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BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY 1
OF
FREMONT AND MILLS COUNTIES
IOWA
COMPENDIUM OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 1901 ET1
THE NEW YORK
CURTIS LIBRARY
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Biography is the only true History. - Emerson. A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote generations .- Macaulay.
PREFACE.
UT of the depths of his mature wisdom Carlyle wrote, "History is the essence of innumerable biographies." Believing this to be the fact, there is no necessity of advancing any further reason for the compilation of such a work as this, if reliable history is to be the ultimate object.
The section of Iowa comprised within the limits of this volume has sus - tained within its confines men who have been prominent in the history of the State, and even the nation, for half a century. The annals teem with the records of strong and noble manhood, and, as Sumner has said, "the true grandeur of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual." The final causes which shape the fortunes of the individuals and the destinies of States are often the same. They are usually remote and obscure, and their influence scarcely perceived until manifestly declared by results. That nation is the greatest which produces the greatest and most manly men and faithful women; and the intrinsic safety of a community depends not so much upon that true and normal development from the deep resources of which proceeds methods as upon all that is precious and per - manent in life. But such a result may not consciously be contemplated by the actors in the great social drama. Pursuing each his personal good by exalted means, they work out as a logical result.
The elements of success in life consist in both innate capacity and deter- mination to excel. Where either is wanting, failure is amost certain in the outcome. The study of a successful life, therefore, serves both as a source of information and as a stimulus and encouragement to those who have the capacity. As an important lesson in this connection we may appropriately quote Longfellow, who said : " We judge ourselves by what we feel capa - ble of doing, while we judge others by what they have already done." A faithful personal history is an illustration of the truth of this observation.
PREFACE.
In this biographical history the editorial staff, as well as the publishers, have fully realized the magnitude of the task. In the collection of the ma- terial there has been a constant aim to discriminate carefully in regard to the selection of subjects. Those who have been prominent factors in the public, social and industrial development of the counties have been given due recog- nition as far as it has been possible to secure the requisite data. Names worthy of perpetuation here, it is true, have in several instances been omitted, either on account of the apathy of those concerned or the inability of the compilers to secure the information necessary for a symmetrical sketch; but even more pains have been taken to secure accuracy than were promised in the prospectus. Works of this nature, therefore, are more reliable and com- plete than are the "standard " histories of a country.
THE PUBLISHERS.
CONTENTS
GENERAL INDEX.
TABLE OF CONTENTS, 3
INTRODUCTORY,
.
11
COMPENDIUM OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY, -
13
COMPENDIUM OF LOCAL BIOGRAPHY,
-
223
INDEX TO PART I.
COMPENDIUM OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF NATIONAL CELEBRITIES.
PAGE
PAGE
Abbott, Lyman ...
144
Boone, Daniel. 36
Booth, Edwin 51
Adams, John. 25
Booth, Junius Brutus. 177
Brice, Calvin S. 181
Conkling, Roscoe. 32
Cooley, Thomas Mcintyre 140
Cooper, James Fenimore. 58
Cooper, Peter. 37
Copely, John Singleton .. 191
Corbin, Austin. 205
Corcoran, W. W 196
Cornell, Ezra. 161
Cramp, William 189
Crockett, David. 76
Cullom, Shelby Moore. 116
Curtis, George William 144
Cushman, Charlotte. 107
Custer, George A. 95
Bailey, James Montgomery 177
Bancroft, George ... 74
Barnard, Frederick A. P 179
Barnum, Phineas T 41
Barrett, Lawrence.
156
Barton, Clara 209
Bayard, Thomas Francis 200
Beard, William H. 196
Beauregard, Pierre G. T.
203
Beecher, Henry Ward.
26
Bell, Alexander Graham.
96
Bennett, James Gordon .. 206
Benton, Thomas Hart. 53
Bergh, Henry. 160
Bierstadt, Albert .. 197
Billings, Josh. 166
Blaine, James Giliespie ..
22
Cleveland, Grover
174
Dow, Neal
108
Bland, Richard Parks.
106
Clews, Henry
153
Draper, John William
184
PAGE
Clinton, De Witt .. 110
Colfax, Schuyler. 139
Conkling, Alfred 32
Adams, John Quincy 61
Agassiz, Louis J. R.
