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At the age of twenty-nine he was married to Isabelle Gregg. of Metropolis, Illinois, and with his young wife removed to Tunnel Hill township, Johnson county, Illinois. Here he entered land from the government and ereeted his home-the home of his lifetime. On this same farm this couple lived for forty-six years, until his death in 1898. For forty years or more John S. Whittenberg was one of the foremost public school teachers of his county. Ile was twice elected county super- intendent of schools. He was a good thinker, a forceful speaker, a popular leader and a preacher of unusual power.
"One who never turned his back,
But march abreast forward;
Never doubted elouds would rise ;
Never dreamed, though the right were worsted, wrong would triumph. Held, we fall, to rise ;
Are baffled to fight better; Sleep to wake."
In this home were born three sons and six daughters: Ellen, a widow, living in Creal Springs, Illinois ; Adaline, the wife of G. B. Ilood, Vienna, Illinois ; John W., who died in 1878, at the age of eighteen ; Sarah J., a teacher in the Murphysboro township high school; Necy, the wife of W. H. Cover, of Tunnel Hill, Illinois; Belle, who died in 1901; Alonzo L., a farmer and teacher. Vienna, Illinois; William C., a physician and surgeon, of Stillwater, Oklahoma; and Flora, who died in 1898.
ALONZO LINDOLPH WHITTENBERG was born in the summer of 1869, on the fourth day of August, on a farm in Tunnel Hill township, John- son county, Illinois. His father. JJohn S. Whittenberg, was a farmer. teacher and Methodist preacher, a combination of activities well suited to the development of the best there is in life. Alonzo L. was thus born and bred a farmer and teacher, and follows the two professions, agri- culture and teaching, with equal interest and pleasure. He began teach- ing at seventeen years of age in the country schools of Johnson county, Illinois, since which time he has been continuously in school, either as student or teacher. When a mere youth he bought a farm in Grants-
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burg township, which he still owns; he has continued buying land occasionally until he now owns and operates by the help of tenants more than a thousand aeres, much of which he has developed from wood- land into fine farms with good improvements. Mr. Whittenberg thor- oughly enjoys the care and labor of the farm, and has been very prompt in applying to his agricultural interests all the time which his duties as teacher do not demand. Ile has been rather extensively engaged in breeding pure bred livestock; his specialties have been standard bred horses and Hereford cattle.
But whatever measure of success Mr. Whittenberg may attain as a farmer and stoek breeder, his life work is clearly that of a teacher. In this profession he enjoys the confidence and high esteem of his large cirele of acquaintances. His clear conception of the needs of his pupils, and of youth generally, his pleasing personality, his simple yet elegant and forceful manner of expression, are some of his well known charac- teristies and render him deservedly popular as a school man.
In early life Professor Whittenberg became a member of the Meth- odist church, and has been active in Sunday-school and church work since boyhood. When twenty-one years of age he became a Mason, and has been regularly advaneing in the various degrees and orders of the fra- ternity. Ile is a member of Metropolitan Chapter, No. 101. Royal Arch Masons, and of Gethsemane Commandery. No. 41, Knights Templar, of Metropolis, Illinois, York Rite Masonry, also of the various orders of the Scottish Rite Masonry up to and including the thirty-second degree, S. P. R. S., Valley of East St. Louis.
In 1892 Professor Whittenberg was married to Miss Eva Rice, daughter of George M. Riee, of Massac county, Illinois. Six children have been born into this home. all of whom are living with their parents: Clarice, nineteen years, a graduate of the Murphysboro township high school, class of 1911, and who taught in the Vienna public schools this year; Inez, seventeen years, graduate of the Vienna high school, class of 1912; Bess, fifteen, and Marjorie, thirteen, both of whom are second year high school students; Tennie Isabel, seven years; and the baby, Eva Katherine, two years old.
Professor Whittenberg has recently resigned the superintendeney of the Vienna city schools to accept a place in the department of education. office of state superintendent of public instruction, at Springfield, Illinois, in which eity he now resides.
