Album of genealogy and biography, Cook County, Illinois, 8th ed., Part 8

Author: Calumet Book & Engraving Company, Chicago
Publication date: 1897
Publisher: Chicago : Calumet Book and Engraving Co.
Number of Pages: 930

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C. D. HEWS, A. M., M. D.

site of Joliet, Illinois, and other Western cities. The ground now occupied by the Union Depot at Kansas City was purchased by him before any one had dreamed of a railroad at that point. His death occurred at La Porte in 1892, at the age of eighty-six years. Mrs. Jane E. Hews is still liv- ing at the last-named place, at the age of seventy- six years. Her father, Charles Spaulding, was also of English lineage. Dr. and Mrs. R. B. Hews were the parents of nine children, two of whom died in infancy. Robert is a resident of Oakland, California, where he is Commissioner of Public Works. William, a prominent business man of Kansas City, is a veteran of the Forty- eighth Indiana Volunteers. James died in 1895, in Chicago, while Assistant Auditor of the Wis- consin Central Railroad. Charles D. is the next in order of birth. Mary J. is the wife of George H. Serviss, a banker of New Carlisle, Indiana. Elizabeth died in 1884, at La Porte, Indiana, where Kittie, the youngest, now resides.

Dr. C. D. Hews evidently inherits the vigor- ous constitution and tendency to longevity which distinguished his progenitors. He received a liberal education, first taking a course at Hills- dale College, Hillsdale, Michigan, from which he received the degree of Master of Arts. In 1864 he became a student at the Chicago University, and later attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, graduating from that famous in- stitution in 1869, with the title of Doctor of Medi- cine. He had previously practiced about one year at Marengo, Illinois, with Dr. Green, one of the oldest surgeons in the State.

Soon after leaving Ann Arbor he located at Roseland, where he has ever since been engaged in the active practice of medicine and surgery. When he came to this place the nearest physicians were at Blue Island and Hyde Park, and his practice extended for miles through the surround- ing country. Though his field of usefulness has been curtailed geographically, if measured by the number of patients treated it has been constantly increasing, and his popularity has been well merited. He is a member of the Chicago and Illinois Medical Societies.

During Sherman's Atlanta campaign, in 1864,

Dr. Hews enlisted under the call for three hundred thousand troops for one hundred days' service, and was enrolled in Company B, One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Indiana Infantry. He served un- der General Milroy, and accompanied the expedi- tion as far as Atlanta. He took part in a num- ber of skirmishes with Texas rangers, and other guerrilla bands. While encamped at Tantallon, Tennessee, his company, while on a foraging ex- pedition a few miles from camp, was surprised and captured by a Confederate force under Gen- eral Forrest, who was on the way to destroy Elk River Bridge, on the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad. Not wishing to be encumbered by prisoners, the enemy were content with confiscat- ing all the clothing, money and other valuables of the Union men, who were obliged to work their way back to camp as best they could, and were afterward jeered by their comrades on ac- count of their scanty toilet. In common with the other volunteers who responded to that call, the Doctor received a certificate of thanks, which was signed by President Lincoln and Secretary Stan- ton; this he still cherishes among his most valued relics.

The Doctor was married in 1876, and has one daughter, Carrie Hews, now a student at Loretto Academy, Loretto, Kentucky. He is a member of the Masonic order, and has always been a Democrat in political sentiments. He served two terms as a member of the Board of Trustees of the village of Hyde Park (now the Thirty-fourth Ward of the city of Chicago). He has always been interested in promoting public works, and was instrumental in securing the first appropria- tion for the improvement of Michigan Avenue through the village of Roseland, and in straight- ening that thoroughfare from Roseland to the Calumet River. Though his professional services are in almost constant demand, he finds time to keep well informed on the leading public ques- tions of the day, and displays independent judg- ment in forming and expressing his opinion. He keeps thoroughly abreast of the times on all pro- fessional and scientific subjects, and his library and instrumental appliances embrace all the latest and best productions in those fields.

G. H. PETERMAN.

GEORGE H. PETERMAN.

EORGE HENRY PETERMAN is one of the oldest and most faithful employes of Pullman's Palace Car Company. His youth was spent upon the banks of the Potomac River, and his lineage has been traced from some of the early pioneers of the valley of that historic stream, a region famous for the production of men of sterling character and self-sacrificing devotion to principle. His parents were John Foster Peter- man and Pamelia Rosina Grosh.