137
Brooks, Phillips. 130
Brown, John. 51
Brown, Charles Farrar 91
Brush, Charles Francis. 153
Bryan, William Jennings. 158
Bryant, William Cullen. 44
Buchanan, Franklin 105
Buchanan, James . 128
Buckner, Simon Bolivar. 188
Burdette, Robert J. 103
Burr, Aaron ..
111
Butler, Benjamin Franklin. 24
Calhoun, John Caldwell. 23
Cameron, James Donald. 141
Cameron, Simon. 141
Cammack, Addison 197
Campbell, Alexander. 180
Carlisle, John G. 133
Carnegie, Andrew. 73
Carpenter, Matthew Hale. 178
Carson, Christopher (Kit). 86
Cass, Lewis 110
Chase, Salmon Portland. 65
Childs, George W 83
Choate, Rufus ..
207
Claflin, Horace Brigham 107
Clay, Henry. 21
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne .. 86
Douglass, Frederick 43
198
Depew, Chauncey Mitchell .. 209
Dickinson, Anna. 103
Dickinson, Don M. 139
Dingley, Nelson, Jr. 215
Donnelly, Ignatius. 161
Douglas, Stephen Arnold 53
Davis, Jefferson ..
Debs, Eugene V. 132
Decatur, Stephen 101
Deering, William
Dana, Charles A. 88
"Danbury News Man 177
Davenport, Fanny. 106
Arnold, Benedict .. 84
Arthur, Chester Allen 168
Astor, John Jacob. 139
Audubon, John James 166
Anthony, Susan B
62
Armour, Philip D .. 62
Allston, Washington. 190
Altgeld, John Peter. 140
Andrews, Elisha B. 184
Alger, Russell A. 173
Allison, William B .. 131
Adams, Charles Kendall. 143
TABLE OF CONTENTS-PART I.
PAGE
Drexel, Anthony Joseph.
124
Dupont, Henry.
198
Edison, Thomas Alva
55
Edmunds, George F
201
Ellsworth, Oliver.
168
Emerson, Ralph Waldo 57
Ericsson, John ..
127
Evarts, William Maxwell.
89
Farragut, David Glascoe
80
Field, Cyrus West.
173
Field, David Dudley
126
Jackson, Thomas Jonathan
67
Field, Marshall. 59
Field, Stephen Johnson.
216
Fillmore, Millard ..
113
Foote, Andrew Hull
176
Foraker, Joseph B.
143
Forrest, Edwin .. 92
Franklin, Benjamin 18
Fremont, John Charles ..
29
Jones, John Paul.
97
Fuller, Melville Weston 168
Fulton, Robert.
62
Gage, Lyman J.
71
Gallatin, Albert. 112
Garfield, James A 163
Garrett, John Work. 200
Garrison, William Lloyd.
50
Gates, Horatio
70
Gatling, Richard Jordan. 116
George, Henry_
203
Gibbons, Cardinal James.
209
Gilmore, Patrick Sarsfield ..
77
Girard, Stephen.
137
Gough, John B
131
Gould, Jay
52
Gordon, John B 215
Grant, Ulysses S.
155
88
Gray, Asa .. .
Gray, Elisha. 149
Greeley, Adolphus W 142
Greeley, Horace ..
20
Greene, Nathaniel.
69
Gresham, Walter Quintin
183
Hale, Edward Everett. 79
Hall, Charles Francis.
167
McCormick, Cyrus Hall.
172
Hamilton, Alexander.
31
McDonough, Com. Thomas ..
167
Hamlin, Hannibal 214
Hampton, Wade
192
Hancock, Winfield Scott ..
146
Hanna, Marcus Alonzo ..
169
Harris, Isham G. 214
Harrison, William Henry 87 Miller, Joaquin. 218
Harrison, Benjamin 182
Harvard, John. .
129
Havemeyer, John Craig 182
Moran, Thomas
98
Hawthorne, Nathaniel.
