who died at the age of forty-seven, married Ida Lucas, also deceased, and three of their children are still living. David is connected with the Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Jacksonville, Illinois, is married but has no children. The next in age is "William T. Joseph A., who died in 1906, at the age of forty, wa-s a prominent resident of Adams County and at one time a candidate for Congress. He married but had no children. Arthur R. is a well known lawyer of Quiney, is now assistant district attorney and formerly was assistant attorney general of the state.

"William T. Ray acquired, largely by his own efforts, a good education, his early schooling being of the rural type. In 1894 he bought his father's homestead and his steady progress in farming has enabled him to accumulate 590 acres, including some of the finest land in Concord Township. As a stockman he has at this writing about 130 head of cattle, some fifty head of hogs, th.irty head of horses and mules and about 140 sheep.

In McKee Township Mr. Ray married Miss Ellen "Varner. She was born in that township November 3, 1865, and was reared and educated there. Her parents, Robert and Rose (Corrigan) Varner, were well known pioneer farmers in that township and spent their lives there, ilr. and Mrs. Ray have four cliildrcn, who do them honor. Rose Agnes, the oldest, was born in 1893, and is now the wife of Ray Vering, a Concord Township farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Yering have two children, Robert Roy and Genevieve R. John Robert Ray, born March 4, 1895, is a graduate of high school and the Gem City Business College, and is now a private in a Machine Gun Battalion at Camp' Sheridan. Margaret E.. born July 7, 1897, was well educated in the local .schools. Mary Esther, born February 25, 1900, has finished the grade schools and is still at home.

Jeremuh Strickleb, who has been a resident of Adams County for eighty years, was born in Pennsylvania December 26, 1835, and was brought to this county by his parents in 1837.

He is a sou of David and Emily Strickler, both natives of Pennsylvania. His father was a cabinet maker by trade, but in Adams County spent his time chiefly as a farmer. He died in Augusta, over the line in Hancock County, at the age of seventy -five, and his wife also passed away at the same age at Camp Point. Their children were Stewart, Wesley, Abrani, Elizabeth, Lewis, Clark, Jeremiah, David, JIaria, John and Emily. Those still living arc Lewis, Jeremiah, Maria and Emily. The father voted as a republican and was a member of the Methodist Church.

Jeremiah Strickler grew up on a farm, had a limited education in the schools of his day, and for a number of years operated a farm in Camp Point Township, selling that to buy his present eighty acre farm in Houston Township. He still owns that farm, but siuce 1913 has lived retired in Golden. Mr. Strickler is an independent voter.

In 1857 he married Miss Serelda Downing. They had four children, Olive, Anna, Wilbur and Lora. The mother died in 1892, and Mr. Strickler married a second wife and has one daughter. Amy Alice.

Howard J. Vickers. The Vickers family has been one of the most prominent in Adams Comity since pioneer times, and their activities as farmers and land owners made them especially well known in Burton Township. Some of the largest benevolences in behalf of educational and other institutions in the county were the act of the late Howard J. Vickers.

^lany of the statistical records regarding the family are found in the old Burton Cemetery. The father of Howard J. Vickers was Aquilla A. Vickers, who, according to the date there recorded, died September 24, 1862, aged si.xty-nine years, one month, twenty-eight days. His wife, Ann, died August

1, 1863, aged sixty-five years, four months, four days. Among their children were the following: John A. Vickers, who died August 15. 1868, aged twentythree; Archibald Vickers. born October 14, 1837, and died October 15, 1895; Thomas Vickers, who served in Company D of the One Hundred and Sixtieth Ohio Infantry ; Aquilla Vickers, born September 4, 1831, and died August 19, 1904, was a member of Company A of the Tenth Illinois Cavalry-, John W. Vickers, who died October 29, 1876, aged forty-six years, ten months, fourteen days, and Priscilla Vickers, born in Grant County, Kentucky, iVIay

Howard J. Vickers was bom in 1832 and died in 1911. His first wife, Ann R., died December 24, 1863, aged thirty-two years, nine months, one day. His second wife, Ann M., was born September 7, 1835, and died Februarv 23, 1890. His third wife, Sarah J., was born October 16, 1843, and died July 24, 1902.

A large part of the old Vickers homestead in Burton Township, ten miles east of Quiney, is now owned and operated by Mr. and ^Irs. George C. Mollenhauer. Mrs. Mollenhauer is a granddaughter of Howard J. Vickers. George C. Mollenhauer was born two miles north of Burton Village May 30, 1877, and is a member of a family whose records are given more in detail on other pages. He remained at home until reaching his majority, attending the grammar schools, and is a graduate of the Gem City Business College. He and his brother-in-law, Charles C. Kleinschmidt, then bought an established business at Twelfth and Ohio streets in Quiucy, conducted it four years, and in 1901, after his marriage, Mr. MoUenliauer came to his present farm. This comprises 200 acres.

On May 30, 1900. ^Mr. Mollenhauer married Miss Ada Lewis, daughter of George and Lucy (Vickers) Lewis. Ada Lewis was born on the farm where she now lives. This land was originally obtained by members of the Vickers family directly from the Government. Howard Vickers married for his first wife Ann Harris. Her only child to reach matxiritv was Lucv Vickers, who was born a mile distant from the old homestead. She was eleven years of age at the death of her mother. She was educated in local schools and in a young ladies' school at Quiucy, and also at Camp Point, finishing in the college at LaGrange, Missouri. She taught school in West Virginia, where she naet and married George T. Lewis, who was reared in that state. After their marriage they came to Adams County and spent most of their lives on a farm of 120 acres given Lucy by her father, Howard J. Vickers. The old ^'ickers homestead originally comprised 400 acres, ilrs. Lucy Lewis on account of ill health went south with her husband and died in San Antonio, Texas, at the age of forty-three, and her husband remained in the South and died at the age of sixty-four.

