Quincy Township (part 72 of 74)

Mr. Roy Sharron served as township clerk four years. He is an independent democrat, is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Golden, and with the Tri-State Insurance Order. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Church and very active in its work, and Mr. Sharron has been librarian, superintendeut and teacher of the Bible Class in the Sunday school.

March 15, 1912, he married Miss Eula Curless. She was born in Keene Township of this county June 5, 1893. Her mother was a member of the Adair family. Her father, Addison Curless, is a merchant at Loraine. Mr. and Mrs. Sharron have two children : Velma E., born February 10, 1914, and Florence E., born in June, 1917.

John Jacob Wagner has the good fortune to call Adams County his home from birth to the present time. His life's activities have been chiefly expressed through the business of fruit growing, gardening and general farming, in which he has made a notable success. ^Mr. Warner's home is in Melrose Township, and he is one of the citizens of whom there should be a definite record preserved for the sake of future generations.

Mr. Wagner was born September 3, 1863, son of Peter H. and ^Margaret (Muller) Wagner. He was the youngest of three children, two sons and one daughter, two of whom are .still living. Peter H. Wagner was born on the

Eiver Rhine, grew to manhood in his native land and was well educated. He came to Amei'ica on board a sailing vessel, leaving Bremen and being six weeks on the ocean before landing at New York. Fi-om there he came west to St. Louis. He was a Horist bj' occupation. About the time gold was discovered on the Pacific coast he went across the plains with a caravan made up of ox teams and wagons, and was a gold seeker and argonaut for three years. He returned to the States by the Pacific Ocean, the Isthmus of Panama, and across the Gulf to New Orleans, thence up the Mississippi River to St. Louis. In 1857 Peter Wagner came to Quincy, and this county remained his home until his death. He bought a tract of eighty acres of land in Melrose Township, and his sons still carefully preserve the government deed to that land, which is one of the few pieces of original parchment still kept by the older families. Peter Wagner was a republican in politics, but was never an aspirant for ofifice. He and his wife were members of the German Lutheran Church. He died May 20, 1898. His wife was also born in Germany and came to the United States when a young woman. She died in November, 1884, and both are now at rest in the Green Mount Cemetery.

John Jacob Wagner was educated in the public schools of Adams County, and was well trained for the career which he has followed as a practical agriculturist. On April 7, 1885, at the age of twenty-two, he married Mi.ss Caroline F. Pflueger. To their marriage were born six children, four sons and two daughters, all of whom are still living. Bessie received her diploma from the eightti grade of the public schools and is now the wife of Jacob Kroeucke, a farmer at Eubank Station. They have a daughter, Ruth. Charles H., the oldest son, lives in Riverside Township and is a carrier on the rural mail route. He is married and has two daughters, Margaret and Marian. Jacob, the second son, is connected with the Cudahy Company at Quincy and is married. Albert G. is at home and assisting his father in the management of the farm. Maymie completed the course of the eighth grade and is at home. Oscar is the youngest eliild and has also been given a good education. 'Sir. and Mi's. Wagner among other aceomplislunents deserve credit for the family they have reared and the education tliey have provided them as a training for their responsible careers.

ilrs. Wagner was born in Adams County November 29, 1864. She had a good practical education, and has made a splendid home maker and mother, and has a host of friends in the community.

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Wagner began life on their present farm, and its substantial improvements largely represent the expenditure of their energies, planning and persistent work. The Wagner farm comprises forty-five acres, splendidly situated on the State Aid road, and is cultivated almost as a complete garden and orchard, fruit and vegetables being the crops that have brought abundance and prosperity to the family.

In politics Mr. Wagner is an independent, giving his vote where he thinks it will do the most good. He has been a stanch friend of the public schools. and for twenty-four years was a school director in his district. He is affiliated with Lodge No. 39 of the Masons at Quincy and is also a past noble grand of Adams Lodge No. 365 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. - He and his wife and family are active in the German Lutheran Church. There is unusual coincidence in the dates of the children's liirth. Bessie and Jacob were both born on February 2Sth, four years apart, while Charles and Maymie celebrate their birthday anniversaries on the 12th of May.

John Eptmen, one of the widely known men in Northeastern Adams County, a practical and successful farmer, was born in Houston Township of this county October 1, 1869, son of E. and Rinnie Ehmen. His father came to Adams County when about twenty-one years of age, and the mother when a child with her parents, the Miller family locating in Clayton Township. Mr. Ehmen 's father was a blacksmith by trade, and located at Chatten in Houston Township, where he conducted a shop for many years and where he died in 1904, at the age of sixty-five. His widow survived uutil September 20, 1917, aud died at the age of sixty-eight. They were members of the Lutheran Church at Golden aud the father was a democrat. Tlieir family consisted of John, Marj', Geesche, Treuke, Minnie, Emma, George, Albert, Richard and Anna. The son Albert is now railway station agent at Chatten, an office formerly held by his father.

John Ehmen was educated at Chatten, and since reaching his majority has applied his eft'orts most successfully to farming. He bought a farm of 120 acres in Northeast Township, sold that aud bought twenty-four acres in the Milage of Golden, building a house aud otherwise improving it, but sold that in 1914 and came to his present place in Clayton Township, where he has 120 acres. Mr. Ehmen is independent in polities and a member of the Lutheran Church.

In February, 1893, he married Miss Hiemke Post, daughter of Fred Post, of Champaign County, Illinois. They have two children : Emma, born April 16, 1895, and Grace Lucile, born July 28, 1906. Emma is the wife of Henry R. Gronewald, of Houston Township, and they have three children : Luellen, Leo and Violet.

Christopher S. Booth is a member of one of the oldest families of Adams County, and has become widely known both here and elsewhere for his strongly original qualities of mind and his inventive genius.

Mr. Booth was born in Gilmer Township, March 19, 1856, a son of William A. aud Marie Jane (Bradley) Booth. This branch of the Booth family, which has been so numerously represented in Adams County, originated with William Booth, who was born in England in February, 1745. He emigrated to America and settled in the Virginia colonies aud later went across the mountains to Kentucky. At one time he wa.s a pioneer school teacher. He died in Kentucky. The record of his children is: Polly, born ilay 22, 1774; George, born February 14, 1777 ; John, born June 7, 1779 : William, born February 14, 1781 ; Stephen, born February 14, 1786 ; Anderson, born May 4, 1789 ; Elijah, born Januai-y 20, 1791 ; and Prudence, born December 8, 1795.

Stephen Booth, who was born in Virginia February 14, 1786, went to Kentucky in 1807. He married in that state ilary Congleton in 1811. In 1833 Stephen Booth brought his family to Adams County, Illinois, and settled in Ursa Township, where he did his part in clearing up the wilderness and also in establishing homes and civilized institutions. He was a large land owner there and he died in that localitv in 1867. His children were : Armelda, born July 30, 1812; Clarinda, born Jilnuary 16, 1814; Nancy, born May 17, 1815: William Anderson, born October 9, 1818; Elizabeth, born October 26, 1820: Judith, born December 3, 1822; Emily, born September 26, 1825; Mary Martha, born January 3, 1828: Sarah Ann, born Feliruary 5, 1830; Christopher Columbus, born December 8, 1831; and Catherine Frances, born October 11. 1835.

William A. Booth, father of Christopher S., was born in Kentucky October 9, 1818, was reared in that state, and was fifteen years of age when brought to Adams County. For a time he was a schoolma.ster, but his chief interests were farming and Ijreeding Merino sheep. He established a large farm of 400 acres two miles west of Columbus in Gilmer Township, and in 1880 moved to Camp Point Township and bought a farm of 285 acres two miles southwest of the village of that name. On that farm he spent his last days and died August 3, 1890. His wife, Marie A. Bradley, was born in Kentucky in 1833. and died Jlarch 23, 1913. William A. Booth was a republican and held the office of a-ssessor in Gilmer Township, and during 1861-62 made up the militia roll of the township. His wife was a member of the Christian Church. Their family consisted of the following children : Mary Frances, born March 7, 1854 : Christopher Stephen, born March 19. 1856; John Anderson, born December 31, 1857: Nellie, born July 5, 1862: Lulu E., born July 12, 1864: W., born June 14, 1868; Newton, born November 18, 1869; and Ida, born February 25, 1872, and died in Februarv, 1873.

Christopher 8. Booth grew up on the okl homestead in Gilmer Township, and after 1880 lived on the farm in Camp Point Township, in 1891 he and liis mother removed to the Village of Camp Point, where his mother died and where Mr. Booth still maintains his home. Since about 1887 he has given much of his time to the perfection of various mechanical devices, many of them covered by patents. His most important work probably was in perfecting the typewriting machine. He originated what is known as the long bearing type bar. There wa.s a contest over this invention and in 1890 he went to the courts with the matter with W. K. Jenney, superintendent of the Remington Typew)-iter Company, and Alexander T. Brown, inventor for the Smith-Premier Typewriter Company. Before the litigation had been ended and a decision made as to which party was entitled to the priority of invention, the Smith-Premier Company bought Mr. Booth's application of the principle, and thus eliminated further contest. His type bar was extensively used and exploited by the Smith- Premier Company.

Mr. Booth has usually been a republican in politics. He has contributed many articles to newspapers on political and social subjects. He was the first secretary of the Adams County Farm Institute. He was also the first to propose the improvement of Bailey Park, and was one of the first three park commissioners. Religiously Mr. Booth described himself as a member of the human family and entitled to all the rights and privileges of the most favored classes. From' 1893 to 1903 he was a stockholder in the People's Bank of Camp Point.

