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In 1838 Captain David Lloyde, Sr., brought his family to Illinois and established a home in what was then an unsettled and unplatted district of northern Illinois, Clarion Township in Bureau County, and was instru- mental in establishing the Lloyde schoolhouse, the first one on the prairie. Because of his priority of settlement and the strength of his personal char- acter, he was long recognized as a leader. For a number of years he taught school at LaMoille, one of the principal towns of Bureau County, and served as supervisor and justice of the peace. He established and con- ducted the first hotel at LaMoille. That was in the days when LaMoille was on one of the principal overland thoroughfares from Chicago to soutlı-
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western points, and the stages regularly stopped at his old wayside tavern. He did much to promote public improvement. He helped to bring about the construction of the present courthouse, jail and several business blocks and residences, one for William Cullen Bryant, the noted poet, also John Bryant, resident in Princeton. As he was a leader in civic affairs, so he became a rallying force for the volunteers at the beginning of the Civil War. He organized Company K of the Ninety-third Illinois , Infantry, was commissioned captain, and his life was given as a sacrifice to the Union. Congressman Owen Lovejoy gave him valuable assistance in organ- izing Company K of the Ninety-third Regiment. During the siege of Vicksburg, on May 16, 1863, he was shot through the heart. The old veterans of Bureau County have frequently recalled and testified to the esteem in which they held their gallant leader and comrade. His widow survived him until a ripe old age and was ninety-three when she died at Attica, Missouri, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Jennie Lees.
David H. Lloyde remained in the pioneer home of his parents in Bureau County until the age of twenty-two. His education was acquired in the district schools and he later attended Judson College at La Salle and Illi- nois College at Jacksonville. During his early youth he took up contract- ing and building, the same business followed by his father, also conducting grain and stock raising farms. In the year 1874 he moved to Champaign and engaged in conducting the present music, stationery and book store, which was established in 1867, at the opening of the University of Illinois. That was the beginning of his long and active business associations with the university of the state. His store has kept pace with the development of the university, and his place on Main Street was enlarged to a three- story building with concrete basement and more recently he erected a two-story brick building at 606 East Green, near the corner of Green and Sixth streets, at the center of the university section. The celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the Lloyde Book and Music Stores is now being celebrated (June 21, 1917). The First University Bank was organized in September, 1915, in order to furnish banking facilities for this special district and for the accommodation of students who keep their accounts there. Mr. Lloyde is a stockholder in the Illinois Trust & Sav- ings Bank and owner of farm land in Nebraska. He also owns some resi- dences and other real estate and investments, mostly in Champaign.
He married, February . 26, 1857, Miss Ellen P. Angier. Her father was a Baptist minister and brought his family from Vermont in 1855 and located at LaMoille in Burcau County. In Vermont he had married Eliza Luther, and in that state Mrs. Lloyde was born. She had a brother, Frank L. Angier, who died at Beardstown, Illinois, in 1908. He was also a veteran of the Civil War and three of his sons, active railroad men, are still living at Beardstown.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyde have three sons. F. H. Lloyde was actively asso- ciated with his father for twenty years in the store, as D. H. Lloyde & Son, on Main Street. He moved in 1904 to Venice, California, engaging in the real estate business. Clarence A. is auditor, manager of photograph, mimeograph, camera, typewriter and advertising departments of the stores, while Clifford L. is book and stock buyer, manager of the university store and vice president of the First University Bank. The various departments employ thirty or more salespeople. Through the professors, students and alumni of the state university the influence and reputation of the Lloyde stores are world wide. They have been helpful to the blessing of mental training and educational work for humanity at all times. The Lloyde slogan, "Books and Music," means the foundation of all usefulness in the world.
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All of Mr. Lloyde's children were students of the University of Illinois. Robert K. Lloyde, son of C. A. Lloyde and grandson of David H. Lloyde, was a student at the University of Illinois and is a graduate of Cornell University at Ithaca, New York. He is now assistant horticulturist at the Mississippi State Agricultural A. M. College, Starkville, Mississippi.