Ada Lewis after the death of her parents returned to the home of her grandfather, Howard J. Vickers, and also lived back in West Virginia with some of her mother's people.

Man}' years ago Howard J. Vickers became interested in Chaddock" College at Quiucy, and gradually donated much of his property to that institution. He gave the old farm where his daughter Lucy was born, and made otlier donations. He served as a trustee of the college for many years. Howard J. Vickers married for his fourth wife Rebecca Cormeny, who is still living in Quincy. Howard Vickers was one of the leading members of the Pleasant Grove ]\Ietliodist Episcopal Church, and was an ardent prohibitionist. He married his second wife, Ann Maria Richards, February 15, 1866. It was in 1881 that he and this wife donated their $8,000 farm to Chaddock College and thus made possible the building of Vickers Hall, consisting of a dormitory and college chapel.

Mrs. Mollenhauer inherited 140 acres from her father, and she and her husband have occupied this farm since 1901. Howard Vickers also gave them sixty acres additional, so that they now have 200 acres. Howard Vickers during his last years lived with his granddaughter Ada and her husband and depended upon them for advice and counsel in all his business matters.

Mr. Mollenhauer is a general farmer, having high grade stock of all kinds. He has served as clerk of Burton Township at three different periods, is a republican, and has served as a member of the township committee. He and his wife are active members of the Pleasant Grove Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is a trustee and assistant superintendent of the Sunday school. They are the parents of four children, great-grandchildren of Howard J. Vickers, named Geoi-ge Lewis, Howard Vickers and Harold Henry, twins, and Virgil Allen.

Rev. Cecil Clyde Wisher is pastor of the Christian Church at Camp Point, and as such a brief sketch of his career is appropriate for publication in this history.

Rev. Mr. Wisher was born at Centralia, Illinois, October 23, 1879, son of Samuel M. and Ruhama H. (Wright) Wisher. His mother was born in Illinois in 1854. His father was a native of Ross County, Ohio, and when a child was brought to LaSalle, Illinois, by his parents, Thomas and Harriet (Horner) Wisher. The grandparents spent many years on their farm near LaSalle and later moved to Marion Countj^ and died at Centralia. Their childi'en were David A., Mary, John, Samuel M., Clara, Benjamin P. and William. Samuel M. Wisher has spent his active career as a farmer. He enlisted in Company B of the Eighteenth Illinois Infantry, and saw much hard service during the war. David A. and John were also soldiers, and both were wounded. Samuel Wisher is a member of the Grand Army Post, is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, is a republican, and he and his wife are active members of the Christian Church. They had five children : Olive, Cecil Clyde, Etna, Jennie and Harry.

Cecil C. Wisher spent his early life on a farm, attended the district schools, and graduated from the Edinburg High School in his home county. In 1904 lie finished the literary course at Eureka College, aud iu 1907 was graduated from the Theological Department of the same institution. He was ordained a regular minister in 1907, but his practical work in the church began in 1902, as pastor of Bellflower in ^IcLean County. He was there six years, and was stationed at Saybrook in the same county seven years. In 1915 he came to Camp Point, and has become greatly beloved by the people of his own church and by all the citizens of Camp Point Towniship. Reverend AVisher is affiliated with the Ma.sonic Order, having taken the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Kite. He married Catherine ]\lclntyre, of Bellflower, Illinois. They have two children : Paul Hugh, born June 2S, 1909 ; and Catherine Ruhama, born April 18, 1911.

Roy Shakron is a prominent young farmer and stock raiser of the Camp Point community, has served as township clerk, and in many ways has made himself a factor in that locality.

He was born on the old homestead in Houston Township February 26, 1888, a son of John and Lillie (Jacobs) Sharron. His mother was born in Houston Township December 17, 1861, daughter of John W. and Emily (Bennett) Jacobs. Emily Bennett was a daughter of Thomas Bennett, one of the pioneers of Adams County. John W. Jacobs came to this county from Indiana in an early day and was one of the largest laud holders in the county, owning fully a section here and also much other land in Nebraska. He died at his home in Houston Township in 1896, and his widow is now living in Golden.

John Sharron, father of Roy, was born iu Ohio in December, 1856, and came to this county when about ten years of age, traveling overland by wagon. His father, William Sharron, settled in Pike County and died there. John Sharron 's mother died when he was a child. John Sharron was a farmer, was a democrat, and served many years as road commissioner. They had thi'ce sons : Lee W., on the home farm ; Roy L. ; and C. Earl, who spent one year in training at Camp Grant, is now a sergeant in the One Hundred aud Sixty-First Regiment with the Eighty-Sixth Division, and when last reported was at Camp Hills on Long Island about to depart overseas.

Roy L. Sharron grew up on the old homestead, attended the public schools and also an academy at Iberia, Missouri. Farming has been his regular vocation since early manhood. He owns eighty-five acres in section 20 of Houston Township, and is associated with his brother Lee in the thoroughbred stock business. They have pure bred Shorthorn and Polled Durham cattle and Chester White hogs.