"WttiLiAM B. LiERLE. Probably no family has had longer associations with Columbus Township than the Lierles. One of this family is William B. Lierle. who owns a farm of 105 acres in section 32 of Columbus. This farm is well drained and has fair building improvements.

ilr. Lierle was born in Liberty Township March 7, 1847, son of Zachariah and Nancy (Wilks) Lierle. Zachariah Lierle was a native of North Carolina. His grandfather, Zachariah Lierle, served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and late in life came to Adams County and was laid to rest in Liberty Township, his grave being carefully marked and preserved as that of the only Revolutionary soldier buried in the county. In the same plot was laid to rest a Frenchman who saw active service in Napoleon's army from 1812 to 1815. Zachariah Lierle, father of William B., was born in 1790 and died in Northwestern Missouri in 1874, at the age of eighty-four. He married for his .second wife Polly Tourney, a daughter of the P^reuch soldier above referred to.

The mother of William B. Lierle died in 1849, at the age of twenty-five, and was buried in the Lierle cemetery in Liberty Township. Besides William B. she left a son George and a daughter Jane, who married Daniel L. Willioit.

The Lierles came into Adams County fully eighty years ago. One of the family was William Lierle, grandfather of William B. He was one of the original seventy-two voters of Adams County at the first election, all of them voting at Quiiicy. The maternal grandfather of William B. Lierle was Coleman Wilks, who came to Adams County from Kentucky prior to 1830 and entered government land in Columbus Township. He died during the Civil war. when about sixty years of age. Two of his sons, William and Coleman, Jr., crossed the plains with ox teams in 1849, spent two years in California, and returned by way of the Isthmus.

William B. Lierle married March 2, 1876, in Liberty Township, Eliza E. Schwarz. She was born in that township in 1857, daughter of Jacob Schwarz, a native of Germany who came to the United States when a young man and married at Quincy Miss Elizabeth Cox. The Schwarz family for many years lived as farmers in Liberty Township. Mrs. Lierle died at her home in February, 1889. She was the mother of three children. Fred T. is a well educated musician, has his home in Chicago, but spends most of his time traveling, following his profession. Mattie J. is the wife of Gus Parn, and lives on a farm in Columbus Township. William Roscoe now operates the home farm of his fatlier. He married ]\lay Deming, formerly a teacher. They have two fhildreii, Melvin E., born iu 191'i, and Rex, born in 1914. Mr. Lierle is a democrat and his sons follow the same line of thought.

IviN Black. One of tlie oldest communities in Clayton Township is that grouped around what is known as i51ack'.s Station, and here the Black family have resided through three gcneraticnis. The present representative is Ivin Black, a farmer, stock man and merchant, who has spent all his life in that community.

He was born in Claj-tou Township June 19, 1869, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Crippen) Black. His father was born in Tennessee iu 1834 and his mother in Virginia in 1837. Samuel Black came to Adams County when a cliild with his parents, Amzi and Amy (Campbell) Black. They located in Clayton Village, for a few years kept one of the old country inns there, and afterward located on a farm in the same township, where Amzi Black died when about iifty-six years of age near what is now Black's Station. His widow died fit Golden at the age of seventy-tive. Their children were: Samuel; a son that died in infancy; ilary, wife of James Beckett, of Golden.

Samuel Black was the sou of a teacher, and acquired much of his education at home and through his own efforts. He became a very skillful penman and taught that art several years. One the whole, however, he was a farmer and grain merchant, and for a number of years he and his son Ivin were associated al Black's Station as dealers in agricultural implements. He was a republican, served as supervisor of Clayton Township, was a member of Clayton Lodge of Masons, and he and his wife were Presbyterians. Samuel Black died in May, 1912, and his wife in October, 1911. Their children were: William L., now of Kansas City ; Carrie, decea.sed ; Rosa, wife of Christ Holoek, of Golden ; and Ivin.

Ivin Black grew up on the old farm, attended the public schools, and has given his mature years to grain dealing, handling agricultural implements, and in the practical operations of farming. He owns a tine place of 200 acres, including Black's Station.

Mr. Black is a republican and a member of the Methodist Church at Golden. December 21, 1892, he married ^liss Rosa Bottorff. She wa.s born in Camp Point Township, daughter of James Bottorff, of Clayton Township. .Mr. and ]Mrs. Black have two children. Irma, born ilarch 1, 1897, is a graduate of the Maplewood High School, spent one year at the Macomb Normal, and is now a .student in the Gem City Business College. Orrin, born Mai'ch 29, 1901, is now a pupil in the Maplewood High School.

Henry B. Whitford is of one of the pioneer families of Adams County, and has grown up and spent practically all his life on the farm where he was bom November 13, 1861.

His parents were Henry S. and Myra C. (Clark) Whitford, the former a native of Providence, Rhode Island, and the latter of New York State. Henry S. Whitford came to Adams County about 1833, bought land and became an extensfve owner of real estate both here and in Hancock County. He owned 320 acres where his son Henry B. now lives and also had 170 acres in Hancock County. He was a republican, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and died at the advanced age of eighty-eight. He married his first wife in Rhode Island and had one child by that union. He also married Sarah Downing, and by that union had ten children, those still living being James T , Lydia A., E. C.,"john S. and ^lary C. By his marriage to Myra Clark his children were: Henry B. ; Alice E., wife of J. S. Wallace; Dora A., wife of W. S. Stabler ; Fannie C, wife of Charles Downing ; and Daniel W.

Henry B. Whitford grew up in Adams County, attended the public schools and also the Maplewood High School at Camp Point. As a farmer he now dii-ects the activities of 460 acres, raising general crops and livestock, and is a

JOHK Decker, one of the best known stock men and farmers of Adams County, came here without means many years ago, and gained his present prosperity through a beginning made as a farm hand at the normal wages paid ax that time.

ilr. Decker was bom in Germany April 1, 1842, son of John and Hannah Decker. His mother died in 1S46 and his father in 1876. His father was bom iiareh 3, 1800.

John Decker was reared and educated in Germany and in 1871 came to Adams Countj-. When he arrived here he was $65 in debt. He worked as a farm hand at $18 and $20 a month, and finally invested his modest accumulations and savings in eighty acres that he still owns. He has since increased his holdings until he has 515 acres, all of it representing his management, industrj- and good judgment, ilr. Decker has long been an extensive cattle feeder, has a large herd of Polled Angus cattle, and keeps a large drove of hogs.

He is a republican and has served as a director of his local schools for thirty years. In church affiliation he is a Lutheran, ilr. Decker married in Brown County, Illinois, iliss ilinnie Hildebrandt. iirs. Decker was bom in Adams County in 1S52. Her father, Alfred Hildebrandt, came here in 1850 and died at the advanced age of ninety-two. ilr. and 3ilrs. Decker have had seven children: Hannah, who died in 1916: Folka; John; Minnie, deceased: Albert, who lives in Nebraska: Harm and .Annie.

JoHx E. ilEATHERrsGHAir. For over sixty years the name Meatheringham has been identified with the farm progress and good citizenship of Clayton Township, where John E. Meatheringham. owner of one of the valuable farm homes of that community, was bom April 7, 1874.

His parents were William and Zebuline I Homer "- Meatheringham. His mother was bom near Columbus, Ohio, in 1S51, daughter of William Homer, of a well known Adams County family. WUliam Meatheringham was born in Lincolnshire, England, Jtdy 6. 1844, and was a child when brought in 1851 by his parents, James and Elizabeth (Roland) Meatheringham. to Adams County. Mrs. Elizabeth Meatheringham died here in 1916, at the very advanced age of ninety-eight. Her children were Janette. Carrie, Elizabeth. Susan. John, William and James. William ileatheringham grew np in Adams Connty, and after reaching his majority bought a farm in ilissouri. subsequently trading that for the 160 acre farm in Clayton Township where he now lives retired. He is a republican, has served as road commissioner, is a member of Clayton Lodge of Odd Fellows and of the Christian Church. His wife died in 1909. mother of five children: James William, Anne I., John Ellsworth, Lula, who died in childhood, and Dessie CarroL

John E. Meatheringham grew up on the home farm and had a good education, beginning with the public schools, continuing with the Western Normal at Bnshnell, and finally at the Christian University at Canton, ilissouri. For two winters he was employed to teach the old home district. Later he took the agricultural course at the Illinois State University, and has since been a practical and progressive farmer. He bought a place of sixty acres in section 30 of Clayton Township, and later traded that for his present farm of 167 acres in section 32. known as the Robert Banton farm. He is tising his land and other resources to the best of his ability and is regarded as one of the most efficient agriculturists in his community. 3Ir. Meatheringham has also interested himself in local affairs, has senicd as a member of the school board, is a republican and a member of the Christian Chtirch at Camp Point.

Leonard C. Hoke. ilrs. Meatheringham died in October, 1911. In 1912 he married for his present wife 2kliss Lena P. Koath, of Sterling, Illinois. They have two children : Boath E., born October 18, 19l4, and Carol, bom September 4, 1918.

Henry A. EAsrii, of Clayton Township, represents a pioneer family of the countj-, and is connected by marriage with some of the verj- first fainilies to acquire homes in this part of the state.

ilr. Easum was bom in Clayton Township October 6, 1859, son of Charles and Margaret i Swope i Easum. His father was born July Iti, 1807, and his luother September 29. 1815, both in Indiana. They were early settlers in Adams County, locating in Clayton Township, where they had a farm of 160 acres. The father died August 21. 1871. and the mother January- 8. 1865. Their children were James. Matilda. Charles William and John, both of whom served three years as Union soldiers in the Civil war, Lydia, Albert, George, Francis. Mary, Susau and Henry A.

