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Manf tr & D'ler in Boots & Indi ina
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Bandy, Ilvernas E.
Attorney at- Law
Indiana
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Mitr. & Thaler in Char & New Jersey Farmer
1871 Cannon, A. B. 186; { rafts, Charles D).
15 16 Cortinas, Tenshus
Sec. 6
Tuscola
Lasstanth
Imliana
Bun.b. Caleb
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Photographer
Maryland
189 Thandhe, Mary .A.
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General Unter
Indiana
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Physician and Surgron
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Attorney at Law
Furniture. Hunk testatan', Doggies (u.
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Newman
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Physician and Surgeon Miller
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1805 Murdurk. John D.
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31
Indiana
Ohio
1871
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Pennsylvania 1351 Speelman, 1 W.
Hunt, E. H.
14
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N. Carolina
1871 Byggetman, J C.
Lancaster, Pa. 186; Tenbrook. William
Murdock
21
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1560
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Camargo
30
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1851
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Tuscola
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Tuscola
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1852
Christian, M. H.
Camargo
35
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1861
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1870 Richman, George W.
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W. Virginia Illinois
11827
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14
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Houk. Grant
Camargo
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Philo Camargo
Camargo
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Camargo
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Indiana
1865
Elfes, Theodore
1865 Pettit, G. L.
1866
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Camargo
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Newman ..
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1865
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17
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Boarding House & Prayman
1866
1
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Physician and Surgeon
Farmer
Sec. 14
Farmer and Stock Kaiser
7
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Virginia
Fryer, Milton
1918
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TOWNSHIP 16, RANGE 7, EAST.
NAME
POST-OFFICE.
RESIDENCE.
BUSINESS.
NATIVITY.
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NAME
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BUSINESS.
NATIVITY.
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Alexander, Thomas J. Ivesdale
Scc. 6
Farmer
Illinois
Messenger, C. H.
Tuscola
Sec. 24
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Penna.
1872
Brian, Thomas
Tuscola
11
Ohio
1837 Muns, Francis
Atwood
7
Ohio
1844
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25
Illinois
1845 Mullen, F. C.
Tuscola
28
Delaware
1850
Brian, T. W.
15
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Ohio
1867 M: Campbell, S. S.
16
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Tennessee
1806
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Tuscola
6
New York
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13
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1858
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Atwood
32
Germany Kentucky
1838 Stamp, Claus.
Atwood
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Germany
1857
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11
HIreland
1870 Stevenson, P. C.
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1856
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1817
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Atwood
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1800
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Ser. 22
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Ohio
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li diana
1954
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10
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Penna
1501
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Livery and Feed Stable Farmer
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Ohio
1559
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Ticoli
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Barber
Illinois
Ohio
1800
Lester, O B.
Editor of the Gazette
Banker
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Dealer in Stoves & Tinware Ohio
186; Thover, .V.
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Lee. George W.
Sec. 16
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Kentucky
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Carpenter and Builde-
Maryland
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Prop'rs Tuscala Four Mills Douglas Co.
1841 Wallace, A G.
Minturn, Thomas D
Deputy County Clerk
Ohto
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Physician & Surgeon
Ohio
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Ohio
1871
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Publisher of Journal
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State's Attorney
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
1
OF CITIZENS OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, ILLINOIS.
TUSCOLA TOWNSHIP.
CALEB GARRETT.