135
Hayes, Rutherford Birchard. 157
Hendricks, Thomas Andrew. 212
Henry, Joseph. 105
Henry, Patrick .. 83 Hill, David Bennett 90 Hobart, Garrett A. . 213 Holmes, Oliver Wendell. 206 Hooker, Joseph 52
Howe, Elias.
130
Howells, William Dean 104
PAGE
Houston, Sam ...
120
O'Conor, Charles.
187
Olney, Richard.
133
Hughes, Archbishop John.
157
Hughitt, Marvin
159
Hull, Isaac .
169
Huntington, Collis Potter.
94
Ingalls, John James ..
114
Ingersoll, Robert G.
85
Irving, Washington.
33
Jackson, Andrew.
71
Jackson, "Stonewall "
67
Jay, John. .
39
Jefferson, Joseph
47
Jefferson, Thomas
34
Johnson, Andrew
145
Johnson, Eastman
202
Johnston, Joseph Eccleston. 85
Jones, James K .
171
Jones, Samuel Porter.
115
Kane, Elisha Kent.
125
Kearney, Philip.
210
Kenton, Simon
188
Knox, John Jay
134
Lamar, Lucius Q. C.
201
Landon, Melville D.
109
Lee, Robert Edward.
38
Lewis, Charles B ..
193
Lincoln, Abraham
135
Livermore, Mary Ashton
131
Locke, David Ross.
172
Logan, John A.
26
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 37
Longstreet, James.
56
Lowell, James Russell.
104
Mackay, John William
148
Madison, James
42
Marshall, John
156
Mather, Cotton
164
Mather, Increase
163
Maxim, Hiram S.
194
McClellan, George Brinton ..
47
Miles, Nelson A.
176
Miller, Cincinnatus Heine. 218
Mills, Roger Quarles.
211
Monroe, James.
54
Moody, Dwight L
207
Morris, Robert. .
165
Morse, Samuel F. B. 124
Morton, Oliver Perry ..
215
Motley, John Lathrop.
130
" Nye, Bill"
59
Nye, Edgar Wilson.
59
PAGE
Paine, Thomas.
147
Palmer, John M.
195
Parkhurst, Charles Henry.
160
" Partington, Mrs."
202
Peabody, George.
170
Peck, George W.
187
Peffer, William A. 164
Perkins, Eli.
109
Perry, Oliver Hazard. 97
Phillips, Wendell.
30
Pierce, Franklin
122
Pingree, Hazen S
212
Plant, Henry B.
192
Poe, Edgar Allen
69
Polk, James Knox.
102
Porter, David Dixon.
68
Porter, Noah.
93
Prentice, George Denison .. .
119
Prescott, William Hickling.
96
Pullman, George Mortimer. 121
Quad,
193
Quay Matthew S.
171
Randolph, Edmund.
136
Read, Thomas Buchanan ..
132
Reed, Thomas Brackett.
208
Reid, Whitelaw.
149
Roach, John.
190
Rockefeller, John Davison.
195
Root, George Frederick.
218
Rothermel, Peter F
113
Rutledge, John.
57
Sage, Russell.
211
Schofield, John McAllister.
199
Schurz, Carl.
201
Scott, Thomas Alexander.
204
Scott, Winfield.
79
Seward, William Henry
44
Sharon, William.
165
Shaw, Henry W
166
Sheridan, Phillip Henry
40
Sherman, Charles R.
87
Sherman, John.
86
Shillaber, Benjamin Penhallow 202
Sherman, William Tecumseh ..
30
Smith, Edmund Kirby.
114
Sousa, John Philip.
60
Spreckels, Claus
159
Stanford, Leland.
101
Stanton, Edwin McMasters ..
179
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady.
126
Stephens, Alexander Hamilton
32
Stephenson, Adlai Ewing .. .
141
Stewart, Alexander T.
58
Morgan, John Pierpont. 208 Stewart, William Morris ... 213
Morgan, John T.
216
Stowe,
Harriet
Elizabeth
Beecher
66
Stuart, James E. B.
122
Morton, Levi P.
142
Sumner, Charles.
34
Talmage, Thomas De Witt.
60
Taney, Roger Brooke.
129
Taylor, Zachary.
108
Teller, Henry M.
127
Mckinley, William ..