Henry A. Easum grew up on a farm in Clayton Township, attended school there and also in Cass County, and since 1889 has been busily engaged in looking after his farm of 160 acres. He is a republican, has served on the school I'oard and as road commissioner, and is affiliated with the Modem Woodmen 01 America. He and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Februarj' 16. 1886, Mr. Easum married Miss Martha Gay. She was bom in Clayton Township December 7. 1860. Her great-grandfather. James Gay, served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Her grandfather was William Gay, who was born in North Carolina October 28, 1772. WiUiam Gay married -\nn Rutledge, born July 5. 1783. They came west soon after their marriage, first settling in Indiana, where William Gay died. His widow spent her last days in Adams County. Abel Gay, father of Mrs. Easum, was bom in North Carolina November 27. 1820. As a young man he learned the trade of tanner. On coming to Adams County he engaged in farming, and married here Nancy Douglas, who was born in Kentuekj- October 26. 1828. Her parents were Joseph and Jane (Mcjlurrayi Douglas, both natives of Kentucky. After their marriage they came to Adams County in 1835 and settled near Quincy on a farm, later coming to the land where ilr. and ^Mrs. Easum now live.

Abel Gay spent much of his married life on the farm now owned by ilr. Easum. He died there in 1888 and his wife on November 16, 1914. Abel Gay was a republican, and he and his wife were members of the INIethodist Episcopal Church. Their children were George, Emily, Joseph, Martha, Lillie and William.

ilr. and Mrs. Easum have seven children, and a service flag in their home betokens that two of the sons are with the allied armies. The oldest child is Leon, who is now in France with the Eighty-Eighth Division. The second child. Edith, died in infancy. Dora married Herschel Mitchell. Chester is a second lieutenant in the Three Hundred and Sixty-Ninth Regiment, with the armies in France. The younger children, at home, are Elmer. Ruth and Margaret.

Hezekiah G. Hexrt is one of the most prominent bankers of Adams County, has organized and managed several banks at Camp Point and other towns, and has been a resident of this county for a quarter of a century or more.

Mr. Henry was bom near Indianapolis, Indiana. July 18. 1866. son of Dr. James and Caroline (Smarts Henry. His father was bom in County Derry, Ireland, and his mother in Kentuckv-. Dr. James Henry was one of a family of twelve children. After coming to America he served as a soldier in the Civil war four years and ten months, and for ten months after the war was employed in establishing some of the national soldiers cemeteries. He then took up the study of medicine, graduated from the BeUevue Medical Hospital of New

York City and the Rush iledical College of Chicago, and began practice at Columbus, Illinois. Later he practiced for a number of years at LaHarpe in Hancock County, and on retiring moved to Galesburg, where he died. He was a republican, a member of the Masonic Lodge at LaHarpe, and he and his wife were Congregationalists. His widow is now living at Santa Anna, California. Their children were : Hezekiah G., Berdenia, Bess, Alexander, James and Fannie, the last three now deceased.

J\lr. H. G. Henry received some of his education in Columbus, graduated from the Giddings Seminary at LaHarpe and from Elliott's Business College at Burlington, Iowa. He received his early banking training at LaHarpe, and in 1893 came to Camp Point and organized the People's Private Bank. He has been its cashier ever since. Mr. Henry organized the Farmers Bank at Liberty and the Paloma Exchange Bank and the Beverly Bank, all in Adams County, and all reflecting his ability and energy as a banker. These institutions now have aggregate depasits of about a million dollars.

ilr. Henry is a i-epublican, has served as mayor of Camp Point two teimis, and is a member of the State Board of Equalization and president of the Adams County Sunday School Association. He is a member of the Presbyterian Chui'ch, is affiliated with Lodge No. 197, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Camp Point Chapter No. 77, Royal Arch Masons, Delta Commandery, Knights Templars, at Clayton, Quincy Consistory, and the Eastern Star and Mystic Shrine at Springfield. He is also affiliated with the Knights of Pythias.

Mr. Henry married Miss Maude Smith, of LaHarpe. She was the mother of three children, Riva, James and Maude. Maude is now deceased. For his second wife Mr. Henry married Mattie C. Farlow, daughter of Samuel Farlow, of Camp Point. His daughter Riva married Rev. R. L. Long, pastor of the Collingwood Avenue Presbyterian Church of Toledo. Mr. and Mrs. Long have two children, Robert H. and Martha.

James Henry was educated in the Maplewood High School at Camp Point, spent one year at Colorado College at Colorado Springs, also attended the Gem City Business College and the Northwest ^Military and Naval Academy. He is now head of one of the committee.s of the Auditing Department of the First National Bank of Chicago.

Charles Emory Cain, who owns one of the large and well managed farms of Clayton Township, was born in that township December 14, 1861, and his family has been in Adams County since pioneer times.

His grandfather was Philip Cain, who married Ruth De Moss. On coming to Adams County in 1840 they settled in Clayton Township, acquiring a tract of timbered land and clearing it up into a good farm of 160 acres. Philip Cain spent his last years retired at Golden and died in 1892, at the age of eighty-six. His wife died in 1887. He was a democrat in politics. Philip Cain and wife had the following children : John, Abel, Nelson, Samuel, Laban, Lewis, Philip, Hannah and ^Margaret.

Samuel Cain, father of Charles E., was born in Ohio September 10, 1837, and was three years old when his pai-ents came to Adams County. He was educated in the public schools of Clayton Township, and as a farmer owned eighty acres of good land and for some years was also a merchant at Clayton. He died in 1910. He was a democrat, and served as road commissioner some years. He and his wife were active members of the ^Methodist Episcopal Church. Samuel Cain married ilargaret Wilson, who was born in Ohio March 10, 1841, and is still living. Their children were Charles Emory, and Lenora, the latter dying in January, 1904.

Charles Emory Cain grew up on a farm, and at the age of twenty-one moved to the Village of Clayton witli his parents. In March, 1886, he "came to his present farm of 160 acres, and has been Inisily engaged in its cultivation and management for over thirty years. Mr. Cain' is a democrat without political ilarcli 15, 1886, he married Miss Dora A. Curry, member of an old and well known family of Adams County. She was born in Clayton Township ]\Iarch 15, 1858, daughter of Benjamin A. and Mary A. (ilajors) Curry. Her father was born in Kentucky May 8, 1825, and her mother in Ohio August 3, 1831. Benjamin Curry was a son of Thomas S. and ilalinda (ilurphy) Curry, who drove overland from Kentucky to Adams County in 1837. Benjamin Currj- was an excellent farmer and a good business man, and accumulated about 700 acres in Adams Country. He was a republican, quite active in politics, and served as supervisor, assessor and road commissioner. His wife was a member of the Christian Church. Mrs. Cain's motlier died in 1865, the mother of live children, Amanda J. and Harriet Elizabeth, both deceased, and Linnie A., Dora A. and Nellie G. In 1866 Benjamin Curry married Lucy J. Hoskins, who died in October, 1881, the mother of Edgar T., Charles Samuel and Carrie E., all still living. In 1884 Benjamin Curry married Mrs. Lavina Benton, and she now lives with a daughter in Kansas City. Benjamin Curry died June 29, 1915.

ilr. and Mrs. Cain have had four children : Everett E., who died at the age of five years ; Rilla, who married Howard Veach, a hardware merchant of Clayton, and they have one child, Vivian E.; Benjamin Emory, who is now a soldier at Camp Ta.ylor, and married Lula B. Hamilton: and Mary M., a teacher at Dallas City, Illinois.

J.VMES Henry Ceafton is one of the vice presidents of the Gem City Business College. Probably no other one institution has given Quincy a wider and better fame than this college, and it is the gratifying privilege of Mr. Crafton, who has been connected with the college as a teacher and officer for thirty-five \ears, that he has been able to impress, guide and direct so many former students, many of whom are now among America's successful business men, and scattered over all the states of the Union.

Mr. Crafton was born September 20, 1856, in Griggsville, Pike County, Illinois, son of Jesse J. and Nancy E. Crafton, both of whom were of English parentage. The Craftons first settled in Kentucky, went from there to Indiana, and arrived in Illinois in pioneer days. Nancy E. Crafton 's family lived in New York State near Elmira. She was stolen from her mother when only five lyears of age and brought west, the people who had taken her finally settling in Pike County, Illinois. J. J. and Nancy E. Crafton had seven sons, two of whom are still living. J. J. Ci-afton died in 1863 and his wife in 1900.

James Henry Crafton, or Harry as he is better known among his friends and intimate associates, attended school at Griggsville to the age of twelve, and then moved with his parents to La Prairie, Illinois, and later to Delavan, this state, where he continued to attend school. He taught his first school when about si-xteen years of age, and since completing his high school work that has been his regular occupation. He taught in the country and the graded schools of Tazewell and ^lason counties for a number of years. In the meantime he was i'lereasing his own proficiency by attending the normal at Bloomington. the Illinois University, and he has the degi-ee Ph. B. from old Chaddock College at Quincy.

In order to perfect himself further in commercial arts Mr. Crafton entered the Gem City Business College in 18S2. He did not realize it at the time, but that opened to him his big opportunity of life. After he was graduated he was selected by the president, Mr. D. L. ilusselman, as a teacher. For about twentylive years he continued as principal of the Actual Business and Banking Department of the College and was then elected one of the vice presidents, and has since been superintendent of the business departments and registrar of the iustitxition. Mr. Crafton is identified with business interests of Quincy in many ways. He is a director of the Illinois State Bank, vice president of the Gem City Building and Loan Association, is a member of the ^'ermont Street

Methodist Episcopal Church, and treasurer of its board of trustees. In 1899 he married ^liss P'idelia M. Schaffnit of Red Cloud, Nebraska. They have one daughter, Louise.

Samuel A. Baker. Over a period of years that is longer than the recollection of many except the very oldest settlers the Baker family have been residents and prominent factors in Richfield Township. One of the best known representatives of the family today is Samuel A. Baker, who is living in the house in which he was born in section 19, 2% miles east of Plainville.