John F. Peterman was a son of G. W. Peter- man, a veteran of the War of 1812. He probably enlisted from Virginia, but was later found in Mercersburgh, Pennsylvania. He was a native of Martinsburgh, Virginia, and his mother's maiden name was Lingefelder. Her family at one time owned a tract of land in the city of Washington, including the site of some of the United States Government buildings. G. W. Peterman died Jannary 21, 1845, aged fifty-seven years. His wife, Mary Catherine Tabler, died February 20, 1859, at the age of sixty-three. She was a native of Virginia, of German descent.

John F. Peterman was born at Mercersburgh, Pennsylvania, and died at the age of fifty-four years, December 16, 1872, in Cumberland, Mary- land. He was a carpenter contractor by oc- cupation. Mrs. P. R. Peterman was a daugh- ter of Henry Grosh and Prudence M. Leggett. Henry Grosh's grandparents came from Bavaria before the Revolutionary War, and located at Graceham, Maryland. Frederick, the father of Henry Grosh, was born there about 1775. Frederick Grosh's mother-in-law, Mrs. Smith, was captured by Indians during the Revolu- tionary War, was held a captive seven years,

and died soon after her release. Henry Grosh was a baker and confectioner at Williamsport, Maryland, and also practiced the Thomsonian system of medicine. He died there at the age of eighty-seven years. Mrs. Peterman is the eld- est of his twelve children, and is now living at Pullman, aged seventy-four years. Her mother's people were of English lineage, and conspicuous for their longevity. The family was founded in the United States by two brothers, one of whom reached the great age of one hundred and twelve years.

George H. Peterman was born at Cumberland, Maryland, November 10, 1846. He was there- fore less than sixteen years of age when the ani- mosities which had long agitated the people of the two great sections of the country culminated in civil war. Cumberland was destined to see much of the ravages of the strife. The majority of its people sympathized with the Confederate cause, and those inclined to be loyal to the Gov- ernment hesitated about taking any decisive action.

Young Peterman was enthusiastic in the Union cause, and taking up a collection among those of his schoolmates who were patriotically inclined, purchased a few yards of bunting, which his mother sewed into a flag. This was raised on the public square and carefully guarded by the boys to prevent its destruction, which had been threatened. This was the first United States flag raised in the town after the beginning of hostilities. Young Peterman watched the progress of the war with impatience for two years, then enlisted, April 11, 1863, in Company H, Third Maryland Potomac Home Brigade. He was

JOSEPH CALDWELL.

mustered out May 29, 1865, having served in the Middle Department, under Gen. Lew Wal- lace. Just previous to the battle of Monocacy, he received a bayonet wound in the groin, but continued on duty regularly. He took part in the battle of Monocacy, in Sheridan's entire campaign in the Shenandoah Valley, and in other minor engagements, and was with the regi- ment constantly except when on detached duty. After the war Mr. Peterman became a house car- penter at Cumberland, and thence removed to Newark, Ohio.

In June, 1881, he came to Pullman, where he at once began work for the Pullman Company. He worked at house-building for a year or two, and then entered the car-shops. For the past twelve years he has been continuously employed in the trimming department, a fact which testifies to his skill and reliability.

He was married September 27, 1892, to Miss Delilah V. Clem, of Baltimore, Maryland, daugh-

ter of William S. and Julia Ann (Favorite) Clem. William S. Clem was a miller by trade, and when the war began he was employed at Culpeper Courthouse, Virginia. Though he sympathized with the Confederate cause, he took no part in the struggle, but during the disorder which pre- vailed there he was murdered. His wife died in 1852, soon after which event Mrs. Peterman went to live with her grandfather, George Favorite, at Mechanicstown (now Thurmont), Maryland, where most of her childhood was passed. She was reared in the Baptist faith, and her husband in that of the Lutheran Church. Mr. Peterman is a member of J. B. Wyman Post No. 521, Grand Army of the Republic, at Pullman, and of Cum- berland Lodge No. 60, Knights of Pythias, at Cumberland, Maryland. A stanch Republican from boyhood, in the fall of 1893 he helped to organize the Pullman Mckinley Club, the first in the United States. It now has over seven hun- dred members.

JOSEPH CALDWELL.

1 OSEPH CALDWELL, a prosperous mer- chant of Chicago Heights, represents one of the oldest families of the southern part of Cook County. He was born October 22, 1847, in the township where he resides, and is a son of John and Mary Jane (Caldwell) Caldwell. John Caldwell was a native of Glasgow, Scotland. His father, Hugh Caldwell, died during his child- hood, and he lived with his grandfather, a farmer and milk dealer, in Kilbarton. Peter, a brother of John Caldwell, became an extensive mason contractor at Glasgow, Larges and Paisley. He fitted the system of gas lights for the streets of Larges and built a wall around the cemetery there. He died on the first night that the streets were lighted by gas, and his body was the first interred in the cemetery.