217
Meade, George Gordon. 75
Medill, Joseph.
159
TABLE OF CONTENTS-PART I.
PAGE
PAGE
I'AGl
Tesla, Nikola .. 193
Vilas, William Freeman. 140
Webster, Noah
Thomas, George H.
Voorhees, Daniel Wolsey 95
Werd, Thurlow
Thomas, Theodore. 172
West, Benjamin. 11:
Thurman, Allen G ..
Waite, Morrison Remich 125
Whipple, Henry Benjamin.
161
Thurston, John M. 166
Wallace, Lewis 199
White, Stephen V
162
Tilden, Samuel J. 48
119
Wallack, John Lester. 121
Whitman, Walt ..
Wanamaker, John 89
Ward, "Artemus" 91
Washburne, Elhu Benjamin. . 189
Washington, George.
Watson, Thomas E 178
Wilson, William L.
Vanderbilt, Cornelius
35
Watterson, Henry.
Winchell, Alexander.
Windom, William.
13-
Vest, George Graham. 214
Webster, Daniel .. 19
PORTRAITS OF NATIONAL CELEBRITIES.
PAGE
PAGE
Alger, Russell A.
16
Field, Marshall .. 117 Longstreet, Gen. James.
Allison, William B.
99
Franklin, Benjamin. 63
Lowell, James Russell.
Anthony, Susan B.
63
Fremont, Gen. John C. 16
McKinley, William.
Armour, Philip D.
151
Gage, Lyman J. 151
Morse, S. F. B.
Arthur, Chester A
81
Garfield, James A. 45
Phillips, Wendell.
Barnum, Phineas T. 117
Garrison, William Lloyd.
Porter, Com. D. D.
Beecher, Henry Ward
27
George, Henry 117
Pullman, George M.
Blaine, James G ..
151
Gould, Jay . 99
Quay, M. S.
Booth, Edwin.
63
Grant, Gen. U. S. 185
Reed, Thomas B. 151
Bryan, Wm. J.
63
Greeley, Horace ..
81
Sage, Russell
110
Bryant, William Cullen.
185
Hampton, Wade. 16
Scott, Gen. Winfield
Buchanan, James.
81
Hancock, Gen. Winfield S. 185
Seward, William H.
45
Buckner, Simon B.
16
Hanna, Mark A
117
Sherman, John.
Butler Benjamin F 151
Harrison, Benjamin
81
Sherman, Gen. W. T. 151
Carlisle, John G. 151
16
Hendricks, Thomas A
81
Stowe, Harriet Beecher.
Sumner, Charles 45
Clay, Henry.
81
Hooker, Gen. Joseph. 16
Talmage, T. De Witt 63
Cleveland, Grover.
45
Ingersoll, Robert G. 117
Teller, Henry M.
Thurman, Allen G.
SI
Cooper, Peter. Dana, Charles A.
151
Jackson, Andrew. 45
Tilden, Samuel J.
11:
Depew, Chauncey M. 117
Jefferson, Thomas. 45
Van Buren, Martin .. SI
Douglass, Fred .. 63
Johnston, Gen. J. E. 16
Vanderbilt, Commodore 99
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. 27
Lee, Gen. Robert E 185
Webster, Daniel 27
Evarts, William M. 99
Lincoln, Abraham. 81
Whittier, John G.
Farragut, Com. D. G. 185
Logan, Gen. John A 16
Washington, George. 45
Field, Cyrus W.
63
Longfellow, Henry W. 185
Watterson, Henry. 63
Wallack, Lester. 121
Whitefield, George
Toombs, Robert 205
Whitney, Eli .. 120
" Twain, Mark" 86
Tyler, John. 93
Whittier, John Greenleaf
Willard, Frances E.
Van Buren, Martin.
Vail, Alfred .. 154
Weaver, James B. 12:
Hayes, R. B ..
45
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Chase, Salmon P
99
Holmes, Oliver W 151
Childs, George W
99
Irving, Washington 27
Whitney, William Collins.
Tillman, Benjamin Ryan
C
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CONTENTS.
PART II.