Mr. Lloyde is a member of the Baptist Church. He has become widely known for his benevolences and has given liberally of his means to all worthy institutions, regardless of denomination. The activities of the family in Christian work have been continuous since his marriage in 1857, and the three sons and wives are equally earnest in the training of young people in church and Bible school influences. The Lloyde family gave several hundred dollars to the Baptist Church at LaMoille in Bureau County when the present church edifice was erected in 1858, and the present family contributed several thousands toward the First Baptist Church of Champaign in 1899. Both money and individual effort have proceeded from the Lloyde family in behalf of such organizations as the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League, a cause in which they are especially interested, and for the establishment and upkeep of home and foreign missions. Among individual institutions or movements the Lloydes have donated to the Aged Ministers' Home and the Old Peo- ple's Home. They were among the first to support the organization of the University of Chicago, Shurtleff College, and the academy for colored young people at Jacksonville, Florida, and for over twenty years contrib- uted regularly to the boys' home on the Glenwood farm near Chicago. They helped organize the Y. M. C. A. at Champaign in 1889, and aided the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. at the university by liberal donations. The University Students' Baptist Church, the Wesley Foundation Building, the Irvington and other orphanages in Illinois, also Liberty Bond and Red Cross work, are some of the worthy objects of their interest and Christian zeal-a notable record of practical Christianity for one family.
Mr. Lloyde was a member of the Union League, organized during the Civil War, the only secret organization to help save the United States of America. He became one of the charter members of the present Sons of Veterans camp when it was organized in Champaign, encouraging the boys in many ways.
Mr. D. H. Lloyde has also quite an interesting musical career, given in the history of Baptist hymn and song writers, and other sources, and this has been a valuable asset and help to him in the sale of all kinds of musical instruments.
As a boy he evinced decided musical talent and early received instruc- tion from his father, who was a music teacher. When eleven years old he sang alto in the old-time gallery church choir and later became a leader of singing in church and Sunday school, teaching music during winters in the schoolhouses near his home in Bureau County, using his violin as a handy instrument to carry. As he became more interested in music he made the acquaintance of P. P. Bliss, H. R. Palmer, H. S. Perkins and others, from whom he received instruction, inspiration and encouragement, and for several years devoted himself to the study and teaching of vocal music. Later he enjoyed conducting institutes, conventions and classcs. Among his musical activities he was engaged in Sunday school work, was also in touch with Ira D. Sankey, D. L. Moody and K. A. Burnell in Y. M. C. A. work as singer and leader of Christian song services at state and other mass meetings.
At this time he gave special thought and attention to writing words and music of his own composition, published in "River of Life," "Royal Sons," "Songs of Faith," "Shining River" and other Sunday school song books.
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His love for music made the family at home musical, Mrs. Lloyde teach- ing the boys piano, the three sons and father forming a male quartet and an orchestra, playing violin, cornet, flute and clarinet, making use of the same in Sunday school and church work and citizens' orchestra for several years.
Mr. Lloyde has also had large juvenile and advanced classes in the Twin Cities, having introduced teaching of music in the schools, through Professors J. W. Hays and Lansing, then superintendent of the schools, always insisting that music be taught the same as any other branch of education, which practice has now come to stay.
Mr. Lloyde in 1874-75 filled a vacancy in the vocal music department at the University of Illinois, training the choir and individuals in prepara- tion for commencement, anniversary and other events. He won success as a conductor, inspired others and gave suitable instruction with pleasing results in conventions and large mass meetings of singing people.
These facts state briefly some of the things that have made the life of the subject of this sketch a busy and useful one, and the variety of voca- tions has given him interesting and enjoyable occasions in the different realms of the world's activities.
JAMES OSCAR SAYERS of Fisher, one of the advisory board of editors of the Champaign County History, has had an active experience in this section of the county covering a period of forty-two years. He came here as a young man possessed of no financial resources, and by hard work and constant attention to his duties has built up a mercantile business whose volume is second to none in the village. Mr. Sayers is wideawake to all things that concern this locality and is generally recognized as one of the most capable men of Champaign County.