His ancestors quels mole their lovin in Autres, his falar - great grand- isthat. Julia Garnit Is name and an Englisharm lo facts, having settled in Virginia. He bula wa, Fons barrett and a grande Withme toarrest, Ion in Virginia and when a soning man moved to sacer counts, North Link lina. He served in fontenay during the Indian was prior to the Insulation. He married Plorhe Stonuve, a PentesIvamat Iss birto. The Garrett- were a strong vigente race of inen. Joshua traente, a trader to Welyn, w. killed at the battle of brands wine, thening the Revolutionary sar Lawin, another brother, was shot by the Tories Iadore enlisting. William way while Marion in South Paphos though the war, and after the numbertion of the
forty pounds, and a s called the strongest man in the side of North Carolina. Well onn Garrett become a member of Uwe Sviets of Friends, In 1944 be Deted to Wayne County, Indiana Hy darf in Hamilton County of that State si the szy of eighty-har. I-am discreto, I alla trente's father, and the san not
1-14 he married Mars Parkett and the same year moved to Clermont i minty, Ohio. After a residence then add a year, las went to Chaton county. Whin, where his war tall was burn, In I'll be muused to Hundolph Chanty, Indiana, and in 1-25 to Vigo & wary of the stone Stare, where he lived till las removal to Illinois, with the exception of part of the year 1-39, when he resideel in Texas,
The date of Cah b Hiarrett's birth, in Clinton County, Ohio, was the sixteenth of July, INI. He was consequently seven years old when the family caused to Vigo County, Indiana, in the strinity of Torre Hurr. the early noparte- Duties for securing in cluvation were very liant 1. Une of the school which he attended was aleast three mil - and a half to ap hits father's resolver near Honey break benlge. Here without was sometimes kept the three months in the year, an unusually long ju rual at that day. Soon ae & lund was afterward established near r. home under the care of Joet Halve, of the state of New York, which for a time attorded excellent mulvantages. The next school he attended was taught in one lel Thaver, an ytorlh it from her, but sur tonhrnad an initiate that the shiblown sono di-contomed attendance im di Instruction. His father was a ninth of ron-ufrtable erluration, mil under hi- care he icared rapidly. Arronling bo Iuun barrett, his father, ulmdu me to his parents was one of his nurkil trusts, His mother died in Isto, and for a period of nine years vecesling this event, the father and the som, Catch and Natten, hept house for themselves, and del their own ranking, besides attending in their usual exception. During part of this period Mr. tharrett was in the employ. ment of I'homens fore, of Tern Haute, and now we of the wrathid and most liberal ritizine of Indiana. He drese an or nem for Long It Svalt, now of Phil olelphia. Hepdropped corn tor twenty-her pone a dis, med split rails at forms twenty -five to thep's rente a hundred averaging one hundred and fifty que a ne af die's work For a love me he worked out & solthe Notchman, William Walker, at vie dellare a month. At twenty -une he 4.64 probably the strongest new in all the country round Although full of life, be had no intemperate habits. He was a favorite in the puumunity " He could do as big a day's work & mis tore, " way- his father, " and at & country frolic could play a time in the toddle versand to Date." 1
Est beat, sind those become weil amplaintes with the color and Mississippi River The gruber part of one yim't be tin tined in N a Ceban- (in a return trip at an tora with ( pain Shedle pros of Louisville , he wer week in the ice pear Pad ral, Konlink' and the men yer. robert! to two Fricken a das. In this symme trins, in coming down, he walked iwon I satmille to Torre Hatte through -now cichtern in how in depth Bit of facts featmen who started at the same time, zat Ve Garrett det a commentde san chel going through, the others falling he food and giving it up before they had gine fxr.
In 1-40, en the das -according the prest ng presidential campaign of that year in which Me Garrett voted for theneed Willing Homes Harrison be look a -teamnos for No . Frleon- on Ine way in Teser "The strange stick test in the rafael. Below Torre Hants, the juba factor peutir tal, and Me leur-
on the other River, when the there took to -to -mi ram continued shape sovage
Galveston, To tas. When ent ros tu Tinh ot Vreun he said inceputul a
starner chuk frutta the bar, and for a day up to , ''. jos- goers had dine for ·porte the malene Ins trchung ic the shall wehelpus ar Mr. Marit To this pain he tronghat ta fort with the a vertation of shuts of Fire medie before maling the town, when he feel spor sor I riding Vi Jukon- The poste had two hoteleve miles theeuch a spole se solltes inhplated he him.
under hun, the ruhe having reserved a spar wirnot in the back. The onfit.