John Caldwell came to America at the age of eighteen years and landed at Montreal, Canada, June 1, 1833. About a year later he went to Detroit, Michigan, and for the next ten years he was employed most of the time in driving the stage on the Tuttle Brothers' line from Detroit to Chicago. Four and six horses were driven to each coach, and besides carrying the mail a thriv- ing business was done in the transportation of passengers. The only competitor of this line was that of Frink & Walker, and frequent races were indulged in by the drivers of rival stages, who were always ambitious to be the first to arrive at each point with their loads of human freight. Though there was an occasional breakdown or capsizal, and more zeal than prudence was some- time displayed by the drivers, everyone enjoyed

JOSEPH CALDWELL.

the sport. Mr. Caldwell was always fond of re- lating reminiscences of those pioneer days.

Mr. Caldwell was subsequently employed in a grain elevator at Michigan City, Indiana, and drove a team about one year between Chicago and Joliet, hauling supplies for contractors on the Illinois and Michigan Canal. At one time his buffalo robe was stolen by some of the workmen on the canal, many of whom were desperate char- acters. He searched about until he found it, con- cealed under the bunk where they slept. Find- ing themselves detected, they threatened to take his life, but were restored to good humor by a treat of liquor, and Mr. Caldwell was ever after one of the most popular men on the road.

In 1844 he pre-empted a farm in Bloom Town- ship, and the following year added to this by the purchase of eighty acres from the Government at one and one-fourth dollars per acre. He then built a cabin and began cultivating his farm, to which additions were made from time to time, his present homestead being purchased in 1856. He became the owner of more than half a section in all, and lived thereon continuously until his death, which occurred August 26, 1886, his age at that time being more than seventy-two years. He was a thrifty farmer and an earnest Christian. Soon after locating in Bloom, he became one of the prime movers in organizing a Presbyterian Church at the present location of Chicago Heights, and he served as an Elder of this so- ciety for many years. Later he united with the Presbyterian Church at Homewood, in which he was an Elder the balance of his life.

On Christmas Day of the year 1844, Mr. Cald- well was married to Miss Mary Jane, daughter of Joseph Caldwell, one of the earliest settlers of Bloom Township, who located there in 1838 and purchased four hundred acres of land from the United States Government. Mrs. Caldwell sur- vives, at the age of seventy-four years, residing on the homestead farm, a part of which has never changed hands since pre-empted by her husband. She was born at Belmalone, County Tyrone, Ire- land, and came to America with her parents in 1826. The family lived at Lennoxville, Canada, and continued to reside there until their removal to

Cook County, in 1838. While en route by way of the Erie Canal, Mrs. Caldwell saw a train of cars for the first time in her life. Her father died in Bloom, April 29, 1860, aged seventy- seven years. His wife, Dorothy (Jack), survived until February 22, 1872, reaching the advanced age of eighty-three years. The following is a record of their offspring: James died November 1, 1864. Rosanna, Mrs. John Little, born October 1, 1817, died March 2, 1883. Archibald, born June 13, 1820, died November 18, 1892. Mary J., Mrs. John Caldwell, was born August 8, 1822. Thomas, born September 1, 1826, died June 16, 1881. Eliza, wife of William Caskey, born De- cember 7, 1828, died February 21, 1854. Martha, born October 15, 1829, is the widow of James Orr, residing at Harvey, Illinois. Dorothy, born June 10, 1831, is the wife of James Brisbane, of New Lenox, Illinois.

Mrs. Caldwell is quite active in mind and body, and exhibits her remarkable memory of events and dates. She often recalls the time when the prairie surrounding her home was almost unin- habited, and the groves which now dot the land- scape consisted of mere shrubs. None of the streams had been bridged when she came to this county, and travelers were obliged to make long detours to avoid those which were too deep to be forded. She had been the mother of eleven chil- dren, five of whom died in infancy. A record of the others is as follows: Julia was born October 11, 1845; Joseph was born October 22, 1847; Maria, Mrs. H. M. Goodell, residing at Titusville, Florida, was born October 23, 1855; James was born June 21, 1857; John, born October 10, 1859, died June 28, 1878; Edward, born June 26, 1861, is now in business in New York City.