He was born there December 10, 1861, son of Simon ]\1. and Ann (Lamb) Baker. The family have an interesting history. In the days of the Cromwellian Commonwealth in England two brothers, Jacob and Joseph, cavaliers and loyalists to King Charles I, escaped from England and came to the Colonies. Joseph settled in Virginia. Jacob first located in Philadelphia, but later descendants moved to Virginia, and he was head of the present line. One of his descendants was Samuel, whose son was Jacob, and who in turn was father of Cornelius, the father of Simon M. Cornelius was born in Virginia in 1793. Jacob, father of Cornelius, served as a soldier of the Revolutionary war, while his father, Samuel, was an officer in tlie same struggle. Samuel liad taken a grant of land from Lord Fairfax. He leased this land for a period of ninety-nine years. The lease expired about 1872, but during the Civil war all records were destroyed and consequently the claims of the familj' have not 'been validated.

Cornelius Baker came to Illinois in 1851 with his son Simon M., who was born in Hampshire County, Virginia, now West Virginia. Cornelius settled in section 20 of Richfield Township and died there October 13, 1865. He owned a 200 acre farm and was one of the leading members of the Shiloh Methodist Episcopal Church, of which his son Simon was also a trustee and one of the builders. Cornelius married Phoebe Swisher, who died .young. His second wife was Lydia Arnett. By his first wife he had six children and seven by the second marriage, none of whom are now living. John Baker, who died in Kansas in 1913, was the last survivor of this family of thirteen. Only three others besides Simon M. remained in Richfield : Louisa, who married Abram IMillslagle and died at the age of seventy-eight ; Aaron, who lived and raised a family on the Cornelius Baker Farm and was active in democratic politics and held various local offices; and Hannah Rice, who left honorable descendants in the township.

Simon M. Baker married in Hancock Coimty, Illinois, October 8, 1856, ]Mrs. Ann (Lamb) Doolittle. She was born in Ohio, and went with her family to eastern Illinois in 1842, at the age of thirteen. By her first marriage she had a son, Milan, who is now living at Garden City, Kansas. Her grandfather, Capt. Daniel S. Lamb, served as an officer in the Revolutionary war and lived near Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He spent his fortune feeding soldiers during the war, and after that struggle re-established himself as a teacher, starting the first English academy in tlie Slienondoah Valley of Virginia, near Winchester. In that work he was assisted by his cultured daughters. William Lanib, father of Mrs. Simon Baker, was born in Pennsylvania and during the War of 1812 as a boy hauled cannon for the army. His team of six horses had been impressed for the government service. Later he settled near Newark, Ohio, and in 1842 moved to Crawford County, Illinois, and died there about 1852. He was a man of great public spirit and was one of three who laid out the county seat of Crawford County.

After his marriage Simon 'SI. Baker and wife spent all their lives on the home farm in Richfield Township. In 1859 he built the present substantial homo where his son resides. Originally he owned 157 acres, but his prosperity brought him the ownership of 400 acres in different tracts. The first tract contained fifty acres of prairie, covered with brush, and he cleared that up. He was an extensive raiser of cattle and hogs and a democrat in politics, but always refused office. Simon Baker died January 15, 1890, and his widow sur- vived him almost twenty years, passing away January 12, 1910. He was sixtyeight years of age at tlie time of his death and his widow eighty-one. They had three children to reach maturity : Minerva, who became the wife of S3-lvester Cunningham and died at Richfield at the age of forty-two ; Julia M., who married Millard Lester and died soon afterwards ; and Samuel A.

Samuel A. Baker took a course in the Gem City Business College at Quincy and received a certificate to teach, but never used it. At the age of twenty-two he went into the hardware business at Plainville in company with Charles W. Sturtevant. He was in that business four years and then took charge of the farm. His father had given each of the daughters a tract of land and Samuel A. received 200 acres, including the old homestead. There he has lived and worked ever since. He built a large cattle barn and lost the old horse barn hy fire, entailing a loss of $1,000. He has won prosperitj- in spite of numerous losses. A lot of hogs died at a loss of $1,000. He keeps a bunch of cattle and runs a general purpose farm and for some years was well known as a breeder of Shorthorn cattle.

For three years Mr. Baker wa.s postmaster at Plainville during the Cleveland administration. He has always been a loyal democrat and has been county committeeman. For twenty-five years he has been a trustee of the Shiloh Methodist Church.

October 2, 1887, ]\Ir. Baker married Virginia G. Hull, daughter of J. P. Hull and of a well known family elsewhere represented in this publication. Mr. and Mrs. Baker have three children : Simon Peyton, who is a student of law in the University of Michigan with the class of 1919 ; Loraine E., who was in the army in camps in Arizona and California, and is now at home; and Cornelia A., who graduated from the Charles W. Seymour Memorial High School at Payson in 1918.

James Sykes, M. D. Since the earliest recorded events of history in Beverly Township there has not been a more numerous or more prominent family than that of Sykes. One member was the late James Sykes, whose services are especially well remembered as a physician. He performed a steady country practice for upwards of thirty years, and was also a man of great business judgment and a successful accumulator of land and other property.

He was born in Beverlv Township IVo miles southeast of the village of that name May 22, 1844, and died :March 3, 1910. His father, William Sykes, was horn in England in 1817, and was brought to America by his parents in 1821. In 1834 the Sykes family came west and settled in Beverly Township, where the father of "William built the second house in the township, on section 21. Doctor Sykes' grandfather died in 1852 and his grandmother in 1850. William Sykes was seventeen years old when brought to Adams County, and he spent his active life as a farmer in section 28 of Beverly Township. In 1840 he married Eliza G. Raymond, and their three children were William R., James and John G. John G. now owns and resides at the old home fann. William Sykes was for many years active in local affairs, serving thirty years as justice of the peace and twenty-eight years as township treasurer. Dr. James Sykes grew up on the home farm, studied in the local schools, and studied medicine privately and later in the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Keokuk, Iowa, from which he graduated 'Slay 21, 1864. He was immediately commissioned an assistant .surgeon in the Arm.v of the Cumberland, and spent one year at Memphis, Tennessee. He was then transferred to Custer's Cavalry, and spent one year on the western plains, participating in several Indian campaigns. He was finally mustered out at Fort Dodge, Kansas, JMarch 1, 1868.

He first developed a private practice at Lancaster, ^Missouri, but soon returned to Adams Count.v and located at Beverly, where his services were in constant demand until his own impaired health compelled him to retire. He was a republican in politics and was a loyal Mason, being a member of Kingston Lodge, three miles from his home. This lodge attended his funeral in a body. He was laid to rest in the Mound Prairie Cemetery a mile east of Beverly. "While not a member of any church he was a liberal confibutor to church causes and objects. He owned several farms, showing a great deal of wisdom and judgment in handling his property and continued active in business affairs until his death. The home in which he lived so many years was built about forty years ago, and during his lifetime it was the center of much hospitality. He enjoyed company, and his liberal mind enabled him to discuss public questions and other affairs with intelligence.

On April 10, 1872, Doctor Sykes married Helen Harper Godfrey, daughter of John F. and Helen Godfrey. Her father was born in England in 1823, and in 1850 married Helen Thorburn, a native of Ohio. The Godfrey family came to Adams County in the fall of 18.57 and were long identified with the farming community around Beverly. Mrs. Sykes was born in Belmont County, Ohio, and was three years of age when her pai'ents moved to Beverly Township. Her father died at the age of seventy-seven and her mother at seventy-five. ^Irs. Sykes has two sisters, Lizzie and Emma Godfrey, living at Beverly. Mrs. Sykes was educated at Beverly. She became the mother of ten children: Marian P., whose home is in Te.xas ; Eliza, wife of C. A. Beavers, living near Jacksonville, Illinois: Howard J., who died at the age of five years; Helen, who became a trained nurse and died in 1915 ; Annie, wife of Dr. Virgil Beavers, a large land owner at China, Texas; Everett W., who graduated from Northwestern University ]\Iedical School at Chicago, and practiced his profession for two years in the State of Idaho, until the death of his father, since which time he has lived with his mother; Florence, still at home; Raymond, a farmer in Beverly Township : Thorburn, whose home is in Idaho, and who during the war was a soldier in the United States army ; and Mildred, wife of Harry Stillflew, who also was a soldier in the United States army, now living on the old Godfrey farm south of Beverly.

Isaac Cutter. Alasonry in its various branches has always been a flourishing institution in Quincy and Adams County, and it seems very appropriate that the present Grand Secretary Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Illinois should be a resident of the county.

Mr. Isaac Cutter in addition to his prominence in the fraternal world has for many years been closely identified with local affairs of dift'erent kinds at Camp Point, and was in the railway postal service for a quarter of a century.

He was born at Elmwood, Peoria County, Illinois, January 7, 1854, and the Cutter family is descended from the Crusaders and from ancestors who landed at Plymouth Rock with the Pilgrim Fathers. His parents were Vachel Metcalf and Elizabeth (]\IeRill) Cutter. Their children w-ere: Isaac and William, both residents of Camp Point: Thomas, of St. Louis; Mrs. Lucinda Detrich, deceased; Eliza, wife of J. G. Hostettcr, of Camp Point: JIary Carp, of Cameron, ]\lissouri ; Bessie, wife of John Hoskins, of Chicago.

Isaac Cutter finished his education in the Maplewood High School at Camp Point, and had the highest grades of his class. He finished the course, but there were no graduation e.Kercises then. His first active experience was as a school teacher, and from that he entered the postal service as a railway clerk. He was in that work for twenty-five years, and when he resigned was head clerk. Mr. Cutter continued with the railway mail service until he entered upon his present duties as Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Illinois.

At Camp Point he served one year as president of the school board and is now president of the Camp Point Building and Loan Association. Mr. Cutter is a republican, a menibei- of the Camp Point Commercial Club, of the Christian Church and ])resident of the Adams County Christian Church Association.