DANIEL WEBSTER WHITTENBERG. After twenty-three years of con- tinnous service as bank cashier, probably the longest consecutive time spent in that position by any person in Southern Illinois. Daniel Webster Whittenberg, now connected with the First National Bank of Vienna, Illinois, is widely known in financial circles of the state, and has also been associated with some of the leading business industries of Southern Illinois. Ile is richly endowed by nature with a splendid physique and an alert and active mind, so necessary to the successful financier. His highly honorable and engaging manner, the solid and substantial char- acter of the enterprises with which his name has been associated, have won for him the confidence of the people of the community in which he has spent so many years, and have given him an enviable prestige among the business men of Southern Ilinois.
Daniel Webster Whittenberg was born July 2. 1667, on a farm in Bloomfield township, Johnson county, Illinois. His father, Wilham P. was the second son of William Whittenberg and Nancy (Smith, Whit- tenberg, of Henry county, Tennessee, and came with his widowed mother and family to Johnson county, Illinois, in Is IO. They settled on a farm
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ir Grantsburg township. Those early times were trying times for the pioneer settler of Southern Illinois. For the widow and fatherless to bear the burdens of life alone meant a constant struggle. The mother was a strong character, and under her inspiring leadership her sons were able to secure title to land, erect a home, and carve out of the virgin wilderness a farm of eighty acres, upon which the family grew to manhood.
William P. was twelve years of age when the family began their struggles in Johnson county. From this tender age he was compelled to endure all the privations and hardships of pioneer life. which the present generation know so little about. He remained with his mother until he was twenty-three years of age, when he entered from the government a tract of timbered land in Elvira township. He was married to a Miss Evans, who lived but a short time, there being no children. To a second marriage one child, a daughter. Mary Jane, was born, who became the wife of Henry Burklow. The second wife lived but a few years, and in the summer of 1861 William P., a widower, thirty years of age, heard Lincoln's call for volunteer soldiers. Ile at once resolved to stand by the flag of his country and enlisted for three years or until the close of the war. Company K, First Illinois Light Artillery, was raised by Captain Jason B. Smith, of Grantsburg township, Johnson county, and in this company he went to the front. He served three years and three months, participating in numerous engagements in Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama. At Wolf River Bridge, Moscow, Tennessee, in December, 1863, he received a severe wound. He was granted a forty-day furlough, which was later extended to one hundred days, at the end of which time he rejoined his regiment and served faithfully until his diseharge, De- cember 10, 1864. Brave in battle, faithful to duty at all times, Mr. Whittenberg made an ideal soldier, and on his return home made just as good a citizen. Years of industrious toil brought their reward, and he is now living on his farm in comfortable eireumstances, a suceessful man and highly esteemed citizen. In 1866 he was married to Martha Ann (Crenshaw) Benson, the widow of Charles Benson, who was a soldier and died from the effeet of a gun shot wound and imprisonment at Andersonville. To this union there were born four sons and two daughters, as follows: W. Il., a farmer and stock raiser of Johnson county ; D. W .; I. M., the well known Mount Carmel dentist ; J. Frank, who died in 1905, leaving a widow and one child (a daughter) ; Viola, who died in 1905, the wife of J. B. Morray and mother of two children (a son and daughter), of whom Daniel W. Whittenberg is guardian; and Lulu May, who received her education in the Southern Illinois Normal University at Carbondale, and is now the wife of Thomas J. Layman, of Benton, Illinois.
Until he was twenty years of age Daniel W. Whittenberg remained on the home farm, seeuring his primary education in the district schools and later attending the Southern Illinois Normal University. Ile began teaching school when he was eighteen years of age, and in January, 1888, entered the Bank of Vienna, as book-keeper. Ile was promoted to the position of cashier in 1889, and the First National Bank was organized in 1890, as successor to the Bank of Vienna. He has been cashier of this bank ever since.
Mr. Whittenberg is an enthusiastic agriculturist. IIe owns sev- eral farms, and is actively engaged in dairying, stock raising and grain farming. He is indeed, closely applied to his various business in- terests, but throughout his intereourse with the public generally, his large experience enables him in a very marked way to luminate the problems of life, and it is the opinion of the writer that, although his
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business may produce ever so great dividend, no financial return is more pleasing to him than the idea of being generally serviceable.