Contante man, after being knocked in-n-ich with his pra gon by the Indien
The whole party effected these escape be a bilen bofinger,
ving Starting the service bristles to which it back just wie those of state Irul been married In broms Puckett, a naanvr of Vien tomas, in bana, Int who at that time neisak ses the Colocados River weise moles In his Sur-ton Fits he, with thì- sito, sạt nhĩ mm lis phạtch m. In company with thne er lon: others they porneed Is not os tomie to thompson where they loads at leastone, { ing ispiped withand training wetalked any motore surs.
quand ran down the Bull ile Brown, and inom Beon the hav where the versal Hirik an obl -Inp din bot, tore iatt part of the ju things, and was in danger of -ming Remaining sime dass in Galveston. they took partage in the steater New York for New Orleans. From here they provided in the Mississippi and thus to Evansville, Indiana, and there took stage for Teens Hante, at which plave they arriveri on the 5th of March, 1.4L.
Me fastest now engaged in farming and ato A rating, at first casting it discharge other states In Amont, 1542, he was duren to represent the County of Vigo in the Italiana Legislature. He tunk his seat in Ihremaber, 1×12, and served the following winter The new yor he was reseleriof, annel varsel another session, performing his duties with credit to binbell and -. it- i-Partion to his entirements. He was only twenty-ix at the time of his fist a candidate of the Whip perty that he was elected to the Juliana Legislatun At the conclusion of his wayvinil term of office he haslund a reelection, and derahel himself more townlundy than ever to formning and duck rating. Hr Iwaight a small tarne six miles south of Terre Jimate, but would it after making improvements town it. Hle cuntinnen to reside in Indiana till Is4p. itis [ lan-these op rations were attended with succes. He visited to invest his sur- phi- fund in new land, and in consequence malved to settle in Illomis. He had visited Illinois in campowy with three others in the tall of 1537 Je travered the Suite how Folgas County to the Mississippi, passing through Sadorus Grote, Springfield and Bear -town, to tenues this course was then up the river for a considerable alistuare, when to sing it his journeyel -with- est to the Illinois, and thence through springtold by the off Springheld true. across the Iskaw, though what is wow Danghe y oanty by the Waste stand, tu Para- in Falgar County, and thenre to Terre Hante. There were no setileturats on the ruote traveled through Ikviglas County exis pt at the Shaw Atuml.
About iste Mr Garrett lenght one hundred and sixty actes of land ness William Bruin's in what is now Douglas County. The next Spring he came mil with an ny Beam aud began improving it. In Ispl be removed with hot He had oreriously been accustomed to driving cattle from Indiana, and In ol- ing them in Douglas County. He located on verton there, of townshop Allesn. runge seven. He devoted his whole attentino to farming and stuck maising. In 140, he and his wife revisited Texas. They were alvent about three months, during which they traveled extensively over the northeastern part of the State. Ifi+ farru wi eight loppleast and sixty acces, on which he lived till recently. w.i- sell in May, 186. He some people in Towels, For two or three years tool- Inging lord he was in the grocery business at Tavola in partnership with Mi
Mr. Garrett served on the first Grand Jury that ever convened in Chains County. In I vit he was cheted Justice of the Peace, and held the office until his resignation. In the organization of the county the townships, Mr. Garrett I was cho-on a member of the Board of Supervisor fem viarrett township, Hr4 have gamed a larger share of the popular t~trem.
W. H. LAMB.
AMONG those who have been prominently corner deal with the bugisu as inter- wisst Douglas county is Me. W H Lant, refer of the First National Bank | On the prairie to the cut there was not a single improvement. It was the it Tareals, The Largh bereits hil ite recen in eslami, from where he cuentes the anyone at Me Lands cangrated to Som tambay In the lab Som Canal, the father of the support of our hingegen , was born, The listats aftersunal , to The captage, daset on the Springfield round. Mr. Perso snowspee his acher
Mr Brian att his wik have hodl longer together it tin andits than anv valle, on the a tras form, where De ir a half a century ago the bands back agents , alface married couple Thee leve lead comp chiltern Jan, Homur Nous, June-, Mary, Taylor, William, wirth and Sammel, they anl samb in d. - Die Thenthere , a aff puread, have funtiers, and are the living witha
and transformed the wall prairies auto gardens and cultivated belle
HARVEY J. BANSETT, M D.