A
Abshire, Isaac, 391. Adams, Samuel H., 495. Adkins, Robert M., 607. Aistrope, Thomas M., 546. Aitken, David, 617. Allis, Otis E., 488. Allis, Samuel, 483. Anderson, August, 397. Angus, Wilham, 552. Anthony, James M., 353.
B
Bada, Richard F., 455. Badham, Amazon, 385. Bagley, A. G., 447. Bagley, Mary A., 302. Barnes, James E., 601. Baylor, Ransdell, 516. Bellatti, James L., 537. Berkheimer, Andrew, 498. Black, Charles W., 330. Bobbitt, Alfred R., 512. Bogan, William L, 415. Bowen, Henry, 526. Bradley, Robert J., 382. Brandt, J. B., 337. Bricknell, William W., 394. Bright, J. H., 347. Brown, Nathan, 426. Brown, Walter S., 564. Bruen, Charles E., 376. Buffington, Francis M., 379. Butterfield, C. D., 431.
C
Carter, James W., 398. Cavender, Bard I., 368. Chambers, Lansford, 492. Chantry, Allen J., 350. Cheney, Horace B., 359. Clark, Lebbeus, 337.
Clark, Robert J., 502. Cook, Amos E., 541. Cook, George R., 503. Cooley, M. F., 800. Cooper, John, 278. Cowger, E. F., 280. Cox, Jonathan U., 559. Cox, Richard A., 460. Crabb, Frederick, 384. Creamer, William W., 445. Criswell, James S., 452.
D
Dalrymple, A. O., 341.
Darling, George W., 595. Dashner, Francis H., 264. Davis, Stephen D., 442. Davis, William T., 374. Dean, Benjamin B., 576. Dean, L. P., 478. Dean, Seth, 342. DeLashmutt, W. C., 362.
DeSelm. David T., 519.
Doyle, William H., 569. Dunagan, Benjamin F., 329.
Dye, H. C., 377. Dyson, John, 482. Dyson, William, 490.
F
Eaton, William, 614. Edgerton, O. A., 331.
Estes, Edward C., 437.
Estes, Francis M., 549. Estes, George H., 608. Estes, Robert L., 535. Evans, Marion L., 336. Evernham, Henry, Jr., 528.
F
Fickel, Eli, 263. Field, Nelson C., 474.
Fisher, Austin G., 611. Flanagan, John G., 392. Foster, David L., 570. Fowler, Sidney, 474. Francis, James S., 256. Fugitt, William C., 312.
G
Galbraith, James F., 51I. Galbraith, Samuel, 500. Gaston, Alexander C., 477. Gaston, Ozro C., 465. Gaylord, William W., 410. Genung, Lewis T., 269. Gillilland, E., 378. Gillilland, Shirley, 545. Goode, Elisheba T., 420. Goodfellow, James K. P., 413. Gordon, Mike, 505. Goy, John, 464. Green, Henry A., 358. Greenwood, Charles G., 462. Greenwood, Winfield S., 324.
H
Hale, Charles P., 582. Hale, lohn, 390. Hall, William, 327.
Hatten, George T., 403. Hawley, Elijah R., 559. Hawley, H. E., 266.
Haynie, Paul, 561. Heinsheimer, David L., 517. Hiatt, Fred, 255. Holcombe, Samuel A., 423. Honeyman, John, 406. Houtz, William B., 594. Howard, Samson, 600. Hughes, Richard C., 589. Hutchings, Samuel B., 284. Hydringer, Andrew, 566.
TABLE OF CONTENTS-PART II.
J
Jackson, James C., 568. Johnson, Thomas J., 416. Johnson, William R., 466. Johnston, John H., 407. Johnston, William C., 261. Jolly, Arnold, 286. Jones, Graham F., 446.
K
Kayton, Thomas P., 571. Kellogg, Harriet M., 305. Kelly, John J., 480. Keyser, Christopher, 372. Kilmartin, Partick, 421. Kimberlin, Sherman B., 580. Kinney, Charles P., 361. Kochersperger, Jacob, 504. Kruse, John D., 241. Kuhl, Henry, 255.
L
Leeka, William, 298. Lewis, Winfield S., 523. Lindsay, Richard P., 247. Linville, Lewis G., 352. Loveland, F., 377. Lundeen, Carl, 413.