In Masonic bodies Mr. Whittenberg is widely known. He is a member of Vienna Lodge, No. 150, A. F. & A. M .; Vienna Chapter, No. 67. R. A. M. ; Cairo Commandry, No. 13, K. T .: Harrisburg Con- cil, R. & S. M .; also Valley of East St. Louis, No. 32, Scottish Right Masonry. He was worthy grand patron of the Order of the Eastern Star, state of Illinois, 1904. A faithful and active member of the Methodist Episcopal church,, he has been prominent in all its move- ments, and for the past twenty-two years has served as superintendent of the Sunday-school. He is a great friend of education, and is now secretary of the Vienna library board. Exercising due cantion in his business affairs. Mr. Whittenberg is, nevertheless, quick to see an op- portunity and grasp its possibilities, but he has always respected the rights of others, and the integrity with which his business affairs have been prosecuted has only been equaled by the probity of his every- day life.
On October 7, 1891, Mr. Whittenberg was married to Miss Ida C. Chapman, daughter of Daniel C. Chapman and a sister to Pleasant T. Chapman. Three children have been born to this union : Daniel Wayne, who is eighteen years of age and a graduate of the Vienna high school; Charles Franklin, who died in 1899, at the age of two years; and Martha Elizabeth, the baby, who is two years old.
BENJAMIN RALLS FELTS was born in Robinson county, Tennessee, July 28, 1842. His paternal grandfather, JJames Felts, was born in Virginia, abont 1783, moved to Robinson county. Tennessee, when a young man and about 1812 married Margaret Dowling, of Robinson county. llis paternal ancestors had immigrated to Virginia from Ger- many in the early part of the eighteenth century. In 1816 he moved to the territory of Illinois and settled in Franklin (now Williamson) county, near the present site of Herrin, where he died about 1520.
William Hargis Felts, the oldest son of dames and Margaret (Dowling) Felts, was born in Robinson county. Tennessee, in 181-t. He was a cooper by trade. In early life he became identified with the Cumberland Presbyterian church, which at that time was very strong in middle and eastern Tennessee, where it had but recently been founded. In 1850 he moved to Williamson county, Hlinois, and soon became iden- tified with the Missionary Baptist church, there being no church of his own faith in the community. He was soon made a deacon in the Baptist church, which office he held till his death, in 1875. He was of a deeply religious disposition, and often ocenpied the pulpit of the local church in the absence of the regular minister. His reputation for fair dealing and his keen sense of justice made him a common arbi- ter in the disputes of his neighbors, who preferred to leave the matter for "U'nele Buck Felts" to decide rather than go to law. While Vet a citizen of Tennessee, he was an ardent Whig and follower of Parson Brownlow. Although a citizen of a slave state, he bitterly opposed slavery as being morally wrong. When the Seminole Indians rebelled against the government. he joined a Tennessee regiment and went to Florida to help quell the disturbances. After the formation of the Republican party he deserted the Whigs in favor of Republicanismo About 1840 he married Martha Melary, who was born in Scotland. in 1813. immigrated to North Carolina in 1815 and came to Robinson county in 1815. She died in Williamson county, Illinois, on March 7. 1855.