At Camji Point September 14, 1876, he married ilary Eliza Hart, daughter of Thomas West and Maria (Denny) Hart. Thev have one daughter. Flora May Cutter, born July 22, 1877. On December 2, 1903, she was married to

Mr. Cutter's local affiliations with Masonry are with Benjamin Lodge No. 297, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Camp Point. He was Master of his Lodge three years. Of his varied service as a teacher of ^Masonry he served twenty years as Grand Lecturer, six years as Grand Examiner, and he has been Grand Secretary of the Illinois Lodge for twelve years. He is member and Past High Priest of Camp Point Chapter No. 170, Royal Arch Masons, belongs to Delta Commandery, Knights Templars, of Clayton, to the Roj'al and Select Masters in the Council at Bloomington, Quincy Consistory, S. P. R. S., is Past Sovereign Prince of the Princes of Jerusalem and is an honorary member of the Supreme Council of the thirtj'-third degree for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States. He is also a member of Mahomed Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Peoria. Mr. Cutter is honorary memlier of Acacia Fraternity of the University of Illinois, and the following lodges have bestowed on him the honors of membership : Bodley Lodge No. 1 at Quincy, Herman Lodge No. 39, Quincy Lodge No. 296 and Lambert Lodge No. 659, all of Quincy. Alpha Lodge No. 155 and Vesper Lodge No. 581, at Galesburg, Loraine Lodge No. 893 at Loraine, Bloomington Lodge No. 43 at Bloomington, Kilwinning Lodge No. 311, and Woodlawn Park Lodge No. 841 of Chicago. He is also a member of the Grand Lecturers Club of Quincy, the Masonic Secretaries Association of Chicago, and the Grand Secretaries Guild of the United States.

Mr. Cutter is a member of Excalibur Lodge No. 299, Knights of Pythias, at Camp Point, is a Past Chancellor Commander, and for eight years represented the Lodge in Grand Lodge. With the Sons of Veterans he is a member of Illinois State Camp No. 100 at Chicago, and a life member of the Commandery-in-Chief.

ilr. Cutter has been a leader in many patriotic movements, being chairman of the local committee of the National Defense, chairman of the local committee of the Protective League and the Security League, is vice president of the local organization of the Red Cross and chairman of the Troop Committee of the Boy Scouts of Camp Point.

Charles Henry Turner was an Adams County citizen who put into a comparatively brief life the energy and achievements that sum up the successful career. He was one of the best known residents of Concord Township, and his home farm, now carefully cultivated by his sons, is three miles southeast of Clayton.

He was born in Columbus Township of this county December 16, 1856, and died December 4, 1915, when nearly fifty-nine years of age. His parents were John F. and Isabel (Smith) Turner. His mother was a native of Adams County and his father probably also. The grandparents came from Kentucky-, settling in the early days 21/2 miles east of Columbus. John F. Turner spent all his life in Columbus Township and was a highly prosperous farmer. He and his wife had three sons: Charles Henry; "William E., who died at the age cf fifty-four in Houston Township, where his widow, ]\Irs. Alvira Turner, is still living; and Lincoln, who died at the age of sixteen. A sister of John F. Turner is Ellen Wallace. 'Sirs. William ilcDonald, of Clayton, is a niece of John F. Turner.

Charles Henry Turner grew up at the old home, living there until his n;arria2;e on March 9, 1882, to Jlildred Curry. She was born in the Village of Columbus and was twenty-one years old at the time of her marriage. Her parents were Lewis and ilary Jane fRoscberry) Curry.

After their marriage ^Ir. and ilrs. Turner rented the old Turner farm for five years, and then for three or four years lived north of Coatsburg. In 1891 they moved to the present home farm. This was originally the Hopper farm, comprising 140 acres. Mr. Turner got this land from his father, who gave each son a farm. It cost $65 an acre. All the building improvements were put upon it bj' the late Charles H. Turner, who left it one of the best farms in Adams County. It comprises a tine body of what was once prairie land and the soil is unsurpassed in productivity. The farm is now worth $200 an acre. Tliere is a good house, outbuildings to correspond, and there are several living sj^rings on the land. The late Mr. Turner was a republican but never held office. He continued active as a farmer until about IV2 years before his death, when failing health kept him out of the fields. He was a liberal supporter of churches and other philosophic movements and was a member of the Woodmen Order. The children of the late Charles H. Turner are given brief record as follows: Cora ilay is Mrs. John A. Craig, of Concord Township; Effie Pearl is Mrs. Raymond Litz, living 2i,<> miles north of Camp Point ; William F. and Charles Otis are now partners in the management of the home farm : William F. married Frances Lee Booth and they have one child, Forest Lee. The other brother, Charles Otis, enlisted in the United States navy during the great war, was in the Great Lakes Training Station as a second class seaman, and was honorably discharged December 19, 1918. Olen, the youngest living child, is a - boy of fifteen and still at home. Arland died in infancy.

Louis N. Melton is chief of police in Quincy. Appointed to this office under Mayor Thompson, he brought to his duties many high pei'sonal qualifications and also the advantage of considerable experience of former years while Ije was connected with the police department. Mr. Melton is an ideal officer, and since entering upon his present duties has done much to raise the efficiency of his department of municipal government.

Mr. Melton was born in Gasconade County, Missouri, September 5, 1876, a son of James M. and Melissa Caroline (Holt) Melton. Both parents were natives of ^lissouri and his father was a farmer during his active life. The mother is still living in ilissouri. Chief Melton was the oldest in a family of live sons and foui' daughters.

Being the oldest child, and on account of his father's early death, he remained at home and assisted in working the farm until the other ehildi'en were able to relieve him of those duties. He had limited opportunity to attend school but made the best of his advantages. Leaving home, he traveled in the west and northwest and about 190.5 came to Quincy, worked a short time on his uncle's farm near Cohunbus, and then entered the shipping room of a foundry at Quincy. Later for four years he assisted George Rupp in taking charge of tlie place, and from that went on the fire department for a year. He resigned his position with the local fire fighters to engage in the mercantile business two years, and in 1911 was appointed a member of the police force by Mayor Frank Garner. He served two years under that appointment and two years under William Abbott. Then again he engaged in the mercantile busines.s, but after 11/^ years sold out and accepted his present appointment as chief of police.

Mr. Melton married June 11, 1913, Miss Coletta Koch, who was born in Quincy, daughter of John and Mary (Snous) Koch. As to polities Mr. Meltou is independent. He is a member of the Masonic Order and the PVaternal Order of Eagles.

Rev. Albert Bbuesserji.vn, 0. F. ;\I., is one of the highly educated Catholic clergymen who look after the parishes, churches and institutions of Adams County, and is a popular priest of St. Anthony's Church in Melrose Township.

Father Bruesserman was born in Rhineland, Germany, January 4, 1872, son of Theodore and Augusta (Boehle) Bruesserman. His father was a blacksmith by trade, and both parents spent all their lives in Germany. Father Bruesserman was one of a family of three sons and two daughters, all of whom are still living. His brother Justus is a trained nurse located at the Alexian Brothers Hospital, Elizabeth, New Jersey.

Vp to the age of fifteen Father Bruesserman was a student for nine years in the parochial schools of his native country. He then came to America, arriving at Quiucy in 1887. Here he began his classical studies in the Quiucy College and Seminary, graduating in 1892. He then entered the Franciscan College at Teutopolis, Illinois, where he remained one year, was for two years a student in Cleveland, Ohio, and pui-sued his philosophical studies at Quincy for another two years. He did his last theological work, four years, at St. Anthony's Monastery at St. Louis.

After being ordained he was assigned his first missionary work in Madison and Platte counties, Nebraska. He remained there ten yeai's, and it was his record as a church builder and organizer in that western country that has since called him to many important tasks. In Madison County, Nebraska, he reorganized the parish, enlarged the church, and had most pleasant relations with the people. His parishioners there were chiefly Irish and Bohemians. Returning east, he took charge of Bishop Creek parish at Teutopolis, Illinois, ibut from there was sent to Memphis, Tennessee, as chaplain of St. Joseph's Hospital, duties which kept him engaged sixteen mouths. Then for six months he was assistant priest at St. Peter 's Church on Clark Street in Chicago, and in 1914 went to Petoskj', ilichigan, where he served eight missions. He was there sixteen months, and during that time finished a church at a cost of $15,000. His parishioners in this northern country were chiefly French, Russians, Belgians and Indians.

From Petosky Father Bruesserman I'eturned to Quincy and has since been the beloved pastor of St. Anthony's Church at Antoiiius in ilelrose Township, five miles southeast of Quincy. This is a thriving parish and many of the finest families in that township are members and worshipers. This membership comprises seventy-two families. In connection there is conducted a splendid parochial school. The St. Antonius School was the first organization in Adams County to make a record in Red Cross work. All the different societies of the parish are in a flourishing condition and Father Bruesserman 's energy enables him to keep up all the church activities and at the same time enjoy pleasant social contact with the people of that community.

John Logan McMurray represents some of the old families of Adams County, and has given the best efforts of his life for nearly thirty years to the management of good farms in Clayton Townsliip, where he still resides. The usual spelling of the family name in this county has been McMurry, but ilr. McMurray follows the true and original spelling.

He was born on the farm which he still owns in Clayton Township February 3, 1869, son of John Hunter and Anna (Murph.y) McMurray. John Hunter jMcMurray was also born on the farm where his son John L. now resides. His wife was born at Alton, Illinois. The pioneer of the family in this county was George !Mc]\Inrray. a native of Kentucky, who came from that state to Adams County in verj' early times. He was not only a farmer but also a local minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He married in Adams County Elizabeth Waller, and soon afterwards settled on a farm in Clayton Township, owning some of the land which his gi'andsou now operates. George ]\Ie]Murray died on the old farm. His children were : Thomas ; Wilson ; Aaron, who became a lawyer at Quincy: Joseph C. : Matthew; John Hunter: Ella, who married Henry Harrison Curry, a brother of R. S. Curry of Camp Point : and Margaret, who married Joseph Beckett, a brother of James Beckett of Golden.