MI
Magel, Charles, 314. Magel, Conrad, 258. Magel, Henry S., 250. Magel, Mary D., 250. Magel, Theodore, 250. Malcom, Albert G., 308. Mann, Archibald, 556. Mann, Martha M., 558. Marsh, Oscar H., 618. Martin, Fred H., 520. Martin, James F., 363. Martin, James L., 553. Martin, Milton J., 422. Mason, Lynn K., 536. Mass, John J., 510. Matthews, William H., 293. McCartney, Herman, 532. McClain, Arthur, 497. McClenahan, Augustus, 476. McCoy, Casper O., 592. McCoy, James J., 381. McDonald, James H., 465. McGee, James, 399. McIntire, Joseph A., 319. Mckown, John B., 356. McMullin, Louis D., 373. McNew, Zedekiah, 320. Merritt, Rufus L., 481. Metelman, A. F., 354. Mickelwait, Wilbur W., 322. Miller, G. B., 451. Miller, Joseph M., 583. Mogridge, George, 514.
Morgan, T. O., 386. Morgan, William H., 369. Morgan, William W., 489. Muffley, Daniel C., 328. Munsinger, Albert J., 380. Munsinger, Charles, 384.
N
Neeley, Grant, 542. Nelson, Mortimer W., 242. Nims, D. B., 496. Nims, John W., 577. Nipp, Henry, 599. Norcutt, William H., 277. Notson, Lee, 409.
Oaks, Charles C., 402. Ogden, Charles N., 575. O'Neal, John T., 453, Otis, George T., 340. Otte, Jesse, 555.
P
Paddock, John D., 367.
Parker, John, 338. Parkhurst, E. N., 562. Paul, Daniel McF., 586. Payne, Moses U., 606. Penn, Alphonso V., 418. Phipps, Charles M., 588. Plumer, Cris, 4C4. Potter, Clayton C., 543. Powell, Francis M., 274. Pullman, George, 245.
R
Rankin, William S., 578. Reeves, B. P., 366. Rew, George T., 506. Rhode, Daniel T., 310. Rhode, Seymore T., 317. Ricketts, Samuel P., 253. Robbins, Frank, 290. Robbins, H. C., 282. Robbins, Joseph D., 395. Robinson, Lewis S., 602. Rodman, Leroy C., 457. Roenfeld, C. F., 596.
S
Saar, H. E., 401. Salmons, Randolph, 249. Salyers, Samuel S., 498. Sandiland, David, 522. Schafer, Luther A., 524. Schoening, Fred H., 605. Schoening, Henry E., 621. Searles, John W., 358 Sheldon, Walter B., 246. Shepard, Richard P., 459. Shockley, John C., 530.
Shull, Lott H., 335. Skerritt, John T., 593. Smith, Charles T., 565. Smith, Isaac, 603. Smith, James, 556. Smith, R. C., 469. Stephenson, Michael A., 554. Stewart, Thomas R., 422. Stiles, Leander, 291. Stone, John Y., 221. Story, David M., 295. Stroud, Alexander, 467. Stubbs, Benjamin F., 411. Stubbs, John H., 509. Summers, Harvey W., 364. Summers, James N., 615. Summers, Milton S., 434. Strahan, James M., 266. Swain, J. J., 438. Swarts, William C., 472.
T
Tabor College, 589. Tate, Rufus S., 479. Taylor, John, 551. Titterington, Thomas, 598. Tubbs, L. W., 306. Tubbs, William L., 585.
U
Utterback, J. H., 333. V
Van Kirk, John, 389. Vansant, William W., 287. Vaughan, H. W., 432. Vestal, Romulus S., 457. Viner, Joseph B., 581.
W
Wall, William R., 275. Warner, William W., 344. Washburn, Albert B., 529. Waterman, George M., 572. Wearin, Adelbert J., 450. Wearin, Josiah, 538. Wearin, Otha, 458. White, Walter B., 534. Williams, Leroy E., 573. Williams, Marshall J., 248. Wilkins, William A., 501. Wilson, James J., 521. Wing, O. S., 370. Winkler, Alpheus H., 346. Wood, Harry E., 424. Woodrow, E. R. C., 609. Woodrow, Edwin G., 611. Wortman, J. M., 620.