Benjamin Ralls Felts moved with his father to Williamson county,
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Illinois, in 1850, where he attended such county schools as were avail- able at the time, with what regularity as was permitted by the arduous farm life. IIere he received the rudiments of an education. When the war of the rebellion broke out he volunteered, and on August 15, 1862, was assigned to Company H, Ninth Illinois Mounted Infantry, Colonel Jesse J. Phillips commanding. In April, 1863, he was engaged in the battle of Jackson (Tenn.) and on October 8, the same year in a skirmish at Salem, Mississippi, he was severely wounded in the right arm and taken prisoner. Ile was confined in the rebel prison at Cahaba, Alabama, until April, 1864, when he was moved to Anderson- ville, Georgia, there remaining until September, when he was taken to Florence, Alabama. On December 10, 1864, he was paroled, after an imprisonment of more than a year and two months. After remain- ing a while in a military hospital at Annapolis, Maryland, and spend- ing a thirty day furlough at his home, he was appointed hospital stew- ard at the military hospital at Camp Chase, Ohio. There he met a Dr. Drury, an army surgeon, who took a kindly interest in him and" advised him to study medieine. During his spare hours he read medieal books in Dr. Drury's office and attended night school at the Rose Poly- technie Institute at Columbus, Ohio. After his discharge, on June 16, 1864, he returned to Williamson county, where he taught school for three years, reading medieine the while, and in 1872 he attended a term at the Southern Illinois College at Carbondale, under the instruc- tion of Professor Clark Brayden. In 1873 he entered the office of Dr. Ed Dennison at Marion, Illinois, where for two years he continued to study medicine. In 1876-77 he attended the Mission Medical Col- lege at St. Louis, Missouri, sinee which time he has been engaged in the practice of his chosen profession in Williamson county, in Johnson City and vicinity, being at present (1912) the oldest practitioner in the county.
In polities Dr. Felts has always been a Republican, easting his first vote for Grant in 1868. From 1875 to 1878 he served as justice of the Lake Creek eireuit, and from 1886 to 1889 he filled the office of county commissioner of Williamson county. In his religious belief he is a Missionary Baptist, being a deacon in the church of that faith at John- ston City, Illinois. IIe is a member of the A. F. & A. M., the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows and the Grand Army of the Republic.
On September 6, 1866, he married Naney Everett, daughter of Hil- liard and Barbary Everett. Her maternal great-grandfather, Jacob Moake, was a soldier from North Carolina in Marion's army in the Revolutionary war. She was born in Robinson county, Tennessee, in 1846 and with her parents removed to Williamson county, Illinois, in 1852. Nine children were born of their union: Martha Melissa, born June 22, 1867, who died of accidental poisoning on April 24, 1885; Rosa Ameryllis, April 2, 1869, the wife of T. E. Benton, Johnston City, Illinois; William Troy, September 5, 1871, a teacher in the depart- ment of mathematics in the Southern Illinois State Normal at Carbon- dale; Cora May, January 29, 1876, still living with her parents; Ben- jamin Loren, September 8, 1878, assistant cashier First National Bank of Harrisburg, Illinois; Grace Alice, October 16, 1880, died November 2, 1881; George W., October 26, 1882, a lumber dealer in Johnston City, Illinois; Harvey Austin, April 21, 1885, a senior in the medieal department of the Northwestern University of Evanston, Illinois; Bessie Dell, February 12, 1887, the wife of William Spires, Johnston City, Illinois.
Dr. Felts has lived a vigorous and useful life in his community, be- ing recognized by all his aequaintanees as a positive force for clean and
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upright conditions. He is a physician of the "old school." whose guid- ing principle is service, not bank accounts. And now, at the allotted time of three score years and ten, surrounded by a large family of children and grandchildren, and still encouraged and assisted by his faithful wife, he is rounding out an active and useful life.
REV. FRANK BRISTOW HINES. Prominent among the distinguished citizens of Edwards county is Rev. Frank Bristow Hines, president of the Southern Collegiate Institute of Albion, Ilinois, and a clergy- man of the Congregational church. He stands high as an educator in this section of the state. Since 1904 he has held his present office, his endeavors having proved remarkably effective towards its intellectual upbuilding and substantial growth. Under his administration a wise and progressive leadership has carried the schoch towards the accom- plishment of its purposes and the realization of its high mission. At the same time, in all his career at Albion, he has never failed to yield hearty support and co-operation to any measure that has appealed to him as conducive to the public good. He has amply commended himself by his fidelity and indefatigable devotion to publie duty.