John Hunter I\leilurray spent practically all of his life on the farm where he was born, and owned 160 acres there. He married in Adams County and both he and his wife are now deceased. He never took any special interest in politics as a means of office holding, but voted the republican ticket and with his wife was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They had three children : George Emorj\ of Cherry Creek, Nevada ; Nora E., deceased wife of James W. Kirkpatrick, of Sheridan, Wyoming, though her death occurred in Califoimia; and John Logan.

was boni there fifty years ago, and he lias contributed not a few of these improvements and better facilities. His present farm comprises 257 acres, and the buildings are up to date and the equipment what might be expected of a firstclass Adams County farm. He is a member of the Adams County Farm Bureau.

Mr. Mcilurray has been a trustee of his local school district for nine years and was also township trustee for fifteen years. He has served on the election board several times, served as registrar and also on Liberty loans and war relief drives, and is a republican voter. He is a member of one of the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Clayton, while his wife is a Baptist. His grandfather was one of the organizers of the ^Methodist Church at Clayton.

In May, 1904, jMr. iMcMurray married Miss Inez Staats, of Griggsville, Illinois. They have no children. Mr. McMurray graduated from the Clayton High School in 1888. The farm that he owns was taken up originally from the government during the administration of Martin Van Buren, who signed the title to the land.

John H. Ogle has spent his life quietly but profitably as a general farmer in Beverly Township. His valuable farm is five miles northeast of Beverly Village and seven miles northwest of Baylis.

On that farm he was born May 17, 1879, and is a son of the late Isaac J. Ogle, long one of the prominent residents of this county. Isaac J. Ogle was born at Belleville in St. Clair County, Illinois, August 20, 1840. In 1850 he was brought to Adams County by his widowed mother, and from the age of fourteen lived at the home of his brother James Ogle in Beverly Township. He left that home to join the Union Army on August 20, 1861, and was mustered in as a member of the Fiftieth Illinois Infantry in Company D. He saw lour years of service, having veteranized at the close of his first enlistment. At the battle of Altoona Pass in Georgia he was shot through the hip, and incapacitated for service four months. Otherwise he was with his regiment in every battle and skirmish in which he was engaged, and his hearing was permanently impaired by cannonading. He was with Sherman in the Atlanta campaign and also on the march to the sea. After the war he returned home and soon bought a farm of 300 acres adjoining that of his brother James. James Ogle had died during the war as a result of grief over the loss of his two sons, Solomon and Abraham, both of whom sacrificed their lives for their country. These sons were in the same company and regiment as their uncle Isaac. Isaac's brother Abraham also lost his life in the war. Thus this family had more than ordinary distinction on account of patriotic services. Isaac Ogle's land was comparatively new and had only a cabin home. In 1890 he built the present substantial farm home. After the war he became one of the larger farmers of Adams County, and continued to be identified with agricultural interests until his death on April 27, 1910. He was a republican and was frequently entrusted with local offices. For many years he was a road commissioner. He was one of the original builders of the iMound Prairie Christian Church, and fraternally was affiliated with the Grand Army Post and the ^Modern Woodmen of America.

In 1865 Isaac J. Ogle married Louisa Carbaugh, who was born in 18-17 and tiled in 1867, at the birth of her child Alice. This daughter, Alice, was i-eared by Isaac Ogle's second wife and is now the wife of ^Marshall Love at Clayton. In 1868 Isaac Ogle married Alice Carbaugh, sister of his fii'st wife. She was born October 23, 1850, daughter of Jack Carbaugh. She was left an orphan in childhood and was reared by her grandparents. Mrs. Alice Ogle died April 26, 1899, at the age of forty-nine. She was the mother of nine children: Ida, unmarried and living at Beverly ; Clara, wife of William Gieker, of Barry, Illinois; Lucy, Mrs. S. A. Moore, of Camp Point; Jacob, who served two terms as township supervisor, and died at the age of thirty-eight, his wife being Maud Drummond ; Edward, who married Grace Taylor and lives at Oklahoma City; John H. ; Minnie, ilrs. William Inslee, of Beverly Village ; Laverda, ^Irs. B. I.

John 11. Ogle has spent all his life on the old homestead. He acquired his education in the local district schools. He now owns 160 acres of the old place, and has erected a set of buildings just opposite the old home. He engages in general farming. Hog raising has been his most protitable feature. He is a republican but has never sought office. Mr. Ogle is a member of the old Mound Prairie Christian Church. He is affiliated with the Woodmen Order and member of the I'ike County ^Mutual Life Association.

November 2, 1904, he married Miss Elsie Stockwell, who was born in Linn Count}', Missouri, daughter of Elisha and Lucy (Couch) Stockwell. When she was twelve years old her parents came to Adams County and are now living at Beverly. Mr. and Mi's. Ogle have four children : Alice, Ei-ma, Howard and Herbert.

Richard Seaton, Jr.. for many years a banker and merchant of Camp Point, is the grandson of a Revolutionary soldier, son of an American who fought in the second war with Great Britain, himself bore arms for the cause of the Union, and he has grandsons who are with the colors today.

Mr. Seaton was born in Camp Point Township December 19, 1835, son of Richard and Eleanor (Mundell) Seaton. His father was born either in Virginia or Pennsylvania January 10, 1790, and his mother was born July 20, 1795, probably in Kentuck.v. The Revolutionary patriot, his grandfather, was Kcnner Seaton. Richard Seaton, Sr., was taken to Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1792, grew up. there, married ^lay 11, 1817, and on the 10th of October, 1835, arrived in Adams County and located in Camp Point Township. His son Richard was born two weeks later. He acquired 160 acres, and at one time owned 800 acres in the county. Richard, Sr., died April 21, 1874, and his wife August 1, 1865. He began voting as a whig and turned to the republican part}-, and he and his wife were both members of the Christian Church. Their children were: Margaret, Kenner, Rebecca, John S., James M., George, who died in infancy, and Richard, Jr., who is the only survivor.

;\Ir. Seaton grew up on his father's farm in Camp Point Township, attended the subscription and public schools of the county, and was a practical farmer until thirty-six years of age. Removing to Camp Point Village in IMarch, 1875, he was associated with his brother-in-law, Thomas Baile.v, in the banking Mr. Bailey finally sold out to Richard A. Wallace, and the latter subsequently acquired ]Mr. Seaton 's interest. For a time Seaton & Wallace also did business in agi"icultural implements, but Mr. Seaton finally took over that department of the firm and continued it about three years. He also had a saw mill and operated extensively in the hardwood lumber industry, selling large (juantities of lumber to the Burlington Railwaj". Mr. Seaton is a former sheriff of Adams County, having served from 1886 to 1890, and during that time lived in Quiney, and for one year conducted a hotel on Fourth Street between Hampshire and Vermont streets. He also had some experience in Kansas as a farmer, and soon after returning to Camp Point Village was appointed postmaster by President McKinley, and filled that office 414 years. Since then he has lived retired from business.

Mr. Seaton is a progressive republican, and has served as road commissioner, assessor and collector. He and his wife are members of the Christian Church. He is affiliated with Lodge No. 297, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. Royal Arch Chapter and Delta Commandery of the Knights Templar at Clayton, and with the Consistory at Quiney. He is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellow-s at Camp Point, and was identified with the local Grand Army Post until it disbanded. Mr. Seaton 's army record began with his enlistment May 3, 1864, in Company B of the One Hundred Thirty-Seventh Illinois Infantry, and he was in service until September 27, 1864.

Clayton Township October 1, 1839, daughter of Thomas and Malinda Curry, of a prominent family elsewhere referred to. Mr. and ^Irs. Seaton had tlie following children: William M., born December 24, 1858, is a railroad man at St. Cloud, Minnesota, and is married and has one son, William. Florence I., born August 25, 1860, married Dr. A. D. Bates, and their son. Dr. Charles K. Bates, married Marian Alexander, and they have two children, Richard Alexander and Virginia Seaton. Kenner Seaton, born May 7, 1862, married Margaret Huusaker, and their children were Hattie, ~ who died when about two years of age, Richard W. and Irene, Richard being now with the army in France, a member of the engineer corps. Thomas C.° bom ^lay 24, 1870, married Laura B. Curry, and they have twins, Harold and Helen, Harold being with the army at Fort Dodge. Hattie M., born July 3, 1876, died October 19, 1877. Edward E., born May 6, 1878, married Berdina Adams.

William A. Thompson. When in the spring of 1918 William A. Thompson was elected supervisor of Fall Creek Township, that distinction and honor fell upon the youngest man that had ever been chosen to such an office in the township, and he is also the youngest member of the present Board of Supervisors in Adams County.

The honor was well merited, since Mr. Thompson has proved his ability in managing a good farm in Fall Creek Township, and is a member of one of the old and prominent families in that vicinity.

His father is William Elmer Thompson, who was born in this county August 5, 1848, and resides in section 11 of Fall Creek Township, thirteen miles southeast of Quincy. William Elmer is a grandson of William Thompson and a son of Marcus L. Thompson, more specific reference to whom is made on other pages. It should be noted here that the Thompsons came to Fall Creek Township as early as 1833, and some of the original land they took up IS owned in the family. William Elmer Thompson was one of eight children. He married Kate Blauser, daughter of Jacob Blauser, of Pike County, Illinois. .She was born in York County, Pennsylvania, and was twenty-tive at the time of her marriage. Her father died in Pike County, having come west from York County, Pennsylvania.

After his marriage William E. Thompson settled on his present farm of 124 acres, and for upwards of half a century has l)een one of the well to do agriculturists of that section. He is a republican, but has never consented to serve in public office. He is an official member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Payson. William E. Thompson and wife had three children: :\I. Noel, who was a merchant at Fall Creek five years and died at the ao-e of thirty; Edna, Mrs. Harl Wliarton, of Payson; and William A.