Trois & the medienst practitioners of Langlas Candy Ite, Basse tt angers the
Virnatal, and he went todne be amust have in its management. Ihre he had
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WILLIAM BRIAN
THE earliest settler of Tuscola township Is Mr. William Brian, who doles his ovalence in what is now Douglas Chant" from ISHI, Jis ander were onginally nsulent- of Pennsylvania, and afterward ananel & Keotorky The state of Mr. Brian's father was John t. Brian, where was born in Kentochs, and when a young man moved to Pike County, Ohio, and diere married Pails Faster. He had two children, a som and a daughter, of when the son Wil- liam Brian, was the ablest.
William Brian was huru in Pike Cannity, Chin, on the 6th nf Mos, IN0w). When five years of his father davel, and the mother removed to Pronblir County. The wrighhechood in toho to which the founder romesol are theils populated. William went to selund hint very little, His mother was a jwait wider. "The clouds were pay -claude, and hint little as lansing world is given Tom. What listi he received was in an old lige wa heed-homes, where carle roel the purpose of houches When so sebleen he went to , vleksmith's trade the learned the and full med at tor thirty siges At the agent events born in Pike County, paul afterward line aresthatof 1 mulher, Mi Best continued to live in Franklin County for four years after his marrings, Jules- ing his traile of a blank -unth.
Me Brian desired to attle in a new mantry, where a wider sold might other letter mivantages, and accordingly in 18 he left Franklin County, Who, Was, and enteril one hundred and sixty acceril land in action tighten. Iwon- ship mixteen, range seven, two miles notthe of his present hotel. He first care. out from Ohio, in June of lost, put up at home, and then went back for his family, which at that time consisted of a wife and four valdeen. He served with his family in September. He remained here less than a port. Hu with of July, 14'Hi, be moved in the farm le mowe cane, bown a lought four la- insI artes of land in the nightaainsel at her anllare mi ate
"The country, at the time at hos coming, was perhalls want and multivatori lone oble of goat tounders of the sand prairie wolve - tor tu viste after hi- arrived he was to wels man lis ring in bergen nohope. He sent ten most to sole,
thenand what de tous being The obbest of these is Ve W' H Lende wia
At the ispiration of that how, he and i am in-law of Me Camila, J R
till the breaking out of the war of the Celulles. Mr Lumb and Me Setzen enheteri am the service as Iste, the former is Ajoutent is
election, Like hi- father before him, Mir thurrott was a Whig, and it was as i trom of Isuglas sonaty to was the commissioner appointed to trouverin the terapia home the look of Coles monts, a trust which he excented with no mich- able inhi bits. Here a man of padlder spirit, and has levi a bient cutelabator Ios alt public enterprises. The charity has been without este et in His hits bern an active member of the Presivterem Church, and his private life last licen a+ blancles. as bis public career bas been honorable.
Mr Lamb's politendt reirove began with that of the Republican party, amit has In on wheels ather with it. His med vide for l'orient was cast in IS'in for John 1'. I'remuant, the first national calitate at the Rendben. Besides orenusing the position os Lashne in the Bank, Mr. L' tor bicu engel
During the war he had estained low interest in the shop at I amarga (In his
soo otherent paldies officer. At the crustsion of las terons adis. the person was to talered him of & cluster of the First National Bank of Tusais, which la
to
In the ju rin from ISTI to Is to be made several tros thesen the right on a public trusts he has dis charged with tilelite, and few citizens of the county ! bound for Illinois. He come to the northern part of tak + Kommer, as'i then
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF CITIZENS OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, ILLINOI
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The tshourly nedomed bin toward the study of music me, and man aber
Homeville where he romanost zar some time in charge of a hospital. The the third of March, Does he se os commissioned as First Assistant Eregion of the Twenty-hot Regiment Illinois Vensters Grant's wohl to gobent and we all after the clone of the was The recompt with which he was collected participated na pross severe campagne De. Beat accompanied of thrones
in the response from the fiches of the latter stronghold. Then came the bath- of Franklin and Nashville, and a series of well-contested engagements and hund narela- The neiment we at Greenville, East Tounese, Anchew Were afterward went to Texas APer rumuni is here almost six months, the moet ot the lime stationed at Fun Antino, the regnnent left Tet.is mu January, IsiG, and returning to Springfield the men wen mustered out the lutter part of the same mouth.
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