He was born in Morrow County, Ohio, April 29, 1862, the eldest of three children, a son and two daughters, of John Francis and Caroline (Banner) Sayers. The two daughters are: Rose, wife of John Priest of Ashland, Ohio; and Frances R., wife of Oscar Braderick of Fredericktown, Ohio. John F. Sayers, his father, also a native of Morrow County, Ohio, had a common school education and was a farmer by vocation. In 1865 he took his family out to Poweshiek County, Iowa, where he lived until his death in August, 1869, at the very early age of thirty-three. His widow, who was a native of Newark, New Jersey, was a young girl when taken to Ohio, afterwards returned to that state and died in Fredericktown. She was a member of the United Brethren Church. She was of Holland-Dutch stock, her father being unable to speak the English language until after the age of ten.
James Oscar Sayers was about three years old when his parents moved from Ohio to Iowa, and was only eight years old when his father died. At the age of eleven years he came to Champaign County, Illinois, which has been his residence ever since. His early education was acquired in the common schools. Later he took a course in the university at Valparaiso, Indiana. He early learned to depend upon his own exertions to put him- self ahead in the world, and for two years he farmed as a renter in the northern part of the county. Later he took a position as clerk in the store of S. B. Sale at Fisher, and after two years he had advanced to a point where he was able to purchase an interest in the business. That was in 1887, and from that beginning has come the present firm of James O. Sayers. During the disastrous fire at Fisher in 1902 his store building was burned, but he at once rebuilt and now has one of the most commodious business structures in the village. Mr. Sayers carries a splendid line of staple groceries, hardware and paints, and his trade has yearly been attain- ing a larger scope and volume.
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On February 19, 1885, he married. Miss Fannie M. Sale, who was born. in Champaign County in 1863. Both her parents are now deceased. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Sayers, the only one now living is Frank E. Sayers, who, after graduating from the Fisher schools, entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, received the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1911 and the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1913 from this. institution. After completing his medical course he served one year as an interne in a hospital at Youngstown, Ohio. From August 1, 1914, to August 15, 1917, he engaged in the private practice of medicine at Normal, Illinois, at which latter date he entered the Medical Corps of the United States Navy with the commission of a first lieutenant. Doctor Sayers is married and has a son, Richard. In politics he is a Republican, is a member of the Masonic order, and belongs to the Phi Gamma Delta and Phi Beta Pi (medical) college fraternities. He is also a member of the McLean County and Illinois State Medical societies.
Mr. J. O. Sayers is a Republican, and has frequently been honored with political responsibilities. He has been a delegate to county and State con- ventions, was township supervisor of Brown Township eleven years and chairman of the county board of supervisors for four years. For several years he was a director of the local schools and did much to advance and improve the educational facilities. He is a member of the Masonic order, and with his wife a member of the Methodist Church.
JAMES CLARK MCCULLOUGH. One of the prominent agricultural families of Champaign County bears the name of Mccullough, and from the time it was established here in 1854 until the present its members have been representative of the county's best citizenship. They have been identified with the upbuilding of this section in every way, not only as industrious and successful farmers using methods that teach others to make agriculture profitable, but they have given hearty support to public movements and to educational and religious organizations. It may well be deemed an honor to belong to such a family, and one of its younger members may be found in James Clark Mccullough, who is a general farmer in section 29, Urbana Township, Champaign County.
James Clark Mccullough was born on the farm on which he lives, March 31, 1891, and is a son of John and Annie (Clark) Mccullough. John McCullough was born in Champaign County, December 5, 1862. His parents were Alexander W. and Elizabeth (Siler) Mccullough, both of whom were born in Pennsylvania and came to Champaign County, Illinois, in 1854. Alexander W. Mccullough rented what was known as the. Carrol farm for two years and then located in Urbana Township, in section 29, and here carried on general farming until the close of his life. He married Elizabeth Siler and the following children were born to them : James S., who is deceased; Adeline, who is the wife of W. N. Raymey, and they live in southwestern Missouri; Anna E., who is the widow of John Bond, of Tolono, Illinois; Frank, who lives at Dunnigan, California; Margaret, who is the wife of S. L. Burwash; Albert, who is a farmer in Urbana Township; Benjamin, who is deceased; John; and Sarah, who died in infancy.