Mr. Ilines is a Kentuckian by birth, being born in Warren county, March 22. 1859. His father, Vincent K. Hines, also a native of the Blue Grass state, was born in 1815. The subject's paternal grandfather was one of Kentucky's pioneer settlers, and was of Scotch-lrish de- scent, a staunch combination of ancestral forces which has been trans- mitted to his descendants. The founder of the family in America lo- cated in Virginia in colonial times. In 1866 Mr. Hines' father re- moved with his family to Missouri and settled near Sedalia, where he secured a farm and devoted the remainder of his life to the great basic industry of agriculture. Ile removed to Windsor, Missouri, in 1876. and there died February 3, 1901. He married Anna L. Stone, of Ken- tueky, and ten children were born to them. The following brief data concerning these ten children is herewith entered : James H. resides in Sarcoxie, Missouri ; Jane (Craig) is living in Johnson county, Missouri ; Mary F. (Cross) is in Windsor, Missouri: William died in 1872; Wood M. is a citizen of Windsor, Missouri; Virgil M., of Houston, Missouri, died in 1898: Julia G. (Hall) is located at Ellorado Springs, Missouri ; Ida M. (Dawson) is in St. Paul, Minnesota ; Mr. Hines is next in order of birth; and Volney G. is a resident of Kansas City, Missouri. The eldest brother, James HI., was seventy-one years of age Jannary 20, 1912. The good mother was called to her eternal rest in June, 19OL, at the age of eighty-two years.
Mr. Hines, at the conclusion of his public school education, entered Drury College at Springfield, Missouri, and from that institution of learning was graduated in 1885. Following that he entered Andover Theological Seminary at Andover, Massachusetts, and was there grad- uated in ISSS. From Drury he holds both the A. M. and A. B. degree and from old Andover he has the degree of B. D. In Isss this well equipped young man took charge of the pulpit of the Congregational church of Carthage, Missouri, and after a successful ministry at that place he was called to the Congregational church of Metropolis, Illinois. His identification with Albion dates from the year 1904, when he was called to the pastorate of the Congregational church and president of the Southern Collegiate Institute. His work as preacher and pastor was recognized as of the highest character and he was four times elected to the pastorate of this church. He was at the same time president of the Southern Collegiate Institute. On account of the heavy and constantly increasing duties of the growing institution, he found it
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necessary to resign his pastorate. Ilis work here has been of truly splendid proportions, for he has built a church and has paid off a debt of $10,000 on the college and raised $50,000 as endowment and building fund. A new, beautiful and appropriate building is now under con- struction. In addition to his gifts as an educator he is a man of fine executive ability and distinctly an organizer. He emphasizes the Chris- tian character of college work and believes the proper direction of principles and character to take rank with mental and physical train- ing; his methods proceed on the thought that morality in the best sense can be taught only through the inculcation of high ideals constantly kept before the mind of the student. The college now affords two years of the regular university work in addition to the four years' academie curriculum.
Mr. Hines takes more than the interest of the amateur in agriculture and is the possessor of a fine farm in the vieinity of Cobden, and near Ozark, Illinois, he has a promising young orchard of one hundred and thirty acres.
In June, 1888, Mr. Hines was united in marriage to Laura M. Saunderson, of Boston, Massachusetts, a graduate of Smith College and a woman of high intellectual attainments and personal eulture. Mrs. Hines died in 1894, leaving three children,-Marion, William (who died in October, 1896) and Laura. Marion is now a junior of high rank at Smith, her mother's alma mater. Before going to Smith she was for two years an honor student at Drury College, Springfield, Missouri. Her gifts and personality make her one of the most popular and prominent of Smith's sixteen hundred students. Laura is now a popular student of the junior class of the Southern Collegiate Institute of Albion, Illinois. In 1897 Mr. Hines was married to Anginette Ilim- mingway, of Oak Park, Illinois, a graduate of Oberlin (O.) College, December 30, 1897. Their cultured and hospitable home is shared with their five interesting children,-Margarette, a student in the Southern Collegiate Institute ; Frank B., Anginette, Adelaide and Hemingway.
Mr. Hines takes a deep interest in the great questions and issues before the American people and as a close student keeps himself fully informed upon current events. It is safe to say that among the schol- arly and cultured educators of the state he has few peers.