William A. Thompson was born April 3, 1887, an^ has rspent all his life on his father's farm. He attended the district schools, was graduated from the Quincy High School, spent two years in the Illinois State Universitv and also attended Gem City Business College. This gave him a very thorough education and he has utilized it chiefly in his work as a farmer. Several yeare ago he took charge of the home farm, and he also operates 100 acres adjoining the Seymour Estate. He is a general farmer and his specialty in live stock IS Poland China hogs, keeping from 100 to 150 annuallv. He has erected a distinct set of buildings on the home farm, his own home beino- built seven years ago, while his father's set was built ten vears ago.

At the age of twenty-throe William A. Thompson married Florence Wheeler ' r^, ' ^^^ County, Illinois. They have two children : Clem and Ross Mr. Thompson is a republican and a member of the IMethodist Episcopal Church He IS also affiliated with the :\Iasonic Lodge at Payson.

Carrie (lleyer) PurpiLs. His father was bom in Germany and his mother in Quincy. The father was broiight to this country in infancy, his parents first locating at Zanesville, Ohio, and as a boy of eight j'cars he accompanied his parents to Quincy. At the age of sixteen he went to work learning the shoe business with W. T. Duker and Nicholas Heintz. He continued in the shoe business for many years and died December 31, 1915. The mother passed away January 18, 1914. They had three children : Leona, deeea.sed ; a daughter that died in infancy ; and Arthur H.

Arthur H. Purpus grew up in Quincy, attended high school three years, also a local business college, and had a practical apprenticeship as well as an opportunity to eani his own living by four years spent with the Wetzel Drug Company. After that he was a student for a year in the pharmac.y department of the I'uiversity of Illinois, and in 1905 graduated in pharmacy from Valparaiso University in Indiana. During neai'ly four years Mr. Purpus had active charge of the laboratory of the Aldo Sommer's Drug Company of Quincj'. After that for a year he was associated with his father in the grocery business following which he spent three years as a traveling salesman representing the Philadelphia wholesale drug house of H. K. ]\Iilford Company. On November 1, 1916, Mr. Purpus formed a partnership with C. W. Walker and established the drug business known as The Medicine Shop at 532 Hampshire Street. Tliis is one of the well appointed and equipped drug stores of the city, and the bu.siness has grown rapidly.

Mr. Purpus married April 18, 1906, Jliss Catherine Morrison, of ilaitland, Missouri. They have one child, Morrison, born July 18, 1909. Mr. Purpus is a republican, is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is a member of the Lutheran Memorial Church.

Grover E. Ertel is proprietor of one of the high class farms in Columbus Township. He has shown much ability as a young man in all agricultural operations and is equally esteemed in the citizensliip of that locality.

Mr. Ertel is a member of a family that has been identified with Adams County since pioneer days. His grandfather was Daniel Ertel, a native of Alsace, France, and of French parentage and ancestry. He was born about 1830, and when about twenty ,years of age came by sailing vessel to America, landing in New Orleans after a three months' voyage. He had a friend in the army, an officer, who secured his exemption from military duty and paid his passage all the way to Quincy. He arrived at Quincy without a cent but soon made the friendship of Governor John Woods, and subsequently pursued the trade of millwright which he had learned in France. Later he took up carpentry and built a number of houses in Quincy. In the winter of 1861 he removed to Cohimbus Township and bought 400 acres in section 6. There he built a good home, impi-oved much of the land by his own labor, and was a prosperous citizen of that locality. In 1898 he retired to live at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Emma Hufner, in Quincy, and died about six months later. In Quincy he married ]\Iaria Lugenbiel, a native of Switzerland. She came when a young woman to this country with her parents, her father being a tailor. The Lngenbiels came by sailing vessel by way of New York and soon afterward settled in Quincy, where her father and mother spent their last years. Her father died when about eighty years of age and her mother when past ninety. The Lugenbiels and Ertels were all Protestants in religion. Jlrs. Maria Ertel died at the old home farm when nearly seventy years of age. Her family consisted of four sons and thret^ daughters, all living but one daughter. Those living are married and have children of their own.

George Ertel, father of Grover E., was bom in Quincy June 3, 1851. and has spent all his life in that county. In 1877 he married at Coatsburg Frances Gibbs. She was born near Athens, Tennessee, and was reared and educated there to the age of sixteen. Both her parents having died, she came to Adams County to live with her uncle, the venerable C. C. Gibbs of Coatsburg, whose name is one of the most familiar in that section of Adams County and whose career is sketched on other pages. George Ertel and wife had four children, Fred died in childhood, Charles, when a young boy, and one died unnamed.

Grover E. Ertel is the only living child of his parents and was born on the old farm in section 6 of Columbus Township Novemher 2, 1884. He attended the Hazelwood district school and since early youth has been a practical farmer on the old homestead. He keeps 150 acres in constant use for the production of all the staple crops, and has the farm well stocked with good gi-ades of livestock. There are two large barns on the farm, one 30x36 and the other 40x30 feet, the former a stock barn, the latter a general purpose bara. There is a quantity of good timber on the fai-m.

November 19, 1913, at the Village of Columbus, Mr. Ertel married Miss Lucy "Wheeler. She was born in that locality May 26, 1891, daughter of William and Elda (Marshall) Wheeler, natives of Adams County and now living as retired farmers in Columbus Village, aged about sixty. The Wheelers are members of the Christian Church and Mr. Wheeler is a republican. ]Mr. Ertel and wife have one son, Elbridge P. Mr. and Mrs. Grover Ertel are members of the Christian Church and in politics he is a democrat.

Enoch Seltees is the present supervisor of Clayton Town,ship and a man in whom naturally center many of the community activities of that locality. He is chairman of the Libertj' Loan Board, of the local Red Cross, and was chairman of the committee which had the supervision of making the oil road from Clayton to Camp Point.

Mr. Setters owns one of the large and valuable farms of this township. He was born in Mason County, Illinois, JIarch 16, 1864, son of Henry and Barbara (Schindelmyer) Selters. His parents were both born in Germany and came to the United States before their marriage. They married in Mason County, Illinois, and were farmers there. The father died in 1905, at the age of eighty-one, and his wife in 1914, aged sixty-nine. Heni'j' Selters was a republican, and he and his wife were reared in the German Evangelical Church, 'but later for a number of years were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They lived retired at Havana, Illinois. They were the parents of ten children, the oldest one dying in infancy. The others were: Mary; Enoch; Chris ; Anna ; Chester, who died in infancy ; Henry ; Joseph ; Catherine ; and John Benjamin, a Montana lawyer now serving as prosecuting attorney of his county.

Enoch Selters grew up in ilason County, attended the public schools there, and laid the basis of his success as a farmer in that locality. In 1902 he moved to Clayton Township and bought a fine farm of 425 acres, which he uses for the production of staple crops and for livestock.

Mr. Selters is a republican. He served eighteen years as assessors of his home township in Mason County, and was also a member of the School Board. He was elected supervisor in 1912, and has held that office continuously for six years. In Masonry he is affiliated with Clayton Lodge, the Royal Arch Chapter, and the Knight Templar Commandery, and is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and Modern Woodmen of America.

October 28, 1888, Mr. Selters married Miss I\Iaiy Alice Luskins, of Menard County, Illinois. Six children were born to their marriage : Edna, who married George Smith, of Golden, and has one daughter, Esther; Lena Esther is the ^vife of Dr. E. O. Brown, who was the first man to enlist from Clayton Towniship, after the breaking out of the war Avith Germany, and is now with the armies in France, his wife and their two children, Maxine and Carlene, still remaining in Clayton Township; Raymond died at the* age of seventeen years ; George is also with the colors at Fort Sheridan ; Hazel and Henry are the younger children still at home.

Drs. Ernest and William Zimmermann. In the history of the Germaxi element in Quiney as published on other pages the Zimmermann family is credited with settlement here in the year 1847. Thus for over seventy years Quincy has had the Zimmermanus as one of its best and most substantial families. Now and for the past twenty years the family name has been especially well represented in professional affairs by the attainments and sei'viees of Drs. Ernest and William Zimmermann, one of the best known firms of physicians and surgeons in Western Illinois.

Both are graduates of the St. Louis ^Medical College of Washington University with the class that graduated April 29, 1897. The brothers have been closely associated since early childhood, and their careers have run much along the same groove. Of the linn, however, Ernest is especially well known as a surgeon, while William is a general practitioner. Dr. Eraest has handled skillfullj' many major cases in surgery, and for a number of years has been on the staff of the local city hospitals.

The brothers formed a tirm for practice in 1899. Both have taken postgraduate work in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York City and the New York Polyclinic. Both are members in good standing in the various local medical societies and the American ^Medical Association.

The doctors were born at Quincy, were educated in the German schools and in St. Francis College, from which they graduated with the degree A. M. in 1894. Both are affiliated with the Order of Elks and are republicans in politics. They are unmaiTied.

Joseph Jefferson. It is taking no proper credit from other good farms in Concord Township to say that the Jefferson Stock Fai-m is the most conspicuous in that section of Adams County. It comprises a large body of laud, with exceptional equipment, and the farm is especially noted as a breeding farm. The business is conducted under the firm name of Jefferson & Son. For twenty years they have made a specialty of breeding high grade Percheron horses. The farm has produced some splendid track horses, including the great Ben Earl, which made a record of 2 :00i/o in 1916 at the Columbus, Ohio, track. This horse was on the gi-and circuit and in 1915 won ten straight races in the western circuit of Illinois and Iowa. Jefferson & Son sold Ben Earl after this record, and the following year he was the gi'eatest money winner as a pacer. Another noted animal bred and trained on the farm is Augusta J., still seen at fairs. She made a record of 2 -.OiVi and a heat record on a half mile track of .0914. The present head of the breeding establishment is Russell Will Tell. Jefferson & Son also have a fine Percheron stallion and are producing some of the best stock of that kind in Western Illinois. For the past fifteen years they have been breeders of Shropshire sheep. However, the only stock exhibited at fairs from the Jefferson Stock Farm are the horses.