Z
Zuck, Jonathan S., 272.
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INTRODUCTORY
HE greatest of English historians, Macaulay, and one of the most brilliant writers and profound thinkers of the present centary, has said: "The history of a country is best told in a record of the lives of its people." This is a fact which is becoming more and more recognized as our people advance in education and intelli- gence, and our own great Emerson, whose name stands at the head of American writers of his day, in carrying forward and emphasizing the great fact expressed by Macaulay, says: " Biog- raphy is the only true history." It was for the purpose of gathering and preserving this biographical matter in enduring form that the design for this volume originated.
COMPENDIUM OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPIIY.
Regarding the fore part of this volume, "Part I," which is devoted to a .COM- PENDIUM OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY," but little need be said. The lives of the great men and celebrities of America are so inaccessible to the general public, and are so often in demand without being accessible, that it has been deemed wise to gather together a vast number of the biographies of our nation's greatest men and include them in this work as a fitting preface to the life histories and biographies of the local parties which follow and embrace the latter part of the volume. It is not given to all men to become great in a national sense, but the life history of those who do, makes up the history of our nation, and as such the history of their lives should be in every home and library as a means of reference and education.
COMPENDIUM OF LOCAL BIOGRAPHY.
That portion of the volume devoted to a "COMPENDIUM OF LOCAL BIOGRAPHY." or "Part II," is of the greatest value, and its value will increase as the years go by. In this department of local biography is carried out the object which led to the com- pilation of this work, in gathering together and placing in enduring form, before it becomes too late, the life history of those who have helped to build up this region and who have taken part in the progress and development in business, political, social, and agricultural affairs. The rank that any county holds among ... sister counties depends largely upon the achievements of its citizens. Some add to its rep- utation by efficient public service, some by increasing its manufacturing or commercial
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interests, and some by adding to the general wealth and prosperity in cultivating and improving its lands. To give a faithful account of the lives of old settlers and rep- resentative citizens of this region is to write its history in the truest sense. Each year, as it rolls its endless way along the mighty pathway of time, is thinning the ranks of those hardy pioneers and old settlers whose lives are so thoroughly identi- fied with this region. The relentless hand of death, pursuing its remorseless and unceasing avocation, is cutting down, one by one, those whose life histories should be preserved as a part of the history of the growth and development of this region. The necessity for the collection and preservation of this matter, before it becomes too late, is the object of this work.
Instead of going to musty records and taking therefrom dry statistical matter and official generalities, which can be appreciated by but few, our corps of writers have gone direct to the people, to the inen and women who have by their enterprise and industry, brought about the development found in this region, and from their lips have written the story of their life struggles. No more interesting or instructive mat- ter could be presented to an intelligent public. In this department, devoted to LOCAL BIOGRAPHY, will be found a record of many whose lives are worthy the imitation of coming generations. It tells how some, commencing life in poverty, by industry and economy have accumulated wealth. It tells how others, with limited advantages for securing an education, have become learned men and women, with an influence widely extended. It tells of men who have risen from the lower walks of life to eminence, and whose names have become famous. It tells of those in every walk in life who have striven to succeed, and records how success has usually crowned their efforts. It tells, also, of many, very many, who, not seeking the applause of the world, have pursued "the even tenor of their way," content to have it said of them as Christ said of the woman performing a deed of mercy,-"they have done what they could." It tells how many, in the pride and strength of young manhood, left the plow and the anvil, the lawyer's office and the counting room, left every trade and profession, and at their country's call went forth valiantly "to do or die," for the cause and principles they held so dear. In the life of every man and of every woman is a lesson that should not be lost upon those who follow after.
Coming generations will appreciate this volume and preserve it as a sacred treas- ure,` from the fact that it contains so much that would never find its way into pub- lic records, and which would otherwise be inaccessible and lost forever. Great care has been taken in the compilation of this work, and every opportunity for revision possible given to those represented to insure correctness in what has been written, and the publishers feel warranted in saying that they give to their readers a work with very few, if any, errors of consequence.
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