MATHIAS WEBER. The late Mathias Weber was known throughout Southern Illinois as one of the most famous fighters in the state. He was trained in the German army and loved war for its own sake. His was a bold and venturesome spirit, and his life was replete with ex- periences from which the man of average courage would shrink. Not so Mathias Weber. He was born December 4, 1828, in Baden, Ger- many, and was the son of John Weber. When he was nineteen years old Mathias Weber immigrated to the United States, arriving in Boston in 1847, going thence to New York. He volunteered as a soldier in the Mexican war almost immediately, and fought through that war with General Scott and General Taylor. He was one of the aides who gave chase and captured Santa Ana's wooden leg, which is now to be seen in Springfield, Illinois. After the war he served for a time at the Wool- wich Arsenal in Boston, Massachusetts, thus finishing out his term of enlistment. He then came west to Pittsburg, where he followed the trade he had learned in Germany, that of a machinist and blacksmith. With regard to his training in Germany, let it be said that he attended school until he reached the age of thirteen years, after which he took a special course in scientifie mechanics. In Pittsburg he found work in the Hamilton Plow Shops, and was in the ordnance department for two
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years. In 1849 Mr. Weber joined the throng of gold seekers and made his way to California, locating in a spot in Sutter county, fifty miles from San Jose, then the nearest postoffice. He remained there one year and returned to Pittsburg, making the trip by way of South America and crossing the Andes. He took ship at Rio Janeiro for New York. When he returned to Pittsburg he married Mary Kayler, and in the latter part of 1854 journeyed down the Ohio river to Evans- ville, thence to West Salem, where he located. He was accompanied by Mike and George Kayler, and when they first saw West Salem the publie square, which is now a beautiful park, was not more than a brush filled clearing. The population of the village at that time mm- bered about twenty persons. He bought a farm and settled down, but the death of his wife caused him to give up his interests there, and he returned to Pittsburg. Soon thereafter his love of adventure and the discontent brought about by the breaking up of his pleasant home caused him to make another trip to the west, locating this time in Pike's Peak, Colorado, and making the trip with an ox team. Ile remained in the gold fields of that region for about two years, in which time he panned out $5,000 in gold nuggets. Once more he made his way back to Pittsburg, and after three months he found himself started for Edwards county and his farm near West Salem. There he married Mary Elizabeth Ely, the daughter of Samuel Ely, a pioneer settler of this region. lle settled on his farm again and there lived quietly and industriously, improving his farm and becoming established in the com- munity, until, with the breaking ont of the Civil war in 1861, the old fighting spirit was up in arms again, and when President Lincoln called for volunteers, Mathias Weber was one of the first to respond. Ile bought a horse from Mike Barnheart, paying for it $240 in gold, and enlisted in the Seventh Illinois Cavalry. The company formed at the old Distriet Fair Grounds at Grayville and marched to Camp Butler at Springfield, and on to Cairo. They fought at Chickamauga. Look- out Mountain, Shiloh, Missionary Ridge and Vicksburg. He was with Garrison on his raid and for sixteen days never rested. finishing with Sherman's march to the sea. His regiment was sent from Savannah westward on the chase after JJohnston and his army and was present at the surrender of General Pemberton on July 4. He was then made commissary sergeant, in which capacity he served until the close of the war. When his company was mustered out at Springfield Mr. Weber was held there for two months and was given up as lost by his friends, and was so reported by returning soldiers; but he arrived at his eabin home in West Salem in the summer of 1865, and once more assumed the duties of a civilian. He gave himself up strennously to the task of cleaning up his farm nad making it a creditable possession. and prospered in a measure consistent with his efforts. His original tract of two hundred and forty acres he cleared and improved, and in- creased his holding until he became the owner of five hundred acres of valuable farm lands. Here he lived and reared his family, passing away on the farm home which had represented the scene of his activities for so many years. His wife still survives him, and still makes her home at the old place. Ten children were born to them, all of whom are living but one, who died in infancy. They include: John. Ir., a wealthy live stock grower, who lives on the old Ely farm: Dr. T. C. Weber, of West Salem ; Philip Mathias Weber. a prosperous farmer of Edwards county; Hillard L., located in Seattle, Washington, where he is engaged in the contracting and real estate business: Dr. William (. Weber, who is associated in practice with his brother. Dr. T. C., and who graduated from Barnes University of St. Louis, Missouri, on June
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