The farm is in Concord Township, four miles south of Clayton. Joseph Jefferson, the senior member of the firm, was born at Harlem in what is now New York City October 25, 1837, but has lived in Adams County since eai-ly childhood. His parents were Thomas and Hannah (Twilton) Jefferson, both of whom were natives of Yorkshire, England. Thomas Jefferson was born April 15, 1802, and his wife on February 12, 1812. They married in England and came to America in 1835. On moving west to Adams County Thomas Jefferson spent four years on the John Sharp farm east of Quincy, and then moved to Concord Township, where he bought forty acres of hill land. He .soon sold that and moved to a place half a mile south of the present home of Joseph Jefferson. There he acquired 120 acres of prairie land and brought practically all of it under cultivation. He was a prosperous farmer and one of the good citizens of Concord Township, and died on the old homestead in 1886. His wife pa.ssed away in 1872. He was a member of the Baptist Church. This venerable pioneer couple had twelve children, nine of whom grew up, and those still living are : Joseph ; James, a retired resident of Clayton : George, of Red Oak, Iowa ; Welburn, of Weser, Idaho ; ]\Iai-.y, ^Irs. Noah ]\Iarshall, of Concord Township ; Taylor, who occupies the old home farm of his father. The deceased children were : Hiram, who died in Texas at the age of sixty ; William, who died at Red Oak, Iowa, when also about sixt.y years of age ; and Elizabeth, who died at the age of seventy-six, the wife of Pinekney Hopper.

Joseph Jefferson received his education in Adams County and lived at homo until he was about twenty-seven years old. He is one of the honored surviving veterans of the Civil war. In 1862 he enlisted in Company I of the One Hundred Nineteenth Illinois Infantry and served three years, chiefly in Kentucky, Tennessee and Pennsylvania. He held the rank of corporal.

In March, 1867, not long after the war, ^Ir. Jeffei-son married Miss Emily Williams, who was born in Indiana February 20, 1837, daughter of Benjamin and Margaret (Bennett) Williams. Her father was born in Tennessee ilareh 23, 1796, and her mother in Virginia March 20, 1799. Benjamin Williams died December 28, 1849, and his wife ilarch 20, 1865. Mr. and ^Irs. Jefferson became acquainted while his wife was visiting her uncle. Otto Bennett, in Concord Township. She was a teacher in Indiana before her marriage.

Mr. Jeft'erson after his marriage bought part of the land now* included in the Jefferson Stock Farm and has developed his place to 400 acres in extent, and has invested thousands of dollars in building and other equipment and improvement. While his place is most widelv known as a breeding farm he has always held consistently to the main routine of farming, grain and forage crops and the raising of cattle and hogs for the market. For the past twentyeight years he has had his son, Thomas Elmer, as his partner.

Mr. Jeftei-son has devoted his life solely to the business of farming and stock raising, and has never cared for piiblic offices. He is a republican and an active member of the Clayton Methodist Church. He also belongs to the Masonic Lodge at Clayton, and was made a ilason in that Lodge in ;\larcli. 1871. He is now the oldest living member of the Lodge. He also belongs to the Royal Arch Chapter. His chief recreation is hunting. He is a member of the Grand Army Post.

His son, Thomas Elmer, was born Januai-j- 26, 1869, and has always lived on the home farm and for many years has -l>een relieving his father of the heavier responsibilities of its management. At the age of twenty-eight he married Miss Luvenia Peaveyhouse, of Clayton. Thomas E. Jefferson and wife have two children, Joseph Benjamin and Augusta J. Joseph Benjamin was in an officers' training camp at Louisville, Kentucky, wlien tlie war closed. Augusta J. is the wife of Charles Johnson, an antomoliile dealer at Quincy.

Wn.LiAM H. D.wiDSON. The life of William H. Davidson was largely identified with the good farming district of Beverly Township. He had a successful career and was a man of irreproachable character and widely esteemed by his large circle of friends.

He was born January 1, 1849, and died March 22, 1917. His parents were William N. and Susannah (Hartman) Davidson, who came from Coshocton. Ohio, and were married in Adams County.

On October 30, 1873, William H. Da\-idson married Miss Margaret Stauffer, oldest child of George W. Staufl'er and member of the prominent Stauffer family represented on other pages of this publication, ilrs. Davidson was born at Beverly IMareh 17, 1851, and is now living at Baylis in Pike County. At th.e time of his marriasre 'Mr. Davidson spent two years on the farm where George Stauffer now lives. He then bought his father's old place in Beverly Township, and gave his labors to that place for thirty-three years. He then bought a home at Ba\lis, lived there six years, but had returned to the farm two years before his death.

active in the Masonic Order, and he and his wife were both members of the Eastern Star. He was laid to rest in the Mound Prairie Cemetery under .Masonic auspices. His favorite motto and one which indicates the character of his life was "On earth peace, good will toward men." He was sympathetic in distress, untiring in assisting others less fortunate than himself, and he was particularly happy in his domestic life. Many times he expressed the sentiment that his life with his wife and companion was something that was more valuable than all the gold in the world.

Mr. and Mrs. Davidson had a family of five children: Walter, a physician and surgeon at Kingston ; George W., who occupies the home farm ; Jane, wife of Richard Buffington, living at Ravenswood, Missouri; Tabitha, ^Nlrs. Michael Orebaugh, of Beverly Village; and Nancy, Mrs. Robert Barnes, of Chapel, Nebraska. Clara Mixer, whose mother died in her infancy, was also reared by Mr. and Mrs. Davidson until her marriage to James C. Dunham, of Beverly Township.

Peter E. Pinklemann. Quiucy has no man of more vigorous interests and activities than Peter E. Pinklemann, well known as proprietor of several moving picture houses, interested in the automobile and tire industry, and formerly a merchant and business man in other lines. He has lived in Quincy forty-two years, and has long been recognized as one of the men who do things. He is a "dynamo of energy, and everything he touches seems to prosper and flourish.

Mr. Pinklemann was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, fifty-two years ago, October 13, 1866. His father, Frank Pinklemann was a native of Germany, married in Philadelphia, and in 1876 removed to Quincy. Peter E. Pinklemann was reared and educated in Quincy and spent some of his early yeare on a farm. At the age of eighteen he began learning the trade of baker, but in a short time gave it up because he realized that that work means labor both night and day. Later he became associated with ilr. Barry under the firm name of Pinklemann, Barry & Company, aaid they built up and developed a large grocery, wine and liquor house. Some years later the business was incorporated as the Pinklemann- Barry Company, with Mr. Pinklemann as president. He held that otifice for several yeai-s, when he nominally retired. He was connected with another business later, but finding that not sufficient to absorb all his energies, he entered the moving picture industry. He bought four theaters in Quincy, and now owns the Gem, the Savoy, the Princess and the Family, all popular and well patronized houses, furnishing a large share of the daily entertainment and amusement for Quincy people. Mv. Pinklemann is also associated with "Sir. Clark under the firm name of Pinklemann, Clark & Company, in the automobile, tire and general repair business, ^h: Pinklemann is also a director and a leader in the Building & Loan Company on ilaine Street between Fifth and Sixth streets, and has a number of other interests that substantiate all claims that might be made of his business prominence and public spirit.

In Quincy he married ^liss Philomena Miller. Her father, Hei-man IMiller, was born in Gennany and is now living with his daughter, Mrs. Pinklemann, at the age of seventy-five. Mrs. Miller died in 1917, at the age of seventy. 'Sir. and ^Irs. Pinklemann have one son and one daughter. Louise was educated in the public schools, is a graduate of St. Mary's Academy, and is now the wife of Oscar Hefner, of Quincy. Mr. and Mrs. Hefner have twin sons, Roger "W. and Donald. The son, Herman F. Pinklemann, was educated in the parochial and public schools, St. Francis College and the Gem City Business College, and for some years was in the employ of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway, and finally entered the I'nited States navy, but after a year was discharged on account of throat trouble.

Earl Wilson Rusk. It is simply as "Farmer" Rusk, not as Earl Wilson Rusk, that the county agent of the LTnited States Department of Agriculture and the farm adviser of Adams County is most widely known and appreciated here. Air. Rusk is a practical and a professional farmer, and he meets and confers with the various committees of the County Farm Bureau and the individual farmers on a plane of similarity and equality of experience in everything connected with farming, fruit growing and live stock husbandry. He was born in Champaign, Illinois, December 17, 1885. His father, William H. Rusk, was a student in the University of Illinois in 1885 and a graduate of the Valparaiso Normal School of Indiana, was an Indiana farmer, later a teacher in Champaign County, Illinois, and is now living at Columbia, Missouri, engaged in extension work for the College of Agi-iculture of the State of Missouri and also operating his live stock farm near Columbia.

EiH-1 Wilson Rusk spent the greater part of his boyhood on a farm. He was a student in the University of Missouri from 190-1 until 1909, graduating with the degree Bachelor of Science in agriculture. He also spent one semester in the University of Illinois. He was an animal husbandi'y instructor in the .short course of the University of Missouri in 1909-1910. In March, 1910, he was employed as farm manager of a 510 acre place near Kansas City, Missouri. He remained there until the fall of 1911, and during that time gave special attention to the breeding of Duroe Jersey hogs. He then accepted a larger proposition as manager of the 1,500 acre farm of the Burr estate at Bement, Illinois. Here the work was chiefly grain farming, the farm ordinarily producing 20,000 bushels of corn annually. Mr. Ritek vei^ained there until the spring of 1913, when he entered upon his profession as farm adviser. His first experience wa.s in Audrain County, Missouri, with headquarters at Mexico. He was the first farm adviser to take up work in that section of Missouri.