Joseph Caldwell, whose name heads this article, grew to manhood on his father's farm, which he helped to cultivate and improve, attending the public schools of the district in the intervals of this labor. He spent two years at Lake Forest University, and then returned to the farm. He was married March 26, 1874, to Catherine R., daugh- ter of Robert Wallace, of whom further mention is made in this volume in the biography of E. A. Wallace. Mrs. Caldwell was born in the town-

DR. J. McLEAN.

ship in which she resides, and has presented her husband with six children, namely: Clara Jane, Anna Maria, Martha Janett, Mertie Lorena, John and Jesse.

Soon after his marriage Mr. Caldwell took charge of the farm of his father-in-law, which he continued to operate until 1890, maintaining an extensive dairy. In the last-named year two hun- dred and forty-one acres of this land were sold to the Chicago Heights Land Association, constitut- ing the first ground subdivided by that corpora- tion. Mr. Caldwell then purchased a general merchandise store in the village, where he has

since been continuously engaged in trade. He is a progressive, public- spirited and reliable citizen, and has often been called upon to fill positions of trust by his fellow-townsmen. He has been a School Director for the past twelve years, and School Treasurer of the township eight years. He is Clerk of the Board of Education at the present time, and was thirteen years Treasurer of the Union Detective Association. He has been a steadfast Republican, and from early life a mem- ber of the Presbyterian Church, and was sixteen years Secretary and Treasurer of the Union Sun- day-school Association.

DR. J. McLEAN.

R. JOHN McLEAN is the able surgeon em- ployed by the Pullman Palace Car Com- pany to attend any of its employes who may be accidentally hurt while in pursuit of its duties. He is also engaged in a general practice of medi- cine and surgery at Pullman, and during his residence of fifteen years in that beautiful suburb has come to be regarded as one of the most ex- emplary and useful citizens in the town. He is remotely descended from the celebrated clan Mc- Lean of Scotland, which includes among its poster- ity many noted citizens of the United States.

John McLean, great-grandfather of the Doctor, was born near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he grew to manhood and married. About 1750 he removed to Greensboro, North Carolina, and built a house of cedar logs there, which is still occupied by some of his descendants. One of his sons, Joseph McLean, served in the Continental army.

Robert McLean, another son of John McLean, was born at Guilford Courthouse, North Carolina, in 1763. He was a pioneer of Illinois, going to Franklin County in 1818. He erected a log house there, and returned to his native State,

whence he brought his family the next spring. His wife was Jean Akin, a native of North Caro- lina, of Scotch descent. Two of her brothers were volunteers in the American army at the bat- tle of Guilford Courthouse.

James Akin McLean, son of Robert and Jean McLean, was born March 25, 1809, in Guilford County, North Carolina. He became an ex- tensive farmer and stockman of Franklin County, Illinois. During the Black Hawk War he served under Captain Ewing, in Colonel De Ment's regi- ment, and took part in the engagement at Kel- logg's Grove. While on this expedition he visited Fort Dearborn, where he met General Scott. J. A. McLean's wife, Lydia Smith, was born near Macon, Georgia, and was the daughter of James Smith, a native of the same State, who became a resident of Illinois in 1820. The Smith family was of English ancestry.

Dr. John McLean, son of James Akin and Lydia McLean, was born in Franklin County, Illinois, October 7, 1837. His early life was spent on a farm, working during the summer and autumn, and attending school about three months each winter. At the age of twenty lie began the

F. B. MOORE, M. D., B. S.

study of medicine in the office of Dr. Francis Ronalds, then residing in Benton, Illinois. Dur- ing the winter of 1860-61 he attended the St. Louis Medical College.

In the following July he enlisted, and on the Ioth of August he was mustered in the Fortieth Regiment, Illinois Infantry. On the 14th of the following November he was commissioned Second Lieutenant of Company A of this regiment. He was present at the capture of Paducah and took part in the battle of Shiloh, where he received a serious wound, April 6, 1862, necessitating the amputation of his left foot. The regiment was highly complimented by the commander, General Sherman, for holding its ground under the enemy's fire after its supply of cartridges was exhausted.

September 23, 1862, he resigned his commis- sion, but afterwards volunteered his services as a surgeon to accompany an expedition sent by the Sanitary Commission from Chicago. They pro- ceeded by steamboat to Vicksburg and picked up a load of sick and wounded soldiers, which they brought up the river. He then entered Rush Medical College at Chicago, from which he grad-

uated in 1863. In June of that year he located at Duquoin, Illinois, where he practiced medi- cine and surgery until October, 1881. At this date he accepted the position of surgeon of the Pullman Palace Car Company and removed to his present residence.