John McCullough grew to manhood in Urbana Township and has been a farmer and stockraiser ever since his schooldays. He has acquired a large acreage here and is one of the county's big tax payers. He devotes his 560 acres to grain growing and stockraising. On January 22, 1890, he was married to Miss Annie Clark, who was born in Ohio but has spent almost her entire life in Champaign County. Six children were born to this marriage: James Clark, who is a successful farmer in this township;
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Helen, Mary, Fred and Margaret, all of whom are at home; and Joseph, who died at the age of three years. Mr. Mccullough and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics he is a Republi- can and is serving as supervisor of Urbana Township. For many years he has been identified with the Masonic fraternity. He is one of the township's best known and most highly respected citizens.
James Clark Mccullough was reared in the comfortable home that it was his good fortune to be born into and was given the best of public school advantages and after leaving the high school took a business course. In embarking in farming he followed his natural inclination and has devoted himself diligently to the cultivation and improvement of his 160 acres, a part of the old homestead. Mr. Mccullough is an intelligent young man and has made himself acquainted with the underlying prin- ciples of his business, and it is to such men that the people not only in our own but in other lands ultimately will look for food for many years to come.
. Mr. Mccullough was married June 29, 1915, to Miss Edna Myers, who is a daughter of Grant and Rose (Brennan) Myers. The father of Mrs. McCullough came to Champaign County in the spring of 1899. He was born in Ohio and the mother of Mrs. McCullough was born at Gilman, Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Myers have had four children: Edna Louise, who is the wife of James C. Mccullough; Frances, who lives with her parents; a son who died in infancy ; and Howard.
JOHN W. MUMM. Now living retired at Sidney, John W. Mumm for years controlled and directed the operations of some of the best farming lands in Champaign County. His career has been productive in the best sense of the term and has been significant of his sturdy character, upright manhood and long continued industry.
Mr. Mumm was born at Sidney in Champaign County, November 24, 1864, and represents a family of early settlers. His parents were John J. and Magdalena (Witt) Mumm, both natives of Germany. His father was a native of the old Danish province of Holstein. When a young man John J. Mumm came to America and located in Champaign County, and lived here to acquire a large holding of fertile farm land. He and his wife had eight children: Annie, wife of Henry Witt of Sidney; Emma, deceased ; Mary, still at home ; John W .; Peter, deceased ; Henry of Sidney ; Reimer, deceased ; and a son that died in infancy.
John W. Mumm grew up on the home farm, attended the local schools, and at the age of twenty-one began his independent career as renter of sixty acres. Soon afterwards his father gave him eighty acres. He showed justifiable enterprise in handling this land and with the results of his labors was able to buy twenty acres. Later his father gave him another place of 120 acres and eventually eighty acres more. He worked the land, improved the buildings and other equipment and made for himself and family one of the most substantial rural homes in the county. A number of years ago he erccted a handsome two-story veneer brick home.
On October 20, 1886, Mr. Mumm married Mame Malone, daughter of Christopher and Minnie (Gruel) Malone. Her parents were natives of Germany. Her father came to America as a young man and located in Champaign County, where he followed farming many years, but is now living at Pomeroy, Iowa. He and his wife had the following children : William of Rush Hill, Missouri; Elizabeth, wife of Harmon Passow of Jolly, Iowa; Mrs. John W. Mumm; Frederick, deceased; Christ W. of Pomeroy, Iowa; Caroline, deccased; Mollie, wife of Elmer Wells of Pom- eroy, Iowa; Phillip, deceased; Mary, wife of Lewis Rost of Pomeroy,
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Iowa; Emma of Pomeroy; and Sadie, wife of Arthur Brown of Fonda, Iowa.
The efforts put forth by Mr. Mumm as a farmer were always stimulated by the presence of wife and a family of growing children. The children born to their union were ten in number. DeEtta is the wife of Chester Place, a farmer; Frederick is deceased; Luther is still on the home farm; Otis of Tipton, Illinois, resides on an eighty-acre farm owned by his father ; Myrtle is the wife of Rudolph Kiewitt, of Tipton, Illinois ; the other children, all at home, are Vera, Luella, Hazel, Cordella and Wilson.
In political matters Mr. Mumm has followed an independent course as a rule. He has served as school director and as school trustee, and in fra- ternal matters is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, the Modern Wood- men of America and the Masonic order. He and his family worship in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Sidney.