Dr. McLean was married in 1870 to Eugenie Paris, daughter of David and Elizabeth Paris, of Bloomington, Illinois. They have one son, Guy Marshall McLean, a practicing physician of La Porte, Indiana.

The Doctor is associated with numerous fra- ternal and benevolent organizations, as well as professional societies, including the American Medical Association, the Academy of Railroad Surgeons, the Royal Arcanum, Independent Or- der of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias; J. B. Wyman Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and Illinois Commandery of the Loyal Legion. A life-long Republican, he takes little interest in local political strife, but entertains well-defined views of the leading political questions of the day. A man of self-reliance and much force of char- acter, he exerts a powerful and beneficent influ- ence in the community.

FLOYD B. MOORE, M. D., B. S.

LOYD BROWN MOORE, M. D., B. S., fills a prominent position in the professional and social circles of Pullman, Roseland and other southern suburbs of Chicago. He was born December 13, 1866, at Brockville, Canada, and his parents, Abner Daniel and Betsey Jane (Brown) Moore, were natives of the same locality.

Abner D. Moore is a son of Frederick Moore, whose parents came from Ireland and settled in Canada about the beginning of the present cent- ury. Frederick Moore is still living on a farm at Brockville, at the venerable age of eighty-four years. Abner D. Moore has been a speculator in

grain and live stock nearly all his life. In 1867 he went to Portage, Wisconsin, and removed thence, two years later, to Fort Dodge, Iowa. He subsequently moved to Manson, in the same State, and is now living, at the age of fifty-five years, in Brockville, Canada. His wife, Betsey J. Moore, died in Manson, Iowa, in 1889. Her parents were natives of Canada, of English lineage.

Dr. F. B. Moore graduated from the High School of Manson, Iowa, after which he entered the Northern Indiana Normal School at Val- paraiso, Indiana. After spending two years upon the scientific course of that institution, he grad-

LOUIS OSWALD.

uated, in 1886, with the degree of Bachelor of Science. He then entered the Chicago Medical College (now Northwestern University Medical School), and in April, 1889, received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from that college.

He immediately entered upon the practice of medicine at Pullman, where he has since re- mained, with gratifying and pecuniary success. In the spring of 1896 he built a modern brick residence at Roseland, in which he maintains an office, as well as at Pullman. He follows the general practice of both medicine and surgery, and has been enabled by his success to invest to some extent in suburban real estate, which he improves from time to time, and thus adds to the general prosperity of the community.

Dr. Moore was married in November, 1891, to Miss Mattie Alice Rolston, of Kensington, daugh- ter of John M. Rolston, a well-known undertaker of Chicago, now deceased. Dr. Moore is identified

with numerous social, fraternal and beneficial orders, in most of which he fills the position of examinimg surgeon. These include Prosperity Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Palace Lodge, Pullman Chapter and Calumet Commandery, of the Masonic order; Calumet Lodge, Knights of Pythias; Pullman Council, National Union; Royal Council, Royal League; Pullman Tribe of Ben Hur, and the South Side Physicians' Club. He has been health officer of the South Side district for several months, and is now public vaccinator.

He is local examining physician for a number of the leading life insurance companies of the United States, and is a useful and influential citi- zen, of whom any community might well be proud. He amply merits the prosperity and popularity which he enjoys. Politically he is independent, putting the man above party, and patriotism above politics.

LOUIS OSWALD.

OUIS OSWALD, one of the leading mer- chants of the southern portion of the county, is a finely educated representative of a good German family. He was born in one of the beautiful villages which border the Rhine River, namely, Saint Guarshausen, Province of Hesse- Darmstadt, Nassau, March 7, 1836. His grand- father, Henry Oswald, was a farmer, who owned an estate in Westerfeld, Germany, and his father, also named Henry, was for nearly fifty years demänenrath of the Duke of Nassau, having charge of the extensive estates of that nobleman. He was but three years younger than the present century, and died in June, 1879, at the age of seventy-six years. His wife, Carolina Zink, died in April, 1847, at the age of forty-six years. She was the daughter of Rev. William Zink, a min-

ister of the Evangelical Church, for many years pastor at Homburg for der Höche.

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Album of genealogy and biography, Cook County, Illinois, 8th ed., Part 8

Author: Calumet Book & Engraving Company, Chicago Publication date: 1897 Publisher: Chicago : Calumet Book and Engraving Co. Number of Pages: 930

Author: Calumet Book & Engraving Company, Chicago
Publication date: 1897
Publisher: Chicago : Calumet Book and Engraving Co.
Number of Pages: 930