THOMAS J. EARLY. The Early family has been identified with Cham- paign County for over a half a century. The name is one around which many interests center. They have been industrious and capable farmers, good home makers and upright and honorable citizens in all the relations of life.
One of the younger members of the family is Mr. Thomas J. Early, who is now active manager and farmer of the old homestead in Champaign Township. He was born in Colfax Township of this county December 19, 1882, a son of John W. and Bridget (Lyman) Early. His mother was a member of the well known Lyman family of Champaign County. John W. Early, who was born in Ohio, came to Champaign County in 1861, lived for a time in the city of Champaign, and subsequently bought a farm of 160 acres in section 19 of Champaign Township. For upwards of half a century he gave diligent attention to its cultivation and improve- ment and he died there October 28, 1911. His wife passed away May 4, 1909. They had a large family of thirteen children, Thomas being the oldest. The others are: Mary A., at home; Margaret, wife of James Mooney, of North Dakota; Julia F., wife of Bernard Flaharty, of Bis- marck, Illinois; John P., of Rankin, Illinois; William S., whose home is at Bondville in this county; Peter, of North Dakota; Catherine, who died in August, 1916; Walter, still at home; Ignatius, of Gerald, Illinois; Lucinda, a teacher at Ivesdale, this county; Arthur at home; Marcella B., attending the Longwood Academy in Chicago.
Thomas J. Early grew up on the farm where he still resides, attended the public schools, and is now renting the farm from the other heirs and is devoting it to the general crops and to the live stock industry. His father was a member of the school board in this district for twenty years. Mr. Early is affiliated with the Ancient Order of Hibernians, the Catholic Knights of America, and his church affiliation is with the Holy Cross Catholic Church of Champaign.
A. A. ARMS, now living retired at Thomasboro, has truly lived the strenuous life. He has entered heartily into all the experiences that come to the farmer in a new country and after subduing his own acres and acquiring the fatness of the land he was not content to settle down into a life of studied ease, but has sought adventure and knowledge far afield. Mr. Arms is without doubt the best known hunter in Champaign County. He has the riches of trophies gained from the chase sufficient to stock a museum. He has traveled to many remote fastnesses of the wild game and knows the haunts and character of wild animals from the standpoint of the naturalist as well as the hunter.
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Mr. Arms comes of pioneer stock. He is a son of Orrin and Cynthia A. (Hubbard) Arms. His grandfather Hubbard spent his early life at Shef- field, Massachusetts, and soon after Indiana was admitted to statehood, which occurred in the year 1818, he migrated to this far western country and settled at the highest point then occupied by a white resident on the Wabash River at the mouth of the Vermilion. He arrived in the spring and his nearest neighbor, excepting Indians, was a white family ten miles below who arrived in the following November. In that frontier district lie began making a home, and he went three miles from his cabin to break up land for his first corn crop in what was known as Meed Prairie.
Orrin Arms was born near Montpelier, Vermont, son of Jesse Arms. Orrin Arms moved to Attica, Indiana, and his first deed to land there was dated 1828. He died June 5, 1885, on the same place where he had located in 1828. While a cabinetmaker by trade, he spent most of his active career as a farmer. Orrin Arms and wife had the following children:' Mrs. Lucetta Paine, living at Wabash, Indiana; Solon H., who was born in 1833 and lived at Attica, Indiana; Azro A .; Laura A., who married Jolin Dungan and died at Boswell, Indiana; and Ira. Cynthia Arms died at Attica, Indiana, and Orrin Arms married for his second wife Elizabeth Stephens. Their children were named Amanda, Cynthia and Charles. All these children received their preliminary advantages in one of the log cabin district schools of Indiana.
On January 18, 1856, A. A. Arms and his brother Solon arrived in Champaign County, Illinois. Mr. Arms has been a resident of Rantoul Township since April' 5, 1866. The two brothers bought 320 'acres, com- prising the west half of section 13, township 21, range 9, in the third principal meridian. The brothers were in partnership in this land deal and their deed to the land was signed by President Franklin Pierce. The purchase price was $2.50 an acre. The same land is now worth $250 an acre, an increase fully a hundredfold. Mr. Arms lived there sixteen years.
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